05/10/2011 World News Today

The IMF has warned of recession in the west. In Greece thousands of

public sector workers again take to the street to voice their anger at

cuts. David Cameron struck an upbeat note

during his speech to party conference, urging Britons not to

become paralysed by gloom and fear. Let's see an optimistic future,

show the world some fight, pull together, work together and

together lead Britain to better days ahead.

Coming up, South Africa's war of words. Archbishop Desmond Tutu

tells the BBC of his anger at South Africa's refusal to grant the Dalai

Lion -- Dalai Lama a visa. If they continue in this way, they

are following the path of their predecessors.

High above Manhattan, the unique part providing a peaceful sanctuary

for New Yorkers. -- Park. And Bert Jansch, the man dubbed

folk's answer to Jimi Hendrix, dies aged 67.

Welcome. A long-lasting solution to the eurozone crisis is more than

overdue wants the IMF. Italy's credit rating was downgraded by

Moody's amid continuing concerns that Italy and other members of the

euro will be unable to repay their debts. The Ben Moore unrest in

Greece as trade unions strike. -- then, unrest.

Violent protests back on the streets of Athens. The pain caused

by tough austerity measures bites harder and harder. The EU and the

IMF I get to decide whether Greece gets its next instalment of

international loans, but it probably will. -- are yet to decide.

They are run priest -- increasing unemployment. The people who gain

money from corruption are not paying what they should be paying

to fix the mass. The renewed strikes in Greece comes

as Italy faces another downgrade of its credit rating and fears that it

will be drawn further into dangerous territory. The IMF has

warned that Europe risks recession next year as the debt crisis and

its consequences a rumble on. To add to the confusion, this senior

IMF official suggested that the fund could intervene in bond

markets, only to retract his mark - - remarks later. What about the

woman on whom so much of this hinges? In Brussels for talks with

the European Commission, Germany's Chancellor has big decisions to

make. Everybody is waiting for the report from the so-called troika

inspectors, to determine whether or not Greece needs more help than was

assumed months ago and whether the banks will be asked to take heavier

losses. Try Birmingham Coach Station we

have to look at the current Greek figures and see whether we have --

they have to be adjusted. -- TRANSLATION: We have to look at.

Greece must remain part of the eurozone and must be given the

opportunity to get back on its feet. It is not just Greece having

problems. The banking system itself is under severe strain and

everybody knows it. Chancellor market made it clear

that Germany could be moving towards recapitalising banks but in

general she speaks of a step-by- step approach. At some people may

not like that but they will have to lump it. The solution still rests

with Europe's richest country. What does this crisis mean on an

interlude -- individual level? Gary Cooper is Professor mack at

Lancaster University and he told me it is having an enormous

psychological impact. -- Gary Cooper is Distinguished Professor

of Organisational Psychology and Health.

People are feeling financially so - - insecure. Will the banks faltered,

will I have a job? People's sense of security has been undermined. It

really does affect people. It also affects countries throughout the

world because companies do not invest as much as they normally

would, they do not take risks, individual people in businesses do

not take risks, so it is not only affecting the health of people and

their financial security but also affecting the reputation of Britain

and other countries. In some cases this has devastating consequences.

In Greece the suicide rate has doubled in the past three years

because people feel them that is no light at the end of the tunnel. How

do you give people hope? We have to be more positive. Today a survey

came out by HR directors in the country, saying that the sickness

absence rate was mainly caused by stress at work. We don't need that,

when you have stress you have people not be productive, so we

need much more positivity. -- not being productive. The more we can

be positive, it will help consumers, consumers will get more self-

confidence, they will buy things... Presumably that is what David

Cameron was trying to do when he addressed his party conference this

afternoon when he said, we can get out of this, we need to be more

positive about the future. You are saying this is the right message?

Absolutely. All we are hearing from the Bank of England, the financial

sector, and a whole range of politicians across the world, who

are just saying, this will be the long-term, it will take five, 10

years. The more we emphasise the positives, the better. The more

psychologists we get involved in talking up the economy and

politicians talking up the economy, the better off we all will be,

because actually the dealers listened to be doom and gloom.

Finally, what about the political consequences of this doom and gloom

- in Greece people have clearly lost faith in democratic government

and the ability of the state to pull them out of this crisis. Do

you think there is a danger that people turn to extreme solutions,

as they did in Germany in the 1930s? Absolutely. When people feel

secure -- insecure, they take control. That is what you do when

you are under a lot of stress, you take control. You do not really

necessary take control in an adaptive way. Going on the streets

is a way of taking control. So we have to get people on board, engage

them in the workplace, engage the population do think about positive

things we can do to develop our economies. We can do this. Three or

four years ago, before the crisis, we were growing. Yes, we did some

wrong things, but the essence and the fundamentals of most of our

economies is strong. As we heard, David Cameron

attempted to swim against be tied by delivering a big dose of

optimism in his speech. Des the tide. He said the government would

stick to its debt reduction scheme but he said that Britain had been

called off -- written off before and he called on the contrary to

show some fight. Before David Cameron even entered

the conference centre, it was clear he was going to mention one word in

particular. Leadership was the chosen theme of the conference so

he began by alluding to his stand on Libya and this year's

intervention. Don't let anybody say that this was

not in my -- our national interest. Good afraid Dave Semtex to the IRA,

he was behind the shooting of a police officer. -- he gave Semtex

to the IRA. I say let's be proud of what we did to help the Libyan

people take back their country. But it was the economy which was

uppermost in his mind. He insisted his government was right to cut the

deficit, figures are borrowing more money would make the situation

worse. -- because borrowing. He told the conference leadership was

what was needed. I know how tough things are. I do not underestimate

how are worried people feel, either about making ends meet or the state

of the world economy, but the truth is that right now we need to be

energised, not paralysed by gloom and fear. As for the current crisis

in the eurozone, he gave his Conservative audience the lines if

they wanted to hear. He said he would not let Britain be sucked in

to end at Des End has bail-outs. -- endless bail-outs. When it comes to

any European bail-out mechanism, Labour got us into this and I will

make sure we get out of this. ended on a high note, rejecting the

idea of Britain as a country in decline. We have the people and now

we have a government that is free in this people, backing those ideas,

lot -- so let's see an optimistic future, shows some fight, pull

together and together lead Britain to better days ahead. David Cameron

did not want his speech to be unremittingly gloomy. He wanted

voters do have faith that they can make it through the bad times. But

already the idea of an economic upturn by 2015 is looking

optimistic and ministers are increasingly apprehensive that the

road to recovery could be a long one.

Iain Martin is a political columnist with the Daily Mail and I

spoke to him from the conference just after that speech and asked

him why David Cameron had put Britain's role in Libya at the top

of the speech. You have to remember that David Cameron took a lot of

criticism on the domestic front when he embarked on this adventure.

Them back to all kinds of criticisms. I wrote Pete's --

pieces myself questioning the wisdom of the intervention. He

faced so much criticism on the home front but I think he was genuinely

vindicated and he wants to show his critics but as far as he is

concerned it works. It is not really surprising that he made such

a big thing a bit in the speech. Most of the speech was devoted to

the economy and it was interesting how incredibly up BT was. -- upbeat.

It was a very strange speech from David Cameron today. I have seen

him give some great speeches in his time. This was not one of them. At

in its construction it was slightly shambolic but the most interesting

passages were on the economy. The Tories in Britain have a real

problem. They came into office essentially promising that if they

cut the deficit that would restore Britain's economic fortunes and by

now would be -- we would be seeing signs of growth. In fact things are

heading in the opposite direction, growth today was downgraded for the

first and second quarter again, so Britain is bumping along the bottom

and heading possibly for a Japanese style period have lent the

stagnation. What he was trying to do was to encourage the Brits to

dig in and show some of that 1940 is can-do spirit of the Brits --

the Blitz. I am not sure it worked. I think British people are quite

cynicism about that and I think this beached failed because it did

not lay out a serious programme of reforms and the kind of economic

changes required to kick-start growth. -- the speech failed.

phrase he kept using was leadership, that you can lead your community,

Yes, the reason that the word leadership crops up so many times,

I think it is something that is implied rather than pepping the

speech with that. However, the Tory party in Britain, the Lib Dem

coalition believe the leader of the coalition -- the opposition is

extremely weak. The recent polling shows that the British public do

not buy the idea of home as an alternative Prime Minister. So in

those circumstances, Cameron wants to exploit that as much as possible

and implied that he is the only head-and-shoulders above all of his

rivals. Let's take a look at some of the

other news: As civilian court and Bahrain has ordered the retrial of

20 medical staff sentenced for aiding anti-government protesters.

They were found guilty last week which included inciting the

overthrow of the Government and Bahrain.

Afghan intelligence officials have said they have uncovered a plot to

kill the country's President. He is currently out of the country to a

visit to India. Six people have been arrested them, one of them a

member of the President's staff. The women claiming to be the woman

-- she had seen a report saying she had been beheaded. She said that

last month Zainab al-Hosni had been killed and dismembered.

The trial has begun of two Pakistani Test cricketers accused

of taking bribes during a match against England. Salman Butt and

Mohammed Asif are accused of taking money for her delivering no balls

in last year's test. Both men have denied the charges.

The ANC Government of South Africa has appealed to Archbishop Desmond

Tutu to come down after you compared it to the apartheid regime.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has reacted angrily after Tibet's spiritual

leader, the Dalai Lama, cancelled a trip to be at the Archbishop's 80th

birthday celebrations, because he had not been granted an entry visa

in time. Here is what he had to say yesterday. I am warning you, one

day we will stand -- star praying for the defeat of the ANC

Government. You are disgraceful! The Archbishop told the BBC's

Southern Africa correspondent today that he may have spoken out hastily

but he stood by his argument. think we have just portrayed our

struggle. You are a sad man today? I am. I am sad because there is a

part of me that keeps saying it hasn't happened. It is just a very

bad nightmare. And this is the second time. It is the second time

that this wonderful person has been forbidden to come to our country.

EU have been very strident about your comments on the ruling party.

Do you regret having said that one day you will be praying for the

demise of the ANC? I said that if they continue in this way, then

they are following the path of their predecessors. And I would

certainly, if they did that, pray for their demise. The ruling party

has called a new to come down. How do you respond to that? Today I am

going to count up to 10 and take a deep breath and not get too upset.

But I know I was very angry. I am just up -- shock to see how angry I

was from the pictures. But I think it was justified. They continue to

treat us like little children. The deputy President says no this thing

was in the pipeline. This is not two months before the visit. It is

amahs before he is due to leave. -- it is our worst. Who will believe

that? A1 of the runaway hits of this

summer in New York has not been on Bradley. It has been at out a most

unusual park which is attracting millions of visitors from all

around the world. The Inside story of the newer city's so-called Park

In The Sky is about to be told another cult of High Line. I like

about where you sit and look at the traffic. I think it is a wonderful

Shangri-La in the middle of this wonderful city. The story Of the

High Line is a highly improbable one. It is the story of two young

New Yorkers with no experience in urban planning, architecture of the

rough and tumble of city politics, turning a derelict elevated railway

line into a unique park. I am a dreamer but I never dreamed it

would be the successful. In some ways, I did not believe it until we

opened. I knew there were so many pieces that could follow park.

Legal, planning, community issues. Robert Hammond, and his co-founder

Joshua David have devoted more than a decade of their lives to the High

Line project. Inspired by a rusting structure on the verge of being

torn down. Here we wanted to design it to be interesting and unique and

as unusual as the structure itself. I loved what it was like before we

build anything up here. Photographs taken at the time and soon-to-be-

published any book on the High Line, capture this wild landscape that

the park architects made a part of their design. It has been winning

awards from urban planners around the world. I think the High Line is

the best new public space we have had in New York in a long time. It

merges the idea of the streets, which is the quintessential New

Year public space, it merges the idea of the street with the idea of

the park. One of the reason that people are excited because it is a

new kind of public space. The High Line has been a venue for all

manner of events, a 3 million people are expected to visit of the

course of the year. -- and 3 million people. It's close people

down and I think that is one of the secrets to its success. -- it slows

people down. He is an inspiration to disabled

people everywhere. Philippe Croizon was the first disabled person to

swim the Channel. Now he is attending an attempt to swim the

four Straits, and between the passage between New Guinea and

Indonesia. He is doing it with an able bodied slumber.

From a distance, they look like any other Queen some -- Jeanne Summers.

There is nothing unique about filly croissant. Beneath the water, you

can see why. -- fairly quiet song. -- filly cries on. Its use them to

a metal ladder. Today, thanks to special adapted flippers that

propel him through the water, he is proving an inspiration to disabled

people everywhere. They had has amputated my left leg, I was pretty

depressed. Then I saw a woman on the television swimming the Channel.

Something I had not known until then. I thought, while, why can't I

do that. And he did. After gruelling hours in the pool, he

became the first limbless mantissa and the Channel. Only 900 able-

bodied people had done it before them. Now beside a friend, he plans

to cross four Straits between five continents. Next year, the pair

were also run the icy bearing seed, the shark-infested Gulf of Akabar,

the straits between Gibraltar and Morocco and Papua New Guinea and

Indonesia. Only one able-bodied swimmer has a ever completed the

streets in the same year. They hope to break the record by swimming

them in four months. In total, it is 85 kilometres around 40 are

slumming. In some very strong currents. -- 40 I was swimming. He

swims at half the speed of our know. They're learning to synchronise

their efforts. For now, the biggest challenge will be to find a sponsor.

They still need have a million Euros to fund the trip. We help

each other. He does what I do and I do what he does. And when East won

together between the five continents, we overcome the

differences between us. We are equal. Few have overcome challenges

like he has, whether it is coping with everyday life, swimming were

taking to the air. This was his first time hot air ballooning. He

is an extraordinary Frenchman for whom this guy really is the limit.

-- this guy. The British folk musician Bert

Jansch has died aged 67 after a long battle with cancer. He was a

member of the ground-breaking folk band Pentangle and it was there

that he first achieved recognition in the late 60s. Bert Jansch was

considered to be one of the leading guitarists of his generation. Neil

Young once said that he did for the acoustic guard -- guitar what Jimi

Hendrix had done for the electric. That is all from me. Let me leave

you with the sound of Bert Jansch. Hello. It has been a blustery day

across the country and we will see the cloud and rain clearing away

from the south, leaving behind some colder weather tomorrow, along with

some showers. Another very windy Is the Whether fund that is moving

through. The source of our air is all the way back towards Iceland. A

different feel to the day tomorrow. The showers are frequent, heavy. We

will see some hail and thunder at times, combined with some strong

winds. Gusting at 50 mph at times. Temperatures of just 15 to 16

Celsius. Here we will see some heavy downpours at times. 13, the

top temperature. Across Wales, we will see some strong winds, maybe

up to 60 mph. North-west England and Northern Ireland are in the

firing line for the stronger winds through the afternoon. Here the

showers are likely to have some hail extend. Into Scotland,