this is "bbc america "and now live from london, bbc live news. >> hello. our top story, the murder trial of oscar pistorius resumes. a psychological report concluding he did not have a mental disorder when he killed his girl friend. >> mr. pistorius did not suffer from a mental defect at the time of the offense that would render him not responsible as charged. >> and isis declares an islam being state.

and more survivors of a man and woman are pulled alive from the rebel of a collapsed building in southern india. and two americans on trial accused of hostile acts against the state. hello. the trial of oscar pistorius, an opinion that he did not suffer from a mental disorder. a six-week break was taken to determine if he had a a mental disorder. his lawyer said he suffered from an anxiety disorder.

mr. pistorius contends he had mistaken her as an intruder. >> mr. pistorius did not suffer from a mental illness at the time of the offense that would have rendered him criminally not responsible for the offenses charged. mr. pistorius was capable of appreciates the wrongfulness of his act and of acts in accordance with an appreciation of the wrongfulness of his act. my lady, the panel have rendered their reports, my lady. it's then my understanding of the procedure and the process to be followed it's up to the state and defense to indicate to the court if it's accepted by us and if we would want witnesses to testify on it. we had a quick discussion this morning, my lady, if the court would allow us, as far as the

findings are concerned, i think we both accept the finding of the panel. >> the doctor amputated pistorius' legs when he was just 11 months old. he described how vulnerable the athlete is because of what happened to him. >> his ability to turn around is severely impaired by the lack of balance and the instability of his stumps. on his stumps in a dangerous situation, his ability of fleeing is severely impaired, and his ability to ward off danger is severely impaired. conclusion: on stumps, oscar pistorius has serious difficulty walking or standing without support. even with sport his walking is severely impaired by the small size of the bone ends of his stumps and the soft tissue instability of his stumps, and

he can only do this for short periods of time. >> we're just going to take you to the court proceedings live at the moment, actually on a 30-second delay just to avoid anything unfortunate or difficult being broadcast, as has been the risk previously. just to let you know that the prosecutor isn't seeking to dispute the medical findings but he is continuing to test the conclusions he's made just about how mobile oscar pistorius is and how vulnerable he is. let's listen in. >> that's before he became in contact with it? >> absolutely. >> would he necessarily fall when he walks without the device, right next to the bed? >> if he -- if he put the foot down on the thing that he wasn't expecting, he would be in danger of falling.

>> in danger of falling. but would he fall as fact? >> no, not necessarily. >> and would it make a difference if the bed's right next to him? >> my lady, if you watch him walking, he's looking for places to put his hands so that he can balance himself. so if he knows that he's got an object nearby, that would allow him a little bit more freedom because then he could add balance if he fell on it, it wouldn't be the same as crashing on to the floor. >> have you asked him to demonstrate to you over the time what you would consider a

running? >> i haven't witnessed mr. pistorius run ing. >> on his stumps, what would you say that running would be? >> it would be a number of very short steps, and it would be quite cumbersome. my lady, when he puts his leg down on the left side, the stump has to be in a specific position, and he actually goes down on the left side each time he takes a step because the knee is bent and it is turned inwards, and you can actually see the leg battle a little bit when he puts weight under it. so it's not -- it's not -- it wouldn't be running as you and i know it, my lady. >> thank you, my lady. i have no further questions.

>> the defense lawyer for oscar pistorius had been asking about the pain factor for oscar pistorius walking but also asked the doctor about any adrenaline he'd been having at that moment, in other words, when panicked he perhaps wouldn't be bothered by the pain in his stumps. the court is about to adjourn and take a break. andrew harding inside the court there, you can follow him on twitter. he is regularly giving detailed update from inside the court in pretoria. court adjourning there again now in pretoria. >> let's move on to our other main news today because the islam militant group isis says it's establishing an islamic

state or caliphate. the leader says this shows this is a threat to all. >> reporter: stirring images of the military's attempt to retate tikrit. no sign of the city and it not clear what these desert pictures mean. reports say sunni militants have set dozens of explosive devices among roads. >> translator: what was accomplished yesterday and overnight is the first phase. >> for the prime minister, nouri al-maliki, success in tikrit is vital. the first of several jets have arrived. the government says they're badly needed.

but the militants of isis are forging ahead in their own plan, erasing in the latest video the old border between iraq and syria. the militants operate freely on both sides of the border and say they are now citizens of a new islamic state. >> well, i spoke to paul still in baghdad and he told us it wasn't entirely clear what it currently happening in the city of tikrit. >> i wish i could give you something difin tich but i can't. we know this operation goes on. the indications over the past 24 hours or so are that it is not going well for the iraqi military. we're heard reports yesterday suggesting that they might have pulled back some 10 or 20 kilometers south of tikrit. there were reports of the use of roadside bomb devices around the approach roads to tikrit, making

it difficult for the government forces to enter, and nothing that we have seen so far and nothing, frankly, that we have heard so far indicates that the fighting has reached the city center itself. there was some footage that was broadcast yesterday on iraqi state tv, that's what you just saw in my report, it wasn't at all clear what any of that footage really represented. so for the moment i think we have to say that isis and its other sunni militia allies continue to hold the city but that this operation hasn't been abandoned yet. >> and, paul, can you just explain a bit more about the use of the word caliphate and when the head of isis says it is the ruler of all muslims, has there been any reaction to that? is that expected to carry any weight? >> i think it's regarded very much as another propaganda exercise by the isis militants, but one should not for a moment

downplay the symbolic significance of what they are saying and doing. this is something the establishment of a caliphate, rule over the whole muslim world, which is something that sunni exaactivists have harbore for decades. now as they've been able to capture those borders, they are able to say, as no one before them has been able to say, we are actually doing this on the ground, we are putting this dream into some kind of reality. it may seem like a strange, slightly almost comical or farceical exercise but i won't say one should downplay the influence on young people should

have. >> and in cairo, an attack killed a police officer and wounded three other people. it took place on the third anniversary of the protest that led to the removal of mohamed morsi. >> and sarkozy is to be questioned about alleged illegal political donations. >> north korea says two american tourists arrested for allegedly committing hostility acts across the state. matthew miller has been held since april after he ripped up his entry visa and demanded asylum in north korea. we get an update on the case from seoul in south korea. >> there isn't much that the north korean state media is telling us at the moment except

few details and also that both men have confessed. we should note that north korea always says that. they did say both men had access to consulate support and they were carrying further investigations with a view to putting both men on trial. in the past when north korea has arrested american tourists or missionaries in this ways are there as usually been a high-level discussions to secure their release. that hasn't happened in these cases. neither has it happened in the case of kenneth bae, currently serving 15 years of hard labor.

relations between washington and pyongyang have been frozen for more than a year now. there seems to be very little the u.s. can do in trying to influence these incidents. >> it's been reported by reuters there's been a second explosion and second egyptian police officer killed in a blast at cairo's presidential palace. that is to security sources saying a second police officer and a second blast near the president palace in cairo. that was after an original blast where a number of people were injured. we will update you on that as soon as we can. first of all, let's find out what's going on with paribas, a very interesting one. >> yes, it's france's biggest

bank is expected to pay a record $9 billion fine for years of dealing with u.s. black listed sued and and iran in a case that has strained ties between paris and washington. regulators are expected to dish out the largest penalty on a foreign bank after a week of negotiations between lawyers at the bank, as well as the u.s. regulators. bnp has a strong enough capital base to handle penalties. the size of the fine they can handle but the temporary suspension of parts of his dollar handling business in the united states, which is key for any major bank operation could be a significant hit on its earnings. we're expecting that later this afternoon. we'll keep across that story and bring it to you right here on "bbc world news." argentina is set to enter a technical default for the second time in 15 years today unless it can strike a last-minute deal

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over the charge he bought royal directory from newspapers. last week he was found guilty conspiracy to hack phones. all pretty complicated, robin. can you explain what's happening today and politically why this matters. >> today first we had a decision from the crown prosecution, the prosecutorial authority in this country about whether andy corsen, the man once in charge of the news of the world could face a retrial. the jury could not find a verdict on separate charges that he paid police officers for the internal phone directories to

get the contact numbers of members of the royal household. so andy coulson has had the weekend to sit and wait and now they've decided it is in public interest to proceed with a retrial. so the two men will be back in court. we don't know when it will be but they will face another trial on the allegations of corruption. >> and that will be in the light of an already standing new conviction, which politically has had huge resonance because of andy coulson's former job. >> yes, there were renew questions about the prime minister's judgment with the hiring of andy coulson. he was went on months after he was forced out of his job for

news of the world, he became their chief news operator. and the prime minister said he wanted to give him a second chance and he was assured at the time he was not involved in phone hacking and mr. cameron was forced to make an apology in public and said he did not know at the time that mr. coulson was involved and he did ask questions and was given assurances and if he did know then what he knows now he would not have hired him. the man who was once the most senior spin doctor in government at the very top of the tree when it came to the media operation had been convicted of phone

hacking and is now a guilty man. >> robin, we know andy coulson became quite close plirnl to david cameron but this is very complex. is it possible to tell whether this has had any effect on the voters in the u.k. on how they regard the prime minister and his judgment. >> i've spoken to andy coulson and he still refers to david cameron as d.c., an intimate way to refer to someone he hasn't worked for for several years. issues of the economy and immigration are more pertinent among the voters in the country. >> thanks. >> four villages in northeastern

nigeria has been attacked by suspected islamic militants. a villager told the bbc that 46 people have been killed. our reporter told me the attacks happened on sunday morning just before they were going to church. they entered the village, they started shooting at people who were worshipping and burned down the churches in some of these villages. they are all very close to the town where the girls were abducted. >> we're told this was a difficult area for anyone to get

into, there was always a fear of more abductions if more wasn't done. what is the level of security and protection for people there? >> i think the level of security is very low because people are still complaining. after the attack on the village, they sent calls for s.o.s. to security. some of the soldiers there refused to enter into the village that was attacked. they waited outside the village and started shooting inside the village. the gunmen finished what they were doing and lef the village without the military there confronting them. despite the numerous attacks taken in this area and despite

being told there were more abductions and despite no word on the 200 girls that were abducted. there has not been enough done by the government to return the girls.

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. the murder trial of oscar pistorius resumes. the report cluoncluding he did t have a mental disorder. >> the stunning military group isis declares an islamic state in land it controls in iraq and syria. >> a rare interview with one of

america's most wanted men accused of master minding the mum bai terror attack. >> and a boat found overloaded with migrants trying to reach europe. hello. the trial of oscar pistorius held he did not suffer from a mental illness when he shot his girl friend. the trial broke for six weeks to determine whether pistorius suffered from a mental illness.

mr. pistorius says he miss took his girl friend for an intruder. what have the lawyers been telling the court today? >> reporter: yes, this morning we had the report that -- of the mental evaluation of oscar pistorius and the prosecutor read parts of the report to the court. >> mr. pistorius did not suffer from a mental defect or mental illness at the time of the commission of the offense that would have rendered him not responsible for the charge. and mr. pistorius was kacapablef the wrongfulness of his act and the seriousness of the wrongfulness of his act. the panel have submitted their reports, my lady. it's then my understanding of

the procedures and the process to be followed it's up to the state and the defense to indicate to the court if it's accepted by us and if we would want witnesses to testify on it. we had a quick discussion this morning, my lady. if the court would allow it, as far as the findings are concerned, i think we both accept the finding of the panel. >> reporter: and after that, then the defense counsel for oscar pistorius called another witness, dr. gerald versfeld, who amputated oscar pistorius when he was only 11 months old

and what he said about the vulnerability of him. >> his ability to turn around is limited. on his stumps in a dangerous swarks his ability to -- in a dangerous situation, his ability to leave is severely impaired. his walking is severely impaired by the small size of the bone ends of his stumps and the soft tissue instability of his stumps and he can only do this for short periods of time. >> reporter: and the court is still going through the motions that both counsel have been arguing about details of the evidence that were presented by the police.

>> okay. can you just explain for us overall how significant it s this ruling on oscar pistorius? that is crucial, isn't it, in a potential verdict or sentences? >> reporter: yes. onces report said he did not suffer from any mental defect at the time of the incident on valentine's day last year, it means that he knew the difference between wrong and right and he is, therefore, potentially liable for a criminal responsibility if he is indeed found guilty. if he was found to have the mental disorder, then that would have meant that he probably could not have been held liable for criminal responsibility.

so the proceedings now are continuing as normal before the six-week break. defense is still calling its own witnesses to try and shore up mr. pistorius's own version that he did not intend to kill his model girl friend reeva steenkamp. >> a vessel headed from sicily to north africa is now being brought to pozzallo containing victims that appear to have suffocated. thinking about the torment that people must is suffered in that boat, what do we know? >> the italian navy conducts a continuous search in those

waters. at one of their crews moved in, they found something like 600 people crammed aboard and among them the 30 dead bodies. these are people who had been in compartments down below decks and there's been speculation that perhaps choking fumes from the engine contributed to the disaster. there's sometimes a rough economic division between people aboard these dangerously overcrowded vessels. we hear sometimes those were more money being able to pay to travel on the upper deck and the poorer passengers forced to go below where there can be choking fumes from the engine. >> and the numbers are huge, why so many? >> that's right. huge figures. we haven't heard of that sort of figure in a two-day period so

far this year, just yet one more sign that this stream of refugees is growing all the time. we had as many this year in june as last year. if you ask why, places like syria and the refugee camps seems to be deteriorating, more and more people wanting to come and they gather in libya where the security situation is that they are often desperate to move on as quick as they can. now is the time, the summer months, the weather is better and seats are calm aer and it's sometimes called the sailing season where people attempt to make it from north africa to the shores of italy. >> many thanks. >> now, hafiz saeed is said to

be the man behind the organization that was responsible for the bombings in mumbai. they met him where he is still free. >> reporter: the u.s. and africa accuse of him being the mastermind of the 2008 bombings of mumbai. >> translator: america always takes decision best on india.

i had nothing to do with the attacks. it is just propaganda. >> reporter: india is still traumatized by the assault in which 366 people died. both countries say they have extensive evidence that saeed orchestrated the attacks with the help from pakistan. as long as he's able to live so freely here in lahore, there's little chance of a [ through between pakistan and his old enemy, india. when the pakistani prime minister went to new dehli, s

saeed was vocal. >> until you are prepared to put yourself before the court, india can never move on. aren't you the obstacle to better relations between india and pakistan. >> kashmir should be free andndia must withdraw its hundreds of thousands of troops occupying the territory. we are not the obstacle to better relations. >> and then hafiz saeed, the man with the $10 million bounty on his head, quietly leaves. >> and the military said it's begun grand operations against

militants in waziristan. our correspondent there is saying there are now widespread reports that many militants were allowed to escape before the operations began. pakistan is often accused of supporting one set and trying to route out the pakistani taliban, though they are denying they are rooting out good and bad elements of the taliban. >> now, it islamic militant group isis says it's establishing a caliphate or islamic state on the territory it is controls in iraq and syria. it's also proclaimed its leader as caliph of all.

caliph, which means successor in arabic, rules the large territory that muslim forces have conquered. of course isis can declare themselves to be a caliphate but how many will follow, how many will dispute that? what does it mean? >> reporter: well, a few weeks ago we didn't think that many people within the sunni community in iraq would follow or accept isis advances, which took place over the past few weeks. establishing a caliphate is

different, it gives isis leader an absolute power. by definition he will be asking for allegiance from the sunni tribes and population in iraq, parts of iraq and parts of syria. that will be problematic. many powers and groups within the sunni groups, that will be difficult. they are also facing the threats of the shi'a powers, the shi'a-led government of nouri al-maliki in iraq and the main shi'a regional power, iran. >> iraq has said, the government has said, that this statement is a threat to many neighboring countries. the picture is so complex, it's

very hard to keep pace at times. when you look at the allegations of funding from saudi and qatar and you look at where isis is now, are they going to feel threatened? >> reporter: one has to remember that, for example, saudi arabia, which is a major sunni power in the middle east, denounced isis and classified it as a terrorist organization, but there are many accident calls within the shiite community about the alleged links between saudi arabia and qatar, which is also another sunni power and the radical sunni groups like isis. the threat of isis and its caliphate is that it's now challenging the borders of the nation states that emerge after the fall of the last caliphate, which was the empire about a hundred years ago. now this is a challenge not for the shi'a communities but also for the established sunni powers

like saudi arabia and that's why in that sense it's very interesting to see how the regional system across the middle east will deal with this significant development. >> so much changing. rafid jaboori, thanks very much. >> in egypt, two home made bombs have gone off in cairo, wounded two officers and many others. a few days ago, a muslim ground threatened to carry out a series of explosions in the area. >> and david cameron's chief is to face a retrial on the charge that he hacked phones.

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the murder trial of oscar pistorius has resumed in pretoria, saying that he was not mentally ill in his killed his girl friend. >> and sunni militants in iraq declared a caliphate. >> now, the former french president, nicolas sarkozy's lawyer and a magistrate are to

be questioned in a probe of corrupti corruption, seeking inside information about donations for his 2007 campaign. former president's political career certainly not over. what's all this about today? >> reporter: well, one of the top lawyers in france has been making a rather dogged defense on these investigations into alleged illegal campaign funding relating to the 2007 presidential campaign. it's emerged that during these investigations they began phone tapping the former president, listening in on his conversations, unprecedented, i would have to say. and in the course of these conversations they were listening in on, they allege that the president and his

lawyer were trying to get information from judges on which way the investigations were going. they were trying to get a steer, illegally from this judge. and in return for that information, they say mr. sarkozy was promising the judge a top post in monaco, a gilded retirement post if you will. so both are being called in for questioning today, following raids at their homes and at the chambers of the judge. as of yet they are not suspects. >> wa does this do to mr. car cozy's political ambitions? >> well, the conservative u.m.p. is in a state of disarray at the moment. there are all sorts of corruption and scandals that have dogged the party over the last few months. in fact, the leader who took

over for mr. sarkozy resigned a couple of months ago. so there is leadership battle going on right now. a lot of people in the party still want mr. sarkozy to run for the presidential campaign in 2017. you do fancy they may opt for the two front-runners because they want to breakwith the past and detach themselves from the scandal they see. i think there are some in the party with the twist and turns with the judicial investigation, there are some in the party who are starting to think mr. sarkozy is a liability. there is no smoking gun at the moment but it does damage mr. sarkozy's chances of returning. >> now, facebook is facing criticism after it emerged it

conducted a psychology experiment on nearly 700,000 users without their knowledge. it covered a single week in 2012 when it saw facebook manipulate news feeds to gauge if exposure to certain emotions led some people to change their own facebook usage. they said none of the data used was associated with a specific person's facebook account and it was use to determine how people respond to different types of content, whether it's positive or negative in tone, news from friends or information from pages. this does sound pretty infuriating if you're on facebook. >> it's very frustrating for consumers or anyone who uses social networks to find out things are being done with their data. what i find the most surprising is if you've ever read through

all of those forms and conditions before you tick that box, i took the liberty of sitting this morning and reading through the facebook data use policy and within there there's a bit that says for research purposes, we can totally do this. what's really interesting about this is so many people will happily throw their data all over the place and it's a very interesting story because, yes, on the one hand perhaps ethically there is a slightly gray area here where we're experimenting on people but then on the other hand, we've kind of agreed to it because we're using the service. >> unwittingly, i imagine, most of us. can you explain exactly what they were doing? >> what it said -- i'm assuming people are familiar with facebook. people will write a story and it will arrive on your home page, i'm happy this amazing thing happened or sad this certain thing happened. there are a list of words so

that some people would get served more sad things and some things served more sad things and there is something outside of facebook and outside of technology where if somebody has a particular emotion, can you catch that emotion. so what the research study was was is it possible to catch that emotion from reading a status update? >> can you give me very quickly an example? >> i'm really happy because i just got married and somebody else would feel happy as a result of their friends getting married. that would be the kind of premise these people wanted to research. >> what was the experiment result? >> i think the result was that it does but then everything does as we are quite moody. >> sunshine affects me in a

positive way. you must let us know on facebook or twitter what you know about that. >> our top story, the oscar pistorius trial, it was determined he was not mentally ill when he shot his girl friend. and just to let you know at the moment, the current witness is an acoustic engineer, who the defense have called to try and decide whether or not the screaming that was heard were male or female. this is one of the key claims against oscar pistorius and one of the first pieces of evidence against against him. his defense said when he screams, he sounds like a woman. of course the prosecution saying the screaming the neighbors heard was that of reeva steenkamp, who was terrified she was going to lose her life. the current witness an acoustic engineer, the defense hoping to

discredit the state witness. >> there is much more on our web site. i'm back tomorrow. do try and join me then if you can. thanks for watching us today. this is "bbc world news." f provokes lust. ♪ it elicits pride... ...incites envy... ♪ ...and unleashes wrath. ♪ temptation comes in many heart-pounding forms. but only one letter. "f". the performance marque from lexus.

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