:00:10. > :00:16.Advancing to victory, the Libyan rebels now in charge of much of
:00:16. > :00:22.Tripoli. They take the fight to the enemy, and they are confident that
:00:22. > :00:29.Gaddafi's regime is crumbling. plays his last card, you can say,
:00:29. > :00:33.his last game. Even his Big colonel and his army, they lose control.
:00:33. > :00:43.travel with the rebels into the city as they come under attack from
:00:43. > :00:44.
:00:44. > :00:48.But they are already celebrating in other parts of Libya as the
:00:48. > :00:53.international community urges a peaceful transition. His regime is
:00:53. > :00:57.falling apart and is in full retreat. Gaddafi must stop fighting
:00:57. > :01:02.without conditions and clearly shown that he has given up any
:01:02. > :01:05.claim to control Libya. Tonight, we have special reports on the rebel
:01:05. > :01:10.advance, we will be inside Tripoli, and we will consider what the
:01:11. > :01:14.future holds for the Libyan people. Also on the programme: A new dress
:01:14. > :01:17.in the phone-hacking scandal involving Andy Coulson, former News
:01:17. > :01:25.of the World editor. Charges of sexual assault are
:01:25. > :01:29.dropped against the former head of Yes! And England's cricketers
:01:29. > :01:34.complete a 4-0 victory in the Test series against India.
:01:34. > :01:37.And I will be here with the sport later in the air on the BBC News
:01:37. > :01:47.Channel, including the Premier League match at Old Trafford as the
:01:47. > :02:00.
:02:00. > :02:03.champions, Manchester United, Good evening. The whereabouts of
:02:03. > :02:06.Colonel Gaddafi are still unknown tonight after a day of intense
:02:06. > :02:11.fighting on the streets of Tripoli amid clear evidence that the regime
:02:11. > :02:15.is falling apart. Much of the capital is now in rebel hands, but
:02:15. > :02:19.some fighters loyal to Gaddafi are holding out in the Battle of
:02:20. > :02:25.Tripoli. The past 24 hours has seen government forces making rapid
:02:25. > :02:30.progress from the West and from these. They swept into the main
:02:30. > :02:34.square overnight and renamed it Martyrs' Square. But there are
:02:34. > :02:38.reports that Gaddafi's forces are still defending his main compound.
:02:38. > :02:42.Tonight we will have the latest and the battle, and we will be asking
:02:42. > :02:45.how Libya might change after Gaddafi. First, Rupert Wingfield-
:02:45. > :02:50.Hayes reports on the rebels' advance.
:02:50. > :02:55.This morning, as we have been coming into Tripoli, very quiet, a
:02:55. > :03:01.few sounds of shooting in the background. Here we go, a group of
:03:01. > :03:06.young men here. Allahu Akbar! is what we are seeing every time we
:03:06. > :03:16.go past, groups of young men celebrating. So far, no signs of
:03:16. > :03:19.
:03:19. > :03:22.any fighting in the city. It looks Allahu Akbar! We are approaching
:03:22. > :03:26.the centre of Tripoli down ahead of us here, we have come up against a
:03:26. > :03:32.road block. They say there is still fighting going on at their head, a
:03:32. > :03:37.few Gaddafi soldiers are ahead. They are bringing up rebel fighters,
:03:37. > :03:45.he just passed us in a car, going up ahead. Why is Gaddafi? Nobody
:03:45. > :03:48.here knows, maybe in the air. -- the earth. Although it appears very
:03:49. > :03:53.quiet and the surface in Tripoli this morning, it is also clearly
:03:53. > :03:57.extremely tense, and they are still parts of the city that are not
:03:57. > :04:02.under rebel control, and there is still resistance going on here. A
:04:02. > :04:11.rebel convoy is heading into the city. Little do the young men know
:04:11. > :04:16.We decide to tag along as they head along the seafront towards Green
:04:16. > :04:21.Square. Up ahead, there was still signs of fighting. Then suddenly we
:04:21. > :04:25.ran straight into a classic ambush. I can see the muzzle flashes as an
:04:25. > :04:35.anti-aircraft gun opens fire directly into the front of the
:04:35. > :04:55.
:04:55. > :05:04.We simply do not know how many other young men travelling with us
:05:04. > :05:08.Tonight, this is the new rebel front line. Here in the west of
:05:08. > :05:13.Tripoli, they have been forced out of the city centre to the ring road.
:05:13. > :05:18.After fierce fighting, the rebels claim they control 90% of Tripoli.
:05:18. > :05:21.It is wildly optimistic. This evening, the situation in Tripoli
:05:21. > :05:25.remains extremely mixed. You can see local people coming out onto
:05:25. > :05:28.the streets to celebrate their new freedom, but at the same time as
:05:28. > :05:31.this is happening, we have been told by units we are travelling
:05:31. > :05:40.with that they are going to leave the city tonight because it is
:05:40. > :05:42.still not safe enough for them to Progress has also been made by
:05:42. > :05:46.anti-government forces on the eastern approaches to Tripoli, but
:05:46. > :05:51.it has been slow and if anything more difficult than the campaign in
:05:51. > :05:55.the West. They have been moving in from Zlitan, a town made on Friday,
:05:55. > :06:00.nearly 100 miles from Tripoli, where another column of fighters
:06:00. > :06:03.has been making more rapid progress from the south. Our correspondent
:06:03. > :06:13.Orla Guerin reports now on the rebel advance principally from the
:06:13. > :06:16.
:06:16. > :06:22.We set out on the road to Tripoli. Many here believe that victory is
:06:22. > :06:28.fast approaching, there is no headlong rush to the capital. Along
:06:28. > :06:34.the way, some already celebrating and dreaming of revenge. Gaddafi
:06:34. > :06:39.out! He is out now, you know, Gaddafi is not going to come to
:06:39. > :06:43.Libya any more. Now, if he is still the in Libya, he is going to be
:06:43. > :06:50.dead now, and we are going to kill him, this revolution is going to
:06:50. > :06:54.end with killing Gaddafi and his son. Allahu Akbar! But to find
:06:54. > :06:59.Colonel Gaddafi, they have to get to Tripoli, and beyond the town of
:06:59. > :07:05.Zlitan, the regime troops are still blocking the way. On the eastern
:07:05. > :07:09.front, the battles are not over. Well, the fighting is continuing
:07:09. > :07:13.here. Rebel cars are streaming forwards towards the front line.
:07:13. > :07:18.They say there is a fierce battle going on there. The rebels are
:07:18. > :07:24.trying to push up this road towards Tripoli, but they are meeting stiff
:07:24. > :07:29.resistance from Colonel Gaddafi's troops. If they thought those
:07:29. > :07:35.troops might run, they stayed to fight instead, and the rebels are
:07:35. > :07:40.moving forward now, back into battle. Allahu Akbar! Some are
:07:40. > :07:50.still paying the price for freedom. Another fighter died today from
:07:50. > :07:51.
:07:51. > :07:57.Woman's sustained at the weekend. He always said the time of freedom
:07:57. > :08:04.will come, he told us, and he wanted to die in his way. Now I
:08:04. > :08:10.will have the honour of continuing But how long will it take to finish
:08:10. > :08:20.it? That remains unclear. The fighters here claim, optimistically,
:08:20. > :08:20.
:08:20. > :08:24.Battles are still raging tonight in several parts of Tripoli as those
:08:24. > :08:28.loyal to Gaddafi try to stave off the rebel assault. Despite
:08:28. > :08:32.increasing signs that the regime is collapsing, there have been pockets
:08:32. > :08:37.of fierce resistance, especially around Colonel Gaddafi's compound.
:08:37. > :08:47.Matthew Price is in the heart of the Libyan capital in an area still
:08:47. > :08:51.
:08:51. > :08:57.On the streets of Tripoli, a The rebels sped into the capital
:08:57. > :09:02.overnight with astonishing speed. Moving into Green Square, when just
:09:02. > :09:07.days ago Colonel Gaddafi's supporters about the city was safe.
:09:07. > :09:11.They tore down his posters and flags. Three miles to the south in
:09:11. > :09:15.a luxury hotel, we watched as Gaddafi's spokesman held what might
:09:15. > :09:22.turn out to be his last press conference. Tripoli is well
:09:22. > :09:27.But even as he was speaking, the rebels were celebrating, trampling
:09:27. > :09:32.the leader they have come to despise. Today, rebel forces
:09:32. > :09:37.continued to stream into Tripoli, believing they were on the verge of
:09:37. > :09:40.a significant victory. This is now a city of checkpoints, of men
:09:40. > :09:49.protecting their neighbourhoods, wary of what Colonel Gaddafi's
:09:49. > :09:53.In areas, there has been fierce fighting, battles have raged around
:09:53. > :09:57.Colonel Gaddafi's compound. Heavy gunfire can be heard and loud
:09:57. > :10:04.explosions. Indeed, the Gaddafi family is under pressure like never
:10:04. > :10:09.before. Last night came news that another son, is presumed successor,
:10:09. > :10:17.Saif Al-Islam, had been arrested. He pays his war crimes charges at
:10:17. > :10:21.the International Criminal Court. - But what of Colonel Gaddafi
:10:21. > :10:29.himself? He made a short radio address last night, calling on
:10:29. > :10:35.supporters to rise up. Is he in Tripoli? That's his home town of
:10:35. > :10:38.Sirte? And what is he planning? This city is not under full
:10:38. > :10:42.opposition control. Here in the hotel where foreign journalists had
:10:42. > :10:46.stayed since the conflict began, Gaddafi supporters are in charge
:10:46. > :10:50.both inside and indeed out on the streets. It is very hard to
:10:50. > :10:55.determine how much of the city they still hold, but the battle for
:10:55. > :10:59.Tripoli is not yet over. NATO has continued its air strikes. Without
:10:59. > :11:05.its air support, whose purpose is to protect civilians, the rebels
:11:05. > :11:11.would not be in the strong position may find themselves in now. And
:11:11. > :11:15.Libyan state television, a Gaddafi mouthpiece, has now fallen are fair.
:11:15. > :11:20.Still, opposition supporters are confident enough to be freely
:11:20. > :11:27.talking about the new Libya. They believe Colonel Gaddafi is finished.
:11:27. > :11:32.So he plays his last card, you can say, his last game. And even his
:11:32. > :11:39.thick colonel and his army, they lose control, so all the army of
:11:40. > :11:49.Gaddafi now, they fight without any order, without anything. If he is,
:11:50. > :11:50.
:11:50. > :11:53.when his supporters lay down their Well, for the latest, we're just
:11:53. > :11:59.managed to make contact with Matthew Price in the heart of
:11:59. > :12:04.Tripoli, and he is on the line now. How does it seem tonight? In the
:12:04. > :12:08.area that I am in, Huw, it is very much quite dead tonight. There has
:12:08. > :12:13.just been a couple of bursts of gunfire, but nothing more. There is
:12:13. > :12:21.a power cut across the area as well. That seems to have plunged much of
:12:21. > :12:26.the city into darkness. There were quite fierce battles during the day,
:12:26. > :12:36.and that seems to have caused all been the result of a lot of
:12:36. > :12:37.
:12:37. > :12:41.fighting, obviously, between I am sorry, I think we have lost
:12:41. > :12:45.the line to Matthew. Very difficult to establish that line. We were
:12:45. > :12:50.hoping it would last longer, apologies for that. We were talking
:12:50. > :12:57.earlier about the rebels'' advance from the east, but of course the
:12:57. > :13:01.town of Misrata is very important on that route, and Orla Guerin his
:13:01. > :13:05.there for us tonight. How do you see things? Well, I think there are
:13:05. > :13:09.still critical questions about the rebel advances inside Shipley and
:13:09. > :13:13.how much they control, but the picture that seems to be emerging
:13:13. > :13:18.is that they have a large degree of control, possibly over the majority
:13:18. > :13:21.of district. That is what is emerging at this distance. But they
:13:21. > :13:25.are still pockets of resistance that are proving to be stubborn,
:13:25. > :13:29.and we have his say this is something the rebels always
:13:29. > :13:33.anticipated. -- we have to say. One of the more long-term concerns is
:13:33. > :13:36.what is going to happen next. If we assume this scenario plays out as
:13:36. > :13:39.we expect with the removal of Colonel Gaddafi, is the rebel
:13:40. > :13:43.leadership, the political leadership and Benghazi in position
:13:43. > :13:48.to step in and take things forward? There have been concerns about that
:13:48. > :13:52.from the beginning. It is a very disparate group of people who came
:13:52. > :13:56.together in a moment of chaos, at a time when a united around the idea
:13:56. > :14:00.of getting rid of the Libyan leader, but the question is what happens
:14:00. > :14:04.next after they managed to achieve that goal? I think there is some
:14:04. > :14:09.nervousness, even within the MDC, about that. We had a revealing
:14:10. > :14:14.statement this afternoon from the chairman in Benghazi, warned that
:14:14. > :14:19.he would resign if there were acts of revenge by fighters inside
:14:19. > :14:23.Tripoli. I think the NTC are aware that this is a very precarious
:14:23. > :14:27.moment politically and militarily. They have to try to exert control,
:14:27. > :14:30.keep calm in Tripoli. They want to try and avoid the pitfalls of the
:14:30. > :14:39.transitions that we have seen in places like Iraq, and the West is
:14:39. > :14:42.watching very carefully to see how As events unfolded on the streets
:14:42. > :14:46.of Tripoli, the international community urged Colonel Gaddafi to
:14:46. > :14:49.leave immediately and advised the rebels to handle the transition
:14:49. > :14:53.with great care. David Cameron declared that the regime was in
:14:53. > :14:59.full retreat, as he put it and President Obama said Tripoli was
:14:59. > :15:03.slipping from the grasp of a tyrant. Our diplomatic correspondent
:15:03. > :15:07.considers the next steps. As rebels swept into Tripoli, they
:15:07. > :15:12.had much to celebrate. But the past six months, struggling to topple
:15:12. > :15:15.Gaddafi have cost many lives. It has needed outside help and NATO's
:15:16. > :15:19.care campaign. The future for Libya remains uncertain, full of risk. So
:15:19. > :15:23.when David Cameron hailed the achievement, he didn't hide the
:15:23. > :15:29.future challenges. There will undoubtedly be difficult days ahead.
:15:29. > :15:34.No transition is ever smooth or easy. But today, the Arab Spring is
:15:34. > :15:39.a step further away from oppression and dictatorship and a step closer
:15:39. > :15:43.to freedom and demock race. over four decades the Libyan people
:15:43. > :15:47.had lived under the rule of a tyrant who denied them their most
:15:47. > :15:50.basic human rights. Now the celebrations that we've seen in the
:15:50. > :15:56.streets of Libya shows that the pursuit of human dignity is far
:15:56. > :16:01.stronger than any dictator. So, can that dream of a better future be
:16:01. > :16:09.made real? The first days will be crucial. Can rebels be persuaded
:16:09. > :16:13.not to take revenge on Gaddafi loyalists? I call on all Libyans to
:16:13. > :16:16.exercise self-restraint, said the head of the rebel Council, Mustafa
:16:16. > :16:20.Abdul Jalil and to respect the property and lives of others.
:16:20. > :16:25.It's the memory of Iraq after the toppling of Saddam Hussein which is
:16:26. > :16:32.the nightmare. Looting, mayhem and a dissent into sectarian bombing
:16:32. > :16:35.and killing. Now Libya is not Iraq, and the opposition in Libya can
:16:36. > :16:41.point to cities they already hold, where law and order have not broken
:16:41. > :16:45.down. But then in Benghazi, rebels failed, last month, to prevent the
:16:45. > :16:50.murder of General Abdel Fattah Younes amid accusations he was the
:16:50. > :16:54.victim of a power struggle. Looking further into the future, the number
:16:54. > :16:57.one priority is transforming dictatorship into democracy. The
:16:57. > :17:02.rebel opposition has already published its draft of a new
:17:02. > :17:06.constitution for Libya. It promises a democratic state based on law
:17:06. > :17:09.rather than tribal or personal loyalty and there are plenty of
:17:09. > :17:12.guarantees of freedom, including freedom of opinion, freedom of
:17:12. > :17:16.demonstration and freedom of mass media. For now, these are just
:17:16. > :17:21.words, of course, but the opposition NTC says it's committed
:17:21. > :17:27.to deliver. The NTC has it within its power to
:17:27. > :17:33.show the West, including showing members of ambivalent tribes that
:17:33. > :17:36.it is genuinely going to rule in line with liberal values. If it
:17:36. > :17:42.does that early on and persuades people they have excellent chances
:17:42. > :17:45.of avoiding what occurred in Iraq. So as the opposition celebrate in
:17:45. > :17:51.their original strong hold of Benghazi, its leadership will now
:17:51. > :17:55.come under intense scrutiny. Prospects are far better than in
:17:55. > :18:01.Iraq, after all, the world, including the Arab world, was
:18:01. > :18:06.largely united against Gaddafi, but still risks remain.
:18:06. > :18:11.To discuss more of the reaction to what's going on in Libya, James
:18:12. > :18:15.Landale is in Downing Street. And Mark Mardell in Washington. What's
:18:15. > :18:18.the thinking in Downing Street on what's gone on today? David Cameron
:18:18. > :18:22.has been at pains to be cautious about events in Tripoli, saying
:18:22. > :18:26.there should be no complacency, it's not over yet, there are
:18:26. > :18:30.difficult days ahead. Within Government and within there there's
:18:30. > :18:35.a sense of quiet satisfaction. They remember, the opposition that Mr
:18:35. > :18:39.Cameron faced when he suggested a UN resolution authorising military
:18:40. > :18:43.action, many MPs were fearful of a foreign adventure that could cost
:18:43. > :18:47.British lives and treasure. Downing Street officials say just as people
:18:47. > :18:50.were wrong to be pessimistic then, they're wrong to be pessimistic now.
:18:50. > :18:54.They point to the scale of the international community's unity
:18:54. > :19:00.over this, the post-war planning that's gone into it and the amount
:19:00. > :19:03.of commitments that the NTC has done to avoid things like reprisals.
:19:03. > :19:06.They say potentially this could work and if it does, they'll reap
:19:06. > :19:10.the rewards. Mark, some people accusing the President of a lack of
:19:10. > :19:14.interest, a lack of engagement in the Libyan problems, some months
:19:14. > :19:17.ago, has that changed? I think there's, no, I don't think it has.
:19:17. > :19:21.There's quiet satisfaction in the White House that he's taken the
:19:21. > :19:25.right approach. He did want to take a backseat. That was quite
:19:25. > :19:28.deliberate. He wanted Europe to pull its weight and doing its bit
:19:28. > :19:34.within the NATO alliance. He didn't want to see America and many
:19:34. > :19:38.Americans would agree with this, embroiled in another war. He didn't
:19:38. > :19:42.want this revolution stamped "made in America". All that seems to be
:19:42. > :19:46.happening. The point as well was that Libya wasn't seen as a vital
:19:46. > :19:49.American interest. I think it is now a vital interest that this
:19:50. > :19:53.succeeds and doesn't descend into chaos. They're deeply involved in
:19:53. > :19:58.trying to get that right. Mark thank you. And James, in Downing
:19:58. > :20:02.Street, thank you. Another little word on Libya, later
:20:02. > :20:06.in the programme, and a reminder now, that there's much more on the
:20:06. > :20:11.situation, expert analysis, background, a special life page
:20:11. > :20:14.online. It's bbc.co.uk/news and the link is clearly there for you.
:20:14. > :20:19.Let's look at some of the day's other main stories. There are new
:20:19. > :20:25.developments tonight in the phone hacking scandal at the News Of The
:20:25. > :20:29.World. Robert Peston has uncovered the story. Here's here. What I've
:20:29. > :20:35.learned is that when Andy Coulson resigned as editor of News Of The
:20:35. > :20:40.World, remember he resigned because his royal editor was imprisoned for
:20:40. > :20:42.phone hacking, he said he didn't know about phone hacking, but he
:20:42. > :20:46.took responsibility to the embarrassment at the News Of The
:20:46. > :20:50.World. He was given a severance package described as extremely
:20:50. > :20:54.generous - two years' money, three years of benefits. He kept the
:20:54. > :21:00.company car. What I think people will regard as politically
:21:00. > :21:04.explosive is that he continued to receive hundreds of thousands of
:21:04. > :21:08.pounds from News International, after he started working for the
:21:08. > :21:10.Conservative Party as their Director of Communications. In May
:21:10. > :21:14.he was appointed Director of Communications. He took up the post
:21:14. > :21:22.in July. He was receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds up until the
:21:22. > :21:26.end of 2007. Now it seems the way of assessing the significance of
:21:26. > :21:30.this, just think the fewer orery there would have been if it was
:21:30. > :21:34.disclosed back then that the chap with the most important media job
:21:34. > :21:39.within theer to party, very close to David Cameron was still
:21:39. > :21:43.receiving substantial sums of money from Rupert Murdoch. No-one would
:21:43. > :21:47.have believed that he was completely arm's length from that
:21:47. > :21:51.organisation. Now I've spoken to senior Government sources. They
:21:51. > :21:54.tell me that party managers at the time, didn't know that he was still
:21:54. > :22:00.receiving this money. Then you have to ask yourself - what did they ask
:22:00. > :22:04.him about his continued links to Rupert Murdoch, if they weren't
:22:04. > :22:07.aware. Then there's a very final, important question for News
:22:07. > :22:12.International, which is this: He resigned in humiliating
:22:12. > :22:15.circumstances. He denied he knew about phone hacking, though he's
:22:15. > :22:20.subsequently been arrested in relation to the phone hack ago fair.
:22:20. > :22:25.The question is - why was News International so generous in the
:22:25. > :22:29.payment it made? Thank you very much.
:22:29. > :22:31.Charges of sexual assault levelled at the former head of the
:22:31. > :22:34.International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Khan, are to be
:22:34. > :22:39.dropped. Prosecuters in New York held talks this evening with the
:22:39. > :22:44.hotel maid, who claims that Mr Strauss-Khan tried to rape her. Her
:22:44. > :22:48.lawyer says she's being denied justice.
:22:49. > :22:52.She accused one of the world's most powerful men of sexual assault. But
:22:52. > :22:59.today, the hotel maid was told by prosecuters her case would be
:22:59. > :23:05.dropped. A lawyer blasted the district attorney. He has not only
:23:05. > :23:10.turned his back on this innocent victim, but he has also turned his
:23:10. > :23:16.back on the forensic, medical and other physical evidence in this
:23:16. > :23:19.case. A short walk away, Dominique Strauss-Khan remained out of sight
:23:19. > :23:23.at the Manhattan town house where he's been living on bail. In a
:23:23. > :23:28.statement his lawyers welcomed the prosecuter's decision. With no
:23:28. > :23:32.other witnesses to the alleged assault, this case has turned on
:23:32. > :23:37.the credibility of 32-year-old Fafissatou Diallou, an immigrant
:23:37. > :23:41.from Guinea in west Africa, who last month gave up her right to
:23:41. > :23:49.anonymity. He come to me and grabbed my breast, no, you don't
:23:49. > :23:51.have to be sorry. I said stop. I don't want to lose my job. At first
:23:51. > :23:58.prosecuters called the maid's account compelling. They said
:23:58. > :24:02.forensic evidence proved there was a sexual encounter. Then Miss
:24:02. > :24:06.Diallou changed her account of her movements in the hotel. And she
:24:07. > :24:10.admitted lying on an asylum claim. Lawyers for Strauss-Khan have
:24:10. > :24:14.indicated that any sexual contact was consentual. They say his
:24:14. > :24:19.accuser is exploiting the case to make money. Earlier this month she
:24:19. > :24:21.fired a civil law suit. What all this comes down to is this:
:24:21. > :24:26.Prosecuters do not believe they can prove, beyond a reasonable doubt,
:24:26. > :24:34.that there was a forced sexual encounter. Tomorrow they'll ask a
:24:34. > :24:37.judge to dismiss the case. Cricket then and England won the
:24:37. > :24:41.fourth and final Test against India at the oval to complete a 4-0 sweep
:24:41. > :24:47.in the series. Despite a brave innings by Sachin Tendulkar,
:24:47. > :24:52.England stormed to victory by an innings and eight runs, their
:24:52. > :24:58.sevenths innings triumph in 13 tests.
:24:58. > :25:03.The final champagne moment of a vintage summer for English cricket
:25:03. > :25:07.pride, euphoria and yet it could have been India's day to remember.
:25:07. > :25:11.All summer, Sachin Tendulkar's stood on the brink of a remarkable
:25:11. > :25:14.achievement his 100th international 100, this looked like the day, as
:25:14. > :25:19.he and India cruised through the morning and frustrated England's
:25:19. > :25:24.bowlers. As Tendulkar emerged after lunch,
:25:24. > :25:29.the crowd sensed history, but instead, they got this: That's
:25:29. > :25:36.close, a long way down, gone! Tendulkar agonisingly gone for 91.
:25:36. > :25:42.It was almost too cruel to watch. With their tall isman gone, the
:25:42. > :25:45.rest soon followed, the sort of collapse which has blighted India's
:25:45. > :25:50.summer as Graeme Swann's turn turned things round. Six wickets
:25:50. > :25:53.for him, for England, quite a day. A whitewash against an Indian side
:25:53. > :25:58.previously the best in the world. For English cricket and its fans,
:25:58. > :26:03.these are heady times. We felt that we had the ability to
:26:03. > :26:06.win this final game, but we had to dig deep again. As I said, that's
:26:06. > :26:10.what I'm most proud about. The guys were prepared to do that, even when
:26:10. > :26:15.they didn't really have to. I think that bodes well for the future.
:26:15. > :26:18.a series which promised to be tight, has proved anything but. But
:26:18. > :26:24.India's frailty shouldn't detract from England's excellence. World
:26:24. > :26:28.number one and now a clean sweep. Not a bad summer.
:26:28. > :26:33.More on tonight's main story, the crumbling of the Gaddafi regime in
:26:33. > :26:36.Libya and the rapid progress of rebel forces into Tripoli. As
:26:36. > :26:40.fighting continues, there's still no sign of an end to this conflict
:26:41. > :26:46.or clear evidence that four decades of rule by Gaddafi are formally
:26:46. > :26:50.over. It's now the end game for the man who spent so many years
:26:50. > :26:54.inspiring fear at home and funding terrorism abroad.
:26:54. > :26:59.Is there something in the mind set of dictators that makes them blind
:26:59. > :27:04.to their own impending down fall? This bizarre moment came only in
:27:04. > :27:09.February, as rebel forces were seizing half his country. He seemed
:27:09. > :27:17.to imagine himself invincible. love me, all my people with me.
:27:17. > :27:21.They love me, all. They will die to protect me, my people. Muammar
:27:21. > :27:27.Gaddafi seized power in a coup d'etat in 1969, he was 27. Soon he
:27:27. > :27:31.was backing armed groups around the world. He helped arm the IRA. In
:27:31. > :27:36.1984, someone opened fire from inside the Libyan embassy in London.
:27:36. > :27:41.The police woman, Yvonne Fletcher, was killed. When a Berlin nightclub
:27:41. > :27:45.full of US servicemen was bombed, America blamed Gaddafi and bombed
:27:45. > :27:53.his compound in Tripoli. He survived, strengthened in his boast
:27:53. > :27:56.he had defied mighty America. He found a way to strike back. The
:27:56. > :28:00.way he struck back against Britain was giving Semtex to the IRA, which
:28:00. > :28:03.was certainly the most damaging thing that he ever did to us.
:28:03. > :28:08.Britain was involved because all thot raids were carried out by
:28:08. > :28:13.Americans, they were carried out from air bases in Britain.
:28:13. > :28:19.270 people died when a Pan-Am jet was bombed in 1988. The
:28:19. > :28:23.investigation pointed to two Libyan agents. But within a decade, this
:28:23. > :28:27.mer curial and enduring figure pulled off a remarkable change.
:28:27. > :28:30.First he surrendered the Lockerbie suspects for trial. Then in 2003,
:28:30. > :28:34.he announced that he was dismantling his weapons of mass
:28:34. > :28:38.destruction to become an ally in the War on Terror.
:28:38. > :28:44.Western leaders embraced him. country is prepared to say, we want
:28:44. > :28:47.to put the past behind us, we want to give up chemical and nuclear
:28:47. > :28:52.weapons capable, we want to cease our tie was terrorist groups, then
:28:52. > :28:56.we should be willing to open up to that.
:28:56. > :29:01.This required a diplomatic blind eye to his continuing brutality at
:29:01. > :29:06.home, where he and family were feared and increasingly reviled.
:29:06. > :29:13.Popular rage has now closed in on him. Throughout he has insisted his
:29:13. > :29:21.hold on power is impregnable. His personal fate remains undecided,