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Good afternoon. Investigators are trying to discover what caused the | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
Adam Mynott to flood in the Swansea valley, trapping and killing four | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
miners below ground. Our Welsh correspondent is close to the mine | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
and joins us now. I am outside of the entrance to the | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
mine where the four men were killed. This morning an appeal fund was set | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
up to support their families. As a community grieves, the | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
investigation into how the four miners died begins. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
South Wales Police and a team from the Health and Safety Executive | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
began work at the mine early this morning. Their task, to find out | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
how the tragedy happened. This entrance leads to a maize of | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
tunnels inside the mine. The bodies of the four were found close | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
together after the shaft flooded. Flee other miners managed to escape, | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
one is still seriously ill. What the survivors remember of what | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
happened on Thursday could prove crucial to the investigation team. | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
What will happen now is that the mines inspectorate in the UK will | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
take charge of it with the police. They will investigate the plans, | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
work to the individuals that worked there previously and who are | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
working there now. So they will investigate as a crime scenes if | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
you like. This is the first fatal accident in | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
a Welsh mine for more than three decades. The pit had been inspected | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
as erecently at May last year. I spoke to a miner who escaped and | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
to the families. None of them reported any safety concerns, but | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
the investigation which has begun up in the pit now will establish | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
what has happened. As this community prepares for the | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
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funerals of the four miners, it could face a long wait for answers. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
The Health and Safety Executive has just issued a statement in which he | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
says it is too early to speculate on the possible causes of this | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
incident. It says that a full report on what | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
happened will be published in due course. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
Thank you very much. Now, the Liberal Democrats' | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
conference is getting under way in Birmingham. Deputy Prime Minister | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
and party leader k Nick Clegg has promised to block moves to scrap | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
the 50 pence top income rate of tax. We are joined live now. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Nick Clegg is trying to accentuate the positive, Norman, but it has | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
been a terrible year for him and his party, hasn't it? Yes, Nick | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Clegg's task is to settle his party down after a difficult year with | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
the shattering defeat in the AV referendum. Losss in the local | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
council elections and U-turns on tuition fees and VAT. Nick Clegg's | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
approach seems to point to what he regards as conspicuous Lib Dem | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
gains in Government. To that end he points to things like watering down | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
the Tory changes to the NHS and raises the tax threshold for lower | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
income earners, but he wants to talk about what he regards as key | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
differences with the Conservative Party. That is why in the run-up to | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
the conference, we have heard Nick Clegg talking about vetoing the | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
move to scrap the top rate of tax. We have heard other Lib Dems | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
stressing if there was a move to do that, they would expect first rises | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
in the tax threshold for those on the bottom of the pile and a new | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
tax on the rich, such as a mansion tax. | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
The Government say it is wants to legalise same-sex marriages before | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
the next general election. Consultation a-- is to start next | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
year to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry in civil | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
ceremonies. A vintage fighter plane as crashed | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
in Reno National Championship Air Races. A p15 Mustang went out of | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
control and plunged to the ground. Forces loyal to Colonel Muammar | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
Gaddafi continue to hold out in two of their strongholds in the towns | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
there have been fired rockets and mortars, forcing them to retreat. | :04:40. | :04:49. | |
There have been fierce clashes around Sert. -- Sirte. | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
Our correspondent is following the opposition forces. He has sent this | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
report from the front line. In the desert of central Libya, a | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
war is still very much being fought for Sirte, the birthplace of | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. There's been a lot of heavy | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
fighting today with rockets coming in from the pro-Colonel Gaddafi | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
positions. They are turning -- returning fire now with the long- | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
range rockets. The target is the pro-Colonel | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
Gaddafi defensive line. It is 50 kilometres outside of Sirte, making | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
the calculations is the calm amid the fire. | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
This colonel is making those. TRANSLATION: I'm asking all of | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
those fighting for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to put their guns down. The | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
war is over, it is not necessary for more bloodshed. | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
It is how the Second World War was fought, in the same desert with | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
artillery, tanks and ground troops. The pro-Colonel Gaddafi troops are | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
fighting back. The injured are brought to a field hospital for | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
treatment. They counterattack this oil | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
refinery in raslan uf. Coming out of the des -- in Ras Lanuf. We met | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
this man who escaped but saw what they did to those captured. They | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
held them in three groups along the road, he told me, and then they | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
were excuted one by one, civilians and soldiers alike. He said that | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
the blood stains were still on the tarmac. | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
The rag-tag rebels have come a long way to get here, but the war is | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
still not over. Clearly, this is something or | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
someone in Sirte is worth the defending. | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
Now at the rugby World Cup there has been a major upset after a | :07:05. | :07:10. |