ever to be impeached. this is newsday on the bbc. i m mariko oi, in singapore. our headlines. more than 30 years after the lockerbie air crash the accused bomb maker is charged at a court in the us. more covid measures eased in china the government announces it s turning off a phone app that tracks people s movements. in germany, parliamentarians have been holding private sessions to discuss whether gun laws need tightening to bolster national security. it follows the arrest of a group of far right figures lasty week accused of plotting to replace the german government. ministers said the group posed a very real danger, and that their plans were far reaching.
he confessed in his part of the lockerbie attack. are you convinced there s enough to guarantee guarantee a conviction? that is the standard for using the department ofjustice which is we bring charges unless we have admissible evidence sufficient to prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the individual is guilty. we know there was an interview he gave that to libyan law enforcement where he described his involvement in the lockerbie bombing. do you have evidence beyond that? i cannot get into talking about the evidence i saw while i was attorney general, and i certainly don t know what evidence has been developed in the subsequent time. but there is additional evidence? we did spend time developing additional evidence beyond his interview with libyan law enforcement. abi agila masud will appear in court again on the 27th of december, a full criminal trial will not begin until next year. sarah smith, bbc
up pan am flight 103 over lockerbie in 1988. two years ago, that then us attorney general, william barr, announced former criminal charges against abi agila masud. why is it important that abi agila masud is brought to the us and tried in american courts? from a policy standpoint, i think it s important to let it be known that if you attack americans, you are going to be brought to justice, even if it takes 30 years. when we learned in november of 1991, when we came to the determination that this was the libyans that carried out the attacks, my own personal view was that it was not enough just to go and seek to try the individual agents who were acting on behalf of libya. obviously intelligent service doesn t go off on its own and do these things. so i felt we had to take direct action against libya and i felt that we should establish the precedent at that point that if you attack or engage in this kind of mass atrocity terroristic attack on the united states that you will be signing y
welcome to newsday reporting live from singapore i m mariko oi. the headlines. more than 30 years after the lockerbie air crash the accused bomb maker is charged at a court in the us. more covid measures eased in china the government announces it s turning off a phone app that tracks people s movements. following the arrest of a group of alleged coup plotters in germany parliament considers tightening the country s gun laws. the european parliament s president says the institution and european democracy is under attack following a bribery scandal.
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