BBC News with Ian Perdon.
President Obama’s National Security Adviser General James Jones says Americans will be shocked by the findings of a White House inquiry into the intelligence failures leading up to the attempted Christmas Day airliner bombing. From Washington, here is Mark Mardell.
President Obama’s top security adviser, General James Jones, says that the president is very concerned that America’s intelligence agencies failed to make use the information they had to stop the Detroit bomb plotter boarding a plane bound for the States and failed to join the dots over Fort Hood. Major Nidal Hasan has been charged with shooting dead 13 fellow soldiers in that incident. The president’s national security adviser added, "It’s not theatre. He's alarmed". The president’s due to speak soon about this and make public the results of an investigation into what went wrong with the Detroit case. A report stripped to sensitive material will be published, and General Jones says people will be worried by what they read.
The United Nations’ investigator Philip Alston says video footage which appears to show Sri Lankan troops shooting captured Tamil Tiger rebels is authentic. In the video, naked rebels bound and blindfolded are seen being shot in the head. When the video was released last year, Sri Lanka dismissed it as a fake, but Mr. Alston said that experts concluded that the video was genuine and he called for an independent investigation into the killings.