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This is BBC World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi. | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
The interpreter who got it so very wrong at Nelson Mandela's memorial | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
service says he suffered a schizophrenic attack on stage. He | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
suffered from hallucinations. Thamsanqa Dyantyi stood side by side | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
with world leaders, including President Obama. South Africa | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
insists there was no security threat. Bangladesh executes an | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
Islamist politician found guilty of crimes against humanity during the | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
1971 war of independence. Also coming up. The number of women with | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
breast cancer around the world rises, but a new study does reveal | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
some promising news. And two films - 12 Years a Slave and | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
American Hustle - receive seven nominations apiece for Golden Globe | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
awards. They are a curtain raiser for the Oscars. | :01:01. | :01:13. | |
Hello and welcome. Concern has been raised about the potential failure | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
of proper screening at the memorial service for mental -- for Nelson | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
Mandela. The man accused of faking sign language at the memorial | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
service for Nelson Mandela has said he has schizophrenia, and saw angels | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
at the event. Thamsanqa Dyantyi, who stood alongside world leaders | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
including President Obama on the stage, said he sometimes reacted | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
violently to his condition. Here's our Africa Correspondent Andrew | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
Harding. Sharing the stage with Barack Obama, a man who now says he | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
was in the middle of a schizophrenic episode. It was his erratic sign | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
language that first raised concerns. Experts described it as gibbering. | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
When the BBC tracked the man down to his Soweto home today the | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
34-year-old said he was not a fraud, he was simply ill. While I | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
was speaking I had a breakdown. I saw angels. They were coming from | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
the sky. Photos proved that he had often worked at vestiges events. He | :02:21. | :02:30. | |
says his illness has made him violent in the past. Today an | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
official insisted world leaders had not been in any danger. You | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
embarrassed about what happened? Nail I am not and I have no reason | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
to be. But the scandal is an awkward distraction. As crowds queued for a | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
second day to see the body of Nelson Mandela. It may seem like a | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
relatively minor incident but inevitably people are making | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
comparisons between Nelson Mandela and the current leadership. The | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
revelations lead into a broader sense that South Africa may be | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
losing its way. Joining me from Maryland outside | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
Washington is former Secret Service Agent to President Barack Obama, Dan | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Bongino. He also served under George W Bush and his new book is called, | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Life Inside The Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
Walked Away From It All. Failure of proper screening, do you think? I do | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
not think there is any question. I just want to make sure that the | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
general public understand, because he was not properly screened, he | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
literally was a fraud, does not mean that he was an imminent threat to | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
the president. But there has clearly been a failure. But if this man is | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
mentally ill and he himself has said he can act in an on-board it will | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
way, do you think that that fact should have been made known? I am | :04:05. | :04:18. | |
sorry about that. The line has sailed from Maryland. I do not think | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
that we can restore it. But we did here he felt they had been a failure | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
to properly screen the sign interpreter at that Nelson Mandela | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
memorial service. But the South African government insisted there | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
has been no security breach. In Bangladesh, the Islamist | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
opposition leader, Abdul Kader Mullah, has been executed. He'd been | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
found guilty of crimes against humanity during the 1971 war of | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
independence. The Supreme Court had cleared the way for Mr Mullah's | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
execution after judges rejected a last-minute appeal. Security had | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
been stepped up throughout Bangladesh after the ruling, and | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
this has led to violent protests by his Jamaat-e-Islami party | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
supporters. With me is the BBC's World Service South Asia Editor, | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
Ethirajan Anbarasan. What was he accused of actually doing during the | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
War of Independence? He was accused of carrying out mass murder and rape | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
in the suburbs of Dakar. When Bangladesh was trying to get away | :05:27. | :05:38. | |
from Pakistan. The gym party were opposed to breaking away from | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Pakistan. So this tribunal was set up by the present government. They | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
had pledged to try all those Bangladeshis accused of carrying out | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
atrocities. Tens of thousands were people -- of people were killed in | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
1971. This is the first execution after the courts found him guilty of | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
carrying out atrocities. How effective was this tribunal? How | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
transparent was it? There has been controversy about this, there is no | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
doubt. Jamaat-e-Islami says it was a political elite motivated trial. And | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
they did not follow proper procedures while carrying out the | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
execution. The human rights people have said it fell short 's of | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
international standards. -- fell short. The trial was said not to be | :06:44. | :06:55. | |
up to international standards. But they're obviously web crimes | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
committed and they must be a large body of opinion in Bangladesh that | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
feels that they must have been justice. But now that he has been | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
executed, what will the result we? As soon as the execution was carried | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
out hundreds of people gathered to celebrate in the city centre. These | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
people had been demanding the death penalty for Mr Mullah. So this trial | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
did have widespread support because many Bangladeshi people had lost | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
relatives. But how it has been carried out is the question. Soon | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
after the execution there were classes -- clashes in some parts of | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
Bangladesh. It is expected that there will be tensions. There is a | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
political protest going on by the main opposition against the | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
elections. They say they do not want to take part in elections under the | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
present government. We have another protest by Jamaatee Islami. Thank | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
you very much for explaining all that. Now some other news in brief. | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
The Spanish government has insisted it will block plans for a referendum | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
on independence for Catalonia. Catalan separatist parties agreed to | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
hold the vote in November next year but the Spanish justice minister | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
that it will not take place. The highest court in Australia has | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
overturned a law regarding same-sex marriage. | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
It ruled only federal legislation could redefine the marriage laws. It | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
shatters the dreams of same-sex couples married in the territory in | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
the past week. And the ongoing political crisis now in Thailand. | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
The leader of the opposition party was in court today to face murder | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
charges in connection with the military clamp-down when he was | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
Prime Minister three years ago. Abhisit Vejjajiva denied the charges | :09:03. | :09:13. | |
and was granted bail. More pressure was piled on the government of | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
Yingluck Shinawatra. Demonstrators cut electricity to her office and | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
demanded that police leave. Jonathan Head reports from Bangkok. Today the | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
opposition leader was in court facing a charge of murder for | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
ordering the use of lethal force against protesters trying to bring | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
down his government when he was Prime Minister three and a half | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
years ago. Back then it was supporters of the current Prime | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
Minister who were on the streets of Bangkok. They had occupied parts of | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
the city centre. He ordered the army to clear them out using weapons by | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
direct the other protesters. He always argued it was necessary | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
because of armed elements among the protesters. There were certainly | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
some present, court here on camera. -- court on camera. But most of | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
their weapons were improvised. Most of the big tins of army gunfire were | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
unarmed protesters. In 2010 you ordered the army to use lethal | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
force. That is because there was unarmed insurrection. The only | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
violence that erupted at first was because the government brought in | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
the red shirts. But this time the government can its supporters to one | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
stadium well away from the centre of Bangkok. When clashes occurred it | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
stopped its supporters from holding any rallies. Today 's | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
anti-government movement still holding out, unmoved by the primer | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Mr's offered this week of an election. Some of them tried once | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
again to break into her office, cutting the wire and eventually the | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
power. But this is all symbolic. She is not there. For all their talk of | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
establishing a rival administration is still a long way from their goal | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
of restructuring plan and's physical system although their actions have | :11:23. | :11:32. | |
certainly weakened it. It has not been a bad 12 months for | :11:33. | :11:42. | |
president Putin of Russia. He has put pressure on Ukraine to prevent | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
the defining a trade deal with Europe. He has met Pope Francis, | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
been voted for the most powerful person in the world and got his | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
ninth degree lap belt in tae kwon do. A lot for him to talk about at | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
his annual state of the nation address as our correspondent | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
explains. Always a grand Kremlin occasion, the | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
President of Russia's vision of the year ahead, on occasion where | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
President Putin outlines where he is taking Russia. For the Ukraine he | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
said he would no pressure on the president to back out of a deal to | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
secure closer ties with the European union. The latest news is that the | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
Ukrainian president may change his mind again. President Putin said | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
there was no rivalry between Russia and the European union over the | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
Ukraine but other side say he's on the lookout to defend what he sees | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
as Russia's vital interests. Like the Arctic north, increasingly a | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
zone of geopolitical attention because of its rich resources onto | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
the ice and the trade routes opened up by global warming. Just this week | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
Mr Putin ordered plans to upgrade Russian military bases there to | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
protect Russian claims from foreign interference. Also this week Mr | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Putin out of the blue declared he was abolishing respected Russian | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
news agency. It is shocked staff who had no idea but it was coming. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Perhaps it was relatively objective coverage of the UK -- of the | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Ukrainian protest which seal their fate. In the Kremlin today is an | :13:36. | :13:51. | |
Putin said there was nothing wrong with conservative values which | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
distinguish between good and evil. Increasingly his message seems to be | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
that he once Russia to offer the world an alternative standpoint | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
which challenges what he sees as Europe and America's over liberal | :14:07. | :14:16. | |
attitudes. Some news now from a jet where we are feeling about a car | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
bomb attack in the east of the country. -- eejit. It was detonated | :14:21. | :14:32. | |
beside the Suez Canal. -- Egypt. There have been a string of attacks | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
since the ousting of the Prime Minister in July. | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
Figures out today say there have been an increase in the number of | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
women diagnosed with breast cancer across the world. That's partly down | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
to changes in lifestyles like greater alcohol consumption and a | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
rise in obesity. The World Health Organisation says since 2008 the | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
number of cases has increased by more than 20%. Breast cancer now | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
represents one in four of all cancers in women globally. There's | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
also positive news from a study which suggests that a particular | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
drug can almost halve the number of breast cancer cases in high risk | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
women after the menopause. Our health correspondent Branwen | :15:14. | :15:23. | |
Jeffreys has the details. In the abnormal cells of breast | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
cancer. Some women have a greater lifetime risk. A family history of | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
the disease or some change which can act as a warning sign. This women | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
saw her mother go through cancer treatment but now she is delighted | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
there's hope for high-risk women like herself. For five years, she | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
took the tablet and as part of the trial she did not know whether it | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
was the tablet or the placebo. When I heard about the trial, I wanted to | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
go on it and when I heard the results, I was absolutely amazed | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
because it is fantastic. Women with a risk factor and who had gone | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
through the menopause where included in this trial. But every one of | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
those in high-risk women, they would usually be 43 cases over five years, | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
but in those women get in those women getting the drug, it fell to | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
20 with virtually no side effects. A reduced risk of 53%. One of the | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
doctors told me the research came about through seeing how the drug | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
was working. We have used this to treat breast cancer and we have seen | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
in women using this, the risk of developing a second cancer was | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
significantly lower. It is already one of the most successfully treated | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
types of cancer but this research is another step towards preventing it | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
in women whose families have often been devastated by the disease. With | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
the results of the trial revealed, she knows she has help other women | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
and no charities want guidelines for the NHS review. They see this | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
research has shown the drug can make a difference to high-risk women, | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
saving many the mental and physical ordeal of the fight with breast | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
cancer. Nelson Mandela's legacy as the | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
greatest South African of the modern era, some say ever, is assured. And | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
as clouds in Pretoria pay their respects to him and file past his | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
coffin in deference and grief this is all in stark contrast with the | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
widespread discontent about the current leadership of South Africa. | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Our South Africa correspondent Nomsa Maseko has been looking at why many | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
are fed up with Nelson Mandela's successors as leaders of the ANC | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
including President Jacob Zuma himself. | :17:59. | :18:13. | |
This is not what Nelson Mandela wanted for his people. A township in | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
northern Johannesburg established in 1995, one year after South Africa's | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
first democratic elections. People here feel let down. They were | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
promised so much more when Nelson Mandela came to power. Let us build | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
the future together and forge a better life for all South Africans. | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
This woman has been living here for 15 years. She tells me that she is | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
still waiting for the host provided by the government, fresh drinking | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
water and electricity. That is what she voted for. Home video of recent | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
trouble in the township. It had been brewing for months. There's a lot of | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
anger here. I am angry that the government are just setting. The | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
toilet does not flush, everything is very bad for us. The ANC can do | :19:22. | :19:33. | |
nothing for the people. It is not just the failure of government to | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
deliver basic services that is fuelling discontent. The scandal of | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
President Jacob Zuma spending public money on his private home has | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
angered many. I think there's a sense of burning rage at the of | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
society, and the marginalised, the wrist to anger. If we do not help | :19:55. | :20:07. | |
this, we can imperil the reconciliation. They there's little | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
doubt that many South Africans are angry that their lives are not | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
getting better as promised by Nelson Mandela and the ANC, but the | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
question is, will become their discontent by turning their backs on | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
the party? Maybe not in next year's collection but there's a growing | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
realisation they must act urgently to avoid losing support. | :20:33. | :20:44. | |
The preparations are well underway for Nelson Mandela's funeral ends | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
Sunday. -- on Sunday. Our correspondent has stopped along the | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
way. This is still a place of extreme | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
poverty. When I first visited here during the days of apartheid, it was | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
an independent homeland, a place where the white government could not | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
black people they did not want leading in white South Africa. One | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
of the consequences of that action was to strengthen the position of | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Nelson Mandela's ANC. It was always a stronghold of the party and from | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
the 1980s onwards it would become a launching pad for the rebellion. | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
This would culminate in the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 and then | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
the elections which took place in 1984. 20 years after Nelson | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
Mandela's election, there have been improvements to people's likes here. | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Electricity provision and new schools, but also protests against | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
the authorities because people feel their lives have not changed enough. | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
None of that has been directed against Nelson Mandela. He is not so | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
much a global icon here but a local hero. How do you feel about the | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
death of Madiba? I am still very sad because he is gone and he gave us so | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
much. We are as we are now because of him. He gave us freedom. He | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
showed us a lot of things and still does a lot of things. Now he is | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
gone, how do you feel about the future of South Africa? Even the | :22:32. | :22:50. | |
president, I am not sure now. I am sure that it will... I am not sure. | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
Gauging the opinion on the Eastern Cape Wear Nelson Mandela's funeral | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
will take place. It's that time of year again, the | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
film awards season in Hollywood. The Golden Globe nominations are | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
announced today. A film about slavery in America and another about | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
con-men in the 1970s feature heavily. 12 Years a Slave and | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
American Hustle both picked up seven nominations each. The Golden Globes | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
are often seen as a guide to which films will do well at the Oscars. | :23:22. | :23:31. | |
Let's discuss these nominations with a film critic for screen | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
International. Run through the nominations, Best film, Best actor | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
and so on. I don't have them in front of me! I cannot really list | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
them like that for you. We can go through some things you would like | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
to ask me? 12 Years A Slave, Steve McQueen, a British director for that | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
film and hugely praised. I think Steve McQueen had the reputation | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
among our people and now he has made the epic of the year, and | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
emotionally wrenching film about the most important issue in American | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
history. How could this not get the nominations. The awards are | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
absolutely logical this year, at least the nominations. And then a | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
completely different film, American hustle. -- American Hustle. That | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
also got seven nominations. I think it is fantastic. It shows that | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
profound human foolishness can have a grace about it. Bravely, | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
corruption, lots of sex. Audiences can laugh in the cinema about things | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
they can do nothing about in real life. It is fun and when it is done | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
well, the audience and the awards respond. I am convinced that Amy | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
Adams will get the Academy award for the role. She is fantastic. There | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
are some surprising omissions, and I am thinking about The Butler. That | :25:27. | :25:39. | |
is glaring in its mission? Awards people tend not to vote for producer | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
of scientific dead, hardly wine scene would probably not get any | :25:45. | :25:56. | |
awards. -- Harvey Weinstein. It is completely overshadowed. What about | :25:57. | :26:08. | |
Idris Elba nominated for best actor for the film about Nelson Mandela | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
which premiered in London on the day it was announced he had dry? This is | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
the film of the moment. I think it is likely he will win the award. | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
Robert Redford is also nominated, and otherwise it might have been | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
seen as his year, but Idris Elba is the favourite. | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
Thank you for taking us through the nominations and that is all for the | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
programme, Next the weather. But for now, goodbye. | :26:46. | :26:50. |