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Condemnation from around the world as Syrian activists claimed there | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
has been another massacre. Reports that 78 people, including children, | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
have been killed by government supporting militia. The ceasefire, | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
brokered by both sides. The UN peace envoy says armoured military | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
groups seem to have free rein. things do not change, the future is | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
likely to be one of brutal repression, massacres, sectarian | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
violence and even all-out civil war. With UN observers shot at, we will | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
be asking if diplomacy is dead. Also tonight: Euro crisis talks in | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Berlin. The German leader once more political union. Where does that | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
leave Britain and the global economy? | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
China cut interest rates on fears of a slowdown. And a warning in | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
Washington on America's recovery. An England walkabout. But when they | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
start playing, ministers will not be there. A boycott over its human | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
rights. And remember all of those warnings | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
about a drought? The water companies may rethink their | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
hosepipe bans. Coming up in Sportsday: On the eve | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
of Euro 2012, we will have the latest from the England camp. Plus, | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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Bolt strikes late to power past Good evening. The UN Secretary | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
General has used his toughest language yet to condemn the Syrian | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
government. Ban Ki-Moon said that President Assad had lost his | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
legitimacy. It comes as details of another massacre have emerged. | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Activists has a 78 people, including women and two children, | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
have been killed. UN observers trying to reach the scene were shot | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
at, leading to further questions about their ability to operate. The | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
latest attack happened in Qubair in Hama province. There are pictures | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
of some of those killed from the start of this report. | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
This video, post on the internet by the opposition activists shows some | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
of those killed near the village of Qubair, including young children. | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
There is no independent evidence yet, but local activists blame | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
shabbiha militia, a loyal to President Assad's regime. They | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
killed 78 civilians and the rest of the population were fleeing to | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
other villages. One of them described horrible seems to me. | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
Government account is quite different. Syrian state television | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
said a terrorist group committed a horrific crime. The Government | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
statement says that the inhabitants of the farm appealed to the | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
laboratories for protection and they responded by killing a | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
terrorist cell. The head of the UN mission in Syria said that a team | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
sent to verify reports of a massacre was stopped by the Syrian | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
army. The UN Secretary General says they will also shot at. Ban Ki-Moon | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
told a special session of all UN countries in New York that | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
President Assad's regime had lost all legitimacy. The UN special | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
envoy, Kofi Annan, admitted his peace plan was not being | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
implemented by government or opposition and gave this warning. | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
The abuses are continuing. The country is becoming more polarised | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
and more radicalised. If things do not change, the future is likely to | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
be one of brutal repression, massacres, sectarian violence and | :03:57. | :04:07. | |
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even all-out civil war. Recent This is apparently a Syrian | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
armoured vehicle being totally destroyed. Together with separate | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
incidents, it suggests that the regime is under mounting pressure | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
from opposition fighters, with backing and weapons from Saudi | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
Arabia and Qatar. Kofi Annan's plan requires a ceasefire first. Instead, | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
violence on all sides seems to be increasing. One idea is to have | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
their new contract group of countries to Bridge International | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
divides and encourage real political change in Syria. It would | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
include both world and regional powers. Some, such as Russia, China | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
and Iran have influence on to Syrian government. Others, like the | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
UK, the United States and Saudi Arabia have influence on the | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
opposition. There is a big stumbling block. Britain and | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
America reject any participation by Iran. I think the inclusion of Iran | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
in any such group would probably render it unworkable. This is a | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
country that is supporting some of the unacceptable violence and | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
supporting the Syrian regime in what it is doing to the Syrian | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
people. The outside world remains deeply divided over what to do | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
about Syria's downward spiral. And the risk each new atrocity makes | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
reconciliation even harder to achieve. | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
Looking at that report, it looks like events on the ground are | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
overtaking the diplomatic process? I think that is very clear. The | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
starkest evidence to support that seems to come from leaks coming out | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
of a closed-door session tonight of the Security Council meeting in New | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
York. The 15 powers at the very centre of UN affairs, they are | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
being briefed both by Ban Ki-Moon and Kofi Annan. Kofi Annan has | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
apparently told them, according to diplomats, that the crisis will | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
soon spiral out of control. He has been calling for substantial | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Prancer -- pressure on Damascus and what he called consequences for | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
undermining his peace plan. That usually means a sanction. It seems | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
to be saying quite soon you will have to move to additional | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
sanctions, if they can be agreed given the divisions in the | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
international community. Ban Ki- Moon has apparently been briefing, | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
according to some diplomats, that this apparent shooting on UN | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
monitors today was not the first time this has happened. He is | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
apparently suggesting that in the past the authorities have been | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
trying to hamper the efforts of his monitors. That raises questions | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
about the safety of their mission and their ability to operate. One | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
last thing, it is increasingly clear if this ever was a conflict | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
between two parties, it is becoming much, much more complicated with | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
many forces both within Syria and outside greatly complicating things. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Eurozone countries need greater political and economic integration | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
if they are to solve the current crisis. That is the view of Angela | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
Merkel. It is one that David Cameron says he understands and | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
accepts. The two leaders have been holding talks in Berlin. But the | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
prospect of closer ties within the eurozone has, once again, raised | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
questions about Britain's position outside it. | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
At the German chancellery, they prepare for a visit from a leader | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
demanding immediate action over the eurozone crisis. The Chancellor, | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
waiting with her officials, knew that the British Prime Minister | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
would stress the need for urgency. But, outside the eurozone, his | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
influence is limited. The two leaders get on well. But the Prime | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
Minister has been calling for the eurozone to help troubled Spanish | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
banks. Spain's credit rating was hit by another downgrade today, | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
leaving it just above junk status. The expectation is that Spain's | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
banks, one way or another, will have to be rescued. David Cameron | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
accepted that the price of saving the euro is a much more closely | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
integrated Europe. I have no doubt that the single currency countries | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
will want to seek greater integration. That is clearly going | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
to happen over the coming months and years. Britain is not in the | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
single currency. We will not be joining the single currency, so we | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
will not take part in that integration. Angela Merkel said | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
Germany was ready to do whatever was necessary to keep the eurozone | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
stable, including using the bail out fund. Here at the German | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Chancellor read a have watched as David Cameron has repeatedly urged | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
Europe to get its act together and fix the eurozone crisis. But just | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
hours before he arrived, Angela Merkel went on TV and set out her | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
plans for what would be a very different hero. Angela Merkel said | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
what was needed was more Europe. TRANSLATION: We need a political | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
union, first and foremost. This means we must see responsibilities | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
to Europe, step by step. Later, she and David Cameron debated with some | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
students. Angela Merkel said that Europe could not stand still | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
because of some country's objections. She accepts that this | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
could mean a two speedy Europe. Some believe that more Europe will | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
make the case for a British referendum. I think a referendum is | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
inevitable. I think it was always going to have to come after we were | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
cheated out of it over the Lisbon Treaty. I think it would be | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
sensible for it to come when it is clear what is the integration of | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
the eurozone. Angela Merkel reveal today her ambition for Europe. It | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
poses difficult political questions for Britain. What will be its | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
relationship with this very different union? | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
Let's go live now to Westminster and James Landale. All of this talk | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
of closer integration, where does it leave Britain? There is a | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
paradox here. David Cameron supports greater integration of the | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
eurozone. He thinks it is the best chance that the single currency has | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
of surviving. If it happens, it will present him with a huge | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
political headache. It will almost certainly change the relationship | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
with the European Union. So a lot more people will say, hang on, is | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
it not the time we had a referendum? It is a clear transfer | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
of power from Europe -- London to Brussels, the law says there will | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
be a referendum. If the change is more subtle, such as a new banking | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
union that has a negative impact on the City of London, what happens | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
then? David Cameron says he will fight to protect the single market. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
There is the failed hint of a threat of using his veto. -- veiled. | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
Many people are saying that we need a referendum. But it is not an | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
option that is without uncertainty. When does he have the referendum? | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
Is it on leaving the EU, is it on repatriating powers? There will be | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
a lot of pressure on the Government, but I don't think it is a route | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
they want to go down yet. There are more signs today that the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
eurozone crisis is hurting the global economy. China cut interest | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
rates for the first time in five years. In Washington, the Federal | :11:25. | :11:34. | |
Reserve warned of significant risks to financial markets. Damian | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
Grammaticas now reports from Beijing. | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
Unfinished tower blocks, as far as the eye can see. China's decade- | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
long building boom has been the biggest in history. But is it | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
heading for boost -- bust? Growth is running out of steam. Miss Liu | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
earns her living feeding the appetite of the construction teams. | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Since last year, things have been going downhill. She says she is | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
earning less and less. From wood to steel and more, China's voracious | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
demand kept the global economy going through the downturn. But now | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
trade is drying up. China's domestic economy is slowing. We | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
earn 10 times less than we used to, says this man. Houses are not being | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
sold, business is bad. So, how to reignite growth is China's main | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
concern now. Its old reliance on exports no longer look sustainable, | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
especially when Europe, the biggest single buyer of China's products, | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
is in such trouble. That is why China's leaders have today cut | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
interest rates. They will hand over to a new generation of Communist | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
rulers this year and do not want to bequeathal them a stumbling economy. | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
To stimulate it and shift away from relying on exports and construction, | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
the Government has just begun giving subsidies to anyone who buys | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
a refrigerator, television or small car. The lure of China's billion- | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
plus consumers is what brought this room full of British businessmen to | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
Beijing last week. But China may not now be the sort of growth that | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
many in the West are hoping for. China is going to its own process | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
of adjustment. The Chinese authorities are very well aware of | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
the way they need to rebalance the economy and set out their plan. I | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
think a lot of good progress has been made in that direction. At the | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
last count, China was still growing officially at 8% per year. Leaders | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
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are clearly worried and they are The this is New York's Greek town. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
The ties that bind America and Europe are tight. Here it is more | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
than worried in watching the old country in crisis. Everybody at | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
work is telling me I am making their prices go up and down, of | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
course it is embarrassing. Brush Wall Street is really embarrassed, | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
usually eager to take any setback as an opportunity, but this is | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
different. The chairman of the Federal Reserve warns of | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
significant risk to the US economy because of Europe, and traders are | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
already warning. It is dangerous because people do not know the | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
interconnected nature, so the danger is that until it happens, we | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
will not really know what it means, it is unknown. Times Square is a | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
billboard for the world and it is those iconic American countries | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
that are exposed in Europe, as well as small exporters, feeling the | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
heat from the crisis. The boss of Estee Lauder tell me they have seen | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
sales fall in southern Europe. Should we be making capital | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
investments in euro dominated countries? Investments in people, | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
capital structures, plants? Should we be moving production in eurozone | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
countries to non euro countries? the markets fluctuate, politicians | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
are increasingly frustrated, watching European leaders pecking | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
away at the problem. President Obama's former top economic adviser | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
told me they are not a facing up to what is happening. I think there | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
has been a deep and profound and continuing failure of realism, and | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
that if that persists to this day, I think the international community | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
has probably been more timid than it should have been in pointing out | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
the unreality of a variety of things that were being said. There | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
is no doubt that people here are braced for further shockwaves | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
coming from across the Atlantic. That very fear of the future in | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
itself has damaged an already fragile recovery, not what | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
President Obama needs in an election year. | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
Coming up on tonight's programme: With up to 8,000 British women and | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
girls forced into marriage every year, a new law could see parents | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
sent to jail. I was 14 when I came home from school and my mother | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
presented me with the photographs of a man that I was promised to | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
when I was eight years old. Government ministers won't be | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
attending England's group stage matches at Euro 2012 in Ukraine. | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
The Foreign Secretary said that he hoped the sporting occasion was a | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
success but ministers didn't want to give political support to things | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
they didn't agree with. France and Germany are also expected to | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
boycott games. The tournament, which is being co-hosted by Poland, | :16:56. | :17:04. | |
begins tomorrow. Daniel Sandford reports. | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
With just four days to go till their first game, the England team | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
in Krakow today, the Polish city they have made their home. But | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
political events over the border in Ukraine, where England play their | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
first three games, have led the British Government to say that no | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
ministers will attend any of the group stage matches. I hope some | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
our team, it is a great sporting event, but we don't want people to | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
understand that as giving political support to some things that have | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
been happening in Ukraine that we do not agree with. The most obvious | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
concern is the face of Yulia Timoshenko, one of the leaders of | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
the Orange Revolution, serving seven years in prison where she | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
claims she was assaulted, after what has been widely seen as a | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
political prosecution. Co-hosting the tournament is proving tougher | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
Ukraine. As well as the political boycott there will be a shortage of | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
fans. This is Donetsk. But it is an industrial coal-mining city with an | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
acute shortage of cheap hotel accommodation, so many fans are | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
staying at home. Others are opting at this basic campsite at a | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
junction on the edge of town. Policing in Ukraine can be rough | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
and ready. Earlier this year, an electric shock device was used on | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
and on corporate Ifan in Donetsk. It doesn't happen every day, but | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
this is not a Western European force. There are all the | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
ingredients for something to go wrong: A police force that is very | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
corrupt, lots of alcohol, and high passions. In the build up there has | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
also been acute concern about a small number of far right and | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
violent Ukrainian fans. The Donetsk police say there police officers | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
are well trained and experienced and have worked hard to study | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
British policing tactics. TRANSLATION: My adversaries will | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
show maximum tolerance. We know they are here to have fun but is | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
serious crimes are committed, we will use force within the law. | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
their stunning stadium, the Donetsk authorities are desperate to put | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
the controversy behind them and to get on with the football. England's | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
first game is against France on Monday night. We now know there | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
will not be any British ministers at the match and there will not be | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
many England fans either. The Labour leader Ed Miliband says | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
the whole of the United Kingdom should be involved in the debate on | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
Scottish independence. In a speech on national identity at London's | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
Royal Festival Hall, Mr Miliband also called for people in England | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
to be more confident in expressing their culture, saying that Labour | :19:52. | :20:01. | |
had been too reluctant in the past to talk about English identity. | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
The Home Office has announced that Tom Winsor is the preferred | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
candidate for the post of her Majesty's Chief Inspector of | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
Constabulary for England and Wales. He will appear before the Commons | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
home Select Affairs Committee. After, the appointment will go to | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
David Cameron and the Queen for approval. | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
Every year in Britain, thousands of girls and young women are forced | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
into marriage by their parents and relatives. It has been going on for | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
decades, but under new proposals to be announced tomorrow it will | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
become a criminal offence in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
But as Ed Thomas reports, there are fears that making forced marriage a | :20:43. | :20:53. | |
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criminal offence might deter This is the story of Sara, a young | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
British girl forced to marry a man she has never met before in | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
Pakistan. It is an animation for children but it confronts a real | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
issue that thousands of people facing every year. I was 14 when I | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
came home from school and my mother sat me down and showed me | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
photographs of a man that I was promised to when I was eight. I | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
said no. My family took me out of school when I was 15 and I was held | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
prisoner in my own home and was not released until I agreed to the | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
marriage, which in the end I did, but I ran away from home at 16. | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
This story is familiar. Every year, 8,000 women are forced into | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
marriage. In 2008, the Labour government brought in prevention | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
orders but it still wasn't a crime. Tomorrow the coalition will | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
announce plans to make it a criminal offence. These men in | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
Blackburn say there is also the question of culture. They say they | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
are part of a new generation who are clear that forced marriage is | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
wrong. Is it a big problem? Yes, it is. | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
Forced marriage is not good. It is not acceptable. Some people do like | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
cultural things, they want to marry their own families, they do not | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
want to marry in the outside of the family or their religion. The new | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
laws on forced marriage will be brought in next year, along with | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
training for the police and local councils. But there is a worry that | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
this new law could stop victims from coming out and telling the | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
police what is going on because they would be too worried that if | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
they do prosecute, their own mother and father could end up in jail. | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
Some believe education is more important than the law. If a young | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
child feels that she, by speaking up against her parents, will be | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
causing family honour to be tarnished, she may not speak up, he | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
may not speak up. That is the fear, but the hope is that this new law | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
will make stories like Sara's a thing of the past. | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
Human rights campaigners in Pakistan say they have made contact | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
with two of the five women feared murdered for singing at a wedding | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
and celebrating with men present. The team did not meet the other | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
three women seen in the video, but said they had been given assurances | :23:22. | :23:31. | |
that they were also alive. Earlier reports said a tribal court | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
sentenced all five to death. Greece's crucial election campaign | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
turned violent today, live on national television. After trading | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
insults, the spokesman of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
attacked two women from left-wing The channel quickly cut to a | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
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commercial break. Weather warnings have been issued | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
this evening, with winds of 70 miles an hour and heavy rainfall | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
expected over parts of Britain. After record rainfall in April, | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
water companies have lifted drought orders in parts of England and are | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
rethinking hosepipe bans in some areas. But while the immediate | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
water shortage might be easing, experts have warned that the long | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
term problems with Britain's water supplies have reached a critical | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
point. Emma Simpson reports. Summer it ain't. This was that | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
Royal Cornwall Show today, but it was so wet and windy that sheep | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
were deemed safer outside as the 10ths were in danger of collapsing. | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
The half-term break is fast becoming a washout. It started June | :24:43. | :24:52. | |
the weekend Jubilee pageant. Land of codes and umbrellas, more like. | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
It is hard to believe that there is a hosepipe ban in much of the | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
country but all of this wet weather is starting to have an impact. | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
There has been a big turnaround. The April wet weather has given new | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
reservoirs and opportunity to fill and that has made a big difference | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
for businesses and farmers, because it means the risk of further | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
restrictions are greatly reduced. Here is how the picture has been | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
changing. In March, drought orders are already in place but they | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
spread further over the following weeks, thanks to some unseasonably | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
hot weather, but then after the heavy rain, the drought status was | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
lifted for many areas, like the far south-west, the Midlands and | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
Yorkshire. Despite the rain, a hosepipe ban was put in place for | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
much of East Anglia and the south- east, but for how much longer? | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
Today Thames Water, the UK's biggest water company, said that | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
unless the weather took an unexpected lead Saharan twist, the | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
ban will be lifted sooner than expected. There is plenty of water | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
in this reservoir but there is a warning today that the hosepipe ban | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
should be a wake-up call. That we need to do much more to preserve | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
our future supplies. The water situation in the UK is becoming | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
critical. We do need to think about it now. The situation is going to | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
get worse because of the impact of climate change, with less rainfall, | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
less water availability. You would not think so today. This was Devon | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
and there is not much respite in sight for this driving rain, | :26:35. | :26:39. |