16/08/2013 BBC World News

Hello. I'm David Eades with BBC World News.

Our top stories: Tension mounts in Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood

is calling for mass demonstrations - it wants supporters to join a "march

of anger", after midday prayers. South Africans are commemorating the

first anniversary of the Marikana mine shooting in which 34 striking

miners were shot dead by police. Tough talking on asylum seekers from

Australia's main political rivals, as election day approaches.

And how solar power is finally lighting up people's lives in parts

of rural India. Two days after the authorities moved

in to break up their protest camps in Cairo, supporters of the deposed

President Mohammed Morsi have declared a day of anger. Friday

prayers are under way - at the end of them, the Muslim Brotherhood is

calling for mass demonstrations. Counter demonstrations are also

being planned - and a state of emergency has been declared across

the country, with police authorised to use live ammunition in

self-defence. Naomi Grimley reports. A battle scarred city, Cairo is

still broken and chart after the fighting on Wednesday which saw more

than 600 people killed. The dead have been identified and funerals

have been taking place. The grief is still raw. But this is a city

polarised in opinion. Many residents have differing views about the

polarised in opinion. Many residents security operation which removed the

supporters of the ousted President Morsi from their barricaded protest

camps. TRANSLATION: Our country was facing a group of terrorists, folks,

criminals, who have painted a picture for the outside world that

they are Islamists with rights and a say in this country. But they are

terrorists, thugs, criminals who exploit religion. TRANSLATION: This

terrorists, thugs, criminals who sit-in had to be dispersed with out

so much bloodshed. The blood is Egyptian, whether it was the police

all people, in the end we all Egyptians. -- police or people. They

should have been softer with the people and should not have used

excessive force. Today's worry is that this clean-up operation may be

premature and more violence is yet to come. This was a local government

building in Giza, burnt on Thursday by the Muslim Brotherhood. They want

Friday to constitute a day of anger. There were counterdemonstrations

planned, two, meaning this city is bracing itself form or trouble after

Friday players. -- prayers. The bracing itself form or trouble after

streets of Cairo were quiet during a second evening curfew last night,

part of the state of emergency declared by the military

government. There is a sense of foreboding that this was just a

temporary lull in Egypt's troubles. We can speak to BBC Arabic's

correspondent. Foreboding is perhaps the right word, what is the feeling

in Cairo now? Very high tensions. A lot of the roads have been sealed

off by the military and the police, including major areas like Tahrir

Square which has been sealed off even for pedestrians. You can see

reinforcements in different parts of even for pedestrians. You can see

the city, especially in the downtown area. It feels very much like the

day on January 2011, which was also called a day of rage, when the

protesters were able to break the police forces and occupied Tahrir

Square and we know what happened, we know the rest of the story. It is

different today, the Muslim Brotherhood has set up not only

against the police but against the military, significantly, and a large

part of the Egyptian population. I know you have seen some pretty awful

things in the last 48 hours or so and it is little wonder that many

people are extremely angry, upset, and it is little wonder that many

frustrated at what has happened in Egypt in the course of that time.

Can you see any way in which these demonstrations could pass off,

essentially relatively peacefully? Not really. The anger is very high

among the Muslim Brotherhood supporters. You can feel it when I

visited the areas in the city, in the morgue and the mosque where they

were keeping bodies for hours and hours, trying to find a way to bury

them with proper documentation. The anger was so-up a lot of them are

openly talking about turning into armed resistance to the forces. No

more peaceful demonstrations. Whether today will see any kind of

armed confrontation between the protesters and the police, it is not

clear. We have seen it over the past few days, attacks on different

police stations and different few days, attacks on different

government buildings, probably a repetition will happen today. It

looks almost inevitable that within the next few hours, a lot of people

will die and the future of the Muslim Brotherhood will turn more

violent. There are calls from the UN Security Council for restraint,

President Obama has said we're not having military with Egypt, we are

President Obama has said we're not reviewing if we want to carry on the

aid. Is any of that touching the reviewing if we want to carry on the

sides for the military authorities? Not at all, at least not in an

obvious way. On the contrary, the Egyptian authorities are taking a

very defiant stance these are the American statements -- defiant

stance in regards to American statements. It done is a lot of

popularity with people feeling the Egyptian authorities are standing up

popularity with people feeling the to American pressure. I don't think

much of what the US or the EU will be saying will have an impact. Thank

you for bringing us the latest from Cairo on what is able pretty

foreboding picture as we look at it. You can monitor events via our

website. You'll find the latest video and analysis from our

correspondents and hear from many Egyptians and regional specialists

as well. For all that and much more just go to bbc.co.uk/egypt.

Hundreds of mineworkers have begun gathering in South Africa, to

remember their 34 colleagues who were shot dead by police exactly a

year ago today. So far no one has been held legally responsible for

year ago today. So far no one has those events, and Nomsa Maseko

reports, emotions are still running high.

Cease-fire! Marikana, a turning point for South Africa. What started

out as a strike for better wages quickly descended into a bloodbath.

A volley of gunfire from police killed 34 Mineworkers and left 78

injured in just a few minutes, the biggest loss of civilian life since

the end of apartheid. The massacre made headlines around the world. A

year on and nothing has changed here in Marikana. There is not even a

memorial for the Mineworkers who were killed here. What remains are

these broken wooden crosses. The widows are asking themselves if this

is what their husbands died for. This man's husband is one of -- this

woman's husband is one of the miners who died. He was the family's sole

breadwinner and she has been left to look after the children without a

salary. Life was tough -- is tough without my husband. The government

do not care about us widows. My husband died like a dog. What

continues to anger this community is that no one has been jailed for the

murders. After coming under enormous treasure, President Jacob Zuma

quickly appreciated a commission of enquiry into the killings, but it

has been marred by delays. The Mineworkers live just metres from

the mine, and ear later, this community remains poverty stricken,

with no electricity and running water. Despite salary increases,

miners say their lives through a nun changed. We haven't -- lives remain

unchanged. We haven't got what we wanted. Some of our colleagues have

just died for nothing. The Marikana massacre completely altered the

political landscape. It shifted the mood, the landscape, the way in

which workers look at their pay. It shifted the value of the rand

which workers look at their pay. It against the dollar. The Hill is a

which workers look at their pay. It playground for the community but the

repercussions will be felt for many years to come.

That is the backdrop to the Marikana massacre and we can go to the

commemoration now, you can bring us up to date. There are thousands of

Mineworkers who have gathered here and of course, opposition political

parties. I can confirm that the memorial or the commemoration

started about 45 minutes ago and it has been opened by religious leaders

who have gathered here. The has been opened by religious leaders

Mineworkers say that to them, today, they need peace and reconciliation.

Joining me now is a Mineworkers who has been working here for six years.

What does this they mean to you? This day is a painful day. A day I

will never forget in my life. A day that we lost our heroes, our

fathers, brothers. It was a painful day and I will never forget it. What

do you think about the fact the commission has been dragging on and

there have been delays? You were telling me that Mineworkers are

upset that nobody has been arrested for the killings of 34 Mineworkers.

I think about the commission, the government is taking the side come

because now we are struggling, the government doesn't want to pay the

lawyers. I don't see a use for the commission now. I can't see the

point of it at all. The police presence seems to be intensifying,

what do you think about police being presence seems to be intensifying,

present at this commemoration today? The police, they were there, but I

didn't see any duty for them. Because the police have killed our

brothers last year. And for them to come here to make a peace, for what?

Who was fighting? Nobody was fighting. I don't see any job for

them. Thank you very much for your time. That was a minor -- mine

worker here. The workers are upset that government officials did not

come to attend these commemorations will stop in fact they expelled ANC

youth leader, who has just launched a blow little party, he is here and

received loud cheers when he came in -- just launched a political party.

There have been a lot of songs that the Mineworkers have been singing.

There have been a lot of messages through these songs. And one of

them, the Mineworkers were saying that they are hoping that elections

will come soon so that they can vote for government that cares for them

and their rights. Thank you. A lot of political

antagonism still hanging over the Marikana massacre.

60 people have been injured in an explosion at a fireworks festival

near Kyoto in Japan. That is thought the blast may have been caused by a

generator at a food stall catching fire. Pretty dramatic scenes. 18

people including two boy suffered serious burns. The festival which is

staged each year has been cancelled for this year, understandably.

In Australia tough new policies to deal with asylum seekers have been

outlined by the opposition just weeks before a general election. The

Conservative coalition leader Tony Abbott said tens of thousands of

asylum seekers already being processed by Australia would not be

allowed to settle there permanently. From Sydney, Jon Donnison reports.

Stop the boats has been a rallying cry for both candidates throughout

this election campaign. A reference to the thousands of asylum seekers

this election campaign. A reference who have tried to reach Australia's

sure this year, many have drowned trying. The opposition leader, Tony

Abbott, says if he is a lack did, 30,000 refugees already here would

never be granted permanent residency -- if he is elected. Even if

application for asylum is successful. Those granted visas

would have them revoked and replaced with temporary visas with new

restrictions on rights to work. This is our country and we determine who

comes here. That was the position under the last coalition government

and that will be the position under any future coalition government.

Tragically for Australia, and any future coalition government.

tragically for so many people, it hasn't been the position under the

current government. Tony Abbott said he would change the

law so that anyone who asylum claims were rejected ID courts would be

denied the right to appeal. A move which some suggested might be

unconstitutional. Both party leaders have been trying to out tough each

other on the issue. The Labour Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has recently

introduced his own much-publicised policy. I'd have put forward a new

policy with one simple principle. If you are a people smuggler bringing

someone to Australia and you are looking to settle them in Australia,

we will not allow them to be settled here. They will be sent for

processing in Papua New Guinea. They will be settled their if they are

proven to be refugees. Human rights groups have criticised both men's

policies as cruel and failing to on Australia's International

commitments. Both men clearly feel Australia's International

that talking tough on stopping the votes is -- stopping the boats is a

vote winner. An American teenager held hostage

for six days by a man who had killed An American teenager held hostage

her mother and brother has now appeared in public for the first

time since her ordeal. It may have been an ordeal in itself. Anna

Anderson is 16 and was rescued by police last week. She did not stop

to talk to the media. Perhaps no surprise there. She appeared at a

fundraising event. Her family say she is doing well.

Hope you will stay with us. Still to come, just what did she say? Critics

jump to condemn the Rossen -- Russian pole vault, Yelena

Isinbayeva, for apparently aborting her country's clamp-down on gay

rights. For years, Christian Gerhartsreiter.

As of Americans into thinking he wasn't here to the Rockefeller

fortune. He has now been jailed for murder after it emerged he was

fortune. He has now been jailed for living a deadly life.

A German born con man who posed for years as a member of one of

America's wealthiest families. Christian Gerhartsreiter back in

court after a jury found him guilty of killing his landlord. The minimum

term the defendant shall receive is 27 years. John Solis went missing in

1985, together with his wife. His body was found nine years later in

the backyard of his home in Los Angeles. Rossi tutors believe that

the German immigrant also killed Linda Solis, but he was charged with

only one murder. When the couple vanished, he was living in a guest

house owned by the victim's mother. He disappeared and in the following

years masqueraded across the United States as an a to the Rockefeller

fortune. He got married and even fooled his wife for 12 years. He

also pretended to be a Hollywood producer, and an English aristocrats

during his years evading arrest. Investigators traced him. Over a

kidnapping of his young daughter from Boston. He was convicted and

jailed for five years. Publicity over the kidnapping case led

investigators to re-examine the murder investigation, decades old.

Before the judge handed down the sentence, Christian Gerhartsreiter

protested his innocence. I want to assert my innocence. I firmly

believe that the victim's wife killed the victim but be that as it

may. Once again, I did not commit the crime of which are stand

accused. -- convicted. -- is tanned convicted. For the family, this

marks the end of a long ordeal. My life has been on hold and that

started five years ago when the news broke about Christian

Gerhartsreiter. Christian Gerhartsreiter will have to serve at

least 22 years in jail before he is eligible for the role.

-- parole. You're watching BBC World News. The

latest headlines, there is tension in Egypt as the Muslim Brotherhood

calls on supporters to join in March of anger after midday prayers, which

calls on supporters to join in March are now underway.

Armoured vehicles have been sent on to the streets. The interim

government has authorised police to use live ammunition.

There have been calls for one of the biggest stars of the world athletics

Championships in Moscow to be stripped not of metal but of her

role as an ambassador for the youth Olympics. -- not of her mettle.

Yelena Isinbayeva, who won gold in Moscow, has caused controversy by

Colin for a clamp-down on gay rights in Moscow. She criticise athletes

who had painted their nails in the colours of the gay movement. This is

what she said. Everyone can compete and participate but if they promote

sexual relations outside, then it will not be respectable, the

respectable front of our citizens. We consider ourselves normal,

standard people, who live, noise with women, women with boys,

everything must be fine here. She appears to be backing off from those

comments. Earlier, I spoke to our sports correspondent who said that

the athlete believes she may have been misunderstood. After meeting

those comments yesterday, in been misunderstood. After meeting

English, very clearly in front of that press conference conference --

statement saying that she feels she may have been misunderstood. What

she wanted to say was that people should respect the laws of other

countries, particularly when they are guests. She goes on to say that

she is not in any way discriminatory towards homosexual people. So there

is backtracking but there have been calls, and I've spoken to athletes

over the last 24 hours to say she should step aside from that role as

a good ambassador. Of course, the Winter Olympics are coming up in

2012 -- 2014 and she will be the May of the Olympic village. There have

been -- has been anger and they do not think that statement will put a

lid on that. Obviously, very difficult. At least one of the

presidential candidates for the IFC has spoken out about Russia's

stance. -- IOC. I'd give the impression this will go on for many

months. I think it will. If you look at the role of Russia in sporting

events, you have the world athletic Championships taking place in Moscow

this week, and then further ahead, the 2018 World Cup, which is going

to be huge event. Once again, politics and sport mixing together,

and the results are not that positive for the sport. It puts

athletes under pressure to talk about things when they simply want

to concentrate on the sporting events themselves. Lots people today

saying that these comments have events themselves. Lots people today

overstepped the mark and they wanted to speak out against them. Briefly,

it is worth saying that a lot of what she said has been well received

by many people in Russia. Exactly. I think that is watching was making

clear. Perhaps the use of the language was not clear but she is

talking about the Russian's stance on homosexuality. Was she talking

about respecting the laws or her stance? That is where the confusion

is coming. She has moved to clarify those comments. The IOC said that

they want to hear more from about what she actually meant before

making comments. We would like to see their reaction. India is one of

the world's most dynamic economies but estimates suggest that more than

half of the people who live there but estimates suggest that more than

still have no access to a lot of city. Private companies and charity

organisations are trying to step into the gap. They are building

small-scale solar energy plants to power villages. This report from

Uttar Pradesh. She has lived in darkness all her

life. Sukhrani's village has no power and it never has. 65 years

after independence, this is the reality in many of India's villages.

In way of life that many have simply come to accept. -- a way of life.

TRANSLATION: I have never seen light bulb. -- a light bulb. Do not know

what it was a light bulb. Do not know what it was and he is. I have

heard that some people have it but I do not know what it is used for.

Five, tears away, another household and a different picture. -- five

kilometres. This couple work in the glow of a solar lamp. It only costs

$2 a month. Solar energy is lowly chance for moonlights. -- slowly

transforming lives. TRANSLATION: Ever since we got this solar light,

life has become easier. The light is so bright, everything is so much

clearer. Now we can work late into the light and our business and is

improved. -- late into the night. Our business has improved. This is

the solar power plant where he gets is solar power. It is one of several

hundred built by private companies across India. As a solar panels

become cheaper and more compact. More than 800 million people live in

India's villages and almost all of them lack access to uninterrupted

power supply. It affects their lives, health, and the rule economy.

If they can get electricity, especially powered by clean

technology, it has the potential to transform this state. -- the rule

economy. India's energy needs are so fast that much of the countryside is

unlikely to receive conventional power any time soon. Nonconventional

solutions are perhaps the most effective way forward for people

here. As the sun goes down, the lights come on. Bringing with it a

small ray of hope. Time to remind you that midday

prayers in Egypt are growing to a crows. -- a clothes. The Muslim

Brotherhood says there will be a march of anger to follow after the

violence on Wednesday in which 600 people were killed.

Thanks for watching.