:00:13. > :00:18.BBC World News, our top stories: -- Geeta Guru-Murthy. A massive car
:00:18. > :00:23.bomb explodes on a busy street in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. More
:00:23. > :00:28.street protests in Egypt, the interim president announces new
:00:28. > :00:32.elections as he attempts to calm the escalating crisis. How did Osama Bin
:00:32. > :00:36.Laden live undetected in Pakistan for nine years? A league report
:00:36. > :00:40.blames the country's military and civilian leaders.
:00:40. > :00:50.And counting the cost of coal, how pollution in northern China is
:00:50. > :01:03.
:01:03. > :01:08.cutting life expectancy for millions Hello and welcome. At least 15
:01:08. > :01:12.people have been wounded in a huge explosion in the Lebanese capital,
:01:12. > :01:16.Beirut. Reports say the blast was caused by a car bomb in a southern
:01:16. > :01:20.area of the city which is known as a stronghold of the militant Shi'ite
:01:20. > :01:26.group Hezbollah. Details are still coming in, but it is thought to be
:01:26. > :01:28.the largest explosion in Beirut also from years amid growing tension in
:01:28. > :01:35.Lebanon since Hezbollah fighters intervened in neighbouring Syria to
:01:35. > :01:41.help prop up President Assad's regime. Well, of course, this was a
:01:41. > :01:45.very secure area of town, and therefore it is quite a coup for
:01:45. > :01:49.whoever has managed to infiltrate it, to get into this area, and quite
:01:49. > :01:54.an alarming development if it is linked to Syria, but we have no
:01:54. > :01:59.confirmation yet at all as to who is behind us. Our correspondent on the
:01:59. > :02:02.ground is there, we hope to speak to them in the next few minutes.
:02:02. > :02:07.In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood have rejected a timetable for new
:02:07. > :02:12.elections laid out by the interim president. They say the plan is not
:02:12. > :02:15.legitimate and takes Egypt back to square one. Adly Mansour's plan
:02:15. > :02:18.would mean reforming the current controversial constitution before
:02:18. > :02:26.new elections are held early next year. The second biggest party,
:02:26. > :02:32.Al-Nour, has signalled it might be willing to accept B-- accept the
:02:32. > :02:37.roadmap. Rana Jawad is in Cairo, I asked her about the plan for new
:02:37. > :02:43.elections. The outline includes 15 days until a panel is formed where
:02:43. > :02:47.they will put together a new, or rather they will suggest amendments
:02:47. > :02:53.for a new constitutional declaration, and then they are
:02:53. > :02:57.hoping to put that to a referendum, and then maybe in six months' time,
:02:57. > :03:02.as they put it, they will be holding parliamentary elections. You know,
:03:02. > :03:09.some members of the Muslim Brotherhood party have rejected
:03:09. > :03:12.this, and they have denounced it, essentially, and supporters of the
:03:12. > :03:20.ousted president Mohamed Morsi are still calling for his reinstatement.
:03:20. > :03:24.We know they are camped out, continua sit ins at the mosque, and
:03:24. > :03:29.we are expecting funeral is to be held later today for some of those
:03:29. > :03:33.who were killed yesterday, more than 50 people died in the shooting
:03:33. > :03:40.yesterday, and we have also heard from the opposition camp on a
:03:40. > :03:46.Twitter feed, but we are still trying to verify that further. They
:03:46. > :03:49.say the opposition group rallied millions of supporters, backing the
:03:50. > :03:55.army's actions. They are reportedly saying on their Twitter feed that
:03:56. > :04:01.they reject the new constitutional declaration, and they are warning of
:04:01. > :04:05.a revolution, and that an alliance has been formed between the military
:04:05. > :04:11.and the presidency and Salafist groups. It will be interesting to
:04:11. > :04:16.find out more about this statement and really looked into this kind of
:04:16. > :04:22.shift in decisions by the opposition itself. The BBC's Rana Jawad there
:04:22. > :04:26.in Cairo. The world's most wanted man, Osama Bin Laden, was able to
:04:26. > :04:29.live undetected in Pakistan for nearly a decade because of
:04:29. > :04:33.widespread incompetence according to an independent inquiry set up by the
:04:33. > :04:36.Pakistani government shortly after he was finally caught and killed by
:04:36. > :04:40.US special forces. The inquiry was asked to consider whether there had
:04:40. > :04:43.been active collusion with Al-Qaeda. It concluded instead that
:04:43. > :04:47.the problem was massive incompetence, described as
:04:47. > :04:53.government implosion syndrome. Richard Galpin is in Islamabad with
:04:53. > :04:56.more details. There is some really scathing
:04:56. > :04:59.criticism of all the Pakistani authorities, the civilian
:04:59. > :05:06.government, the military intelligence services, the police,
:05:06. > :05:11.including them of gross incompetence and culpable negligence as well. So
:05:11. > :05:15.very strong words. And this, of course, was a much anticipated
:05:15. > :05:22.report. People here had been demanding explanations, as you were
:05:22. > :05:25.so, how come Osama Bin Laden was able to stay in Pakistan for nine
:05:25. > :05:28.years undetected? Were elements of the military or the intelligence
:05:28. > :05:38.services actually sheltering him? And of course the other key question
:05:38. > :05:38.
:05:38. > :07:17.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 98 seconds
:07:17. > :07:20.report, how long has it been out? Why has it been leaked? How critical
:07:20. > :07:28.is it of the government and intelligence services? Well, you
:07:28. > :07:31.know, the key thing is that it has not been published, the government
:07:31. > :07:35.has sat on this for six months. They were handed the report in January
:07:35. > :07:40.this year. They have sat on it, and against all expectation they have
:07:40. > :07:46.not published it. It was leaked initially to the Al Jazeera
:07:46. > :07:51.network, which put the whole thing up on its website. So, you know,
:07:51. > :07:56.this is certainly what people here had been demanding, it has happened,
:07:56. > :07:59.but it is, as I was saying, very critical, but it has not and said
:07:59. > :08:04.some of the key questions I was spelling out earlier. It has not
:08:04. > :08:07.reached definitive conclusions as to whether the intelligence services
:08:07. > :08:11.here or the military or other elements in the government actually
:08:11. > :08:15.were sheltering Osama Bin Laden. There are a lot of suspicions in the
:08:15. > :08:20.report about that, but no firm evidence or conclusions reached.
:08:20. > :08:23.Likewise, no firm conclusions reached on whether elements of the
:08:23. > :08:29.security services, security forces in Abbottabad had been recruited by
:08:29. > :08:33.the CIA to help with the US operation on the compound two years
:08:33. > :08:37.ago, which of course many people suspect. Again, there are suspicions
:08:37. > :08:43.over one particular Pakistani colonel, who fled the country
:08:43. > :08:47.shortly after the raid, but no absolute conclusion on that.
:08:47. > :08:50.Richard Galpin in Islamabad. In China, the lives of millions of
:08:50. > :08:53.people have been shortened by government attempts to help them
:08:53. > :08:58.keep their homes, according to a study published today. It says
:08:58. > :09:02.people in the north of the country who were given free coal for several
:09:02. > :09:06.decades are dying five years earlier on average because of air
:09:06. > :09:11.pollution. Our correspondent in Beijing, Martin Patience, explained
:09:11. > :09:15.the findings. This all happened a long while ago,
:09:15. > :09:19.we are talking about 1950 - 1980, but what the researchers have done
:09:19. > :09:23.is tracked pollution rates in China, in the north and south of the
:09:23. > :09:28.country from 1990 up to 2000, and also mortality rates, and that is
:09:28. > :09:33.why they have been able to make this comparison. And according to that
:09:33. > :09:37.study, the impact of pollution on life expectancy, particularly in the
:09:37. > :09:42.north, is enormous. It says that if you live in the north of the
:09:42. > :09:46.country, then it is likely, on average, you will die about five
:09:46. > :09:51.years younger than somebody dying in the south of the country. Oh I think
:09:51. > :09:56.what this report once again highlights is the deadly impact that
:09:56. > :10:01.pollution is having across wide stretches of China. And they are
:10:01. > :10:03.clear, are they, that it is only pollution that is to blame? Even in
:10:03. > :10:11.the UK there are different life expectancy is in different parts of
:10:11. > :10:15.a ballot of the small country. no, they say it is because of the
:10:15. > :10:19.issue of free coal in the north of the country, where coal consumption
:10:19. > :10:23.was far higher compared with the south of the country, which enables
:10:23. > :10:27.them to make this comparison. They say that was the one main difference
:10:27. > :10:31.between the two areas, and what this report stresses is that pollution in
:10:31. > :10:37.the north of the country was higher, and it stresses that that
:10:37. > :10:41.pushed up the rate of diseases such as heart disease or lung cancer,
:10:41. > :10:45.which has been linked to a pollution. So certainly, from the
:10:45. > :10:49.report's author's point of view, they are stressing there is quite a
:10:49. > :10:55.clear link between air pollution and a shortening of life expectancy in
:10:55. > :10:59.China. Martin Patience there. In Italy, the trial has begun of the
:10:59. > :11:04.captain of the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia. Francesco Schettino
:11:05. > :11:09.is facing multiple counts of manslaughter over the deaths of 32
:11:09. > :11:12.people when his ship hit a rock and capsized in shallow water, but the
:11:12. > :11:17.court hearing was adjourned almost immediately because of a strike by
:11:17. > :11:21.Italian lawyers. We can speak to Alan Johnston.
:11:21. > :11:26.She is still there, stricken on the rocks where she sank, the wreck of
:11:26. > :11:30.the Costa Concordia is now the scene of a huge salvage effort, one of the
:11:30. > :11:37.biggest in history. There is a plan to raise and refloat her, then tow
:11:37. > :11:41.her away to be scrapped. The drama on the night she capsized, in the
:11:42. > :11:47.dark, in the cold, terrified passengers desperately trying to
:11:47. > :11:51.reach the safety of the lifeboats. More than 30 died. The man at the
:11:51. > :11:57.centre of the disaster, captain Francesco Schettino, is now one
:11:58. > :12:04.trial. He claims he saved many lives by managing to sail his sinking ship
:12:04. > :12:10.into shallow water, but he faces multiple manslaughter charges, and
:12:10. > :12:14.he is also accused of abandoning ship at the height of the emergency.
:12:14. > :12:20.For the people of the island, the wreck is a constant reminder of the
:12:20. > :12:24.disaster and the lives lost. Eventually, this salvage operation
:12:24. > :12:29.will end, and the wreck will be taken away. Eventually, the trial of
:12:30. > :12:32.the captain will end, and justice will be done. And then, at last,
:12:32. > :12:38.very slowly, memories of the disaster and all that happened here
:12:38. > :12:42.will begin to fade. Alan Johnston reporting for us on
:12:42. > :12:47.the Costa Concordia. Stay with us on BBC World News,
:12:47. > :12:57.still to come: Coming to terms with the Korean conflict, how art is
:12:57. > :12:57.
:12:57. > :13:00.helping people remember what has Now, details have been released of
:13:00. > :13:05.the injury suffered by passengers on the Asiana airlines plane that
:13:05. > :13:09.crashed in San Francisco airport on Saturday. Spinal injuries and torn
:13:09. > :13:12.ligaments were among the most common. Investigators say the plane
:13:12. > :13:17.was flying below its target speed on approach and that the pilots tried
:13:17. > :13:27.to abort the landing just seconds before it crashed. Two passengers
:13:27. > :13:30.
:13:30. > :13:34.were killed and dozens injured. The final moments of Flight to one
:13:34. > :13:44.forecourt by amateur cameraman across the San Francisco Bay. --
:13:44. > :13:45.
:13:45. > :13:49.Flight 214. Oh, my God! Oh, my God! This was where it ended up, a
:13:49. > :13:52.smoking wreck, were still burning inside. There was no warning for the
:13:52. > :14:02.passengers. They jumped one mod was left of the plane using emergency
:14:02. > :14:05.
:14:05. > :14:09.slides, desperate to get away. The impact was so powerful. The
:14:09. > :14:17.captain was screaming, you know, emergency evacuation.
:14:17. > :14:21.schoolgirls were killed. They were Chinese students coming to
:14:21. > :14:26.California to practice their English over the summer. One of the girls
:14:26. > :14:32.may have been killed by an emergency vehicle on the runway. Flying into
:14:32. > :14:38.San Francisco to slowly, the flight came in too low and hit the edge of
:14:38. > :14:41.the runway. Its tail was ripped off along with its landing gear. The
:14:41. > :14:47.body of the plane skidded almost 2000 feet before it came to rest and
:14:47. > :14:52.burst into flames. The crash investigators have gone through
:14:52. > :15:00.voice and data recorders recovered from the scene. We have no evidence
:15:00. > :15:08.of any distress calls for any problem reports with respect to the
:15:08. > :15:13.aircraft prior to the accident. pilot had little experience in the
:15:13. > :15:18.777 and have not landed this kind of aeroplane at this airport before.
:15:18. > :15:28.Just seven seconds before the crash, an alarm went off. The pilot tried
:15:28. > :15:34.
:15:34. > :15:39.to pull up just moments before This is BBC World News, I am Geeta
:15:39. > :15:44.Guru-Murthy, the latest headline: A car bomb has rocked the southern
:15:44. > :15:54.suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut, a stronghold of the militant
:15:54. > :16:04.
:16:04. > :16:11.Are correspondent it is close to the site of the explosions. What
:16:11. > :16:16.has happened? Behind me, this is the scene of the explosion. Perhaps
:16:16. > :16:22.you can see behind the cars and the crowds of people, is the car park,
:16:22. > :16:25.the open space where the car bomb exploded. They car was parked
:16:25. > :16:31.outside a civic centre, a supermarket or a co-operative for
:16:31. > :16:38.the residents. The southern suburb is a residential area. There is
:16:38. > :16:45.nothing around us thought homes and shops. Details are sketchy, but in
:16:45. > :16:50.terms of final figures, there are about 17 to 18 injuries. Nobody
:16:51. > :16:56.died in this explosions. It is too soon to tell who is behind this,
:16:56. > :17:00.Hezbollah said they won't be quick to condemn him is to blame. And
:17:00. > :17:04.they are taking their time to find out who is behind us. But it is
:17:04. > :17:14.difficult to imagine this is not related to the fighting that is
:17:14. > :17:16.
:17:16. > :17:22.going on in Syria. We do know this Syrian opposition have been
:17:22. > :17:25.fighting Hezbollah because they have been fighting alongside the
:17:25. > :17:30.Assad regime. Have they said we will attack and take revenge, even
:17:30. > :17:34.though this has not been confirmed. We do not know he is behind this
:17:34. > :17:38.explosions. If it turns out it is related to the Syrians writing,
:17:38. > :17:44.this would be the first time the conflict or the violence has
:17:44. > :17:47.arrived to the Lebanese capital in Beirut. People will presumably fear
:17:47. > :17:55.another escalation in response, how difficult is it for people to
:17:55. > :18:01.penetrate this area, this Hezbollah area? It is in fact it usually very
:18:01. > :18:07.difficult to penetrate. The southern suburb -- suburb is Astle
:18:07. > :18:12.Max a -- Hezbollah stronghold. Even the Lebanese army cannot enter this
:18:12. > :18:18.area without prior come ordination of practically permissions from
:18:18. > :18:24.Hezbollah to come here. It is known as eight heavily guarded that area.
:18:24. > :18:28.A tourist can usually walk around, but if they are holding a camera,
:18:29. > :18:33.anybody can stop them at any moment to try to find out what they are
:18:33. > :18:38.doing. We usually do not come to film here because the process of
:18:38. > :18:44.getting permission is long and complicated. So the fact somebody
:18:44. > :18:48.can sneak a barman carry out a massive attack, given the level of
:18:48. > :18:54.destruction and damage caused, it is a very significant development
:18:54. > :18:57.indeed. Talking for many months about the potential escalation, the
:18:57. > :19:04.broadening of the conflict from Syria. We do not know who is behind
:19:04. > :19:10.this, but is there any broader, political reaction to this as yet?
:19:10. > :19:13.The Lebanese Minister of Interior, did arrive here a few minutes ago
:19:13. > :19:21.to examine the scene of the explosion. He was met with angry
:19:21. > :19:24.crowds, people have been chanting. They have pretty much as the
:19:24. > :19:29.Lebanese interior minister to lead this area immediately. We know
:19:29. > :19:37.there is political deadlock going on at the moment. There has been a
:19:37. > :19:41.long-standing conflict between forces belonging to Hezbollah
:19:41. > :19:51.opposing. We are expecting there will be some statements coming out
:19:51. > :19:53.
:19:53. > :19:56.of very soon as. Thanks her so much for your time.
:19:56. > :20:00.Would you bribe an official, a policeman or a politician to get
:20:00. > :20:04.what you want? Most of us would say no, but in the past year, at least
:20:04. > :20:05.one in four of us HAS paid a bribe, according to a new global survey.
:20:05. > :20:09.The organisation Transparency International says that corruption
:20:09. > :20:12.is on the rise across the world. Over the next three days here on
:20:12. > :20:19.BBC World News, we're taking an in depth look how corruption works and
:20:19. > :20:25.what it means for all of us. Today, Tim Franks sets the scene.
:20:25. > :20:29.As long as people have been writing, they have been warning. Corruption
:20:29. > :20:33.- everything about the would stinks, it infects and rocks all that it
:20:33. > :20:43.touches. The great British political thinker, Edmond Burke
:20:43. > :20:48.
:20:48. > :20:55.He may have been writing more than 200 years ago about the then
:20:55. > :21:00.freshly minted American Revolution, but it was the latest in a line
:21:00. > :21:06.stretching from Socrates to Shakespeare, to rail against he you
:21:06. > :21:13.know and what you pay. It does not seem as if we are learning. A
:21:13. > :21:16.survey of more than 100,000 people in more than 100 countries by the
:21:16. > :21:21.organisation, transparency International believe that over the
:21:21. > :21:28.last two years, corruption and wasn't. Born in or Margaret people
:21:28. > :21:33.in the poll said they paid a bribe. One in three countries belong to
:21:33. > :21:38.the police. And one in five, it is the judiciary. Ann Thwaite in
:21:38. > :21:42.Government at its to combat corruption appears to be dwindling.
:21:42. > :21:47.That frustration has been fuelled from protests around the world. In
:21:47. > :21:51.Tunisia, as he was I born of despair at the leash a Down's
:21:52. > :21:57.helped spark the demonstrations which Royal the regions. India has
:21:57. > :22:01.seen mass protests against a culture of the kickback. And in
:22:01. > :22:05.Brazil, a million people poured onto the streets to vent in part,
:22:05. > :22:10.about what they saw as corruption and waste almost a round the
:22:10. > :22:15.staging of next year's World Cup. It is not just about emerging
:22:15. > :22:20.democracies or developing economies, two thirds of those surveyed in the
:22:20. > :22:24.United Kingdom, reckon they are country has grown more corrupt.
:22:24. > :22:29.More than half think this place, the Mother of parliaments, has been
:22:29. > :22:34.tainted. But it is not for me busier, I am part of an industry,
:22:34. > :22:40.the media, which those polled in Britain reckon is the most corrupt
:22:40. > :22:45.of the lot. And while you may think there is no way you would become
:22:45. > :22:50.involved in the grubby world of corruption, what about those who
:22:50. > :22:54.see it less as a bribe, more as a fee, whether they are paying it or
:22:54. > :22:59.asking for it? Some think they are doing for the sake of their family
:22:59. > :23:03.or business, something which everyone else is doing, after all.
:23:03. > :23:09.Maybe then the route out of the swamp will be a little less clear.
:23:09. > :23:19.But, it is one we will be attempting to plot over the coming
:23:19. > :23:19.
:23:19. > :23:22.days here on BBC World news. He 60 years ago this summer, an
:23:22. > :23:24.armistice brought an end to the Korean war. The three-year conflict
:23:25. > :23:28.claimed well over a million lives and led to the permanent division
:23:28. > :23:30.of North and South Korea. A new exhibition here in London takes a
:23:30. > :23:37.look at the conflict, from an artist's perspective. Mishal Husain
:23:37. > :23:41.reports. Many artistic styles make it into
:23:41. > :23:47.this exhibition, from portrait, sculpture, photography and video
:23:47. > :23:51.installations. The idea is to interpret a conflict and bring the
:23:51. > :23:57.events to life in a new wave. It is often called the forgotten war, it
:23:57. > :24:01.remarkable considering 20 nations were involved. Over the three years
:24:01. > :24:06.of the conflict, there were 4 million casualties, scarring lives
:24:06. > :24:11.on bedsides of the eventual ceasefire line. Now, I younger
:24:11. > :24:18.generation of Koreans, artists are like this are revisiting what
:24:18. > :24:23.happened. TRANSLATION: When I think of the
:24:23. > :24:29.Korean War, I think of it and paint. I feel hurt and pain. The pain of
:24:29. > :24:33.the war is still in all Koreans and it stays on in all the descendants.
:24:33. > :24:39.When I was preparing but this exhibition, I was thinking about
:24:39. > :24:43.the war and the people who participated. The title of the
:24:43. > :24:47.exhibition is, 60 years of memories, and I wanted to put them into my
:24:47. > :24:53.art works. Survivors on a few and far between, but this exhibition
:24:53. > :24:58.has a unique place for the veterans. This is a photographic depiction of
:24:58. > :25:03.a wall in the home of one of them, David, who was 26 when he was
:25:03. > :25:08.deployed from the UK. This is actually the medal he was awarded
:25:08. > :25:16.after the conflict. And his life has inspired more than one artist
:25:16. > :25:21.taking part in his exhibitions. met David about three months ago. I
:25:21. > :25:26.saw the background of his sitting room, completely covered in
:25:26. > :25:33.nostalgic photographs. I found it very poignant and I felt if I did a
:25:33. > :25:38.painting of him, something of him will stay behind. That is why I
:25:38. > :25:44.picked him. As the exhibition opened its doors, the real David
:25:44. > :25:48.was here to see it. It was a different world, if you like. It
:25:49. > :25:53.was a question of survival of the fittest in that particular instance.
:25:53. > :25:59.You either got it, or you didn't. You lead a life of charm or you
:25:59. > :26:04.didn't. From my point of view, and there were many occasions were
:26:04. > :26:12.friends of mine just did not make it. Have you ever been back?No, I
:26:12. > :26:18.haven't. Friends of mine actually procured on their laptops, pictures
:26:18. > :26:23.of salt. I could not believe it. It was like a phoenix rising from the
:26:23. > :26:33.ashes. It was fantastic. Did it make you feel proud, because he
:26:33. > :26:38.played a part? No, we were essentially, we were sent. We did
:26:38. > :26:41.not dwell on what we had done. It was in the courts of Jews as --
:26:41. > :26:42.duty. The Korean war veteran David
:26:43. > :26:46.Kamsler ending that report by Mishal Hussein.
:26:46. > :26:52.A reminder of our top story: At least 15 people had been wounded in