World News from the BBC

Police in Britain have widened their investigation into alleged child sexual abuse involving Jimmy Savile, one of the BBC's former star television presenters. Savile who died last year at the age of 84, has become the central of numerous pedophile allegations. Angus Crawford reports.

After two weeks of gathering information, officers now say they've identified more than 200 potential victims and 400 leads. Today Scotland Yards stated that it moved from assessment phase to a formal criminal investigation involving living people. The head of the team said he'd been astounded by the public response which have appeared to have uncovered what he called alleged abuse on an unprecedented scale. The children's charity the NSPCC has said it now believes Jimmy Savile may have been one of the most

prolific

sex offenders it has ever encountered.

The ministry of health in Uganda has warned an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the southwest of the country. Officials said four people in one family in Kabale district are believed to have already died from the highly infectious

hemorrhagic

fever, two other members of the same family are in hospital.

In the first piracy trial in Germany for hundreds of years, a court in the northern city of Hamburg has convicted ten Somalians have attempting to hijack a German-flagged ship off the coast of Somalia two years ago. The men aged between 20 and 50 were sentenced to between two and seven years in prison.