>> this is "bbc world news. funding for this presentation is 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 know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you?

>> and now, "bbc world news. >> the controversial bagram prison in afghanistan is handed over to afghan control by the americans. but the u.s. hold s onto hundreds of high-risk detainees,. is this a measure of distrust between kabul and washington? hello, welcome to "g.m.t.." also coming up in this program, the u.s. navy seal involved in the killing of blad goes republic and reveals one key question president obama asked. >> we asked him who was the one, and he wanted to know who it was and we wouldn't tell him. >> why not? >> it's not that hard, so it's

not about who that one person was, it was about the team. >> and here in the u.k., the bomb disposal unit is called into the home of the british iraqi engineer who was killed along with family members in for instance. it's midday here in london, 7:00 in washington and half past 3:00 in the afternoon in kabul where the yudes has handed over former control of back ram prison to the afghanistan gan government. there are more than 3,000 inmates in the prison, many who are taliban fighters and terrorist suspects. they hailed the transfer as a victory for afghan sovereignty. >> president karzai has long-demanded that afghanistan take control of the prison. it would have a significant bearing on long-term afghan-u.s.

relations. it was handed over at this ceremony. afghan officials calling it a proud day and a victory. the americans maintaining that bagram had played its part in securing the future of the country ? we transferred more than 3,000 afghan detainees into your country and assured those who would threaten the partnership of afghanistan and coalition forces would not return to the battlefield. >> but even as the handover was taking place, there were still disagreements over the fate of hundreds of inmates and over the interpretation of the them ran dem off understanding between the u.s. and afghanistan authorities. the u.s. still want to be able to conduct their own interrogations. >> they don't quite trust them to hold the high valuable targets because of concerns about corruption, detainees escaping and whether they'll get the adequate guarantees they won't face the risk of torture in the afghan facilities.

>> it's a key underlying problem as the u.s. and its allies increasing he hand over security control as a whole. >> it's important after 11 years of this partnership where we have signed this strategic agreement with the unites where it's an m.o.u., we're still tarbging about issues of trust. the united states needs to be able to trust us as partners. >> what happens now at bagram with its controversial history surrounding the treatment of detainees will be closely watched in afghanistan and far beyond. >> joining us now is our correspondent jonathan beal. so clearly the americans, very concerned about these high risk detainees and the afghans not able perhaps to guarantee their security. >> yes, simply very surprising given that this agreement was signed six months ago. so today was just the form

ceremony of handing over the detention facility. but still disputes over what should happen to some of these detainees, and america making clear they want to hold on, at least keep a foot in the door of bagram and to retain control of part of that prison and to continue, of course, cap suring insurgents, taking them there, questioning them, sbrer gating them and possibly handing them over to the afghans. i think the concern among human rights groups is you might have a situation, a detention facility where americans think -- that is not something that follows the legal process. essentially undermines afghan authority, afghansonity. that's the concern to president karzai. so while they can say this is a

step forward in taking control of their own country, the afghans, on the other hand we still do see some of the messy difficulties of this agreement that are going to arise while that handover takes place. >> jonathan, obviously this can't be seen just in isolation from sort of a wider relationship between the united states and afghanistan. how far do you think, this is another indicator of a measure of distrust between the two countries? >> we've seen a number of indicators of trust and mistrust. what's happened with the green on blue killings, afghan in uniforms, maybe infiltration by the taliban, maybe just local grievances. but the number of international croops being killed by afghans in uniform. we have seen the very public ravaging about night raids, who thowled have authority for that. the americans clearly wanting to have their own control of what

kind of military operations they conduct, while at the same time to be sensitive to president karzai and his position. this is one of those disputes. but essentially, the signals are clear, international troops will be out of afghanistan by the end of 2014. yes, there will still be people here from other countries, there will probably be special forces. but they're going to have to take charge of their own destiny and those questions about trust will have to be resolved one way or another. disagreements at the moment they'll have to come to some kind of agreement to make sure this works. >> now, a retired navy seal who took part in the u.s. special forces that ended in the death of osama bin laden has gwynn his first public interview. he's written a first ht person account on the raid last year.

>> his beard wasn't gray at all -- >> this is the man who took part in the killeding of osama bin laden. his account is at odds of the official version which says bin laden was shot inside a room. but mark owen, speaking for the first time, said he was shocked as he put his head around the door moments after the seals had killed his son. >> some people would argue why did that point man take those shots? well, immediately the first door we went to, my team was engaged by enemy fire through the door. so automatically we know we're going into an enemy compound. shots being fired back at us immediately, a.k. found next to khalid on the stairs. all those boxes had been checked that if a guy sticks his head around a corner, he very easily could have a gun. you don't wait to get that a.k. or the grenade thrown down the hall, or the suicide vest. so in the split second, that's

when he engaged. >> the seal's new they needed absolute proof that the man they had killed was bin laden, and it was owen's job to take photographs of the body. >> i figured these were probably some of the most important photos i would ever take in my life. make sure i do it right, get good angles. all this other stuff. you've got to clean off the face, so it's dent final. one of my buddy had a cam back with water on it, so we wiped the blood off and then took the photos. >> the mission was complicated because one of the helicopters had crashed and the operation took longer than planned. but six hours later, president obama announced it's success to the world. >> tonight, i can report to the american people -- >> and later met privately with the team asking who had fired the fatal bullet. >> yeah, he asked, he asked who was the one and we told him he

wouldn't tell him. >> why not? >> pulling the trigger is easy, it's not that hard, you know. so it's not about who that one person was, it's about the team or the helicopter pilots, or the intel folks that keyed this whole thing ups. who cares who the one person is? doesn't matter. >> the pentagon is unhappy with the book, claiming it contains sensitive information and that mark owen is in breach of a secrecy agreement. but not clear whether the administration is willing to take action against one of the men who killed osama bin laden. jane o'brian, "bbc news," washington. >> we reported at the beginning of the program on developments in afghanistan and there's been another development there. some news that's just coming in, reports are coming in of a suicide bomb attack in a northeast afghanistan. the area was tacked with

civilians, mostly shoppers. not yet known how many people have been injured. the police have sealed off the area and they have been ferrying people to a nearby hospital. news just coming in of that. now let's take a look at some of the other stories in brief. pro china candidates in hong kong have gained an edge, winning 43 of 70 seats. but pro democratic parties will retain enough of a majority to veto any prosed changes to the former british colonies institution. seats are decided by voters with the remaining 30 chosen by the members of business and special interest groups, most of which are dominated by pro-beijing figures. there's been widespread outrage in india against the arrest of a cartoonist. aseem trivedi has been charged with se addition for displaying characters of parliament.

he says that his car soons -- cartoons are trying to expose government corruption. one shows wolves instead of lions. a day after being sentenced to death in absentia. dark dark has dismissed the kiss against him. mr. al-hashemi is now living in turkey. still to come on g.m.t., it's game over but was it a win for london? we look back on the games. in syria, at least 17 people have been killed and 40 people wounded in northern syria. state media says two hospitals in a school were largely destroyed by a near car bomb. this comes as the new international is beginning his first visit to the region.

and jim muir who is following events told us more about the explosions. >> according to syrian state tv the number of people killed in that bombing near the city stadium has gone up to 29 killed and round about 50 wounded. talked to people on the spot, people screaming, very distraught, saying this was a terrorist attack killing their sons and family members and so on. but the free syrian army says it was responsible for this blast. it said that in contrast to the official account, which that it was a car bomb involving something like a thousand killo grams of explosive, they said they smuggled bombs into a building with the help of collaborators because as the building is concerned, two hospitals and school, they say have been taken over by troops and were being used as bar

racks. two conflicting accounts but you can see huge destruction and obviously a high number of casualties. but very similar teams not so far away on the eastern side where an entire building, a very big building was demolished by what activists call barrel bombs. these are barrels full of tnt thrown out of military aircraft. they say a lot of casualties there. they named five people, they said died. but others unaccounted for or buried under the rubble still. >> jim muir there in lebanon. you can stay up to date with the ongoing syrian conflict on our website. police here in the u.k. say they have evacuated homes near the house of a british iraqi couple slain while vacationing in the french alps. french police have been

scrambling to hunt down leads since wednesday's shooting in which he, his wife, his mother-in-law and passing cyclist were killed. so significant development today, bomb disposal university apparently going into the home. what could be going on there? >> yeah, well the police did tell us, they said that due to concerns about items found in their home they've extended the cordon around the home and they've evacuated neighbors in the immediate area. now, all of the weekend, the media has been camped right outside the door, the gates of the house. but quite early this morning, the police suddenly told us to move about a hundred meters down the road. we heard neighbors had been evacuated and then the bomb disposal team arrived. i don't know if you can see this, the team are now outside

the house. one thing i would have to say they are not in any protective clothing. they seem to be reasonably relaxed standing outside the house. that may well indicate there isn't some immediate threat. i can confirm in the last couple of minutes that the police have confirmed they were investigating items found at the back of the building. neighbors have told us they believed it was some sort of workshop, elaborate security locks on this out house, this out building and fairly significant power sour going in there. we know he worked in the technology industry, the satellite industry. it may very well be possible that it has something to do with that, there was some connection there. but it seems difficult to tell. it seems from the way the bomb disposal team are sort of standing outside the building at the moment, that any immediate threat just seems to me slightly unlikely. >> all right keith, in terms of the investigation, one of the daughters, the younger one, 4

years of age has come back to the u.k., her sister however, the 7-year-old is still in france. >> yes, the 7-year-old girl who was shot and beaten as she was brought into a medically inded coma in france. she has since come out of that coma and we understand close relatives are now by her bed side in france. she's also under armed guard. her 4-year-old sister, she is now back in the u.k., also with close relatives. obviously she hasn't come back to the family home here. these two girls would seem to be the only witnesses to this horrific crime that took place in southeast france last week. the e understand the 4-year-old girl has been spoken to by french investigators and that she really knows nothing. she was hidden throughout, she was under her mother's skirt and she saw nothing. but french police have said they don't want to keep questioning her about this, lengthening the ordeal, making it worse for her because they're satisfied that

she can't help. of course the 7-year-old, they believe she may hold vital information and she may well be the key to holding all of this. they're saying they're in no rush to speak to her, when the doctors say she's well enough to talk to the police, only then will they start asking questions and try to find out anything she can tell them about what happened last wednesday. >> keith, thank you very much. you're watching "g.m.t." from "bbc world news." these are our headlines. the u.s. military has formally handed control, and bomb disposal experts are assessing what's described as a potentially explosive substance at the hold of the british couple shot dead in the french alps last week. now, let's catch up with the

latest business news. so, across the channel, france, new president has been talking about new os er thity measures. >> this is a man who has been criticized certainly on his soil for dragging his feet on how he plans to turnaround the frerge economy. last night in a big televised interview he put some of that to rest because he said "my mission is a recovery plan. and the time frame is two years." so there you go, telling us -- >> making himself -- >> going to turn the economy around in two years. he said he's setting on a path to combat the following. reducing, or i should say falling competitiveness and of course a very serious deficit. the challenges don't start there buzz just there the french central bank told us that the

economy in is expected to shrink. so how is he going to fight all this? $38 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts, raise $25 billion in tax hikes from household to businesses. that would be the biggest tax hike in about three decades. of course he will keep that 75% rich tax. i asked the experts how this would go down on the ground. let's have a listen. >> it's definitely a tall order, especially in a situation where the overall is very, very high. one of the highest -- it's not going to go down very nicely. it's never actually present to hear about tax hikes. however, i would say that in the short run, you have a fair body of evidence that it would tell you if you have to cut the deficit in times of a down turn, which is definitely the situation right now, it's actually better to do it via tax hikes than expenditure cuts.

>> he's talking about france, but now greece of course, huge problems there. gone with the kind of scorecard. >> exactly, and they're going to be meeting the greek prime minister today and they've got a lot to talk about. i think we should remind everybody, these international lenders keeping everybody afloat are back on the ground to put the final stages of this report card together. this is a report card that will determine whether greece gets its next $40 billion worth of chunk of bailout money. to do that, they're saying yeah, we'll give you another chunk but you have to make further savings of $17 billion. here's the problem though, because the coalition government are fighting they can't agree on where and what to cut next. the other problem is, and as the democratic left tell us, i quote again on this one, they say the greeks have reached their limits on their endurance on us a teri

measures. we heard this last week, the awfully sad human stories taking place with what's going on in greece, where some parents are having to foster out their children because they can't afford to feed them. let's have a listen to this expert. >> the human cost has been enormous in greece. a lot of these measures have been horizontal measures. they've been imposed across the board and part of the reason for that is they had to be imposed very quickly, many places. there wasn't the infrastructure or the frame work to be more targeted. if this greek government is going to survive, it does have to get more targeted, and it has to do a lot more on tax evasion where not enough work has been done. >> that report card should be ready by october. >> all right, thanks very much aaron with the business news. so, it's all over. the paraolympics were brought to a close on sunday night with a lavish ceremony in east london.

fireworks, flame throwers, hire wire acrobats and music from cold play, rihanna and jay-z ended what the head of international paraolympic committee said the greatest paraolympics ever. they will cap the olympics with a victory parade in london. one gold medal competed as a swimmer at three olympics. and he joins me now in the studio. my heavens, you're very well qualified to tell us. first of all, on the paraolympics, the head of the committee said these were the best ever. do you think that's true? >> i do. by a long way. >> but why? >> because i think the support of the public is firs and foremost. i think the people actually got behind it and thought it was a valid event, a valid celebration and sporting event. before they weren't even in the

same city until recently. we started intergrate them. it's about being people being inspired as people and moving forward and progressing along a journey and that's true of able bodied or disabled. >> cold play, bringing on the other acts. >> britain likes to display musical pro cans bess. we hear a lot about legacy of the games and so forth. what for you will be the greatest legacy of 2012? >> i think the inspiration piece. you can't get away from the fact that children will be inspired, not the whole thing, but i think the main thing. i watched the olympic games, not just britain's thing, i think it's an international thing. >> inspire a generation? >> i watched the olympics in

montreal, canada when i was 12. i saw a british swim erwin and that started me on my route. the question is then, what's behind inspiration? inspiration can last a week, last two weeks. i doesn't last a lifetime. what lasts a lifetime is a system that nurtures talent. i have to find somewhere to go, find a person that's credible and a system that supports. so i think the supporting purposes that needs to be a system behind the legacy, to create a legacy. i think people are inspired people, moved people at work have been moved by the games. >> how do you think the london games compare to the other ones? >> an eight. i competed in l.a. in 1984, before i got my gold medals, i've commentated. >> how do you think london compares? >> l.a. was the first olympic game to make a profit, l.a. was

a turning point. london, i think it's been a great game. i'm not too biased about it. i think the sidney games were fantastic. i really enjoyed them. i think the volunteer, the spirit of volunteer work force came through both of the city games and this one. >> they played a very crucial role. >> they did, because it's personal. i think that's important. if you're a visitor, you get to meet people. >> so london number one, is that what you're saying? >> i think london for the most part. >> thanks very much for sharing your thoughts. that is all for the moment. stay with us here on "bbc world news." there is plenty more to come, but for the moment, good-bye.

>> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding for this presentation 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. we offer expertise and tailored solutions in a wide range of industries.

what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los