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The four miners trapped below ground in Wales. Not one has | :00:05. | :00:11. | |
survived. The hopes of the rescue team and the families were dashed | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
as police announced that the search was over. I would like to express | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
my my deepest and most sincere condolences to the families of the | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
Phillip Hill, David Powell, Garry Jenkins and Charles Breslin. As the | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
rescuers discovered the men's bodies one by one, it was a day of | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
agony for the families. This has been a stab right through the heart | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
of the local communities. There is along the community and history of | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
mining but nobody would have expected the tragedy to pass today. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
The conditions inside the mine, one of the few left in Wales, where the | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
men work in tunnels, too low to stand up in. We'll be looking at | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
what could have caused Britain's worst mining disaster in years. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Also tonight: In court. The City trader accused of making over a | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
billion pounds of losses weeps as he is charged with fraud. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
A push for statehood as the Palestinian leader asks for full | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
membership of the United Nations. And the England rugby coach defends | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
his players after that night out and says they're allowed to let off | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
steam. Coming up on the BBC News Channel, | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
we will have the latest from the final match between England and | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
India. Plus Usain Bolt is still the man to beat after running the | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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fastest 100 metres of the year. Good evening. Despite the efforts | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
of rescuers at the Gleision mine in Wales, all four men trapped below | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
ground have died. The Prime Minister said it was desperately | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
sad. The local MP described it as a stab through the heart of the | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
community. The men had been trapped 300 feet underground by flood water | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
over 24 hours ago. The wait for their families was particularly | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
agonising as the men's bodies were found one by one but their | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
identities were not confirmed. Our correspondent, Robert Hall, reports | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
Cilybebyll from where he followed the day's tragic events. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
For more than 24 hours, they had felt their way through the darkness | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
and the filth, defying exhaustion, straining to hear the faintest sign | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
of life. Tonight the teams to crave -- crowded a rubber mine entrants | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
are packing a kid, reflecting on the worst possible outcome forced | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
of I can confirm that the fourth dead miner has now been recovered | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
from the Gleision mine and I would like to express our deepest and | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
most sincere condolences to the families of Phillip Hill, David | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
Powell, Garry Jenkins and Charles Breslin. The four deceased miners | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
were found in close proximity to each other. One was on the exit | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
side of the blockage as we know and the three who have been recovered | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
this afternoon were all found together in the area where they had | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
been working. There was a message of continuing support for those who | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
grieve. This has been a stab right through the heart of the local | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
communities. There is a long tradition of mining but nobody | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
expected the tragedies that have happened in past generations to | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
come today. At first light, the pumps were still running but the | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
flow of water from the flooded galleries had slowed down. At last, | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
the fetches good end to the Maze, digging their way round and through | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
the filth and debris which blocked their path, hoping against hope | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
that someone had found safe haven beyond. A mile away, families, | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
friends and neighbours gathered, sleepless, in the village community | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
centre, reaching out for scraps of information from the men as they | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
arrived from yet another shift deep underground. They took comfort from | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
the expressions of sympathy from around the world, from the gifts of | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
food and toys for the children. With every hour, the news spreading | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
through the valleys grew worse. Tragedies do happen and the | :04:29. | :04:38. | |
unthinkable has happened... It does bring it home to you that it is a | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
hard life they live. Where they work. Tonight, the villages of | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
south Wales are in mourning. They have lost four friends and | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
workmates who died in environment they knew and understood. | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
Gleision Colliery is one of the few remaining mines in South Wales. It | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
is small scale - just seven men worked there. Our science | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
correspondent, David Shukman, is here. What more can you tell us? | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Gleision is not the kind of mine of most of us would imagine. It is one | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
of a handful this size in South Wales. The coal is anthracite, the | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
highest quality you can get, and it fetches a good price on the world | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
market so this team of miners obviously thought it was worthwhile | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
to extract it. A modest entrance to a scene of | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
tragedy. Pictures taken a few years ago revealed a battered conveyor | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
belt to carry the coal. Wooden supports. A miner's lamp hanging | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
from a ceiling solo, you have to bend down. A labyrinth of tunnels | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
using technology unchanged for decades stretching Underground to | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
the dark corners where the four men died. Today at the mine, emergency | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
workers were desperate to get into search for survivors. Down below | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
them, a steady cascade of water. Pumps were clearing the flood. An | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
essential first step before anyone could venture in to face that | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
challenging conditions inside. debris is washed from other workers, | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
with the water that comes in, and that leaves debris, silt, timber, | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
anything it picks up on the floor, it brings it into whether men are. | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
The mine is a drift mine. It goes sideways into the hillside rather | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
than downwards so the miners entered through a horizontal tunnel, | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
following the seam of coal. They were working more than 800 ft | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
inside. They used explosives to dislodge the lot -- rock, standard | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
practice, but that released a flood water which filled part of the | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
tunnel. That was pumped out but debris formed another obstacle. The | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
search teams squeezed past it and then made their grim discovery, | :06:57. | :07:06. | |
Britain's worst mining accident in For century, but coalmines, the | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
backbones of the Industrial Revolution, exacted a heavy toll of | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
casualties but safety standards have heavily improved, with the | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
small mines, like Gleision, he inspected in the same way as the | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
largest. For many years there were horrendous stories and indeed, | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
there were many individuals who had no respect for safety or the people | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
who worked for them. Things have changed thankfully. This is not in | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
that same context, I certainly would not put it in that context | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
although the effect is horrendous. Investigations are under way. The | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
hills in South Wales are rich in coal but tonight there are | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
questions about the human cost of getting it. | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
In mines like this one which have been dug on and off for decades, | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
there are all kinds of invisible dangers. Water can collect in old | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
tunnels that aren't known about. Walls of rock can prove weaker than | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
they look. A job that always carries risks can be made even more | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
hazardous. Thank you. Let's go back to our | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
correspondent in the Gleision colliery near Cilybebyll. A tragic | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
day for the families and the communities there. | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
Yes. Fortunately, incidents like this are extremely rare but | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
nevertheless, it has been agonising for the families. Yesterday they | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
were looking at headlines that expressed real optimism that there | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
was a chance that people might have survived the flooding. Today police | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
were helping them to follow the events, as one by one the miners | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
were brought out. One thing has united everyone and that is the | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
courage and tenacity of the search teams, who were working in the inky | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
black water through last night. Conditions today so bad, said one | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
fireman, the worst he had seen in 30 years. It is that courage that | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
the families are now going to need as they face the consequence of | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
this tragedy. The day's other news now. A City | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
trader wept in court this afternoon as he was charged with fraud in | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
connection with a �1.3 billion loss at the Swiss banking group UBS. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
After the hearing, 31-year-old Kweku Adoboli was remanded in | :09:16. | :09:25. | |
custody. Here's Robert Peston. They all wanted a glimpse of him, | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Kweku Adoboli, on his way to the City of London Magistrates Court. | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
The alleged rogue trader whose unauthorised transactions have cost | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
UPS, Swiss Bank, �1.3 billion. The Ghanaian, educated in Britain, wept | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
as the charges were read out of fraud by abuse of his position and | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
two charges of false accounting. I am told the unauthorised dealings | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
that generated a lost were carried out over many months and were | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
relatively small, which partly explains why UPS did not spot them | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
until Wednesday. Also, Adoboli had a close knowledge of UPS's | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
administration, having worked in that part of the bank before | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
becoming a trader. Allowing somebody the authority to run up a | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
$2 billion loss, the gentleman was a 31-year-old with a degree in | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
computer science. I am not sure I would allow anybody with that | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
background to deal with but certainly not $2 billion. UPS is | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
one of the great names in world banking, combining private banking | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
and higher risk investment banking but in recent years, it has | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
careered between controversy and crisis. It racked up losses of �35 | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
billion in the banking crisis of 2008 and was rescued by Swiss | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
taxpayers. That is why there is pressure from the Swiss authorities | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
for the bank to consider separating its investment banking business. | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
Swiss and British regulators have launched an investigation to find | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
out how it was that a bank of this financial sophistication should | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
have failed to spot the giant risks taken by one of its traders. It is | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
not incredible in the sense that I am afraid it will be very hard to | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
regulate away any of these kinds of actions happening. It is difficult | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
to believe it has happened just now when there is so much attention | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
been put on Better Regulation. testosterone-fuelled trading in a | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
bonus your livestock to the inside of a cell on remand, Mr Adoboli has | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
made history, with losses that may have wept at all bonuses for his | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
colleagues and possibly precipitating the break-up of a | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
mega bank. A soldier who was shot dead while | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
on foot patrol in Afghanistan yesterday has been named. He was | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
Lance Corporal Jonathan James McKinlay from First Battalion the | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
Rifles. He was hit by small arms fire while patrolling in the Nahr- | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
e-Saraj district of Helmand Province. | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
European Union finance ministers meeting in Poland have delayed | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
until next month a decision on whether to pay the second | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
instalment of a bail-out loan to Greece. The Chancellor, George | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
Osborne, had earlier described the situation in the eurozone as grave, | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
urging fellow European ministers to demonstrate their leadership. Let | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
us be to our Europe editor, who joins us from Brussels. The head of | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
the IMF and the Chancellor have said that Europe must act now and | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
yet the announcement is of delay. What do you make of this? | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
I don't think it is very helpful, Fiona. It has been another day of | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
warnings. The US Treasury Secretary in dramatic terms warned of the | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
catastrophic risk to the global economy and less the eurozone | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
sorted out its crisis. The Americans had hoped for perhaps a | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
big step at this meeting in Poland, perhaps increasing the size of the | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
European's bail-out fund, but the Europeans did not want to go along | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
with that and there was some friction at the meeting. We will | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
not know it until mid-October whether Greece will get an extra | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
tranche of bail-out money and if it doesn't get it, then it is heading | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
for bankruptcy. But at the end of this turbulent week, two things | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
have not been resolved and they are fundamental. We still really don't | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
know how Greece will manage its debts and secondly, with Italy, a | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
country too big to be bailed out, what will happen if it starts | :13:29. | :13:39. | |
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The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has confirmed he will push | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
for full membership of the United Nations next week. He said | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Palestinians were living a nightmare under Israeli occupation | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
and he wanted to put an end to what he called injustice by obtaining | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
independence. The United States says it will veto any application | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
on the grounds that only direct talks with Israel will bring the | :13:58. | :14:07. | |
Palestinians independence. The Palestinians want to try | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
something new. So in a speech broadcast live from his | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
headquarters in Ramallah, President Abbas announced he would go ahead | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
with an application that the Americans say they will veto. | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
TRANSLATION: We are going to the UN, to ask for the legitimate right of | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
full membership. We will take with us the suffering and hope of our | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
people. President Abbas is often beleaguered, at times threatening | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
resignation. But as he risks a crisis with the Americans he was | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
positively light hearted. He was a man with his mind made up. | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
Palestinians say they have rehearsed long enough. Their | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
security forces, hear one another practice run, are ready for | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
independence, they say, along with all the other institutions a state | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
needs. But Israel's stubbornness, the president said, means | :15:02. | :15:10. | |
negotiations are at a dead end, so they are turning to the UN. | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
Campaigners for UN membership stop traffic in Ramallah. In this year | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
of change in the Middle East, Palestinians want their share. The | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Americans are not offering an alternative that they like, just | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
warnings they have ignored. reality is, nothing is going to | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
change. There will not be more sovereignty, there will not be more | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
food on the table. And this gap between expectations and reality is | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
in itself quite dangerous. Israel's campaign against the Palestinian | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
gambit includes a video. Despite signing agreements, the Palestinian | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
actions said no. It blames them for ruining negotiations by not | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
accepting a Jewish state. What about security arrangements? What | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
about Jerusalem? What about refugees. --? It needs to be agreed | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
and in an agreement you give-and- take. In a resolution, they just | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
take. This is a big mistake. This is not what it seems. Both sides | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
are Israelis, rehearsing for an attack by Palestinians on a Jewish | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
settlement in the West Bank. Many Israelis predict a UN vote will | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
touch of new violence. The ingredients of this conflict are | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
always the same. What the Palestinians are trying to do is to | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
change the diplomatic game decisively in their favour. It is a | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
risky strategy, given the hostility of the Israelis and the Americans. | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
The talk of imminent violence may be over done, but there is no doubt | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
the temperature is rising again. The conflict is going to continue | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
whatever happens at the UN. The Palestinians say they will still | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
want to negotiate, but first they will have to face the consequences | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
of throwing down a challenge to Israel and the Americans. | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
Coming up: Could a night out Down Under come | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
back to bite England's rugby stars? If we get to the point where you | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
cannot go out because someone will film it and point the finger at you, | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
it is a pretty sad place. There has been a lethargic response | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
to the massive flooding in Pakistan which has affected up to 6 million | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
people, according to international aid agencies and local officials. | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
Up to 4000 villagers have been submerged in Sindh province, an | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
area still recovering from last year's monsoon floods. Orla Guerin | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
has more. The hungry waters have created | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
ghost towns in Sindh. We reached one of them. This was home to | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
90,000 people. By the roadside, an attempt at normality. But he has to | :17:58. | :18:06. | |
wash in contaminated water. And all around, stories of loss. This woman | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
tells us her crops and her cattle are gone, and she and her family | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
have had no help from anyone. She shows us where her village used to | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
be. It has vanished, like so much else. We took a boat across the | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
cotton fields, joining the Pakistan army. They have been racing against | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
time to save a drowning communities. These rescue missions have been | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
running from first light until last light. Most of the people in this | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
area have now been evacuated. More than 2000 have been brought to dry | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
land. But some are still clinging to what is left of their homes, | :18:48. | :18:56. | |
even though the water level we hear is still rising. Most of this | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
village has already been swallowed. 300 houses have been destroyed. The | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
village is now an island. But in the primary school, we found | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
generations of local people who had stayed put. We were the first | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
outsiders to arrive. The villagers prefer to suffer at home, rather | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
than languish in a relief camp. In her 80 years, this woman has seen | :19:23. | :19:33. | |
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plenty of hard times. But she told me this is the worst. There was a | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
cyclone in the 1970s, she says, but our houses were saved. Now, there | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
is nothing left. We eat only once a day. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
What is striking is what is missing from this sodden landscape, a major | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
relief effort by Pakistan, or anyone else. | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
There has been fierce fighting in the Libyan town of Bani Walid, as | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
anti-Gadaffi fighters attempt to dislodge forces still loyal to the | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
former Libyan leader. By late afternoon they were forced to | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
retreat after coming under heavy shelling and gunfire. Mohammad | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
Ballout was injured in the town when he and other journalists were | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
targeted by sniper fire. Smoke could be seen, with a number of | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
ambulances coming out carrying the wounded. | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
In Syria, opposition activists say 44 people have been killed in anti- | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
government protests today. Friday's have become the focal point for | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
demonstrations, as people gather at mosques for prayers and activists | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
urged protesters to take to the streets today despite the crackdown, | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
which the United Nations says has killed over 2600 people so far. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
Martin McGuinness, former leader of the IRA, now deputy first minister | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
for Northern Ireland, is to run for the Irish presidency. The vote | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
takes place next month. Martin McGuinness, also the MP for Mid | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
Ulster, is expected to stand aside from his post at Stormont to | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
concentrate on the election. Martin McGuinness has been helping | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
to run Northern Ireland for the past four years. Now he is hoping | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
to swap the Cabinet table at Stormont for the job of head of | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
state in Dublin. 40 years ago, the Republican from Derry's Bogside did | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
not look like of the as presidential material. He talked | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
openly about being in the IRA. take into consideration the | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
feelings of the people of Derry and they will be passed on to Dublin. | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
Back then, he did not seem interested in the ballot box. | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
don't believe winning any amount of votes will bring freedom in Ireland. | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
It will be the cutting edge of the IRA which will bring freedom. | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
the peace process changed everything. Sinn Fein have risen to | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
power in Northern Ireland. Now, Martin McGuinness wants to be the | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
President in the Irish Republic. intend to stand on a broad, | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
progressive platform and build on my work within the peace process. I | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
hope my campaign will give citizens the opportunity to make a stand for | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
a new Ireland. It is a mainly ceremonial role, as demonstrated | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
when the current president welcomed the Queen to Dublin at the start of | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
the summer. But it is a job that Martin McGuinness wants to do. | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
was a hawk of the IRA war, a man whose name was associated with | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
bombs, bullets and the worst horror of conflict. But he was also key to | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
delivering the silence of ceasefire, the formal ending of the IRA | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
campaign. And I suppose his presidential candidacy is one more | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
step on his personal journey out of war and into peace. He will not be | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
the favourite in the race to become Irish President, but he does have a | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
chance. In order to concentrate on his presidential campaign, Martin | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
McGuinness is expected to step down at Stormont from his job as did the | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
Teach First minister. Some Unionists will not be sorry to see | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
him go. -- as Deputy Prime Minister -- first Minister. They say his | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
past makes them unsuitable for high political office. Next month, we | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
will find out if the people of the Irish Republic agreed. | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
The England rugby coach, Martin Johnson, has defended the right of | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
his players to let off a bit of steam during the Rugby World Cup. | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
The number of players, including stand-in captain Mike Tindall, were | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
photographed drinking in a bar on Sunday night. Johnson said the trip | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
was approved and he did not feel his trust had been betrayed. | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
You cannot, it seems, take the rugby, or the play, out of rugby | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
players on tour. After their first group match, the England rugby team | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
let their hair down and the drink in. There event of choice? Mad | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
midget weekender at the altitude part in Auckland. CCTV footage from | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
the venue appeared to show Mike Tindall, stand-in captain and | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
newly-married to the Queen's granddaughter, having difficulty | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
keeping his head upright. From the England camp came the sound of | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
ranks being closed. Other teams have done the same thing in the | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
same town, gone out for a few drinks. If we get away from having | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
that in the Rugby World Cup, then I do nothing that is for the best. | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
England rugby players have been embroiled in ructions before in | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
Auckland. Three years ago a sex scandal at this hotel led to the | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
governing body, the RFU, handing out fines to players. The RFU had | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
already issued clear guidelines for anyone organising an overseas tour. | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
The word of caution: wherever you travel you will be seen by the | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
general public to be ambassadors for your club, country and the game. | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
Please ensure the proper importance is placed on the maintenance of | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
good behaviour and discipline on and off the pitch. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
One former England coach says that the team may now be feeling a touch | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
more pressure. If they perform badly, the whole world is going to | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
come down on top of them. You are doing extreme sports, going out | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
late drinking. They are building a rod for their backs. They have to | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
be very careful what they do now. At the last football World Cup, the | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
England team were cooped up in what some felt was a luxury prison camp, | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
observing strict curfews and strict rules. Rugby players have long had | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
a different way of doing things. But as the tournament favourites, | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
New Zealand, showed today, running in 13 tries against Japan, progress | :25:42. | :25:48. |