28/05/2013 BBC News at Ten

war - evidence is shown to the BBC of what's claimed to be one of the

worst massacres yet. Opposition activists claim over 200 men, women

and children were killed by Government forces. An entire family

were slaughtered in one house. What more can I say? There was so much

blood. The evidence of the atrocity emerges as the EU clears the way for

arms to be supplied to Syrian opposition fighters. But Russia

retaliates by saying it will supply anti-aircraft missiles to the Syrian

government to try to deter any foreign intervention. Also tonight -

one of the men suspected of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby is

discharged from hospital and immediately arrested by police. The

family of the other suspect talk of their profound shame and distress.

We report from Kenya on how one of the suspects was arrested there for

allegedly planning to train with Islamic militants in Somalia. The

Chancellor announces cuts across seven Government departments, but he

still has to find up to nine billion more in savings. And, as we're

encouraged to conserve forests, how a fifth of Britain's renewable

energy will soon come from timber imported from America. Coming up in

sport on the news channel, Roberto Martinez could be the new manager of

Everton by the end of the week, after telling Wigan that he wants to

evidence of what appears to be one of the worst massacres so far in

Syria. In what is already a bledy civil war. Opposition activists

claim over 200 men, women and children were killed in two towns in

the west of the country. The Syrian Government doesn't dispute that an

attack took place, but says it was targeting terrorist fighters. We

have this exclusive report from inside Syria. It contains graphic

images that you may find disturbing. Rebel fighters in the north get

ready to attack. Few here took of freedom and democracy these days.

What motivates these men is revenge. Using rockets they captured from one

Government military base, they bombard another. This attack is

retaliation for what they believe was a brutal massacre in the wets of

the country. -- west of the country. It's a conflict that is increasing

violent and sectarian and seems unstoppable. Attacks like this are

now taking place across Syria as the rebels grow stronger and so does the

Government's response. But the truth is, there are no real winners here,

just losers. Syria is consumed by war. But what happened in the town

of bannia and neighbouring bade da is one of the -- bay da is one of

the darkest hours. Neither side disputes that this attack took

place, but this leaked video apparently filmed by pro-Government

fighters showed the troops in the square. State media says they killed

40 terrorists, but locals talk of a sectarian assault, where Alawite

soldiers who support the President attacked the local Sunni population.

We met two women who have escaped and they say they're too afraid to

show their faces, but the story they tell is matched by others we have

spoken to. TRANSLATION: There was a black cloud of smoke covering the

village. You couldn't see anything. Fire engulfed the village. All you

could hear was the screaming of men, women and children. They describe

soldiers, pro-Government militias coming to their village. They say

men and boys were rounded up and killed. This video apparently taken

by a Government fighter, appears to back this story. Activists claim the

two-day offensive left more than 200 dead. TRANSLATION: I ran down the

road and saw 20 to 30 men laying on the ground. All shot up. Then I saw

my husband and my father-in-law. They were laying on the ground, shot

in the head. There was nothing left of my husband's face apart from his

mouth and his nose. It was hideous. What you are about to see is

sickening. The militias moved on to the neighbouring town. This

unverified video claims to show the aftermath of the attack there.

Activists say 20 members of one family were killed here. The video

shows a group of women slumped together. A mother and child

slaughtered on the bed. Another woman with what seemed to be five

children all of them dead. There are many images of other families. Most

are too graphic to show. The women say there were similar scenes in

their village too. TRANSLATION: There were slaughtered and charred

bodies everywhere. Houses were on fire. The people in side them were

burning. Anne tire family laid down dead, slaughtered in one house. What

more can I say? There was so much blood. Those who escaped are now

refugees, trapped inside their own country. We cannot be sure what has

happened. But what does seem beyond doubt is that many innocent people

were killed, without any possible reason. And while nations place

their faith in diplomacy, the country is soaked in the blood of

armed embargo against the Syrian opposition, allowing Britain and

France to supply opposition fighters. Russia has said it will

continue to supply the Syrian Government. Britain and fans,

Europe's marshal powers, push their reluctant European partners well

into the night and won in the end what they wanted - the right to arm

Syria's rebels. The Foreign Secretary said sending weapons was

now possible, though not yet inevitable. We would only take the

step of sending arms in company with other nations, in carefully

controlled circumstances and in compliance with international law,

but this decision today gives us the flexibility in the future to respond

to a worsening situation or to a refusal of the Assad regime to

negotiate. There is anxiety though. Many in Europe believe a resort to

arms now may wreck any remaining chance of a negotiated peace.

have the first possibility for a very long time, since last summer,

for a process and I think it is extremely wrong not to rock the

boat. Russia said today it would go ahead with a plan to supply

antiaircraft missiles to the Syrian regime. It said the weapons were

defensive, designed to deter further foreign interference in Syria. But

increasingly Russia and the West are being drawn into Syria's war on

opposing sides, risk a war by proxy on Syrian soil. Russia condemned the

EU's decision to end the embargo. TRANSLATION: You cannot on one hand

declare your intention to stop the bloodshed, but on the other hand,

move in the direction of pumping Syria with yet more weapons. In the

Israeli occupied Golan Heights Israeli troops are with -- were on

the move. One minister issued a clear warning - if the missiles

arrive at Israel, God forbid, he said, we will know what to do.

Another dismissed Russia's claims that the missiles were purely

defensive. The use of the missiles is making them not just defensive

weapons, but also offensive weapons. Britain and France aren't arming

anyone yet. Their hoping hope is the threat alone will be enough to bring

the Assad regime to the negotiating table, but the Foreign Office is

facing questions - what if it does work? What kind of weapons might be

sent? What kind of rebels might benefit? For the Free Syrian Army is

not the only rebel force. The war has pulled in Islamist extremists,

some with Al-Qaeda. Might the weapons end up in their hands? The

threat to arm the rebels is designed to put pressure on President Assad

to seek peace, but it has polarised Russia and the West and their

co-operation is essential if the peace conference has any chance next

month. One of the suspected killers of Drummer Lee Rigby has been

discharged from hospital and taken into police custody. Michael

Adebowale, who's 22, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Meanwhile, the family of the other suspect, Michael Adebolajo, has

issued a statement describing their horror, profound shame and distress

at Drummer Rigby's senseless killing. Our Home Affairs

Correspondent, Matt Prodger, reports. Police have waited six days

to question Michael Adebolajo. Today he was discharged from hospital and

promptly arrested on suspicion of murder. He's been held at a police

station in south London. His alleged, Michael Adebowale remains

in hospital, but tonight there was last year approached an

organisation, which advises people who believe they were wrongly

imprisoned in the war on terror. A case worker said they complained of

being harassed by British security agents after he was arrested in

Kenya in 2010 and returned to Britain. They did not stop to

contact him. And seek to arrange meetings and so on. They even

approached other members of his family to try to convince him to

work with them. He made notes of the conversation. In them, they say that

last year Michael Adebolajo met an agent in central London at the

request of the security services. They offered him work, but he

refused. He also received texts from them. The last of them which said,

"We have no option but to proceed without you." It is said that his

father felt pressured when MI5 dauleed called him to request a

meeting and asked him to convince his son to co-operate. The meeting

left him in a state of great distress. If this is true, it means

that here at MI5 they not only new one of the suspects but they tried

repeatedly to turn him. That's one of the issues that will be looked at

by MPs over the coming days. More details have emerged about the time

Michael Adebolajo spent in Kenya, before his arrest there. Police have

told the BBC they suspected he was about to travel to Somalia. We have

this report from Kpate where he was these waters, especially when

al-Qaeda were at the height of their power. But Michael Adebolajo did,

you landed on Pate Island. This -- he landed on Pate Island. This is a

small fishing community where very little ghost unnoticed and any

association with al-Shaabab, however slight, can land you in jail. Most

are too nervous to talk about the case. This is the guest house where

the men stayed. It is shouted -- it is boarded up and closed. Michael

Adebolajo and five young Kenyan men travelled on to the village of

Kizingitini where we are told a boat was ready and waiting. Thanks to a

tipoff, so were the police. We knew they were going to Somalia, because

we have been resting so many on their way to Somalia. -- arresting

so many. In this fishing village they arrested market -- Mark Michael

Adebolajo. This was a lawless area and a jumping off point for

jihadists travelling to Somalia. Michael Adebolajo appeared in court

in Mombasa but no charges were ever formally brought and he was

released. The Kenyan government said it handed over -- him over to

petition officials before he was deported. -- handed him over to

British officials. Kenyan officials suggested this man might have had a

hand in trying to help the future will each suspect linked up with

militants. Aboud Rogo was a controversial reacher based in

Mombasa until his arrest last year. If Michael Adebolajo was trying to

join the jihadists, it seems his aims were throated on this occasion.

But many others succeeded -- worth 40. In 2011 security forces

estimated at around 100 British nationals had travelled to Somalia

to fight, and Kenya was known to be the preferred route.

Police in Northern Ireland have described a pipe bomb attack last

night as a blatant attempt to murder two police officers. Two large bombs

were thrown at the officers as they responded to a 999 call in a

loyalist part of north Belfast. It is the second time in two weeks that

police in Belfast have been attacked. The Chancellor has agreed

savings with seven Whitehall departments ahead of next month

spending review. George Osborne wants to repeat -- reduce spending

by �11.5 million by 2015. Even with the cuts, he still has to

find a further eight to nine William pounds. -- eight to �9 billion.

The Treasury is still searching for savings and they want you to know

they have found some full seven departments have settled their

budgets, those deals and early decisions mean over 20% of the cuts

that the Treasury needs in that year have been secured. We are taking

tough decisions, saving money in welfare, saving money in Whitehall,

so we can invest in services that really matter to people. Frontline

services and the NHS and investment in the economic structure that will

create jobs in the future. He went to Merseyside to make that point

where the government is helping to pay to dredge the river to

accommodate bigger ships. It was a chance for George Osborne to be seen

making things happen now. When he gets back to the office committee

will have to look to the future. With less than a month to go before

he has two set apartment budgets for 2015 and the current spending plan

runs out. -- he has to to set apart -- department budgets. The budgets

for the NHS schools and foreign aid ring fenced, which means he can't

cut them. Today he made it clear there would not be extra welfare

cuts either. It means the trickiest decisions are still to be made.

Office, defence, transport, local government, these are the big ones

to come. Making significant cuts in all of those on top of really big

cuts that have already happened will inevitably be difficult.

Smalltalk might flow more easily here than in West Mr for a while.

With some of the Chancellor 's colleagues fighting him hard and

sometimes publicly for budgets. The message from some departments to the

Treasury is, don't expect us to tackle our budgets until the last

possible minute before the spending review is announced to Parliament.

In the words of one source, this will go right to the wire. As for

Labour, they won't reveal their plans but they don't like the

Chancellor's. His priorities should be growth in 2013, instead of trying

to second-guess what he can't predict. He needs to start focusing

now on preparing the economy and repairing public finances.

Chancellor has to focus on finding and making the case for more cuts.

As part of trying to reduce greenhouse gases we are often

encouraged to save the rainforest or protect woodland. Now cutting down

trees is forming a key part of the government's renewable energy

policy. Trees which will then be burned in British power stations. By

2020, 15% of all energy needs are to come from renewable sources. Almost

a third is likely to come from wind and a fifth from wood. Ministers say

the trees will be replaced, making them renewable. Environmentalists

say it is bad for wildlife and in the short term, increases pollution.

The forest plantations of the south-east USA, some of the world 's

most productive, mainly grown for construction timber. Some of the

trees will be burned in Britain, to make electricity. It helps the UK

hit its targets for renewable power. Environmentalists don't like it but

foresters say it is only low-grade trees that are burned anyway.

would leave the bigotry is to continue to grow and add more value

which allows smaller trees to be used for energy. New trees are

planted to replace ones that are burned. As they grow, they soak up

the carbon dioxide that is heating the planet. But George also boasts

natural swamp forests, full of rare species like this swamp canary.

These woods are also being cut. This would tell a factory is clearly

processing logs from natural swamp forest. This is the native forest in

the south-eastern United States, which are tremendous -- tremendously

valuable resources. This is a misguided policy that will do little

or anything to address climate change, but has the potential to do

great damage to the environment in the south-eastern United States.

next stage is for the trees to be turned into wood chips. And dumped

here, on this mountain of wood. And it is a massive scale of this

operation that so alarms environmentalists. They say it takes

50 years for new trees to compensate for the CO2 released by old trees

when they are burned. And here is the world biggest importer of

American woodfuel, a power station in Yorkshire. The firm says burning

wood does save carbon emissions. analyse the use of carbon all the

way through two out of the furnace. We can demonstrate that we are

delivering real major carbon saving so it is very good for climate

change. Drax is converting half of its boilers from coal to wood

pellets, with a subsidy of around �1 billion. The UK is struggling to

meet targets for renewable power. And that is why ministers won't be

dumping the woodfuel subsidies any time soon.

A newborn baby is recovering in hospital in China after being found

trapped in a sewage pipe in a block of flats. The two-hour operation to

free the baby boy was filmed and contains some distressing images.

Firefighters were called after cries were heard coming from a toilet,

with only the baby's foot visible. A section of the pipe beneath was cut

away and, after a painstaking operation, the baby was finally

freed. He wasn't seriously injured and is recovering in hospital in

Zhejiang province. It isn't known how he ended up in the pipe but

police are treating it as attempted murder.

Max Clifford has appeared in court, charged with 11 counts of indecent

assault against seven teenage girls, the youngest aged 14. The

offences are alleged to have taken place between 1966 and 1985. The

publicist and eyes all charges. Tom Symons' report contains flash

photography. The man so often behind the story,

this morning was the story. That meant fighting his way with his

wife, past the cameras, to get into the court. What do you say to the

allegations? Max Clifford's answer, we are bearing up and I am not

guilty. He was arrested in December, charged last month and this brief

appearance in front of a Westminster Magistrates' Court the start of the

core process, it was over in minutes. Max Clifford confirmed his

name. He listened while all 11 charges were read to him, and each

time, quietly, he said, not guilty. The prosecution is accusing him of a

pattern of sexual offending, dating They cover the period during which

Max Clifford developed his formidable reputation as a celebrity

public relations adviser. He claimed to reporters this morning that until

recently, he had been kept in the dark as to the identities of those

making the allegations. The England manager Roy Hodgson has

appealed to fans going to tomorrow's friendly against Republic of Ireland

to behave themselves. It will be their first meeting in 18 years.

Their last one, in Dublin, was abandoned because of rioting.

It was a night that shamed football. February 1995, and

violence erupts at Lansdowne Road. As you may be aware, tonight

international between England and the Republic of Ireland in Dublin

was abandoned. Amid the ongoing troubles between the two countries,

far right militants had infiltrated England's fans in Dublin. The mayhem

that followed meant this was the last time the two teams played each

other. Tomorrow night, they meet again and England's fans have been

reminded of their responsibilities. The FA has appealed for no chanting

of a religious or political nature. There have been problems between the

two countries. We can't rewrite history. On the other hand, we are

playing a football match in totally different circumstances to the games

that were played in the past. We expect our supporters and the Irish

supporters to behave in the correct manner. Alan Kelly was Ireland's

goalkeeper in 1995 and he is still haunted by what he witnessed at

night. Seeing the pictures again brings it all back, that this is a

major incident, people are going to get hurt. I was on that pitch that

night and saw it on false, it still sends a shiver down my spine.

ripping up seeds and throwing missiles onto the fans sat below.

Just like the wider political landscape, much has changed since.

Lansdowne Road has been completely rebuilt and renamed. As a

12-year-old, Denis O'Connor was taken to the match here by his

father. Tomorrow, the two of them will be at Wembley. How important is

this game? Extremely important. We will never forget what happened in

1995, it was a very frightening experience for me and everybody who

was there. I think if everything goes smoothly, it will heal a lot of

old wounds. The Irish trained at Wembley for the first time in a