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>> and now bbc world news. >> presidentoba pays his respects at grou zero just days after the 9/11 masternd osama biladenas killed by s. fces. bin laden's youngest wife allegedly tells all dailing li inside the coound as tas roll into thsuburbs of damascus e yria govements accused of 10 ys of massacres the south of e contry welcome to bbc new and also ound the gle. comi up latefor you, pledging more d to the rebels libya. the u.s. says the finance uld be raised from ibya's $30 billion in fzen assets.
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weome once ain,four days after ameran troops lled osama bin aden present obama hasisited grnd zo n new yo. he laid a wreathin memory of the viims of t 9/11 attacks in 01. the president also spoke privately to relativesofthe victims, emerncy workers a police officers. our north amrica editor repos. >> it is preside's rst vit to ground zero and came insomber tumph this is wherethe in towers once stood unt binlade ordered an tacked th searg america's soul and killed over 3,0. he ld a wreh hoping the death of bin ladenlays to est e spter at s haunted s country. >> he isn't ming a speech. his action horingthedead more powerfuan any wods morhe appears o rise
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above politi themore litil benefit he can reap. 15 firefights from thi mid towstation died on 11 and di hepeak. saijustice was done in e name of their brothers. >> what happened on suday, because of the uragof our military and the outstanng work of ur intelligee, sent a message arou the world and so sent message ba home that when we say will never forget, we mean what we say. >> the prise at he kept was made by anoer president. ground zero just three days after the atta. >> i can ar you, the st the world hears you, anthe people -- [cheering and applau] --and th people who knocd the budings down will hea all of us on. >> obama got osama.
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>> ooh there is moredisquiet. he was war crminal t uncoortae about hikling and the u.n. mans rights chief said the worlhas a right tokw ifitwas illel. hespennine months here has no such dots. >> was armed. let's facit. hekilled 3,000people. th should not be an issue the way he died. >> we fod ef at the morial wall laying flowers fotwo frien whoied ten yes ago. >> had is black loud hanging over theworld. n laden has kild people in all sorts ocountries andt let wi the pre that we have he i think it's fantastic. >> the builng w actually er here. >>harl lf'wife ed when the tw tows were h and hemet the president today anthanked h forrdering thkilling of the man hind the attack. >>we got sucker unched and caught with r pas down an
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we went in there th our men and our equient and ur meod odoing things anwe t thjob done. >> one visit, ondeath, do not heal oundso profound buamerica fee better about itself a posive wardthe president who avend what happed he. bbc newsnew rk. >> bbc'smatt frye has been talking to somescue on duty on 9/11. their reaction to the end the -year hunt for osa bin laden. >> it was n a dajustlike this that the nthinkable happed here and er since grnd zeo has been the open und in the heart oflower manhattan defini amica for alst a cade today the bullders are sy, finay anplanes abo new yorkare no longer feared a missiles. but the wound has een slow to al because justice for11 has een so sw to me until thiseek. the faceof the fallen
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fifighters on grnwich stre are a remder of just how late juste has been. mo than 340 peshed on that dawhenthe towers collaed. they became e st cebrated faen hoes 9/11. this is the exs world din close to grnd zero it was used as a medal stion on thday. day firefighters and construction worke tre it like canteen but t walls e fu of aching memories. we met al and maureen who lost their son christopher, a firefighter and this man who lo his son. what has e death ofin laden changed for hem? >> rested se of our americanpride. 're a proud cotry,a strong nation. >> wtherit's one yea 9 1/2 years we'll tck you dowd kill you. >> no osurwhen you lose a child. there will ner bclure for us we a different now than we were before this hapned.
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but o son is gone and matter what haens, he will still be gon >>i'm jushopg that my grandchildren d tir childr perps don't live the same kind of world thawe are inightno >> fosomeespecially the families oe dead, he pain will never goaway. but america has had a good week and th silence of todas cemonyhe president fou a voice ma crics thought he ver had. but eryone here ha learned the hard y that th war ainst tresm isfullo unintended conseqnces >> matt frye rorti from w york. milita chis in pakist have warned they maop coopering th the united states the americans try o operate independentlin the untragain. justs th did the raid ich lled osama in len. more iormaon is emergin about life insidethe fortified compound. one his wiv o wa injured ithe attack has een descring the conditns i
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ich they lived. >> sealed offand silent, bin laden's compnd long a place of secre. t more details e emerging from one of hiwives, who is now inpistani custody. e is legeto haveold terrogators that bin laden hadn't left s room hee for e past five years. e is yemeni born and s b laden's youest wife. en the navy seals tacked she ied to dend him nd was shot. pastanofficials say she has revealed keweaksses inal qaeda. it'splitin two and ving money proems d ty say evidence found atthe coound cks this up. the my has ordered an inquiry to the telligence failure that let bin ladeset up ome here. but the government conties to insist therewas collusion.
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>> it's easy say that the i.s. or ements with the govementwere n caots with the al aeda. this is aalse hypothesis. >> the mitaryclaims it ve the americans a lead. a call from here saudi arabia asking for finance. the dilea for pakisn wh to do wi this coound. to on thors anlet the cameras or to blow the place ups some ar speculatin there is ccern that it's left standing t could become a kind of monumento osama bin lan anperhs a propaganda ol. it is already a local toust attraction it'sow a place for a amily y o. mu phographed and much debated. thgh my locals n't believe thiswas he to e
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world's most wante more of the insidstory could co from n laden's relatives d the other survivors of the raid. are pakistani hads. americwantto questi them t so far t's not geting the ance c newsat bin laden's compound. >> we' getng reports from pakistan tt least ght peop have been kild and 10 wounded in an attk by militants. according toolicreports quoted th ne agency and cal tv station a rocke attaing the caital of a province was directed at a oup of pakistani shtes. the police offir id the grp th cariedout the attackas fled the scene. les return tonorth eric our waingt correonde andrea nth. despite the mod in the uted statesfterpresident obama' visit to ground zero. >> as north drk -- we he
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ckedup the mood at people feel that the venge they want has nobeen achied. and i think that is very much the kind sense that ihave been picking up om talking to peop this week. it isa nd of catharsis. some ceneof jooublation have left pple outside e u.s. mewh uncomfortable and en he the are se who perhaps ve been slightly rried by the sense f triumph buwhat this tls you is just how much osama bin den traumatize this country. >>thfight againsterrism contues and he news we're geing fropakian tt the intelligen serces there are getting informion om e of osama bin lades wives, the will be wantinto share lot more of thatth they w't be teing the publ because his issue of trusbetween the unitedstates and pista very crual.
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ll, that right. d of course there are a lot of things tht we don't ow that we arprobably nobeing ld and, of cours ere has always been t issue of the account what happen ifting. sot is que difficult to asse ll of this. we ve also hrd reports that the americans mig want to try to extradite thiwife of osama bin aden to try and interview her themselves. a lot of qstio to answer out what happened. andw nortin washington more analysis on theilli of ama bin laden and s implations can be fou on our c weite. you'll find a breakdown there of the pival moments ofthe search for e al eda leer right from the 9/11 tackup to the raid on his compod in pakistan. an execuve r jaguar car
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>>thisis bbc news,the helines. present obama lad a wrea at grounzeroin ne york ust days aer osama bin laden was kied by u.s. special fors. pakistan ore tails ar emerng aut life insidethe fortified compound wherethe coandoraid took place. let's get morefrom akisn. our correspondent repor fro pastan. >> people are starng the leavthe sit over the last couple of ds ndre of people have streamed tthiarea to get lo at the osama bin laden compound. even though they ha been mod ba by security orce therare stilllots of peopl milling aroundhe. large grps opeople d th're ke this l the way arou theompound. a t ofmen but a lot of women, too. groups of wen have come do wi the children. whole families have come down. younpeople tang footage with their mobilphones d what they've come to see
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this sitebehind me, the large white building, th's ere osambin ladenspent hisfinal days and whe hewa ultimaly sho i y occasiolly he serityforces ut down t area to seal it off and lot of people he hatomove back. that includes t only lols, of course, o come o are curious but a lot of the world's media ave descended. you can see media ere and anher nk of people to the de. as one of he intrigue there is a t of rioudiscussion going on amo the crowdswho gather hereachday and stl a l of discussion bout whethetheybelieve this operation happened or t. so opinion he rom the peop we've spoken to seems prtty clear. they wantto see the cturof osama bin lades de body if ey are believe th operatiodid te place even thgh tir own government has said idid ta pla, has di. even though thealib have said they'll te renge for this death. timately confirming wh happened. lot of peoplill say the
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want proof andeven en i suggest tre will be some who stl want toelieve the conspiracy theors. the other themhereis a lot of pple feeling sense of embarrassment at osama bi ladewas found not by their own rcesbut kied by an american operationnd they feel that in some way ha humiated them and undermined their government wch now los ve weak indee >> pice in morco resd the people for a bomng that killed 16 eople in mare kesh st week. most of ose who died wer foreigners police see y the hief suspt was loyal toal eda a human rightgrouaccused the syrn government of carrying out en days of maacres in a city. snipers and ti-acraft mache gu have be usedto fire unarmed cilians. the thorities say their miion is w complete.
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outside the capitaof mascus huredshave been arrested. have this rert fm the jordaniabord. a warnin you may nd me images distrsing >> a peaceful protest. ndreds of ciilia marched down a city streedemanding reform. the shaky deo is impossible to verify butwe're confidt it is recent d from the town of talbesa. suenlyhere is panic. some scap others are killed tright. a w of e injured despately try to cra to safety hours of deo and mole phon ti froacross syria showhow the six week ld uprising is spreading and beg brutly crushed. huredsave been killedbut stiltheyome out on the streets demandg chge. recent ays, some hoific
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imag havbeen emerging from the theride ofthis border but they are also being se inside sia ielf afar as we know, internean bile phone serves aren't bei blocked. perhaps the regiments people to sewhatt is capable of. eitheray is fficult to see how t predent an reta suprt and credibility with such ings going on. the bbc has meone inside syria. we're not naming r a we've disguised her voic she was ked what hadhappened to thmany peoe who hav be arrted. >> you the belve human rits groups here the situation abou8,00people may have be taken in and have human righ watch an badly beaten. prodding, interrogatn. >> blamintheviolence on armed criminals, presint assad has nored intnational
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lls show strats and has sent in moreheavy armor to diffent wns. syria is a powerful d pivotal country ithe middleastbut ny analysts say the situati has gone eyond the point ofo return. more violence and aths are inevitable, th say. perhaps begiing with the anticipated otes after frid prayers tomorrow. bbc news othe jordasyri border. >> coact group on libya has agreed to create a tempory fund to assist rebel gros, 250 milon dolarsshould be function a.m. in weeks. the u.s. s trying tfree $30 billn it has fren in libyan sets. this a sig theve been waiting for for nearly a week. liing slightly tostar board the red str one made it io
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be ghazi is morning it decks crowd with refugee fromthe beieged city. most are africans traed there. ere arlibyans, t. more othem are tryi to esca to the east. anding with his n on the upper deck is mohamd. mites ter he isreunited with his others on the deck below. thtea of relief. theye safe from gadhafi's rockets. >> a lot of shtingand shelling. not e minute of pea. >> anything t african migrants have had it even rse. coming out in the on fodays der heavy shellin four were killedby rocket fire asthey waited forhe shito
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dock. ing uth toward the frnt lines and you'll find th rnedut remains gaafi' armor litting the road sides. the natoair strikes at did this havebe extremely ccessful at eventing gaafi's armored troops fr moving further do thisroad in reb-held territory but at the same timthe rebels don't seem to have any capacit to come ack up ts roadan to takon gadhi's forces. at is a proem for nat beuse is front li has now been stu ere for nearly a month and there dsn'tseemto be a strategy r hoto eak is deadlock. a little rth on, we see an ambulance heading to e front. the doctor iide confirms wh we've been ld. >> whais the situation dow there now? up to now e situation is stab. no fighting, thre ino face-to-face figing. only differee. >> as e ambulance leave
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military jeeps co racing toward us. theye t hay at our presce so far forward. no one he wts tadmit tt after more th two months fighng this rebellion isno clos to removingolon gadhafi fr ower. bbc news. finly getting to thtop of mt. everest is the ultate go for cmbers. y dog it nine times. e brish mountaineerkent coalas de that and told me w it felt to be on top of th world. >> actlly reallamazing. 've st literalljust entered the sumit and we he the mosamzing60 of e world. it'sust absolutely brthtaking. therino one up re apar from self any colleague, sebaian d ts is unlievle.
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really . itbrea taing. >> canou describe what e view is like up there? almt imossie, i'm afra. over one houlder i casee the thirand urth highest motains in the world. over my other shoulderi can see the sixth highest mntai and the 12thhighest. i n see in chine tibet. it is just absolutel unlievable. i me, it's - it's a lossof words. todais very special. >>everybody will be ngralateing you doing it ne times t asking why nin time >> well, ts timit was to prove someing ich you gus putting the news on. back in ocoberof last ar the c webse wet live
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saying tt this may now e possiblefrothe tomorrow. with saung we proved that that's correct. we got a allyweak 3g signal on the ew samsung one on the top of t. everest? can you elie that? i came backto provewhat the c said ay be psible and we proved it to be correct. ijustamazin absolutelymazi. the rld is st gting smaller andsmller we have a 3g signaon th summit of mt. everest. >> we wt to keep talking to yobut elie you mit be ruing out of oxygen you're s excited. tell usabout the most difficult parts of e ascent. is ithe most diffult part every time or es idier?
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>> we ave at 10:00 at night d climb ight toughout the nighandthat's when our body ist the wesebb an we climb up a sll beam of light fm our heatorcs and nothing else around us and psholocally that's eall really hd. we justhave to keep going to this spot called thbalcony and hopefully when the sun starts trie, the view jus invigorates us. so th six hours, i suppose fromhen wlea thegh camp ntilhe sun breaks and as on as the sun baks wow. i'm sitting here just down fr the summit andi ep pointing out this viebut it incrible. can see hundreds ofmilein every rectn. it is aolutely awe inspiring. >> you're wchinbbc news.
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