:00:12. > :00:16.Our top stories. Betrayal and execution in the world's most
:00:17. > :00:21.secretive state - the uncle of North Korea's leader is put to death -
:00:22. > :00:27.denounced as a traitor. The tribunal be mentally condemned him as the
:00:28. > :00:30.careerist, trickster and traitor for all ages in the name of the
:00:31. > :00:33.revolution. Winter weather is causing misery for refugees of
:00:34. > :00:40.Syria's civil war - Europe is accused of failing those who have
:00:41. > :00:43.fled the conflict. Thousands of people wait to pay their respects as
:00:44. > :00:49.the body of Nelson Mandela lies in state for a third and final day. And
:00:50. > :00:52.clashes strike the streets of Bangladesh as the execution of an
:00:53. > :01:11.Islamist leader causes shock waves across the country. It's been a
:01:12. > :01:15.swift and brutal fall from grace for the North Korean politician who was
:01:16. > :01:19.often described as the power behind the throne. State media in Pyongyang
:01:20. > :01:24.have confirmed that the uncle of the leader Kim Jong-Un has been
:01:25. > :01:27.executed. It's only a matter of days since Chang Song-Thaek was publicly
:01:28. > :01:30.marched out of a meeting in handcuffs. A military tribunal
:01:31. > :01:39.accused him of trying to seize power for himself. Here's how State
:01:40. > :01:50.Television announced the execution. TRANSLATION: The special military
:01:51. > :01:53.tribunal of the Ministry of State Security for the DPRK confirms that
:01:54. > :01:57.the state subversion attempted by the accused, Chang Song-thaek, with
:01:58. > :02:01.the aim to overthrow the People's Power of the DPRK by our lead
:02:02. > :02:08.logically aligning himself with enemies is a crime punishable by
:02:09. > :02:14.Article 60 of the criminal code. Tribunal be condemns him as a wicked
:02:15. > :02:19.political careerist, trickster and traitor as all ages in the name of
:02:20. > :02:28.the revolution and sentenced him to death. Let's be to the Professor of
:02:29. > :02:32.political science in South Korea. That announcement on state
:02:33. > :02:36.television doesn't leave any room for doubt, there was also a 2700
:02:37. > :02:46.word treaties that wrecked his reputation. What do you make of it?
:02:47. > :02:51.Eliminating opponents, purges ins Leninist systems are pretty common,
:02:52. > :03:00.so it's not unlikely. -- Stalinist systems. Like I said, though, the
:03:01. > :03:05.ferocity of the statement, talked about him as a traitor for the ages,
:03:06. > :03:12.that's pretty rare, but it is Lily for North Korea. So that needs to be
:03:13. > :03:16.researched. My own guess is, because we don't really know, it is supposed
:03:17. > :03:20.to be a warning to everyone else in North Korea not to make a move on
:03:21. > :03:25.the regime. Kim Jong-un is young, it's probably his biggest challenge,
:03:26. > :03:32.so the fact this is public is meant to be a deterrent signal to others.
:03:33. > :03:36.Do you think it is meant for a specific moment, in that right now
:03:37. > :03:41.there might be a political upheaval going on that we don't know about
:03:42. > :03:45.and therefore this is happening? That another theory that has been
:03:46. > :03:48.thrown around in South Korea, beginning to leak out into the
:03:49. > :03:53.analyst and think tank community. I'm wary of saying that because we
:03:54. > :03:58.have predicted the downfall of North Korea before but this is pretty
:03:59. > :04:01.sharp. They have pretty much admitted that he had started a
:04:02. > :04:05.fraction of his own, he was trying to push the regime over, which is
:04:06. > :04:12.what people had thought the sum time. People expected factionalism,
:04:13. > :04:17.so this is something of a confirmation of what we all thought.
:04:18. > :04:22.It lead to shooting in the street? Probably not, last year another
:04:23. > :04:26.general was removed who was a mentor to Kim Jong-un, that didn't result
:04:27. > :04:35.in anything more serious. People thought it would spiral at the time
:04:36. > :04:42.but it didn't. Let's continue on the theme. We are with our East Asia
:04:43. > :04:45.editor here. What about the background to this? Are you
:04:46. > :04:55.surprised that everything happened so fast? What was known about his
:04:56. > :04:59.political ambitions, if any? I think Chang Song-thaek has been a
:05:00. > :05:06.well-known figure in North Korean politics, because he was a close
:05:07. > :05:13.member of the him's extended family. He was the husband of Kim Jong-un's
:05:14. > :05:21.aren't, but also he has been leading a few very economic initiatives,
:05:22. > :05:35.mainly holding a new economic zone in coalition with China. He has met
:05:36. > :05:41.with the last leader of China, Hu Jintao, in Beijing. So by removing
:05:42. > :05:46.him, I would guess that the young Kim would want to send out a
:05:47. > :05:50.message, I am my own man and I am in charge of everything in the party,
:05:51. > :05:57.in the military and also in economic affairs. The reason I mention his
:05:58. > :06:02.political ambitions, it seems impossible that in such a strict
:06:03. > :06:06.controlled country, that anybody would try to challenge the regime.
:06:07. > :06:11.Surely you would then know that your time is finished, how can it be he
:06:12. > :06:18.thought he could possibly take power from Kim Jong-un if the state media
:06:19. > :06:22.is to be believed? We have to think about the state media announcement
:06:23. > :06:29.about Chang Song-thaek's crimes with a pinch of salt. Nobody would leave
:06:30. > :06:39.that he really was staging a coup d'etat or anything like that. I
:06:40. > :06:45.think he would have been power when the young Kim was in his hands but
:06:46. > :06:49.obviously now the young Kim wants to consolidate his own power that is
:06:50. > :07:00.why he wants to remove his uncle. Remember, during the funeral of his
:07:01. > :07:06.father, Kim Jong-il, Chang Song-thaek was one of the eight men
:07:07. > :07:13.walking alongside the coffin. Four of them have now gone. And even
:07:14. > :07:19.there are rumours about the fate of Kim Jong-un's wife, they haven't
:07:20. > :07:23.seen her in public for 50 days. Next week on the 17th of December it will
:07:24. > :07:30.be the second anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang.
:07:31. > :07:39.We may see a pupil less and we may have to carry on guessing what is
:07:40. > :07:42.happening to the family. The Russian authorities have told a group of
:07:43. > :07:45.Greenpeace activists they're not allowed to leave the country. 30
:07:46. > :07:48.activists and journalists, including six Britons, were arrested and
:07:49. > :07:51.jailed more than two months ago because of their protest against oil
:07:52. > :07:55.drilling in the Arctic. Their vessel was seized and taken to the port of
:07:56. > :08:03.Murmansk, and while they have all been released on bail, they've
:08:04. > :08:05.remained in Russia. Within the last few minutes, the
:08:06. > :08:09.Ukrainian opposition leader Vitali Klitschko has said he will attend
:08:10. > :08:11.talks aimed at defusing the crisis over the country's relations with
:08:12. > :08:15.Europe. His decision follows the release of the final batch of
:08:16. > :08:18.protestors who were arrested when police tried to break up a rally in
:08:19. > :08:22.the capital Kiev earlier this week. The BBC's Daniel Sandford has more
:08:23. > :08:27.from Kiev. Yes, it has been another long, wet, cold night here. But
:08:28. > :08:32.another peaceful one, no sign of the right place. Many of the people are
:08:33. > :08:43.sleeping here on the square but others, like these, have slept in
:08:44. > :08:45.their homes. They have come down here for another day of
:08:46. > :08:49.revolutionary action. Sometimes it doesn't seem like they know what to
:08:50. > :08:53.do next but they're certainly leaving the square, they are
:08:54. > :09:00.preparing fresh differences, these ones all grew up overnight. There
:09:01. > :09:03.were talks yesterday in Brussels, the dignity prime minister was there
:09:04. > :09:09.to see if he could restart negotiations for Ukraine to continue
:09:10. > :09:15.plans for an accession agreement within the EU and everyone here in
:09:16. > :09:18.the square has lost confidence that the government will go down that
:09:19. > :09:21.route and they will not believe that their European dream is back on
:09:22. > :09:31.until they actually see the signature on the paper. Is the
:09:32. > :09:34.European Union doing enough to help people displaced by the fighting in
:09:35. > :09:37.Syria? According to the human rights organisation Amnesty International,
:09:38. > :09:40.the answer is a resounding no. The United Nations estimates that over
:09:41. > :09:44.seven million people have been displaced since the violence broke
:09:45. > :09:47.out in Spring 2011 - with some 2.3 million leaving Syria. The vast
:09:48. > :09:49.majority of them are in refugee camps in neighbouring countries -
:09:50. > :10:02.including Jordan, Turkey, rack and Lebanon. Most of them live in
:10:03. > :10:06.conditions like this. The UN has set a global target for rich nations to
:10:07. > :10:14.take in 30,000 of the most vulnerable refugees. The EU has
:10:15. > :10:16.offered to accept just 12,000 according to Amnesty International,
:10:17. > :10:26.and Germany is responsible for 10,000 of those. EU governments say
:10:27. > :10:29.they already accept large numbers of asylum seekers, as well as providing
:10:30. > :10:32.humanitarian aid. Amnesty says the response is pitiful, and the onset
:10:33. > :10:35.of a harsh winter could make things worse for the most vulnerable. There
:10:36. > :10:39.have already been reports of children dying from the cold. The
:10:40. > :10:42.BBC's Jim Muir is in the Beqaa valley in Lebanon - and sent this
:10:43. > :10:46.report on how Syrian refugees there are trying to cope. I am in one of
:10:47. > :10:49.the shanty huts that have been built here by directly gees, you see how
:10:50. > :10:53.squalid and horrendous the conditions are. This is a hot made
:10:54. > :10:59.out of strips of wood which have been fashioned into a frame, with
:11:00. > :11:03.plastic nailed over it to keep the damp out but it also keeps the damp
:11:04. > :11:08.in, it's not very warm despite the fact there is a small stove behind
:11:09. > :11:13.me that is lit, it's not giving out much heat. There's a huge pile of
:11:14. > :11:18.blankets and a baby underneath it that has been sleeping all this
:11:19. > :11:22.time. Here we have Muhammad, one of the many refugees here, yes been
:11:23. > :11:28.here for a year now, he's from north-eastern Syria. I am just go to
:11:29. > :11:47.ask him what he has received by way of aid. THEY SPEAK ARABIC all he has
:11:48. > :11:54.received is the framework, and the board, they have received nothing in
:11:55. > :11:57.terms of money or food. So like many people here, he's having to
:11:58. > :12:02.improvise, trying to stay warm in bitterly cold temperatures, because
:12:03. > :12:05.outside, the ground is frozen hard, many of these kids R.N. In around
:12:06. > :12:11.with their feet and includes you would normally wear in summer. These
:12:12. > :12:30.people are clicking on an surviving as the winter moves in. Italian
:12:31. > :12:33.police have arrested close family members of the most-wanted Sicilian
:12:34. > :12:36.mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro. Mr Denao?s sister and nephew were
:12:37. > :12:39.among thirty people detained in what police said was one of the most
:12:40. > :12:41.significant anti-crime operations for years. More than a month after
:12:42. > :12:45.Typhoon Haiyan devastated the central Philippines, officials say
:12:46. > :12:48.up to thirty bodies are being found every day. Disaster management
:12:49. > :12:51.officials say the number of dead is now more than six thousand, while
:12:52. > :12:53.nearly eighteen hundred people are still missing.
:12:54. > :12:57.American media outlets are reporting that a former FBI agent who's
:12:58. > :13:01.believed to have been held in Iran for the past six years was working
:13:02. > :13:04.for the CIA on an unapproved mission. US national Robert Levinson
:13:05. > :13:08.went missing during a business trip to Iran in March 2007. The CIA says
:13:09. > :13:10.it has no comment on any claimed links between Mr Levinson and the
:13:11. > :13:14.American government. Stay with us on BBC World News,
:13:15. > :13:16.still to come: From the hobbit to New Zealand's hospitals. We will
:13:17. > :13:26.find out how they have benefited from one of the world guest film
:13:27. > :13:30.franchises. A controversial Dutch MP has told
:13:31. > :13:34.the BBC that he wants to bring down the European Union - and that voters
:13:35. > :13:37.in his country no longer feel they get value for money from it. Gert
:13:38. > :13:40.Wilders' Freedom Party is currently ahead in most polls in the
:13:41. > :13:43.Netherlands. He's also warned migrants from Eastern Europe they
:13:44. > :13:47.should stay at home. He's been speaking to our Europe Editor Gavin
:13:48. > :13:50.Hewitt - who began by asking him for his reaction to the imminent lifting
:13:51. > :13:54.of restrictions on people from Romania and Bulgaria coming to live
:13:55. > :14:01.in the Netherlands. Will, my message to those countries is, stay home. I
:14:02. > :14:05.do not say to those people that I do not understand that you wish to come
:14:06. > :14:08.to Western Europe, I don't even blame them, I blame our own
:14:09. > :14:13.governments, people are unemployed, and at the same time we allow people
:14:14. > :14:17.from Romania and Bulgaria to come to the Netherlands and take our jobs,
:14:18. > :14:25.make use of our Social Security. I think it's a crazy thing to do. You
:14:26. > :14:28.have said that Islam is not compatible with the Western way of
:14:29. > :14:38.life. But haven't Muslim communities become part of the European way of
:14:39. > :14:41.life? Well, indeed I believe that Islam is an inferior culture. I'm
:14:42. > :14:48.talking about ideology, not the people. I know a lot of Muslims are
:14:49. > :14:51.law-abiding people whose concern is to have a good life, a good
:14:52. > :14:57.education for their children and a good job and I have nothing against
:14:58. > :15:03.them. Did you feel a personal responsibility not to stoke up
:15:04. > :15:10.tensions that could or might lead to an atmosphere that you will find
:15:11. > :15:15.difficult to control? But I don't believe I've ever done anything
:15:16. > :15:23.coming close to that. I am a responsible politician, I think I
:15:24. > :15:27.never stir up any problems. Plenty of people will say that in some of
:15:28. > :15:35.your comment you do stoke up tensions between communities. You
:15:36. > :15:39.ask my intention, I can only speak on behalf of myself but anybody
:15:40. > :15:43.else. And my honest answer to you is no, I'm staying far away from
:15:44. > :16:02.anything that has to do with steering
:16:03. > :16:08.This is BBC World News. The latest headlines. The once-powerful uncle
:16:09. > :16:11.of the North Korean leader is executed as a traitor days after
:16:12. > :16:13.being expelled from his government job.
:16:14. > :16:16.The European Union has been accused of failing in its response to Syrian
:16:17. > :16:22.refugees, as hundreds of thousands struggle in freezing conditions. The
:16:23. > :16:25.body of Nelson Mandela is lying in state for a third and final day in
:16:26. > :16:29.Pretoria. Tens of thousands of South Africans
:16:30. > :16:41.have visited to say goodbye to the man who became South Africa's first
:16:42. > :16:50.post-apartheid president. In Pretoria it is 1:46pm. Plenty of
:16:51. > :16:56.daylight and time for people to go past the coughing at union buildings
:16:57. > :17:00.in Pretoria and pay their respects. But the queue is stretching outside
:17:01. > :17:08.the union buildings's surrounding area. So whether everyone gets their
:17:09. > :17:13.chance is still to be seen. The state funeral is on Sunday. Fergal
:17:14. > :17:20.Keane has been travelling throughout South Africa. From Johannesburg to
:17:21. > :17:24.Ventersdorp, the old heartland of the white right wing, then across
:17:25. > :17:28.the Eastern Cape from East London to King Williams Town and to Mthata, a
:17:29. > :17:31.stronghold of the ANC throughout the apartheid era, before travelling on
:17:32. > :17:35.to Qunu where the fueral will be held. Today he is in Mthata, where
:17:36. > :17:41.he visited a hospice for people with AIDS.
:17:42. > :17:46.He is in this shelter which is for HIV sufferers in the Transvaal,
:17:47. > :17:53.people are watching Nelson Mandela's ongoing funeral. The whole
:17:54. > :17:58.crisis came to the fore, it was a disaster in many ways for South
:17:59. > :18:04.Africa. In the years after he became president and when he stepped down.
:18:05. > :18:10.He was criticised for not doing or saying enough about HIV AIDS. Then
:18:11. > :18:15.after he left the presidency, that all changed. He became an ardent
:18:16. > :18:20.campaigner against the stigma attached to HIV AIDS in South
:18:21. > :18:26.Africa. Michael, you have been working in this field for many
:18:27. > :18:30.years. Yes, many years. You are the chief executive of the shelter. How
:18:31. > :18:38.would you characterise the way Nelson Mandela dealt with the crisis
:18:39. > :18:46.of HIV AIDS? He'd be stigmatised, but it was too late. Basically, what
:18:47. > :18:49.you are saying is Nelson Mandela did his best when he retired, but the
:18:50. > :18:57.other politicians would not listen to him? Yes. Thank you very much.
:18:58. > :19:04.That sense of Nelson Mandela as somebody who came late to
:19:05. > :19:08.campaigning on the HIV AIDS issue is now overshadowed by people's
:19:09. > :19:17.gratitude by what he managed to do. And that was rage -- raise awareness
:19:18. > :19:25.and tell South Africans that this is something people should not feel
:19:26. > :19:28.stigmatised by. There's been violence in Bangladesh
:19:29. > :19:31.overnight following the execution of a political leader for war crimes
:19:32. > :19:35.committed more than 40 years ago. These were just some of the scenes
:19:36. > :19:38.in the capital Dhaka while elsewhere in the country, at least three
:19:39. > :19:42.people died as followers of Abdul Qauder Mollah took to the streets in
:19:43. > :19:45.support of their former leader. He's the first person to be hanged by the
:19:46. > :19:48.tribunal which was set up to investigate atrocities during the
:19:49. > :19:55.war of independence from Pakistan in 1971. His crimes, complicity in mass
:19:56. > :19:58.murder and rape. There were also demonstrations in support of his
:19:59. > :20:04.punishment. The events have underlined the division in
:20:05. > :20:07.Bangladeshi politics. Abdel Kader Mollah's Jamaat-e-Islami party, seen
:20:08. > :20:10.as a Muslim fundamentalist group, has already been banned from taking
:20:11. > :20:21.part in next month's national elections. We can speak to our
:20:22. > :20:30.correspondent in Dhaka. What is the latest? There have been pockets of
:20:31. > :20:34.violence and clashes between police and supporters throughout the
:20:35. > :20:41.capital. It started after Friday prayers. It was expected that
:20:42. > :20:45.supporters would try and come out in strong numbers and show their anger
:20:46. > :20:49.at the verdict and then finally execution of one of their leaders
:20:50. > :20:57.last night. Police have clashed with many of the supporters. In many
:20:58. > :21:03.cases, as has been the case in activities, it was a clandestinely
:21:04. > :21:09.chat. Many supporters would come out onto the streets and set fire to a
:21:10. > :21:15.few cards and explode some small, crude bombs and then run. That has
:21:16. > :21:22.the pattern throughout the city. It is important to put it into context.
:21:23. > :21:25.The several weeks, an alliance led blockade has the streets more or
:21:26. > :21:31.less empty and there have been some clashes on and off. But today was an
:21:32. > :21:36.escalation because of yesterday's verdict. There have been more
:21:37. > :21:40.violent clashes throughout the country and especially in the
:21:41. > :21:47.southern part of this country, where they have a stronghold. There were
:21:48. > :22:00.several clashes and some supporters killed two ruling party supporters.
:22:01. > :22:03.Thank you for the update. Relatives of four people who were
:22:04. > :22:07.killed by a drink-driver in Texas have criticised a court's decision
:22:08. > :22:11.not to jail the teenager at the wheel. Ethan Couch was just 16 and
:22:12. > :22:16.well over the limit at the time of the accident. But his defence
:22:17. > :22:19.lawyers successfully argued that he should be put on probation,
:22:20. > :22:22.apparently because of his family's wealth and the lack of parental
:22:23. > :22:26.supervision. Emily Thomas explains. His defence team said he is
:22:27. > :22:30.suffering from a popular term for children from wealthy families who
:22:31. > :22:36.have a sense of entitlement and make excuses for poor behaviour.
:22:37. > :22:39.16-year-old Ethan Couch was three times the legal drinking limit and
:22:40. > :22:44.speeding when his truck crashed into and killed for pedestrians. Earlier
:22:45. > :22:50.in the evening he and seven passengers had stolen two cases of
:22:51. > :22:53.beer. The teenager pleaded guilty to four counts of intoxication
:22:54. > :22:58.manslaughter and faces up to 20 years in prison. But a juvenile
:22:59. > :23:01.court judge decided he would be better served by ten years probation
:23:02. > :23:08.and then rolling in a driver rehabilitation centre paid for by
:23:09. > :23:12.his parents. His lawyers say the wealth and lack of parental
:23:13. > :23:16.oversight justifies the judge's decision, but the relatives of those
:23:17. > :23:21.killed are stunned. He may thing he has got away with something, but he
:23:22. > :23:25.hasn't. My wife and daughter are gone and there have been no
:23:26. > :23:31.consequences. Riddick said this is double standards for the rich. The
:23:32. > :23:36.rehab centre will say it will cost $450,000 a year for his parents.
:23:37. > :23:44.The latest film in the Hobbit trilogy will open around the world
:23:45. > :23:51.this week. It is not just the film industry benefiting from the latest
:23:52. > :23:57.block buster. Lots of other businesses have been boosted.
:23:58. > :24:03.The brand is creating immense opportunities for thousands of
:24:04. > :24:08.businesses. The first film made $84 million in the box office last year.
:24:09. > :24:15.Now, its producers are hoping the second will smash those sales. It is
:24:16. > :24:19.not just the film-makers who are benefiting, nearly 3000 New Zealand
:24:20. > :24:25.firms are cashing in. Most of them are in the film industry with some
:24:26. > :24:29.unlikely exceptions. This medical scanner was created in Christchurch
:24:30. > :24:36.and is based on the 3-D cameras used to film the Hobbit. It is now being
:24:37. > :24:42.used at Saint Luke's hospital in Singapore. It is the first hospital
:24:43. > :24:47.in Asia to use the cutting edge technology which takes 3-D
:24:48. > :24:52.photographs to track the healing process. Until now, medical staff
:24:53. > :24:56.used tracing paper and rulers to measure the depth of wounds and
:24:57. > :25:03.predict how long they would take to heal. This camera system, you use
:25:04. > :25:12.the laser beam to measure inside. So in a way it gives us some control.
:25:13. > :25:17.Perhaps the most obvious winner is the tourism industry. The government
:25:18. > :25:22.invested $10 million in this advertising campaign which has
:25:23. > :25:30.helped to inject $450 million into its economy. It is 100% Middle
:25:31. > :25:32.Earth, 100% in New Zealand slogan aimed at capitalising on the
:25:33. > :25:37.fascination with the films. The Hobbit is big as Ness, it is not
:25:38. > :25:43.just drawing big crowds in cinemas across the globe, it is creating a
:25:44. > :25:48.buzz about New Zealand which has led to a 10% rise in tourism. One in 12
:25:49. > :25:55.are saying the Hobbit was the reason for the visit. With visitor numbers
:25:56. > :25:59.up, it is little wonder Air New Zealand has painted its planes with
:26:00. > :26:04.characters from the film. On the service, it is a movie about hobbits
:26:05. > :26:09.running around, but for New Zealand it is about much more. Whether it is
:26:10. > :26:14.technology, filming in New Zealand and tourism, it is about putting New
:26:15. > :26:20.Zealand out there as a credible player. That is why this hype has
:26:21. > :26:28.many companies getting creative to bring fans from their shires.
:26:29. > :26:33.Let's go back to Union Buildings, the seat of government in the South
:26:34. > :26:39.African capital, Pretoria. This is outside Union Buildings where people
:26:40. > :26:43.are queueing to try and get their chance to file past the coffin of
:26:44. > :26:48.Nelson Mandela, who has been lying in state for the third and final
:26:49. > :26:52.day. For these people, it is very important they get the opportunity.
:26:53. > :26:58.The problem is we have heard they may not get the chance because there
:26:59. > :27:00.are 50,000 people already in the queue. Officials have told people
:27:01. > :27:06.not to CHEERING
:27:07. > :27:08.As Bobby Moore