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>> union bank haput s obalxpertise to work for a wi range of companies. from small business toajor corporations,whacan do for you? >and w, "bbc world news." >> tombing ctinues until colonel gadfi lves power. the u.s u.k. and franceay the militaryampan should go . as no appeals for more planes, coition forcesombed military rgets near central, ipoli. it and to tho kidpped in za he been found dead. hrain has movedo dislve an
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operation -- an oppositi group. lcome to bbc news broadcasting to our viewers on s inmerica dround the globe. coming up later, ang otesrs dispted bp's stressed agm sincthe l spill still in t gulof mexico. andhe air traffic controller in the u.s. resig after another ctroller is found asep on duty. ♪ >> hello. back obama, david caron and nicholas sarkozy hessuea join resolutionthat the militaryampaign will ctinu until lonegaddafi igone the newsper id at a future wh gaddafi inharg would be
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a betyal of the libyan peopl first, foreign miste debated how to boosthe mitar efrt, and no aircraft attaed the capal otripoli. first the sound of milary jets. earlr th week, at trili did not fe lik a ci awork --t war. from the of where we were live broadcasting, it wa clear that was changing. there were burs ofnti- airaft fire, and tn around miles away, the nat plas hit their target. all happened while nato was meetg in berlin, prosing wh it called hig operational mper -- tempo. about an hour later, they took to the scene of the attack. the bus sppedt a record cafe
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a university campus. the windowsadeen blown out, and e dos. witnses say up to people have beound by flying ass. the was a military bebout 50yard ay, but they did not want us to fil it. the officials demanded in mory card, wch h some pictures on it. >> you brought us to this place to fm an accurate and why y want to takthe ctures away? --ou brght uso this plac to film. whdo y want toake the pictes away? theyaveaken away the memory card, which contain a fe ages containeof a mitaryase. theibyarought us hereo cld fl the dage univsity cafeteria. they aretryi to ntrol the mesage. they want that films, but not that. >> whave other pictures. smallires were stillurning the base
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thoffial reactio i still this missive. >> ty are packing very old army camas, cckpoints, and sometimes ans -- empty spaces. we ticehat they ce about is the siz of the expsion and th is sible to e civilian pulatn intricaty and otheplan -- in trili and her aces. while all of that was ppening, colonel gadda was strugglingo -- driving through tripoli on the5th annersa noth air strike by the americans on his fors. to cannot agree exactly how they want him rovedrom ofce, t thewant him out he hasther ide. jeremy bowen, bb news, trili. >> let'get re onthatoint ticl. athe lders of france,k, and the u.s., our correspondent in waingt says the mission iso he conel gaddi remod, but not nessarily a regime change.
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>> a particularly interesting part of this steme from the u., grtritain, and france a pt whe they basically say that as long amuamr gaddafi is pow inibya, the nato military opatio will continue, which is aairl bold stement, given the situation onthe ground in liby thtimi of this stemenis particularly interesting. it ces hot off the hills of comments bthe french market- french forgn minisr a the nferce of foreign ministers wher he basally said that he had asked the sec -- the u.s. secrary state hillary clinton that if the u.ould again prode more planes t mitary operations in lib. her rpons aareny, was th the.s. will pvide planes on a casey case basis. that is another way of saying that she said no. >> nevertheless,aracobama s joed the oer t leers
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in this publici. >> that is right. i think t statement is an expression of unity. it iseally saying, loo the have been a lot of rerts and there have been a lot of rerterall around the world anin the u.s. as well about e debate an which nation should beroviding how much and what. th french and th brish have been calling on alle nations, or smalr mitary nations, thin nato to provi or get iolve wit mitary opatio, like spain a italy. at was rejted by the spani foreign minier. >> they alsorepeat the ternational legal mdate thugho this ticle. presumably that is to counter
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rrieand conrns by other countries and for mr.addafi himself. >> that isight as you just saw in tha rort, conel gaddafi gng tough thstres of tripoli, waving his nds in defice. we eect m tprobly use this asropanda. there is clearly a divion going on there. and u are right, there is a ve sube differee between what the mission stament is anthen nateeps on claiming that regehange is not the ssiogoal. whereas athe se time, they do wancolonel gaafi to lea in the longer ter they just do not wanto be the actual for that gets ridf him. they hope that the rels can do that. d then they can provi assistance to the rels. >> theovernment of bahin sayst widissolve the mai
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shii milantgrou is the latest response to shtes that are demanng me sayin theunniarket. since t anti- prote -- anti- vernment protests haveegun at lea 30people have been killed and me ha been tain. rtialaw h been tablhed. one of ourorrespondence was able to get around d g a repo. >me may find hisepor distreing. >>n a siteareaa body is handed over to a more. this man had hand himself over to pole. six days ler he died. his wounds are sckin >> t people behind me ar actually shouting, "wn wh the ng." they're cling the man who died in police custy a mortar.
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>> i p this ce to the health minister. she said that the wnds d been further cut opened by the oppositio -- had been talked up by thepposion to make tm seemorse i told her i saw them myself. >> willsk [untelligible] >> brain, the smallest arab states, has seen the biggt clashes in the gulf. there are0 repted lled th yea it has polarized the cntry underartial law, many shiite and they havebeen unfairly targeted. after friday prayers athis sunni ma, iskedhe imam whate thought wouldhappenf the shi'ite protestsould take
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this any power. >> if theyanagedo seize power, isnahrain will suffer d we will see llin >> iut this to aoppotion , w dendt. s countered that the ruling family are going agast the ain of histy. >our proble with the rulg fami if they want t accept to give partf their power and authority to the pple no, and the sencof the lliness is the proem. not true, says the vernnt. thcrowprince offered them a bi-- ahare of the power d they did n takit. now they have slled they havebeenrying to tak the power, bt a broadway has
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been donisausi bloodshed in the street -- theruta way itas beenone is causing bloodshed in the streets >> consumerrice rose by 5.4 in china, a the-ye high. ina's government is tin to avd anincrease in fd pric in particular. anwhile, the imf and rld bank he worn the global food prices are at e tiin point. they haveisen6% in the last yea ey a now close to the vels they reached at their pe in 2008 itause riots inany parts of the world. the increased co of food pushed 44 million people into poverty since je ofast year. i spoke to the economist in the poverty ructi andconic grouat t world ban before him, there is question. thpoorest must be protected from rising food prices. > it is aays the poore that
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e thhardest hit. they spend the largt share of heir incomes on food, so ev a all increase can tip them or the edge. and is gnerally t poost in the poost cntries. when we have seenommity pres by,t is t prest countriethat have the highe food inflation ratess we. unfounaty, it is the poest. an amo the it is thwome and children who are the most vulnerable. >> we have seen this bere. whatorts of measures should be taken to hel leviate the impact on the port? >> clearly, isssenal to scale up social aistance progra to protect thport. but one also has tonderand thundeying causesf these higher food prices. this needs to be tackled. these aretruural isss like w abetrue productivity, lik the cthat there are -- low
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agricuural prodtivi, like e fa that there are low demand on somerodus wh th man pled on corn and oer productssed r food. -- used ruel d food. the are tngs that cane do at t glol levelourb thpric vatily and protect the por. >> what uld happenfrice increa sti further? >> we haveone projections. if food price incree by another 1,t wilbe a additnal 34 million peop in poverty. that is over andabov t 12 billion pele tt are already before. they're the ones that suffer t most. we should not just focus on those that wil go into perty
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but the who are already suffering. >> at aut institutns like the worldank, what are they able to do? >> we are aling up our agricultul lending programs to tryo incrse agricultal yields in in environmently sustnableanne we areelpiountes irove their environmental protectn systems, sthat when foo prices hit or her sck hit, they can t to otect the po. can also wk with -- they can try to protecthe poor. d we can als worwithther countries so that there is no restrictions of the flow of fd inumanitariancrises type situations. d we can have mandates on biofuelshen od prices spike.
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>>till to come, witafri's most pular country, nigeria, about to go to t pollswe have a speal rort. >> the main oppositn politiciann undahas been sh in ha by military police, who opened fire against ptest as -- disrse protesters. they have beenrotesting food prices. >> it is noeasyo protestn ugan. the main opposition politician tried it, but was sn in trouble. it was a walk work campaign against high fueand how -- and food prices. they are getting a round a ban onemonrations. but theoverent is clearly so worriedbout street protest it
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took no ance he wa blocked. his supporters stayed with h. >> if we have to sta and sle herewe will sleep here. ey wilnotake e krul ywhe. " to walk to woris not a crime. we shall defend him. >> altugh he was arresd on monday, t firstay of e walk to work campaign, this ti, thpolice were seemingly unable to aest hi the army tk over five bults and hisolleagues say he s shot in the hand. across town, morehan e doze oppositionoliticians we apprehended. thereere caught -- there wer clashes witholic ho uganda la society said the cotry s being turned into a policestat theresident easil won brua's election, partly due to the massive advantage o
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incuency the oppitiocried foul. now as food and fl prices climb, the is so anger over govement spending. the opposition said e prests wi connue. >> you are watching c ne. a renderf o p story this ur, e leers of the unite stas, brain and franceave publishe a joi letter sing that nato opetionwill continueor a long a colon gaddafi remainsn power. nato countries elier rebfed callsy britain and frae to coribu more to the air strikes again colel gaddafi forces in libya. in gaza, the body has been found of an italian peac campaigner. and he h been tak hosge o thursd. hn joins us nown the line
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fr ramallah. and wt cayou tl us out hoand wn heas found? >>ewasound in the early morning hours. , hamas, who are the gornin power in gaza, they y they got a tipoff of where he was bei held jt noh of gaza city. they arrested onef the aeged kidnappers and ty wento where he w beingeld and they und the by, which h bee hanged hamahad been yinghat he had bn dead for sera hrs whenhey undim. >what was he doing ther >> he was pasonately pro- pastinn activist. he h come to gaza several yes ago oone of the ships that sometimes tries to bak isra's blockade of gaza. his - heertainly regarded himself as a friend othe
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palestinn cau. he had been dorted on a least one occasion by isrl. hisriends and cleagues wl be sayg, w him? >> as you are saying, isoun likan unearnedoal for the pastinian cause. >>mahmoud aas said exact at, that is d not help the palestinian cause. it is a challenge to kams's authity in gaza. they have largely -- it a challenge hamas' authority in gaza. th have largelyeen charged th oer kidnappings. e la kidnapping wa a c rrespondent in 27. nce the, no foreigr ha been kidnapped, anthats largely due to hamasanti to show it in control. with the fact that there are more radicalrouhallging
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the authority is worrime. >> thankou for joining us. in otherews, syrian state television saidresint bashar alssad has ordered theelea of hundreds of people during ti-government protests. threport says only tsethat we invved iwhat wld be described as criminal acts wld remain in detenti. and known, sniperkill a soldier and -- d unown sner kled a soldier and unded anoer ding protests. and 34 wer discovere killed in camp ashar iralast week. itas en nearly aear nce thexplion aboard an oil rig in t gulof mexico kied 1 works ansparked the wst
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oil spill in u.s. hisry. on thursday, bpeld itsirst anal geral meeting since the incident. some presters traveled allhe way frohe gf coast to register their complnts. ou correspondent reports >> a sml, but noi prosts. among the this dy i red, a month -- one of a haful of gold goes residents who traveled thousan of miles -- gulfoast residentto travel thousands of miles to get . >>y life isead and it will only stop whenhese rporations -- > hejourneynded with arrest. some prosterriefade it to t hall. ouide, there we cal for swerand compensation. >> am hereecau the claims pressasailehese people inthe lf.
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the interim claims are not being paid. >>as t first anniverryf the disast aroaches, bp says it has already paid $20 billion into a compensation nd. it ss it isot responsle for all paynts e made. lessons ha been lrned >> we are different cpany than the one a year ago. we are emerging from the challenges of 20 aa wiser and stronger comny. >> bp w expectingrotes to ar today, but it w als hoping fo a landmark al with russian oil with a mpany. has some te to salvage ts deal. has been a tru terrible year for bp. >> thean i charge of their
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affic control in the uted states has resigne over revelions that flight controllers have been sleeping on theob. we haseent let six such cases this year. it is forcing themo land e unaided. >> drama in thkies over amica. ilotarryg a seriously ill patit isrying to land at an airport i neva, ting to call the controlower, but no one answers. the loan controller aslp. t pilot then cls orators a nearby airpor 16 minut go by, and he cannot wait any longer. >> we are going to nd to land. >> landing wil be at ur own sk. >> of the pla land safe, but the incident earliethis week was not the first. this yr, a airportcross e u.s., the havbeen a ring o cidents involving
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air traff conollers falling asleep on t job. growing puic anger n means th man is out of job. he s resigne from his position as the head of u.s. a traffic contl. why are so many of them dozg off? manyof the workay and nht shift in tame wee the are obvus fatigue imications when you wrote take from shift to shif throughout a week oon aaily. -- on daily basis. with so manincints in ch a short sn of time, it willake more for america's traveling blico feel sa in thskies again. just a y to go before voters head to t polls in afca's biggest democracy. on saturday,oterchoose a president in nigeria. the bbc is followg events ther copps >to undstan-- >> to
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understand nigerianlections, a w numbers are helpful. the populatio is 150 milln people, which 75 million ople have registered to vote the populationfsout africa right here is jt 50illion. let'move over t theap of nigea anit gets a bit complex. you'll hve 300,0 natnal seice pernnel mannin 0,000 polng booths across this vast country. to w, a ndidate must have 25% of the vote and two-third of the sta a, of course, a simple majority. ifverying goes as planned, within the nex48 hours we will know who the ne nigerian esident will be. if tt do not haen, a second round with the top two candidate infri's bigges election. >> ana reminder of our main new the lders of britain,
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france, and the uned states had sued aoint stement blished in several international newspapers saying th libya's fure including krul gdafis unthinkable and would be unconscionable and signal the trail bthe st of e wod. and the bo of a pr palestianctivist habeen found, after having been kidnapped on thursda stay with us >> hello and wcome >>ee t news unfold, get the tostories from aroundthe globe anclicto-play video repos. go to c.conews to experience the in-dth, pert porting of "bbc world news" online. >>unding was made possiby the freeman fountionf w york, ste, vmont, a honolulu. newman's n fodation. the john d. and cathine. marthufoundation.
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