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>> and now "bbc world news. >> going home. three of the miners rescued after being trapped underground in chile have left hospital. the end of the killer virus, a scientific breakthrough to end a disease which has killed millions of cattle and destroyed farmers' lymphhoods. a senior u.n. official says government troops in the democratic republic of congo are raping and killing women in the east of the country. welcome to bbc news. brad cast to pbs this america and -- broad cast to pbs in america and around the world. israel describes mahmoud ahmadinejad's visit as provocative. singing from a different hymn sheet, how norway welcomed the swiss president in a rather

unusual style. three of the 33 chilean miners rescued after being trapped underground in chile for two months have been released from hospital. doctors treating them say all of the groups are doing well. president sebastian pinera of chile has promised new legislation to try to prevent any repeat of the accident. he's promised a radical change that would put workers' saist at the heart of chilean culture. -- safety at the heart of chilean culture. >> a day after the last miner was brought to the surface, the first few are released from hospital. three of the men cleared to go home by doctors where they've been since they were dramatically pulled from the depths of the earth. released amid tight security, all three now looking forward

to life on the outside. reunited with their families once again. earlier, chile's famous 33 appeared relaxed in hospital. posing with the president, his new best friends. all of the miners were taken in for medical checks. those remaining still waiting to be given a clean bill of health. they hope to be out over the coming days. they will be released tomorrow, mario gomez says, he was the ninth miner to be pulled from underground. elsewhere in the hospital, richard vilaroy tells reporters he feels good and how about all of the worldwide attention? it's emotional, he says. he also reveals he's waiting to be reunited with his wife who's heavily pregnant. chile's president has been following the rescue of the san jose mine very closely. a miracle took place underground and also on the surface, he said. among the people of chile, who

united today in a much stronger country. and these were the final moments for the rescue operation. deep under the mountain, last miner waits to go up, the passage, which has taken all of his colleagues to free them. minutes later, luis jaurs, 54, the shift supervisor, the captain, emerges, to the delight of those on the surface. the president leads the national anthem. now knowing the entire rescue mission is run smoothly. it's been a success. meanwhile, for the miners still in hospital, hope now they too will follow the three already released. to get back home and to try to start adjusting back to a normal life. >> so while we watch for news of the release of the other miners from the hospital, the wait goes on for the families.

speaking to the family of jimmy sanchez, 19 years of age, he's the youngest miner. >> four months old, looks a lot like her father but he hasn't been around for half of her short life and she knows it. >> he used to put her to bed. he used to sing to her and walk around the white house her. >> at 19, jimmy sanchez is the youngest of the rescued miners. he was said to be the most anxious. today he saw his girlfriend and daughter for the first time since his rescue. has he changed, i asked 17-year-old helen? he went out a boy and came out a man, she told me. and at the hospital where the miners have been recovering, this chaos, anxious relatives squeezed between news crews and emergency patients. >> this must be the most public visiting time in the world. hospital authorities are allowing miners to see their family members in small groups

so they can slowly get to know each other once again. and they haven't explained is how they're supposed to cope it all of this. >> all 33 miners and their families will get psychiatric support for six months. is it enough? >> i think the experience was very hard. i don't know if they all have the elements to face the fame and the oblivion. >> make no mistake. same is coming for men like carlos. he had been working in the mine just five days when it collapsed. his brother told me they haven't spoken about the ordeal. it's prohibited, he said, for their mental state, it's prohibited. >> prohibited by who? who told you? >> the doctors, he said. >> baby barbara is lucky daddy is coming home soon. but the future for this family will be very different to the one they imagined.

>> two miners remain trapped after three days in a colombian coal mine in the northeastern state of baika. the colombian red cross says no communication has been established with the miners. officials say they have 30 rescue workers working in shifts of 24 hours a day to get them out. it's said to be the biggest achievement in certain history, scientists have eliminate add virus which has devastated -- eliminated a virus which has devastated cattle. the u.n. food and agricultural organization said it will now suspend its efforts to track and eliminate the virus. our science correspondent reports. >> this virus has devastated cattle across the world for centuries. more recently, it's been prevalent in africa. when it first arrived here at the end. 19th century, the virus killed 90% of all cattle on the

continent. but thanks to a 16-year testing and vaccination program, the virus has been completely eradicated from the planet. >> it's had a devastating effect on so many poor farmers around the world. and it's a tremendous achievement that this virus has been removed from the face of the earth. >> it was researchers at britain's institute for animal health that developed cheap and simple ways of testing for infected animals. the elimination of the virus is due in large part to these easy to use kits. with them, hundreds of thousands animals can be tested very quickly. it's thanks to this kind of technology and the efforts of vets and sign -- scientists from across the world that we're rid of a virus that's killed so many cattle and destroyed so many lymphhoods. -- lymphhoods. >> the eradication of the virus has been described as the biggest achievement in veterinary history. one that could transform the lives of millions of the

poorest people on the planet. >> the u.n. special representative on sexual violence says government troops in the democratic republic of congo are raping and killing women in the same remote villages in the east of the country where hundreds were raped by rebels in july and august. the congressional ease government has been called to account -- the congolese government has been called to account and what she's hearing from the victims themselves. >> they all said the same thing. they want peace. they want peace for themselves and their families. they want to be able to go to the field and be able to sleep in their beds at night. they want to feel protected. and of course to get health care and access to those things as well. and they are afraid. and there is still a lingering fear because right now, national army soldiers are

deployed to the area. so they're under risk. and it was rather worrying what we heard. >> we're hearing that government soldiers in the region are now also raping just like the rebels raped. would a situation like this, how is it possible to stop this sexual violence? >> i think you have to address the problem of impugnity, if you have a fear of tolerance policy with fear of consequences then the rapes will continue. but you have to see that as a tactic of war. and you have to treat it as a phenomenon that can be addressed. and you do that by also sending a very clear signal that this is not acceptable. you will be punished if you do these things. also to the women, it's important to see that justice is done. >> what more can the security council do? you mentioned sanctionings. >> yeah, want them to use all the tools in their tool box. i want the security cowens toil

say -- the security council to say we are willing to do everything that we have access to or use all the tools that we have access to including naming and shaming and including visa bands and asset freeze and what have you. there should be no exit, no future career for perpetrators of sexual violence. all exits are closed. all doors should be closed. >> the iranian president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, has addressed a rally of hezbollah supporters in southern lebanon. just four kilomoters from the israeli border. taunting his archenemy he told the rally that the world should know that zionists will perish. the united states and israel have called his visit provocative. our middle east editor reports from lebanon. >> thousands came to see the man the israelis consider their most dangerous enemy.

just a few miles from israel's border. >> mahmoud ahmadinejad. [cheers and applause] >> to the cheers of the crowd, he turned to israel and said let the world know that the zionists are fated to go. they will have to return to their original homelands. bringing president ahmadinejad here was designed to play on israeli fears. and hugely symbolic for his audience and for his hosts, hezbollah, the lebanese shiite militia and political movement which is backed by iran. hezbollah fighters were never beaten in the 2006 war. despite repeated israeli attacks. in the south, or here in beirut, for his fellow shiites, president ahmadinejad was a welcome and reassuring guest. but he's also a reminder that if israel ever attacks iran's nuclear sites, his allies in hezbollah will most likely not

stay out of the fight. not everyone in lebanon believes that he's a symbol of resistance. there are plenty of others who think that president ahmadinejad's association with hezbollah could drag this country into another war with israel. one prominent group of critics here in beirut has complained that he's like a general. visiting his frontline. lebanon's problems aren't just connected to president ahmadinejad's faceoff with israel. sectarian tension is rising. between this country's sunnis and shiites especially. memories of civil war are always close. >> i see people from all communities. they are just afraid. they want some hope. they have not been able to build up a national conscience and not been able to get rid of this horrible sectarian regime, political regime. we have not been able. >> israel says president ahmadinejad's visit proves lebanon has become an iranian protectorate. the lebanese would not agree

but as he leaves lebanon the growing conflict in the middle east is a little sharper than it was before he arrived. jeremy bowen, bbc news, beirut. >> the u.s. secretary of state, hillary clinton, has told the bbc that washington is worried about the potential cuts to defense budgets in britain and other european countries. interviews during a visit to brussels, where she met nato chiefs, she said the alliance depended on a commitment to common defense which had to be maintained. you're watching bbc news. still to come, exploring the hitler years but will berlin's new exhibition open old wounds? the nato secretary general has said he's quite optimistic that the alliance will invest in a missile defense system to protect europe and america from hostile states. and speaking at a rare joint meeting of nato foreign and defense ministers in brussels. to discuss a new strategy for

the organization. from nato headquarters, our defense and security correspondent, nick charles, reports. >> this is in part what's concentrating nato mines. iran's ambitious missile program. it's one piece of the backdrop to the alliance's deliberations on how to modernize its defenses and its strategy. this gathering was the one and only chance for alliance ministers to consider its plans ahead of next month's summit. nato's top official believes the meeting has edged the organization toward adopting an anti-missile shield for nato territory as part of its new strategy when the leaders meet. even in an age of budget cuts. >> the threat is clear. the capability exists. and the costs -- i believe we can and should make missile defense for europe and nato capability because defense of our nation is what nato is all

about. >> the previous bush administration plan to build missile defense bases in poland and the czech republic stirred alliance controversy and russian antagonism. but president obama changed the focus. sam nato members are still thought -- some nato members are still thought to be unsure how this fits into policies of nuclear deterrence and disarmament but the nato secretary general wants to offer russia a share in the new plan. the mood music on missile defense has certainly changed dramatically here at nato in the last couple of years. but then so to has the desire for reform. to remain relevant. as the alliance tries to look beyond afghanistan. at nato headquarters in brussels. >> you're watching bbc news. the headlines this hour, three of the miners rescued after being trapped underground in chile have left hospital and are returning home. the rest are expected to leave by the end of the week.

a scientific breakthrough to eradicate a virus which has killed millions of cattle and destroyed farmers' livelihoods. with the trapped miners safe above ground, camp hope is emptying out. hundreds of media outlets are packing up and heading home. among them, my colleague, tim wilcox, on the way spotted a man walking across the desert with a journey of 800 kilomoters ahead of him. >> we have now left the san jose mine for the very last time. and as we were driving back toward kopapow, we spotted this man, reuben navias, striding along the road with this chilean flag. and we're going to speak to him now. what are you doing? [speaking spanish]

>> he's saying that he's walking from the san jose mine to santiago, the capital of chile. because he made a promise a month ago in church. he saw this flag in the church. and he said that if the miners get out before a certain date, i will make this walk. almost like a pill grammage to santiago -- pilgrimage to santiago. [speaking spanish] >> he's saying that he -- he made this promise because he said he made the promise to a virgin and if they came out safe and sound then this is what he would do. some sort of sign of telling the virgin mary that he was pleased with what had happened.

[speaking spanish] he said god was responsible for this. he believes in god. and that's why he's doing it now. these men are free. it was god's work. he's got a long way to go, doesn't he? >> gracias. >> france once again signs -- finds at a standstill as strikes have blocked most of the country's oil refineries. fuel distributors urge the government to release emergency supplies. the third day that nationwide blockades have caused transport chaos in major cities. that didn't stop tens of thousands of students taking to the streets to protest against president sarkozy's proposal to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. the high court in london has

ordered the current owners of liverpool football club to stop using the american legal system to try to prevent the sale of the team. despite this, the owner, tom hicks and george gillette, have taken their case back to a court in texas where they had earlier won an injunction blocking the sale. a majority of liverpool's directors want to sell the club to new england's sports ventures which owns the boston red sox baseball team. but mr. hicks and mr. gillet say the proposed deal undervalues the club. our sports correspondent, dan rowan, will explain. >> last night, we expected that a change of ownership from tom hicks and george gillett to john w. henry, the millionaire owner of the boston red sox baseball team, was in the offing only for that to be suffered by a last-minute intervention by hicks and gillett who had obtained a court injunction back home in dallas. that meant that both parties were back in the high court again today. we were there as well. to -- the jumming finding in

favor of -- the judge finding in favor of liverpool and against hicks and gillette. another court hearing took place in dallas. and had that gone in favor of liverpool's board, then a change of ownership could have been announced this evening. however, it's been adjourned. until 7:00 a.m. dallas time. that's 1:00 in the afternoon tomorrow. and maybe, just maybe then finally liverpool will become owned by john w. henry of the new england sports ventures group. but we've learned during this saga not to assume anything. and we'll have to wait until tomorrow afternoon to be sure. >> dan rowan reporting there. some other top stories for you now, and record numbers of homes are being repossessed in the united states. as a debate rages nationally about the way lenders are managing foreclosures. one company tracking foreclosures says u.s. banks repossessed more than 100,000 properties last month. the highest monthly number since the subprime mortgage crisis began two years ago.

the obama administration is appealing against the federal court ruling that orders the pentagon to stop enforcing its ban on gays serving openly in the military. the u.s. government says an immediate end to don't ask, don't tell will irreparably harm the public interest in a strong and effective military. but the pentagon says it will comply with the court order pending the appeal. the commander of international forces in afghanistan has insisted that the investigation into the death of the british aide worker linda norgrave is a priority. after speaking with the prime minister, david cameron, at downing street. the body of ms. norgrove who was killed as she was trying to be rescued from kidnappers was flown back today. now, it's a part of germany's past that the nation would rather not talk about. but tomorrow, an exhibition opens in berlin that explores the personality cult that grew

up around adolf hitler. it's the first time that relics of the nazi era have ever been displayed in this way. >> this is the first exhibition focused on the nazi leader since he killed himself in berlin in 1945. it's just been too controversial. the museums have shown the holocaust and slave labor and every other aspect of nazi germany. but they steered away from the man himself. a man who is at the center of everything. tiny children had hitler models to play with. the director of the museum gave me a -- there's a fear that neo-nazis might turn up but he's not worried. >> it is legally forbidden to show the swastika and images of hitler. except in scientific contexts. and this exhibition is not an exhibition of propaganda. >> some exhibits are poignant. on the front, a simple amateur

painting. but on the back, jewish script, the torah, just taken and used for a hobby. in a quiet street, three brass -- cobblestones, memorials to people who resisted hitler. looking on, he doesn't want a hitler exhibition in this city. >> this man was responsible for the deaths of my parents and a million other people. it's not a good feeling for me. >> the past is dangerous in this country. it's shameful. so they obliterated. if you want a sense of it and just come to this place, this dingy unremarkable car park. it's where hitler died. it's the bunker of which there is no sign. so hitler is taboo. there are memorials to his victims but not much public discussion.

>> the older ones feel guilty. and the younger ones don't understand. >> normally you are proud of your history. but we can't be proud about the -- about hitler. >> hitler is part of a big public exhibition. 65 years after he died. but for today's germans, the idea that so many of their grandparents and parents embraced his ideas remains traumatic. steven evans, bbc news, berlin. >> everything was in place for a grand state visit. they spent days making sure the whole event would run smoothly but when the swiss president arrived in norway, it didn't quite go to plan. >> etc. designed to celebrate a -- it's designed to celebrate a nation's pride, passion and power. so when a visiting dignitary comes home you want to make a

good impression and show your respect by asking your national band to play their national anthem. unfortunately, this band got it wrong. this is what it should have sounded like. ♪ the parade took place outside the palace. it was a welcoming ceremony for the swiss president who is on a two-day trip to the country's capital, oslo. the musicians say they got the tune from an archive but they're still not sure what it is. fortunately, though, does not appear to have done any lasting damage. after the ceremony, went for lunch with the king. >> it shows mistakes do happen. you're watching bbc news.

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