:00:12. > :00:16.The end of Libya's Colonel Gaddafi. The dramatic moment when he's
:00:16. > :00:21.captured and then killed in Sirte. He died in the city where he was
:00:21. > :00:29.born - a humiliating end for a man who once called himself "a king of
:00:29. > :00:34.kings." We caught him in there. We shot him, somebody shot him by gun.
:00:34. > :00:40.Colonel Gaddafi had been on the run for two months, following the fall
:00:40. > :00:44.of Tripoli. His convoy came under attack from jets as Sirte, his last
:00:44. > :00:48.bastion of power, fell. These are the holes where the
:00:48. > :00:54.fighters say they found Colonel Gaddafi hiding. They dragged him
:00:54. > :01:01.out of here. One fighter said to me the former Libyan dictator asked
:01:01. > :01:07.him, "What have I done to you?" Celebrations across Libya as they
:01:07. > :01:13.realise the man who ruled with an iron fist for 4 years is dead.
:01:13. > :01:20.have -- 42 years is dead. They have done what they have to do. With
:01:20. > :01:24.Gaddafi gone, we will ask what the future now holds for Libya? In
:01:24. > :01:29.Spain the Basque separatist group, ETA says its armed campaign is
:01:29. > :01:32.finally over, after 50 years. And Vincent Tabak, the man accused of
:01:32. > :01:37.murdering Joanna Yeates tells a court about the moment he killed
:01:37. > :01:41.her last year. And coming up on the BBC News
:01:41. > :01:45.channel: We will bring you continuing reaction to today's
:01:45. > :01:55.historic news from Libya. Stay with us throughout the evening for the
:01:55. > :02:06.
:02:06. > :02:12.Good evening. Colonel Gaddafi has been captured and killed in his
:02:12. > :02:16.home city of Sirte. He was found cowering in a storm drain after his
:02:16. > :02:22.convoy apparently came under attack. It was a humiliating end for the
:02:22. > :02:27.dictator who ruled Libya with an iron fist for 42 years. The BBC is
:02:27. > :02:30.the only British broadcaster in Sirte. Our correspondent, Gabrial
:02:30. > :02:35.Gatehouse, has just sent the first of our reports tonight. You may
:02:35. > :02:42.find some of the graphic images disturbing. It must have been a
:02:42. > :02:45.painful, bewildering end to the man who had himself ruled Libya through
:02:45. > :02:50.force for more than four decades. These pictures filmed on the
:02:50. > :02:53.mobiles of the men who captured Muammar Gaddafi show him clearly
:02:53. > :02:57.still alive shortly after he was dragged from a ditch on the
:02:57. > :03:02.outskirts of the city of his birth. After that, we are told he was
:03:02. > :03:06.taken by ambulance to a hospital just outside Sirte. From there, to
:03:06. > :03:11.Misrata - the rebellious centre with which was beaten out of his
:03:11. > :03:18.forces earlier this year. Somewhere along that journey Colonel Gaddafi
:03:18. > :03:24.died, bringing a final end to his 42 years in power. The reaction
:03:24. > :03:29.from the fighters in Sirte was jubilant and ecstatic as the news
:03:29. > :03:34.of his capture hit home. The sight of his golden pistol was all the
:03:34. > :03:38.evidence they needed. The men who were there when he was taken are
:03:38. > :03:45.already becoming legends in their own lifetime.
:03:45. > :03:49.This is the hole where these fighters say they found Colonel
:03:49. > :03:57.Gaddafi hiding. They dragged him out of here, and one fighter said
:03:57. > :04:01.to me, the former Libyan dictator asked him, "What have I done to
:04:01. > :04:05.you?" Fighters poured into the ditch to see the place where
:04:05. > :04:10.Muammar Gaddafi spent his last moments as a free man. Crawled into
:04:10. > :04:16.a sewerage pipe, running under a main road on the outskirts of town.
:04:16. > :04:24.The site has become an instant photo opportunity. Goodbye Gaddafi.
:04:25. > :04:29.See you when I die. I will go to a better place but you will go to
:04:29. > :04:32.hell. Amid the celebrations, arguments
:04:33. > :04:38.erupted over who was the one to capture the former dictator. This
:04:38. > :04:43.man said it was he. The blood on his shirt front, he said was
:04:43. > :04:49.Gaddafi's. These people sense today they have made history.
:04:49. > :04:53.But a gruesome reminder that in war one man's victory is another's
:04:53. > :04:58.defeat. Just across the road from that ditch where Colonel Gaddafi
:04:58. > :05:03.was captured the remains of his convoy lie in the dust. These cars
:05:03. > :05:06.were hit by a NATO airstrike as they were trying to escape. His
:05:06. > :05:12.entourage incinerated by French missiles.
:05:12. > :05:16.As these former rebels enjoy their day of victory, the sound of
:05:16. > :05:22.shooting can still be heard, not all is in celebration. Their leader
:05:22. > :05:31.may be dead, but some of Colonel Gaddafi's loyalists have not been
:05:31. > :05:33.captured. The fighting is not quite over yet.
:05:33. > :05:38.As reports of Colonel Gaddafi's capture spread, thousands of people
:05:39. > :05:43.took to the streets across Libya, firing guns in the air, sounding
:05:43. > :05:53.horns and waving the revolution's flag. Our correspondent, Caroline
:05:53. > :06:00.
:06:00. > :06:05.Hawley, has spent the day in the He's finished, they chant, he's
:06:05. > :06:10.finished. Boys who only lived through a fraction of Muammar
:06:10. > :06:15.Gaddafi's 42 rule. Not too young to celebrate his humiliating end. As
:06:15. > :06:19.news emerged of the death of the fugitive leader the capital erupted
:06:19. > :06:22.in an explosion of relief and joy. Fighters and civilians, young and
:06:22. > :06:30.old, all headed out on to the streets.
:06:30. > :06:39.They have done what we have to do. If it's that we shall do it again.
:06:39. > :06:43.Gaddafi is dead. Gaddafi's finished. Gaddafi is dead. We killed Gaddafi.
:06:43. > :06:47.We killed a criminal, the most criminal man in the world.
:06:47. > :06:51.challenges ahead are immense. With these dramatic developments,
:06:51. > :06:59.Libyans can now hope to bury their past and build a new future in a
:06:59. > :07:03.country which has suffered so much. From hiding he had released several
:07:03. > :07:08.audio messages calling on supporters to rise up. There were
:07:08. > :07:10.fears he could help direct an insurgency. Palpable relief for the
:07:10. > :07:18.new authorities. The interim Prime Minister came out to announce the
:07:18. > :07:24.news. "Muammar Gaddafi has been killed,"
:07:24. > :07:30.he says "We Libyans have waited a long time for this moment. Who he
:07:30. > :07:35.was killed and by -- how he was killed and by who is being
:07:35. > :07:42.investigated." For these Libyans the only thing that mattered was
:07:42. > :07:47.that the man they had hated and feared for so long was gone. They
:07:47. > :07:52.celebrated into the night. This 12 year old has a cousin injured in
:07:52. > :07:56.hospital. I feel so happy. It is amazing. I have never felt happier
:07:56. > :07:59.than today. Within the next couple of days the new authorities will
:07:59. > :08:04.declare the liberation of Libya, paving the way for a political
:08:04. > :08:10.process here. The party has only just begun.
:08:10. > :08:15.We can speak to Caroline now, who's in Tripoli. We have seen the
:08:15. > :08:19.pictures of capturing Gaddafi when he was alive. Questions now about
:08:19. > :08:23.when he died and who actually killed him? That is right. The NTC
:08:23. > :08:27.is saying he was killed in cross fire, that no orders were given to
:08:27. > :08:34.shoot him. They say he died in a gun battle between his supporters
:08:34. > :08:38.and Government fighters. I suspect there is more to come yet on the
:08:38. > :08:44.exact circumstances of his death. It is still being celebrated. It is
:08:44. > :08:51.way I am wearing this precautionary gear. There's a lot of anti-
:08:51. > :08:54.aircraft fire and gunfire we've been hearing here as the sell
:08:54. > :08:59.braigs continue. -- the celebrations continue. What of his
:08:59. > :09:04.sons, who were said to be with him at the time? This seems to be the
:09:04. > :09:07.end of Colonel Gaddafi's dynasty. His national security adviser has
:09:07. > :09:11.apparently been killed. His body is in the town of Misrata, which
:09:11. > :09:15.suffered so much during this war. It's apparently in a private house
:09:15. > :09:21.and people have been going up and taking photographs. Then there's
:09:21. > :09:24.the question of the fate of Saif Al-Islam, who was such a prominent
:09:24. > :09:29.spokesman for his regime in its dying days. Conflicting reports
:09:29. > :09:36.about what has happened to him. One report saying he has been detained
:09:36. > :09:41.and is injured, but more to come yet. Of course the big catch is
:09:41. > :09:44.Muammar Gaddafi himself. The NTC is saying he will be buried in a
:09:44. > :09:48.secret location. Thank you very much. Here, David
:09:48. > :09:51.Cameron said he was proud of the role Britain had played in bringing
:09:51. > :09:58.about the end of Colonel Gaddafi's regime. He said Libyans now have an
:09:58. > :10:08.even greater chance of building a strong and democratic future. Our
:10:08. > :10:08.
:10:08. > :10:14.political editor examines Britain's role in Gaddafi's demise.
:10:14. > :10:19.Libya was David Cameron's first war. Colonel Gaddafi his first foe.
:10:19. > :10:22.Today his first real taste of military victory. If there was
:10:22. > :10:26.euphoria inside Downing Street at the news of Gaddafi's death, the
:10:26. > :10:30.Prime Minister was determined not to show it when he stepped outside
:10:30. > :10:33.just moments after the news was confirmed.
:10:33. > :10:39.Thank you. Good afternoon. Prime Minister Jibril has confirmed that
:10:39. > :10:43.Colonel Gaddafi is dead. I think today is a day to remember all of
:10:43. > :10:48.Colonel Gaddafi's victims, from those who died in connection with
:10:48. > :10:52.the Pan Am Flight over Lockerbie, to Yvonne Fletcher in a London
:10:52. > :10:57.street and obviously all the victims of IRA terrorism who died
:10:57. > :11:02.through their use of Libyan Semtex. This very street, once echoed to
:11:02. > :11:06.the sound of that Libyan explosive. When an IRA mortar, fired from
:11:06. > :11:11.Whitehall forced John Major and his ministers to hide underneath the
:11:11. > :11:15.Cabinet table. It was a Libyan gun, fired from their London embassy
:11:15. > :11:20.which killed WPC Yvonne Fletcher on duty outside.
:11:20. > :11:26.And it was Colonel Gaddafi who ordered the blowing up of a packed
:11:26. > :11:29.plane above Lockerbie. Yet, Tony Blair would go on to
:11:29. > :11:34.embrace the dictator and to shake a hand which had so much British
:11:34. > :11:42.blood on it. You're looking well. The deal in the desert was a reward
:11:42. > :11:46.he said for Gaddafi abandoning his country's weapons of mass
:11:46. > :11:51.destruction and co-operating in the war against Al-Qaeda terrorism.
:11:51. > :11:56.Without this uprising in Benghazi, Libya's second city, who knows -
:11:56. > :12:00.perhaps Gaddafi would still be our friend. The threat of a massacre
:12:00. > :12:04.here convinced David Cameron of the need to act. We were in a race
:12:04. > :12:10.against time to avoid the slaughter of civilians in Benghazi. Now all
:12:10. > :12:16.of us would have hoped to have avoided the use of force. Force was
:12:16. > :12:20.used. Over 3,000 RAF sorties were flown, at a cost of �300 million,
:12:20. > :12:25.as Britain joined a broad coalition. Just over a month ago, the Prime
:12:25. > :12:35.Minister and President Sarkozy of France, were hailed as the
:12:35. > :12:44.liberators of Benghazi. Colonel Gaddafi said he would hunt you down
:12:44. > :12:48.like rats, but you showed the courage of lions. Tonight, Libyans
:12:48. > :12:53.living in exile filed the edge wear Road to stage their own
:12:53. > :12:56.celebrations. Words are usually chosen carefully. This is how
:12:56. > :13:04.America's Secretary of State reacted when she first heard the
:13:04. > :13:10.news. Wow! Guests at a celebration in Downing Street this evening
:13:10. > :13:20.heard the Prime Minister reveal his real feelings. Obviously dil valley
:13:20. > :13:22.
:13:22. > :13:26.being the festival of triumph of over eve vil and the death of a
:13:26. > :13:31.devil perhaps there is a resonance in what I'm saying tonight.
:13:31. > :13:37.unspoken message has been - this is not Iraq - I am not Tony Blair.
:13:37. > :13:41.After his first victory in his first war though, some will ask,
:13:41. > :13:48.whether like Tony Blair, he will discover an appetite for military
:13:48. > :13:51.action? In the US, President Obama said the
:13:51. > :13:55.death of Colonel Gaddafi marked the end of a long and painful chapter
:13:55. > :13:59.for the people of Libya. He said they would now have the opportunity
:13:59. > :14:04.to determine their own destiny. This is a momentous day in the
:14:04. > :14:07.history of Libya. The dark shadow of tyranny has been
:14:07. > :14:13.lifted. And with this enormous promise, the Libyan people now have
:14:13. > :14:20.a great responsibility. To build an inclusive and tolerant
:14:20. > :14:26.and democratic Libya that stands as the ultimate rebuke to the
:14:26. > :14:30.dictatorship. Our correspondent is in Washington for us tonight.
:14:30. > :14:37.President Obama has taken some of the credit for his downfall, is he
:14:37. > :14:42.right to do so He some would accuse he's having his cake and eating.
:14:42. > :14:47.Some would say he is baking it for different audiences. It is true he
:14:47. > :14:51.said the world refused to stand by. It was a close-run thing in America.
:14:51. > :14:58.Many in the administration didn't want to get involved. They decided
:14:58. > :15:01.in it at the 11th hour. Today he's talking about the strength of
:15:01. > :15:06.American leadership how America led NATO. The reason he took a back
:15:06. > :15:10.seat and stood back and let the Europeans do a lot of heavy lifting
:15:10. > :15:14.is he is opposed to President Bush. He doesn't want this to be seen
:15:14. > :15:19.anything like the Iraq war. He talks about no American boots on
:15:19. > :15:22.the ground. He's saying this was done in a way that was completely
:15:22. > :15:31.different and he doesn't want America being seen as imposing its
:15:31. > :15:36.The uprising began with street protests and turned into an
:15:36. > :15:39.international effort to remove the dictator. Jeremy Bowen looks at the
:15:40. > :15:45.downfall. Libya is where the sweetness of the
:15:45. > :15:48.Arab Spring turned sour. The Gaddafi regime led the counter-
:15:48. > :15:51.revolution of Arab dictators, and the people who no longer wanted to
:15:51. > :15:56.be his fall-back. What started as an impulsive fight by the rebels
:15:56. > :16:00.turned with foreign help into a successful insurgency. They have
:16:00. > :16:04.won the war, keeping the peace and winning it is the next challenge.
:16:04. > :16:08.Colonel Gaddafi had a spring in his stead when I met him in Tripoli in
:16:09. > :16:12.March. He seemed to relish taking on the world again, or at least the
:16:13. > :16:18.West and some of his Arab enemies. He was defiant, and after 42 years
:16:18. > :16:23.at the top, he insisted the Libyan people were behind him. They love
:16:23. > :16:30.me, all my people with May, they love me all. They will die to
:16:30. > :16:33.protect me and my people. Died they did. Those who supported him and
:16:33. > :16:43.those who hated him. No one really knows how many people have been
:16:43. > :16:44.
:16:44. > :16:48.The uprising started in and around Benghazi, Libya's second city, a
:16:48. > :16:54.place that was neglected and his citizens he had never trusted. The
:16:54. > :16:59.feeling was mutual. The east of Libya fell quickly to the rebels,
:16:59. > :17:02.but a hard fight lay ahead for the rest of the country. In Tripoli,
:17:02. > :17:06.Colonel Gaddafi turned his forces on demonstrators who wanted, like
:17:06. > :17:11.the Egyptians and the Tunisians, to overthrow a dictator who had ruled
:17:11. > :17:17.for decades. Night after night in Tripoli, his spokesman, Moussa
:17:17. > :17:22.Ibrahim, pushed the regime's line, defiance and threat. Who gave you
:17:22. > :17:27.the right to intervene in our internal affairs? You will regret
:17:27. > :17:31.it! In the end, the decisive moment came when the Arab League called
:17:31. > :17:40.for the establishment of a no-fly zone. NATO bombing and military
:17:40. > :17:44.training for the rebels weakened Libya now has a clean slate, a new
:17:44. > :17:47.start. It has big reserves of oil, some money will not be a problem.
:17:47. > :17:51.The country has no tradition of democracy, but there are hopes of
:17:51. > :17:55.elections within two years. A more immediate problem is that cracks
:17:55. > :17:59.have appeared in the anti-Gaddafi coalition. Tensions have risen
:17:59. > :18:03.between an Islamist fighter, now the military commander in Tripoli,
:18:03. > :18:08.and the former Gaddafi ministers who lead the National Transitional
:18:08. > :18:11.Council. Libya has had the most complete of all the Arab
:18:11. > :18:15.revolutions. The old regime has been smashed. But it also has to
:18:15. > :18:25.recover from civil war and four decades of dictatorship. It will
:18:25. > :18:35.You can find more in-depth coverage about the capture and death of
:18:35. > :18:37.
:18:38. > :18:46.Coming up on the programme: After the violence and the protests, the
:18:46. > :18:50.travellers finally leave Dale Farm It has emerged that EU leaders who
:18:50. > :18:53.were hoping to agree a rescue plan for the euro on Sunday have delayed
:18:53. > :18:57.the decision and will now hold another summit by the middle of
:18:57. > :19:02.next week to give themselves more time to reach a deal. Robert Peston
:19:02. > :19:06.is with me now. They have delayed it, how serious is that? It is
:19:06. > :19:10.potentially very worrying. This weekend's summit was supposed to
:19:10. > :19:14.reach an agreement on a package of measures to prevent a serious
:19:14. > :19:18.banking crisis in the eurozone, but it is now clear that there are
:19:18. > :19:21.major obstacles in reaching that agreement. First of all, no deal
:19:21. > :19:27.has been reached with lenders to Greece on how much they should
:19:27. > :19:30.reduce what they are owed so that Greece's debts are reduced to a
:19:30. > :19:35.more sustainable level. But probably more fundamental is the
:19:35. > :19:38.split between France and Germany on how to increase the bail-out fund
:19:38. > :19:43.for the eurozone, known as the European financial stability
:19:43. > :19:49.facility. France wants the ECB to stand behind that bail-out fund.
:19:49. > :19:53.For Germany, the involvement of the central bank is potentially very
:19:53. > :19:57.risky. They do not like the idea of central banks ever lending to
:19:57. > :20:00.governments, because they see that as bringing the risk of a
:20:00. > :20:04.debasement of the currency, and the reason they are worried about that
:20:04. > :20:09.is because of painful memories of hyperinflation in the 1930s. So
:20:09. > :20:13.this is a serious disagreement. Now, President Sarkozy and Angela Merkel
:20:13. > :20:19.have said that they expected to be a definitive agreement by Wednesday
:20:19. > :20:22.at the latest. If that were not to be the case, investors would
:20:22. > :20:26.genuinely worried. For now, investors are giving them the
:20:26. > :20:31.benefit of the doubt, but any further serious slippage and we can
:20:31. > :20:35.see the kind of mayhem in markets that, frankly, the eurozone leaders
:20:35. > :20:39.are desperate to avoid. Robert Peston, thank you.
:20:40. > :20:42.In Spain, the Basque separatist paramilitary organisation ETA has
:20:42. > :20:46.announced what it calls a definitive cessation of armed
:20:46. > :20:50.activity. The message came in a video recording past did the BBC
:20:50. > :20:54.following years of mediation efforts involving many of those who
:20:54. > :20:56.helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland. The campaign for
:20:56. > :21:00.independence for the Basque region of the border between France and
:21:00. > :21:06.Spain has spanned more than 50 years had led to the deaths of more
:21:06. > :21:11.than 800 people. James Robbins has this exclusive report.
:21:11. > :21:16.ETA's leaders are still fugitives, but then the message, passed to the
:21:16. > :21:18.BBC, could mark an end to four decades of killing and acceptance
:21:19. > :21:28.that the pursuit of a separate Basque state must rely exclusively
:21:29. > :21:36.
:21:36. > :21:42.ETA was formed over 50 years ago during the dictatorship of General
:21:42. > :21:47.Franco. A huge bomb in Madrid in 1973 killed Spain's Prime Minister.
:21:47. > :21:51.His car was blown more than 100 ft into the air... The killing ensured
:21:51. > :21:55.the whole world took notice. At its height, ETA killed nearly 100
:21:55. > :21:59.people in a single year. More recently, the organisation has been
:21:59. > :22:03.heavily squeezed by arrests and falling support. So what lies
:22:03. > :22:07.behind the passing to the BBC of this video message, brought to us
:22:07. > :22:11.on a simple computer memory stick by messengers, by third parties and
:22:11. > :22:17.from the Basque country? Well, extraordinary story of years of
:22:17. > :22:20.secret effort by mediators to try to replicate parts of the Northern
:22:20. > :22:25.Ireland peace process in Spain. Involving many of the key players
:22:25. > :22:30.in that process, including Gerry Adams and Tony Blair. This is a big
:22:30. > :22:34.moment. This has been the last armed conflict, if you like, in
:22:34. > :22:37.Europe. It has been going on for half a century. Many people have
:22:37. > :22:41.lost their lives. You know, this is great news if people can actually
:22:41. > :22:45.put this conflict behind them and get on with trying to build a fair
:22:45. > :22:49.and just society in peace and harmony. The Northern Ireland peace
:22:49. > :22:54.talks that ended with an historic agreement... And after the success
:22:54. > :22:58.of Northern Ireland's Good Friday agreement, many figures intensified
:22:58. > :23:02.mediation efforts with ETA, including Gerry Adams. I have been
:23:02. > :23:07.there on a number of occasions. Over that grubby period, scene of
:23:07. > :23:14.people from my office and senior people from Tony Blair's of this
:23:14. > :23:19.have done an awful lot of backroom work, very detailed work, to assist
:23:19. > :23:25.and encourage the process. ETA's commitment in a new video
:23:26. > :23:31.message to end all armed activity has been welcomed by the Spanish
:23:31. > :23:35.government as a victory for democracy.
:23:35. > :23:38.Vincent Tabak, the man accused of murdering landscape architect
:23:38. > :23:42.Joanna Yeates in Bristol, has been telling the jury about the moment
:23:42. > :23:45.he Kildare last year. The Dutch engineer, who admits manslaughter
:23:45. > :23:52.but denies murder, told the court he put his hand to her throat to
:23:52. > :23:56.stop her screaming. From Bristol Crown Court, Jon Kay reports.
:23:56. > :24:01.10 months after he killed Jo Yeates, Vincent Tabak came to offer his
:24:01. > :24:05.story in his own words. Bed boyfriend, Greg Reardon, on the
:24:05. > :24:09.left, joined her parents and her brother in a packed courtroom. To
:24:09. > :24:12.start with, the defendant spoke with clarity and confidence, but
:24:12. > :24:16.when he was questioned about the death of his next-door neighbour
:24:17. > :24:22.last Christmas, he appeared to break down several times, stopping
:24:22. > :24:26.and sighing deeply. He claimed that Ms Yeates had invited him into the
:24:26. > :24:31.kitchen for a drink, that she made a flirtatious comments and he went
:24:31. > :24:36.to kiss her. When she screamed, he said he held her throat for a short,
:24:36. > :24:40.short time. In a faltering voice, Vincent Tabak described how he --
:24:40. > :24:44.she went limp and a body fell to the floor. He said in a moment that
:24:44. > :24:49.followed, he panicked and felt desperate. He apologised to the
:24:49. > :24:55.family for putting them through hell. Vincent Tabak said he cannot
:24:55. > :24:58.believe now that he went supermarket shopping with Jo's body
:24:58. > :25:01.in the boot of his car, but he denied prosecution claims that he
:25:01. > :25:06.had driven around Bristol in his silver Renault just to cover his
:25:06. > :25:12.tracks. He appeared distressed when he was shown graphic photographs of
:25:13. > :25:16.injuries found on Joanna Yeates' body, time and again saying he did
:25:16. > :25:24.not know if he had caused them, but he insisted he had not intended to
:25:24. > :25:28.The last remaining residents of Britain's largest illegal
:25:28. > :25:31.travellers' site in Essex have finally moved out, ending a ten-
:25:31. > :25:34.year legal dispute. They left peacefully this afternoon after a
:25:34. > :25:41.two-day stand-off with police and bailiffs.
:25:41. > :25:45.10 years after they arrived, the travellers of Dale Farm are back on
:25:46. > :25:50.the road. This was, they say, a dignified exit. They were followed
:25:50. > :25:55.by the activists who have supported them. Yesterday morning, some of
:25:55. > :26:00.them used sustained violence. walk out with dignity, dignity.
:26:00. > :26:04.Where will you be tonight? Any ideas? I do not even know where I'm
:26:04. > :26:10.going to go. The police and bailiffs operation has been huge
:26:10. > :26:14.and hugely costly. Thousands of man-hours, millions of pounds spent.
:26:14. > :26:19.Today, though, council leaders are satisfied with the progress. It is
:26:19. > :26:21.a shame, obviously, that it did not happen sooner and that we had to go
:26:21. > :26:24.through what we went through yesterday and the previous four
:26:24. > :26:30.weeks to get to where we are today, but it is very encouraging, all the
:26:30. > :26:34.same. Bailiffs are already working on site to remove mobile homes.
:26:34. > :26:37.Travellers are being allowed back to pack up and leave. After all
:26:37. > :26:42.this time, after all of the courtroom delays, after violence
:26:42. > :26:47.and bloodshed, and after millions of pounds spent, this, it seems, is
:26:47. > :26:52.the moment when resistance at Dale Farm comes to an end. But this
:26:52. > :26:55.looks not so much like a problem solved but a problem shifted. The
:26:55. > :27:05.travellers are looking for a new place to park their caravans, and
:27:05. > :27:06.
:27:06. > :27:10.some hope that one day, perhaps Returning at our main story, the
:27:10. > :27:14.capture and death of Colonel Gaddafi in his home city of Sirte.
:27:14. > :27:17.The former Libyan leader first seized power in a bloodless coup
:27:17. > :27:22.back in 1969. He went on to become one of the world's most ruthless
:27:22. > :27:28.dictators. World affairs editor John Simpson looks back now at
:27:28. > :27:33.Gaddafi's life and regime. I cannot leave the honourable soil
:27:33. > :27:39.of my country. I will die a martyr at the end! Many people doubted it,
:27:39. > :27:45.but he did not try to escape. He died as he said he would. It is
:27:45. > :27:50.hard now to remember how glamorous he once seemed to many people. In
:27:50. > :27:55.September 1969, when he seized power, he looks like a symbol of
:27:55. > :27:59.1960s revolutionary chic. He claimed he was just a figurehead
:28:00. > :28:05.and that the Libyan people ran everything through democratic
:28:05. > :28:09.committees, but that was pure fiction. He was the boss, and his
:28:09. > :28:13.secret police terrified everyone into obeying him. This total
:28:13. > :28:18.disconnect between rhetoric and reality was characteristic of the
:28:18. > :28:24.entire Gaddafi system. As a result, it was really hard to interview him,
:28:24. > :28:33.as I first found in 1979. Was Western influence in the Middle
:28:33. > :28:39.East declining, I asked. When? You mean the influence of America?
:28:39. > :28:45.Yes. Disappearing now? When I asked him about all the arms he had given
:28:45. > :28:51.the IRA in Northern Ireland, he simply refused to answer. Some of
:28:51. > :28:57.his supporters were acting like terrorists themselves. In London,
:28:57. > :29:03.in 1984, during the siege of the Libyan embassy, an official inside
:29:03. > :29:07.fired out at the police and killed WPC Yvonne Fletcher. After the
:29:07. > :29:11.bombing of US servicemen in Berlin, which may or may not have been
:29:11. > :29:17.Colonel Gaddafi's work, the US President, Ronald Reagan, ordered
:29:17. > :29:22.the bombing of Libya in 1986. Gaddafi escaped unhurt, but he made
:29:22. > :29:27.immense propaganda out of it all. Libya got the full blame for the
:29:27. > :29:32.Lockerbie bombing, which made Colonel Gaddafi a pariah for years,
:29:32. > :29:36.but a pariah with oil. Libya became more and more corrupt, although
:29:36. > :29:39.Gaddafi still describes himself as a poor better when I insisted on
:29:39. > :29:47.being interviewed in his tent. I asked him about stories that they
:29:47. > :29:55.had been an attempt to kill him. course, it is true! Yes, yes, it
:29:55. > :29:58.has happened, of course. And Britain was behind this attempted
:29:58. > :30:02.assassination. But it was the British and the Americans who were
:30:02. > :30:06.most determined to bring him in from the cold, something which
:30:06. > :30:10.still attracts a lot of criticism. If a country is prepared to say, we
:30:10. > :30:16.want to put the past behind us, we want to give up chemical and
:30:16. > :30:22.nuclear weapons capability, we want to seize power ties with terrorist
:30:22. > :30:28.groups, we should be willing to open up to that. For more than 40
:30:28. > :30:32.years, Colonel Gaddafi seemed like a fixture. Now almost everyone in
:30:32. > :30:40.Libya is celebrating his ball. He will not leave any kind of system