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This is BBC World News Today. The trial of four suspects in the | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
assassination of the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
begins. He was killed in a bombing explosion in Beirut. The defendants | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
linked to Hezbollah are being tried in absentia. | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
We never seek vengeance. Hopefully by the end of this trial we will | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
find out the truth and we will get the justice for Lebanon. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
One of the most senior officials at the Vatican is questioned strongly | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
by a special UN panel on its failure to protect children from abuse by | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
East 's. Also coming up, three films top the | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
nominations for the Oscars and we look at their chances of winning | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
those prized trophies. And depression and how to survive | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
it. That advice was offered by the late comedian Spike Milligan. Now it | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
seems he wasn't alone as new research links comic genius to | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
mental illness. Hello and welcome. It has taken | :01:19. | :01:34. | |
nearly a decade is to get to this stage. Mine lay a special UN | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
tribunal in the Hague has begun the trial in absentia of four defendants | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
linked to Hezbollah or the assassination of Lebanese Prime | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
Minister Rafiq Hariri nine years ago. He did love with 21 others when | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
his convoy was blown in Beirut. Each of the four suspects have been | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
identified but not apprehended. We ask what chances there are of them | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
ever being brought to justice. A long-awaited trial has begun but | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
none of the accused are in sight. The special tribunal is the first | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
international court since the Nuremberg trials to try suspects in | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
absentia. For individuals associated with the Lebanese party Hezbollah. | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
The prosecution says it is confident they are responsible for the killing | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
of the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafiq Hariri, and 21 other | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
people. The attackers used an extraordinary | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
quantity of explosives, far more than was needed to kill their | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
target. Clearly the intention was to spread a message and panic among the | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
people. Among those present in court was the son of the former Prime | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
Minister. He told journalists that he came to | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
seek justice, not revenge. We never seek vengeance and | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
hopefully by the end of this trial we will find out the truth and we | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
will get the justice that we called for an Lebanon. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
This is only the start of what is expected to be a long trial. The | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
onus is on the prosecution to prove the guilt of the suspects in the | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
first international tribunal ever to try individuals on charges of | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
terrorism. The defence team seems ready to hit back. | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
TRANSLATION: The first unexpected thing will be the words of the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
defence lawyers on Monday because you can imagine they have lots to | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
answer for. Since the killing of Rafiq Hariri | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
many others have been killed in Lebanon. Many hope this tribunal | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
will put an end to the trouble. But others fear it has become and others | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
-- another source of political turmoil. | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
Let us discuss this more. Faysal Itani is a fellow with the Atlantic | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. If these four men | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
have been identified and people know who they are, we not been | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
apprehended? Simply put, the Lebanese | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
institutions are too politically weak to have the will to go after | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
them. Going after them would most likely require a violent | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
confrontation and they have no appetite for that or possibly even | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
the capabilities. Could the forces could actually go | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
into the Hezbollah-run areas and arrest these men? | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
Probably not given the balance of power between the security forces | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
and Hezbollah. They're in mind also that the security forces are | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
multi-sectarian, made up of some Hezbollah members. | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
It sounds like you don't really think that these suspects will ever | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
be brought to justice. I think whether or not they are | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
brought to justice depends very much on Hezbollah's security situation | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
within Lebanon and the situation of its allies abroad, the Syrian regime | :05:53. | :06:08. | |
and Iran. I don't see a scenario where they will be brought to | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
justice by force. Is there an element of perhaps if | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
they ever were arrested, it would cause such instability between | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Hezbollah and the central authorities that these interests | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
have two trump the ideas of justice? | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
I wouldn't quite put it that way because you have to remember that | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Hezbollah is a significant influence on the political goings-on in | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
Lebanon. Opposition to Hezbollah would have to come from a political | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
rival in Lebanon itself. I think it is the impossibility of the task | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
rather than the resulting literal instability. | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
So when Rafiq Hariri's Sun says that they will find out the truth, that | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
is wishful thinking on his part? Not necessarily. If the accusations | :07:15. | :07:27. | |
are accurate and there are bindings of guilt. | :07:28. | :07:37. | |
How important is all this to the wider population in Lebanon? | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
I think it is quite important. A significant proportion of the | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
Lebanese have rejected its legitimacy outright, mostly | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
supporters Hezbollah. A political assassination which happens often | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
and never gets this level of trial is receiving an unprecedented level | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
of trial so it is an improvement. We have heard John Kerry calling on | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
the Syrian opposition to vote in favour of attending the Geneva peace | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
conference. We know there is a great deal of opposition. Sorry to put you | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
on the spot but just give us your reaction to that. | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
Given how much emphasis on US policy has placed on the talks, I can | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
understand why they would take that position. But from the perspective | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
of the opposition, they have two problems. Firstly, they don't have | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
significant support in Syria itself and are not seen as having the power | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
to negotiate on the behalf of Syrians. Secondly, rebel forces who | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
do have influence have a great rejected these talks. They are in an | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
impossible position. If they do refuse to go, on the other hand they | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
will lose whatever US support which they have had so far, which isn't | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
much. Thank you for that. | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
A suicide bomber in northern Lebanon has killed self and three other | :09:43. | :09:52. | |
people in Hermel near the Bekaa Valley. More than 20 people were | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
injured. It is the latest attack in Hezbollah -dominated areas. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
After years of allegations of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
the Vatican has been given strong public questioning. Senior officials | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
are facing robust questions by a special UN committee in Geneva to | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
try to find out why the charge won't release its full data on the abuse. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Victims and their families accused the Church of a culture of secrecy. | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
For years, victims of clerical sexual abuse struggle to be heard. | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
No campaigners are pleased that at last the Vatican is being | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
investigated by a UN committee. At the hearing in Geneva, the | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
Vatican's seemed contrite. There is no use for violence or | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
exploitation of children. Such crimes cannot be justified, whether | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
permitted in the home, schools, sports programmes, religious | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
institutions. In a brutal session, it was said | :11:09. | :11:18. | |
they were only responsible for abuse inside Vatican City, a much | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
criticised assertion. The Catholic Church has 1 billion | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
followers and his influence over a lot more children's lives than just | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
these few that the mentioned. This man has had to fight hard for | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
justice. He was abused as a teenager I and Italian priest, he claims. | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
I think it is time to stop the secrecy. | :11:53. | :12:02. | |
There has been mounting evidence of abuse in different countries. In | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
2009, the report found that sexual and psychological abuse was endemic | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
in Ireland. In 2010, the Bishop of Bruges resigned after a sex scandal. | :12:16. | :12:25. | |
In Germany there were 280 counts of sexual abuse. | :12:26. | :12:34. | |
Laws have been strengthened and Vatican -- victims offered help. | :12:35. | :12:44. | |
Let us bring you some of the other news. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Early indications about Egypt's new constitution are that it will get | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
overwhelming backing. The Muslim Brotherhood boycotted it in protest | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
at the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi. Tonight was reported at just more | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
than 50%. The actress linked with President | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
Francois Hollande has taken legal action against Closer magazine over | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
the allegations. It is alleged that Francois Hollande spent the night at | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
her flat. The Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone is to go on trial charged | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
with bribery. It is to do with payments made to | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
German banker Gerhard Gribowsky. Bernie Ecclestone is stepping down | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
from the Formula 1 board of directors. | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
Let us update you on an exclusive story we brought you this time | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
yesterday. Organised paedophiles in Western countries are paying for | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
children to be abused in the Philippines and then watching that | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
abuse live via webcam. Some of those were based in the UK and five people | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
have already been jailed for the activity. | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
This is Operation Endeavour in action. Philippine police raid a | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
house and rescue 12 children. The youngest was just six years old. He | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
had been sexually abused by their own parents in front of the webcam, | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
directed from thousands of miles away in Britain. The raid was | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
launched after the arrest of this man, Timothy Ford. He offered other | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
paedophiles the chance to watch the abuse, men like Thomas Owen. Records | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
released today show that he was offering live shows and described | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
some children as really cute. Police arrested 29 people in 12 countries | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
and have identified many more suspects. | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
There are over 700 suspects around the world, over 100 of which are in | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
the UK. That's shocking, isn't it? | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
Very shocking. It will need to realise. Let's call this what this | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
is. This is not an Internet crime, this is a crime facilitated by the | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
Internet, this is child sexual abuse. | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
This is a new crime could by rising demand in the West and is a growing | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
problem, especially in the Philippines. | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
In some of the poorest areas, whole communities have been taken over by | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
this trade. Amylase are forced to perform sex acts in front of | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
children -- on children in front of cameras for paying Westerners. | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
This girl was 15 when she was forced by her own hand to work on what she | :15:51. | :16:08. | |
calls a cybersex then. The operation has been a success but charities say | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
that the police must do much more to protect the tens of thousands of | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
children who remain at risk. A special report there. | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
It is movie awards season. Today we found out who is in the running for | :16:30. | :16:42. | |
the Oscars. Gravity, American muscle, and 12 Years A Slave lead | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
the pack. -- American Hustle. You will have seen all of them? | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
I have. It is quite exciting. Let's start with the Gravity and | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
American Hustle. I love to Gravity. And American | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
Hustle is a disco era film. Gravity, Sandra Bullock and George | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
Clooney, adrift in space. A spectacular movie that did so well | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
at the box office globally. Critically lauded also. And a | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
British film, strangely enough. Yes, they had to shoot it in | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
Pinewood and Shepperton. Special effects, of all the magical | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
experiences, this here is like a Michelangelo ceiling! | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
And American Hustle, about a con artist? | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
Nobody is quite sure what it is about, but it is a real story about | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
the left early episode. Amy Adams and Christian Bale, almost | :18:11. | :18:25. | |
unrecognisable. An FBI episode. And 12 Years A Slave, I think that is | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
the best picture. The one that is kind of capturing the conversation | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
going on at the moment. Slavery, never really been addressed by | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
cinema. And Chiwetel Ejiofor, nominated for | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
best director, -- actor, with Steve McQueen nominated for best director. | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
Yes, to go from some austere arthouse pieces to one of the big | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
directors in the world, only his third film. Alongside Martin | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Scorsese. John Singleton was nominated that -- nominated but did | :19:10. | :19:26. | |
not win, Steve McQueen would be the first black director to win. And | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
Bruce Sterling is a big favourite, Leonardo DiCaprio, a fourth | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
nomination, never one, playing a terrible character, but a brilliant | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
performance. Bruce Dern, in the film Nebraska, he has a lots of love from | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
the Academy. There he is, playing a deluded pensioner who believes the | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
trash mail he gets to his letterbox telling him he has won $1 million. I | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
would love Chiwetel Ejiofor to win. But Matthew McConaghy, playing an | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
AIDS victim, he is the hot favourite. | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
The woman, Kate Blanchette, danger to Dench. -- Dame Judi. | :20:16. | :20:26. | |
Yes, Philomena was brilliant, but as good as she was in that film, a | :20:27. | :20:36. | |
lovely, clerical anger of a film, but I cannot see anybody beating | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
Kate Blanchette. A deluded woman who cannot believe her world has fallen | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
apart. That will be the Oscar. We will see who wins and Mark you | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
out of ten. A new treatment for blindness offers | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
hope to millions of evil with sight problems across the world. It | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
involves injecting genes into the eye. -- millions of people. Wine has | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
a rare genetic condition. -- Wayne. He was told he would lose his sight | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
in ten years. But he had a pioneering operation, which we | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
reported two years ago. It has improved his vision. | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
I looked at the night sky and saw stars for the first time in 15 | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
years. That is something for me. Because of a faulty genetic issue, | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
cells die, but doctors found a way to inject new working copies. And | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
some of the cells they thought were dead have since revitalised, | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
improving his vision. Doctors have been amazed at the improvement. It | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
shows the therapy is safe and effective. They believe it could | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
potentially be used to treat more common forms of likeness. -- | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
blindness. He was initially told he would not see his doctor grow up. -- | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
daughter. Following this therapy, he hopes to see his grandchildren. | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
Spike Milligan was renowned for his wit, humour, and style. He was also | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
very candid about his battle with mental illness. He helped make big | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
show one of the most popular the last century. -- the Goon Show. But | :22:40. | :22:50. | |
he grappled with depression. Now a new study based on comics from | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
around the world has suggested many may suffer from mental illnesses and | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
psychotic or smell to trade. -- personality traits. Susan Murray, | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
comedian, joins me now. Mental illness is no laughing matter, but | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
this link between psychotic disorders and comedians, doesn't | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
strike a chord? It does not take a genius to work | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
out that it is not normal to stand on stage seeking love for telling | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
jokes. If you ask any stand-up comedian, a UN little bit unhinged, | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
they will answer, of course I am! I don't know quite why they even did | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
the study. Because it is so obvious? Absolutely. Because comedians are | :23:44. | :23:54. | |
both introverted and extroverted? Yes. It is quite a hard thing to do, | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
but it is a creative outlet. I get to moan for a living. Then you get | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
somebody who works in an office for 50 years, hating their job, that is | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
more insane than what I do. But do you think people with the | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
personality traits we are talking about might be drawn to the world of | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
comedy because it offers self-medication almost? There is a | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
bit of that. But the study is a bit misleading. Psychotic traits? From | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
500 comedians I know, two have had a psychotic episode. The figure would | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
be smaller than the general population. So I think this is | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
sensationalist, really. But there has always been a widely held view | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
linking instability with creativity. You know, Vincent van Gogh off. | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
Absolutely. But I would make the point that to do the job I do, you | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
must be balanced, mentally tough, physically tough, it is 24/7, | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
driving everywhere, writing jokes, it is nonstop, and you must love | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
what you do. You don't have to be mentally ill to work here, blah, | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
blah, but I work for the News quiz and once wrote 80 jokes in two days. | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
Just from thoughts that come into my head, you might be in conversation, | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
generally that. Do you have a short, favourite joke? That is acceptable! | :25:52. | :26:04. | |
Broadcast quality? Maybe not! When I first got the call I thought this | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
was about psychopathic tendencies, and I wrote a joke about it, but it | :26:09. | :26:18. | |
is not the same as psychosis. We are a little bit twisted, it is the most | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
childish job in the world, apart from being an actual child. Children | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
are brilliantly bonkers! I have four of my own and agree with you on | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
that! Thank you very much indeed. That is all from this edition. Next, | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
the weather. Good evening. Hello. A day of sunny spells and | :26:43. | :27:01. | |
scattered showers. Heaviest to the West. Similar tomorrow. Some subtle | :27:02. | :27:13. | |
differences, perhaps showers easing in eastern areas. But low never far | :27:14. | :27:14. |