30/07/2013 BBC World News


30/07/2013

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 30/07/2013. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

policy chief meets Egypt's former president for the first time since

:00:14.:00:23.

he was detained by the military. is well. We had a friendly and open

:00:23.:00:30.

and very frank discussion. It was for the two hours that I saw him.

:00:30.:00:33.

Taliban militants attack a Pakistani prison and free 250 inmates

:00:33.:00:36.

including 30 described as hardcore radicals.

:00:36.:00:40.

A fortunate escape for workers at a propane gas plant in Florida after a

:00:40.:00:44.

series of explosions. And he's the top target of the

:00:44.:00:49.

football transfer window. Real Madrid prepare to pay a world record

:00:49.:00:59.
:00:59.:01:11.

Egypt's outsted president Mohammed Morsi has been allowed a meeting

:01:11.:01:17.

with the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. It is his first

:01:17.:01:20.

known meeting with an outsider since he was detained by the army which

:01:21.:01:25.

overthrew him four weeks ago. She said he was well, but she did not

:01:25.:01:29.

know where he was. His Muslim Brotherhood supporters say they will

:01:29.:01:32.

keep protesting until he is reinstated and there are signs they

:01:32.:01:35.

are planning to change tactics, to include marches on foreign

:01:35.:01:36.

embassies. Here is how Baroness Ashton

:01:36.:01:41.

described her meeting with Mr Morsi. He is well, and we had a friendly

:01:41.:01:49.

and open and very frank discussion for the two hours that I saw him. I

:01:49.:01:53.

saw where he was. I don't know where he is but I saw the facilities he

:01:53.:02:01.

has. We had a warm discussion because as you know, I have met with

:02:01.:02:06.

him many times before. I sent him good wishes from people here and he

:02:06.:02:13.

asked me to pass on wishes back. Of course I have tried to make sure

:02:13.:02:22.

that his family know that he was well. But she was tight-lipped about

:02:22.:02:27.

the discussion on how they can people progress on discussions on

:02:27.:02:32.

deep democracy. I told him that I was not going to represent his views

:02:32.:02:36.

because in the circumstances he cannot correct me if I do it

:02:36.:02:42.

wrongly. We talked in depth. He has access to information in terms of

:02:42.:02:47.

TV, newspapers, so we were able to talk about the situation and we were

:02:47.:02:52.

able to talk about the need to reform it but I am not going to

:02:52.:02:56.

reveal anything further about our conservations -- conversations in

:02:57.:03:00.

anyway. We will have live analysis from Cairo shortly.

:03:00.:03:03.

The authorities in Pakistan are searching for about 250 prisoners

:03:03.:03:06.

who were freed by the Pakistani Taliban in a co-ordinated attack on

:03:06.:03:11.

a jail in the north west of the country. About 30 of those who

:03:11.:03:16.

escaped have been described as hardcore militants. 14 have since

:03:16.:03:21.

been recaptured. It happened at night in the town of Dera Ismail

:03:22.:03:26.

Khan. Several militants and six police officers were killed in the

:03:26.:03:32.

attack. The BBC's Shahzeb Jillani is in Karachi. I asked him for what is

:03:32.:03:36.

emerging about the hardcore militants who escaped. It is

:03:36.:03:42.

believed they came from tribal areas. The city of Denver is male

:03:42.:03:52.
:03:52.:03:54.

Khan, the second biggest city in the province, is located close to the

:03:54.:04:00.

prison -- Dera Ismail Khan. The others have disappeared presumably

:04:00.:04:04.

inside the tribal areas and it will be very difficult for officials to

:04:04.:04:10.

catch them again. There is a search operation underway and a curfew has

:04:10.:04:14.

been imposed in Dera Ismail Khan but most people now believe that the

:04:14.:04:20.

authorities will be hard-pressed to find them again. Hardened radicals

:04:20.:04:26.

held in a very old prison. What other security implications of this?

:04:26.:04:32.

As we were hearing, this is not the first time and the sort of this kind

:04:32.:04:38.

has taken place. There was a much bigger jailbreak last year and 400

:04:38.:04:42.

prisoners were released them. When these people are freed, they go back

:04:42.:04:50.

into tribal areas. They can launch much bigger attacks. It boosts their

:04:50.:04:55.

confidence that they can go into a jail and release prisoners. It makes

:04:55.:05:01.

many people worried. Pakistani has seen so many attacks in the last ten

:05:01.:05:09.

years. It adds to the insecurity and also points to the lack of capacity

:05:09.:05:12.

that the police harassed to catch these militants and keep them inside

:05:12.:05:16.

the jail. And later in the programme we'll be

:05:16.:05:19.

talking to a former senator from Pakistan about the security

:05:19.:05:27.

implications of the jail break. Let's pick up again on the visit by

:05:27.:05:33.

Baroness Ashton to see Mohammed more see, the deposed former president of

:05:33.:05:40.

Egypt. Let's go to Cairo -- Mohamed Morsi. What is your reading of what

:05:40.:05:48.

Baroness Ashton has achieved, if anything?

:05:48.:05:53.

Meeting Mr Morsi is a big achievement in itself. She is the

:05:53.:05:59.

first outside top diplomat who meets him and telling the world that he

:05:59.:06:04.

has been treated well and he has access to information, TV, media, he

:06:04.:06:11.

knows what is going on in Egypt so he is aware of the situation. This

:06:11.:06:17.

is in itself an achievement. She says she is not there to impose

:06:17.:06:21.

on Egypt, merely to help get confidence and build contacts. What

:06:21.:06:25.

is your reading of what the European Union is achieving, if anything? You

:06:25.:06:35.

like macro the European Union tries to find common ground. It is very

:06:35.:06:42.

difficult. Both sides, for and against Morsi, are insisting on

:06:42.:06:49.

negotiations. The people in favour of Morsi say he should be reinstated

:06:49.:06:53.

but the opposition and the army are asking the Muslim Brotherhood to

:06:53.:07:03.
:07:03.:07:03.

realise we are in a different reality, a new era. They think they

:07:03.:07:09.

should recognise this new reality. How much is the new reality of

:07:09.:07:14.

radicalisation of the Muslim Brotherhood? They are saying on

:07:14.:07:19.

their website they will continue protesting by day during Ramadan and

:07:19.:07:22.

approach embassies as well and they immediately dismissed the Baroness

:07:22.:07:26.

Ashton visit, saying their protests will continue.

:07:26.:07:36.

I have been several times there. Some of them say they are ready to

:07:36.:07:41.

die for Morsi to be reinstated if the security forces attack them. But

:07:41.:07:48.

there are some observers who believed that they think that if

:07:48.:07:53.

Morsi was released and they were not persecuted illegally in Egypt, they

:07:53.:07:58.

may accept some kind of compromise. But so far, they insist on that

:07:58.:08:04.

position. Some of them say at least Morsi should be back in power for

:08:04.:08:11.

one hour or one day and negotiate later. Maybe the Muslim Brotherhood

:08:11.:08:16.

leaders have control of some people but the problem is that some radical

:08:16.:08:22.

groups, we have heard some news that some members of Al-Qaeda and some

:08:22.:08:30.

very radical Islamic groups, have joined outside Cairo University, the

:08:30.:08:35.

second setting for Morsi protesters, so there is a danger of escalating

:08:35.:08:44.

violence if the situation stayed like this.

:08:44.:08:48.

A series of explosions have ripped through a gas plant in the US state

:08:48.:08:52.

of Florida. At least seven people were injured at the Blue Rhino

:08:52.:08:57.

Propane Plant, in the central town of Tavares. 15 members of staff had

:08:57.:09:00.

been feared missing, but have now been accounted for.

:09:00.:09:09.

Ryan Hughes with Florida's WFTV has been at the scene. At one point

:09:09.:09:12.

there was 26 people working the night shift at the plant and when

:09:12.:09:18.

they heard the explosion, they all ran for it. At 1.15 people were

:09:18.:09:26.

unaccounted for but they have all been located since. -- at one point

:09:26.:09:30.

macro. Good news coming out of the situation after some very bad news

:09:30.:09:37.

that was initially reported. Have there been other incidents of a

:09:37.:09:42.

similar and worrying nature in recent times? There was a fertiliser

:09:42.:09:48.

plant in the state of Texas that exploded a few months ago and 15 to

:09:48.:09:53.

20 people perished. It is unknown at this point if there had been any

:09:53.:09:59.

safety issues in the past. That was asked at a local sheriff office

:09:59.:10:05.

anti-that was not confirmed on any scale. -- and that was not

:10:05.:10:15.
:10:15.:10:17.

confirmed. A mass funeral has been taking place

:10:18.:10:24.

in Italy. The priests led a religious service in a sports arena.

:10:24.:10:31.

At least 30 people died after a coach plunged off a flyover. I put

:10:31.:10:41.
:10:41.:10:43.

determine how the vehicle broke through a concrete barrier and fell

:10:43.:10:47.

into a ravine east of Naples. Italy's former prime minister Silvio

:10:47.:10:51.

Berlusconi is due to find out in the next day or two whether he will

:10:51.:11:00.

serve time in jail for tax fraud. The case started seven years ago and

:11:00.:11:04.

is about television rights bought by his company Mediaset. The judgement

:11:04.:11:09.

could be delivered today. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators

:11:09.:11:16.

are due to begin peace talks in two hours. John Kerry has spent months

:11:16.:11:25.

getting the two sides together and called it a very special moment.

:11:25.:11:30.

Old enemies breaking bread together. A special moment in the Middle East

:11:30.:11:36.

peace process, according to the US secretary of state. He has spent

:11:36.:11:40.

months of diplomacy getting Israeli and Palestinian leaders to meet just

:11:40.:11:44.

to discuss a framework for negotiations but he admits an actual

:11:44.:11:50.

peace agreement is still a long way off. It is no secret that this is a

:11:50.:11:55.

difficult process. If it were easy, it would have happened a long time

:11:55.:12:00.

ago. It is no secret therefore that many difficult choices lie ahead for

:12:00.:12:05.

the negotiators and for the leaders, as we seek reasonable compromises

:12:05.:12:14.

but tough, complicated, emotional and symbolic issues. Both sides lay

:12:14.:12:18.

claim to Jerusalem, setting the porters of a Palestinian state will

:12:18.:12:22.

be contentious, and Israel is fearful that such a state will

:12:22.:12:26.

become a haven for its enemies, but leaders in Washington say they still

:12:26.:12:33.

have to try. There is a lot of cynicism, scepticism and pessimism,

:12:33.:12:37.

but there is also hoped and I believe that by launching the

:12:37.:12:43.

negotiations we can bring hope for Israelis and Palestinians as well

:12:43.:12:48.

and I truly believe that peace between the Israelis and the

:12:48.:12:52.

Palestinians is in the interest of those countries and the

:12:52.:12:56.

international community, so we should make all the efforts in order

:12:56.:12:58.

not only to relaunch the negotiations but to end the conflict

:12:58.:13:06.

as well. The Palestinian leader faces additional pressures of a

:13:06.:13:09.

divided government. How mass does not recognise the talks which resume

:13:09.:13:19.
:13:19.:13:20.

later today -- Hamas. Still to come with Zimbabwe's

:13:20.:13:23.

presidential election tomorrow, we sampled the opinion of voters who

:13:23.:13:32.

have gone to work in South Africa. Will Spurs be able to hang onto

:13:32.:13:37.

Gareth Bale as Real Madrid seem to be able to prepare to pay a world

:13:37.:13:43.

record transfer fee? The soldier behind one of the

:13:43.:13:48.

biggest ever leaks of US state secrets will learn his fate today.

:13:48.:13:51.

Bradley Manning gave thousands of documents to the Wikileaks website

:13:51.:13:57.

and could be found guilty of the most serious charge, knowingly

:13:57.:14:04.

aiding the enemy. He denies the charge.

:14:04.:14:09.

Is Bradley Manning thing a young and naive whistle-blower or a

:14:09.:14:14.

calculating, fame hungry traitor? Two very different accounts of the

:14:14.:14:20.

former Army intelligence analyst has been presented before the judge

:14:20.:14:24.

during the eight week military trial. The 25-year-old was posted in

:14:24.:14:29.

Iraq, where he was given access to classified information and he admits

:14:29.:14:33.

disclosing more than 700,000 government documents to the

:14:33.:14:39.

Wikileaks website between 2009 and 2010. That included confidential

:14:39.:14:48.

messages between US diplomats. And key military intelligence, like this

:14:48.:14:52.

video of a US Apache helicopter attack, which showed a strike on

:14:52.:14:58.

unarmed civilians in Iraq. Bradley Manning denies that by putting all

:14:58.:15:03.

this in the public domain he knew it could end up in the hands of

:15:04.:15:08.

America's enemies, including Al-Qaeda. I think he should be

:15:08.:15:12.

punished because we cannot afford to let the message go out to people who

:15:13.:15:22.

work for our government that there confidential agreement is an utterly

:15:22.:15:29.

meaningless act. Bradley Manning's supporters see him as a hero who

:15:29.:15:34.

wanted to expose the truth. expose war crimes and he is being

:15:34.:15:38.

punished as if he were a terrorist and that is wrong. Truth is on trial

:15:38.:15:45.

and the way America has been fighting in period over the last ten

:15:45.:15:52.

years has been in secret. -- imperialist wars. The defence say he

:15:52.:15:56.

leaked the information to spark worldwide discussion about US

:15:56.:16:01.

foreign policy. The prosecution say he craved notoriety. Either way his

:16:01.:16:05.

actions have opened up a wider debate about the sharing of

:16:05.:16:15.
:16:15.:16:25.

classified data in the Internet age. You are watching BBC World News. The

:16:25.:16:27.

European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, says ousted

:16:27.:16:29.

Egyptian President Morsi is in good health at an undisclosed location.

:16:29.:16:35.

That is after she was the first foreigner to meet him since he was

:16:35.:16:44.

detained by the military. Taliban gunman launch an assault on

:16:44.:16:47.

a Pakistani prison, freeing some prisoners. A few have been

:16:47.:16:50.

recaptured, but almost 250 escape, including 30 described as dangerous

:16:50.:16:53.

terrorists. Zimbabweans go to the polls on

:16:53.:16:54.

Wednesday in presidential and parliamentary elections. 89-year-old

:16:54.:16:57.

Robert Mugabe, who's ruled the country since independence in 1980,

:16:57.:17:00.

is seeking another five-year term. His main challenger is Morgan

:17:00.:17:02.

Tsvangirai, the current Prime Minister. Many of those voting are

:17:02.:17:05.

Zimbabweans who moved to neighbouring South Africa as their

:17:05.:17:12.

own country teetered on economic collapse. Mark Lowen has been

:17:12.:17:18.

meeting some of them in Johannesburg.

:17:18.:17:28.
:17:28.:17:29.

Here in the heart of Johannesburg is this busy transport hub, with buses

:17:29.:17:33.

bound the neighbouring Zimbabwe. They are taking back the up to 5

:17:33.:17:37.

million Zimbabweans who have moved here in the last decade, they are

:17:37.:17:41.

the largest foreign group in this country. It is particularly bustling

:17:41.:17:51.
:17:51.:17:51.

as people go back today in order to vote in the election. Let's find out

:17:52.:17:55.

some of the views here. We are going to Zimbabwe for the elections.

:17:55.:18:03.

Everyone expects a change. The situation has been very hard.

:18:03.:18:10.

going to vote for Mugabe. Why? Here's my president since 1980.

:18:10.:18:19.

Things are going well. Free and fair. We are going to win. But did a

:18:19.:18:22.

lot of Zimbabweans not come here because the country was in a bad

:18:23.:18:32.
:18:33.:18:35.

state? Some people are lying. going to vote for Morgan Tsvangirai.

:18:35.:18:40.

I want change. I want to unity between BS knicker groups of

:18:40.:18:48.

Zimbabwe, I want economic recovery, I want education to be at a higher

:18:48.:18:58.
:18:58.:19:00.

level -- I want unity between the ethnic groups of Zimbabwe. I want

:19:00.:19:05.

respect for human rights. If he is elected, will you go back to live in

:19:05.:19:07.

Zimbabwe? Yes, to help in the reconstruction of my country.

:19:07.:19:15.

Zimbabweans are split about whether to back Mugabe after 33 years in

:19:15.:19:18.

power, or to make Morgan Tsvangirai successful in his third attempt at

:19:18.:19:21.

the presidency. It is a 14 hour coach ride. They're already fears

:19:21.:19:26.

that the election will not be free and fair. But if it is, the votes of

:19:26.:19:29.

some of these people could prove decisive.

:19:29.:19:31.

We will be covering the election, of course.

:19:31.:19:35.

Let's turn our attention to sport now and the possiblity the football

:19:35.:19:38.

may get a new world record transfer fee. The rumours are that Real

:19:38.:19:40.

Madrid want Tottenham Hotspur superstar Gareth Bale. He's

:19:40.:19:44.

apparently told Spurs he wants to hold talks with the Spanish giants.

:19:44.:19:47.

The footballer is valued at $130 million by Real Madrid. The Spanish

:19:47.:19:50.

giants have described him as one of the top players at European level,

:19:50.:19:54.

but they've yet to submit an offer. And the London club insists Bale

:19:54.:20:01.

won't be sold. Nick Marshall-McCormack is in the

:20:01.:20:10.

BBC Sport Centre. What do we make of this? Spurs are

:20:10.:20:18.

saying he is not for sale, Real Madrid sniffing at $130 million.

:20:18.:20:23.

Madrid always seem to get their man. In 2009, Sir Alex Ferguson said

:20:23.:20:32.

he would not sell Cristiano Ronaldo. Guess where he moved, three weeks

:20:32.:20:36.

later! The same followed for several of the top players including

:20:36.:20:43.

Rinaldo. They were all not the sale, but the president of Real Madrid

:20:43.:20:48.

always seems to get their man. We are seeing a battle between him and

:20:48.:20:53.

the Tottenham chairman, who says that Bale is not for sale. I think

:20:54.:20:58.

he just wants to squeeze more money from Real Madrid. If they are going

:20:58.:21:02.

to lose their star player, they will do so by getting money in the bank.

:21:02.:21:07.

Lots of cynics will see this as a lot of money for a player who has

:21:07.:21:12.

only really played once in the Champions League and has not won a

:21:12.:21:17.

major trophy, that they are keen to get him because at the moment he is

:21:17.:21:21.

one of the best players in the English Premier League.

:21:21.:21:25.

We will wait to see what happens! Will they cough up even more?

:21:25.:21:28.

Every year in Afghanistan hunters kill untold numbers of migratory

:21:28.:21:30.

birds. Environmentalists say the centuries-old Afghan pastime of

:21:30.:21:35.

bird-hunting has become more common, and there isn't a law or the will to

:21:35.:21:45.
:21:45.:21:47.

protect them. Bilal Sarwary reports from Parwan province.

:21:47.:21:51.

Hunting is a passion for people here. Their methods haven't changed

:21:51.:21:59.

for generations. This is hunting, Afghan style. Like his father and

:21:59.:22:08.

grandfather before him, 26-year-old Ahmed is a hunter. He has killed 25

:22:08.:22:14.

cranes this year, nothing compared to the past.

:22:14.:22:18.

TRANSLATION: People say in the past there were lots of cranes here, but

:22:19.:22:25.

there is so much hunting. Every year there are fewer of them.

:22:25.:22:31.

Hunting is big business here. In this bird Bazaar, wild ducks and

:22:31.:22:36.

cranes are sold for their meat, while small birds like canaries and

:22:36.:22:41.

finches are bought as house pets. Excessive hunting of wild birds like

:22:41.:22:45.

cranes, flamingos and wild ducks here is forcing these birds to

:22:45.:22:52.

change their migratory routes in Afghanistan. Hunting is a

:22:52.:22:57.

traditional pastime here in Afghanistan. After decades of war,

:22:57.:23:05.

there is little awareness of its wider impact. Afghanistan is coming

:23:05.:23:15.
:23:15.:23:15.

out of more than 30 years of war. There was no environmental law, not

:23:15.:23:21.

much awareness of people, and the poverty. The government banned the

:23:21.:23:25.

hunting of migratory birds five years ago in a presidential decree,

:23:25.:23:30.

but the law is still to go through Parliament and the ban is barely

:23:30.:23:37.

enforced. Environmentalists say that if hunting is to be brought into

:23:37.:23:41.

control, there needs to be wider education for the hunters and the

:23:41.:23:48.

police about the value of Afghanistan's natural resources.

:23:48.:23:54.

Let's return to the news about 250 prisoners freed by the Pakistani

:23:54.:23:57.

Taliban in what is an extraordinary coordinated attack on a jail in the

:23:57.:24:03.

north-west of the country. I am joined by a former senator

:24:03.:24:12.

originally from the region where the jailbreak took place. Iftikhar

:24:12.:24:17.

Ahmad, are you surprised by this in a 100-year-old prison full,

:24:17.:24:24.

apparently, of hard-core radicals? Not at all, because it happened one

:24:24.:24:28.

year ago in a nearby town bordering the tribal area. There were 400

:24:28.:24:37.

prisoners released, one of them was the condemned prisoner who had

:24:37.:24:43.

attempted for the life of General Musharraf. Is there such a thing as

:24:43.:24:48.

a top security prison in Pakistan? It would have been better had these

:24:48.:24:52.

high risk prisoners been placed in the centre of Pakistan. There are

:24:52.:24:58.

more secure and newer world reasons. We are looking at images from this

:24:58.:25:08.

morning, the prison does not appear even to have CCTV. More worryingly,

:25:08.:25:12.

they are bordering the tribal area, and it is very convenient and easy

:25:12.:25:16.

for the Taliban to attack. I would not be surprised if a similar attack

:25:16.:25:26.
:25:26.:25:31.

takes place elsewhere, in passion are all somewhere. -- in Peshawar or

:25:31.:25:35.

somewhere. There was a warning about two weeks ago. What do you read into

:25:35.:25:45.
:25:45.:25:46.

that? Complicity, compromise of intelligence. Complicity of the

:25:46.:25:51.

staff and the police and administration of that area. Is this

:25:51.:25:57.

your supposition, or is it evidenced? I don't have any

:25:57.:26:02.

evidence, but it is an exact replica of the previous attack, meaning the

:26:02.:26:08.

logistics and pattern were known to them. There is complicity because

:26:08.:26:11.

people sympathise with the tribals, they are not very far away from

:26:11.:26:17.

them. Most of them are their case and kin, they are elated to them,

:26:17.:26:24.

perhaps. This does not bode well for future talks between the United

:26:24.:26:28.

States and the Taliban. One agenda item has been removed, which would

:26:28.:26:34.

have been the removal of prisoners. Former Senator Iftikhar Ahmad, thank

:26:34.:26:40.

you for joining us. The main news from Cairo, the European Union

:26:40.:26:43.

foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has met the ousted Egyptian

:26:43.:26:46.

President Mohamed Morsi at an undisclosed location where he is

:26:46.:26:52.

being held by the military. She told reporters in Cairo that he is well

:26:52.:26:55.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS