09/05/2013 BBC World News

Hello, I'm Katya Adler with the BBC World News. The top stories: The

son of Pakistan's former Prime Minister, has been abducted by

unidentified gunmen. An Islamist party leader is

sentenced to death for genocide and torture by a war crimes tribunal in

Bangladesh. The only suspect in the Ohio

abduction case is due in court to answer charges of kidnapping and

rape against three women held at his home.

And football fans wait to find out who will take over at England's

legendary club after Sir Alex Ferguson steps down after more than

With days to go until Pakistan goes to the polls in an historic general

election, one of the sons of the former Prime Minister, has been

kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. He was Ann election rally when

running for a priv inshall assembly seat.

We spoke to the BBC's Mike Wooldridge in Islamabad.

The police in the area are suggesting that this is an act of

terrorism. It is difficult to know what to make of it at the moment.

In the circumstances we have this from Gilani himself, the former

Prime Minister, that his son, a candidate in the regional elections

there was taking part in a rally on the edge of the city in southern

Punjab when apparently gunmen, unidentified, arrived in a car and

on a motorbike. They started to fire. Or at least two did. They

dragged the son into their car and sped off with him. The other genman

were on the motorbike shooting in the air ahead of the car. So very

dramatic indeed. Nothing has been heard since. The police have

launched a manhunt, saying that they have sealed off the city but

there is no indication as to whether or not they are having

progress. The Gilani family are a powerful family in the area.

Mr Kill any was one of the Prime Minister's here in the last

outgoing go. He was disqualified from running in the general

eelection himself, but his son was participating and now having been

abducted. The military are sending tens of

thousands of troops to the polling stations for the vote on Saturday,

but this campaign has been marred by violence through all of it?

has. The number of people killed in

attacks either on candidates like this or on election rallies is now

at least 100. The strongest threat of attacks had

come from the Pakistan Taliban. They admitted responsibility for a

lot of them. Saying that they were targeting the secular parties, or

the Pakistan People's Party. The Gilani family are associated with

one of those, but this is not clear if this goes in that or under the

threat that the Taliban have made or whether this is something that

is separate and more local to the area, but this will unnerve people

even more. This is a new kind of attack. It puts even greater

challenges before the caretaker administration, overseeing the

elections and the security forces. Hundreds of thousands of security

forces of all kinds are supposed to be protecting the final stages of

the campaigning. Today is the last day, then the counting is to begin.

Now until a few days ago, he was an unemployed bus driver living in a

low-key suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, but in a few hours, Ariel Castro is

to appear in court on several counts of kidnapping and rape. The

world's media will be watching. This follows the dramatic rescue of

three women and a child, held against their will for the past

decade. Ariel Castro was arrested on Monday

together with two brothers. Investigators say that the brothers

have no case to answer. The focus is squarely on Ariel. He will

appear before a judge in a few hours' time. He faces four counts

of kid nal -- kidnapping. Four not three because of the child involved

and three counts of rape. His two brothers are not being charged.

There is no evidence that these two individuals had any involvement in

the commission of the crimes committed against Michelle, Gina

and Amanda and the minor child. The house where the women were held

is silent now, but a newly-released police recording captures the

moment of their dramatic rescue. We've found them. We've found them.

We have a female. She has a young child with her. Make it two.

We also have a Michele Knight in the house. Yesterday two families

and communities celebrated the return of long-lost daughters. The

parents of Gina DeJesus never gave up hope, holding vigils every year.

The most recent was two weeks ago. I'm the one who had the heart and

soul to fight to see ethis day. Cos I knew that my daughter was out

there alive. The victims are all apparently in

good health but their ordeal was long and would have taken its toll.

The full, harrowing picture of what they experienced in the house on

Seymour Avenue is only now beginning to emerge.

Well griefgriefgrief is a professor at the university --

griefgriefgrief -- Dr Geoffrey Grieff is with us. He explains how

they will deal with this after their experience.

You have a number of things going on. You have the natural

developmental changes in the family members. You have the trajectory

that the girls were on, the girls, now women were on. It is difficult

enough for people to grow up together as a family when you have

separation of this length. People tend to go in different directions.

So there are two main tacks for these folks. Number one, there is

the adjustment of the family. The adjustment of the return to these

women and then there is the I justment of the women. They are

going to have to figure out together how to communicate in the

present and not try to recapture a past that cannot be recaptured. So

there is the notion of how do these daughters fit back in with these

families. The second interesting piece for them, is going to be to

separate from each other. I think that people are going to

expect that they should be progressing at the same speed, but

these are very different women who were very different before they

were kidnapped and they were kidnapped at very different ages.

I think we are going to have to allow the media -- I think we are

going to have to allow them, and the media to allow them 20 adapt at

paces best-suited to their family. In Bangladesh, eight people are

thought to have died at a fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka. Hundreds

of workers had gone home when the fire broke out at the factory. The

flames fed by piles of acrylic yarn. The fire comes two weeks after a

multi-storey collapse of a factory also in Dhaka, up to 900 people are

known to have died in that collapse. In Bangladesh, a fourth Islamist

leader has been sentenced to death for his role in the country's

independence 40 years ago. He is the assistant Secretary-General of

the opposition party. His crimes include torture and

genocide. I have been speaking to our report about the case.

He says that the ruling is two- fold? He was the Secretary-General

of the country's biggest party. So this conviction make it is a

powerful statement against them, but also he has been prove tonne

have led a group called the AlBathar Force. They were set up to

fight Bank of England alley nationalists at the time. So this

confiction ties in with this role. When you talk about the roles and

the political impact, that would suggest that the tribunals are

politicised. There had been severe criticisms of the tribunals, if

they meet international standards and so on? Yes. The defence, one of

the defences is that all of the leaders of the party are being

targeted, therefore it is an attempt to cut down in size the

country's main opposition parties, but the response of the Government

has been that these people were involved in the 1971 atrocities. So

whether they are leaders at the time or not is not relevant. They

are prosecuting crimes committed in 1971, not any opposition leader.

Now in other news: The Slovenian government is introducing a crisis

tax at measures aimed to avoid a European Union bail out. It will

range from 0.5 to 5% but those on lowest incomes will be absent.

The government is hoping that this will help tackle Slovenia's debt

problem ps and reduce its borrowing. Lawyers for victims of Haiti's

cholera epidemic have given the United Nations 60 days to talk

about compensation, otherwise they warn to begin legal proceedings

over the outbreak. It killed over 7,000 people. The victims accuse

the UN of allowing peacekeepers to spluet their swaert supply.

An 834-year-old South American facing a hefty prison sentence for

breaking in to protest about nuclear weapons.

The protesters kout through the security fence and made their way

to a secure part of the site to hang out banners and chipped a

small piece off the wall. It will be a tough act to follow. On

Wednesday Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement of manager

of Manchester United at the age of 71. The favourite to take over is

David Moyes, currently the manager of Everton. The BBC understands an

announcement could be possible later on Thursday.

The baton that has taken years to hand over. It looks like moving

from one Glaswegian to another. David Moyes has waited patiently.

He has been at Everton for 11 years, bringing them forward from the

brink of relegation to the brink of the Champions League. Done it

without the millions that others have spent. The success based on

the teameth yink, now not the superstar signing, but maybe that

can only take you so far. We are competing with the top teams,

they are spending large amounts of money. I want to make sure that

Everton is doing that that is why the end of the season is the right

time to do that. David Moyes has been ambitious.

Taking coaching badges will a -- while a young player. Manchester

United will have noted his role in developing the career of their

striker Wayne Rooney. David Moyes was sitting next to him when he

became a professional, but Moyse mouse Moyse has never won a top

trophy and Manchester United are a club where winning things are a

requirement. So is the lack of medals a problem? He is well

respected for coaching. My only thing I would say is that for a guy

going into Manchester United at that has not won a trophy, perhaps

that would be the only gamble, I suppose.

Also, it will be a very, very hard job for anyone going in there, let

alone David Moyes. To follow Sir Alex Ferguson is a job in itself.

Sir Alex Ferguson is a master of timing. Officials everywhere know

that. Now as he picks his moment to step down, it seems his fellow Scot

will take over his watch. It is proving to be a busy 24 hours at

Manchester United with Wayne Rooney believed to have handed in yet

another transfer request. The club insist that the 27-year-old who

joined from Everton in 2004 will not be sold. It emerged that the

striker had asked to leave for the second time in three years. It is

understood that the England international wanted to see the

manager a fortnight ago to explain that the time was right to move on

after nine years at Old Trafford. Still to come: A top diplomat tells

for the first time what really happened at the US embassy in

Benghazi where ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed.

Police say anyone who spoke at the rally could face sedition charges.

This report was sent from near the capital. Opposition supporters here

are wearing black to show their anger. They save the election on

Sunday was fraudulent. Among the allegations, they are saying that

governing politicians brought in dubious... Who support in key

states, and an indelible ink approach was supposed to prevent

fraudulent voting. They say the ink washed off. These allegations have

been dismissed entirely by the coalition. They say the election was

free and fair. They have accused the opposition, the leader who is

speaking right now, of trying to incite unrest. This is the beginning

of the battle. We will continue this struggle and we will never

surrender. Police say this rally is illegal and could take action

against anyone who attends. But these Malaysians have chosen to defy

the ban, and this is just the start. The opposition says they will

continue a fierce and paying for electoral reform. It was one of the

world 's biggest ever diamond heists and now police have arrested more

than 30 people. In February, $50 million worth of stones disappeared

from a plane on the tarmac at Brussels airport. They were stolen

by men disguised as police officers, complete with machine guns. Now

stage -- rates have been staged across Europe, making arrests and

receiving a large quantity of former kidnap -- Stanley

reminisced's some, Ali Haider. A fourth Islamist leader is sentenced

to death in Bangladesh for crimes committed during the country 's war

of independence. A Pakistani prisoner who was assaulted by a

fellow inmate at a jail in Indian administered Kashmir has died in

hospital. He was attacked just days after a high-profile Indian prisoner

died after being assaulted in a Pakistani prison. The BBC's South

Asia correspondent is in Delhi. He told me about the reactions so far

to the deaths. Certainly in India, there's been quite a lot of coverage

on this latest attack and the subsequent death of the Pakistani

prisoner. But in Pakistan, while it has made news, obviously we know

they are in the midst of a very critical national election, so it's

not surprising to find out that in Pakistan, while it has made news,

perhaps it's not had quite the impact that the death of the Indian

prisoner last month in Pakistan had made in India, where it was

front-page news, it was received with outrage by Indian officials.

When the body was handed over to India, he received a state funeral.

A lot was made of this. Many are now watching to see what the reaction is

going to be once the body is sent back to Pakistan. We understand that

both countries are in touch with each other. There are medical

formalities that need to be completed before the body is sent

back home. A former US diplomat in Libya has given a dramatic account

of the attack on the US compound in Benghazi last September, in which

four Americans died. His testimony showed bitter political differences

over the deaths. Republicans are trying to pin the blame for what

happened squarely on President Obama. Raise your right hand.

Swearing to tell the truth about Benghazi. Ambassador Christopher

Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack on the

compound last year. Now the first public account by a US official who

was in Libya at the time. I received a call from the Prime Minister of

Libya. I think it's the saddest phone call I've ever had in my life.

He told me that the ambassador had passed away.

In the immediate aftermath of the attack, President Obama

Administration gave conflicting details of what happened. The UN

ambassador, Susan Rice, initially said it erupted spontaneously. The

result of a protest over an anti-Islamic video. I was stunned.

My jaw dropped. I was embarrassed. Republicans have accused the

administration of failing to protect the Benghazi compound and then

trying to cover up a terrorist attack in the run-up to the

presidential election. The testimony of Greg Hicks has done nothing to

lay that the route to rest. But Democrats maintained that the

confusion was the result of the incomplete information and that

there was no demo -- no attempt to mislead the public. An appeals court

in Italy has upheld a four year prison sentence against the former

Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. He'd been convicted of

tax fraud in connection with one of his media companies. He is now

expected to take his appeal to Italy's highest court, which may

mean he avoids jail altogether. Silvio Berlusconi knows these

courtrooms well. Over the years he has been accused of fraud, perjury,

bribery and corruption, charges he's always denied. But in this latest

trial, his conviction for tax evasion has been upheld. Not only

that, but the four-year jail sentence he received last October

has been reinstated, after a lower court had reduced it to one year.

TRANSLATION: It has no logic to condemn an individual who has no

connection with a company, exactly the opposite has been decided on

today. The appeals court in Italy has also confirmed a five-year ban

from public office. But the former Prime Minister is unlikely to accept

this latest ruling and is expected to appeal to the country's highest

court. Experts say it could end his political career but even if his

appeal is rejected it is unlikely he will go to jail. Mr Berlusconi's

trials content with this one. He is also a defendant in a trial for

having sex with an underage prostitute. When shoppers in Europe

found themselves unwittingly buying horse meat earlier this year,

companies rushed to take it off the shelves. But in China there is a

seemingly endless diet of food safety scandals. Just last week,

more than 900 people were arrested for selling what they said was lamb.

In fact it was Matt and Fox meet. -- racked and Fox. It's a corner of

Beijing where the countryside comes to the city. There's no shortage of

choice when it comes to the produce. But in a country rocked by food

safety scandals, people here are extremely picky about what they buy.

TRANSLATION: There are pesticides in vegetables, chemicals in pork and

dead pigs floating in the river. Nobody seems to be in charge.

Memories of Europe's horse meat scandal may be fading, but in China,

rarely a day goes by without a reminder of the country's terrible

food safety record. In the latest shocking scandal, consumers buying

lamb were in fact being sold racked meat. Police arrested almost 1000

people and seized 20,000 tonnes of meat. But Beijing has been unable to

clean up the country's food supply chain. Corruption and lax

regulations often means corners are cut, with no regard for public

safety. At this hotpot restaurant they present the cooking oil. It is

to prove it has not been dredged up from the gutter. That was yet

another scandal that turned people stomachs. Translation-macro --

TRANSLATION: The manager says that unless we reassure the customers,

they simply walked out of the door. People in China are eating out far

more than ever before, but the authorities are facing public anger

over what is being served up. You might wonder what you can learn from

looking at rhino dung, but scientists at Chester Zoo in

north-west England say it has helped them make a brief dash back

breakthrough inbreeding rhinos. We have been to meet the latest baby

arrival at the zoo. Dakina is just seven weeks old. She is the latest

addition to Chester Zoo's group of ten black rhinos. Her arrival was

particularly special because she belongs to a species on the

critically endangered list. Although the numbers of black rhinos... There

are only 5000 animals left. The threat of poaching continues,

fuelled by demand for their horns. That is why the researchers who have

invested so much time and effort in a conservation breeding programme,

studying every aspect of the animals behaviour and their hormones. And

this is where the research gets messy. This box contains dozens of

samples of rhino dung. The scientists analyse these samples,

looking for the hormonal clues that will tell them when a female rhino

is most fertile. It also enables the team to monitor the animals health

and to confirm when a female is pregnant. When we started using

hormonal analysis to understand the reproduction of the species here at

Chester Zoo, we realised there were differences between individuals in

how well they were breeding. We expanded that properly, that

question to the whole of the European population, to try and

understand how we can improve reproductive success. Before this

project, no baby rhinos had been born at Chester Zoo for ten years.

They have now been four new babies. The hope is that this study can

achieve similar results in zoos around Europe. The goal is if the

captive population is self-sustaining and growing at a

healthy rate, there's a potential for those rhinos to go back to

Africa. It has happened already from a couple of zoos in Europe over the

last four gears. We need to be working towards that. For now, the

baby and her mother are being left to rest. Oblivious of the efforts

being made to make sure that there are many more baby rhinos going to

be born. People across the UK have reported seeing a large meatier

flashing across the night sky. Witnesses described a blue or green