:00:07. > :00:11.. Once he ruled over Egypt with an iron fist, today Hosni Mubarak
:00:11. > :00:16.appeared in court. He was wheeled in on a hospital trolley. He is
:00:16. > :00:20.charged with corruption and ordering the shooting of protesters.
:00:20. > :00:25.TRANSLATION: All the accusations, I deny them all.
:00:25. > :00:31.In Cairo, in the country and around the region, they watched the first
:00:31. > :00:34.major trial of the Arab uprising. When I saw him today, I felt it is
:00:34. > :00:37.the first step to a long way to justice.
:00:37. > :00:41.We will be asking how this unprecedented trial of an Arab
:00:41. > :00:47.leader is seen in the Middle East. Also tonight.
:00:47. > :00:50.The hacking scandal spreads. Heather Mills says a Mirror Group
:00:50. > :00:57.journalist admitted the messages from Sir Paul McCartney were
:00:57. > :00:59.intercepted. Tens of thousands face uncertainty
:00:59. > :01:03.after holidays for U goes into administration.
:01:03. > :01:13.A warning about Britain's defence capability. MPs say cutbacks
:01:13. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:24.Rangers see red in Europe. They have two men sent off as they crash
:01:24. > :01:38.
:01:38. > :01:41.Good evening. Hosni Mubarak, the man who once ruled supreme over the
:01:41. > :01:47.Arab world's most populous nation, was wheeled into a Cairo courtroom
:01:47. > :01:50.today on a hospital trolley. He denied charges of corruption and
:01:50. > :01:53.ordering the killing of protesters in February. The televised session
:01:53. > :01:56.was watched by millions in Egypt and around the region, the most
:01:56. > :02:02.potent symbol to date of the changes unleashed by the Arab
:02:02. > :02:05.Uprising. More on the regional impact in a moment, but first our
:02:05. > :02:14.world affairs editor, John Simpson, who was in court for the
:02:14. > :02:19.It was to be a day of reckoning. Soon after dawn, as the
:02:19. > :02:24.preparations were completed and the demonstrators gathered, ex-
:02:24. > :02:30.president Mubarek was brought from his hospital at Sharm El-Sheikh to
:02:30. > :02:33.the Cairo police academy that used to be named after him.
:02:33. > :02:38.The Egyptian press was full of stories that he was too ill to be
:02:38. > :02:42.brought into court, that he would be kept in the academy's hospital
:02:42. > :02:48.wing instead. There was intense excitement in the courtroom as the
:02:48. > :02:52.lawyers, police and journalists waited. And then through the heavy
:02:52. > :02:58.steel bars of the dock, we caught the first glimpse of him and
:02:58. > :03:03.realised he was being wheeled in in a bed. His sons, who is also in the
:03:03. > :03:09.dock here, stooped to kiss him. At the sight of the ex-president,
:03:09. > :03:14.there was an instant of of utter sigh lance. -- sigh lance and then
:03:14. > :03:19.from around the court an audible intake of breath. The man who
:03:19. > :03:25.controlled everyone's lives in Egypt for so long had finally been
:03:25. > :03:29.brought to book. The charges against him were read out.
:03:29. > :03:36.Financial corruption and ordering the killing of demonstrators which
:03:36. > :03:41.carries the death penalty. TRANSLATION: All the accusations, I
:03:41. > :03:45.deny them all. Mr Mubarek's lawyers wanted him to go back to hospital.
:03:45. > :03:54.The judge, who has a reputation for being independent minded said he
:03:54. > :03:58.had to stay in court. Emotions rose high. The prosecutor claimed Mr
:03:58. > :04:05.Mubarek had wanted the largest possible number of demonstrators to
:04:05. > :04:12.be shot down. Some of the defence lawyers wanted the present Egyptian
:04:12. > :04:19.leader to be called as a witness. Bringing the new power structure
:04:19. > :04:25.into the case. This is going to be a difficult trial to control.
:04:25. > :04:32.Outside the court too, the passions were running high. Mr Mubarek still
:04:32. > :04:36.has supporters here. There will be a lot of people here who are
:04:36. > :04:40.absolutely delighted, overjoyed, feel it is their revenge on their
:04:40. > :04:46.former leader and for everything he did, but at the same time I'm sure
:04:46. > :04:51.also the spectacle of an 83-year- old man going through this process
:04:51. > :04:54.also create a certain amount of sympathy as well. But the fiercest
:04:54. > :04:59.anger came from the relatives and friends of people who had been
:04:59. > :05:04.killed and injured in the revolution. When the trouble
:05:04. > :05:09.started today, the police in their clean, white uniforms just ran for
:05:09. > :05:15.it. Six months ago at the height of the revolution, it was the police
:05:15. > :05:20.who were shooting down the demonstrators in the streets.
:05:20. > :05:27.Around 850 people died in all, one of them lived here in a poor area
:05:27. > :05:32.of Cairo. An 18-year-old. The flat is full of photos of him and you
:05:32. > :05:38.can see he was gentle and unworldly, but he got caught up in a demo and
:05:38. > :05:42.the police shot and killed him. Today, naturally his family were
:05:42. > :05:46.glued to the television, watching their former president being tried
:05:46. > :05:53.for ordering the killings of people like him.
:05:53. > :05:57.TRANSLATION: I'm happy, but I have still got this fire burning in me.
:05:57. > :06:01.I want to see Mubarek get what he deserves. He killed the best people
:06:01. > :06:06.of Egypt just so his son could take over if him.
:06:06. > :06:10.It has been a momentous day here. In other parts of the Middle East,
:06:10. > :06:20.presidents are still ordering their forces to shoot down demonstrators.
:06:20. > :06:22.
:06:22. > :06:26.But they won't be able to just As John was saying Hosni Mubarak's
:06:26. > :06:33.trial is being watched by lead leaders and public alike throughout
:06:33. > :06:37.the Middle East. James Robbins has been looking at Mr Mubarek's
:06:37. > :06:42.transition from president to prisoner. No wonder Hosni Mubarak's
:06:42. > :06:46.fall has transfixed the Middle East. A leader courted and supported by
:06:46. > :06:50.American presidents, credited with bolstering Middle East peace and
:06:50. > :06:58.countering extremism, now brought low by his own people's rage
:06:58. > :07:04.against the brutality and Hosni Mubarak was thrust into
:07:04. > :07:09.Egypt's presidency in October 1981 when Anwar Sadat was assassinated
:07:09. > :07:15.beside him stability became the obsession at the expense of all
:07:15. > :07:22.political opposition. President Mubarak pleased Washington by
:07:22. > :07:26.sticking with the peace treaty with Israel. He put thousands of Islamic
:07:26. > :07:31.radicals behind bars, many without trial and many were tortured. To
:07:32. > :07:36.the House he seemed an indispensable ally well worth
:07:36. > :07:42.supporting, but in Egypt, his whole regime became associated with
:07:42. > :07:46.corruption and brutality. After 30 years in power, it took only 18
:07:46. > :07:52.days of popular anger with Tahrir Square at its heart to bring
:07:52. > :07:57.President Mubarak down and set him on the road to trial. Today, Hosni
:07:57. > :08:02.Mubarak's court appearance gripped audiences across the region. This
:08:02. > :08:08.is Jordan, so could other leaders face a similar fate and is it right
:08:08. > :08:10.to treat a former president like this? TRANSLATION: We support his
:08:10. > :08:13.being put on trial because he harmed Egyptian people. He
:08:13. > :08:18.committed murder and crimes. What he did is shameful.
:08:18. > :08:23.This trial has come at a time when his health mean a man of 80 years
:08:23. > :08:27.old doesn't have to face justice. He spent his life serving Egypt.
:08:27. > :08:32.Arab satellite channels ran blanket coverage across the region, but in
:08:32. > :08:36.some countries notably Syria, Libya and Yemen, State TV did not show
:08:36. > :08:40.this sort of live coverage. The scenes in the dock are the stuff of
:08:40. > :08:45.nightmares for Colonel Gaddafi or President Assad. But it is Egypt
:08:45. > :08:48.which is most likely to be changed by this trial. We have only just
:08:48. > :08:51.started this trial yet and I don't think one can be sure yet whether
:08:51. > :08:55.it will appear to be fair and straightforward, but let's assume
:08:55. > :09:03.that it does appear to be fair and straightforward and it will help
:09:03. > :09:08.the process of building a new national feeling, consciousness, in
:09:08. > :09:12.Egypt. So Egypt's ex-president has been
:09:12. > :09:17.confirmed as the big political casualty of the Arab Spring so far,
:09:17. > :09:23.but that does not mean that other leaders in region relying on force
:09:23. > :09:27.will inevitably suffer Hosni Thank you.
:09:27. > :09:29.Our world affairs editor John Simpson joins me now from Cairo.
:09:29. > :09:37.John, it must have been extraordinary to be there in court
:09:37. > :09:42.as this man was brought so low? It was, George. It was the most
:09:42. > :09:47.remarkable thing. The excitement, the sort of pent up feelings of
:09:47. > :09:52.just about everybody there. It was quite interesting even people like
:09:52. > :09:58.senior police officers were clearly excited at the pros prospect of
:09:58. > :10:04.seeing their former leader and at hearing his voice and you couldn't
:10:04. > :10:09.help feeling that it was that sense that this was a man who had ruled
:10:09. > :10:13.over them pretty fiercely for 30 years and they actually did really
:10:13. > :10:21.want to see him brought low. So the excitement in the court was
:10:21. > :10:25.something I don't think I'll ever forget. I've seen Saddam Hussein's
:10:25. > :10:31.trial in Iraq five years ago, but it wasn't like this at all. I mean
:10:31. > :10:35.I think the difference was that Saddam Hussein was brought down
:10:36. > :10:40.effectively by western powers invading his country whereas here,
:10:40. > :10:44.Mr Mubarek was brought down by his own people after only 18 days of
:10:44. > :10:50.demonstrations. John, that drama aside, how
:10:50. > :10:55.important is this for the Arab uprising as a whole? Well, I think
:10:55. > :11:03.it is pretty clear that the Arab uprising is starting to fade in
:11:03. > :11:07.lots of places. I mean everywhere just about except Libya, the powers
:11:07. > :11:11.in control are still very much in control. But I condition help
:11:11. > :11:17.thinking, obviously Syria is the country that would be most affected
:11:17. > :11:20.by this and I'm absolutely certain that the Assad regime there must be
:11:20. > :11:24.looking at this with great nervousness because after all if it
:11:24. > :11:30.is possible for the demonstrators to just pull out the stops a little
:11:30. > :11:35.bit more and for the Army to be less effective in shooting them
:11:35. > :11:42.down then Mr Mubarek's fate could be President Assad's fate too.
:11:42. > :11:45.As the drama unfolded in Egypt, the violent crackdown on protesters in
:11:45. > :11:52.Syria has prompted condemnation from the UN Security Council
:11:52. > :11:56.tonight. Human Rights activists say tanks and and troops moved into the
:11:56. > :12:06.the town of Hama. Foreign journalist are not allowed into
:12:06. > :12:09.
:12:09. > :12:15.Syria. So Jim Muir sent this report There was shelling, machine gunfire
:12:15. > :12:22.and panic as the tanks moved in. Activists videos on the internet
:12:22. > :12:25.said there were gunmen on roof tops to keep people off the streets. The
:12:25. > :12:28.tanks seemed to meet little resistance as they ground into the
:12:28. > :12:38.city centre. Residents said the attack was unprovoked.
:12:38. > :12:40.
:12:40. > :12:49.Today, in the morning, about 5am, the landlines, cellphones, internet
:12:49. > :12:52.has been blocked completely. There was a big fire shot and bomb in all
:12:53. > :12:57.direction of the city. Action seems to have put the
:12:57. > :13:06.Government back in control of Hama. Its 700,000 or so people seem to be
:13:06. > :13:10.more or less behind the uprising. Even before the final assault, Hama
:13:10. > :13:20.was burying its dead. Nobody knows how many died today, but last time
:13:20. > :13:29.
:13:29. > :13:32.a revolt was crushed there in 1982, The famine which has gripped parts
:13:32. > :13:36.of southern Somalia has spread. According to the United Nations,
:13:36. > :13:41.the entire south is likely to be declared a famine zone within the
:13:41. > :13:43.next six weeks. Much of the area is controlled by Islamist militants
:13:43. > :13:47.who have banned food aid in the region.
:13:47. > :13:53.The Italian Prime Minister has been addressing Parliament on the
:13:53. > :13:59.country's debt crisis amid calls from opposition parties for him to
:13:59. > :14:03.step down. Silvio Berlusconi said Italy had a solid economic
:14:03. > :14:06.foundation. More phone-hacking allegations have
:14:06. > :14:09.emerged - this time about the Mirror group. Heather Mills has
:14:09. > :14:12.claimed in a BBC interview that a senior Mirror Group journalist
:14:12. > :14:14.admitted hacking a highly sensitive voicemail left for her by Sir Paul
:14:14. > :14:20.McCartney before they were married. Our home affairs correspondent Matt
:14:20. > :14:24.Prodger reports. Heather Mills, best known for her
:14:24. > :14:28.four-year marriage to Sir Paul McCartney, the subject of tabloid
:14:28. > :14:34.stories for many years - she once said they'd almost driven her to
:14:34. > :14:38.suicide. Tonight she alleges ten years ago a senior journalist at
:14:38. > :14:42.Mirror Group newspapers admitted hacking a voice message by Sir Paul
:14:42. > :14:52.following an argument. She said the journalist quoted parts of the
:14:52. > :14:59.
:14:59. > :15:06.They were obviously very private conversations about issues we were
:15:06. > :15:12.having as a couple, then I said, "I'll go to the police." He said,
:15:12. > :15:16."OK. We did hear it on your voice messages. I won't run it."
:15:16. > :15:22.journalist she said she had spoken to was not Piers Morgan, then the
:15:22. > :15:26.editor of the newspaper. However, a question appears to be one Mr
:15:26. > :15:36.Morgan admits listening to. Five years ago he wrote this in a
:15:36. > :15:45.
:15:45. > :15:49.If Ms Mills' recollection is correct, the message Mr Morgan
:15:49. > :15:53.listened to had been hacked and a fellow journalist from Mirror Group
:15:53. > :15:59.newspapers had tried to use it to get a story. Tonight Piers Morgan
:15:59. > :16:02.said Heather Mills' account was unsubstantiated and once again
:16:02. > :16:07.denied sanctioning phone hacking or knowingly publishing a story
:16:07. > :16:09.obtained from it. One former Mirror Group employee said it was
:16:09. > :16:14.widespread. James Hipwell worked there as a business journalist
:16:14. > :16:19.before he was stacked, then later convicted, of a share-tipping scam.
:16:19. > :16:27.Well, when I was there, it was an accepted technique to get a story.
:16:27. > :16:30.There were a lot of people around me who were hacking into
:16:31. > :16:37.celebrities' phones or celebrity PR's phones to get stories. From
:16:37. > :16:41.Mirror Group's headquarters tonight, its parent company repeated a
:16:41. > :16:47.statement that all its journalists work within the law and the Press
:16:47. > :16:52.Complaints Commission code of conduct. Other prominent people,
:16:52. > :16:56.including footballer Rio Ferdinand and TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson
:16:56. > :16:59.also believe they were hacked by the Mirror Group.
:16:59. > :17:02.You can see more on this story after this programme on Newsnight
:17:02. > :17:05.on BBC Two. $NEWLINE Coming up on tonight's programme:
:17:05. > :17:12.They're out, and it's only August - nine-man Rangers' angry exit from
:17:12. > :17:15.the Champions League. Spending cuts to the armed forces
:17:15. > :17:18.may leave them unable to do what's asked of them after 2015. That's
:17:18. > :17:20.the warning from the Commons Defence Committee, who've rejected
:17:20. > :17:22.David Cameron's assurance that Britain retains a "full spectrum"
:17:22. > :17:32.of defence capability. Our defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt looks
:17:32. > :17:39.
:17:39. > :17:42.at the changing face of Britain's armed forces over the years. For
:17:42. > :17:47.centuries Britannia really did rule the waves - the Royal Navy a key
:17:47. > :17:53.part of establishing this island nation's role on the world stage.
:17:53. > :18:03.Even if the HMS Arc Royal of the Second World War was sunk by an
:18:03. > :18:03.
:18:03. > :18:07.enemy U boat. In today's harrier force were put out of action not by
:18:07. > :18:10.the enemy but by defence cut last year. The UK won't be able to
:18:10. > :18:17.launch aircraft from its own carrier for nearly a decade. By
:18:17. > :18:23.2020, the Army too will shrink by 20,000 soldiers, or one in five.
:18:23. > :18:27.The RAF and Navy will lose around 5,000 people each from much smaller
:18:27. > :18:31.forces. All of this means taking risks, and respected MPs have
:18:31. > :18:39.expressed serious concerns. main aim of the review was to
:18:39. > :18:43.produce a coherent, comprehensive force structure by the year 2020,
:18:43. > :18:47.and we feel grave doubts as to whether the Government has got in
:18:47. > :18:51.place the plans to achieve that. Among the force's current
:18:52. > :18:56.commitments are Afghanistan, with some 10,000 personnel from all
:18:56. > :19:01.three services, and now Libya, where the RAF, the Royal Navy and
:19:01. > :19:06.the Army Air Corp are in action. They're still defending the
:19:06. > :19:11.Falklands as well as fight piracy and drugs. MPs warn too the forces
:19:11. > :19:14.risk not being able to take on new taxes, something the Government
:19:14. > :19:17.disputes. We have been able to operate in Libya, for example,
:19:17. > :19:21.while we have been deployed in Afghanistan, and we have been able
:19:21. > :19:24.to bring in even more assets than we were asked for by NATO to that.
:19:24. > :19:29.So it's still clear we're able with the world's biggest defence budget
:19:29. > :19:35.to mount operations to a greater extent than most of our European
:19:35. > :19:38.allies. But capability gaps such as those left by the scrapping of the
:19:38. > :19:44.nimrod MRA4 will make Britain more dependent on our allies. The
:19:44. > :19:48.committee warns that cuts to both defence and diplomacy will diminish
:19:48. > :19:52.the UK's influence on the world stage, so what do those who have
:19:52. > :19:56.represented Britain abroad believe? Having an aspiration to be a
:19:56. > :20:01.serious player politically and of course militarily is fine, and I
:20:01. > :20:05.think it would be a very bad thing for our country if we lost our
:20:05. > :20:08.ambition, lost our aspiration, but there's a borderline between having
:20:08. > :20:15.ambitions and having illusions, and I think we should be careful that
:20:15. > :20:19.we don't cross it. The warning today was clear - the UK will need
:20:19. > :20:24.to spend more on defence if its military punch is not to be
:20:24. > :20:27.seriously weakened. Part of the Sellafield Nuclear
:20:27. > :20:32.Plant in Cumbria is to close, putting 800 jobs at risk according
:20:32. > :20:34.to the union, Prospect. The Mox fuel manufacturing plant, which
:20:34. > :20:40.supplied the Fukushima power station in Japan, has been badly
:20:40. > :20:44.affected by the disaster there. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
:20:44. > :20:47.says it will help to find the plant's workers new jobs at the
:20:47. > :20:49.site. Tens of thousands of British
:20:50. > :20:55.holidaymakers have had their plans wrecked after a tour operator
:20:55. > :20:58.specialising in packages to Turkey went into administration. People
:20:58. > :21:01.who've booked to go away with Holidays 4U or Aegean Flights -
:21:01. > :21:08.including those who expected to leave this evening - were told not
:21:08. > :21:12.to go to the airport. From Manchester, Chris Buckler reports.
:21:12. > :21:16.Today was supposed to mark the start of this family's holiday.
:21:16. > :21:21.Instead, they found themselves at the airport with no-where to go.
:21:21. > :21:27.And the company they've booked with had gone out of business.
:21:27. > :21:28.How do you feel about all of this? A bit annoyed, really, let down,
:21:28. > :21:34.because we - SOBBING
:21:34. > :21:41.We were all doing this as a family. The clear upsets of those who won't
:21:41. > :21:45.get away is matched by the concern of the almost 13,000 Holidays 4U
:21:45. > :21:49.passengers thought to be abroad. The company has 20,000 future
:21:49. > :21:54.bookings, including family holidays, which means the number of people
:21:54. > :21:58.affected could be twice or three times that. This is a company with
:21:58. > :22:02.a turnover of �35 million. This is going to be a terrible time for
:22:02. > :22:06.50,000 people who now have to run around and try and find alternative
:22:06. > :22:09.holidays. They will find there is a sudden spike in demand, so the
:22:09. > :22:14.other companies are putting their prices up. On the Holidays 4U web
:22:14. > :22:18.site, it promises flights to better weather have been replaced with a
:22:18. > :22:20.new gloomy message, simply stating that the company is now in
:22:20. > :22:24.administration. The travel business over the last couple of years has
:22:24. > :22:28.had a tough time. It has been tough economically. We understand that
:22:28. > :22:32.this business in particular had a difficult June and July so far, so
:22:32. > :22:36.trading conditions have definitely contributed. No more passengers
:22:36. > :22:42.will fly out, but this evening, some of the firm's final customers
:22:43. > :22:49.returned home. Many only finding out what had happened as they
:22:49. > :22:55.landed. We were very lucky, then, put it that way. One man received
:22:55. > :22:58.an e-mail from the company as he took his seat on the plane home.
:22:59. > :23:02.We're glad they run the plane. Hurry up and take all. We're glad
:23:02. > :23:06.to get back to Manchester safely. There have been assurance for those
:23:06. > :23:10.still abroad - they will get back safely. As for those who have still
:23:10. > :23:15.got to go on their holidays - well, they should get their money back,
:23:15. > :23:20.but they might have to wait. On the departures board, there was no
:23:20. > :23:23.mention of the 9.00am flight that was supposed to leave for Turkey.
:23:23. > :23:31.Thousands of holiday plans have been ruined, and the only journey
:23:31. > :23:34.this family could make was the one home.
:23:34. > :23:37.The chief constable of Cleveland Police, Sean Price, and his deputy,
:23:37. > :23:39.Derek Bonnard, have been arrested as part of an investigation into
:23:39. > :23:42.alleged corruption. Chief Constable Price, who has led the Cleveland
:23:42. > :23:45.force since 2003, and his colleague are being questioned along with a
:23:45. > :23:51.woman at a police station in North Yorkshire. Our correspondent Danny
:23:51. > :23:56.Savage is in Middlesbrough now. Bring us up to date on this one.
:23:56. > :23:59.Well, George, tonight, sources have told me that the Chief Constable of
:23:59. > :24:04.Cleveland Police and his deputy are still in custody as they, and
:24:04. > :24:10.witnesses, are questioned as part of this inquiry. There has been a
:24:10. > :24:14.police investigation ongoing now for three months into allegations
:24:14. > :24:17.of corruption at the Cleveland Police Authority by past and
:24:17. > :24:20.present members, and this morning detectives from that inquiry
:24:20. > :24:25.arrested the Chief Constable, Sean Price, and his deputy, Derek
:24:25. > :24:28.Bonnard. They were detained on suspicion of misconduct, abuse of
:24:28. > :24:32.position and corrupt practise. And they have been questioned at a
:24:32. > :24:36.police station in North Yorkshire all day and suspended from duty as
:24:36. > :24:42.well. Now, Sean Price has been the chief here since 2003. He has
:24:42. > :24:45.worked his way up through the ranks of Merseyside Police and
:24:45. > :24:48.Nottinghamshire Police, but he's no longer. He has been replaced for
:24:48. > :24:52.the time being. The Police Federation say today's arrests here
:24:52. > :24:55.have come as a massive shock, and this is very unusual. It's perhaps
:24:55. > :25:00.more than 50 years since a Chief Constable has been arrested on
:25:00. > :25:04.suspicion of a crime, and the people here in this area are now
:25:04. > :25:10.facing the prospect of their senior law keeper being arrested by fellow
:25:10. > :25:13.officers as this inquiry continues. George? Danny, thank you.
:25:13. > :25:16.The UK border force and the Serious Organised Crime Agency have
:25:16. > :25:18.uncovered a record �300 million worth of cocaine hidden in a luxury
:25:18. > :25:21.yacht headed from the Caribbean to the Netherlands. Officers boarded
:25:21. > :25:23.the boat in Southampton after close cooperation between the British
:25:23. > :25:27.agencies and their French and Dutch counterparts. The cocaine -
:25:27. > :25:34.weighing in at over a tonne - is said to be 90% pure. Six men have
:25:35. > :25:37.been arrested. Football - and it may just be the
:25:37. > :25:40.beginning of August, but Rangers won't play any part in this
:25:40. > :25:42.season's main Champions League competition. They did manage a draw
:25:42. > :25:48.in their second-leg qualifier against Malmo in Sweden, but ended
:25:48. > :25:58.the game with just nine players and lost 2-1 on aggregate. Andy Swiss
:25:58. > :25:58.
:25:59. > :26:01.watched the action. The furrowed brow said it all. For
:26:01. > :26:08.the Rangers' boss, the Champions' League millions was the tantalising
:26:08. > :26:11.prize, but his team, which began a goal down against Malmo, was soon a
:26:11. > :26:16.man down. Steven Whitaker hurling the ball and seemingly chucking
:26:16. > :26:22.away Rangers' chances. But despite that and the absence of
:26:22. > :26:27.their fans - who had been banned from the game - they hit back.
:26:27. > :26:32.Yelovic with a volley. The aggregate score now level. What
:26:32. > :26:37.followed was not exactly pretty - a niggly, bad-tempered affair, which
:26:37. > :26:42.became even uglier after the break. This elbow left Rangers with just
:26:42. > :26:48.nine men, and his opponent on a stretcher. Malmo also had a player
:26:48. > :26:51.sent off, but with ten minutes left, Hamaad's brilliant strike sealed