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Hello, good evening. Four close relatives of Colonel Gaddafi have | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
fled Libya and crossed into neighbouring Algeria. The Algerian | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
government has confirmed that Gaddafi's wife, a daughter and two | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
sons are in the country. Tonight, the White House said it has seen no | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
evidence that the Libyan leader himself has fled. Our Middle East | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
editor, Jeremy bone, is in Tripoli tonight. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Thanks very much, Jane. In the last six months or so, I'd say every | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Libyan I've asked on the subject from opponents of the old regime to | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
senior members of it, to Colonel Gaddafi himself have all said the | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
same thing that the Colonel would rather die in Libya than go into | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
exile. There were reports today, not for the first time, that one of | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
his sons Khamis, has been killed in an air raid. Whatever the Colonel | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
thinks about his future and perhaps about dying here, it seems clear | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
now that four members of his family do not feel the same way. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
These are the only portraits of Colonel Gaddafi you'll see in | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Tripoli these days, positioned carefully so everyone visiting this | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
hotel in the city centre has to step on them. His image used to be | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
everywhere. In his last months in power, the | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
Colonel relied increasingly on members of his family. His daughter | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
Ayesha made a fierce speech saying he would never step down, after the | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
NATO bombing started in the spring. Her departure to Algeria and her | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
mother and two brothers, Muhammad and Hannibal, has infuriated the | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
National Transitional Council. It condemned Algeria for allowing them | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
in, demanding they should be tried -- as criminals. Saif Al-Islam has | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
disappeared from public view. Like his father he's wanted by the | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
international crim court. Another son has been trying to broker a | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
deal on a transitional government since his father's fall, according | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
to information received by the BBC. Anti-Gaddafi fighterers pushing | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
closer to Sirte, the Colonel's birthplace. It is a vital operation | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
for the new powers in this land, but the big prize they want most of | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
all is the Colonel himself. Well, Tripoli itself seems pretty | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
calm tonight. Some celebratory gunfire, a lot of traffic moving on | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
the road. Details have started emerging of a political plan, the | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
UN has been putting together, about having a beefed up special mission | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
here to help with the transition to democracy. Part of that would | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
perhaps include an armed military - - unarmed military observers who | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
the UN hopes would reassure former Gaddafi soldiers about their future, | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
for those concerned about reprisals. That's all about the new Libya. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
While Colonel Gaddafi himself remains at large, the old Libya, | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
his old Libya, will not be properly consigned to history. | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Jeremy, thank you. The Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
Ali al-Megrahi, has been found, living in a Villa in Tripoli, | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
suffering from serm nal cancer. He's drifting in and out of | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
consciousness. He was released from prison on compassionate grounds. | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
Downing Street said it was for the Scottish Government. | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
This is the luxury three storey mansion in a wealthy Tripoli suburb | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
where the man convicted of killing 270 people lives. Last week, the | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Lockerbie bomber's family said he'd left the city. It's now clear he | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
hasn't. These pictures, filmed at the house last night, appear to | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
show Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi close to death, an oxygen mask on | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
his face. His son querying demands that he returns to priz anyone | :04:05. | :04:15. | |
Britain. -- Priz anyone Britain. he's sent to Scotland, he will die | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
there. I'm pretty sure that Al- Megrahi who are looking after him | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
are in the house this morning. Let's see if anyone answers the | :04:23. | :04:32. | |
door. A few minutes later, Abdul Nasser Al-Megrahi emerged. He told | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
me his brother is in a comb ya, only regaining consciousness for a | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
few minutes at a time. He asked for compassion. The man is struggling | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
between life and death, he told me. "What is the point in sending him | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
back to prison? Out of mercy he should be allowed to die amongst | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
his family, next to his mother and father, instead of dying overseas." | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
Al-Megrahi was found guilty of blowing up Pan-Am flight 103 in | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
1988. He was sentenced to 27 years in prison, but was released after | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
eight, because he had cancer and it was thought he had three months to | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
live. He returned to Libya to a hero's | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
well -- welcome. That was two years ago. Scottish ministers have always | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
dismissed the vehement criticism of their decision. I think we can | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
finally lay to rest the ridiculous conspiracy theory ventilated by too | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
many people too often that somehow Mr Al-Megrahi was not dying of | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
terminal prostate cancer. You wouldn't have to be a medical | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
expert to realise that this man is dying, is terminally ill, as we | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
always said. If Al-Megrahi is indeed on the edge of death, his | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
knowledge of who ordered the Lockerbie bombing is about to die | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
with him. In other news, there is still | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
severe flooding in parts of the north-eastern United States, after | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
the reelgs was -- region was hit by tropical storm Irene. Irene has now | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
claimed the lives of 35 people and more than seven million homes and | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
businesses are without power. Irene's alarming aftermath, firemen | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
in New Jersey battle with the rising water level, trying to hose | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
down the blaze. Elsewhere, stranded teenagers clung onto their | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
overturned boat, waiting to be rescued. We didn't realise the | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
current was as strong as it was. As we were coming up, we realised wow, | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
it's getting really strong. Irene moved to Vermont, the | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
flooding in this state was the worst in 80 years. This bridge is | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
barely standing. And this one was swept away. Oh, my God. | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
O in upstate New York, rescuers tried to reach those cut off by the | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
floods. The town's basically destroyed, I mean maximum damage. | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
People are displaced. Everybody's staying at friends house. People | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
are staying with us because their house is gone. Ain Massachusetts a | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
floating container ripped through the trees. The authorities were | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
expecting coastal flooding, yet the worst was inland where swollen | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
rivers burst their banks. Millions are without power. On the sixth | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the President is watching this one | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
closely. We're going to make sure folks have all the support they | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
need as they begin to assess and repair the damage left by the storm. | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
New York was spared this devastation, but from North | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Carolina to Vermont, the East Coast is counting the cost of Irene's | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
destruction. Here, police have released CCTV | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
pictures of a serial sex offender they want to trace in connection | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
with the murder of a 77-year-old woman in Hexham in Northumberland. | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
Graeme Jarman, who is 47, went missing from his home in Consett in | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
County Durham shortly before Judith Richardson was found dead. Officers | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
say Jarman is a risk to the public. Every police force in the country | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
is now involved in the search for him. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Athletics' world governing body the IAAF has told the BBC it may have | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
to reconsider the new false start rules following Usain Bolt's | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
disqualification. Bolt's false start may be the most high profile, | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
but a spate of them has blighted this year's championships. | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
He normally craves the attention of the world, but today, Usain Bolt | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
was uncharacteristically camera shy. And here's why. The false start | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
which not only denied Bolt the chance to retain his world 100 | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
metres crown, but sparked a global controversy about the rules. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
One of his biggest rivals says they should be looked at again, before | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
London 2012. It's just a travesty you know. The | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
guy worked so hard to get to this moment and then false starts. At | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
the end of the day, you are supposed to wait for the gun, but | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
anything can happen, a click or a flash, someone flinchs. It should | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
be considered to be changed. It's not just Bolt. Even before his | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
disqualification, two British medal hopes, defending world 400 metres | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
champion, Christine Ohuruogu and another 100 metres runners, Dwain | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Chambers, were red carded for jumping the gun. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
The men who run the sport only introduced the regulation last year. | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
So is it time to think again? would be a mistake to quickly | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
reverse ourselves because of one very, very high profile false start. | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
I'm not saying we shouldn't consider it, but I would caution | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
against hasty reaction. Despite growing pressure to change its | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
rules, the IAAF says it won't rush any decision. For the governing | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
body know it's cannot afford a repeat of what happens here last | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
night at next year's London Olympics. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
There was more controversy tonight. Cuban Dayron Robles stripped of | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
gold after holding back Liu Xiang in the final of the 110 metres | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
hurdles. That brought an unexpected bronze for Britain's Andy Turner. | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
But these championships are in danger of being remembered, not for | :10:24. | :10:29. |