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Rebels advance on Colonel Gaddafi's stronghold. As they take control of | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
more territory, NATO pledges to continue its support. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
The Lockerbie bomber has been found living in a villa in the Libyan | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
capital. Hurricane Irene leaves 21 people | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
dead amid warnings of more flooding on American's east coast. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
After Usain Bolt's be a disappointment, could athletics | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
revise its strict false start role for the Olympics? | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
And the Notting Hill Carnival continues, more than 6,000 police | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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Hello, good evening. Rebel fighters in Libya have been advancing | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
towards the last stronghold of Colonel Gaddafi's regime. Rebel | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
leaders say they want to negotiate with Gaddafi loyalists to avoid | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
further bloodshed. NATO has pledged to maintain its support. Our | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
correspondent Paul Wood is with the advancing rebel forces and sent | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
After many days of deadlock on the road to Sirte, the rebels are now | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
surging ahead. Behind them, towns and people getting their first | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
taste of freedom in a generation. Mahmoud Matar spent the past 21 | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
years in jail. He remembers the bad food, the beatings, the murders of | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
other prisoners. You know, I didn't see my kids, my wife for 12 years. | :01:58. | :02:06. | |
You can imagine it? You can? son died fighting for the | :02:06. | :02:15. | |
revolution a few days ago. A high price, but necessary, he told me. | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
An officer's medal and uniform discarded by Gaddafi loyalists in | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
The revolution has certainly won, although it is not complete. | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
Colonel Gaddafi is still at large, places like Sirte are still loyal | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
to him. The rebels say they will wait to avoid further bloodshed. | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
There have been talks with tribal elders and Sirte. The advance was | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
halted for a time because civilians were in a village ahead. We speak | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
to the Gaddafi people to take this family out. Then we can fight. | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
rebels continued to have almost euphoric levels of confidence. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Negotiations have again failed to reach an agreement with tribal | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
leaders and the peaceful handover of Sirte, but as you can see, | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
reinforcements are being pushed up, the rebels are leapfrogging ahead, | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
and they think over the next few days they will be fighting the last | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
big battle of this war, their Next week would have marked 42 | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
years of Colonel Gaddafi's rule. No Muslim leader had been in power | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
longer. Once this would have been a death sentence. Whatever happens in | :03:32. | :03:42. | |
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Sirte, the Libyans know that here Well, our correspondent Clive Myrie | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
is with the rebels east of Sirte, and what is the situation with them | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
on the ground where you are? Well, today rebel forces have been | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
consolidating the ground they have taken over the last few days and | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
making preparations as they continued to push forward westwards | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
towards Sirte. It seems as if pro- Gaddafi fighters, faced with a much | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
more disciplined rebel force of late, and of course suffering | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
heavily because of NATO air strikes, are simply falling back and leaving | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
pockets of fighters to fire off Russian-made rockets towards the | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
rebel front lines. They are not causing that much damage. Today | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
NATO has been on operation again, in the skies here, attacking | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
positions in an area which is frankly the last there are any | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
strategic importance westwards on the way towards Sirte. Rebel | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
commanders are telling us that if it falls in the next couple of days, | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
they could well be at the gates of Sirte by the end of the week. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Thank you, Clive Myrie. Meanwhile, the Lockerbie bomber, | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, has been found living in a villa in Tripoli, | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
suffering from terminal cancer. He is drifting in and out of | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
consciousness. He was released by the Scottish government two years | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
ago on compassionate grounds. Downing Street said again today | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
that his case is a matter for the Scottish government. First Minister | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
Alex Salmond has said he has no intention of seeking Megrahi's | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
return to Scotland. Daniel Sandford said this report from Tripoli. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
This is the luxury three-storey mansion in a wealthy Tripoli suburb | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
where the man convicted of killing 270 people lives. Last week, the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Lockerbie bomb a's family said he had left the city, but it is now | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
clear that he has not. This picture, taken at the House last night, | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
appears to show how the basset al- Megrahi close to death, an oxygen | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
mask on his face. -- Abdel Basset al-Megrahi. I'm pretty sure that he | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
is in the House this morning, so let's see if anyone answers the | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
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A few minutes later, Abdul Nasser emerged. He told me his brother is | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
in a coma, only regaining consciousness for a few minutes at | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
a time, and he asked for compassion. The man is struggling between life | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
and death, he told me. What is the point in sending him back to | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
prison? Out of mercy, he should be allowed to die next to his mother | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
and father, instead of dying overseas. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Megrahi was found guilty of blowing up Pan Am flight one of three over | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
Lockerbie in 1988. He was sentenced to 27 years in prison but was | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
released after eight because he had cancer and it was thought he had | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
three months to live. He returned to Libya to a hero's welcome, and | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
that was two years ago. Scottish ministers have always dismissed the | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
vehement criticism of their decision. I think we can finally | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
laid to rest the ridiculous conspiracy theory that has been | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
ventilated by too many people too often that somehow Mr Megrahi was | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
not dying of terminal prostate cancer. He would not have to be a | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
medical expert to realise that this man is dying, he is terminally ill, | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
as we always said. The Scottish government is now hoping to release | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
800 pages of documents relating to the abandoned Appeal which have | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
never been made public. If he is indeed on the edge of death, his | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
knowledge of who ordered the Lockerbie bombing is about to die | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
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In other news, Hurricane Irene has claimed at least 21 lives along | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
America's East Coast, and although it has been downgraded to storm- | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
force, President Obama has said there is still a significant risk | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
of flooding and high winds. Millions of people are being | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
affected by power cuts and travel Irene's alarming aftermath, floods | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
and fires in suburban New Jersey, firemen battle with the rising | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
water level, trying to hose down a blaze. Elsewhere in the state, | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
stranded teenagers climb on to their overturned boat, waiting to | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
be rescued. We did not realise the current was as strong as it was. As | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
we were coming up, we realised it was getting strong. As Irene moved | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
north to Vermont, the flooding in the landlocked state was the worst | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
in 80 years. This bridge is barely standing. This one was swept away. | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
Oh, my God! In upstate New York, rescuers tried | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
to reach those cut of A by the floods. The town is basically | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
destroyed, maximum damage. We have people staying with us because | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
their house is gone. Massachusetts, a floating container | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
rips through the trees. The authorities everywhere have | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
prepared for coastal flooding, but the worst was inland. Cables have | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
been knocked down, leaving millions without power, and it is not over | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
yet. Rivers are still swelling, which could cause more flooding. | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
The President is watching closely. We are going to make sure folks | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
have all the support they need as they begin to assess and repair the | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
damage left by the storm. That is going to continue in the days ahead. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
It is going to take time to recover from the storm of this magnitude. | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
The effects are still being felt across much of the country. But not | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
in Manhattan, where the city went back to work. Here in New York, the | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
water levels in the harbour did not rise nearly as much as had been | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
feared. The main legacy of Irene is a difficult commute to work. Having | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
seen the destruction Irene was capable of, New Yorkers are | :09:36. | :09:45. | |
relieved that their city was Here, police are hunting a serial | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
sex offender in connection with the murder of a 77-year-old woman in | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
Hexham in Northumberland. Graeme Jarman, 47, went missing from his | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
home in Consett in County Durham shortly before Judith Richardson | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
was found dead. The head of Britain's prison | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
governors has accused magistrates of indulging in a sentencing | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
feeding frenzy following the recent riots. With the prison population | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
at record levels, Eoin McLennan- Murray says that part of the | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
problem is that too many people involved in the writing have been | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
remanded in custody to await trial on relatively minor offences. -- | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
writing. Magistrates say they are following guidelines. | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Police about the new report. When this furniture store went up | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
in flames, it epitomised for many watching the sheer senselessness of | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
the criminality involved in the riots. A man is now in custody | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
charged with arson. That is a serious charge, but many more minor | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
offences have resulted in people being remanded in custody. The | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
Prison Governors Association says the judiciary has been influenced | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
by the media and a populist mentality. The use of reminding | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
people in custody has been excessive, and I think it reflects | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
the general sort of concerns that exist, and I think there has been | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
an over-reaction. The most recent statistics estimate that 70% of | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
people arrested during the riots were remanded in custody. That | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
compares to just 10% for the same period last year. The Magistrates' | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
Association, angered by the accusations of a feeding frenzy, | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
say the high number of romance are not surprising. There have been a | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
significant increase in offences, significant, 2000 arrests and more | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
to follow, in a very short beard of time. We would therefore expect to | :11:34. | :11:42. | |
see more offenders remanded into custody. Today, this company is | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
trading as normal opposite where the fire happened. The owner | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
believes the judiciary is rightly making their false felt. You should | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
not steal trainers, you should not throw bricks, you should not do | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
things like that, and if you do, you need to be hit very hard. If it | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
had happened 10 years ago, we would not be having this conversation now. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
When it comes to sentencing, judges and magistrates have guidelines to | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
work with, but they are often described as guidelines and not | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
tramlines. That means they can depart from them in the interests | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
of justice. The perception by Sun is that since the riots there have | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
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Well, today is the main day of parting at the Notting Hill | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
Carnival. Let's end there and joined the Nicola Pearson. How has | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
VE Day been? Well, it has been a very lively day, lots of loud music, | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
lots of bright costumes, dancing. Hundreds of thousands of people | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
have been here today to enjoy the ambience and the atmosphere, and | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
most people, it has got to be said, had a really very good time. | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
London's mayor, Boris Johnson, was here, and he said that in the light | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
of London's riots, these were the images that he wanted the world to | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
say of this city. This is a great event. London is a wonderful, | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
wonderful city. We want to show the world what we can do. We are coming | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
up to the Olympics, running the biggest ever carnival in 2012, and | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
I'm very pleased with the spirits so far that people are celebrating | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
today. There has been a big police presence here today, but very | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
little trouble so far. The carnival will be closing early tonight, as | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
it did last night, and the police are hoping that people will simply | :13:34. | :13:43. | |
Now it is time to catch up with all the latest sports news with Francis | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Collins. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
said he is extremely disappointed at losing his 100 metres world | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
title in South Korea after he was disqualified under a new rule | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
governing false starts. Athletics world governing body IAAF has told | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
the BBC it is likely to review the rule but would not be rushed into | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
changes. From Daegu, David Bond reports. | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
He normally craves the attention of the world, but today Usain Bolt was | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
uncharacteristically camera-shy. And this is why. The false start | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
which not only denied Bolt the chance to retain his world 100 | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
metres crown but sparked a global controversy about the rules. One of | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
his biggest rivals says they should be looked at again before London | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
2012. It is just a travesty, you know, I mean if the guy worked so | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
hard to get to this moment and then false starts. At the end of the day, | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
he was supposed to wait for the gun, but anything can happen, the click | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
of a flash, someone flinches, so it should be changed. And it is not | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
just Bolt. Even before his disqualification, two British medal | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
hopes, will 400 metres champion Christine Ohuruogu and another 100 | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
metres runner, Dwain Chambers, were red-carded for jumping the gun. The | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
men who run the sport only introduced the regulation last year, | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
so is it time to think again? would be a mistake to quickly | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
reverse ourselves just because of one very high profile issue. And | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
not saying we should not consider it, but I would caution against a | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
hasty reaction. Despite growing pressure to change its rules, the | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
IAAF says it will not rush any decision. But the governing body | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
knows it cannot afford a repeat of what happened here last night at | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
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There was more controversy tonight. AQ the Natalie was stripped of gold | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
off there holding a competitor back in the final of the 110 metres | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
hurdles, bringing unexpected bronze for Andy Turner. These | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
championships are in danger of being remembered not for medals won, | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
Jessica Ennis is the overnight leader in the heptathlon at the | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
World Athletics. Following a disappointing start, the defending | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
champion finished her session with a win in her 200 metre heat. She | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
also recorded a personal best in the shot putt giving her a 151 | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
point lead with three events left. The Oscar Pistorius dream is over. | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
The double amputee from South Africa failed to qualify for the | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
400 metres final. The 24-year-old, whose carbon fibre blades have | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
provoked great debate over whether they give him an unfair advantage, | :16:35. | :16:45. | |
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finished last in his semi-final Now before we go, if you're an | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
Arsenal fan who witnessed the clubs's 8-2 humiliation against | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Manchester United yesterday - their biggest defeat since 1896 - there's | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
some good news for you... The Gunners are offering a free ticket | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
to a future Premier League away game to any fan who had to sit | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
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through the abject performance at More now about the situation in | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
Libya, and as forces loyal to Colonel Gadaffi retreat they're | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
leaving a trail of evidence about how his regime operated. Our | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
correspondent Orla Guerin has gained access to Gadaffi's internal | :17:25. | :17:35. | |
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security HQ and has just sent this report. The regime kept many of its | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
secrets here, but today we were able to walk right into the | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
homeland security headquarters. Testaments remain to the dark arts | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
practised here. We found operational charts about tracking | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
anyone with a cellphone anywhere in the country. And guidance on | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
identifying new potential suspects. This is where Colonel Gaddafi | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
Spider on his own people and, it seems, on others. We just found | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
these documents lying in the corner. They appear to be a record of | :18:13. | :18:23. | |
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What is interesting is a lot of these are foreign names and many of | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
the numbers are in the UK. We pushed in deeper, but there are | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
still hidden depths here. There are iron gates on the elevators. We | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
cannot be sure what they lead to but we have been told there are | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
detention cells down below. In another office scattered remnants | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
of intelligence files, listing targets and here they call. And a | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
photograph of a wanted man. We do not know if he wound up here. This | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
is an intercept from April this year. It seems to be between two | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
rebels, one asks the other can you attack that a niqab and he is | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
suggesting a good time to do it. It shows how much the regime was able | :19:11. | :19:15. |