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Reporting from Washington, I'm Laura Trevelyan. | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
The headlines: A UK inquiry delivers its conclusion on Britain's | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
It found military action was based on flawed intelligence | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
and there was no imminent threat from Saddam Hussein. | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
It is and I count of an intervention which went badly wrong, with | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
consequences to this day. -- and I count. | :00:37. | :00:37. | |
lies, but accepts full responsibility for | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
For all of this, I express more sorrow, regret, and apology than | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Also coming up: President Obama says he'll keep more than 8,000 troops | :00:45. | :00:56. | |
And, sentenced to six years in a South African prison. | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
After a marathon trial, Oscar Pistorius learns his fate | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. | :01:06. | :01:21. | |
We start in Britain, where a long awaited report | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
on the country's role in the Iraq war has laid out | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
The investigation, led by Sir John Chilcot, | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
found the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein posed no "imminent | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
threat" and the military action against him was not a last resort. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
The report says Britain went to war based on "flawed intelligence". | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
And this is what prime minister Tony Blair told George Bush | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
in a letter eight months before the invasion: | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
A spokesman for president George W Bush told the BBC | :01:49. | :01:57. | |
he believes the world is a better place | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
And he went on to praise the UK under the leadership of Tony Blair | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
But the Chilcot report says the intervention went badly wrong, | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
Nicholas Witchell has been looking at it in more detail. | :02:08. | :02:18. | |
For month after month, some of the most senior | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
figures in the land, ministers, civil servants, military | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
leaders and intelligence chiefs, came to give evidence. | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
From their testimony and many thousands of documents, | :02:25. | :02:25. | |
Sir John Chilcot has distilled his conclusions. | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
It is on the use of intelligence that he offers some of his most | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
It is now clear that policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
They were not challenged, and they should have been. | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
In the House of Commons on the 24th of September 2002, Mr Blair | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
talked up the credibility of the intelligence | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
It is extensive, detailed, and authoritative. | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
According to Mr Blair, Saddam Hussein could activate his | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
The judgments about Iraq's capabilities in a statement | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
and in the dossier published the same day were presented | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
with a certainty that was not justifiable. | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
Not only was intelligence flawed, so too with the discussions | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
The Attorney General at the time was Lord Peter Goldsmith, | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
but it is clear from the report that time and again, the Cabinet | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
was denied a chance to hear his detailed arguments. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
One such an occasion was a matter of weeks before the invasion began. | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
And so to the chaos of postinvasion planning and another | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
According to the report, Mr Blair's government | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
was warned explicitly of the risk that an invasion | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
would destabilise Iraq and lead to the growth of Al-Qaeda. | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
And as British forces faced the growing Iraqi insurrection, | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
the government failed to equip them properly. | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
to the threat from improvised explosive devices and that delays | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
in providing adequate medium weight protective patrol vehicles should | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
Britain's invasion of Iraq has been minutely scrutinised. | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
Sir John Chilcot has found that it was an unwarranted invasion, | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
based on flawed intelligence, with insufficient discussion | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
It was an intervention which he said had caused anguish and suffering | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
The evidence is there for all to see, it is an account | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
of an intervention which went badly wrong. | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
Reacting to the Chilcot report, former prime minister Tony Blair | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
took full responsibility for the mistakes in planning | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
But he asked the British public to accept that he had | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
done what he thought was right at the time. | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
The intelligence assessments made at the time of going to war turned out | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
to be wrong. The aftermath turned out to be more hostile, protracted | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
and bloody than ever we imagined. The coalition plan for one set of | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
ground facts and encountered another, and a nation whose people | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
we wanted to set free and secure from the evil of Saddam, became | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
instead victim to sectarian terrorism. | :05:49. | :06:01. | |
For all of this, I express more sorrow, regret and apology than you | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
may have no law can believe. -- and you may ever know. | :06:10. | :06:10. | |
The violence which erupted in Iraq in 2003 has continued to this day, | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
and the head of the UK inquiry underlined the suffering | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
of the Iraqi people, including a million forced | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
As our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen reports from Baghdad, | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
the war sent shockwaves across the entire region. | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
The people of Baghdad and the rest of Iraq are still living and dying | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
with the consequences of the 2003 invasion. | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
Security is being beefed up yet again after the bomb that killed | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
But the fear of a sudden random death is never far away. | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
When the US forces reached Baghdad in April 2003, pictures of them | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
helping Iraqis topple a statue of Saddam Hussein went | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Hadi Al Jabari started knocking lumps out of the Prince to celebrate | :06:59. | :07:11. | |
Hadi Al Jabari started knocking lumps out of the plinth to celebrate | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
Now like many Iraqis, he's nostalgic for the brutal | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
TRANSLATION: Saddam has gone and we now have 1,000 Saddams. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
If Tony Blair was here this morning, what would you say to him? | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
TRANSLATION: I would say to him, you are a criminal. | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
Less than an hour's drive from Baghdad, these are Iraqi Shia | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
militiamen, trained and equipped by Iran, | :07:37. | :07:37. | |
Chilcot says the British Government ignored a warning that removing | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
Saddam would offer Iran an opening in Iraq. | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
Captured IS positions seemed to have been prepared by trained soldiers, | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
IS commanders include former Iraqi officers who joined | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
the jihadists when the US and Britain dissolved the Iraqi army. | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Not all of the chaos, violence and war in the Middle East | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
at the moment can be traced back to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
It was like throwing a great big rock into a pond, | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
it sent out shock waves, geopolitical, religious, | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
And 13 years later, they're still crashing around the region. | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
Warnings about internal strife, regional instability and the rise | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
of jihadists were also ignored by Number Ten, says Chilcot. | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
Iraq's sectarian violence spread to Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere. | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
As leaders used and abused Shia Sunni fears to fight for power. | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Jihadists were on the attack before the invasion. | :09:00. | :09:08. | |
But Iraq after 2003 offered Al-Qaeda a haven | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
and launch pad that Islamic State is still using. | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
Small numbers of British troops who we filmed on condition | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
At this base, Australians and New Zealanders | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
It is a long way from what Chilcot caused the humiliating | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
It is a long way from what Chilcot calls the humiliating | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
end of an intervention that went badly wrong, | :09:36. | :09:36. | |
With me in the studio is former US Defence Secretary and BBC World | :09:37. | :10:01. | |
the report says the war was based on flawed intelligence, which the US | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
also bought into, particularly that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
destruction? Indeed. I think the US was the | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
moving force behind this operation, and the British were, I think, | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
determined to be with the United States no matter what. If you look | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
at Tony Blair's letter, that is quoted in the report, a laser very | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
specifically things that needed to be done. We don't know what the | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
answers to those were, but we don't think they were done. So I think it | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
is laid out very clearly. We didn't have adequate intelligence or | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
adequate planning, and I think the report Stansbury well. | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
Well, the report is so damning on the matter of that planning, it says | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
the planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam Hussein were | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
wholly inadequate. They were inadequate. There was an | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
assumption on the part of all of us, those in the Clinton administration | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
as well as the Bush administration that Saddam had weapons of mass | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
destruction. However, the Clinton administration came to the | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
conclusion he posed no imminent threat, and we were determined to | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
stay out of Iraq last Saddam Hussein invaded Saudi Arabia, or QA, or | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
attacked Israel. It is easy to say that, the doubling changed after | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
September the 11th, didn't it? You can see why he thought Saddam | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
Hussein would be a threat as well. Yes, but they tried to make a link | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
to 9/11 that was not real. Saddam did not have a nuclear weapons | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
capability, and I think the rationale was really to displace | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Saddam and put democracy in its place, and that has been one of the | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
biggest lessons we should take from this. Do not try to transplant | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
democracy in soil that is not fertile for democracy. | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
Just returning to the Chilcot Report and the reaction to it, the former | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who you knew when you are in the Clinton | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
Administration, he has said that UK officials felt blindsided by US | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
officials, particularly Paul Bremer, when he disbanded the Iraqi army. | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
What do you make of that blindside in? | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
That is correct. I think it was a mistake to have simply taken out the | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
Iraqi army rather than trying to perhaps take the top officers and | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
keep the army in place. But we did not take into contemplation the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
consequence of removing a regime with nothing in its place, and with | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
inadequate resources to make sure they were stability for some time to | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
come. We are paying the penalty for it to this day. We are learning a | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
lot about the relationship between President George Bush and Tony | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
Blair, from the letters unearthed by the Chilcot Inquiry. | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
Eight months before the amazing, Tony Blair says the George Bush, I | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
will be with you whatever. Does it surprise you, the closeness of their | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
relationship? It seems like unconditional support. | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
Not really, because Great Britain has been with the United States | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
from... Certainly during my lifetime, and hopefully will | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
continue in the future. This relationship is special. We have | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
depended on each other, and I would go back and point out, in Libya, for | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
example, that was a British initiative, yet the United States | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
joined in that effort because the British had been with us, even | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
though our former Secretary of Defense Bob Gates spoke out against | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
going into Libya. We went nonetheless, because we wanted to be | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
with them, because they had been with us. That is a relationship | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
which will continue, but the report gives fair warning. Make sure you | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
understand all the consequences before you ever take military | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
action. As Defence Secretary, you know that. | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
The report is extremely critical, and has the benefit of hindsight, | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
but just how momentous is that decision, to go to war, when you | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
take it? We're seeing it play out. The reason | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
we should always be reluctant to release the dogs of war is that we | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
may not be able to call them back, and if you look at the destruction | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
that is taking place today in Syria, in Libya, in Yemen, and certainly in | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
Iraq, thousands and thousands of people continue to die as a result | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
of instability. So yes, we have two always make sure that before we ever | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
go into a country, as we should have and not in Rwanda, but as we did in | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Kosovo, to make sure there was no ethnic cleansing on tens and | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
hundreds of thousands of people, nonetheless, we have to have the | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
planning, what takes place the day after you going. What is the plan | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
for state lies in a country that you are attacking? And it is clear that | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
we did not do their job for Iraq. -- stabilising a country. | :14:46. | :14:46. | |
Thank you for joining us. More than 150,000 people died | :14:47. | :14:47. | |
in Iraq during the war and in the years that followed, | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
among them 179 British For years, many of their families | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
had campaigned for an inquiry so they could find out the truth | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
about why Britain went to war. Fergal Keane reports now | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
on the families' reaction The bereaved have endured | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
seven years of painful waiting Debbie Allbutt and her son Connor | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
were on their way to hear Steven Allbutt, husband and father, | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
was killed in Iraq in 2003. In the last few days, | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
the trauma has returned. It has brought a lot | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
of memories back. I had nightmares where he was still | :15:24. | :15:38. | |
alive, and I saw him in a shop. Just horrible nightmares. | :15:39. | :15:39. | |
I am just hoping we find out why we went in and why we went | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
In the quiet of nearby Westminster Abbey, former SAS man | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
John Brown was remembering his son, Nick, also an SAS trooper. | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
He wanted answers about the justification for going to war. | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
We want to know what the enquiry says about the entry, | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
I know they did not have an exit strategy. | :16:00. | :16:09. | |
The families came here looking for the truth that named names | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
The families were invited to meet Sir John Chilcot, and read a summary | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
of his report. The families came here looking | :16:19. | :16:19. | |
for the truth that named names Well, they've now had | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
a chance to consider The families gathered | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
here trust that we speak The families say they will study | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
the conclusions and decide whether to launch legal action | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
against Tony Blair. I'm going back to that time | :16:32. | :16:33. | |
when I learned that my brother had been killed and there is | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
one terrorist in this world that the world needs to be aware | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
of and his name is Tony Blair. But there was a welcome | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
for the report's findings What is your reaction | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
to what you heard? Amazed, I didn't expect it to be | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
as good an outcome, really. I thought we would have a bit | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
of cover up or something. Sir John Chilcot has | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
done us a good job. I'm really, really | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
pleased with the outcome. It's good news but at the same time | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
it's bad news as well, because I think if Tony Blair | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
wasn't the Prime Minister at the time, I think my dad | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
could still have been here today. The former SAS man John Brown | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
watched Tony Blair's For all of this, I express more | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
sorrow, regret and apology. Tony Blair has just apologised. | :17:32. | :17:43. | |
What does that mean to you? The Chilcot report has not given | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
the families all the answers they sought, but it has restored | :17:49. | :18:02. | |
some measure of their faith Now to another conflict even older | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
than the war in Iraq, whose legacy President Barack Obama says he's | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
slowing the withdrawal of American Originally, numbers were to drop | :18:13. | :18:21. | |
from just under 10,00 to 5,500 Mr Obama now plans to leave 8,400 | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
troops in place into next year. Maintaining our forces | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
at the specific level, based on our assessment | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
of the security conditions and the strength of Afghan forces, | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
will allow us to continue to provide tailored support to help Afghan | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
forces continue to improve. From coalition bases in Jalalabad | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
and Kandahar we will be able to continue supporting Afghan forces | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
on the ground and in the air and continue | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
supporting critical Our correspondent Nick Bryant | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
joins me in the studio. So, then Obama famously came to | :19:01. | :19:12. | |
office promising to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
in Afghanistan. Why is he having such difficulty ending it? He is | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
worried that of America withdraws to the number he intended, which was | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
5500, a long way from the 100,000 that were there during the height of | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
the surge, there was a danger that Afghanistan could again become a | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
safe haven for terrorists, as he put it, which it was pre-9/11. He said | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
the security situation there was very precarious, he wanted to give | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
US forces additional options as they worked alongside the Afghan army in | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
trying to combat the Taliban and combating terrorism in the country. | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
And he also pointed out that, for instance, in the last 18 months, 38 | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
American civilians and US personnel have died in Afghanistan. So the | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
security situation there is far from stable. There is clearly a worry, in | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
the White House and Pentagon especially, that a precipitous | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
withdrawal would make that situation worse. So he has kind of | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
compromised. A lot of former generals in the matadors were | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
calling for a freeze. He has not done that, but a small reduction in | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
force levels, to about 8400, rather than the 5500 he was aiming for. | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
And the UN estimates that the Taliban now controls more territory | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
in Afghanistan than at any time since 2001. Does the White House | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
have anything to say about that? What is edgily called for today is a | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
political settlement in Afghanistan, involving the Taliban. A couple of | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
invitations had been given to the Taliban. America is working | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
alongside the Afghan government, China and Pakistan in trying to get | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
the Taliban to the negotiating table. But those two invitations | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
have been rebuffed by the Taliban. Perhaps some of the preconditions or | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
demands America have made are just too tough for the Taliban. They have | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
called for them to denounce violence, to adopt the Afghan | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
constitution, with all its protections for women and | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
minorities, so they want a political process, but again, it seems very | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
far off at the moment. Thank you very much for joining us. | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
The US Justice Department will investigate the fatal shooting | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
by police of a black man in the city of Baton Rouge, | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
There have been protests overnight after a video emerged showing two | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
white policemen apparently holding the man down and shooting him. | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
The police say they were responding to an allegation that the suspect | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
The pound has hit a fresh 31-year low against the dollar as worries | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
over the UK's exit from the European Union continue | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
At one point, it dropped below $1.28 before rebounding to $1.29. | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
Analysts blamed warnings from the Bank of England that Brexit | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
A court in Spain has sentenced the Argentina and Barcelona | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
footballer, Lionel Messi, to twenty-one months in prison | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
The striker was fined more than two million dollars. | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
His father, Jorge, was also sentenced to prison. | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
Neither is expected to serve any time in jail as under Spanish law, | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
short prison sentences are usually suspended. | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
The South African athlete has been sentenced to six years in prison | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
Last year, the court overturned his original conviction | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
for manslaughter, instead finding him guilty of murder. | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
Our correspondent Karen Allen reports from Pretoria. | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
An undignified end for a fallen hero. | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
Oscar Pistorius is led away to jail to begin his six-year sentence, | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
For the father of Reeva Steenkamp, whose | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
testimony revealed how his life had been torn apart, | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
Inside a packed courtroom, a sense of hushed | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
expectation as the judge said she had to strike a balance between | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
deterrence, punishment and the seriousness of the crime. | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
By its very nature, punishment is unpleasant, it is | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
uncomfortable, it is painful and it's inconvenient. | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
It is certainly not what you love to do. | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
In the result, the sentence that I impose on the accused for the | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
murder, dolus eventualis, of the deceased, that | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
is Reeva Steenkamp, is six years imprisonment. | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
Reeva Steenkamp's parents glance around the courtroom, | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
almost in disbelief that this day has finally come. | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
A six-year sentence means that Oscar Pistorius will have to serve | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
at least three years before being eligible for parole. | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
He begged the world to believe it had all been a | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
terrible mistake, the judge exercising considerable discretion. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
Now for the grieving family of Reeva Steenkamp, | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
And for Oscar Pistorius, a tearful embrace from his sister Amy | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
just seconds before he's led down to the cells. | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
It's now more than three years since this couple's fate hit the | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
headlines after the athlete fired four shots through a closed bathroom | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
In the court case that followed, Oscar Pistorius | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
was found guilty of manslaughter but a year later it was converted to | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
In an exclusive interview after court, the athlete's | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
uncle told me Oscar Pistorius was frightened about | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
If it's not frightening, I think it would still be stupid. | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
If you're frightened, your senses sharpen up, | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
your awareness becomes better, so frightened is good. | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
This is the prison where Oscar Pistorius | :24:53. | :24:53. | |
has already spent time for manslaughter. | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
Today marks the closing chapter of what has been | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
Oscar Pistorius, once a sporting legend, haunted by | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
a sense of remorse, now disappeared from public view the service time. | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
a sense of remorse, now disappeared from public view to serve his time. | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has delivered a strong defence | :25:21. | :25:30. | |
of the 2003 Iraq War in response to a long-awaited report by a public | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
enquiry. At a news conference, Mr Blair insisted he had not misled the | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
country or lied to it. Mr Blair said he took full responsibility for any | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
mistakes without exception and without excuse. | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
The enquiry has found that the decision to go to war was based on | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
flawed intelligence and wasn't properly discussed with the British | :25:48. | :25:49. | |
Cabinet. It said there had been no imminent | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
threat from Iraq's then leader Saddam Hussein, and peaceful options | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
for disarming its government had not been exhausted. | :25:57. | :25:57. | |
From me, Laura Trevelyan, and the rest of the team, goodbye. | :25:58. | :26:07. | |
Good evening. Many of us had a fine day today. You may have noticed some | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
spectacular cloud formations, with examples of these wispy clouds in | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
the atmosphere. In the short-term, weather fronts I were racing in our | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
direction, spelling some rain, but not an awful lot. In | :26:26. | :26:26. |