:00:09. > :00:12.This is BBC World News Today with me Tim Willcox. The shame of the US
:00:12. > :00:20.marines? Universal condemnation as a video apparently showing four of
:00:20. > :00:22.them urinating on dead Taliban fighters is posted online. It is
:00:22. > :00:28.absolutely inconsistent with American values, with the standards
:00:28. > :00:32.of behaviour we expect from our military personnel.
:00:32. > :00:42.The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson is charged by a Turkish court after
:00:42. > :00:43.
:00:43. > :00:53.secretly filming orphanages there. The cost of Mexico's drugs war as
:00:53. > :00:53.
:00:53. > :01:03.the death toll approaches 50,000, five years after the crackdown.
:01:03. > :01:08.
:01:08. > :01:18.And the unassuming young acoustic singer who's topped the nominations
:01:18. > :01:25.
:01:25. > :01:28.at this year's Brit awards. Find Hello and welcome. The Pentagon
:01:28. > :01:34.says it's "deeply troubled" by a video apparently showing four
:01:34. > :01:36.American marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
:01:36. > :01:41.NATO and the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, have also condemned
:01:41. > :01:44.it, - President Karzai calling it inhuman. A spokesman for the
:01:44. > :01:47.Taliban described the video as shameful, but said it would not
:01:47. > :01:56.affect attempts to broker peace talks. Ian Pannell reports from
:01:56. > :02:00.Washington. Cities too distasteful to show but
:02:00. > :02:05.what appears to be happening in the video is a small group of US
:02:05. > :02:09.Marines are urinating on the bodies of three dead Afghans. We do not
:02:09. > :02:13.know whether the deal has come from or if it is authentic but the
:02:13. > :02:18.indications are it is. The condemnation it has provoked has
:02:18. > :02:25.been universal. It is absolutely inconsistent with American values,
:02:25. > :02:30.the standards of behaviour that we expect from a military personnel
:02:30. > :02:33.and the vast vast majority of our military personnel and Marines hold
:02:34. > :02:39.themselves to. So this is not the first time US troops have been
:02:39. > :02:42.accused of breaching the rules of war. A in the past its acted fast
:02:42. > :02:49.to investigate and punish those responsible. Containing a damaged
:02:49. > :02:53.its reputation is harder. This man said US troops have committed a
:02:53. > :02:56.crime and should leave the country, the president demanded an
:02:56. > :03:01.investigation. The biggest fear is this would damage the prospects of
:03:01. > :03:07.peace talks with insurgents but the Taliban says the political process
:03:07. > :03:10.is separate and still stands. It's more than 10 years since American
:03:10. > :03:15.troops invaded, the mission has been longer and harder than many
:03:15. > :03:21.expected. It is increasingly unpopular amongst Afghans who want
:03:21. > :03:24.to know the latest allegations will be taken seriously. A US cruel
:03:24. > :03:29.investigation has been launched into this disgraceful act. It will
:03:29. > :03:32.be thorough and any individual whose involvement is confirmed will
:03:32. > :03:37.be held fully accountable and punished accordingly. Whatever the
:03:37. > :03:40.facts, it will harm America's reputation overseas but it's
:03:40. > :03:45.unlikely to have an impact in the way past scandals have, US troops
:03:46. > :03:50.have pulled out of Iraq, reduced numbers in Afghanistan and the
:03:50. > :03:55.peace process with the Taliban is under way. Expect all sides to
:03:55. > :03:58.limit the damage but don't expect any change in policy.
:03:58. > :04:00.Ahmad Shuja is a director of the Foundation for Afghanistan, a
:04:00. > :04:02.Washington and Kabul-based non- profit group dedicated to the
:04:02. > :04:12.country's reconstruction. He also writes the Afghanistan Analysis
:04:12. > :04:13.
:04:13. > :04:19.blog. It has not been confirmed, the
:04:19. > :04:23.veracity of the video but if it is true what will the impact be?
:04:23. > :04:28.think the impact of this on the talks with the Taliban and Afghan
:04:28. > :04:33.government is not going to be extensive as the Taliban have
:04:33. > :04:38.downplayed this. What it does is... It's the latest in a long string of
:04:38. > :04:42.incidents involving US soldiers in Afghanistan so that is unfortunate
:04:42. > :04:47.and will have PR damage consequences for the US involvement
:04:47. > :04:51.in Afghanistan but it's important to understand that it will be taken
:04:51. > :04:56.it more negatively in some parts of Afghanistan the others. Overall, it
:04:56. > :05:00.is a huge PR disaster. We are looking at a backlash against
:05:00. > :05:07.American troops perhaps on the ground rather than any lasting
:05:07. > :05:13.impact or damage to the East peace talks which are about to start soon.
:05:13. > :05:17.That's accurate to a degree but to expect because of these images
:05:17. > :05:21.broadcast in the Afghan media as well to have large scale at
:05:21. > :05:25.demonstrations by Afghans on the ground in Afghanistan and burning
:05:26. > :05:31.American flags is too far-fetched. What it does is create more
:05:31. > :05:36.negativity among the Afghans about the US presence on the ground.
:05:36. > :05:42.President Obama's ambassador is due for talks with Hamid Karzai next
:05:42. > :05:48.week, are looking at the best hope for peace now in Afghanistan after
:05:48. > :05:54.10 years of war? I think now you have the strongest push from all
:05:54. > :05:59.parties involved, especially the US and Taliban and Afghan government.
:05:59. > :06:06.But the push is stronger than ever towards a negotiated settlement for
:06:06. > :06:12.the peace in Afghanistan. One other points, the video about the
:06:12. > :06:16.allegedly urination, there is a cognitive dissonance in Washington
:06:16. > :06:23.about what the US wants its troops to do all things of its troops and
:06:23. > :06:28.what these individuals have done. At many in the West are shocked but
:06:28. > :06:30.what's important to understand is the shock in Afghanistan is not
:06:31. > :06:35.about the actor but it involves an action urination and desecration of
:06:35. > :06:40.corpses which are country more significant to Afghans than the act
:06:40. > :06:42.itself. Thank you. A Turkish court has pressed charges against
:06:42. > :06:46.Britain's Duchess of York for secretly filming orphanages in
:06:46. > :06:49.Turkey. The court accused the former wife of Prince Andrew of
:06:49. > :06:54.going "against the law in acquiring footage and violating privacy" of
:06:54. > :06:56.five children. If convicted she faces a maximum term of 22 and a
:06:57. > :07:06.half years in prison, Our Istanbul correspondent Jonathan Head joins
:07:07. > :07:12.
:07:12. > :07:18.Just describe what this relates back to. Three years ago at the
:07:18. > :07:22.Duchess of York one of the projects she took up was exposing conditions
:07:22. > :07:26.children in some orphanages are kept in in Turkey and other
:07:26. > :07:32.countries and she came with a TV crew and visited a number of
:07:32. > :07:38.institutions were abandoned children and this institution she
:07:38. > :07:41.went to with a TV crew and her daughter Eugenie is one where
:07:41. > :07:45.abandoned children with severe mental disabilities are kept. She
:07:45. > :07:49.posed as a donor and got in and secretly filmed the conditions that
:07:50. > :07:53.children are captain. It is a cemetery, it was chaotic and some
:07:53. > :07:57.children were tied down. It was very disturbing. When the programme
:07:57. > :08:04.was broadcast the Turkish government has outraged lodging a
:08:04. > :08:07.diplomatic protest and accusing her of smearing the country and try
:08:07. > :08:11.deliberately to damage Turkey's prospects of joining the European
:08:11. > :08:21.Union. Three years later, a prosecutor has torn up an
:08:21. > :08:22.
:08:22. > :08:26.indictment against her and imposed these charges. It could result in a
:08:26. > :08:32.heavy prison sentence and Turkey applies very tough sentences for
:08:32. > :08:35.what are perceived to be minor issues in other countries. Is it
:08:36. > :08:41.unusual for charges to be pressed so long after the event? No, it's
:08:41. > :08:45.not. People have been jailed and is a big issue at the moment for many
:08:45. > :08:49.years before they get to trial. The judicial system is very problematic.
:08:49. > :08:53.I suspect the Duchess of York will fill grateful she is not in Turkey
:08:53. > :08:59.and does not have to go through it. There is nothing exceptional about
:08:59. > :09:05.that. There is an extradition at Deal between Turkey and Britain.
:09:05. > :09:13.This would not be considered a crime so she will not be coming
:09:13. > :09:17.back to face trial. Some other news: police in the UK are
:09:17. > :09:22.investigating claims British intelligence was involved in the
:09:22. > :09:25.cases of two men taken to Libya for interrogation. The Libyans are
:09:25. > :09:30.threatening to sue the UK over their transfer to Libya and
:09:30. > :09:37.subsequent torture. Charges have been ruled out in it to other cases
:09:37. > :09:39.involving claims of British involvement in torture overseas.
:09:39. > :09:49.Nigerian oil workers are threatening to shut down or
:09:49. > :09:55.
:09:56. > :10:02.production. The union is demanding action. Israel's Supreme Court has
:10:02. > :10:08.upheld a law banning Palestinians since marrying Israelis and getting
:10:08. > :10:12.citizenship. The laws introduced nine years ago with lackeys citing
:10:12. > :10:18.security concerns. A former county cricketer has become the first
:10:18. > :10:28.English player to be convicted of spot fixing during a match in 2009.
:10:28. > :10:32.
:10:32. > :10:34.Mervyn Westfield pleaded guilty to receiving a corrupt payment.
:10:34. > :10:37.Mexican officials say nearly 13 thousand people were killed in
:10:37. > :10:40.violence blamed on organised crime between January and September last
:10:40. > :10:42.year. That takes the total number of drug related killings to more
:10:42. > :10:44.than 47 thousand since President Felipe Calderon launched his
:10:44. > :10:48.crackdown on drug traffickers in late 2006. With presidential
:10:48. > :10:57.elections in July, violence is set to be a key issue for voters. Will
:10:57. > :11:02.Grant reports from Mexico City. The statistics confirm what many
:11:02. > :11:07.Mexicans suspect it for some time. For a 5th consecutive year, Mexico
:11:07. > :11:12.has experienced a rise in drug- related murders. Almost 13,000
:11:12. > :11:18.people killed in drug violence in the first nine months of last year.
:11:18. > :11:22.But up 11.4% on the same period in 2010. Conflicts between the
:11:22. > :11:25.country's powerful drug cartels battling for control of the
:11:25. > :11:33.smuggling routes into the United States have seen many communities
:11:33. > :11:37.caught up in the fighting and left thousands of Mexicans did. -- dead.
:11:37. > :11:43.A small proportion of the murders are ever brought to trial and many
:11:43. > :11:47.are not even investigated. While the numbers are large, the
:11:48. > :11:53.government of the President has defended the military strategy. The
:11:53. > :11:59.rise was the lowest since 2006, the government says and violence has
:11:59. > :12:03.concentrated in eight states. Especially on the northern border.
:12:03. > :12:12.Critics say it previously peaceful states and are being caught up in
:12:12. > :12:17.the fighting searchers those in the east and west. There were some
:12:17. > :12:21.individual improvements last year such as a job and violence in the
:12:21. > :12:26.border city. However experts say it may be more to do with a single
:12:26. > :12:32.cartel taking over control rather than any great success by the
:12:33. > :12:39.military or police. Mexico's cartels are still extremely strong,
:12:39. > :12:47.especially that one or by the world's most powerful drug baron.
:12:47. > :12:51.His empire is weakened and he is fighting other drug gangs. For many
:12:51. > :12:54.Mexicans, tired of the violence, this election year is a chance to
:12:54. > :13:01.register their anger at the number of murders taking place every year.
:13:01. > :13:06.The governing party is expected to lose the vote in July to the party
:13:06. > :13:13.which run the country for more than 70 years. If that happens, these
:13:13. > :13:17.numbers will have undoubtedly played a large part.
:13:17. > :13:27.Let's speak to someone who has written extensively on the Mexican
:13:27. > :13:36.drug war. An 11% rise, lower than it previously, not much to crow
:13:36. > :13:40.about. It's nothing to be excited about all to brag about. One of the
:13:40. > :13:46.things with the release of the numbers, there's been a lot of
:13:46. > :13:53.scepticism over why the delay in releasing numbers. I believe from
:13:53. > :13:59.my knowledge of Mexican officialdom that there wasn't really a sinister
:13:59. > :14:02.reason for this but I think what they're trying to desperately do is
:14:02. > :14:07.communicate what is happening, whether going up, down or what does
:14:07. > :14:17.it mean, spinning it either way depend on how you interpret it. And
:14:17. > :14:18.
:14:18. > :14:25.You spend some dangerous times they are researching the book. Tell us
:14:25. > :14:33.more about his man. The USA he is the world's most powerful drug
:14:33. > :14:43.trafficker. How smart is he? think the key is a calculating. In
:14:43. > :14:44.
:14:44. > :14:49.my research, in the mountains, it is very hard to find him, but you
:14:49. > :14:58.get a chance of the power that his name and the organisation wheels.
:14:58. > :15:03.He has built up over the years by being a very calculating and
:15:03. > :15:08.ruthless, when necessary, and of course this is the drug world and
:15:08. > :15:12.you do not get ahead simply by caution and bribery. He has made
:15:12. > :15:17.alliances with rival Corps tells, the right time, and has moved into
:15:17. > :15:24.drug markets in the United States. -- cartels. He moved into Met
:15:24. > :15:28.amphetamine long before his competitors. -- Met amphetamines.
:15:28. > :15:33.So he is an innovator when it comes to drug trafficking? Is see seen as
:15:33. > :15:41.a local folk hero? If so, what has he done for the community and why
:15:41. > :15:45.is nobody turning men? In terms of the local folk, officials love to
:15:45. > :15:48.say that when they are describing him. You could argue that about
:15:48. > :15:57.drug traffickers, that is how they operate and that is how the Mafia
:15:57. > :16:01.used to operate. You win the population over by constructing
:16:01. > :16:07.schools and funding schools, giving to the church, the Catholic Church
:16:07. > :16:10.is now coming out and admitting that in the past, money from
:16:11. > :16:17.narcotics has come in. That is brave of them to do it. I respect
:16:17. > :16:25.that. The money has come in where government money has not. Through
:16:25. > :16:30.simple means, this drug dealer employs people where there is no
:16:31. > :16:34.other employment. You win supporters that way. Thank you for
:16:34. > :16:40.joining us, Malcolm Beith. Two years after the earthquake in
:16:40. > :16:43.Haiti which killed 300,000 people and left 1.5 million homeless,
:16:43. > :16:47.progress and rebuilding has been slow. 500,000 people are still
:16:47. > :16:51.living in camps and there are very few signs of reconstruction. On
:16:51. > :16:58.Wednesday, thousands took to the streets of Port-au-Prince to demand
:16:58. > :17:05.new housing. Laura Trevelyan is there for us now.
:17:05. > :17:10.Welcome to 80. -- Haiti. Coming up on the second anniversary of the
:17:10. > :17:20.earthquake. Everything changed in just a few seconds. Ceremonies of
:17:20. > :17:22.
:17:22. > :17:27.remembrance are being held throughout the country. In just 35
:17:27. > :17:35.over bombing seconds, the earthquake destroyed lives, homes,
:17:35. > :17:42.and the heart of Haiti's government. That night, Astral Jacques lost one
:17:42. > :17:48.daughter and feared he would lose a second. The kid is dying in but she
:17:48. > :17:53.is fighting. She is infected and there is no help. Her head was open.
:17:53. > :17:59.Her body was crushed under the rubble. This is the spot where
:17:59. > :18:05.Tully up almost died. Very little has changed. -- his daughter. She
:18:05. > :18:15.has made a spectacular recovery. She has done well. Life is not as
:18:15. > :18:15.
:18:15. > :18:22.great in Haiti, there are no jobs and I am frightened for them. But
:18:22. > :18:27.she is fighting. Daily life is still a struggle. Half of the
:18:27. > :18:34.rubble from the earthquake has been removed, but 500,000 people are
:18:34. > :18:42.still living in tents. President Michel Martelly, the singer turned
:18:42. > :18:49.leader, has promised change. were slow to move the people out of
:18:49. > :18:55.the camps. Lately, we have been able to do it. That is a huge gap.
:18:55. > :18:59.This park was a sea of tends immediately after the earthquake.
:18:59. > :19:05.Now those families have moved out, and normal life is returning. For
:19:05. > :19:09.Patients, it is a small sign of progress. -- the people of Haiti.
:19:09. > :19:16.Jessica has been given a grant to move into this tiny apartment that
:19:16. > :19:22.she shares with her five children. TRANSLATION: It is better than
:19:22. > :19:26.living in a tent. But how will I pay the rent next year? As Haiti
:19:26. > :19:31.prepares to mourn its stead, the ruins of the National Cathedral are
:19:31. > :19:41.a place for reflection and remembrance. The monumental loss is
:19:41. > :19:44.
:19:44. > :19:49.still so hard to bear. Yolette Etienne joins me now, their
:19:49. > :19:54.director of the project for Oxfam. What was your experience of the
:19:54. > :20:04.earthquake? Thank you for having made here today. Thank you for
:20:04. > :20:06.
:20:06. > :20:16.coming. -- having me. I was at work at Oxfam. I was there with my staff,
:20:16. > :20:16.
:20:17. > :20:24.and we had this painful experience. We lost many staff who had been
:20:24. > :20:27.there for a long time. I live close to the office, and I helped
:20:27. > :20:36.assessed after the death of one of my colleagues who had spent 15
:20:36. > :20:42.years working with us. He was 40. And then I had to take care of my
:20:42. > :20:47.staff, to see how they could get home. We already knew that we had
:20:47. > :20:53.to be at the office tomorrow morning, because it was our mission.
:20:53. > :20:57.As Oxfam, we are not only a humanitarian organisation, we are
:20:57. > :21:02.also a redevelopment organisation, and we are supporting Haiti in
:21:02. > :21:12.development. And as well as losing staff, what was the impact on your
:21:12. > :21:17.
:21:17. > :21:26.family? Why I went home, my mother was in the garden. My house was
:21:26. > :21:31.completely destroyed. But it was the same situation. I was part of a
:21:31. > :21:36.collective drama. And you had this awful experience, you lost your
:21:36. > :21:45.mother and colleagues, and you had to respond to this emergency. Two
:21:45. > :21:51.years on, how much progress has been made in Haiti? Now, again, I
:21:51. > :21:55.am mixing my personal motions and my responsibilities for the
:21:55. > :22:05.organisation who should support the people of Haiti to overcome this
:22:05. > :22:12.
:22:12. > :22:18.situation. If we look around us, we still see people intense, and
:22:18. > :22:21.people struggling to overcome this situation. -- in tents. When you
:22:21. > :22:26.say you need to move the on the poverty, do you mean creating jobs
:22:26. > :22:35.so that Haiti can get lifted out of the situation? Exactly. That is
:22:35. > :22:43.what people are asking for. It is also trying to support people to
:22:43. > :22:47.live better. That should be the content. If we rebuild better, we
:22:47. > :22:51.should take into account people living in the countryside,
:22:51. > :22:55.supporting farmers and jobs and the young people, and women. Thank you
:22:55. > :23:05.for joining us here. And for sharing your experience of the
:23:05. > :23:06.
:23:06. > :23:08.earthquake. Thank you very much. The
:23:08. > :23:13.nominations for the 2012 Brit Awards have just been revealed at a
:23:13. > :23:18.special launch in London. The 20- year-old singer-songwriter Ed
:23:18. > :23:23.Sheeran is leading the field, nominated in four categories. Let
:23:23. > :23:31.us find out who else made the nominations with Gemma Cairney from
:23:31. > :23:37.BBC Radio 1 extra. You have just hot-footed it back from the hotel!
:23:37. > :23:42.I still have my a wristband. Sheeran is talking -- topping the
:23:42. > :23:49.list. What is so special about him? I think it is quite extraordinary.
:23:49. > :23:56.Nobody really knew who he was this time last year. He has stormed it,
:23:56. > :24:01.he has worked as a toff, playing every festival and every tent. --
:24:01. > :24:06.worked really hard. As his notoriety got bigger, he would be
:24:06. > :24:13.booked in bigger tents, and I think he has really done well, he is
:24:13. > :24:17.original and organic. And he is only 20. By no! He has had three
:24:17. > :24:21.top fives already. It has happened out of nowhere. The album went
:24:21. > :24:27.Brunner! He has got a really good mind and he collaborates with other
:24:27. > :24:33.artists. He is great with a guitar, which is the most important thing.
:24:33. > :24:38.Does he write his own material? He is the husband of the Brit
:24:38. > :24:42.Awards. Best British male solo artist, best British breakthrough,
:24:42. > :24:47.best British single and British album of the year. He is going to
:24:47. > :24:52.win something. Jessie J. The wife of the Brit Awards for this year.
:24:52. > :24:58.Again, she won the Critics' Choice last year. No one knew who she was.
:24:58. > :25:01.There you are, talking to her. Amazing. She is looking absolutely
:25:01. > :25:06.amazing tonight. She went on holiday with Ellie Goulding who won
:25:06. > :25:13.the Critics' Choice the year before that. It is one big love-in over
:25:13. > :25:19.there. She is up for three awards. British team a solo artist, British
:25:19. > :25:29.breakthrough act, again, British single, Price Tag, which we all
:25:29. > :25:31.
:25:31. > :25:40.remember, and those are the three. It doesn't quite spring to mind! At
:25:40. > :25:50.Dell, I do know who she is. Jessie J is up ahead of her. Yes. She is
:25:50. > :25:53.
:25:53. > :25:57.up for British single and album of the year for 21. But maybe Jessie J
:25:57. > :26:04.is on the cusp of a breakthrough. It is all quite soulful, in terms
:26:04. > :26:09.of the sound. Is that the trend this year. --? In the past, decades
:26:09. > :26:14.ago, it was boy bands and it was quite manufactured. It was all
:26:14. > :26:18.image and marketing. This seems much more serious than musical.
:26:18. > :26:22.quite excited that everyone cares about real music again. Perhaps it
:26:22. > :26:27.is less image based and more about the sound of someone's voice, going
:26:27. > :26:32.back to the Critics' Choice thing, Ellie Goulding and Jessie J, this
:26:32. > :26:38.year it was Emile Sande, and if you do not know her, you need to check
:26:38. > :26:45.her out because she puts on a real performance. The whole room was
:26:45. > :26:49.just still. She has sold. She has got the vibe. It really counts.
:26:49. > :26:57.will see who is going to win next month. Gemma Cairney, thank you
:26:57. > :27:02.very much. That is it. From all the very much. That is it. From all the
:27:02. > :27:06.team here, go by. -- goodbye. For the moment, it is goodbye to spring
:27:06. > :27:12.and hollow to winter. It will feel much more like January tomorrow
:27:12. > :27:16.morning. Widespread frost starting the day. The reason for that, an
:27:16. > :27:23.area of high pressure building across the UK, blocking mild
:27:23. > :27:29.westerly winds. This is how we start the day. The blue it will
:27:29. > :27:34.show where we have the frost. Pretty sharp across northern parts.
:27:34. > :27:41.Cloudy skies across the north-west. Much of northern England across the
:27:41. > :27:45.north-west, England and the south- east. Temperatures matching. Down
:27:45. > :27:54.on recent days, but about right for this time of year. More cloud at
:27:54. > :27:58.times across Cornwall and the north and east of Wales. The wind is
:27:58. > :28:05.going to be very, very light tomorrow. That will help with the
:28:05. > :28:14.field. Rather grey skies across Northern Ireland. It should be dry,