Has been done. Im live in manila, where the authorities are bracing themselves for heavy flooding and possibly landslides as hagupit sweeps in. At this warehouse, theyre preparing emergency Food Supplies for thousands of families who may be in need. L. A. Galaxy win a record fifth Major League Soccer title, but will the american clubs ever be able to rival the worlds best in europe . Also on the program, aaron joins us, and theres conflict here in europe over budgets at the moment. St. Louis, the greek government has passed its budget even though its International Lenders all say they are not happy. In fact, they say the greek numbers are too optimistic. So yes, were going to go live to brussels to find out whos going to win this budget battle. Its midday here in london, 7 00 a. M. In washington, and 2 00 p. M. In cape town, where a judge has dismissed charges against a british businessman, accused of paying for his wife to be murdered on their honeymoon. Shrien dewani was in cape town in 2010 with his new wife annie when she was killed in an alleged botched robbery. We can see him here just a short time ago after the case against him was thrown out. This was a case which had seen details of mr. Dewanis private life and sexuality exposed. But the judge agreed with the defense, saying there was not enough credible evidence against him to go to trial. This dismissal brings to an end a drawnout process that saw the businessman fight extradition and also seek treatment for Mental Health issues. John kay has this report for us. Shrien dewani and his new wife annie at their lavish wedding ceremony in india. But just two weeks after this, he was being comforted at their Honeymoon Hotel in south africa. The bridegroom now a widower. Ann annies body had been found in an abandoned taxi on the outskirts of cape town. The couple had been robbed on their way home from a restaurant. Shrien dewani had been released, but annie, who was 28, had been shot in the neck. This is the spot where the carjacking happened. Initially, the police assumed it was just another random attack. But they soon became suspicious because they couldnt understand why a wealthy honeymooning couple would be in a township like this so late at night. This man gave them an answer. Taxi driver zola tongo, who the couple had hired for the week. He told police that Shrien Dewani had paid him to organize the carjacking and kill annie. Along with two other men. The South Africans wanted to question Shrien Dewani himself, but he had returned home to bristol and doctors claimed he wasnt well enough to be extradited. Suicidal, they said, and suffering from posttraumatic stress. It took the South Africans more than three years to get him back to cape town, but in october this year, the businessman finally went on trial. Annies family have been in court every day. Desperate to hear their soninlaws version of events. And find out why he was caught on cctv handing over a package to the taxi driver just hours after the murder. Why did annie die . There are so many things pointing at shrien. He needs to answer these questions, and he must answer these questions. For himself, for ourselves, tell us what really happened. Reporter but Shrien Dewanis legal team argued there was no credible evidence that he was involved in annis death and the case should be thrown out. They said the accounts of the taxi driver and his acokoccompl had been riddled with lies. The three were given shorter sentences for testifying against dewani. The defense admitted that the couple sometimes had a stormy relationship. They accepted Shrien Dewani was bisexual and had used male prostitutes before the wedding. But they said none of that was a motive for murder. Was it really credible, they asked, that a newlymarried couple would fly into cape town, check into their Honeymoon Hotel here, and within minutes the groom be asking a taxi driver who he had never met before, to have his new bride murdered . Four years after the honeymoon murder, the judge has agreed that there season enough evidence to convict Shrien Dewani, and the case against him should be dropped. The whole investigation will now face intense scrutiny. The time and money thats been spent, the pain felt by both families, and the many questions that still remain. John kay, bbc news, cape town. The sister of anni dewani has been speaking on behalf of her family, and this is what she had to say. Today we feel as a family that the Justice System has failed us. We are deeply disappointed. We came here looking for answers, and we came here looking for the truth, and all we got was more questions. We waited patiently for four years to hear what really happened to anni and to hear the full story of what happened to our dearest little sister. All we wanted was to hear all the events and the hope of actually finding that out has kept us as a family going. Unfortunately, we believe that this right has now been taken away from us. Today, we feel really, really sad because we never heard the full story of shrien. We heard that shrien has led a double life, and that anni knew nothing about it. And we just wish that shrien had been honest with us, and especially with anni. The knowledge of not ever knowing what happened to my dearest little sister, on the 13th of november, 2010, thats going to haunt me, my family, my brother, my parents, for the rest of our lives. A difficult time for the family of anni dewani, just reacting outside the court. Well take you there shortly here on gmt. For now, lets update you on some other news. A maid in uganda has pleaded guilty to torture after being filmed beating a baby in her care. She faces up to 15 years in prison. The childs father had installed a camera in his home after noticing his daughter was bruised and limping. The maid was seen kicking and trampling on the toddler before dragging her out of the room, apparently unconscious. A second night of protests against Police Killings of unarmed black men turned unruly in oakland, in california, as some demonstrators smashed windows and set rubbish bins on fire. The protest began peacefully on the university of california barkley complex, but grew more vie leapt as they moved into oakland from berkley. Mexicos attorney general has confirmed that Forensic Experts have identified the remains of one of 43 missing students. Tests showed that a piece of bone retrieved from a rubbish dumpin guerrero state matches the dna of missing student alexander mora. The students disappeared in september, leading protests across mexico against corruption and violence. People in the philippines are counting the cost of Tropical Storm hagupit. Its been downgraded from a typhoon since it made landfall at the weekend, but at the height of it, hagupit whipped up winds of 250 kilometers an hour and heavy rain created some floods in the east. Lets take you straight to the capital manila. The storm not expected there for another few hours, clive, but it could still potentially be dangerous. What are people there preparing for . Reporter theyre preparing for a lot of problems, lucy. Yes, its been downgraded from a typhoon to a Tropical Storm, but its moving very slowly indeed, and its very wide. Some 600 kilometers wide. That means it has the ka pas ca to dump a lot of rain over the next 24 to 36 hours. Were expecting the heaviest rainfall to be in about six to nine hours time. Im actually here at a giant warehouse not far from the airport here in manila. Its the headquarters of the National ReliefOperation Center for the department for social welfare. And hundreds of volunteers are helping to bag up supplies, Food Supplies for those areas that may be cut off by rising waters. A family pack consists of about six kilograms of rice, couple of tins of sardines, and corned beef. Manila is a city of some 15 Million People. In the best of times, in normal monsoon weather, the roads here flood. Ive been coming here for the last ten, 15 years, and when the rains come, there are enormous problems. So imagine what its going to be like over the next 24 hours when vast amounts of water are dumped on this area because of hagupit sweeping in from the east. Of course, it is the east and coastal areas where the hurricane made the typhoon made landfall a couple of days ago. Theyre still recovering from what happened. Although the skies over there are now clear and blue. Jonathan head is on south luzan island with the latest. Reporter for the past two days, this school served as an Emergency Shelter during the typhoon. One of 3,000 in this province for those whose homes were most at risk. It was this well organized and determined evacuation which has now been credited with the very low casualty figures during the storm. Now thats passed. The army can take them home. Among them is verhinay. Shes heading back to find out how her flimsy house has fared. They were all given five kilo bags of rice, an incentive to leave their homes for the shelter and help getting their lives back together again. Like so many filipinos, she and her family are squatters on this roadside strip of land. Look at your roof. Its gone. The house is cobbled together with whatever materials they can afford. Can you repair your roof . No reporter no money . No money. Its amazing. When you visit homes like hers, you realize just how precarious an existence is lived by millions of people here in the philippines and how vulnerable to the increasingly Severe Weather that this country is experiencing. Jonathan head, bbc news, the philippines. Clive, haiyan was absolutely devastating. So traumatic for so many millions of people. Is there a sense of relief there, perhaps even pride, that the evacuation procedures worked and that things havent been much worse this time . Reporter yeah, lucy, those two words sum it up. Relief. The kind of devastation that we saw last Year Department happen again. Hagupit was a lot less powerful than haiyan. Haiyan was the most powerful Tropical Storm in history. It was that bad. And as we know, 7,000 people died and many, many others went missing. Hagupit was not as strong, but it is the most powerful strorm this year to hit any land mass across the globe. Getting the message out in the proceeding few days that it was going to be powerful. Getting th proceeding few days that it was going to be powerful. What you saw was the biggest Mass Evacuation in this countrys history. But many, many more away from that. A Million People in all evacuated from their homes. And frankly, most people didnt need to be told twice to leave. They understood the dangers after last year, and they left voluntarily. It has to be said, some people who did want to stay behind in their homes, who wanted to protect them from looting, there was a lot of looting that went on last year. They were threatened with the res arrest if they didnt leave their homes. So many people live a subsistence living in this country. It is very hard to make ends meet. Surviving natural disasters is very difficult for a country with so limited means, but theyve done incredibly well here in the philippines. At the moment, its Something Like 20, 23 people may have lost their lives, but compared to what happened last year, this is a triumph. Thanks so much for joining us from manila. The worst of the rain expected to hit the capital not for another few hours, so we will certainly keep across events in the philippines. Weve got a large team there right across the country, so do stay with us for that. Still to come on gmt, u. S. Secret Service Operations come under scrutiny after the failed rescue attempt in yemen that left two hostages dead. Can i pet your cloud please . Sure [ rumbling ] woah aah he doesnt like to be touched there. Mmm [ male announcer ] pet the rainbow taste the rainbow. Lets return to our top story here on gmt. A judge in south africa has dismissed charges against a british businessman accused of paying for his wife to be murdered on their honeymoon in 2010. Following the case for us is the bbcs andrew plant, who joins us now live from cape town. Andrew, a sensational end to all this. Whats the reaction been there . Reporter yeah, after four years of a cloud of suspicion hanging over his head, all the accusations against Shrien Dewani have evaporated here in the course of a single sentence. The judge saying he is not guilty of playing any part in the murder of his wife and that effectively means he is immediately free to go. The proceedings started here at cape town high court, we didnt really know how things were going to pan out, despite the complexity of the evidence that we heard here over the past seven weeks. The choices were pretty simple, she could either allow the case to continue, which would raise the possibility of seeing Shrien Dewani take the stand and give evidence in his own words, or she could decide that actually the evidence she had heard so far from the prosecution in this case simply wasnt strong enough, and there was no realistic possibility of prosecuting him based on what she had heard. In that instance, he would be free to go and thats what shes decided here, that in fact there was no realistic prospect of her convicting Shrien Dewani on the evidence shes heard over the past seven weeks of prosecution case here in cape town, and that effectively meant he was free to go immediately. He left court, went to the car park beneath the courtrooms here. Thats how hes been arriving every day. He comes around this corner with a Police Escort in a blacked out vehicle and theres an entrance over there which takes him straight into a car park underneath the court. Thats the way he will be leaving as well, so you never actually see him come and go. You do see his family, though. Theyve always been walking to and from court on every day of this trial. They will now be making preparations to fly him back to the uk. Weve heard actually that we think tonight he will be spending the night where hes been the past seven months, a Psychiatric Institute on the edge of cape town, and then we understand tomorrow, finally, he will be flying back to the uk. Andrew, thanks for the update from outside the court there in cape town. U. S. Operations to free hostages held by militants have come under real scrutiny recently, this is after a failed attempt to rescue u. S. Journalist luke somers on saturday. He was being held by al qaeda in yemen and was killed during the operation when u. S. Special forces were spotted by the militants. The rescue attempt also led to the death of South African teacher Pierre Korkie. Its understood that he was due to be released the next day. Heres more for you. Is it imperfect . Yes. Is there risk . Yes. But we start with the fact that we have an american thats being held hostage and that americans life is in danger. Thats where we start. And then we proceed from there. Lets take you to johannesburg. Im joined by the founder and president of the gift of givers foundation. This is the organization that was involved in trying to negotiate the release of the South African hostage Pierre Korkie. Thank you for being with us, doctor, here on gmt. Firstly, obviously horrific that both luke and pierre lost their lives, but can you give us your reaction to what ended up being a failed attempt to rescue them . Well, i think the video you played earlier gives the answer. I think the americans had no option but to go in to try to save their citizen. As in any country, the citizens of a country will expect their government to do something to save them. Indeed i would. I would expect my country to do something for me if i was caught up in that situation. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Unfortunately, in a conflict zone in most cases, you lose. So youre not angry at washington given you were negotiating pierres release yourself . No. Last week, they made an attempt and saved several people. Many of those were not americans. They were very ordinary people from yemen, some from saudi and some from other places. The second attempt was also saving many people. So that when it went right last week, nobody complained. Its when it went wrong that everybody started complaining. I think given the circumstances, if it was any other government, they probably had no alternative to do what the americans did. But was the American Government aware of your negotiations . No. I mean, we dont talk to each other. We dont go around talking to different governments telling them what youre doing. This had to be something very quiet. Burr the Yemeni Government was aware, because we were reporting to the Yemeni Government what we were doing all the time inside yemen. And you were confident that pierre would have been released the very next day . Yes. We know we had finally reached that phase after 11 months of intense negotiations. The tribal leaders were our front. They were the ones speaking to al qaeda. Although initially, when the wife of Pierre Korkie was released, we were in direct contact face to face with al qaeda, but that relationship broke at one point when they accused him of stealing ransom money. They say the South African government gave him ransom money and he stole it. Because of that, there was no trust and the relationship broke down. Our next phase was to engage the tribal leaders who have been going up and down to al qaeda right up to the 26th of november when today got the undertaking,