14/03/2016 BBC News at Ten


14/03/2016

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 14/03/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

Tonight at Ten - Russian forces are to be withdrawn from Syria.

:00:00.:00:08.

President Putin says their mission has been accomplished.

:00:09.:00:11.

For the past six months, Russian forces have been attacking

:00:12.:00:14.

the enemies of President Bashar al-Assad, but now they say it's time

:00:15.:00:17.

While the rest of the world was taken by surprise,

:00:18.:00:23.

Russia said it had agreed the change with Syria over the past few weeks.

:00:24.:00:28.

TRANSLATION: With the participation of the Russian military,

:00:29.:00:31.

there has been a dramatic turnaround in the situation

:00:32.:00:33.

in the fight against international terrorism.

:00:34.:00:38.

We'll have the latest from the Syrian capital Damascus -

:00:39.:00:40.

and we'll be reporting on the continued turbulence

:00:41.:00:42.

In Germany, Chancellor Merkel says she will not close the door

:00:43.:00:49.

on migrants, despite major losses for her party in regional elections.

:00:50.:00:54.

Hundreds of migrants leave a camp in northern Greece,

:00:55.:00:56.

wading through water to avoid a border fence,

:00:57.:00:58.

From rebel to Master of the Queen's Music -

:00:59.:01:07.

the composer Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies has died

:01:08.:01:08.

And the mysterious evolution of T-Rex.

:01:09.:01:14.

We report on a great leap forward by scientists.

:01:15.:01:35.

Can Leicester extend their lead at the top of the Premier League, or

:01:36.:01:40.

camera for Benitez start his Newcastle ten year with a win? -- or

:01:41.:01:48.

Canon Rafa Benitez start his Newcastle career with a win.

:01:49.:01:54.

President Putin of Russia has taken the international community

:01:55.:01:58.

by surprise and ordered most of his forces to

:01:59.:02:00.

Mr Putin said that the Russian military intervention -

:02:01.:02:04.

which started last September - had largely achieved its objectives,

:02:05.:02:06.

and now was the time to intensify the peace process.

:02:07.:02:08.

American officials said they'd had no advance warning

:02:09.:02:10.

Over the past six months, Russia has invested heavily

:02:11.:02:17.

in its air and naval facilities, at Latakia and Tartus.

:02:18.:02:20.

It's carried out thousands of air strikes across Syria,

:02:21.:02:22.

taking significant territory from the enemies

:02:23.:02:24.

Our chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet

:02:25.:02:26.

is in the Syrian capital Damascus tonight.

:02:27.:02:41.

The message from the President's office in Damascus in the last hour

:02:42.:02:48.

is he moved by Russia was coordinated with the President's

:02:49.:02:52.

office, and that it had been studied for some time. What seems equally

:02:53.:02:56.

clear is that Moscow has been studying what has come out of

:02:57.:03:00.

Damascus, including a stubborn refusal to even consider discussing

:03:01.:03:05.

the future of President Assad, and also talk of a military solution in

:03:06.:03:09.

this war. It's not what Moscow has in mind.

:03:10.:03:14.

Russia's military intervention in Syria has changed the tide of this

:03:15.:03:20.

war in President Assad's favour. When Moscow sent in its warplanes

:03:21.:03:25.

and advanced weaponry last September, its ally was faltering on

:03:26.:03:28.

key front lines. Then came this shock announcement. TRANSLATION: I

:03:29.:03:36.

think that the task that was put before the Ministry of Defence and

:03:37.:03:40.

the Armed Forces is largely complete. Therefore, I ordered the

:03:41.:03:43.

Minister of defence, from tomorrow, to begin the withdrawal of the main

:03:44.:03:49.

part of our military from the Syrian Arabic republic. Ever since Russia

:03:50.:03:56.

intervened in Syria, its Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, has worked

:03:57.:03:58.

closely with his American counterpart. But today, even the

:03:59.:04:04.

White House seems to have been taken by surprise. I haven't seen those

:04:05.:04:09.

specific reports. And what about President Assad, who is said to have

:04:10.:04:16.

been informed? He made a surprise visit to Moscow last of Toba to see

:04:17.:04:19.

the Russian leader, his only visit out of Syria since the war began

:04:20.:04:24.

five years ago. A clear sign of who has the upper hand in a crucial

:04:25.:04:31.

relationship. I think this is a bid for Russia to use its leveraged in

:04:32.:04:36.

the Syria conflict to pressure Assad, as Russia has orally asked

:04:37.:04:38.

him to be constructive in these peace talks to try to move the

:04:39.:04:41.

political transition process forward. Russia didn't just throw

:04:42.:04:48.

its weight on the battlefield, it also helped break a stubborn

:04:49.:04:53.

diplomatic stalemate at the UN Security Council last December. And

:04:54.:04:57.

it paved the way for the first major truce in this war, now in its third

:04:58.:05:01.

week, and unexpectedly still holding. But this may be why this

:05:02.:05:08.

announcement came today. Peace talks in Geneva, where the Syrian

:05:09.:05:13.

government is taking a hard line. Too hard for Moscow. And the UN,

:05:14.:05:18.

which sounded a warning. I don't know whether anyone else has a plan

:05:19.:05:22.

B here, I am only aware of a planned a, which is giving the maximum

:05:23.:05:30.

chances, and the maximum pressure by the international community, in

:05:31.:05:36.

order to ensure that this type of Syrian talks and the cessation of

:05:37.:05:40.

hostilities, and the humanitarian task force, is given the maximum

:05:41.:05:47.

opportunity. Russia doesn't want another long war, another

:05:48.:05:51.

Afghanistan. It will not pull out completely. But saying to its Syrian

:05:52.:05:56.

ally, we expect you to sit down and negotiate a way out of this war.

:05:57.:06:00.

Our Russia correspondent Steve Rozenberg is in Moscow.

:06:01.:06:02.

Steve, you've recently been reporting on Russian military

:06:03.:06:04.

operations in Syria - how do you read today's

:06:05.:06:06.

It's quite a surprise. The last time I was at the Russian airbase in

:06:07.:06:19.

Syria ten days ago, there was clearly less military activity than

:06:20.:06:25.

I had seen on previous trips, less bombers and fighter jets taking off

:06:26.:06:29.

than before, and we were told the Infosys was moving to diplomacy. We

:06:30.:06:33.

were shown a peace and reconciliation Centre the army had

:06:34.:06:36.

set up at the base but there were no hints the army were going to

:06:37.:06:40.

announce a major troop withdrawal. It's clear the Russians didn't want

:06:41.:06:43.

to get bogged down in a protracted military conflict. They did not want

:06:44.:06:49.

a second Afghanistan. The Kremlin is calculating that with cessation of

:06:50.:06:53.

hostilities in Syria, and with the peace process starting, this was the

:06:54.:06:57.

time to scale back and bring back lots of troops and declare the

:06:58.:07:01.

operation a success. One caveat, the numbers. We don't know how many

:07:02.:07:05.

troops are coming back, and we do not know how many will remain at the

:07:06.:07:09.

Russian airbase and the Russian naval facility, its only outlet to

:07:10.:07:14.

the Mediterranean. The West has criticised Russia over Russia's

:07:15.:07:18.

military campaign in Syria, accusing the Russians of targeting anyone

:07:19.:07:26.

taking up arms against President Assad. But tonight Moscow is

:07:27.:07:28.

declaring this operation a military, political and diplomatic success.

:07:29.:07:33.

Syria's northern neighbour, Turkey, is having to grapple with a series

:07:34.:07:35.

of challenges as a result of the Syrian conflict

:07:36.:07:38.

and the impact it's having on the wider region.

:07:39.:07:40.

Turkish fighter jets have today been attacking Kurdish targets

:07:41.:07:42.

The Turks are blaming the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party

:07:43.:07:46.

for yesterday's bomb attack in Ankara, which killed

:07:47.:07:52.

Police have detained 11 people in connection with the bombing.

:07:53.:07:56.

Our correspondent Ian Pannell sent this report from

:07:57.:07:58.

Last night she was waiting for a bus home.

:07:59.:08:06.

Another victim of the turmoil that is becoming too common here.

:08:07.:08:21.

Students, teachers, parents, pensioners, friends and young

:08:22.:08:32.

There is little to commemorate the dead.

:08:33.:08:41.

Just small gestures of solidarity and defiance.

:08:42.:08:45.

These students heard the explosion from their flat.

:08:46.:08:48.

Tonight, the students stood defiant in the rain in remembrance.

:08:49.:09:04.

All the people you see here, in pain, actually.

:09:05.:09:09.

But they don't have the courage to show that, because after everything,

:09:10.:09:12.

the government and stuff, so we came here and just

:09:13.:09:15.

want to show respect to those people.

:09:16.:09:20.

Turkey thinks Kurdish separatists carried out this attack.

:09:21.:09:27.

Arrests have been made, warplanes dispatched,

:09:28.:09:29.

but Ankara has many enemies in the region and there may be some

:09:30.:09:33.

Hundreds of police have been deployed onto the streets

:09:34.:09:37.

24 hours after the blast, officers are scouring the scene

:09:38.:09:47.

for clues as they recover some of the debris.

:09:48.:09:49.

Turkey's president has told the people not be afraid,

:09:50.:09:51.

that terrorism will be brought to its knees.

:09:52.:09:53.

But the truth is that people are afraid, and there is very little

:09:54.:09:56.

evidence that Turkey is winning this war.

:09:57.:09:58.

There have been too many moments like this in Turkey.

:09:59.:10:00.

More than 200 have been killed in similar attacks

:10:01.:10:03.

Kurdish militants, the Islamic State group,

:10:04.:10:10.

The turmoil that used to rage beyond Turkey's borders now

:10:11.:10:16.

So, once again, bereaved families huddled at the city morgue today.

:10:17.:10:24.

United in grief and desperate for answers, as people wonder

:10:25.:10:30.

if their government can really protect them as it promised.

:10:31.:10:40.

Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen is with me now.

:10:41.:10:48.

We are talking today about attacks in Syria, Turkey, and it shows what

:10:49.:10:57.

a competent multilayered problem this is. We have to think of Syria

:10:58.:11:06.

as a mini world war. Some of the world's biggest powers involved, as

:11:07.:11:08.

well as regional friends and enemies. Looking at what's going on

:11:09.:11:12.

in Turkey, plenty of domestic reasons why this is happening, it's

:11:13.:11:18.

a one of the major reasons of the fight with the Kurds is because of

:11:19.:11:22.

the export of violence from Syria, and the politics over there

:11:23.:11:25.

regarding various Kurdish groups. Moving on to Putin and Russia, he's

:11:26.:11:30.

a geopolitical gambler. Looking at this again, he's won a view hands,

:11:31.:11:37.

cashed in quite a future 's, and is still at the table. The West said it

:11:38.:11:42.

was going to be a quagmire for him in Syria, but he has found a way of

:11:43.:11:47.

declaring victory, and getting out and keeping his options open by

:11:48.:11:51.

keeping forces there who can be revived if necessary. He is keeping

:11:52.:11:54.

the West on the defensive, keeping them guessing. Another shrewd move

:11:55.:11:59.

by him. As for the talks in Geneva, I think the intervention over six

:12:00.:12:07.

months has strengthened Assad, changed the military balance and the

:12:08.:12:12.

equilibria, meaning that the Syrian government side is going into those

:12:13.:12:16.

talks as a much more empowered member of that. More awful scenes of

:12:17.:12:24.

refugees also in the headlines, impacting on German politics as

:12:25.:12:30.

well, Western leaders, used to think they might be able to contain or

:12:31.:12:34.

ignore what's going on in Syria, but they can't.

:12:35.:12:39.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has insisted

:12:40.:12:41.

she will not change her policy on allowing significant numbers

:12:42.:12:43.

of migrants into the country, despite her party's losses

:12:44.:12:45.

The anti-immigration party - Alternative for Germany -

:12:46.:12:48.

won its first seats in the states that voted yesterday.

:12:49.:12:51.

Germany accepted a record 1.1 million refugees last year.

:12:52.:12:53.

Our Europe editor Katya Adler reports from Berlin.

:12:54.:13:04.

Iron Angie is one of the German Chancellor's nicknames.

:13:05.:13:07.

The migrant crisis has shown her mettle like never before.

:13:08.:13:11.

Where there's a will, there's a way, she's insisted.

:13:12.:13:13.

No border closures, no refugee limits for Germany -

:13:14.:13:26.

a policy she's sticking to, despite rising public pressure,

:13:27.:13:28.

reflected in yesterday's regional vote.

:13:29.:13:29.

I believe the approach is right, she said in Berlin today,

:13:30.:13:32.

TRANSLATION: Yesterday was a difficult day.

:13:33.:13:40.

The dominating topic in the vote was refugees and the refugee policy,

:13:41.:13:43.

and the fact that people believe this issue has not

:13:44.:13:46.

But be careful about reading too much

:13:47.:13:49.

Despite some of the doom-laden headlines you're probably coming

:13:50.:13:59.

across, this was more stark warning than boot out of the door for Angela

:14:00.:14:03.

She still enjoys popularity ratings at home other European

:14:04.:14:06.

But many of her countrymen do feel she's out of touch

:14:07.:14:10.

with fast-changing events here, the effect the arrival of a million

:14:11.:14:13.

asylum seekers in Germany is having on their lives.

:14:14.:14:17.

Enter the right-wing populist AFD Party, which plays on public

:14:18.:14:19.

This is one of its campaign posters, demanding better safety for German

:14:20.:14:27.

wives and daughters, a reference to New Year's Eve

:14:28.:14:29.

The party secured a seat in all three state parliaments

:14:30.:14:38.

yesterday, the best regional result of any German right-wing populist

:14:39.:14:41.

Considering World War II sensitivities here, this led

:14:42.:14:47.

Frauka Petry, the public face of the AFD, was on the defensive.

:14:48.:14:54.

She told me the migration crisis wasn't caused by her party -

:14:55.:14:57.

One idea of yours that made the headlines all over Europe

:14:58.:15:05.

was the idea of the German army pointing their weapons at migrants

:15:06.:15:07.

Which again, it would be helpful if one reads the original interview.

:15:08.:15:13.

I cited German legislation, which, as a very last resort,

:15:14.:15:18.

I said to use weapons if there's no other way.

:15:19.:15:31.

The AFD is making a lot of noise in Germany at the moment,

:15:32.:15:37.

but this is especially because yesterday's regional vote

:15:38.:15:44.

is seen as significant ahead of a German general

:15:45.:15:46.

So can Angela Merkel afford regional upsets in the long-running?

:15:47.:15:50.

She obviously appears weakened, but she is not damaged

:15:51.:15:57.

A canny political survivor, Chancellor Merkel knows Germans

:15:58.:16:00.

appreciate predictability and continuity.

:16:01.:16:02.

At home and in Europe, she will keep pushing migrant

:16:03.:16:05.

politics her way, and hope for the best.

:16:06.:16:17.

Angela Merkel has her fingers crossed this week ahead of the next

:16:18.:16:23.

EU- Turkey summit, and she is the driving force behind a deal by which

:16:24.:16:27.

Turkey would accept back all arriving migrants into the Greek

:16:28.:16:31.

islands. She needs a deal to boost her credibility back home, but on

:16:32.:16:35.

the European level, it's costing her dearly. Other EU leaders resent her

:16:36.:16:40.

pushiness over the migrant crisis, as they did previously over the Euro

:16:41.:16:44.

crisis. They also worry about Turkey's counter demands and its

:16:45.:16:49.

shaky human rights record. Angela Merkel is confident she can bulldoze

:16:50.:16:52.

the German populists, but she worries far more about growing

:16:53.:17:00.

European disunity and her EU isolation.

:17:01.:17:02.

Hundreds of migrants have left a camp in northern Greece,

:17:03.:17:05.

wading through a river to avoid a border fence,

:17:06.:17:07.

The Macedonian authorities said those who crossed into the country

:17:08.:17:12.

had been detained by the police and army,

:17:13.:17:14.

More than 10,000 people have been stranded at the camp at Idomeni

:17:15.:17:20.

after several Balkan nations, including Macedonia,

:17:21.:17:23.

But today hundreds made it out after crossing a river and finding

:17:24.:17:29.

Our correspondent Danny Savage is there and sent this report.

:17:30.:17:36.

This is the consequence of Europe's borders closing down.

:17:37.:17:39.

Tonight, we found these families trekking through the frontier

:17:40.:17:43.

woodlands of Greece, looking to slip across to Macedonia.

:17:44.:17:47.

We are very scared, one of them tells us.

:17:48.:17:51.

Other migrants today were much more bold.

:17:52.:17:57.

With nothing to lose, they went on a march.

:17:58.:17:59.

Thousands of people, walking towards a border

:18:00.:18:01.

For weeks, they have been stuck in Greece.

:18:02.:18:08.

They are aiming to get to Germany, but all the Balkan border gates

:18:09.:18:11.

between here and there have slammed shut.

:18:12.:18:15.

But they have got this far, and they are not giving up.

:18:16.:18:18.

TRANSLATION: We are done with injustice, frustration

:18:19.:18:31.

We still have some misery ahead of us today, but we will get there.

:18:32.:18:38.

We are going to cross, no matter how.

:18:39.:18:40.

The migrants are undeterred by the obstacles in their path.

:18:41.:18:45.

At least three people drowned near here last night,

:18:46.:18:47.

but they are prepared to take the risk.

:18:48.:18:49.

Desperate people, doing dangerous things.

:18:50.:18:51.

They have become disillusioned with the conditions

:18:52.:18:53.

It turned into a swamp after days of rain.

:18:54.:18:58.

Anywhere is better than this, they thought, which is why they set

:18:59.:19:03.

And it wasn't a warm welcome either when many hundreds did eventually

:19:04.:19:09.

Tonight, families camped out on the muddy path to Macedonia,

:19:10.:19:19.

The philosophy of the people here is very simple.

:19:20.:19:26.

They haven't spent all that money on a dangerous sea journey to get

:19:27.:19:29.

They want to go forward and not retreat, and some of them have

:19:30.:19:35.

told me they are prepared to walk to Germany if they have to.

:19:36.:19:38.

It's exhausting trying to get where you want to.

:19:39.:19:41.

Will the authorities make more of an effort to stop their progress

:19:42.:19:44.

tomorrow, or will they still find a way?

:19:45.:19:46.

Danny Savage, BBC News, northern Greece.

:19:47.:19:56.

A Merseyside teenager, accused of murdering a police

:19:57.:19:58.

officer by deliberately running him down during a high speed

:19:59.:20:01.

chase, has been a cannabis user since the age of six,

:20:02.:20:03.

according to evidence heard in court.

:20:04.:20:05.

Clayton Williams, who's now 19, said he'd been smoking on the day

:20:06.:20:07.

of PC Dave Phillips' death in Wallasey last October.

:20:08.:20:10.

The family of PC Dave Phillips has already heard how the officer

:20:11.:20:18.

was run over, and suffered a violent death.

:20:19.:20:20.

they heard from the teenager accused of murder.

:20:21.:20:24.

Clayton Williams told jurors he didn't see PC Phillips.

:20:25.:20:27.

Clayton Williams admits burgling this shop

:20:28.:20:41.

He reached speeds of 80 mph before he hit PC Phillips,

:20:42.:20:44.

but says he can't remember exactly what happened

:20:45.:20:46.

That, Clayton Williams said, was down to his cannabis habit.

:20:47.:20:53.

He said he had been smoking it since he was six.

:20:54.:20:56.

In court, Clayton Williams admitted he had already served

:20:57.:21:03.

a prison sentence for crashing a car during a police chase.

:21:04.:21:06.

He told the jurors he would do anything to avoid

:21:07.:21:09.

In the dock, Clayton Williams was asked why he didn't stop

:21:10.:21:13.

He said he panicked, and rang his grandmother.

:21:14.:21:22.

He told jurors "I didn't intend to kill,

:21:23.:21:38.

"I only wanted to rob a shop".

:21:39.:21:40.

Ed Thomas, BBC News, Manchester Crown Court.

:21:41.:21:45.

The former head of the civil service - Lord Kerslake -

:21:46.:21:48.

says the government faces an "uphill task" to persuade people that

:21:49.:21:51.

further cuts to public spending are needed.

:21:52.:21:55.

Speaking ahead of Wednesday's budget, he said more savings had

:21:56.:21:59.

to be made, but there were no easy ones left,

:22:00.:22:02.

and warned that the Chancellor had "very narrow space for manoeuvre",

:22:03.:22:05.

as our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports.

:22:06.:22:15.

Balancing the books doesn't turn politicians into rock stars.

:22:16.:22:18.

But his Government's mission has always been sorting the economy out

:22:19.:22:21.

Visiting a London girls' school today ahead of the Budget,

:22:22.:22:26.

David Cameron appeared to have a lot of fans.

:22:27.:22:30.

George Osborne promised he would fix the deficit in five years,

:22:31.:22:35.

but at Budget after Budget, progress has been slow.

:22:36.:22:39.

By 2015 he said we were heading out of the red and back into the black,

:22:40.:22:43.

but paying off the costs of the crash we're only

:22:44.:22:45.

When he's back out here on Wednesday, the tone

:22:46.:22:50.

Don't expect much talk of sunshine because since the Chancellor's last

:22:51.:22:57.

big day out, money worries in markets right round the world

:22:58.:23:00.

have emerged so there's less cash flowing into government coffers.

:23:01.:23:03.

So even after six years of cuts, he'll squeeze public spending again.

:23:04.:23:16.

Lord Kerslake was the head of the civil service,

:23:17.:23:18.

one of the most senior officials hunting for cuts in

:23:19.:23:21.

I think the choices are quite difficult because the Chancellor

:23:22.:23:26.

said he doesn't want to raise more taxes.

:23:27.:23:32.

The obvious efficiency savings have come through,

:23:33.:23:34.

period, and his choices around welfare reform now,

:23:35.:23:37.

given what happened with the tax credits, I think are quite difficult

:23:38.:23:41.

as well, so it's hard to see where the easy choices are now.

:23:42.:23:45.

There are likely to be more cuts to welfare, possibly a rise in fuel

:23:46.:23:51.

tax, and an expected extra ?4 billion of savings every

:23:52.:23:54.

But even in Tory-controlled Kent, the leader of the council believes

:23:55.:24:00.

Next year's Budget is going to be a really tough Budget

:24:01.:24:06.

where we are having to dig into our reserves but it is going to be

:24:07.:24:10.

Next year's Budget is going to be a really tough Budget

:24:11.:24:17.

where we are having to dig into our reserves but it is going to be

:24:18.:24:20.

The tank is now empty and we cannot take any more cuts

:24:21.:24:24.

in the scale that we have endured over the last five years.

:24:25.:24:27.

In some public services, the pressure to cut costs has

:24:28.:24:29.

Paul is blind and has learning difficulties.

:24:30.:24:33.

He used to get 20 hours of care a week.

:24:34.:24:36.

As part of a trial in Kent, Paul was taught to order his weekly

:24:37.:24:40.

shop online and he now receives only two hours of council help,

:24:41.:24:42.

I set up an online shopping account with the supermarket and I practiced

:24:43.:24:55.

Once I got better, I was able to do it on my own.

:24:56.:25:07.

Tough times can present opportunities too, but with pressure

:25:08.:25:13.

from the European referendum bearing down, George Osborne needs smart

:25:14.:25:15.

Football now, and Leicester City are five points clear at the top of the

:25:16.:25:30.

Barclays Premier League after beating Newcastle United 1-0 this

:25:31.:25:35.

evening. Shinji Okazaki scored the only goal to move them further clear

:25:36.:25:38.

of Tottenham Hotspur in the race for the title with eight matches left to

:25:39.:25:42.

play. Newcastle lost their first game under new coach Rafa Benitez,

:25:43.:25:44.

and they remain in the bottom three. Tyrannosaurus Rex -

:25:45.:25:47.

one of the fiercest predators ever seen on Earth - dominated

:25:48.:25:49.

the landscape around Until now, it's been unclear how

:25:50.:25:51.

it evolved into such But a team from the University

:25:52.:25:55.

of Edinburgh believes it's solved the mystery, with a new discovery

:25:56.:25:59.

of one of T-Rex's smaller ancestors. Our science correspondent

:26:00.:26:02.

Victoria Gill explains. There is an ever loose dream mystery

:26:03.:26:32.

surrounding this prehistoric hunter. How did T Rex become such a giant?

:26:33.:26:38.

-- there is an evolutionary mystery. That's what this small collection of

:26:39.:26:42.

fossilised bones might finally have answered. We have a totally news

:26:43.:26:46.

pieces of dinosaur, a meat-eating one, a tyrannosaurus one, and it

:26:47.:26:52.

comes from Uzbekistan, about 90 million years old. It's only the

:26:53.:26:56.

size of a horse but is one of the closest cousins of the T Rex and it

:26:57.:27:01.

tells us how T Rex was able to become so big and dominant. The

:27:02.:27:07.

relatively few bones the scientists found in Uzbekistan are key pieces

:27:08.:27:11.

of an ancient skeletal jigsaw. They have allowed the team to reconstruct

:27:12.:27:16.

this news PCs. Most revealing was a piece of the animal's 's. Scanning

:27:17.:27:23.

and modelling this showed the dinosaur's brain was almost

:27:24.:27:26.

identical to the T Rex. -- new species. -- the animal's skull. This

:27:27.:27:40.

new species is 90 million years old, and it's the first time ran to date

:27:41.:27:45.

to appoint in the fossil record that separates T Rex from its small

:27:46.:27:49.

ancestors. It finally pins down the point at which these livestock sized

:27:50.:27:53.

carnivores began to evolve, to eventually become these 12 metre

:27:54.:28:00.

long monsters. T Rex was far bigger and more terrifying than its

:28:01.:28:06.

predecessors. But in the story of tyrannosaur evolution, the brain

:28:07.:28:07.

came before the brawn. The distinguished composer and

:28:08.:28:13.

conductor Sir Peter Maxwell Davies He had been suffering

:28:14.:28:15.

from leukaemia. Sir Peter, widely regarded

:28:16.:28:18.

as a radical, pioneering figure, also held the post of Master

:28:19.:28:21.

of the Queen's Music for a decade. Last month, he was awarded the Royal

:28:22.:28:25.

Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, the highest accolade

:28:26.:28:27.

the society can bestow, as our arts editor

:28:28.:28:30.

Will Gompertz reports. in rehearsals for his newly

:28:31.:28:34.

written 10th Symphony. Max, as he was known to all,

:28:35.:28:48.

was a prolific composer who believed passionately in the power

:28:49.:28:52.

and purpose of his art. These days, when there is so much

:28:53.:28:57.

strife, so much war and so much

:28:58.:29:00.

destruction, to do something and I hope in result,

:29:01.:29:05.

at the top end of what is possible in a civilisation,

:29:06.:29:13.

what a privilege, eh? The young Maxwell Davies

:29:14.:29:16.

was regarded as an enfant terrible an avant-garde composer accused

:29:17.:29:25.

of writing incomprehensible pieces. A lot of people have

:29:26.:29:33.

criticised me for writing music I take for granted that what I write

:29:34.:29:36.

has got a meaning. I think a composer should be able

:29:37.:29:45.

to take that for granted, otherwise he should not be

:29:46.:29:48.

in the business at all. determined and uncompromising

:29:49.:29:52.

within. Peter Maxwell Davies

:29:53.:29:58.

went his own idiosyncratic way, ironic, highly influential

:29:59.:30:02.

Eight Songs For A Mad King. His taste for anarchy turned

:30:03.:30:13.

into admiration for the monarchy... It's a great pleasure to be able

:30:14.:30:15.

to give you that. ..After the Queen honoured him

:30:16.:30:18.

by making him her Master of Music. I think we were all a bit blindsided

:30:19.:30:25.

by the fact that he had accepted it, He was an astonishingly

:30:26.:30:30.

wide-ranging composer and musician. He was very clear about

:30:31.:30:34.

what he believed in, and he believed in good things,

:30:35.:30:37.

particularly education, with a very democratic

:30:38.:30:40.

view of music. In 1971, the Salford-born composer

:30:41.:30:43.

moved to the Orkney Islands, which became his home

:30:44.:30:48.

and inspiration. I think the sea has played

:30:49.:30:52.

an enormous part in my work, first of all in the sound of it,

:30:53.:30:55.

but then the history of it. And it gets through to you,

:30:56.:30:58.

you don't have to think about it, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies had

:30:59.:31:01.

been ill for some time, but he never

:31:02.:31:05.

stopped working or maintaining that music can make the world

:31:06.:31:07.

a better place. It was a point he spent

:31:08.:31:09.

his life proving. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies,

:31:10.:31:15.

who's died today at the age of 81. Like many things Russian -

:31:16.:31:21.

it's taken the world What does the Putin pull

:31:22.:31:27.

out mean for Syria? Join me now on BBC 2,

:31:28.:31:31.

11pm in Scotland. Here on BBC One, it's time

:31:32.:31:36.

for the news where you are.

:31:37.:31:44.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS