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Tonight at ten - after a long legal battle, five terror suspects CAN be | :00:04. | :00:13. | |
extradited to the US. Among them, the hardline cleric Abu Hamza, and | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
if convicted, they could face life imprisonment and solitary | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
confinement. Their cases were considered by the European Court of | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
Human Rights and the Government has welcomed the outcome. The courts | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
ruled an extradition would not be a violation of their human rights and | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
we will work to ensure we can handle over these individuals to | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
the United States as soon as possible. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
We'll be asking why the process has taken several years, with the | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
possibility of another appeal. Also tonight: | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
In Syria, the violence continues despite a UN peace plan and new | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
appeals for a ceasefire. Let me again appealed to the Syrian | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
government and the Syrian parties to cease violence in accordance | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
with the plan. Leading charities warn that | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
limiting tax relief on donations will have a serious effect on their | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
work. New allegations that this British | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
businessman was murdered by the wife of one of China's top | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
And a century after the Titanic set sail from Southampton, a service to | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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In sport, Ewood Park drama, goals and red card heartbreak make for a | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
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thriller between Blackburn and Good evening. | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Five suspected terrorists, including the hardline preacher Abu | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Hamza, have lost their long legal battle against extradition to the | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
United States. The European Court of Human Rights rejected their | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
claims that if convicted they could face inhumane punishment in | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
America's high-security jails. They have three months to appeal. David | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Cameron has welcomed the ruling, as our correspondent June Kelly | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
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Just do it. Anything will help. typical Abu Hamza tirade. He is | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
urging his followers to kill. He has already been convicted in the | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
British courts of inciting murder. Now he is one of five terror | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
suspects facing American justice. Europe has cleared the way for them | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
to be put on a plane, acknowledging they could face life in prison. In | :02:47. | :02:57. | |
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a statement, the European Court Obviously this now permits the | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
extradition of Abu Hamza and others to the United States. The courts | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
ruled that extradition would not be a violation of this human rights | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
and we will be working to ensure we can hand over these individuals to | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
the United States as soon as possible. Abu Hamza one spoke about | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
the UK's desire to get rid of him. As a human being I am worried, but | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
as a preacher I know you can't deport me. You'll have to put me | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
somewhere else which is God's kingdom. As for the charges Abu | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Hamza is facing, he is said to have been involved in a plot to kidnap | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
Westerners in Yemen. Four Britons died. Inside the US, he is accused | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
of conspiring to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon. For years | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
his power base was Finsbury Park Mosque in north London. In the late | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
90s, this man worked as an informant inside the mosque, | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
gathering intelligence for the police and MI5. I would describe | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
Abu Hamza as a terrorist in chief. Very dangerous person. But pre- | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
9/11, that wasn't how the British authorities viewed him. He was seen | :04:11. | :04:20. | |
at the time as a clown, a big mouth. With Abu Hamza in charge, Finsbury | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
Park Mosque became a breeding ground for extremists and some who | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
fell under have it -- his influence here went on to commit acts of | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
terrorism. Hussain Osman was one of the 21/7 terraced sale who tried to | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
cause corner -- carnage and the London transport system. The four | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
others facing extradition with Abu Hamza are wanted on a range of | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
charges, including the bombing of two US embassies. One is accused of | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
over 269 counts of murder. Another of the four is BABA Ahmed, I | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
recently interviewed in prison by the BBC. He is accused of running a | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
website said to have been used to help finance terrorism. First in | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
Chechnya and then in Afghanistan. His family say he should stand | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
trial in Britain. British justice appears to have been sub-contracted | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
to the US. This should be immediately rectified by putting | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
him on trial in the UK. BABA Ahmed is one of those who could end up | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
here, America's modern-day Alcatraz. A supermax prison in Colorado | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
called ADX Florence. Abu Hamza will not be sent here because of his | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
disabilities. He has lost both arms and is blind in one eye. For the | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
United States, today is a landmark in a legal marathon which has cost | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
millions. Our extradition partners around the world can rest assured | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
that the defendants who are extradited will receive fair and | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
just proceedings in criminal cases in the United States. Also facing | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
possible extradition is a 6th man, Haroon Aswat. The European decision | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
on him has been adjourned because of the state of his melt -- mental | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
health. Our home editor, Mark Easton, is | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
with me tonight. A very long process so far and still not a | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
guaranteed end. Absolutely. Years and years of legal argument and we | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
are still not quite there. One more avenue. They can make an appeal to | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Many have | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
tried to go to the Grand Chamber, but few succeed. Were they to do so, | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
these five, who knows how long that would take. If they don't, three | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
months to appeal and that the end of that three months, the | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
expectation is they will be on an aeroplane and sent out to the | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
States. But you're right, this goes back in some cases to the late 90s. | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
The reason it has taken so long, I think, is because we are witnessing | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
what happens when the Americans pursue their global war on terror, | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
their determination to bring people to justice in America. In doing | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
that through the extradition process, they are finding different | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
jurisdictions, different cultures, politics, rubbing up against each | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
other, all the processes of appeals and legal arguments that go with | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
that. So we have Egyptian and Saudi nationals in English jails, pursued | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
by the American authorities and the future of their case decided in a | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
French court. These are the consequences of a search by the | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
Americans for global justice. Although this case may be close to | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
completion, I think there will be many more cases that begin to test | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
some of those ideas further. Thank you. | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
In Syria, opposition groups say 1,000 people have been killed by | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
government forces in the past eight days. There was more violence today, | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
damaging hopes for a peace plan brokered by Kofi Annan, the former | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
UN Secretary-General. That plan was due to be implemented today. The | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
worst of the unrest has been in the cities of Homs, Aleppo and Damascus. | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
The latest violence happened as Mr Annan was visiting Syria's border | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
with Turkey, where tens of thousands of people have fled to | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
escape the attacks. Mr Annan spoke to refugees at the Yaladack refugee | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
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camp. From there, the BBC's Fergal If peace is about to dawn, there's | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
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This is the voice of the cameraman filming the violence. This is Homs, | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
he says, it is being destroyed by a random shelling today, April 10th. | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
In Homs and in other embattled towns, the destruction seems if | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
anything to be escalating. And with time running out on his peace | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
mission, Kofi Annan came to visit the refugees of serious violence. | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
Here there was a welcome. Most of these victims have fled from the | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
north of the country, with stories of killing and torture. All day, | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
the cavalcade moved from camp to camp. Some of the refugees we met | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
clung to the hope his mission might still work. Maybe something will | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
happen in Syria, this woman told us, and we can go back to our families | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
and children. Kofi Annan has been asked for solutions he can't | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
deliver. For some it is a question of achieving a ceasefire and being | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
able to go home, but a growing number of voices here are demanding | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
that the opposition be armed and achieve a military victory. The | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
mood of militancy is growing. These men told us they were from the Free | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
Syrian Army and had little faith in Kofi Annan's mission. TRANSLATION: | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
We want NATO to come to Syria and give weapons to the Free Syrian | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
Army and we want the liberated zone so we can live in our country. | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
the clock ticks on the UN's deadline and Kofi Annan's deadline | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
-- mission looks increasingly forlorn. Let me appeal to the | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
Syrian government and Syrian parties to cease violence in | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
accordance with the plan and I believe there should be no | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
preconditions for stopping violence. But in Moscow, where he met his | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Russian counterpart, Syria's foreign minister claimed his side | :10:26. | :10:34. | |
was abiding by the agreement. TRANSLATION: We have withdrawn some | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
military units from some provinces, we have allowed more media channels | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
to enter Syria and we have reached agreement to allow humanitarian aid | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
inside. Nobody in the camps believes a word of that. After Mr | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
Anand, there were visitors with a very different message to his hope | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
for persuasion. This is a war. Diplomacy with Assad has failed and | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
it will continue to fail so long as Assad thinks he can defeat the | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
opposition in Syria militarily. rhetoric won't bring military | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
intervention closer. But it echoes a mood that rejects any compromise | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
with the regime. Cancer Research UK has warned of a | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
serious impact on the work of charities if the Government limits | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
the tax relief on charitable donations. Ministers say they're | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
concerned that some wealthy people are reducing their tax bills by | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
abusing the system. But charities say that portraying philanthropists | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
as tax dodgers could lead to drop in big donations, as our chief | :11:40. | :11:50. | |
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economics correspondent Hugh Pym Major charities claim they will be | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
among the losers as a result of the Chancellor's crackdown on use of | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
tax reliefs by the wealthy. They say donations will suffer because | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
of Mr Osborne's Budget announcement. We have capped benefits, now it is | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
right to cap tax reliefs, too. a few weeks on there are warnings | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
that vital research work like this could be affected. Some leading | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
charities, including this Cancer Research Organisation, are now | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
concerned because they think the Chancellor's new rules could hit | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
their income. Wealthy donors could be deterred because of the | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
restrictions on the amount of tax relief they will be able to claim. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
This charity says some of its donors have already warned they are | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
reconsidering how much they give. We are building a very important | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
new medical research facility right now in London for which we are | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
entirely reliant on the generosity of wealthy philanthropists who are | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
affected by this measure. Some of whom have already called me to say | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
they are expecting to reduce their donations in the future. | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
Chancellor wants to limit the percentage of income which can be | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
deployed to reduce tax bills. Someone with income of �600,000 a | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
year is currently not restricted on tax relief on charity donations. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
From next year, they will be able to get tax relief on no more than | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
150,000 of donations under the new rules. One leading philanthropist | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
who has given away tens of millions told us the Government's plan is | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
unfair to genuine donors. Frankly, I was shocked and horrified because | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
there was absolutely no warning that anything like this was coming | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
and from the point of view of discouraging philanthropists, I | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
doubt if they could have done anything more effective. Mr Osborne | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
said today he was shocked to discover some of the wealthiest | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
people in the country were paying virtually no income tax because of | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
the use of a whole range of tax reliefs. He said he wanted to make | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
sure philanthropy was encouraged and there would be consultation | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
with charities. But with this website set up to oppose the plans, | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
a campaign bandwagon run by the Charities is up and running. They | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
argue even if a way around Mr Osborne's Rules has agreed with the | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
Treasury, the uncertainty and delay will still hit donations which | :14:00. | :14:10. | |
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would otherwise be heading towards The mystery surrounding the death | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
of a British businessman in China has deepened with the news of the | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
Chinese authorities treating his death as murder, and implicated the | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
wife of a prominent politician. The body of Neil Heywood was found in a | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
hotel last year. Today, the wife of Bo Xilai, was placed under | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
investigation. Bo Xilai himself has also been suspended from the party. | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
Chongqing is a city of intrigue. Neil Heywood died in a hotel room | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
here last year. The businessman was a close family friend of one of | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
China's top politicians, Bo Xilai. Now, in an extraordinary twist, the | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
Chinese authorities suspect his wife, Gu Kalai, was involved in | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
Neil Heywood's murder. The British government pushed authorities to | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
reopen the case. Chinese officials officially said the businessman's | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
death was accidental after excessive drinking. It is the death | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
that needs to be investigated on its own merits without political | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
considerations and so I hope they will go about it in that way. | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
investigation goes to the very heart of power in China. Neil | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
Heywood was prized for his contact with Bo Xilai. Bo Xilai had been | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
tipped for the top of Chinese politics but he is also under | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
investigation after his police chief apparently tried to defect to | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
the Americans earlier this year. This makes for China's biggest | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
political scandal in 20 years, coming as the country prepares for | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
a once in a decade leadership change. The us is a political | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
decision by the central leadership to hang Bo Xilai out to dry with | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
his family because the whole affair, the whole scandal that was growing | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
up around him, risked becoming very destabilising during this year of | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
leadership change in China. Chinese authorities say they have | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
set up a team to investigate his death again. What happened in this | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
city continues to make waves across the country. | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
Coming up - what next in the Republican presidential race now | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
that Rick Santorum has left the stage? | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
Despite loud warnings from the international community, North | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
launch could take place as early as Thursday. The regime has dismissed | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
concerns the satellite launch is a cover for developing missile | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
technology but the Americans are warning any launch will be a clear | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
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violation of UN resolutions. Our correspondent is in North Korea. | :17:18. | :17:26. | |
Vast empty streets. Not the shopfront or advert anywhere. | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
Welcome to the world's last Stalinist state preparing a party | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
for its dead but eternal president, King ill some. Even the walls are | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
being washed. It is like travelling back in time. Today we were whisked | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
past grim-looking villages and people toiling by hound in fields | :17:49. | :17:58. | |
to be shown this. 1000 hector fruit farm, perfect rows. It is the way | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
Korea wants to be seen. Ordered, efficient, a modern socialist | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
miracle. This woman says she is very happy working here, and it is | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
thanks to the leaders, the Kim family, who have ruled North Korea | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
since it was founded. Everybody keeps saying how wise and | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
benevolent the ruling family are. It is down to the leader's wise | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
guidance and his investments, but there was always the impression | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
nothing is quite as it seems. The workers didn't look to be doing | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
much, and right in the middle she is putting the box back on the line | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
- cartons of Jews going round and round. Doubts also linger over the | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
centrepiece of the planned celebrations, a rocket that will | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
put a satellite in space. America says it will be a test of missile | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
technology that one day might threaten US cities. North Korea | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
says it is misunderstood, that's why it showed us another brand new | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
farm breeding turtles, an expensive delicacy. It cost millions so I | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
asked when it would make a profit. It is hard to explain to you | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
capitalists, the manager said. To us, profit doesn't matter. Not far | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
away, more bare fields. A theme park under construction, and lines | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
of shabby huts. A contradiction of a country that struggles to feed | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
its people, yet its leaders dream grandiose dreams. | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
In the American presidential race, the Fide for the Republican | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
nomination has been transformed by Rick Santorum's decision to drop | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
out of the contest, but he has not indicated whether he will be | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
endorsing Mitt Romney, and he said his own campaign against the | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
policies of President Obama would continue. We will continue to fight | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
to make sure we defeat President Obama, that we win the house back, | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
and we take the United States Senate, and we stand for the values | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
that make us Americans, that make us the greatest country in the | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
history of the world. Rick Santorum in his announcement a short while | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
ago. Let's speak to our correspondent in Washington. Is | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
that it for the Republican race? Is it settled? The short answer is yes. | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
Tonight we are at the point where we can say unequivocally that Mitt | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Romney will be the Republican challenger to Barack Obama and that | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
is because Rick Santorum is the only one who at this stage could | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
claim to be a viable alternative. He has dropped out in part because | :20:58. | :21:07. | |
because he sensed he would lose in Pennsylvania. The Obama campaign | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
have expected Mitt Romney to be confirmed, and they have put out a | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
statement signalling their lines of attack. They have said Mitt Romney | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
is trying to buy the election with the help of special interest, and | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
secondly a personal attack on Mitt Romney - the Obama campaign says | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
the more the American people seat of Mitt Romney, the less they like | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
him. The Prime Minister at a delegation | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
of British business people have been in Tokyo hoping to generate | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
millions of pounds of Trade for UK companies. It coincided with the | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
announcement from the sound that it will be creating hundreds of jobs. | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
-- from Nissan. The Prime Minister is on tour | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
selling Britain to the world. His mission is to secured trade deals | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
across South Asia, first stop Japan. He says it is an opportunity that | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
has been underplayed and must be renewed. A chance to pay his | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
respects to the Emperor, but also a chance to forge new relationships. | :22:23. | :22:32. | |
Not just to secure more investment at home, but investments -- exports | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
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over here. It is an opportunity to ways we can rebalance the economy | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
and make sure we get it moving. came to the headquarters of Nissan | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
to thank them for choosing the Sunderland plant to make their new | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
car. I have seen the new hatchback but I will not tell anyone what it | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
looks like. I know it is a secret. But he left on the deal could | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
create 200 new jobs, and there could be more jobs from the New | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
Deal in Japanese investment in Britain's infrastructure. Crucially, | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
he also agreed a deal to boost Britain's defence industry. Fide | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
defence contractors will be travelling to with David Cameron | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
and they will get access to the previously closed markets in Japan. | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
There is no doubt to break into Japan it is difficult. We | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
manufacture helicopters and we have had an arrangement here for a | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
number of years but it is tough market. With this arrangement, we | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
hope we can jointly develop and manufacture more of our products in | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
Japan. In the wake of the Fukushima crisis, David Cameron also agreed | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
to share expertise in de commissioning power plants. He will | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
leave from Malaysia and ultimately Burma, where he will meet the | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
opposition leader. The bottom line for this tour is putting the Great | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
back into Britain's economy. Japan's economy is the third | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
largest in the world. David Cameron comes here after weeks of trouble | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
at home but he insists he has focused on fixing the economy, and | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
that, he says, means drumming up business in places like this. | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
A century ago, the Titanic set sail from Southampton on her maiden | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
voyage heading for New York. Today, people gathered to remember the | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
1500 victims, many of whom were from the Southampton area. | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
Across rooftops through city streets, a sound which was last | :24:45. | :24:55. | |
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heard here when a notion giant -- ocean giant announced her departure. | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
It began with excitement, Titanic towering over the quayside cranes, | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
500 locally recruited crew members clamouring up the gangways. Today, | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
their descendants gather to give thanks for those who survived and | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
remember the last. He was in charge of lifeboat five. We believe he | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
saved somebody's life as well. happened that night to him and so | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
many others, I have a connection, and I just want to be there for him | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
really. News of the disaster brought frustration and despair to | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
the streets around the port. Day and night, the crowds pressed | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
around the casualty list. The whole thing gets to you, and you remember | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
the things you're grand mother told you. It comes back to me as if I | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
was there. On the dockside, there was time to reflect on the past as | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
the City looked to the future. Hundreds of local children carrying | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
their own titanic narrative towards a new museum dedicated to | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Southampton's maritime heritage. The loss of the Titanic caused such | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
distress that it was barely spoken of for nearly 40 years. This museum | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
is intended to stimulate interest, but also to encourage the families | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
of the crew members to tell their own stories. Away from Southampton, | :26:31. | :26:39. | |
the cruise ship Balmoral paused to allow the evacuation of a BBC | :26:39. | :26:44. |