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charge, as Parliament voted to oust him. Tonight, tens of thousands of

people have gathered in Kiev, to hear a key opposition figure who's

been freed from jail. Tonight, we'll be asking what now for Ukraine? Also

on the programme: The UN Security Council has unanimously backed a

resolution, calling on Syria to allow humanitarian aid to reach

civilians. And England have ended Ireland's

hopes of a Six Nations Grand Slam, with victory at Twickenham.

Good evening. It's been a day of high political drama in Ukraine,

with President Yanukovych fleeing the capital and heading for the east

of the country. He defiantly said he wouldn't resign, before a

Parliamentary vote to oust him. At the same time, a key opposition

figure has been released from jail. Yulia Tymoshenko returned to Kiev

and tonight addressed tens of thousands of people gathered in

Independence Square. Our Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt, is live in

Kiev. Clive, by any measure this has been an extraordinary day. Ask the

people still on the street out there and they will say this was Ukraine's

day of revolution. A day that saw the riot police disappear, they saw

the President leave the capital, and then tonight on the stage behind me

a dramatic reappearance of a key opposition figure.

Early morning and it felt like a revolution. Protesters on board army

trucks driving around streets that only yesterday were held by riot

police. Columns of protesters armed mainly with clubs headed for

parliament and the Presidential compound. People poured into the

streets, scarcely able to believe that overnight the feared riot

police had vanished and the President had left the capital. Only

two days ago there were two or three lines of heavily armed riot police.

Now groups of protesters are coming in here to go down and protect the

outside of the parliament. At the parliament itself these were the new

faces of the guards, men who only yesterday had been behind

barricades. Very quickly crowds, having lost their fear, rushed to

the parliament but they were wary of claiming victory. We are not giving

up. It's not the victory yet. Everyone is ready to fight. The

whole country was now watching what the parliament would decide. Some

MPs loyal to the Government were harassed by the crowds as they

approached the parliament. They wanted the President and the old

guard removed. Then President Yanukovych issued a video saying he

wouldn't resign, he wouldn't leave Ukraine and announcing his opponents

as Nazis. Shortly after, parliament voted by a large majority to remove

him from power and to hold elections in May. MPs cheered and sang the

anthem. As flowers were laid where many

protesters had died came news of another momentous decision.

Parliament ordered the immediate release from detention of Yulia

Tymoshenko, a pro-western former Prime Minister suffering from

ill-health. She immediately went to Independence Square in Kiev, in

front of a crowd of 50,000 she was pushed on to the stage to a

tumultous welcome. TRANSLATION: You are heros, you are

the best of Ukraine. She struggled to hold back tears and then had this

message for the protesters. TRANSLATION: It is you who changed

everything. Not diplomats, not politicians, not the world, just

you. If somebody tells you you have finished your work and you can go

home, don't believe it. Don't leave this square until we achieve real

change. Her appearance ended a long day that has utterly changed this

strategically important eastern European country.

Victor Yanukovych fled Kiev in the early hours of the morning,

abandoning his official residence just outside of the capital.

Opposition guards then took control of the building and let hundreds of

people in to have a look around. Steve Rosenberg was there.

It looked like a Saturday afternoon stroll in the park. But it was

curousity which had brought out these crowds. Protesters had broken

in to Viktor Yanukovych's res deans near -- residence near Kiev and

opened it up to the public. People stared in amaizement at the

splendour inside and the unexpected decorations outside -- amazement.

But it was the scale of things that shocked people the most, 140

hectares that seemed to stretch to eternity. Visitors took sour niche

photos. -- sour 15 -- souvenir photos. I am speechless. This is

built on our money and at the same time we have a lot of problems which

needs those money but they spend on that. If you are President of a

country and you suddenly have crowds of people wandering through your

back garden, that means you have a problem and Viktor Yanukovych's

problem is his power is crumbling. There were many doors and many keys.

It wasn't easy finding the right one. But eventually they did find a

way into Viktor Yanukovych's sauna, complete with massage table and

tastefully folded towels. This was the day Viktor Yanukovych lost his

power and his privacy. It was the ultimate humiliation.

In a moment we'll have more from Gavin Hewitt in Kiev, but first to

Kharkiv in the east of the country and Daniel Sandford is there.

Of course the big question tonight, where is the President, where is

President Yanukovych? Well, we think he is here in one of his eastern

strongholds, a city where we have seen scuffles tonight around that

Statue behind me between his supporters and those of the new

Government in Kiev, the reason we think he is in Kharkiv because he

gave an interview in which he described events him as a coup and

an interview in which the local television said was done here. Also

here today there was a meeting of governors of the pro-Russian eastern

provinces, attended by several senior Russian politicians, as well.

That has raised the spectre what everyone has been worrying about

since this crisis began back in December, and that's the possibility

of a split in Ukraine and the risk of much more serious violence.

On to you, Gavin in Kiev. After what has been a dramatic day of twists

and turns where has the political upheaval left Ukraine? Well, the

protesters have got largely what they wanted, the removal of the

President and also snap elections and this was done by a decision

taken in parliament and not by a coup. But there are really two big

questions. Firstly, will the opposition stay united? Also, how

will they cope with the reemergence of somebody so ambitious as Yulia

Tymoshenko? And then there is the question of the President who has so

far refused to resign. There are some reports tonight that he was

stopped from taking a flight to Russia. But the other question is

this, will he try and marshall support in the east of the country?

If he does that, will it threaten the integrity of Ukraine? I suppose

that's the biggest question, will this country be able to stay

together after these dramatic events?

Thank you. The United Nations Security Council

has voted unanimously, in favour of a resolution calling for

humanitarian aid convoys to be allowed access to besieged parts of

Syria. It says there must be an end to the bombing and shelling that has

hampered the movement of aid from across the border in Iraq and Turkey

and the government should lift its siege of areas such as Homs. Nick

Bryant is at the United Nations in New York. What is significant about

this resolution I suppose is that the Russians and the Chinese seem to

be on board. Yeah, for the first time in three years that must be

unfathomable to people who have watched this unfold and don't

understand the politics of the United Nations. For the first time

in three years they've managed to get a humanitarian aid resolution

passed at the United Nations Security Council, Russian

obstructionism for the time being has ended. It has the chance to be a

real humanitarian game-changer. It could change things on the ground.

Its key demand, for instance, is the opening up of borders so that aid

convoys could go in and UN officials say they could reach people shortly

and get aid to a million people. The question is will it be implemented?

The price of Russian support was to remove sanctions from this

resolution and that means that if the Syrian Government keeps borders

closed, there's no immediate way of punishing it or forcing it to open

them. At the moment this resolution is words, the key test is whether

those words are translated into action and we see aid being

delivered to the people who are in such desperate need of it. Thank

you. The leader of the Roman Catholic

Church in England and Wales, the Archbishop of Westminster Vincent

Nichols, is now a Cardinal. He's one of 19 created today by Pope Francis

in a ceremony in Rome. Alan Johnston reports from the Vatican. The coming

of the Pope, his grand entrance in the vastness and splendour of St

Peter's. A Papal occasion, not just one Pope, but two. Francis greeting

his retired predecessor Benedict. But this was the day of the

Cardinals, these clerics in Scarlett are sometimes called the Princes of

the Church. New men being added to this powerful upper echelon that's

the honour of electing the Pope. Among them the leader of the

Catholic Church in England and Wales, the Archbishop of

Westminster, Vincent Nichols. He was deeply moved, he said, by this

elevation in rank. He is an outspoken figure, just days ago he

criticised the Government over its welfare reforms. This Pope of the

poor lives surrounded by the opulens of the Vatican but most of his

newest Cardinals come from poorer countries like the Ivory Coast and

Haiti. Out in the sunshine in St Peter's Square crowds of the

faithful had followed the events in the great Bascillica. We just

watched Pope Francis appoint new cardials for the first time. He has

gun that important process of filling his highest ranks with the

kind of men who he believes are best suited to lead the Catholic world

into the future. Now with all the sport here's Olly

Foster. Thank you. There'll be no Grand Slam in Rugby

Union's Six Nations Championship this year. England beat the

previously unbeaten Ireland 13-10. In Rome, Scotland won by a single

point against Italy. Patrick Gearey reports from Twickenham. This one

didn't need the special effects, the plot should have been strong enough.

Brian O'Driscoll would celebrate welcoming the world Test caps

record, but England were the spoiler. Even if they themselves

ruined the chance of an early try, the opportunities slipping from

May's grasp. Farrell's boot was more secure. It delivered the only points

of the first half. More came quickly in the second but from Ireland.

Kearney's try would have been trademark O'Driscoll once. But

neither he nor Ireland have the copyright. England made their own

insignificance. Brown cut through and there was Danny Care. The

conversion opened up a three-point English lead that Ireland simply

couldn't overhaul. England celebrate potentially a crucial win in the

context of this season's Six Nations. They've ended Ireland's

Grand Slam hopes and thrown this tournament wide open.

It's probably too much to count Scotland in the mix to win it but in

coming from behind to beat Italy they got a much needed boost. They

hadn't scored a try in the tournament until two came in 13

minutes, both from Dunbar. Victory looked like eleading them until the

last minute. -- eluding. This was the magic Scottish rugby had so

craved. To the football, and all the goals

from today's seven Premier League matches will be on Match of the Day

after the news, but if you want the results now here they come. One goal

was enough for Chelsea to stay top of the table. John Terry scored in

injury time to beat Everton 1-0 at Stamford Bridge. And, after signing

a new ?300,000 a week deal yesterday, Wayne Rooney scored his

first goal since Boxing Day as Manchester United beat Crystal

Palace 2-0. Arsenal are still one point behind Chelsea after beating

Sunderland 4-1. Hull thrashed struggling Cardiff 4-0. Manchester

City beat Stoke 1-0 and stay third. Bottom club Fulham drew at West

Brom. And West Ham beat Southampton 3-1. Celtic are now 24 points clear

in the Scottish Premiership. They won 2-0 at Hearts. A 13th clean

sheet in a row saw their keeper Fraser Forster set a new Scottish

record and Leigh Griffiths scored his first for the club after signing

from Wolves last month. Elsewhere, Kilmarnock and Hibernian drew 1-1.

But there were wins for Partick Thistle, Ross County and Inverness.

No more medals for Great Britain today in Sochi but they have an

outside chance on the last day of the Winter Olympics tomorrow. With

two more runs to go, John Jackson's, four-man bobsleigh team, GBR1, lies

7th at the halfway stage. The GBR2 bobsleigh is 18th.

That's all the sport. That's all from us tonight. From me

and the rest of the team, have a very good night.

Hello again. It's staying mild this weekend but as we have seen all

winter higher temperatures mean wind and rain. That's what we have

heading our way at the moment. Slowly but surely this broad band of

cloud is moving in from the Atlantic to bring heavy rain over western

hills. The wettest weather overnight will