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Tonight at Ten: The Metropolitan Police in crisis. The phone hacking | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
scandal claim as second top officer in 24 hours. Assist ant | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
commissioner Assistant Commissioner John Yates, the man in charge of | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
counter-terrorism, resigns a day after his boss quits. I have acted | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
with integrity. My conscious is clear. The investigators under | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
investigation, new inquiries are announced into allegations of | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
nepotism and corruption. David Cameron says he will cut short his | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
African tour as pressure mounts over his hiring of the News of the | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
World editor, Andy Coulson. No-one can argue that the work he did in | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
Government was in any way inappropriate or bad. What the | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
country needs is strong and decisive leadership to restore | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
trust in the politics, the press and the police. The Prime Minister | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
is unable to show that. Tonight, the News of the World whistle- | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
blower has been found dead at home. We are asking how damaging the | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
scandal is for David Cameron. Also: New plans to cut up to 20,000 | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
soldiers from the British Army. Can reservists really do their job? The | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
apparent care home abuse exposed by the BBC. An official investigation | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
blames systemic failure to protect people. And as Darren Clarke | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
celebrates his Open victory, how does Northern Ireland produce so | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
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Good evening. The Metropolitan Police is in a crisis tonight after | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
losing a second senior officer in just 24 hours. Assistant | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Commissioner John Yates, the man in charge of counter-terrorism in | :02:25. | :02:34. | |
England and Wales resigned today. The latest casualty in the phone | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
hacking scandal. David Cameron has had to cut short a tour of Africa | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
to return home to deal with the crisis. Today, Ed Miliband, said | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
that David Cameron was unable to show the leadership that the | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
country needed and called on him to apologise for hiring the News of | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
the World editor, Andy Coulson. He is no longer, Assistant | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
Commissioner John Yates, resigning a day after his boss, the | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Paul Stephenson. Both | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
paying the price for failing to get to grips with the hacking scandal. | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
So, said the Mayor of London. have just come off the phone to | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who has tendered his resignation. | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
Boris Johnson insisted that both men had jumped and were not pushed, | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
but he made it clear that he had done everything to encourage them. | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
I think it was clear to support and to indeed join Assistant | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
Commissioner John Yates after the issues and the questions of the | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
circumstance it would make it difficult for them to continue to | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
do their jobs in the way that they wanted. Assistant Commissioner John | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Yates began the day determined not to resign. Telling colleagues he | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
would not summit to trial by media. He ended it explaining why he was | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
going. We in the police service are truly accountable. Those of us who | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
take on the most difficult jobs clearly have to stand up and be | :04:03. | :04:12. | |
counted when things go wrong. Sadly, there continues to be a huge amount | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
of inaccurate, ill-informed and downright malicious gossip | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
published about me, personally. This has the potential to be a | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
significant distraction in my role as the national lead for the | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
counter-terrorism unit. This is the man whose arrest caused a ciefg at | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
the Met, Neil Wallis. Scotland Yard admitted that two years ago it had | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
hired him to help to improve their public relations. It emerged that | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
his daughter works for the Metropolitan Police and that | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
Assistant Commissioner John Yates is alleged to have helped her get | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
the job. When Sir Paul Stephenson went to Downing Street last week to | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
discuss how to restore the Met's image, he made no mention of the | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
force's relationship with Neil Wallis. It was that failure to be | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
that cost him and Assistant Commissioner John Yates their | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
careers. What divides the Prime Minister and the men from the Met | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
is, oddly, what conects them. Both hired former News of the World men | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
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to improve their image. All insist that they knew nothing about | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
hacking. The Prime Minister's on a awkwardly timed trip to South | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Africa. He is cutting it short to return home to make another | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
statement about hacking. The Labour leader says he is incapable of | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
giving the leadership that is required. The country needs strong | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
leadership to restore trust in the politics in the press and in the | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
police. The Prime Minister is unable to do so because of the | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
decision he made to hire Andy Coulson in the first place, because | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
of his failure to answer questions about Andy Coulson, about him being | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
brought into the heart of Downing Street and his failure to apologise | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
for his terrible error of judgment in hiring Andy Coulson. Speaking | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
before the news of Assistant Commissioner John Yates' | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
resignation, David Cameron said there was no comparison between his | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
behaviour and that of the Metropolitan Police. I don't | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
believe that the situation is the same in any shape or form in terms | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
of Andy Coulson. No-one has argued that the work he did in Government | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
in any way was inappropriate or bad. He worked well in Government, he | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
then left Government. There is a contrast, I would say with the | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
situation at the Metropolitan Police, where clearly at the | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
Metropolitan Police, the issues have been around whether or not the | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
investigation is being pursued properly. Tonight the phone hacking | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
inquiry is making yet more extraordinary headlines. Police | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
officers are at the home of the former News of the World showbiz | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
reporter, SeanHawe. Weeks after telling Panorama he was pressurised | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
to hack phones. His death is described as unexplained but not | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
suspicious. The crisis at the Met could not have come at a worse time. | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
The next 12 months, in the run-up to the Olympics is likely to the | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
most challenging period in its history. It is facing at least six | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
separate qierz and investigations. We look at how it will cope without | :07:37. | :07:46. | |
two of its most senior officers. Tonight the relationship between | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
Scotland Yard and the press has become the central issue in the | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
hacking scandal. Mrs Theresa May. The Home Secretary told the Commons | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
of neglected evidence in the phone hacking inquiry, and accusations of | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
officers taking illegal kickbacks. But that wasn't the end of the | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
matter, she said. These allegations are not, unfortunately, the only | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
recent example of alleged corruption and nepotism in the | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
police. So I can tell the House that I have asked her Majesty's | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
Inspectorate of it Constabulary to consider instances of undue | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
influence in appropriate contractual arrangements and other | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
abuses of power in police relationship with the media and | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
other parties are. The outgoing commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
is under scrutiny for his conduct in the phone hacking inquiry. Peter | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
Clarke, who memorably fronted the inquiry into the 7/7 bombings, will | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
also be investigated, as well Andy Hayman, who resigned following | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
allegations of improper conduct and went on to work for News | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
International. Finally, the Complaints Commission will | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
investigate the conduct of John Yates, who resigned today also Mr | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
Gates is accused of an appropriately securing employment | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
at Scotland Yard for the daughter of news of the World journalist | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Neil Wallis, and for his role in relation to the phone hacking | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
investigation. All the officers deny any impropriety. Scotland yard | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
is in the midst of its worst crisis for almost 40 years. It's | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
commissioner gone, one of his deputies, too, amid allegations of | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
corruption, cover-up and incompetence. The hacking scandal | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
has engulfed the Met with implications far beyond this | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
building. Turmoil at the top as the Met prepares for its biggest ever | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
peacetime operation - next year's London Olympics. The organisation | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
is stressing that despite the resignations, it remains in good | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
shape to keep the capital safe. But one member of the authority which | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
oversees the Met says the crisis may be far from over. One can't | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
help but think that there's more to come, and that may be more heads | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
will roll. Tonight it has emerged a second senior news of the World | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
journalist was employed by Scotland Yard as an interpreter or while | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
working at the paper. The government wants to renegotiate the | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
contract between police and press, knowing that at stake is one of the | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
most vital commodities in a democracy. Trust in the forces of | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
law and order. Let's get the latest from Nick Robinson at Westminster. | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
David Cameron is thousands of miles away and the pressure has followed | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
him. How damaging is this for him? There is real pressure on him, | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
thanks to a question which was put to Boris Johnson earlier today. A | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
question that he didn't answer terribly helpfully for the Prime | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
Minister. The question was this. If the top men at the Met have had to | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
lose their jobs for hiring a former deputy editor of the News of the | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
World, why shouldn't the Prime Minister lose his for hiring the | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
former editor? Boris Johnson stared at the camera and then said, it | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
wasn't really a matter for him to deal with government appointments. | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
Not quite the act of loyalty to your party leader that David | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
Cameron might have hoped for. Team Cameron are desperate to say there | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
is no such parallel, that there are questions about the efficiency of | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
the police who are investigating hacking. There are questions about | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
their integrity, too, and that is completely different from his | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
decision to hire Andy Coulson all those years ago when he was in | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
opposition. Just going into the House of Commons in the last few | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
hours, glass-topped by Conservative MPs are wonder where this will end | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
for the Prime Minister. They are starting to fear what might happen, | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
not just now but in the months to come, if there are trials and | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
convictions and if the inquiry goes on for long time. David Cameron has | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
done much of what's been asked of him, set up an inquiry, gave the | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
police the resources they need. There's one thing he hasn't done | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
because they can't. He can't not high Andy Coulson. And tomorrow we | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
have the Murdochs in front of MPs. You, it's going to be extraordinary. | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
Not just Rupert and his son in front of MPs, but also the two men | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
who resigned today, Sir Paul Stevenson and John Yates. The thing | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
that makes tomorrow Electric is not just their presence, but these are | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
men who on no longer merely fighting for their jobs or for | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
their businesses. They are fighting for their personal and professional | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
reputation. In many ways, some of them have nothing yet to lose. And | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
when people have nothing to lose there is no knowing what they will | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
do. A reminder there are more details about the scandal online, | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
including a Who's Who Guide to be key players in this continuing | :12:49. | :12:58. | |
The British Army is to be cut by nearly 20,000, reducing its numbers | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
to the lowest level in more than 100 years. The announcement, made | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
by defence secretary Liam Fox, will see far greater use of reservists, | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
like the Territorial Army. As Caroline Wyatt explains, the cuts | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
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Even as British Forces continue the fight in Afghanistan, the regular | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
army has been bracing itself for fresh cuts. They knew that they | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
were in the MoD's sights from the Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, the | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
day that there was a review of the reserve forces and it was said that | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
there should be more use of them made. | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
By 2020, if the Territorial Army develops in the way we intend we | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
see a force of about 120,000, with regular and reserve. This is more | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
in line with comparable countries such as the United States, Canada | :13:54. | :14:03. | |
and Australia. The idea is to ensure reservists | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
are trained and equipped, like this squad who spent last year training | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
in Cyprus. It could leave the md md -- MoD, though, open to accusations | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
of trying to create an army on the cheap. | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
This is shrinkage by stealth as this cult in the army is bigger | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
than the entire current deployment of all UK forces in Afghanistan. | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
This will many more redundancies for Britain's soldiers. The regular | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
army is over 100,000. That will foul to under 84,000 by 2020, | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
making it the smallest it has been in over a century. There are over | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
31,500 TA reservists. The Ministry of Defence has been balancing the | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
books since the defence review. The changes announced today are aimed | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
at doing that but there are worries amongst the regular army about how | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
this will work, the impact on moral, and if the army can meet its | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
commitments once it has shrunk. The risk is that we are caught out | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
in a dangerous world with demands coming from all dreks. 9 unexpected, | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
we have seen how many times it has happened since the Second World War. | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
The risk is that we will not have the capability to look after our | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
strategic interests. The MoD insists it has won crucial | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
funding from the Treasury, that will allow it to fey for -- pay for | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
the overhall to reservist and to buy equipment, including 14 Chinook | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
helicopters, upgrading the Warrior vehicle and new changes to the | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
other vehicles. A British soldier from the 1st | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
Battalion the Rifles has been killed in Afghanistan. | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
A soldier from the 9th/12th Lancers, shot and killed on Saturday has | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
been named as Lance Corporal Watkins. His death is being | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
investigated after reports he was shot by a man dressed in an Afghan | :16:15. | :16:24. | |
national army uniform. A report into the apparent abuse of care at | :16:24. | :16:34. | |
the Bristol home of Castlebeck. The Panorama programme showed the | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
patients there being pinned down, slapped and doused in cold water | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
and being teased. You may find this report disturbing. | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
Secretly filmed by BBC's Panorama. Vulnerable patients, apparently | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
suffering abuse from the staff at Winterbourne View near Bristol. | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
The private hospital was closed down after the programme seven | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
weeks ago. The residents have all been moved to other units. | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
But today, inspectors published their own highly critical report. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
The Care Quality Commission who came here n and did this inspection | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
says that the report is a damning indictment of the way that this | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
place was run. It says that there was a systemic failure to protect | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
the vulnerable residents who lived here at Winterbourne View. It said | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
that managers failed to investigate allegations of abuse properly. It | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
even says that staff did not really understand the needs of the people | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
in their care E People like Simon. He is one of the patients featured | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
in the Panorama programme. His mother welcomed today's report, but | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
she said that the watchdog list still has questions to answer. | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
I am shocked. It seems that they have managed to put the blame on | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
everybody and whitewash themselves. Whereas I feel strongly that all of | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
the agencies were to blame. Tonight, Castlebeck, the firm that | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
ran Winterbourne View said it was truly sorry for what it called the | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
failures at the unit. It ordered its own company-wide review and has | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
promised to address concerns at -- as a matter of urgency. | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
We are a care company. People trust us to look after the people in our | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
care. That is what we will strive to do at every opportunity. | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
So far 12 care staff have been arrested and bailed by the police. | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
Meanwhile, the Care Quality Commission which published today's | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
report has defended its record, saying that it thought that the | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
concerns were being dealt with at a local level. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
And coming up on tonight's programme: The secrets of success. | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
A victory in the Open at Royal St George's gives Northern Ireland its | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
third champion in a year. As international appeals continue | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
for the drought victims of East Africa, charities are monitoring a | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
controversial aid exper ment innearby Uganda. The UN is | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
restricting food handouts to people in one region to try to make them | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
less dependant on aid, but an increasing number of families in | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
the area are complaining of shortages. Some are even sending | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
their children as young as three to the capital to beg. | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
We have this report. Tiny hands outstretched. A child is | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
begging for money on a busy Kampala street. | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
His name is Lokia, he is three years old. He is not the only one. | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
Their families know they are here. Their job is to send money back | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
home. Guided by a charity helping the | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
children, I established that Lokian is being looked after by a 13-year- | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
old girl. I took the name of the village and | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
headed off to find their families. It is in one of the poorest places | :20:13. | :20:21. | |
in the world. Karamoja, the focus of a UN experiment to try to end | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
people's reliance on aid. The last time I was here in January, | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
I found children so hungry, that they were having to eat raw goat | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
skin. This time we found little Lokian's | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
village. Charities say that more and more children like him are sent | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
to beg because of the shortage of food. Everybody recognises Lokian | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
none try to hide that thinker children are begging in Kampala. | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
Naffu is his aunt. How many children from the village | :20:59. | :21:08. | |
are down in Kampala? TRANSLATION: About 60. | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
Just from this village. Do you I have any other children | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
here? This one she is keeping, but if she grows up, she will have to | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
She will go to Kampala too? So, what do the authorities say? | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
Through the police we have arrested several, some people who are not | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
even related to the children who lure the children putting them in | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
buses, trucks to ferry them out of Kampala. | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
Some children do get help. These are now in school. They were | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
rescued by a small church charity. Now ten, this boy begged for five | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
years. TRANSLATION: In Kampala at night | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
they would beat me and steal myself money. I feel safe now. | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
A handful saved of the many thousands suffering ill treatment | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
every day. The UN says its experiment is one | :22:07. | :22:17. | |
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of tough choices. It is now drawing up a plan to stop this. | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
Concerns over the impact of the European debt crisis hit shares in | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
the UK's top four banks. In a further sign of unease in the | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
financial markets, the cost of borrowing for Italy and Spain rose | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
to the highest level since the single currency began. | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
Stephanie Flanders is here. Is this a problem for Italy and Spain or | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
for the Euro? It is a broader problem. What you have seen is the | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
eurozone crisis in the last week enter a new phase. From the start | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
European leaders have been saying that they wanted to quarantine yeen | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
Greece, the first country to need the support. To ins plait it from | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
everybody else, so there would not be contagion, so that the crisis | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
would not spread, but it has taken so long to fix the problems, you | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
are seeing the contagion play out before our eyes. There are falling | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
British bank shares, not because they failed the stress dests, but | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
it reminded -- stress tests, but it reminded on how much they have lent. | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
You are seeing the rush to the so- called safe haven, the gold price | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
is going up as people are feeling safer in gold, but the worrying is | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
the pressure on Spain and Italy. The investors are looking at the | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
countries, saying that the European leaders to meet on Thursday it is | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
not enough to be solving Greece's debt problems, but you have to | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
solve the debt and the growth problem for the countries in the | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
eurozone. The European leaders don't have the answers to those | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
questions. They barely have answers to the Greek ones. | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
Within the last hour, it has emerged that senior US officials | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
have let with -- met with Libyan officials of Colonel Muammar | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
Gaddafi's government. The State Department spokesperson said that | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
the aim was to deliver a clear and firm message for Colonel Gaddafi to | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
step down. Washington insists there were no negotiations. | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
First, there was Graeme McDowell, then Rory McIlroy, now there is | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
Darren Clarke, whose victory in the Open at the royal and St George's | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
over the weekend was the third from Northern Ireland. | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
We have this report. Back on home soil with the trophy | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
he's been waiting for fore20 years. 42-year-old Darren Clarke is one | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
the oldest first-time winners of the Open and one of the happiest. | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
He has come back to Portrush. The coastal town boosts a champion in | :24:53. | :25:02. | |
Graeme McDowell. Now it has another. After winning he couldn't stop | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
smiling. Even at the all had night party. | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
Darren Clarke has had a tur lent few years. His wife, Heather died | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
of breast cancer. By winning the Open brought joy to his young sons, | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
seen her last night at a family celebration. Even in darch's finest | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
hour, his thoughts were never far away from his sons and late wife. | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
I was thinking about Heather. By the bigger side of things is that | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
she would be proud of the two boys. That is more important than any | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
golf. Northern Ireland's golfing glory | :25:43. | :25:52. | |
began last year when Graeme McDowell won the US Open open. | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
This year, 2-year-old Rory McIlroy from Hollywood won the same trophy. | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
So what is it about Northern Ireland? How can a small country | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
with a population of less than 2 million, produce three of the | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
biggest names in world golf? This group of Americans playing in windy | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Portrush believe that they know the secret, the weather. | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
You are tested in any conditions. Whether it is a beautiful day or 40 | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
miles an hour with wind and rain. They learn to play in any | :26:23. | :26:28. |