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Italy condemns as inexplicable Britain's decision not to give | :00:03. | :00:09. | |
advanced warning of the failed hostage rescue. Briton Chris | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
McManus and Italian Franco Lamolinara were both killed when | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
special forces tried to free them in Nigeria. New pictures have | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
emerged of the house where the men were kept and evidence of the | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
battle to free them. The Foreign Secretary tries to defuse the row. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
We were able to inform the Italian government as the operation got | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
under way, but not to do more than that. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
And tonight, Mr Hague and the Italian Foreign Minister have met | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
to discuss the operation. Also in the programme: | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Greece is set to receive its second bail out as private investors agree | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
to bear massive losses. The MP Eric Joyce pleads guilty to | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
assaulting four politicians in a Commons bar. It is a matter of | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
considerable personal shame what happened a couple of weeks ago. I | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
have been duly punished today. I have been lucky to avoid prison. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
The widows of Osama Bin Laden arrested in Pakistan - the Taliban | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
threatens new attacks unless they're released. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
Players at Rangers Football Club agree to pay cuts of up to 75% to | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
save the club. And Rebecca Adlington qualifies for | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
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2012 - will she repeat her two And coming up in Sportsday, joy and | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
pain Ford Jessica Ennis. She thought she had won pentathlon gold | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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at the World Indoor Athletics Good evening. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
The Italian president has condemned as inexplicable Britain's failure | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
to inform his country before it launched a rescue attempt that led | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
to the deaths of two men being held hostage in Nigeria. David Cameron | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
authorised the raid by British special forces and Nigerian troops | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
yesterday after receiving intelligence that Chris McManus, | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
from Oldham, and Italian Franco Lamolinara were in imminent and | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
grave danger. This evening the Foreign Secretary and his Italian | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
counterpart met and held talks about the operation. Our security | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
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correspondent Gordon Corera reports. The bullet holes are evidence of a | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
fierce and bloody battle. A battle that took place in this residential | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
compound in north-west Nigeria, as British and Nigerian forces tried | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
and failed to rescue two hostages. Chris McManus, from Oldham, and | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
Italian Franco Lamolinara had been held for 10 months by a violent Al- | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
Qaeda link to sell. Italy's president today it asked why his | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
government had not been consulted before the raid. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
TRANSLATION: The behaviour of the British Government in not informing | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
Italy is inexplicable. Political and diplomatic clarification is | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
necessary. Britain's Foreign Secretary was in Copenhagen and | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
tried to provide clarification. had to make a decision very quickly | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
to go ahead with this operation. We had very limited time. That | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
constrained how much we were able to consult others. We were able to | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
inform the Italian government as the operation got under way, but | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
not to do more than that. So, why did it happen so quickly? The | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Nigerians confirmed the hostages' location after arresting a suspect | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
two days ago. But then came fears that the kidnappers had been | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
alerted to a possible rescue, with intelligence that this left the | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
hostages in danger of being moved or killed. Under pressure, the | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Prime Minister authorised the raid yesterday morning and then informed | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
the Italians. The British Special Boat Service went in first in a | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
daylight raid, killing one gunman as they entered. But they found the | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
hostages had already been murdered by the time they reached them. | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
was a fleeting opportunity to extract two people whose lives were | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
very much at risk anyway. We have been tracking this since May of | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
last year. Some outstanding intelligence work identified their | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
location and the opportunity had to be grabbed them and there. Today, | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
Chris McManus' former colleagues paid tribute to the 28-year-old | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
from Oldham. My reaction was devastation. Chris was a really | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
good individual, a good team player. We are distraught that this has | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
happened at this stage. Chris McManus' family have said they | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
believe everything that could be done had been done, but the tragic | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
death of the two hostages has led to questions in Italy about whether | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
it had to end this way. Gordon is with me. How serious is | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
this row with the Italians? William Hague met with his Italian | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
counterpart at a summit in Copenhagen tonight. They issued a | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
joint statement, urging the sharing of information about what had | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
happened and committing themselves to the fight against terrorism. | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
That is a sign that they want to calm the waters. There was | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
certainly anger in Rome. The media talk about a slap in the face and | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
speculated as to whether Britain had not told Italy because of fears | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
it might be soft on kidnappers and more willing to pay ransom and -- | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
are more willing to pay ransom than to undertake risky missions. | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
British officials have indicated that was not the case and they had | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
to make a snap decision to launch the rescue mission under fears that | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
they knew the net was closing in. They also said that they had | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
consultation with the Italians in the run-up and it was clear that a | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
rescue mission was a possibility. If the mission had ended in success | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
I do not think they would be questions about when the Italians | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
had been informed. But it tragically ended in failure. | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
However, I think both governments were now be seeking to calm the | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
waters around this. Greece looks certain to receive its | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
second enormous bail out, after a decision by private investors to | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
accept losses of more than half the value of their holdings of Greek | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
government debt. The deal, the biggest of its kind in decades, was | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
greeted enthusiastically by European governments. But in a | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
fresh development tonight, the investors' losses have triggered a | :06:23. | :06:32. | |
multi-billion euro insurance payout, as Hugh Pym reports. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
It is an important step for Greece, although it is not the end of a | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
saga that has seen riots on the streets and fraught negotiations | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
with Europe's political leaders. Private investors will see the | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
value of their holdings of great debt slashed in a planned process | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
unprecedented in modern times. -- Greek debt. The deal with investors | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
wipes out a chunk of that government's debt burden. | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
TRANSLATION: This agreement we have reached with the private sector is | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
excellent. It is an historic day for Greece, for the Greek | :07:06. | :07:14. | |
parliament, for the Greek people and for the national economy. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
how far does the deal with private creditors go to help Greece to | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
balance its books? Private institutions and individuals hold | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
206 billion euros of the debt. They have agree to take losses which | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
will cut that to 101 billion. That leaves 162 billion euros of other | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
debt held by European authorities and the IMF. And total Greek debt | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
is still projected to be at least 120% of GDP by 2020. And with that | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
burden hanging over a weakening Greek economy, some experts think | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
the country will struggle to pay back the loans. At the moment, | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
economic output increase is in freefall. They have been in | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
recession for four years and they will be for at least another year | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
or two. This is why Greece needs investment, structural reforms, to | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
really get economic output going. Without that, you are unable to pay | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
back any amount of debt. The German Finance Minister was urging caution. | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
Wolfgang Schaeuble has said that Greece had a clear opportunity to | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
recover but it would be a big mistake to give the impression that | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
the crisis had been resolved. One part of the Greek DEC drama is | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
being played out that officers in the City of London. -- debt drama. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
There has been a meeting today to try to work out whether insurance | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
payouts will have to be made, with investors who have lost money on | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Greek debt able to claim back from other financial institutions. They | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
have decided those payouts will have to be made, although possibly | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
totalling only a few billion euros. Another reminder that the Greek | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
financial crisis is not over yet, although a significant milestone | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
was passed today. The latest employment figures from | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
the United States show that nearly 250,000 jobs were created in | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
February. Employment has now been rising for six months. President | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
Obama said today the economy was "getting stronger". But the | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
unemployment rate remains unchanged at just over 8%, with more people | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
registering to find work. The MP Eric Joyce says he was lucky | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
to escape jail after pleading guilty to assaulting four | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
politicians in a bar at the House of Commons. A court heard how the | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
member for Falkirk head-butted a Tory MP, attacked two Conservative | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
district councillors and then turned on a Labour MP. He's been | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
banned from entering a pub but he can still enter the House of | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
Commons. Here's our Political Correspondent Ben Wright. | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Politics and drink can be a combustible combination. This was | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
Eric Joyce heading into court, the MP and former Army major who set | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
upon drinkers in a House of Commons bar last month. He pleaded guilty | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
to four charges of assault in a late-night brawl that witnesses | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
said was like a scene from the Wild West. The court heard accounts of | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
flying fists, upturned tables and chaos. Eric Joyce had been drinking | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
and looked possessed and completely out of it, according to one witness. | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
After shouting, there are too many Tories in this bar, the former | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
Labour MP told police officers that he head-butted someone. If people | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
said I was Hammad, that was probably true, he said. He shouted | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
at police, you can't touch me, I Eminem P. Stuart Andrew is the | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
Conservative Member of Parliament he head-butted. -- I am an MP. | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
is a matter of considerable personal shame what happened a | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
couple of weeks ago. I have been duly punished today. I have been | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
lucky to avoid prison. He was spared a custodial sentence but | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
given a 12 month community order and fined �3,000. He told the | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
magistrate he would draw a line under his drinking. Drink was an | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
aggravated -- an aggravating factor. That is something I have to deal | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
with personally. Not everyone who drinks gets involved in fights, | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
certainly not when they are my age. It was clearly a combination of | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
alcohol and a tendency towards being physically aggressive that I | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
have to deal with as well. Eric Joyce has also been banned from | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
bars and pubs for three months. Although there are plenty of | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
watering holes in parliament, heavy boozing by politicians has dropped | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
away in recent years. The MP who was head-butted by Eric Joyce said | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
the case raises the issue of how well the Commons looks after MPs in | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
difficulty. Eric Joyce will not contest the next election and | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
Labour sources say he will soon be expelled from the party. | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
The Department for Work and Pensions says it's investigating a | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
new allegation of fraud at the welfare to work company A4e. Last | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
month, the boss of A4e, Emma Harrison, stepped down as the | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
Government's "family champion" after it was revealed that police | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
were investigating allegations against former employees. The | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
company handles millions of pounds' worth of Government contracts for | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
schemes to help people back into work. | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Britain's three biggest banks have revealed exactly how much they are | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
paying senior staff in salaries, bonuses and other incentives. The | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
chief executive of Barclays earned �6.3 million last year, but two | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
others at the bank actually got more. The Royal Bank of Scotland | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
and Lloyds, largely owned by taxpayers, also disclosed their top | :12:26. | :12:36. | |
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The high-rolling, big paying City of London. Today, we found out the | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
level of the awards which were paid to top executives. All paid less | :12:45. | :12:54. | |
than last year, but they were substantial sums. The American Bob | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
Diamond, at Barclays, is receiving rewards of �6.3 million in total. | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
One of his senior colleagues, who has not been named, is getting more. | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
Over at the World Bank of Scotland, Over at the World Bank of Scotland, | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
the rewards of the chief executive, Stephen Hester, are... That's | :13:13. | :13:23. | |
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somewhat less than his colleague. As for Lloyds, its chief executive, | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
Antonio Horta Osorio, has a package worth... He waved his bonus after | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
taking time off for extreme exhaustion. Of the three banks, | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
Barclays was the most generous payer, with seven executives | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
receiving �5 million or more. At Royal Bank of Scotland, only one | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
banker earned anywhere close to that for 2011, Ellen Alemany. But | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
eight of its bankers earned more than �2 million each. The Treasury | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
says it shows that RBS is responding to government pressure, | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
but the pay is controversial but the pay is controversial | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
because RBS is 82% owned by taxpayers. The Chancellor and the | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
Prime Minister have given various promises that they would curb | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
excess and use their power as a shareholder in RBS to make sure | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
that responsibility is being exercised. People will be entitled | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
to question that today. Stephen Hester waved his �1 million bonus | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
in January, under extreme pressure from politicians and the media. One | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
influential City figure, who created a large financial firm, | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
warns that the British economy would be damaged if people like | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
Stephen heft there were driven to work abroad. -- people like Stephen | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Hester. We have to ask ourselves whether we really do want great | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
international banks and financial companies headquartering themselves | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
in London, making a �63 billion a year contribution to the | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
Exchequer's income, or whether we would like to kill the golden goose | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
and chase them all out. The bank of Scotland was today found guilty by | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
the Financial Services Authority of taking crazy risks in the period up | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
to 2008, before it was bought by Lloyds, which will reinforce the | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
views of those who say that the pay-off bankers rose to much in the | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
boom years. Coming up tonight - how life has changed for the children | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
of the Japanese tsunami, living with the daily danger of radiation. | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
In Pakistan, Taliban militants are threatening to carry out new | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
attacks if the three widows of Osama Bin Laden are not released by | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
the authorities. The country's Interior Minister has told the BBC | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
that the women will be put on trial in the next few days, and could | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
face up to a year in prison for entering the country illegally. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
They were taken into custody, with nine of their children, when the | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
Al-Qaeda leader's compound was stormed last year, and are now | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
under house arrest in Islamabad. From there, Orla Guerin reports. | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
Than we went in search of Bin Laden's widows. There is | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
speculation that this house is where they are awaiting trial. This | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
is the youngest, born in Yemen, and injured in the raid which killed | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
Bin Laden last May. Since then, she and the other wives have been kept | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
well away from the media. The house is just up ahead. Local people say | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
there has been heavy security in the area for the past week or so. | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
They say they have never seen anything like it. When they asked | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
what was going on, they were told some VIP needs protection. They say | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
they have not seen anybody come out of the house since then. We are | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
from BBC TV, we wanted to speak to the family inside the house. It is | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
not allowed? If they are here, visitors are not welcome, but | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
Pakistan's Interior Minister told us they have plenty of home | :17:21. | :17:31. | |
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comforts. The house is like a five- star hotel. There is proper bedding, | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
a kitchen, food, I even allow them TV. I got a TV screen for the kids, | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
I also sent some games for them. is a far cry from the spot and | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
compound where the world's most wanted spent his final days, and | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
where he was becoming delusional. That's the claim made by a retired | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
Pakistani brigadier was given where access to the compound, and, he | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
claims, to transcripts from the interrogations of the wives. | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
Apparently he was suffering from some degenerative disease. It was | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
physically debilitating, and mentally, he was becoming | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
prematurely senile. He was obviously not capable of running | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
Al-Qaeda any more. He was more of a hindrance than help to anybody. | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
compound has been demolished, but many questions remain. The | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
Brigadier Hi! Bin Laden was in the country since 2002. He also says | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
Pakistan's official investigation will be a whitewash. Players at | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
Rangers football club have agreed a pay cut of up to 75% to try to save | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
the club from administration. The administrators said this major | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
sacrifice by the players would prevent substantial job losses | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
amongst other staff. James Cook is at Ibrox. Does this safeguard the | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
future of the club? It simply buys them time, rather than securing its | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
future. The administrators said they needed to save �1 million a | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
month, simply to keep the club going until the end of the season. | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
Tonight they announced that they had reached that target, after the | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
players agreed to these wage cuts, which, as you say, are up to 75% | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
for the highest earning stars, although they will still be on | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
substantial sums of money. It took a week of negotiation to reach this | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
deal, but the administrators admit Beatty's only a short-term solution. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
-- it is only a short-term solution. This has saved the jobs of other | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
people at the club, and we recognise the football staff are | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
paying a heavy price for the greater good. It is to the eternal | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
credit of the players and the management that they have sought to | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
find a solution which helps protect the fabric of the club. Interested | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
bidders now have until next Friday to come up with their offers for | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
the club, and prove they are serious about those of us. Tonight, | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
a consortia it said it was interested in bidding for the club, | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
but only, it said, if it could be agreed that it would not go into | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
liquidation, and that a deal could be struck with the creditors, not | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
least the taxman, and it has to be said, that is a pretty big if. One | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
year after the tsunami struck Japan, new documents suggest its | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
government knew that the Fukushima nuclear power plant was facing | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
meltdown just hours after it was hit by the flood wave. Ministers | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
feared it would be worse than the Chernobyl disaster, and the scale | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
of the crisis was kept secret for months. So far it has cost Japan | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
$130 billion. Radiation is still preventing 100,000 people from | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
returning home. Our correspondent Damien Grammaticas has been back to | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
see how life has changed in two communities close to Fukushima. You | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
cannot see it, but absorbed by the trees, the radiation threat is all | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
around us. So, from this point on, everybody had to evacuate. Nobody, | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
says the professor, from this point on. One year ago, this place was | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
home to 6,000 people. Today, it is too radioactive to live here. Now, | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
Japan's government wants to clean up not just this place, but several | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
thousand square kilometres of contaminated land all around Iitate. | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
Nothing like it has been done before, not even like that -- not | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
even in the Chernobyl disaster. Nobody really knows whether a place | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
like this can be made fit for humans to live in again. The | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
professor is trying to workout how to find and remove all the caesium | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
which was spewed out by the disaster, and spread over an area | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
several times the size of Greater London. Its radiation will last | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
longer than a human lifetime. TRANSLATION: The Government says it | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
will decontaminate everywhere, but it is a huge area, I don't think | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
they can do it. It will cost a colossal amount. Fukushima's | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
reactors are still fragile, so many people are fearful to live in the | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
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shadow of the nuclear plant. Just 15 miles from it, the new Ikea | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
stews and zone extends. -- of the nuclear exclusion zone extends. | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
Five centimetres of soil is being removed. More radioactive particles | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
keep falling from the trees. At the Haramachi Saiidi nursery school, | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
they now take radiation readings every day, and then claim the | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
playground, before the children are allowed out to play, all wearing | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
masks. The school is one of the few places that has been completely | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
decontaminated. A counter installed in the playground shows radiation a | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
little above normal, but within safe limits. | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
TRANSLATION: They have cleaned up our Nursery and playground, that's | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
all. We cannot even take the children out of the front gate. Our | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
life is limited to these tiny spaces. So, even when levels are | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
low, many parents will not bring their children back here. Living | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
with radiation is a risk they do not want to take. Newsnight will be | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
discussing the future of nuclear power one year on from Fukushima at | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
10:30pm on BBC Two. Rebecca Adlington became a household name | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
when she won two gold medals at the Beijing Olympics four years ago. | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
Tonight she has qualified to compete in London this summer for | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
both of arrogance. But there's a whole host of other British | :23:52. | :24:00. | |
swimmers also pushing for Olympic glory. -- both of her events. Our | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
correspondent reports from the aquatic Centre, in Stratford. She | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
makes it all looks so simple. Once again, Rebecca Addington left her | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
rivals trailing in her wake she qualified with ease for her second | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
event at London 2012, the 800m freestyle. So pleased, my goal was | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
to qualify for the two events. I did not have any targets, time wise. | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
To get those two times, I am so pleased. Just knowing that I'm | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
going to be Games, it is the best feeling in the world. Rebecca | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
Adlington was one of the stars of Beijing. I'm sure she will be in | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
London, too. But when it comes to potential British swimming | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
medallists, these days, she is far from alone. It has been an | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
outstanding week for a number of our top competitors. One after the | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
other they have showed their Olympic potential. Hannah Miley, 21 | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
years old, winner here in the 400m individual medley, a silver | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
medallist at the World Championships last year. Liam | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
Tancock, 26, one of the world's finest backstrokers. Already, world | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
champion, now aiming to be Olympic champion. 20-year-old Ellen Gandy, | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
impressive winner of the 200m butterfly. A silver medallist at | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
the World Championships. And she in particular has a real chance of | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
becoming one of the stars of Team GB this summer. Any medal would be | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
brilliant, but a gold medal would be the best thing. I always had | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
dreams that maybe the Queen would present the medals at the Olympics. | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
It would be great. Earning a place on top of the podium will be far | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
harder for our swimmers this summer, but there's real optimism that this | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
will be their year. British swimming is in a fantastic place, | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
probably the best it has been in for a long time. Particularly the | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
women's team, we have had four ladies going for two spots in many | :26:09. | :26:13. |