:03:30. > :03:34.They entered through the front blowing off the door and using
:03:34. > :03:39.specialist fibre optic cameras picked their way through the
:03:39. > :03:43.apartment trying to locate Merah, until they reached the ball coby.
:03:43. > :03:47.Suddenly he appeared, armed with a colt 45 handgun and opening fire.
:03:47. > :03:51.Two policemen were injured. Merah advanced from the bathroom
:03:51. > :03:58.and jump from one of these ground floor windows, wearing a bullet-
:03:58. > :04:08.proof vest and still firing wildly. Outside was a marksman who shot him
:04:08. > :04:12.
:04:12. > :04:18.dead. Merah finished it exactly as Three soldiers from a Parachute
:04:18. > :04:21.Regiment and a school, three children and a roob yie. The police
:04:21. > :04:26.said that he confessioned in the negotiations that his regret was
:04:26. > :04:30.not to kill more. He filmed the attacks, revelling in a appalling
:04:30. > :04:37.way in which he executed each victim.
:04:37. > :04:41.TRANSLATION: He said he had been radicalised in prison and had begun
:04:41. > :04:45.reading the Koran. He was violent with other prisoners and had
:04:45. > :04:50.attempted suicide. He had also travelled to
:04:50. > :04:55.Afghanistan, alone, later immersed himself in Salafist extremist
:04:55. > :05:00.websites and burgled houses to raise the money to buy an arsenal
:05:00. > :05:04.of weapons found in the boot of his car.
:05:04. > :05:11.Today, Nicolas Sarkozy told the nation that an inquiry is under way
:05:11. > :05:16.to find the gunman's accomplices. Every person that goes on websites
:05:16. > :05:20.to glorify terrorism will be punished by law. For a President
:05:20. > :05:24.facing a re-election, this is a successful conclusion. Throughout
:05:24. > :05:28.the week, he's been centre stage, overseeing the biggest manhunt that
:05:28. > :05:32.France has known, but questions have been asked by his own Foreign
:05:32. > :05:36.Minister. How did the domestic intelligence agencies loose track
:05:36. > :05:40.of such a violent criminal, when had travelled to Afghanistan and on
:05:40. > :05:45.their radar as a dangerous fundamentalist.
:05:45. > :05:50.It is always difficult to keep track of a lone wolf, but there
:05:50. > :05:54.were signs that told the security services that this man was a danger.
:05:54. > :05:59.He had been in and out of prison throughout his young life. Even in
:05:59. > :06:04.court two weeks ago on a drying offence. So significant was the
:06:04. > :06:10.list, that he had been placed, it was reported on the American no-fly
:06:10. > :06:16.list. To be on that list you must be assessed as a man capable of
:06:16. > :06:21.committing a terrorist report. You mentioned, Christian, the
:06:21. > :06:25.presidential election on its way, how will this impact on the course
:06:25. > :06:30.of that election itself? Well, Marie Le Pen has been speaking, she
:06:30. > :06:33.is the leader of the far right. She has long campaigned on limiting
:06:33. > :06:38.immigration and the threat of Islamic terrorism. So there has
:06:38. > :06:42.been a certain amount of, "I told you so." Today. That is significant
:06:42. > :06:47.as Nicolas Sarkozy, in the polls that matter for the second round of
:06:47. > :06:52.the presidential ballot in six weeks' time is trailing his
:06:52. > :06:56.socialist challenger, Francois Hollande. He needs to win back the
:06:56. > :07:00.disillusioned voters who swayed from his party. To do that he must
:07:00. > :07:06.look strong on law and order. It really matters here on these issues.
:07:06. > :07:10.So I think that you will see the hot button issues, immigration,
:07:10. > :07:14.race, religion, identity, come to the foreof his campaign and he will
:07:14. > :07:20.use this incident to explain to the nation why that debate has to be
:07:20. > :07:25.had. Thank you very much.
:07:25. > :07:28.Ministers have defended the controversial changes to
:07:28. > :07:32.pensioners' tax allowances contained in yesterday's Budget.
:07:32. > :07:36.Labour said that the changes were an outrage, but ministers insist
:07:36. > :07:40.they are trying to simplify the system. That pensioners will not be
:07:41. > :07:43.worse off in cash terms. Leading apblis, including International
:07:43. > :07:48.Institute for Strategic Studies say that pensioners have been sheltered
:07:48. > :07:54.from tax and benefit changes in recent years. We have more details.
:07:54. > :07:58.A day on from the Chancellor, parading the Budget Box and it is
:07:58. > :08:01.generating headlines he had not expected. With accusations on a
:08:01. > :08:05.granny tax and a raid on pensioners. That was the issue that David
:08:05. > :08:10.Cameron had to deal with. He was trying to promote the
:08:10. > :08:13.business friendly side of the Budget as he visited the
:08:13. > :08:19.GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical plant in Cumbria, the company
:08:19. > :08:23.confirming a new investment and 1,000 new jobs. What we are doing
:08:23. > :08:27.for British pensioners is delivering the biggest increase in
:08:27. > :08:32.April, �5 .3 a week to help pensioners across the country. At
:08:32. > :08:37.the same time, the Budget has delivered a tax cut for 24 million
:08:37. > :08:41.working people. But Labour's leader, unsurprisingly, was focusing on the
:08:41. > :08:45.losers in the Budget, the taxpayer- paying pensioners.
:08:45. > :08:49.The Chancellor was not open and honest about it yesterday. I think
:08:49. > :08:53.that they will have to think again about the attack on Britain's
:08:53. > :08:58.pensioners. Pensioners will lose out as the
:08:58. > :09:07.allowance that they can receive tax free will not keep up with
:09:07. > :09:12.inflation. Frozen at �10,500 for 65 to 70-year-old-year-olds. Those
:09:12. > :09:16.reaching 65 will have a lower allowance, their loss will be �285.
:09:16. > :09:21.Keith Smith is one of those pensioners whose allowance will be
:09:21. > :09:25.frozen. He could be up to �100 worse off next year than he would
:09:25. > :09:31.have been if the Chancellor had not announced a change. He is not happy.
:09:31. > :09:36.I felt that was a direct hit to me. To me as a pensioner it was a
:09:36. > :09:40.direct hit and to millions of others. Maybe they may not be like
:09:40. > :09:44.me, that have supported a Conservative party all their life,
:09:44. > :09:47.but I have. Some argue that pensioners have
:09:47. > :09:53.done well compared to other households. The state pension going
:09:53. > :09:57.up in line with inflation more than 5% and benefits like the winter
:09:57. > :10:01.fuel allowance and the free bus pass have not been touched as part
:10:01. > :10:06.of the Government's deficit plan. We think that pensioners will loose
:10:06. > :10:11.about a quarter of 1% of their income. Some will be hit harder,
:10:11. > :10:17.but it is worth saying that up until now pensioners have been
:10:17. > :10:20.protected from the various tax and benefit changes enacted by this
:10:20. > :10:24.Government. That is the view that pensioners
:10:24. > :10:28.don't have much to complain about, but it will not seem like that at a
:10:29. > :10:35.time when low interest rates have hit their savings. The winners
:10:35. > :10:38.don't make nearly so much noise as the losers.
:10:38. > :10:42.A soldier who lost his life yesterday in an explosion in
:10:42. > :10:44.Afghanistan has been named at Captain Rupert Bowers.
:10:44. > :10:49.The 24-year-old from the 2nd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment,
:10:49. > :10:54.was working with an Afghan security patrol when he was struck by the
:10:54. > :10:59.blast from an improvised explosive device. Captain Rupert Bowers had
:10:59. > :11:04.become a father for the first time a few weeks ago.
:11:04. > :11:09.New evidence has emerged about allegations of fraud at the jobs
:11:09. > :11:14.and training agency A4e. The evidence is contained in a report
:11:14. > :11:17.seen by the BBC's Newsnight. The company, being investigated by the
:11:17. > :11:21.Department for Work and Pensions has denied that there were wide
:11:21. > :11:25.spread problems within the organisation. Newsnight's Economics
:11:25. > :11:29.Editor, pail Mason has the story for us.
:11:29. > :11:35.There is hot news here... Emma Harrison's company, A4e, paid to
:11:35. > :11:39.help the jobless back to work. It has Government contracts worth �170
:11:39. > :11:43.million a year, now it is facing big questions.
:11:44. > :11:49.When you worked in the hotel how long were you there for? The A4e
:11:49. > :11:53.staff were supposed to get people into jobs lasting up to 13 weeks
:11:53. > :12:00.and then employers supposed to sign a form confirming that the job was
:12:00. > :12:05.real. Now, the BBC has seen evidence of fraud and irregularity
:12:05. > :12:10.N 2009, A4e audited the work of its top 20 recruiters, those best at
:12:10. > :12:14.placing people into jobs. What they found was disturbing. In offices
:12:14. > :12:19.all over the country, A4e staff were claiming for jobs that did not
:12:19. > :12:24.exist. Jobs not suitable to claim the payment and fabricating the
:12:25. > :12:29.paperwork to back it up. In Edinburgh, a client walked out of a
:12:29. > :12:33.job after two hours, complaining of sore feet, but A4e claimed the
:12:33. > :12:38.payment. In Bridlington a cafe other than said he had never met a
:12:38. > :12:44.man that A4e claimed for and he wanted to know why A4e kept asking
:12:44. > :12:49.him to sign blank forms. The auditors said that 4% of the
:12:49. > :12:54.claims put in by A4e's best recruiters were potentially
:12:54. > :12:59.fraudulent. Another 12% were risky. They could only be sure that A4e
:12:59. > :13:01.were entitled to the money that they claimed in 70% of the cases.
:13:01. > :13:07.This is what the Deputy Prime Minister told the Parliament last
:13:07. > :13:11.week. We have launched our own audit of
:13:11. > :13:17.the existing contracts. If there is evidence of abuse of course, we end
:13:17. > :13:22.all contracts with A4e. Critics will say that the report
:13:22. > :13:28.appears to provide evidence of this: It warns of a potential,
:13:28. > :13:31.systematic failure to mitigate the risk of fraud and irregularity.
:13:31. > :13:36.The Department for Work and Pensions said that they had
:13:36. > :13:41.received assurances that the audit had in the uncovered major issues.
:13:41. > :13:46.The company pointed out: Our document was a draft, that the fine
:13:46. > :13:51.audit determined that five claims were irregular and lated to one
:13:51. > :13:56.former employee. A4e reclaimed the value of that in full.
:13:56. > :13:59.The crisis at A4e has claimed the job of its former boss, Emma
:13:59. > :14:08.Harrison. Today it was reported that a fifth person at the company
:14:08. > :14:12.has been arrested on suspicion of You can see that full report on
:14:12. > :14:16.Newsnight on BBC Two just after this programme. In Florida, a
:14:17. > :14:22.teenager has gone on trial accused of murdering two British tourists.
:14:22. > :14:26.James Cooper and James Kouzaris, in their mid-20s, were shot dead last
:14:27. > :14:32.April in Sarasota. Shawn Tyson, who was 16 at the turn, has been
:14:32. > :14:36.charged as an adult with two counts of first-degree murder. James
:14:36. > :14:42.Kouzaris and James Cooper, university friends, murdered during
:14:42. > :14:47.a Florida holiday. This is their alleged killer. Shawn Tyson was 16
:14:47. > :14:50.at the time of the murders. Prosecutors say he bragged about
:14:50. > :14:59.the crime and ordered a friend to hide his gun. Today, almost one
:14:59. > :15:04.year on, the 17-year-old went on trial as an adult. Shawn Tyson is
:15:04. > :15:09.responsible for the deaths of James Cooper and James Kouzaris. I'm
:15:09. > :15:13.going to ask you to return a verdict of guilty. It was a Friday
:15:13. > :15:17.night last April. Security cameras showed the two Britons out drinking
:15:17. > :15:22.until the early hours. Instead of taking a taxi back to their holiday
:15:22. > :15:28.apartment, they wandered through one of the poorer neighbourhoods in
:15:28. > :15:38.Sarasota. Witnesses saw three men watching them. Just before 3am, a
:15:38. > :15:43.
:15:43. > :15:47.The prosecution claims this was an attempted robbery, that the two
:15:47. > :15:52.Britons were shot when they said they had no cash. But both were
:15:52. > :15:56.carrying money, in wallets which were found on them at the scene.
:15:56. > :16:00.The defence told the jury no-one had seen the shootings, no murder
:16:00. > :16:04.weapon had been found and that the prosecution was relying on evidence
:16:04. > :16:11.from convicted criminals, who had been offered incentives to
:16:12. > :16:16.incriminate Shawn Tyson. You're going to hear about the deals, the
:16:16. > :16:21.benefits of these witnesses, what they got from this case. The two
:16:21. > :16:27.Britons had taken these final photos on their night out. In court,
:16:27. > :16:32.the jury was shown images of their bodies, just hours later. The
:16:32. > :16:36.defendant should learn his fate within a week. Coming up tonight -
:16:36. > :16:41.as Stella McCartney launches the new Olympics kit, we report on the
:16:41. > :16:44.commercial pressures being faced by the athletes. It is a once-in-a-
:16:44. > :16:48.lifetime opportunity, as a British athlete, you have to make the most
:16:48. > :16:58.of these situations, and make sure that you put yourself in a great
:16:58. > :16:58.
:16:58. > :17:03.position going into the Games. rape seed company BP has been given
:17:03. > :17:08.permission to drill a deep-water well off Shetland. The company says
:17:08. > :17:12.it has been working with government authorities and insists it has
:17:12. > :17:18.learned lessons from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
:17:18. > :17:22.David Shukman explains. The waters off Shetland are the frontier in
:17:22. > :17:27.the search for new oil. But operating in the deep ocean is a
:17:27. > :17:31.tough proposition. Last year, the oil industry rehearsed how it would
:17:31. > :17:36.cope with a spill. They are facing an uphill struggle to convince
:17:36. > :17:40.people that drilling in the wild Atlantic would be safe. The
:17:40. > :17:46.explosion on Deepwater Horizon two years ago shattered BP's claims to
:17:46. > :17:50.be reliable. The oil gushed free for nearly three months. But the
:17:50. > :17:54.authorities now believe lessons have been learned. This is a matter
:17:54. > :17:57.of some considerable celebration today. We are delighted in the
:17:57. > :18:02.Scottish Government that BP is going ahead with this very
:18:02. > :18:07.important project. BP got the go- ahead after the authorities checked
:18:07. > :18:13.its plans for this exploration well, about 80 miles north west of
:18:13. > :18:18.Shetland. It will go down about as deep as in the Gulf of Mexico, 1290
:18:18. > :18:24.metres. It will then pushed down into the rock. BP would not give an
:18:24. > :18:31.interview tonight, but it says improved safety measures, including
:18:31. > :18:36.this one, will make a huge difference, but not everyone is
:18:36. > :18:41.convinced. The spectacular cliffs of Shetland are home to Europe's
:18:41. > :18:47.largest colonies of seabirds. The currents would probably sweep any
:18:47. > :18:50.leakage this way. And accidents do happen, like in Shetland in 1993.
:18:50. > :18:55.Environmental campaigners are warning of the possible dangers
:18:55. > :19:03.tonight. The water is cold, the weather is extremely unpredictable,
:19:03. > :19:09.particularly in the winter. It would be even more difficult if an
:19:09. > :19:14.accident happened in cold water. the Gulf of Mexico, BP made a
:19:14. > :19:20.massive effort to clean up, but it still faces claims. One leading
:19:20. > :19:24.British expert believes BP will be especially careful off Shetland.
:19:24. > :19:28.The eyes of the world will be on them as they resume their deep
:19:28. > :19:33.water activity. I think they will go the extra mile to make sure that
:19:33. > :19:39.not only are there plans robust, but their management systems, which
:19:39. > :19:43.failed in the US Ks, are robust. is a precious coastline, but
:19:43. > :19:51.there's huge demand for oil and for jobs. The first drilling will start
:19:51. > :19:56.within the next few days. The man who's known as the M25 rapist has
:19:56. > :20:00.been convicted of an eighth rape, which took place almost 25 years
:20:00. > :20:04.ago. Antoni Imiela is already serving a life sentence for a
:20:04. > :20:11.series of rapes and assaults on women and girls along the route of
:20:11. > :20:16.the him to wave -- M25 motorway, a decade ago. Coroners in Lhasa and
:20:16. > :20:22.police have ruled that Whitney Houston died by drowning, and that
:20:22. > :20:30.heart disease and cocaine use were contributing factors. Today's
:20:30. > :20:36.announcement ends weeks of speculation. An inquiry into
:20:36. > :20:38.political corruption in the Irish Republic has found that the former
:20:38. > :20:44.Prime Minister Bertie Ahern failed to tell the truth about large
:20:44. > :20:47.payments he received in the early 1990s. Tribunal judges stopped
:20:47. > :20:52.short of finding him guilty of corruption, but the findings will
:20:52. > :20:57.be referred to the police. At home and abroad, Bertie Ahern was seen
:20:57. > :21:01.as a great Irish statesman, but his political career is ending on a
:21:01. > :21:04.sour note. An inquiry into political corruption in Dublin
:21:04. > :21:09.political corruption in Dublin today heavily criticised him. The
:21:09. > :21:14.tribunal examined the equivalent of more than �100,000, which he gained
:21:14. > :21:18.in the early 1990s, when he was Finance Minister. He said it came
:21:18. > :21:27.from loans from friends, savings he had made and winning bets on the
:21:27. > :21:31.horses. But the tribunal found... But the report stopped short of
:21:31. > :21:33.accusing him of corruption, and in a statement tonight, he defended
:21:33. > :21:38.a statement tonight, he defended himself and repeated what he said
:21:38. > :21:43.four years ago. I made the best decisions I could
:21:43. > :21:47.in the circumstances in which I found myself. I know in my heart of
:21:47. > :21:50.hearts that I have done no wrong and wrong there's a one.
:21:50. > :21:54.tonight, the government has called in the police to investigate the
:21:54. > :22:00.findings of the report. 11 politicians were found to have been
:22:00. > :22:06.involved in corruption. It sets out corrupt practices among a number of
:22:06. > :22:13.politicians, practices which are certainly not in my book. Bertie
:22:13. > :22:17.Ahern was a key player in the Northern Ireland peace process. He
:22:17. > :22:22.was invited to address both Houses of Parliament at Westminster. But
:22:22. > :22:27.the controversy over his finances forced him to step down early as
:22:27. > :22:31.Prime Minister, and it seems his secrecy was his undoing. One of his
:22:31. > :22:36.colleagues famously said that he knew about 24% of Bertie Ahern's
:22:36. > :22:41.Personality, which was 23% more than anybody else. It might have
:22:41. > :22:45.been an exaggeration but there was an element of truth in it.
:22:45. > :22:48.repercussions of the report are now starting to be felt. It used to be
:22:48. > :22:51.that every where Bertie Ahern went in Ireland, he was applauded. He
:22:51. > :22:56.was seen as the man who brought peace to the north and prosperity
:22:56. > :23:04.to the self. He was treated as a hero, but tonight, it is clear
:23:04. > :23:07.those days are well and truly over. The official kit for the Olympic
:23:07. > :23:14.and Paralympic teams has been unveiled in a show at the Tower of
:23:14. > :23:18.London. The design is by Stella McCartney. Some people have
:23:18. > :23:21.criticised the outfits. David Bond spoke to athletes at the event, and
:23:21. > :23:30.he reports on some of the commercial pressures which athletes
:23:30. > :23:35.are now under. It was more London fashion week than the Olympics. The
:23:35. > :23:39.new kit was unveiled under the watchful eye of its famous designer.
:23:39. > :23:44.Even for her, it was a big challenge, come up with a kit for
:23:44. > :23:49.900 athletes of different shapes and sizes, from 46 different
:23:49. > :23:55.Olympic and Paralympic sports. After the show, she told me why she
:23:55. > :23:59.wanted to put her label on Team GB. I am really excited about the Games,
:23:59. > :24:05.you can really feel it now, living in this city, I was born and bred
:24:05. > :24:10.here, I work here every day, you can really feel it on the streets.
:24:10. > :24:16.After presenting the kit like that, you just get the energy. But not
:24:16. > :24:21.everyone was excited about her take on the union flag, with different
:24:21. > :24:26.shades of blue replacing red. So, was she trying to make a fashion
:24:26. > :24:31.statement? When you look at it, you read it as the flag. It is very
:24:31. > :24:36.recognisable style. I have represented all of the different
:24:36. > :24:42.parts of Great Britain within it. Visually there is a lot of red, but
:24:42. > :24:46.I have just used it in a different way. Most Olympic athletes do not
:24:46. > :24:50.get the chance to taste this kind of glitz and glamour very often.
:24:50. > :24:53.But the danger is that in spending too much time at events like this,
:24:53. > :24:57.they will jeopardise the chances of delivering gold medals in the
:24:57. > :25:02.summer. Jessica Ennis is perhaps the hottest Olympic property right
:25:02. > :25:07.now. She has lucrative deals with eight different sponsors. They all
:25:07. > :25:12.make demands on her time, with 40 days of commercial work scheduled
:25:12. > :25:17.for this year. But she could make more than �1 billion if she can win
:25:17. > :25:20.gold in London. It is a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity, as a British
:25:20. > :25:23.athlete, you have to make the most of the situation, to make sure that
:25:23. > :25:27.you put yourself in a great position going into the Games.
:25:27. > :25:31.First and foremost, you're an athlete, and it is about performing
:25:31. > :25:36.and training to the best of your ability, and that comes first.
:25:36. > :25:42.Cycling has created some of our biggest stars. The man behind it
:25:42. > :25:46.says it is just reward for the hard work. Mr and Mrs Mediocre do not
:25:46. > :25:51.have this chance. It is credit to them that they have the opportunity,
:25:51. > :25:56.but then I think it needs to be carefully managed, from a
:25:56. > :25:59.performance first perspective. the game's getting closer, today's
:25:59. > :26:05.launch showed how the hype and expectation is growing for