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-- protests. elcomeo bbc world ne broadca in americ and around the globe. inside zbabwe, andrew harding's rport. our reconciliaon is still possle? >> pimm and loshis wife and property when his house wa attacked last year by the militia. is he now rey to forgive and forg? >> he diedt the age of 17, having rvived worldar one. the world's all this man was honored today. -- world's dest man was honored toy.
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it has been a brutal fight, leaving hundreds dd. owever, a jury apostle armed forces say they haveestroyed the headquarts of eght radical lamist ct and captured a killed its lear. news came shortly after the police sd theyound him hing in the home of relativ in the northn city, where militants have eir base. caroline is in the ngerian city of lagos withhis update for us. >> we understand that the police have told local jourlists that a federal crk has been killed and brought in topolice custody. localournalists were called. heascaptured late this afternoon and taken to lal headquarrs, to be paraded before stateofficials and journalists expectg to meet him.
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journalists told us that ddenly the atmosphere changed, and e bbc repord a messa from a t news crew sing at they had bee calleino film mething. shortly aer that, bbc learned that he wa dead, killed in policeustody, shot dead. they expect to se it on nigerian tv qte shortly. what we do know is that this raid happened very fast, late i the afternoon, and at this shooting too place very shortly afterwards we also know so people love seeing the video, - people have se the video, where mohamme is seen confessingo have planned affect the attacks across northern neria. it sounds very mh like a ccession. one peon heard abouthe video
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and another who had seen it described it as an exetion. >> to e middle east. in iran, pole and prosters clashed on the streets o tehran. they have been gathering to th capital to cmemorate those killed in protests after the disputed pesidential elections. several hundred assembled at cemetery to mark t 40th day of mourning for the youn woman, neda sultan, w died during the demonstrations. report. >> just look at the defiance. a policeman is ating him. but this demonstrat refers is to get then - refuses to give in. so t police open fire. a few yards awayyou see an offir taking ge and shooting. once again today, opposition showed that theyould stage a majorrotest, despite
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gornment threat and intimidation. they gathered at t huge cemetery outde tehran. the young woman w shot in a demonstration. >> it was all about being young and feeling ssionate about freedom. sheid not belongo any party or group or support any faction. every other young iranian was ther and she was one of em. >> despitehe huge security esence, supporters made it to her grave site, and the police moved in. we witnessed pple with their faces covered in bld. in o pce, i watcd people getting beaten up.
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others rued, trying to stop it. in central tehran lice said in a motorcycle cavalry but the government's attets to intimidatehe opposition i having less and lesaffect. the taliban have called on people in ahanistan to boycotthe presidential elections next nth. there currently on the weit to thpole for august 20. a taliban website sa instea of voting, people should attack enemy positions and blocked roads on the e of election. the w yrk attorney general said some banks wch have received billions o dollars in bailout have continued to pay big bonuses to employees. the banks paid out atotal of more than $5 billion in bonuses for 2008. a u.s. jue hasrdered the release of one of the youngest detainees at the guantanamo bay detention nter. the district court judge said
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tha he would be releasedy late august. he was released in 2002 and is expected to return home. he inurope, police have scovered a second bomb on the isla of majorca. the boss today took -- blast took place ne a barracks, killinto the bureau guards. this took place ia popular hoday resorts. it comes a day before the 50th niversary. >>he summer holiday sceneis ju yards from what has been branded a terrort attack. the bombxploded shortly book for 2:00ocal time outsidthe rracks, left after the patrol car o two offirs who had died
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they went to a popular tourt support. >> we were sunbathing earlier today and that we heard a massive expsion. weave heard since thatolice were iolved. >> authority immediately blamed the basque terrorist group a shut down the airport. it is the second a targeted to them and 24 hours. incredibly, there were only minor injuries. there has also bn determinion to find the bombers and deat them definitively. this evening, bomb disposal
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experts scovered and detonated a second device, ao left under a car. there iscapacity for vience on the eve of the 50th anversary of the finding until this week, the spanish government has porayed the grp as weekend llowing a group of high-prole arrest. th message tonight,though, is that the group can still strike at the very heart of tourist ain. >> a new sdy says depleted fisheriesround the world can be saved from collapse if the governmentcts to manage coercial fishing. but aeport said a combinatio of measures, catch quotas, no- takezones, and fishi gear have helped tm recover. sold just under billion liters of beer, down 4.5% ang the
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same period lastear. indtry efforts blad bans on sming, greater awareness of health issues, and what wther reducing theumber of peoe havg barbeques. zimbabwe remas a tense place. the unity governnt is still an comfortable coalition beten robert mugabe and theormer opposition par, led by morgan tsvangirai. but there are sgns of he. this week, the zimbabwe gornment told the bbc that there is no b on operations and they can resume operations legally and open. our corresndent is in hearty. -- harari. >> is liky to take some me, but the pri minister told me that iis possienobody involved in the extreme political violen that has crippled t country may end up
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being sentced to prison. in zimbabwe, plenty of tlk about reconciliation. the man whonleashed so much of at violence, robert mugabe, is urging the natio >> you do not succeed thugh violence. [applause] >> crucially, his foer rals work together to check augustus -- just asnd reconciliation. the unity government is preachinreconciliation,ut what does at mea inractical terms? this m lost his life and property when his a tells -
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house was attacked lt year. but he is ready to rgive and forget he sifts through his fe's a bird tclothes. she was opted a year ago, th day after her sband was erected deputy mayor. -- he sits for her burned clothes. he has got x names. suorterstill live nearby and are continuing to threaten him. >> find it very, very difficulto forgive peopleho are saying they did it and they can do it on again. >> political, this remains an explosive issue. moan tsvangirai himsf ses to be urging of victims ttread
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carefull >> it ia process. but you may also slide back into e sameonditions for moving away from. >> so th wait. its unclear if anyo will ce justice in this country >> the situation here is fluid, and it has been annteresting day terms of difculties that the government still facing he. the one hand, this morning was a seor official go to court on what his part believesart from up charges -- a trumped up charges. we he seen proess with a meeting held this afteoon between the prime minister and senior military officials that
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have until now been refusing to meet. so it sms like t steps foard, one stepback, but there progress. >is still too, poverty, isease, corruption. a toxic mas -- ill to come, poverty, disease, and corruption, a toxicmakes in sierra lne. a fishing boat and its crew was going io nort korean waters after its navigion equipment failed. >> the sou kean protesters are demanding thanorth korea released the fishing boat and its detained crew. according to the south rean
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governmenthe goat -- but had been -- but had be fishg for squid. but itent off as mu as 10 kometers, beuse its navigation system was not rking properly. >> is tuncommon for fishing boats from noh and south to crs the maritime border, and such cidents have bn successfully resolved in the past. 006, north korea returned a soutkorean bo after detaining a for 18 dys. south koreaays it has reased a vessel as rently as this month. the south korean authories say they are doing all they n to resolve this latest case >> we have sen a message.
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relations hav been deteriorati in recent months. hower, following the north' rocket lauh a nuclear tt and the sou's support force tougher sanctions. a south korean work has now been in north korean custody for months o charges of insulting the political syem. e fishermen hope they do not suffer a similar fate. >> these are the headlines so far. the leader of t islamis militant groupnvolvedn northern violence has en kill in custody. and breaking up the grave site remony to honor protestersn iran killed afr theecent election. the chair of a long-demanded british inquiry to the iraq
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war of 2003 sa tt it will not shy ay from making iticisms. they're lookin at the parameters of the inquiry, and also are ccerned that these former officials woulbe called to give evidence and much of it uld be made public. was a war that produced more than its share of diffult questions. was it legal, or did they flt internional law? was inteigence misusedy politicis desperate t convince a sktical public? and wher wa the pt-war plannin the absence of which slipped iraq to flounder? that is just some of the questioning, andhis is the man appointed by the govement to find ansrs. a form white hall mandarin, h promised his findings uld not be a whitewash
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>> we wi be fair and frank, to enable to form imrtial judgments on all aspects of the issu, inuding the arguments about th legality of the nflict. >> he sa mostearings would bin public, somethi that downing street was initially against. puic hearings could cause embarrassment for the government, because the fmer primeinister, tonylair, will be a wtness, as willther minists past and present. thenquiry is already preparing to be in tch with bereaved families. she belies that public heargs are essential. >> he has got to speakhe has got to see >>ith e inquiry are ree her nights and a roness. but save hn, the inquiry will
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not go ay from finding fats. they will saso. that is somethg that downi reet had hoped to avoid. thfinal report will not be ready for theeast 12 mont, and possly not until 2011, after e general election. >> it i an ageld story. a countrgoes to civil war, the fightingomes to annd, and foren aid pulls out. ritain has spent almost $400 million in sierra leone after inrvening nine years ago. theoney was earmarked to ild a stle, but much of it disappeared. ountry has traveled see early onnd found poverty, disease, and aarning and that could return. -- humprehy traveled --sier
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leone. >> she is eaking rocks. it is dangerous wo. it to trynd py for schooling. how much doeshe need? just 1 pound. >> neitr my mother nor myunt have enoug money, she told me, anif i did not have the money, i could n go to school. under international ghts, t governme must givehildren free education, but it does not. she is just one stor of one child i itain's recent inlvement in sierraeone. nine yeago, britain came to stop the war, and they are the mos -- bigge donor.
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>> there ha beenmisused, but the has to be anengagement. iowa a serious engagemt that leaves us out of whe we are. >> britain spent 50 milln pounds last year, so where the taxpayer going? not all the roads,it seems a lorry of medical supplies plummet's through a mashift bridge. they admit crucial mistas have been made in tackli corrtion and poverty. in a district hostal, a brother an sister have maria. bu they havno malaria drugs. after essential drug, they have not been repced or have vanished amid allegations of corruption. the impt -- is a flash point town. the local men used to be child
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soldiers. a decade on, they are jbless and angry. >> 1896 -- queen victoria still had fi years othe throne. e war had not even started. this is e year that henry was going. he died earlier this month at the age of 113. he became the only remaining survivor of the bale of jutland. he was laid to rest tod. >> the final farewell for one of the last terans ofhe war, one of the las linksor a chapte of history, aan who helped make sure the cost of conflict would not bfurthered. and they have come to pay tribute to honor h passing. >> we have co here today to remeer before t our brother, henry. to give thanks for his life, to mmend him to god, ourerciful
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redeer and judge. >> hewas going i june,p 1896and was a junr at the outbreak of t first world war. he joined e air service as an airplane mechanic, witnessing the battle of jutlan he made it his missioto ensure the sacrifice of otrs were never forgotten. >> [unintelligble] won the war. >> head determination t see that later generations will always remember. today, across the generions, theyave come to pay their respects and cebrate his life. he was geners and so many wa. he constantly deflected discussion out himself to others. he remembered witthe uncan ability to remember names and
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adesses. >>♪ >> folwing the seice, the sound of the last note, and fe replicalanes took to the sky. thbells at st. nicholas church toed once for every year of s long life. >> remembering and honoringhe world'oldest man. a fnch rapper is at the hear of a political storm after concerts' wereanceled fo explicit and violent lyrics. from paris - >> [french rappg] >> he isometimes called the french eminem. people call his lyrics sexes and violent. politicians got him dropped from
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music festivals this summer. they were outraged over a song lled "dirty bitch," about a man wanted toeat upis faithful girlfriend. but the rapper ss it was neve meant to be taken literall >> it is a song aboua man that hi gifriend is cheating, and she comes back hom. he drks and rates are an e- mail that insults' her -- rights her an e-mail that insults r. but it is fictio it is nothing re. did not wite about my ex- girlfriend. >it is young people like these o are his fans. they ink that politicians inhabit a different universe from paris. rappers were predictin riots in the fren suburbs year before they happened. some say that the lyrics might be disturbing or reprensible,
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but they are expressing shar feelings of youn people. bbc news, paris. >> finally, utah police receid a comaint of a reckls dver who looked too youngo dre. of thear did seem to have trouble keeping on the rights at the road, and then it drove through a stop sign. stopped at theleft and it appears as thoughhe police have t drir corr. out comes the cprit -- a seveyear old boyho had taken is dad's car. the reason? he did t wanto go to church. >> fuing was ma possible by the frman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, an honolulu, the nean's own foundation, the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundaon, and union bank. foundaon, and union bank. >> union bank has putts
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