BBC News with David Austin.
The German news magazine Der Spiegel says it’s seen a secret document showing that United States intelligence bugged European Union offices in Washington. Der Spiegel said it was showing the material by the fugitive former CIA analyst Edward Snowden. Rajini Vaidyanathan reports from Washington.
The report claims U.S. officials spied on their European counterparts installing bugs in their offices in Washington and accessing their computer networks as well as monitoring phone calls at an office in Brussels. The publication says it’s seen a top secret paper from September 2010 in which the EU was expressly named as a target. Der Spiegel says it was shown the documents by Edward Snowden, the former CIA analyst at the center of an international manhunt.
The US President Barack Obama has spoken of the inspiration that Nelson Mandela has given to people around the world after meeting relatives of the former South African president in Johannesburg. Mr. Mandela remains critically ill in hospital with a lung infection. Mike Wooldridge in Pretoria has more details.
The health of the man President Obama today described as his personal inspiration, Nelson Mandela is framing this visit. Mr. Zuma acknowledged it as much at the news conference that followed their talks saying that Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela were bond by history as the first black presidents of their respective countries and both carry the dreams of millions of people who were previously oppressed. Mr. Obama paid his tribute to the man who led South Africa’s transition to a non-racial democracy.