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BBC News with Stewart Macintosh.
The director general of the BBC George Entwistlehas rejected suggestions
that a television report intoallegations of extensive sexual abuse by one of
itsformer stars was suppressed by seniormanagement. He's been speaking at the
parliamentary committee hearing how into the latepresenter Jimmy Savile abused
children over several decades and why the BBC dropped thereport into the claims
against him. Rob Warson has more details.
George Entwistle denied the charge of a cover-up against the BBC, he said
believed theinvestigation into Jimmy Savile should not have been dropped, but
effectively blamed theeditor of the Newsnight program for poor judgement and
stopping the investigation. He saidhe'd seen no evidence there had been pressure
from senior managers to do so. The MPsseem frustrated and even angered by much
of Mr Entwistle's testimony, frequently criticisingthe BBC's management style
and processes.
The head of Italy's main risk assessment agency has resigned after seven of
his colleaguewere given prison sentences for underestimating the chances of a
major earthquake just daysbefore one struck the city of L'Aquila in 2009.
Luciano Maiani said there was now a danger thatscientists would refrain from
giving advice to the Italian government.
The scientific committee has to give in its own judgement the advice, the
advice may be wrongor may be imprecise, but if you have such heavy punishment to
this, the committee will not actproperly, the committee will tend to be always
on the very very very conservative side.
The six scientists and a former government official were sentenced to six
years each formanslaughter for giving a falsely reassuring statement. The
earthquake killed more 300people.
The lower house of Russian parliament has voted to widen the definition of
high treason, itwould be redefine to including giving financial, technical or
other help to those seeking todamage Russia security. Tom Esomen reports.
Under current Russian law, high treason largely refers to passing secret
information to foreigngovernments. The new bill will apply to international
organizations too. Critics say the bill mightmake it easier to criminalise the
sharing of information with human rights groups or to brandsomeone a
traitor.
Three people have been charged with plotting to poison the president of
Benin and currentchairman of the African Union Thomas Boni Yayi. Prosecutors
accused the president's doctor,his niece and a former cabinet minister of
planning to swap his medication for poison during atrip last week to Belgium. A
businessman from Benin allegedly offered them $2m to carry outthe attempted
murder after his companies lost big government contracts. The businessman issaid
to be on the run.
This is the World News from the BBC
Residents of one of main areas held by Islamists rebels in northern Mali
say truckloads offoreign fighters have arrived in recent days as international
concern grows about the instabilityin the region. The mayor of the town of Gao
who has fled to the capital Bamako, said the newarrivals included about a
hundred Jihadists thought to be from Western Sahara and Algeria.
The Nigerian Navy has detained a foreign flagged ship and its 15 crew
members most of themRussian on suspicion of illegally carrying weapons. Naval
spokesman said dozens of automaticweapons and more than 8,000 rounds of
ammunition were seized when the vessel wasboarded near Lagos. The ship belongs
to the Moran security firm. Will Ross reports fromLagos.
Arms smuggling is fairly common in West Africa, so is piracy, private
security firms areincreasingly being hired to protect cargo ships, some of the
pirate attacks not in internationalwaters but in Nigerian waters where security
firms are not allowed to carry weapons. Somefirms are paying the Nigerian Navy
for armed protection.
Tens of thousands of Hungarians have taken part in rival pro and
anti-government rallies in thecapital Budapest as the country marked the 56th
anniversary of its uprising against Soviet rule.Addressing his supporters, the
Prime Minister Viktor Orban criticised the European Union forputting pressure on
Hungry to cut spending, saying he would not be dictated to byforeigners. At the
other really, a former Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai announced the creationof a
new alliance to try to oust Mr Orban's government.
A court in Cambodia has ordered the deportation of a Chinese factory
manager for ripping upphotographs of the former King Norodom Sihanouk, who died
last week. The woman was givena one-year suspended jail sentence and ordered to
pay a fine for intentionally damaging thephotographs after becoming annoyed that
staff stopped to work to look at them.
And that is the latest BBC's news
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