30/03/2012 BBC News at Ten

The Government changes its advice and tells drivers there's no need

to keep topping up their tanks. But there are lengthy queues at petrol

stations again, as extra tanker drivers are laid on to try to stop

them running out of of fuel. It is frustrating, I know, when petrol

stations are closed and there are queues, but everything that can be

done is being done, but it will take time.

A woman sets herself alight after decanting petrol from a jerry can,

in the same week the Government advised people to stock up on fuel

at home. Still no strike has been called but

Unite has said there will be no industrial action over Easter.

Also tonight: The controversial ex-Labour MP

George Galloway snatches a safe seat from his former party with a

massive landslide. This, the most sensational result in British by-

election history, bar none, represents the Bradford Spring.

The extradition of Shrien Dewani, wanted in South Africa for the

murder of his wife, is stopped because of his mental illness.

The Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi prepares to stand

in ground-breaking elections in Burma.

And coming up on the BBC News Channel, we will have all the sport,

including more on Aston Villa's captain, Stiliyan Petrov, who has

Good evening. The Government has changed its

advice and told motorists that there's no need to keep topping up

their tanks. The Unite union has now said it won't go out on strike

before Easter but there have been more lengthy queues at petrol

stations. Extra tanker drivers have been laid on and their driving

hours extended to try to meet the soaring demand. And a woman has

been seriously burnt decanting petrol from a jerry can. Earlier

this week the Government advised people to keep a store of petrol at

home. Our deputy political editor, James Landale, reports.

It is now clear there will be no tanker strike over Easter, but

still the queues form, petrol stations ran dry, tempers fray as

drivers' line-up to fill their tanks, just in case. In Torbay,

there was so much confusion that staff had to direct traffic. It is

manic, absolutely ridiculous. I am trying to control the traffic

because otherwise, like yesterday, we will have traffic down to the

roundabout. You can see the way that people are trying to cross the

road, weaving in and out of each other. Some common sense would go a

long way at the moment. But some said that is what they were using.

A red light came on, so I need petrol. It is Easter holidays and I

am offered the children, so I would rather not run out. It is

ridiculous, people clearing places out. In recent days, ministers

urged drivers to fill up when they can, and that is what they're doing.

Retailers said demand for unleaded had risen 162% on Thursday and

demand for diesel had risen 77%. No wonder there was yet another

meeting of the Cabinet's Emergency Committee. The Prime Minister said

the Government would continue making contingency plans and called

on Unite to call off the threat of a strike entirely. I can tell

people the fuel companies are working flat out to resupply petrol

stations. It is frustrating, I know, when petrol stations are closed and

there are queues. But everything that can be done is being done, but

it will take time. To speed things up, the Government

is temporarily relaxing the limits on drivers' hours, allowing them to

spend 11 hours instead of nine on the road. And as for the dispute,

signs of hope. Both sides will hold discussions with ACAS on Monday,

and Unite said they were looking for a negotiated solution. We have

announced we will not be announcing seven days' notice of industrial

action, which means there will not be industrial action over the

Easter period. Tonight, in this West Yorkshire hospital, a woman is

recovering from 40% burns. Diane Hill was in her kitchen, pouring

petrol from a container into a glass jug, Pandy so she could give

some to her daughter. But the flame from her gas cooker and ignited the

fumes. -- apparently shows -- so she could give some to her daughter.

The Cabinet Office Minister, Francis Maude, told people to fill

jerry cans. Labour MPs called on him to resign if a link emerged.

Tizie Cabinet minister two days ago telling people to fill of jerry

cans in the garage, causing panic and confusion, the Prime Minister

saying to top up your fuel, it is spectacular. The petrol was being

delivered, there was no strike date, talks are going on but the

Government has panic people into this confusion, chaos and worse.

This is obviously a desperate incident and a terrible thing that

happened to this woman. My heart goes out to her and her family.

now, the threat of an Easter striker has gone away, but the

queues have not. Not yet. James is in Westminster. What is

the advice from the Government for motorists? This situation began

with confusion over language and that language has changed.

Yesterday, the Energy Secretary, Ed Davey, was telling drivers to top

up when you can, keep your tanks three-quarters full. Today, the

Prime Minister chose not to repeat that. He said nothing about what

drivers should or should not do. It is because the advice has now

changed. If you look at the website of the energy department and the

Transport Department tonight, they tell drivers "there is no urgency

to top up your tank". The reason that they give is because Unite

have now decided not to strike over Easter. The Labour leader has

released details about party donors, and a separate development. Yes, he

has issued a list of significant donors to his party since he became

leader in 2010. This comes after David Cameron was forced to do a

similar thing earlier in the week. The list reveals that Ed Miliband

has met 42 donors who have given more than �7,500 to Labour.

Interestingly, Len McCluskey, the general secretary of Unite, Ed

Miliband has met him eight times over that period, more than any

union boss. Why does that matter? Because they are Labour's largest

donor and it is Unite who are threatening to take tanker drivers

out on strike. The Conservatives say that this shows that Labour is

in the pocket of Unite, and that is why Labour will not condemn the

threat of the strike. Labour say they are being more transparent

than the Conservatives. Labour has promised to learn

lessons, after George Galloway swept to victory in the formerly

safe Labour seat of Bradford West. The Respect Party MP, who won by

the seat by an historic margin, attributed his success to voters'

alienation from the three main parties. His party's won the

biggest share of the vote at a by- election since 1945. Iain Watson

reports from Bradford. George Galloway drove Labour from

Bradford West, taking the seat with a 10,000 vote Majority. He compared

his victory to the Arab Spring and cheekily suggested he was

challenging the entire British political establishment. The three

main parties offer one variety of other of the same thing. If a

backside could have three cheeks, they would be three cheeks of the

same backside. When someone comes along who can articulate the make

an alternative case and demonstrate the possibility of a new politics,

you see the result. His left-wing party is called Respect, but he was

not shown too much of that by an aide wielding protester. Labour say

that Bradford West is not a typical seat, with half the electorate come

from ethnic minorities. This has been touring the streets of

Bradford, setting out George Galloway's campaign agenda. Labour

say that he won because he campaigned on the issue of bringing

troops back from Afghanistan and on the Iraq war, but he also

campaigned to get rid of tuition fees, and on the issue of jobs. So

the reason for his victory is not that simple. Labour are seen as the

establishment party here, running the council, and some voters say

they are more concerned about local issues than global issues. Look at

Bradford itself. But at the area. We used to have so many things, so

many opportunities. Look at the streets. Normally I'm a Labour

supporter but they have been too complacent over the years. George

Galloway has long been a thorn in Labour's side. He was expelled from

the party not long after the Iraq war and he got his revenge by

taking the seat of Bethnal Green and Bow in east London from his

former colleagues in 2005. Mr Blair, this is for Iraq. But the following

year, his political career seemed to have hit a new low. When he was

expelled from the Big Brother house. But some say his celebrity status

has helped propel him to success in Bradford. And the Labour leader is

promising to come here himself to find out why the voters abandoned

his party. I will be going back to the constituency to talk to people

there about why this result happened. Clearly there were local

factors, but I also say that only four out of 10 people voted for the

three mainstream political parties. Some say, although Labour are still

ahead in national polls, Ed Miliband may have to draw a very

wide-ranging lessons from this defeat. They have to find the right

seemed that connects with the concerns of the electorate, not

just to say we are opposed to austerity and the cuts and the

things the Government are doing that are unpopular, but we really

have a solution. And with crucial local elections just weeks away,

all of the main political parties will be scrutinising closely the

underlying reasons for George Galloway's victory.

Two men have been found guilty and jailed for life for the murder of a

police officer shot dead by dissident republicans in Northern

Ireland. Former Sinn Fein councillor Brendan McConville and

John Paul Wootton were found guilty for their part in the ambush of

Constable Stephen Carroll. Tonight there were disturbances in the area

where PC Carroll was killed, with vehicles hijacked and set on fire.

Mark Simpson reports. Surrounded by her family, Kate

Carroll was in court as her husband's killers were convicted.

40-year-old Brendan McConville, a former Sinn Fein councillor, was

part of the murder gang, as was John Paul Wootton, who was just 17

at the time of the killing. Together, they shot dead PC Stephen

Carroll. He was the first member of Northern Ireland's new police

service to be murdered. Three years on, his killers have finally been

caught and sent to jail. But his widow watched them in court not in

anger, but sorrow. I pity them more than anything else. They have

achieved absolutely nothing. They are fighting a losing battle, and

why did they do it? No one wants it any more. The killers were caught

after a series of police searchers in North Armagh. The murder was

carried out by the Continuity IRA. Since killing Stephen Carroll on

this housing estate, dissident Republicans have tried to murder

more Republicans. By attacking members of Northern Ireland's new

police service, they are trying to damage the peace process. The

threat level remains high and police are continually on their

guard. We need more community support. The young people of

Northern Ireland deserve a future, and to make that happen, we need to

support our police officers. tonight, supporters of the men

jailed today burned vehicles and tried to block roads in County

Armagh. But the number of dissident republicans in Northern Ireland is

very small, and today's court case shows that police are becoming

increasingly successful at catching them.

The US President has approved the introduction of fresh sanctions on

buyers of Iranian oil. Iran is facing international pressure to

address concerns over its nuclear enrichment programme. Mark Mardell

It is a potentially serious tightening of the screws. It means

if a country or company tries to buy oil from the Iranian Central

Bank, it could be cut off completely from the United States

financial system. That is serious. Here is a problem, the President

only decided to do this after looking at the world market and

finding there was enough oil from other countries around, so prices

would not shoot up. He has had to give exemptions to countries like

Japan because they are trying to reduce their reliance on Iranian

oil, because so many countries are reliant on it. India and China gets

around by bartering wheat and soya beans. The sanctions are designed

to send a message to Israel, don't take military action, give these

hard sanctions a chance to bite and see what happens. So don't take

military action now. Coming up on tonight's programme:

We have a special report from the Falklands on the eve of the 13th

anniversary of the Argentinian The Burmese pro-democracy leader,

Aung San Suu Kyi, will stand in a parliamentary by-election this

weekend - a key test of political reform. The Nobel laureate, who

spent most of the past 22 years as a political prisoner, has said the

vote cannot be considered entirely free and fair, but that it was

still worth taking part in the political process. Fergal Keane

reports from the Burmese capital, Across the city, people have sensed

something out of the ordinary. There is an energy not have felt in

decades. -- not bowled. Never mind that just over 40 out of 400

parliamentary seats are in the offer, many believe this is the

first step to ruling Burma. -- not felt. Soldiers once ordered to

shoot at pro-democracy crowds seemed bemused. Not far away, the

movement's leader was reminding the world's press of the long road to

this moment. That moment when you see people

vote, what will that mean to you? will have to wait to find out, I

have never seen people vote in a free election in Burma. This was a

first public appearance since she became ill from the rigours of

campaigning last week. A question about her health was met with

humour. I have not been well lately, I am feeling a little delicate, so

any tough questions and I shall faint straight away. There is

guarded optimism here that the elections could, if they are free

and fair, represent a moment of profound change here. The hope is

that after this, it will be impossible to return to the dark

days of dictatorship. Two hours south of Rangoon, the

record of that dictatorship was being defended on the hustings. Dr

Soe Min, the stand-in for the military-backed party against Aung

San Suu Kyi. His audiences are polite but far from enthusiastic.

have faced so many, so this campaign is very easy.

Why is the government risking reform? A large part of the answer

is in places like Rangoon's railway quarter. Burma has missed out on

the region's economic growth. The government hopes reform will end

sanctions, spur investment and give it time to win political support.

Their frustration over missed chances runs deep. With two

children to support, this man earns just over �1 a day. Life is not

going well for me and I have to struggle for my family. For Burma's

politicians, the task ahead is immense. It invites caution. As the

campaign enters its most exuberant hours.

The extradition of Shrien Dewani - wanted in South Africa for

arranging the murder of his wife, Anni during their honeymoon there -

has been temporarily stopped. The High Court in London ruled that it

would be "unjust and oppressive" to order Mr Dewani's extradition as

long as he is suffering from mental illness. The businessman, who's

from Bristol, denies any involvement in his wife's killing

in Cape Town in 2010. Tom Symonds was in court.

Once the smart businessman, Shrien Dewani seemed haunted when he last

appeared in public. The court decided today he should not be

extradited for now, because of his mental illness. The process has

been halted, but not terminated. The family of his murdered wife are

thankful for that. We just want him to get better now, so he can

finally go to South Africa and tell us what happened. We just want to

know the truth, because this is all about that our dearest little

sister was murdered. It has become known as the honeymoon murder.

Shrien Dewani and his wife, Anni Dewani, were staying at a top Cape

Town hotel. CCTV footage shows Shrien Dewani going to meet a taxi

driver alone, the prosecution says to arrange for a hitman to kill

Anni Dewani, the defence, to arrange sightseeing. That night,

their taxi was ambushed and Anni Dewani was driven off without her

husband. She was later to beat the found shot dead. Back at the Hotel,

Shrien Dewani seemed devastated at what had happened. But a few days

later, he was captured meeting the taxi driver again, to give him

money, the equivalent of �82. Was he pain for the killing, or simply

the services of a tour guide? Shrien Dewani's family insists he

wants to clear his name. Today's decision here at a High Court means

the case now goes back to the magistrates' court. Effectively, it

starts again. For Shrien Dewani to face charges in South Africa, it is

now highly likely that he will have to recover from his mental

illnesses. His family do believe that one day he will be well enough.

Then he will go over to South Africa and face trial, where I hope

and pray that he will get justice and the truth will come out. Shrien

Dewani has always insisted he would never have wanted to kill, in his

own words, the girl of his dreams. Her family believe the happy smiles

of the wedding videos hide darker secrets within their relationship.

The truth, for now, remains out of reach.

Britain and Argentina are preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the

Falklands War, amid heightened tensions over the disputed islands.

On Monday it will be 30 years since Argentinian forces invaded, but in

the last few months diplomatic tensions have been stoked by

British oil exploration, and a tightening economic blockade by

Argentina. Allan Little has travelled to the Falklands capital,

Port Stanley, to talk to islanders ahead of the anniversary.

For a moment, the sleepy calm of Port Stanley is shattered. The

noise bothers no one, it reassures. The islanders believe themselves

well defended, secure in their windswept Britishness. Britain says

the islands are prepared for any future Argentine threat. If you

look at our defences, I think they are entirely adequate to stop them

being captured in the first place. Everyone on the islands is

confident that the islands are adequately defended against what

ever, it is an uncertain world, you don't know what is going do happen.

Memories of the ten-week Argentine occupation in 1982 are vivid. Neil

Watson is a 7th generation islander and sheep farmer. He saw Argentine

troops on his land every day. But he knew a liberation force was on

its way, for one evening after dark there was a knock at his farmhouse

door. This guy with a 9 millimetres pistol, a mink something at my

breastbone. I thought, the uniform looks different -- aiming something.

I said, who are you? He said, who are you? I said, you are British,

you better come in. He was a member of the Special Boat Service.

The island's fortunes have transformed since the war. Wildlife

now attract tourists. The economy, mostly squid fishing, is booming.

The islands are economically self- sufficient, apart from defence. The

rockhopper penguin is one of the great iconic images of these

islands, and rockhopper is the name of one of the companies looking for

oil and gas in the sea bed. There is a lot of wealth which will

transform the fortunes of these islands and changed the dispute

between Britain and Argentina. 1 oil field is already known to

contain 350 million barrels. That alone could make these islands very

rich, very quickly. This super rig is exploring further reserves to

the south. Argentina furiously accuses Britain of plundering

Argentine resources and breaching international law. The Argentine

trade blockade has hit the islanders in their diet. Growing

fresh vegetables in the barren rock in a gale force wind takes an

enterprising spirit, but there is still one flight a week to Chile to

bring in fresh produce. But Argentina is threatening to sever

even this. The islanders are phlegmatic. I think more and more

of us in the Falklands are getting to the stage where we are saying,

for God's sake, Argentina, if you are going to do it, get on and do

it and we will live with the consequences. For the memory of the

war that was fought for these islands, and the lives that were

lost, have only strengthened the Britishness of those who live here.

And on Sunday our world affairs editor, John Simpson, will be in

Argentina to report on their view of the Falklands.

The first picture of Fabrice Muamba, the Bolton midfielder, has been

posted on Twitter after he collapsed after during the FA Cup

quarter-finals. The Bolton midfielder is seen sitting up in

bed and showing no outward sign of his ordeal almost two weeks ago. He

also sent thanks for all his messages of support.

You may have read the books, seen the movies, bought the toys - and

now you can also take a walk around the Great Hall at Hogwart's. Warner

Brothers are opening the Harry Potter studios in Hertfordshire to

the public for the first time tomorrow, and they're expecting

5,000 people a day to visit. Our entertainment correspondent, Lizo

Mzimba, visited the studios. I've got a real treat for you today.

You are a great wizard. Millions had read the books and watch the

films. But that is the kind of loyalty Warner Brothers are hoping

for for this new studio tour. Three years, the only people who got to

experience the sets and props were those involved with the movie

series, and they say they are pleased that is all changing.

people will actually get a chance to kind of experience them for real,

and see how much work goes into these. It is a great opportunity to

celebrate the creative people who don't usually get a mention. Like

the films, as well as the intricate sets, the tour aims to draw people

in with the promise of action, along with perhaps the odd scare or

two. How does this compare to other major attractions? For a family of

two adults and two children, coming here costs... �83. The Buckingham

Palace tour is cheaper. Madame Tussauds is more expensive. For the

studio, the potential benefits are huge, but not without risk. I think

the advantage is you are making the Harry Potter world physical, so you

can experience it in a way you can't with the rest of the brand.

The danger is if people feel it has pushed the franchise one step too

far, and they're having to pay too much for it. It was fan passion