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Tonight at Ten: Britain and America speak with one voice on Afghanistan, | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
Syria and Iran. At the White House, President Obama and David Cameron | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
try to justify the continued presence in Afghanistan. We want | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Afghanistan to be able to look after its own security with its own | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
security forces so we are safe at home. But the hardest message is | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
reserved for the Iranians and their nuclear programme. The window for | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
solving this issue diplomatically be shrinking. We will have the | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
latest from Washington on the second day of Mr Cameron's visit. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Also tonight: 22 children are among the dead in a coach crash in | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Switzerland. The families, most of them Belgian, confront the full | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
horror of what happened. Eight children, we do not know what is | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
happening with them. Children have broken legs and arms. Our teacher | :01:06. | :01:15. | |
and hour Monitor, they are dead. More people out of work. It is now | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
2.67 million and women account for most of the increase. The first | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
person to be convicted by the International Criminal Court is a | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Congolese warlord, who forced children to fight in his army. And | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Chelsea strike first in their attempt to stay in the Champions' | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
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League. Later, on the BBC News Channel, I will be here with the | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
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sport, including the Cheltenham Good evening. President Obama has | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
warned the Iranians that time is running out to find a diplomatic | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
solution to the dispute over their nuclear programme. He was speaking | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
at the White House after talks with David Cameron. Those talks also | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
focused on Afghanistan and the likelihood of more troops returning | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
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home next year. More details from What went this President do to make | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
his British guests feel at home? The answer, the Prime Minister | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
found today, seems to be almost nothing. The morning after the | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
night at the game before, David Cameron was welcomed by end 19 them | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
salute, thousands of guests on the White House lawn, and cheering | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
English and American schoolchildren. The two leaders joked about the | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
fact that 200 years ago, visiting Brits had tried to burn the White | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
House to the ground. The President even tried to speak English, just | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
like the English do. David come up we're chuffed to bits that you are | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
here. I am looking forward to a great natter. I am confident that | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
together we are going to keep the relationship between our two great | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
nations absolutely top-notch. it special, called it essential, | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
call it what you like. That relationship is the strongest ever, | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
according to Barack Obama. Its backbone, it said, it is the | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
military. This is a relationship between two can choose, two leaders, | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
forged by wars - past, present - and with Israel considering | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
military action against Iran, perhaps future as well. Today's | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
talks may have produced few announcement but beneath this Mars, | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
what these two leaders discussed could scare for a -- scarcely | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
matter more. Starting with how to bring the Afghan war to a close. | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
want Afghanistan to be able to look after its own security with its own | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
security forces so we are safe at home. We have been there for 10 | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
years. People get weary. They know of friends and neighbours who have | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
lost loved ones as a consequence of war. No one wants war. The two men | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
confirmed they have examined military options for removing the | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
Syrian President. For now, they're counting on pressure to bring him | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
down. Our teams, all the time, kick the tyres, asked difficult | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
questions, what are the other things we can do? It is right we do | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
that. They are not without difficulties and complications. The | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
focus is a transition and all the things we can do to bring that | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
pressure to bear. Finally, Iran. The nuclear programme must be | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
stopped and not merely contained. He said time was running out. | :05:15. | :05:24. | |
Because we have employed so many of the options that are available to | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
us to persuade Iran to take a diffident -- ate different course, | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
the window for solving this diplomatically is shrinking. It is | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
a daunting agenda for two countries that Barack Obama says stand | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
together, worked together and beat together. This is a visit memorable | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
for its images, its warmth, munching hot dogs at the basketball. | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
What will matter much more is the decisions taken him about how to | :05:59. | :06:09. | |
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end one war and the possibility of one, if not two more. On day two of | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
the three-day visit, let's turn to our North America Editor. He is at | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
the White House. Starting with Afghanistan, what did you make of | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
the message? It is about President Obama reassuring Mr Cameron there | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
were not be any silly election-year stance. He will not announce | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
actually the troops are coming home next chip or tomorrow up or later | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
this month was dubbed the Brits are worried about the idea there will | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
be a sudden surprise. -- next year, tomorrow, or later this month. The | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
end date is still 2014. Combat roles change next year but no | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
surprises. The hardest message was aimed very directly at the Iranians. | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
Those men talking very tough, suggesting, get to the table, start | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
talking or else. They mean it. They also agreed in private that they | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
are very worried about Israel taking military action this | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
cheerful stuff that would cause a spike in it while prices and | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
shatter the world economy. -- at this year. That is one of A Macro | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
reason for their tough talking. On Syria, they are agreed that Assad | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
should go. Mr Cameron, you can hear the frustration in his voice. What | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
can we do? What can we looked at next? President Obama says, this is | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
not Libya. Unique to slow down and think this through. He is thinking | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
about his essential ally when he is saying that. The Belgian government | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
has announced there will be a national day of mourning for the 28 | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
victims of a coach crash in Switzerland - 22 of them children | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
aged 11 and 12. Six adults, including the two drivers, were | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
also killed. The school party was returning home from a ski holiday | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
in the Swiss Alps when the accident happened last night. The coach | :08:18. | :08:28. | |
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crashed into a wall in a road tunnel near Sierre. It has been a | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
truly horrific day. This is peak skiing time in Switzerland. There | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
are lots of school coach parties in the Alps tonight. A lot of parents | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
will be thinking anxiously this could have been a one of their | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
children. Tonight the task of identifying the dead has begun. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
There is a forensic team from Belgium who will help with that | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
process. Rescue workers have been telling as they were deeply shocked | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
by what they discovered around this time last night in the tunnel | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
behind me. They worked long through the night - searching for the | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
survivors in cramped and traumatic conditions. Embedded in the tunnel | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
wall, the coach, filled with 11 and 12-year-old children. Those who | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
could had already clambered from the wreckage but many of their | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
friends were still trapped inside. 200 emergency workers were called | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
to the scene. There were 12 ambulances and eight helicopters. A | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
pilot helped to fly out the most seriously hurt. He is a seasoned, | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
hardened professional who is struggling to come to terms with | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
what he saw. When we saw the first patients coming out, this was the | :09:51. | :10:00. | |
first horrific moment for us. You could imagine how it would look | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
inside the tunnel. The full horror of the accident was written in the | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
match -- in the wreckage they remove this morning. The front | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
third of the coach was ripped apart. 28 people died, including 22 | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
children and both drivers. This is the opposite side of the tunnel. | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
The coach hit the right hand well before it collided head on with a | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
concrete pillar that forms part of the emergency exit. It is unlikely | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
that driver fatigue is to blame. The school party were just over an | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
hour into their return journey. The weather and driving conditions were | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
good. In this tunnel, there is a steep curve. It would throw the | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
steering well if it was hit. That forms part of the investigation | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
which is under way. The victims were from the Mao and Heverlee in | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
Flanders. When the school gates opened, parents were still learning | :11:09. | :11:18. | |
of the accident. Some left for Switzerland without any news at all. | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
We have 24 children hear from our school. Eight children we do not | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
know what is happening with them. All the children have broken legs | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
and arms. Our teacher and hour Monitor, they are dead. Tonight, | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
the families arrive at hospitals where 24 children are still being | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
treated. The Belgian Prime Minister said no words can define the pain | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
the parents must be feeling. He has declared a day of remembrance for | :11:52. | :12:02. | |
the whole country. In the Church of St Peter's in Heverlee, the priest | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
could offer little comfort. It is a small community that Greaves, it is | :12:07. | :12:15. | |
a nation that Maugham's with them. The investigating prosecutor has | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
tonight ruled out speed as a cause of the crash. Date are checking to | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
see if there were any technical problems or they could blame driver | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
error. It is still one of the safest forms of road travel. Less | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
than 1% of fatalities in Europe were through coach crashes. Little | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
comfort for those coming to beat site to see for themselves. Rescue | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
workers said there was no sound in the tunnel. Children were not | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
screaming, there was no shouting, they were numb with what they had | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
experienced. There has been another rise in the number of people out of | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
work. Unemployment increased by 28,000 in the three months to the | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
end of January to 2.67 million. Women are among the hardest hit, | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
making up almost 80% of those who have lost work in the past three | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
months. Ministers say there are signs of the job market stabilising, | :13:12. | :13:22. | |
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The jobs market has seemed gloomy, but today there were a few rays of | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
sunshine. Unemployment rose by 28,000 to 2.67 million, the | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
smallest such increase for nearly a year. As for people in work, public | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
sector employment fell by 37,000 in the final three months of last year, | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
but private sector employment, up by 45,000, more than made up for | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
public sector losses. The jobless total and the number in work are | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
both increasing because more people are actively looking for jobs, some | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
having come back from a long-term sickness. The number of women out | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
of work is rising faster than men. Dawn Ryder from Leicester is hoping | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
a recruitment adviser can help after she lost her job as a middle | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
manager with a retail chain. The experience of being unemployed has | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
hit her hard. There so many years, I was used to get in about early | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
hours of the morning and getting into work. Long hours, weekends. | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
And that has now gone. You feel lost. Although I still get up, for | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
what? Some areas of the economy are growing faster than others, and | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
therefore creating more jobs. One example is renewable technology. | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
This construction company is building the foundations for a wind | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
farm, and is taking on more staff. There are fewer public sector | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
contracts going, but the building firm has found other opportunities, | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
like this project in Leicestershire. Last week, it signed up six | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
apprentices. We would not take them on if we did not feel like they had | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
a long-term future here. We took on some apprentices last year, and | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
they are all still here, working on projects. Some experts say this | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
reflects a more optimistic mood in other parts of the economy, to. | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
last couple of months have seen a range of economic data coming out | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
stronger than we had seen before. We are hopeful that that is the | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
start of a gradual recovery. Hopefully, that should be ripped -- | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
reflected in data in the second half of the year. But if the | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
Eurozone crisis flares up again and threatens UK Growth, that could | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
change. The ratings agency Fitch has become the latest to one of the | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
possibility of a downgrading the UK's triple-A credit rating, a | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
reminder that the route to economic recovery is far from certain. | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
China needs to embrace political reform of or which risks facing | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
turmoil. The warning comes not from a group of activists, but from the | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
Chinese premier himself. Wen Jiabao says China's leadership system | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
needs to be changed, or the country might face the kind of chaos | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
suffered during the Cultural Revolution. Mr Wen, who is due to | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
step down next year, made the comments in his last major news | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
conference. They are the men who wield enormous | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
power. Over more than 1 billion people. Time a's communist leaders. | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
They divvy up positions among themselves in secret. This year, | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
they must get a new, younger crop. Behind the scenes, factions are | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
vying for position and influence. Today we saw a hint of that | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
struggle. Someone to entrench the party's grip. Wen Jiabao, at his | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
last major press conference after ten years at the top, Mayday case | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
for political reform. TRANSLATION: Reform of our | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
leadership system is urgent. Without it, China's economic gains | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
may be lost and the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution could happen | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
again. He said he might invite people critical of his government | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
to face-to-face talks. This evening in a poor neighbourhood of Beijing, | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
we found some of his critics. On our old, fuzzy TV, they were | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
watching the president on the evening news. They gathered from | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
all over China in the capital to press their complaints about | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
corruption and abuse by Communist officials. Mr Tan's family had | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
their land seized. TRANSLATION: He talked about reform, | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
but gave no timetable. People want democracy and the rule of law. | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
elected used as well do what is best for ordinary people. So we | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
asked, who else wanted to be allowed to elect their leaders? | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
Everyone. But their premier, asked when China's people will be given | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
the vote, said change must be gradual. Wen Jiabao has always been | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
more open to talk about political reform than any of China's other | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
leaders. He may now have an eye on his legacy, how history will view | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
him. But the task of actually changing the way the Communist | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
Party works will fall to its next generation. So this was his | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
swansong, a call for others to bring reforms that he did not push | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
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through in his own decade in power. Coming up: plenty of drama at | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
Chelsea as Napoli fought extra time in the Champions League. | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
Some leading scientists are warning that pressure from animal rights | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
activists is reducing the number of animals being brought into the UK | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
for research purposes, including work on new drug treatments for | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
conditions including dementia and leukaemia and Cancer. It has | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
emerged that all ferry companies and all but two airlines have now | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
stopped importing animals. It is one of the most sensitive | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
aspects of science - the use of animals, the only way to develop | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
new drugs, according to scientists, but cruel and pointless according | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
to protesters. Their latest campaign targets the airlines and | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
ferries bringing animals in from abroad. This lad at University | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
College London investigates motor your own disease. Like many, it | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
needs mice with particular genetic traits, which often means importing | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
them, something that is now under threat. If we are hampered doing | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
our job as researchers, people will die unnecessarily because we cannot | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
get to the cures. In addition, this country has a fine pharmaceutical | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
advantage and unless they are supported, they will move. There | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
has to be pressured was British Airways. Seven years ago, it | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
stopped carrying live animals for research. We have only learnt this | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
now. Then the ferry operators followed, refusing to take animals | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
across the Channel. Only a few airlines are still doing the job, | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
but for how much longer? Over the years, some campaigners have | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
resorted to violence. If you have been jailed, but protesters also | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
now use a more subtle strategy, turning to social media to pressure | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
transport companies. Last month, one group urged supporters to leave | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
comments on the Facebook wall of this very company. It is within the | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
law, but highly effective. We have asked our supporters to say, | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
peacefully and politely to the transport companies, that they | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
would prefer to travel with airlines and shipping companies | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
that do not cause suffering to animals. This is a potentially | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
serious threat to Britain's role in research. Just as the Government | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
hopes this kind of work will create new jobs. Some ministers have a | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
struggle on their hands. We have been trying to bring together the | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
leading companies in the life sciences sector, who do need some | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
of these animals, and all of the transport companies, and agree a | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
way forward. So once again, there is a battle of wills over using | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
animals in research. Scientists and the government, pitted against | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
activists. And some very nervous transport companies caught in the | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
middle. The International Criminal Court | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
has filed -- found the Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga guilty of | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
recruiting and using child soldiers. It is the court's first verdict | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
since it was set up ten years ago. Lubanga headed a rebel group during | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
an inter-ethnic conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Africa correspondent Andrew Harding, who reported on the war in eastern | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
Congo at the time, has the story. Clearly prove that children under | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
the age of 15... Of today the International Criminal | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
Court's very first verdict - guilty. Lubanga is responsible as Co | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
perpetrator for the charges off eliciting and conscripting children | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
under the age of 15 into the army. The man in the dock - Thomas | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
Lubanga, once a powerful warlord in central Africa. This was his | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
conflict, eastern Congo in 2003. Child soldiers barely able to carry | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
their guns, the youngest struggling to keep up. Foot soldiers in a | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
tribal bloodbath. At the time, I met boys like 15-year-old May, who | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
said he had been forced to kill after his parents had been murdered. | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
And in the thick of it all, Thomas Lubanga himself. I don't have child | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
soldiers, he insisted. Some of them look younger than they are. It has | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
taken nine years for justice to arrive. Too slow, but still | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
momentous. It is a significantly important decision for the court | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
and for the victims, but it is also further condemnation of a crime | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
committed throughout the region. Today's ruling sets a precedent for | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
Africa. Plenty has changed on this confident in the past decade. But | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
this is still a region that struggles to hold the most violent | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
and the most powerful to account. For example, Uganda's notorious | :23:29. | :23:38. | |
warlord, still wanted for crimes against humanity. A film about his | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
victims by American activists went via all on the internet this week. | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
But is this sort of outside pressure help for, or should Africa | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
be left to solve its own problems now? At the International Court | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
today, endorsement from a familiar celebrity campaigner. Did the | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
victims ask for this? Mr Lubanga will remain in custody. But while | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
Thomas Lubanga could now face life imprisonment, the court is | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
struggling to bring others to justice. Critics say it is too slow, | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
too weak. Still, for Lubanga's many victims, today was a victory in a | :24:19. | :24:28. | |
long struggle Against impunity. A man who admitted concealing his | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
father's body for almost five months after his death in order to | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
claim his benefits has been jailed for three years. Christopher | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Blackburn had been living at the house in Lancashire with his ten- | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
year-old daughter, telling her that her grandfather was asleep. Police | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
found the body of Guy Blackburn at the property last March. | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
Let's have some football news. It has been a dramatic night for | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
Chelsea in the knockout stages of the Champions League. Tonight, they | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
took on Napoli at Stamford Bridge and needed to overturn a 3-1 | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
deficit. Our sports correspondent is there. | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
It was partly as a result of that disappointing defeat and happily in | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
the first leg of this tie that Chelsea decide to sack their former | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
manager, Andre Villas-Boas, a week and a half ago. This was a chance | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
to provide some relief, make-or- break time for Chelsea in what has | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
been a turbulent season for them. It was dramatic, but they prevailed. | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
And then there was one. Chelsea knew only they now flew the flag | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
for England in this season's competition. Some of the squad were | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
playing for their futures. And it was Didier Drogba who headed some | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
hope. Chelsea were halfway there. Roberto Di Matteo were struggling | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
to stand up. Player power appears to be a way of life at Stamford | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
Bridge, and returning captain John Terry soon had his say, Chelsea | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
going through. Napoli responded, their superb finish putting the | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
Italians 4-3 up on aggregate. But back the pendulum swung, Chelsea | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
earning a penalty, Frank Lampard sending a pulsating game into | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
extra-time. The lottery of the penalty shoot-out was looming. But | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
the defenders' -- the defender's stunning strike proved decisive. | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
Chelsea and the Premier League were through. | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
A famous night for Stamford Bridge and for these Chelsea fans, who | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
will be enjoying some huge relief, an opportunity to answer some of | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
the critics the club has endured, and a big relief for English | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
football. It has been a long time since there have been no English | :26:48. | :26:51. |