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around the world, this is newsday. >> hello, the united nations general assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favor for a resolution by the arab league which condemns government violence in syria and calls for president assad to step down. it is non-binding. ban ki moon warned it was almost certain crimes against humanity were taking place in syria. he called for an international agreement to stop the bloodshed. >> with a decisive margin, and 137 in favor, 12 against, the world sent a strong message to put an end to the violence in syria. the syrians repeated their

claims>> no country can accept e presence of armed terrorist groups on its territory, and it cannot allow these groups to implement a tax against institutions and private and public property. -- attacks against institutions and private and public property. >> footage shows them attacking. they leave little doubt that forces aressad's targeting civilians. the international community is scrambling to act with ban ki moon delivering his most severe message yet. >> this does not give the government license to continue this assault on its own people. the longer we debate, the more

people will die. >> this was the response in a rout when russia and china vetoed a security council resolution calling for president assaad to step down. china is sending an envoy to damascus, while russian and french foreign ministers have been in talk, but the urgent issue has been humanitarian aid. there is no agreement on how to offer it and no way to do so until the fighting stops. >> there have been celebrations in libya to mark the year since the start of the uprising but essentially ended the rule of small mark gaddafi -- muammar gaddafi. armed militias are supposedly still operating and committing torture and murder. in the city were the 2011

protests began -- >> they had been celebrating for days already, ahead of the official anniversary. this is where it all began, the process that turned into a revolt that eventually toppled one of the most entrenched dictatorships of the last half century. in gauzy -- benghazi is the birthplace of the revolt, and they are proud of that fact. one year on, libya of's revolution -- libya's revolution still feels like unfinished business. >> away from the jubilation, rival militias squabble over territory, often with violent consequences. most of these mobile fighters answered to no one but cerone commanders.

the government -- to no one but their own commanders. the government is trying to force them into one but have met with little success. last spring, this doctor swapped his stethoscope for a gun. he and others risk their lives to overturn the brutal dictatorship. reports of former rebels torturing captured enemies. he said libya needs a new psychological revolution. >> the regime and its idea is still imprinted in many minds, so we have to change ideas. >> when he was not singing and playing his guitar, he fought on the front line. now he says it is important that those who took up arms laydown

their weapons. >> music brings peace, but machine guns cannot bring peace, and sing for me the song again. >> most libyans agree the freedom that has come with the revolution has changed their lives for the better, but until the militias disarmed, there lurks a danger of renewed violence. >> a sentence has been passed down on the man who tried to blow up an american airliner just over two years ago. >> the nigerian man has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the united states for trying to blow up an aircraft with a bomb hidden in his underpants. he has pled guilty to the outside of plot. he was badly burned when it

failed to ignite. >> this is the 25-year-old nigerian who tried to burn up a passenger jet over detroit on christmas day. his aim was to kill all the people on board. in court he was defiant, declaring he wanted to avenge the attacks of the united states on moslems. he said today was a day of victory. the judge told him it was clear he had no motivation to carry out further attacks. he could only stop him by sentencing him to spend the rest of his life in jail. >> out high-have lost once again. america has won once again -- al qaeda has lost once again. had america has won once again. we always do. >> his plot was directed by the american corn man who was killed in a drone strike last year. this was the latest -- this was one of the most serious events

since 9-11. >> we thought we were going to die. >> he was on the plane just 10 feet away from the bomb. he saw smoke rising from the sea. >> i yelled, fire, fire, and not even two minutes after, a big flame, and it was so high above his head, and i yelled again, i think he is a terrorist. >> prosecutors say this is what would have happened if the bomb had worked properly. the prom has led to changes in security. now a full body scanners are being used all around the world, but the main problem was not with technology. >> the case indicated serious failings among intelligence. his father told authorities his

son was linked to extremist. they know he paid for his fight with cash, but they failed to put it together. as president obama put it, they did not connect the dots. >> it is impossible to spot every potential terrorist, but with luck he did not carry out of the atrocity he planned. >> in other news, the public prosecutor in the german state of lower saxony has asked the federal parliament to strip the country's president of his immunity from prosecution. christian wulff has become embroiled in a scandal. it is alleged if he benefited from an improper arrangement for a proper -- for a private loan. he later tried to bully a newspaper from running the story. he denied wrongdoing. children have been killed after a lowry hit a school bus on the west bank. some of the children were as young as five years old.

the palestinian president has declared three days of mourning. israeli and palestinian leaders have met to discuss new ways in the mediterranean. netanyahu has said the developing peaceful relations between the countries should be in the interest of the region as of hall. -- as a whole. in honduras, a painful week continues for families who have relatives inside the jail but was destroyed by fire on tuesday night. more than 300 stifel -- 350 people were killed in the blaze, but because it's not clear. >> for more than 24 harrowing hours, -- but the cause is not clear. >> for more than 24 hours they have been waiting. the families of want to hear any news about their relatives. some of them already have to

regard her two brothers were killed in the blaze, locked behind bars as the flames swept through the building. >> i understand there whether 900 inmates inside the building only designed -- there were 900 inmates inside the building only designed for 300 people. they are human beings. even though they made mistakes, they are human beings, and they have the right to live. >> as the hours passed, the bodies continue to appear. this is the grim scene that has been unfolding for hours. body back after a body bag, loaded onto trucks to be taken to the morgue, yet just a few hundred meters outside the board of prison, the loved ones of the prisoners are waiting desperately for more news. >> there is still no clear explanation for what happened. different government officials have given different versions for how the blaze started.

some claim there was a fight between rival games. others claim it might have been a faulty electrical wire in the building. either way, almost all government officials agree the prison system needs reform. >> we need to modernize the entire system in honduras. that is one thing to do. the government is aware of it, and i hope we will start doing it because we have to guarantee the security of the inmates. >> human rights groups say the honduran government has been here before, as recently as 2004 there was a prison fire in which 100 inmates died, and the government promised there would never be a recipe. the horrific fire, which has put this small rural community under the spotlight, suggest those lessons have not been learned. >> live from singapore and

london, still to come, president sarcozy hits the campaign trail as his rival course the french press and -- networks the french press. >> the satellite that can grab space junk and bring it back to us. but let's have a look of some of the stories making headlines around the world. we will begin with "the financial times." it looks at whether options will receive a second bailout. there will be unprecedented controls on how the money will be spent. youth unemployment in britain as that -- is at its highest rate since 1992. young people say it has become harder after the london riots because employers do not trust them. french president nicholas sarcozy and david cameron are putting their differences behind them. the front page says the leaders will agree to new plans for

fighter drug and cooperation on nuclear power at a summit in paris -s, and twister is the lat internet companies to look at its methods after it uploaded entire address books without permission. >> these are the headlines. the un general assembly has condemned government violence in syria and called for president assad to step down. in nigeria, the man sentenced to life in prison for trying to blow up an american airliner for a bomb hidden in his underwear. the senior member of jordan's royal family has refused to give any assurances of a trial involving the radical muslim

cleric who was released this week. judges said he could not be sent to jordan to be tried for terrorism, because the evidence might have been obtained by torture. >> he is arriving back at his london home after being released from prison. he arrived late monday night and has not reemerge, although under his bail conditions, he is allowed out for two hours a day. meanwhile, thousands of miles away in jordan, the diplomatic moves have been continuing. a u.k. ministerial delegation has been working hard to try to get assurances of that evidence obtained by torture will not be used against him if he is in fact, but as a british team boarded the plane back to london, one of the most senior members of the jordan royal family refused to give assurances about the issue. >> if this man committed crimes,

which presumably is why he was being held in england, i do not snow what kind of court one has to offer. >> he questioned the u.k.'s human rights record. >> that is rich coming from a country that believes in transition agreements. >> even if there are assurances, it will still be a protracted process to get him on a plane, according to one legal expert. >> jordan will have to change its laws, and any attempt to export him he will challenge at court triggered >> this is the street where he lives, but we cannot disclose the relation -- the location. his family only moved here recently before he was released. his lawyers protect the privacy of his wife and children.

>> he may not be the favorite to win the french presidential elections, but nicholas sarcozy does not appear to have lost his campaign boost. the french president launched his reelection campaign on thursday with a call for reform. the man polls have consistently put in the lead, he has been on the campaign trail. >> his first official day of the campaign trail for an election he is in danger of losing. while in the eastern french town, nicholas sarcozy did not take tea with the voters, but he did visit a tea shop, joking he should drink more of it. and there was the tea party rally, with the fervor you might expect. he told reporters when it came to the economy he had and said its business.

he promised a referendum on unemployment and immigration. it seems to have gone down well here at least. also on the stump was his main rival, the socialist party candidate. he was ahead in the polls. >> to me my project is youth. we know we face a crisis. it is painful. how will we cope? by bringing about industrial recovery, by being productive. >> sarcozy will also have to fight off a challenge from the leader of the national front and from a number of other candidates. it will be a campaign dominated by the economy but the country's unemployment rate is nearly 10%. president sarcozy appeared aware of the huge task ahead and has many people convinced he deserves a second term.

>> the british prime minister is fighting hard to keep the united kingdom together. >> david cameron has appealed to the scottish people to vote against independence, and he is offering more power to edmund burke. scotland's nationalist government already controls some of is spending. -- he is offering more power to edinburgh. >> the union is to david cameron's case, and he fortified himself with a visit to a porridge factory. then he giggled the possibility of devolving more power to the scottish parliament is an -- he dangled the possibility of devolving more power to the scottish parliament if they rejected independence. >> we have to settle that issue first. is there more we can do to improve the settlement? are there other powers?

how can we make the united kingdom work better? >> the prime minister and his party's scottish leaders know that opinion polls consistently suggest more dilution is more popular in scotland and independence and suggest the solution is more popular in scotland than independence. >> we have been attached to england for a long time, and i do not see a need to be independent. >> in edinburgh, anti-capitalist protested against the prime minister's visit. david cameron sought to add a little passion of his own to the debate. >> i believe in the united kingdom i am a unionist, head, heart, and salt. >> and the prime minister call to see the man who wants to take over his responsibilities in , the nationalist

minister, who is keen to find out what extra powers david cameron might be prepared to concede. >> what could be more frustrating than for someone to say it is board to offer people of scotland something else, but did not say what is? when the big difference between us is one or two questions. >> a referendum route to david cameron wants to go down is one question, yes or no to independents. with one on devolution on almost everything except a fence and foreign affairs. it is hard for david cameron to campaign in scotland. his party is unpopular with voters. the conservatives have only one of the 59 mps elected in

scotland. >> the prime minister was quite careful to indicate he did not expect to lead the campaign. the truth is the conservative labour party will have to come together in a joint campaign if it is going to be as effective as it should be. >> pro-union parties will be wondering if more evolved power later will be attractive enough to win out independence. >> rupert murdoch has arrived in london to take part in the latest crisis involving his newspapers. he is expected to address the newspaper later this friday. 10 senior staff have been arrested in connection with alleged corrupt payments to public officials. those followed the closure of britain's biggest selling newspaper and not "the news of the world" in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. a british student was accused of molesting a malaysian

student. he had his jaw broken into places and his bicycle stolen, of some who which was posted on -- which was filmed and put on youtube. the 17-year-old attacker faces a long prison sentence. switzerland is rather well known for scientists, but now they are turning their attention to space. they are designing a space satellite that will scoop up the junk that is orbiting earth. nasa says half a million pieces of rocket parts and other debris is in orbit. some have been who damage byron -- by this. >> 55 years ago, and it was launched. tons of metal blasting into space. followed over the five decades by more and more and more.

as the earth's superpowers vied with each other for control of the universe, but in space, what goes up does not necessarily come down. now over half a million pieces of space junk are orbiting the earth. it's the old rockets, debris from outdated satellites. many pieces are quite small, but they are traveling at 28,000 kilometers an hour. they threaten the 700 satellites which provide us with a central of modern life. mobile phone signals or television channels. help is at hand. science -- scientists of the swiss space center have designed a modest satellite on a were the commission. it will grab pieces of space junk and force them into the

earth's atmosphere, where they will burn up. its launch is expected in five years. its first task is to receive free to retrieve and destroy its outdated satellites. with hundreds of thousands of pieces of junk floating around in space, this will take years. clean space is expected to be just the first in a family of space cleaners. they are all intent on restoring the happens to their original clean state. >> you have been watching news a. -- newsday. the united nations general assembly has voted in favor of a resolution condemning violence by the syrian government. it is a non-binding resolution. the general assembly still hopes to pass another one for an air of united nations peacekeeping force to enter syria who -- an

error of united peacekeeping force to enter syria as observers. -- arab united the scheming forced to enter syria as observers. this is bbc news. >> make sense of international news. bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by -- the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu newman's own foundation and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to understand the industry you operate in, working to nurture new ventures and help provide capital for key, strategic decisions.

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