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>> and now, "bbc world news." >> hello and come to "newsday". >> i'm babita sharma in london. berlusconi vowed to step down as italy's prime minister but only if austerity measures are approved. private investigators say that the news of the world paid him to track 100 people, including prince william perry >. >> iran dismisses a u.s. report that claims the country may try to get a nuclear weapon. singapore.n in >> it is for i am in london. protesting to viewers on pbs in america and around the world. welcome to "newsday."

hello there. silvio berlosconi is to step down as italy's prime minister. he says he will resign once parliament adopt reforms aimed at sorting out the countries finances. the announcement follows of vote in parliament which he won but lost his majority. >> after the vote in parliament, silvio berlosconi went to see the italian president. they had a long discussion. that was the president's office who declared that silvio berlosconi would step down after key economic reforms had been passed. earlier in the day, the italian prime minister had left home knowing that some former allies and his enemies were closing in on him. determined to end is hold on power.

in parliament, he won a crucial vote, but it was clear he no longer could depend on his own coalition to give him a majority. the result confirms what the prime minister had feared -- is a convicted number of m p's with in this party had deserted him. opposition leader said, handing your resignation -- h and in and in your resignation. tonight, he said he was asking for fast-track approval of key economic reforms. "i will then resigned to allow the head of state to open coalition -- negotiations." he is back in his official residence. he said he took the decision for the good of the country and to settle financial markets, but question remains about his departure and in particular the timing. and almost immediately, there

were doubts as to how soon he would leave office and whether elections would follow. >> he has said it, and he should keep its own word, but at the time this would happen, it could take from two weeks to a one month, depending from the political mood of the parliament and the technicalities of the law. >> during the day, his allies had fought for him while still excepting his time was running out. how would you describe his state of mind at the moment? he is under great pressure, both from outside italy and inside. >> yes. this pressure is really hard. in my opinion, it is not justified. it is too much. of course, he feels that. and he's trying to do his best. this i can tell you. he knows there is not much time. >> this was the moment that silvio berlosconi suffered its biggest blow. hear, his key coalition allies

said simply, we ask the prime minister to stand down. so perhaps as early as this month, the man who has dominated italian politics for two decades could be gone. he had become famous for its dental and his battles with the courts. at a crucial moment for italy, he was regarded as having lost the credibility to implement tough reforms. >> gavin hewitt reporting from rome. an italian journalist he shared his beliefs with me regarding italy's immediate political future. >> now italy will have a stability vote to be had on the 15 of them. it will present a number of possible solutions to the crisis. it then napolitano will create a new government, a technical government waiting for the election. this would be january of next year.

the risk in my opinion is that the new government will be held by one of berlusconi's -- the former minister of justice and the secretary of berlusconi's party. in this case, but nothing will change in the short period. only time will tell. >> of former police officer has told the bbc the news of the world newspaper taken secretly to follow prince william. 90 high-profile people, including angela jolie and david beckham were put under surveillance. the news of the world employ the investigators for 8 year. >> prince william and harry. thei voice mails were hacked. prince william was followed by the paper in 2006.

his body guards failed to notice. the surveillance was carried out by this man, derek webb, a private investigator and former policemen who worked for the newspaper up until its closure in july. in all, he was paid to follow 100 public figures. >> i would write down what they were wearing at the time, what car they were in, who they met, the location they met, the times. the times were very important. >> derek webb says what he did was not illegal, unlike phone hacking. the newspaper was delighted. >> because i kept getting results for them, they employed by service as more and more. and so i was getting work from them, and i was very satisfied with the work. >> among those detailed were footballer david beckham, simon cowell, and the parents of

daniel radcliff, and politicians like charles clark, the london the mayor boris johnson and tom watson. e's a member of the -- sport committee. he is among the newspapers fiercest critics. he was hailed at the 2009 labor party conference. >> it is an extraordinary story. i think is what the bbc appears to have uncovered is a most serious development that will need to be developed by justice levenson and all those others with an interest in this issue, including the culture, the media, and sport committee. >> the inquiry begins at public hearings next week. before that, james murdoch is it due to face more questions on

thursday. it will likely be a difficult meeting. >> more concerns about iran posing nuclear program. what more can you tell us? >> the united nations and ieea says there are indications that iran has carried out activities relative to the development of a nuclear explosive device. however, it stopped short of saying explicitly that iran is developing a nuclear bomb. iran has rejected the report as politically motivated. it insists its nuclear program is peaceful. a middle east editor reports. >> the problem the report says is not iran's declared nuclear facilities, like this power plant built by the russians. it is what the intelligence services in a number of countries to fed information to the ieea claim has been going on

in secret. >> this report is a devastating and that it establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt that iran was engaged in r&d work. there is no smoking gun that says iran is continuing today to develop a nuclear weapon, but certainly, it was encased in activity. >> the report makes three key points. it says iran has tried sometimes successfully to procure it needs for a weapon. it also acquired the know how to make the bomb from a clandestine nuclear supply of debt or. at the report says iran has tried to design a nuclear weapon and test some of its components. those countries, especially israel to said for years that iran wants the bomb, are saying we told you so. the big and potentially dangerous question is what happens next. the winter is arriving in tehran and it could feel colder there if new sanctions are imposed, which the u.s. and britain would

like. but president ahmadinejad has not been deterred by four previous rounds of u.n. sanctions. he dismissed the report is the work of american puppets. >> we will not attack them, he said. we will defeat them through our thinking. >> iran is proud of its ballistic missile program, but it always denied it wanted nuclear weapons. israeli politicians want international action. >> after the report -- iran tries to achieve a nuclear weapon. it is the problem of the entire world. if the free world must unite in order to stop nuclear iran and that is now. >> israel has been testing a new missile of the selling. it has been practicing civil

defense and is talking again about attacking iran's nuclear facilities. the report has put military action back of the international agenda, and with the middle east unstable, that makes people very nervous. >> now to syria where the number of people killed during anti-government protests has risen to 3500, according to the un, which calls the figure is conservative. the uprising against the assad regime began in march. "newsday" are watching on the bbc. still to come, not so diplomatic. the secret of the g-20 summit he did not want to be heard. >> mars calling. the russian space probe -- can it be saved?

a pilot has died at an raf base . it is the second deaths suffered by the red arrows in three months. >> it was just before 11:30 when a pilot was fatally injured. the jet involved has been left with a shattered cockpit canopy, an indication of what went wrong. it is with great regret that i can confirm there has been a ground incident involving one of the royal air force aerobatic team hawks that has resulted in the death of the pilot. the pilot was ejected from the aircraft whilst the aircraft was on the ground. >> this is the view from inside. all of them are fitted with ejector seats. they are used as a last resort in the air, but the inquiry will now focus on why today's injection happened on the air

filled apron. >> there are lots and lots of safety mechanism built into the seas. they are dangerous piece of equipment. >> the red arrows through crowds across britain every summer flying just a few feet apart from each other, but today's incident comes weeks after the death of a flight attendant. he was killed falling to display. his fellow team members flew over lincoln cathedral for his memorial service in nine days ago. late this afternoon, the aircraft involved in today's incident was covered up, awaiting a detailed inspection. but once again, the planes flown by the red arrows are grounded while an inquiry take place. but the ministry of defense says other hawks will continue to operate.

>> this is "newsday" on the bbc. >> i'm babita sharma in london. silvio berlosconi it has vowed to step down as an elite private mr. but only if austerity measures are approved -- as italy's prime minister but only if austerity measures are approved. >> the news of the world paid him to track more than 100 people, including prince william. hows have a quick look at asian stock markets are reacting to news that italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi is indeed stepping down, but only after austerity reforms are implemented. so far is a positive day for regional share prices. investors and cheering the news. japan's nikkei-225 and south curia's kospi rising by 1% in midday trade. the hang seng is jumping by 2%.

australia gaining by 1.5%. also giving market sentiment a boosted china's inflation number that slowed to 5.5% in october after peaking in july, as the government continues to clamp down on bank lending and property purchases. as for the china data, pushing oil prices higher for a ship date, with crude about $115 per barrel. the euro its steady against the dollar. those are the markets that the hour. and you have news of a developing political story in the philippines. >> the philippine government has banned the former president gloria arroyo from traveling abroad for medical treatment. justice secretary said adequate treatment was available in the philippines, that there were concerns the former president might. return home to face corruption charges. we have our correspondent, that

joins us from manila. what more do we know about why this travel ban was imposed? >> she look at the case very carefully and she thought the treatment could be done in the philippines rather than abroad. she says she was quite suspicious about the number of countries that missers. arroyo and her husband wanted to go to. some of them do not have extradition treaties. that means that if she was charged with corruption and refused to come back to the philippines to face charges, there would be little the philippines could do about it. so that is why the justice secretary said, given the circumstances and all the complaints and allegations against her, that she should not be allowed to travel. the arroyos are annoyed about this and have taken it to the supreme court. this is not the end of the battle. >> gloria arroyo has political

influence. is this likely to cause problems for the current president at the moment? >> the current president, president aquino, said he wants the look at allegations of corruption in previous government. so essentially, under mrs. arroy'o's watch. he said repeatedly he expects it to be charged by the end of the year. she is saying that if she does go abroad, she guarantee she will come back. she does have political influence. she is in congress. but nothing like the influence she had before. the president still has lots of support. and it is not just him. it is other people in government that were worried if she left, she would not come back. >> she was hoping to travel abroad for medical treatment. what we might know more about

the treatment she was going to receive -- what do we know more about the treatment she was going to receive? >> mrs. arroyo, she has are rare bone disease. the photograph today in the local papers of her -- these are the photographs she gave to the justice secretary to prove she needs to go abroad. she says she needs the special treatment and various different countries, that she cannot get here. the justice secretary said it is not life-threatening, though, and that if necessary, doctors can be brought to the philippines. but it is interesting, because there have been precendendents f people leaving the country. when the former president estrada was on trial, he was allowed to leave. marcos was traveling all over the world at the time

the accusations were put forward. mrs. arroyo said, why me? >> we apologize for the break up in that line to manila. the u.s. republican presidential hopeful herman cain has denounced sexual allegations made against him by four women. during a press conference, he said the accusations would not put them out of the race for the white house. he said he would be willing to undergo a lie detector test to prove his innocence. steve kingston is in washington. he says it is not a surprise he is denying the allegations. >> it is interesting he chose to come out and publicly address these claims, having previously said that he wanted to before. what changed is that no two of his accusers have gone public, one of them, sharon bialek, called a dramatic news conference on monday. he said -- she said that he groped her in a car after she

approached him for help in finding a job. acclaim he denies. not only was there a general denial or suggestion that she had misconstrued as actions, mr. cain gave an outright denial of even remembering sharon bialek. he said he did not recognize her name. he gave a more general, defined he nile oof all four otf the accusations. >> the charges and accusations are absolutely -- i absolutely reject. they simply did not happen. they simply did not happen. >> well, he went on to say that he does not believe this will affect his republican presidential bid, but it has cost them a huge amount of damage. >> yes, it does. this scandal has been running on for -- rumbling on for five days. last week, the polls were

showing his numbers were holding. he was the surprise front runner in the debate. people seemed to like that he was the outsider. talk names and faces are appearing and the stories are becoming more fragraphic. a lot of people are looking at this and saying, whether it is true or not -- and that is still to be proved -- we do not fancy the risk is involved. it is tiresome and distasteful, and i suspect that this may be the beginning of the end of his campaign, unless he can prove his accusers to be lying. >> steve kingston and washington. problems to russia's latest space mission. >> yes, indeed. the head of the russian space agency said the unmanned spacecraft that took off a few years -- which ago has failed to

take its proper course at, which is a moon off mars. an engine failed to fire, leaving its mission to to bring back a soil sample in doubt. the russian craft is caring china's first mars satellite. but china expert says this is a major setback for russia's mars mission. >> it's a major setback. this is something like the 19th soviet or russian attempt to go to mars that has failed. the red planet seems to be a bit of a jinx for moscow. it is extremely embarrassing for russia, precisely because in this case there were also supposed to be carrying a chinese probe to mars, the first time the chinese are going to visit another planet, and now that mission is also very much in doubt. >> it is not only russia that is jinxed. the united states and japan have

also launched mars probe projects and they have failed as well. >> that's right. including the embarrassing incident where they mixed feet imetersandand meters. >> what do you think this means for russia's mars project and china, which has interplanetary ambitions? >> for the russians, this is going to be a very grave blow. they do not have a lot of spare money, so this failure is going to be a significant impact on their overall space science efforts. for the chinese, this will reinforce the idea that china needs to depend upon its own capabilities. >> the heritage foundation in washington. the french president nicolas sarkozy has called the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu ally. he was speaking during a private conversation with president

obama during the g-20 summit. christian fraser report ^ >> in public and for the cameras, there is a smile, a pattern of that, perhaps an endorsement of the others hard work. in private, we know international politics to be different. and just occasionally, the mask of diplomacy slips. on thursday, journalists awaiting a press briefing at from the french and american presidents were plugging into the translation boxes. those already wearing air felt were privy to the most extraordinary exchange taking place. >> i can't stand him anymore, said nicolas sarkozy of benjamin netanyahu. he is a lawyer. in response and with some exasperation, president obama said, you may be sick of them, but me i have to deal with them every day. the french journalist, stunned by what they heard, agreed not to print the quotes.

today, they appeared chapter and verse and israeli media. >> this gossip between the leaders and the united states and europe does not affect the policy of the government when the critical moment is coming. >> in practical terms, there is so much at stake in the middle east peace process personal spats between leaders are unlikely to have any major lasting effects. certainly is not the first time an american president has found it difficult dealing with an israeli prime minister. perhaps, it does confirm what we already knew, that after months of difficult negotiations, personal relationships have been strained. the next round of talks should prove interesting. if only the diplomatic tap dancing would be sure to follow. >> watching "newsday" from the bbc. >> i'm babita sharma in london. keep up-to-date on the bbc news

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