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restore fifa's battered reputation and that won't be easy. daniel griffith, bbc news. >> i've been speaking to the former executive director of the english f.a., david. >> this is the latest episode in the world soap opera that is fifa. what's happened here is that two former allies, jack warner, and chuck blazer, chuck blazer effectively blew the whistle on what's alleged to have been going on in the caribbean. and clearly that has upset a significant number of people in concacaf which is the governing federation for the national football organizations in that part of the world not just the caribbean but north and central america as well. >> back to fifa headquarters, what's going on now, do you think? you've got the english and the

scottish f.a. but they're the only ones whistling in the wind? >> we'll find out. there's no doubt -- goodness sake, there will be a lot of wheeling and dealing going on and discussions, at the very least, because there is disquiet about where fifa is, whether or not it's a crisis, a full-blown crisis, there is a crisis of confidence, and that you've seen in the past 24 hours with the sponsors, the world cup sponsors coming out and expressing their disquiet about what's going on and the damage that's done not just to fifa but of course by association to their own brands. >> but isn't it going to be seen as mainly the european clubs and especially england, it's sour grapes and particularly england, th)j is how we used to run it and it's going to look like that versus the rest of the world who is

doing a nice job under sepp blatter. >> of course it can be seen as sour grapes. and if there's been no wrongdoing whatsoever, then maybe that's what it is. but there is some evidence that there is a case to be answered by certain individuals, not all of them maybe, but i -- my own view is that there is still too many layers of allegations, smears, if you like. some would argue, over recent months that need to be buttoned down once and for all. is there proof of wrongdoing or is there not? and that's the reason that certainly from england there is this view that the coronation, as it looks like of mr. blatter today should be postponed. >> 16 years after he was first indicted, europe's most wanted man, ratko mladic, is in solitary confinement at the

detention center in the hague. earlier serbian judges rejected general mladic's appeal he was too sick to face the tribunal. after that all it took was a signature from serbia's justice minister for mladic to be on his way. we now have a report from the hague from matthew price. >> it was a day of goodbyes for the man accused of genocide. this morning in belgrade under heavy security, ratko mladic was taken to the grave of his daughter. she killed herself with her father's gun, so upset she's rumored to have been at his role in the yugoslav wars. later, his son and wife came to bid farewell. a right his victims were never afforded. as commander of the bosnian serb forces, ratko mladic is accused of using murder, rape, torture, deportation as tools of war to clear parts of bosnia of all nonserbs.

and almost two decades later, in a convoy to the airport, he was driven to face justice. away from his beloved serbia into the netherlands, and finally on to the u.n. detention center. in the end, this was a very short and quick journey for ratko mladic, but as the helicopter takes him into the hague detention facility, it brings to an end a very long, difficult, and brutal chapter in europe's history. minutes later, a convoy with blacked out windows arrived. >> i doubt the indictment will be given to him. he'll undergo a medical examination and will be put in an isolated cell for the first few days of his inhabitants of the detention unit. >> it is a cell like this where ratko mladic is now living. he'll have access to a gym, therapists, even if he wishes, art classes.

outside watching mladic arrive, we found two bosnians clutching their country's flag. >> i think there is a little bit of justice here. >> the tribunal considers ratko mladic innocent until proven guilty. but for the relatives of his alleged victims, this is what they've waited for. tonight he is behind bars. matthew price, bbc news, in the hague. >> military prosecutors in the united states have filed new charges against the man accused of planning the september 11 attacks 10 years ago. khalid shaikh mohammed and four other defendants will be tried by a military commission at the guantanamo bay detention center. the bbc's correspondent is in washington and has more details on the charges. >> the charges are only really new because they're being charged again with the same offenses. khalid shaikh mohammed and the other four detainees were charged at the military

tribunal at guantanamo bay before but those charges were dropped because president obama wanted khalid shaikh mohammed tried in a civilian court on u.s. soil. now, that plan has faced a lot of opposition at the time. some opposition from some families of victims of the 9/11 attacks, some opposition from democrats and republican politicians, and ultimately congress blocked the plan as congress prohibited any detainees from guantanamo bay being transferred to the united states, and that's why we're essentially back where we were before, that khalid shaikh mohammed and the other four detainees have been charged and will stand trial at the military tribunal at guantanamo bay. >> they're not new charges, they're old charges refiled, and that means guantanamo bay remains open as opposed to what president obama originally wanted. >> that's right. one of his election pledges in 2008, president obama wanted to close guantanamo bay within one year. a lot of people saw that as

very optimistic at the time and ultimately that plan didn't happen. and guantanamo bay remains open with approximate 170 detainees and there's no sign had a it will be closed any time soon. essentially a lot of the detainees there are in legal limbo for different reasons. some of the detainees, the u.s. says are too dangerous to release but at the same time doesn't have enough evidence admissible in court they can use in court to actually prosecute those detainees. and other detainees who are to be released don't have anywhere to go. the united states has fears that releasing some of these detainees or returning them to their country of origin, they might be tortured. it's a very complicated situation at guantanamo bay and the fact that khalid shaikh mohammed and these four detainees will be tried in a military court there and only sort of confirms the idea that guantanamo bay is here to stay

at least in this sort of short to medium term. >> following the latest diplomatic efforts by south africa, colonel gaddafi once again insisted he will never leave libya. nato forces have continued to target the capital tripoli where there have been a series of explosions. our correspondent sent this report from the front line. >> moving forward on the miss rauta -- on the misrata front line, guns being used against gaddafi's army. behind them, rebels provide covering fire to the four-wheel drive vehicles as they withdraw from another assault. it's like this every day, firing when they see movement, and then falling back to watch the thick front line.

the line is not strong enough to go on the offensive. the arrival of british apache helicopters and french tigers should be enough to make the difference with the offensive. the r.a.f. has already intensified attacks on this front. these pictures show transporters carrying tanks forward, taking a direct hit. the soldier who defected from gaddafi's forces early in the campaign provides coordinates to nato for tanks and artillery. >> he says the tanks are so well camouflaged they look like moving trees. but there are very few trained soldiers in this citizen army. mohammed is a truck driver. another mohammed is a mechanic. and a green grocer in normal life returned a day after being injured.

with the help of apache helicopters, gaddafi's artillery and ground rockets will scatter and then we can advance to tripoli. many of the fighters on one important plank are english language students commanded by their professor. >> regardless of their jobs join here. to fight for freedom. >> the arrival of apache helicopters would make nato's mission to protect civilians a far more offensive campaign with tripoli just two hours from here on a clear road, david loin, bbc news, on the front line west of misrata. >> you're watching bbc news. still to come, too little too late. the opposition rejects the president's offer for amnesty of political prisoners following weeks of unrest. too many unsold houses are

causing prices of houses in the united states to fall to the lowest levels in 10 years. we have a report. >> $1.3 million. >> american homes being sold off on the cheap because of strained homeowners. u.s. house prices have now dropped by 33% since the housing peak in 2006. auctioneers say foreclosures and bankruptcies are now a mainstay of his business. >> it's a huge engine of growth for our company and we do expect an increase as time progresses over the next several years given the current economic conditions. >> when there are buyers, they're only looking for a deal. buyers like rick. >> we've been looking in the area, it's a very high-priced area and thought we could get a good opportunity. >> and do you think that happened today? >> absolutely. >> the latest figures show house prices in america's top 20 cities fell again in march compared to february.

home prices nationwide are now at 2002 values. the housing market got a boost last year from a home buyer tax credit that happened when the price slide continued. >> for several months we've been hoping to avoid a double dip where we dropped below the levels we've áqq' a little bit over two years ago. we're not going to make it. >> although the u.s. expands by one million new households a year, that growth is not yet helping the housing market to recover. falling house prices across america mean that households are under pressure and they may spend less. the government may take in lower taxes even the building industry is under pressure. overall it is a huge drain on the u.s. economy and there is still no end in sight. bbc news in new york. ♪

>> bbc news, our top stories, the man behind allegations of corruption at fifa appears to have survived an attempt to sack him. the organization has been urged to postpone wednesday's presidential election. former bosnian serbs general ratko mladic has arrived in holland to face charges of genocide at the international war crimes tribunal. let's get more now on our top story. i've been speaking to grant wahl, chief writer for "sports illustrated." this is what he had to say about the latest events at fifa. >> last week, chuck blazer turned in evidence against his boss, jack warner, the number one in cancacaf, evidence of bribery that's now causing an investigation. it was a fascinating twist because blazer worked hand in hand with warner, a top

concacaf-er the last 21 years and was a huge break, a very important news development. but now there is a huge divide in the concacaf between the islands in the caribbean which support warner and the others in the region that support blazer and why you're seeing this tit for tat because conca caf is at war with itself right now. >> some might say it points to evidence of quarreling in a fiefdom that somebody has something to i'd so he's getting rid of somebody. >> oh, of course. it's all an internal power play that starts at the top with sepp blatter and him being the only candidate now for the fifa elections. and then goes on down as people have turned on each other inside fifa, everyone is now scurrying for their own position to try and save their political lives. at this point it looks very

likely that sepp blatter will win again for another four years on wednesday and anyone who is aligned with blatter, and that includes chuck blazer right now, is probably going to come out victorious. >> and so with sepp blatter being elected, i use the word loosely, of course, are hopes for reform dashed? >> well, maybe not but it certainly seems unlikely. at this point all the things that have happened over the past week seem like it's not really fifa taking corruption within its own ranks that seriously, but simply what happened in an effort to keep sepp blatter in power, and that looks like it has been successful, his only challenger was forced to pull out of the race after the corruption charges were revealed last week, but at the same time, then the man accused of this bribery was heavily involved with the qatar world cup bid

and there's no investigation into that even though he is now been put under investigation for serious bribery charges. all that suggests this is all simply about the internal politics of fifa and a way for sepp blatter to remain president. >> the syrian president, bashar al assad called for amnesty. the move reported by syrian television follows weeks of anti-government protests and continuing the repression by the security forces that have has left more than 1,000 people dead. >> an innocent caught up in a bloody conflict. the funeral of the 13-year-old who was allegedly tortured and killed by security forces. one of the youngest victims of this 10-week uprising, bringing this response from the u.s. >> i can only hope that, you know, this child did not die in

vain but that the syrian government will end the brutality and begin a transition to real democracy. >> elsewhere, the protests continue. these demonstrations are the biggest challenge of president assad in his 11 years in power. now in a possible concession, the syrian leaders announced an amnesty for members of political groups. but it's not clear whether that includes thousands of protesters arrested in recent weeks. the opposition rejected the offer with a verdict too little, too late. bbc news. >> a british journalist who has been in syria covering the protest movement but prefers to remain anonymous tells me the amnesty won't make any difference. >> this won't really, in their eyes this hasn't really changed anything. most people don't believe that this amnesty will happen at all. also, if you look at the law that has been passed that's

coming out on state media at the moment, you'll see no prisoners are getting pardoned, various people who have been convicted maybe have the death sentence, instead of the death sentence, they'll get a life of hard labor. also, this probably won't apply to the 10,000 or so reported protesters who have been arrested and have basically disappeared here because they haven't actually been convicted yet of a crime. >> and presumably those ordinary protesters would have to admit to be belonging to a party that they may not be a member of in order to be freed. >> right. exactly. and also, many of them would have been arrested as criminals and this applies to political prisoners only. >> and the muslim brotherhood is still banned? >> yes. the muslim brotherhood is still banned here. i think the reason the muslim brotherhood was put into this law was because the president

is saying he's giving confessions to various political parties, maybe trying to apiece the rural conservative people in syria. >> it seems as if the authorities are no longer taking prisoners but simply shooting protesters. have you witnessed any of this? >> no. i mean, here i'm not going to protest because people, you know, if you go to protests you get arrested straight away. the police are shooting protesters here according to activists who i've spoken to here but they're also arresting him in huge numbers at the same time. >> now, imagine if the pictures in your newspaper could, as it were, come to light or the statue in a museum could start talking to you. believe it or not, that is now possible with technology called augmented reality. the advertising industry in particular is putting great hopes on it taking off. our technology correspondent has been finding out more. >> it's one of london's great landmarks but is there

something different about trafalga square today? look through the lens of a smart phone and a statue comes to life. >> general charles lapierre arrived with command of the army. >> transpormed to something else. >> leon arrestedo was from the town of vinci west of florence. >> there appears to be a dragon on the steps of the national gallery and marilyn monroe is bouncing on the grass, all the result of a new phone application which recognizes images and links them to something else, it's called augmented reality but is it really the next big thing? what we're seeing now is a radical new technology that lous us to interact with information in a completely different way. you talk to a thousand people and you get 1,001 ideas on how to use this stuff. >> augmented reality has been around for a while but the recognition app that can bring alive a music poster can make the whole idea more appealing. you can use this technology to

put your face on famous buildings. so it looks a lot of fun but here's the big question, do businesses or consumers want to augment their reality? the advertising industry has been playing with augmented reality for a while, and they believe it does have appeal. >> we've seen people interacting with our posters and getting completely involved , opening the doors on a car ad or something like that. people pick it up pretty quickly and we think people like this sort of thing. >> but even if it can bring your business card to life, not everyone is convinced. >> how many people are going to hold their phone up, hold their tablet up in the middle of the street to actually see a movie trailer or something like that? it's the technology to really make a difference, it has to solve a problem for me, make a difference in my life. >> it's still early day for augmented reality. it may come to change the way

we look at the world, a living newspaper, for instance, or it may prove a passing fad. bbc news. >> and a reminder of our top stories, the future of chuck blazer, behind allegations of bribery at fifa appears uncertain in his reports he survived an attempt to sack him. the bosnian serb military commander ratko mladic arrived in the hague to face charges of genocide at the international war crimes tribunal and in the last few minutes the u.n. nuclear watchdog on wednesday said japan has underestimated the risk of a tsunami hitting a nuclear power plant. but praises the country's response to the disaster as exemplary. u.s. military prosecutors filed new charges against self described 9/11 mastermind khalid shaikh mohammed and will now face at least eight charges which include murder, hijacking and terrorism. i'm deborah mckenzie, more on

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