:00:09. > :00:14.This is BBC World News Today, with me, Tim Willcox.
:00:14. > :00:18.Political paralysis in Greece over how to deal with the country's debt
:00:18. > :00:23.crisis. His this potentially the beginning of the end of the euro?
:00:23. > :00:29.What we need most today is unity. We need to move on from these
:00:29. > :00:33.national quarrels and get back to the sense of our common destiny.
:00:33. > :00:38.The long-time deputy to Osama Bin Laden is named as Al-Qaeda's new
:00:38. > :00:44.chief. He vows to continue the campaign against the West.
:00:44. > :00:50.Cashing in on the booming economies. What will it mean for Europe's
:00:50. > :00:54.energy supply if Russia plugs into China?
:00:54. > :01:04.And how Vancouver became a riot zone after a lost game of ice
:01:04. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:13.Welcome. With Greece in political and financial turmoil, French
:01:13. > :01:18.President Nicolas Sarkozy has called on Europe to urgently reach
:01:18. > :01:23.an agreement in helping Athens and preserving the stability of the
:01:23. > :01:29.eurozone. Our task, he said, is to defend and safeguard the euro.
:01:29. > :01:33.Without the euro, there is no Europe. In Greece itself, Prime
:01:33. > :01:35.Minister George Papandreou is expected to announce a Cabinet
:01:36. > :01:40.reshuffle which she hopes will help get his austerity measures through
:01:40. > :01:46.Parliament. The streets of central Athens this
:01:46. > :01:51.morning. Like the eurozone itself, in a bit of a mess. A new
:01:51. > :01:54.government is coming and a vote of confidence in parliament. In a
:01:54. > :01:57.country all but bankrupt, people are reaching the end of their
:01:57. > :02:01.tether. TRANSLATION: And think the Prime
:02:01. > :02:07.Minister is trying, but when it actually achieve anything? -- I
:02:07. > :02:10.think. They should have taken action year ago, this woman says.
:02:10. > :02:15.Yesterday more frustration erupted onto the streets again. A violent
:02:15. > :02:19.protest against massive austerity measures and job losses, much of it
:02:19. > :02:22.couched in nationalist terms. Many Greeks wonder whether the high
:02:22. > :02:26.price of staying in the euro is still worth paying. And the rest of
:02:26. > :02:30.Europe is worried. They have already given billions degrees but
:02:30. > :02:37.the medicine has not worked. Now they need to raise more money to
:02:37. > :02:43.keep Greece afloat. There is a sense that nobody knows what to do
:02:43. > :02:47.next. A sense of paralysis. TRANSLATION: We need unity. We have
:02:47. > :02:51.got to move beyond national quarrels. We have to defend a
:02:51. > :02:55.single currency and a European institutions. Earlier this week,
:02:55. > :03:00.finance ministers spend hours discussing how to pay for a second
:03:00. > :03:04.Greig but could not agree. Germany and others want private bondholders
:03:04. > :03:07.like big banks to take their share of the pain. The European Central
:03:07. > :03:13.Bank and the French say imposing losses on the private sector could
:03:13. > :03:16.panic the markets and make financial jitters spread. European
:03:16. > :03:21.leaders on the -- meeting here next week to talk about Greece. They
:03:21. > :03:25.will probably find a compromise eventually. The stakes are too high
:03:25. > :03:29.for them to fail. But if the Greeks themselves no longer accept the
:03:29. > :03:35.terms of the deal, the crisis will deepen, and that could affect us
:03:35. > :03:39.all. Let's cross live to Athens and
:03:39. > :03:48.joined our correspondent. George Papandreou is announcing a
:03:48. > :03:52.reshuffle soon, we think. Will it make it less or more likely that
:03:52. > :03:57.these measures will work? We're waiting to see what the
:03:57. > :04:00.constitution of this new government will look like an there are many
:04:00. > :04:04.serious political commentators who believe George Papandreou is having
:04:04. > :04:08.trouble attracting the right calibre of people that will give
:04:08. > :04:18.the Socialists the confidence to pass these austerity measures. For
:04:18. > :04:24.example, one man touted as being a potential Finance Minister, who is
:04:24. > :04:34.a former vice-president of the Council, is out of the country, and
:04:34. > :04:39.
:04:39. > :04:43.George Papandreou is hoping to have his counsel sworn in. Other members
:04:43. > :04:48.of the international community will be also struck by the possible
:04:48. > :04:58.appointment of a minister who does not speak English. Another minister
:04:58. > :04:58.
:04:58. > :05:02.who does speak fluent English has been saying the same message.
:05:02. > :05:06.George Papandreou had his standing ovation from some of the socialist
:05:06. > :05:10.but others sat on their hands because they were not impressed.
:05:10. > :05:19.This will decide whether or not Greece will carry those austerity
:05:19. > :05:24.measures forward on Sunday. Will Athens get this latest amount
:05:24. > :05:31.of cash or will it have to default on its debt? We will discuss what
:05:31. > :05:41.it means for the eurozone and other general issues with Megan Greene.
:05:41. > :05:43.
:05:43. > :05:46.Some people are describing this as a leaning moment? We might see the
:05:46. > :05:51.eurozone unravel with Greece. George Papandreou has a bit of time
:05:51. > :05:54.but only a little bit. Most ministers are against these
:05:54. > :06:02.austerity measures and most importantly, so is the public. So
:06:02. > :06:07.even if this next package is passed, the power of this government will
:06:07. > :06:11.be limited and see Greece plunged into a crisis soon. The economy has
:06:11. > :06:16.produced more globally compared with others, but does it have the
:06:16. > :06:21.potential to unleash a huge amount of destruction? It does. It could
:06:22. > :06:25.do this through general market jitters and contagion, although it
:06:26. > :06:30.is largely Greek banks and pension funds that are holding Greek
:06:30. > :06:36.government debt. But you also have to think, who is next? The answer
:06:36. > :06:40.to that is clearly Portugal and after that Ireland. If it agrees
:06:40. > :06:46.defaults, it is not clear that Ireland and Portugal would. But
:06:46. > :06:50.they might think that they could go through a few more pain for years
:06:50. > :06:53.or go through the same thing that Greece has done. The implications
:06:54. > :06:58.on the banking system in the eurozone are huge and I think we
:06:58. > :07:06.might start to see some of these peripheral countries move out of
:07:06. > :07:10.the eurozone. Would it not be cheaper in the long run for the
:07:10. > :07:15.banks to take a haircut and keep piling money in degrees? Absolutely.
:07:15. > :07:17.It is a question of who is paying for this. Some of the core
:07:17. > :07:27.countries would rather see the bridge for countries pay for it
:07:27. > :07:28.
:07:28. > :07:32.than their banks. Thank you. If the new leader of Al-Qaeda, Ayman Al-
:07:32. > :07:42.Zawahiri, has vowed to continue the grip's holy war against the United
:07:42. > :07:48.
:07:48. > :07:52.States, Israel and their allies. A familiar face, now in charge of
:07:53. > :07:57.Al-Qaeda. This is the most recent video of Ayman Al-Zawahiri,
:07:57. > :08:02.released only last week. He has been the group's strategic driving
:08:02. > :08:06.force the years, so no surprise that he has succeeded Bin Laden.
:08:06. > :08:11.The videotape was in collaboration of Bin Laden but if you read
:08:11. > :08:16.beneath the lines, he is saying, I am the boss now, listen to me, this
:08:16. > :08:20.is my instruction and strategy. two men were close but it was Al-
:08:20. > :08:26.Zawahiri to radicalised at Bin Laden in the 90s, got him to think
:08:26. > :08:30.big, broad and his message and took the fight for America. The 9/11
:08:30. > :08:35.attacks were masterminded by others but they were part of Al-Zawahiri's
:08:35. > :08:45.strategy to punish the West for supporting Israel. This conflict
:08:45. > :08:48.
:08:48. > :08:53.for him has been personal. We have tried our best to establish an
:08:53. > :08:58.Islamic state and society. If here he is imprisoned after the
:08:58. > :09:05.assassination of Anwar Sadat, the Egyptian President. He fled to
:09:06. > :09:10.Afghanistan. He helped form their parliament. He is different from
:09:10. > :09:18.Bin Laden in terms of vision, so he will focus on the Middle East and
:09:18. > :09:22.already, I think, he will produce a series of five or 6 very long
:09:22. > :09:27.lectures. It is all about the Middle East and how the next
:09:27. > :09:33.generation, the Islamists and Al- Qaeda, will explode this
:09:33. > :09:37.opportunity. He may not have much time. Ayman Al-Zawahiri has a $25
:09:37. > :09:43.million bounty on his head and US intelligence has been closing in on
:09:43. > :09:47.key Al-Qaeda operatives, removing them one by one. He could well be
:09:47. > :09:51.next. Al-Qaeda has suffered many deadly
:09:51. > :10:01.blows in recent years, so what sort of organisation does Al-Zawahiri
:10:01. > :10:05.
:10:05. > :10:09.inherit? The affiliates appear to be established. Indonesia appears
:10:09. > :10:13.to be seeking an Islamist state. Training camps have been
:10:13. > :10:17.established in Pakistan. In Yemen, several hundred people believed to
:10:17. > :10:22.be members of an affiliate are in the Arabian peninsula. All across
:10:22. > :10:30.North Africa, the group has been a bold and kidnap and ransom. Let's
:10:30. > :10:37.go it at Oxford studio, where we can speak to Dr Ishtiaq Ahmad, who
:10:37. > :10:41.is a widely published expert on security. It is said he was
:10:41. > :10:46.selected after consideration. Does that imply this was a fiercely
:10:46. > :10:52.competitive election? It was at absolutely clear right from the
:10:52. > :10:57.beginning when Bin Laden died that Ayman Al-Zawahiri will be the
:10:57. > :11:02.likely replacement, although there had been people within the
:11:02. > :11:06.organisation who have been critical of Al-Zawahiri, and obviously,
:11:06. > :11:13.anybody close to the founding charismatic personalities such as
:11:13. > :11:18.Bin Laden, they would be people who would be jealous of him. But I
:11:18. > :11:26.think it took six weeks for the leader and successor to Bin Laden
:11:26. > :11:31.to appear in Al-Qaeda and in my opinion, for now, we can only
:11:31. > :11:39.speculate as to whether it will help Al-Qaeda overcome the
:11:39. > :11:47.leadership crisis or it will take Al-Qaeda to awards the downward
:11:47. > :11:51.slide it has been on for some time. When you look at what has been
:11:51. > :11:59.happening across North Africa and the Arab Spring, they don't seem to
:11:59. > :12:05.have had any presence in that at all thus far? Al-Zawahiri's credit
:12:05. > :12:08.so far is that Al-Qaeda began as an organisation which was specific,
:12:08. > :12:14.meaning that they wanted the withdrawal of American troops from
:12:14. > :12:20.the Holy Land. And then Al-Zawahiri was the one who basically through
:12:20. > :12:25.his influence on Bin Laden. He globalised his world-view and
:12:25. > :12:35.brought in all of these Palestine, Kashmir macro and other world
:12:35. > :12:35.
:12:35. > :12:41.issues. It was a broader and Middle-Eastern specific review.
:12:41. > :12:49.When the revolutions have taken place, we find that the radical
:12:49. > :12:53.Islam is no way. But it might be a temporary phenomenon. There is
:12:53. > :12:58.uncertainty as to which way these revolutions or emerging
:12:58. > :13:07.developments in the Middle East and North Africa will go. Al-Qaeda has
:13:07. > :13:11.historically tried on grievances, real or imaginary, as they emanate
:13:11. > :13:19.from these transitory and uncertain times in the Muslim world. Thank
:13:19. > :13:26.you. Let's have a look at the Bay's
:13:26. > :13:30.other news. The radical Muslim cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir, has been
:13:30. > :13:35.jailed for 15 years for organising an Islamic militant group and being
:13:35. > :13:39.involved in the 2002 barley bombings. His conviction was
:13:39. > :13:42.overturned. A Russian envoy says he can
:13:43. > :13:49.envisage a future for Libby were -- for Libya where coal Gaddafi
:13:49. > :13:53.remains in the country but power moves to the opposition. Mikhail
:13:53. > :13:57.Margelov said Gaddafi had lost credibility among his people.
:13:57. > :14:01.With the thousands of people already having fled northern Syria
:14:01. > :14:06.into Turkey, there reports the Syrian army is now moving in on
:14:06. > :14:10.another town in the north. Human rights activities said dozens of
:14:10. > :14:14.tanks, personnel carriers and trucks have moved into Jisr al-
:14:14. > :14:18.Shughour. In Britain, a juror who contacted a
:14:18. > :14:22.defender and five Facebook, causing a trial to collapse, has been
:14:22. > :14:25.jailed for eight months for contempt of court. In the first
:14:25. > :14:30.case of its kind in the UK, Joanne Fraill admitted breaking the rules
:14:30. > :14:34.covering trials which prevent jurors investigating cases and
:14:34. > :14:41.making direct contact with defendants.
:14:41. > :14:45.The BBC Trust has ordered the BBC to apologise after a programme
:14:45. > :14:49.revealing that the manufacturing of clothing for Primark. He is said it
:14:49. > :14:55.is more likely than not that footage of a Bangalore workshop and
:14:55. > :14:58.young boys working was not genuine. A bomb has exploded outside the
:14:58. > :15:04.Nigerian capital at police headquarters. It is claimed at
:15:04. > :15:09.least six people were killed. Police believe a suicide bomber was
:15:09. > :15:14.behind the attack. If Nigeria's police force is
:15:14. > :15:18.charged with protecting the country's citizens. But as plumes
:15:19. > :15:23.of dark smoke rose from the car- park of their own headquarters, it
:15:23. > :15:27.was clear they had failed to even protect themselves. A blast that
:15:27. > :15:37.was heard across the capital said buildings and other vehicles on
:15:37. > :15:38.
:15:38. > :15:43.fire. This man was on his way to work as the bomb exploded.
:15:43. > :15:46.sought the blast in the air and that is when I knew it was a bomb.
:15:46. > :15:50.A fee emergency services scramble to the scene and began the big task
:15:50. > :15:55.of working out how many had died. The police said they believe the
:15:55. > :16:00.bombing to be the work of an Islamist group. They are believed
:16:00. > :16:05.to be opposed to Western education. Two years ago, hundreds of people
:16:05. > :16:09.died when a security force destroyed the compound and killed
:16:09. > :16:19.their leader. In the last few weeks, attacks on police stations have
:16:19. > :16:19.
:16:20. > :16:24.On Tuesday, the head of the Nigerian police service travel to
:16:24. > :16:29.the north taking reinforcements and equipment and promising to end the
:16:29. > :16:37.Boko Haram problem within a few months. This bomb explosion in
:16:37. > :16:40.Abuja or may well have been their response.
:16:41. > :16:46.Vancouver has been voted one of the world's best cities for five years,
:16:46. > :16:51.after last night, that reputation might need reassessing all because
:16:51. > :16:55.of a lost ice hockey game. Angry fans set fire in the streets.
:16:55. > :17:03.According to the police force, it took a small army of offers to get
:17:03. > :17:11.the chaos under control. They had come expecting to see
:17:11. > :17:17.their team triumph. Instead of the Vancouver her fans
:17:17. > :17:24.experienced only humiliation as Boston one at the British just a
:17:24. > :17:29.Stanley Cup. He -- this prestigious the Cup.
:17:29. > :17:35.Are several hours, downtown Vancouver was turned into a riot
:17:35. > :17:42.zone. There were running battles between
:17:42. > :17:46.some fans and the police. Others a smashed shop windows and
:17:46. > :17:50.there were reports of widespread looting.
:17:50. > :17:55.For those not involved in the violence, there was only
:17:55. > :18:00.embarrassment. This is wrong for the city. This is not a reputation
:18:00. > :18:04.we want. After the Olympics, we did so much to bring the city to where
:18:04. > :18:08.it is today and this is what we do now? This is not what the City
:18:09. > :18:13.wants. Fire crews were called into action
:18:13. > :18:18.as the mob set light to vehicles and piles of rubbish. A plume of
:18:18. > :18:22.black smoke could be seen over the Vancouver skyline. The City has
:18:22. > :18:25.paid a high price for sporting defeat.
:18:25. > :18:28.One of Russia's richest men is planning to invest billions of
:18:28. > :18:30.dollars in a scheme to sell electricity to China. Oleg
:18:30. > :18:33.Deripaska wants to build a series of hydro-electric dams in Eastern
:18:33. > :18:35.Siberia and export the power southwards to cash in on Asia's
:18:35. > :18:39.booming economies. Our Moscow Correspondent, Daniel Sandford,
:18:39. > :18:48.travelled to Kodinsk to see one of the dams that is now almost
:18:48. > :18:54.complete. Putting the finishing touches to
:18:54. > :19:00.what will be one of the world's most powerful hydro-electric dams.
:19:00. > :19:06.This was built in their Siberian well done us. It is due to start
:19:06. > :19:11.generating next April. Producing electricity from Siberia's huge
:19:11. > :19:15.water resources is back in fashion. Russia has woken up to the huge
:19:15. > :19:19.market for power on its doorstep. This enormous network of hydro-
:19:19. > :19:24.electric dams that is planned for eastern Siberia has the potential
:19:24. > :19:29.to generate a vast amount of electricity. Where I am standing is
:19:29. > :19:36.a good deal closer to China than it is to the big population centres of
:19:36. > :19:45.European Russia and -- Russia. Leading the charge to turn water
:19:45. > :19:50.into cash is Oleg Deripaska. How soon do you think you can be
:19:50. > :19:57.shipping significant amounts of electricity to China. Five years.
:19:57. > :20:07.And how much could you be shipping within five years? Up to 15 key
:20:07. > :20:13.locks. I mean, 15 billion kilowatts. And the infrastructure in terms of
:20:13. > :20:17.grid infrastructure. You need to reinforce the three existing points
:20:17. > :20:21.and build one more bread. Russia already has an agreement
:20:22. > :20:27.with China to sell up to 60 billion kilowatt hours per year within a
:20:27. > :20:34.decade. More than enough to power Greece or Hong Kong. It could
:20:34. > :20:37.prevent the banning of 20 million tonnes of coal each year.
:20:37. > :20:45.Environmentalists say the experience from previous dams has
:20:45. > :20:51.been that great river stagnate and valuable Forest are wasted.
:20:51. > :20:54.They say they are building these new dams on Siberian rivers to save
:20:54. > :21:04.the planet than greenhouse gases, so the question is whether we are
:21:04. > :21:08.
:21:08. > :21:12.ready to destroy the Siberian environment.
:21:13. > :21:20.And the new power station is coming at a price. Remote Siberian towns
:21:20. > :21:28.have had to be destroyed before the waters rise.
:21:28. > :21:32.Former residents are already mourning their way of life.
:21:33. > :21:37.TRANSLATION: The most tragic thing is the elderly people who started
:21:37. > :21:42.dying within a year because they lost their village houses and their
:21:42. > :21:48.neighbours. In return had been given flats with nothing but a
:21:48. > :21:53.television for company. In another almost abandoned village,
:21:53. > :21:59.we found another villager refusing to leave until he was paid
:21:59. > :22:02.compensation. TRANSLATION: Nobody needs this
:22:02. > :22:07.power plant anywhere. There are other plants on this weather that
:22:07. > :22:13.work at half capacity and now it turns out this is all about exports
:22:13. > :22:18.to China. At times the resources hidden in
:22:18. > :22:26.Russia as well done us seem almost endless. Hydro-electric power, oil,
:22:27. > :22:36.gas, coal, all there in abundance. Landscapes left almost untouched by
:22:37. > :22:40.
:22:40. > :22:45.man will be swept aside in the rush for profits.
:22:45. > :22:49.Let's talk to James Nixey. With this irresistible riches
:22:50. > :22:57.potentially coming from China, what will this mean for Europe's power
:22:57. > :23:02.suppliers. It is tricky. Russia currently directs 95% of energy to
:23:02. > :23:05.Europe. That will change slowly. Russia itself is a difficult
:23:06. > :23:11.partner at times and that means it theoretically threatens to go east,
:23:11. > :23:17.but it cannot do that soon. Russia has a weak southern flank and the
:23:17. > :23:20.Arctic north. Russia is spread thinly. Should Europe be looking 10
:23:20. > :23:27.years down the line at what is going to be a depleted power
:23:27. > :23:37.supply? Very much so. Russia's own reserves are dwindling. It cannot
:23:37. > :23:38.
:23:38. > :23:48.access reserves in the North just yet. So, really, Europe need to be
:23:48. > :23:51.looking at a Diversity of energy supply is. There is this pipeline
:23:51. > :23:57.which is being discussed between Russia and China at the moment, it
:23:57. > :24:01.has not been signed off, but these two countries are tricky
:24:01. > :24:07.negotiators, aren't they? It will be interesting to see he backs down
:24:07. > :24:13.in terms of pricing. They also not equal. China is a rising power. It
:24:13. > :24:20.looks upon Russia as something of a quarry. Russia, on the other hand,
:24:21. > :24:25.thinks of itself as an equal partner. So really it our
:24:25. > :24:29.perceptions of Russia and China need to alter. There is only one
:24:29. > :24:35.rising superpower in the world and that is China. Russia is a poor
:24:35. > :24:40.player in Asia. In terms of the volume of gas, I was reading
:24:40. > :24:47.somewhere that they might take the equivalent of all the gas consumed
:24:47. > :24:52.by the EU by 2030. We are talking about huge quantities. China
:24:52. > :24:58.requires huge quantities. The South East region requires it. It is not
:24:58. > :25:08.easy for Russia to get that energy from the EU or China. The pipelines
:25:08. > :25:18.have not been built yet. The lots of places have significant reserves
:25:18. > :25:21.
:25:21. > :25:25.in the Caspian Sea, by example. Briefly on the gas prices in China,
:25:25. > :25:30.presumably that is under state control so does not reflect the
:25:30. > :25:35.market price. Does that mean they are selling the gas at a loss?
:25:35. > :25:44.is true. The Chinese drive a hard bargain. As far as this is
:25:44. > :25:49.concerned, china is indeed playing with the cards in its favour.
:25:49. > :25:55.A quick reminder of our main headline, Nicolas Sarkozy has urged
:25:55. > :26:05.European leaders to reach an urgent agreement on the best way to help
:26:05. > :26:07.
:26:07. > :26:14.Greece preserve the Eurozone. I'll -- Al-Qaeda has planned to
:26:14. > :26:19.continue its holy war under its new leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. He was
:26:19. > :26:25.the second in command to a Osama Bin Laden.
:26:25. > :26:29.And so news just come in from the United States, up the congressmen
:26:29. > :26:36.Anthony Wheeler has just announced his resignation from Congress
:26:36. > :26:43.following there has text messages that he had sent to various people,
:26:43. > :26:53.various women, of himself in boxer shorts.
:26:53. > :27:00.
:27:00. > :27:04.That is it from the programme. Goodbye.
:27:04. > :27:09.Sunshine and showers today, tomorrow you'll be lucky to stay
:27:09. > :27:14.dry. It will turn increasingly cloudy and wet and will be breezy
:27:14. > :27:16.cloudy and wet and will be breezy as well. This weather front well
:27:16. > :27:22.developed through the night edging its way towards the south-west of
:27:22. > :27:26.the UK. Isobars tightening up. Bright enough to start through
:27:26. > :27:32.eastern areas of the UK, then slowly clouds will gather in the
:27:33. > :27:37.vain band. Do easternmost areas it will be cloudy with patchy
:27:37. > :27:43.outbreaks of rain. The further south you are, a spell of heavy
:27:43. > :27:49.rain through the afternoon. As we have seen today, that could cause
:27:49. > :27:55.spray on the road. For the south- west of England, a grey and wet
:27:55. > :28:03.start stained wet throughout the day. 25 mm of rain. Cloudy across
:28:03. > :28:08.Wales. Northern Ireland having a different day. Sunny spells and
:28:08. > :28:13.scattered showers. The rain will start of heavy across