:00:15. > :00:19.This is BBC World News Today. Rupert Murdoch flies into London to
:00:19. > :00:22.try to reassure angry journalists that News International that they
:00:22. > :00:29.still have his support in what is being called the biggest rebellion
:00:29. > :00:35.by staff he has ever faced, we ask if problems in his new cake -- UK
:00:35. > :00:40.news empire could plummet -- damages global interest. Tension
:00:40. > :00:44.still lurk behind the smiles and handshakes at this summit. Italian
:00:44. > :00:54.police seized fake US Treasury bonds with a value equal to almost
:00:54. > :00:57.
:00:57. > :01:01.half the entire US national debt. Also coming up: give me a kiss.
:01:01. > :01:11.Meet the sea lion who is helping scientists find out why her kind
:01:11. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:15.He opened up music to a new audience. Now the magic of Leonard
:01:15. > :01:25.Bernstein's "Concerts for Young People" is revived for a new
:01:25. > :01:36.
:01:36. > :01:39.Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Britain's biggest-selling newspaper,
:01:39. > :01:42.the Sun, has been trying to reassure worried staff that they
:01:42. > :01:48.have his support. His news empire as a whole has been rocked by the
:01:48. > :01:52.phone hacking scandal in the UK. In the past few days, 10 of the Sun
:01:52. > :02:02.newspaper's current journalists have been arrested in relation to
:02:02. > :02:07.alleged payments to corrupt A tabloid newspaper might have
:02:07. > :02:13.called it Rupert's red top rescue. Mr Murdoch landed late last night
:02:13. > :02:17.in Britain, the troublesome at Post Office global media empire. He had
:02:17. > :02:22.had a night to consider how to boost morale at the Sun newspaper,
:02:22. > :02:27.and by this morning News crews were waiting for him, besieging the
:02:27. > :02:31.entrances of his headquarters. Rupert Murdoch was driven into the
:02:31. > :02:36.building at speed to avoid them. He must have known what to expect, the
:02:36. > :02:40.hacks were hacked off with Rupert Murdoch. Nine senior Sun newspaper
:02:40. > :02:44.journalists, past and present, have been arrested and information has
:02:44. > :02:49.been passed to the police by a committee set up by News
:02:49. > :02:54.Corporation. So perhaps to boost morale, before said -- stepping
:02:54. > :02:57.into the newsroom, Rupert Murdoch gave staff to pieces of news.
:02:57. > :03:04.Firstly, arrested staff suspended would be able to return to work,
:03:04. > :03:14.and secondly, a new son on Sunday would be published soon. He also
:03:14. > :03:27.
:03:27. > :03:30.The journalists union said that would not placate staff. They feel
:03:30. > :03:36.completely and utterly betrayed. They feel as though they have been
:03:36. > :03:39.thrown to the wards, that this is a company who is set on placating the
:03:39. > :03:44.anger and growing hostility amongst the American investors and that
:03:44. > :03:50.this is another cynical act of damage limitation in precisely the
:03:50. > :03:54.same way the closure of the News of the world was. Rupert Murdoch's e-
:03:54. > :04:02.mail played on his 43 year history with the sun, the paper that
:04:02. > :04:07.brought him into the media market I am not surprised about launching
:04:07. > :04:10.the new Sunday title. I don't think there was every question of what
:04:10. > :04:15.had been discovered so far of the Sun newspaper being closed in that
:04:15. > :04:19.dramatic way. But a seven-day Sun newspaper brought this reaction
:04:19. > :04:23.from one phone hacking victim. is ludicrously premature, deeply
:04:23. > :04:27.cynical, and News International themselves say they are trying to
:04:27. > :04:32.drain the swamp. I do not see how this one can bring forth a new
:04:32. > :04:36.creature we want to see. Rupert Murdoch may be gripping the issues,
:04:36. > :04:45.but with protests, angry staff and a circling police investigation,
:04:45. > :04:49.his tabloid troubles are not over I am joined here by the commentator
:04:49. > :04:56.and journalist Steve Hewlett, who saw briefly. Has he managed to pull
:04:57. > :05:01.it off, Rupert Murdoch? It is a pretty bold move. You could say
:05:01. > :05:06.there is life in the old dog yet. He looks like he has gained control
:05:06. > :05:14.but there are two things which are separate. The seven-day son, in a
:05:14. > :05:17.way that is not really a surprise given that there staff were worried
:05:17. > :05:21.about the News of the World style event, that they would find him
:05:21. > :05:25.closing the paper down. He is saying he is committed to the paper
:05:25. > :05:30.and that he is with us and has been for 40 odd years and we will have a
:05:30. > :05:33.new title soon, he made them feel better. The other thing is this. If
:05:33. > :05:36.you what Rupert Murdoch and you think you want to own the paper
:05:36. > :05:42.forever or whether you what the News Corp investor, so it is
:05:42. > :05:48.because they can, it doesn't matter. Either way the Sunday son is no bad
:05:48. > :05:52.thing to do. It could blow up in his face. Yes, but the likelihood
:05:52. > :05:55.is it will succeed well enough. would expect him to put some
:05:55. > :06:00.distance between his global empire and the scandal that has been
:06:00. > :06:05.engulfing his newspapers in the UK. He has to give something to both.
:06:05. > :06:09.Do you think he has managed this? If the managing Standards Committee,
:06:09. > :06:12.which is causing the other problem, which is about handing over
:06:12. > :06:16.information to the police because there is evidence that payments may
:06:16. > :06:20.have been made to public officials, that was causing ructions at the
:06:20. > :06:23.beginning of the week. The Sunday title is slightly separate. The
:06:23. > :06:28.thing causing trouble was that journalists felt they were thrown
:06:28. > :06:31.to the walls and in order to clean house in the way he Hasted,
:06:31. > :06:35.remember it goes back to the News of the world and the company's
:06:36. > :06:39.abject failure to deal with the disgraced or goings on and the
:06:40. > :06:45.cover-up that followed. In order to clean house as thoroughly as he
:06:45. > :06:48.appears to need to defend his own reputation and that of the company
:06:48. > :06:53.in the US, that is why the management standards committee a
:06:53. > :06:57.handing everything they find to the police. Murdoch clearly has an
:06:57. > :07:01.emotional attachment to his newspapers in the UK, but as part
:07:01. > :07:05.of his corporation, it is a tiny part. But could problems here
:07:05. > :07:08.affect the global empire? If he is seen not to clean house folly, of
:07:08. > :07:12.course it could. If there is evidence that the company was
:07:12. > :07:17.involved in corrupt practices then there is the corrupt practices Act
:07:17. > :07:21.in the USA which may or may not apply here. The main thing is that
:07:21. > :07:24.the journalists feel that with the way they are being treated, it is a
:07:24. > :07:30.consequence to the fact that Rupert Murdoch has to protect his own
:07:30. > :07:35.interests and reputation first, and the Sunday son might not solve that
:07:35. > :07:39.problem. To how the mighty have fallen. Prime ministers used to
:07:39. > :07:43.seek his advice and he was invited all these official functions and it
:07:43. > :07:48.is quite a spectacular fall. That is true. He is still running News
:07:48. > :07:52.Corporation. News Corporation investors, lots of the analysts
:07:52. > :07:57.would say, strategically, newspaper are ink and paper in the digital
:07:57. > :08:01.age, so get rid of them. The stink coming out of Wapping is likely to
:08:01. > :08:03.go across the Atlantic and made things difficult. In terms of News
:08:03. > :08:10.Corporation, aged only really Rupert he wants to keep the
:08:10. > :08:13.newspapers. The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has spoken out
:08:13. > :08:17.against what he described as foreign interference in the affairs
:08:17. > :08:19.of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mr Ahmadinejad made his comments at
:08:19. > :08:22.the end of a summit in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, in
:08:22. > :08:26.which the presidents of the three countries discussed security, trade
:08:26. > :08:28.and smuggling. All three leaders stressed the need for regional co-
:08:28. > :08:31.operation but their summit was marred by a row between Afghanistan
:08:32. > :08:41.and Pakistan over peace talks with the Taliban. From Islamabad, Aleem
:08:42. > :08:42.
:08:42. > :08:47.If there is to be peace in Afghanistan, Pakistan has to be
:08:47. > :08:51.onside. Public messages show there is now harmony, but behind the
:08:51. > :08:54.scenes, Afghan delegates at the summit say their President argued
:08:54. > :08:59.with his Pakistani counterpart telling him that Islamabad was not
:08:59. > :09:03.doing enough to push forward reconciliation with the Taliban.
:09:03. > :09:10.The Pakistanis insists that as much as possible they will do whatever
:09:10. > :09:14.President Karzai asks. Let him tell whoever he wants, the way he wants,
:09:14. > :09:17.but if you are asking us to get a particular group around the table
:09:17. > :09:21.it will not be possible for Pakistan. If we were that
:09:21. > :09:26.influential with the Taliban there would be no terrorism in Pakistan.
:09:26. > :09:30.But the summit was ultimately dominated by this man. President
:09:30. > :09:37.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, clearly relishing another opportunity to
:09:37. > :09:41.speak on an international platform. He talked of the determination in
:09:41. > :09:45.the West to control and suppress the region and said it was foreign
:09:45. > :09:55.interference that had caused all the problems here. He said that
:09:55. > :09:56.
:09:56. > :10:04.Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran had He got the photo opportunity he
:10:04. > :10:08.wanted as well. With American's two allies in the region. Here in
:10:08. > :10:15.Pakistan there is undoubtedly support for Iran in its nuclear
:10:15. > :10:21.endeavours. What we are supporting is the right to pursue a nuclear
:10:21. > :10:29.strategy, which they say is a peaceful one. America is a nuclear
:10:29. > :10:34.power, so yes, if you have more nuclear powers in the world it will
:10:34. > :10:37.balance it in a way. At a time when Washington is trying to persuade
:10:37. > :10:41.other countries to put more pressure on to a romp over its
:10:41. > :10:46.nuclear programme, Pakistan has just agreed to go ahead with a deal
:10:46. > :10:49.to buy billions of dollars worth of gas from Iran. That, and today's
:10:49. > :10:59.show of brotherly affection, will have made many in the West very
:10:59. > :11:02.
:11:02. > :11:05.Now a look at some of the days other news: Germany's President
:11:05. > :11:08.Christian Wulff has resigned after prosecutors called for his immunity
:11:08. > :11:11.to be lifted. He'd become embroiled in a scandal over a home loan he
:11:11. > :11:14.had accepted before being appointed head of state. Mr Wulff denies any
:11:14. > :11:16.wrongdoing. A bomb attack in north-west
:11:16. > :11:19.Pakistan has killed at least 21 people. The explosion happened in
:11:19. > :11:29.the town of Parachinar, near the Afghan border. Local officials said
:11:29. > :11:32.
:11:32. > :11:35.the blast was caused by a suicide bomber targeting Shia Muslims.
:11:35. > :11:37.Libyans are celebrating the first anniversary of the start of the
:11:37. > :11:40.revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi. The main festivities are
:11:40. > :11:42.in the central square in Benghazi, where the uprising began. Thousands
:11:42. > :11:45.have gathered there, with mothers holding pictures of their sons who
:11:45. > :11:48.died in the fighting. The British Prime Minister, David Cameron and
:11:48. > :11:50.the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy agreed deals to work more
:11:50. > :11:52.closely on military operations and civil nuclear power. Their
:11:52. > :11:58.relationship had come under scrutiny after the UK refused to
:11:58. > :12:07.join a European fiscal pact. But Mr Cameron said they had an
:12:07. > :12:11."incredibly strong relationship Police in Italy say they have
:12:11. > :12:17.seized fake US Treasury bonds worth six trillion dollars, a value equal
:12:17. > :12:20.to almost half the entire US national debt. Police say the bonds
:12:20. > :12:26.were hidden in forced compartments of three safety deposit boxes in
:12:26. > :12:30.the Swiss city of Zurich. Let's get more on this story from Allan
:12:30. > :12:37.Johnston. Tell us more about this. It is a fantastic amount of fake
:12:37. > :12:43.bonds. It is indeed, and it all began in a much smaller way, down
:12:43. > :12:49.in the far south of Italy, where police were investigating a mafia
:12:49. > :12:53.group thought to be interested in loan sharking. But then a raid on a
:12:54. > :12:58.suspect's house revealed American fake Treasury bonds and it was
:12:58. > :13:03.realised that this was a gang with ambitions very much grander than
:13:03. > :13:08.just loan sharking in southern Italy. An inquiry followed, across
:13:08. > :13:13.several countries, and one year on that we hear today that this
:13:13. > :13:19.seizure of a staggering six trillion dollars worth of fake US
:13:19. > :13:24.bonds has been made by police in Switzerland, acting on information
:13:25. > :13:30.from phone-tapping performed by the Italian police. The raid was
:13:30. > :13:34.carried out in January, and today we heard news of arrests in Italy.
:13:34. > :13:38.Several in various parts of the country. Is this an Italian
:13:38. > :13:45.operation or was it an international one? Do we have an
:13:45. > :13:48.idea who was arrested? Very much an Italian operation. It began here,
:13:48. > :13:53.and all of the arrests have been made here. But it is international
:13:53. > :13:59.in scope. We understand that the chests full of Treasury bonds began
:13:59. > :14:04.their journey in Hong Kong in 2007 and were shipped to Europe and then
:14:04. > :14:14.unearthed in the raid in Zurich by the Swiss police last month. Allen,
:14:14. > :14:15.
:14:15. > :14:21.Police in southern Greece are hunting for two armed robbers who
:14:21. > :14:25.stole around 60 artifacts from the museum in the town of Olympiad. It
:14:25. > :14:35.is the second major museum theft. The Greek culture minister has
:14:35. > :14:37.
:14:37. > :14:41.offered his resignation. Two men entered the museum. They
:14:41. > :14:50.asked a female employee for various ancient objects. She refused, she
:14:50. > :14:54.was tied up, and the men started to smash glass cabinets. This raises
:14:54. > :15:01.immense questions about museums security in Greece, because around
:15:01. > :15:08.one month ago, the National Gallery was also Birkle. Paintings were
:15:08. > :15:15.stolen in the early hours of the morning. -- was also burgled. There
:15:15. > :15:25.are questions about other elements here, security in museums, housing
:15:25. > :15:26.
:15:26. > :15:31.some important treasures. A top Chinese official is visiting
:15:31. > :15:36.Syria as the violent crackdown against opposition groups continues.
:15:36. > :15:40.It is not known what message the Chinese envoy has far President
:15:40. > :15:50.Assad, but the country voted against a UN resolution calling for
:15:50. > :15:53.
:15:53. > :15:56.him to step down. Demonstrations after Friday prayers.
:15:56. > :16:06.Activists say security forces opened fire, killing several
:16:06. > :16:08.
:16:08. > :16:13.protesters, wounding others. In the far north, there were shooting.
:16:13. > :16:19.That was an upturn that has not yet been fully caught up in the revolt.
:16:19. > :16:24.Activists released footage of killings in the east. Similar
:16:24. > :16:32.scenes were reported in many other places. In the centre of the
:16:32. > :16:35.country, tanks were firing at short range.
:16:35. > :16:44.Parts of the city have been battered like this for nearly two
:16:44. > :16:48.weeks, as security forces tried to dislodge hundreds of armed rebels.
:16:48. > :16:53.Activists say these 15 men were captured near the northern border
:16:53. > :16:57.with Turkey, and some executed. Such claims cannot be verified but
:16:57. > :17:02.the pictures would be difficult to fake. The passing of the resolution
:17:02. > :17:07.at the UN General Assembly is not affecting results on the ground.
:17:07. > :17:13.Russia and China voted against it, saying they want a Syrian solution,
:17:13. > :17:16.not regime change. I will work with the international community and
:17:16. > :17:26.play a positive role in appropriately resolving the issues
:17:26. > :17:30.
:17:30. > :17:37.of Syria. The Chinese deputy minister is in Damascus.
:17:38. > :17:44.The chances of successful mediation right now seem very slight. Arab
:17:44. > :17:51.powers will meet in Tunisia next week. They what the regime to call.
:17:51. > :17:58.Two days after that, surreal will go ahead with a referendum on a new
:17:58. > :18:02.constitution. There is no dialogue except on the battlefield.
:18:02. > :18:06.The vice-president of south Sudan, Riek Machar, has been speaking
:18:06. > :18:14.exclusively to the BBC. He says his country will survive despite the
:18:14. > :18:18.fact it has stopped its oil production. South Sudan separated
:18:18. > :18:26.from Sudan last year, but they have never agreed on fees for the
:18:26. > :18:33.pipelines. Oil provides 90 % of revenue. Riek Machar said he had no
:18:33. > :18:43.concerns about how they would cope without it. We have now decided to
:18:43. > :18:50.build new pipelines, as opposed to the pipeline going through Sudan,
:18:50. > :19:00.and we hope within 30 months, the oil revenue will flower again.
:19:00. > :19:10.talk about 30 months, where you find the money? Oil reserves.
:19:10. > :19:10.
:19:10. > :19:20.big enough to cover that? -- are the big enough? We will see, we
:19:20. > :19:23.
:19:23. > :19:28.have other revenue sources. Will you be to get loans? -- need.
:19:28. > :19:38.need loans, it will be for development budgets. For building
:19:38. > :19:48.alternative pipelines. To conduct the normal business, provide
:19:48. > :19:54.business services, we will need that. Sudan's president has said
:19:54. > :19:59.the crisis with oil has brought these countries close to war? Do
:19:59. > :20:09.you share that analysis? I do not share that, there is no reason for
:20:09. > :20:10.
:20:10. > :20:17.the two countries to go to war. The oil is our resource, if we feel
:20:17. > :20:21.that we are not getting a good deal, we have a right to shut it down.
:20:21. > :20:30.When they provide a good deal we will talk. There is no reason for
:20:30. > :20:34.war. South Sudan's vice president, Riek Machar. For sea-lions, it is
:20:34. > :20:37.the ultimate in self-help. The mammals themselves have been
:20:37. > :20:42.trained to take part in a scientific experiment to find out
:20:42. > :20:52.why the species is dying out. Scientists in Vancouver have
:20:52. > :20:56.
:20:56. > :21:03.strapped cameras and tracking equipment onto them.
:21:03. > :21:08.The sea lion is not ordinary. Not just a performing seal, the first
:21:08. > :21:17.the line in the world to be top voice commands and hand signals to
:21:17. > :21:24.work with scientists. -- first sea lion. We spend a lot of time with
:21:24. > :21:30.the animals and it is really important for the bond of trust.
:21:30. > :21:34.Her kind are dying out, nobody knows why. To find out, Canadian
:21:34. > :21:41.researchers have fitted her and 300 other sea lions with tracking
:21:41. > :21:48.equipment and cameras. She seems happy to help. She is taken on her
:21:49. > :21:54.own personal speedboat. The icy waters are more or mild here. It is
:21:54. > :21:58.the perfect place to study how she hunts for food. They will put her
:21:59. > :22:08.to the test. Using this equipment, researchers hope to learn more
:22:09. > :22:09.
:22:09. > :22:18.about what happens when she dies. - - dives. She finds her way into an
:22:18. > :22:27.enclosure underneath the platform. She goes to the bottom of the water,
:22:27. > :22:31.then the measure precisely the energy she uses. They discovered it
:22:31. > :22:38.is much harder for her to hunt near the surface, a clue as to why her
:22:38. > :22:43.kind are dying out. To understand their daily lives you need to spend
:22:43. > :22:52.24 hours a day with them. You need to find out what times of the year
:22:52. > :22:56.are critical, how they do them. We're getting into their heads.
:22:56. > :23:00.the first time, researchers are looking at the world through the
:23:00. > :23:08.eyes of sea-lions. They will see if they can reverse the decline of
:23:08. > :23:12.these magnificent creatures. Leonard Bernstein was one of the
:23:12. > :23:17.greatest musical figures of the 20th century. He composed hit
:23:17. > :23:22.musicals and many symphonies. He also worked with the world's top
:23:22. > :23:24.orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, and made a TV series
:23:24. > :23:34.with them called Concerts for Young People. That tradition is being
:23:34. > :23:36.
:23:36. > :23:41.revived by a his data. -- by his daughter. She told us how her
:23:41. > :23:45.father brought music the young people. Most pop tunes fit Apache
:23:45. > :23:53.and strictly. The only difference is that usually the first section
:23:53. > :23:56.is repeated right away it before at the next section comes. In the
:23:56. > :24:04.beginning they were alive, black and white, there were no telly
:24:04. > :24:08.proctors, so my father had to memorise his script. He would have
:24:08. > :24:15.little notes hidden in the piano. They would remind him where he was.
:24:15. > :24:25.Basically, he was doing it off the top of his head. Firstly there is
:24:25. > :24:29.
:24:29. > :24:34.the first section. # I give her all my love. #. That was my father's
:24:34. > :24:41.genius, he made his music accessible, music that people might
:24:41. > :24:51.find daunting, it difficult. When he talked about it he just made it
:24:51. > :24:56.
:24:56. > :25:01.regular and unthreatening. # You'd love her too. That is the first
:25:01. > :25:04.section. One of the ground-breaking elements
:25:04. > :25:09.in these televised concerts was my father made it very clear he did
:25:09. > :25:19.not make value judgements between one genre of music and another, as
:25:19. > :25:19.
:25:19. > :25:26.long as music was good, delicious. My 14-year-old doctor mac happen to
:25:26. > :25:36.ask me why certain Beatles song had such funny harmony. I explained
:25:36. > :25:36.
:25:36. > :25:40.that it was a model. -- modal. People were very rigid about
:25:40. > :25:44.compartmentalise in music, some people thought pop-music --
:25:44. > :25:49.classical music was worthy, but did not think highly of rock and roll.
:25:49. > :25:56.Looking back on it, we feel like we were the guinea pigs for young
:25:56. > :26:03.people. He would try out the material for us, and in the course
:26:03. > :26:13.of our conversations he would come up with the script. We would be in
:26:13. > :26:23.
:26:23. > :26:28.the car talking about modes. would tell us what a Maude was. The
:26:28. > :26:38.next concert would be about modes. When he got to mix a Lydian, he
:26:38. > :26:41.
:26:41. > :26:49.would go to the piano. -- Mixolydian. # You really got me
:26:49. > :26:59.now... # That was Leonard Bernstein, and
:26:59. > :26:59.
:26:59. > :27:06.that is all. Now the weather.
:27:06. > :27:10.Good evening. It has been a mild Good evening. It has been a mild
:27:10. > :27:15.week. It will be noticeably colder. Temperatures will drop away, there
:27:15. > :27:19.will be some snow showers in the north. The wind will strengthen
:27:19. > :27:23.overnight, blowing and band of rain said these words across the UK.
:27:23. > :27:27.Then sunshine and colder weather will follow. Some wintry showers in
:27:27. > :27:32.the north. The afternoon looks bright and sunny in the North of
:27:32. > :27:35.England, but it will feel colder. The last of the Mile there is in
:27:35. > :27:43.the south-east of England during the afternoon but it looked like it
:27:43. > :27:49.could be wet by then. -- the milder here. The temperatures will really
:27:49. > :27:58.drop in the afternoon, apart from some late sunshine. A bright and
:27:58. > :28:02.sunny picture in Wales, across the Irish Sea, some showers. We will
:28:02. > :28:10.find some snow at lower levels in Scotland, could well have blizzards