:00:07. > :00:12.Tonight's ten: More bodies are found in the wreck of the Italian
:00:12. > :00:16.cruise ship the Costa Concordia. The news comes as the cap tain
:00:16. > :00:19.peers in court. He could face charges of manslaughter and
:00:20. > :00:29.abandoning his post. The plight of passengers is shown in night vision
:00:30. > :00:35.
:00:35. > :00:40.images, as a new tape reveals the We'll have the latest as the
:00:40. > :00:44.salvage operation is set to begin tomorrow. Also tonight: Ed Miliband
:00:44. > :00:49.provokes more union anger by saying public sector workers should accept
:00:49. > :00:51.pay cuts to protect jobs. leading this party and making the
:00:51. > :00:56.difficult decisions. If people don't like it, I'm afraid it's
:00:56. > :01:02.tough. The extremist cleric Abu Qatada can't be deported from
:01:02. > :01:06.Britain, because of a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
:01:06. > :01:10.All the pre-Christmas sales helped to bring down inflation. The
:01:10. > :01:15.biggest fall for nearly three years. I want anybody out there on TV to
:01:15. > :01:19.know it, I am the greatest. Still the greatest - worldwide tributes
:01:19. > :01:23.as Mohammed Ali celebrates his 70th birthday.
:01:23. > :01:27.In sport on the BBC News Channel: England need quick wickets on day
:01:27. > :01:37.two of the first test against Pakistan, after an inspired
:01:37. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:53.Good evening. Another five bodies have been discovered in the wreck
:01:53. > :01:59.of the Italian cruise ship which ran aground on Friday night. It's
:01:59. > :02:03.thought there are still 24 people unaaccounted for. As the captain
:02:03. > :02:07.appeared in court on suspicion of multiple manslaughter, an audio
:02:07. > :02:14.tape emerged in which port officials can be heard ordering him
:02:14. > :02:19.to return to the ship to oversea the -- oversee the evacuation.
:02:19. > :02:25.In the darkness, scared and disorientated, they moved in their
:02:25. > :02:29.hundreds, down the side of the ship, each one dwarfed by the Costa
:02:29. > :02:35.Concordia as it lay listing. Past the cash in the ship's hull, where
:02:35. > :02:38.the water flooded in. At round about the same time, this
:02:38. > :02:48.astonishing conversation was taking place between the ship's captain
:02:48. > :03:26.
:03:26. > :03:31.And here is the captain, Francesco Schettino, the focus of police
:03:31. > :03:35.inquiries, man handled from court today, he's now under house arrest.
:03:35. > :03:43.Many here believe it was his actions alone that caused this
:03:43. > :03:49.disaster. His lawyer says not. captain defended his role on the
:03:49. > :03:52.direction of the ship after the collision, which in the captain's
:03:52. > :03:57.opinion saved hundreds if not thousands of lives. They blew small
:03:57. > :04:03.holes in the side of the vessel to get better access. One priority -
:04:03. > :04:07.secure the ship's fuel supply. Inside the ship divers have to
:04:07. > :04:13.struggle through the debris, through the tables and chairs, all
:04:13. > :04:18.that remains of this supposed trip of a lifetime. From above, it
:04:18. > :04:24.looked peaceful today, but inside, in the darkness, bodies still float
:04:24. > :04:29.along flooded corridors. We've just been told that they've discovered
:04:29. > :04:35.five more bodies inside the ship, four men and a woman. Although the
:04:35. > :04:38.rescuers here say that they still hope to find survivors, that is now
:04:38. > :04:44.looking increasingly unlikely. More than 20 people are still believed
:04:44. > :04:50.to be missing. Among them Gerry and Barbara Hyle, a retired couple,
:04:50. > :04:55.parents of four from Minnesota. And five-year-old Dianna Arlotti, her
:04:55. > :05:02.father, who failed to make it ashore, had taken her on the cruise
:05:02. > :05:07.as a special treat. And somewhere, in the cold, dark vastness of this
:05:07. > :05:12.ship, she's waiting to be found. Rescue teams returned this evening,
:05:12. > :05:18.no sign of survivors. Another anxious, sleepless night for the
:05:18. > :05:21.families of the missing. Matthew Price with that report there.
:05:22. > :05:25.Now the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, says that public sector workers
:05:25. > :05:29.should be prepared to take cuts in their pay, if it's necessary, to
:05:29. > :05:33.save their jobs. His previous support for a cap on public sector
:05:33. > :05:37.pay had already infuriated the unions, with one union leader
:05:37. > :05:39.saying Labour's stance would lead to certain election defeat. Mr
:05:39. > :05:43.Miliband has been explaining his approach to our political editor,
:05:43. > :05:48.Nick Robinson. Is he fighting the Government's
:05:48. > :05:51.cuts or backing them? That's the question the unions are now asking,
:05:51. > :05:55.after Ed Miliband backed cuts to public sector pay. Today, the
:05:55. > :06:00.leaders of two of the biggest unions turned on him, in a leaked
:06:00. > :06:05.letter the GMB's Paul Kenny's said it's the most serious mistake they
:06:05. > :06:09.could have made. The Tories must be rubbing their hands with glee. Len
:06:09. > :06:13.McCluskey wrote, "It seems we'll now be fighting the Labour
:06:13. > :06:16.frontbench as well as the Government." I say prioritise jobs
:06:16. > :06:20.over pay. You know it's happening in businesses all round this
:06:20. > :06:24.country, Nick. Employers, working with unions often, are making those
:06:24. > :06:27.difficult decisions to say, well, we're going to have lower pay rises.
:06:27. > :06:32.We'll have a stall in pay to protect the workforce. That's what
:06:32. > :06:35.people are experiencing. That's what local councils are doing.
:06:35. > :06:39.Miliband's local Labour-controlled Council in Doncaster haven't just
:06:39. > :06:43.frozen pay, they've cut it by 4% for staff not working in schools,
:06:43. > :06:49.earning more than �15,000 a year. Up until now, he's refuelsed to
:06:49. > :06:55.comment on the idea of pay cuts to save jobs. But today he did. Would
:06:55. > :06:59.you urge public sector workers agree to pay cuts to save jobs?
:06:59. > :07:03.We're talking about a pay increase limited to 1%. Absolutely. The
:07:03. > :07:07.priority now has to be to preserve jobs. That's a recognition that
:07:07. > :07:11.everybody would see, all round the country. We've got to do everything
:07:11. > :07:17.we can to preserve employment. This Labour Party is going to face up to
:07:17. > :07:21.the difficult choices swre to make. In his Doncaster constituency there
:07:21. > :07:24.are worries about the gnaw proch of their man in Parliament. Labour --
:07:24. > :07:28.this new approach of their man in Parliament. Labour should be
:07:28. > :07:32.fighting tooth and nail to make sure the cuts don't happen. They
:07:32. > :07:36.are supposed to be for the working class people. They're not at the
:07:36. > :07:40.minute I don't think. The Labour leader stands accused of abandoning
:07:40. > :07:45.those who opposed the cuts, who he marched with and spoke to last year.
:07:45. > :07:49.Tough, he says. I'm leading this party and making the difficult
:07:49. > :07:53.decisions F people don't like it, I'm afraid it's tough. I think
:07:53. > :07:57.there are people out there who are confused - are you against the
:07:57. > :08:02.Government's cuts or are you now saying that you're in favour of
:08:02. > :08:06.them? We oppose the cuts now, but it would be irresponsible three
:08:06. > :08:11.years from a general election, for us to start making specific
:08:11. > :08:15.promises about what cuts we would reverse. Tough choice number one -
:08:15. > :08:22.pay cuts. The question is : Will it prove too tough for his party to
:08:22. > :08:26.swallow? The European Court of Human Rights
:08:26. > :08:30.has ruled that a Muslim cleric, once described as Osama Bin Laden's
:08:30. > :08:33.right-hand man in Europe, can't be deported to Jordan. It ruled that
:08:33. > :08:37.Abu Qatada would not receive a fair trial if evidence obtained by
:08:38. > :08:41.torture was used against him. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, said
:08:41. > :08:45.that he will remain in custody while the Government considers its
:08:45. > :08:49.options. Our home affairs correspondent, June Kelly, has more
:08:49. > :08:52.details. Abu Qatada has been described as a
:08:52. > :08:58.truly dangerous individual and is said to have advocated killing Jews
:08:58. > :09:03.and attacking Americans. In a BBC interview in the weeks after 9/11,
:09:03. > :09:07.he praised Osama Bin Laden. TRANSLATION: Bin Laden, in the
:09:07. > :09:12.image I have of him, that is the image of a Muslim man who defends
:09:12. > :09:18.the causes of his nation against its enemies. It should be supported
:09:18. > :09:23.by every Muslim. I would describe Abu Qatada as an individual who
:09:23. > :09:30.poses a very significant threat to the United Kingdom. I base that on
:09:30. > :09:36.a number of reasons, not just material that in the public domain.
:09:36. > :09:39.In his native Jordan he's been convicted of involvement in two
:09:39. > :09:42.terrorist plots. Today the European Court said there was a real risk
:09:42. > :09:46.that evidence obtained by torture in these cases would be used
:09:46. > :09:49.against him and that's why he should not be sent back there.
:09:49. > :09:53.have the European Court of Human Rights saying that it know that's
:09:53. > :09:58.torture takes place in Jordan. It understands that the evidence that
:09:58. > :10:01.would be put if front of a court for a trial, for Abu Qatada, would
:10:01. > :10:05.be potentially the product of torture, so he shouldn't be
:10:05. > :10:08.returned because he won't get a fair trial. Seven years ago, the UK
:10:08. > :10:11.signed an agreement with the Jordanians under which they
:10:11. > :10:17.promised that terrorist suspects, returned to them, would not be ill
:10:17. > :10:21.treated. The European Court has accepted these assurances that Abu
:10:21. > :10:25.Qatada himself would not have been tortured. It's this part of today's
:10:25. > :10:30.judgment which concerns Human Rights Act vists and which is seen
:10:30. > :10:33.as legally significant. They've left the way open for future
:10:33. > :10:37.deportations and extraditions even where there would be otherwise
:10:37. > :10:43.strong grounds to think the person would be tortured. When it comes to
:10:43. > :10:46.Abu Qatada for the immediate future, he'll be staying here at Long
:10:46. > :10:49.Lartin stop Stuart jail in Worcestershire. For a decade now
:10:49. > :10:53.Abu Qatada has been locked in a battle with ministers here at the
:10:53. > :10:56.Home Office as they have sought to detain and deport him. Today the
:10:56. > :10:59.Home Secretary, Theresa May, said she was disappointed by the
:10:59. > :11:02.European ruling, but stressed this was not the end of the road and
:11:02. > :11:07.said the Government would be considering all the possible legal
:11:07. > :11:12.options. An appeal to Europe's highest court could be one avenue.
:11:12. > :11:19.But in the legal saga surrounding Abu Qatada, the options for the
:11:19. > :11:23.Government are diminishing. More than 4,000 jobs in the Army,
:11:23. > :11:29.RAF and navy are to go in a second round of cuts. Ministers say that
:11:29. > :11:35.they're necessary to try to balance the defence budget. The Army will
:11:35. > :11:41.lose 2,900 posts. The RAF would lose 1,000. While the navy would
:11:41. > :11:45.suffer a loss of 300 jobs. The bulk of today's losses will be felt by
:11:45. > :11:50.the Gurkhas. They'll see 400 job losses in a brigade which is 3,500
:11:50. > :11:54.strong. Cheaper petrol and pre-Christmas
:11:54. > :11:57.sales in the shops have contributed to the biggest fall in the rate of
:11:57. > :12:02.the inflation for nearly three years. The consumer prices index
:12:02. > :12:05.dropped to 4.2% in December from 4.8% the previous month. The figure
:12:05. > :12:09.is still well above the Government's target of 2%, but it
:12:09. > :12:12.is expected to continue falling in the coming months. Our chief
:12:12. > :12:18.economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, reports now.
:12:18. > :12:23.The cost of living was accelerating, inflation hit 5.2% as recently as
:12:23. > :12:27.last September. Since then it's been falling back and after a shop,
:12:27. > :12:31.dropped to 4.2% in December. Here's one of the reasons. Debenhams and
:12:31. > :12:34.most retailers have been cutting prices to try to bring in customers.
:12:34. > :12:38.And the company says with consumers facing another challenging year,
:12:38. > :12:42.more discounts are likely. It is a difficult environment. There's a
:12:42. > :12:46.cautious outlook from a consumer point of view and as a retailer. As
:12:46. > :12:50.such, prices will be coming down through a range of promotional
:12:50. > :12:56.activity that we have planned throughout 2012. A key factor in
:12:56. > :13:01.December was clothing and footwear prices down 2.8% on the month.
:13:01. > :13:06.Alcohol and tobacco fell by 1.5% over the same period. Shoppers were
:13:06. > :13:10.paying more for food and soft drinks, up 1.4% last month.
:13:10. > :13:14.Inflation may be coming down but it's well above average pay rised
:13:14. > :13:19.and more than double the Bank of England's target rate of 2%, so
:13:19. > :13:23.consumers may not feel like celebrating just yet. Some may feel
:13:23. > :13:29.their budgets are still under severe pressure. Do you fancy a
:13:29. > :13:33.snack? Gary Stonehouse knows all about the squeeze on the family
:13:33. > :13:36.budget caused by cost of living increases. He's reduced what he
:13:36. > :13:42.spends on holidays and trips with the children. We've really had to
:13:42. > :13:48.start cutting back in the last year or so, where we've noticed a big
:13:48. > :13:57.increase in the cost of everything, where we've had to look at how much
:13:57. > :14:00.we're spending because the money's They will be quietly satisfied here
:14:00. > :14:04.at the Bank of England, falling inflation makes it easier to
:14:04. > :14:09.justify pumping out more money to boost the economy, if the bank
:14:09. > :14:11.wants to do that. It certainly opens the door for the the Bank of
:14:11. > :14:15.England to print more money to stimulate the economy again. Many
:14:15. > :14:18.are expecting the bank to be printing more money in February, to
:14:18. > :14:20.announce more measures there, it looks like these numbers are
:14:20. > :14:24.playing in line with what they were expecting.
:14:24. > :14:27.Some energy companies announced price cuts last week, that should
:14:27. > :14:35.help bring inflation down further, which is what most economists
:14:35. > :14:39.expect over the next few months. Coming up tonight: The birthday
:14:39. > :14:43.tribute to the man who is still known as The Greatest. I am going
:14:43. > :14:45.to prove I am the greatest, I am going to prove to you I am the
:14:45. > :14:50.greatest, I am going to prove to the world I am the greatest. This
:14:50. > :14:59.is my last fight! Please come to the theatres! I am going to eat raw
:14:59. > :15:01.meat and train and get get ready. The editor of The Sunday Times has
:15:01. > :15:04.admitted that one of his journalists called Abbey National
:15:04. > :15:09.pretending to be Gordon Brown to obtain details about the former
:15:09. > :15:12.Prime Minister's finances. John Witherow confirmed that the paper
:15:12. > :15:18.blagged information from the bank, but he argued that the story was in
:15:18. > :15:21.the public interest. He was one of the figures giving evidence today
:15:21. > :15:26.to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards. The editor of Private
:15:26. > :15:34.Eye, Ian Hislop, also appeared, as Nicholas Witchell reports.
:15:34. > :15:40.He is best known for the TV quiz have I got news for you, for 25
:15:40. > :15:44.years he has been editor of Private Eye, exposing theantics of the rich
:15:44. > :15:48.and powerful, today he came to the Royal Courts of Justice where he
:15:48. > :15:51.has often been sued as libel, not as a defendant but as a witness.
:15:51. > :15:55.The first witness today is Mr Ian Hislop. He told the inquiry that
:15:55. > :16:02.News International had felt it was untouchable over phone hacking,
:16:02. > :16:05.partly because of the unhealthy proximity between press Barons and
:16:06. > :16:10.leading politicians. If you are the editor of a Murdoch paper and see
:16:10. > :16:14.the Prime Minister is organising a slumber party for the proprietor's
:16:14. > :16:18.wife at Chequers. Oh, presumably that gives you unbounded confidence
:16:18. > :16:23.to do whatever you like. Or if the Prime Minister appoints an ex-News
:16:23. > :16:28.of the World editor to be his communications director, you must
:16:28. > :16:32.think well, we're top of the pile. What could stop us? From The
:16:32. > :16:34.Guardian, the paper which broke the phone hacking story came its editor,
:16:34. > :16:40.Alan Rusbridger. He said that the Metropolitan Police had tried to
:16:40. > :16:45.persuade him not to run the story. There were two occasions where very
:16:45. > :16:49.senior Met officers came to see me in effect to try to talk me out of
:16:49. > :16:57.the story. From the Sunday Times came its editor, John Witherow, he
:16:57. > :17:00.was asked about the subterfuge used by the paper to obtain details of
:17:01. > :17:05.Gordon Brown's finances. someone on your behalf pretend to
:17:05. > :17:10.be Mr Brown to blag that information? Yes. He said the story
:17:10. > :17:13.had clearly been in the public interest. With one exception, all
:17:13. > :17:19.the national newspaper editors have given evidence now and all of them
:17:19. > :17:23.in their different ways have been opposed to the idea of new laws
:17:23. > :17:33.which try to curb the way the press behaviours -- behaves. Tomorrow the
:17:33. > :17:34.
:17:34. > :17:36.inquiry moves on to celebrity magazines and regional newspapers.
:17:36. > :17:39.The coalition Government has narrowly avoided defeat in the
:17:39. > :17:42.House of Lords on changes to the benefit system. Disability living
:17:42. > :17:47.allowance is received by around two million people, but ministers want
:17:47. > :17:51.to reduce spending on it by 20%, by changing the rules. Our deputy
:17:51. > :17:55.political editor, James Landale, is in parliament tonight.
:17:55. > :18:00.Does this mean that the controversial set of reforms is on
:18:00. > :18:04.its way through? Not quite yet. The Bill is having and continues to
:18:04. > :18:07.have a rough time in the House of Lords. Last week the Government
:18:07. > :18:11.suffered three big defeats over plans to cut sickness benefit.
:18:11. > :18:15.Tonight the focus was on disability lifing allowance. The Government
:18:15. > :18:18.wants claimants to be assessed more rigorously and often. That could
:18:18. > :18:24.mean cuts for up to half a million people and they are cuts that
:18:24. > :18:28.opponents say are unfair and are being rushed. Tonight they tried to
:18:28. > :18:32.delay this measure. They didn't get the numbers out, so they lost by 16
:18:32. > :18:36.votes. But the Government's not out of the woods yet. There's a big
:18:36. > :18:41.vote next week on plans to limit the amount of money that any one
:18:41. > :18:45.family can claim in benefits each year, about �26,000. That's a vote
:18:45. > :18:49.the Government could lose. The key point is this: Ministers appear
:18:49. > :18:52.willing to have this fight. Yes, they may be criticised by people
:18:52. > :18:54.losing benefits, they may have trouble in the House of Lords, but
:18:55. > :18:58.Ministers believe that more people out there believe they're right,
:18:58. > :19:06.that the welfare Bill is too big and it must be cut and they
:19:07. > :19:09.certainly seem determined to do that. Thank you.
:19:09. > :19:12.Italy's Prime Minister, Mario Monti, will meet David Cameron in Downing
:19:13. > :19:15.Street tomorrow for talks on the euro debt crisis. Mr Monti, who was
:19:15. > :19:17.appointed to the job without an election after Silvio Berlusconi
:19:18. > :19:22.resigned, will arrive just days after his country's own credit
:19:22. > :19:25.rating was downgraded. Our Europe editor Gavin Hewitt looks at the
:19:25. > :19:32.risks of budget cuts at a time when the Italian is economy is slowing
:19:32. > :19:38.down sharply. Head to Rome and witness one of the
:19:38. > :19:45.big battles of the eurozone crisis. Italy is a country with large debts,
:19:45. > :19:50.120% of GDP. It has fallen to this man, Prime Minister Mario Monti, to
:19:50. > :19:56.make budget cuts of 20 billion euros. He is Silvio Berlusconi's
:19:56. > :20:01.successor, and unelected. In this country petrol taxes have gone up.
:20:01. > :20:05.The retirement age for women is up, pensions frozen and Mario Monti's
:20:05. > :20:10.economics team know austerity is a risk, when it shreu heading into
:20:10. > :20:14.recession. Do you accept there are risks involved in this austerity
:20:14. > :20:18.programme at this time? Yes, I do. You do. It will be a nonsense to
:20:18. > :20:22.say there are not. So it's obviously true that the squeeze we
:20:22. > :20:25.are doing on disposable income of houses is putting them under stress
:20:25. > :20:29.but they will be under much higher stress if permanent income had been
:20:29. > :20:35.killed by some troubles in the the financial market. Away from the
:20:35. > :20:40.capital, and that risk is immediately apparent in places like
:20:40. > :20:49.Rieti. Factories threatened with closure, workers outside,
:20:49. > :20:55.unemployment rising. These are among those laid off. I don't know
:20:55. > :21:02.what future I am able to give to my daughters because we have two
:21:02. > :21:07.daughters, and actually we don't work so they have to stop study.
:21:07. > :21:13.Even successful companies, like this one making solar panels, fear
:21:13. > :21:19.the impact of austerity at this time. The need to reduce spending
:21:19. > :21:25.by Government is jeopardising somewhat even the healthy parts of
:21:25. > :21:30.the industry. Italy is trying to ignite growth by opening up closed
:21:30. > :21:33.professions, from taxi drivers to pharmacists, but it's meeting
:21:34. > :21:38.resistance. TRANSLATION: We are willing to change but we
:21:38. > :21:42.want a real opportunity for work, not just splitting every job we do
:21:42. > :21:46.between two people, or there is a risk both of us will lose out.
:21:46. > :21:51.drivers went on a wildcat strike today. The Government has accepted
:21:51. > :21:56.there could be a backlash against its plans. It didn't help that the
:21:56. > :22:00.bank of Italy said the economy would contract by almost 1.5% this
:22:00. > :22:05.year. So, Italy finds itself locked into
:22:05. > :22:09.a gamble. Even a senior official at the IMF warned that embracing
:22:09. > :22:19.austerity at a time of recession risks countries being dragged into
:22:19. > :22:21.a spiral of collapsing confidence. Earlier this evening, the Duke of
:22:21. > :22:24.Edinburgh carried out his first official engagement since his
:22:24. > :22:26.treatment over Christmas for a heart condition. A warning that
:22:26. > :22:28.there's some flash photography in the images coming up.
:22:28. > :22:33.The Duke, who's 90, attended a fundraising dinner at Cambridge
:22:33. > :22:43.University. He was successfully treated after suffering chest pains
:22:43. > :22:46.
:22:46. > :22:51.on Christmas Eve. His fighting record of 56 wins, 37 knockouts and
:22:51. > :22:56.five losses speaks for itself. In retirement, his dignified bearing,
:22:56. > :23:04.despite the onset of Parkinson's disease has easterned him even
:23:04. > :23:10.greater respect around the world, today, Muhammad Ali was marking his
:23:10. > :23:14.70th birthday. David Bond reports. Muhammad Ali and his pomp, fast,
:23:14. > :23:20.brave and brash. Even in the early days before he was world champion,
:23:20. > :23:25.it was clear he was different. Happy birthday to you...
:23:25. > :23:29.This is Ali at 70, back in Louisville, Kentucky, to celebrate
:23:29. > :23:33.his birthday this weekend. Physically diminished by
:23:33. > :23:38.Parkinson's disease, but still displaying the same courage.
:23:38. > :23:43.Courage is only part of the legend. He won the world title three times
:23:43. > :23:47.and confirmed his place in boxing folklore with epic contests like
:23:47. > :23:54.The Rumble in The Jungle, but he was also an entertainer. One more
:23:54. > :23:58.time who is the champ of the world? I can back up every word and I want
:23:58. > :24:03.everybody out there to know it. My only fault is I don't realise how
:24:03. > :24:08.great I really am. Not everyone saw the funny side.
:24:08. > :24:13.His conversion to Islam and support for civil rights activists like
:24:13. > :24:18.Malcolm X, divided opinion. His refusal to fight in Vietnam was
:24:18. > :24:23.equally controversial. The world needs a lot more Muhammad Alis to
:24:23. > :24:28.be outspoken, tell it as it is and brave. He had the package, he was
:24:28. > :24:33.the boss. He was the King. It's now more than 30 years since
:24:33. > :24:38.Muhammad Ali retired from the ring. And yet, he is still an
:24:38. > :24:43.inspirational figure to anyone in boxing. At 70 remains the greatest
:24:43. > :24:47.sporting icon of our age. Young boxers are still in awe of
:24:47. > :24:53.him. For this group from a club in south London watching just a few
:24:53. > :24:59.minutes of a classic Ali fight is enough to leave them mesmerised.
:24:59. > :25:04.is one of the biggest icons in boxing. He inspires loads of people.
:25:04. > :25:11.I might get a chance to watch some of his fights and pick up so much
:25:11. > :25:16.straightaway. Lighting the Olympic flame in at at -- at la at that in
:25:16. > :25:23.96 showed the world his determination. It took guts to
:25:23. > :25:31.carry that flame up that ramp. The courage that he showed as an older
:25:31. > :25:39.man struggling with Parkinson's was a different kind of, and perhaps a
:25:39. > :25:42.greater courage, than he showed as a young man. Moment Ali has spent
:25:43. > :25:50.his lifetime defying expectations. His 70th birthday is another
:25:50. > :25:56.example of why he remains for many The Greatest.
:25:56. > :26:03.Just time for a quick update on our main story, the Italian cruise ship
:26:03. > :26:06.and operations going on there. Our correspondent is on the island of
:26:06. > :26:12.Giglio. We were talking about a salvage operation, does that mean
:26:12. > :26:16.they've completed the search? quite, but rescue officials have
:26:16. > :26:20.told us that they have almost inspected all of the ship that
:26:20. > :26:26.remains above the water line. There is still a lot they haven't managed
:26:26. > :26:30.to inspect below the water line. I spoke today to specialist cavers,
:26:30. > :26:33.divers who are experienced who have been brought in and they have been
:26:33. > :26:37.talking about the very difficult and dangerous conditions they're
:26:37. > :26:42.working in, going down narrow corridors in almost total darkness,
:26:42. > :26:46.feeling their way past the objects floating. I think that search will
:26:47. > :26:50.take a long time to complete. I think the main message coming out
:26:51. > :26:54.of here this evening is that really the hope of finding more survivors
:26:54. > :26:57.is fading quickly indeed. The salvage teams are expecting to
:26:57. > :27:01.start work tomorrow. I spoke to the representative from the company
:27:01. > :27:05.that is dealing with the fuel problem, trying to get that off the
:27:05. > :27:10.ship. The good news from here he doesn't think there is danger of
:27:10. > :27:12.fuel leaking into the water. Then this complex question of how on
:27:12. > :27:19.earth you begin to think about moving this ship.