:00:10. > :00:17.Tonight at Ten: Britain and America speak with one voice on Afghanistan,
:00:17. > :00:25.Syria and Iran. At the White House, President Obama and David Cameron
:00:25. > :00:29.try to justify the continued presence in Afghanistan. We want
:00:29. > :00:32.Afghanistan to be able to look after its own security with its own
:00:32. > :00:38.security forces so we are safe at home. But the hardest message is
:00:38. > :00:42.reserved for the Iranians and their nuclear programme. The window for
:00:42. > :00:44.solving this issue diplomatically be shrinking. We will have the
:00:44. > :00:48.latest from Washington on the second day of Mr Cameron's visit.
:00:48. > :00:52.Also tonight: 22 children are among the dead in a coach crash in
:00:52. > :00:59.Switzerland. The families, most of them Belgian, confront the full
:00:59. > :01:06.horror of what happened. Eight children, we do not know what is
:01:06. > :01:15.happening with them. Children have broken legs and arms. Our teacher
:01:15. > :01:18.and hour Monitor, they are dead. More people out of work. It is now
:01:18. > :01:21.2.67 million and women account for most of the increase. The first
:01:21. > :01:25.person to be convicted by the International Criminal Court is a
:01:25. > :01:27.Congolese warlord, who forced children to fight in his army. And
:01:27. > :01:37.Chelsea strike first in their attempt to stay in the Champions'
:01:37. > :01:39.
:01:39. > :01:49.League. Later, on the BBC News Channel, I will be here with the
:01:49. > :02:03.
:02:03. > :02:06.sport, including the Cheltenham Good evening. President Obama has
:02:06. > :02:09.warned the Iranians that time is running out to find a diplomatic
:02:09. > :02:12.solution to the dispute over their nuclear programme. He was speaking
:02:12. > :02:15.at the White House after talks with David Cameron. Those talks also
:02:15. > :02:25.focused on Afghanistan and the likelihood of more troops returning
:02:25. > :02:31.
:02:31. > :02:35.home next year. More details from What went this President do to make
:02:35. > :02:40.his British guests feel at home? The answer, the Prime Minister
:02:40. > :02:46.found today, seems to be almost nothing. The morning after the
:02:46. > :02:50.night at the game before, David Cameron was welcomed by end 19 them
:02:51. > :02:56.salute, thousands of guests on the White House lawn, and cheering
:02:56. > :03:00.English and American schoolchildren. The two leaders joked about the
:03:00. > :03:04.fact that 200 years ago, visiting Brits had tried to burn the White
:03:04. > :03:09.House to the ground. The President even tried to speak English, just
:03:09. > :03:14.like the English do. David come up we're chuffed to bits that you are
:03:14. > :03:19.here. I am looking forward to a great natter. I am confident that
:03:19. > :03:26.together we are going to keep the relationship between our two great
:03:26. > :03:31.nations absolutely top-notch. it special, called it essential,
:03:31. > :03:36.call it what you like. That relationship is the strongest ever,
:03:36. > :03:43.according to Barack Obama. Its backbone, it said, it is the
:03:43. > :03:49.military. This is a relationship between two can choose, two leaders,
:03:49. > :03:54.forged by wars - past, present - and with Israel considering
:03:54. > :03:57.military action against Iran, perhaps future as well. Today's
:03:57. > :04:03.talks may have produced few announcement but beneath this Mars,
:04:04. > :04:13.what these two leaders discussed could scare for a -- scarcely
:04:13. > :04:18.matter more. Starting with how to bring the Afghan war to a close.
:04:18. > :04:24.want Afghanistan to be able to look after its own security with its own
:04:24. > :04:28.security forces so we are safe at home. We have been there for 10
:04:28. > :04:35.years. People get weary. They know of friends and neighbours who have
:04:35. > :04:40.lost loved ones as a consequence of war. No one wants war. The two men
:04:40. > :04:45.confirmed they have examined military options for removing the
:04:45. > :04:50.Syrian President. For now, they're counting on pressure to bring him
:04:51. > :04:56.down. Our teams, all the time, kick the tyres, asked difficult
:04:56. > :05:00.questions, what are the other things we can do? It is right we do
:05:00. > :05:03.that. They are not without difficulties and complications. The
:05:03. > :05:09.focus is a transition and all the things we can do to bring that
:05:09. > :05:15.pressure to bear. Finally, Iran. The nuclear programme must be
:05:15. > :05:24.stopped and not merely contained. He said time was running out.
:05:24. > :05:29.Because we have employed so many of the options that are available to
:05:29. > :05:34.us to persuade Iran to take a diffident -- ate different course,
:05:35. > :05:41.the window for solving this diplomatically is shrinking. It is
:05:41. > :05:47.a daunting agenda for two countries that Barack Obama says stand
:05:47. > :05:53.together, worked together and beat together. This is a visit memorable
:05:53. > :05:59.for its images, its warmth, munching hot dogs at the basketball.
:05:59. > :06:09.What will matter much more is the decisions taken him about how to
:06:09. > :06:11.
:06:12. > :06:17.end one war and the possibility of one, if not two more. On day two of
:06:17. > :06:22.the three-day visit, let's turn to our North America Editor. He is at
:06:22. > :06:28.the White House. Starting with Afghanistan, what did you make of
:06:28. > :06:32.the message? It is about President Obama reassuring Mr Cameron there
:06:32. > :06:36.were not be any silly election-year stance. He will not announce
:06:36. > :06:42.actually the troops are coming home next chip or tomorrow up or later
:06:42. > :06:50.this month was dubbed the Brits are worried about the idea there will
:06:51. > :06:57.be a sudden surprise. -- next year, tomorrow, or later this month. The
:06:57. > :07:02.end date is still 2014. Combat roles change next year but no
:07:02. > :07:08.surprises. The hardest message was aimed very directly at the Iranians.
:07:08. > :07:12.Those men talking very tough, suggesting, get to the table, start
:07:12. > :07:17.talking or else. They mean it. They also agreed in private that they
:07:17. > :07:21.are very worried about Israel taking military action this
:07:21. > :07:27.cheerful stuff that would cause a spike in it while prices and
:07:27. > :07:34.shatter the world economy. -- at this year. That is one of A Macro
:07:34. > :07:41.reason for their tough talking. On Syria, they are agreed that Assad
:07:41. > :07:48.should go. Mr Cameron, you can hear the frustration in his voice. What
:07:48. > :07:55.can we do? What can we looked at next? President Obama says, this is
:07:55. > :08:03.not Libya. Unique to slow down and think this through. He is thinking
:08:03. > :08:06.about his essential ally when he is saying that. The Belgian government
:08:06. > :08:09.has announced there will be a national day of mourning for the 28
:08:09. > :08:12.victims of a coach crash in Switzerland - 22 of them children
:08:12. > :08:15.aged 11 and 12. Six adults, including the two drivers, were
:08:15. > :08:18.also killed. The school party was returning home from a ski holiday
:08:18. > :08:28.in the Swiss Alps when the accident happened last night. The coach
:08:28. > :08:28.
:08:28. > :08:35.crashed into a wall in a road tunnel near Sierre. It has been a
:08:35. > :08:40.truly horrific day. This is peak skiing time in Switzerland. There
:08:40. > :08:45.are lots of school coach parties in the Alps tonight. A lot of parents
:08:45. > :08:51.will be thinking anxiously this could have been a one of their
:08:51. > :08:55.children. Tonight the task of identifying the dead has begun.
:08:55. > :08:59.There is a forensic team from Belgium who will help with that
:08:59. > :09:04.process. Rescue workers have been telling as they were deeply shocked
:09:04. > :09:10.by what they discovered around this time last night in the tunnel
:09:10. > :09:15.behind me. They worked long through the night - searching for the
:09:15. > :09:21.survivors in cramped and traumatic conditions. Embedded in the tunnel
:09:21. > :09:24.wall, the coach, filled with 11 and 12-year-old children. Those who
:09:24. > :09:28.could had already clambered from the wreckage but many of their
:09:28. > :09:36.friends were still trapped inside. 200 emergency workers were called
:09:36. > :09:41.to the scene. There were 12 ambulances and eight helicopters. A
:09:41. > :09:44.pilot helped to fly out the most seriously hurt. He is a seasoned,
:09:44. > :09:51.hardened professional who is struggling to come to terms with
:09:51. > :10:00.what he saw. When we saw the first patients coming out, this was the
:10:00. > :10:07.first horrific moment for us. You could imagine how it would look
:10:07. > :10:11.inside the tunnel. The full horror of the accident was written in the
:10:11. > :10:19.match -- in the wreckage they remove this morning. The front
:10:19. > :10:23.third of the coach was ripped apart. 28 people died, including 22
:10:23. > :10:28.children and both drivers. This is the opposite side of the tunnel.
:10:28. > :10:33.The coach hit the right hand well before it collided head on with a
:10:33. > :10:40.concrete pillar that forms part of the emergency exit. It is unlikely
:10:40. > :10:44.that driver fatigue is to blame. The school party were just over an
:10:44. > :10:50.hour into their return journey. The weather and driving conditions were
:10:50. > :10:55.good. In this tunnel, there is a steep curve. It would throw the
:10:55. > :11:04.steering well if it was hit. That forms part of the investigation
:11:04. > :11:09.which is under way. The victims were from the Mao and Heverlee in
:11:09. > :11:18.Flanders. When the school gates opened, parents were still learning
:11:18. > :11:23.of the accident. Some left for Switzerland without any news at all.
:11:23. > :11:28.We have 24 children hear from our school. Eight children we do not
:11:28. > :11:38.know what is happening with them. All the children have broken legs
:11:38. > :11:42.and arms. Our teacher and hour Monitor, they are dead. Tonight,
:11:42. > :11:47.the families arrive at hospitals where 24 children are still being
:11:47. > :11:52.treated. The Belgian Prime Minister said no words can define the pain
:11:52. > :12:02.the parents must be feeling. He has declared a day of remembrance for
:12:02. > :12:07.the whole country. In the Church of St Peter's in Heverlee, the priest
:12:07. > :12:15.could offer little comfort. It is a small community that Greaves, it is
:12:15. > :12:20.a nation that Maugham's with them. The investigating prosecutor has
:12:20. > :12:26.tonight ruled out speed as a cause of the crash. Date are checking to
:12:26. > :12:32.see if there were any technical problems or they could blame driver
:12:32. > :12:36.error. It is still one of the safest forms of road travel. Less
:12:36. > :12:42.than 1% of fatalities in Europe were through coach crashes. Little
:12:42. > :12:48.comfort for those coming to beat site to see for themselves. Rescue
:12:48. > :12:55.workers said there was no sound in the tunnel. Children were not
:12:55. > :12:58.screaming, there was no shouting, they were numb with what they had
:12:58. > :13:01.experienced. There has been another rise in the number of people out of
:13:01. > :13:06.work. Unemployment increased by 28,000 in the three months to the
:13:06. > :13:09.end of January to 2.67 million. Women are among the hardest hit,
:13:09. > :13:12.making up almost 80% of those who have lost work in the past three
:13:12. > :13:22.months. Ministers say there are signs of the job market stabilising,
:13:22. > :13:23.
:13:23. > :13:29.The jobs market has seemed gloomy, but today there were a few rays of
:13:29. > :13:34.sunshine. Unemployment rose by 28,000 to 2.67 million, the
:13:34. > :13:38.smallest such increase for nearly a year. As for people in work, public
:13:38. > :13:43.sector employment fell by 37,000 in the final three months of last year,
:13:43. > :13:48.but private sector employment, up by 45,000, more than made up for
:13:48. > :13:52.public sector losses. The jobless total and the number in work are
:13:52. > :13:56.both increasing because more people are actively looking for jobs, some
:13:56. > :14:01.having come back from a long-term sickness. The number of women out
:14:01. > :14:04.of work is rising faster than men. Dawn Ryder from Leicester is hoping
:14:04. > :14:08.a recruitment adviser can help after she lost her job as a middle
:14:08. > :14:12.manager with a retail chain. The experience of being unemployed has
:14:13. > :14:17.hit her hard. There so many years, I was used to get in about early
:14:17. > :14:24.hours of the morning and getting into work. Long hours, weekends.
:14:24. > :14:29.And that has now gone. You feel lost. Although I still get up, for
:14:29. > :14:34.what? Some areas of the economy are growing faster than others, and
:14:34. > :14:38.therefore creating more jobs. One example is renewable technology.
:14:38. > :14:42.This construction company is building the foundations for a wind
:14:42. > :14:46.farm, and is taking on more staff. There are fewer public sector
:14:46. > :14:49.contracts going, but the building firm has found other opportunities,
:14:49. > :14:54.like this project in Leicestershire. Last week, it signed up six
:14:54. > :14:58.apprentices. We would not take them on if we did not feel like they had
:14:58. > :15:04.a long-term future here. We took on some apprentices last year, and
:15:04. > :15:09.they are all still here, working on projects. Some experts say this
:15:09. > :15:13.reflects a more optimistic mood in other parts of the economy, to.
:15:13. > :15:17.last couple of months have seen a range of economic data coming out
:15:17. > :15:22.stronger than we had seen before. We are hopeful that that is the
:15:22. > :15:25.start of a gradual recovery. Hopefully, that should be ripped --
:15:25. > :15:29.reflected in data in the second half of the year. But if the
:15:29. > :15:33.Eurozone crisis flares up again and threatens UK Growth, that could
:15:33. > :15:37.change. The ratings agency Fitch has become the latest to one of the
:15:37. > :15:44.possibility of a downgrading the UK's triple-A credit rating, a
:15:44. > :15:47.reminder that the route to economic recovery is far from certain.
:15:48. > :15:52.China needs to embrace political reform of or which risks facing
:15:52. > :15:57.turmoil. The warning comes not from a group of activists, but from the
:15:57. > :16:01.Chinese premier himself. Wen Jiabao says China's leadership system
:16:01. > :16:04.needs to be changed, or the country might face the kind of chaos
:16:05. > :16:08.suffered during the Cultural Revolution. Mr Wen, who is due to
:16:08. > :16:14.step down next year, made the comments in his last major news
:16:15. > :16:21.conference. They are the men who wield enormous
:16:21. > :16:26.power. Over more than 1 billion people. Time a's communist leaders.
:16:26. > :16:32.They divvy up positions among themselves in secret. This year,
:16:32. > :16:35.they must get a new, younger crop. Behind the scenes, factions are
:16:35. > :16:42.vying for position and influence. Today we saw a hint of that
:16:42. > :16:47.struggle. Someone to entrench the party's grip. Wen Jiabao, at his
:16:47. > :16:51.last major press conference after ten years at the top, Mayday case
:16:51. > :16:55.for political reform. TRANSLATION: Reform of our
:16:55. > :16:59.leadership system is urgent. Without it, China's economic gains
:16:59. > :17:05.may be lost and the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution could happen
:17:05. > :17:10.again. He said he might invite people critical of his government
:17:10. > :17:18.to face-to-face talks. This evening in a poor neighbourhood of Beijing,
:17:18. > :17:21.we found some of his critics. On our old, fuzzy TV, they were
:17:21. > :17:25.watching the president on the evening news. They gathered from
:17:25. > :17:30.all over China in the capital to press their complaints about
:17:30. > :17:35.corruption and abuse by Communist officials. Mr Tan's family had
:17:35. > :17:41.their land seized. TRANSLATION: He talked about reform,
:17:41. > :17:46.but gave no timetable. People want democracy and the rule of law.
:17:46. > :17:50.elected used as well do what is best for ordinary people. So we
:17:50. > :17:57.asked, who else wanted to be allowed to elect their leaders?
:17:57. > :18:01.Everyone. But their premier, asked when China's people will be given
:18:01. > :18:05.the vote, said change must be gradual. Wen Jiabao has always been
:18:05. > :18:09.more open to talk about political reform than any of China's other
:18:09. > :18:13.leaders. He may now have an eye on his legacy, how history will view
:18:13. > :18:18.him. But the task of actually changing the way the Communist
:18:18. > :18:23.Party works will fall to its next generation. So this was his
:18:23. > :18:33.swansong, a call for others to bring reforms that he did not push
:18:33. > :18:36.
:18:36. > :18:45.through in his own decade in power. Coming up: plenty of drama at
:18:45. > :18:49.Chelsea as Napoli fought extra time in the Champions League.
:18:49. > :18:52.Some leading scientists are warning that pressure from animal rights
:18:52. > :18:56.activists is reducing the number of animals being brought into the UK
:18:57. > :19:01.for research purposes, including work on new drug treatments for
:19:01. > :19:05.conditions including dementia and leukaemia and Cancer. It has
:19:05. > :19:11.emerged that all ferry companies and all but two airlines have now
:19:11. > :19:15.stopped importing animals. It is one of the most sensitive
:19:15. > :19:20.aspects of science - the use of animals, the only way to develop
:19:20. > :19:24.new drugs, according to scientists, but cruel and pointless according
:19:24. > :19:30.to protesters. Their latest campaign targets the airlines and
:19:30. > :19:33.ferries bringing animals in from abroad. This lad at University
:19:33. > :19:38.College London investigates motor your own disease. Like many, it
:19:38. > :19:42.needs mice with particular genetic traits, which often means importing
:19:42. > :19:48.them, something that is now under threat. If we are hampered doing
:19:48. > :19:54.our job as researchers, people will die unnecessarily because we cannot
:19:54. > :19:57.get to the cures. In addition, this country has a fine pharmaceutical
:19:57. > :20:01.advantage and unless they are supported, they will move. There
:20:01. > :20:05.has to be pressured was British Airways. Seven years ago, it
:20:05. > :20:09.stopped carrying live animals for research. We have only learnt this
:20:09. > :20:13.now. Then the ferry operators followed, refusing to take animals
:20:13. > :20:17.across the Channel. Only a few airlines are still doing the job,
:20:17. > :20:21.but for how much longer? Over the years, some campaigners have
:20:21. > :20:25.resorted to violence. If you have been jailed, but protesters also
:20:25. > :20:30.now use a more subtle strategy, turning to social media to pressure
:20:30. > :20:33.transport companies. Last month, one group urged supporters to leave
:20:33. > :20:39.comments on the Facebook wall of this very company. It is within the
:20:39. > :20:41.law, but highly effective. We have asked our supporters to say,
:20:41. > :20:46.peacefully and politely to the transport companies, that they
:20:46. > :20:49.would prefer to travel with airlines and shipping companies
:20:49. > :20:54.that do not cause suffering to animals. This is a potentially
:20:54. > :20:58.serious threat to Britain's role in research. Just as the Government
:20:58. > :21:03.hopes this kind of work will create new jobs. Some ministers have a
:21:03. > :21:07.struggle on their hands. We have been trying to bring together the
:21:07. > :21:10.leading companies in the life sciences sector, who do need some
:21:10. > :21:14.of these animals, and all of the transport companies, and agree a
:21:14. > :21:18.way forward. So once again, there is a battle of wills over using
:21:18. > :21:22.animals in research. Scientists and the government, pitted against
:21:22. > :21:26.activists. And some very nervous transport companies caught in the
:21:26. > :21:31.middle. The International Criminal Court
:21:31. > :21:34.has filed -- found the Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga guilty of
:21:34. > :21:39.recruiting and using child soldiers. It is the court's first verdict
:21:39. > :21:43.since it was set up ten years ago. Lubanga headed a rebel group during
:21:43. > :21:47.an inter-ethnic conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
:21:47. > :21:50.Africa correspondent Andrew Harding, who reported on the war in eastern
:21:50. > :21:55.Congo at the time, has the story. Clearly prove that children under
:21:55. > :22:02.the age of 15... Of today the International Criminal
:22:02. > :22:07.Court's very first verdict - guilty. Lubanga is responsible as Co
:22:07. > :22:14.perpetrator for the charges off eliciting and conscripting children
:22:14. > :22:20.under the age of 15 into the army. The man in the dock - Thomas
:22:20. > :22:25.Lubanga, once a powerful warlord in central Africa. This was his
:22:25. > :22:31.conflict, eastern Congo in 2003. Child soldiers barely able to carry
:22:31. > :22:36.their guns, the youngest struggling to keep up. Foot soldiers in a
:22:36. > :22:41.tribal bloodbath. At the time, I met boys like 15-year-old May, who
:22:41. > :22:48.said he had been forced to kill after his parents had been murdered.
:22:48. > :22:53.And in the thick of it all, Thomas Lubanga himself. I don't have child
:22:53. > :22:58.soldiers, he insisted. Some of them look younger than they are. It has
:22:58. > :23:04.taken nine years for justice to arrive. Too slow, but still
:23:04. > :23:08.momentous. It is a significantly important decision for the court
:23:08. > :23:12.and for the victims, but it is also further condemnation of a crime
:23:12. > :23:19.committed throughout the region. Today's ruling sets a precedent for
:23:19. > :23:24.Africa. Plenty has changed on this confident in the past decade. But
:23:24. > :23:29.this is still a region that struggles to hold the most violent
:23:29. > :23:38.and the most powerful to account. For example, Uganda's notorious
:23:38. > :23:43.warlord, still wanted for crimes against humanity. A film about his
:23:43. > :23:46.victims by American activists went via all on the internet this week.
:23:46. > :23:53.But is this sort of outside pressure help for, or should Africa
:23:53. > :24:00.be left to solve its own problems now? At the International Court
:24:00. > :24:06.today, endorsement from a familiar celebrity campaigner. Did the
:24:06. > :24:09.victims ask for this? Mr Lubanga will remain in custody. But while
:24:09. > :24:14.Thomas Lubanga could now face life imprisonment, the court is
:24:14. > :24:19.struggling to bring others to justice. Critics say it is too slow,
:24:19. > :24:28.too weak. Still, for Lubanga's many victims, today was a victory in a
:24:28. > :24:31.long struggle Against impunity. A man who admitted concealing his
:24:31. > :24:37.father's body for almost five months after his death in order to
:24:37. > :24:41.claim his benefits has been jailed for three years. Christopher
:24:41. > :24:44.Blackburn had been living at the house in Lancashire with his ten-
:24:44. > :24:50.year-old daughter, telling her that her grandfather was asleep. Police
:24:50. > :24:54.found the body of Guy Blackburn at the property last March.
:24:54. > :24:58.Let's have some football news. It has been a dramatic night for
:24:58. > :25:01.Chelsea in the knockout stages of the Champions League. Tonight, they
:25:01. > :25:09.took on Napoli at Stamford Bridge and needed to overturn a 3-1
:25:09. > :25:13.deficit. Our sports correspondent is there.
:25:13. > :25:17.It was partly as a result of that disappointing defeat and happily in
:25:17. > :25:20.the first leg of this tie that Chelsea decide to sack their former
:25:20. > :25:25.manager, Andre Villas-Boas, a week and a half ago. This was a chance
:25:25. > :25:29.to provide some relief, make-or- break time for Chelsea in what has
:25:30. > :25:34.been a turbulent season for them. It was dramatic, but they prevailed.
:25:34. > :25:39.And then there was one. Chelsea knew only they now flew the flag
:25:39. > :25:44.for England in this season's competition. Some of the squad were
:25:44. > :25:49.playing for their futures. And it was Didier Drogba who headed some
:25:49. > :25:53.hope. Chelsea were halfway there. Roberto Di Matteo were struggling
:25:53. > :25:58.to stand up. Player power appears to be a way of life at Stamford
:25:58. > :26:03.Bridge, and returning captain John Terry soon had his say, Chelsea
:26:03. > :26:08.going through. Napoli responded, their superb finish putting the
:26:08. > :26:13.Italians 4-3 up on aggregate. But back the pendulum swung, Chelsea
:26:13. > :26:18.earning a penalty, Frank Lampard sending a pulsating game into
:26:18. > :26:25.extra-time. The lottery of the penalty shoot-out was looming. But
:26:26. > :26:30.the defenders' -- the defender's stunning strike proved decisive.
:26:30. > :26:34.Chelsea and the Premier League were through.
:26:34. > :26:38.A famous night for Stamford Bridge and for these Chelsea fans, who
:26:38. > :26:43.will be enjoying some huge relief, an opportunity to answer some of
:26:43. > :26:48.the critics the club has endured, and a big relief for English
:26:48. > :26:51.football. It has been a long time since there have been no English