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This is BBC World News Today with And exclusive interview with one of | :00:05. | :00:14. | |
the world's most wanted man dashed the leader of the Pakistan Taliban. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
Hakimullah Mehsud is accused of attacks on thousands of people. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Hakimullah Mehsud is accused of tells the BBC has campaign against | :00:24. | :00:24. | |
American targets won't stop but tells the BBC has campaign against | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
militants are ready for talks with the Pakistan government. We believe | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
in serious talks but the government has taken no start -- steps to | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
approach us. The government needs to sit with us and then we will present | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
Should the United Nations be immune from prosecution? Haiti victims | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Should the United Nations be immune the UN to court for the cholera | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
epidemic that killed 8000 people. Also coming up dashed the passenger | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
who is excessively brought down Also coming up dashed the passenger | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
aeroplane after the pilot fell ill and collapsed at the controls. | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
And a recipe for disaster - why choosing of Russia diplomatically | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
can lead to lucrative trade deals The FBI described him as one of | :01:07. | :01:27. | |
their most wanted terrorists dashed the US has a $5 million bounty on | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
his head. Hakimullah Mehsud is head accused of being behind dozens of | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
deadly attacks, including one in Afghanistan in 2009 which killed | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
seven CIA operatives. And although he says he doesn't target Muslims | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
opposed to any government in power. there have been many Pakistani | :01:48. | :02:01. | |
opposed to any government in power. It is said to have carried out the | :02:01. | :02:01. | |
teenager who was shot for supporting It is said to have carried out the | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
teenager who was shot for supporting And the group, which has close ties | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
teenager who was shot for supporting to Al-Qaeda, is linked to attacks | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
bomb New York's Times Square in which he says he is ready for talk | :02:17. | :02:37. | |
talk, it has to come to him. We believe in toxic and the government | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
approach us. -- in discussions. believe in toxic and the government | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
government needs to set with us believe in toxic and the government | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
discussions. This is how we are believe in toxic and the government | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
to seeing Hakimullah Mehsud and propaganda videos. Here on the left | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
next to the man who blew himself up Afghanistan. It is why there is | :03:00. | :03:12. | |
next to the man who blew himself up million bounty on his head. Praise | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
be to God, we have targeted those who are at the infidels, America. We | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
will continue to do that. As to who are at the infidels, America. We | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
attacks against Muslims, we deny would believe him? In most recent in | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
a series of horrific attacks, a would believe him? In most recent in | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
packed with explosives went off would believe him? In most recent in | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
storytellers market. The results were devastating. Especially for | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
this man. 20 members of his family were in a minibus passing by the | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
bomb. 15 died, including his wife, three daughters, his son and his | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
grandchildren. What should I say about the people who did this? It | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
makes no difference now. My home was like a garden of roses. Now it is | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
all gone. Well either the Taliban did carry out those attacks that | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
brought such misery here, also he claims he did not have control over | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
the militants that did this. In either case, the crucial question is | :04:26. | :04:41. | |
including Hakimullah Mehsud at play. The men responsible for killing | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
thousands. Whether it is coalition troops leading Afghanistan or the | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
dialogue, it is becoming clearer it Pakistani government agreeing to | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
dialogue, it is becoming clearer it is the militants in this reason | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
dialogue, it is becoming clearer it feel more and more that they are | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
I have been joined in the studio by Simpson. I know you know this neck | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
I have been joined in the studio by have met members of the Pakistani | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
to work out. This kind of thing Taliban. Why do you assume Mehsud | :05:16. | :05:38. | |
to work out. This kind of thing who did the interview said that | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
to work out. This kind of thing the time there were drones buzzing | :05:40. | :05:54. | |
man who is cleared of drones, he has been involved in many attacks. The | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
possibility is he can see some real advantage in starting to talk, are | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
starting to look as though it is worth talking. That is the one thing | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
that I think is a possibility. Is he and control of all the Pakistan | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Taliban or are there some elements that do not answer to him? He is a | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
tough character, widely agreed. that do not answer to him? He is a | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
lot of people would do what he said. But he maintains, for instance, | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
lot of people would do what he said. the attack on Malala Yousafzai, | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
lot of people would do what he said. young schoolgirl who spoke out so | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
bravely against attacks on her school, that that was done, he did | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
not deny was done by people from his crew, but he has then saying it | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
not deny was done by people from his not on his orders. His spokesman has | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
said that if they got another of virginity to kill her, they would. | :06:52. | :07:03. | |
another chance to kill her. We are not talking about an army here, | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
another chance to kill her. We are are talking about a very traditional | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
group with one powerful, strong figure at its centre. Suppose the | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
Pakistani government were to accept this offer of talks. Where would | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
this leave the United States to this offer of talks. Where would | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
this $5 million bounty on his head? That would be some steps down the | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
road. The first thing is can be Hakimullah Mehsud is demanding the | :07:27. | :07:38. | |
introduced across Pakistan. I cannot believe that anything remotely like | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
that would happen. But it can be the start of a process when people start | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
to talk to each other. I think the Americans would be rather pleased to | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
be involved in something like that. Whether they would feel able to | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
be involved in something like that. the drone attacks, after all, that | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
has been so much a part of what the drone attacks, after all, that | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
perceive to be their success in the drone attacks, after all, that | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
whole region. Nevertheless, it is a step-by-step business. I just think | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
the one thing that has to be cleared why precisely Hakimullah Mehsud | :08:11. | :08:21. | |
wants to do this. Thank you very promoting the advancement of safety | :08:21. | :08:36. | |
of humanity, well now it finds itself in the top in a landmark | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
court case against it. Victims of a cholera outbreak in Haiti, in the | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
wake of the Earth cake in 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti, in the | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
earthquake in 2010, to develop a claim in New York. They blamed UN | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
three years on from the earthquake. claim in New York. They blamed UN | :08:56. | :09:27. | |
people still drink from it -- unsafe water. Cholera kills quickly unless | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
the race to restore lost body fluids is one. This is the UN camp which | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
several scientific studies say is disease got into the river. A year | :09:38. | :09:50. | |
ago I spoke to a scientist in the United States who had earlier been | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
employed by the United Nations as a top expert on cholera. The most | :09:54. | :10:02. | |
likely source of the introduction of cholera was someone who was infected | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
with the Nepal strain of cholera and who was associated with the UN | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
facility. The UN has refused to who was associated with the UN | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
serve on the case against that. who was associated with the UN | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
says it has immunity and therefore the compensation claim in legal | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
terms is not receivable. The lawyers for these cholera patients say they | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
have strong arguments to counteract -- counter the UN argument. The | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
have strong arguments to counteract has this time made a terrible, | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
deadly mistake and it should now am joined by Geoffrey Robertson | :10:38. | :10:54. | |
deadly mistake and it should now He is our human rights lawyer and | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
former UN judge. Can the United prosecution? It can and does. This | :10:57. | :11:06. | |
case will go nowhere. The UN has absolute immunity given to it by | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
convention to which all countries are signed up. Which exclude any | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
action of this kind. This is mere flag-waving. And of course the | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
Convention protects the UN against are absolutely right to say that | :11:22. | :11:44. | |
Convention protects the UN against allegations are made that thousands | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
just system in order to hear the negligence, then it is about time | :11:48. | :12:02. | |
there is evidence that emerges in will ask you that in a moment. If | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
there is evidence that emerges in sanitation risk to people in Haiti, | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
would that not make the peacekeeping peacekeeping unit knew about this, | :12:12. | :12:22. | |
would that not make the peacekeeping evidence will emerge. The case will | :12:23. | :12:33. | |
first said there is no liability with the UN. Then they did after | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
the prospect, and I think it is with the UN. Then they did after | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
lightly, that it was in fact the Nepalese troops who came in and | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
lightly, that it was in fact the infected many of the populace. At | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
one level, obviously, where there is so much cholera in Nepal, the UN | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
should have tested these men. Did it test them effectively? That is a | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
very serious question. On the other hand, there were such chaos and | :13:06. | :13:29. | |
Italy has said it will be holding the Lampedusa boat tragedy in which | :13:29. | :14:50. | |
nearly 300 died. The Italian prime- Commission President Jose Manuel | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
Barosso who said that Italy would receive an extra 40 million dollars | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
in funds to help with migrants coming to its shores from Africa | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
and the Middle East. Alan Johnston Italy.Met with contempt and anger. | :15:03. | :15:15. | |
The EU Commission President cheered Italy.Met with contempt and anger. | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
The EU Commission President cheered by locals. They say not enough | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
The EU Commission President cheered being done to prevent the deaths at | :15:25. | :15:25. | |
the flow of migrants. Migrants being done to prevent the deaths at | :15:25. | :15:45. | |
been turned into a huge more tree. presence of the many dead. The | :15:45. | :15:56. | |
smaller coffins of four children. The image of hundreds of coffins | :15:56. | :16:04. | |
will never get out of my mind. It is something I think one cannot | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
forget. The coffins of babies, coffins with a mother and a child | :16:12. | :16:22. | |
born just at that moment. It is something that profoundly shocked | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
me. Mr Barroso said the EU now had to respond. The European Union | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
cannot accept that thousands of people die at its borders. The | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
challenges that Azra and Italy face Commission President talked of | :16:40. | :16:49. | |
plans for more patrols to intercept migrant boat that might get in | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
trouble and more money to tackle the wider issues. Italy would get | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
another $40 million to help that handled the stream of refugees. | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
Wilde Mr Barroso talked, out at handled the stream of refugees. | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
on the sunken wreck of the boat that brought the migrants, more | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
bodies were being found. It has been announced that all but dead | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
will be on edge from the disaster with a state funeral. -- will be | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
honoured. Now to a mid-air drama in the skies over Britain. A passenger | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
experience landed a small aircraft after the pilot collapsed. The | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
passenger was talked through the procedures to land by two local | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
police said the pilot had died. procedures to land by two local | :17:36. | :17:48. | |
Thomas reports. On the tarmac, a services after it had just been | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
landed by a man who had never had a flying lesson in his life. 77 year- | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
old John White was at the control. His friend the pilot had collapsed | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
old John White was at the control. thousands of feet in the air. At | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
mouth was so dry I would have given a million pounds for a drink of | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
was asked to bring the aircraft a million pounds for a drink of | :18:15. | :18:27. | |
Humberside airport. I just did not was the uncertainty of it all. And | :18:27. | :18:48. | |
Humberside airport. I just did not flight instructor has brought in | :18:48. | :19:04. | |
Humberside airport. I just did not was going off. I cannot describe it. | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
me. Not only was this the first plane, it was also in complete | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
this which was to light up the instruments in the cockpit. After | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
three failed attempts, next came the landing. We touched and it was | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
a right few bumps. I suppose it the landing. We touched and it was | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
a controlled crash, really. What And amazingly John has said that he | :19:36. | :19:54. | |
will fly again. Our top story, the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
has said he is prepared to hold talks with the Pakistani government. | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
With me is the chair of the Islamic Studies at the American University | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
in Washington. His new book takes a look at the issue of the Taliban. | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
His Hakimullah Mehsud opening peace talks from a position of strength | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
or weakness? I feel he is a shrewd toughest tried in the entire region. | :20:23. | :20:34. | |
inaccessible part of these tribal areas. He has seen the mood changed | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
in Pakistan. People really want areas. He has seen the mood changed | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
get at the Taliban. The red lines have been crossed. The attack on | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
the Church, the attack on Malala Yousafzai. That is forcing him to | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
search for alternative ways of settling these issues. So he is | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
reaching out. And considering the suffering of that region, any hope | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
or any initiative towards dialogue must be explored. It seems you're | :21:04. | :21:14. | |
Pakistan? It is a controversial entirely happy, they have lost | :21:14. | :21:24. | |
time this issue has to be resolved, there is no other way. The army | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
time this issue has to be resolved, tried force and it has failed. | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
Perhaps this may work. The Pakistan tried force and it has failed. | :21:35. | :21:50. | |
Perhaps this may work. The Pakistan imposition of Sharia law. There | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
Perhaps this may work. The Pakistan opening gambit from Hakimullah | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
government start negotiating with him? I think they will because both | :22:00. | :22:16. | |
government start negotiating with committed to dialogue with the | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
Pakistan. I think that Taliban are realising that unless they climb on | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
to this peace train, they will miss it. What do you think will happen | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
now? The government Priscilla bleed know where he is and can start | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
talks. What will happen now? I think that will already have begun. | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
The Prime Minister was in New York recently when there was the attack | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
on the church. That was one of the worst attacks on the Christian | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
community in Pakistan. That would all have had their impact on the | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
Prime Minister and he is committed Taliban and the borders. Here is | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
the agency would have dawned on Taliban and the borders. Here is | :23:02. | :23:15. | |
So I think negotiations through alternative channels would already | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
have begun. So can he deliver the Pakistani Taliban? If he cannot | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
have begun. So can he deliver the are in trouble because he has that | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
popular support. Sorry, I'm meant lassoed. He can but remember the | :23:33. | :23:51. | |
Taliban is fragmented. At the same time Hakimullah Mehsud it is a | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
charismatic figure. He is based time Hakimullah Mehsud it is a | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
the heart of the tribal areas. He has a lot of backing. That gives | :23:58. | :24:11. | |
Pakistan and he has that kind of credibility. Now, what do American | :24:11. | :24:27. | |
Well, they're all food products which at one time or other have | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
been banned by Russia, raising suspicions that Moscow has been | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
using food imports to play politics. This week Moscow suspended imports | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
of dairy products from Lithuania, which sparked an angry response | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
from the European Union. Our Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
spent his lunchtime exploring the the kitchen. If you like cooking | :24:38. | :24:48. | |
and Europe in Russia let me give you some advice. Make sure you swot | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
choosing your recipe because that you some advice. Make sure you swot | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
choosing your recipe because that available to you. Whenever Russia | :25:00. | :25:00. | |
has a political row with another available to you. Whenever Russia | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
has a political row with another country it often ends with Moscow | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
has a political row with another slapping a ban on food imports | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
has a political row with another the country she has fallen out | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
has a political row with another government a few years ago, Russia | :25:14. | :25:14. | |
declared that Georgian wine and government a few years ago, Russia | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
and refused to import any more. That resulted in big losses to the | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
got cheesed off with Ukraine. There banned. And the latest food feud is | :25:29. | :25:45. | |
over dairy products from Live the mania. This week Moscow suspended | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
imports, again citing concerns over quality. But the Lithuanians smelt | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
politics. Next month they host the European Union summit aimed at | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
forging closer ties with countries traditionally in Russia's sphere of | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
influence. That is a recipe to make Moscow angry. This is the man with | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
the bans. Russia's chief sanitary inspector. The official will always | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
seems to announce the suspensions. He claims they have nothing at all | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
to do with politics. It is simply about protecting the health of | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
Russian citizens. I should say these suspensions are normally | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
Ukrainian cheese are now back on the shelves. Personally I hope | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
everybody because if that happens, dinner could be a bit of a problem. | :26:42. | :26:50. | |
That's all from the programme. Next the weather. Today we have some | :26:50. | :27:08. | |
changes in the weather and tomorrow is going to be a really chilly day. | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
There is a strong northerly wind. We have high pressure to the west | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
and low pressure to the east. Those tightly squeezed isobars indicating | :27:19. | :27:35. | |
a strong northerly wind. The wind is lighter further west throat | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
tomorrow afternoon. Temperatures just around 11 or 12 degrees. There | :27:39. | :27:47. | |
is a rash of heavy showers across the east coast of England. And | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
That could cause some disruption the east coast of England. And | :27:50. | :27:59. | |
and localised flooding. In Scotland and Northern Ireland the wind is | :27:59. | :28:05. | |
struggling even to get into double figures. This area of low pressure | :28:05. | :28:13. |