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Crushed by the rebels, Gaddafi's enemies storm into the heart of | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Tripoli. They invade the leader's compound, | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
but there's no sign of Gaddafi himself. We report from the scene. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
The rebels in this street are firing guns into the air in | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
celebration but behind me I have just seen tracer fire coming in | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
from the right. There's definitely still fighting going on tonight. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
As symbols of Gaddafi's regime are dismantled, the battle for Tripoli | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
is still raging. No more blood, it's been enough | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
blood in this country. Rebel advance is boosted by NATO air | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
strikes, backed by Britain. It's still a difficult and dangerous | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
situation, there are still many people out there with weapons who | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
were paid to be loyal to the Gaddafi regime. We will have the | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
latest from Tripoli tonight after another day of intense fighting as | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
the rebels tighten their grip. Also: In New York sexual assault | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
charges against the former head of the IMF have been dismissed. | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
And the producer responsible for some of the greatest British comedy | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
classics has died. Later on the BBC News channel I | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
will be here with all the sport, including another Gunners' goodbye, | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
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they've agreed the sale of Nasri to Good evening. The battle for | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
Tripoli is still raging tonight after another day of dramatic | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
progress by rebel forces. Outright victory is within reach, but not | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
yet secured. In the day's main developments, the rebels stormed | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
the leader's compound in the heart of Tripoli. There was no sign of | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
Gaddafi himself, he's gone into hiding. And the rebel campaign has | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
been boosted by NATO air strikes. We have just received this report | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
from Rupert Wingfield Hayes in Tripoli. | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
Once again it was NATO that led today's assault on Colonel | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
Gaddafi's compound. By mid- afternoon the rebels were pouring | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
inside, their jubilation mixed with anger as they tore apart the hated | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
symbols of Gaddafi's 42-year rule. The dictator himself and the famous | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
sculpture of the America crushing fist. The fighting to get inside | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
the compound had been intense. For several hours rebels swarmed around | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
the walls, keeping up running battles with the die-hard Gaddafi | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
supporters still inside. This evening, as we approached the | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
destroyed compound, the debris from the fighting lay all around. Then | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
in the air a distinctive puff of smoke, someone was still firing | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
RPGs, even as the rebels began to depart the fighting suddenly | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
started again. You can see it's still a chaotic | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
situation here outside the compound several hours after it was overrun | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
by rebels. The rebels in this street are firing guns into the air | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
in celebration but behind me I have just seen tracer fire coming in | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
from the right. There's definitely still fighting going on tonight. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Suddenly from celebration, they were back fighting again. But the | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
fighters are still confident this is the end. No more. Finished. New | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
country, happiness. Less than a mile away in Green Square this | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
evening hundreds of people began coming out again to celebrate. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Colonel Gaddafi and his sons have still not been caught, their | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
whereabouts is still a mystery and in other parts of the city fighting | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
continues. But after one falls start on Sunday the people of | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
Tripoli do appear to believe that tonight they are witnessing the end | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
of 42 years of Gaddafi's dictatorship. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
NATO says it will continue to bomb Colonel Gaddafi's forces if they | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
keep on fighting. A spokesman insisted that NATO hadn't been | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
providing close air support to the rebels, but was striking at targets | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
which appeared to threaten civilians. There are several | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
pockets of stubborn resistance, the city is still fragmented as our | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
diplomatic correspondent James Robbins explains. | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
The battle for Tripoli remains intense as rebels try to push | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Gaddafi's forces out of the entire capital. A major symbolic prize, of | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
course, was the capture of Colonel Gaddafi's heavily fortified | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
compound, now achieved. To see the compound being stormed by the anti- | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
Gaddafi forces is a very important moment. But it's not over yet. It's | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
still a difficult and dangerous situation. There are still many | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
people out there with weapons who were paid to be loyal to the | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Gaddafi regime. What is the bigger picture now of the battle for | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
Tripoli? How much do we know about who who controls which parts of the | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
capital? From a variety of credible sources it seems that large and | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
expanding parts of the capital are in rebel hands, although they're | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
not all necessarily entirely secure. These are just some of the areas | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
where Gaddafi has lost control since last Sunday. But tonight the | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
big breakthrough for the rebels was the storming of the compound. You | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
can see the outer wall, breached by the rebels as they overran this key | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
area, denying the leader one more potential hiding place. In one | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
corner of the compound a substantial military installation, | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
hit by NATO missiles weeks ago and at the centre of the compound the | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
area used for scores of Gaddafi rallies over the years, where we | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
have seen the rebels pulling down Gaddafi's statues. The symbolism of | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
this compound is immense, so taking it has great significance. But does | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
this mean game over for Gaddafi? Well, no. Not quite. After all, he | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
is still at large. So is his son, Saif Al-Islam. The | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
appearance of his intended successor last night was a | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
propaganda coup. It destroyed claims by opposition rebels that | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
they had captured him and boosted Gaddafi loyalists on Tripoli's | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
streets. It damaged the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
too. He announced Saif Al-Islam would soon be in the Hague facing | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
charges of crimes against humanity. That could still be his fate, of | :06:45. | :06:55. | |
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course and his father's, too. But first they have to be caught. | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
The grouping that hopes to take charge of Libya, the National | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
Transitional Council, is watching events closely and says it hopes to | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
send officials to Tripoli as early as tomorrow. Leading figures say | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
they're keen to begin the process of establishing a new government as | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
soon as possible. Our correspondent Paul Wood is in the rebel | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
stronghold of Benghazi and sent this report. | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
They are students, businessmen, teachers, most holding a gun for | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
the first time. They rose up with no outside help and they would have | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
been crushed but for NATO's help. Now the rebels stand on the brink | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
of victory, already recognised by many as Libya's legitimate | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Government. Are they united? The rebels National Transitional | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
Council is a mix of factions with little more in common than dislike | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
of Colonel Gaddafi. It's an uneasy coalition, between the east and | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
west of the country, Islamist and secular, former members of the | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
regime, and long-standing exiles. That's going to be a pot pourri of | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
different ideas, but if they all work within the same framework and | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
that is a constitution, then everybody is free to have their own | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
thoughts and say what they think. The country's next leader could be | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
the council's head, a former justice Minister, he is seen as | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
having integrity, but not charisma. The revolution has produced no | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
single forceful political personality, perhaps after 42 years | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
of Colonel Gaddafi another strong man is the last thing Libyans want. | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
So will the rebels succeed? A new Government could quickly be | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
destablised if there is widespread looting. The rebels will need some | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
of those who have been fighting for the old regime. We have learned and | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
learned experience from Benghazi where the police and the security | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
people left their jobs and we had problem to bring them back. No, in | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
Tripoli we will not do that. There are measured part of rebuilding the | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
security. Here in Benghazi there is immense joy, but there is also | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
relief. This is the birthplace of the revolution and in the early | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
days the outcome was far from certain. There is too a recognition | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
that the really difficult part could still be ahead. That is | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
governing this fractured and traumatised nation. The immediate | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
task for the rebel leadership is to stop revenge killings, that would | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
undermine the legitimacy of any new Government. The new Libya, they say, | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
cannot begin with a bloodbath. For a sense of the mood in central | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Tripoli let's look at the live images we have got, we caught a | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
glimpse of them earlier, this is Green Square, renamed by some as | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
Martyr Square and hundreds gathered there this evening. I will bring in | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
our diplomatic correspondent who has been monitoring events for us. | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
A A sense of where we are in Tripoli tonight and a look ahead | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
for the next few days as to how that transition might take place? | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
lot of what we have seen today is to do with morale on the rebel | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
opposition side. Taking the compound has immense significance | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
for them. It was their first chance really to attack Gaddafi and his | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
symbols. We saw them doing that. They now I think believe that | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
victory is, if not completely achieved, certainly within their | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
grasp. I think it has that huge symbolic significance. Very | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
interesting two signals from the rebel opposition in Benghazi, one | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
from the leader of the National Transitional Council saying that we | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
still have to capture the Gaddafi family to end this. But another, a | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
strong signal from Benghazi, that they hope to move the rebel | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
opposition headquarters to Tripoli before the end of this week. So | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
they're determined to keep up the momentum. As we see that momentum, | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
a thought about the role played by NATO and Britain with a close | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
interest in this, how instrumental has that been? Hugely. It's | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
interesting that NATO was actively involved today. We think they | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
actually sent a message to the rebels they needed to back off from | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
the outer perimeter of the compound so that NATO could mount strikes | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
and get the rebels - help the rebels get into that compound. If | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
that's true that shows just how instrumental they have been even at | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
this late stage. They insist protecting civilians, others will | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
suggest it's to help bring about the downfall of Colonel Gaddafi. | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
Thank you. There's a lot more about this | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
situation in Libya on our special live page online, bringing together | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
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the latest news. A court in New York has dismissed | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
criminal charges of sexual assault made against the former head of the | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Evidence | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
showed that Mr Strauss-Kahn did have a sexual encounter with the | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
hotel chambermaid who'd accused him, but he claimed it had been | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
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consensual. Steve Kingstone reports. There was just a hint of a smile as | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived at court for the final time as a | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
defendant. Inside it was over in minutes. The judge granted a | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
request by prosecuters to drop all charges. | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
He looked composed, relieved. But not jubilant. So in the glair of an | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
international media spotlight this highly charged case comes to an | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
abrupt end. A man once talked about as the next President of France is | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
free to rebuild his career and resume his life. | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
He broke his silence outside the townhouse rented by a unwavering | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
loyal wife. TRANSLATION: | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
I am relieved for my wife, children and friends, all those who | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
supported me by sending letters and e-mails, I want to return to my | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
country but I have to take care of His accuser was not in court. | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
Forensic evidence showed they did share a brief sexual encounter, but | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
there was no proof that it had been forced. Prosecutors decided a jury | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
would not believe the claim of sexual assault because she had lied | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
repeatedly to investigators. DSK, you must pay! Outside court, | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
protesters called it justice denied. She should have her day in court to | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
testify as to what happened to her. It is constantly happening to black | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
women throughout history in this country. So what now for a man | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
whose journey from statesmen to suspect was as compelling as it was | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
shocking? In Paris today, they watched, wondering whether DSK | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
might just return to frontline politics. I went vote for him, | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
despite the fact that I think he is the best one to run the country. | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
is too late for him to be a candidate for the presidentials, | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
but if he was a candidate, I would definitely vote for him. Back in | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
Manhattan tonight, a second judge has rejected an appeal by the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
maid's legal team. What Dominique Strauss-Kahn called a nightmare is | :14:26. | :14:35. | |
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 has struck the east coast of | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
the United States. The epicentre was less than 90 miles from | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
Washington. The Pentagon and the White House were evacuated, but it | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
was also felt hundreds of miles away in New York. The quake caused | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
some damage, but there are no reports of injuries. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
An online petition demanding the release of all government documents | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
relating to the Hillsborough football disaster has attracted | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
more than 100,000 signatures. It follows a ruling by the Information | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
Commissioner that the paper should be made public, but ministers want | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
an independent panel to decide what should be released. The files are | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
thought to include report presented to Margaret Thatcher about the | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
tragedy in which 96 people lost their lives. | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
Liverpool has mourned the dead of Hillsborough collectively, as a | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
city, harnessing all the power of its famous civic pride to the | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
business of reading. James Gary Aspinall... Is gathering was to | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
mark the 20th anniversary in 2009. -- is gathering. The strength of | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
feeling is undiminished by the passage of time. Anna Williams has | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
campaigned for two decades for the release of information. Her son | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
Kevin was 15 when he died at Hillsborough. His mother rejects | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
the verdict of the original inquest, accidental death, because she says | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
vital evidence was never made available. If the jury had heard | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
how the police had sent via our engines away at 3:30pm and cordon | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
off the ambulances, never implemented the major disaster plan, | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
the jury never heard this, so it secured an accidental death verdict. | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
And I think most of the people that saw Hillsborough unfold know that | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
Hillsborough was not an accident. 96 people were crushed to death at | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
Hillsborough. The then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
briefed on the policing of the event. Campaigners want those | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
briefing papers and Cabinet documents made public immediately. | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
The Government says an independent panel will release thousands of | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
documents in 2012. There is a plan to release those documents, but not | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
until next year and in a carefully co-ordinated way, but it is 22 | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
years now and the longer the government hold on to that | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
information, the deeper the suspicion becomes here, rightly or | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
wrongly, that there must be something to hide. It is also | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
another illustration of the democratising power of the internet | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
and the social networking sites. They are putting a new kind of | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
power into the hands of people on streets like there's. They are | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
changing the way we do things. The Hillsborough Justice campaign | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
backed the online petition only last Wednesday when it had just 200 | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
signatures. Four days later, it had 100,000. The Week cannot see any | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
harm that can come from a piece of the truth being made available. -- | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
we cannot see. The Government does not want to release pieces of | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
information until it can release everything and in context, but the | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
people of Liverpool, in their anguish to know, might yet force | :17:40. | :17:49. | |
So far, more than 1,400 people have appeared before the court charged | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
in connection with the riots and looting earlier this month, and 157 | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
have been convicted, according to the latest figures from the | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Ministry of Justice. More details have now emerged about the police | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
strategy in London about holding in custody most of the people charge. | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
Home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds has the story. The looters | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
even appeared to be stealing from each other. What is clear is that | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
large numbers of people are involved, but police are catching | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
up with them. The result, the justice system is still dealing | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
with hundreds of cases, 1406 people have appeared in court so far, 157 | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
have been convicted, but the majority of the rest, 62%, have | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
been remanded in custody, for more than the usual rate of 10%. So why | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
is that? Well, as the clean-up continues, a Metropolitan Police | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
document has emerged that shows the force at a strategy of asking the | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
court not to release those charged with riot related offences on bail. | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
The idea was to give the police more time to investigate while | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
ensuring there was not more unrest. Some lawyers representing those | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
arrested believe this was a blanket lock them up strategy. According to | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
this policy, every single person is kept in custody, and that concerns | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
us, because the custody sergeant's discretion is essential, and they | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
should be a presumption of bail. People should be released unless | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
there are circumstances which mean they should be kept in custody. | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
the Metropolitan Police say more than 600 the Baja been released on | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
bail because of lack of clear evidence, and it is a decision for | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
the course, not the police. -- more than 600 people have been released. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
It is taking time to identify offenders, so police are pressing | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
charges as soon as they have enough, but possibly not for the evidence, | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
a tactically generally used for major crimes such as terrorism. The | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
Met is now warning that this weekend's Notting Hill Carnival, | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
Europe's largest, may provide an excuse for more trouble. We have | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
seen some chat on social networking sites, as well as other | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
intelligence Streams, to say that some people do want to come to the | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
event to create trouble, and that some people see the event as an | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
opportunity to event elsewhere in London while the police are | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
otherwise engaged. But with police releasing more footage every day, | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
including this from Manchester, the pressure also remains to identify | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
the faces and the crowds and make arrests. | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
The family of singer Amy Winehouse say the toxicology tests showed | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
there were no illegal drugs in her body when she died. The singer, 27, | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
was found dead at her home in London last month. Her family say | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
the tests show the presence of alcohol but the cause of death was | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
still unknown. John Howard Davies, one of the | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
great names of British television comedy, has died at his home in | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
Oxford at the age of 72. He launched a series of hugely popular | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
BBC shows, including Holy Fools and horses and Yes, Minister, and | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
produce classics such as Fawlty Towers and the good life. His son | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
William said his father had enjoyed an apps to the extraordinary career, | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
as arts editor Will Gompertz reports. -- an absolutely | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
extraordinary career. The Good Life... Play it's nice and | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
cool, you know what I mean... Fools and horses... When I caught | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
Gerald in 1968, he was completely wild. I was livid! The And Not the | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
9 o'clock News, three hugely successful television comedies, all | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
directed, produced or commissioned by John Howard Davies. | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
To have had one such it would have been noteworthy, to have three | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
quite something. The fact that they are but a small sum of on a list of | :21:53. | :22:03. | |
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John Howard Davies was the son of a highly regarded screenwriter and an | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
accomplished child actor. There please, sir, I want some more. | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
he played Oliver Twist in the famous David Dein's adaptation. | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
Other film successes followed, as did a stint of National Service, | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
after which he took various jobs outside the entertainment industry, | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
but when he arrived at the BBC in the mid- 1960s, he became part of | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
the famous comedy it and found a home for his extraordinary talent. | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
--, the unit. You are on television, aren't you? He moved behind the | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
camera and produced and directed the first series of Monty Python's | :22:41. | :22:50. | |
And the first series of Fawlty Towers. Thank you, God, thank you | :22:50. | :22:58. | |
so bloody match! I like cruelty. Hello, dear, just going to... | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
only problem I had is that I could never get her to hit bars are hard | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
enough. Our day you! He became the head of comedy in 1978, giving a | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
new generation of producers their chance. For me personally, he was | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
very important, because he gave me my first job in television and | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
mentored me through the first five years as my boss. For the nation at | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
large and the world, really, he was the most extraordinary comedy | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
producer there has been. Is it part of a job to help ministers make | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
fools of themselves? I have never met one who needed any help. | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
worked for both the BBC and ITV and made an enormous contribution to | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
the success of British television. People talked of his charm and | :23:47. | :23:57. | |
intelligence, proving that nice The tributes to John Howard Davies, | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
who has died at the age of 72. I have just got time to give you the | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
latest from Libya tonight, and we have just made contact with Rupert | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
Wingfield-Hayes, Our correspondent in Tripoli, and Paul Wood is in the | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
rebel stronghold of Benghazi. Rupert, your sense of how things | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
stand tonight. Well, Huw, they are obviously still looking for the | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
Gaddafi family in Tripoli tonight. They do not know way they are | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
hiding out, whether they may still be here in a bunker, hiding | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
somewhere in the city or maybe they have fled to somewhere else in | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
Libya. Regardless of that, there is a real sense here tonight that 42 | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
years of Colonel Gaddafi's rule here has come to an end, regardless | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
of where he is and regardless of how his supporters may continue to | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
resist. Tonight, it really is over for the Gaddafi regime. With that | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
thought, Paul Wood, how are they planning in Benghazi to form that | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
transition? Well, there is a lot of celebration tonight, people are | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
sounding car horns and there is gunfire as well, but there is | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
serious political work to be done, and in the morning the National | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
Transitional Council will fly a mission to Tripoli. In fact, they | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
are going to go into the mountains and drive into the capital. | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
Symbolically, it is important for them not to be seen as a faction | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
from Benghazi. They want to rule the whole country and bring | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
political direction to the myriad militia groups. They do not really | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
have a national army, and as I was saying earlier, they do not want to | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
see the streets running red with blood. In fact, the leader of the | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
National Council here, Mustafa Jalil, feels so strongly about that | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
that he has threatened to resign. They are worried about a power | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
vacuum, worried about looting and internecine conflict and general | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
disorder. RTZ, the next few days, the road ahead may not be strewn | :25:57. | :26:04. |