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Fifa elects a new president but will he be able to restore | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the reputation of a disgraced organisation? | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
The new man, Gianni Infantino, was the head of Euroopean football. | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
His task, to end the allegations of corruption and cronyism. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
We will restore the image of Fifa and the respect of Fifa, | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
and everyone in the world will applaud us and will applaud | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Fifa has also announced new reforms to make it more accountable. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
We'll be looking at whether they are enough. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
George Osborne promoting British trade in China but warns of more | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
The gang who raped and abused young girls in Rotherham is jailed | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
Three British tourists are killed in Vietnam while climbing | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
a waterfall with an unauthorised guide. | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
And iamb in Hollywood ahead of an Oscar ceremony still overshadowed by | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
a huge diversity row. a tasty match-up | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
in the Europa League last 16. Liverpool are drawn against rivals | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Manchester United, Good evening and welcome | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
to the BBC News at Six. In the last hour Fifa has | :01:11. | :01:33. | |
elected a new president, Gianni Infantino, the former head | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
of European football. It could mark a turning point | :01:37. | :01:37. | |
for world football's governing body after widespread allegations | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
of corruption, the arrest of leading officials, the banning | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
of its president and the desertion Fifa has also announced a number | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
of reforms aimed at making it a more transparent and accountable | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
organisation. Dan Roan was watching | :01:56. | :01:56. | |
the vote in Zurich. Will a new leader mean a fresh start | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
or more of the same? That is the big question, Fiona. | :02:01. | :02:14. | |
Fifa came into today very much on the brink, its very existence | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
perhaps on the line. The fear was if it chose the wrong man as president | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
and failed to pass the much-needed reforms, the calls for it to be | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
wound up, calls that said it was broken beyond repair, would become | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
impossible to ignore. So tonight many in the game will be breathing a | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
sigh of relief. Fifa has had 20. Is, but delegates | :02:33. | :02:43. | |
knew this could be one last chance for football's governing body to | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
restore some trust under a new leader. Last-minute deals and | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
personal allegiances would be pivotal, the sport under pressure to | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
make the right choice, but also some changes. How big a day is | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
make the right choice, but also some Fifa? We will see who wins in the | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
make the right choice, but also some afternoon but the reform process | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
really matters. The arrest of senior officials last year | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
really matters. The arrest of senior into crisis, the corruption scandal | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
seeing Sepp Blatter banned from the sport he ruled for so long. Now, if | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
Fifa failed to approve a package of reforms including term limits and | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
the disclosure of salaries, calls for it to be shutdown would | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
intensify. Provide support for this crucial moment. The message got | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
through, the measures were adopted. The men vying to become president | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
prepared their final pictures. But as ever, an | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
prepared their final pictures. But demonstrators gathering outside | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
prepared their final pictures. But hall to oppose the favourite. | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
prepared their final pictures. But Bahrain Royal has had to deny links | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
to a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 2011. Unsurprisingly, | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
no mention of that in his speech. We have two act responsibly, not just | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
as an executive committee, but the confederations, the National | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
associations, to do what is best for the whole of Fifa. The survival of | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
Fifa. Main rival Gianni Infantino, of Europe's governing body, Uefa, | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
trying a traditional Fifa tactic, bigger hand-outs of its riches. The | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
money of Fifa is your money, not the money of the president. The | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
money of Fifa is your money, not the of truth, Fifa's choice of a new | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
figurehead going right to the wire. The total number of votes for Gianni | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
Infantino, 115. Having picked up supporters from the remaining | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
candidates, Mr Infantino sealed a sensational victory. Fifa had chosen | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
its president. I want to work with all of you together, with all of | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
you, in order to restore and rebuild a new era in Fifa, a new era where | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
we can put again football in the centre of the stage. Infantino may | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
have been the last man to enter the presidential race, but he is now | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
football's most powerful figure. His task, to restore trust in Fifa's | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
reputation and prove it has a future. Certainly, Fifa would have | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
us believe that with Infantino's victory, this is a moment of | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
renewal. They have in fact learned the lessons of the past and finally | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
set latter's disgraced rain and era before has been consigned to the | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
past. -- Sepp Blatter. Certainly, the crisis has abated and it is not | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
as severe as it would been -- would have been if the Bahrain Royal had | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
won the vote. If Infantino can implement the reforms, perhaps trust | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
and faith can be restored in this institution going forward. As ever | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
it is not quite as simple as that. Infantino is a football insider | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
himself, part of the establishment, with close links to another | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
disgraced former power broker, Michel Platini, his former boss at | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Uefa. It will be hard initially for him to prove he really represents a | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
change. The proof is in the pudding and many ticks will argue that the | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
reforms have to be passed for him to restore faith. -- many critics. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
The Chancellor, George Osborne, has warned there may be more | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
He says the British economy has not grown as much as he'd hoped | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
and as a result there will need to be further | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
He's currently in China for a meeting of the G20 finance | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
ministers, where he spoke to Laura Kuennssberg. | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
Paying our way just got a little bit harder. The steam is running out of | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
this super economy, and jitters will spread. More than 5000 miles away at | :06:51. | :07:06. | |
home, our economy might wobble, too. On another visit to China, the man | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
whose reputation is built on squeezing spending told me he might | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
have to cut even more. The economy is smaller than we thought in | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Britain, and we also know that global risks are growing and Britain | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
is not immune to those things. Britain is still doing better than | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
most countries but that is because we have an economic plan that says | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
we spend what we can afford as a nation, and so we are going to have | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
to look at public expenditure again. You are going to have to make bigger | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
cuts than those laid out? We will look at whether we have to go | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
further in reducing spending. We have to balance the books. We have | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
to make sure we run a budget surplus, so we are prepared for what | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
the world throws at us. In November there were warnings about the global | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
economy and you decided to slow down the pace of cuts. Actually, you have | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
been caught out, haven't you, if you are having to cut even harder? The | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
spending plans set out in the autumn were designed to deliver a budget | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
surplus. They amount to the most sustained reduction in government | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
spending for 100 years. You found ?27 billion out of thin air and slow | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
down the pace of cuts. We have taken judgments to get the budget surplus | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
and now, as the global economy gets more difficult, and I think everyone | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
accepts that things have got particularly difficult since the | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
start of the year, as more information comes in, we make sure | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
that the essentials of our plan, which are that Britain lives within | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
its means, can only spend what it can afford, those things are applied | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
to public expenditure. Lets get a coffee. He believes UK business | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
abroad, a British copy shop by a Chinese lake, is one way of working | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
the gaps. But at home there is another threat, a choice the | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
government wants you to take. This would be the very worst time for | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Britain to take the enormous economic gamble of leaving the | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
European Union. You have seen the value of the pound fall and it | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
reminds us that this is not some political parlour game. Leaving the | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
EU would represent a profound economic shock. If the risk is so | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
great, wasn't it the height of irresponsibility to put this option | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
on the table? I don't think it is ever the wrong thing to do to | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
confront the big issues facing your country, whether in the economy or | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
our relationship with the European Union. This has been overhanging | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
Britain for many years. It has been overhanging the Conservative Party | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
for many years. You are saying if we left the EU there would be a | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
profound economic shock but your party put this choice on the table. | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
If it would be such a calamity, why are so many senior Conservatives | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
ready to walk away? I think we are mature enough to handle that this | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
agreement. Above all, as Conservatives, and this is something | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
I will be focused on, we need to come together after this period of | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
four months and work together to do the other things we want to do. | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
There is a long way to go before this Chancellor can leave behind a | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
shaky, uncertain economy. Certainly, the world feels a jittery place. | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
George Osborne does not betray many of those jitters, or many anxieties, | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
despite what may be ahead. Shanghai's glittering skyscrapers | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
flash warning lights. The uncertainty from Europe burns | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
bright, too much for our economy and our government. Risks lie all | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
around. Political and personal fortunes can be broken, as well as | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
made. A gang who systematically groomed, | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
raped and abused teenage girls in Rotherham has been jailed | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
for a total of 102 years. The judge said the group of three | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
brothers, their uncle and two female accomplices had caused harm | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
of "unimaginable proportions" She paid tribute to the "immense | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
courage" of those who came forward to give evidence, some of whom had | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
been ignored by the authorities Dan Johnson is outside | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
the court in Sheffield. These are very long sentences. | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
Indeed they are. The judge said she was going beyond normal sentencing | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
guidelines to reflect the seriousness of this case, the level | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
of abuse and violence, the life of virtual slavery the girls were | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
forced to lead. She also pointed out they had not been believed in the | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
past, they did not have a voice. Today, many were in court and they | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
cheered as the verdicts, the sentences were handed out. Arshid | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
Hussain, told today he will spend 35 years in prison for the abuse he | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
orchestrated as the head of a grooming gang, responsible for what | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
the judge called an appalling catalogue of offending. There were | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
times when I thought, is this ever going to end? It has taken 15 years | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
for this victim to see him finally answer | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
for this victim to see him finally life away. Now I feel I have taken | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
his. He will not be on life away. Now I feel I have taken | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
for 35 years. I have justice. life away. Now I feel I have taken | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
is what I came for, the truth life away. Now I feel I have taken | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
it. Dusters, too, for his brothers, life away. Now I feel I have taken | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
Basharat and Bannaras. I am pleased for the victims. The vast majority | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
of victims were in court, a positive day for them. Emotions were high, | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
the most intense and emotional day I have had in Crown Court. How far do | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
you think this result goes towards rebuilding the reputation of your | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
force? I am not seeking to defend anything in the past. This | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
investigation was about gathering evidence. As police officers, we | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
wake up every day wanting to put organised paedophiles and criminals | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
in prison. But for many years that was not always the case. The | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
brothers acted unchallenged because police officers were unable or | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
unwilling to stop them. The judge today recognised the carriage of | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
victims forced to relive their ordeal. She emphasised the lasting | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
impact on their lives, their sense of shame, panic attacks, eating | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
disorders and self-harm. Nobody, she said, would forget the victim who | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
told the court she had been left hating her own body because of what | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
she had been through. Also responsible for the abuse, Karen | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
MacGregor, jailed for 13 years for forcing vulnerable young women to | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
act as prostitutes after offering them a home. Shelley Davies also | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
live there and was given an 18 month suspended sentence. Qurban Ali will | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
serve 13 years for conspiring with them to rape a girl. This was him | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
leaving an earlier hearing. His son, not involved in this trial, later | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
pleaded guilty to assaulting a photographer. The brothers had | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
believed they were above the law. Today, finally, their rule over | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
Rotherham's streets is over, but across that town, going back so many | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
years, there are many more victims still waiting for justice. | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
Three British tourists have been killed while climbing waterfalls | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
in Vietnam with an unauthorised tour guide. | :14:19. | :14:19. | |
Their bodies were recovered at a popular attraction | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
for holiday-makers, the Datanla waterfalls in the south | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
No-one is sure yet how the three British tourists died. | :14:24. | :14:34. | |
Officials say their bodies were discovered near | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
and were then lifted out by rescue workers. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
A local man who is believed to have been guiding them | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
This evening, one of them has been named | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Family and friends said they're devastated. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
The accident occurred near the town of Da Lat | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
The Foreign Office has issued a statement, | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
saying, "We are providing support to the families of three British | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
nationals following their deaths near Da Lat, Vietnam." | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
"Our sympathies are with their families and friends | :15:09. | :15:09. | |
in just the waterfalls that surround the man-made lake here. | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
You have very mossy rock, a lot of dampness, | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
and to be truthful Vietnam doesn't have | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
a fantastic reputation for tourism safety. | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
The tourist industry has grown rapidly in Vietnam | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
as the economy has been opened up by the Communist government, | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
because of the wars that ravaged this country. | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
After decades of isolation, it's no surprise that Vietnam | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
is racing to cash in on the tourist boom that has brought | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
so much wealth to neighbouring countries like Thailand. | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
But there is a dark side to this boom - | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
every year dozens of Britons die here | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
It is a sad truth that across much of this region | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
and a culture of safety almost nonexistent. | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
Our top story this evening - Fifa elects a new president, | :16:05. | :16:17. | |
but will he be able to restore the reputation of world | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
And still to come, a record-breaking row for four women | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
who met on the school run and planned an epic adventure at sea. | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, we'll be live in Cardiff as Wales | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
prepare to take on France in the Six Nations tonight - | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
both sides are unbeaten in the tournament so far. | :16:38. | :16:51. | |
Hollywood's biggest event of the year. | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
But the lack of diversity in the nominations | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
for this year's Academy Awards has been heavily criticised | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
by some in the movie industry and beyond. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
Some black actors say they will boycott the Oscars | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
and the civil-rights activist the Reverend Al Sharpton | :17:09. | :17:09. | |
will be staging a protest rally on the night. | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
Well, Lizo Mzimba is in Hollywood for us. | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
How much will all this overshadow the event? | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
That is the big question. That demonstration will be taking place | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
near here. Al Sharpton is protesting against the lack of diversity and | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
asking viewers not to watch the Oscars ceremony. It is the latest | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
chapter in a row that, despite the best efforts of the Academy, has | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
been intensifying over the past few weeks. | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
So many things define the Oscars - the glamorous red carpet, | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
and this year the all-white list of acting nominees. | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
More than that, there's a perceived overall lack of diversity. | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
Y'all just got a snapshot of how Americans really feel. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
One film of many believe was overlooked, the story | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
of the birth of rap group NWA, Straight Outta Compton. | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
# Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr Dre is at the door... # | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
One of the musicians featured in the film | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
says the make-up of Academy Awards voters is the problem. | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
I feel like the Oscars wasn't made for us. | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
It's just those old generation, first-generation people | :18:12. | :18:12. | |
in there that really don't get it, they don't understand the dynamics | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
of the world that they're living in, but the people from, | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
you know, I say, 50 years old on down, they get it, | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
where it's diverse and everybody is about everybody. | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
The Academy knows it's crucial to the awards' credibility | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
that they're seen as being relevant to modern audiences. | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
That's been seriously threatened by the reaction | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
The Academy has planned to counter that | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
by replacing significant numbers of older members | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
who haven't been active in the industry in recent years. | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
He is angered by the the way they want to increase diversity | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
at the expense of long-standing voters. | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
I wouldn't want to be put into a category | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
To nurture the talent, I'm all for it. | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
But to bring them in because of their race is wrong, | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
or their sex, or their beliefs, that's wrong. | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Now, who chooses the talent is not the academy, as I said before, | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
in somewhat cliched roles like drug dealers or warlords. | :19:15. | :19:25. | |
Perhaps the industry can follow the lead of Star Wars. | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
They chose the relatively unknown black actor John Boyega | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
in a role that could have been played by any ethnicity. | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
How important is it that the studios should follow suit | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
I think it's inevitable, and I think it is critical, | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
and I feel like it was just important to me, | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
to all of us working on the movie, that the movie be inclusive. | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
Whatever the eventual outcome, the Academy, the film industry | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
and the public are united on one thing - they want the discussion | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
around next year's Oscars and beyond to not be about who the voters are, | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
but to be purely about the films themselves. | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
He's been a target for the police on both sides of the Irish border | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
one of the most powerful figures within the IRA. | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
But Thomas "Slab" Murphy always claimed he was a simple farmer. | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
Today he's been sentenced to 18 months in jail in Dublin | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
Our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler has more. | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
Thomas "Slab" Murphy has always tried to hide in the shadows. | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
Mr Murphy, how do you feel about today? | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
But the man alleged to be the IRA's former chief of staff | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
found himself in the full glare of the spotlight, | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
thanks to this case not about terror but tax. | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
It's long been alleged that his farm, | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
which straddles the Irish border, was a centre for smuggling. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
When it was raided, officers found evidence | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
linked to businesses and bank accounts and bags of money. | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
Cash, cheques, business records, computers, and various other items | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
Murphy, who was found guilty of tax evasion, called himself a simple | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
farmer, but police both sides of the border | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
believe at one time he was the leader | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
of the IRA's notorious South Armagh unit, | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
which was responsible for many murders during the Troubles, | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
and victims' campaigners say any conviction is welcome. | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
His criminality was about terrorism, terrorism was about him | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
being able to operate his criminal empire along the border, | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
and to be able to do that he had to create an amount of fear | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
Just over a decade ago, a BBC programme, | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
named Murphy as the UK's wealthiest smuggler, | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
claiming he'd made tens of millions of pounds | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
from illegal dealings in oil, animals and cigarettes. | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Yet Sinn Fein, the party with historical links to the IRA, | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
What we have achieved in the north of Ireland | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
has been nothing short of amazing. | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
without the support of people like Tom Murphy. | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
Some have compared this case to the prosecution | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
who was famously found guilty of tax evasion | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
when the authorities could not find any other case to bring against him. | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
has been sentenced to 18 months in jail. | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
The Green Party is holding its spring conference in Harrogate. | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
The party's leader in England and Wales, Natalie Bennett, | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
says she and her party would be running a strong, bold campaign | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
calling for Britain to remain in the EU. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
We'll be focusing on the positives of Europe, | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
the way in which free movement of people enriches all of our lives, | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
the defence of human rights and peace, | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
the environmental standards, the workers' rights, | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
The company G4S is to sell its UK children's services business, | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
including 13 children's homes and its contracts | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
to manage two secure children's training centres. | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
A recent undercover investigation by BBC Panorama showed staff | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
at one of the centres mistreating and abusing the children. | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
is this what has led to the decision by G4S? | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
Well, in its statement today, it said simply that it was trying to | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
have a sharper focus as an organisation and it needed to run a | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
few institutions. But of course at the Panorama went out, a number of | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Medway staff were sacked all suspended, five people were arrested | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
and still the subject a criminal investigation. Now, against that | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
backdrop, the Justice Secretary, Michael Gove, announced that a panel | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
of experts were moving into a panel of experts were moving in to oversee | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
changes and Medway, because the director had stepped down - this all | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
happened in a statement today, against that backdrop, the company | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
said it would not be running this other secure training centre in | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
Milton Keynes, and these centres are for people between 12 and 17 who | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
have broken the law and are being held in custody for that reason or | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
are on Raman. Also, G4S is ending its contract to run a number of | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
children's homes, so a big day for them, this announcement. In its | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
statement today, it also said it was co-operating fully with the police | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
investigation into evidence at Medway. June, thank you very much. | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
They left the Canary Islands just before Christmas. | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
67 days and five hours later, four British mothers | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
in their 40s and early 50s have set a new world record | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
as the oldest all-female crew to row across an ocean. | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
They finished their 3,000 mile adventure this morning, | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
Four mothers from North Yorkshire who met on the school run | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
and decided to set themselves a challenge. | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
You are now, officially, the oldest female team | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
to have crossed any ocean, congratulations. | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
Whoo-hoo, thank you! Whoo-hoo! | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
Overcoming hurricane, power failures, seasickness, | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
and attacks from flying fish, they completed the 3000-mile trip | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
at sea from the Canaries to Antigua as record breakers. | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
Back on the quayside, a hero's welcome from their families. | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
Greatest moment of my life, that. Your girl. Yeah. | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
It's been fantastic, I'm so proud for her, | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
even though I didn't think she should do it in the first place! | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
Desperately proud of all of them, but obviously Frances. | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
Now world-record holders, the women said it was never | :25:56. | :25:57. | |
just about finishing, but finishing as friends. | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
You've done it. We've done it, yeah. | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
No, we never doubted, we knew we were going to get here. | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
That's not to say it was easy, we are so proud of what we've done. | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
The epic row has raised money for a Yorkshire air ambulance | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
Time for a look at the weather, here's Helen Willetts. | :26:23. | :26:37. | |
I was envious of how warm and sunny and loved there, this was Cornwall | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
today, it has not been like that everywhere, but it has been quite | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
wet for a change across Cornwall, parts of West Wales with showers in | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
Northern Ireland, but for the most part and other lovely day, and the | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
low pressure that is bringing rain in Cornwall is pulling away through | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
the night, so an improving picture. We have at real four days of dry | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
weather, and it should stay mostly dry for the weekend. A harsh frost | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
overnight in the North, and where we had those showers, Northern Ireland, | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
a risk of icy patches around. In the south, frost more hit and miss, more | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
breeze picking up, and that is the big change this weekend. As the low | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
pressure pulls away and joins forces with this nasty looking one, we will | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
see high pressure building in. Stronger winds in the south, so | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
temperatures very similar to what we have seen this week, but colder | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
because of that nagging easterly wind. Not for Scotland and Northern | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
Ireland, a big improvement for Scotland, glorious sunshine, just a | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
few wintry showers pestering north-east England and the | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
south-east Scotland. In the south, a nagging easterly wind. That breeze | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
continues through Saturday into Sunday, so the frost will not be as | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
severe in the south, but it will be harsh in the north, and that is the | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
way we start Sunday - a glorious start with patches of mist and fog. | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
These winds could touch gale force, so feeling quite chilly if you are | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
out and about, but otherwise not much to complain about, pretty | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
usable weather, temperatures from 5-7, about par for the time of year. | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
It doesn't last, business as usual next week with spells of wet and | :28:21. | :28:22. | |
windy weather. Enjoy the weekend! Fifa has elected a new president and | :28:23. | :28:33. | |
introduced new reforms to make world football's governing body more | :28:34. | :28:34. | |
accountable. That's all from the BBC News At Six, | :28:35. | :28:34. | |
so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
the BBC's news teams where you are. | :28:39. | :28:40. |