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Calls for a change of direction from within the Conservative Party | :00:05. | :00:11. | |
after they're beaten into third place in the Eastleigh by-election. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Despite torrid headlines, the Lib Dems hold on to the seat, though | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
with a reduced majority. This has been a by-election we have had to | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
fight in exceptionally difficult circumstances. Our opponents have | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
thrown everything at us. Jubilant UKIP celebrate just how | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
close they came to winning the seat. The Prime Minister acknowledges his | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
party's poor showing. It is a disappointing result for the | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Conservative Party but it is clear that in mid-term by-elections | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
people want to register a protest. But David Cameron insists the | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Tories can still win the next general election. We'll be | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
assessing what the results mean for the parties. | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
A court hears the 999 call made by the couple accused of killing six | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
of their children in a house fire. Eight South African policemen are | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
arrested for murder after a man was handcuffed to the back of a van and | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
dragged along the road. And he was on the pitch before some | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
of his team-mates were born - Ryan Giggs prepares for his thousandth | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
In Sportsday: World number one Rory McIlroy says | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
he's "in a bad place mentally", as he pulls out of a tournament with | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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Good evening. David Cameron has insisted that the | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Conservatives can win the next general election, despite coming | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
third behind the Liberal Democrats and the UK Independence Party in | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
the Eastleigh by-election. The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
described the win as a stunning victory, but the biggest surprise | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
was the share of the vote garnered by UKIP, which came so close to | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
snatching victory. The Prime Minister dismissed the result as a | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
mid-term protest, but it's caused division within the party, with | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
some calling for a change of direction. Labour came fourth. Nick | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
Robinson's report contains flash Ever wondered what relief looks | :02:31. | :02:39. | |
like? It looks like this. Relief that after a campaign marred by a | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
Lib Dem scandal, in a by-election triggered by a Lib Dem scandal, | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
their man had still won. I do hereby declare that Michael | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
Thornton is duly elected. But there was another political winner in | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Eastleigh last night. The UK Independence Party may have come | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
second, but the smiles tell you they think they have made the big | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
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time. So, what of the losers? This is the look of a party coming to | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
terms with coming third in a seat the Conservatives had hoped they | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
could win. The Tory candidate, tearful on stage, left it and the | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
election count unable, or unwilling, to say a word. | :03:25. | :03:33. | |
REPORTER: You can speak, Maria. On the morning after the night | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
before, Nick Clegg was a picture of fist clenched defiance. His party's | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
vote share may have dropped by more than 14% but he believes he has | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
shown that the Lib Dems can still win. This has been a by-election we | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
have had to fight in exceptionally difficult circumstances. Our | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
opponents have thrown everything at us. We hold our nerve, we stood our | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
ground, we worked as a team, we went out and campaigned on every | :03:59. | :04:09. | |
doorstep, we overcame the odds, and we won a stunning victory. | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
almost got there. UKIP leader Nigel Farage considered becoming a | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
candidate for this election after - -. After Diane James did so well, | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
he must be wondering, what if? is something nobody could have | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
predicted and the remarkable thing is that it happened in a very short | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
campaign indeed. We really connected with voters in his | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
constituency, and that is because we are talking about issues the | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
other parties would prefer to brush under the carpet. The Conservatives | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
are consoling themselves with a group hugging and the fact that | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
their vote dropped ever-so-slightly less than the Liberal Democrats. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
is a disappointing result for the Conservative Party, but it is clear | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
that in mid-term by-elections, people want to register a protest. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
But I am confident that at the general election we can win those | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
people back by demonstrating that we are delivering for everyone who | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
wants to work hard and who wants to get on. That is what we will be | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
focused on. That is not the view of the Conservative's vice-chairman. | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Michael Fabricant tweeted that the UKIP message connects with the | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
electorate, and it is not just Europe, but crime, immigration, | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
etcetera. With UKIP announcing policies the public want to hear, | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
we must do the same. Many Conservative MPs agree. We need to | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
be aware that gay marriage did not play well in terms of activists and | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
supporters, and some of them would directly to UKIP. The Prime | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Minister needs to think about that. Despite the cheering for the | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
cameras, what Ed Miliband calls one-nation Labour failed to extend | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
its appeal to this part of the nation, getting around one-third of | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
UKIP's vote. Clearly, I would have preferred to have got more votes | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
than we did, but this was always going to be a tough fight for | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Labour. It is a seat we have never won. It convinces me that we need | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
to redouble our efforts, reach out to every part of the country, | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
including areas where Labour has not traditionally been strong. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Those who do well in by-elections tend to tell you that they changed | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
everything. Those who do badly tell you that they change nothing. What | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
was really striking about this one, though, was the more than a quarter | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
of the voters chose to vote for none of the above. And more than | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
half of those who voted UKIP told opinion pollsters that what | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
mattered most to them was immigration. The question that will | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
be asked around Westminster in the weeks and days to come is, what do | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
we do about UKIP? What do we do about immigration? By-elections are, | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
of course, just a little bit different from those in which | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
reaches governments, but Eastleigh will be remembered as the poll in | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
which so many voted for none of the above. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
Our political correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster. This | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
result has relieved the pressure on Nick Clegg, but how much will | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
UKIP's strong showing worry the Prime Minister? Well, when you | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
speak to those around David Cameron they say, mid-term by-election | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
protest vote, no need to panic. The trouble is there is a growing body | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
of Conservative MPs who think that is precisely what they should be | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
doing, because they believe this confirms their view that David | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
Cameron is not a winner, that he cannot deliver victory at the next | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
election. They say here you have a choice Lib Dem target seat where | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
Nick Clegg enters the ring wobbly at the knees, having received an | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
uppercut to the cheer Nova Lord Rennard, and still David Cameron | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
makes absolutely no progress, despite throwing everything at it. | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
-- an uppercut to the tune over Lord Rennard. Worse, you have UKIP | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
chlorine away great chunks of traditional Conservative support. | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Their answer is to say to Mr Cameron that he has to adopt a more | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
traditional Tory agenda to win back those UKIP supporters, to talk less | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
about gay marriage and more about things like immigration. So it may | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
only be a by-election, but it could have much longer term consequences | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
in terms of the Tory party direction and unity, or disunity. | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
A court has heard a distressing 999 call made by the couple accused of | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
killing six of their children in a fire at their home in Derby. | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Details of a secret recording were also released in which prosecutors | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
claim the father Mick Philpott is heard saying, "I didn't mean to do | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
it". The couple deny the charges. This report from Jeremy Cooke. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
It was a fire which killed six children while they were sleeping | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
in their own beds. Today, a jury was told that their parents, now | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
accused of deliberately starting the blaze, were the ones who raised | :08:49. | :08:59. | |
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the alarm. The court was played a Good morning. The jury was also | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
shown footage of the Philpotts at a press conference shortly after the | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
fire. Give me a minute. But two weeks after this, the couple were | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
arrested, and on 31st May they were driven to their first court | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
appearance, unaware that their conversation was being recorded by | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
a police surveillance team. In court today, the jury was told that | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
during this journey, Mick Philpott had told his wife, don't you worry, | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
we will walk through it, I promise you that, unless you want me to | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
blab about it. Mairead says, No. The prosecution also alleges that | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
Mick Philpott so as to Mairead, you are definitely sticking with the | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
story? I didn't mean to do it, on my life. But those words, I didn't | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
mean to do it, are disputed by the defence. A forensic speech expert | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
says he has listened to the tape many thousands of times and he | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
insists the words on that part of the recording are obscured by | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
background noise. Both MIG and Mairead Philpott and their co- | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
accused, Paul Mosley, denies six charges of manslaughter. -- Mick | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
Philpott. The case continues. Eight South African policemen have | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
Mozambican taxi driver who was dragged down a street handcuffed to | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
the back of a police van. The incident was recorded by a | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
bystander and broadcast on television. The man later died in | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
police custody. President Jacob Zuma has condemned the incident as | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
"horrific" and "unacceptable". You may find some of the images in | :11:00. | :11:10. | |
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Andrew Harding's report disturbing. He was 27, a taxi driver. Tonight, | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
new footage of him in the moments before he died, arrested here by | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
South African police, reportedly because his car was blocking | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
traffic. What happened next has provoked outrage. He resisted, | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
eventually being handcuffed to the back of a police van. And then, | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
exactly why is still under investigation, the van drove off, | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
dragging him along the ground. He died soon afterwards of head | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
injuries and internal bleeding. Today, relatives gathered at his | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
home in a troubled neighbour heard outside Johannesburg, anxious for | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
answers. -- neighbourhood. They must go to jail. We need justice in | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
this. If ever there is no justice for them, let them feel that. | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
Outside, a small protest. The man came from Mozambique, prompting | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
some to accuse the police of deliberately targeting foreigners. | :12:10. | :12:19. | |
It would not be the first time. the police must kill us? 100% wrong. | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
I think the government must do something about this. Must act. | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
South Africa's international reputation has taken quite a | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
hammering in recent months, and this incident is not going to help. | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
President Jacob Zuma has weighed in today, describing the police | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
brutality as horrific and unacceptable, but the authorities | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
are struggling to break the culture of violence here. Today, it was | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
announced that eight police officers initially suspended have | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
now been arrested in connection with the incident. A senior | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
government official visited the relatives, or offering condolences | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
and some context. This is quite an embarrassing act that has been done | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
by our police. It is something that could have been avoided. It should | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
not have happened, and it cannot actually be justified by in | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
whatever manner. A memorial for the dead man, plenty of grief and | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
outrage here, but in an enduringly violent country, no great sense of | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
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The pound has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar for more | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
than two-and-a-half years. It follows speculation about what | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
measures the Bank of England may take to boost the economy. | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
Economists say the figures are a setback to hopes the economy can | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
return to growth in the first quarter of this year. | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
Lloyds Banking Group has reported better-than-expected figures for | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
2012. The group, which is 39% owned by the British Government, did lose | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
�570 million, but that's still a much better return than last year. | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
Lloyds shares have more than doubled over the last year, and | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
there's now speculation about when the Government could sell its | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
shares and claw back billions of taxpayers' money. Huggh Pym's | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
report contains flash photography. It's a story about a leading | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
British bank, Lloyds, when the boss should get a bonus, and when we, | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
the taxpayers, will get back the �20 billion pumped into the bank to | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
bail it out. We asked Lloyds' customers how confident they felt | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
about their bank repaying the taxpayer. The idea that our money | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
would come back to us after bailing out the banks - to actually see | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
something tangible, is beyond the realms of all possibility. Whether | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
we'll get our money back, I do hope so. I don't see why the taxpayer | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
should lose out. I'd like to see the money because because I'm a | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
taxpayer. It's our money. Lloyds' overall losses last year were | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
reduced, and there is renewed speculation about the sale of the | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
Government's 40% holding in the bank. We need to get the banking | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
system back into health. The only way it's going to be properly back | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
to health is when it's in private hands, but equally, the taxpayer | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
mustn't lose the hundreds of billions of pounds we would lose in | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
a quick sale. It's revealed Lloyds' boss worth won't get this year's | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
bonus until the bank is in a position for shares to be sold off. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
He has been awarded a �1.5 million bonus but it's deferred until 2014. | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
The share prices more than doubled over the last year to 50p, but it | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
will have to get back to 74p, roughly what was paid for the | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
taxpayers' stake, or the Government sells a third of its shares if the | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
boss is to get a bonus. The key question now is what's the earliest | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
the Government can hope to start shelling off its share many in | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
Lloyds? Investors will have to be satisfied the finances are in good | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
order and there is a need to ensure taxpayers get a reasonable return | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
on the money they put in. Some analysts think there is a lot more | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
work to be done at Lloyds. For the Government to be able to sell its | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
its shares at anything it regards as a fair value you need to have | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
Lloyds to be close to a position where it can generate normal | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
returns. In my view that doesn't happen before 2016 even with a | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
following wind. Getting the timing right for Lloyds' share sale will | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
be a big call, so too the decision on a taxpayers' stake in RBS, the | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
other bailed out bank. It will be up to whoever is in Government at | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
the time. Coming up on tonight's programme: | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
To Giggs - 2-0. In a world where sporting stars are | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
retiring as young as their early 20s, Ryan Giggs proves age is no | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
The Food Standards Agency has said four more products have tested | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
positive for traces of horsemeat in its latest round of tests. They | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
include two Bird's Eye ready meals, minced beef used by the American | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
food chain Taco Bell and a product sold by the catering supplier | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
Brakes. All have been withdrawn from sale. Emma Simpson reports. | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
The horsemeat scandal - today four contaminated products were added to | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
the list, from the food giant Bird's Eye and two of its ready | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
meals to contaminated ground beef at the Mexican food chain Taco Bell | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
and then Brakes, the food supplier. Horse DNA was found in a spicy beef | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
skewer. These last three weeks, a vast testing programme has been | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
under way on behalf of the food industry. Samples from more than | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
90% of beef products have been analysed. Today saw the last big | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
batch of results. The Food Standards Agency asked for | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
a whole range of beef products to go under the microscope. More than | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
5,400 tests were done. The result: 17 products tested positive for | :18:05. | :18:13. | |
horsemeat at levels of above 1%, but overall, 99% of test results | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
proved negative, so will consumers start buying processed beef | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
products again? Not right now, but my son, who | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
still lives with me, will eat anything, and he says, well, it's | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
not killed me so far. Not really. I just don't trust them. I'm sure | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
that result reassuring for those people that do buy processed food. | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
They lied about it. I'd have been fine if they would have said on the | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
back in small print, "May contain horse." Trouble is they didn't. Now | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
the FSA has to find out how all this mislabelling happened. Wells | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
the investigation is key, and that's the main part of our work | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
from here on in, so for each of those cases where we or the | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
industry have identified gross contamination with horsemeat, we | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
want to trace it all the way back through the supply chain. So after | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
weeks of controversy, the vast majority of beef products have been | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
given the all-clear. What's less clear is how long it will take to | :19:09. | :19:18. | |
The Queen has cancelled a visit to Swansea tomorrow because of illness. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
Buckingham Palace says she's suffering from gastroenteritis. The | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
Queen had been due to visit the 3rd Battalion The Royal Welsh to mark | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
St David's Day. She'll now spend the weekend at Windsor. | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
US political leaders have left last-minute talks at the White | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
House without agreeing a deal to avoid deep budget cuts of over �56 | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
billion. President Barack Obama blamed the Republicans' refusal to | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
allow any tax rises and called the sweeping cuts "unnecessary" and | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
"inexcusable". Washington sure isn't making it | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
easy. At a time when our businesses have finally begun to get some | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
traction, hiring new workers, bringing new jobs back to America, | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
we shouldn't be making a series of dumb, arbitrary cuts to things that | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
businesses depend on and workers depend on. Our North America editor | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
Mark Mardell is in Washington. Strong worlds from President Obama. | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
What does this mean for the US economy? Well, you would think it | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
would be pretty bad. After all, these cuts were designed to be | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
really horrible, so terrible that the politicians would be forced | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
into doing a deal. You might remember me going on around the new | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
year about the fiscal cliff. They sorted out one bit of it about | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
taxes. They didn't sort out the other bit. This is the spending | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
cuts that have now come in, so President Obama says that there | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
won't be pain immediately, but it will be gradual and grinding, that | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
thousands of people will lose their jobs that growth will be damaged, | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
and he's telling the American people every time you hear a bit of | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
good economic news, remember, it could be better. But the | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
Republicans are saying, that's scare-mongering. Actually, the | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
economy can stand cuts. The Government needs to make some cuts, | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
even though they're not the best designed of ones. You look at Wall | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
Street today, and shares are up. They seem to think that the | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
recovery can withstand these sort of cuts, but it must damage | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
consumer confidence. Mark Mardell in Washington, thank you. | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Kenyans go to the polls on Monday in a closely fought election that | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
has divided the east African nation and raised fears of a repeat of the | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
bloodshed five years ago. More than a thousand people died when | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
militias supporting rival candidates went on the rampage. | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
This report from Gabriel Gatehouse. In Kenya, elections are as fiercely | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
fought as they are colourful. But in these final days of the campaign | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
beneath the veneer of exuberance, many people are afraid. This is | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Kibera, Nairobi's biggest slum. Supporters of rival presidential | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
candidates live here side by side. Five years ago, tensions between | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
these communities over resources, jobs and land turned violent. Now, | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
as polling day approaches, businesses are closing down in | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
anticipation of more trouble to come. Charles runs a scrap metal | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
dealership. He lost everything in the violence that followed the last | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
election when his business was torched. Like many of his | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
neighbours, he is clearing out before the vote. He didn't want to | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
show his face on camera. I am wondering, why are they moving? Why | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
are they scared. They are scared. Why am I not be scared... You can | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
see they're scared, so you're scared too. Yeah. It was these kind | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
of machetes, pagers, as they're known here, that did a lot of the | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
damage five years ago. They're ordinary household implements in | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
Kenya. People use them for chopping firewood and the like, but when the | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
violence started they became instruments of war. The purchase of | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
these has dramatically increased in the run-up to the election. More | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
than a thousand people were killed when rival ethnic communities | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
turned on one another following the last disputed election. Over half a | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
million fled their homes. Prosecutions at the International | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
Criminal Court say the violence was deliberately orchestrated. | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
One of the front-runners in the race this time around, Uhuru | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
Kenyatta, is due to go on trial at The Hague later this year. Mr | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
Kenyatta denies any involvement, and he has strong support. | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
majority of the Kenyans want him to leave our country. We like Uhuru | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
Kenyatta, and we believe in him. Ken ia is the region's most | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
important economy. It's also at the centre of joint British and EU | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
efforts to combat terrorism and piracy in the Horn of Africa. A | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
president in the dock of an international court could put those | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
efforts in jeopardy. And so the world is watching. What | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
happens on polling day will have consequences for the region and | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
beyond. For now, though, most Kenyans are simply praying for | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
Now, he's fit, almost 40 and could be about to play his thousandth | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
professional game - Ryan Giggs has had his Manchester United contract | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
extended by a year, proving that age is no barrier in top-flight | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
sport. His manager, Alex Ferguson, described Giggs as a "a marvellous | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
player and an exceptional human being". Dan Roan has more. He's | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
football's fan for all seasons. For more than two decades now, Ryan | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
Giggs has been scoring goals and breaking records, and after | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
extending his long stint at Manchester United for yet another | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
year, the veteran midfielder has ensured he'll still be playing when | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
:24:56. | :24:57. | ||
he turns 40. His game is unique, of course, but I think it's more than | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
that. It's something that won't ever be achieved again, one | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
incredible career, absolutely fantastic. These are special times | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
in a very special career. If Giggs plays here at Old Trafford tomorrow | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
afternoon against Norwich City, it will be the 1,000th appearance of | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
his senior club for both club and country. Football's marathon man | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
has played in each of the last 22 seasons and scored 16 goals for | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
:25:33. | :25:37. | ||
United along the way. He's also won The moment Giggs made his senior | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
debut for a club he's never left - March 1991, when some of his | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
current team-mates weren't even born. He has been compared to the | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
young George Best. One of the men who played alongside him that day | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
says his talent was clear from the very beginning. Straight away | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
didn't really want to mark him because he was so fast and agile, | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
he was one of those players you didn't want to play against. I | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
think that's what stood him in great stead for so many years. The | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
problem you have with other players is you lose your pace, but one | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
thing Ryan hasn't done is lost his pace or ajilt. It's unbelievable | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
what he's achieved. He remains as popular as ever at Old Trafford | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
despite two years ago when he was the subject of newspaper headlines | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
over his private life, but on the pitch his career remains | :26:25. | :26:29. |