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is told he will die in jail. 30-year-old Dale Cregan had already | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
killed a father and son in a gangland feud. He lured PCs Fiona | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
Bone and Nicola Hughes to the house in Greater Manchester with a fake | :00:17. | :00:27. | |
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them. Today, the families gave their reaction. Our lives were ripped | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
apart beyond belief that day. Nothing could have prepared us for | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
the devastation. We will be looking at what drove Cregan to such brutal | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
violence. Also in the programme... "It's not good enough," says the | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
83-year-old left for hours in bed - warnings of a crisis in England's | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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have died in Syria - 93,000 killed in two years, many of them young | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
children. A sharp drop for RBS shares after | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
Stephen Hester's surprise announcement that he is leaving the | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
bailed-out bank. Australia's David Warner tries to | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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put his attack on an England player a century from Sangakkara has helped | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
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Sri Lanka beat England in the Good evening. Dale Cregan will spend | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
the rest of his life in prison for the ruthless, cold-blooded murders | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
of two unarmed policewomen and a father and son. The 30-year-old was | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
on the run from police last year after killing David and Mark Short. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
He hid in a house in Greater Manchester, called the police to | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
report a fake burglary and lured PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes to the | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
house. When they arrived, he killed them with a hail of bullets. Judith | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
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Moritz was in court. PC Nicola Hughes, on the left, always wanted a | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
career in policing. PC Fiona Bone adored the variety of life in the | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
force. They were murdered doing the jobs they loved. Today, their | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
families watched as the man who shot them was told he would die in | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
prison. Our lives have been shattered and will never be the same | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
again. To have a child taken away from you in such a meaningless way | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
is without doubt the worst thing any parent could imagine. Dale Cregan | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
was one of Britain's most wanted men. He escaped capture for five | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
weeks until he set a trap to bring the police to him. He called 999, | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
pretending to be a man called Adam Gartree, whose house had just been | :03:12. | :03:22. | |
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Bone and Hughes were called over to investigate the reported burglary. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
The women hardly have the chance to walk up the garden path before | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
Cregan came out shooting. Within just a few seconds, here on the | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
doorstep, he fired 32 bullets at them. The officers were wearing body | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
armour, but they were shot so many times, it could not save them. Fiona | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
Bone was hit in the heart, and Cregan executed Nicola Hughes at | :04:05. | :04:15. | |
close range and then threw a grenade at her before fleeing. This man, | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
speaking exclusively to the BBC, is too frightened to be identified. He | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
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was the first to rush to the aid of station in Hyde to hand himself in. | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
He approached the counter and said, I am wanted by the police and I have | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
just done two coppers. The officer on duty leapt over the desk to | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
arrest him. The impact of the shooting was enormous and immediate. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
Officers who had worked alongside the two now found themselves | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
investigating their murders. There was a sense that the police and | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
local community shared the grief of the officers' families. Can you | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
blame community, society? You cannot blame the police. The call handler | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
who sent them was in pieces. It was not his fault. That is why all | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
police are heroes, they do not know what they are going to. Police | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
officers from across the UK came to Manchester for the women's funerals. | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
They spoke of the police family. For the parents, it was and continues to | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
be a very public bereavement. get the initial shock of your | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
daughter dying, and on top of that, you have got everything else to deal | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
with. It is like a nightmare. But you realise you are never going to | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
wake up from it. The agony was prolonged as Cregan's high security | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
trial lasted for months, costing more than �5 million. Tonight, as he | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
was driven away, the relatives of the two policewomen said they hoped | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
they could begin to grieve properly. The deaths of the two policewomen | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
were described as the worst event in the history of Greater Manchester | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Police. The chief constable said Cregan had committed the murders | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
because he wanted to be seen as some sort of hero by the criminal | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
underworld. Chris Buckler looks at what drove Cregan to such violence. | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
Dale Cregan wanted to be associated with crime and violence. He boasted | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
that he had lost one of his eyes in a fight with a Thai policeman. Last | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
May, CCTV recorded him getting out of a car at the front of the Cotton | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
Tree Inn in Droylsden. He went inside and murdered Mark Short, the | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
first of his victims. The pub is now boarded up, but until last year, it | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
was at the centre of trouble involving rivals in Manchester's | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
criminal underworld sure this is two drugs families fighting over | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
territory, drugs and money. There was some disrespect between these | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
families and Dale Cregan was asked to sort it out. The incident which | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
led to that first murder was a row inside this pub in which a woman was | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
slapped. Dale Cregan shot Mark Short in revenge, and the feud did not end | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
there. Mark Short's father was killed by Cregan a few months | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
later. He was shot repeatedly and a grenade was left to explode beside | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
his body. More explosives were found even as Cregan was on trial. On the | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
same day David Short died, he was filmed pulling out the pin and | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
leaving another grenade in a separate attack on another house. | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
Gang violence was not a total surprise in the residential suburb | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
of Manchester where David shortly. heard he was into drugs and stuff | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
like that, so you expect that kind of thing, when you hear that people | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
are into drugs and organised crime. With Cregan on the run, the police | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
offered a �50,000 reward for information, which was put on show, | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
in cash. We were very, very concerned that he would kill other | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
people, and absolutely, we were constantly visiting his family, his | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
girlfriend and his relatives, absolutely, to try to discover where | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
he was. It is believed he was taken to Bradford and but Cregan returned | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
to Manchester, with the specific intention of killing police | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
officers. Cregan clearly follows the typical model of somebody with a | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
psychopathic personality disorder, and who is part of this sort of | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
criminal underworld, where this sort of violence is commonplace. It just | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
seems like he wanted to go out in some sort of distorted blaze of | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
glory. In the streets where he murdered, the last thing people want | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
is for Cregan to be known for notoriety. It is two police officers | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
who are being remembered here tonight, killed as they gave | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
service, by a man with no apparent There is a crisis in the home care | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
system for the elderly and disabled in England - that's the warning from | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
the Social Care Minister, Norman Lamb. He says the present system | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
encourages low wages, poor care and neglect. The BBC has been given CCTV | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
footage filmed by the family of one 83-year-old woman, showing the | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
treatment she received at the hands of her carers. Michael Buchanan | :09:53. | :10:03. | |
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been here 45 minutes ago. Unable to get out of bed are needed, she tries | :10:14. | :10:24. | |
to ring for help. Muriel is incontinent. She has now been in bed | :10:24. | :10:34. | |
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your grandad and I, at one time. Muriel, now in happier times, with | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
her grandson. Darryl installed the CCTV cameras to monitor his | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
grandmother, in case she fell. Over the months, from the footage we have | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
seen, carers turned up by the late or not at all on at least a dozen | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
occasions. You ring them up and they keep saying, oh, yes, we will be | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
sending somebody along, but they never did. It was terrible. The way | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
they treat old people, I am lucky I have got a family to look after me. | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
Those that have not got a family, God help them, poor devils. While | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
some carers were professional, the footage shows others who clearly | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
were not. One carer uses her fingers to test the temperature of the food. | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
Another simply watches television. This one played up to the cameras, | :11:50. | :12:00. | |
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and was disciplined by her employer. Muriel is an insulin-dependent | :12:00. | :12:10. | |
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diabetic, with a special diet, but this carer could not even cock. -- | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
cook. Mosaic Community Care, the company involved, is based in | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
Preston. The family say they complained repeatedly about the | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
service. However, in a statement, Mosaic said, at no time were any | :12:33. | :12:43. | |
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provided by one company, to one woman. But hundreds of thousands of | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
people have care at home, and some recent reports have questioned the | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
quality of it. Now, the Government is warning of a looming crisis | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
within the industry, with poor care, and even neglect, far too | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
commonplace. I showed the footage to the Care Minister, who had a meeting | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
today with home companies to discuss the problems in the | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
industry. It is just shocking and depressing, really, because this is | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
neglect in your own home. We know that this is not an isolated case. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
There is also some very good care, we should celebrate that, but where | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
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poor care exists, we should not tolerate it. The memory of what | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
happened here will long linger. Our home editor joins me now. Our | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
population is getting older. That's a tight squeeze on finances, what is | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
the solution? I think people looking at what we just saw, a lot of people | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
find that familiar. They will know it from their own experience and | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
perhaps a lot worse. When you think of the pressure that the career is | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
working under. These people are often given 15 minute slots to see | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
somebody. Perhaps an elderly person just wants to chat. No time for | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
that. Something goes wrong, no time for that. If you take time, then | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
you're late for the next one. There is this appreciate ire all the time. | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
People working on very low wages, minimum wage, perhaps not paid for | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
the time between jobs that. Puts enormous pressure on the system. For | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
the elderly people, delays and cancellations and that means people | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
left unfed, unwashed, left perhaps sitting in a chair overnight, never | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
put to bed, no-one coming around till the next morning. All those | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
kind of problems the Government says, well, perhaps we ought to look | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
at greater scrutiny of councils, maybe in terms what have they | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
commission, maybe a greater role for the Chief Inspector on that. Also, | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
ministers trying to encourage people to come forward with ideas for this. | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
I wonder whether this is a social problem for all of us. We need to be | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
thinking about are we prepared to spend more on our elderly? Or is | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
there a role also for families and communities to take more | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
responsibility? If we don't, we are putting greater risk onto our | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
vulnerable, elderly people. . At least 93,000 people have been killed | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
in Syria since the start of conflict, that's according to the | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
latest figures. Almost 2,000 of them are children under the age of ten. | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
This report contains some graphic This report contains some graphic | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
images. Syria has fallen into an abyss of | :15:33. | :15:43. | |
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violence. The fighting has long since passed the point where it can | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
be described as Civil War. To count the dead, the UN took names from | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
seven human rights groups and the Syrian government. Only those deaths | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
with a full name, date and place were recorded. As the UN says, the | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
figures are shocking. 93,000 people are confirmed dead. The real figure | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
could be as high as 130,000. Out of those that have been killed, 6. | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
5,000 were -- 6,500 were children. 1700 of those are under ten. On | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
every single day of the past year, more than 160 people were killed in | :16:22. | :16:30. | |
Syria. Many killings are deliberate, personal - throats cut, heads bashed | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
in, deaths that speak of sectarian hatred on both sides. There are well | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
documented cases of individual children being tortured and executed | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
and entire families, including babies, being massacred, which along | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
with this devastatingly high death toll is a terrible reminder of just | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
how vicious this conflict has become. The UN says civilians are | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
suffering most, but one of the groups contributing to this report | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
has a surprising conclusion - it is that more of the regime's troops | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
have been killed than civilians or even rebels. The uprising started as | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
a popular, peaceful movement. But it has escalated quickly. The use of | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
guerrilla warfare, car bombs, suicide bombs, the ambushing of | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
military check points and the indiscriminate United States of | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
mortars and home-made rockets. fighting is picking up. After the | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
fall of Qusair, the UN believes government forces will move onto | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
Aleppo. If so, there'll be many more dead to add to the total counted so | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
far by the UN. In the last few minutes, while we've | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
been on air, US officials have said that the Obama administration has | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
concluded that President Assad's forces have used chemical weapons in | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
the conflict. Our correspondent is in Washington and he's been | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
following developments. What more have they said? A statement from the | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
White House saying that intelligence suggests that the Syrian regime has | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
used chemical weapons against the rebels there, in particular soarin | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
gas and on a small scale, they say -- sarin. And that 150,000 have died | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
as a result. This constitutes a crossing of the red line, the line | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
that President Obama set for some sort of action as far as Syria is | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
concerned, apart from the humanitarian aid, which is being | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
provided at the moment. The statement goes on to say that the | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
United States will be calling on the United Nations and its allies and | :18:45. | :18:55. | |
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conifering as to what to do yet. But this is a high confidence | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
assessment, as it calls it, that chemical weapons have been used in | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
Syria. It says a red line has been crossed. The Assad regime should | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
know and I quote, "that its actions have led us to increase the scope | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
and scale of assistance we provide the opposition. Those efforts will | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
increase now going forward." Thank you. | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
The Government has denied claims that the Chancellor r Chancellor | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
ousted Stephen Hester as chief executive of the Royal Bank of | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
Scotland, more than 80% owned bit taxpayer. The surprise announcement | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
of his departure led to sharp falls in the share price today. | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
It matters to all of us. The Government owns 81% of RBS after a | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
bail out which saw �45 billion of taxpayers' money ploughed into the | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
bank. That's why the question of why the boss Stephen Hester is quitting | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
is so important. There's intense speculation over whether he was | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
forced out after disagreements over strategy with George Osborne. The | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
Government has denied that. A Treasury Minister told the Commons a | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
new boss was needed to take the bank through privatisation and beyond. | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
Having brought RBS back from the brink, now is the time to move on | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
from the rescue phase to the focus on RBS being a UK bank that provides | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
greater support to the British economy. But Labour demanded to know | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
more about the Chancellor's role in the change at the top of RBS. The | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
bank's share price fell sharply today. Some in the City claimed the | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Government had interfeared and its handling of the issue had been poor. | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
I think it's been very messy. First it's a surprise to see someone who | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
has led a successful repair job be removed at the behest of the | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
Treasury. Secondly, to do so without having a clear plan for succession | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
is, in my view, negligence. The BBC has learned that the body which | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
manages the Government's share holdings in banks told RBS it should | :20:52. | :21:01. | |
be ready for a share sale at the end of 2014 and it was a good idea to | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
have a new boss in place before then. The chairman, meanwhile, was | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
side stepping questions about how long he would stay at RBS. Can you | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
give us any sense of how long you're sticking around for? Well, the main | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
thing will be to make sure that we get a new CEO in place to re replace | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
Stephen and then we'll take it from there. The debate on Stephen | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
Hester's departure continues, on a day when RBS has announced further | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
cut backs in its investment banking operations, including here in the | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
City of London. It's seeking to focus more on its UK-based corporate | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
and household lending. RBS said about 2,000 investment banking jobs | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
would be cut, a fifth of the total, though not all in the UK. | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
It's hard to say when taxpayers will start getting some money back from | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
the RBS investment. George Osborne can only hope the leadership issue | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
doesn't make it more difficult. Iranians go to the polls tomorrow to | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
elect a successor to the country's controversial president, Mahmoud | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
Ahmadinejad. There are six candidates standing in the election. | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
Only one of them is regarded as ary formist. In the last election in | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
2009 was disputed and sparked mass protests, which were crushed. | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
Whoever wins this time will preside over a struggling economy. John | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
Simpson reports. Of the six carefully selected | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
candidates, five are pretty tame. Even the liveliest the | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
ultraconservative mayor of tie rain, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. When a | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
solitary reformist holds a rally, it's very different. Hassan Rowhani | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
may be the only cleric who's standing but he really rocks the | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
crowd. Purple is his colour, a reminder of the green campaign in | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
2009 when the moderates claimed the election then had been stolen from | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
them. For days on end, there was fury in the streets. These people | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
feel that their election has been stolen from them and they're showing | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
it in a way that Iranians are not used to doing. | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
Ever since, the government has clamped down hard on dissent. The | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
BBC hasn't been allowed to send in a team to cover this election, but | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
it's being watched carefully here in the newsroom of the BBC Persian TV | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
news service. It has huge audiences in Iran and that alarms the | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
government there. It's been threatening the families of several | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
people who work here. It is shocking. It is unprecedented. It | :23:43. | :23:52. | |
shows that the Iranian regime is so concerned about its security. It is | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
so concerned to control news in Iran. Inside the country, many | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
people seem less intimidated now. One young woman I phoned in Iran had | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
thought it was a waste of time to vote. Not any more. I just decided | :24:06. | :24:15. | |
to vote because I think if I do nothing, nothing going to be | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
changed. It dangerous to be saying that? I taking this risk to tell | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
you, to tell the world that we are, most of us, against our government. | :24:28. | :24:37. | |
Most of us want democracy in Iran. That's really interesting, because | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
it's obvious that more and more people in Iran are starting to | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
realise that unless they speak out openly, nothing in their country is | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
going to change. But, of course, it's got its dangers. Excitement in | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
Iran is growing. Everyone knows the religious establishment really runs | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
the country, not the elected politicians. But this vote could | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
turn into a referendum on Iran's entire system. | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
The media mogul Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce for his third | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
wife, Wendi Dung. The 82-year-old's marriage to Miss Dung, who's 44, had | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
broken down for the last six months. The Australian cricketer who punched | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
an England player in a bar last weekend has apologised for his | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
actions. David Warner has been suspended until the start of the | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
Ashes next movement -- month. | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
He was known as one of Australia's brightest talents, now he's known as | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
the man who tried to clobber an opponent. Today, it was David | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
Warner's turn to take it on the chin, fined, suspended until the | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
start of the Ashes and very contrite. I struck him in the face | :25:54. | :26:02. | |
and I'm here today to put my hand up and apologise publicly to Joe. And | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
to basically say that I'm putting my hand up. I'm responsible for my | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
actions, extremely remorseful. Daviesy knows how disappointed the | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
team is and I am with his behaviour. He knows it's not acceptable as an | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
Australian cricketer. He knows he'll have to do everything in his power | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
now to give himself a chance of being right for the first Test | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
Match. As for Joe Root, today he seemed none the worse for the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
eventful weekend. Scoring a 50 for England and proving he can also pack | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
some punch. Australia now want to draw a line under this controversy | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
and focus on their next match, here at the Oval on Monday. With less | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
than a month until the Ashes, this sort of distraction is the last | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
thing they need. It's great. I'm an Englishman through and through. I | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
enjoy seeing England beat Australia. Anything that can hamper Australia's | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
chances I'm all for. It the brought it upon themselves. Things are by no | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
means perfect for England either. They ended up losing to Sri Lanka | :27:04. | :27:08. |