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Today at Six: Thousands of North Koreans gather to say an official | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
farewell to Kim Jong Il. It's the first of two days of funeral | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
services for the dictator they called The Dear Leader. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Many North Koreans appeared overcome with emotion as the world | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
tries to make sense of the new regime there. Also: A new contract | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
for Bombardier, securing jobs in Derby with Government help. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
It's great news, especially over the Christmas period and there's | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
been people that have been laid off, so they're probably feeling sad | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
over Christmas about losing their jobs, but now they can see a little | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
glimmer of hope in the future. After this Indian student was shot | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
dead on Boxing Day, police in Salford now arrest a fourth | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
teenager. From the depths of the Indian Ocean, | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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the remarkable discoveries made by British scientists. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Good evening. In North Korea thousands of people have gathered | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
for the start of two days of funeral services for Kim Jong Il, | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
the dictator who died before Christmas. The procession, led by | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
his son and successor Kim Jong Un, is being watched closely by the | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
world community for any clues about the balance of power in the new | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
regime. The BBC is not allowed into North Korea, so our world affairs | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
editor, John Simpson, reports from neighbouring South Korea. | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
Good one The weeping announcer, doleful music, the slow movement of | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
Kim Jong Il's cortege, it was all intensely choreographed, with the | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
young, completely inexperienced Kim Jong Un taking over, this is a | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
difficult moment for the North Korean dictatorship. | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
And since the Government demanded grief, the crowds provided it, in | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
bucketloads. A bit of this may even be genuine, but each one of these | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
people knows it's what's expected of them and occasionally you catch | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
a glimpse of a soldier filming the crowd, so they don't forget. A | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
select few talked to camera T doesn't exactly sound spontaneous. | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
The snow is falling like tears, he says, how could the Heavens not cry | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
cry when we have lost our General, who was a great man from the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
Heavens? Down here in Seoul, stuff like that | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
just sounds absurd. But is any of the grief genuine? This is Jung | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
Gwang-Il, he did time in a northern labour camp, then escaped to South | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
Korea. TRANSLATION: The people we saw get more food and | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
consumer goods, so maybe they had a reason to cry. But those in the | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
countryside who have nothing won't be sorry he is dead. The succession | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
has now passed peacefully to the third generation of the family | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
business. But Kim Jong Un is so young and inexperienced he will | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
need backup. The man walking behind him here is his uncle, who will be | :03:29. | :03:37. | |
a key player. Still, Kim Jong Un has the right credentials. | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
elite of North Korea know that they need him. They need a blood | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
descendent for their legitimacy. Once they lose that, they're in | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
trouble. But it's a worrying inheritance all the same. This year | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
hasn't been a good one for dictators. | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
For the latest we can talk to John in Seoul. You mentioned the | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
succession there in your report, are there any more clues today | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
about the nature of this new regime that's emerging? It's too early for | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
that. We did get one little PR touch from the team that are trying | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
to create a kind of legend, a myth about the new man, just as they | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
created them about his father and grandfather. They said that Kim | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
Jong Un had been - felt so sorry for all the people freezing out in | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
the cold that he ordered hot drinks to be taken to them. Now, you and I | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
may think that's pretty small stuff, but here you can see the direction | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
that they want to go in, the loving kind of leader, the man who thinks | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
about the people T won't necessarily be true, who knows | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
whether it will be true, but that's the direction it's going to. It's | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
just simply that these are difficult days for dictators and | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
North Korea is the hardest, nastiest dictatorship still left | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
affloat. Who knows whether it can swim for all that much longer. | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
Thank you. The trainmaker Bombardier, based in | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Derby, has been awarded a new contract worth �188 million. But | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
the deal to build carriages for the rail company Southern was funded, | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
in part, by a Government subsidy worth �80 million. The Department | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
for Transport had been criticised for rejecting Bombardier for a much | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
bigger Thameslink contract worth �1.4 billion. From Derby, Anthony | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
Bartram reports. Trains have been built in Derby for | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
over a century. 2011 has been one of the toughest in Bombardier's | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
history and fears for its future brought people out on to the city | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
streets in their thousands to protest about the loss of 1400 jobs | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
and a crucial Government contract to overseas competition. But new | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
work announced today brings some consolation and security. It's | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
great news, especially over the Christmas period and there's been | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
people that have been laid off, so they're probably feeling sad over | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Christmas about losing their jobs, but now they can see a little | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
glimmer of hope in the future. train-makers change of fortune has | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
been welcomed, but unions say the scale of the new order has to be | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
taken in context. Bombardier's successful contract with Southern | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
Trains is worth �188 million. It's been subsidised by Government to | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
the tune of �80 million. In June, the company failed to get the | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
Thameslink contract, valued at �1.4 billion. | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
The Department of Transport awarded it instead to Siemens of Germany. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
think this is a substantial contract. It will see work for the | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
next 12-18 months take place. It's one of a number the Government will | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
be putting out to tender over the coming years, we are putting a huge | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
amount of investment into our railways at the moment. Today's | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
announcement will be welcome news to Bombardier's workforce which is | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
enjoying its Christmas break and the company says the decision was a | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
vote of confidence in its work. But one thing Bombardier won't be drawn | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
on is what impact this order will have on future jobs on this site. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
Production lines get moving again in the new year with engineers | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
looking forward to 130 new carriages to build and breathing | :07:45. | :07:54. | |
space perhaps to secure even more work here. | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Police in Salford investigating the murder of an Indian student have | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
made a fourth arrest. Anuj Bidve was shot in the early hours of | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
Boxing Day. One man and three teenagers are now being questioned. | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
A gentle man who brought a smile to anyone's face, speaking from India | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
over the internet Anuj Bidve's cousin says they're struggling to | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
come to terms with his death. were extremely shocked, but his | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
parents, grandparents and family now getting older they're | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
completely shatter stkpwhrd in Salford today forensic officers | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
were back at the place where the student was shot dead in front of | :08:35. | :08:45. | |
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his friends. It's been almost three days and every inch is still being | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
searched. But why was Anuj Bidve shot? | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
Detectives believe his killer asked him for the time, he replied and | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
it's then thought the gun was fired at point blank range. The shock of | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
what's happened is beginning to show on the streets. It's not just | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
sadness felt here in Salford, it's embarrassment, too. Local people | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
won't be interviewed because they say this shooting has brought shame | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
on the community. They feel sorry for the family in India. We will be | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
travelling to the UK to get Anuj Bidve's body back to India and we | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
will come there and talk to all authorities to explain the process | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
and we will try and get his body back to India. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Anuj Bidve's family hope to be in England by the end of the week. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
They say they want justice for the 23-year-old who only came to | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
Manchester that night to enjoy the festivities, but died on a street | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
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thousands of miles from home. A young woman found stabbed to | :10:04. | :10:14. | |
death in Borehamwood Hertfordshire has been named as Catherine Wynter. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
The body was discovered 8.00am yesterday morning by her mother. | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
But the police believe she was killed on Boxing Day night, stabbed | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
to death as she babysat her sister's two children, a three- | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
year-old and a four-year-old. She was last seen alive at 7.30pm, | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
after that it's unclear exactly what happened. Two men have been | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
arrested, an 18-year-old and 26- year-old. They are known to have | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
been known by Catherine. They're being questioned in a local police | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
station at the moment. What's not clear at this stage is what the -- | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
whether the two children witnessed the attack. They're with specially | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
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trained police officers who are trying to get information from them. | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
In Syria, state television reports that 755 people being held for | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
their role in the uprising have been released. All detained | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
protesters are meant to be freed under a peace plan set out by the | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
Arab League, whose monitors are continuing their visit to the | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
country. But the UN estimates that some 14,000 have been detained | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
during the protests and more than 5,000 killed by President Assad's | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
forces, as Caroline Hawley reports. Reassuring may have been the | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
verdict of the Arab League but this is footage posted on the internet | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
by opposition activist who is fear the observers will not be allowed | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
to see the true face of the Syrian regime. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
We can't be sure exactly where or when it was filmed but it appears | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
to show clashes in the town of Homs yesterday. The very day the Arab | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
League monitors arrived. Under the terms of the peace plan, peaceful | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
demonstrations are supposed to be allowed. Freeing political | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
prisoners is another of the key demands of the agreement and today | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
in a gesture to the observers the Syrian authorities say they've | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
released 755. But that's a small fraction of the thousands being | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
held and Human Rights Watch says it's been told that as many as 600 | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
detainees may have been transferred to military sites to hide them from | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
the Arab monitors. State-run television showed their | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
visit to Homs, all quiet when this was filmed. The observers are led | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
by a Sudanese General and accompanied by the Syrian | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
authorities. And there are only 60 of them at the moment. Far too few, | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
critics say, for the crisis Syria is in. The regime is attempt ing to | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
use this for public relations purposes, the question is are these | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
monitors there to sightsee, be part of regime's public relations | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
apparatus? At the moment it's toothless. The mission is meant to | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
help stem the bloodshed but the toll is rising all the time. These | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
are Syrians being treated in hospital just inside Lebanon, | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
refugees still frightened to be identified after they fled. | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
She has shrapnel in the head, he says, we had to come here so she | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
could be properly treated. The credibility of the Arab League | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
monitors is on the line and with the violence apparently continuing | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
in Homs today, even in their presence, the omens for their | :13:27. | :13:37. | |
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mission are not good. At the Old Bailey, the judge at the | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
Stephen Lawrence murder trial has told jurors to set aside any | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
emotion in their deliberations. David Norris and Gary Dobson deny | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
murdering the black teenager in south-east London in 1993. The | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
defence says that forensic evidence against them was contaminated. The | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
judge said sympathy for the Lawrence family, or anger at the | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
nature of the attack, could not guide the jury's verdict, as Tom | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
Symonds reports. The final final act of this high | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
profile trial, 18 years after the stabbing of Stephen Lawrence. His | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
family, including his brother Stewart, here on the right, have | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
all been in court. Defendants Gary Dobson and David Norris were | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
brought from prison by van for the judge's summing up. Mr Justice | :14:17. | :14:27. | |
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He set out for the jury the routes they must take to reach a verdict. | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
He said they had to be sure forensic evidence came from Stephen | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Lawrence, and that there had been no contamination of the evidence | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
while in storage bags. They had to be sure either defendant had been | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
present and participating in the attack. | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
To be guilty of murder, the defendant must have intended to | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
kill Stephen or cause him serious harm. But under the laws of joint | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
enterprise, if they realised another member of the group | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
intended to kill, that could also be murder. The jury can consider | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
manslaughter, as an alternative. The judge has been summarising all | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
of the evidence, including eyewitness descriptions of the | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
attack here on this road in Eltham and the detailed views of forensic | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
scientists. He told the jury they had to be sure of their verdicts, | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
but also that this trial wasn't some sort of detective novel where | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
all the loose ends were tied newspaper the final chapter, there | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
might be some unanswered questions once they had made their decisions. | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
David Norris and Gary Dobson both deny murder. The jury will begin | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
considering its verdicts tomorrow. Palestinian police have intervened | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
to stop a fight between rival priests at the Church of the | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
Nativity in Bethlehem. Around 100 Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
fought with brooms as they cleaned the church in preparation for the | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
Orthodox Christmas. There's been tension in the past between the | :15:57. | :16:06. | |
various Christian denominations sharing the church. | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
A chimpanzee believed to have starred in a number of Hollywood | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
films has died. It's even claimed that Cheetah was the famous co-star | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
with Johnny Weissmuller in the Tarzan films of the 1930s. The | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
owners of the animal sanctuary in Florida where he died say he was 80 | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
years old. A team of British scientists has | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
captured images of very rare species in some of the most | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
inaccessible parts of the Indian Ocean. They've been surveying | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
volcanic underwater vents where they found a remarkable array of | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
creatures living in the heated waters. They believe some of the | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
species may be new to science, as Daniel Boettcher reports. | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
A dark and mysterious world almost 3,000 meeters beneath the surface | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
of the Indian Ocean, these volcanic vents spew out superheated water. | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
It's an extreme environment. It's home to strange specially adapted | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
creatures. Researchers using a remote-controlled robot have been | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
surveying an area in the south-west Indian ridge, comparing it with | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
other ridges where life has already been well documented. And they | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
believe some of the species they found may be new to science. For | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
example, this yeti crab, it's unlike species recorded in the | :17:23. | :17:32. | |
Pacific. It's like a crossroads for marine life. Our task is to | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
understand how creatures are related to other species elsewhere | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
in the world and by studying these animals we hope to better | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
understand how kwraels -- animals disperse and evolve in the deep | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
ocean. Volcanic vents support unusual food chains which rely on | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
chemical energy, rather than sunlight. Because the the vents | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
aren't around for long creatures have to be able to move between | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
them to survive. As technology improves, scientists aren't the | :18:00. | :18:04. |