30/10/2011 BBC Weekend News


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here and you'll face another Afghanistan. At least 50 people

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have died in the latest anti- Government protests as

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international pressure mounts on Relief for tens of thousands of

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passengers as an Australian court orders Qantas to start flying again.

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Would you support an eviction? Would you please... That's a direct

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question. Clash at the Cathedral as the

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Bishop of London faces anti- capitalist protesters.

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And victory for Vettel in India's first ever Grand Prix, but painful

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viewing for others as Hamilton runs Good evening.

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Syria's President Assad has warned of an "earthquake" if the West

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intervenes in his country. At least 50 people are reported to have died

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in the latest anti-Government clashes. The BBC can't report

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freely from Syria - Jim Muir has the latest from neighbouring

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Lebanon. Syria's third biggest city, Homs, with a population of a

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million - now one of the main battlegrounds between the rejeum

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and its opponents. Months ago President Assad promised Ban Ki-

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Moon he'd pull his military out of the towns and cities. That clearly

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hasn't happened. Internet footage like this is

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impossible to verify, but it would be hard to fake. Mr Assad has also

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said his forces are now fighting only armed terrorists, but here at

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a mosque in Homs they're shown attacking apparently peaceful

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protesters. One man is wounded. Others risk

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their lives to sair save him and carry him away. Activists say

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scenes like this happen daily, leaving scores injured, many dead.

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The bloodshed is prompting pressure on the government. That's why

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President Assad is warning loudly any such state would risk creating

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another Afghanistan. Sear -- it could lead to an earthquake. If

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that happens in the Middle East, it will affect the situation in the

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world. Syria largely occupied Lebanon for

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nearly three decades until 2005. It still wields huge influence here, a

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deeply divided issue for the already deeply divided Lebanese.

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Everybody in Syria is watching the conflict closely. They don't know

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how it will end up but do know it will affect them greatly. Syria has

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extended its alliances into Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Iran and beyond,

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and in that sense, it could create a lot of havoc. The Foreign Office

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repeated today that Mr Assad has lost the support of his people and

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should stand down, but he insists the public back him, and the regime

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stages mass support like this every day. External intervention, as in

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Libya, could seal President asad's fate, and he knows it.

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Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen is here with me now. We have heard

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President Assad's warning, don't intervene militarily. Is there a

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likelihood of that? Not at the moment, not without the Arab league

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and a rock-solid UN resolution. They can't even get a sanctions

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resolution through the UN. No, I don't think it's going to happen

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testimony thing to remember is Syria isn't Libya. Libya is

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isolated. There are many fault lines, military ones, sectarian

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ones that go through the Middle East and practically all of them

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run through or are very close to Damascus. While President Assad

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says there might be an earthquake if the West intervenes, I think

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there might be one anyway if the regime continues to do what it's

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doing. Ever everybody is worried about Syria. Poettially it has a

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huge impact. No military pressure then. What can be done? The Arab

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league not exactly giving an ultimatum but a deadline calling on

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steps to stop the bloodshed. The Chinese as well have said this

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crackdown cannot continue. And the Chinese have been quite supportive

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of Assad. The Qatar Foreign Minister involved in this

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delegation saying the regime is at risk of a massive storm. One thing

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talked about is some sort of safe area if things continue to

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deteriorate for rebels. The Turks are at the moment giving some kind

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of ainsist or at least some protection to people - Syrian

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rebels in their particular country. The view of the US and the UK in

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this is if Assad continues with what he's doing, his regime will go

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down. What we're seeing at the moment is increasing isolation.

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Two Britons were among the 17 people killed in Kabul yesterday in

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a car bomb attack. The men, who haven't been named, were

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electricians working for an American building company. They

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were travelling with US troops in an armoured bus when it was hit by

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a Taliban suicide bomber. The men's families have been informed.

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Qantas jets could be in the air again as early as tomorrow, after

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an Australian court intervened to end the bitter industrial dispute,

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that's affected seventy thousand passengers around the world.

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Yesterday the airline decided to ground its entire fleet of planes

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after a series of strikes by staff over job security. Tonight, Qantas

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said it wanted to apologise to its customers for the disruption. From

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Australia, Duncan Kennedy reports. All day all around the world Qantas

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jets turned airports into parking lots. There wasn't a single flight

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as every one of the 108 aircraft in the fleet remained grounded. That

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meant confusion and frustration for thousands of passengers. It's

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ridiculous because I've checked in this morning, and there's been no

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news. I have had no message from Qantas or anything. You plan it for

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eight months, and then this happens. You just have to make the best. If

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we have to sit in an aimt, then that's what we have to do. You have

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nothing to do with the strike action, and this is the response

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you get. Now we're standing in the queue. We don't know if we'll get

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to the front. It was in the middle of the night in Melbourne when a

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panel of judges made their decision. They ordered Qantas unions to end

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their strike action. It had been the union's series of stoppages

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which led Qantas to ground all its aircraft. It's unfortunate that

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it's taken the intervention of the Federal Government to force Qantas

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to negotiate about those issues around security and to end the

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lockout. The move was welcomed by the Government, who put pressure on

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both sides to settle the dispout. We're very conscious there are tens

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of thousands of travellers that have been stranded in Australia and

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across the world. We're conscious of the fact that there are people

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who can't get back to work or back to their families. We're conscious

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the Australian economy has been at risk of great danger. This needed

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to come to a halt. Qantas said it would be lunch time, UK time

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tomorrow, before it can begin to restart flights. The dispute over

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its plans to move operations to Asia has cost it �20 million. This

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unprecedented action to ground an entire airline lasted 36 hours, but

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repairing their reputation will take a lot longer. In the end the

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company got what it wanted, but it has been a public relations

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disaster. The Bishop of London came face to

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face with some of the anti- capitalist demonstrators camped

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outside St Paul's Cathedral today, and was forced to defend the

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church's support for legal action to clear the area. Richard Charters

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said he hoped the protestors could be moved on without violent

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resistance.The first Sunday service has been held, since St Pauls

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reopened to the public on Friday.Our religious affairs

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correspondent Robert Pigott reports. The encounter was close up and more

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personal than ever. The Bishop of London made the campaigns an offer

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- end your occupation and I'll make sure your views are held in a

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cathedral. Would you support an eviction... Would you please...

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That is a direct question. I am not in a position to give a direct

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answer. Do you support the eviction? Who knows - who knows -

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who knows what is going to happen down the road. All right. So take...

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The one thing I'm very concerned about is that this should not lead

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to violence. Direct answer have become increasingly difficult for a

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church which is using the law to evict protesters while insisting

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that it shares their concerns. ain't got a clue what they're doing

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either. One bishop said the compromise offered by St Pauls of

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taking the debate inside the cathedral might not be acceptable

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to some campaigners. I can understand why that doesn't play

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very well with the protesters who feel that they're being treated as

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children or not taken seriously when their concerns are actually

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core gospel concerns as they see it. The campaigners say banks created

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the cries I but the most vulnerable are being made to pay the price. St

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Paul's says it too wants an equitable system. The cathedral

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says it's trying to avoid violence. We want more of a guarantee this

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isn't going to happen. Violence is talked a lot about in the abstract.

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Means me being dragged out of the tent in the middle of the night, my

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hair being pulled, batoned used against me. It's about real people.

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And the people camped tonight outside St Paul's have yet to be

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convinced that the cathedral isn't at least partly influenced by its

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neighbours in the City of London. A new generation is questioning the

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established order and is yet to be satisfied with the answers it's

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getting so will this occupation cast a shadow over St Paul's? Some

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Anglicans believe we're in a moral as much as an economic crisis. They

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say a time of rapid economic and social change presents the church

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with a rare opportunity to make Christian values count, and they

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say that opportunity is being missed.

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The Prime Minister has told the BBC that ships sailing under a British

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flag will be able to carry armed guards to protect themselves from

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pirates. The Government says it wants to do more to combat

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lawlessness off the coast of Somalia where ships are regularly

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hijacked and then ransomed for millions of pounds. About 200

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vessels could be involved but critics of the plan say armed

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guards may put crews in greater danger.

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NATO will formally end its mission in Libya tomorrow after flying

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thousands of missions over the last seven months. On the ground, the

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country's interim government is deciding what to do with the few

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surviving members of Colonel Gaddafi's inner circle. One of them,

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Mansour Dhao, was with him until the end. He's being held in a

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detention centre in Misrata and has been speaking to our correspondent,

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Katya Adler. Tears have turned to smiles in war-torn Misrata.

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Thousands crowded the streets for this homecoming celebration

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welcoming fathers, sons and brothers back from the front line.

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Close by is Misrata's internal security centre. We came to meet

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one of lib qua's most wanted, ordering the killing and rape of

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Gaddafi opponents. He was a trusted member of Colonel Gaddafi's inner

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circle and was captured alongside him in Sirt. He provided a rare

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insight into the dictator's state of mind in his last hours and days.

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Gaddafi was nervous. He paced up and down writing in a notebook. We

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knew it was over. He said, "I'm wanted by the International

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Criminal Court. No country will accept me. I prefer to die by

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Libyan hands." Then, he said, Colonel Gaddafi decided to go to

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his birthplace, the nearby valley of Jadif. Was it a suicide mission

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in the end? It was a suicide mission. We felt he wanted to die

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in the place he was born. Colonel Gaddafi's plan was thwarted.

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His convoy was bombed by NATO, and the once feared dictator scrambled

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into this water pipe for cover. That's where he was found and

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captured. With him was Colonel Gaddafi's personal driver. We met

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him wearing the same bloody shirt he was wounded in that day. Gaddafi

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got out of the pipe. I stayed inside. I could not get out. There

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was such a crowd of fighters. Gaddafi had no-where to go. He was

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one man among many. And the fighters were shouting, "Gaddafi,

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Gaddafi." But when I asked about terror and torture, the men were

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less forthcoming. They feared for their lives. Still, he said the

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Lockerbie bombing was planned by Gaddafi's external security and

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that Gaddafi ordered the mass murder of political prisoners.

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Having men like this in prison was very much part of the celebrations.

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The fighters here in Misrata and their families say they're proud,

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proud of the role they played in ending Colonel Gaddafi's regime, of

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bringing his body back here and capturing some of the last

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surviving members of his inner circle, but this is a crucial

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moment. Will people here hand over their weapons and prisoners and

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power to the National Transitional Council? Or will regional rivalries

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take over before the problems of the past are solved?

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The British National Party has been holding its annual conference in

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Liverpool. The leader Nick Griffin - who was narrowly re-elected in

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July - told members that the party would continue to campaign on

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issues others weren't prepared to tackle.. We're more popular with

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the British public than ever before. A freak snowstorm in the United

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States has left more than three million homes and businesses

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without power. The early snowfall - across the north-east of the

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country - grounded planes and caused havoc on roads. Many trees

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were brought down by the weight of snow on branches that hadn't yet

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shed their leaves. Sport now and Formula One World

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Champion Sebastien Vettel took the chequered flag at the first ever

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Grand Prix in India to notch up his eleventh win of the season. Jenson

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Button finished second - with Lewis Hamilton coming in seventh after

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another controversial incident with Ferrari driver Felipe Massa, as

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Nick Parrott reports. While many had been looking forward to the

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first Indian Grand Prix, those at the sharp end felt a duty to look

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back. Main's silence before the race for the recent loss of IndyCar

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Welden and Semoncelli. Sebastian Vettel started from pole, and as

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usual raced off into the distance, leaving others to fight amongst

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themselves. Jenson Button started fourth after struggling in

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qualifying but was soon into second. Mark Webber fought hard to regain

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his place but positioned himself perfectly to stay ahead. While they

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kept their fight clean, Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa clashed

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for the sixth time this season. Like Mr Bean, they never seem to

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learn. The stewards decided the Brazilian was to blame. It's a feud

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that looks unlikely to be resolved any time soon. We had the one

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minute's silence before the race. Me and Felipe Massa were standing

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next to each other. He hasn't spoken to me for a long, long time.

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I put my arm around him and said good luck. I tried to overtake

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because it didn't look like he was going to give me any space, but we

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collided. I feel sorry for my time. Vettel steered clear for his 11th

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