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>> he says he carried out the most spectacular political attack in europe since world war ii. breivik takes the stand in his trial. we will be live in oslo with the latest. >> previously called for the death penalty. >> says his is a battle against multiculturalism and was expecting all this that's followed from it. >> well welcome to bbc world news. i'm ethan allen -- i'm and the human rights record as they say the host hopes to be granted free.

and prostate cancer, doctors try sound waves. the man accused of killing 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in norway last july has taken to the stands on the second day of his trial. let's go live now oslo and my colleague john is outside that court. >> hello and welcome to oslo where in the last half an hour, breivik has started to give his evidence to the court. those relatives who were in the court as well with him. let me just give you a flavor of some of what he said. the rhetoric out of concern for the victims, i stand here as a

representative of the minor wiege and european movement as a representative ethnic people who do not want our rights taken away from us. i have carried out the most spectacular political movement since the second world war. let's go to correspondent bridget. >> he's teen court at speed and under heavily armed guard. breivik arrived calm and composed, even smiling a little. as with his first appearance he recollects greeted the court with a fascist salute. he has spent his time looking at the surviving victims and their family. if he was moved, he didn't show it. this case has caused outrage.

the lay judge admitted writing before he had been appointed to the case that breivik deserved the death penalty. >> he did not state he had given such expressions will weak at any faith in his impash y'allty. in conclusion, he shab dismissed as a lay judge. >> breivik denied murder saying his killings were in self-defense. the court has refused to provide a television platform for his far right beliefs. >> well, of course a very difficult time for those who survived on the terrible attack who left 69 dead, nearly all teenagers. we spoke to one of the survives.

-- one of the survivors. >> at the same time it's good to see that a proper court by legal principles is in session. it's always about basic -- the legal system is one of those, and only the best possible trial proceeding. you can -- >> fortunately, i'm not the one being put in the position of making those decisions. i believe they have to give that to him, and the balance they have struck right now is not -- you know, it's a free society. and the free society working in dealing with this is in my mind the best response. i mean, most of his political message and so on is so insan

-- insane and stupid. >> let me bring you up to date because it's been between the judge and the length of testimony he's given. the prosecution says it's been contracted by many victim groups. they want him to wrap up. the judge has insisted that breivik move to some final conclusion and he said i must be allowed to continue to explain why. there are many things to hear why i carried out the events on july 22, and the judge has asked him to close as quickly as possible, and the prosecutor said it's important and correct for the breivik to read the final three pages, and he is getting on with that as we speak. now let's talk to the norwegian channel correspondent. now you wanted to televise that, wouldn't that have led to this turning into a circus?

>> yes. but in the jeans of journalists who want it most open. but it's understood that as long as he said this is going to be his stage to preach his message to all over the world, it's understandable that a decision like that has been taken. and that has been an ethical debate among journalists all the time, how can we cover this without being a loud speaker for his propaganda? >> do you think that will be it? because he's talked about multiculturalism and the quotes i was giving, how he thinks south korea and japan are the model societies where women play a skecked dare role? because won't those hearing his views get another understanding? >> well, the more he speaks, the more he speaks, the fewer

his followers will be happy with him, maybe he is it's his own anti-prop demandist. >> do you think he has many followers? maybe not in terms of the violence perpetrated but in the views expressed? >> exorning do himself he has 15% of the norwegian population behind him, but probably there's a few that follow him but there are a lot of germans and others that say there is a problem with immigration of muslims into europe culturally. >> yes. and do you think anything will change as a result of this in terms of snoil >> in norway there has been more openness about the favorism of immigration. after the attack last july of last year, it's been a kind of openness, we will not be identified with the opinions in his direction. and we have a very open debate

on these things now, and it's not norwegians against muslims anymore. it's more less immigrants that is discussed and keep the discussion going. >> and your audience yesterday for your viewing figures but i would imagine norway almost came to a thulet watch the opening of this trial? >> yes. the figures must have been very, very high. even if we censored a few of the statements. >> yes. you did censor, didn't you? >> because here in norway we have a tradition not to give details in the murder case, and there for we didn't want to give that the details of how he broke and the chest was exploded, we never use these elements in our normal journalism, and not so here. but it was strange this time,

because it was live and we had to pull down the sound. >> as we speak, breivik is coming to an end in his prepared statement that some say -- the judges and prosecution and victims groups saying get on with it. according to the inside of the court some of the families and victims have been looking away almost as if they have zoned out, stopped listening to what breivik was saying. but of course this is critical, because the court will have to decide on whether he was st. or insane when he carried out those attacks, and what he's doing now is setting up the backdrop of explanation of why he did what he did and it's for the court to decide whether that was the act of a madman. back to you in the studio. >> very much indeed. more on the trial you can

follow matthew price on twitter. he is inside that court, and updating us all the time. as you can see some of his latest tweets, many in the public gallery appear board or to have tuned out and a psychiatrist watching breivik closely are typing notes into their computers as he reads from his 13 pages of prepared documents. a big moment as the court decides on the sanity question of breivik. much more on this of course at the bbc website. so do keep up with it there. let's catch up with more of the news. australia announced it will pull its troops out of afghanistan earlier than planned. julia gill yard said they will be pulled a year ahead of british forces.

>> australia is the biggest non-nato member of the international forces in affingaffling. it has just over 1,500 troops in the south and 32 soldiers from have died. but she says security has greatly improved and is suitable to have them pull out. >> australia's commitment to afghanistan will look very different than that we have today. australia has an enduring national interest in enshurg afghanistan does not again become a safe haven for terrorists. >> but australia forces could be out ahead of a year than british and american forces. but in kabul, the bomb shows

early withdrawal mazz many risks. >> what i would caution is we don't transition and immediately pull our troops out of the. ewe have done this before and made a terrible situation in 2005 where we thought the iraqi local forces were capable and transitioned and pulled a long way back, and they failed. >> whatever those risks, australia has become one of the first big players in afghanistan to announce a full clear plan to withdrawal. france has also hinchted at 2013. but as for britain and the united states they say they are ready to pull troops well into 204. there's a big nato conference to discuss the future of all troops in afghanistan. it's likely to make a firm commitment to helping the afghan government but also signal that the send in sight

for international forces. duncan kennedy, "bbc news" in sidney. >> activists in syria say heavy shelling is continuing in homs. observing for human rights claim shells killed two people. the facts are impossible to verify but yesterday the u.s. warned it threatens the viability of sending workers to the country. joining me now from beirut, what's your latest information on what violence there is and how vyible these monitors are? >> well, there's certainly a lot of activity going on and there's been attacks, this is all according to activists in the province in the area that's in a hot bed of unrest and

opposition activity. the helicopters up there and a lot of tanks moving in on a village and so on. so a lot of activity and the government having announced yesterday that sunday or actually back on sunday two days ago that it was now going to take action to prevent what it called criminal attacks by the armed terrorist gangs who it blames for the violence. it said it would take action to stop that so presumably this is part of that, so in areas they are throwing the truce out the window, but they are blaming the rebels for escalating things and that seems to be supported by the russians who basically blame the rebel side for provoking action from the government. >> ok. thank you very much indeed. you're watching "bbc world news." coming up, amnesty international criticizes bahrain's human rights record

as the gulf state gets ready to host the grand prix. the president of the world bank is once again an american. the new chief will be u.s. nominee gym i don't know kim, the -- as reported, there's growing calls for the leadership to be given to another nationality. >> this 52-year-old doctor is the new face of the world bank. in south korea, born, and raised in america, he learned of his appointment on a visit to prue, what he called a global listening tour. >> what i bring to the table is that i'm a physician. physician work on evidence rather than working from a single ideology rather than working from a political point of view, we ask the fundamental question, is there evidence this intervention is going to be effective in this?

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economic growth. he claims the two go hand in hand. he will start his new job in july. "bbc world news," washington. >> this is "bbc world news." i'm geeta guru-murthy. breivik is giving evidence at his trial. he says he's carried out the most spectacular political attack since world war ii. and australia announces they will withdraw earlier than planned. >> coming up in sports today in half an hour. real madrid visited munich. it's the semifinal day as the champions league begins and another hopes it will take a knock after a home defeat. and rafael nadal and novak

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>> 41 patients took part in the trial. 12 months later none had incontinence and just one in 10 was impotent. they found -- >> this could offer a transformation as to how we treat this cancer and of the men with early prostate cancer, an opportunity to treat their disease with very few side effects. >> the medical research council said so far the results are promising and further trials are already under way. adam brim lowe, "bbc news." >> the gulf stage of bahrain has failed to live up to its recent commitment to respect human rights. a group said it was still receiving reports of torture and other abuses stand government refuted many

accusations in that report, but all comes as a form form team prepares to go to bahrain for the grand prix despite calls for the race to be canceled. >> two men got on to the embassy by climbing up scaffolding and the decision by formula 1 to go ahead with the country's grand prix. on the right hand side the jailed opposition leader who they want freed. the man waving the flag claims to be his son. bahrain's foreign ministry say they are both terrorists. hard for the government to dismiss is the criticism from amnesty international. it calls human rights carried out, window dressing. >> large numbers of people in detention. it has imposed very hash sentences on people without fair trials and there are 14

opposition leaders that remain in custody and there's been no high-level accountability for those uses. >> this is now an all-too familiar scene on the streets of bahrain. clashes between the police and protesters. the graffiti on the wall reads don't race over blood. >> now an air canada co-pilot who fell asleep during the flight is being officially blamed for sending the plane into a nose dive when he woke up and mistook the -- something for a cargo plane. 16 people suffered injuries. millions of comic fans around the world. release of the film "the avengers." the film doesn't feature just

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merchandising and including fashions for dogs. super heroes sell all kinds of merchandise. in fact they have become cash machines. the film will floif cinemas around the world in week and it's widely expected that there will indeed be a sequel to this superhero movie. tom brooks, "bbc news," new york. >> british scientists have discovered o'orangutans building nests. this footage was shot and it's said it takes them six weeks to build a mattress made of cozy branches and in sumatra, you can see more. something positive to leave you with but i'm afraid under to go from that disturbing trial in oslo.

the latest that we are hearing from inside the court, breivik is coming to the end of his statement and said soon everyone will realize multiculturalism has failed. this case should be about finding the truth and if what i have put forward then have what i have done be illegal. these are the pictures earlier but we are not allowed to show any live camera pictures of breivik's testimony. he went on to say there will be massive protest to this and the european civil war is starting. these are live pictures of the court. from earlier. not live pictures, pictures that came in earlier. from the court. and it looks like breivik has now wound up his testimony. finishing with another race strong statement. there's much more at

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