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Two of the most powerful men in football have been banned | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
You have been kicked out in disgrace, how does it feel? | :00:10. | :00:21. | |
Sepp Blatter, the outgoing president of Fifa, is accused | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
of abusing his position, but he's promised to launch | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Suspended eight years, but I will fight, I will fight | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
And Michel Platini, the head of Uefa, also denies | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
abusing his position in connection with a ?1 million payment approved | :00:37. | :00:36. | |
We'll have the latest on the crisis that's engulfed Fifa this year. | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
This man begged for police help before he was murdered. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Now two officers have been convicted of misconduct. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
The world's strongest antibiotics, powerless against a superbug that's | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Another vulnerable patient whose death was not investigated | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
It's blatantly obvious that the care received was not good enough. | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
For them to not investigate is unbelievable. | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
And, the BBC gives up its contract to televise Formula One three years | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
The 19-year-old who died at the hands of her family. | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
Her sister-in-law and five siblings are jailed. | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
And, a threat to down arms if a police colleague is charged | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
Two of the most powerful men in world football, | :01:37. | :01:59. | |
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, have each been banned from the sport | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
An investigation by a Fifa committee found they had | :02:06. | :02:05. | |
Mr Blatter, the outgoing president of Fifa, and Mr Platini, | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
the head of European football, have both said they will launch appeals. | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
They both deny any wrongdoing when Mr Platini received a ?1 | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
million payment approved by Mr Blatter. | :02:18. | :02:30. | |
There are some flashing images in the report. | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
Just minutes after being kicked out of football in disgrace, | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
a visibly aged and dishevelled Sepp Blatter arrived at Fifa's | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
Wearing a plaster on his face, following a minor operation, | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
recent events appear to have caught up with the former president. | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
Anyone hoping for contrition should have known better. | :03:00. | :03:00. | |
I am sorry that I am still somewhere, a punching ball, | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
but I am sorry I am, as president of Fifa, | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
He vowed to appeal and said he is prepared to take his case | :03:12. | :03:30. | |
to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
I will fight for me and I will fight for Fifa. | :03:33. | :03:45. | |
Also banned today was Michel Platini, the man who had been | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
In September, Swiss prosecutors opened a criminal investigation over | :03:51. | :04:00. | |
what they described as an alleged disloyal or illicit payment of ?1.3 | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Platini said it was for work he had performed as an adviser to Fifa | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
With no written contract, the two most powerful men | :04:12. | :04:12. | |
in football were suspended and today Fifa banished both from the game | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
I am man of principles and these principles are, | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
and I still go on, never take money you have not earned. | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Now, they are telling me that I have tried to buy, | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
through Michel Platini, votes for the two elections. | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
Blatter has ridden out countless controversies but in May Fifa | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
was plunged into crisis, a host of senior football officials | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
arrested amid a US-led investigation into decades | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
Despite that, he was re-elected for a fifth term. | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
Under mounting pressure he announced he would step down next year. | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
European football chief Platini seemed set to take advantage but now | :05:07. | :05:06. | |
The sport is left to count the cost for the cost. | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
The game has not been affected by that. | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
It is too powerful to be affected by certain individuals. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
What has been affected is the fact that people are talking | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
about the corruption and about the football | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
and about the game in the same sentence. | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
The sport is now desperate to move on with a replacement for Blatter | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
The president must be relieved of his duties, | :05:31. | :05:42. | |
otherwise you cannot elect another president. | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
I am ashamed if you go in depth what has been presented and how | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
It would appear football has not seen the end of Blatter yet. | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
And that is the problem for the sport. | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
The symbol of its tainted past may have been shown the door | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
but his reign will continue to cast a shadow. | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
The fear is that Sepp Blatter leaves behind an organisation that is now | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
broken beyond repair. Fifa is being run in effect by a team of lawyers, | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
so many of its former leaders have left in disgrace, its critics argue | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
the question should not be who should succeed Sepp Blatter in | :06:36. | :06:36. | |
February, all which reform should be in plummeted to somehow regain | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
public trust, but whether or not in the future this organisation can | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
survive intact in its current form at all, whether it should be shut | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
down by the Swiss government and another body set up to replace it. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Sepp Blatter may have gone today, but the biggest scandal football has | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
ever seen, with further investigations on the horizon, looks | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
set to continue. A police officer and | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
a community-support officer have both been convicted of misconduct | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
following the murder of a man Bijan Ebrahimi, who was 44, | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
was murdered in what was called a vigilante attack amid false claims | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
he was a paedophile. He'd repeatedly called police | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
for help in the days before his death, but officers | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
were said to have dismissed him Disabled, depressed and vulnerable, | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
but the court heard Bijan Ebrahimiwas failed by police, | :07:23. | :07:36. | |
who saw him as a nuisance. In the summer of 2013, | :07:37. | :07:37. | |
a neighbour, Lee James, entered his home and wrongly | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
accused him of being a paedophile. Bijan Ebrahimi filmed his | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
threats and dialled 999. The court heard that Bijan Ebrahimi, | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
born in Iran, would often call police, and over the next couple | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
of days he repeatedly dialled 101. He said neighbours were still | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
calling him a paedophile and he asked for his local beat | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
manager, PC Kevin Duffy, to visit, but he refused | :08:15. | :08:14. | |
to take the calls. Bijan Ebrahimi on the | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
phone, asking for you. The following night, | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
Bijan Ebrahimi was kicked to death by his neighbour, Lee James, | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
and his body then set on fire. Today, a jury found PC Kevin Duffy | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
guilty of misconduct He will be sentenced | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
in the New Year. Police community support officer | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Andrew Passmore was also found Have you anything | :08:45. | :08:55. | |
to say? The jury was told he had made false | :08:56. | :08:55. | |
claims to an investigation about the area where | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
Bijan Ebrahimi lived. The constabulary failed local people | :09:04. | :09:04. | |
and this vulnerable person and has Two other police officers | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
were cleared of misconduct. Including PC Helen Harris, | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
who arrested Bijan Ebrahimi two days What part of be quiet | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
do you not understand? She admitted her behaviour had | :09:21. | :09:21. | |
been unprofessional, but today she was cleared | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
by the jury, along with her colleague, PC Leanne Wood, | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
who was also found not guilty. Bijan Ebrahimi's sisters say | :09:32. | :09:41. | |
the evidence they have seen and heard during the trial | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
has been heartbreaking. They did not take any notice of him, | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
they dismissed him and let him down. It is unimaginably painful for us | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
to hear and see how the police officers dealt with him | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
while he was in custody The trial may be over, | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
but next year at least 18 police officers and other staff face | :10:05. | :10:13. | |
internal misconduct hearings into the way they dealt | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
with Bijan Ebrahimi. Avon Somerset Police will not | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
comment on claims that some of those hearings will feature | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
allegations of racism. In Afghanistan, the Taliban claims | :10:25. | :10:34. | |
it has taken control of most of the Sangin district | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
following days of heavy fighting. Sangin was central to the British | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
military campaign in Helmand province, and the Taliban's advance | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
comes just over a year after British combat operations | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
ended in Afghanistan. More than 100 British soldiers | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
died in the fighting A former commander of British forces | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
in Afghanistan says Afghan forces We know that you have reported many | :10:53. | :11:10. | |
times from Afghanistan, what is your reading of the situation? You | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
mentioned how the Afghan forces need help, they do, the deputy governor | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
of Helmand province took to Facebook to say that Helmand province is on | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
the brink, he was begging for help, he said that 99 Afghan soldiers have | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
died in the last two days, and in some areas they are on the brink of | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
starvation. There has been a month of heavy fighting across the | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
province, Britain was involved, but as it stands, in a province of 14 | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
districts, all but two are either in Taliban hands or they are heavily | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
contested. Viewers will ask, what was the point of the battles that | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
British troops fought their? They made a difference, but a feud is ago | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
the Pentagon recognised that the Taliban was resilient, because they | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
were not defeated, they were pushed back, or they melted into the | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
traditional society, part of the society, so they are fighting back, | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
and it has been a terrible day, not just in sunken, but north of Kabul, | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
the American biggest military base, a suicide bombing, and six soldiers, | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
believed to be American, died in that operation. It is a reminder | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
again of these walls of our time, they are very long pause, they will | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
take place for a long time to come. More evidence has come to light | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
of failures to investigate unexpected deaths in parts | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
of the National Health Service. Last week, the Government ordered | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
a review of how investigations are handled in England after heavy | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
criticism of one of the biggest More families have now come forward | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
to voice their concern, as our social affairs correspondent, | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Michael Buchanan, reports. Thomas was beautiful, | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
amazing, compassionate, definitely mischievous, | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
he just wanted to make people laugh. Thomas Rawnsley was a son | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
and brother who happened to have He loved his music, his tomato | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
ketchup, sausage and chips, he just wanted the simple things, | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
his family and to be happy. There, one carer physically | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
abused him while his parents raised many other complaints | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
about his treatment. In February he contracted pneumonia | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
and died, aged just 20. No investigation has taken | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
place into his death. It feels like he was ignored | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
and dismissed throughout, especially during the last four | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
years, and to carry on doing that, even though it is obvious | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
that the care received was not good enough, for them to not | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
investigate is unbelievable. The family have been told | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
there is no medical evidence to suggest that Thomas | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
died of anything other Therefore, there will not be | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
an investigation into his death. But they are not alone | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
in trying to get the NHS Figures from two thirds | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
of mental-health trusts suggest that after nearly 1,500 deaths | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
of learning-disability inpatients over the past four years, just over | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
200 have been investigated. Data from a smaller sample indicates | :14:35. | :14:43. | |
that of the 276 deaths classed as unexpected, just | :14:44. | :14:43. | |
100 were investigated. If something happens | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
in one part of the NHS, it may be equally applicable | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
to another part, something in the south-west may be applicable | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
in Cumbria or the north-east, and if there is no systematic | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
collection of information and investigation, there is no way | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
that other providers can NHS England say they have | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
commissioned a study looking at all deaths of people | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
with learning difficulties. The families have already lost loved | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
ones and fear what others may What happened to Thomas | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
is horrendous, with a family fighting his corner very hard, | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
so what could be happening to vulnerable people out | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
there that do not have family? In a rare show of unity last week, | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
the UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution endorsing | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
an international road map The conflict has so far claimed | :15:41. | :15:41. | |
a quarter of a million lives and has forced millions into exile, | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
and the situation on the ground Tonight, in the latest of our series | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
looking back at this year's migration crisis, our special | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
correspondent, Fergal Keane, considers | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
the ability of the biggest global organisations to cope with the scale | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
of the world's problems. The struggles of the present | :16:03. | :16:14. | |
are rooted in the past. When great powers decided the fate | :16:15. | :16:14. | |
of far-away millions. Here at Sevres, outside Paris, | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
they signed the first of a series of treaties that would bring | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
generations of conflict. In this room, the defeated | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
Ottoman Turks gave up an empire that Ironically, as the victorious Allies | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
were busy carving up the Middle East here, | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
they had already signed another treaty in a different part | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
of the city to set up the world's first peacekeeping organisation, | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
the League of Nations, But now, as millions of Syrians | :16:51. | :16:50. | |
flee their homeland, why has the international community, | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
embodied in the UN, been incapable There is no value for the child, | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
for a human being. Back in 1994, the horrific images | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
of the Rwandan genocide, along with Bosnia, prompted | :17:06. | :17:21. | |
international pledges I reported on a country | :17:22. | :17:21. | |
abandoned by the world. There were two pots then, | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
that of the people who knew they were going to die | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
and the mortal terror they must have felt, and of the savagery and hatred | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
in the hearts of those After the shame of Rwanda, | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
interventions like Sierra But invasions in the Muslim world | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
would change all of that. The region was destabilised, | :17:41. | :17:53. | |
the UN deeply divided. When Syria descended into chaos, | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
there was no big power The West was fearful | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
of entanglement. The Russians backed Assad | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
and regional powers waged Rony Braumann, a founder | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
of the aid agency, MSF, is one of the world's most eminent | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
thinkers on humanitarian affairs. You cannot just say | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
interventions are worth nothing. In some cases, yes, | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
it is worth something. In most cases, it produced | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
more harm than good. We're all mindful of what happened | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
in Iraq in 2003, or what happened in Libya after the French | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
and British intervention in 2011. So, be wary of intervention | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
as a political solution. President Assad, his enemies, | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
and their supporters, The West has been incoherent | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
and inconsistent. A veteran UN peacemaker in Africa, | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
Iraq, Northern Ireland, Martti Ahtisaari condemns | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
the international disunity over It is a disgrace and I am ashamed | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
that international communities have allowed the Syrians to keep | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
on killing each other. There are places where | :19:04. | :19:12. | |
peace is winning. This is a celebration for | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
Nobel Prize winners from Tunisia. Where civil society groups refused | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
outside help and still brought opposing factions together, | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
opposing civil war. Ouided Bouchamaoui, | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
a business leader, is one Many of the international | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
communities try to help us It is our fear, sometimes | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
we were upset, sometimes But we have just one | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
thing, to avoid war. The Syrian crisis presented | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
the world with its greatest political and humanitarian | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
challenge in decades. These newly-arrived refugees | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
in Stockholm are among the millions If you see every day a lot of kids | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
killed without any reasons. You find the kids in pieces, | :20:11. | :20:27. | |
without heads, without That was Orabi Hamdan | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
speaking to Fergal Keane. Bacteria that can resist the most | :20:34. | :20:49. | |
powerful antibiotic available have Last month, it was reported | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
that the same bug had been found in patients and livestock in China, | :20:56. | :20:56. | |
prompting scientists to warn that the world was edging | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
towards a dangerous Our health editor, | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
Hugh Pym, is with me. how do you assess the extent of this | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
threat? There have been warnings about the danger of superbugs | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
emerging, resistant to all antibiotics in decades to come. | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Today's developed and is about the last resort drug for doctors if all | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
else fails. Last month in China there were strains of bacteria in | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
humans and animals said to be resistant to the drug. Public Health | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
England has said it has looked back thousands of patient records on | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
bacteria and found in a small number of cases there was resistance to the | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
drug. Public Health England says it is a very low risk and these | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
bacteria can be treated by other and to budget. Campaigners have said | :21:55. | :21:55. | |
there is overused, particularly in agriculture, and this is very much a | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
warning shot. After the most closely-fought | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
general election in Spain's recent history the political parties | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
are about to engage in talks The Conservative Prime Minister, | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
Mariano Rajoy, says he'll try to keep his Popular Party | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
in power, despite falling far short Two new parties, including | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
the anti-austerity Podemos, Our correspondent, Tom Burridge, | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
reports from Madrid. The economic crisis | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
is often invisible... Even in a working-class | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
suburb of Madrid. Talk to people here, | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
and that word, austerity, It is why this woman, | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
who cares for the elderly for 700 euros a month, | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
voted for a party with TRANSLATION: All my social | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
support has been cut, Her vote went to Podemos, | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
an anti-austerity movement. After a ground-breaking election, | :22:54. | :23:05. | |
it is a political force This was the party's leader today, | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
a former university professor, so different from your traditional, | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
Spanish politician. What is your message | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
for the rest of Europe today? Sovereignty is the main | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
word for us in order Never again, never again, | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
Spain as a periphery of Germany. The leader that implemented | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
the austerity measures is Mariano Still for now the Prime | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
Minister of Spain. Tonight, after a meeting | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
with senior party members, he insisted he will try to form | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
a government because his Conservative Party | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
won the most votes. His supporters celebrated | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
for the cameras last night. But the party suffered | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
its worst result since 1989. Mr Rajoy might struggle to find | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
allies so he can govern. So, journalists in Spain are now | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
discussing the unknown in a new era. Many leaders are starting to think | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
about the possibility of another election in two or three months' | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
time because it is so difficult to form a government | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
with the numbers that we have. There are no real answers to any | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
of the questions today. It is an extraordinary day | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
in our lives in Spain. Not even villages escape | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
the property bubble which caused economic pain and now | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
political change. In rural areas, you find | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
the other Conservative Spain, So, Spain is divided tonight. Though | :24:43. | :25:03. | |
most people agree that there is a need for change, the parties | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
negotiating for power disagree on fundamental questions like how to | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
run the economy and whether there should be a Scottish style | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
referendum in the region of Catalonia. Spain is shrouded in | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
uncertainty. Financial markets expressed some uncertainty about | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
that today. There has to be a Coalition Government within two | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
months, otherwise there will be a fresh election early next year. | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
There will be no more Formula One races covered live | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
The contract is being ended three years ahead of time to save money. | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
The terrestrial rights will be taken over by Channel 4. | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
The BBC's director of sport said the decision had | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
But BBC Radio 5 Live will still have commentary of every grand prix, | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
as our correspondent, David Sillito, reports. | :25:49. | :25:59. | |
The BBC and Formula 1 have a long history. What began 40 years ago in | :26:00. | :26:11. | |
the era of James Hunt and commentator Murray Walker has today | :26:12. | :26:21. | |
ended with the BBC handing over its rights mid-contract. I am enormously | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
sad that the BBC is losing Formula 1. Long-term, I have to say I worry | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
about the BBC's ability to retain major sport. Sport deserves more and | :26:34. | :26:44. | |
Formula 1 certainly does. It is not the only sport the BBC has lost | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
recently. The the open has gone in the goal. In a statement, the | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
director of sport said: lights out, away we go. For viewers | :26:57. | :27:14. | |
it means simply a switch to Channel 4. Free to air TV matters. Globally, | :27:15. | :27:23. | |
Formula 1 audiences have been dipping. Bernie Ecclestone wants to | :27:24. | :27:23. | |
keep the sport as visible as possible. By watching on free to air | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
you are getting 20 times the number of people watching it. Bernie needs | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
people watching it to encourage sponsors into the sport, to keep it | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
strong. He needed to keep it on free to air. Formula 1 did spend ten | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
years with ITV. But the BBC relationship that began in the 70s | :27:45. | :27:54. | |
will be hard to rekindle. In an age of spiralling sports right and the | :27:55. | :27:55. | |
corporations looking to save another half ?1 billion. | :27:56. | :28:01. |