02/04/2012 BBC News at Ten

30 years since the start of the Falklands War, Britain remembers

the dead. Argentina renews its claim. The Argentine President,

surrounded by veterans, says Britain's hold over the islands is

absurd. It is unjust that well into the 21st century they are still

colonial enclaves like the one we have a few kilometres away from

here. A protest march in the capital, Buenos Aires, ends with

unrest around the British Embassy. Here, the families of the fallen

pay their respects. 255 British servicemen were killed in the

conflict. We will be looking at what lies behind Argentina's

demands. Also tonight: A gunman on the

rampage at a Christian university in California. Several people are

reported dead. The mother murdered by her 14 year-

old son. Daniel Bartlam is jailed for 16 years. The court heard he

was influenced by television and film violence.

Many petrol stations report shortages as fuel tanker drivers

and their bosses agree to talk on Wednesday.

Is it art or skulduggery? Damien Hirst's British retrospective.

People will say wow. I hate art but you have to think about it.

And in Sportsday, action from tonight's match at Ewood Park with

Manchester United hoping to go five Good evening. Argentina's President

has used a rally to mark the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War to

renew her country's claim to the islands. Cristina Kirchner

described Britain's sovereignty over the Falklands as absurd. Here,

families of the fallen have been remembering the 255 British

servicemen killed in the 70 four- day campaign to liberate the

islands. We will have more on that in a moment but first we report

from Argentina. Ind 1 S Air Race tonight, a small

but determined crowd, mostly from the far left, attacking riot police

near the British Embassy. -- in one s Air Race. They attacked with

rocks and petrol bombs, their way of marking the 30th anniversary.

2500 miles to the South in the port of Ushuaia, the President, a fiery

politician compared to Eva Peron, was marking the anniversary in her

away. Argentina's economy is faltering after years of success.

It is notable that President Fernandez is now concentrating on

the Falkland Islands dispute. She had invited presidents and

ambassadors from across the Americas to come here today. They

did not show up. She called the British position absurd, but her

speech was essentially just rhetoric. TRANSLATION: It is unjust

that well into the 21st century there are still colonial enclaves.

Like the one we have just a few kilometres away from here.

Oswaldo, now middle-aged, can never forget the Falklands. He was 18

when he was sent as a conscript. The experience marked him for life.

TRANSLATION: A human being has no idea what war will be like. From

the moment it starts and after, it leaves only misery for both sides.

In an extraordinary gesture of friendship on the 30th anniversary

of the war, the Navy took us out filming in Ushuaia. The crew seemed

tough and well trained but they and three other patrol craft of the

only defence this major port possesses. You can see by being on

this boat that Argentina neither has the ability nor the interest in

fighting another war. Ever since the military regime collapsed after

the Falklands, successive civilian governments have cut back and back

and back again on the military budget. Now Argentina is

effectively a country that has disarmed itself. The war was an

utter disaster for Argentina's armed forces, which before the

Falklands War are among the biggest in South America. There have been

no new ships or aeroplanes in 30 years and it is now Argentina that

is complaining that Britain is militarising the area. The British

Government thinks the fact that Argentina keeps banging on about

the Falklands is becoming counter- productive in Latin America. Before

I left for Argentina I spoke to the Foreign Secretary. Many of the

countries in South America have been pushed as far as they want to

go by Argentina on this. They are not willing to join an economic

blockade and they are getting irritated behind the scenes

sometimes that Argentina are raising the subject at one regional

meeting after another. This has been a sombre day of reflection

here. President Fernandez chose not to change the mood by launching an

angry new attack. Britain is hoping her diplomatic offensive, which has

been rather successful until now, will start to ease off a little bit.

David Cameron said the 30th anniversary should be used to

remember the dead on both sides of the conflict. He insisted that

Britain was as committed to the islanders now as it was three

decades ago. Caroline Wyatt reports from the National Memorial

Arboretum in Staffordshire where families and veterans gathered this

morning. I at the National Memorial

Arboretum, a day of remembrance and affection for those that serve. The

families whose lives were changed for ever by this conflict. They

gathered for a simple service in the chapel here this morning, in

memory of the campaign that cost the lives of 255 British servicemen.

Margaret Allen had been married for just two weeks when her husband was

sent as part of the task force. He never came home. Today she lit the

candle that will burn until June 14th in memory of those that were

lost. I think about his face and the last time that I saw him and

how lovely it was and how special he was and how much I miss him,

actually. On April 2nd, 1982, Falkland Islanders woke up to find

the Argentinians had invaded. The British task force of 100 ships was

hastily dispatched by Margaret Thatcher, 8000 miles by sea, to

take the islands back. It was a daring move. Argentine forces

fought back. Their air force attacked and sank several British

ships, in what became known as Bomb Alley, killing and injuring many.

Stephen Hughes was the medical officer and he helped to treat his

friends and comrades. He is still scarred by the memories. It comes

back on anniversaries, I think. Just the feeling of desperation and

grief when you have lost friends. If you are in the casualty

department and someone comes in seriously injured, it virtually

never happens that it is your boss that is dead, or your best friend,

or several best friends that are dead, as well as other people that

you know. That hits you like the train. Britain's Harriers also flew

into action, as the late Brian Hanrahan reported for the BBC from

on board one of the ships. I am not allowed to say how many aeroplanes

joined the road but I counted them all out and I counted them all back.

The pilots were not injured, and they were jubilant. One dramatic

land battle proved the turning point. In late May, British troops

took on a forced twice their number at Goose Green, retaking it with

the loss of 17 men, along them a commanding officer, Colonel Jones.

By mid-June, after six weeks of fighting, against all the odds,

British forces prevailed. Today the Prime Minister saluted their

heroism and stressed that now, as then, Britain stands by the

Falkland Islanders. And the self- determination that was fought for

at such cost. And we can speak to our World

Affairs Editor, John Simpson, in Ushuaia on the southern tip of

Argentina. We saw those comments from the President. What reaction

has there been from Britain? Well, the weather, as you can probably

see, has turned absolutely foul, but from a British point of view, I

would say they are probably quietly pleased by what happened today. For

a start, President Fernandez did not announce any big extension of

any trade war or anything, which was a possibility. And even more

gladden in, I think, to the British mines, will be the fact that

Argentina has been successful recently in its diplomatic

offensive. It has managed to line up most if not all of Latin America

behind its claim to the Falklands. Well, President Fernandez

personally invited the presidents and ambassadors of most, I think,

Latin American countries, to come and hear her speak today. But they

got nervous about this. They are not interested in trade wars. They

don't mind backing Argentina, but they don't want to be involved in a

trade war, either with Britain or Europe. So everybody found

something else to do that was more important than coming here today

and the British will hope that that will be a sign to President

Fernandez not to keep on ratcheting this up. Thank you very much.

Up to five people are believed to have been shot dead and several

injured at the University in California. A gunman opened fire at

Oikos University, Christian college in Oakland. He was later detained

by police. Reports are still coming in and we have the latest from

Washington. It feels like an all-too familiar

scene. The shooting on a college campus in America, armed response

units moved in. There is fear and confusion. And familiar questions

about how this could happen again. As the facts and fold, what appears

clear is this. At 10:30am, a gunman went into a classroom at a private

Christian religious college, and opened fire. This is a very tense

situation for everyone. At the same time we have the SWAT team offices

on scene and we have secured the area. Our priority right now is to

take care of the injured. We want to make sure they receive medical

attention. Police and SWAT teams moved through the area. Terrified

students and staff members were rushed to safety. There is a bunch

of police cars out here. Then they walked over here. Somebody was

laying on the ground. They got him. They were going to put him on the

car over there, then we heard three shots. I don't know what is going

on. Terror. Fear and concern for people that look like they are

injured. For while, it is -- it was thought the gunman was still on

campers, described as a Korean man in his 40s in khaki clothing.

Tonight the police have somebody in custody. But there is no

explanation about why this happened. Diplomats in New York say that the

United Nations and Arab League special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan,

has asked the Security Council to set a deadline of 10th April to

implement his peace proposals. He is reported to have told the

Security Council that the regime accepted the deadline and the

demand for all violence to and within a further 48 hours. The plan

initially includes a two-hour daily Talks aimed at averting a strike by

fuel tanker drivers are to start on Wednesday. The announcement from

ACAS came as the latest figures showed that while the spate of

panic buying appears to be over, hundreds of petrol stations are

still out of petrol or running low. Our Transport Correspondent Richard

Westcot has the latest. The panic may have died down, but

many drivers faced this today : Garages struggling to restock after

the motorist put them out of petrol. When we get a backlog of orders as

happened last week it takes time to get the stock from the terminal to

the forecourts. We don't anticipate this being totally eradicated

before Easter. Fuel sales are lower than they were

before the crisis started. Down 6% for diesel yesterday and

23% for petrol, but that's partly because of closed pumps. One poll

suggests a third of stations ran out of stock at some point.

The Government's been blamed for provoking the crisis after telling

drivers to top up their tanks. It is advice that they have changed.

Let's be clear about what is happening now. There are talks

going on, there is no threat of strikes over Easter. There is no

Ned for people to rush out and fill their cars with petrol.

Only now there is a new problem, claims that as the queues grew, so

d the priss with garages accused of cashing in on the misery.

I don't know how they are getting awhich with putting them up. It is

disgusting. They know that people need it and have to pay it. If it

goes up two pence a week, that is a big difference.

But one retailer who owns five petrol stations, said he would have

lost money if he had not put two pence on a litre of unleaded across

a station. He denys that it is profit yearing.

We have to make a profit to stay in business. That is the reason yes

had to put a small increase on. It's been a week since we first

heard that the tanker drivers had voted to strike. Since then, the

consellation service, ACAS, based in the building behind me, has been

offering to referee talks between the two sides. We know that the

talks are to begin formerly on Wednesday.

No strike at any time soon, then, but the threat still has not gone

away. Coming up:

I'm at Tate Modern in London for the Damien Hirst retrospective

which looks back at 25 years of the artist's career.

The Burmese opposition leader, Aung Sang Suu Kyi has said that the

succession of her National League for democracy in parliamentary buy

elections is a triumph for the people. Her party gained nearly all

the seats that it contested. The Burmese army and its allies still

dominate Parliament. Our World Affairs Correspondent has

this prorp from Rangoon. There are rare moments in the story of

troubled countries when hope appears. In Burma today you could

not mistake the surge of optimism. A land landslide victory brought

out the crowds to cheer the woman that they call The Lady.

For a few moments, the slight figure was lost from view in the

press of bodies. Then she appeared. Mindful that the

country's powerful military would be listening she reminded them that

this was a democratic victory. It is not so much our triumph as a

triumph of the people who decided that they must be involved in the

political running of this country. We hope for more emphasis on the

role of the people in the everyday politics of our country. We hope in

future that there will be more chances for many more people and

many more parties. Thank you. There are some in her own party and

among her international supporters who believed that entering the buy

buy-elections would be a mistake, but today, thangs to the victory,

outstanding outstanding -- Aung Sang Suu Kyi will feel vindicated,

but images like these will make Burma's rulers nervous. They want

something for return in reforming, an end to punitive international

sanctions. We have so much ability to develop

our country, but the sanction is a cost of awareness. I want to open

the sanction. In all like luerd, these are the

fading days of Burma's economic isolation, but remember the

majority of people were not voting this time around.

For families like the Tuns, the next step must abgeneral election

that will bring Aung Sang Suu Kyi to power.

She will be our President. Soon. She will take the chair. I

believe it If she wins the chair, yes, she can

help a lot of our people. That is why our people hope for the best.

When the cheering fades, the hard talking will begin with the

government. On those on certain negotiations

will depend whether the woman who carried the day can carry the

country. A schoolboy who murdered his moth

we are a hammer has been jailed for at least 16 years. Daniel Bartlam

carried out the attack weeks after his 14th birthday and then set fire

to his house. The court heard he was fascinated with horror films

and a murder plot in Coronation Street.

We have this report. An ordinary enterknit video by a

seemingly ordinary boy, but shortly after he made this recording about

his 14th birthday present, Daniel Bartlam murdered his own mother and

tried to cover it up. Today a judge called Jacqueline Bartlam's killing

grotesque and senseless. She was hit seven times with this hammer,

doused in petrol, then set alight. All by heritage son.

A neighbour photographed the fire that followed. With most of the

evidence destroyed, Daniel Bartlam claimed that his mother had been

attacked by an intruder, but the story unravelled when a pathologist

found that the different type of hammer that Daniel Bartlam planted

in the debris could not have caused the wounds.

He was prepared to go to a number of steps to get away with the

murder. Then when he was caught with murder, he tried to get the

sentence reduced to manslaughter. Daniel Bartlam was obsessed with

violence on the internet, on films and on television. When he killed

his mother in their home, he was acting out a scene he was writing

out on his computer in which a character called Daniel killed his

mother and tried to cover it up in exactly the same way. This scene

from the soap Coronation Street, one of several that Daniel Bartlam

watched, looking for inspiration. He used to write stories, but they

were macabre, about fighting, knives, killings. I don't think he

was mad, I think he was bad. To kill somebody who was a vulnerable

person, the easiest paerned by making up a web of lies that he

could get away with murder. Although he is 15, the judge ruled

that Daniel Bartlam's name and face could be made public. He was

sentenced to life and told he will serve at least 16 years in prison.

Ministers are being defending plans to make it easier for the security

services to monitor the e-mails, text messages and online history of

everyone in the UK. The Home Office insists that safeguards would be in

place if the law was changed. Critics inside and outside of

Parliament say it could amount to snooping.

Iain Watson is at Westminster. Is the opposition to the proposals

mounting to a political headache for the Government? I think it is.

What will worry them is not so mup opposition from Labour, but the

degree of opposition from MPs that are supposed to be on their own

side. One Lib Dem minister is writing toary colleagues to try to

stave off a potential rebellion. There are Conservatives opposed too.

One of them, Dominic Raab, has gone as far as to get a previously

confidential document from the office of Information Commissioner,

this acts as a risk register, pointing out the problems in the

Government's legislation it asks, whether the commercial companies

that have to collect the data would be banned from using it for

commercial purposes and asked if the data acts as a honeypot

attracting unwelcome interest in politicians or indeed if

celebrities are visiting dodgy websites. The Home Office is saying

that they are putting safeguards in place, but reminding people that

the content of your messages cannot be accessed in a warrant, but in a

tabloid newspaper, the kop home Secretary is saying that she will

not be backing the plans. Nick Clegg has launched a new �1

billion youth contract, promising every young person the opportunity

to earn or learn. It will offer 18 to 24-year-olds a

Government subsidised job in apprenticeship or work experience.

In the Premier League, Manchester United have gone five points clear

at the top of the table. Beating Blackburn 2-0 at Ewood Park, but

Manchester United left it late, the goal coming a with a strike from

Antonia Valencia. A pickled shark, a diamond-encrusted skull, some of

the works of arts that have earned Damien Hirst tens of millions of

pounds in his career. Now for the first time they have again on

display together. Will Gompertz has been speaking to

the artist. Damien Hirst in front of the artwork that made his famous

and shaped his image as the bad boy of British art, but that was more

than 20 years ago. Today he is grown up and grey-haired and

enjoying a career retrospective at Tate Modern. A showing of spot

painting and dead animals in formaldehyde.

I hate art that you have to think about. I like art that grabs you,

like it does in the natural homeowner museum. I wanted art that

did that, really. What is the difference between a piece of your

work and that what is in the Natural History Museum? I think it

should be done well. How do you know it is art? It is in

an art gallery. Damien Hirst brought these pieces to Sotheby's

in London. It was an auction that turned out to be a momentous

occasion. He ended up taking away over �100 million. Meanwhile, on

the other side of the Atlantic, Lehman Brothers were in the process

of going bust. Is it pushing the point too far

that making money is part of your art? We need money to survive. You

have to respect money. So many people don't have any money. I

became aware that you can definitely use money to get

people's attention. After I had my auction at Sotheby's I started to

get noticed on the street by businessmen, that cannot abbad

thing. Your public image is a money-grabbing show off? Really?

Really. Does that disappoint you? Do you

think you have handled things wrong? I think that the image is

important as who you are, but I don't see it as an image. It is

what I represent. Damien Hirst told me that it feels

strange having a retrospective, and becoming part of the establishment.

In my mind I have always thought I wanted to be a punk. For young kids

to think I am cool. Stupid things like that. In the end you become

the old fart who is making this... You know, he is not still doing the