25/10/2011 World News Today

A tale of miraculous survival in the devastation of the Turkey

earthquake. A mother and her child are rescued.

TRANSLATION: When the earth quake struck, my mother and daughter in

law were with me. Colonel Gaddafi has finally been

buried at a secret location in the Libyan desert.

Italy's Government is threatened with collapse. They cannot agree on

austerity measures. Shakespeare is in the limelight -

did he really write off 36 plays attributed to him?

Comedy? By whom? By anonymous, your Majesty. Anonymous? I so admire his

verse. A new film rewrites history

challenging the authorship of Rescue workers in Turkey have

pulled a two week-old baby, her mother and her grandmother alive

from the mountain of concrete that was once there home. It is two days

since the earthquake struck this predominantly Kurdish area in the

east. 430 people are known to have died. In the past few hours there

has been a big aftershock in the same area. The epicentre is in the

city of Van and Ercis from work Tim Wilcox reports.

It is a day of great joy as well as sadness in Ercis today. It started

with the discovery of three generations of one family. The

first contact was made at noon, rescue workers dug this channel

down to the apartment. The family of Azra, her mother and grandmother

had been trapped underneath two sofas for the past 48 hours. One by

one they were brought out into the open. Cheered and applauded by

rescue workers and inhabitants of this town which has been hit so

badly. Since then the news has not been so bright. Many more bodies

have been recovered from the same apartment building. Work is

continuing their tonight. You can see the machinery digging away at

the piles of rubble which those rescue teams have now cleared in

terms of being clear of any live bodies. The equipment is pulling

double a way and as bodies are recovered, rescue workers bring

them down. At least three has been found in the past hour. The rescue

work continues. We have heard at about an hour's drive away from

here a ten-year-old boy was found in the rubble of his house. But

despite the lift of finding three generations of one family, the rest

of the people they find it will unfortunately be dead.

The third day of this rescue operation began in the best

possible way. Is 16 day-old baby was gently brought out through a

tiny hole in the broken concrete. Azra was premature and had been

born a month early. And then, two weeks into her life, she had only

just escaped death. With the tiny baby now safely on its way to

hospital, rescuers are working hard to bring out through the same small

gap, its mother and grandmother, both of whom are still alive. In

the crowd, sheltering from the cold and the rain, we found the baby's

grandfather nervously waiting for news of his wife and daughter-in-

law. TRANSLATION: At the moment the

earthquake struck my wife and daughter-in-law were with me, but

the baby was in another room. We ran to leave the building but then

they rush back inside to lead the - - rescue the baby. I have been

waiting for a miracle. For the next few hours, the rescue

teams expand at the hole in the rubble, working their way towards

the two trapped women. This man told me they could not bring the

women out. Then the breakthrough. The baby's mother, Semiha was

brought out and carefully carried down to safely. 10 minutes later,

the baby's grandmother, Sevim Yigit was also brought out alive. Azra is

in an incubator and has been taken away for treatment at a specialist

hospital. Doctors say she is doing well and better than expected. But

her family is not complete. Her father has not been heard from

since the earthquake struck. Like hundreds of others, he is still

under the rubble. Exhausting rescue effort continues.

In the past couple of hours it has been hampered by a huge aftershock

measuring 5.4, cars and buildings wobbled in the aftershock. Many

people ran out into the streets in panic, fearful about what could

happen next. Does rescue workers stopped for five minutes when the

aftershock happened. You see the building behind me, in the

background, it is a listing to the left and it has shifted several

inches more to the left, making it even more precarious. The

rebuilding of this town is going to take some time.

We can now look at some other news. Official results from Tunisia's

first free election showed the moderate Islamist party has taken

the lead and is on track to win most seats in the new assembly. The

electoral Commission said the left wing party looks like it will take

second place. Gunfire and explosions have been

heard in the Yemeni capital despite the announcement of a new ceasefire.

Government sources say the deal was agreed by the President and the

general backing the mission. Advancing floodwaters in Thailand

have breached the barriers protecting Bangkok's second largest

airport. The capital could be swamped by up to 1.5 metres of

water. Cosmic mystery that battles --

baffled astronomers in ancient China might have been solved. In

185 AD, an exploding star, a Super Nova lit up the sky Fage months.

Astronomers say they may have been able to explain why it expanded so

rapidly. It is 88,000 light years from us.

After five days of display, Colonel Gaddafi's body has been buried.

Libya's National Transitional Council confirmed the colonel and

his son, Mutassim Gaddafi have been buried at a secret location in the

desert. Became at night to take the corpses

away from the market complex on the outskirts of Misrata. For days, the

former Libyan leader had been on display, and prayers we were told

was said over the bodies. But no more details were forthcoming about

where and how the burial took place. Libya's new rulers do not want the

final resting place to become a shrine for those who supported his

regime, nor do they wish to see his grave become a focal point for the

kind of frenzied fury that surrounded his capture and killing

outside his home town of Sirte on Thursday.

TRANSLATION: If the group of resolution Aires capture her killer,

or will they kiss his head? We want to tackle this issue naturally and

put it in a political framework. Abroad, there are questions being

asked about the manner of his death and the long delay to the burial,

contrary to Islamic custom. In Libya, few are concerned or

sympathetic. This is the freezer compartments were for four days,

Colonel Gaddafi's body had been on display, lying on this piece of

plastic sheeting. People queuing up to see with their own eyes. Now

they're gone, his body is in the ground and the spectacle is over

and Libya can start looking towards the future, rather than the past.

In Tripoli, as elsewhere, the euphoria of the past few days has

given away to a more measured practical mood. Life must now

return to some sort of normality. TRANSLATION: We feel our world is

safe now. Even though there are checkpoints, we feel the people

manning them are respectable. Different to Colonel Gaddafi

brigades. A line has been drawn in laying to

rest the body of Colonel Gaddafi, Libya hopes to exorcise the ghosts

of the past four days and turn to the hard work of building a

brighter future. With less than 20 var hours to go

before an EU summit on the debt crisis, Italy's Prime Minister,

Silvio Berlusconi has been struggling to pass austerity

measures through the Italian Assembly. His European partners are

demanding concrete action before the meeting tomorrow. With Rome

perhaps unable to agree economic reforms, the deadlock could force

him to step down. Silvio Berlusconi is manoeuvring

desperately for his survival. He is poised between a rock and a hard

place. The rock is the ultimatum he has received from Brussels. The

hard place is his coalition partner Umberto Bossi, head of the Northern

League. He was explicit about his demands are unquestioned by

reporters outside Parliament today. TRANSLATION: To retire at 67,

cancel old age pension, is not possible. Our pension system is in

better shape than France and Germany and we cannot make the

retirement age 67 years. People will kill us. So far, the Italian

leader has failed to get Umberto Bossi to agree to the immediate

fiscal and welfare reforms demanded by the EU. Yet, Mr Berlusconi has

been solemnly warned that he cannot return to Brussels to the next EU

summit on Wednesday empty-handed. We are in uncharted waters. It has

been clear for decades there is tension between sovereign states

and the European Union. This is the first time I think there has been a

direct conflict, tension between a single leader of an EU company and

a big leader -- the leader of a big country. For the first time, Mr

Berlusconi has hinted he might step down after dominating Italian

politics for the last 17 years. Frantic consultations are

continuing with the Northern League, but a contentious Cabinet meeting

and many hours of talks have so far failed to resolve what could

develop into a full-blown political crisis in Rome.

The TRANSLATION: What happens in Italy will have an impact on all

the other countries in the eurozone. Just as remade comments about the

budgetary policies of the other member states, we are doing the

same for Italy. There was no degree of humiliation involved.

Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel no longer bother to hide their

doubts about Mr Berlusconi's political skills, at a moment when

his popularity in Italy has plunged to its lowest level.

As the world's population officially passes the 7 billion

mark, the BBC has commissioned a special report from different

countries. We are looking at Jordan which faces a crisis due to its

rapidly rising population which has more than doubled in the last two

decades. It is one of the driest countries in the Middle East and

has depleted its supply and it is dangerously low.

Against the odds, he farms this arid land. Were his crops lack much

of the water they need. With no other supply, his family have to

bide their water from a private company. But the price keeps on

rising and business is drying up. TRANSLATION: Some people depend on

farming. If they stop, they won't be able to support their families.

We have high levels of unemployment and the holder generations want to

keep alive the traditions of farming. There won't give it up

easily. Like others in Jordan, he depends

on the endless flow of lorries which transport this country's

Liquid Gold. This is private water. Commercially owned wells have

become the source for many businesses and homes. We are living

in a water crisis. We have the Royal commodity of water. If the

strategy is implemented, we will be in a few years, well off. Unless

the strategy is implemented, the situation will be more serious.

Jordan's population with its steady flow of refugees is using more of

this vital resource. Despite Government initiative to extract

new resources, a bad situation is getting even worse. Farming in this

desert like landscape has always been a challenge. But as water

becomes more scarce and a shared by more people, the livelihood of

farmers will only become more uncertain. He used to have chic,

but because of a lack of water, these chickens, along with a few

rabbits are the only animals left. He says the Government should

supply what is, his farm's life blood. For others, life goes on

with what little water there is, in The funeral of the Saudi Arabian

crown prince has been taking place. Leaders from around the world paid

their respects. The Prince, who was the heir to the throne died in New

York on Saturday. Thousands are reported to be fleeing fighting

between the military and Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines.

The army launched a second day of the air strikes on what it called a

renegade faction. They said ground troops had encountered heavy

resistance. More than 20 soldiers have been killed in fighting in

recent days. Conversationalists say the Javan rhinoceros has become

extinct in one country. There are only a small group left. One of the

world's leading conservation charities says they are now extinct

in the second last country which was keeping them, and Vietnam. The

evidence of its alarming status comes from scientific evidence on

dung. The reason for the disappearance of the species can be

found in markets like this one. Eastern medicine creates a huge

demand for rhino horns. The last rhino was found with its core no

messing. It can cure many diseases including heart disease, blood

clotting and mental illnesses. is a view dispelled by a modern

scientists and conservationists alike. It is made mostly from a

substance called keratin. That is what our hair and nails are made of.

It has no medicinal properties whatsoever and is incapable of

curing cancer. There are now thought to be less than 50 of these

rhinoceros left worldwide. They all live in a single national park in

Indonesia. Despite spending millions of dollars trying to

protect them poachers are still telling the few that remain.

Efforts to protect them are likely to be stepped up once again. What

is in a name? That is a famous quote from Romeo and Juliet and it

has now been directed at Shakespeare himself. His home town

has been protesting a film as an attempt to rewrite British cultural

history. The film suggests some words were actually written by the

Earl of Oxford. Since when did words ever win a kingdom? Leave

that to me. A my God, the Earl of Oxford does not write plays.

this is to be done, it must be done carefully, skilfully. In my world

one does not write plays, people like you do. Congratulations, you

have had an epic poem published today. What, do you mean like in a

book? To debate this I spoke to several Shakespeare specialists. I

asked one if he believed the Bard wrote his masterpieces? I believe

he had something to do with the plays but I do not believe he wrote

all of the pieces contributed to him. There are a whole group of

people who believe Sir Francis Bacon wrote the plays. Another

group believe Sir Christopher Marlowe wrote the plays. I do not

buy into those although I find their ideas interesting and unlike

many people from Stratford upon- Avon I am quite happy to listen to

what they have got to save. You are willing to agree to the thesis that

all 37 plays are not written by the man known as William Shakespeare?

am. And what do you make of it? Sniffing it is as ridiculous as the

conspiracy theory it is supposed to be based on. It gives as an idea of

someone who commits incest with the reigning monarch arc which I think

is a strange way of championing him. Is there any proof? There is lots

of proof that he did write some of the plays or had and in some of the

plays. Around the edges there are lots of interesting gaps that allow

people to question whether he did write the plays or not. A lot of

that is to do with his lack of education. Many records suggest

somebody else wrote one or two of the plates, such as Romeo and

Juliet and Hamlet. If you put all the records together at areas a

case for doubt or a discussion about doubt. The director of this

film said that he thought there were two key reasons which made him

think Shakespeare could not have written these plays. One was that

his father was the literate and his daughters were illiterate and there

are no letters in existence of from him. It is not odd that none has

survived. A lot of documents from that period do not survive. Central

London was wiped out by a fire 50 years after his death. Many people

from his time did talk about how he had written these plays and how

great he was. 200 years after he died suddenly people start saying

these plays could only have been written by an aristocrat. I think

people would have to work very hard to take this film at face value. It

is one thing to make a film based on a ludicrous premise, what

bothers me I think is the publicity material suggesting that you ought

to see this film because it is based on fact. That does strike me

as unethical and a by-election -- a violation of our responsibility to

the past. I do not know why the Shakespeare Birth Trust are getting

so worked up about it. If they are worried about historical fact and

evidence they need only look at themselves. They are championing

one portrayed as an accurate one of Shakespeare's when their chairman,

before he became chairman, said that was ludicrous. Yet it is on

their publicity material when there is no evidence for that being him.

I do not work for that organisation and I do not agree with that

portrait being him either but I do by the plays of William Shakespeare

as being written by William Shakespeare. I cannot understand by

the same token you did not get worked up about Shakespeare in Love

which is ludicrous and fictional. That is true, a lot of people to

that film at face value. I think this row could run and run. Thank

you both. A quick reminder now of our main news story tonight.

Rescuers have pooled at two week- old baby, her grandmother and

mother from the earthquake which struck eastern Turkey on Sunday.

Within the past few hours there have been aftershocks in the same

area. Officials from Libya's new leadership say that the body of

Colonel Gaddafi has been buried at a secret location in the Libyan

desert. The place is being kept secret in order to prevent it

becoming a shrine for Gaddafi supporters. His son was buried with

him. That is all from the programme. Next up, the weather. From now, --

for now, from me, goodbye. Today's forecast was sunny spells and heavy

showers. It is more of the same for tomorrow. The last of power rain

will clear through north-eastern parts of Scotland tonight. Showers

will slowly track across the UK. There will be some showers in

western counties of England and Wales tomorrow morning slowly

marching northwards. For most of eastern England it is looking like

a fine afternoon. Through southernmost counties of England

and on into the Midlands expect those showers to track through

during the afternoon. The showers will not be as heavy as today but

there is still a risk of some thunder and he'll in Wales. In

Northern Island it will be a drier day for quite a few places. There

will be a few showers and some brightness around. Across Scotland,