:00:13. > :00:15.Eit I Tonight at Ten: More setbacks for the NATO-led mission in
:00:15. > :00:22.Afghanistan. The Taliban has suspended all talks with the
:00:22. > :00:26.Americans on finding a way ahead. And western forces have been told
:00:26. > :00:28.by the Afghan government to pull back to their bases. Britain says
:00:28. > :00:32.that this does not change the exit strategy.
:00:32. > :00:37.We have to be clear that there is a plan in Afghanistan, to hand over
:00:37. > :00:41.to a capable Afghan army, police and government at the end of 2014.
:00:41. > :00:44.We will do that without a political settlement, or with a political
:00:44. > :00:49.settlement. That is up to the Taliban.
:00:49. > :00:54.We have the latest from Kabul on the response. Also tonight: In
:00:54. > :00:57.Switzerland, the families of children killed in Tuesday's coach
:00:57. > :01:01.accident have been visiting the scene. A review of placing in
:01:01. > :01:04.England and Wales, recommends radical change, including filetness
:01:04. > :01:09.tests. 23 years after the Hillsborough
:01:09. > :01:13.football disaster, secret documents show that one police officer blame
:01:13. > :01:19.drunken Liverpool fans. It is nonsense. The same old story
:01:19. > :01:23.that the Liverpool fans were drunk and ticketless. I was neither.
:01:23. > :01:26.There were thousands and thousands of Liverpool fans there.
:01:26. > :01:33.COMMENTATOR: Manchester United are out of Europe... Manchester United
:01:33. > :01:38.are out of the Europa League to athletica Bilbao.
:01:38. > :01:42.And why Matilda is waltzing away with all of the 234078 nations for
:01:42. > :01:51.the owe lifaway awards. And a record-breaking day at the
:01:51. > :02:01.chelt knack festival as Big Bucks take his fourth World Hurdle. His
:02:01. > :02:10.
:02:10. > :02:14.16th win in a row -- Big Bucks. Good evening. The military mission
:02:14. > :02:19.in Afghanistan, led led by NATO has suffered more sbs today. The
:02:19. > :02:22.Taliban announced it was suspended talks with the American on try to
:02:22. > :02:27.find a way forward, Hamid Karzai called on western forces to pull
:02:27. > :02:33.back to their bases after an American soldier killed 16
:02:33. > :02:37.civilians at the weekend, but David Cameron has told our Political
:02:37. > :02:41.Editor, Nick Robinson, that this will not lead to a change of
:02:41. > :02:48.strategy. It all began here, almost 7,000 miles from Afghanistan. A
:02:48. > :02:53.place where once Twin Towers stood, now a memorial, to the 2,983 who
:02:53. > :02:56.died on a single day. David and Samantha Cameron remember
:02:56. > :03:04.9/11, she was in New York, he in London.
:03:04. > :03:08.For hours, he had no idea whether she was safe.
:03:08. > :03:12.Katherine Wolf was not. Her death and many others remembered today,
:03:12. > :03:18.triggered a war a decade old and not yet over.
:03:18. > :03:23.Do you understand how some people seeing you here may say that so
:03:23. > :03:26.much has been sacrificed for so little? Of course. Britain losing
:03:26. > :03:32.over 400 of our soldiers. It is worth remembering why we are there,
:03:32. > :03:37.this is the right place to remember it. Nearly 3,000 people, including
:03:37. > :03:41.68 67 British nationals died here on 9/11. That terrorism was coming
:03:41. > :03:48.straight out of Afghanistan, Pakistan, that area of the world.
:03:48. > :03:51.But in Afghanistan, today, another setback for hopes of a political
:03:51. > :03:55.solution. The Taliban announced that they were no longer prepared
:03:55. > :04:00.to talk with the United States. The reason, they claimed, not the
:04:00. > :04:05.burning of the coshan, nor the slaughter of 16 civilians by an
:04:05. > :04:08.American soldier, but conditions, they said, were put down by
:04:08. > :04:13.American negotiators. The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, adding to
:04:13. > :04:17.the pressure, telling the US Defense Secretary, to pull all
:04:17. > :04:24.international troops back to their bases. Does it depress you now that
:04:24. > :04:28.the talks between the United States and the Taliban e -- seem to be at
:04:28. > :04:33.an end? We have to be clear to have a plan in Afghanistan, to hand
:04:33. > :04:38.Dover a capable Afghan army, police and government at the end of 2014.
:04:38. > :04:42.We do that with or without a political cementment.
:04:42. > :04:47.Afghanistan has been the substance that has lain beneath the White
:04:47. > :04:50.House splendour. Last night, the Obamas hosted a state dinner,
:04:50. > :04:55.attended by the special relationships, the great and the
:04:55. > :04:58.good. They dined on bias bias bias, they drank on the prays of one
:04:59. > :05:02.leader for another. -- praise.
:05:02. > :05:08.In good times and in bad, he is just the kind of partner you want
:05:08. > :05:13.at your side. I trust him. He says what he does, and he does what he
:05:13. > :05:17.says. I've seen his character. There are three things about Barack
:05:17. > :05:22.that really stand out for me, strength, moral authority and
:05:22. > :05:28.wisdom. He has pressed the re-set button on the moral authority of
:05:28. > :05:37.the entire free world. A conSerb tiv praising Obama's
:05:37. > :05:40.strength, in a country where con sefbtis derive their weakness. It
:05:41. > :05:44.was their predecessors that began the war that started here it is be
:05:44. > :05:48.fitting that David Cameron ends his trip to the United States here.
:05:48. > :05:53.This gaping awe-inspiring black hole, all that is left of one of
:05:53. > :05:57.the two Twin Towers. A reminder of the roots of the war which the
:05:57. > :06:07.Prime Minister and the President are still struggling to end.
:06:07. > :06:13.To find an end, with honour. Well, now, for the latest in Kabul,
:06:13. > :06:18.the response and how they see what has happened today, let's talk to
:06:18. > :06:23.Quintin Sommerville who joins us now. How do you see the impact on
:06:23. > :06:27.the exit strategy pursued by the West? Well, two key parts of that
:06:27. > :06:30.strategy, you know they lie in ruins. The plan was to fight the
:06:30. > :06:34.Taliban on the battlefield and bring them to the negotiating table.
:06:34. > :06:39.They refused to come, because they did not want to speak to Hamid
:06:39. > :06:43.Karzai. They see him as illegitimate, they see him as an
:06:43. > :06:46.American stooge and they refuse to talk with him. The Western
:06:46. > :06:51.diplomats here say that the Taliban will never negotiate with Hamid
:06:51. > :06:57.Karzai, for as long as he is in the presidential palace, there cannot
:06:57. > :07:01.be anything approaching peace talks. The second part was that this was a
:07:01. > :07:05.counterinsurgency, the foreign troops living among the Afghan
:07:05. > :07:15.people, fighting for them and protecting for them. Hamid Karzai
:07:15. > :07:19.has made it clear that foreign troops are no longer welcome.
:07:19. > :07:23.Thank you very much. Now, the authorities in Switzerland
:07:23. > :07:28.say that eight Belgium children who survived the coach accident in the
:07:28. > :07:31.Fernch Alps are being flown home tonight. News came after a day in
:07:32. > :07:36.which many of the parents of the 22 children who have died, visited the
:07:36. > :07:41.crash site. The last year of primary school,
:07:41. > :07:48.and photos of the annual ski trip to the Fernch Alps. Incensible that
:07:48. > :07:53.such a fun holiday could this way. The village here has been welcoming
:07:54. > :07:59.the group for 13 years. In the same hotel in which they stayed, another
:07:59. > :08:04.party was boarding a coach today, the same company, a similar age.
:08:04. > :08:08.The local mountain guide here, saw the children on that last fateful
:08:08. > :08:12.day of their holiday. TRANSLATION: They were clattering
:08:12. > :08:15.through the village, returning from the slopes. In a small village like
:08:15. > :08:19.this one, every child feels like one of your own.
:08:19. > :08:24.The coach crashed at the end of the winding mountain road, on the first
:08:24. > :08:28.stretch of motorway and in the first tunnel. It has been a brutal
:08:28. > :08:32.24 hours for the parents. They left their hotel today for the grim task
:08:32. > :08:37.of identifying the bodies. And then, the crash site where
:08:37. > :08:42.their children had died. We too were taken through the
:08:42. > :08:46.tunnel to the spot where the coach had ploughed head on into a
:08:46. > :08:50.concrete pillar. There were the flowers laid by the families and on
:08:50. > :08:56.the wall the tributes. TRANSLATION: We have identified 19
:08:56. > :08:59.of the 28 victims, says the police manman here, but we are still
:08:59. > :09:02.trying to identify the remaining nine.
:09:02. > :09:05.The cause of the accident is still unknown. The investigation is
:09:05. > :09:08.focused on the postmortem of the driver and what is left of the
:09:08. > :09:12.vehicle. In this hanger, the crash
:09:12. > :09:15.investigators are working through the wreckage to find out why the
:09:15. > :09:19.bus swerved as it did. At the moment, there are more questions
:09:19. > :09:24.than answers. There was no liquid on the road, no
:09:24. > :09:28.ice, no other vehicle involved. The bus was new. Was it the driver who
:09:28. > :09:33.suffered a catastrophic heart attack? Or was it just plain and
:09:33. > :09:38.simple, driver-error? One theory that is emerging is that the driver
:09:38. > :09:43.may have been handling a DVD at the time. If true it will only
:09:43. > :09:47.intensify the grief. There was lots of that tonight at the service of
:09:47. > :09:52.remembrance here in Sierra Leone, the church was packed.
:09:52. > :10:00.-- in sore sore. The church was packed. In the congregation, the
:10:00. > :10:02.policemen, the first toy arrive at the scene. The children prayed, the
:10:03. > :10:06.parents held them closer and they cried.
:10:06. > :10:09.An official report has called for radical changes to the way that
:10:09. > :10:14.police in England and Wales are recuted, promoted and paid. The
:10:14. > :10:18.changes are to include higher educational requirements to join
:10:18. > :10:21.the force, lower starting salaries and Ann newel fitness test for all
:10:22. > :10:26.officers. Some have welcome the plans. The main policing union,
:10:26. > :10:30.called it a deliberate and sustained attack We have this
:10:31. > :10:35.report. They call it, the job, but today's
:10:35. > :10:39.reforms are based on the idea that modern police officers should
:10:39. > :10:42.consider themselves less as blue colour workers and more as educated
:10:42. > :10:47.professionals driven by performance-related pay and
:10:47. > :10:52.stricter fitness regimes. At the start of this new police career,
:10:52. > :10:56.the salaries will be lower. Currently �23,500, the Windsor
:10:56. > :11:00.reforms would see them cut to nds19,000. After all, forces are
:11:01. > :11:06.not short of applicants. Working their way up the pay scales
:11:06. > :11:12.will depend on performance, not on times served. The type of recruits
:11:12. > :11:16.will change. A job with currently no entry requirement, will require
:11:16. > :11:20.higher educational standards. 80 graduates a year will be fast-
:11:20. > :11:25.tracked to higher ranks, inspector and above, without having to pound
:11:25. > :11:32.the beat as a PC. It is a complex environment. It
:11:32. > :11:36.requires the most intellectually able people to have the qualities
:11:36. > :11:40.which are as important as courage, self-control, the ability to assess
:11:40. > :11:44.situations and dealing with people. Dealing with people means chasing
:11:44. > :11:51.them, sometimes. The report concludes that not all officers are
:11:51. > :11:57.as fit as they could be, so there has been fitness tests prescribed.
:11:57. > :12:01.Anyone failing three times, feys a pay cut. Dismissal is an option.
:12:01. > :12:06.Officers on the frontline are having a tough time, the summer
:12:06. > :12:09.riots, the cuts and now the prospect of sweeping reform.
:12:09. > :12:12.Many will see themselves losing tens of thousands of pounds because
:12:12. > :12:16.of the first report and then this one. The police officers need it
:12:16. > :12:19.live. They have certain commitments, they thought they would get certain
:12:19. > :12:23.amounts of pay, that has been slashed.
:12:23. > :12:28.Police chiefs wanted Windsor to go further, but Britain's top
:12:28. > :12:31.policeman made it clear, that he supports the broad thrust of the
:12:32. > :12:36.reforms. When the money is tight, and we
:12:36. > :12:42.have to develop our talent and adapt to a new world. These are the
:12:42. > :12:46.things that we have to in the least consider. It will take a lot of
:12:46. > :12:51.talking and consensus-building, but I'm sure that we can use the ideas
:12:51. > :12:56.to develop the police in the future. One thread has been that the police
:12:56. > :12:59.have had it too easy for too long. One proposal, that they lose the
:12:59. > :13:06.protection that they currently enjoy from being made redundant,
:13:06. > :13:11.but the band that stops them going on strike, that is staying.
:13:11. > :13:17.New evidence suggests that a further 7,000 women in the UK, many
:13:17. > :13:22.have been given sub-standard breast implants, made by PIP. Around
:13:22. > :13:28.47,000 women are now believed to have been given the implants. They
:13:28. > :13:34.are filled with non-medical medical grade silicone. They are known to
:13:34. > :13:39.be caused to rupture. 20 years after the Hillsborough
:13:39. > :13:43.investigation, the BBC has seen documents that shows that the
:13:43. > :13:46.police blame the situation on drunken fans.
:13:46. > :13:52.An official inquiry found that the disaster, which claimed the lives
:13:52. > :14:02.of 96 people was caused by poor crowd control by South Yorkshire
:14:02. > :14:02.
:14:03. > :14:08.It is almost exactly 23 years since the late up a cup semi-final turned
:14:08. > :14:12.to disaster. Fans had gone to watch Liverpool play Nottingham Forest. -
:14:13. > :14:17.- since the FA Cup semi-final. The crash happened after an exit gate
:14:17. > :14:21.was opened on the orders of South Yorkshire Police and fans surged in.
:14:21. > :14:25.The Taylor inquiry blamed a lack of police control. The then Prime
:14:25. > :14:31.Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who toured the ground the next day,
:14:31. > :14:34.seems to have been told another story. Radio 4's World at One
:14:34. > :14:38.programme has seen leaked government documents. In one letter,
:14:38. > :14:42.advisers told Mrs Thatcher about comments made by the then Chief
:14:42. > :14:45.Constable of Merseyside Police, Sir Kenneth Oxford. He is said to have
:14:45. > :14:49.believed that a key factor in causing the disaster was the fact
:14:49. > :14:54.that large numbers of Liverpool fans had turned up without tickets.
:14:54. > :15:04.This was getting lost sight of in attempts to blame the police, the
:15:04. > :15:10.
:15:10. > :15:15.Today, Merseyside Police said it was inappropriate to comment on the
:15:15. > :15:18.contents of the letter. Peter Carney survive the crush at
:15:19. > :15:22.Hillsborough and was upset to hear the police remarks within the
:15:22. > :15:27.government papers. It is absolute nonsense, it is the same old story,
:15:27. > :15:32.that Liverpool fans on that day were drunk and ticketless. I was
:15:32. > :15:36.neither. Thousands of Liverpool supporters were not. The 96 people
:15:36. > :15:40.who died are commemorated here at Anfield. Are their relatives and
:15:40. > :15:44.others have long campaigned for full disclosure of all information.
:15:44. > :15:48.In 2009, the Hillsborough independent panel was created.
:15:49. > :15:52.Today's leaked government documents form just some of thousands of
:15:52. > :15:56.papers that the panel is currently examining. Today, a spokesman said
:15:56. > :16:00.that its work was complex and difficult, and they are expecting
:16:00. > :16:05.to report back in the autumn. Nicholas was 27 when he died at
:16:05. > :16:08.Hillsborough. His mother, Pat, is content to wait for the panel to
:16:08. > :16:12.analyse all the documents, in the hope that the whole story will then
:16:13. > :16:19.emerge. It is like a knife going into your heart and turning all the
:16:19. > :16:26.time. Because it has been such a long time for us. Every so often,
:16:26. > :16:32.these reports, or information comes out. And it is not the whole truth.
:16:32. > :16:35.At Hillsborough, the dead are still remembered. 23 years after
:16:35. > :16:45.Britain's worst ever sporting disaster, many say that the truth
:16:45. > :16:51.
:16:51. > :16:55.Coming up. It is two for sporting on the night! It is a bad night for
:16:55. > :17:05.Manchester City. A joint Manchester United in being knocked out of the
:17:05. > :17:06.
:17:06. > :17:13.More than 8,000 people have died in the Syrian uprising in the past
:17:13. > :17:16.year, during the latest estimates - - according to the latest estimate
:17:16. > :17:21.from the United Nations. One of the victims killed was a 13-year-old
:17:21. > :17:25.boy who was picked up by security forces. His family say he was
:17:25. > :17:29.tortured to death. Our special correspondent has been speaking to
:17:29. > :17:37.his relatives and the report contains some distressing images.
:17:37. > :17:40.It is today a city of funerals, as the regime steps up the campaign
:17:40. > :17:48.against its enemies. Burnt buildings mark the terrain of
:17:48. > :17:53.battle. Yet it was here a year ago that the Syrian people overcame
:17:53. > :18:01.their fear. In Deraa, the first large demonstration against the
:18:01. > :18:07.Assad regime. At this mosque, the focal point of the demonstrations,
:18:07. > :18:13.the cars of the secret police were chased away. Omar, he has asked us
:18:13. > :18:20.to protect his identity, was there. You have that feeling, if you will
:18:20. > :18:26.ask anyone, they will tell you, that time, we got a kind of freedom.
:18:26. > :18:33.But freedom's ecstasy was short. On the same day, the regime hit back.
:18:33. > :18:37.These sisters witnessed its brutality. TRANSLATION: One injured
:18:37. > :18:41.protester fell to the ground. He tried to escape by crawling to
:18:41. > :18:49.safety. But they apprehended him, and beat him up severely with
:18:49. > :18:59.batons. I was watching all of this from my window.
:18:59. > :19:04.
:19:04. > :19:07.The girl's father filmed the But when I saw the level of
:19:07. > :19:10.shooting and killing that we witnessed with our own eyes, we
:19:10. > :19:15.decided to go out and protest against the killing and the
:19:15. > :19:25.detention of children. The mosque became a place of refuge. A
:19:25. > :19:30.makeshift clinic for the injured. Then, on the night of 23rd March,
:19:30. > :19:40.the mosque itself was stormed. Above the gunfire, the cleric's
:19:40. > :19:43.
:19:43. > :19:51.Over the next month, the crackdown intensified. By 25th April, Deraa
:19:51. > :19:58.was under siege. People from outlying villages March to try to
:19:58. > :20:04.reach the city. 13-year-old hands are joined them -- marched to try
:20:04. > :20:12.to reach the city. The march was attacked and the 13-year-old boy
:20:12. > :20:16.was winded and arrested. -- was wounded. TRANSLATION: He was shot
:20:16. > :20:20.in the lake and tried to hide behind an olive tree. The security
:20:20. > :20:27.forces fountain, arrested him and began slapping him on the neck.
:20:27. > :20:35.Then they put him in a car. A month later, his body was returned to his
:20:35. > :20:39.family. His uncle was present. I looked at his body, which was
:20:40. > :20:45.inches away from me, this small body that was subjected to extreme
:20:45. > :20:48.horrific treatment, and hardly anything left intact, I felt pain
:20:48. > :20:54.and taking in every cell. He was subjected to the most horrific
:20:54. > :21:00.torture, they even cut off his he is. The government denies he was
:21:00. > :21:05.tortured but the child became the icon of Syria's revolution. He is
:21:05. > :21:10.among hundreds of dead children. Many others are intention --
:21:10. > :21:14.detention. Those fateful days in Deraa established a pattern that
:21:14. > :21:21.would spread across Syria, of people no longer afraid,
:21:21. > :21:27.challenging a government that would resort to ever more ruthless
:21:27. > :21:35.methods to stay in power. The image is of a city locked into permanent
:21:35. > :21:41.Argentina says it will take legal action against companies involved
:21:41. > :21:45.in oil exploration in the Falklands. The Foreign Minister said that oil
:21:45. > :21:49.development in the waters was illegal.
:21:49. > :21:56.The UK Government said it supported the rights of the islanders to
:21:56. > :22:06.develop their oil resources. Plaid Cymru has elected a new
:22:06. > :22:06.
:22:07. > :22:10.leader. She is lee Leeanne Wood. Plaid Cymru was in Government with
:22:10. > :22:15.Labour until the national assembly elections last year.
:22:15. > :22:21.None of us get everything right first time. I don't and I won't as
:22:21. > :22:26.leader, but one thing we have always got right and always will is
:22:26. > :22:33.that this party, our chief driver, will be the people in this land
:22:33. > :22:40.that we love. Leannean Wood.
:22:40. > :22:47.Football and it has been a bad night for both of the Manchester
:22:47. > :22:50.clubs. Manchester United lost 5-3. City went out on the away goals
:22:51. > :23:00.rules. Olly Foster watched the action.
:23:01. > :23:01.
:23:01. > :23:05.How about this for a party trick? Get it wrong and need a new short.
:23:05. > :23:11.Bilbao put the tie out of Manchester United's reach. Bilbao
:23:11. > :23:16.fluffed easier chances than that. Perhaps this defender was getting
:23:16. > :23:19.bored at the other end because most of the action was at the Manchester
:23:19. > :23:23.United goalmouth. Wayne Rooney did sign off with
:23:23. > :23:28.something special, but beaten home and away over the two legs,
:23:28. > :23:31.Manchester United returned chaseant after their European travels.
:23:31. > :23:38.Manchester City will have heard that result by the time they kicked
:23:38. > :23:43.off at home, but Sporting Lisbon wiped the smile off their faces.
:23:43. > :23:52.Sporting scored another by half- time and it didn't appear a
:23:52. > :23:57.Sporting contest for City. They got three goals.
:23:57. > :24:01.One last throw of the of the dice saw the City keeper go for broke,
:24:01. > :24:04.but City, like Manchester United, will put their blinkers on for the
:24:04. > :24:14.final stretch in the Premier League and that could be a nailbiting
:24:14. > :24:27.
:24:27. > :24:37.Ma Matilda the musical leads the race at the Olivier nominations.
:24:37. > :24:41.
:24:41. > :24:46.This is my second visit to Matilda. It is an astonishing show.
:24:46. > :24:54.Have you come far? From Lancashire. Why this one? I don't know. My
:24:54. > :25:00.friend told me about it and when I heard, I was like, "I will go and
:25:00. > :25:06.see it now.". Matilda popped up in the nominations for this year's
:25:06. > :25:11.Oliviers in every category. For Matilda the musical at
:25:11. > :25:14.Cambridge. Ten nominations. Well, it is an
:25:14. > :25:19.amazing feeling to be part of something like this. It has been
:25:19. > :25:29.right from the beginning. The question is why? For Paul Kay
:25:29. > :25:30.
:25:30. > :25:40.it is all about freedom. I pitched my character somewhere between
:25:40. > :25:42.
:25:42. > :25:52.Kenneth Connor and Enoch Powell. Maybe kicking the West End up a bit.
:25:52. > :25:53.
:25:53. > :25:57.This is a Royal Shakespeare Company production and this path to
:25:57. > :26:02.Broadway is becoming a well worn one.
:26:02. > :26:09.War Horse brings in �13 million a year. The route is being followed
:26:09. > :26:13.by another of its products, One Man Two Governors.
:26:13. > :26:16.The commercial theatre doesn't have a bedrock of funding from which to
:26:16. > :26:19.develop work and one of the problems of commercial theatre is
:26:19. > :26:25.when they make money, they don't reinvest it into the work.