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Tonight at Ten: Libyans are offered �1million reward to help find

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Colonel Gaddafi. As the fighting flares again, around Colonel

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Gaddafi's compound, we report on the rebels' struggle for control.

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The rebels were driven back out of the centre of the compound this

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morning, back to the outer wall. They've just stormed back in.

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They're now firing rockets. Another defiant message from the leader but

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his whereabouts are still a mystery. And there's joy for dozens of

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foreign journalists now free after days of captivity in Tripoli. We

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will have the latest from our team in Tripoli and in the rebel

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stronghold of Benghazi. Also tonight: This 16-year-old is the

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first minor whose identity is revealed by the courts after the

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rioting. A policeman used excessive force

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when he dragged a disabled man during the student protests in

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London. And was this the save that kept

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Arsenal in the Champions League tonight?

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Nasri has completed his move from Arsenal and in Sportsday we will

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hear from Manchester City's new signing who has fired a parting

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Good evening. The hunt is on for Colonel Gaddafi, boosted by a

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reward of �1 million, and an amnesty to any member of his inner

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circle who captures or kills him. The Libyan foreign Minister

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declared today that despite the continued fighting in some parts,

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Gaddafi's rule was, he said, clearly over. There were more

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running battles today in central Tripoli, mainly focused on

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Gaddafi's former compound. For the latest we can join our world

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affairs editor John Simpson in the Libyan capital tonight.

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Well, the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi began on 17th February and

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six difficult painful months later it ended here today as far as the

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rebels were concerned, with their victory here on the 24th August,

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which they're now regarding as their victory day.

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The heart of Tripoli, Green Square, which has been given its old pre-

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Gaddafi name back. The crowds are celebrating the victory of the

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revolution. It's not been quick or easy, it's taken six months and one

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week. It's not even complete, Colonel Gaddafi may have been

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overthrown, but he is still not been caught. Still none of that

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affected the atmosphere of pure delight.

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It's wasteful, it's dangerous, but it's the one way these people know

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of expressing their feelings after 41 years of repression, they know

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they're free. It was relief as much as anger.

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Until just the other day anyone caught doing this to the brother

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leader's picture could expect a death sentence. I will do all I can

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to find him, to to catch him, to judge him, to put him in a cage.

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Ordinary people are suddenly finding that the old parapherali a

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of snooping has been swept away. the phone we could mention Gaddafi,

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I think that was the first time we could talk. Other than that we have

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been talking before and in signs kind of like and not that directly.

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But Colonel Gaddafi, overthrown or not, remains a master of PR. A

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television station, not state TV, popped up out of the blue to

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broadcast his praises. The Colonel himself had even recorded a message

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for it. TRANSLATION: I walked through Tripoli, nobody

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recognised me. I saw youths ready to defend their city. They didn't

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feel the city is in danger, just a bit of riots that can be brought

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under control. Well, wherever he walked it can't have been Tripoli

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today. There was a real wildness in the

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air here, the thought of the new freedom. There are still pockets of

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resistance around the city, but they're slowly being dealt with one

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by one and, of course, it's come at a cost, though the overall casualty

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figures for six months of fighting here haven't been particularly

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large. Colonel Gaddafi has had a long time to plan out his escape,

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and, as with Saddam Hussein in 2003, it may take time to catch him. The

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revolution won't be complete until that happens.

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Tripoli only fell after the most intense fighting today. But Rupert

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Wingfield Hayes has been in The Thick of It all along and he and

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his team were caught in some very heavy fighting indeed around

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Gaddafi's area of operations. As we entered Gaddafi's compound

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it's obvious there is still fighting going on. Yesterday's

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liberation has not cleared all the die-hard loyalists out. And this is

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about to get a lot more intense. The rebels were driven back out of

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the centre of the compound here this morning, back out to the outer

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wall. They've just stormed back in. They're now firing rockets into the

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middle of the compound. You can hear one going in now.

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(Gunfire) Get inside! Stay, stay!

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Once again the assumption that the fighting is over is premature.

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Gaddafi's compound is a fortress with blast walls, tunnels and

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bunkers. This man believes Gaddafi is hiding underground. Do you think

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he is still somewhere in here? you ask me about what I think, I

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think Gaddafi is here. There's a lot of tunnels and stuff like it's

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impossible. He built it for this day, to stay running away from

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people, you know. But until Gaddafi is found, some here still won't

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dare to believe his dictatorship is really over. When will you feel

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free? When I feel free I see the blood of Gaddafi on the ground.

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Then I am free and I can say I am a man. The young rebels believe they

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have already won. But Gaddafi's supporters still have the ability

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to create chaos here and that's why as long as Gaddafi himself is still

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at large, this revolution will not be complete.

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Let's go back to John Simpson in Tripoli. As Rupert was saying, as

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you said, while Gaddafi is still at large the revolution can't be

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considered complete in any way. any way is probably putting it too

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far, I think. It is complete. It will be complete that is, it's just

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that there's that whole business undercutting any future Government

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of thinking that Gaddafi's somewhere out there. He is a clever

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man at PR. He is very good at popping up at the key moments. It's

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not necessarily true what he says, but he is good at making it look as

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though it's true. The fact is that I think the fighting of the past

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few days has shown that really his strength, the backbone of his

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strength has been broken. I think - I was in today in an area which was

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supposedly kind of a no-go area for us, it wasn't at all unsafe. I

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think all his supporters had fled, were keeping their heads down. It

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will be very hard for him to recreate any kind of support for

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himself on any large-scale. But it will be a nuisance and until he is

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caught people here will say well, you know, this isn't the final

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proper victory of ours. I think that's going to be the new

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Government's greatest problem. But you have to remember what happened

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to Saddam Hussein in 2003, directly he was captured it was taking like

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the piece off the board, he ceased to have any value whatsoever and I

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think the same will be true of Colonel Gaddafi. Thank you.

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Let's consider the evolving strategy, if you like, of the

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rebels themselves, the stronghold all along has been Benghazi. Our

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correspondent is there for us. Just a sense from you really of how

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they're playing this now, not least on the world stage. Very cautiously

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actually from here, after the exhill exhilaration of the last few

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days they've been taking it much slower here, the treugs treugs

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treugs has decided not to move -- National Transitional Council has

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decided not to move to Tripoli. They're being more cautious.

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They're realising there is large parts of the country in control of

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Gaddafi loyalists and they've also been going out internationally,

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they've begun to Paris -- they've gone to Paris. They've also been at

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a major meeting in Qatar. I think principally to raise large sums of

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money. They need billions of dollars so they can start

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satisfying the huge expectations that will meet them when they

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arrive in Tripoli, no doubt in a few days or a few weeks, certainly.

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One other thing to tell you about from here, a fascinating story of

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how Tripoli really came under their control at the weekend. Operation

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Mermaid Dawn apparently the opposition tell us this was in

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planning for several months in co- ordination with NATO and that on a

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given signal last weekend they basically activated a number of

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sleeper cells they had in place in Tripoli, co-ordinated that with the

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invasions we saw from land and sea and a key defection from Gaddafi's

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camp as well and that's how they finally took control of Tripoli. We

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may be sceptical about how well planned that was but certainly

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something dramatic did happen that was a game-changer and I have seen

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a big change in the opposition. They're much more organised, more

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disciplined, beginning to look like a potential new Government of Libya.

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Thank you. By the way, later in the programme

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we will be reporting on the foreign journalists including a BBC team

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freed today after being held in captivity in a hotel in central

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Tripoli, that's in a short while. There's more on the situation in

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Libya on our special live page Some of the day's other news now. A

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16-year-old boy from Droitwich is thought to be the first minor

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involved in the recent rye riots to have his identity revealed. Johnny

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Melfah pleaded guilty to encouraging theft and criminal

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damage at Worcester Youth Court. The decision follows a call by the

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Home Secretary to name young offenders as our correspondent Matt

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Prodger reports. Johnny Melfah, just 16, but named

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and shamed by a court. He pleaded guilty to posting a message on

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Facebook calling for a riot. After disturbances swept through

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England a fortnight ago police arrested and charged the teenager.

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Johnny Melfah's crime of inciting riots on Facebook has made him the

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first youth under the age of 17 to be publicly identified in

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connection with the riots. What makes it more unusual is that he

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was nowhere near riot hot spots like this in Tottenham, he was

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miles away in Worcester, a place untouched by the violence. There

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was no word from Johnny Melfah's home today. Some in the teenager's

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town near Worcester thought the court decision unfair. Others did

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not. Yeah, I am delighted. Good. Name them and shame them, that's

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what I say, it will hopefully deter others. Well, I mean, they do

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deserve some sort of punishment for doing that but it is over the top

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that. Only an exceptional circumstances like the murder of

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Jamie Bulger, can child offenders be identified. But the solicitor

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back then for one of the young A lot of members of the public are

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feeling the outrage and uproar against those involved and it is

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therefore now in the public's interest, and that is what the

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magistrate probably felt, for the defendant to be named.

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government recently said that child rioters should have been named and

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shamed but a source close to the coalition has reservations.

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anonymity is there for a reason and the anonymity should only be raised

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if there is a proportionate public interest in telling the public who

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the offender is. It should not be done lightly, it should not be done

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routinely and it should not be done because of political encouragement

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by ministers. Several adults have been convicted of using Facebook to

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incite rioting. Two of them serving four years. Tomorrow the government

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and police will be asking social media sites what they can do to

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prevent such criminality from being co-ordinated. Coming up on

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tonight's programme: Five minutes after lift-off, disaster strikes a

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rocket bound for the International Space Station. We will have the

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story. Of Police used excessive force when

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they dragged a disabled man across a road during student

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demonstrations in London last year. The Independent Police Complaints

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Commission said an officer should be given management advice for

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using too much force. The protestor, Jody McIntyre, had been removed

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from his wheelchair and struck with a baton. Scotland Yard says it will

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consider the findings, as Tom Symonds reports.

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It was one of the many confrontations between protesters

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and police that December night. But the way in which Jody MacIntyre was

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removed from his wheelchair and dragged from the road has resulted

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in two investigations. Today, the Independent Police Complaints

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Commission decided it was appropriate to move came, as police

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attempted to control the streets, but that they used excessive force.

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The police watchdog has also concluded that the incident, right

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in the heart of Westminster, may have amounted to assault and should

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have been reported to prosecutors. Six months on, the time limit for

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that has now passed. Why is it that when young people are writing in

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London, they have the courts open 24 hours a day, seven days a week,

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but when a police officer commits a crime, they over run a six-month

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limit to prosecute that police officer. Mr MacIntyre is a

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prominent activist. He was at the forefront of the student protests.

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The Met's investigation concluded he was inadvertently struck by a

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police baton in his early incident. No officer was blamed but the IPCC

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report says the force should have apologised and the officers should

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have been given so-called words of advice. Jody McIntyre has been

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criticised for suggesting on Twitter that neighbourhoods should

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be inspired by the recent riots and rise up against the police. He has

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argued, following his experiences in December, that public order

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policing is too heavy handed. But in recent weeks, the criticism has

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been the opposite. That the police should have been tougher.

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Merseyside Police have been criticised by the Independent

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Police Complaints Commission for failing to monitor a sex offender

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who went on to murder a teenage girl. Peter Chapman, a convicted

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rapist, killed 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall after befriending her on

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Facebook. The IPCC said he had been allowed to slip away from attention

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and explained one police constable had the job of monitoring 60 sex

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offenders. The man who murdered the headmaster

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Philip Lawrence outside his school in 1995 has been cleared of robbing

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a someone at a cash machine in north London. Learco Chindamo,

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who's now 31, had been accused of using his notoriety as a killer to

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intimidate and rob. Russian officials say an unmanned

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spaceship bound for the International Space Station has

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exploded and fallen to earth five minutes after lift-off. It was

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carrying more than two tons of supplies for the space station and

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its six astronauts. The Russian spaceships are now the only supply

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link since the ending of the US shuttle program. Our science

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correspondent, Pallab Ghosh, has the story.

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The Progress spacecraft lifted of smoothly enough from the cosmodrome

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in Kazakhstan this afternoon, but as a rocket disappeared from view,

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the proportion system stalled and fell back to earth. The cargo ship

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was carrying several tons of supplies to the International Space

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Station but there won't be any immediate problem for the

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astronauts on board, according to NASA. We are in a good position

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logistically to withstand this also supplies and in fact, I will tell

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you we can go several months without a resupply vehicle if that

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becomes necessary. The unmanned rocket used to supply the station

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issued -- space station is similar to the one here, so until it

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investigators find out what went wrong, there will be no more

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launches but the crew will not be trapped. They can get back to earth

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in capsules that are already docked. The scrapping know of the shuttle

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programme in July means that there is now no back-up plan. It draws

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attention to how vulnerable the International Space Station project

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is without the shuttle, because should anything more serious go

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wrong, you need the vehicle as large as the space shuttle to do a

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space walk from to repair the space station so you can colonise it

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again and without that kind of capability, which we do not have

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now, you might end up losing the space station altogether. Hurricane

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Irene monitor this evening from the crew of the space station. If after

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several months the problem with the Russian rocket system has not been

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solved, the orbiting laboratory will have to be abandoned.

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Money held by British people in Swiss bank accounts is to be taxed

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for the first time. The deal could see between 3 and �6 billion a year

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being handed by the Swiss authorities to Revenue and Customs.

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It's being described as a landmark agreement and follows a similar

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deal between Germany and the Swiss authorities. Our chief economics

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correspondent is at the Treasury tonight. What do you make of the

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deal? With it healed the kind of money they are talking about? --

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which Heald? The Treasury Minister, David Gauke,

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has been telling me this evening that the days where British

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residence could evade tax and the proceeds in Swiss bank accounts

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will soon be over. Tax experts say this is a big step forward and

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could give the Treasury up to �5 billion. Holders of these accounts

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can either come to the UK tax authority voluntarily and come to

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an arrangement but if they don't, by 2013, the Swiss authorities were

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removed up to 34% from each account and handed over to the Treasury and

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after that will deduct something from annual income, up to 48%. That

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is more an onerous than some of the regimes like Guernsey and Jersey.

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Some will say these investors will keep their anonymity if they hold

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onto this was badly counts and they will be paying a bit less tax there

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than that they would do if they had the money here, but there has been

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hard-headed negotiations between the HMRC and this was authorities

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and the view is it is better to get the money in, particularly when you

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are trying to reduce the deficit. Tottenham Hotspur have won the

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right to challenge a decision on the future of the Olympic Stadium

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in east London after next summer's games. Previously, West Ham United

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had been told it could move into the stadium. But Tottenham say the

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decision was unfair. A hearing at the High Court is due to start in

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October. Arsenal were in action tonight,

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with millions of pounds riding on the outcome of their game in Italy.

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The North London side were playing Udinese in the Champions' League

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qualifiers. Andy Swiss watched the For Arsenal, the stakes had rarely

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been higher. �20 million, the price of the Champions' League spot. For

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so many years, a given for them. But not now. And with a dodgy form

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and depleted squad, they were soon wobbling. Twice the Italians hit

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the post, although Arsenal also threatened. Theo Walcott and Robin

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van Persie brilliantly denied. But Udinese was stronger and soon be

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struck. Di Natale the scorer, but tension unbearable. But after the

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break, the sigh of relief. Van Persie giving the Gunners are a

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crucial away goal. Game over? Not quite. Handball and penalty to be

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Udinese. But watch this! Szczesny with the save of his life. And when

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Walcott men did pace and poise, Arsenal's duties were finally over.

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They might still have their problems but at least they have the

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Amid the turmoil in Tripoli today, there was relief and joy for a

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group of foreign journalists who had been held by Gaddafi's are

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supporters at a hotel in the city centre. They spent six days trapped

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inside the Rixos Hotel, with dwindling supplies of food and

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water. A BBC team, including Matthew Price among them. He sent

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this report. This was all we saw of the battle

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for Tripoli. But it came close. Into the dining Room of the hotel,

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long-abandoned, we stayed away from the windows of four long days. We

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scavenged what food we could from the hotel stores. Sleeping and

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living for much of the day in our body armour. Nervous of the pro-

:25:00.:25:06.

Gadaffi guards roaming down below. Something seems to be happening

:25:06.:25:11.

downstairs but we are not sure what it is. So we are just getting ready.

:25:11.:25:17.

We prepared, fearing Gaddafi forces might come into the hotels. Perhaps

:25:17.:25:26.

even to use us as human shields. TV comedy TV... Nothing else.

:25:26.:25:32.

this morning, we scattered around the hotel. Many of Gaddafi's guards

:25:32.:25:37.

had vanished. Colonel Gaddafi still seemed to rule in this tiny patch

:25:37.:25:41.

of Tripoli. The guards truly believed his forces could take back

:25:41.:25:48.

the city. So began the negotiations. CNN's Jordanian producer was

:25:48.:25:53.

pivotal. The guard was confused. After four decades of Gaddafi rule,

:25:53.:25:58.

he refused to believe it was all over. So we ventured out. Not all

:25:58.:26:05.

of them had gone. GUNFIRE. Then finally, after five days of not

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knowing whether we would get out, we did. Into our armoured vehicle,

:26:11.:26:17.

as the Red Cross swept in to carry the others out. Out through a city

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