30/07/2013 World News Today

me, Philippa Thomas. De US soldier who confessed to the King hundreds

of thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks is found not guilty of

aiding the enemy. But private Bradley Manning will go to prison

after being found guilty of 21 other counts. We will have the latest in

the court martial verdict. A peace deal between Israelis and

Palestinians within nine months, the ambitious plan outlined in

Washington at the resumption of talks. Parties have agreed to remain

engaged and sustained continuous negotiations. Also coming up: A

meeting with Mohamed Morsi. The EU's top diplomat is taken to a

secret location in Egypt talks with the deposed president. Catherine

Ashton tells the BBC what happened next.

And reunited - the million-dollar violin returned to its owner, three

years after being stolen in London. Hello and welcome. The verdict has

been delivered in the landmark case of private Bradley Manning. The US

soldier responsible for the biggest week of classified documents and

history. The judge at his military town -- tribunal has said he is not

guilty of espionage. The most damaging count against him although

she has found guilty in 20 other counts. Bradley Manning release

approximately 700,000 documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks

back in 2009. The documents included 470,000 Iraq and Afghanistan

battlefield reports and 250,000 secure State Department cables

between Washington and embassies around the world. Let's get the very

latest now from Ranjini Vaidyanathan outside Fort Meade in Maryland. We

have had that verdict. Some relief for manning supporters? That is

right. The most serious charge that he faced in all those different

counts was aiding the enemy. That was a potential penalty of a life

sentence without parole. The bigger issue about that charge which is a

porters was concerned about was the message it would send out. The

prosecution working to convert Bradley Manning in this specific

charge. They said that leaking all that information to the WikiLeaks

website, it put it in the public domain for anyone, including

America's enemies to see, groups like Al-Qaeda. That is why they

wanted to be -- came to be convicted on that specific count. The judge

decided not to conflict in that but he has been convicted in 20 other

charges. We will not get a sentence tomorrow but we will get a better

idea later today from experts about how long Bradley Manning could face

in jail with those cases. Anyone is getting from 130-150 years. They are

believed the charge she was acquitted in is not being held, but

he could be facing many years in jail. It was originally -- not a

jury, it was a judge. Bradley Manning chose to be tried by a

military judge. I have been covering some of this trial and there has

been strict conditions about what and cannot be reported. At one point

when I was in the media room here, they were looking at everyone's

laptops. The Internet has been switched on and off, there have been

restrictions on when the seedings can be reported. More crucially the

judge did not allow the transcription of the case itself.

Some people have criticised how open this trial is being. Thank you very

much. Let's remind ourselves what a storm WikiLeaks caused at the time.

Here are some of the information that came out of the documents

Bradley Manning leaked. In a diplomatic cable published by the

Guardian newspaper in February 2010, the US assistant Secretary of State

for African affairs, Johnny Carson criticised China saying... It wasn't

just competitors, but American allies that find themselves suddenly

in the spotlight. At a series of meetings with President Karzai of

Afghanistan, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry wrote... That took some

smoothing over. Bradley Manning, the American

soldier at the centre of the largest leak of classified information in

history. As a young man he led an unsettled life, eventually joining

the Army and working as an intelligence and analyst. He

downloaded vast amounts of information which he passed on the

WikiLeaks information -- website which published it. This included

video of all ever strike in Afghanistan in which a group of

civilians were killed by a helicopter gunship. There were

diplomatic cables, 250,000 confidential messages which US

embassies around the world had produced over yours, some containing

embarrassing information. Judging the damage caused by this leak has

been a matter of much debate. He was arrested in 2010 and then held in

solitary confinement for many months. His treatment arouse

controversy. In the last few months, Edward Snowden, a foreman -- former

contractor, has also revealed even more information about surveillance

programmes and he also ended up working with the WikiLeaks

organisations. Bradley Manning pleaded guilty to ten of the charges

against him but went on trial for those remaining, including aiding

the enemy. His defence said he was young and naive. The prosecution

said he knew the damage he was doing.

Ahead of today's verdict, a former director of national security said

he should be punished for what he has done. Revealing information to

the public and other governments that made it difficult, very

difficult for us to carry out effective diplomacy. Diplomatic

activity and diplomacy as part of our national security. We had to

withdraw ambassadors from important countries like Mexico because of the

material he leaked. In addition, and this I think it this is a very

important point, people like Bradley Manning signed a nondisclosure

agreement, a confidentiality agreement, where they agreed to not

reveal sensitive information to the public. He revealed thousands of

diplomatic publications. For some untrained to -- as someone who was

punished as I left a protected communication in public view, it is

impossible to see how someone like that could not be punished. Let's

join Chase Madar who wrote The Passion Of Bradley Manning, the

story of the suspect Hynde largest security breach in US history. Your

reaction to this verdict? certainly could have been worse. It

is a comfort that the mostly these charges, aiding the enemy, were

dropped and they resulted in a conviction that would have

calamitous consequences for a soldier and American journalism. The

real problem that we face in national security and in national

security reporting has not been leaks and whistle-blowers but has

been extreme levels of secrecy. Vital information has been withheld

from the public, starving us of meaningful debate. That is why these

leaks are partial solution to the problem of foreign policy failure,

of which we have seen so much in the past decade. You think if he had

been found guilty of aiding the enemy, that could have shut down

journalistic reporting of material on security? It would have been far

more severe. It would have been liking liquid journalism over

journalism. -- liquid nitrogen. This is a large part of what brought us

into Iraq and into side yet and am a generation bell -- before. We pay a

high price in blood and money are being clueless. It is time that we

alerted ourselves to what the real risks are. Some say those named paid

a high price or could do in blood, insecurity and personal security.

And what he did was indiscriminate. Some indeed as saying that. But they

are not providing any concrete examples of individuals who have

been killed or maimed. I do not see to US ambassadors being recalled as

a disaster. He is on record as saying that the same thing could

have happened without the disclosures, given what it is --

inhospitable place is to journalists. But people are eager to

blame all this in Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks. Often the same people

who are silent of civilian casualties. What parallels, if any,

do you see between Bradley Manning's case and Edward Snowden's

case? They are flip side of the same coin. You have two young men in

their 20s who are doing the nuts and bolts work of American national

security. Bradley Manning who volunteered to go to Iraq. And

Snowden working domestically. The message that we are getting from

both of these young people has not been heavily processed by spin

doctors or by the legal departments of their respective bureaucracies.

It is a raw truth and it is a valuable reality check for the

American people. Chase Madar. Thank you for joining us.

The US Secretary of State John Kerry says Israeli and Palestinian

negotiators have agreed to work towards a final Middle East peace

agreement. He says that substantial to talks will begin within two

weeks. All issues will be on the table, and the stated objective is

to achieve agreement within the next main months. Mr Kerry was beating in

Washington after intensive discussions with Israeli Ms

broadsheet Tzipi Livni, and her Palestinian counterpart sir Eric

cat. The parties have agreed to remain engaged in sustained,

continuous and substance of negotiations on the core issues, and

they will meet within the next few weeks, in either Israel or the

Palestinian territories, in order to begin the process of formal

negotiation. Let's talk to our correspondence came gas is who is in

Washington. John Kerry said nine months, but I presume he did not

mean nine months to wrap up the peace deal altogether? -- Kem

Gattis. John Kerry as a knotted Mystic man. -- optimistic man. I do

not think anyone is under any illusion that it will be wrapped up

in nine months. He has an agreement that they will sit at the table for

at least nine months. If people get up every time they hit a roadblock,

every time there a crisis, then you simply cannot have sustained

negotiations for a long enough in order to reach an agreement or to

make enough progress. So the hope that is if these day at the table

for nine months, they will either really start reaching the outlines

of an agreement, or at least feel that they have made enough rug rats

and they should keep going. There are those who say that middle east

peace, it has been tried before, there have been lots of failure is.

That is because there is not enough trust between the two parties. But

the outline of the agreement is none so it does not take that much to

finalise it. They just have to agree that they will make compromises. If

there is enough trust and enough talking, they could perhaps hash out

the details within a short period of time. Can the negotiators be

confident they have public opinion behind them?

That is why President Barack Obama thought it was important to stress

that when he visited Israel earlier this year and spoke to the people

they are telling them how important it was for them, how important it

was they should understand it was for them to reach a peace deal with

the Palestinians and live in peace, side-by-side, with an independent

Palestinian state. That is not to say that the two leaders can rest

assured the public will back them. We saw the Israeli Prime Minister

over the weekend really struggled to get his cabinet to support him. But,

if the two sides agree they want to try to really get a go at this and

have agreed they are going to talk for nine months, then perhaps crises

domestically will not have that much of an impact on the course of

negotiations. But violence me. If there is an eruption of violence we

will have to see if talks can continue. -- but violence May.

Thank you. Since Mohamed Morsi was ousted from power almost four weeks

ago there has been virtually no information about Egypt's's former

president. Now the EU's former foreign policy chief Catherine

Ashton has met him and she is the first western politician to do so.

More than three weeks after his arrest, Mohamed Morsi's supporters

are camping out around the clock at the protest camp demanding his

return to power. Since the army stepped in to remove him earlier

this month he has not been seen in public and nobody knows where he

is. Now Catherine Ashton is the first outsider to have seen him.

After a night-time raid by helicopter they met for two hours at

a military facility, she does not know where. He was in good health

and good humour. He had to -- we had two hours together. He was, I think,

pleased to see me, because I know him. He had two advisers, they were

altogether. It is a military place, and the people around him do care

for him. More than 70 of Mohammed Massi's

supporters were killed in clashes with police on Saturday. -- Mohamed

Morsi's supporters. There are fears of a worse bloodbath if the

government tries to clear out the protest by force.

There are very different views, but a very, very strong common desire to

find a way through it. The situation on the ground remains explosive.

There is a lot of mistrust. Lady Ashton has been trying to identify

confidence building steps that may encourage dialogue on a political

way out. Where does pick up with our

correspondent in Cairo now. How have President Morsi's supporters been

reacting to the news he has managed to see a diplomat and some word has

come out? Well, I think they knew he was alive

and presumed he was well, but I think there is some relief he is

apparently in good shape, according to Lady Ashton, and of course they

would like to see him themselves. They have not seen him since the 3rd

of July, when the generals stepped in and displaced him, and he has

been dissed -- detained in a place she does not even know, having been

there, she was taken there in army helicopters to this installation

where he is being held. Presumably it is outside Cairo, but you never

know. Maybe she was just taken up and flown around the sky and plonked

down nearby. She does not know where she was and of course the rest of

Egypt doesn't normally appears, because if they did a large number

of people would have made their way there. -- doesn't know where he is.

If they didn't storm they would at least be holding protests outside

demanding his release. There is a big protest building up outside the

mosque, the Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque on the eastern side of town, all

demanding that he be freed and restored to the presidency as the

first step in any kind of reconciliation, dialogue process

moving things forward again. As you say, there are supporters

moving towards another big demonstration, there is a threat in

the air that gathering could be dealt with very firmly.

Yes, there is a stand-off, and the interim authorities have made it

clear that, if there are what they call violations - in other words any

violence from those protesters - should they try to approach military

installations, should the attack or least they should or whatever, it

would lead to what they call a firm, resolute response. Of course, coming

on the back of more than 70 people, the figure has now gone up to 80

people, killed on Saturday morning in a shooting attributed largely to

the police, although the Interior Ministry has denied that, obviously

there is potential for another big explosion. It is very definitely

there and that could really knocked sideways the efforts by Catherine

Ashton and local negotiators to try to get some kind of process,

something of dialogue under way. I know you will keep us up-to-date

with that, thank you. Caliban fighters, some disguised as

police and armed with rocket pool -- rocket propelled grenades have

stormed a prison in north-west Pakistan releasing almost 250

inmates, 30 of them described by officials as hard-core militants.

James Robinson reports. This was a major assault but the

prison's defences proved inadequate.

Dozens of Taliban militants apparently came in a convoy. The

Pakistani Taliban say they sent 100 fighters to free some of the top

leaders. They were armed with rocket propelled grenades and explosives.

Some were dressed in police uniform. The attack was launched with a huge

explosion. Locals say it rattled every house in the neighbourhood.

The militants knocked out power supplies before blowing up the walls

and storming the deal. Officials say they used a loud-hailer to call for

some prisoners by name. Both the Taliban and Pakistani authorities

say around 250 prisoners escaped, including some 30 militant leaders.

Dera Ismail Khan, where the attack took place, is meant to be disabled

area, the part of north-west Pakistan that is supposed to be

controlled by the government. Militants have emerged from the

tribal areas and done what they wanted to do. Pakistan authorities

reported to have received intelligence about an impending

attack two weeks ago. Prison of visuals said they did not expected

to come so soon. -- prison officials. It adds to Pakistan's

government's in -- embarrassment. An inquiry has been promised, but after

a similar successful Taliban attack on another prison last year, many

are demanding to know how the militants were able to do the same

thing all over again. Let's give you a look at some of the

day's other news. Investigations into the railway

accident in Spain that killed 79 people showed the driver was on the

phone at the time of the crash. A court has heard the driver was

talking to an official of the National rail company. He was

apparently consulting a paper document at the time. He has been

charged with multiple counts of negligent homicide.

Thousands of people packed into a sports hall in the southern Italians

town for a service for 38 people who died at the weekend in the worst

road accident in Italian history. The Italian Prime Minister, Enrico

Letta, was among crowds during the day of national mourning.

The Supreme Court in Italy is considering an appeal from former

prime ministers Silvio Berlusconi who will decide whether he has to

serve a prison sentence for tax fraud.

If he loses he could be barred from public office. The case started

seven years ago and was about TV rights but by his company, Mediaset.

A rare violin worth more than �1 million stolen three years ago has

been found. The 300-year-old Stradivarius was taken from the

Korean violinist Min-Jim Kym when she was eating in a cafe at a London

railway station. Our arts editor has the story.

Nicola Benedetti at last year's Proms, playing a Stradivarius

violin, a rare and extreme leave valuable -- extremely valuable

instrument. There are only a few hundred in the world, each expert

report, with its own unique voice. If you're lucky enough to have one,

you tend to keep it close by, even when stopping for a bite to eat. The

celebrated violinist Min-Jim Kym was in this sandwich shop near Euston

station in 2010. She was chatting to a friend, looking at her phone, when

she turned to check on her Stradivarius, only to find to her

absolute horror it been stolen. is the instrument I had been playing

on since I was a teenager, so it was a huge part of my identity. I

remember saying to the officer who I spoke to in the immediate aftermath

of reporting the violin stolen, I said, please tell me this is a

nightmare, please tell me I am going to wake up in five minutes and it is

going be fine. He said, I'm terribly sorry, but this is actually real.

is 300 years old and worth �1.2 million... The theft featured on the

BBC's Crimewatch programme along with images of the suspects.

The thieves were duly arrested and prosecuted in 2011, but, much to

Min-Jim Kym's disappointment, her violin was not recovered. Then, last

week, she received a text from the investigating police officer.

it is Andy Rose here, please give me a call when you get this message, I

have some good news for you. And I thought, it can't be.

It can! The police had found her Stradivarius in a property in the

Midlands, intact, having only suffered very minor damage. Min-Jim

a military court in the United States has found US soldier Bradley

Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, although he does admit

leaking many secret documents to WikiLeaks. That is all from our

programme, from all of the team, Good evening. It is the

weatherman's favoured cliche, a real mixed bag of weather. That is

exactly what we can expect in the next few days. Tomorrow, heavy rain

for some, but equally dry weather for others. Northern areas looking

mostly drive through the day tomorrow, further south as this

succession of weather fronts approaches from the Atlantic, we are

going to see increasing amounts of cloud and rain, heaviest across the

western side of the country, lighter and patchy further east. The rain

setting in across Wales, it could be a very wet warming in the south-west

of Wales. -- wet warm -- morning. This belt of rain will reach

Northern Ireland quickly, dry start here but turning increasingly cloudy

with outbreaks of rain into the evening. For Scotland, some showers

in the far north, but for the most part are much drier day than of late

with some cells -- spells of sunshine. Northern England has the

rain, eastern side of the pair lanes is likely to be light and patchy, as

it will be for most of East Anglia. To the size of the rain band things