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The BBC understands there is insufficient evidence to charge Sinn | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Fein president Gerry Adams with any offence. It comes as Gerry Adams is | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
warned of a credible death threat after being questioned over the | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
murder of Jean McConville. A terror group admits kidnapping | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria, now they're threatening to sell | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
them. Police hunt a dangerous convicted | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
robber on the run from an open prison despite being given 13 life | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
sentences. The Oscar Pistorius trial hears how | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
he cried and prayed over his girlfriend's body after he shot her. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
And tributes to the former British number-one tennis player Elena | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
Baltacha, who's died from cancer at the | :00:46. | :01:09. | |
Hello, good evening to you. After his release from police custody, the | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
BBC understands that there is insufficient evidence to charge | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Gerry Adams with any offence unless significant new evidence comes to | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
light. The Sinn Fein president was questioned for four days in | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
connection with the murder of Jean McConville and membership of the | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
IRA. He continues to strongly deny all those allegations. This | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
afternoon, it emerged that Mr Adams has been the subject of death | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
threats since being released from questioning. A file will be sent to | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
the Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland later this week. | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
Our Ireland correspondent Chris Bucker reports. | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Many times there have been attempts to make a clean start in Northern | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Ireland with countless strides forward in the peace process. But | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
the past is a running problem. This morning's Belfast Marathon went | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
through the west of the city and past a new mural painted in honour | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
of Gerry Adams while he was in custody. It is just streets away | :02:01. | :02:10. | |
from where Jean McConville was abducted in 1972 before being | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
murdered and buried in secret. Her family spent over 30 years | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
campaigning for the return of her remains, and now, they say, they're | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
prepared to take civil action over claims that Mr Adams was involved in | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
the killing. Well, at the minute, we are looking into it, but it looks | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
like we have a strong case. We have had people approach is that willing | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
to back us, it is looking good. Gerry Adams has always denied | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
playing any part in the murder, and last night, after four days of | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
questioning, he was released from custody without any charge. His | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
anger at the police was clear. It is the old guard using the old | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
methods, when a better way of getting to the same result would | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
probably have assisted their investigation but would not have | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
sent the type of signal except to people who really want a hope in the | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
future. The police knew that arresting a high-profile politician | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
would also put the spotlight on them, and after many hours of | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
interrogation, the release of Gerry Adams has led to questions for | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
detectives about their decisions. A file is being sent to the Public | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Prosecution Service, but it is understood that unless significant | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
new evidence is discovered, a charge is extremely unlikely. What has | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
really outraged members of Sinn Fein is that their leader was arrested | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
during an election campaign and just a few weeks and boats being held | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
across the island of Ireland. I don't | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
across the island of Ireland. I policing in Northern Ireland. What | :03:50. | :03:49. | |
across the island of Ireland. I see as Justice Minister is | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
politicians from both sides trying to interfere in the justice | :03:53. | :03:53. | |
politicians from both sides trying in different ways at different | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
times. Prosecutors still have been formally examine the evidence | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
gathered by police against Mr Adams, a man who stood alongside | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
world leaders but whose past remains under scrutiny. | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Chris, as you can see, joins us now. You mentioned the election | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
campaign, what impact will this have on the political process now? Well, | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
two questions there, I am not sure it will have much impact on the | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
elections. Politics, that is a different matter. Gerry Adams is a | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
big, a significant figure in Northern Ireland but also a | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
polarising one. In reality, the last three days will not change that. In | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
Republican areas, he is a hero. We have learned that the police visited | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
his home to warn him of more death threats against him, so that gives | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
you an idea of how polarising a figure he is. However, you are | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
right, the issue of politics here is always difficult, particularly when | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
it comes to policing, and the very strong words that have come from | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
Sinn Fein over the last few days talking about a cabal within | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
policing, of dark forces, that has angered unionist and estranged | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
relationships here. The Islamist group Boko Haram has | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
admitted kidnapping more than 200 girls from a school in northeastern | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Nigeria three weeks ago. In a recorded message, the leader of the | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
group said he now intended to sell the girls. There's been an | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
international outcry about the abductions and the failure of the | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
Nigerian government to trace the girls. Tommy Oladipo reports from | :05:22. | :05:33. | |
the Nigerian capital, Abuja. The first confirmation of the fate | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
of the schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria. In a video released today, | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
the leader of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, standing in front | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
of an armoured car, says, I abducted your girls. He adds, I will sell the | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
women in the market, there is a market for selling humans, Allah | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
commands me to sell, I will sell women. They greet and heartbreak | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
have moved the world, it has been three tormenting weeks since the | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
girls were reported missing, but since then the authorities have been | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
unable to find them. The BBC has secured the first TV interviews with | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
the mothers who are in agony, not knowing the fate of their abducted | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
daughters. TRANSLATION: Many people come to our house June the day to | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
sympathise with us, but at night our family stays awake all night, | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
thinking of our daughter and all the other girls and what they are going | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
through and where they are being held. The girls were seized from | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
this remote school in north-eastern Nigeria by Boko Haram. Nigeria's | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
president has been accused of not doing enough to rescue the girls. | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
Last night he spoke about the issue for the first time on television. | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
Tell me where those bills are, we will surely get them out. -- girls. | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
For a long time, many Nigerians have felt that the government response to | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
the Boko Haram threat has been far from perfect. The President's latest | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
comments will do little to inspire hope, and the fate of 200 girls | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
remains unclear. Groups like this are having daily protests to express | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
their outrage. My daughter is not with me, my parents are helpless, we | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
crying at home. They should bring the girls back, it is then I will | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
support the government in anything they do. More than 1500 people have | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
been killed in north-eastern Nigeria so far this year, and it is ever so | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
clear for the government that the violence cannot be ignored. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Ministers have ordered a review into a decision to release an armed | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
robber on temporary leave from prison, who then absconded. Police | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
are still searching for Michael Wheatley, who is nicknamed the Skull | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
Cracker for hitting victims with a gun during armed robberies, after he | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
failed to return to Standford Hill open jail in Kent. The 55-year-old | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
had been given 13 life sentences. Our political correspondent Alex | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
Forsyth is in Westminster for us. Alex. | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
Yes, Kent police have warned the public not to approach Michael | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
Wheatley, which gives you an idea of how dangerous they think he is. He | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
committed a string of raids on banks and building societies, 13 in ten | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
months, and his crime spree started just three weeks after he was | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
released on parole from a 27 year sentence for other robberies. When | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
he was called for the second time, he was given 13 life sentences but | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
told he would serve a minimum of just eight years. He has done that | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
and more, and at some point, we are not sure when, he was transferred to | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
an open prison on the Isle of Sheppey and then allowed out on | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
temporary licence. That is standard for someone nearing the end of their | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
sentence to prepare them for life in the community. The question is | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
whether it is appropriate for such a violent and prolific offender, and | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
one who has now gone on the run, and it is pretty unfortunate timing for | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
the Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, because only in March he | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
announced new, tougher rules for those released on temporary | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
licence. From autumn, they will all have to wait electronic tags. | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
Ministers have admitted the system has been too lax and say that is why | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
they are changing it, but of course it is too late for this case. There | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
will now be a review of how this happened, and in the meantime police | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
will focus on trying to catch this man. | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
A man has admitted posting abusive messages on Twitter about the murder | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
of the schoolteacher Ann Maguire. Robert Riley, who is 42 and from | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
Port Albert in South Wales, appeared before magistrates in Leeds. The | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
court heard he had posted a number of offensive tweets, some of which | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
related to the death of Ann Maguire, who was killed at a school in Leeds | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
last week. He will be sentenced at a later date. A three-day strike by | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
Tube workers scheduled to start tonight has been suspended. | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
A rail union leaders held talks with London Underground managers this | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
morning over a long-running dispute over staff cuts and ticket office | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
closures. The American London, Boris Johnson, called it a victory for | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
common sense. In Ukraine, there has been heavy | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
fighting in the eastern city of Sloviansk, where government troops | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
are trying again to take control from pro-Russian militants. Big | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
government says four soldiers have been killed and 30 injured, and a | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
helicopter has been shot down. There have also been casualties among the | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
pro-Russian gunmen. Sloviansk is one of the most important strongholds of | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
the rebels, who have occupied government buildings in about a | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
dozen cities and towns across the region. Sarah Rainsford sent this | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
report. A brief lull in what has been a day | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
of heavy fighting here. These are pro-Russian militia, well armed and | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
with vehicles seized from Ukraine's military. The two sides clashed on | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
the edge of Sloviansk Thomas Ware Ukrainian troops now say they have | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
the rebels surrounded. There were casualties on both sides. The medics | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
say this man was shot in the stomach. We helped him as much as we | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
could, a very young looking rebel fighter explains. Now we are praying | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
he survives. Images released by the defence ministry suggest that its | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
troops have taken some ground and some prisoners, but this is no easy | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
fight. Helicopters are just part of what Kiev deployed against a force | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
they say was 800 men strong. And for a third time, those are Russian | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
fighters managed to shoot a helicopter down. TRANSLATION: We are | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
facing a very well-organised enemy. They have grenade launchers, | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
mortars, machine-gun. They are very well trained. And from their | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
appearance, they are far from being local people. Just say it straight, | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
the Interior Ministry cuts in. There are Chechens here. For Ukraine's | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
military, the ultimate goal is clearly to take back control of | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
Sloviansk, the city that has become the rebel stronghold. They are here | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
in Donetsk, at the city administration building and that key | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
buildings across the region. Pro-Russian groups are still in | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
control. And this is what the government is so anxious to avoid. A | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
young nurse that locals say was an innocent casualty of this conflict. | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
More civilians were killed today . That is already adding to the anger | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
here with Kiev. This is the Russian speaking heartland of Ukraine, and | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
many here do support the rebels. There is already talk that after | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
this, a united country is no longer possible. Sarah Rainsford, BBC News, | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Donetsk. Distraught, crying and praying over | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
her body - witnesses who were first on the scene after Oscar Pistorius | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, but told his trial he | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
appeared a spur to try and save her life. His neighbours gave their | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
evidence as his trial in South Africa resumed after a break for | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
Easter. This report contains flash photography. | :13:03. | :13:03. | |
A two-week break, and Oscar Pistorius is back in court in South | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
Africa, charged with murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Inside, | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
her mother, June, still keeping her vigil, staring across the courtroom | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
at the man who admits he killed her daughter. On the stand, but not | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
shown on television, neighbour Johan Stander, who arrived first on the | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
scene with his daughter to find Pistorius on these stairs, carrying | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
his girlfriend's body. There was a young man walking down the stairs | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
with a lady, a young woman in his arms. My daughter asked him to put | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
Reeva down on the floor. He did. Mr Pistorius was broken. He was | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
screaming. He was crying. He was praying. The expression on his face, | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
the expression of sorrow, the expression of pain, I saw the truth | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
that morning. I saw it. He implication being that the athlete | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
was telling the truth about shooting his girlfriend by accident. | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
Listening, June Steenkamp struggled with her emotions. You will remember | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
the aggressive prosecutor, Gerrie Nel, and his withering | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
cross-examination of Oscar Pistorius and other defence witnesses. Today, | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
he was a lot gentler and struggled to make any real impact. This is the | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
route Mr Stander, with his daughter, took to Pistorius's house. She | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
described the athlete begging his girlfriend to stay alive. He was | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
praying to God the whole time to just save her life. He was begging | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
Reeva and he kept begging Reeva to just stay with him and not to leave | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
him. At one point, she feared that the distraught athlete might commit | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
suicide. When I was standing there, I heard him say to the paramedics, | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
"The gun is upstairs in the bathroom". I thought he was going to | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
go and possibly shoot himself. bathroom". I thought he was going to | :15:06. | :15:14. | |
and to finish by the end of next week. Andrew Harding, BBC News, | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
Pretoria. The former British number one tennis | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
player Elena Baltacha has died at the age of 30. She revealed that she | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
had liver cancer in March, just months after retiring. Her diagnosis | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
came a few weeks after she married her long-time coach and partner, | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
Nino Severino. And the Swiss looks back at her life. | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
She was one of Britain's brightest and bravest talents. Elena Baltacha | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
burst onto the scene as a teenager, reaching the third round of | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
Wimbledon, and over the next decade tackled illness and opponents with | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
the same dog did defiance. So news of her death just six months after | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
retiring has left the sport united in sorrow. There was a minute's | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
silence at one of her former clubs in Glasgow, as tennis mourns one of | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
its most popular players. Just devastated. Terrible that someone | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
who was only 30 years old who who has had one part of her life is not | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
around for the other part of her life that she worked so hard for. It | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
is so sad. I was so shocked when I heard about it. Born in Ukraine, she | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
moved to Scotland when she was a child. Her father was a professional | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
footballer, but Baltacha's skills lay with a different sport and a | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
steely determination. The number one thing was work. Her work ethic, and | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
giving 100%. Nobody could say she came off the court and had not given | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
everything. Her talents soon blossomed, but at 19, she was | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
diagnosed with a chronic liver condition. It would have ended many | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
careers, but not hers. I think it helped me realise how much a part of | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
my life but tennis was, and how serious I want to make it now. Every | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
day, waking up and putting in the sacrifices and commitments. She duly | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
defied her health sacrifices and commitments. She duly | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
the world top 50 and become a figurehead for British women's | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
tennis, whether representing her country in the Fed cup or the 2012 | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
six. Brushed Mac Olympics. It was her lifetime ambition, but as | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
injuries took that coal, Baltacha was forced to retire at the end of | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
last year, just four months before she was diagnosed with liver cancer. | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Both on and off the court, a player who defined commitment and courage. | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
Elena Baltacha, who has died at the age of 30. | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
There is more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. We are back | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
with the latest News at ten. | :17:58. | :17:58. |