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Reports of another massacre in Syria. This time it's claimed 13 | :00:04. | :00:10. | |
factory workers have been shot in cold blood. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
And the town of Houla, where there was a massacre last week, suffers | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
fresh bombardment. The UN says the bloodshed there may amount to a | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
crime against humanity. The Foreign Secretary insists all options must | :00:19. | :00:29. | |
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be considered. Syria is on the edge of a catastrophic situation. If we | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
can imagine one even worse than the current situation. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Now international efforts focus on trying to persuade Russia to back | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
diplomatic attempts to stop the killing. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
Also tonight: World markets take a tumble, as the | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
US economy stumbles. Never before seen images of the | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
Queen returning home just hours after learning she was monarch. | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
And 66 years on, a full dress And Hodgson's headache - England | :00:58. | :01:06. | |
Coming up in Sportsday: Brendon Rodgers promises to "fight | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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for his life" to bring success to Good evening. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
Syria is on the edge of all-out civil war - the warning from the | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
Foreign Secretary, William Hague, after reports of a fresh massacre | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
of civilians. Activists in the country say 13 factory workers have | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
been shot dead by a pro-government militia. The United Nations is now | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
pressing for a full investigation into last week's massacre of more | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
than 100 civilians in the town of Houla. They've said it could amount | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
to "crimes against humanity". But, as Bridget Kendall reports, there's | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
frustration at the latest diplomatic efforts to stop the | :01:59. | :02:08. | |
conflict. More disturbing images from Syria | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
posted on the internet by opposition activists. Factory | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
workers forced off a bus and murdered, they say, by pro- | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
government militias. It is an account that UN observers inside | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
Syria have not yet verified, but they did confirm the massacre last | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
week at Houla, and today the UN Human Rights Council blamed Syria | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
for it, urging an inquiry to investigate possible war crimes. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
These acts may amount to crimes against humanity and other | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
international crimes, and may be indicative of a pattern of | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
widespread or systematic attacks against civilian populations. | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
Syria's envoy denied his government's involvement, blaming | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
the massacre on rebel fighters. TRANSLATION: It is now a familiar | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
pattern for armed terrorist gangs to carry out massacres times | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
deliberately to lead to special sessions hostile to Syria, like | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
this one. From several parts of Syria today there has been amateur | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
videos suggesting renewed shelling. Here in Homs. And around Houla, | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
where the massacre was. One activist from Houla told us what | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
being under siege felt like. It was such a horrible thing. You feel | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
like an earthquake under you. When the bomb fell, you feel like an | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
earthquake and you. Not much left of the UN's ceasefire. No wonder | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
Kofi Annan is despondent. We are all frustrated by the violence, by | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
the killings. So am I. I think perhaps I am more frustrated than | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
most of you because I am in the thick of things. Meeting the Syrian | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
opposition in Turkey today, William Hague warned of imminent civil war. | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
Syria is rapidly becoming less stable, not more so, and there is a | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
great danger of a collapse in Syria. So what can the outside world do | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
about it? Well, it is clear that Syria is unlikely to turn into | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
another Libya, involving Western military action. In the first place, | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Russia would probably Blunkett at the UN Security Council. But even | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
without Russia, there is no appetite for intervention. -- | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
Russia would probably block it. Syria is well-armed and an all-out | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
war would soon involve its neighbours. And Western powers are | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
distracted, the United States with a presidential election and | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
Europeans with the euro crisis, and all of them worried about | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
withdrawing from Afghanistan. In Paris, President Putin was digging | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
in his heels. He refused to consider sanctions on Syria and | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
pointed out that opposition fighters are also killing people. | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
And the UN peace plan, he says, is still worth backing. | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
Bridget joins me in the studio. Why is Russia so reluctant to join in | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
the effort to find a solution? is complicated. It does feel a | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
little bit as though President Putin and Russia want it both ways. | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
They want to say on the one hand that they are not taking sides, | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
that they are trying to be even- handed and point out violence on | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
both sides. And they are not necessarily backing President Assad, | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
just trying to stop the violence. But it does also feel as though | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Russia is digging in its heels and refusing, today for example, at the | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, to condemn the Government for what | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
the UN said was responsibility for a massacre. Western governments are | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
waiting for a moment when they hope Russia might begin to move, as it | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
did on Libya, away from support for the government in Damascus, and to | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
a U-turn and say, it is time for him to go. The problem is that, | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
just as for the West, Syria is not like Libya. They do not want to | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
intervene in this one. It is far too complicated. For Russia, also, | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
it is complicated. They see that President Assad is entrenched. He | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
is a long-term alliance of Russia, and they are not going to change | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
their mind on Syria just because there is an opposition and there is | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
violence on the ground. The danger is that this split, this difference | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
of opinion in the international community, is going to carry on for | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
a long time, just as the violence on the ground in Syria is going to | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
carry on a very long time. So there is not any sign of diplomatic | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
pressure coming together on the outside that could help to move the | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
peace plan forwards. Gloomy economic figures from both | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
sides of the Atlantic led to sharp falls on world markets today. In | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
the US, unemployment rose unexpectedly, leading to fears that | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
the economic recovery there could be grinding to a halt. There was | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
more bad news in the eurozone, and in the UK a survey suggests | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
manufacturing is shrinking at its fastest rate for three years. Hugh | :06:59. | :07:08. | |
Pym reports. It was another nerve-jangling day | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
for traders on world financial markets. A raft of new data | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
suggested some leading economies were faltering, with the biggest of | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
them all, the US, raising the most concerns. The American President, | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
out on the campaign trail, acknowledged that the first | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
increase in unemployment for nearly a year suggested that all was not | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
well with the economy. businesses have created almost 4.3 | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
million new jobs over the last 27 months, but, as we learned in | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
today's jobs report, we are still not creating them as fast as we | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
want. Just like at this time last year, our economy is still facing | :07:48. | :07:56. | |
some serious head wins. -- headwind. As Wall Street dealers digested the | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
implications, hopes that a robust United States would pull the global | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
economy forward were dented. This should be some source of concern | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
for US trading partners. The largest economy in the world does | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
appear to be slowing down, so it raises some risks. At the same time, | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
the US consumer does seem to be holding in pretty well. World | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
markets chose to focus on the negatives. On Wall Street, the Dow | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
Jones closed down more than 2%. The main German index was nearly 3.5% | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
lower and London's leading shares fell more than 1% on the day. The | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
market mood in the UK had been soured earlier by a gloomy | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
manufacturing survey, the worst of its kind in three years, raising | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
fears that the recession could prove deeper than expected. The | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
latest economic news is likely to fuel the debate over whether the | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
Government is doing enough to boost growth. The pressure on ministers | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
both at Westminster and further afield to justify existing policies, | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
or, with new ones, seems set to intensify. -- or to come up with | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
new ones. The Government's response should be to steer away from the | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
iceberg rather than rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic. In the | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Queen's Speech, we saw one pro- business piece of legislation and | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
several anti-business piece of legislation and a range of things | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
that were nothing to do with stimulating the economy. | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
Treasury said there were business- friendly policies in place and | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
measures to halt lending to companies, but with weaker data | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
from the eurozone and China today, the fear is that growth will be | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
hard to come by for every economy. -- measures to help lending to | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
companies. People in the Irish Republic have | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
voted in favour of a controversial EU treaty that imposes austerity in | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
return for access to emergency funding. 60% backed the plan, which | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
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is aimed at enforcing budgetary discipline in eurozone countries. | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
The posters testify to a hard- fought campaign. A vote in favour | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
of the pact was described as a vote for stability, but the No campaign | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
had said the pact just ushered in more austerity. In the event, 60% | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
voted Yes. The majority of votes in favour of the proposal, 326,003. | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
The Yes campaign went to celebrate and then stopped themselves. Tough | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
economic challenges lie ahead. So what is the new Fiscal Treaty? It | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
imposes strict discipline over budgets and deficits. There will be | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
penalties if the rules are broken. And agreeing to the treaty | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
guarantees access to the new eurozone bail out fund. The Irish | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
leader, Enda Kenny, said that good housekeeping rules would benefit | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
Europe. It will also send out a message to other cities around the | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
world which have not been expressing full confidence in the | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
euro and the eurozone. We believe in this process. The Irish | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
government will now try to push Europe's leaders into reducing the | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
cost of the bail out for the country's bust banks. In some | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
places it was clear that many people had voted Yes to keep a | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
European safety net. We have a lovely calm sea behind us, but the | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
sea can be rough. For the business community, this could be a lifeboat | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
for the future of our government and for the future of our | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
businesses. One in 10 mortgages are in arrears and house prices are | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
down 50%. Most of the No vote came from those affected by austerity | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
and spending cuts. I think we saw a huge amount of anger and protest in | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
the No vote in working-class areas against the austerity agenda. The | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
other sectors of the population are giving the government and Europe | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
one more chance. The result was welcomed by the German Chancellor, | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
Angela Merkel, as good for Ireland and good for Europe. She will hope | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
it will put pressure on other countries, like Spain and Greece, | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
to continue taking the harsh medicine to put their house in | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
order. Others point out that the tougher rules, however, will do | :12:08. | :12:17. | |
A senior barrister will be appointed to review allegations | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
that the Metropolitan Police failed to properly investigate claims of | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
police corruption during the inquiry into the murder of Stephen | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Lawrence. The Home Office confirmed the review would take place after | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
the Met said its own examination of the claims had found no new | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
evidence to justify them. Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racist | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
attack in 1993. Now, the bunting is out, final | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
preparations are under way for a weekend of events to mark the | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
Queen's Diamond Jubilee. A full dress rehearsal of the procession | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
to Buckingham Palace took place this morning, and across the UK | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
people have been making final plans for street parties to celebrate the | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
60th reign. This evening remarkable footage has been broadcast for the | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
first time showing the Queen returning to Britain hours after | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
she succeeded to the throne. Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
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Oh, it must be the aeroplane. Flying home to face her destiny, an | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
image from 60 years ago seen publicly for the first time today. | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
This is the Queen's private footage taken aboard the aircraft which | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
brought her home to Britain after learning that her father had died | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
and that she was now Queen. I have never seen this. So these must be | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
the first pictures taken after she knew she was Queen. It featured in | :13:39. | :13:49. | |
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a Jubilee tribute to his mother by 60 years after Elizabeth flew home | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
as Queen, Britain is gearing up with its Jubilee tribute. While | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
much of London's Left, a full-scale rehearsal took place of the | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
carriage procession which will conclude the celebrations on | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
Tuesday. -- while much of London's Left. Then the streets will be | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
crowded. This morning there was barely a spectator to be seen, | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
giving the car is a chance to measure out their positions and the | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
Household Cavalry to familiarise themselves with the route that the | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
carriages will take from Westminster Hall and up Whitehall | :14:21. | :14:30. | |
and finally: The Mall and back to Buckingham Palace. On the Thames,'s | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
are being marshalled for the river pageant. For that day, the main | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
uncertainty seems to be the weather. Around the Victoria Memorial, a | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
huge stage has been constructed which will be the setting for the | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
diamond Jubilee concert. In his tribute to his mother tonight, | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
Prince Charles spoke of the Queen's contribution over 60 years. My Mama | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
has been a constant feature on the scene, has provided that sense of | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
continuity in a time of immense change over the last 60 years, it | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
is one of the most important things to celebrate, it seems to me. | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
course, not everybody will be cheering this weekend. Republicans | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
believe the Jubilee is misconceived. 60 years on the throne is not an | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
achievement, it is a job for life with no scrutiny or accountability. | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
If you are given a job for life at 25 and now you are 85, you have | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
done it for 60 years. Yet the facts tell us that across the 60 years of | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
the Queen's reign, the monarchy's popularity has remained remarkably | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
resilient. The stage, quite literally, is set for a weekend | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
when I think we can fairly say a clear majority of people in this | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
country will indicate their support for the institution and their | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
gratitude to the person who exit. -- Hillheads it. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
And you can keep up to date with the diamond Jubilee celebrations on | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
the BBC website with full details of what is happening in London and | :16:03. | :16:12. | |
around the UK. The Don't touch me! I am not a | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
criminal! A protestation of innocence from one of the Britons | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
accused of drug smuggling in Bali. It is one of Britain's biggest | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
companies and one of its biggest commercial ventures, but today BP | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
said it wanted to sell its 50% stake in one of Russia's largest | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
oil producers. Its relationship with the four billionaire oligarchs | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
to run the Russian country has been profitable but they have been | :16:40. | :16:50. | |
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simmering tensions in the boardroom. TNK-BP's glossy video hails 10 | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
years of bravery and innovation. BP owns exactly half of the highly | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
successful oil company, but despite the huge profits, it has been a | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
painful 10 years of a troubled partnership with a group of Russian | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
billionaires. It was a very happy investment for them, a good | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
investment for them. The company was happy in its involvement if we | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
put aside this very serious corporate conflict. Today, BP said | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
it is considering selling its half of the company, which has earned | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
its �12 billion from an investment of �5 billion. A Russian state- | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
owned business has apparently made an offer. BP's low point in Russia | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
was when Bob Dudley, now the chief executive, had to leave the country | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
complaining of an orchestrated campaign of harassment. What should | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
have been a lucrative Arctic exploration deal, blessed by | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
Vladimir Putin himself, fell apart when BP's billionaire partners | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
blocked it. BP's Russian adventure has been immensely profitable, but | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
its partners have proved unpredictable, and increasingly | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
there has been another factor in the Russian oil and gas business. | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
More than ever, the Kremlin wants to be involved. It is tough doing | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
business in Russia, and this gravy is a reminder of how tough. This | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
man was a lawyer investigating fraud on behalf of a huge | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
investment fund but he ended up dead in prison. The man he was | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
working for suspect BP have been forced out of Russia. I have | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
surprised that they have held on his wrong. -- I am surprised. It is | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
a remarkable tribute to the endurance of the guys running the | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
company to be able to stay there given the level of criminality in | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
Russia. Billions of pounds of UK pension fund money is invested in | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
BP, so if the company does sell up, how it reinvest the cash matters to | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
A British woman who is under arrest in Bali suspected of drug | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
trafficking has been taken to hospital. Rachel Dougal is | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
receiving treatment. She claims she has not slept properly or eaten for | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
days. She's being held along with three other Britons, Julian Ponder, | :19:16. | :19:26. | |
Lindsay Sandiford and Paul Beales. Nick Bryant reports from Bali. | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
For a British woman at the centre of the Drug trafficking allegations, | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
the awfulness of her situation has made her fearful and fragile. | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
Concerns for her physical and mental states today led the | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
Indonesian authorities to transfer Rachel Dougal from the jail where | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
she is being held to a police hospital. Don't touch me! I am not | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
a criminal! The 38-year-old said she has not been sleeping or eating | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
and that she is missing her six- year-old daughter. Another Briton | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
in custody is 55-year-old Lindsay Sandiford, arrested at Bali airport | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
on the 19th May. It is thought she agreed to take part in a sting | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
operation aimed at Rachel Dougal and her partner, Julian Ponder, | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
arrested last Friday. Both claimed they were set up by Lindsay | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
Sandiford, who allegedly disguised the drugs as a birthday present for | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
their daughter. Lindsay Sandiford's lawyer said she brought the drugs | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
into the country because of threats made against her sons. She do this | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
not because of the money, because of the safety of their child. | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
read this island of the scourge of narcotics, the Indonesian | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
authorities have made an example of foreigners found guilty of drug | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
trafficking. The consequences are potentially fatal, a spell on death | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
row, execution by firing squad. Rachel Dougal is spending the night | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
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in hospital, but one that is He ruled his country for nearly 30 | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
years, but Egypt's former President, toppled any Arab Spring, will be in | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
court tomorrow for a verdict which could see him sentenced to death. | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
Hosni Mubarak is accused of ordering troops to fire on | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
protesters during the uprising last year. The trial has divided opinion | :21:32. | :21:42. | |
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among Egyptians, as Rupert It takes some bravery to declare | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
your love for Hosni Mubarak in Egypt these days, but these young | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
men are preparing to do so loudly and in public outside the court | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
house. President Mubarak should be treated as a former President with | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
a proud military record, this man tells me. He gave us 30 years of | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
peace, we should honour him. Anyone who supports Mubarak is treated | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
like an insect, says this man. All I am guilty of has been born under | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
Mubarak -- under Mubarak, I happen to love the man. This is Mubarak as | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
they would like to remember him, as the soldier and statesman. Not as | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
he is now, a sick old man laid out on a stretcher in court. But for | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
this woman, there is only bitterness and hatred for Mubarak. | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
She says he took away her son. He was shot in the chest, and this | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
is the blood you can see on his trousers. Mustafa was one of the | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
First Martyrs of the revolution, cut down by police bullets as he | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
marched on Tahrir Square. TRANSLATION: I will not rest until | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
I have revenge, because my heart is still burning, until what they did | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
to my son is done to him. Tomorrow's verdict was supposed to | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
be art bringing a definitive end to the Mubarak era, but Egyptians | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
today remain as deeply divided as ever about what to do with their | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
former president, and about the only thing that you advise people | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
here now is a common fear of the post-Mubarak future. On the streets | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
and in the tea shops it is the topic on everyone's lips. The year | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
since the revolution has been traumatic. The economy has ground | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
to a halt, tourists have played, and Cairo has been hit by an | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
epidemic of crime. We are feeling fear, the newspaper and the news | :23:47. | :23:55. | |
and the TV are talking about crimes and criminals. That is why the | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
atmosphere is so harmful. There is an irony here. Last year, hundreds | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
of people died on the streets of Cairo to get rid of Mubarak. Now | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
many here are yearning for a new strongman to take control and make | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
The England manager, Roy Hodgson, has played down his team's injury | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
woes as they prepare to fly to Ukraine for Euro 2012. They have | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
been training ahead of a friendly against Belgium tomorrow, but | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
without midfielders Frank Lampard and Gareth Barry, who have been | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
forced to pull out of the tournament. Mr Hodgson said he was | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
happy with his team. The protracted English season has | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
worked its usual effects before a major tournament, a key topic of | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
discussion was the injury list, along and for a time today looking | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
as if it might grow even longer as Theo Walcott fell to the turf. Last | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
weekend, Gareth Barry limped out of the England team. Then, just | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
yesterday, Frank Lampard strained his thigh in training and withdrew | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
from the squad. Scott Parker will, we are told, play tomorrow, but he | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
barely figured towards the end of the Premier League season with a | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
persistent Achilles problem. All of this has led to a late call-up for | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
Jordan Henderson, who had at best a mixed first season for Liverpool. | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
It is a huge blow that Frank has got to go home, especially on the | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
back of losing Gareth Barry, but when you go out to train and play, | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
you have got to give it 100%. You cannot afford to ease back or relax, | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
because sometimes you can pick up injuries. Gary Neville, the former | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
England player turned coach, says he has never known such a low sense | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
of expectation around an England team going into a tournament. The | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
question is, does it take the pressure off the new England | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
manager, or does it even heed it on? I am satisfied with the group | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
we have put together. I believe in the group, I think they will do | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
well. Obviously, I am disappointed to have lost two senior players, | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
three if you count him, but it is a great opportunity for someone else. | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
With only 10 days to go before the FirstGroup game against France, Roy | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
Hodgson will be hoping not just for a decent performance but one that | :26:14. | :26:19. |