:00:17. > :00:22.top stories: A veteran Islamist leader is convicted of war crimes in
:00:22. > :00:28.Bangladesh and sentenced to 90 years in jail. A dip in trade slows growth
:00:28. > :00:33.in China to its weakest rate for 20 years. Calls for a senior Italian
:00:33. > :00:38.politician to resign after he likened the country's first black
:00:38. > :00:46.minister to an orangutan. And children having children, how the
:00:46. > :00:56.teen pregnancy epidemic in South Africa is putting girls' lives at
:00:56. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:04.risk. Hello and welcome. The spiritual
:01:04. > :01:07.leader of the biggest Islamist party in Bangladesh has been found guilty
:01:07. > :01:10.of war crimes. Ghulam Azam was convicted by a court in the capital,
:01:10. > :01:16.Dhaka, of orchestrating mass killings during Bangladesh's war of
:01:16. > :01:20.independence from Pakistan in 1971. Azam, who's 90 years old, is the
:01:20. > :01:27.former head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party. He's been sentenced to 90
:01:27. > :01:33.years in jail. Our correspondent Mahfuz Sadique is outside the court
:01:33. > :01:37.house in Dhaka. He has more details of the verdict. The international
:01:37. > :01:43.crimes tribunal has sentenced Ghulam Azam, the former chief of the
:01:43. > :01:48.largest Islamic party here in Bangladesh, to 90 years in prison in
:01:48. > :01:52.total for five charges that were brought by the prosecution. The
:01:52. > :01:58.charges included planning incitement, conspiracy, as well as
:01:58. > :02:07.murder, and the court said that it did want to give Ghulam Azam the
:02:07. > :02:11.highest punishment, as in capital punishment, but it akin to
:02:11. > :02:15.cognizance his age. He is 90 years old so they decided to give him
:02:15. > :02:20.imprisonment. With me is Sabir Mustafa from the BBC's Bengali
:02:20. > :02:27.service. If people are wondering why we are seeing this case such a long
:02:27. > :02:30.time after the events, what is it about? These crimes took place in
:02:30. > :02:40.1971, but the trials of the perpetrators of these crimes never
:02:40. > :02:44.
:02:44. > :02:49.took place. Ghulam Azam was in Pakistan and took up Pakistani
:02:49. > :02:56.identity, and continue to campaign against Bangladesh and fought
:02:56. > :03:02.because Bangladesh have broken away and started a war of independence.
:03:02. > :03:07.Then there was a change of power, so trial of war crimes was never on the
:03:07. > :03:15.agenda of those who came to power. Can you explain what Ghulam Azam has
:03:15. > :03:22.been found guilty of doing. He has been found guilty on 61 specific
:03:22. > :03:26.cases, however the basic issue is that he was the leader of the
:03:26. > :03:32.Jamaat-e-Islami party, which was the main political ally of the Pakistani
:03:32. > :03:37.army, which was trying to crush Islamist movement in what was then
:03:37. > :03:42.Pakistan. They wanted to keep both sides of Pakistan together for
:03:42. > :03:46.religious reasons. Their rationale was that it should remain one United
:03:47. > :03:54.Islamist country, but to do that they formed militias who carried out
:03:54. > :04:02.a string of atrocities. There have been tremendous pressure for these
:04:02. > :04:07.trials to start and Ghulam Azam has been the symbol of Jamaat-e-Islami
:04:07. > :04:17.in 1971. We have already seen some violent protests in the last few
:04:17. > :04:22.
:04:22. > :04:28.hours today. The largest opposition party have not come out in support
:04:28. > :04:32.of Jamaat-e-Islami, but it is a well funded party with extensive
:04:32. > :04:42.international links so they are able to rely their size and cause damage
:04:42. > :04:47.in terms of strikes, damaging rail networks, damaging road networks and
:04:47. > :04:53.they attack a lot of police stations, that happened back in
:04:53. > :04:56.February, and over 100 people died in clashes between Jamaat-e-Islami
:04:56. > :05:01.supporters and police. Jamaat-e-Islami is capable of doing
:05:01. > :05:09.that and people are wondering if they will unleash a similar type of
:05:09. > :05:12.violence now as well. Thank you. China has released its latest growth
:05:12. > :05:22.figures, suggesting the Asian dragon is slowly but surely running out of
:05:22. > :05:23.
:05:23. > :05:32.steam. 7.5% year-on-year, and for China this could mean going back to
:05:32. > :05:36.the slowest pace of growth for two decades. This is China's economy as
:05:36. > :05:42.you don't normally see it. Almost every shop on this street is
:05:42. > :05:47.closed, the once booming town now empty and despondent. Space for
:05:48. > :05:52.rent, this sign says. Just up the road, one of China's biggest
:05:52. > :05:57.shipyards was opened here less than a decade ago. It is now in deep
:05:57. > :06:02.trouble and it is appealing for government help. A few restaurants
:06:02. > :06:09.remain open to cater for those who still have jobs. 20,000 people have
:06:09. > :06:12.been laid off over the past two years. We all know that this area
:06:13. > :06:19.likes money, this worker tells me, and of the government could help it
:06:19. > :06:25.would be a good thing. But this town is already proof of the limits of
:06:25. > :06:29.China's old model of growth based on an ever expanding investment. This
:06:29. > :06:34.empty hotel stands as stark testimony to the result. Huge
:06:34. > :06:41.overcapacity, not just in shipbuilding but other industries as
:06:41. > :06:44.well. Future prosperity, this government's so-called China dream,
:06:44. > :06:50.depends on rebalancing the economy to one based on consumer spending.
:06:50. > :06:57.It is risky because policymakers know that in the short-term at least
:06:57. > :07:03.they need a slowdown in growth, it is part the plan. It is hopeless,
:07:03. > :07:07.there is no dream here, one of the few remaining shopkeepers tells me.
:07:07. > :07:11.It is important to stress that China's economy is still motoring
:07:11. > :07:17.along by Western standards, but the point is that growth rate is
:07:17. > :07:26.slowing, Long gone are the days of double digit economy expansion.
:07:26. > :07:30.These boarded-up businesses may be for now simply the symptoms of
:07:30. > :07:36.particular problem in a particular industry, but they are the first
:07:37. > :07:41.glimmer of the pain some of that slowing growth may cause. Until now,
:07:41. > :07:47.China has depended on booming economic growth to ensure social
:07:47. > :07:54.stability. Is it really ready to stop the big spending? What happens
:07:54. > :07:59.at this shipyard may be a crucial test.
:07:59. > :08:02.The Spanish prime minister is facing new calls for his resignation. A
:08:02. > :08:12.newspaper has published text messages allegedly linking him to a
:08:12. > :08:18.
:08:18. > :08:21.man at the centre of a secret payments scandal.
:08:21. > :08:31.A senior Italian parliamentarian is under growing pressure to resign
:08:31. > :08:36.
:08:36. > :08:39.after he likened the country's first black minister to an orangutan.
:08:39. > :08:41.Roberto Calderoli, a vice president of the country's Senate, apologised
:08:41. > :08:44.after making the remarks about Italy's new Immigration Minister,
:08:44. > :08:47.Cecile Kyenge. He's a representative of the anti-immigrant, Northern
:08:47. > :08:50.League Party. The BBC's Alan Johnston is following this story in
:08:50. > :08:55.Rome. What did he actually say? you point out, this is a man who is
:08:55. > :09:00.a member of the Northern League Party, and addressing a rally over
:09:00. > :09:06.the weekend he knew that an attack on the new immigration minister
:09:06. > :09:10.would go down well, given his audience. She is a woman born in the
:09:10. > :09:15.Democratic Republic of Congo, but very much an Italian citizen, a
:09:15. > :09:20.woman who has made her life and career here and is now an
:09:20. > :09:25.immigration minister. Roberto Calderoli likened her features to
:09:25. > :09:29.those of an orangutan and such was attracting illegal immigrants here,
:09:29. > :09:34.saying that in his words she should be a minister in her own country,
:09:34. > :09:39.obviously referring to the Congo. His remarks erupted into the
:09:39. > :09:43.headlines over the weekend, and Roberto Calderoli very quickly found
:09:43. > :09:48.himself under a torrent of criticism from many political quarters. He
:09:48. > :09:55.then went into classic damage limitation mode, he made a sort of
:09:55. > :09:59.half apology suggesting he was sorry if she had been offended, but then
:09:59. > :10:06.under growing pressure in the evening made a personal phone call
:10:06. > :10:10.to her in which he apologised. Surely he will have to step down.
:10:10. > :10:17.Obviously the Northern League Party has a specific history and audience
:10:17. > :10:22.in a way? The Minister has accepted his apology, but in a newspaper
:10:22. > :10:28.interview today she went on to say that if he couldn't translate his
:10:28. > :10:32.views into the proper sort of language of political debate, she
:10:32. > :10:37.felt he probably should relinquish his position. I have to say there is
:10:37. > :10:44.no obvious prospect of him doing that at the moment, although he is
:10:44. > :10:49.under considerable pressure. The minister went on to say just how
:10:49. > :10:59.much she is receiving threats and remarks over the most basic racist
:10:59. > :11:01.
:11:01. > :11:06.kind on a daily basis. Of course we don't hear from these attacks, they
:11:06. > :11:14.happen over the Internet, and she is receiving the most basic type of
:11:14. > :11:18.racist criticism as her career unfolds. Thank you.
:11:18. > :11:28.The question of race translate across many countries, and in the US
:11:28. > :11:31.
:11:31. > :11:34.there have been protests across the country after George Zimmerman, an
:11:34. > :11:36.Hispanic member of his local Neighbourhood Watch, was cleared of
:11:36. > :11:39.murdering of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager. These are
:11:39. > :11:42.the pictures from Los Angeles. Most of the demonstrations have been
:11:42. > :11:46.peaceful, calling for justice for Trayvon Martin. The biggest protest
:11:46. > :11:49.was in New York, where a small rally grew into a crowd of thousands. The
:11:49. > :11:52.Justice Department says it is investigating whether a civil case
:11:52. > :11:57.can be brought against Mr Zimmerman, who is Hispanic. In Florida itself,
:11:57. > :12:01.the verdict is splitting public opinion.
:12:01. > :12:08.George Zimmerman walks free, how long will this system continue to
:12:08. > :12:16.get away with murder? Not guilty? This verdict is an outrage.
:12:16. > :12:25.should have at least got a month -- manslaughter verdict. Fair? I don't
:12:25. > :12:28.think so. I grew up around this town, and back when I was young
:12:29. > :12:37.verdict like that would have happened, the whole town would have
:12:37. > :12:46.been torn apart. The verdict is just saying we at least thought he would
:12:46. > :12:52.get a manslaughter charge. It is racist, it is being racist. This
:12:52. > :12:58.town has been racist since my mother and my grandmother, and it has been
:12:58. > :13:06.like that. We were always dominated in some kind of way. It is just the
:13:06. > :13:10.bottom line. Obviously it is very racially mixed and everybody seems
:13:10. > :13:15.to get along pretty well. It was the only real verdict they could come
:13:15. > :13:21.to. We have some outsiders coming in who tried to make a racial issue out
:13:21. > :13:28.of the case, grabbing national attention, and I think they blew it
:13:28. > :13:31.up into a lot bigger case than it probably is. I just thought he would
:13:31. > :13:37.get at least manslaughter but it didn't turn out that way because of
:13:38. > :13:45.the system here. I wanted something to happen, but I wasn't surprised
:13:45. > :13:50.that he got a not guilty sentence. Until he does write about Trayvon
:13:50. > :13:55.Martin, he will never sleep in peace. It is silly to get up in arms
:13:55. > :14:02.about whether the guilty verdict was right or not because the witnesses
:14:02. > :14:06.didn't have anybody who conclusively said it was Trayvon Martin or George
:14:06. > :14:12.Zimmerman that started the attack 's though you cannot convict him as
:14:12. > :14:18.being the attacker because he may not have been. This outrages verdict
:14:18. > :14:24.is an open declaration of placing a target on the backs of a whole
:14:25. > :14:30.generation. It is erroneous to think justice will be served. You cannot
:14:30. > :14:36.take another man's life, no matter what the reason. Just some of the
:14:36. > :14:46.views coming in, in reaction to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in
:14:46. > :14:52.
:14:52. > :14:55.America. At least 70 people have died in a stampede stampede at a
:14:55. > :14:58.boxing match in Indonesia's eastern most province of Papua. The chaos
:14:58. > :15:00.apparently started after supporters of the losing boxer provoked a fight
:15:00. > :15:03.with the rival supporters. From Jakarta, our Indonesia correspondent
:15:03. > :15:06.Karishma Vaswani sent this report. It was meant to be a Sunday sporting
:15:06. > :15:09.outing for the whole family but instead it turned into an horrific
:15:09. > :15:14.tragedy. Families of the dead and injured gathered at this hospital.
:15:14. > :15:18.Several of the victims were trampled to death under the fleeing mob.
:15:18. > :15:24.People ran to the gate and other people were blocking the gate so
:15:24. > :15:29.many people were crushed to death at the gate. Police say the chaos began
:15:29. > :15:32.after supporters of the loser started throwing chairs at the
:15:32. > :15:37.supporters of the champion. Desperate to leave, many in the
:15:37. > :15:42.audience rushed out of the stadium. Police and soldiers were deployed to
:15:42. > :15:47.stop the fighting. Now the focus is on the investigation and why the
:15:47. > :15:55.stadium was so packed. Its official capacity is four 800 people but it
:15:55. > :16:02.is thought on the day there were more than 1000 inside. Police are
:16:02. > :16:05.questioning 13 people in connection with the case. We report from
:16:05. > :16:14.Northern India where thousands of missing. They are presumed to have
:16:14. > :16:17.died. The Red Cross says nearly 70,000
:16:17. > :16:20.refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo have fled into
:16:20. > :16:25.Uganda. There has been little aid for them, but an official camp has
:16:25. > :16:30.been set up. These men want to go home. They say
:16:30. > :16:36.they are hungry and would like to get food from their gardens. But the
:16:36. > :16:41.authorities were working out whether it is safe for them to go back. Not
:16:41. > :16:48.far from the border, I met these refugees. They told me they are not
:16:48. > :16:53.getting enough help. We are suffering from more hunger.
:16:54. > :16:58.Many people are suffering a lot. At least we better go back. The gardens
:16:58. > :17:04.are there. Eventually the refugees were allowed
:17:04. > :17:09.to back across the border, but the Army says it is watching them and
:17:09. > :17:14.won't allow unnecessary back and forth movements. Help did come for
:17:14. > :17:18.some. The police started moving people staying in one of the
:17:18. > :17:23.make-shift camps at a primary school and off they went to their new
:17:23. > :17:28.homes. The Uganda Government and aid agencies say they needed them to
:17:29. > :17:34.move to a safer location in order to support them. Finally some relief.
:17:34. > :17:40.The Red Cross is putting up shelters for some of the refugees. They are
:17:40. > :17:44.simple and basic. A tent, but it is much better than sleeping out in the
:17:44. > :17:49.open and further on from here, in the corner over there will be their
:17:49. > :17:54.kitchen. This will be the first hot meal that some of the refugees are
:17:54. > :17:58.eating in days. But there is disappoint
:17:58. > :18:02.disappointment about what is on offer. One MP told me it wasn't
:18:02. > :18:09.right forle people hadn't eaten properly for days to be served
:18:09. > :18:14.porridge. The Red Cross says it is doing what it can. As humanitarian
:18:14. > :18:22.agency, we have done our best and we are trying to do as you can see. All
:18:22. > :18:26.the preparations have been done by collect collective input of
:18:26. > :18:30.everybody including the Government. The refugees that made it here are
:18:30. > :18:40.happy to have some kind of shelter. But the relief agencies and
:18:40. > :18:46.
:18:46. > :18:52.Government know that there are many more to take care of.
:18:52. > :18:57.S This is BBC World News. A Bangladeshi court has sentenced a
:18:57. > :19:02.top Islamist to 90 years in prison for masterminding atrocities during
:19:02. > :19:10.the 1971 war of independence. New figures show China's economic
:19:10. > :19:15.growth continued to slow to its weakest rate since 1991.
:19:15. > :19:18.More than 5,000 people are believed to have died in last month's
:19:18. > :19:23.flooding in Northern India. That's many more than the authorities had
:19:23. > :19:33.estimated. 600 people have been confirmed dead, but anyone still
:19:33. > :19:40.
:19:40. > :19:45.missing after the monsoon rains that hit, Uttarakhand province.
:19:45. > :19:51.We report on the official death toll from Uttarakhand.
:19:51. > :19:58.All that remains of what was once the bustling town of Sonprayag. A
:19:58. > :20:05.stop for thousands of hind use on a pilgrimage mg. -- Hindus on a
:20:05. > :20:09.pilgrimage, men, women and children driven to a town less than 20
:20:09. > :20:16.kilometres away. Look anywhere and you see how life was suddenly
:20:16. > :20:25.destroyed. Today, there is a deathly silence. Broken only by the sound of
:20:25. > :20:32.the river. This used to be the road. The mountains come down on it and it
:20:32. > :20:35.is now cut off beyond this point. When the flashfloods came, it the
:20:35. > :20:41.river waters gushed in carrying stones and boulders, devastating
:20:41. > :20:48.towns in their path and killing thousands of people. Many are still
:20:48. > :20:52.trying to go beyond the treacherous mountains looking for loved ones.
:20:52. > :20:58.This man escaped the floods, but his nephew is still missing.
:20:58. > :21:03.TRANSLATION: I saw dead bodies strewn over. Trapped in the mud and
:21:03. > :21:10.trapped in trees and floating in the water. After all I have seen, I know
:21:10. > :21:15.that no one could have survived. Most people were killed in
:21:15. > :21:19.Uttarakhand. A glacial lake above the town burst and the force of the
:21:19. > :21:24.water ravaged everything in its way. People from across the region
:21:24. > :21:33.depended on the temple town. Most men worked there for six months
:21:33. > :21:38.every year, leaving their families behind. This woman's husband and two
:21:38. > :21:41.sons are missing. They were in cand cand when the floods came -- they
:21:41. > :21:47.were in Uttarakhand were the floods came. She told me she has no hope
:21:47. > :21:52.they will return. And she has nothing to he live for anymore. A
:21:52. > :21:57.month since the disaster, people are trying to salvage what they can from
:21:57. > :22:07.their destroyed lives. Still in disbelief, at how a river that gave
:22:07. > :22:11.
:22:11. > :22:15.them life has also taken away so The American sprinter, Tyson Gay has
:22:15. > :22:22.withdrawn from the athletics World Championships in Moscow next month.
:22:22. > :22:32.He tested positive for a banned stimulant. The former world record
:22:32. > :22:33.
:22:33. > :22:38.holder has failed a drugs test as have four other Jamaican athletes.
:22:38. > :22:45.Jamaica's Asfa Powell run one of the quickest times. He failed tests for
:22:45. > :22:52.banned substances. The small Caribbean nation has prided itself
:22:52. > :22:58.on being clean and drug-free. Now its reputation is on the line. This
:22:58. > :23:02.runner who won silvers at Beijing and London tested positive. The
:23:02. > :23:06.rivalry between Jamaica and the US is fierce, but they had shock news.
:23:06. > :23:10.The American Tyson Gay recorded the fastest time over 100 meters this
:23:10. > :23:13.year. Impressive after coming back from injury, but his positive test
:23:13. > :23:16.could see his preparation for the World Championships count for
:23:16. > :23:21.nothing after they result. Sometimes when you get to that part
:23:21. > :23:26.of your career, the second part of your career, maybe a hint of
:23:26. > :23:30.desperation comes in and you start looking for other things. Whether he
:23:30. > :23:36.has done it of his own vielition or someone who sent him down that path,
:23:36. > :23:41.it is the wrong path to go down. Powell, Simpson and Gay issued
:23:41. > :23:49.statements saying they had unintentionally taken banned
:23:49. > :23:54.substances. South Africa has one of the highest
:23:54. > :24:04.rates of teenage pregnancies in Africa. Pregnant girls are often
:24:04. > :24:06.
:24:06. > :24:16.excluded from school for up to a year. The country's constitutional
:24:16. > :24:16.
:24:17. > :24:21.court says that's discriminatory. As they prepare for adulthood, these
:24:21. > :24:26.young people here face challenges. They have to deal with very high
:24:26. > :24:31.levels of poverty, poor quality schooling, substance abuse and HIV
:24:31. > :24:38.and AIDS. There is the problem of teenage pregnancy, authorities say
:24:38. > :24:43.the problem is getting out of control. If children as young as ten
:24:43. > :24:49.get pregnant in the sense that up to 25 children get pregnant in one
:24:49. > :24:52.school, here we are dealing with something that is threatening to
:24:52. > :24:56.take proportions of being month terous.
:24:56. > :25:01.It is only the second quarter of the school calendar and authorities are
:25:01. > :25:06.telling us up to 20 young pupils are pregnant at this school. Authorities
:25:06. > :25:11.say to us that there is' direct link between extreme levels of poverty
:25:11. > :25:17.and high rates of teenage pregnancies. A 14-year-old girl
:25:17. > :25:22.battles with labour pains as a local hospital. She will will -- she will
:25:22. > :25:25.be lucky to go back to school. Many don't. There are life threatening
:25:25. > :25:30.difficulties associate eithered with pregnancy especially for young
:25:30. > :25:34.bodies. Sometimes when I was sick I used to cry because I was still
:25:34. > :25:38.young. That's why it was difficult for me.
:25:38. > :25:45.Us teenagers don't really consider the risks of high blood pressure
:25:45. > :25:51.because I really thought nothing of Doctors say it is therefore
:25:51. > :25:57.surprising surprising that the high maternal rates are magified amongst
:25:57. > :26:02.pregnant teenagers. Well, what we know is that 36% of the total
:26:02. > :26:08.maternal deaths are teenage girls. These are poverty related issues so
:26:08. > :26:13.lack of education, lack of antenatal care when it is needed, how it is
:26:13. > :26:19.needed. And because schools are often
:26:19. > :26:24.intolerant of having heavily pregnant teenagers in class, they
:26:24. > :26:33.get excluded and loose out on education, trapping them in the
:26:33. > :26:38.poverty cycle as young mums. A war crimes court in Bangladesh
:26:38. > :26:43.found a veteran Islamist leader guilty of involvement in atrocities
:26:43. > :26:51.carried during the country's war of independence with Pakistan over 40