:00:14. > :00:21.Our top story: A boat packed with illegal migrants from Africa since
:00:21. > :00:25.of Italy after catching fire. More than 80 people have drowned,
:00:25. > :00:32.hundreds are still missing. The deputy leader of Greece's far-right
:00:32. > :00:35.party Golden Dawn is remanded in court.
:00:35. > :00:39.There has been a new lick of contaminated water from the
:00:39. > :00:44.Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. And the family of Michael Jackson
:00:44. > :00:46.loses a negligence claim brought against its concert promoter, AEG
:00:46. > :01:06.Live. We start with breaking news from
:01:06. > :01:09.Italy. A bird packed with migrants from North Africa has caught fire
:01:10. > :01:15.and sunk off the southernmost island of Italy. Italian rescue
:01:15. > :01:20.services have launched a major rescue operation just off the
:01:20. > :01:25.island of Lampedusa. At least 80 people are dead. Nearly 200 people
:01:25. > :01:30.have been rescued, but the Coastguard says it still leaves
:01:30. > :01:38.many unaccounted for. It is believed up to 500 migrants from
:01:38. > :01:43.North Africa were on the boat. They were Eritreans coming via Libya. As
:01:43. > :01:49.many as 30 of those who died were children. These are the latest
:01:49. > :01:52.images from Lampedusa, which is an island halfway between Italy and
:01:52. > :01:57.Libya, which is under regular pressure from the number of
:01:57. > :02:01.migrants trying to get there and into the European Union,
:02:01. > :02:06.particularly from sub-Saharan Africa. The worst story is what we
:02:06. > :02:13.are not seeing. It is the number of people on the boat which caught
:02:13. > :02:18.fire one: Otter of land. There are said to be several hundred people
:02:18. > :02:24.who are missing. I got the latest from the BBC's Allan Johnston in
:02:24. > :02:29.Rome. This is a major disaster and we are still finding out the full
:02:29. > :02:33.scale and the dimension of it. What we know so far is that this was a
:02:33. > :02:39.vessel carrying hundreds of people, it may be as many as 500. They were
:02:39. > :02:44.mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, from places like Eritrea and
:02:44. > :02:50.Somalia, and they got into trouble 12 hours after they left the Libyan
:02:50. > :02:57.coast. A fire broke out, we are not sure how. One report suggests there
:02:57. > :03:03.was an effort to set off a flair which sparked the fire, that is
:03:03. > :03:10.unconfirmed. The Birt blazed and sang, and the people were forced to
:03:11. > :03:15.fling themselves into the sea. Coastguard boats and helicopters
:03:15. > :03:20.raced to the scene and they have managed to rescue dozens of people.
:03:20. > :03:24.But dozens are dead and the fear is that many more may not be found. At
:03:24. > :03:29.one point we heard rescue workers saying there were bodies everywhere
:03:29. > :03:34.in the sea. Those that have been brought ashore are being lined up
:03:34. > :03:36.on the breakwater at the island of Lampedusa, which has seen so many
:03:36. > :03:42.on the breakwater at the island of of these kind of tragedies. As we
:03:42. > :03:48.look at the video which is now arriving from Lampedusa, it is a
:03:48. > :03:51.small location, but something very much in the sides of the people
:03:51. > :03:56.smugglers and the migrants coming from sub-Saharan Africa hoping to
:03:56. > :04:03.get into the European Union. How big is the problem for Italy down
:04:03. > :04:07.there? You are right. At this time of the year, late summer and autumn,
:04:07. > :04:11.when the Mediterranean is calm her, on a daily basis you have boats
:04:11. > :04:15.loaded with migrants trying to make that crossing, often coming from
:04:15. > :04:21.war zones and from areas of economic hardship. People are
:04:21. > :04:28.seeking a better life in Europe, but so often in our crowded and not
:04:28. > :04:33.seaworthy vessels, numbers have died over the years when the crafts
:04:33. > :04:37.have sunk beneath them. Lampedusa is on the frontline of that
:04:37. > :04:40.migration process and it is an island under huge pressure on a
:04:40. > :04:44.daily basis dealing with the influx of migrants and sometimes having to
:04:45. > :04:50.bring in tragically those who have died on the route. There are
:04:50. > :04:54.pictures in Italy of the Mayor of the island of Lampedusa in tears as
:04:54. > :05:01.she looked at the bodies on the breakwater. More information is
:05:01. > :05:07.coming from the Mayor of Lampedusa. She has said there are 82 dead
:05:07. > :05:12.bodies, mostly from Somalia and Eritrea. She said, quote, it is
:05:12. > :05:18.horrific, like a cemetery, they are still bringing them out of the
:05:18. > :05:23.water. There were between 405 hundred migrants on the boat when
:05:23. > :05:28.it sank. They are quoted as saying 150 have been saved so far. That
:05:28. > :05:36.means maybe 300 are possibly unaccounted for. That is Lampedusa
:05:36. > :05:39.in the south of Italy. A multi- million dollar lawsuit against the
:05:39. > :05:44.firm was organised by good Jackson's final concerts has been
:05:44. > :05:48.thrown out by a jury in Los Angeles. The Jackson family sued the
:05:48. > :05:52.promoter AEG Live for compensation. They accused it of negligence
:05:52. > :05:58.because it hired the doctor that caused Michael Jackson's death.
:05:58. > :06:02.Waiting for a verdict outside court, the difference between a $1 billion
:06:02. > :06:07.pay cheque from concert promoters AEG Live, and the Jackson family
:06:07. > :06:13.getting nothing came down to two simple questions. Question number
:06:13. > :06:18.one, did AEG Live higher the doctor Conrad Murray. Answer, yes. Conrad
:06:18. > :06:23.Murray was Michael Jackson's doctor and was convicted in 2000 and at 11
:06:23. > :06:29.of giving the singer a fatal dose of anaesthetic, but was the company
:06:29. > :06:33.who hired him responsible? Was Dr Conrad Murray unfit or incompetent
:06:33. > :06:37.to perform the work for which he was hired? Answer, it Noble stock
:06:37. > :06:43.to perform the work for which he and that brought the case against
:06:43. > :06:47.AEG Live tumbling down. After five months picking through some of the
:06:47. > :06:52.sordid details of Michael Jackson's private life, the jury decided AEG
:06:52. > :06:56.Live were not responsible for the singer's death and the family
:06:56. > :06:59.should not receive compensation. The jurors explained why they did
:06:59. > :07:04.not consider the man who killed Michael Jackson to be incompetent.
:07:04. > :07:10.He had a licence and graduated from a credible college. We felt he was
:07:10. > :07:17.competent to do the job of a general practitioner. That does not
:07:17. > :07:20.mean we felt he was ethical. The lawyer for AEG Live or welcomed the
:07:20. > :07:25.verdict. These are real people who are being accused of killing
:07:25. > :07:30.Michael Jackson. For many people think it is a faceless, corporate
:07:30. > :07:33.entity, but there are many people behind these actions to er be
:07:33. > :07:41.accused of doing something they did not do. This was Michael Jackson's
:07:41. > :07:45.last rehearsal before he died. Format used on the Jackson family
:07:45. > :07:50.must decide if they want to keep fighting for compensation in the
:07:50. > :07:54.courts and launch an appeal. There is more ominous news for the
:07:54. > :08:02.crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. The operators have said a
:08:02. > :08:06.storage tank has overflowed. They fear a small amount of radioactive
:08:06. > :08:12.water may have leaked into the Pacific Ocean. Let's go to our
:08:12. > :08:17.correspondent who joins me from Tokyo. This is after guarantees
:08:17. > :08:23.were made to secure the Olympics by the Japanese Prime Minister of and
:08:23. > :08:27.also after the company running Fukushima said it was going to put
:08:28. > :08:34.an enormous, frozen casket around the leaking water. That is right
:08:34. > :08:40.and also after there was a much larger water leak in August, which
:08:40. > :08:47.caused a major stink and a major scandal ahead of the Olympic
:08:47. > :08:53.decision. It was much bigger, 300 tonnes. Today we are talking about
:08:53. > :08:59.430 litres, a much smaller amount. But after that last leek in August,
:08:59. > :09:00.the companies said they were going to address the problems and they
:09:00. > :09:04.were going to put gauges on all of to address the problems and they
:09:04. > :09:09.the tanks, said they knew exactly how much water was in the tanks.
:09:09. > :09:13.Today we found out there was no gauge on this tank and they did not
:09:13. > :09:19.notice the leak was taking place for about 12 hours. There are also
:09:19. > :09:24.questions over why they filled the tank so full so that it overflowed.
:09:24. > :09:28.It suggests they do not have enough tanks for the water they have to
:09:28. > :09:33.store, so they are selling the tanks up to the brink. It raises
:09:33. > :09:36.all sorts of questions over the operation in Fukushima and why they
:09:37. > :09:41.have not managed to get it under control. What is the confidence
:09:41. > :09:46.level in the company given Bano the enormity of what they've says, but
:09:46. > :09:52.they keep trying to give certain commitments and guarantees that
:09:53. > :09:57.they are keeping a grip on it all. Confidence has been pretty rock
:09:57. > :10:02.bottom for quite a long time, for at least the last year or two.
:10:02. > :10:06.There has been a series of problems, one after another. The original
:10:06. > :10:09.disaster itself was because the plant had not been designed
:10:10. > :10:14.properly and had not been designed to withstand a tsunami and they did
:10:14. > :10:17.not have the back-up systems in place and they did not have a
:10:18. > :10:21.disaster plan. Confidence is place and they did not have a
:10:21. > :10:25.already at rock-bottom. People were hoping that the fact they got the
:10:25. > :10:27.Olympics the Japanese Government would step in and take control of
:10:27. > :10:31.the situation. That is happening, would step in and take control of
:10:32. > :10:37.but it will take time for it to work its way through. This is an
:10:37. > :10:40.unprecedented situation and very complex and with the best will in
:10:40. > :10:49.the world there are going to be problems. Let's go to the US where
:10:49. > :10:52.hundreds of thousands of US federal Government staff face a third day's
:10:52. > :10:57.unpaid leave and the prospect of many more. President Obama has
:10:57. > :11:00.signalled things could get even worse. The latest talks between the
:11:00. > :11:03.Democrats and Republicans broke up worse. The latest talks between the
:11:04. > :11:07.without agreement. There is a danger the US Government will
:11:07. > :11:15.simply run out of cash two weeks from now.
:11:15. > :11:19.The Government shutdown is entering its third day and the two sides are
:11:19. > :11:24.as far apart as ever. There were hopes that a White House meeting on
:11:24. > :11:27.Wednesday evening between the President and congressional leaders
:11:27. > :11:31.would lead to progress, but those hopes were dashed when the meeting
:11:31. > :11:37.wrapped up and it was clear no side was willing to compromise. There
:11:37. > :11:43.were four different proposals and they rejected all of them. We have
:11:43. > :11:50.asked to sit down and try and resolve our differences, but they
:11:50. > :11:54.will not negotiate. We had a nice, polite conversation, but at some
:11:54. > :11:58.point we have got to allow the process that the founders gave us
:11:58. > :12:04.to work out. At the heart of the political stalemate is President
:12:04. > :12:05.Obama's Health Care Act. The Conservative tea-party Republicans
:12:05. > :12:10.Obama's Health Care Act. The want a delayed to the law as a
:12:10. > :12:15.condition of passing the bill. Democrats are resolute in saying
:12:15. > :12:20.noble stock Fradley, that is not what our constitution had in mind,
:12:20. > :12:22.that if you do not like something, you threatened to shut down
:12:23. > :12:28.Government. It is not that kind of a system. It is a situation that is
:12:28. > :12:33.frustrating the President as he explained in an interview. During
:12:33. > :12:40.the course of my presidency I have bent over backwards to work with
:12:40. > :12:46.the Republican Party and have purposely kept my rhetoric down. I
:12:46. > :12:52.think I am pretty well known for being a calm person. Sometimes
:12:52. > :12:57.people think I am to calm. Am I exasperated? Absolutely because
:12:57. > :13:08.this is entirely unnecessary. He may be irritated by no action, but
:13:08. > :13:10.it gives him a reason as well. If by 17th October Congress cannot
:13:11. > :13:15.agree on raising the amount of money the Government can borrow to
:13:15. > :13:19.pay its bills, the country risks defaulting on its debt and that
:13:19. > :13:26.says President Obama is an even bigger threat to the global economy.
:13:26. > :13:29.In Greece where the deputy leader of the far-right party Golden Dawn
:13:29. > :13:33.has begun appearing in court in Athens. He is one of a number of
:13:33. > :13:38.Members of Parliament arrested over the weekend. That follows the
:13:38. > :13:43.murder of an anti- racist musician two Wizard air. The party leader,
:13:43. > :13:47.Nikos Michaloliakos, was denied bail at a court hearing, which
:13:47. > :13:51.lasted into the early hours of this morning. Let's go to our
:13:51. > :14:07.correspondent in Athens. What is happening in court now?
:14:07. > :14:20.The deputy leader is presenting his defence. The individual -- accounts
:14:20. > :14:26.include a money-laundering. The leader's testimony finished early
:14:26. > :14:31.this morning. The first time that a party leader and several MPs have
:14:31. > :14:38.been arrested, charged and held in custody. I can show you the special
:14:38. > :14:46.court. This is the building where he is currently testifying. Just
:14:46. > :14:52.right of that, police buses with riot police, armed at the ready.
:14:52. > :14:58.And to the right-hand side of the road, it is a quieter and smaller
:14:58. > :15:07.situation than yesterday, when the party leader was in court.
:15:07. > :15:14.Yesterday, we had 200 supporters and a lot of people waving flags
:15:14. > :15:19.and chanting party slogans. The party insists they are simply proud
:15:20. > :15:24.nationalists, and free of the criminal allegations the
:15:24. > :15:30.prosecutors have filed against them. The leader and deputy leader only
:15:30. > :15:34.face charges, along with others, but what is the impact on the party
:15:34. > :15:38.and its political standing? Politically speaking there will be
:15:38. > :15:46.an impact if there are convictions of the MPs because they have 18 MPs
:15:46. > :15:50.in Parliament. If any of these MPs who have been charged are convicted,
:15:50. > :15:54.they will lose the right to sit in Parliament and that will mean by-
:15:54. > :15:59.elections. The Government is confident it would win those. The
:15:59. > :16:06.interesting thing is the impact on public opinion. There has been a
:16:06. > :16:09.series of damaging disclosures. We had ran access to a former
:16:09. > :16:11.supporter of the party who told us she had been to party meetings when
:16:11. > :16:18.she had seen weapons, she had heard she had been to party meetings when
:16:18. > :16:22.talk of beating up people. And how somebody came to talk to her to
:16:22. > :16:25.offer services for somebody hassling her. He said that breaking
:16:25. > :16:32.offer services for somebody an arm and leg it would cost 300
:16:32. > :16:38.euros and to burn a car 1,000 euros and 1,500 euros to put somebody in
:16:38. > :16:43.hospital. The Government is confident these disclosures might
:16:43. > :16:47.turn the public against the party. What will be interesting is to see
:16:47. > :16:50.how it fares this weekend in the opinion polls, is it down below the
:16:50. > :16:56.how it fares this weekend in the level it got in the election last
:16:56. > :17:13.year? Has its popularity been dented? Racing to see Banksy's
:17:13. > :17:23.first work in New York city before it disappears. Budget airlines are
:17:23. > :17:26.first work in New York city before ideal for low-cost city breaks. But
:17:26. > :17:30.security agencies say many criminal gangs in Eastern Europe are taking
:17:30. > :17:33.advantage of them too. Europol is warning that the criminals are
:17:33. > :17:37.flying in and flying out the same day. That is after they've carried
:17:37. > :17:46.out illegal activities like credit card cloning. There's no suggestion
:17:46. > :17:51.the airlines are doing anything wrong. The BBC's Anna Holligan has
:17:51. > :17:57.details from the Hague. These are the perfect getaway vehicles. That
:17:57. > :18:01.is according to Europol. It says low-cost airlines unwittingly carry
:18:01. > :18:06.pickpockets and people who commit fraud across borders, creating
:18:06. > :18:11.concerns about a new type of high- flying criminal. At the
:18:11. > :18:15.headquarters, detectives workout New Cross continental ways to help
:18:15. > :18:20.domestic police tackle super speed criminals. They are hitting targets
:18:20. > :18:24.domestic police tackle super speed in one day and getting home by the
:18:24. > :18:36.end of the day. His this problem more prevalent among a particular
:18:36. > :18:42.group? This phenomenon we have seen across many countries. It is a
:18:42. > :18:48.particular trend in some areas of criminal activity in parts of
:18:48. > :18:54.Eastern Europe, but also gangs from the Irish
:18:54. > :19:01.-- the Irish Republic have been involved. At Amsterdam and London
:19:01. > :19:05.have been identified as vulnerable because they attract big spenders.
:19:05. > :19:12.We are talking about traditional crime. Cashpoint machines,
:19:12. > :19:17.criminals used hidden cameras, attached to the top of the machines
:19:17. > :19:19.and they can capture the numbers as customers enter them. The
:19:19. > :19:33.difference is that the gangs armed -- they are using the low-cost
:19:33. > :19:39.airlines. Some now include more than 60 nationalities. Sharing
:19:39. > :19:42.knowledge extends their power. Europol say police must do the same
:19:42. > :20:01.to intercept these airborne criminals.
:20:01. > :20:09.I have the latest headlines. More than 80 people have drowned off the
:20:09. > :20:15.Italian island of Lampedusa after fire broke out aboard a boat packed
:20:15. > :20:23.with illegal migrants. It's thought hundreds more aboard are missing.
:20:23. > :20:25.The deputy leader of the Greek far- right party, Golden Dawn is
:20:25. > :20:34.appearing in court. Last night its leader was remanded in custody
:20:34. > :20:38.awaiting trial. This is the President of the West African state
:20:38. > :20:42.of The Gambia whose government has made a surprise announcement, to
:20:42. > :20:48.withdraw from the Commonwealth, apparently without giving the
:20:48. > :20:52.organisation any warning. An announcement on state television
:20:52. > :20:56.branded the Commonwealth a neo- colonial institution. That is a
:20:56. > :21:02.reference back to its roots decades ago in the British Empire. The
:21:02. > :21:07.President came to power in a coup almost 20 years ago. The Gambia has
:21:07. > :21:11.a long history of tension in Britain and he frequently accuses
:21:11. > :21:17.London of backing political opponents. It is one of Africa's
:21:17. > :21:22.smallest countries. The Gambia enjoyed long spells of stability
:21:22. > :21:27.since independence from Britain in 1965. But the British Foreign
:21:27. > :21:33.Office has singled out The Gambia for its human rights record, citing
:21:33. > :21:37.unlawful detentions and illegal closures of newspapers and
:21:37. > :21:42.discrimination against minorities. The Gambia executed nine people
:21:42. > :21:47.last year, criticised by Amnesty International and others. It is
:21:47. > :21:52.sensitive about the colonial roots and dropped British from its title,
:21:52. > :21:57.even though Queen Elizabeth is its figurehead. Also it dropped
:21:57. > :22:01.allegiance to the British crown from the statute. The last nation
:22:01. > :22:10.to leave the Commonwealth was Zimbabwe. The co-founder of the UK
:22:10. > :22:16.campaign for human rights in The Gambia spoke to me. I was -- I
:22:16. > :22:22.asked him if he was surprised by the announcement. I am not
:22:22. > :22:27.surprised, I am disappointed. We have seen this coming. The Gambian
:22:27. > :22:34.President does not take criticism as far as press freedom is
:22:34. > :22:39.concerned. Recently we have seen the Commonwealth being active in
:22:39. > :22:47.engaging the Gambian government. One to establish a human rights
:22:47. > :22:56.organisation, the Commonwealth has been active on. At the General
:22:56. > :23:00.Assembly there was a sideline meeting we understand with the
:23:00. > :23:10.Gambian government about human rights in the country. The
:23:10. > :23:17.President is unpredictable. I think he must have sensed something. That
:23:17. > :23:21.is why he withdrew The Gambia and without informing the, well. I am
:23:21. > :23:25.disappointed because there have been discussions between the
:23:25. > :23:30.Commonwealth and the Government in The Gambia. The reaction to the
:23:31. > :23:40.decision by The Gambia to leave the Commonwealth. Reports from Pakistan
:23:40. > :23:46.say at -- own least 12 people have been killed in an attack that
:23:46. > :23:53.targeted a militant commander. It was in a remote area. Russia says
:23:53. > :23:56.gunmen have attacked its embassy in Libya. The compound in Tripoli came
:23:56. > :23:59.under fire as the attackers tried to enter the premises. There is
:23:59. > :24:01.currently a heavy security presence at the scene. But the situation
:24:01. > :24:11.appears calm. Russian embassy staff are thought to have escaped the
:24:11. > :24:14.assault unharmed. He paints on walls. A new work by the British
:24:14. > :24:21.street artist Banksy always turns heads. So when one of his grafitti
:24:21. > :24:27.murals appeared overnight in New York, it caused a stir. It showed
:24:27. > :24:30.two boys holding a spray can. It appeared on Tuesday in Manhattan,
:24:30. > :24:33.where Banksy is beginning a residency. But it fast disappeared
:24:33. > :24:41.under a layer of whitewash. What has been the reaction?
:24:41. > :24:48.Hello, welcome to Lower Manhattan. Before you, you will see work by
:24:48. > :24:55.the artist Banksy. Maybe not, it has probably been painted over by
:24:55. > :24:57.now. I wanted to catch it but I just missed it because it was
:24:57. > :25:03.painted over. I was fortunate just missed it because it was
:25:03. > :25:07.enough and I saw it yesterday and I came after work to see it.
:25:07. > :25:11.Unfortunately, it is not here any more. I'm not sure whether it was
:25:11. > :25:15.done by the City or another artist who does not like his work. I came
:25:15. > :25:21.done by the City or another artist about 100 miles. I am a real estate
:25:21. > :25:26.developer in Brooklyn. We are putting street art on our projects.
:25:26. > :25:31.It is a wonderful amenity for tenants and it creates a vibrant
:25:31. > :25:38.neighbourhood. New York is about walking on the street. You are
:25:38. > :25:48.looking at a type of picture called graffiti. The children, in this
:25:48. > :25:52.case, represent youth. I have taken a lot of photographs
:25:52. > :25:57.of graffiti and when I read there was a Banksy, I thought I do not
:25:57. > :26:01.have any of his work in my collection so I wanted to come out
:26:01. > :26:03.and take one. I like to find the pictures on my own as I walk
:26:03. > :26:08.and take one. I like to find the through the streets, but if they
:26:08. > :26:18.keep painting over all the Banksys, I might have to buy one! It is like
:26:18. > :26:23.a rebel movement, a rebel feeling. He pushes boundaries and makes art
:26:23. > :26:30.work that make people think about things in a different way. This
:26:30. > :26:38.interview, I don't know whether that is this -- is his idea. I know
:26:38. > :26:44.he posted a picture of the West Side. I do not know the vacation. I
:26:44. > :26:49.know he is here for a month. I look forward to seeing the other art
:26:49. > :26:56.work. I can give you the latest from southern Italy and the island
:26:56. > :27:00.of Lampedusa. 80 bodies have been discovered and several hundred
:27:00. > :27:00.might be missing after a boat capsized having caught