:00:14. > :00:23.policy chief meets Egypt's former president for the first time since
:00:23. > :00:30.he was detained by the military. is well. We had a friendly and open
:00:30. > :00:33.and very frank discussion. It was for the two hours that I saw him.
:00:33. > :00:36.Taliban militants attack a Pakistani prison and free 250 inmates
:00:36. > :00:40.including 30 described as hardcore radicals.
:00:40. > :00:44.A fortunate escape for workers at a propane gas plant in Florida after a
:00:44. > :00:49.series of explosions. And he's the top target of the
:00:49. > :00:59.football transfer window. Real Madrid prepare to pay a world record
:00:59. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:17.Egypt's outsted president Mohammed Morsi has been allowed a meeting
:01:17. > :01:20.with the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. It is his first
:01:21. > :01:25.known meeting with an outsider since he was detained by the army which
:01:25. > :01:29.overthrew him four weeks ago. She said he was well, but she did not
:01:29. > :01:32.know where he was. His Muslim Brotherhood supporters say they will
:01:32. > :01:35.keep protesting until he is reinstated and there are signs they
:01:35. > :01:36.are planning to change tactics, to include marches on foreign
:01:36. > :01:41.embassies. Here is how Baroness Ashton
:01:41. > :01:49.described her meeting with Mr Morsi. He is well, and we had a friendly
:01:49. > :01:53.and open and very frank discussion for the two hours that I saw him. I
:01:53. > :02:01.saw where he was. I don't know where he is but I saw the facilities he
:02:01. > :02:06.has. We had a warm discussion because as you know, I have met with
:02:06. > :02:13.him many times before. I sent him good wishes from people here and he
:02:13. > :02:22.asked me to pass on wishes back. Of course I have tried to make sure
:02:22. > :02:27.that his family know that he was well. But she was tight-lipped about
:02:27. > :02:32.the discussion on how they can people progress on discussions on
:02:32. > :02:36.deep democracy. I told him that I was not going to represent his views
:02:36. > :02:42.because in the circumstances he cannot correct me if I do it
:02:42. > :02:47.wrongly. We talked in depth. He has access to information in terms of
:02:47. > :02:52.TV, newspapers, so we were able to talk about the situation and we were
:02:52. > :02:56.able to talk about the need to reform it but I am not going to
:02:57. > :03:00.reveal anything further about our conservations -- conversations in
:03:00. > :03:03.anyway. We will have live analysis from Cairo shortly.
:03:03. > :03:06.The authorities in Pakistan are searching for about 250 prisoners
:03:06. > :03:11.who were freed by the Pakistani Taliban in a co-ordinated attack on
:03:11. > :03:16.a jail in the north west of the country. About 30 of those who
:03:16. > :03:21.escaped have been described as hardcore militants. 14 have since
:03:22. > :03:26.been recaptured. It happened at night in the town of Dera Ismail
:03:26. > :03:32.Khan. Several militants and six police officers were killed in the
:03:32. > :03:36.attack. The BBC's Shahzeb Jillani is in Karachi. I asked him for what is
:03:36. > :03:42.emerging about the hardcore militants who escaped. It is
:03:42. > :03:52.believed they came from tribal areas. The city of Denver is male
:03:52. > :03:54.
:03:54. > :04:00.Khan, the second biggest city in the province, is located close to the
:04:00. > :04:04.prison -- Dera Ismail Khan. The others have disappeared presumably
:04:04. > :04:10.inside the tribal areas and it will be very difficult for officials to
:04:10. > :04:14.catch them again. There is a search operation underway and a curfew has
:04:14. > :04:20.been imposed in Dera Ismail Khan but most people now believe that the
:04:20. > :04:26.authorities will be hard-pressed to find them again. Hardened radicals
:04:26. > :04:32.held in a very old prison. What other security implications of this?
:04:32. > :04:38.As we were hearing, this is not the first time and the sort of this kind
:04:38. > :04:42.has taken place. There was a much bigger jailbreak last year and 400
:04:42. > :04:50.prisoners were released them. When these people are freed, they go back
:04:50. > :04:55.into tribal areas. They can launch much bigger attacks. It boosts their
:04:55. > :05:01.confidence that they can go into a jail and release prisoners. It makes
:05:01. > :05:09.many people worried. Pakistani has seen so many attacks in the last ten
:05:09. > :05:12.years. It adds to the insecurity and also points to the lack of capacity
:05:12. > :05:16.that the police harassed to catch these militants and keep them inside
:05:16. > :05:19.the jail. And later in the programme we'll be
:05:19. > :05:27.talking to a former senator from Pakistan about the security
:05:27. > :05:33.implications of the jail break. Let's pick up again on the visit by
:05:33. > :05:40.Baroness Ashton to see Mohammed more see, the deposed former president of
:05:40. > :05:48.Egypt. Let's go to Cairo -- Mohamed Morsi. What is your reading of what
:05:48. > :05:53.Baroness Ashton has achieved, if anything?
:05:53. > :05:59.Meeting Mr Morsi is a big achievement in itself. She is the
:05:59. > :06:04.first outside top diplomat who meets him and telling the world that he
:06:04. > :06:11.has been treated well and he has access to information, TV, media, he
:06:11. > :06:17.knows what is going on in Egypt so he is aware of the situation. This
:06:17. > :06:21.is in itself an achievement. She says she is not there to impose
:06:21. > :06:25.on Egypt, merely to help get confidence and build contacts. What
:06:25. > :06:35.is your reading of what the European Union is achieving, if anything? You
:06:35. > :06:42.like macro the European Union tries to find common ground. It is very
:06:42. > :06:49.difficult. Both sides, for and against Morsi, are insisting on
:06:49. > :06:53.negotiations. The people in favour of Morsi say he should be reinstated
:06:53. > :07:03.but the opposition and the army are asking the Muslim Brotherhood to
:07:03. > :07:03.
:07:03. > :07:09.realise we are in a different reality, a new era. They think they
:07:09. > :07:14.should recognise this new reality. How much is the new reality of
:07:14. > :07:19.radicalisation of the Muslim Brotherhood? They are saying on
:07:19. > :07:22.their website they will continue protesting by day during Ramadan and
:07:22. > :07:26.approach embassies as well and they immediately dismissed the Baroness
:07:26. > :07:36.Ashton visit, saying their protests will continue.
:07:36. > :07:41.I have been several times there. Some of them say they are ready to
:07:41. > :07:48.die for Morsi to be reinstated if the security forces attack them. But
:07:48. > :07:53.there are some observers who believed that they think that if
:07:53. > :07:58.Morsi was released and they were not persecuted illegally in Egypt, they
:07:58. > :08:04.may accept some kind of compromise. But so far, they insist on that
:08:04. > :08:11.position. Some of them say at least Morsi should be back in power for
:08:11. > :08:16.one hour or one day and negotiate later. Maybe the Muslim Brotherhood
:08:16. > :08:22.leaders have control of some people but the problem is that some radical
:08:22. > :08:30.groups, we have heard some news that some members of Al-Qaeda and some
:08:30. > :08:35.very radical Islamic groups, have joined outside Cairo University, the
:08:35. > :08:44.second setting for Morsi protesters, so there is a danger of escalating
:08:44. > :08:48.violence if the situation stayed like this.
:08:48. > :08:52.A series of explosions have ripped through a gas plant in the US state
:08:52. > :08:57.of Florida. At least seven people were injured at the Blue Rhino
:08:57. > :09:00.Propane Plant, in the central town of Tavares. 15 members of staff had
:09:00. > :09:09.been feared missing, but have now been accounted for.
:09:09. > :09:12.Ryan Hughes with Florida's WFTV has been at the scene. At one point
:09:12. > :09:18.there was 26 people working the night shift at the plant and when
:09:18. > :09:26.they heard the explosion, they all ran for it. At 1.15 people were
:09:26. > :09:30.unaccounted for but they have all been located since. -- at one point
:09:30. > :09:37.macro. Good news coming out of the situation after some very bad news
:09:37. > :09:42.that was initially reported. Have there been other incidents of a
:09:42. > :09:48.similar and worrying nature in recent times? There was a fertiliser
:09:48. > :09:53.plant in the state of Texas that exploded a few months ago and 15 to
:09:53. > :09:59.20 people perished. It is unknown at this point if there had been any
:09:59. > :10:05.safety issues in the past. That was asked at a local sheriff office
:10:05. > :10:15.anti-that was not confirmed on any scale. -- and that was not
:10:15. > :10:17.
:10:18. > :10:24.confirmed. A mass funeral has been taking place
:10:24. > :10:31.in Italy. The priests led a religious service in a sports arena.
:10:31. > :10:41.At least 30 people died after a coach plunged off a flyover. I put
:10:41. > :10:43.
:10:43. > :10:47.determine how the vehicle broke through a concrete barrier and fell
:10:47. > :10:51.into a ravine east of Naples. Italy's former prime minister Silvio
:10:51. > :11:00.Berlusconi is due to find out in the next day or two whether he will
:11:00. > :11:04.serve time in jail for tax fraud. The case started seven years ago and
:11:04. > :11:09.is about television rights bought by his company Mediaset. The judgement
:11:09. > :11:16.could be delivered today. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators
:11:16. > :11:25.are due to begin peace talks in two hours. John Kerry has spent months
:11:25. > :11:30.getting the two sides together and called it a very special moment.
:11:30. > :11:36.Old enemies breaking bread together. A special moment in the Middle East
:11:36. > :11:40.peace process, according to the US secretary of state. He has spent
:11:40. > :11:44.months of diplomacy getting Israeli and Palestinian leaders to meet just
:11:44. > :11:50.to discuss a framework for negotiations but he admits an actual
:11:50. > :11:55.peace agreement is still a long way off. It is no secret that this is a
:11:55. > :12:00.difficult process. If it were easy, it would have happened a long time
:12:00. > :12:05.ago. It is no secret therefore that many difficult choices lie ahead for
:12:05. > :12:14.the negotiators and for the leaders, as we seek reasonable compromises
:12:14. > :12:18.but tough, complicated, emotional and symbolic issues. Both sides lay
:12:18. > :12:22.claim to Jerusalem, setting the porters of a Palestinian state will
:12:22. > :12:26.be contentious, and Israel is fearful that such a state will
:12:26. > :12:33.become a haven for its enemies, but leaders in Washington say they still
:12:33. > :12:37.have to try. There is a lot of cynicism, scepticism and pessimism,
:12:37. > :12:43.but there is also hoped and I believe that by launching the
:12:43. > :12:48.negotiations we can bring hope for Israelis and Palestinians as well
:12:48. > :12:52.and I truly believe that peace between the Israelis and the
:12:52. > :12:56.Palestinians is in the interest of those countries and the
:12:56. > :12:58.international community, so we should make all the efforts in order
:12:58. > :13:06.not only to relaunch the negotiations but to end the conflict
:13:06. > :13:09.as well. The Palestinian leader faces additional pressures of a
:13:09. > :13:19.divided government. How mass does not recognise the talks which resume
:13:19. > :13:20.
:13:20. > :13:23.later today -- Hamas. Still to come with Zimbabwe's
:13:23. > :13:32.presidential election tomorrow, we sampled the opinion of voters who
:13:32. > :13:37.have gone to work in South Africa. Will Spurs be able to hang onto
:13:37. > :13:43.Gareth Bale as Real Madrid seem to be able to prepare to pay a world
:13:43. > :13:48.record transfer fee? The soldier behind one of the
:13:48. > :13:51.biggest ever leaks of US state secrets will learn his fate today.
:13:51. > :13:57.Bradley Manning gave thousands of documents to the Wikileaks website
:13:57. > :14:04.and could be found guilty of the most serious charge, knowingly
:14:04. > :14:09.aiding the enemy. He denies the charge.
:14:09. > :14:14.Is Bradley Manning thing a young and naive whistle-blower or a
:14:14. > :14:20.calculating, fame hungry traitor? Two very different accounts of the
:14:20. > :14:24.former Army intelligence analyst has been presented before the judge
:14:24. > :14:29.during the eight week military trial. The 25-year-old was posted in
:14:29. > :14:33.Iraq, where he was given access to classified information and he admits
:14:33. > :14:39.disclosing more than 700,000 government documents to the
:14:39. > :14:48.Wikileaks website between 2009 and 2010. That included confidential
:14:48. > :14:52.messages between US diplomats. And key military intelligence, like this
:14:52. > :14:58.video of a US Apache helicopter attack, which showed a strike on
:14:58. > :15:03.unarmed civilians in Iraq. Bradley Manning denies that by putting all
:15:04. > :15:08.this in the public domain he knew it could end up in the hands of
:15:08. > :15:12.America's enemies, including Al-Qaeda. I think he should be
:15:13. > :15:22.punished because we cannot afford to let the message go out to people who
:15:22. > :15:29.work for our government that there confidential agreement is an utterly
:15:29. > :15:34.meaningless act. Bradley Manning's supporters see him as a hero who
:15:34. > :15:38.wanted to expose the truth. expose war crimes and he is being
:15:38. > :15:45.punished as if he were a terrorist and that is wrong. Truth is on trial
:15:45. > :15:52.and the way America has been fighting in period over the last ten
:15:52. > :15:56.years has been in secret. -- imperialist wars. The defence say he
:15:56. > :16:01.leaked the information to spark worldwide discussion about US
:16:01. > :16:05.foreign policy. The prosecution say he craved notoriety. Either way his
:16:05. > :16:15.actions have opened up a wider debate about the sharing of
:16:15. > :16:25.
:16:25. > :16:27.classified data in the Internet age. You are watching BBC World News. The
:16:27. > :16:29.European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, says ousted
:16:29. > :16:35.Egyptian President Morsi is in good health at an undisclosed location.
:16:35. > :16:44.That is after she was the first foreigner to meet him since he was
:16:44. > :16:47.detained by the military. Taliban gunman launch an assault on
:16:47. > :16:50.a Pakistani prison, freeing some prisoners. A few have been
:16:50. > :16:53.recaptured, but almost 250 escape, including 30 described as dangerous
:16:53. > :16:54.terrorists. Zimbabweans go to the polls on
:16:54. > :16:57.Wednesday in presidential and parliamentary elections. 89-year-old
:16:57. > :17:00.Robert Mugabe, who's ruled the country since independence in 1980,
:17:00. > :17:02.is seeking another five-year term. His main challenger is Morgan
:17:02. > :17:05.Tsvangirai, the current Prime Minister. Many of those voting are
:17:05. > :17:12.Zimbabweans who moved to neighbouring South Africa as their
:17:12. > :17:18.own country teetered on economic collapse. Mark Lowen has been
:17:18. > :17:28.meeting some of them in Johannesburg.
:17:28. > :17:29.
:17:29. > :17:33.Here in the heart of Johannesburg is this busy transport hub, with buses
:17:33. > :17:37.bound the neighbouring Zimbabwe. They are taking back the up to 5
:17:37. > :17:41.million Zimbabweans who have moved here in the last decade, they are
:17:41. > :17:51.the largest foreign group in this country. It is particularly bustling
:17:51. > :17:51.
:17:52. > :17:55.as people go back today in order to vote in the election. Let's find out
:17:55. > :18:03.some of the views here. We are going to Zimbabwe for the elections.
:18:03. > :18:10.Everyone expects a change. The situation has been very hard.
:18:10. > :18:19.going to vote for Mugabe. Why? Here's my president since 1980.
:18:19. > :18:22.Things are going well. Free and fair. We are going to win. But did a
:18:23. > :18:32.lot of Zimbabweans not come here because the country was in a bad
:18:33. > :18:35.
:18:35. > :18:40.state? Some people are lying. going to vote for Morgan Tsvangirai.
:18:40. > :18:48.I want change. I want to unity between BS knicker groups of
:18:48. > :18:58.Zimbabwe, I want economic recovery, I want education to be at a higher
:18:58. > :19:00.
:19:00. > :19:05.level -- I want unity between the ethnic groups of Zimbabwe. I want
:19:05. > :19:07.respect for human rights. If he is elected, will you go back to live in
:19:07. > :19:15.Zimbabwe? Yes, to help in the reconstruction of my country.
:19:15. > :19:18.Zimbabweans are split about whether to back Mugabe after 33 years in
:19:18. > :19:21.power, or to make Morgan Tsvangirai successful in his third attempt at
:19:21. > :19:26.the presidency. It is a 14 hour coach ride. They're already fears
:19:26. > :19:29.that the election will not be free and fair. But if it is, the votes of
:19:29. > :19:31.some of these people could prove decisive.
:19:31. > :19:35.We will be covering the election, of course.
:19:35. > :19:38.Let's turn our attention to sport now and the possiblity the football
:19:38. > :19:40.may get a new world record transfer fee. The rumours are that Real
:19:40. > :19:44.Madrid want Tottenham Hotspur superstar Gareth Bale. He's
:19:44. > :19:47.apparently told Spurs he wants to hold talks with the Spanish giants.
:19:47. > :19:50.The footballer is valued at $130 million by Real Madrid. The Spanish
:19:50. > :19:54.giants have described him as one of the top players at European level,
:19:54. > :20:01.but they've yet to submit an offer. And the London club insists Bale
:20:01. > :20:10.won't be sold. Nick Marshall-McCormack is in the
:20:10. > :20:18.BBC Sport Centre. What do we make of this? Spurs are
:20:18. > :20:23.saying he is not for sale, Real Madrid sniffing at $130 million.
:20:23. > :20:32.Madrid always seem to get their man. In 2009, Sir Alex Ferguson said
:20:32. > :20:36.he would not sell Cristiano Ronaldo. Guess where he moved, three weeks
:20:36. > :20:43.later! The same followed for several of the top players including
:20:43. > :20:48.Rinaldo. They were all not the sale, but the president of Real Madrid
:20:48. > :20:53.always seems to get their man. We are seeing a battle between him and
:20:54. > :20:58.the Tottenham chairman, who says that Bale is not for sale. I think
:20:58. > :21:02.he just wants to squeeze more money from Real Madrid. If they are going
:21:02. > :21:07.to lose their star player, they will do so by getting money in the bank.
:21:07. > :21:12.Lots of cynics will see this as a lot of money for a player who has
:21:12. > :21:17.only really played once in the Champions League and has not won a
:21:17. > :21:21.major trophy, that they are keen to get him because at the moment he is
:21:21. > :21:25.one of the best players in the English Premier League.
:21:25. > :21:28.We will wait to see what happens! Will they cough up even more?
:21:28. > :21:30.Every year in Afghanistan hunters kill untold numbers of migratory
:21:30. > :21:35.birds. Environmentalists say the centuries-old Afghan pastime of
:21:35. > :21:45.bird-hunting has become more common, and there isn't a law or the will to
:21:45. > :21:47.
:21:47. > :21:51.protect them. Bilal Sarwary reports from Parwan province.
:21:51. > :21:59.Hunting is a passion for people here. Their methods haven't changed
:21:59. > :22:08.for generations. This is hunting, Afghan style. Like his father and
:22:08. > :22:14.grandfather before him, 26-year-old Ahmed is a hunter. He has killed 25
:22:14. > :22:18.cranes this year, nothing compared to the past.
:22:19. > :22:25.TRANSLATION: People say in the past there were lots of cranes here, but
:22:25. > :22:31.there is so much hunting. Every year there are fewer of them.
:22:31. > :22:36.Hunting is big business here. In this bird Bazaar, wild ducks and
:22:36. > :22:41.cranes are sold for their meat, while small birds like canaries and
:22:41. > :22:45.finches are bought as house pets. Excessive hunting of wild birds like
:22:45. > :22:52.cranes, flamingos and wild ducks here is forcing these birds to
:22:52. > :22:57.change their migratory routes in Afghanistan. Hunting is a
:22:57. > :23:05.traditional pastime here in Afghanistan. After decades of war,
:23:05. > :23:15.there is little awareness of its wider impact. Afghanistan is coming
:23:15. > :23:15.
:23:15. > :23:21.out of more than 30 years of war. There was no environmental law, not
:23:21. > :23:25.much awareness of people, and the poverty. The government banned the
:23:25. > :23:30.hunting of migratory birds five years ago in a presidential decree,
:23:30. > :23:37.but the law is still to go through Parliament and the ban is barely
:23:37. > :23:41.enforced. Environmentalists say that if hunting is to be brought into
:23:41. > :23:48.control, there needs to be wider education for the hunters and the
:23:48. > :23:54.police about the value of Afghanistan's natural resources.
:23:54. > :23:57.Let's return to the news about 250 prisoners freed by the Pakistani
:23:57. > :24:03.Taliban in what is an extraordinary coordinated attack on a jail in the
:24:03. > :24:12.north-west of the country. I am joined by a former senator
:24:12. > :24:17.originally from the region where the jailbreak took place. Iftikhar
:24:17. > :24:24.Ahmad, are you surprised by this in a 100-year-old prison full,
:24:24. > :24:28.apparently, of hard-core radicals? Not at all, because it happened one
:24:28. > :24:37.year ago in a nearby town bordering the tribal area. There were 400
:24:37. > :24:43.prisoners released, one of them was the condemned prisoner who had
:24:43. > :24:48.attempted for the life of General Musharraf. Is there such a thing as
:24:48. > :24:52.a top security prison in Pakistan? It would have been better had these
:24:52. > :24:58.high risk prisoners been placed in the centre of Pakistan. There are
:24:58. > :25:08.more secure and newer world reasons. We are looking at images from this
:25:08. > :25:12.morning, the prison does not appear even to have CCTV. More worryingly,
:25:12. > :25:16.they are bordering the tribal area, and it is very convenient and easy
:25:16. > :25:26.for the Taliban to attack. I would not be surprised if a similar attack
:25:26. > :25:31.
:25:31. > :25:35.takes place elsewhere, in passion are all somewhere. -- in Peshawar or
:25:35. > :25:45.somewhere. There was a warning about two weeks ago. What do you read into
:25:45. > :25:46.
:25:46. > :25:51.that? Complicity, compromise of intelligence. Complicity of the
:25:51. > :25:57.staff and the police and administration of that area. Is this
:25:57. > :26:02.your supposition, or is it evidenced? I don't have any
:26:02. > :26:08.evidence, but it is an exact replica of the previous attack, meaning the
:26:08. > :26:11.logistics and pattern were known to them. There is complicity because
:26:11. > :26:17.people sympathise with the tribals, they are not very far away from
:26:17. > :26:24.them. Most of them are their case and kin, they are elated to them,
:26:24. > :26:28.perhaps. This does not bode well for future talks between the United
:26:28. > :26:34.States and the Taliban. One agenda item has been removed, which would
:26:34. > :26:40.have been the removal of prisoners. Former Senator Iftikhar Ahmad, thank
:26:40. > :26:43.you for joining us. The main news from Cairo, the European Union
:26:43. > :26:46.foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has met the ousted Egyptian
:26:46. > :26:52.President Mohamed Morsi at an undisclosed location where he is
:26:52. > :26:55.being held by the military. She told reporters in Cairo that he is well