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dose othe anesthetic propofol. greece, responseto wildfires ravaging forests north of athens. my ne isike emblen. ming up later for yo the shifting landscape ofhina's energy needs, why the cotry is facing aarticular cllenge on climate change. why success in japanese politics often means having the right relatives. ♪ >> hello. allegations of prisoners threatened wh execution, intimidated with an electric drill. one allegedly told his children uld be kill. another th his mother woulde xually assauld. asew detls emerge in e

u. of the apparent abuse of detainees in the war on terror, a prosecutor haseen appointed to investigate c.i.a. agentsho may find thselves on trial. gh-level terror suspects will now be interrogatedy a new unit supersed by t white housitself, but all this brings new polital dimmas. bbcpecial correspondent is in washington. >> this renew focus on c.i.a. tacts and excesses is eating a lot of tenon here, mike. i.a. director leon panetta has issued an oupoken defense of his agents, as he says, snding up for those officers who did what their country asked of them. and rur is rife of more angry exchanges behind the scenes. some in the inlligence community feel th're being made scapegoats for what they did at a timeof national crisis. here is adam brooks. >> after 9/11,a stued united stat sent itspies to war, and the white use rewrote the rules on interrogaon of

terrorist spects. tonit we're learning more about what that meant and how some c.i. ofcers may have broken even the bh administration's new ules. it's all in this repo from 2004 written by thec.i.a.'s own investigator now, we' arning what's under all that blacking ou takehe case of the mbing of the u.s.s. cole in 2000. 17 amecan slors dead. an al qaeda operative s arrested in 20. c.i.a. inteogators, the report wi revealhrtened him with an electri drill. they fireda handgun and threatened execuon. another al qda figure was reportedly told hishildren would be killed if he didn't cooperate. other, that his mother would be sexually assaulted. all this may ha been illegal even under th bush strrgdz's newly rewritten -- the bush administration's newlyrewritten

rule bk. >> officials should hav known the techniques were illegal and thenteringors should have knowthey we illegal. it is absolutely essential that dividuals who both authized the techniquesnd those who implemented th be held accountable. >> now, the attorney general, eric holder, mst decide if c.i. office committed crimes, if they should be prosuted. tonight he announced a fresh review of thevidence to hel him make th decision. in recent days, an angry c.i.a. has be pushingback. >> i think it's just destructive of the ency and unfair to the good people o did what they did t of duty, not outf enthusiasm, anthey did what the nation asked them to do. >> but the wte house is unimpressed. anher surprise, today. we learned the c.i.a. will no longer intergate high-level terrist suspect therwill be a w, special unit to do it which wil answer straight to the white hoe. >> the presint, aftethe consensus recommendation o his interagency task force on interrogations ofdetainees did

put in place a new group, the high-valuenterrogation group which llbe house at the f.b.i. >> psident obamas ting to break with his precessor, george bh, trying to wipe out the stai left the persistent allegation that u. soldiers and intelligen officers committedtorture. an allegati evidented by images like the from abu ghraib and allegations that grossly undermined america's moral authority. the president is on holiday tonight with his fily. his admistration is haunted b thctivities of thec.i.a. he said hwants to look forward, not back. but today, it became much harder for him to lay the torture queson to rest. he long, bitter row about inrrogation techniques is already unr way, fueled by the details we're gtting in that newly declassified c.i.a. report. the document ss, for example, thatne interrogator thatened khalid sheik muhmad that if any oth attacks happenedn the united stas, "we're going to kill your children."

>> philipa and adam lynn in waington. it's beenrevealed pop st michael jason's death was caused by thal vels of the por anesthetic prpofol. e los angeles coroner's findin have been madeublic in crt documen. the singer diedwo months ago at the age of . he had suffered cardiac arrest at his he in l.a. his doctor, dr. nrad murray has been interviewed twice by police but has not been med as an officiasuspect. eculation about this drug has been around since michael jason's death but this is new, isn't ? >> it's a concern what was reported at the time, yes, and s been reported heilyver since and it'slmost become fact but this ishe first real coirmation we haveof it in court documents made public in houston -- details of what the coroner found, deails of

conversations that michael jackson'sersonal doctor, dr. conrad murray hadith investigatorinvestigating the singer's death. court documents show dr. murray told police he had be treing chael jackson for insomnia for some six weeksnd that treatment had includedsing this power anesthetic, propofol. propofols normally used in hospitals administered by an anesthesiologist aiting surgery --t's very werful, it nes to be supervised and someone needs to administer it, th need to monitorou and bring you off the drug to bring youround again. this is theind of thin michael jackn was using just inrder to get to sleep. >> by all accounts it doesn't give you a refreshg sleep, it ju knocks you outlat -- an extraordinary thinto be using fothis purpose and surely raises all kin of qstions for the around micael jackson. >> it does, and dr. murr pointed out to police that he had become worri that michael jackson was becoming addictedo propofol, and he had ied to

wean the ug off the star by introducing differen sedatives and in fact in the early hours of the day that micel jackson died according to ese court papers dr. murray told police he gave micha jackson other drugs not propofol, but when they didn't wk he gave michael jackson propol, left the ro make phone calls,ent back in and michael jason wasn't breathing. propof is the drug at e centerf theinvestigation dr. conrad murray is t fus of the policeinvestigation. there are other doctors involve as well -- the one instigators are trying to establi is if there is a caseor manslaughter via medical negligence, fo example. >> o that point,ust briefly, if youcan, there are reports going around that th coroner ruled that jackson's deah was homicide wch would make crinal charges more likely. thaise understand it is not confirmed. >> the coroner's office ll not confirm anything in court papers toda they say they ve not released their findings and will not do so because the is a police

investigation goinon, so they wi not confirm this li that says they have calle this homicide. what's important to rememr, though, is that in the u.s. homicide inclus both murder and nslaughter so that would include the potentl chae. everytng that we've learned today seems to go in the directn of a ptential prosecution, but wean't second-guesshe police or the authorities on this and we must wait t see what they decide to do. >> tha you. let's move on for the momen a bit re briefly, at least 20 people have been kled in bomb blasts on two buses in iraq. the attacksappened near the town ofkut. that's a mainly shia area i the utheast of the cotry. police say the bombs were stuck on t side of the buses and exploded within half an hour of each other oneof the youngest tainees ld at america's guantanamo bay privenl has beenreleased. the more of muhammad javard sa he's been st back to his faly in afghanisn. he's expected to meetresident rzai. he's accused throwing a grenade th injured two erican solers andheir

interpreteseven years ago. seven memrs of an outlaw group connected to al qaeda in karachi. the group is blamed for atring of attacks includg killing the american journalist, danie pearl. scotland's justice sectary was unrepeant in parliame in edinbuh, defending his decision to free the man convted of the lockerbie bombin kenny mccaskill says his decision had nothing to do with plomacy or litics, only ottish law and scottish valu. the bbc' jane francis kell has this report. >> an act of mercor one of naive folly? in releasing a convicted rrorist, the scottish parliament has been called for an emergency seson so itan

defend his decion. the oppition liberal democrat leader was scathing inhis assessment. >> what the minister and his government have done is to split scotland with itself and split our nation from many international friends. >> mr. ccaskill remained angrilydefia. >> repeat at i said at the beginng. it's my cision, i will std byt and i will live with the consequenc. >> earlr, he acepted some would never ce to terms with s decision. >> who have been bereaved nnot be expecte tofoget, let alone foive. but as i said, mr. al-megrah nofaces a sentence imposed by a higher power. >> this hero' return for the man convict ohe u.k.'s worst terrorist rocity still played on the minds of many mr. mccaski said had asked the libyans for sensitivy but it appears colonel gadhafi wasn't listening

>> does he understand how mu that decision angered e majority scotland, how ashamede we to see our flag flyingo welcome a convicted bomber home and does he unrstand how astonished we were when he visited a convicted murderer in prison? >> questions were also raised abouthe role of the british government in megrahi release. gordon brown met conegadhafi last month but has failed to comment on the contrersy. >> equally distbing is the extraordinary and comprehensible slence of the prime minister, gordon own. thisgovernment flawed decisionas significant implications f foreign policy and trade, so what joint effos eow being undertan by ax sal mo and gordon brownto limit the damage? >> mr. mccaskill reiterated he had followedue press and believed there was als internationalupport for his decision. he said suggestions that megrahi could have spent his final days in a hpice were ludicrous.

will now be for m.p.'s to decide if they' convinced b his arguments. jane frances kelly, bbc news. >> looks as if firefighter in eece are beginng to contain the wildfires that have threatened thesuburbs ofthens for the days. thousands have h to fleetheir homes. large parts of the countside arnd the greek capil have been dtroyed. derek hughes snt the day in e of the areas wot affected. >> people arsing whatever comes to hand to fight tse fires. at the monaery east of t capital, nuns use ses to beat ck the flames. they've helped save mt of the medieval buildings the fight t contain greece's wildfires continued. these waterbombin aircraft are one of the effective weapons agains the flames but such is the spreadf these fires acrs a ge area north and east o

hens, help came too late her -- one buildin lost,but the main hou save th biggest danger is the speed withhich these fires can move. just an hour or soago, th whole area was in flames, but water-bombing aircraft came across and doused t fires. the oblem is, these smaller fires can quickly spread to become uch, much larger, driven by the strong wis, they th tear upthe side of these valleys and narrow gulli, meaning the ople who live here are in constant fear thei home may fall victito the flames. just over theill is the home of bill smith and rebecca panopolis who fought the flas backith water from their swimming pool and had an incredibly naow escape. >> there we moments there was souch heap that you couldn't breathe and i thought i better geout of here, i tter come down because i might die here. >> it must have been terrifying for all of u. >> of course it was. everybody left. if there was anything i uld do, wanted to d it to the

last-minute. it's your life inour house. >> only two yea ago, greece suffed another outbreak of vicious wildfires that claimed mo than 70 lives. in the wake of that tragedy, dr. nicholas markotos of athens university offered the govement an early warning system but ty failedo act. >> an early warning system to gain 5-10-15inutes would be ve important. if thi fire d been stopped a its start0 kimeters away from here, then this dister wouldn't have happened >> but there a recognition, too, that fighting eery fire across such a hugend rugged region is an almost impossible ta. fighti these fires remains dirty, danrous and fficult. this fire engine was destroyed when it was caught as te flames mped from one side the road to t other. fortunately, all the cw mbers managed to escape a it shows thes fires sti pose a very real that. dominick hughes, bbc news. >> stay with us o bbc world

news if you can. still to come,he was supsed toet six lashes for inking a beer. thismalaysian woman has reived a la-minute reprieve. >> humanrafficking is the woman largely hidden t affecting much of the worldnd the u.k is athe hub of the trade. few people areever convicted. bbc correspondent chs barkley has bn speaking to one young woman brought toritain and forced to wos a prostute. >>he u.k.is seen as a country full of opportunit many travel to take advantag of that. but it can the people themselves who are ken advantage of. >> it wareally, really scary because i di't know what to say, wt to do, where to go. i s really, really lost. >> kat left estern europe having been omised a job in a shopn london. instead, she was takeno manchester where she s held by ople traffiers and forced

into prostitution. manchester was just the first place th katya was exploited. shwas later sold to other iminals and taken to wales -- e pri just 2,000 pounds. so ofhose trafficked can ma 10's of thousands of punds d a crime fhting agency believes it'sappening in towns throughout the u.k >> eachictim generates an incomeor their abuser in the region of 93,000 pounds a year, so if you have an asset that's worth toou 93,000 pounds you' not going toasily let it go, and they use physica violen. >> thehome officebelieves that there are around 4,000 victims of sex traicking in the u.k. but that's a rough estimate. the actu fige isimply unknown. many are reluctant to goo court, but earer this summer, katya did give evidence and saw the peoe who tfficked her jailed for ecrime. victimoften feel isolated ad

alon traffickers ry on that confusion and fearo keep them hien inthe shadows. chrisbuckler, bbc new manchester. ♪ >> hel and welcome. >> see the news unfold. to bbc.com/news. it's easy. click here to watch the one-minute wor news video summy. you can re the latest headnes. get the top stories from aund the globe. and click to play video reports. discover more about the sbjects that really interest you. and find out wat issues the world is talkingbout right now. bbc worl news online, go bbc.com/news andatch the news unld. latest headlines for u, on "bbc world ws," it's alleged

i.a. interrogators threatened to kill e children of khalid sheik muhammad, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. documents show michaelackson wasilled bya lethal dose of the anesthetic propol. ahead of the landmark copenhagen summit oclimate change at the end of the year, our corresndents arexploring how different parts of the gbe are being affected. chinese participion is key to making a international framework work, but it's difficult balance, curbing emissionbut also allowing more and more chinese peopl the modern appliances many now regards essentials. quentin somervilletraveled to inne mongolia to see how its landscape is changing. >> by inner mongoan sunlight, 10-year-olanna is taking cre of her homework. there is no electricityhere. she has one of th tiniest carbon fotprints. she lis slap in the middle of the region's biggest wind farm.

here, on the grasslands, there is no ignoring china growing petite for energy. when she gows up, she tellsme, she wants a television a frid, a car and an apartment. e world's energy landscape is being transformed cause of china. lana is par of new neration of hury consumers. millions of people ross this country are ying their first refrigerors, their rst cars, their first motorcyes. thateans by the ti nana is her 30's, china'snergy needs will have doubledand the bad news for the rest of us is that most of that power wil come from polluting coal,not wind. millions here are in an unstoppable sh for a better life. fueling it cou end up overwhelming the plane quentin omerville, bbc news, inner mongoa. >> china

>> china is to put 200 people o trying ovethe ris -- on charges of murder, arson and vaalism. mo than 200 people died i the riots in what authorities sa were attacks by muslim uighurs. a passenger bus s crashed in ru's remote hhway southeast of the capal, lima. firefighters athe scene s the highway was in poor condition. a new study suggests married people are more likely to survive cancer,nd those going through a breakup have the worst chance of being it. researchers from indna univsity analyzed data from 3.8 million people diagsed wi cancer btween 1973 and 04. now r the malaysi woman who was due to be caned for drinking a beer in a hotel bar a reprieve. she waactually on he way to prison to have h sentence carried out when the call came through but the punishment w

only delayed unt afr the end ofhe muslim holy month of ramadan. robin bnt repor fr kuala lumpur. >> she thought she wasoing to jail to face awhiing. the islamic authorities came away a took her away on monday but an hur into the drive they rned around and returned her to h home. >> i am sti theame because i ha not yet seen if it is tr. there is a responsible ordern black and white for w, i wil wait and see their decision. >> the early relief at avoiding jail did not lastlong, though. she will fa the punishment of sixlashes once the fasting month of ramadan is over. malaysia'smuslims are not allowed to ink cohol, although many don the liberal urbaareas. otrs, thou, agree with the judge. >> my opinion as to wheth to whip or not to whip is in fact the prerogave of the judge to decide. it is a sson for the public.

it is better to haveaning. >> kartika shukno has toait four weeks. if it's carrie out, malaysia's repution as amoderate nation is likely to be chaed by many. >> just a few days before japas general election and it looks as though the oppition mocratic party could defeat thliberal democts who have led japan the st few dedes but manynames and facesill stay t same, a the bbc roland burke reports from rokoko. in japanese litics, the family name can be a valble asset. >> katsuhito yakahume isrying to make vire of his humble origins, using his bike to campaign for parliament. t however many people he bow to as he tries to struggle through e streets he will

struggle to be asell known as his president. so running for ofce is shinjiro kn jumi. in this town hs like a favori son. his father is jinichiro koizumi who was one the most popula prime ministers of japan i recent times. no the seat is being passed down along with plenty of suort. america has the kennedysnd the bushes,ndia th gandhis. the leaders of both ading parties hav men vyingo be ime minister and the grandson of the men who were prime ministers before. bbc. >> hi. >> the seems to be se concern in japan about hereditary politicians. do you think that mit hurt your campaign?

>> i am criticiz every day for succeeding my father's seat. i wanto overcomehe criticism aimed at heretarypoliticians and overcome it to win. >>t the matsushita institu they're trying to developa new breed of leaders witho family connectionsbut with plenty of old-fashionejapanese virtues. students are given a taste of mble tasks. on their way, ty hope to high office. some i japan bla what's perceived as ineffectual governmenton the large numbers of family dynasts in government. they have money. theyave supporters. and th have a name vlue handed dowfrom paren. it's not good f japan, because the dynamism of th politica wer is not strong as other

countries. >> katsuhi is hong he can win but he likens his campaign to an ant taking an elephant. come ection day, it will be up to theoters t decide. roland burke, bbc news, yokosuka. >> just briefly before weeave you, to italy where there is unbearable excitemen-- eupe's biggest lottery prize hasinally been wo and the wiing ticket was bough in one of its shops. there have bn no jackpot winners nceanuary and the ize has reached $210 million. cals in the bars and cafes are still lking about who mig be e supelucky ne. it is said that some know who the winners t he's keeping his or her identita secret. thanksfor being with us. >> funding was madepossible by the freeman fountion ofnew rk, stwe, vermont d honolu. the wman's own foundation. the john d. and catherine macarthur fountion. and union nk.

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