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Tonight at ten: On trial - the man who killed 77 | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
people in Norway last year. In court in Oslo, a defiant Anders | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
Breivik admits his role, but denies criminal responsibility. | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
TRANSLATION: I acknowledge the acts, but I do not plead guilty and I | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
claim I was doing it in self- defence. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
The victims were targeted in two attacks - a car bomb and a gun | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
assault at a summer camp. It is good to see him now when he is | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
surrounded by police and in a safe place. The trial is expected to | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
last ten weeks - we report from Oslo. Also tonight: | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
The controversial plans to cap tax- free giving - now ministers say | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
there are other options available. Inside Syria - four days after the | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
ceasefire, we report on the evidence of continuing violence. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
The government is in control of this area, they have set up | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
checkpoints and over the last hour, you can hear the sound of gunfire. | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
More than half of England is now officially in drought - it's the | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
worst since 1976. And after the latest goal dispute, | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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a wave of new calls for the use of In sport, could Wigan upset Arsenal | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
in tonight's big match affecting the top and the bottom of the | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
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Good evening. The man who killed 77 people in | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
attacks in Norway last year has gone on trial in Oslo. Anders | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
Breivik pleaded not guilty to murder, arguing that he'd acted in | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
self-defence when he attacked a youth camp and set off a car bomb | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
in the capital. The trial is expected to focus on the state of | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Breivik's mental health at the time of the attacks. From Oslo, our | :02:09. | :02:18. | |
correspondent Matthew Price sent The mastermind of Norway's | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
suffering was led in, his hands handcuffed. He seemed relaxed, | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
eager. He always wanted this. The chance to present his views in | :02:28. | :02:37. | |
public. He started with a salute to the far right. No remorse. And for | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
the first time in court, we heard the voice of the killer. | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
TRANSLATION: I acknowledge the acts, but I do not plead guilty. I will | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
claim I was doing it in self- defence. He says the bomb in Oslo | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
that killed eight and his massacre on the nearby island of place mack | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
group were the opening shots in a walk, a war against | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
multiculturalism, against political parties that support immigration. | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
The prosecution named every one of his victims. It took them almost an | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
hour. Slightly less time than it took Breivik to kill 69 people on | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
the island. Among them, a boy Breivik shot three times, twice in | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
the back of the head. And Margery ETA, 16 years old, a bullet through | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
For the first time today, we saw tears from Anders Breivik. But not, | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
it seems, for his victims. His emotion came as the court was shown | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
a video that he had made to justify his one-man war. This ten-week | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
trial inside a courtroom 250 is being very carefully managed. The | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
most disturbing and sensitive evidence will be given only once | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
the TV cameras have been switched off. Anders Breivik's appearances | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
on camera will themselves be limited so as not to give him a | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
platform for his views. He says that amounts to court room | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
propaganda. The prosecution showed us the room he lived in in Oslo. | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
The car he drove to get to the island, the uniform he was wearing | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
there. His steady progress across the summer camp, each red dot | :04:32. | :04:42. | |
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another death. And this phone call Then, for just a few minutes, | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
Breivik's lawyer spoke and defended his client's right to have his kit | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
-- his say in court. TRANSLATION: It will be hard for the victims to | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
hear him, but it is his right and it will be the most important | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
evidence in deciding whether he is legally sane. Among the survivors | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
in court was Ida. I think it is good to see him now when he is | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
surrounded by police and in a safe place. It gives a little closure. | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
Are you still afraid of him? No. He will be locked up no matter what | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
for the rest of his life. But it will be a long, drawn-out process. | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
Breivik takes the stand tomorrow. Matthew, we saw the defiance. You | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
say he will have a limited platform, but of the authorities concerned | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
that even with that, he can still cause more damage? I think they are | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
concerned about that, yes, and that is why tomorrow the TV feed from | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
the court after the initial opening proceedings will be switched off. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
They want to starve him of the oxygen of publicity he could gain | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
in TV images, audio images. We will still be able to report his words, | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
but he will not have a public forum to look directly into the camera | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
and to speak what he believes. We still don't know whether the judge | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
will allow him to deliver a 30 minute speech, which we are told he | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
has prepared. But he will be cross- examined and it will take four or | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
five days and because of that, he has quite a platform to get his | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
views across. We know roughly what he will say, that he is a foot | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
soldier in a war against multiculturalism, a water drive | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Islam from Europe and Norway, a war he believes will last many | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
generations. It is a message that many will find exceedingly walked | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
and there have been those in Norway that say this should never have | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
come to trial since he admits carrying out the killings. As the | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
defence said, they do want to see him in court so that the judges can | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
decide whether he was sane or insane, criminally insane, when he | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
carried out the acts he did. That will determine whether he spends | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
the rest of his life behind bars in a prison or in a psychiatric ward. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Thank you. David Cameron says there are a | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
number of options to consider on changing the level of tax relief on | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
charitable giving. Ministers say the current system has been abused | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
by some wealthy individuals. But the proposals to cap the relief | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
have been criticised by charities, who say that big donations will | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
suffer. Downing Street has started a formal consultation, as our | :07:59. | :08:08. | |
political editor Nick Robinson Who would have thought it could be | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
so controversial to write a cheque for millions to a good cause? | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
Charities claim a Treasury proposal to cap the tax relief on donations | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
is already hurting. We have already done a huge amount of damage to | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
charities, people are holding back on gifts, they are thinking of | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
reconsidering the gifts they had in mind and we need is to stop. What | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
is the problem? Currently if you are lucky enough to earn �4 million | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
you could give it all to charity and pay no income tax. The plan | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
from April 2013 is to cap tax relief so only �1 million could go | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
to charity tax free. You would be taxed on the rest. More money for | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
the Treasury, but potentially less for charity. But listen, that plan | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
may be about to change. This was never going to be introduced until | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
next year, plenty of time to get it right, time to consult and listen. | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
The key principle is more for charities, yes, but allowing people | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
to drive down their tax rate to 10% when they are some of the richest | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
in the country, no. This is what the wealthy can pay for, the | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery was paid for by the | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
supermarket family. Cancer research is often funded this way. Why, the | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
critics ask, should the wealthy be taxed on the money they want to | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
give to charity? Y, comes the reply, should they not be taxed on money | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
they can give to an opera house or a donkey sanctuary and not paid to | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
the Treasury to pay for schools and hospitals? Tonight, the former | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
prime minister Tony Blair joined those praising wealthy donors to | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
charities and warning the government to tread very carefully | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
indeed. The Treasury has a battery of measures to take against people | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
who are avoiding tax for abusing the tax system, but the | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
philanthropic sector does a fantastic job. In the right | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
circumstances, it can be a great partner for government, it can do | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
things government will not do. If they have gone down this route, the | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
most sensible thing is to go back. Sometimes it is best to do a U-turn. | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
The government say they want more rich people to give away more money. | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
They were always planning to consult on this, but to put it | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
charitably, they are in a bit of a mess. | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
UN human rights investigators say they've received reports of | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
shelling and arrests by Syrian forces since the ceasefire last | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
Thursday, as well as the executions of some soldiers by rebel forces. | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
But the level of violence is said to be generally lower. Tens of | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
thousands of civilians fled escalating fighting in the run-up | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
to the truce last week. Access for foreign journalists is restricted, | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
but our correspondent Ian Pannell and cameraman Darren Conway entered | :10:55. | :11:05. | |
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Idlib province in northern Syria They ask -- there's supposed to be | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
a truce in Syria. In parts, it doesn't sound like it. At best, | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
they can't hear feels uneasy and the ground remains highly dangerous. | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
We moved with rebel fighters into a northern town firmly under the grip | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
of President Assad's men. The Free Syrian Army remark -- relies on | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
stealth and cunning, they know these routes well. Through | :11:35. | :11:45. | |
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abandoned flats that bear the scars But the rebels are vastly outgunned | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
and were unable to resist the ferocious government offensive that | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
swept through this region just days ago. The international community | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
talks of ceasefires and peace plans, but the view from the ground is | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
very different. TRANSLATION: They are buying time. The government | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
lies to the people, it lies to the whole world so it is not surprising | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
they like to Kofi Annan, too. They have not stopped shooting. Down | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
below, you can clearly see not all government forces have withdrawn. | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Every few minutes, there are short bursts of gunfire. We don't know | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
which side his shooting, but whoever is responsible, it leaves | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
Kofi Annan's peace plan looking shaky. We're just overlooking the | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
town, which is pretty much a ghost city, some traffic in the distance, | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
but the government is in control of this area. We have seen a tank | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
moving and checkpoints. Over the last hour, you can hear the sound | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
of gunfire. This is a few days after the ceasefire was supposed to | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
have taken place. We saw government road blocks in the road into town, | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
stopping and checking vehicles. Looking for the men they called | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
terrorists, the soldiers of the rebel army. Perhaps with good cause. | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
The rebels have been beaten and bloodied, but not bowed. And the | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
fighters move back in, bypassing main roads and cities. They call | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
this a mission to protect their homes and families. This struggle | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
is about their future. The girls of his family may be young, but they | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
already know the language and the loss of Syria's revolution. Last | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
week, this area was under attack. But today, women and girls dead to | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
leave their homes once again. -- dead. Coming back onto the streets | :13:41. | :13:51. | |
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with a call for change that is It is a mistake to think all | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
Syrians share their view. Some see these people as an Islamic threat, | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
but if there's to be peace, it must be made in places like this. And | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
after so much death, positions have only hardened. And fear is never | :14:07. | :14:16. | |
far away. Even further this 19- year-old. President Assad's army is | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
slaughtering us, he said. When Kofi Annan left last time, they attacked | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
us, says this lady. She has no faith in the UN monitors. After the | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
bloodshed of the last few weeks, the truth is that these people have | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
simply come too far and lost too much to give up now. In the words | :14:37. | :14:46. | |
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of one, we will carry on protesting Flights in and out of Gatwick were | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
suspended for more than an hour today after a plane travelling to | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
the US was forced to make an emergency landing. Passengers, | :14:57. | :15:05. | |
assembled here. The Virgin flight was bound for Florida when it was | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
turned back. Firefighters said they received reports of a small fire on | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
board. 15 passengers were taken to hospital with a variety of injuries, | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
including suspected fractures. Another 17 counties have been | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
declared drought zones, with some rivers reaching the lowest level on | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
record. There are warnings that water shortages could last until | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
Wetlands running short of water, even recent rain has not helped | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
much. More rivers are running low. This is Dorset, a river important | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
for trout and salmon. In Gloucestershire, stretches of the | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
River led and are at the lowest levels recorded for this time of | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
year. The Environment Agency says 17 more counties in England are in | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
drought and it could last at least until the end of the year. We are | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
heading towards one of the worst droughts on record, certainly if it | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
continues to be quite warm and dry for the right of -- rest of the | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
summer, we are in that situation. What worries us is if it continues | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
beyond the worst we have seen historically. Agriculture is | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
suffering as well. On this farm and the Cotswolds, the river providing | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
water for livestock has dried up. It has to be pumped from a borehole | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
instead. We are short of water here. We are getting towards being close | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
to a desperate situation. At the moment there isn't enough grazing | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
for some of the sheep. They are having to be moved on to the land. | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
Here is an indication of how dry it has been. This is six weeks' work | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
of rain, just half-an-inch. It should be four times that much. The | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
drought began in June last year in parts of eastern England. By March | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
it had spread further south and across the remainder of East Anglia, | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
and then further north. Now, new areas have moved into drought, | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
taking in all of the south-west and the Midlands. But water companies | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
say why it is -- while it is an environmental concern, they have | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
enough in reservoirs and do not plan hosepipe bans like those | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
introduced for 20 million customers earlier this month. Our customers | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
will not see any restrictions over the summer, at least we don't | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
foresee any. We have sufficient water for drinking water purposes. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Water companies are looking at how they can better share resources. | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
Earlier this month, Severn Trent offered to sell water to a | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
neighbouring supplier. Regulators and the industry believe that maybe | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
one way to prepare for the possibility of a more prolonged | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
drought. But there will be a cost. We don't have the level of | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
infrastructure that would be sufficient to overcome drought | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
conditions we have currently got. We would need to invest in more | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
pumping, in more pipelines. As the drought spread, plans are already | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
being made to cope with the effects of a third consecutive dry winter, | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
if that happens later this year. Coming up: The goal that sparked | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
renewed debate about the use of technology to verify referee | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
decisions. As the stakes grow ever higher, calls for a means of | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
distinguishing between goals that should stand and ones which should | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
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A man who plotted to blow up a passenger plane has become the | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
first convicted terrorist in the UK to have his sentence cut for | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
agreeing to give evidence against other suspects. Saajid Badat, from | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
Gloucester, was an accomplice of Richard Reid, the man who tried to | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
blow up a plane with a bomb hidden in his shoe. | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
Three months after 9/11, once again aircraft with a terrorist chosen | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
target. Saajid Badat planned to be a suicide bomber, blowing up a | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
transatlantic plane. Then he decided he did not want to be what | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
was described as a courier of death. His co-conspirator, Richard Reid, | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
who became known as the shoe bomber, tried and failed to set off a | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
device on a flight to the US. He is serving life in an American prison. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
Saajid Badat was jailed in the UK for his part in the plot. Now it | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
has emerged he was released early, two years ago, after agreeing to | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
become a supergrass. He did the deal at the end of 2009. Today, | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
newly released court documents explain his apparent change of what | :19:37. | :19:47. | |
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Saajid Badat grew up in Gloucester. Those who know him are not | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
surprised he appears to have turned against radical Islam. They | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
brainwashed him. That is my opinion. Otherwise he would not have done it. | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
He was strong in faith and he knew that Islam means peace. He knows | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
that Islam will not lead anyone to do a Terrorism Act, or to kill | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
innocent people. He will testify against a man accused of plotting | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
to bomb the New York subway system. His changing position is welcomed | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
by those here, experienced in encouraging people to reject a | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
violent extremism. If he is assisting in further investigations, | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
a change of heart, understanding what he has gone through, I think | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
it is welcome, to tell the truth. Senior officers at Scotland Yard | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
said that through Saajid Badat they have obtained significant evidence | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
in relation to a number of counter- terrorism investigations. The 2009 | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
Court documents released today describe him off potential used to | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
authorities in up to 18 trials. He is the first convicted UK terrorist | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
to strike such a deal with police and prosecutors. Now he will be | :21:15. | :21:24. | |
known as the extremist who turned In Afghanistan, President Karzai | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
has criticised NATO for intelligence failings which allowed | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
Taliban militants to carry out a sustained attack in the heart of | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
Kabul. The assault lasted 18 hours and it seems British Special Forces | :21:35. | :21:45. | |
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were involved in tackling the The heart of Kabul this morning. A | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
gun battle, raging between insurgents holed up in this | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
building and Afghan security forces. The start of a new Taliban spring | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
offensive, with the nearby British embassy one of their targets. Co- | :22:03. | :22:12. | |
ordinated attacks, across Afghanistan. Soldiers, mounted a | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
desperate effort to end the siege by scaling the building. The | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
fighting lasted 18 hours, in what is almost a carbon copy of an | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
attack last year on the US embassy. President Karzai said NATO | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
intelligence failures are to blame for this embarrassing defeat. But | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
Afghan troops were celebrating when they finally regained control. | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
they come back again, we are still ready. We will be more ready to | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
give them a strong answer, as we did yesterday. In one day, 24 hours, | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
we killed all 36 of them, who came here to kill Afghans, to | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
destabilise Afghanistan. We got inside the building afterwards. On | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
every floor we saw the corpses of dead insurgents. Evidence of how | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
fierce the battle had been. It was an Afghan led operation that | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
brought the ataxia to an end. There is a general feeling that they did | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
a lot better this time than in the past. But NATO back-up was still | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
essential. We understand from Afghan security sources that | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
British Special Forces will also here in this building and played a | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
decisive role in bringing things to an end. Once the fighting was over, | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
Americans were on the scene as well, gathering evidence. They say the | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
attacks bear the hallmarks of the Pakistani based Haqqani network. | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
What worries afghans is if insurgents can do this when NATO | :23:40. | :23:49. | |
troops are still here, what will The Welsh Liberal Democrats have | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
launched their local election campaign for next month's poll. The | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
party hopes to maintain control of Swansea, Cardiff and Wrexham. It is | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
defending 140 seats across Wales. Polling takes place on May 3rd. | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
Football is lagging behind the times as one of the few sports not | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
to use technology to verify referee decisions. That is the view of the | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
Professional Footballers' Association following the latest | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
controversial decision in Chelsea's FA Cup semi-final win against | :24:18. | :24:27. | |
It is the goal that may finally forced football to act. When | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
Chelsea's Juan Mata was adjudged to have scored from this strike, Spurs | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
were furious. This is why. Replays clearly showing that the ball had | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
not crossed the line. Yet another contentious call and some believe | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
the time has come to help match officials get it right. It's not an | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
infrequent occurrence. It is so critical to the overall outcome of | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
a game that we think that help for the referee with making that | :24:54. | :25:02. | |
decision is inevitable. Lampard! Brilliant! It was in! The issue of | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
goal-line technology in football to avoid injustices like this is | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
nothing new. The debate over Sir Geoff Hurst's legendary goal and | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
the 1966 World Cup final continues to this day. Technology has been a | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
line that football has not want to cross, with those that run the | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
sport reluctant to meddle with the traditions of the game, including | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
the element of human error. As the stakes grow ever higher, calls for | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
a means of distinguishing between goals that should stand and goals | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
that shouldn't are intensifying. is looking very odd. It is looking | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
strange that football has been so perverse as to not introduce what | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
other sports have introduced successfully. Hawk-Eye, a British | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
developed camera based system has been used in tennis and is backed | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
by the Premier League. It is one of two rival solutions likely to be | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
approved by FIFA in July. The other is GoalRef, which uses sensors | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
inside the ball and around the goal to show whether the shot has | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
crossed the line. The use of five officials have also been trialled | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
in the Champions' League. But the men in the middle think that | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
technology is the way forward. would give a clear indication of | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
goal or no goal. Every referee, at every level, who had the | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
opportunity to have that in his armoury would say yes. It seems the | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
tension between technology and tradition has reached a critical | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
point. For some, change cannot come too soon. For others it will come | :26:26. | :26:29. |