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>> and now, "bbc worldews. >> at ast people kied in a double off andn nohwestern pakian. -- doue bomng in rthwternpakistan. an obssio with the united states, details emerge fro osama n laden's diaes as the u. of dense the eratn thatillehim. -- the.s. defensehe opatioand killed him. >>tas not an asssinion. ife cod have killed him -- taken him alive, thais something wou heone >> coming up, uganda's litil stri. arcticeltdn,nd you nfli is about to emerge on top of the world. -- and a n conflict is about tomerge on top ofhe world.
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>>ets start with some developing news om the nohwest of pistan were the death toll fro twin prompt - twin, tax harise shaly. sours suggesas my as 60 pele have been kild. scores me have been injured after a -after attk rget an area of the charsadda distct. that is aut 35ilometers from thdistrict reprimand ter where paramility terrorists were killed that is in the northwester kist. the gerlawaited resul in ina on friday.
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e biggepset coulde in we bengal, where the world's longe elected mmunist govement could be on its w out. arties have resortedo some unorthodox tacti. >> the joys ofolorelevion. to swing in east eltion of 2006, the pty i opposition promised voters television ts like tse four reports -in return for their support of e dog barks. much to their surprise ty won. this tim ound, all major politil parties me giaways rt o their cmpai manifeoes. fromlenrs and washington machines to gold and nborn baby payts. it all sounds irky eugh,ut expes say iis blatant
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couption. why should it givee a private asset that i can sell or destroyed? this is transferring india and to private assets. >> over the years, political havees in tamilarra dmadu handed out tngs ke telesion sets. while this raisesuestions abou transparencof t electi process, it also raises econic questions, too. fo instance, each e the sets i around $30, an wit miions of having already bee handed out, they ask whehis moy hacome from. they wder ash o40 marks coulhave been better spent in the lead up t t polls, the elecon commission -he
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eltion commission trieto clamp down. buthe rmerhief ofhe commissionays can only do o much -- so much. >> the commissiowillot be in a position to inteere with what can go andhat cannot go into these. that is an area whe the the have to be dcrimating enough. >> t painting on e wall. in t latest assemy ectio, a major political parties have tried hard to reach t toore than 45 mlion voters. butbservers fl that n enoughas sd about the b issu on ich lls e tradionay one lost. at iue, the multimilln- dolr get is for support schemes - a gt for support
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schemes. we also he some breing news fro china anxplosion at a bk in the northwest of t coury. dozens of deaths and injurie it is believed an unkwn assailant thugh petrol bomb at a bk. the exosiohappened during indeed -- during ainteal etin at:00 a.m. local time. the indn prime minister manmohan singh has offer his oppose anadditional $5 million in aid. helso ide supported holding talks with ealib, an idea india haprevusly rected >>e stngly suppo t peopl' quest for peace and reconciliation. is firm fort
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the unity, integry an prosrity of aghantan. >> aeek and a half after ama bin lade step -after a osama bin laden's death, and large collection of computer files suggest is ill driving forc ofhe oanization. thettory general has strongly defended t attack thated to his death. bin lan loomed large in america's ke -- in america' nightmares a he s appentl upset th the u. anfriend reatin his horrifi triumph, theorsterror attack world has ever kwn. intligence gathered his home sgesthe wa in orall control of a qaeda, a hands-o chief execute. thenformation we have veloped show that heas shinal qaeda to engage in mo plots in more areas of the wld and on specifi dates. >> after killing bin laden, the
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commanders discovered more tha 100 mery scks, sever mputs, and reportedly his ndwritten diary. ntelgence sources hav told riou american dia outle that they paint aividicture. bin ladewas terminedo killhousands of americans i one spectacular aack. >> many rerrited. they wted less risky attack in the south africa or the middle east. but he wanted to attack on july the fourth half of thunivse -- t annersary of jamaa9/11. he wanted to atackrains therhan plane >> security stilliedroun ameri'politicalheart. poticians here hope t new tention -- the new inlligce will help arica go on a neoffensive. >> hope it helps us to lrn wherthe ockade operatives --
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wher the al qda operatives sleep atight. hope it makes them nervous. >> you he a ttle bit moren disarray. u have to continue tpress for on the tack. d not allow tm to consolidate or reorganizedand not allow themo have the opportunity toead execu -- to execu whathey have been taing about. america's topfficers say no doubt t death was legal. >> it was not an assassinaon. we cou haveaptured him. we uld haveaken him aliv it was something we would haveone. >>is threato the.s. is gone and there is determinatio to bud onhe succs. >> but we haveusteceived some picres omakisn where in t ear hours are fday rning two bsts so far. thfigus that we have you can see on the screen. 68 dead in the shabqar aa of
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the crsad district. it isthearamilitary training center. it is the capital of the nortest frontier province. poli sourcesay there were two bomb blastsnd aleast one of them was citizen bomand thnumbs odebt have risen sharply in the past ur. no o has so f claed responsibility for these 68 deaths. in a verdi that was that they decades in t makg in german court, and excess return the murder of 28,0 jews i occupi pold. but erved as a guard a conctratn cam and received a five-year seence. judg has rick has ordered him released pendi his appeal. he ner spent daily in a day prin. -- he y nev spend a d in prison prevent the is some flash otography.
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guiy of killing 28,000 peop, butlso now a free man, pending his appeal to gman's ghes court. at the end of the trial, his usual dk glasses and c finally cameff. the crt decided this wartime identity card was nuin not aorgery his defense claimed. was a gua athe death ca. hurtgeople tohe g ambe. -- he s huing people to the s chber. in court, theirelatives sobb. rebecca losher parents and all of her family in t holaust. was justice de? howould it? w could it be do? they have not me bk. but onef the perpetrators has been sentenced andhat okay. >>ut the judges left 91-ye- old- the90-year-old one held,
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will be freed in relatively good time. he lived in e u.s. for decades after the wa afte t verdict,is lawyers said the beat- t appeal will vindica him >> he ll spe the rest of his life in freom. thats the pt of the dignity of a man'life a frewar iminal. -- >> a fre were criminal. >> that is what you say. ? the urt said so. -- >thats what the court sa so. >> finish what y say. that is mpletely ong. for the families ofhe dead, this trial was about me than one man. wand the history expose. in arial in gerny and ia city where the nottie conduct -- not the party was unde -- where the nazi party was
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founded. >>e wa giv a ace by t highest courof the ld. it i likely he will dien freem inhis country. > l's retur t the elections in india. relts eectein just a few hours. our correonde joins us in lcutta. exain the nationaimpoance ofhese regiona eleionsor us. the next natiol elections not until 2014 >> they are very impornt f the governing congress par. it h really been der tremendo pressure ov the past yea because of a number of corruption scandal it h had to face allegations. a one oits cabinet mbers is jail over aegatns of rrupon. it i looking f athinit can t fro these ections to tr to stave offhe preure an basally being a bter position aad o the national elections you werealki about.
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the state where i mightust give thea cnce. itas had the longest sving gornme -- , and his government inhe wld. 34ears of commust governmt role. but this time arounitppears ey wl beefeated b congss a a powerful gional ly. le's talk about westbeng, becae the communists, parlment often cit them as onof the reasons for the socialist idea still valid from india'founng. id that change at all on the national lislave ledger -- val if thecommists win? >> one tng ishows us is thathe communisthaveeen ou of sync wi theeality in ina today. th have been unabl toatch up wh th rising aspition of ind, whh is a gap at -- lookg at economicrowth.
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d ishe reason theris a strong nionapresence. it is the reason they have been able to ph through tho social ideals,f yolike. --sociist ideals, if you like. >> thank you. you are wahing bbc news still to come, a nato targets the libyan leadersp compound, how is gaddafieari up under th pressure? police in britain are going t take a freshook at madeleine mccann, the youn british girl who went missi in in 2007. r parents have jt published a book about the daily suggle cop with the missing cld. maleinwould now be 8 years old. it will be calling t brith government to launch an independent riew of the evence. >> we have been askg for a
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reviewf her case for a couple of years. honestly, it has not happened. it was --t is four years sie she was ten a itas bee nothinat a. we truly believe that a review is esstial there'a lot of information that came fromhe inquiry. t is in porgal and in britain. and has not been pulled gether and put in one place. we fear is that a ki of jigsaw. is aind jigsaw. >> in the bookou talk about a note you wrote and you hope tha she kn youoved her. in way, what is e mo begn stor that you canhink of? >> n scenario as pasan
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because she should bwith us. t i guess if someone who doesn't have ahild or who lt a child,nd seone woves malin. she is hd noto love. certainly, th is their take on it. >> it sms ridiculouslfar fetched, but erything about whatas happeneo us has been ridiculous. " th isbc ns. policeay two eplosions have killed68 ople and wounded dozensore of parility trainingentein northwestern pakistan. result of five indn elections e dueo be released shortly and 34 years in cmuni west bengal are expecteto ce to annd. in libya, nat airaft have
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carrd out fresh raids othe compound by the -- the compound ed bthe libyan leader koran gaddafi. - the libyan lear, coffee. -- libyan leader, gaddafi. thealive and well anin thi mea hotel. last night, gaddafwas spirited into the sameoom which correspondentseceived accritation. not entel surpsinge would meetribaleade here, after all, a hel i which the media isgathered is the presumably fest place in tripoli. muchafer thanhe mitary compnd. a city within a cy surrounded by towering concretand ass was. we were thrown o -- were own e evidence ofwo strikes. tw left deepolesin the rd. the third was fl of wast water. the condore mysterious.
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it looked like a bunker. >>whatappened? big elosions erywhe. many pele were wounded many we burned to death. this is wh hapned. >>rom her we were taken to another si. and again, t deeholes. ly ts time, ere re stai leading into the groun e crds had bee positioned along the ravings and every tim we tried to filli -- film it, we were cked in t nextield there were a group of men in what the cb a veilatn shaft. ther was barbwe ansatellite dishes. >> it would appear that it is a sophiscatebunker network the need this mpou. lookhathey put nexto ita chilen's pictureround -- but a children's pygrodhey
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said it s a sewe systeand defected -- children's playground >> they sa it s a sewage systemand defendedhe idea is that it was a mitaryystem. >>his is ou country. thiss oucity. this is our dam. this is or compound. >> nato continueto dismale colonel gadfi's abilito control and command his forces, homing in o radioigna t the supposeynderground bunkers. the military cal its mark warfe. needore than propaganda to be it. -- calls it smarwarfe. you need more than propagan to beat it. >> memberof the refugee aion coitio have gathered outside the immigration departnt i sydney,ustria. tell u more. >>his is a small, but isy prests by campaigners clearl
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angry that australia's ofadda paucits -- auralia's asylum policies. they have gatred to send ylumeekers to malaysia and pop and guin. they need ts to relieve ercrowding. and ao to stop a steady flo of asum seekers heading into australia posing northn waters. protesrs claim that the government isevisg inhume policiesf the previous conservative administrion at took aard-line stance against asylum skers and shi them to the cam i the south pific some o tm have rnedombi asks to seup policies ofhe pa have been brought bk to the -- fm thdead. >> a ho o african leaders in uganda have attended te official the inaugurion the priden
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tusands ofuppoers were on the stree welming their leader. the two crt collidein t traffi cha wh the pporters of the previous president. >> 25 year after hfirs became predent h is sworn in again. heon frua's electioby a wide marn. e opposition for the first time rejectethe tcome. >> it was a triumph of revoluonarideology. it was a triump of you on vision ovf ugaa's sectarianism here were some high-prole visitors, like robert muge, and e rently elected nigerian preside goluck jonathan there was show of force on the ground as well as in the air
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but ifo ra on the president's pare, athe se timeis poticarival was weomedome as a hero by ousands of cheering supporters he had fwn in tereceing medilreatment abroad for injuries sustaed during s rent violtrres >> this extly what the government was tryin to avoid. they have own suppo for the oppotion leader. this on the very day that the president is swearing-. this convoy is movinat a snail's pace. thbig questionis, w are the police d milita goi to respond to this show spport r the oppositiolead on th day of the preden's eari in. >>t must hav been embarrassing for the president, speclly as the departing gnitaries had to drive throh these crowds and they witnessed the oppotion ppor
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the fct that he could me with s suprtersuggested a ange of heart fm the pice whheadrushed previous gatherings. the restrainthat mes ran ou the tearas a gunfire were back. ere were also rorts of oppotion supporters pcaine thring stones. he has vow to to prott against the man h considers an and legitimateresident, and the power struggle beten t two isikelto lead to more violence. 8 our nation's our meeting in -- eightrctinations are meetinto discuss clite chan. rming temperatures wil affect the ouomef huers, and will soffect commercial exploitation. >>orecad, the arcti' pristi beay has been e subject of many companies
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it is home toany threatened species. it is also home to a unscoved oil and gas reserves. melting cis ha made the mineral and prole resourcmore extensib -- a melting s ic has ma e mineral and petroleum resourcesore ccesble than eve eight countries surrndin the cticave gathered in t capitalof green ando discuss th chaengein the region. >> -- agreement to discuss the chalngesn the region. >> we needo be aware of the necessity for 9 million pple in this giono be able to live and prosper a hava bett future. >> there w tac uerstding amg the members that the arctic caot be rdeemed for explanation. >> it will rest in mor fishing, shiing,nd tourism, and e poibility toevelop w the accessible oil and g
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reserves. we seek to renew these oppounits in a smt, susinabay that preserves the arctic environment a at the syst. >> -- and ecosystem. >> the nation's d age to - search and rescumissns. there are the concn th the meetingarks and a rersie openg of one of the world's most fragile ecostem >> a reminder ofur breaking newshis hou twoomb tacks in the northst fntier of kistave nowlaim 69 lives. thdouble bombtta, according tlocal police, included at leastne suicide attacr. it happenen amica -- the pamilitary academy 75 kilometers northwe of e capil of shaw.
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