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intensifies, with more violence on the streets of Istanbul. Riot police | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
have stormed a central square, where anti-government protests have been | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
taking place for nearly two weeks. The clamp-down came as the Turkish | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Prime Minister warned that he was running out of patience with | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
protesters. We will have the latest from Istanbul. Also tonight: Lloyds | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Banking Group admits mistakes in the way it handled complaints about | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
payment protection insurance. Major reform of GCSEs in England, with | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
less coursework and more exams. Young people in this country deserve | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
an education system that can con Peter with the rest of the world, a | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
system that sets and achieves higher expectations. -- computing. Dozens | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
of arrests in central London ahead of the G8 summit of world leaders | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
next week. And Sir Henry Cecil, one of the most successful racehorse | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
trainers of all time, has died. In Sportsday on BBC News, a miserable | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
end to England's under 21 Championship. Already out of the | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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tournament, they were beaten 1-0 by violence in the centre of Istanbul | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
as riot police have clashed with thousands of anti-government | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
protesters. The Turkish Prime Minister says he is running out of | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
patience after 12 days of unrest is and accused the demonstrators of | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
damaging the country's reputation and economy. Jeremy Bowen has the | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
latest. I have just walked through Gezi Park | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
and along the edge of Taksim Square, where the protests are taking place. | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
There are thousands of demonstrators, massed ranks of riot | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
police. As I speak to you now, we are on the eighth floor and I can | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
hear people bringing up more barricades. There are riot squads on | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
the other side of the square, with water cannons standing ready. All of | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
this has been going on all day, since early this morning. Ever since | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
these protests started happening, around two weeks ago, it has become | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
the most serious challenge that Prime Minister Erdogan has faced in | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
his ten years in power. This morning, it became much more acute. | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
Before we have your report, one more question. Just to underline the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
tensions that are happening, during the day the Prime Minister could not | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
have been clearer, talking about running out of patience. What have | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
you think that means in terms of policy and his approach to this | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
crisis now? Well, as one person here, sympathetic to the | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
demonstrators, said to me earlier on, he has made enemies out of all | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
of these people. In the past, Mr Erdogan has been a very canny | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
politician. He has won three elections, the last one with getting | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
on for 50% of the vote. He has done that by being pragmatic and being | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
able to deal with people. But he has been very hostile to these | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
demonstrators from the outset. This morning, he sent in his riot police. | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
Turkey's Prime Minister said he had run out of patience with the | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
demonstrators and would tolerate no more. So he sent in the police. For | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
Nelly two weeks, anti-government protesters have occupied Taksim | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Square and the adjoining Gezi Park, where the anti-government | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
demonstrations began. The Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
been the target of many of the slogans of the demonstrators, | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
lampooned and insulted on the posters they put up in the square. | :04:09. | :04:18. | |
His followers expected a tough response, and he delivered. In | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Parliament, Mr Erdogan said that the protests were part of an | :04:21. | :04:29. | |
international campaign to distort turkey's image and ruinous | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
reputation. Translation I urge the people that are there to put an end | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
to this protest. This is over. We will not put up with this any | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
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Istanbul tweeted that the people would not be touched. Some try to | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
start a human chain. It did not work. We saw police coming and we | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
were terrified. All we can say is that we are terrified. When lawyers | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
protested about what was happening, their rally was attacked by the riot | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
squads as well. By mid-afternoon, the police were using tear gas in | :05:18. | :05:26. | |
Gezi Park. We saw policemen come to the streets, they said we did not | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
have to be afraid, but then they shoot at us. So nobody believes | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
them. The clashes went on all day and into the evening. Protesters | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
fell back to the park to be treated for the effects of tear gas. The | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
occupation began to try to save Gezi Park, one of central Istanbul's last | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
parks, from developers. Another violent police crackdown ten days | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
ago made it the focus for a sustained protest, uniting different | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
groups who opposed the Prime Minister's brand of conservatism | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
with an Islamist flavour. So far, the Prime Minister has not offered a | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
whisper of compromise, just force. The original nonviolent | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
demonstrators vanished in a cloud of tear gas. They deny the Government | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
accusation that the protest have been hijacked by vandals and | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
terrorist 's. Turkey is badly split. Mr Erdogan's supporters applaud what | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
he has done, they have given him three election victories and they | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
believe that he is making Turkey into a great power. But he has | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
reached the limit of what is possible without a more consensual | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
style of Government. Without listening to the 50% of the | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
electorate that did not vote for him. Now, Mr Erdogan's supporters | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
will be pleased with what they are saying. They believe that the police | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
needed to go in and get these people out. The question now is how this | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
will go down with the country, right across Turkey. As I speak to you at | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
the moment, more demonstrators are moving into the square. I think we | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
can expect a surge from the police to drive them back. This thing looks | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
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like it is going to go on all night, The Financial Conduct Authority has | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
expressed serious concerns about the way banks are handling complaints | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
about the mis-selling of payment protection insurance. Lloyds Banking | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Group has admitted to shortcomings at one of its centres dealing with | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
compensation claims, an undercover investigation by The Times newspaper | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
found evidence that workers were told to ignore possible fraud by the | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
bank's sales staff. Lloyds. The biggest retail bank in | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
Britain and, almost inevitably, the bank that mis-sold more PPI policies | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
than any others. Now, they are accused of not being fair to | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
customers who want compensation. David Ricks, veils near Port, has | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
trying and failing to get restitution for insurance policies | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
he took out. They have been delaying, the guy and the lady that | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
came on the phone, they have both been asking questions that really | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
there is no answer to. Can you remember what you were doing 13 | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
years ago? Maybe some people can. I think they are trying to frighten | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
people. One of Lloyds's eight customer handling centres is said to | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
not have shown due care when dealing with customer compensation, | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
according to a reporter who went undercover at the bank. We were | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
given access to something called the Lighthouse Guide. It was their | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
complaints handling manual. It openly stated that Lloyds had lost | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
documents, but in spite of that, we should go on and handle the | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
complaint anyway without this evidence that might have allowed us | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
to a a customer complaint. Which suggests that most banks still | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
haven't ditched entrenched attitudes that the customer is usually wrong. | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
It reminds us that the big clearing banks, largely, have some of the | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
worst customer complaint handling records in the market. I think they | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
have a long way to go yet. Lloyds insisted that other complaint | :09:25. | :09:35. | |
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centres operated to higher complaint handlers are that they are | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
too focused on defending the interests of the employers, rather | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
than understanding what happened from the customer's point of view. | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
That anti-customer culture alleged to have started right at the point | :09:57. | :10:07. | |
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of training, in Lloyds's case, here, in one of the city's most iconic | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
buildings. In spite of these concerns, Lloyds has dished out �4.3 | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
billion of compensation to 1.3 million customers. Nor is it just | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Lloyds that is not treating complaining customers properly. The | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, tells me it is concerned | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
that there are widespread defects that other big banks as well. | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
The GCSE system in England is to be changed, starting with pupils | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
sitting their exams in 2017. The Education Secretary Michael Gove | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
says he wants to make the new curriculum more ambitious and new | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
exams more challenging. The use of assessed coursework will come to an | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
end and results will depend on final exams. Teaching unions and Labour | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
say that the changes are being introduced to quickly. | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
The exams pupils set at 16 have become fought over territory. | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
Ministers have called the existing system discredited, saying the | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
present GCSEs are badly designed and not demanding enough. Today, the | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
Education Secretary said that he was once again going to try to change | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
all of that. Young people in this country deserve an education system | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
that can compete with the rest of the world, a system that sets and | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
achieves higher stations. Today's reforms are essential to achieving | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
this goal. Key to the changes is a new grading system. The present A* | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
to G, it suggested, should be scrapped, and replaced with eight | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
for the highest mark and one for the lowest. There will be less | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
coursework and no modules. The new courses will have more traditional | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
content, with old-style end of course exams. The new look GCSE will | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
look and feel very different from now. These first-year pupils will be | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
the first to set them. It should be good, but I would prefer if it | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
happened to a different year, at least the year above. Everybody | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
knows the lettering system, I don't think it will make much difference | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
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if it changes to numbers. I don't nine core subjects. In this | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
literature, pupils will study a Shakespeare play and a 19th-century | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
novel. In maths they will do more algebra, statistics and probability. | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
The headteacher here thinks there is a case for reform of GCSEs, but he | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
is not sure if this is the right way of doing it. Overall I am very | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
cautious about these proposals. I think they need to be debated in | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
full and we need to look at the concerns around them, the good parts | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
we can take out before they are implemented. I would worry that a | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
rush of fermentation would result in a poorer assessment system. Michael | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
Gove originally wanted a system of O-levels for academic children, with | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
a CSE for the less able. That was squashed by the liberal than crops. | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
He then proposed a new qualification, but he had to abandon | :13:03. | :13:13. | |
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that as well. Your this is his third attempt to get this right. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
certainly prefer rigorous exams, but we do not agree with moving entirely | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
to exams in most subjects. changes herald the prospect of | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
different exams in different UK nations, as Wales is sticking with | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
existing GCSEs. Northern Ireland is it milling a lack of appetite for | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
change, while Scotland has always had its own system. Meanwhile, in | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
England, these teenagers were today sitting there old-style GCSEs, in | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
the knowledge that their qualification looks on the way out. | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
You can find out a little more about those GCSE changes in England. Look | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
at our website. There is also a question and answer section giving | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
you more details. The former Chief Executive of HBOS, | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
James Crosby, has had his knighthood withdrawn, following a highly | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
critical Parliamentary report into the bank's collapse. He had asked | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
for the honour to be removed, after a report claimed he was the | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
architect of the strategy that set the course for disaster. | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
In South Africa, the President has appeared on television to tell the | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
nation that Nelson Mandela is receiving the best of care. The | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
former President's condition has not improved. The President said | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
everyone was praying for the man he called the real father of democracy | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
in South Africa. Our report reporter sent this report. | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
School assembly this morning in Johannesburg. And some more get well | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
messages for Nelson Mandela. You are the first black President and we | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
wish you a good luck. The children are born free. They never knew the | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
brutal racial segregation that Mandela helped defeat. But here in | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
South Africa, the 94-year-old has become a sort of living saint. | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
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like our father. I wish him a speedy recovery. Because I can't imagine, | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
you know, our country without him. At the hospital, tighter security | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
today. Officially his condition remains serious, but stable. It's | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
very serious, but he's stabilised. And we are all praying for him | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
really to recuperate quickly. We need him to be with us. But men Dell | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
la's family are at his bedside and the atmosphere remains sombre. In | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
recent days the mood has begun to change here. Even some of his close | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
friends is become to talk about the need to accept the inevitable and | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
let him go, but for millions of South Africans, that remains | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
something almost too painful to contemplate. It's like us as a | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
nation we are not ready yet for him to die. We are not ready. 27 years | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
in jail fighting for freedom in South Africa. We don't want him to | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
die, but we can't forget him in history. People don't relate to | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
Mandela purely as a great political leader or liberation hero, but | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
relate to him on a personal level and that's what makes this moment so | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
difficult and complicated for South Africa. It's like a relative?It's | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
very much so and the entire country really is gathered rather like a | :16:53. | :17:02. | |
group of relatives waiting for news. And that includes a generation that | :17:02. | :17:11. | |
knows only the legend. People who live in England are more | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
likely to die early in the north-west, than in any other part | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
of the country, according to new research. The information has been | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
mapped to show where the risk of dying before the age of 75 is | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
highest. Red is high risk and green is lower risk. Every year in England | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
around 153,000 people die prematurely, defined as before the | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
age of 75 and most of those deaths are caused by cancer, liver disease | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
and heart problems. The figures show that Blackpool is one of the highest | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
rates of early deaths, as we now report. | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
How long you live can depend on where you live. Getting a good | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
education, decent housing, a job, all these have a direct bearing on | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
your health. Blackpool has one of England's least healthy populations. | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
The worst death rates for lung and liver disease linked to smoking and | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
drinking. At this library they offer on-the-spot blood pressure checks, | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
with sometimes alarming results. have had an odd incident where we | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
have had to call an ambulance, because we have been so worried | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
about somebody's blood pressure and it has been really high. Blackpool's | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
problems are well known. For years, the council and local health experts | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
have been battling to help people improve health, but the underlying | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
issues contributing to the issues, mainly poverty and joblessness, are | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
almost overwhelming and the council now responsible for improving public | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
health, says it can't do it alone. When you look at the wide wider | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
determinants of ill-health and the poverty and deprevation, a lot of | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
those things are down to the cuts that councils have had to make. It's | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
much harder for councils to tackle the issues. But the Health Secretary | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
says local authorities can use the new website to learn from each | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
other. What we want to do is to spur those areas that are underperforming | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
to look at other similar areas and see what they can learn and save | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
more lives as a result. It does seem broadly accepted that the ill-health | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
here is connected to levels of poverty in the town and yet there | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
are other parts of England that are equally poor and yet by focussing on | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
a single issue, like obesity, they've they've made a difference -- | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
they'veed made a difference. In Rotherham, a concerted campaign is | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
paying off, even though there are relatively high levels of poverty, | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
it has low early death rates. they want to change their lifestyle, | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
we offered them support to stop smoking with cutting down on | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
drinking or stopping and with losing weight, so it's a comprehensive | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
programme for the people of Rotherham. There are some who argue | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
that today's figures just ill trait what we already knew - that poverty | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
and health are closely linked and addressing one will help the other, | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
but the scale of the health problems facing towns like black proole are | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
considerable and finding a -- Blackpool are considerable and | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
finding a solution won't be easy. The Prince of Wales said his father | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
is feeling better following surgery last week. He's better. Thank you so | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
much. Prince Charles was speaking on a visit to Dundee. Prince Phillip | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
was 92 yesterday and he's expected to stay in hospital until next week. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
More than 30 people have been arrested in the centre of London | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
during protests against the G8 summit which is take is place in | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
Northern Ireland. The stop G8 Group, said it was planning a carnival | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
against capitalism ahead of the summit. A number of people were | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
removed by police in a building in the West End which they had | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
occupied. The G8 forum starts in six days. But the protests have begun | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
and so has the police operation. With abseil teams watching from | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
above, officers in riot gear raided this building, occupied by | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
anti-capitalist demonstrators, preparing to take to the streets. | :21:10. | :21:19. | |
But this man, shouting, "No more", made it on to the roof. He seemed to | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
be trying to jump. Even as officers hauled him off the roof, he | :21:26. | :21:35. | |
struggled. In the streets below, the protests began. 200 to 300 targeting | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
what they called London's hiding places of capitalist power. It | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
wasn't long before they clashed with the police. And the arrests began. | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
As it often the case in these situations, this has been a running | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
race around Mayfair. The police trying to break up the protesters | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
into smaller groups and they do seem to be being successful. The | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
protesters represented no single group and when we asked, some | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
refused to discuss why they were protesting. None of you do any | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
proper journalism. For that reason you won't tell us why you are here? | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
No. Others were prepared to explain their views, that the G8 forum of | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
the richest countries represents capitalist power and that's the | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
cause of global problems. They don't represent us. And the problems they | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
are trying to solve, they are never going to solve it, because they are | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
complicit in those crimes. There appeared to be no attempts today to | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
damage shops and businesses. There was full security at places like the | :22:43. | :22:52. | |
Ritz, targeted in the past. The Met said it had asked the demonstrators | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
to discuss plans for a peaceful protest, but they had refused. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, will travel to Washington | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
tomorrow to meet the US Secretary of State, John Kerry. They'll discuss | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
the conflict and the continuing loss of life in Syria. We'll talk to | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
James Landale, at Westminster. James, what is is he hoping to | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
achieve? There is a lot of talk in London, Paris and Washington about | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
the idea of averpleing the rebels in Syria -- arming the rebels in Syria. | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
We know President Obama will hold meetings on this tomorrow. William | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
Hague is going to Washington to find out where the Americans are at on | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
this. I don't think a decision is imminent, but it's an option that is | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
being considered with growing urgency, first, because Assad's | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
forces are gaining the upper hand and the US and Britain want to put | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
some pressure on Russia and the rest. They think there will be | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
consequences. What will be crucial are the conversations that the Prime | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
Minister has with President Obama and President Putin at the G8 in | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
Northern Ireland next week, when we will find out how far the Americans | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
are prepared to go and the Russians too. For the Prime Minister, they is | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
one big hurdle and that's Parliament. Many are opposed to | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
arming the rebels, but this idea is a very live one. | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
One of the most successiful race horse trainers of all time, Sir | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
Henry Cecil has died at 70. He had been suffering from cancer. He won | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
25 classic races in Britain. He was champion trainer ten times. One race | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
horse owner once put it this way, buy a horse and send it to Sir Henry | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
cyst ill, if you want it to win. He was staggering successful. And he | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
made life seem like a breeze, great dresser and shoe collector. He dealt | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
with severe adversity. The winners dried up and he was gripped by | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
cancer, but he kept going and that won him even more admiration. | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
one of the most loved people in the sport over a long time. You go back | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
nearly four decades to his first classic winner and right through to | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
a fortunate ending of being able to train the greatest horse that any of | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
us will ever see. That horse was frank el. Trained by Sir Henry cyst | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
elto a perfect unbeaten record. As frank elsored to new heights Cecil | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
was at his most fragile. Strong enough to watch him win for the last | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
time last year. Best I've ever had and seen. Eye will be very surprised | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
if there is better. He helped make the reputation of frank el's jockey, | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
Tom Queally. He was absolutely a different gear. Like every other | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
trainer aspires to be like him and nobody will ever come close. | :25:58. | :26:03. |