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Vincent Tabak begins a life sentence for the murder of his | :00:04. | :00:10. | |
neighbour, Joanna Yeates. After the verdict, police reveal how Tabak | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
lived a lie to try to cover his tracks. Joanna's family say they | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
never doubted she had been murdered. The police say her killer was | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
clever and cunning. Vincent Tabak is an intelligent and manipulative | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
man, a man who killed Jo and then had the presence of mind to dispose | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
of the body and evidence linking him to her flat. We'll be looking | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
at how the police built their case against Vincent Tabak. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Also tonight: Royal succession moving with the times. Commonwealth | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
leaders say daughters should get the same rights to the throne as | :00:43. | :00:52. | |
sons. Put simply, if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were to have a | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
little girl, that girl would one day the Queen. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
The boardroom bonanza: How company directors' pay jumped by almost 50% | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
last year, despite the downturn. And the painstaking and expensive | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
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task of restoring Moscow's Bolshoi Coming up, Chelsea pay for their | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
misconduct last weekend while the John Terry continues. And Chelsea | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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are fined for failing to control Good evening. A Dutch engineer, | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
Vincent Tabak, is beginning a life sentence tonight after a jury found | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
him guilty of murdering his neighbour, Joanna Yeates, in her | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
flat in Bristol. Her body was found on Christmas Day last year. Today, | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
police revealed how DNA found on her helped convict him. Detectives | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
called Tabak cunning and manipulative and said it took | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
months of painstaking police work to bring him to justice. Joanna | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Yeates's family said they regretted that he wouldn't face the death | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
penalty. Jon Kay is in Bristol tonight. | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
From the moment Jo Yeates was reported missing from her flat last | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
Christmas, this became one of the most closely followed and high- | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
profile criminal investigations in recent years. The police received | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
more than 3,000 phone calls from members of the public, and took | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
more than 1,000 potential witness statements, but tonight, one man, | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
Vincent Tabak, is in prison beginning a life sentence and we | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
can finally give you more information that the jury wasn't | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
told about his life. Standing in the shadows, the quiet | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
neighbour nobody suspected. And when Vincent Tabak returned from | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
his Christmas holiday abroad, he thought he had got away with murder. | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
Two weeks earlier, he had used his car to dump the body of July they | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
Yates after killing her in the Victorian mansion block where they | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
lived -- to dump the body of Jo Yeates. He rented the flat on the | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
left with his girlfriend, Tanja Morson. Jo Yeates leave to in the | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
flat on the right with her boyfriend, Greg Reardon. On 17th | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
December, they were both home alone. Jo's parents chose not to be in | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
court for the verdict but they now know that their daughter was | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
murdered by her next-door neighbour, strangled by a man who had viewed | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
internet pornography featuring violence towards women. We so miss | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
hearing her happy voice. family's statement was read by a | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
police officer. We saw no emotion or remorse or regret for what he | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
did to Jo. We felt that all emotion expressed by him was false. All we | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
heard were words of self pity. For us, it is with regret that capital | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
punishment is not a possible option for his sentence. The best we can | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
hope for him is that he spent the rest of his life incarcerated, | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
where his life is a living hell. Yeates had been out for drinks | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
after work and then walked home, stopping on the way to buy pizza. | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
Only Vincent Tabak knows what happened then but within minutes of | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
her getting home, he was in her flat and she was dead. He told the | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
court he had misread the signals, that he had gone to kiss Miss | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Yeates and when she screamed, he had held her neck to stop the noise, | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
but the jury decided he had killed her intentionally, that it was a | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
sexually motivated murder. As he sentenced Tabak to life | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
imprisonment, the judge described him as very dangerous. Vincent | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Tabak is an intelligent and manipulative man. A man who killed | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
Jo and then had the presence of mind to dispose of the body and | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
evidence linking him to her flat. Even Tabak's own legal team | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
described his behaviour after the killing as disgusting. He put her | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
body in the boot of his car and went shopping for beer and crisps. | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
The prosecution said that was a deliberate attempt by a calculating | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
man to create an alibi. While her parents and boyfriend made | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
desperate appeals, her murderer went on holiday. Vincent Tabak | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
headed back to Holland to spend New Year with his family, but secretly | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
he was constantly checking the internet to see if his victim's | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
body had been found, working out how he might evade justice. It was | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
the discovery of Jo Yeates's body at a snowy roadside on Christmas | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
morning that gave the investigation even greater resonance. And at the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
scene, detectives found DNA material, which led to the arrest | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
of Vincent Tabak. His arrest was met with a shot in the small Dutch | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
town where Vincent Tabak was remembered as a shy, academic -- | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
met with shock. I said, Vincent?! He isn't able to do that, no, no. I | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
couldn't believe it. But the Dutchman, who received a PhD in | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
human behaviour, had a secret double life. On his computer, | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
detectives found internet images of men with their hands around women's | :06:42. | :06:51. | |
next, of women tied up in car boots. -- Women's necks. His phone had | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
been used to court escort agencies during work trips away from home. | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
None of that evidence was put to the jury in this case. The judge | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
says it was inadmissible because it was not directly linked to this | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
question of murder, but we know from the police denied that they do | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
intend to question Vincent Tabak about some of the material they | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
have found. -- we know from the police tonight. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Centuries of royal tradition are to be overturned after agreement at | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
the Commonwealth leaders summit that the rules on girls succeeding | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
to the throne should change. It means any first-born daughter of | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
Prince William would become Queen, even if she later had a younger | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
brother. The ban on the monarch and their heirs marrying Roman | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
Catholics will also be lifted. From Perth, Nicholas Witchell reports. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
She is a monarch who has probably never been more respected and is | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
very nearly 60 years into one of the most successful reigns in | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
British history. And yet the coronation in 1953 of Elizabeth II | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
would never have happened if she'd had a younger brother, because for | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
more than a thousand years, the daughters of monarchs have always | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
had to give way to sons, regardless of age. But now that is to change, | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
and for once, the Queen revealed what she thought about equality for | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
women at the opening of the Commonwealth Leaders' Summit. | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
theme this year is women as agents of change. It reminds us of the | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
potential in our societies that is yet to be fully unlocked, and it | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
encourages us to find ways to allow girls and women to play their full | :08:31. | :08:40. | |
part. This is why the politicians are finally changing the laws of | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
succession. The marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton and | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
the prospect of them having children, but changes such as these | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
require the agreement of 15 other countries, the realms where the | :08:50. | :08:58. | |
British monarch is also head of state. There, Prime Ministers met | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
and came to a decision. I'm very pleased to say that we've reached a | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
unanimous agreement on two changes to the rules of succession. First, | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
we will end the male primogenital rule so that in future the order of | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
succession should be determined simply by the order of birth. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
other proposed change would affect people in the line of succession | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
like Prince Harry. They'd no longer be barred from marrying Roman | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Catholics, but it's the potential impact on Prince William and his | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
wife David Cameron highlighted. simply, if the Duke and Duchess of | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Cambridge were to have a little girl, that girl would one day be | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
our Queen. One important thing to note: The changes wouldn't be | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
retrospective, so Princess Anne won't move up the line of | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
succession, but it is historic. It has to be said the changes are | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
complicated. In Britain alone, the centuries old Bill of Rights and | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Settlement will have to be amended, but potentially, they will change | :10:00. | :10:08. | |
the future face of the monarchy. At the Commonwealth Summit, David | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
Cameron also turned his attention to the economic problems across | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
Europe saying he felt a little more optimistic following yesterday's | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
deal to tackle the debt crisis. But he warned the City of London was | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
coming under constant attack from directives from Brussels. He's been | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
speaking to our Political Editor, Nick Robinson. | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
The Right Honourable David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
Kingdom. An X-Factor entrance for the Prime | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
Minister at the Commonwealth Summit and every other leader.... Prime | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
minister of Tonga,... President of Nigeria... Prime Minister of Canada. | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
There are 54 countries in this organisation, covering six | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
continents and a third of the world's population, but it has just | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
one real star. Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, head of the | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
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The Queen calls the Commonwealth she heads "the first worldwide web". | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
It brings together wealthy liberal Democracies with countries that are | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
much less wealthy and much less liberal and democratic too. They're | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
here to see if they can agree on some things that do bind them | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
together - other, that is, than history and Her Majesty. The | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
Queen's visit to Australia is big news here. But the Commonwealth | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
Summit certainly didn't -- isn't. As thousands of miles away, Europe, | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
and the crisis which all the leaders at this summit no could | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
still damage their economies. After a meeting with his Australian host, | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
the Prime Minister told me he was feeling a little more optimistic | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
about the economy than he had been. The eurozone situation is a little | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
better than it was. That was clearly having a chilling effect on | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Britain, so the more progress they make, the better for us. This is | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
all about confidence. People may now say it is time for the British | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
Government to take British measures to get the economy growing again. | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Oh, I accept we have to have the most active growth programme we | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
possibly could. That is in addition to dealing with our debts and our | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
deficit, which absolutely has to be done. David Cameron came here from | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
Brussels. He's worried that when the 17 eurozone countries pull | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
together, they may act against Britain's interests. The City of | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
London is, he says, under constant attack from EU directives. Look, | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
all countries in Europe pursue their national interests. Would the | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
French and the Germans like a larger share of financial services | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
in Paris and Frankfurt? Of course. I want to make sure we keep them in | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
London. That's why we fight very, very hard for our national | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
interests, for jobs, for businesses, for investment. That is what we do | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
in the European Union. The Prime Minister will be in Australia for | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
less than 40 hours. Less time than it takes to fly here and fly back. | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
Next week there is another summit of the G20 in France. Its agenda? | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
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Colonel Gaddafi's son has had in direct contact with the | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
International Criminal Court about his possible surrender, according | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
to its prosecutors. Saif Al-Islam, who is on the run following his | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
father's death, is wanted for crimes against humanity. The ICC | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
chief prosecutor said he would get a fair trial if he surrenders. | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
A man employed by the Roman Catholic Church in Plymouth to | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
safeguard children has been jailed for 12 months for making, | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
possessing and distributing images of child sexual abuse. Christopher | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
Jarvis, 49, had more than 4000 images, some on a church supplied | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
laptop. A slap in the face for millions of | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
British workers on ordinary incomes. That is how the Deputy Prime | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
Minister reacted to new figures showing that the directors of top | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
companies enjoyed a 49% increase in their total pay packages over the | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
last year. The study found that FTSE 100 bosses took home an | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
average of �2.7 million. Today, they defended their pay. Hugh Pym | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
has been looking at the figures. For many workers there is the | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
biggest squeeze on spending power in decades, with low pay rises and | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
higher inflation. Demonstrators have come to the heart of the City | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
of London to protest against the financial system, and now we learn | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
that directors of big companies have seen a pay boost of 49%, | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
including share awards over the last year. Government and | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
opposition were quick to condemn. think it will strike most people as | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
a slap in the face for millions of ordinary British men and women who | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
are struggling to make ends meet. When people are struggling, when | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
the middle is being squeezed, people seeing living standards fall, | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
people will think it is just not fair for those at the top to be | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
seeing on a wave rewards not related to the wealth they have | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
created. In the first year of the new millennium, the median pay | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
package for the leading detectives of top 100 companies was just under | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
�900,000. Median earnings for full- time workers were just under 19,000. | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
By this year, the figure for bosses had soared to 2.7 million, up more | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
than 200%. While the figure for workers, around 26.5, had gone up | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
around 40%. And the index of 100 leading shares is lower than 11 | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
years ago, although there have been ups and downs in between. So how do | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
British boardroom chiefs defend their pay deals? The man who runs | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
the advertising giant WPP took a 17% increase last year. He says in | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
previous years, when things did not go well, his pay fell. You have to | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
look at fixed pay, and have to look at incentives, short-term and long- | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
term, and the Investment I continued to making the company and | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
have done for 26 years. Go back to 2009, there was a substantial | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
reduction. Companies are owned by shareholders and many of them are | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
in the City of London, the big financial institutions. In the past, | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
they have been criticised for not intervening over the issue of | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
directors' pay, but the Government cannot force them to act, or go | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
into battle against boardrooms. Ministers have launched a review | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
with the aim of linking pay more closely to performance. But | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
criticism of big companies over the salaries for bosses, and their | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
bonuses, is nothing new. They have shrugged it off before and this | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
time it may be no different. Coming up: | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
The Bolshoi back in business - a gala performance at its grand | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
reopening in Moscow. India gets a taste of the world's | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
most expensive sport this weekend when it hosts its first ever | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
Formula One Grand Prix. Promoters hope that the event will banish | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
memories of the corruption that marred last year's, north games. | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
The new racetrack and stadium cost �250 million to build. It might not | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
seem much, given that India is now the world's 9th largest economy, | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
but with more than a third of its population living in poverty, some | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
fear that the Grand Prix is just another sign of the gulf between | :17:24. | :17:33. | |
rich and poor. The spin machine is in overdrive. | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
Formula One cars racing through the centre of Delhi. Promoting it as | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
the new sport for a rise in India and its burgeoning middle classes. | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
There is a brand new track and stadium, built on time and on | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
budget. The organisers hope it will erase memories of last year's | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
chaotic Commonwealth Games here. The seats have been selling fast, | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
but even the cheapest are way beyond the pockets of most Indians. | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
India is in the fast lane - that is the message here, ready to host the | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
world's most expensive sport. But is it a sign that India is pulling | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
ahead, or just its wealthy elite? Just the other side of the track, | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
it is a world away from the high- octane glamour and speed of Formula | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
One. Some have done well, getting compensation from the racetrack for | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
their farm land. They have gone on a spending spree on new cars and | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
houses. Can everyone who has received compensation for the track | :18:39. | :18:49. | |
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put up their hands? But it is a lottery. Those with land do really | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
well, those without get nothing. With the land gone, this farm | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
labour now has no worker. He cannot afford to send his children to | :19:01. | :19:10. | |
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school. He says he wishes Formula One had never come to India. But | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
preparations for the multi-million- dollar race are now in top gear, | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
with the owner of India's Grand Prix team saying the country is now | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
in the big league. I don't know why the international media keeps | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
focusing on the poor part of India. Sure, we have poverty, but why | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
don't you focus on what in the actually house? A large middle | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
class, perhaps this but perhaps the size of Europe. A growing per | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
capita income. An aspirational population, very successful. And | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
the market is large enough. country is roaring ahead in many | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
ways. The danger is that it is becoming more and more two Indias, | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
with one being left ever further behind. | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
Ireland's former culture minister is on course to win the Irish | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
presidential election. Michael D Higgins, Labour Party veteran and | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
poet, has won more than 40% of the vote, according to the first | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
official count. Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness came third. | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
The Brown -- the Crown Prosecution Service has asked for more evidence | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
over allegations that the Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, tried to | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
avoid a speeding ticket. Prosecutors have been examining | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
claims that he asked his ex-wife to accept that all the points on his | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
behalf. He has strongly denied the allegations. -- to accept penalty | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
points. Investors in Britain are still | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
digesting the latest deal saved the euro. Many eyes are turning towards | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
China to see whether it will support the EU bail out fund. Today | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
the head of that fund was in Beijing, hoping to persuade | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
investors. If you are looking for money, this | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
is where you find it, Beijing. The economy is booming, cash to spend. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
So is seeking investment capital, it is to communist China that | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
Europe is turning in its hour of need. The head of Europe's bail out | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
fund is here to persuade China to invest in Europe. In my experience, | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
talking to the Chinese authorities, they are interested in finding | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
attractive, solid, safe investment opportunities. Vast export | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
industries selling to the world drive the Chinese economy. Some say | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
the policy of fixing its exchange rate to keep products cheap is | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
unfair. But it earns China huge amounts of cash. A surplus of $540 | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
million every day in the first half of this year, making China's pile | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
of foreign exchange a gigantic 3.2 trillion dollars, about half of | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
which, 1.6 trillion, is invested in America. And about a quarter, $800 | :21:57. | :22:06. | |
billion, is thought to be held in euros. This man's bank invested $30 | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
billion last year, much in Africa. Europe is not China's only option, | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
he says. China has many other choices. We have to weigh each of | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
these choices. Europe is one of those choices. Today, China's | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
leaders were hinting that they will want concessions if they loan money | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
to Europe. There should be less old prejudice, said China's vice | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
Foreign Minister. That may mean opening European markets more to | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
China, or not criticising it for having a cheap currency. Other | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
demands might be that Europe stops criticising China on human rights, | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
or that it lifts the arms embargo in place since the Tiananmen | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
massacre. Certainly, China feels in a powerful position. Europe needs | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
capital for its government and to return to growth. China has plenty | :22:56. | :23:04. | |
of money. After six years of painstaking | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
restoration, the red curtain went up for the first time since 2005 | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
tonight at Russia's world famous Bolshoi Theatre. But returning it | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
to its 19th century imperial splendour has come up quite a price. | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
Daniel Sandford was there for the Bolshoi's grand reopening. | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
It was the Moscow must have ticket of the year, a gala concert to mark | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
the reopening of the city's famous old theatre, where there has been | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
no performance since July 2005. Tonight's concert is the end of a | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
six-year battle to bring the Bolshoi Theatre back to its glory | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
from the time of the tsars. The renovation has cost over half a | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
billion pounds. Moscow's elite was there, among them, former President | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
Mikhail Gorbachev, and the outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev. Many of | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
the Bolshoi's ballet stars were on display, including a principal | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
dancer Maria Alexandra Burke. Between final rehearsals, she gave | :24:08. | :24:18. | |
me a tour of the painstakingly renovated building. | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
TRANSLATION: We all know we have to keep the history and traditions of | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
this place, so this is a very happy moment for us. I have even got | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
tears in my eyes. I am so happy. During the renovation, all of the | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
Soviet emblems, like the hammer and sickle, were removed. And, as ever | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
in modern Russia, the eye-watering cost of the building work brought | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
allegations of corruption. But there was traditional craftsmanship, | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
too. The gold leaf was polished using vodka and squirrels tales. | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
This colour lithograph, made in 1856, shows the theatre in the | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
years are Alexander II was crowned. -- in the year that Tsar Alexander | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
II was Crown. Since then, it has seen Communist Party rallies and | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
survive the Second World War but has managed to keep its reputation | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
as the home of world-class ballet. Some dancers have complained that | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
the restoration has taken the soul out of the theatre, but the | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
resurgent Russian state is hoping it will stand alongside the other | :25:24. | :25:33. | |
great ballet and opera houses in New York, Paris, London and Milan. | :25:33. | :25:40. |