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Tonight an ten: The mounting evidence of atrocities in the | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
Syrian city of Homs. Civilians flee under cover of darkness with | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
harrowing accounts of killings carried out by the regime's forces. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
The Red Cross is still being denied full access. We have a special | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
report on those seeking shelter. These kids have got a night in a | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
house with no heat or electricity. More than that, they're wondering | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
what has happened to their father. We'll have the latest on the | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
diplomatic efforts to make a difference. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Also tonight, plans to rethink the child benefit changes for higher | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
rate taxpayers to iron out the problems. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
You could have two families where both parents work and they're | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
earning about �40,000 a year, they'll still get this benefit. But | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
we won't get anything. Toasting is -- Vladimir Putin tells | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Russians his victory is fair. Many protest in Moscow as | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
international monitors say the election was flawed. | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
For them, you're the Great Satan, we're the little satan. Us and them | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Israel and America make common cause on the issue of Iran's | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
nuclear programme. And at 22 he's the world's number | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
one golfer. We report on the dazzling success of Rory McIlroy. | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel: The latest on Chelsea | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
as a former manager criticised -- criticises the regime saying it's | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
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Good evening. People who've escaped from the Syrian city of Homs have | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
told the BBC of atrocities being committed by the security forces, | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
including the slaughter of dozens of men and boys. The Red Cross is | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
still being refused access to all areas and key districts are now | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
said to be under control of the Syrian Army. Our correspondent Paul | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Wood and cameraman Fred Scott have been speaking to survivors on the | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
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On a road out of Homs, just part of the exodus from Baba Amr. They | :02:41. | :02:51. | |
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endured weeks of bombardment, then fled panicked before troops arrived. | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
We're homeless, she shouts, why? Because we asked for freedom? | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
People are terrified of what government forces will do now. This | :03:04. | :03:13. | |
group walked for three days to avoid the soldiers. Here's why: | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
Whoever is taken at a checkpoint will be killed, he says. They took | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
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our husbands, she cries. They took them at the checkpoint. Everyone | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
shares the same fear that their husbands are not coming back. For | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
now they're on their own with nothing. It's absolutely freezing | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
here and these kids have got a night in a house with no heat and | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
no electricity. More than that, they're wondering what on earth has | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
happened to their fatherment -- father. This family say they | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
witnessed a massacre. On Friday, troops took 36 men and boys from | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
one district, they say. They killed them all. She shows me how her | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
son's throat was cut. He was 12. The soldiers held people down with | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
their boots, says her husband. They killed them like this. | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
Their hands were tied, hiding 50 metres away, he could hear their | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
screams. I begged my father not to open the | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
door, she says. He said "Why, I haven't done anything." I saw them | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
pushing him to the ground and killing him. | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
Four men were taken from her house, she said. Can such horror stories | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
be true? These men defected from an elite army unit only last week. | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
They told me that civilians were targeted, prisoners killed. A | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
Lieutenant gave us the orders, he says, we were told in this | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
operation - shoot at anything that moves, civilian or military, you | :05:23. | :05:32. | |
shoot at it. This soldier saw an old man arrested. An officer put a | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
gun to his head, he says. The officer said "This is for freedom." | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
He shot him. He hadn't done anything. | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
The people of Baba Amr say they are victims of a crime. The outside | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
world will want proof. Briefly, they defied the regime. Now they | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
are scattered, their upridesing -- uprising crushed. There is | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
international outrage, but no agreement about how to bring this | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
to an end. Our diplomatic correspondent James | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
Robbins is with me. Now that we have this latest evidence, is there | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
any suggestion tonight that the diplomatic efforts are going to | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
change in a meaningful way? It's clear there is a new diplomatic | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
pressure under way this week. Look, President Assad says consistently | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
in answer to all these allegations that the violence, the violence in | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
Homs in particular, was caused entirely by what the regime calls | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
armed terrorists. Equally, most of the Arab world, the outside world, | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
rejects that characterisation. It's interesting that this evening, this | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
week, the United Kingdom, United States, France, as three key | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
members of the Security Council are going to make another effort to get | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
a resolution through the Security Council. They want a resolution | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
passed finally. This time they're focusing particularly on calling | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
for an end to violence, but crucially, calling for open access | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
for all humanitarian aid to all areas of Syria, that would include | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
Homs and particularly Baba Amr, where the Red Cross have been | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
denied full access. Why is this significant? I think particularly | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
it's significant because of the Russian elections which have just | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
passed. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, has been talking to | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
Vladimir Putin this evening on the telephone. Noting that he is the | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
President Elect without congratulating him. They did, | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
according to Downing Street, actively discuss Syria and the need | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
for international action, as Downing Street put it. That's | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
clearly a dig at the Russians saying you've got to get on side. | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
There's hints from you that you are willing to abandon some support for | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
President Assad, now you're going to be under test. Kofi Annan will | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
be in Damascus at the end of the week to try and drive this forward. | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
I have to say, there's no evidence of President Assad and his regime | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
changing course. So far violence has served them really well, just | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
as it served the first President Assad well. He relied on | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
overwhelming violence to crush opposition. It looks like father | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
like son. Thank you very much. Ministers are looking at changing | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
plans for scrapping child benefit for thousands of higher rate | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
taxpayers. The current proposal would see families with one parent | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
earning around �43,000 a year losing the benefit. While a couple | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
earning �40,000 each would keep it. Nick Clegg said there were | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
'anomalies' which needed to be tackled, as our political editor | :08:41. | :08:49. | |
Nick Robinson reports. For years it's been a simple as A, B, C, you | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
can claim child benefit whatever you earn, whatever age your | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
children. But that is about to change. The Russell family have | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
been doing their home work. They're set to lose almost �2,500 a year, | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
if the Chancellor sticks to his plans to cut child benefit for the | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
better off. Andrew works in IT and is a higher rate taxpayer. Debbie | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
works hard, but she's not earning. It will affect myself and my family | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
significantly, because I'm a sole wage earner. I have three children. | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
My wife doesn't work. But I'm earning over the 40% threshold, but | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
I believe I'm going to be adversely cut from these changes that will go | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
through. The Government have argued that it's fair, that anyone paying | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
tax at 40%, that's earning over �42,475 a year, should lose their | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
child benefit. What's unfair, say some, is that a couple with two | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
parents working, earning say �40,000 each, would keep the | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
benefit, as both are basic rate taxpayers. The Prime Minister has | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
looked over what he calls the cliff edge, created by taking child | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
benefit away from better off taxpayers. He doesn't much like | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
what he's seen. Stay at home mothers, with people earning around | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
�43,000 complaining that a Conservative Government is taking | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
thousands of pounds away from them. That's why here at the Treasury, | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
they're desperately looking for a solution. There is an issue about | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
the cliff edge. You have one earning family who wouldn't get | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
child benefit under that senarkpwro, but another with two earners would. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
George Osborne and the Prime Minister have said that's something | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
we will look at. Ministers aren't about to do a full U-turn, but they | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
could increase to say �50,000 the amount you can earn before you lose | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
child benefit or make a smaller cut for families with only one earner, | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
or keep it for all children, but only up to the age of five. | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
All, of course, costs money. It is a long time since the Chancellor | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
first announced a policy which is causing him a political headache | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
now. We've got to be tough but fair. That's why we will withdraw child | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
benefit from households with a higher rate taxpayer. You might not | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
expect Tories to applaud what amounts to a tax rise on the better | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
off. You might expect Labour to, not a bit of it. George Osborne got | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
this wrong from the beginning. He should change course now. He needs | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
to do so quickly. What he's proposed is really unfair. He's | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
going to try to find complicated ways to sort this out. This | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
unfairness has to be sorted. David Cameron has looked over what he | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
dubbed the child benefit cliff edge. He's trying now not to fall over it. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow tonight to | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
challenge the election of Vladimir Putin in Russia's presidential | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
content. Mr Putin won 63% in the official poll. But international | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
monitors say they've discovered irregularities. The Americans have | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
called on the Russian authorities to investigate all reports of | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
electoral violations, as our world affairs editor, John Simpson, | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
reports from Moscow. This report constains flash photography. | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
The Government promised there would be no crack down tonight. But when | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
some people in the crowd refused to leave Pushkin Square at the end of | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
the demonstration, the police moved in in force. In the scrum on the | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
right here is the emerging leader of the protest movement. He was | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
marched away by the police. Otherwise, the demonstration had | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
passed off entirely peacefully. Moscow was the only place in Russia | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
which didn't give Vladimir Putin 50% or more of the vote in this | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
election. These people, mostly, but not exclusively, middle class, are | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
starting to flex their political muscles. "This is just the | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
beginning, says the man in the familiar mask. This year is going | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
to be very hot. Before his arrest I asked the | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
leading figure in the protest if he was worried that people would get | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
tired of demonstrating. TRANSLATION: There is no question | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
of that. This isn't just a passion. People are fighting for their | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
rights. The choice of Pushkin Square for the demonstration was | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
deliberate. In the 1970s and 1980s, I used to come here to see very | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
small numbers of dissidents making their protests against the | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
Communist government. Now, there are tens of thousands of people | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
here in the square. And here's the kind of thing that's infuriated the | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
crowds. This man is being accused of organising buses yesterday to | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
ferry people from one polling station to another to vote again | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
and again. The man they presumably voted for was celebrating today | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
with various stars who'd backed his campaign. He's claimed several | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
times it was open and honest. But I put it to one of his strongest | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
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allies that the result was phony. I mean it's clearly wrong. No, no. | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
One very simple thing, everybody, even demonstrators know that | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
Vladimir Putin really most popular figure. But not among tonight's | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
prisoners. 250 were arrested, though the leader has now been | :14:35. | :14:44. | |
released. But it's going to be a long, drawn-out battle here. | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
The Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has told President Obama | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
that Israel must always remain master of its fate. The two leaders, | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
whose relationship is often described by observers as cool, | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
were holding talks at the White House which included their shared | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
concerns about Iran's nuclear programme. Our North America editor, | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
Mark Mardell, has more details. The Israeli Prime Minister heading for | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
the White House, something he's headed -- some think he's headed | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
for war as well. The American President wants to stop him. They | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
both know the international atomic watchdog reported today serious | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
concerns about a military dimension to Iran's nuclear programme. The | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
two men put on a deliberate display of agreement, but their stress was | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
very different. President Obama said there was a window of | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
opportunity for negotiations with Iran. When I say all options are at | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
the table, I mean it. Having said that, I know that both the Prime | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
Minister and I prefer to resolve this diplomatically. We understand | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
the costs of any military action and I want to assure both the | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
American people and the Israeli people that we are in constant and | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
close consultation. Binyamin Netanyahu listened intently nodding | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
from time to time. His emphasis was on the President's acceptance that | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
Israel had the right to act. Israel must have the ability always to | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
defend itself by itself against any threat. And that when it comes to | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
Israel's security, Israel has the right, the sovereign right to make | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
its own decisions. The atmosphere at their last meeting was much | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
worse. Awkward, embarrassing, as Netanyahu lectured an uncomfortable | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
Obama on Israel's history. No-one wanted to repeat that. But there is | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
a real difference in their approach to Iran. The big divide is over | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
America and Israel's red lines, what they will not tolerate. Obama | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
has said Iran must not obtain a nuclear weapon. That could be years | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
away. Israel is apparently worried once it has enough enriched uranium | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
the programme will be unstoppable. That could happen this year. It is | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
a huge difference. I think in that respect, Israel is somewhat | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
isolated in taking that position. Bizarrely, perhaps, I think the | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
last few weeks have been more about how does one restrain Israel than | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
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American troops are practising for action in somewhere similar to the | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
straits of horm ooze, but the US military top brass is dead set | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
against a war in a volatile region. They don't want another Iraq nor | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
Afghanistan. President Obama is hoping that the | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
warnings of danger and bluster and the loose talk of war will have hit | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
home. The last thing he needs is a messy conflict in a difficult | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
region in election year. Coming up: A childhood dream realised as Rory | :17:48. | :17:57. | |
McIlroy becomes the world's number one golfer. | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
The former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, who resigned last | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
summer, over the phone hacking scandal has been giving evidence | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
into the Leveson inquiry into press standards. Sir Paul Stephenson | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
spoke of a deeply un helpful culture of leaks and gossips among | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
some members of the Met. He had hoped to bring stability to | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
a force that had been through a difficult period. Sir Paul | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
Stephenson, apinted the commission ner January, 2009. At that time, he | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
told the inquiry, that there were a small number of senior officers who | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
leaked stories to the press. It was galling, he said. | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
A small number, who on occasions gossiped or leaked, about stories | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
from within the Met, was unhelpful and added to a continuing dialogue | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
of disharmony. Sir Paul Stephenson was pressed on why the Met, under | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
his command, had been reluctant to reopen the inquiry into phone | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
hacking at News International. The reason he suggested was that the | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
Met had the wrong mindset at the time. | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
This very closed mindset, that was defence niv nature, meant we did | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
not adopt a challenging mindset, the best way to do an inquiry. | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
That prompted this from Lord Justice Leveson. The defensive | :19:17. | :19:26. | |
mindset, might be a very, very good example of the nature of the | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
relationship and the culture between the press and the police? | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Do I believe that there was a deliberate attempt to back off | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
because it was News International? No, I do not, sir. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Sir Paul Stephenson said he never saw the July, 2009 story that | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
detailed the scale of News International's wrong-doing, but he | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
did order the Met to carry out a review. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
A back of the envelope exercise, according to Lord Justice Leveson, | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
which decided in a day to do nothing. In July of last year, Sir | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
Paul Stephenson resigned. He had come under pressure over the hiring | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
by the Met of a former News of the World deputy, Neil wal ysis. He had | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
suffered a pro-longed illness, which sapped his health and put on | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
more pressure. I could not take through the Met | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
when the Met was going through such an important year with the Olympics. | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
I had to step down. In coming days four other Met | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
commissioners are to give their evidence. | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
Fap -- Christopher Tappin, the retired British businessman, | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
extradited to the United States on arms dealing charges has been | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
refused bail by a judge. The wife called the decision an outRaj. | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
Christopher Tappin denies charges of trying to sell batteries of | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
surface-to-air missiles to the Iranians. Lord Stevis, the | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
Conservative MP for Chelmsford for 23 years, he has died. He was a | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
critic of Margaret Thatcher's economic policies, giving her the | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
nickname Tina. He was sacked from the government back in 19816789 | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
The pace of economic growth in China is likely to slow this year. | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
That could lead to popular discontent, according to the | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
Chinese premiere, Premier Wen Jianbao. | :21:22. | :21:30. | |
He was opening up the last session of congress under his leadership. | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
He was said to have talked about doing more to tackle corruption. | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
At the heart of China's communist state, pressures are mounting. | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
The party's ranks gathered in Beijing today, to be told that | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
economic growth is likely to slip, below 8%. It is a level not seen | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
since 1990. One at which China's leaders fear simmering popular | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
discontent may rise, so they are pledging efforts to tackle | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
inequality and corruption. TRANSLATION: We will tackle the | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
problem of criminals not being prosecuted and the police being | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
violent and corrupt. We will work harder for a clean government and | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
to fight corruption, to resolve issues that people are resentful | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
about. Tan Hong Guan is not just resentful, | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
he is innocenced. Local communist party bosses are trying to seize | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
his farmland. Late last year, this is what they did. He sent a -- they | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
sent a gang of men who assaulted his father and beat his brother too. | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
TRANSLATION: My father was inside the car. They smashed it, cut his | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
hands and broke his bones. My brother's spine was fractured. | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
Where Tan Hong Guan lives is a million people, expanding fast. | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
China is getting on for 100 cities, expanding at the same size. A brand | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
new government block is being built opposite Tan Hong Guan's land. | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
His fear is that the land is earmarked for a new business | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
district. He was angry, that he started to film the intimidation. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
There are tens of thousands of these disputes in China every year, | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
but few are recorded. Tan Hong Guan went to ask the police why the men | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
who organised the attack are not facing serious charges, why his | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
village's Communist Party boss was detained, briefly, then released. | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
On camera, the policeman says that he knows the party boss paid a | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
local gangster �2,000 to assault the family, but the case is a minor | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
one. He said he would go to Beijing to find someone higher up as here | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
they refuse to solve their problems. Shortly after, Tan Hong Guan was | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
asked not to leave the town. So, Tan Hong Guan tan never knead here | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
to Beijing to present his case. China's leaders, says that | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
corruption threatens the hold on power. When there is so much money | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
to be made, can a one-party state really police itself? The actor | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
Philip Madoc has died at the age of 77. He enjoyed a long career on | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
stage and screen, including a memorable as a captured German in | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
an episode of Dad's Army. Your name will also gone on the | :24:34. | :24:43. | |
list. What is it? Don't tell him, Pike. Pike! He played the title | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
role in the BBC drama, The Life And Times of Lloyd George as well as | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
appearing in Doctor Who. At 22 years old, Rory McIlroy has become | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
the world's number one golfer. He is the second younger player in the | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
history of the game to achieve that position. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
One small putt, one huge achievement for the young man from | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
Northern Ireland. COMMENTATOR: And Rory McIlroy has | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
finally realised his dream. He is at the top of the world. | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
Victory at this turnment in Florida put him to number one in the world | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
rankings. It meant a lot to go out there to | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
produce the golf that I needed to do to get the job done. It was a | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
dream of mine to become the world number one or the best player in | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
the world, whatever you call it. He is the youngest world number one | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
since Tiger Woods. Even he was shocked by the rise of Rory McIlroy. | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
I think that Rory McIlroy has had one finish in the last ten starts | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
or something like that, so that is pretty impressive playing. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
At the age of two, he started swinging a club. | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
And it quickly became clear that he had a special sporting talent. | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
He played at his local club, Holywood Golf Club, ten minutes | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
from Belfast. He practised here, every day after school, sometimes | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
before school as well, but his former teachers say he was not just | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
good at sport. He was certainly academically able, | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
but his focus was very much on the golf. | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
He told his friends that golf was his aim to be the world number one, | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
now he is. Everybody here loves him, we are so | :26:33. | :26:37. |