12/08/2013 BBC World News

BBC World News, our top stories: A long stand-off could reach a

conclusion in Egypt, authorities warned they are preparing to clear

supporters of the ousted president authority that it is mandated to use

in accordance with the law. British Navy warships are due to dock in

Gibraltar is a devil Matic row heats up. -- a diplomatic row. And Oliver

Stone speaks out in support of US fugitive Edward Snowden, calling him

pro-Morsi protesters are braced for an expected security crackdown to

clear two protest camps in Cairo. Earlier there were suggestions that

authorities would begin to discuss protesters today, but there has been

no move as yet. -- this burst. The demonstrations cannot continue but

that any actions taken by police will be done within the law. Naomi

Dawn prayers at one of the two big camps in Cairo, and the supporters

of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, are preparing themselves for

the possibility of a big day ahead. As the sun comes up, they become

defiant. We will not leave, they chant, arguing they have a right to

stay and protest. TRANSLATION: The city and will not be stopped, only

over our dead bodies. Sit ins and protests are legitimate actions. We

aim to regain legitimacy and the rule of sherry. If they tried to

storm this camp, we will face them with a peaceful protest. This is our

peaceful slogan. The two camps have been here for the last month and

have become a focus for the opposition of the Muslim Brotherhood

and its allies, who are demanding that Mohamed Morsi is reinstated as

president. But the new military government wants the barricades

cleared away and order restored. Talks between the authorities and

the protesters broke down last week, despite the urgings of the

international community to find a solution. The Foreign Minister of

the new government has told the BBC they are still trying to resolve the

situation peacefully. Needless to say, if we can do this to the powers

of persuasion, we will not have any casualties. If not, and the police

force has to use the authority that it is mandated to use, in accordance

with the law, then they will do so. Overnight, some of those manning the

barricades were getting in supplies and distributing goggles and gas

masks in case tear gas is used against them. There is palpable

tension in this city, which has already seen 250 killed since the

former President Morsi was removed Let's have a look at some of the

rest of the day's news, and Israel is sending out mixed messages end of

peace talks that resume on Wednesday. The Government names 26

Palestinian prisoners to be released, but that was just hours

after it approved the controversial building of another 1200 homes on

occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

23 fishermen have been reported missing in the Philippines is a

powerful Typhoon batters northern parts of the country. Authorities

say they hope the missing men are taking shelter and will be found

after the storm passes. It is the strongest to hit the Philippines so

far this year, with gusts of more than 200 kph.

Firefighters in Venezuela say they have put out a fire at one of the

country's largest oil refineries. Authorities cleared the area around

the refinery after it was hit by lightning, sparking a huge fire. The

country has the largest oil reserves in the world.

Now, a British warship has set sail from its port in southern England

for Gibraltar, and it is due to dock there within a week. Britain and

Spain are locked in a dispute over the status of the territory and

nearby waters, but the Ministry of defence he in the UK says the

deployment is routine. Spain is also considering taking the issue to the

unaided nations. The BBC's Tom Burridge in Barcelona confirms that

the press reports are true there was a story in a Spanish newspaper

saying that Spain was considering taking the UCU of Gibraltar to the

unaided nations. And we have just spoken to the

Foreign Ministry who have confirmed that Spain is considering doing

that. Also, interestingly, considering talking to Argentina.

The Spanish Foreign Minister is due to meet his Argentinian counterpart

next month. Of course, Argentina disputes the British sovereignty of

the Falkland Islands, and Britain and Argentina went to war over that

territory. So Spain is saying, essentially, that it is considering

not only talking to Argentina, the spokesman in the Foreign Ministry in

Spain said to me that the Falkland Islands, or Las Malvinas, as they

are node in Spanish, is a different case, but he says that there are

similarities, and therefore Spain is considering this is a dab a degree

course of going to Argentina for some kind of common front and then

taking the issue of Gibraltar to the United Nations. -- a diplomatic

recourse. And what would that mean, taking it to the UN? Well, Argentina

currently has a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council, so that would,

through Argentina, Spain would be able to essentially put a resolution

in front of the UN Security Council. Britain, of course, is one

of the five permanent members of the Security Council, so it can veto any

resolution put in front of it, and that would be likely. In terms of

what this would mean in practical terms, maybe further down the line

not very much, but its main does carry through with this, I think it

would be a further deterioration of relations over the issue of the

British territory of Gibraltar, which sits at the very southern tip,

neighbouring southern Spain. I was there all last week, and the dispute

goes back to this dispute over the waters. Spain feels that it could

take the issue to the United Nations, not only about the waters,

but also it has a dispute over the stretch of land that links the Rock

of Gibraltar, this small British territory, and there is a small

stretch of land that joins it to the Spanish mainland, and Spain disputes

sovereignty, in particular, that stretch of land. So I think, you

know, what we are seeing here is Spain actually ratcheting up the

language to a certain extent, and talking about the uncomfortable

possibilities with, you know, what is a very good ally, otherwise,

within the European Union. Britain and Spain are obviously key allies

within the European Union, and they get on very well, apart from on the

issue of Gibraltar. In Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe has given

his first public speech since he won the disputed presidential election.

Alastair Leithead is in Johannesburg. You have been

listening in, what has he been saying? Well, yes, it is the first

speech she has given since the election, as you say. He was talking

for 40 minutes in a mixture of languages. Some of the key lines

were, to begin with, focused against the MDC, the opposition in

Zimbabwe, basically saying that those opposed to him can go and

hang. Morgan Tsvangirai can go and hang was what was tweeted, by the

Zanu-PF spokesman who was following the live speech as it was going out.

We demonstrated our love from this country on July the 21st, not

through the barrel of the gun but through the ballot. He made promises

to improve health care, infrastructure in the country,

water. He promised to build three new universities as well as part of

his speech. He thanked the regional African bodies who came along and

observed the elections and gave it, broadly, a clean bill of health. He

thanked them for supporting the national efforts. Now, Morgan

Tsvangirai decided not to go to the event, to boycott the speech, and

instead he issued his own statement ahead of the presidential statement.

He, of course is challenging the results of the election through the

Constitutional Court. He said, the stolen boat is a major betrayal of

our enable right to Bolt. -- our lodged with the Constitutional Court

at the end of last week, and today and tomorrow about national

holidays, the Constitutional Court. Looking at this complaint later this

week, and it has two weeks to make some kind of statement, to respond

to those complaints, and then when and if they decide the election went

ahead and the result stands, when the official wine or confirmation of

the result is put out by the Constitutional Court, within 48

hours we will see the inauguration of the President. Or indeed the time

will be put aside for a new election to be held. That seems less likely,

it does not seem likely that the MDC's challenge to the election

result will be upheld by the Constitutional Court.

Alastair Leithead, thank you. Staying in Africa, the former US

President Bill Clinton has just completed a two of several African

countries, visiting countries where his charitable foundation works and

admitting the US is playing catch up with China on the whole question of

investment in Africa. Our presenter called up with him in Tanzania,

where he talked about how to solve some of Africa's problems and

whether there might be another Clinton presidential campaign

somewhere on the horizon. If the population of the world continues to

go up, people will take more things out of the ground. The problem is,

there has been too much corruption in who got to do it, what was done

with the revenues, and I am only too happy to try to clean that up. If I

give a speech about this in Nigeria, to the people who are doing it a lot

of times, but people are still going to take that stuff out of the

ground, so what we need to do is to set up systems which work better to

do that. I would spend the rest of my life doing that, because I think

it is a huge threat if it is done wrong and huge opportunity if it is

done right. I want to keep doing things that have real opportunities

here, and I think the smallholding farmers, making them self

sustainable, increasing incomes, two, three, four, five fold, by

cutting the cost of production, we can change the world. And life for

small holder farmers, that might solve a staggering number of

problems. Inevitably, people still want to ask you whether Washington

is still left in you, whether there is still one more race to run, and

you know I have to ask that question. If I knew the answer, I

wouldn't tell you! Happily, I can be honest -- I don't know. I did not

know whether I had one more race last time.

Bill Clinton, of course, the spec elation will not stop for a while.

You can see more of this tour of Africa later in the day.

Film director Oliver Stone has spoken out in support of the

fugitive American intelligence worker Edward Snowden. Russia has

granted one year's asylum to the former NSA contractor whose

disclosures triggered massive controversy. He is a hero to me,

Snowden, because he did is not for profit, not to give secrets away to

make them hurt our country supposedly, I haven't seen one

evidence of that. He's doing it out of conscience, the higher law of his

conscience has dictated it. He has sacrificed his life for this. This

is big brother in a way that George Orwell could never have foreseen.

Obama says, don't worry about it, we are not listening in. Yeah, but you

could listen in. Stay with us here on BBC World News,

still to come: We had to Rome, where car congestion is a major problem,

but the new mayor is trying to put the brakes on their use and ask

residents to hop on a bike instead. The first official results from

Cambodia's disputed elections in July have been released by

authorities. They show a narrow victory for the governing party of

the Prime Minister. The results have been rejected by the opposition, the

National rescue party, which says it won the elections and is calling for

an independent investigation into alleged voting fraud. The BBC's

south Asia correspondent in Thailand said, when he spoke to me earlier.

What they have got is the official election commission's own

examination of the results, which has gone on for the past ten days or

so. The opposition, as indeed have many human rights group, said the

official commission is not good enough to do this. It is a body

tightly linked to the ruling cabinet, abetted by the Interior

Ministry, so its officials are suspect in the eyes of human rights

groups and the opposition. But that body has examined the results and

only made the smallest adjustments to the initial preliminary results,

so the share of the boat stands more or less where it was with the ruling

party around 49% of the vote, and the Cambodian National rescue party

close behind with 45%. I think it is because the vote is so close that it

has been such an impressive result for the opposition, when you

consider that the Prime Minister dominated parliament, and his party

had most of the seat at the last election. He has been in office for

28 years, so they have come very close to challenging his hold on

power, but because it is so close, they say that there is a guarantee

is that they have monitored, backed up by a number of international

human rights groups, really count. A large number of voters who were not

on the official roles and were not allowed to vote. The way in which

they say the ruling party officials and members of the military were

allowed to vote in places they were not supposed to, plus the immense

weight of support that the ruling party has through its total control

of the broadcast media. They say all of that adds up to a significant

sway to rob them of what these a would have been a deserved

opposition victory. So they are not accepting this decision by the

commission, and there is a possibility that the opposition may

boycott parliament, and that would in effect paralysed politics here

indicted for Nazi-era war crimes has died. Laszlo Csatary was accused of

abusing Jews and contributing to their deportation to Nazi death

camps during the Second World War. He was sentenced to death

in-absentia in Czechoslovakia, in 1948, for similar crimes. He then

lived in Canada for many years. This is BBC world News. The headlines:

The Egyptian authorities are preparing to clear supporters of the

ousted president Mohamed Morsi in Cairo. And a fleet of British Navy

warships are due to dock in Gibraltar later, as a diplomatic

dispute between the UK and Spain has flared up in recent weeks.

Votes are being counted in Mali's run-off election to decide who will

be the next president. The choice is between a former prime minister and

a former finance minister. The election follows more than a year of

turmoil that included a coup and a French-led military intervention

against Islamist and Tuareg rebels. After the voting, the counting. At

polling stations across Mali, ballot papers are checked. The second round

of the country's presidential election apparently going to plan.

It has gone a lot more smoothly in the second round than it did in the

first. Everything has passed off normally, there have not been any

complaints or irregularities. is the man widely expected to win,

the former prime minister who got nearly 40% of the first-round votes

and has received endorsements from almost all of the other candidates.

His opponent is the country's former finance minister. However does when

we'll have much on their plate. Not least preparing the country --

repairing the shattered economy, dealing with a separatist movement

in the north of the country, and finding a way home for the refugees

who remain in neighbouring countries. Many of them forced to

flee after a turbulent year for Mali, a coup in March 2012 is

followed by an uprising in Islamists and Tuareg rebels. It was eventually

suppressed by French led forces. The hope is a new president will mean a

new start. We will find out who won in the next few days.

Indian army soldiers have marched through Kishtwar in

Indian-administered Kashmir in a show of force to discourage

protests. A curfew is in force in the town after clashes between

Muslims and Hindus left three dead and 20 injured on Friday. Just to

remind you, last week along the line of control, five Indian soldiers

were killed. India came out very strongly and accused Pakistan's army

of violating the cease-fire, breaching the line of control and

killing their soldiers. Over the weekend we had this tension in the

area called Kishtwar in the southern part of the state. Tensions between

Hindus and Muslims after apparently muslins raised anti-India slogans.

Three people have died in the last few days and the army is there,

trying to calm tensions. There have been several local politicians,

separatist leaders have been placed under house arrest to ensure they

don't add to the whole situation, but it is something everyone is

watching very closely. Is it clear why this has flared up at this time?

It has come up very suddenly and there is some suggestion perhaps the

authorities on the ground really didn't expect this and therefore

were not fully prepared. Earlier today we had a minister in the local

government in Kashmir, Indian administered Kashmir, resigning over

the situation. As I mentioned the apparent provocation appeared to be

some slogans raised by muslins that led to a confrontation with local

Hindus. In the 1990s, in the Valley this was something that led to

serious tension between the communities. A lot of Hindus left

the area to settle further south so everyone is concerned that this does

not lead to some fresh tension which can only inflame passions. A lot of

effort has been made to calm temperatures but this has flared up

suddenly and no one is quite sure why.

The Italian capital Rome has a problem - too many cars. Per head of

population, it has more than three times as many as London. Now the new

mayor has begun to limit their number, at least in some parts of

the city. Alan Johnston explains. The very centre of Rome, where there

is an endless frenzy of traffic. The eternal rush-hour in the eternal

city. They say that all roads lead to Rome and it sometimes feels like

that when you lived here. Cars flooding the piazza is. Ancient Rome

survived assault by the Barbarians but the modern city has struggled to

cope with the invasion by the motorists. Drivers used to race down

through the heart of the historic centre, reducing the Coliseum to not

much more than a roundabout. One of the world's most famous buildings

sitting in a torrent of traffic, in all of those fumes and vibrations.

But suddenly there is a very different picture, and new calm has

fallen on the ancient arena and it is thanks to this man, Rome's new

mayor who has just banished most traffic from the road and he plans

to pedestrianise the area completely. I think we need to make

a choice. In a place like this, where history is talking to us, we

need to make a choice - either cars or the monuments, and my choice is

monument. All of that traffic diverted away from the Coliseum has

to go somewhere. It has been channelled down these sidestreets

and the local residents don't like it. We agree with protecting the

Coliseum and the monuments but that cannot be done at our expense. Such

a huge amount of traffic and cars and pollution will come to our area

and block everything. We fear for our health. The millions of tourists

drawn to the Coliseum will love the pedestrianisation plan. On their way

to the place where the gladiators fought, they will no longer need to

fight the traffic. It does sound like a good idea,

doesn't it? Cars and politicians, have a look at this because in

Norway the Prime Minister with an election looming has decided to go

undercover and become a taxi driver. The idea was to get the views of

ordinary people, and he confirmed his identity only when his

Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian prime Minister. There is more of

that footage on the website. 40 years ago, a musician called DJ Kool

Herc started scratching records and rapping at a house party in the

Bronx, and a new musical genre was born. But some say hip hop's roots

go back much further. We went to meet one man who believes just that

- the British musician Akala. UK hip-hop artist. Hip-hop is

officially 40 years old but that is not the whole story. Let's go deeper

into it. We are loving the hip-hop, but are we ready to understand its

beyond the stories that keep feeding us the common myth that people

started rapping in the 1970s. Let's not pretend there was no foundation

to this art because it runs far deeper in our veins, pumping at 100

watts. Before there was jazz, before there was blues, before the whips

and ships and the tragedy, before we stripped the knowledge of our

country and anatomy. Before there were slaves, forget the nonsense

about slave music, they must have had a cultural base to even produce

it. The cycles of the planet and the motions of moon, about 150 years

before Galileo, they had a speaker, a storyteller, musician, history