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More deaths in Syria and as the violence continues. President Assad | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
holds a referendum on the country's future. Activists say that 45 | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
people have died. Here, farmers warning you virus | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
could kill thousands of newborn sheep in the lambing season. | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
Nelson Mandela leaves hospital after tests for stomach pains. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Will George Clooney make all the running at the Oscars or will he be | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
stunned into silence by The Artist? He has scored again! This is | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
absolutely incredible! And Theo Walcott inspires Arsenal to one of | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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the comebacks of the season against Good evening. Activists in Syria | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
say as many as 45 people have been killed in fresh violence on the day | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
the country voted on a new constitution. The poll was promised | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
by President Assad in response to the uprising against him. But | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
turnout in the capital is reported to be low. Opposition groups have | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
called the vote fraudulent and a farce. Our correspondent has been | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
following developments from their roots. -- B routes. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
At the epicentre of the struggle in Syria the country's third city, | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Homs. More shelling and deaths. The Baba Amr Quarter, where hundreds of | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
rebel fighters are entrenched, has been under bombardment by security | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
forces for three weeks. Against that extraordinary background, a | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
nationwide referendum on the new constitution. In Damascus and other | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
places, it went ahead with a show of normality. Some voters saw the | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
constitution as offering a chance for peaceful change and stability. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
It is the cornerstone of President Assad's reform process, dismissed | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
by the opposition as a farce. It would end the monopoly that his | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
ruling party enjoys. He says the attack on Syria was the media | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
assault. In the forefront, the Americans, although they tacitly | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
admit that no easy way ahead, such as arming the opposition. -- there | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
is no easy way ahead. There is every possibility of civil war. | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
Outside intervention would probably extradite that. -- expedite that. | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
All efforts to evacuate the wounded and repatriate the bodies of the | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
journalist Marie Colvin have so far been in vain. Among the wounded | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
hoping to get out, Sunday Times photographer Paul Conroy. The past | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
five days of dashed hopes have been an anxious agony for his wife and | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
family. Surely another day or two, it cannot go on much longer than | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
that. This is day 5 now. Somehow, I am getting through every day and | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
managing to wake up in the morning and brace myself and get on with it. | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
You so what happened to Marie Colvin. She got killed and I do not | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
want that to happen to my dad. Family and friends are doing | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
everything they can to keep Paul Conroy's or deals from been | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
forgotten, including the singer Joss Stone. He is a survivor. If he | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
does not go out there, people like Paul and Marie Colvin do not go out | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
and do that, they are putting their lives at risk. If the story is not | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
told them the massacre will be even worse. Back in Homs, the Red Cross | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
and others are keeping up their efforts to negotiate an infatuation. | :03:54. | :04:03. | |
But it is a tortuous business. -- an evacuation. | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Here, farmers are warning that this -- warning that the spring's | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
lambing season could see thousands of deformed births because of a new | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
virus. 70 farms have been affected by the Schmallenberg virus which | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
appears to have been carried by midges coming from Germany. Up to a | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
quarter of lambs in affected areas could be affected. | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
A worrying time for farmers as they prepare for lambing. At this farm | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
in Hertfordshire, 2000 pregnant ewes will soon be giving birth. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
have done the best we can for the sheep over the winter. Staff have | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
been working hard getting the sheep prepare for lambing. We are braced | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
to do the best job possible and we will take what comes to us. This | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
farm in Suffolk is one which has been affected by the Schmallenberg | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
virus. Typically, lambs were born dead, not fully-formed, and their | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
legs are fused together. This virus did not exist in the UK until less | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
than one month ago. Worryingly, the number of cases has increased | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
significantly in those short weeks. 74 farms have now been affected. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
On February 7th, the farms affected were in seven counties across the | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
east and south-east of England. It has since moved north and west. It | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
is now affecting many more areas. There is uncertainty at the moment | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
because we do not know how many farmers will be affected. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
Relatively few at the moment. Within those farms, we do not know | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
how many lambs they were used. On the Continent, we have seen a range | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
of between 5% and 50% loss. -- how many lambs they will lose. If it | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
stays at the current level, the impact is low but more than we | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
would like. Early lambs are being born but it is early help from | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
scientists to develop a vaccine which farmers need and want. | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
The first edition of the Sun on Sunday hit the newsagents this | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
morning. It has received mixed reviews and sparked some | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
controversy by including the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
as its -- among columnists. The Sunday edition is not a brand | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
new paper, just an extension of the tabloid. Going to seven days a week | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
marks, as the paper's editorial says, a new era. I have bought the | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
Sun to us try it. -- to try it. is full of gossip and tittle-tattle. | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
I usually buy the Guardian so no, I have never thought of buying it. | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
Not because it is 50p! It would not matter if it had been 75 p, I would | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
have still bolted today. I like the sun. -- I would have still bought | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
it a day. I like the #. It has prompted a war with the other red | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
tops. It will be interesting to see how long the 50p price tag last. | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
The new edition comes seven months after the demise of the News of the | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
World, following the phone hacking scandal. Compared to the stories on | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
that paper, some have seen the paper today as planned, but | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
unsurprising. The old style of Sunday journalism, kiss-and-tell as, | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
as stock relief. -- kiss-and-tells, has stopped, really. That is to do | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
with the privacy law being used so often. And an understanding that | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
the public have turned away. Something that is not planned about | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
the paper is the inclusion of the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
as a columnist. He said it was a fantastic honour but recognised | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
that it would prompt criticism, which it has. Wow, said Archbishop | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
John. What do you think of his involvement? Not impressed. Quite | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
frankly, I am astonished. Particularly, having seen the | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
content of the paper. I think he ought to reflect on doing so and | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
changed his mind. A spokesman for the archbishop said any proceeds | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
from the column would go to charity. Rupert Murdoch, at the printers | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
with the paper's editor when it came off the presses, has said he | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
would be happy with sales of 2 million. This is a shrinking market | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
but his commitment and resources mean that the sun's Sunday edition | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
could be a success. Security forces in Pakistan are | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
demolishing the compound where Osama Bin Laden once lived. The Al- | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
Qaeda leader was killed in a raid by US Special forces in May last | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
year. He had secretly love with his family at the compound in | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
Abbottabad for five years. There was no warning, no | :09:00. | :09:09. | |
announcement, they just sent in the bulldozers. The place where the | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
mastermind of 9/11 hid for up to five years will soon be nothing | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
more than a pile of rubble. It was in May that the building came into | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
prominence, in the most dramatic of ways. To the embarrassment of | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
Pakistan. After they killed him, American Navy SEALs grabbed what | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
material they could, including Bin Laden home videos. Very little | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
about his life is yet to be made public. This demolition is taking | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
place under a shroud of secrecy. All of that heavy machinery moved | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
in under the dead of night, and security forces swarmed this area, | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
trying to keep us as far away as possible. We have still not been | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
given an official reason as to why the Pakistani authorities are | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
taking down this building now. We revisit a neighbour. He was one of | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
the few outsiders who got inside the compound when Bin Laden live | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
there. He had unwittingly been the Al-Qaeda leader's plumber. There | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
are two reasons why people here agree in demolishing the building. | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
Many people feel that what happened there was unjust and do not want to | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
be reminded. Also, we have heard that things will get back to normal. | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
That must be Pakistan's Corp. Just because the compound has been | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
raised does not mean the uncomfortable questions about why | :10:28. | :10:37. | |
Bin Laden was found under the nose of the Pakistani army will go away. | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
The former South African President, Nelson Mandela was discharged from | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
hospital this afternoon one day after being admitted. He was given | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
a clean bill of health before leaving hospital. He was admitted | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
yesterday for a key cooperation to investigate persistent stomach | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
pains. -- keyhole operation. Golden statuettes are being handed | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
out for the great and good of the film industry at this time of year. | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
The Oscars are upon us. The ceremony takes place later tonight. | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Alistair Leithead is on the red carpet. | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
The final touches are being put on what is supposed to be the biggest | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
red carpet in the world. I am not sure how they work that out. The | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
stars will be making their way into the theatre and a few hours. There | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
is already excitement. The buzz is around The Artist. If it wins Best | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Picture, it will be the first time a silent movie has won since 1929, | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
when the very first Oscar ceremony was held across the road from here. | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
The Descendants, the George Clooney film, it is the one that is | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
breathing down its neck at the moment. Of course, it is Jean | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
Dujardin from The Artist and George Clooney for Best Actor. He would be | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
the first Frenchman to win, Jean Dujardin, if he won the Oscar. The | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
other big races are won for best actress. Meryl Streep, she is the | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
favourite, but I think she might have been replaced by Viola Davis | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
from The Help as who the bookies are putting the money on. You would | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
have thought she had a brace of Oscars in her cupboard, but in fact, | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
this would be her third. The last time she won was when Margaret | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
Thatcher was Prime Minister. Alistair Leithead in Hollywood. | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
Time to catch up with the sport. As you may have seen at Wembley, | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
Liverpool have won the Carling Cup. Cardiff City to them to penalties. | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
It was 1-1 after 90 minutes. Dirk Kuyt looked to have scored the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
winner in the second minute of extra-time but ben Turner scrambled | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
an equaliser. The match had to be decided on penalty kicks. Cardiff | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
only scored two out of five. Anthony Gerrard missed the decisive | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
penalty. I have got mixed emotions. I am delighted to win the Cup four | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
per supporters but I feel for Antony and Cardiff. -- for our | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
supporters. Did you have a word with them? It does not matter what | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
I say to him at this time. I had been there. I will be there for him | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
after the game. Arsenal are unlikely to lift any trophies this | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
season but what a win against Spurs today in the Premier League. They | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
were Two-nil down at the Emirates Stadium but won 5-2 to move back | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
into the top four. After three minutes and 51 seconds | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
we thought we knew the story of this game. Louis Saha at the heart | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
of Arsenal's defence, breaking it. Yet again, are sold deliver and | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
Thomas Szczesny came forward. Arsenal were agreed. They needed a | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
player to come up and score. That was Adebayor. Topsides are not | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
supposed to squander winning leads by half-time but it makes for might | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
never some matches. We have to win, said Robin van Persie before the | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
game. Easier said than done unless you can strike a ball like this. | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
Arsenal galloped into the second half, and Tottenham's defence was | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
in tatters. Rosicky scored. Arsenal were back from the brink. Theo | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
Walcott reconstructed his confidence, and his club's with two | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
sublime finishers. If defeat was unthinkable, 5-2 was nearly -- a | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
scarcely believable. Arsenal are 4th, seven points | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
behind Spurs. Manchester United behind Spurs. Manchester United | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
trail Manchester City by two points after Ryan Giggs scored their | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
injury time winner against Norwich. His 900th appearance. Wayne Rooney | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
missed the match with a throat infection. He will not play in | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
infection. He will not play in England's friendly on Wednesday. | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
Their future is uncertain and the title may be beyond them but at | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
least Rangers fans had a win to celebrate today. They beat | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Inverness -- Inverness Caley Thistle 4-1. Glenn McCulloch got | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
the final call. Rangers are now a near 20 points behind Celtic. | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
It all started so well for Scotland and the Six Nations, racing to a | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
ten-point lead against France at Murrayfield. But mistakes crept in | :15:15. | :15:22. |