18/11/2013 World News Today

President This is BBC world News today with me, Zeinab Badawi.

President Hollande of France warns that a gunman on the loose in Paris

must be caught because he could kill at any time. CCTV footage of the

gunman shows a white man believed to be in his 40s. He shot a

photographer at the news headquarters and has also fired

inside a bank. We are live in Paris with the latest. The aid is getting

through in the Philippines but questions remain about how prepared

officials were for the disaster. President Aquino, himself under

fire, adds to the criticism. If you look at the casualties figures the

overwhelming bulk of them have been in this region and one has to ask

why. Why are some places reporting zero? Also coming up: Two-macro

Internet giants announce new measures to crack down on online

searches for images of child abuse. How comprehensive can their action

be? A special report from Libya where gunfights between armed

militia and protesters have killed nearly 50 people in one week, we

look at the prospects for peace and stability in the country. And the

BBC's science-fiction show Doctor Who celebrates its 50th year on

television with a special anniversary edition: We go behind

the scenes to look at its enduring appeal.

Hello and welcome. It is 8pm in Paris and right now police

helicopters are circling over the most famous street in the city, the

Champs-Elysees, and hundreds of police are patrolling the streets

hunting for a gunman who opened fire in two-macro locations and then

escaped amongst a throng of Christmas shoppers, as the search

continues. First, the gunman shot a photographer at the offices of one

of France's's best-known newspapers Liberation. He is said to be

fighting for his life. Soon afterwards, shots were fired at the

headquarters of the bank Societe Generale and a man was briefly taken

hostage nearby. Christian Fraser has the latest. The gunman, dressed as a

hunter, armed with a shot gun. He is still at large and is described by

police as highly dangerous. This morning at the entrance hall of this

newspaper he opened fire with ammunition normally used on deer or

wild boar. His victim was a 27-year-old freelance photographer

arriving for his first day at the office. He was shot in the back and

is in a critical condition. I think he was happy to do his job. It could

happen to any of us. It is the second time the media have been

targeted by this man and armed police have now been stationed

outside all news agencies. The same man walked into a television channel

and without filing empty the chamber of his rifle. , I will not miss

you. That is what he said to the editor he confronted. He walked

calmly away from the scene. By mid-morning he reappeared in the

business district and fired into the year outside the bank Societe

general al. He then forced a woman to drive him to the Champs-Elysees.

It is suspected that after that he took the Metro. We are doing

everything we can to find him said the interior minister. He said there

is no room in this country for people who are attacking our

fundamental freedoms. Paris is on high alert tonight with Cleese

circling the Champs-Elysees and the annual Christmas market. All forces

are allowed focused on identifying this man to stop him before he can

strike again. I am joined by our reporter in Paris. Give us an update

of what we know about that manhunt. Police are still on the

Champs-Elysees tonight. There is a sense that there is a major police

operation underway. The newsroom where the photographer was shot is

very quiet, albeit thoughts are with the family of that man. It was the

first day he was due in the office. He had been shot in the back in a

very cold and calculated wave while waiting on the left. There was no

mercy given to this young man. The suspicion is that he has done this

before, going to a television studio on Friday. There is police presence

outside most of the major news agencies in Paris tonight and the

banks are stepping up security as well. In the past couple of hours

CCTV footage has emerged showing the gunman. How one nurse did he give

the police these light? -- the slip? It was quite an unnerving

time. The Champs-Elysees is a very busy place. The helicopter was above

us for a long time this afternoon. Those working within news agencies

were apprehensive but also those working on the Champs-Elysees. There

was a lockdown for quite a while and people were urged to stay indoors.

For a time there was talk that the police had caught up with him. The

woman who had been hijacked called the police so they were onto that

within minutes. At the moment the trail seems to have gone cold and

there is no sign of where he has gone. Putting out this film and

showing his face clearly they will hope someone can recognise him. It

is obviously a hunting style of clothing, someone who has experience

of hunting. The ammunition and rifle, the Pope is someone will spot

that and report him. -- the hope is someone will spot him. Thank you.

The latest figures for the death toll in the Philippines show that

more than 4000 people were killed when Typhoon Haiyan struck and

around 18,000 injured. Another 1500 around 18,000 injured. Another 500

people are still missing and four million have been made homeless.

President Aquino has criticised some officials in disaster areas for not

being prepared for the Typhoon. We will hear from President Aquino in a

moment. First, our correspondent Jeremy Cooke went to the remote

neighbourhood of Babatngon. The runway is being cleared. The next

challenge is distribution. The Americans are doing their bit but

the Philippines the forced are taking on the heavy lifting.

Travelling all over this region you are struck again and again by the

scale of the devastation. It is clear that this aid is desperately

needed. They come from their homes, the chopper crew urge them back for

their own safety. No chance, the entire village is desperate for

food, they will not let go now. With almost every home destroyed, they

need more outside help. We need shelter. We must have helped to

build our houses. You are getting now but you need shelter? Yes.

Everybody agree? Yes! The incoming help is not just aid what expertise.

British medics who arrived today are already saving lives. Seven of them,

paramedics, surgeons, anaesthetists, surgeons. A crack

team and a heavy work load. We are seeing the legacy of open wounds

which have been neglected for one week. That can be life-threatening.

The president is here playing a political blame game with other

leaders but thankful for help from abroad. Do you think the

international community will need to be here for the long-term? We will

be very grateful if they can do so. I think we, as a matter of our

action, should focus on our resources and our people. Those

capabilities have been tested to an extreme but the sense here is that

Filipinos are growing in determination to bring help to their

own people. Well, as we mentioned, the Philippine president Benigno

Aquino has criticised local efforts in the aid operation in his country,

but he himself has faced criticism for not doing enough. He has been

speaking to my colleague Rajesh Mirchandani. I would like to ask the

critics what else we could have done with the resources we have, given

the magnitude of the problem. I have spoken to people who have told me

they were without fresh water and food for one week and they were

getting no order supplies. Is that an appropriate response? Perhaps you

should ask the first responders from the local government. We have a

disaster risk response which is geared towards empowering the local

government which is supposed to provide the backbone. They were in

an sense at unique case. We have to admit there was a breakdown in terms

of government. When you say-macro you want to understand the

shortcomings of the municipal authority it sounds like you are

seeing-macro the ultimate responsibility for this does not lie

with you. Eventually it does. I have general supervision over all of them

but the system has to rely on the local government which is already in

place to provide the responses. The president of the Philippines locking

to our BBC correspondent. Now look at some of the day's other news At

least 26 people have been killed in Egypt when a train collided with a

minibus and a truck. It happened on a level crossing south of the

capital, Cairo. Police say-macro several of the victims were from the

same family, who were returning from a wedding. America's midwest has

been struck by a series of powerful tornadoes and thunderstorms that

have left a trail of destruction across five states. At least six

people have been killed. Buildings were destroyed, trees uprooted and

power lines brought down. The plane which nosedived to the ground in

Russia has killed all 50 passengers on board. The plane had arrived from

Moscow and was trying to land in the central Russian city of Kazan.

Investigators are now looking at whether a technical failure or crew

error may have caused the crash. NASA is about to launch a new

mission to Mars. It wants to discover whether the planet was ever

habitable. The Maven spacecraft is about to set off from Cape Canaveral

in Florida. Tensions are high in Libya as there are orders to leave

the capital, Tripoli. Around 43 people were killed over the weekend

when militia men opened fire on protesters. The militia had formed

during the battle to topple Colonel Gaddafi in 2011. They are still

active and have refused to disarm so far. It may look calm but it is a

brutal type of quiet. In the last ten beers there has been the worst

violence since 2011. -- ten days. There were shoot outs and the

militias protested but they were attacked and killed. Armed groups

often take their differences to the streets. Some militia started off

fighting the get our free regime, others, little more than criminal

gangs, have started taking to the streets and listen to no-one but

themselves. These men proclaimed their loyalty

to the Prime Minister, but the politicians bicker, nowhere close to

taming the beer. It has been a mess of militias, city states and tribes

since Colonel Gaddafi fell. Libya had the most complete of all the

Arab revolutions. I'm Colonel Gaddafi went, so that all his

institutions, starting with the security forces. They have had to

build from the bottom up. During that, and getting over the legacy of

14 years of dictatorship, has been proved to be much harder than anyone

expected. The abandoned prison in Tripoli is a symbol of the Gaddafi

regime's brutality, and the habit of random violence left behind.

Any minute we're waiting to go and be killed.

This man was a political prisoner for 30 years. He says he is still

hopeful, but fears the power of the militias and a thirst for revenge

are ruining the future for every Libyan family.

We have to fight for Collins. Even our enemies or those who have

tortured us, we have two have a state of rights and a state of rule

so that the new generation will live in a fraternal society.

But many Libyans do not feel the same way. There is a risk that the

newly trained government security forces will get caught up in

political battles as well as street violence.

If the new army ends up just as one week later in a country full of

competing armed groups, Libya's unhappy unstable violent present

will be its future am also. For more analysis on this we are

joined by George Joffe a from Kimmeridge University. -- Cambridge

University. This militia being told to go, we understand some are

beginning to withdraw from Tripoli. What were they doing there in the

first place? They were responsible for the

liberation of Tripoli in August 2011. They were joined by other

militias, and in the wake of that liberation, the city was divided up

amongst the militias that were involved. And since that is one of

the strongest militias, it got the lions share, which is why it has

been present in the capital of since. More importantly, it is also

involved into coalitions of militias that the government is trying to

form to help with the security problem. The Libyan shield and the

supreme security committee. That gives its a certain status, but the

fact is that the militias does not listen to what the government says.

It follows its own command structures and its own impetus and

interests. At the moment is closely associated with the Islamist faction

inside the National Congress, Libya's new parliament.

If they are part of this coalition to bring stability to Libya, who is

creating the instability and insecurity?

It is the militias themselves. They have divided up Tripoli into a

series of turf zones in which each militia will reign supreme. You will

find that the airport in Tripoli is controlled by one militia, the

centre of the city is controlled by another. Other militias operate in

the suburbs. They do not necessarily CI July. Clashes cannot very easily

and they do. -- I too high. How is the government going to try

to bring about any kind of national cohesion and stability?

That is a question the Prime Minister would like to know the

answer to. The factors is he is too weak and the government is too weak

to enforce their writ on the militias themselves. They have said

the militias must leave I would be forced to leave by various dates,

the latest date is the end of this year. But they have never been able

to achieve that. Since there is still no proper army at no proper

police force to replace the militias, they remain in place. That

is a very serious development. The militias also control prisons, the

influence the courts. They have intervened in the activities of the

general National Congress. Last May be force through laws they wanted

irrespective of the views of the elected body of the Libyan

parliament. It rather pessimistic assessment,

thank you very much indeed. The Internet search engine companies

Google and Microsoft have announced new measures to make it more

difficult to find images of child abuse on the Internet. The system is

being first introduced in English after the Prime Minister David

Cameron called on search engines to do more to stop illegal images of

children. But the company pointed out that most of those images are

shared on hidden networks in what is known as the dark net.

This in an office in the Cambridge research Park, four people are

analysing images from the World Wide Web. This is the Internet watch

foundation which receives 40,000 foundation which receives 40,00

complaints each year about pictures of child abuse. So graphic is the

content, the staff have to have regular content. -- counselling

I've got two choices, I can either be part of the solution to get rid

of the content or I can pretend it is not there.

I know it is there, I know there is a fair amount out there, and I want

to help. Reports come from the public and the

police. If they find a website hosting illegal images it can be

closed within the hour. If it is overseas they can block it in

Britain. Getting the image removed can take much longer.

Last year we removed just under 10,000 URL' s. We work very closely

with our international partners because it is a global issue will

stop people did what we did, there wouldn't be anywhere for this to

hide. Our other countries taking it as

seriously as we are? It depends, in some countries it is

just not on the agenda. There is concern about developing

countries with the Internet is growing but there are few controls

on content. When the IWS was founded, eating %

of child abuse images were posted on websites in the UK. Today, that

figure is just 0.3%. That is why the IWF has been given more money so it

can increase in size. They will then be able to actively search out child

pornography. We will be able to be proactive and

be much more effect. We know where the content is, so if we can go and

seek it out under strict parameters, we can remove loads more content.

No one expects this funding to read the web of child abuse images, but

it is seen as an important step in the right direction.

Danny Dresner is a computer security consultant, he joins us from Salford

will stop have affected will this be Western Mark?

It will not affect the criminals who are using deeply hidden networks

already, but it will affect those people who might become those

criminals by the initial searches. It should not be made easy for

people who want to find such unfortunate material.

And what do you do about the so-called dark net?

That has to be about creating a forensic trail to try to track

people down. The difficulty is that the whole infrastructure is set up

to avoid that happening. People will have to bide their time until

something is created which will allow them to do. As more often

happens in forensics situations, somebody makes a mistake.

How easy or difficult is it for somebody to take the right steps to

find these illegal images of children?

Unfortunately, the irony of it is, if you do start searching about the

dark net on search engines, and perhaps I shouldn't say this because

I wouldn't want to encourage people, it gives you indication is, even

YouTube videos about how to get onto this area in the first place. The

criminals are careful about who they let in. We are using some of the

security mechanisms and we have developed to protect our information

which is used for legitimate means. Danny Dresner, thank you for your

assessment. Doctor Who is one of the most

enduring and popular fictitious characters of all time, and although

the character who is a Time Lord and more than 900 years old, he is

merely celebrating the golden anniversary of the series. It is 50

years ago that the first episode appeared on the BBC. This Saturday

there will be a special anniversary episode.

For its highly anticipated golden anniversary, one Time Lord was not

enough. So we have John hurt, and David Tennant returns.

It's been quite funny. And I've asked a lot of questions, " you know

when we did Western Mark? " it is a real experience playing this part,

so it is good to slightly compare notes.

This has all the makings of your lucky day.

It features all the elements viewers have come to expect it, and audience

expectation for this golden anniversary episode is

understandably high. Fans, some of whom have followed from the very

first episode in 1963, it went on to establish itself as essential

viewing, and despite being off air for much of the 1990s, today it is

more successful than ever. Fans now include royalty. Today the show was

honoured with a special reception at Buckingham Palace, hosted by Sophie

Countess of Wessex. Recognition of a show so highly and

lovingly regarded it could continue, some believe, for another

half-century. Our main story today, hundreds of

French police are on the hunt for a Lone gunmen who opened fire at two

locations in Paris. That's all from the programme. Next the weather. But

for now from me and the rest of the team, goodbye.

The cold weather is sweeping down across all