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>> hello and welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm in singapore. >> and i'm pepita sharm and in london. the latest plans to hand over security control and afghanistan and al qaeda group says it carried out a bombing in yemen that killed more than 19 soldiers. >> beaten unconscious, an angry crowd turned on the drum president. and family apparel for the only man ever convicted of the lockerbie bombing. -- and a family para el -- burial for the only man ever conduct of the lockerbie bombing. >> welcome to newsday.

leaders of more than 50 nations have promised their full support for afghanistan as it prepares to take full charge of its own security. nato leaders gathered in chicago to put forth plans to pull combat troops out within two and half years. mark marcell is in chicago. >> 11 years of war and nearly 3000 allied troops have died and at least 12,000 afghan civilians have been killed. it has cost 370 billion pounds and the message is, it is almost over. we are approaching a mouse on along a long road home. -- a milestone along a long road home. >> we are poised to bring home troops by 2013, next year, so isaf can move to a supporting role. this will be another step toward afghans taking fully for their security, as agreed to, by 2014 when the isaf combat mission

will end. >> it does not disguise the fact that the end will be difficult. many think that the peace and security in afghanistan lies in pakistan. and once again, there are problems from that quarter. >> president obama warmly shook hands of many world leaders. but he made the leader of pakistan -- the ambassador of plat -- pakistan wait a while. they closed the route from karachi to kominar when several were killed along the border. everything has to be flown in at huge cost to the north, nearly 3,000 miles. afghanis want an apology. they also want to charge 10

times the old price. it is a symbol of badal problems. >> it is a bad sign that if we cannot resolve this logistical supply issue, i do not know how we will be able to work with the pakistani authorities for a political process, a peaceful process, which everybody including the commanders on the ground say is essential for afghanistan. >> i do not want to paint over the challenges. there is no doubt there have been tensions between isaf and pakistan and the united states and pakistan over the last several months. >> the war may not really end. only the commodified in will be done by afghan forces. -- only the fighting will be done by afghan forces. nato wants to make sure that when they stand up, they do not stand alone. >> the message to the afghan people is that we will not desert them. and a message to the insurgency is equally clear. you cannot win on the

battlefield. you should stop fighting and start talking. >> this does mark a milestone, but the journey is far from over. nato will play a supporting role in afghanistan, even as it declares the war is over. and corrects a suicide bomber in yemen has killed at least 96 people, most of them soldiers, and injured hundreds more. al qaeda says it is behind the attacks. frank gardner reports. >> some salt -- some thought it was at first a ceremonial cannon. but it was a lone suicide bomber to week hot carnage in the heart of the yemeni capital. -- to wreak carnage in the heart of the yemeni capital. it was at of tomorrow's planned

parade to celebrate the country's unity. the capitals hospitals were overwhelmed and called for blood donors. this is worse than almost anything its residents can remember. we were just waiting for the defense minister's speech, says this soldier, and we have no idea where the explosion came from. >> yemen has been shaped -- shaken by last year's protests. its longstanding president driven out and in the confusion, al qaeda has moved in, taking large tracts of territory in the south. today's bombing is a message of defiance from al qaeda to the new president. it took place in the capitol right by the presidential palace. it should have been a secure area. it comes as government forces are battling al qaeda, mainly in a certain province. yemen worries the west because from there, al qaeda has sent

sophisticated bombs on planes bound for the middle east, britain, and america. mid-air disasters have only been narrowly averted. and these are some of the men behind a bomb plots hiding out in yemen, the self-styled out canada in the arabian -- the self-styled al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. air strikes are targeting them, but the air strikes are also gaining america new enemies. >> there is no doubt that the drone campaign has been very successful in knocking out an important year of senior leadership of al qaeda in yemen. but it also has an undeniable radicalizing effect among the wider population. going forward, the u.s. is going to have to balance those two elements very carefully. and in order to do so, it has to look at pursuing a counterterrorism strategy that puts the human security of the population to the fore.

>> the new president has inherited a country beset with problems. before the government and its allies, there is one pressing issue, finding and eliminating al qaeda before it lawmakers can strike again. -- a bomb makers can strike again. >> jeffrey is at princeton university and he explains why al qaeda has gained such a foothold in yemen. >> go back to christmas day, 2009. this is the day that outcry that in the arabian peninsula off put a bomb onto a plane over the united states on the way to detroit. at that point, the arabian peninsula had 200 or 300 individuals in no controlled territory. just a few years later it has tripled in size and controls a great deal of territory. it has its own police forces. it has to own court system. it is providing services to the

citizens there. and in many ways in southern yemen, it is a defacto government. there are two main causes. one, the u.s. drone and air strike, which are creating as many terrorists as they are killing. and secondly, as the yemeni government collapsed amid protests last year, al qaeda was able to step in and fill the vacuum in the south. >> there is a vacuum, isn't there, in terms of the position of the president? there has been no reaction to the attack. he is going to extreme pressure from the americans and the west. where do you see this situation? >> today, we have the odd situation of having the president not actually addressing the yemeni people. initially, the yemeni government put out a statement that the president would be giving an address last evening.

that did not happen. the address was read by someone else, which was very strange. and the other thing that the president had been dealing with in yemen at the moment is that he has a very shallow base of support. most of the people in yemen are just excited he was not the president who ruled for more than three decades. what that means is that he has to have a very close embrace with the west, particularly the united states. this is creating a number of problems for him as well as for the u.s. as they march in lockstep and tried to remove all of the former members of the former president's family, while at the same time trying to carry out a sophisticated military a campaign against the president -- against al qaeda. >> was this a warning to the yemeni president, or against the west? >> this was al qaeda as saying we can strike wherever and

whenever we want. this was on the eve of unity day. it is al qaeda sending a very sharp message to both sides. >> breaking news coming from bulgaria where a magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck near the top -- the capital of sofia. it struck at 3:00 a.m. local time at a depth of 9 kilometers, we are told. only 3 kilometers west of the capital. as of yet, no further details and no immediate reports of damage or injuries. magnitude 5.8 near the capital of sofia in bulgaria. crowds have attacked the presidential palace in mali. >> that is right. the interim president was beaten unconscious monday by protesters who stormed his offices. they were demanding for his resignation.

he has now been taken from hospital to a safe location. >> that they had expected their president to be leaving office, but on news he was staying on for 12 months, the people took to the streets. they came out in the thousands, marching in protest through palaco. these students are shouting they do not want the president. and they declared they did not want the deal in recent days either. >> we want him to leave the transition so that the people themselves can decide on the transition. he refuses the echo what recision -- ecowas decision. this was -- >> this was the moment that he was attacked in

his offices. he was unconscious when brought to the hospital, though he was to recover later. it was only days ago that he had been sworn in as interim president. following an interim election in march. capt., d.l. has also caused anger. housing, transport, security, and an allowance. this man says we are determined to put an end to ignoble behavior by our politicians. bad behavior, he says. the show of anger by the people is a protest against the decision taken about them, but without them. their violence threatens to derail a transition plan that was meant to take them closer to

democracy. bbc news. >> the funeral has taken place in tripoli, the only man convicted of the lockerbie bombing. he had been suffering from cancer and had been controversy ilia released from the scottish prison. >> under colonel gaddafi this might have been a public or even state event, an occasion for national mourning. instead, he was laid to rest today quietly in a family plot in tripoli. to the end, the former libyan intelligence officer insisted he was innocent. pan am 103 fell from the winter sky on december 21, 1988. an engine and a wing full of fuel crashed, demolishing houses there. the memory of that night is still vivid and easy to record.

the streets near the cake -- near the crash site were covered in cables and wires and arkwright's and recovery vehicles. and those who came out of their homes that night moved without speaking. they seemed silenced by the shock of it. >> lockerbie is a close-knit place. the reaction to his death is characteristically subdued. but even here, the opinion is united. >> at least he is gone now. thank god. >> [unintelligible] >> in america, there is no such debt. most relatives there believed he was guilty, but that others were also involved. >> to have him come to his final and gives us some justice, but there is still more to the story that needs to be solved. it we need more truth to come out. we need more of the criminals

who were involved in the bombing to be exposed. >> what happens next? police in scotland say they have stepped up their investigation. the new libyan police say they will record -- it will cooperate, but how much of it will we see? mcgraw he was released nearly three years ago. the scottish government said set many questions remain unanswered. >> it has been dealt with by the police as well as his family. the scottish government has always said there are matters that are still required to be addressed. >> he died a convicted killer, but a quarter of a century on, the truth is how and by whom these 270 were murdered is as elusive as ever.

>> you are watching news day on the bbc live from singapore and london. still to come, a jail sentence for the american student who used a web cantor's by on his guay were meant to. >> -- use a web cam to spy on his gay roommate. >> let's take a look at the stories making headlines for your around the world. a suicide bomb attack in yemen. over 90 died in the attack. al qaeda has claimed responsibility. not like. facebook fell 11% below its ipo initial price on friday. facebook has too few obvious streams, but google has possibly

too many. newspaper says germany will reject proposals for putting chancellor merkel on a collision course with many european countries. >> i am in singapore. >> i am in london the headlines for you this hour -- president obama said from chicago they will form a long-term security plan to pull out of afghanistan in pulling out combat troops. >> outcry in yemen says it has carried out the suicide bombing in the capital that killed at least 90 soldiers.

the chinese dissident has been getting used to his new life in the united states. he arrived in the country on saturday after beijing allowed him to leave china. but he has expressed concern about some of the people he had to leave behind. joining me now is a professor of law at new york university where mr. chen will be steady. mr. cohen, thank you for joining us. how has it been for him to arrive in the u.s.? gretzky is doing very well. i just -- >> he is doing very well. i just had dinner with him and his wife. they have only been here 50 hours, but they are already adjusting. good indeed, 50 hours in the united states. as you mentioned, still adjusting to the new life in america. you mentioned in another conversation that mr. chen is

seriously troubled because he cannot protect others who protected him in china. >> that is right. he inevitably feel guilty about leaving, especially his nephew, who is locked up in criminal the tension in their village -- criminal the tension in their village. and others also who aided him when he got to beijing and needed shelter before he found his way to the american embassy. >> now that he is just a few days in the united states, has he already told you what his future plans are? does he still planned to eventually go back to china? >> yes, that is the hope. he has come here to study. he is only 40 years old. he's got perhaps four more decades ago. this is a modest investment in his future in order to improve his english, learn about comparative international law,

and to understand our human rights organizations and to establish cooperation with people outside china. >> and jerome cohen, professor of law and a confidante and good friend of mr. chen. meanwhile, qantas is to split into two. qantas said the move to separate its nest egg and international business is part of a five-year plan to get the ailing company into profit. on monday, 500 jobs, it announced, would go >> a former student at rutgers university in new jersey has been jailed for 30 days for using a web cam to spy on his gay roommate. there were may jump to his death after learning that indian-born roommate had filmed his sexual

encounter with another man. >> in court, he showed little emotion. and he had already been found guilty of secretly filming his roommate, tither clementi, and his sexual encounter with another man in 2010. he then advertise that he had done so on twitter. days later, tyler clement was dead. he jumped from the george washington bridge. in court, his parents were visibly distraught. >> to know the pain suffered by my son as a result of his cold heart of violations of him. >> the charges of invasion of privacy and others could have led to a 10-year jail sentence and possible deportation. but he was not charged with causing tyler's death. that has opened a wide ranging debate. should the student have faced a tougher sentence, or not?

and why did rutgers university not take more action? >> for the past two years, the media [unintelligible] my 20-year-old son already has too much burden on his shoulders. >> the judge in the case made it clear we never referred to it as a hate crime. >> down the road you can expunge this judgment. but you cannot expunge the conduct with the pain he caused. >> he was handed a fine of $10,000. he was also given 30 days in prison followed by three years' probation and 300 hours of community service. he was also told he would

receive counseling about cyber bullying. neither family would comment outside of court, although the prosecution said it will plan to appeal. >> the olympic flame has attracted more big crowds on its 70-day journey around the u.k.. but keeping it a light was quite a challenge in the west of england. >> across north devon and into somerset, talk of the torch is spreading. there was an anxious moment when one torch blowout, but the olympic plane -- flying will -- the olympic flame saved in the lantern was on hand. and restored, severely disabled by parkinson's, but determined to be worthy of the honor given to him. meizell after mile in every

town, every village, -- mile after mile in every town, every village, excitement has been growing since the start of lands' end. we are only seeing a tiny part of the operation. it takes more than 350 people to keep this torch rolling. the 14-b " torch convoy -- the 14-vehicle toward convoy includes many. grex we want them to have a great time. -- >> we want them to have a great time. >> a swarm of local police prevents the convoy from straying from the route. and another team is one step ahead to deal with any unforeseen problems. >> they deal with whether we can see the flame war began on. where we have lunch, where we go for a break.

-- whether we can see the flame or whether we cannot. where we have lunch, where we go for a break, i could go on. >> i want my family to be there tomorrow and in the future. it is an unbelievable moment. >> as the sun began to set, 12- year-old thomas pierce, whose dad ran with his sister, cheered on with the champion, helping the olympic flame burns even brighter. >> and on tuesday, bbc world news will be following the olympic torch from its west country journey from toward to bristol. james will be reporting from kenya where the team is currently training at high altitudes. it will have live coverage of the 2012 olympic porch -- torch.

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