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The Foreign Secretary vents his anger at Russia and China after | :00:06. | :00:12. | |
they refuse to condemn violence in Syria. Today, more deaths as | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
President Assad's forces continue their bombardment of Homs. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Heavy snow brings severe disruption across the country. At Heathrow, | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
half the flights are cancelled. England boss Fabio Capello | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
criticises the FA's decision to strip John Terry of his captaincy. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
The Queen attends church at Sandringham as she prepares to mark | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
her 60 years as monarch. And in the Six Nations, Wales beat | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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Ireland with almost the last kick Good evening. The Foreign Secretary, | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
William Hague, accused China and Russia of "turning their backs on | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
the Arab world" after they blocked a UN resolution condemning the | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
Syrian government. The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, also | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
called their position a travesty. Syrian forces today continued their | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
offensive on the city of Homs, where dozens were killed and a | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
major assault on Friday. This report contains images you may find | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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distressing. The crackdown on the opposition | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
continues. This is Homs, the epicentre of the Syrian uprising. | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
The pictures are thought to show the shelling of one district held | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
by the Free Syrian Army. We have not been able to verify the | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
casualties, but there are disturbing shops of seriously | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
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injured children being taken to hospital. | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
TRANSLATION: This is the Russian veto and the Chinese veto. Let the | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
world see what happens in Homs. is the kind of violence some | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Western governments also now want to blame on Russia and China. | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
what happened yesterday, Russia and China will increasingly be held | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
responsible for the continuing appalling situation. They did not | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
cause it, but they are standing in the way of the United Nations | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Security Council. Western governments are furious at the | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
Russians and Chinese still vetoing the UN resolution even after it had | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
been watered down. The problem is that Russia and China valued their | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
friendship and lucrative trade with Syria, and they did not want to be | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
seen to take sides. Nor to pave the way to any possible future foreign | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
intervention. Russia also aims to do its own police brokering in | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Damascus. So what can the international community do now? | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
Faith East with a neutered security -- faced with a neutered Security | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
Council, we have to redouble our efforts outside the United Nations | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
with those allies and partners who support the Syrian people's right | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
to have a better future. As an by sad today was celebrating the | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Prophet Mohammed's birthday. -- President Assad was celebrating the | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
Prophet Mohammed's birthday. He may be praying that the diplomatic | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
Hiatus gives him a chance to crash the opposition. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen is here. Jeremy, a significant and | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
bloody weekend. Where does the international community go from | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
here? Syria is under a great deal of pressure. | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
The even its embassies in some places have been picketed and even | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
attacked. However, the view from the presidential palace in Damascus | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
at the moment is not as bad as some in the West may think. Firstly, | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
President Assad's people believe they have been through crises | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
before and they might be able to weather this one as well. They also | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
think the UN and the Arab League have had their chance to do their | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
worst, and it was not that bad for them. Now perhaps force can be used | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
with impunity. What happens next? Russian diplomacy. Maybe that will | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
produce something. But the opposition do not see them as Alan | :04:28. | :04:37. | |
-- honest brokers. So for the time being, we are seeing a process but | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
I believe will eventually end up with President Assad's regime | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
falling, but it will be long, difficult and bloody. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
Freezing temperatures and heavy snow across most of Britain have | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
brought disruption to the roads and railways. Many airports were also | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
hit by the snow. Heathrow says it had to cancel half of its flights | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
today. Motorists are now being warned of treacherous conditions as | :05:00. | :05:10. | |
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the snow turns to ice. Robert Hall is in Sevenoaks for us tonight. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
This was the last place to be hit by the snow tonight. The | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
temperature is about minus four. Tunbridge Wells will be a couple of | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
degrees lower. So the snow is going nowhere fast. But a bit of a thaw | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
during the day has enabled gritting teams to clear more roads. But the | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
more isolated the area you live in, the more likely you are to have | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
faced a trying day. Not the start of the quiet Sunday | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
that many would have wished for. Whilst the first serious snowfall | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
and England this winter was welcomed by younger members of the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
family, it also caused delays and frustration, particularly for those | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
who needed to travel. Temperatures hovering around freezing preserved | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
the blanket of snow. And the accompanying hazards on the roads | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
for much of the day. During our journey across affected counties, | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
it was clear that the gritting teams had successfully kept traffic | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
flowing, but there was much still to do. The further we travelled | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
from major routes, the more lying snow and slush we encountered. In | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
the East Midlands, even simple tasks like exiting a car park | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
proved a struggle. All the cars were trying to go up, and they were | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
going sideways. You can't get to the people living on the side roads. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
She sharing a wedding breakfast in Uttoxeter, this couple tried, but | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
failed, to keep their reception going. We decided to pull the plug | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
to make sure that everybody got home safely. That has to be the | :06:44. | :06:53. | |
priority. We had our first dance, and then we called it a-day. At a | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
petrol station in Kent, members of a rock band returning from a | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
concert were bleary eyed after treacherous road conditions forced | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
them to spend the night in their van. We have enough duvets and | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
sleeping stuff in the back. But getting up this morning and having | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
to dig our way out... Visitors to Heathrow who had first | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
sight of the airport's new snow clearing equipment might have | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
expected limited disruption. In fact, half of its flights were | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
cancelled. The airport said it took the action to avoid the build-up of | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
delayed passengers in terminals already at the busty. We will have | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
to see how quickly airlines can get their craft back in the right place. | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
Once the operation he has disturbed, getting the de-icing done and so | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
one takes time to get back on track. All affected regions reported | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
difficulties with rail travel, which may spill over into the start | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
of the new working week. But as ever, winter sports were a welcome | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
distraction. Only a few centimetres of snow can provide mass | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
entertainment. The concerns of adult life could wait until | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
tomorrow. A couple of other snow statistics | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
tonight. 400 passengers are stranded at the airport in Ireland. | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
And in a Yorkshire town, there were more than 60 accidents because | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
there were 16 centimetres of snow there. We now hear that there will | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
be ice and fog tonight, so we are not out of the cold snap yet. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
The England manager Fabio Capello has criticised the FA's decision to | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
strip John Terry of his captaincy. The Chelsea defender is facing a | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
trial over allegations that he racially abused a fellow player. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
Our correspondent is at FA headquarters in Wembley. These are | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
outspoken comments from Fabio Capello? They are. His occasional - | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
- occasionally hesitant in English, but in Italian, he was trenchant. | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
He was speaking to the Italian state broadcaster. "I do not agree | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
with the decision to strip Terry of the captaincy. Civil justice will | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
rule, whether Terry was guilty or not of the crime he was accused of. | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
It is right that he should keep the captain's armband". How is the FA | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
are likely to react? Officially no comment from them this evening, but | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
I think they are hugely unlikely to rescind this decision. They are | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
also unlikely to discipline Capello in any major way this close to a | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
major tournament. Given that he said he will leave at the end of | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
the European Championships, the bigger question is how this will go | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
down with the squad which many people feel is already divided on | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
this hugely contentious issue. The Transport Secretary Justine | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
Greening has said she will vote against bonuses for Network Rail's | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
senior executives at the firm's annual general meeting this week. | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
But the Government says it has limited powers of any payments the | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
company might make. Network Rail is the latest big | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
company to see its top executives' bonuses under the spotlight. Next | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Friday, its annual general meeting will be asked to approve potential | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
handouts of up to 60% of salary to senior managers. That could mean | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
the chief executive, Sir David Higgins, whose salary is �560,000, | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
getting an extra �336,000 on top. Today the Transport Secretary said | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
she would vote against the new plan. The structure that the last | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
government set up means that I can go and vote against it. The problem | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
is that that will not necessarily change the result. The other | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
problem is that the members can vote against the bonus package, but | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
at the end of the day, their vote is only advisory. A Network Rail | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
gets �4 billion a year from the taxpayer, but last year missed most | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
of its targets. Labour says ministers have the power to stop | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
the bonuses if they want to. This is public money. The mood has | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
changed, times have changed. Network Rail and Justine Greening | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
need to take that on board and put a stop to the bonus culture. | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Network Rail said no one was available to explain the proposed | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
bonus arrangements, but in a statement they said no decisions | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
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have yet been taken. This is just the latest row over | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
large bonuses. Last week, the chief executive of the largely state- | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
owned RBS, Stephen Hester, decided to waive his near �1 million bonus. | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
Ministers know there is public anger over big payouts, | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
particularly to big businesses like Network Rail, that get taxpayer | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
subsidies. The Government rejects the idea that it has the power to | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
block changes to the bonus system at Network Rail outright, but it | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
has told the BBC it will put someone on the nine-member | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
remuneration committee before actual bonuses are decided later in | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
the spring. Political leaders in Greece have | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
failed to reach agreement on an austerity programme which must be | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
implemented if the countries to receive the next stage of its. If | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
no deal is reached, Greece could go bankrupt by March. Party leaders | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
are to hold further talks tomorrow with the Prime Minister, Lucas | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Papademos. The Queen and Prince Philip brave | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
the cold this morning to attend church at Sandringham on the eve of | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
an important milestone in the diamond jubilee year. Tomorrow | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
marks 60 years since her accession to the throne. | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
It is an anniversary tinged with sadness, since it marks the death | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
of her beloved father. But resonant now with the memories of 60 years. | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
On the eve of accession Day, the day she succeeded to the throne in | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
1952, the Queen went to morning service at a church near the | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
Sandringham estate. With her, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Pagett | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
recovered from the operation before Christmas to clear a blocked | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
coronary artery. But feeling the cold on a day when Norfolk was not | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
a place to linger outside. For the Queen, there were flowers and | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
thanks for for the 60 years of service which had begun so | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
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She had last seen her father, King George VI, at London Airport on | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
31st January 1952. She was departing for an overseas tour. | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
Unknown to her, her father had lung cancer. It was a farewell. It was | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
also, as events turned out, goodbye. Elizabeth was in Kenya when her | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
father died. She was given the news by her husband. She was now Queen. | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
She returned immediately to London to begin a reign which she, 60 | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
years later, is now the second longest in British history. It is | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
that rain which will be marked by the diamond jubilee. It is hard to | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
imagine it in the depths of winter, but by the spring and summer, a | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
reign which began the moment George VI died here in Sandringham will be | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
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marked by events in this country Now, Capello was out of the country, | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
Terry was in the stands, but still the match at Stamford Bridge was a | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
big talking point tonight. Yes, it was a thrilling match, | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
proof that the Premier League can be rated the most exciting in the | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
world. Manchester United staged a stunning comeback from 3-0 down to | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
earn a draw against Chelsea. He was not even playing today, but | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
John Terry's presence loomed large at stand for bridge. The home fans | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
continually booed Rio Ferdinand. Their captain stands accused of | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
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racially abusing him. -- Stamford Bridge. They went two up soon into | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
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the second half. Chelsea looked like they were cruising on three. | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
Wayne Rooney dispatched the penalty. And when the second presented | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
itself, unjust was the Chelsea view. Still, they knew the comeback was | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
on. Chelsea have never govern a past three -- are given up at 3-0 | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
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lead in history. Never write off Sir Alex Ferguson's men. | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
If you have caught your breath after that match, there was also a | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
crowd stopping moment at St James's Park. Papiss Demba Cisse justified | :16:13. | :16:23. | |
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his �10 million price tag, scoring a stunning goal as Newcastle won 2- | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
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Rangers crashed out of the Scottish Cup, losing 2-0 to Dundee United. | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
There was a real classic in the Six Nations this afternoon, with | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
Ireland versus Wales proving an enthralling match. The momentum | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
swung back and forth between the two teams and it finished in | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
dramatic style. Wales won with virtually the last kick of the game. | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
This had the smell of the tastiest clash of the weekend, and so it | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
would prove. Wales spent a much of the first have camped in Irish | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
territory. Davies gave them the lead. It was deep into the half | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
until Ireland had pretty much their first concerted attack. Ireland | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
went up by five. The difference came down to George North, army a | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
teenager, smashing the Irish defence and making an exquisite | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
pass to Jonathan Davies. How different it might have been, then, | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
had Bradly Davies been given a red rather than a yellow for this. | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
Ireland took advantage of the extra man, going wide and deep. It would | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
not be enough. With the team back with 15 players, George North | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
scuffled over for a try. Leigh Halfpenny made what he would call | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
the harder stick in his life. Wales were victorious in the Six Nations. | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
England's cricketers will be to produce one of their best | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
performances tomorrow if they are to avoid a whitewash against | :18:09. | :18:18. | |
Pakistan. They need to score 324 in their second innings to win a stop | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
Azhar Ali threatened to move Pakistan out of sight. Graeme Swann | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
conceded England have an absolute mountain to climb. | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
Just before I go, you can watch Great Britain's women's hockey team | :18:32. | :18:37. |