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>> and now "bbc world news." >> targeting nato's fuel supplies. a setback in guantanamo detainee as a key witness is barred from giving evidence. our report criticizes these obama administration's response to the gulf of mexico oil leak. welcome to "bbc world news". coming up later for you, rounding up the suspects. fbi agent fly to puerto rico to arrest more than 120 people on the drug related programs. the owners of liverpool football club tried to block a takeover bid by the boston red sox.

the united states has apologized for the nato helicopter attack inside pakistan that kills at at least two soldiers. they mistook the soldiers for insurgence. police say militants have attacked nato fuel tankers in afghanistan. it is the latest in a series of five raids on a don't convoys. -- on nato convoys. >> it is becoming a familiar sight -- nato tankers consumed by flames. a dozen gunmen towardrched a de. pot. a team from the bbc rest to the

scene. moments later, a correspondent had to run for cover. the taliban say they carried out the attack and tonight was followed by another. the more they are hit by u.s. drones, they say, the more they will hit the convoys. thosse convoys are sitting ducks. about 6000 lories have pbeen there. sources say there are managing without it. >> several of the border crossing points. so far operations are not impeded. we do not see anything to impact on the ifo operations throughout the country. >> the closure followed an airstrike that killed 02 pakistani troops.

america has said that a joint investigation concluded that u.s. helicopters mr. this soldiers for insurgents -- the solderis for insurgents. cia drone attacks are another source of tension. they are deeply unpopular here. they are increasing dramatically, amid worries that militants trained in pakistan could attack europe. pakistan's government is heavily criticized in a report. -- criticized the report. it accuses the government and the army of failing to tackle al qaeda head on. america and pakistan have a strategic alliance but the relationship is under strain on a number of fronts. >> in a setback for president obama is an attempt to close guantanamo bay, a key

prosecution witness in the first such trial has been barred from giving evidence. a judge ruled that testimony was not admissible because it was gained through course appeared ahmed khalfan -- through coerci. >> this is ahmed khalfan ghailani, the tanzanian accused of helping al qaeda blow up embassies in east africa 12 years ago. this was the scene after the blast in 90nairobi. as the first ever guantanamo bay detainee to be tried in a civilian court, the case is being closely followed. the judge has ruled that the government cannot call its star witness who was going to say that he saw ahmed khalfan ghailani hide explosives. why? because he named the witness while being interrogated in a secret cia jail. >> by holding someone like ahmed

khalfan ghailani outside the law, engaging in torture or other hard techniques, it makes it much harder to bring them to justice. >> there are 174 detainee's at guantanamo. where possible, the obama administration wants to try them in court rather than military commissions. in trying to use the rule of law, the obama administration is discovering its limitations. this ruling could undermine a civilian trial for the other detainees, including sheikh mohamad. if any evidence at all is gleaned from harsh techniques can be ruled inadmissible, that is a problem for the administration. here is how the top government legal officer responded to the setback. >> courts have shown an ability to handle these kinds of things

over the years. there is no reason to doubt that we can successfully do that in the future. >> there are always the military commissions. the obama administration is prepared to use them if it has to. a former bush official says they are an important tool. >> it is up to the obama administration to tell those who have been critical of these that they are inherently wrong and make the case for commissions for a >> trying the detainees in civilian courts would never be easy but the trial of ahmed khalfan ghailani was meant to be one of the most straightforward one. >> of the cia used a secret prison in europe to torture its most important here is a suspect scared that is the view of the official who first uncovered a secret. he told the bbc said that there is no reliable evidence that the man accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks was tortured in poland in the month before that country joined the european union. >> hidden in thick forest behind

multiple layers of water, the polish intelligence base, thought to have been a secret cia presented a site that constantly patrolling soldiers were reluctant to let us film. human-rights officials are now convinced that it was here this year a brought their most significant detainee, mohamad, and used interrogation techniques to force him and other prisoners to talk. >> they were subject to very intense and torture during interrogation, including as far as we understand, waterboarding. >> flight logs pieced together a show an executive jet links to the cia left kabul short after he was captured. the official flight plan to budapest was secretly changed and records just released now confirm that the plane actually landed in poland.

we traveled to the small airport that documents and finally obtained through a freedom of information request no proof was visited by half a dozen cia aircraft in 2003. so the paper trail suggest that within days of being detained in pakistan, sheikh mohamaed was brought here, a place that the cia could operate in complete secrecy. a senior airport employee told me that after landing, the american planes would head to the far end of the runway to meet vehicles from the intelligence base. the inspector general concluded, "came 1 received83 -- 183 applications of the waterboard in march, 2003. ." the suspect himself believe he was in poland.

the senator her first documented the secret prisons says that he thinks that the evidence has become overwhelming -- america did torture of terrorist suspects on european soil. >> [speaking french] if i used the judicial standard of proof, i say yes, he was in poland. yes, she was tortured. >> in response, the cia told us, the program was over. this agency does not discuss publicly where detention facilities may or may not have been. a senior polish prosecutor is now considering whether to bring charges. >> authorities and ecuador have detained more than 40 police officers in connection with last week's police revolt against president rafael correa. he said he is determined to purge force.

the president had to be rescued by the army last thursday during a violent protests by police officers complained against plans to cut their benefits. a draft report has found that the obama administration's response to the oil spill in the gulf of mexico in april could have delayed action to contain the leak. the commission said that officials were too optimistic about handling the disaster and relied too much on data from the bp oil company, and blocked worst-case estimates about the extent of the spill. the obama administration disputes the commissions finding. earlier, our correspondent in washington told me the report has not yet been finalized. >> this is a a draft report, written by staffers working for the national commission. it is not a final, signed off report yet. but these documents have been made public on the commissions

website here today, and they are pretty damning in their criticism of the obama administration. the main criticisms are that during the first crucial 10 days of this incident, government officials were overly optimistic in their impression of bp's ability to handle the oil spill. government scientists under estimated initially the amount of oil pouring into the gulf of mexico and later overestimated the amount of oil as it evaporated or otherwise been taken out of the sesa. the report -- the sea. the report singles out carol browner. she went on american television and all this and said it 75% of the oil had gone. and that was wrong, plain and simple. >> have we had any reasons from the u.s. government as to why they kept that -- or misled? >> in terms of keeping that

information, what he refers to is this suggests that the white house budget office blocked the publication of the worst case scenario estimate for the amount of oil that was flowing into the gulf of mexico. according to this report, coast guard officials went to the white house and said, we think it would be a good idea to put that worst case scenario figure out there, and the white house said no. the comments from the administration this evening have been very limited. is simply to say, they acted on the best information available at the time. there is no evidence of any of the paperwork that its mobilization of resources was delayed. again, this was just a draft, preliminary report. >> you are watching "bbc world news". lost letter. a lost poelm by one of britain's finest poets sheds new light on the suicide of his

wife. the hon daring government says that those responsible for our huge toxic sludge leak will be held responsible. it is thought that the cleanup process could take a year. chemicalry's worst ever accident, 15 square miles. the disaster struck at lunchtime on monday, sweeping away everything in its path. the police are out in force to investigate the causes, not just to help the victims. more than 48 hours after this disaster happened, there is a noticeable change in the feelings of local people. shock and grief are giving way to anger. why did this happen and who is responsible? and as the roads were open, the sheer extent of the damage is revealed here >> my wife cowbird

from the hips down. and my little boy is depressed. he is traumatized. he does not want to leave the hospital. a 3 year old said that. >> the cleanup operation has finally got into full swing. help has poured in from all over. the first task is to clear the mud off the streets. >> 90% of the residents are saying they never want to move back here because no one can guarantee that this will never happen again. >> the focus is shifting out to new threats. the toxins are gushing towards the river danube, only 50 muiles iles north. clay is poured in to dillute the chemicals. the danube is a source of drinking water for five countries.

>> you are watching "bbc world news". militants and pakistan launched another attack on a nato tanker convoy bound for afghanistan. in a further setback to president obama is an attempt to close guantanamo bay, a key prosecution witness has been barred from giving evidence. u.s. federal agents have arrested more than 100 puerto rican a law-enforcement officials on drug-related charges. it is being described as the biggest corruption investigation the fbi has ever mounted. several of the defendants are accused of providing armed security for cocaine traffickers. >> of this is operation guard shack. during a series of predawn raids around 130 people, most of them

police officers, were arrested across per rick:. many of the officers were charged with providing armed security to cocaine dealers in return for cash. >> we are faced with the reality that drug trafficking has invaded the sanctity of our municipal police departments. many times during this investigation -- the >> the operation was the culmination of a two-year investigation. over 6000 federal agents were flown in to arrest the suspects, who included u.s. military personnel, prison guards, and a civilian. >> this was a law enforcement at its best. you had an investigation that lasted over two years. your 750 fbi agents from various parts of this country to puerto rico. and there was not one league. there is not one disclosure during the course of that investigation. >> is a dark day for puerto

rico's police force, which was suffering from a tarnished reputation before the arrests. authorities of the operation will help disrupt the flow of drugs and bound for the u.s. >> the british prime minister david cameron has told his conservative party at its annual conference that he can promised prosperity in future is difficult decisions are taken out. mr. cameron said he wished there was an easier way, but warned of job losses and spending cuts to come this report does contain some flash photography. >> meet britain's new wartime leader. that is how david cameron shares to present himself. he is the first tory leader to address his conference since winston churchill. some believe they are only sharing power because they failed to win the election, but

the prime minister insisted that he and nick clegg came together in the national interests. >> at this time of great national challenge, two parties have come together. a government that believes in people, that knows its ultimate role is not to take from people, but to give power, to give control, to give everyone a chance to make the most of their own life. yes, will play our part, but the part you play will be even more meaningful. your country needs you. >> despite the cuts he would protect the nhs, the sick and the elderly. but those who hinted were the undeserving poor would feel the impact heard >> we are giving people what they deserve, and what people deserve can depend on how they behave. if you really cannot work, you will all -- we will always look after you appeared but if you can work and you refuse to work,

we will not let you live off the hard work of other scares. >> the loved that, but what left this conference on moved was the big idea that many hope david cameron would quietly dropped after the election. again and again, the prime minister tried to evoke the big society. >> i know the british people. they are not passengers. they are drivers. let's pull together. let's work together in at the national interest. >> david cameron evoked the spirit of the war, telling the nation, quite simply, your country needs you. >> this is not one of those speeches littered with new pledges or unveiling fresh promises. it was an appeal for national unity from upright minister telling this country to tell stand with him, as they face

a message challenge -- a massive challenge. >> the american owners of liverpool are trying to block the bid to sell it. they have accepted a bid from the owners of the boston red sox baseball team. the premier league says that they have to give the sale to go ahead by friday. >> the attempted takeover of liverpool football club is not a conventional deal. the chairman is selling the club from under its owners, who are now trying to block him in the courts. they have loaded up liverpool with a heavy burden of bank debt, and with level starting so badly, fans are desperate. many liverpool supporters feel a reluctance to go. >> it's a great pity that at

the end of an exhaustive process, a competitive bid that we had, that they will not take the last opportunity to be the good guys and passover liverpool to their right owners. that is what they promised to do. that is what they said they wanted to do. at the last minute, when it does not pay them enough, they have chosen to fight it. i can understand their disappointment, but they are not corn to get their money back, -- that they are not going to get their money back, but this is an an exhaustive process per >> if the courts were to allow the sale, it would still go through, via the to militating mechanism of liverpool being put into administration under insolvency. the red sox proprietor is proposing to pay $480 million.

$320 million would pay off the debt. not even a brass farthing would go to hicks and gillet. they stand to lose the money they put into the club. it will do all they can to frustrate the deal. if it seems likely the deal does go through one way or another, liverpool have relatively modest dest. bt. that is no guarantee of sporting success. >> the previously unknown poem by the late poet laureate has come to light. the poem described what happened when he received a letter from his estranged wife sylvia plath before she took her own life. >> ted hughes, one of britain's

finest poets, the poet laureate till his death in 1998. he was known in particular for his marriage to the american writer and poet sylvia plath. it was a passionate, tempestuous, and troubled relationship. in 1963, so the plan took her own life, a tragic event on which it is being shed through a previously unpublished poem. i am here at the british library, surrounded by the archive they surrounde2found in 2008. it is here the new poem was unearthed. this small exercise book. "what happened that night, that final night? late afternoon, friday, my last

sight of you alive, burning your letter to me in the ashtray with that strange smile." a friend of hughes uncovered the poem. it details in chronological order the last weekend of sylvia plath's life. she reassures them everything is ok. she burns the letter. he leaves. she commits suicide. "then a voice like a measured injection truly delivered is four years deeply into my ear -- your wife is." dead." how important is it in the context of the rest of his poetry? >> it is the keystone. look at the first line -- what happened that night? if is called"last letter."

it ends "your wife is dead." it is the missing link. it is the completion of one of the great long poems of the 20th century. hughes was vilified as having a negative effect on work.'plattsylvia path's life d the publication of the, may lead to further controversy. >> the united states apologized for the helicopter attack inside pakistan last week that killed two pakistani soldiers. the white house has raised serious concerns about pakistan's willingness to tackle growing militancy to courts of the afghan border. the obama administration's initial response to the catastrophic oil spill in the gulf of mexico and april -- and officials were too optimistic about handling the disaster. you are watching "bbc news."

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