31/07/2013 World News Today

This is BBC Worthwhile News Today. Enough is enough: Egypt's military

says it will take all necessary measures to clear mass sit-ins by

supporters of ousted President Morsi. It raises the prospect of yet

more blood shed after a month of clashes. She is are the scenes live

in Cairo with the protesters still refusing to leave. Robert Mugabe

tries to extend his 33-year stint as president. His rival hopes it will

be third time lucky for him. Also coming up: the curse of Cannes

as the French Riviera city falls to another robbery.

We have had the Hollywood take, but now we have the real film from a

German prisoner of war. Hello, and welcome. Tensions are

intensifying yet further in Cairo this evening following the latest

warning from Egypt's military. Their message to,ers of deposed Egyptian

president Morsi are to ban the protests immediately or face the

consequences. This is the keep outside the Raba Alawadiyah mosque.

The government says they pose an unacceptable threat to national

security, and a warning also necessary measures will be taken to

remove them. These were the words of the country's informationminister.

minister. . To safeguard national security in

the supreme interests of the country to ensure civil peace in people's

safety, the cabinet has decided to take all necessary measures to

counter those risks and put an end to the protests, so the Minister of

Interior has been assigned to take all necessary steps in this regard

within the constitution and the law. . Get the latest now from the BBC's

correspondent from Cairo. Has there been any move so far by the army to

clear these demonstrations? We've seen no immediate increase in the

security presence around these two sites. One that you mentioned to the

east of Cairo, close to the mosque, the other close to the main campus

of Cairo University. Actually, the scenes there remained quite calm

soon after this statement was - soon after this statement was issued,

people were settling down to have their Ifkar meal which breaks the

fast during the holy time of Ramadan. There's no time being given

in the statement, but there's speculation that there could be

action taken very soon. Interestingly, there were comments

given by the interior minister, and of course it is it's the interior

ministry that controls the police here in Egypt. The suggestion that

the police would be used to clear these squares, and the interior

minister said that steps would be taken gradually: first of all, there

would be warnings given, and then the idea that there would be

different methods of crowd dispersal that would be used, perhaps the use

of water canon, and tear-gas - things like that. Former President

Morsi has been visited by several international leaders in the past

few days. Has he actually appeared on TV, though, or spoken to any of

his supporters? . Mr Morsi is being kept in an indisclosed location. The

first person we know that actually visited him in an official capacity

was of course the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton earlier this

week. This was the first person to have visited him in custody where

he's being held since 3 July. Then there's been an African Union

delegation who we understand were able to visit him earlier as well.

Now, there are other EU envoys that are now coming to Egypt hoping to

try to mediate in this crisis; also a couple of US Senators are planning

to come within the next week, so, really, the international community

is trying to keep up a lot of pressure on Egypt at the moment. I

think that is why it's really stressing that it is taking measures

within the new constitution, within the frame of that measures which it

says are legal in order to try to disperse these protests. It won't

want to see the same repetition of blood shed and violence that we had

more than 260 people have been killed here in clashes in the past

month, and of course more than 70 were killed on Saturday.

. Turned out in huge numbers in Zimbabwe today as the country's

ageing leader Robert Mugabe seeking office for the seventh time promised

free and fair elections, promising to stand down if he lost. Morgan

Tsvangirai, forced out of the race of 2008, after 200 of his supporters

were killed, said he took Mr Mugabe's promise with "a pinch of

salt" amid allegations that the 89-year-old leader was trying to rig

the election. A bitterly cold morning in the

Amabari township of Harare. Voters queued early to cast their ballots.

It's been an unusual election by Zimbabwean standards: free of

violence and intimidation. We don't want anything like violence. We want

to vote peacefully. We want to receive whatever will be the outcome

- the outcome must be respected by each and every contender in this

election. But it's not free of accusations of foul play. The Prime

Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, both partner and rival to President

Robert Mugabe in a difficult coalition, believes the state is

involved in a massive rigging exercise against him. For 33 years,

Zimbabwe has only ever known one leader, and President Mugabe is

seeking a further five-year mandate from his people at the age of 89. He

says if he loses this time, he will step down. The process is going

well. People are voting very freely, we're very happy. President Robert

Mugabe is seeking his seventh term in office. The president insists

there's no need to rig votes, saying that he believes the people of

Zimbabwe still have faith in his ZANU-PF party. Regional observers

may hold the key to this election. They are the ones who will

ultimately decide whether it is free, fair, and credible. A. The

first place I call in this morning, the opened promptly at 7 o'clock,

and they haven't - there hasn't been any serious incident. The day s

ahead will be tense ones for Zimbabwe as the polls close and the

counting begins. The question Zimbabweans will be asking is

whether the result will herald the end of an era and change, or deliver

yet another messy and disputed outcome.

. I've been speaking to her a few minutes ago and asked her if there

is any evidence emerging so far of vote-rigging. At this stage, the

Zimbabwe Electoral Commission hasn't shown us any evidence of that. They

held a press briefing earlier today saying basically that the election

process was going smooth and the situation in the country has been

relatively peaceful, and we've seen of course President Robert Mugabe

saying there's no need for him to rig any votes because he believes

the people still have faith in his ZANU-PF, but, at the same time, the

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said he thinks that President Mugabe

will want to win these elections by hook or by crook. There are some

allegations suggesting that the elect troll roll includes 100,000

people over the age of 100 - this is in a country where life speck tansy

is about 50, and 8 million ballot papers for voters numbering 6.5

million. Who is there as an electoral observer? Which countries

are monitoring things? Well, it's mostly regional observers from the

African Union and SADC. We've also seen the former president of the

former my jeeria, President Olusegun Obasanjo, who has been visiting a

number of polling stations around Zimbabwe, and he's saying he's ified

with the process so far and he's not wanted to touch on any allegations

of a rigged vote. What is the time framework now for people who have

been queuing at voting stations? Will everyone who turned up be able

to cast their vote? From what we are seeing, a lot of polling stations

are wrapping up, trying to close as soon as they can, but, of course,

some others, they have had to extend their time because they are staying

that people who were already in the queue by 7 o'clock this evening need

to be allowed to vote, and that process could lead us up to

midnight. Of course, it will be a very anxious few days for a lot of

Zimbabweans who are still thinking about the events that took place in

2008 of incidents of violence and intimidation, and intimidation of

opposition party members, but they are saying that whatever happens,

they're ready to move forward to a new Zimbabwe.

. A London-based actress supported her mother's bid to become an

independent Senator during the 2008 elections in Zimbabwe. She later

wrote a play about her experiences called Chasing the Moon. I asked her

how optimistic she was about this election. I think the atmosphere in

general in Zimbabwe, the environment is a lot more positive than it was

in 2006, 2007, 2008. Every time I used to go home with the

hyperinflation, the food in the shops, the infrastructure sort of

being bombed silently which was really quite terrifying, so it was

an anxious election in 2008. Of course it is this time as well

because we all want change or progress or for our political

situation to it's a lot less polarised an environment now because

the place has been forced to work together. You were arrested back in

2008 as well. Does there appear to be any evidence of that now? What

was it like for you back then? funnily, election day itself, and

election campaigning in 2008, I was with a group called Movambo which

was a movement of independent candidates - my mum was one of them.

The same, as I am sure for many grass-roots campaigns this time, the

day itself went very well and it was a change when the lights came down

and became dark. After that, of course, during the run-off - that is

when things got really scary and very depressing. Although there's a

positive atmosphere right now, it's over the next few days when we will

really see what the temperature will be. Do you think there's a real

prospect Robert Mugabe could lose this, although given the allegations

this is an election he can't fail but to win. I have absolutely no

idea what he will do. I would say that it would surprise people

certainly in Britain how many people actually do support Robert Mugabe,

and, of course, there are a lot of people who support Morgan

Tsvangirai, but I think it would surprise people to know that a lot

of grassroots, ordinary people, and Africans in general, do support him,

so I wouldn't throw away his claims completely. I mean, part of this

situation that I think is very different in 2008 to what we have

now in 2013, how the world has changed since then, is really the

Arab Spring, and that really big change that happened there. .

interesting, because I was reading I think most, 85 per cent of

Zimbabweans have mobile phones, and when you look at what happened in

North Africa, it was that, really, which helped mobilise people in such

numbers. Is there a chance that something like that could happen in

Zimbabwe? I think we have had our moments and our chances for that

over the past decade, and it didn't happen for whatever reasons. But I

think, looking at the last ten years, we are a country that went

through a civil war; we are a country that went through quite a

hectic revolution in the 1970s, and we have gone through a lot of

growing pains over the past ten years. My sense is that, when we

look at the Arab spring, and the very fast change that happened

there, and how inspiring that is on many levels, but also how damaging

that is to the infrastructure of many countries, I think, in some

ways, although what we have in Zimbabwe overt four years and what

we may possibly have in the next, is something more of a compromise,

something more complex, a more slower change. In some ways, that

may be better than a revolution which absolutely destroys us and has

us fighting each other, which what it seemed like in 2008 - it really

seemed like there would be more blood on the streets and it doesn't

seem that way now, which is good. We are a peaceful people and that is

showing that. Now, it may be a favourite of the world's rich and

famous, but Cannes on the French Riviera is also turning into

something of a thieves' paradise. Three days ago, ?100 million of

jewels were followingen. There's been a further robbery in the same

city. It's embarrassing for the police of Cannes. What happened

today? Not just the same town, the same street, just a few hundred

metres from where the Carlton Hotel robbery took place on Sunday. A

jeweller's shop, or a watch shop, a luxury watch shop called Kronometry

was broken into in the middle of the morning, with plenty of people

around, similar scenario, this time two men, one we woulding a kind of

grenade-type device, another with a handgun, forced the staff to lie

down, and then made off withone million euros worth of watches. This

comes hot on the heels of the Carlton hotel robbery. Is the

security around the four exhibitions like this or are exhibitors expected

to handle their own security? Carlton Hotel affair, security was

not wrapped up in police were not properly kept informed of it. It was

the exhibitors and the Hotel that took care of security and that was

not enough. In this new robbery, it does not appear that there is any

connection between those who carried it out, but conceivably there is the

mood is it that it is all up for grabs, security is obviously pretty

lax everywhere should we will go for that. Now they are talking about, of

course, beefing up security lacrosse can because there is a feeling that

things have gotten out of control. Thank you very much. Now for a look

at the deep's other news. Part of China are in the grip of a heatwave

that has taken the lives of ten people in Shanghai. It is the

hottest July in 140 years, and the heat alert has been issued.

Temperatures are forecast to reach 41 degrees in some places. Footage

of meat being fried on the street has gone viral on the Internet.

The latest official figures show that unemployment in the countries

that use the euro fell by 24,000 in June. That is the first fall in two

years and suggests that the economic situation in the Eurozone may be

stabilising. Spain's Prime Minister is due to

appear in Parliament on Thursday with his party appealing allegations

-- his family fighting allegations of financial propriety. Her popular

party denies the allegations, and it has a comfortable majority in the

parliament. The prime Minister's reasons comes amid a growing sense

of crisis in Spanish politics. It is a common belief in the streets

of Spain. That politics can be dirty. And that things need cleaning

up. No, serious corruption allegations go to the very top of

government. They linger in the media and are being investigated in

courts. The scandal broke in January. A Spanish newspaper

published documents alleged to be a list of illegal payments within

Spain's ruling popular party. The alleged author of the documents was

the former treasurer of the party. This is a clean the way denied. Even

the Spanish train Minister was alleged to have received illegal

payments. In June, one man was sent to prison in case he fled the

country. His role in the scandal was being investigated. In a four hour

interview, the former treasurer of the popular party said he did write

these documents in the past much more evidence of alleged illegal

payments within the party to journalists at this newspaper. He

had been a friend and colleague of the current prime minister, now he

is enemy number one of higher and the party. We are in the worst

moment of democracy in Spain. Except the coup d'etat of 1981. But this is

one of the worst moment in our democracy because people do not

believe in our politicians. It is like an atomic bomb is happening

here in Spain. Spin's property boom meant that lots of building

projects, plenty of credit and cash, and with it, corruption came,

too. With the property crash and economic crisis, analysts believe

that trust in politics here is that the law. The Spanish political

classes undergoing a major change, and in order to read in some level

of trust from the public there needs to be some drastic, radical reforms

of the system. Edged into the landscape is the powerful part of

Spain. This is a young democracy and many believe that the clean-up is

needed. That will restore voters trust.

You might have seen the Hollywood film the great escape about

prisoners of war who dig a tunnel in order to escape their captors. It

was based on the true story but was not the only such daring dash for

freedom during World War II. In remarkable film showing life inside

a prisoner of war camp has been seen, the footage was taken by

French prisoners and documents and other great escape.

1940, the bleak surroundings of a prison camp in Northeast Austria

holding 5000 French officers. This rarely seen footage as a 30 minute

documentary shot in secret by the prisoners themselves. Risking

death, they recorded it on a secret camera that was smuggled into the

camp with sausages. It was concealed inside a hollowed out dictionary,

8mm reels were heading in the heels of issues. The story is

extraordinary, but it is what the film that makes it all the more

remarkable. This new tenant was a former inmate, and part of the

escape committee. TRANSLATION: Wee Dougie number of titles from the hut

in which we were held. They were looking for the earth be dug out.

Eventually the dead find a way. This man's father was a prisoner and he

showed as the plans. The Germans allowed the inmates to build an

open-air theatre. That left them half the distance to go. With crude

tools, the malnourished men set to work. TRANSLATION: The wear

geologists and architects. calculated the length of the tunnel

exactly. Listing, the raffle was heading under the theatre. The

tunnel was ventilated with empty tins of peas stuck together. Teams

made clothes and false identity papers. By September 18, 1943, the

men were ready to go. TRANSLATION: There was so little space in the

tunnel that we were forced to lie in the feudal position, there was very

little error. Something good. All of the time we imagine the worst, the

German firing squad at the end of the tunnel. Once they have gone

beneath the wire they were still deep within German occupied

territory, and the 132 prisoners escape, 100 and 25 were recaptured

within one week. Only one survives to this day. To celebrate his 100th

birthday, John was recently honoured by the city of Paris. In 1943 he

found his way to Vienna where she worked as a nurse in a hospital and

eventually secured a precious weekend pass back to Paris. The

homecoming was not enough. Within weeks he had rejoined the war effort

and was no fighting for the resistance.

Amazing images. Let's talk to Tom Cook. He produced and directed

escape from Colditz. When you think back, audacious and incredibly

brave. It was incredibly brave to film. First of all, if they using

the camera we would have been prosecuted as spies. The

ramifications would have been severe. Second of all, the camera

was an old eight millimetre camera would was clockwork survey would

have had to wind it up and it would have made a wedding noise as it was

the round. It would have been difficult to operate. It paints a

picture of life inside a prison camp which is not quite as some of us

imagined. It almost seems like a university there, quite civilised.

In terms of the relationship between prisoners and their guards. It was

quite civilised, the important distinction to make was that this

was an officer 's cab, -- officers camp, so they were treated like

officers. This meant they had to do no manual labour, we had decent food

and could put on plays and things like that. It was understood in the

terms of the Geneva Convention which governs these camps that it was the

duty to try and escape, so obviously a lot of people did try and escape.

It was a real hero of cat and escape. It was a real hero of

catchments. Do we know when this was developed? They did not have a dark

room there. I do not think the dead. It must have been after the

war. It was shot like a documentary. The writing on these guys taking the

tunnel, you are right, the people who shot this seems to have a real

flair. It is shot beautifully, one of the hardest things about watching

this footage is that we have seen so many dramas and reconstructions that

it is hard to turn off and go, while, this is real. This was shot

at the time. They are actually escaping. Was there any other

original material which came from this? Or is this the only thing we

have? I think that the prison camps were fairly well documented in terms

of still photography, but mostly it was the Germans who did the

photographing. We found a tiny bit of moving footage at Colditz that

was taken by an amateur film-maker, but it is just glances of the court

heard through doorways. It was all from the German point of view. The

extraordinary thing about this and that it is from the prisoner 's

point of view, showing us the world mediated by the Germans. I think you

and other people have known about this film for quite a period of

time, haven't you? It was first aired in 1946I think, and it was

error as a state documentary using the footage they shot from the cab.

It should be better known. 70-year-old BBC exclusive would be

embarrassing! Thank you for coming in. The remainder of our main story.

He did's military backed government says it has ordered the police to

end the sit ins by thousands of supporters of the posted on Islamist

president Mohammed Morsi at two sites in Cairo. He we will bring you

the latest throughout the next few contrast across the United Kingdom,

for England and Wales at least the sunshine will be out and it will

turn hot for some of us. A different story for Scotland and Northern

Ireland, because we have these weather front working their way

north. Behind that weather front it is very warm and humid air. The low

cloud will hopefully not last for too long and there will be sunshine

across the board. In the North of England it will be 2627 degrees.

Temperatures might reach 3132 degrees in some places. With high

committee it will be uncomfortable for some of us. We will get some

more clout in the south of Cornwall but for the North Devon will have

plenty of sunshine. South Wales, too, a lovely afternoon. Apart from

some patchy cloud above the mountains, it is fine and sunny. The

script will change towards Northern Ireland, it will be wet in the

morning and he's off into the afternoon. It'll be quite wet in

central and northern Scotland. Through the evening we keep a lot of