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Tonight at 10.00: Hopes of a turning point in the Eurozone debt | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
crisis. The European Central Bank promises unlimited support for | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
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countries in trouble. We will have a fully effective backstop to avoid | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
destructive scenarios, with potentially severe challenges. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
report from Spain, where there's more resistance to the prospect of | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
a bailout. We'll be asking whether this really could lead to the end | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
of the Eurozone crisis. Also tonight: In France a British family | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
murdered by a gunman. Police reveal how a daughter survived. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
TRANSLATION: We discovered the girl completely still under the legs of | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
one of the dead women. She'd stayed there all that time, totally | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
invisible. At the family home in Surrey, neighbours expressed their | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
deep sadness at the news. A very strong family indeed. A very caring | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
family. They always did things together. Relaxing the planning | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
rules in England in the search for more economic growth. COMMENTATOR: | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
It's going to be peacock. And at the Paralympics, Jonnie | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Peacock wins the big sprint battle, as Britain's athletes beat their | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on the News Channel: Warwickshire | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
celebrate becoming County Cricket Champions, healing the hurts of | :01:35. | :01:45. | |
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missing out at the elevth hour last Good evening. There are hopes | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
tonight of a turning point in the Eurozone debt crisis. The European | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Central Bank has revealed plans to offer unlimited support to the | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
weakest economies, by cutting their borrowing costs. The bank's | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
president, Mario Draghi, said it has underlined the commitment to | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
safeguard the euro and financial markets gave the plan a very | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
enthusiastic welcome, as our Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt, reports from | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
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Madrid. Troubled economies like Spain got thrown a lifeline today. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
The European Central Bank said it stood ready to buy unlimited | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
amounts of bonds, to help bring down borrowing costs for countries | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
like Spain and Italy. The markets bounced on news of an ambitious | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
plan, designed to ease the eurozone crisis. Six weeks ago, Mario Draghi, | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
the President of the ECB, promised to do "whatever it takes" to | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
preserve the euro. Today he explained how. We will have a fully | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
effective backstop to avoid destructive scenarios with | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
potentially severe challenges for price stability in the euro area. | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
So, how would the Dragutinovic plan work? The ECB would buy unlimited | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
government bonds from a eurozone country asking for help. That | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
should drive down the country's borrowing costs but there would be | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
strings attached. Nations would first have to request help from the | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
eurozone's bailout fund and accept strict conditions, such as | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
austerity measures. On the streets of Madrid today, | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
protests against a visit by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
they blame her for austerity. When she met with the Spanish Prime | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
Minister, Mariano Rajoy, would he not be drawn on whether he would | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
now be asking foral bailout. Angela Merkel spoke for the need to | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
restore confidence in the euro as a whole. Later a Spanish minister | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
cast out on whether Spain would seek help. Are you saying in the | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
short-term, certainly, that Spain doesn't need to ask for a rescue? | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
According to the figures, and according to the financial | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
situation right now, we believe that we can be self-sufficient. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
go to regions like Castile-La Mancha to see why Spain might need | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
a rescue. For companies like this furniture factory, it is a harsh | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
climate. Consumers are not spending and it is almost impossible to be | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
find credit. Once bustling industrial estates in this nearby | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
area are shuttered. The town, like so many, is struggling with huge | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
debt. Even the street lighting is being reduced here. Today's | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
announcement was the ECB's big bazooka. There will be no limits on | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
the amount of government bonds the Central Bank can bie. Quite simply, | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
they can continue until the borrowing costs of those troubled | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
countries are brought down. As to the markets, well, they soared on | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
the news. All eyes will now be on Spain. Will it ask for help? And | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
will it accept possibly tough new conditions? | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Watching that with me our Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders. Could | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
this be the big breakthrough that starts to resolve this crisis? | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
think it is a pretty significant day. If you think back over the | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
last two years, the big question that has been hanging over the | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
eurozone, hanging over governments, is who is in charge? Who is there | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
to stand behind this currency ultimately when it is under | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
pressure? Who is going to hold it together? Governments have tried to | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
play that role. The European Central Bank hasn't wanted the play | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
that role but many people, over time, have decided it was the only | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
institution capable of convincing the markets. In a sense it has | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
blinked. It has said db OK there will be conditions, the governments | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
have to be seen to be doing the right things but if you are Spain | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
or Italy and markets are punishing over questions about the euro and | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
are suggesting you are about to default on your debt or leave the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
single currency, we are going to protect you and do what it takes to | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
protect to you bring down your borrowing costs. I think it is | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
significant. We have critics from the German Central Bank who would | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
say it isn't a long-term solution, it is propping up governments and | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
storing up probsz for the future but for a lot of people out there, | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
it is significant. -- storing up problems. For the first time there | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
is an insurance policy against some of the worst outcomes people have | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
been talking Bif you are begt on Spain or Italy leaving the euro or | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
defaulting on your debt, you might now find yourself betting against | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
the central most important bank in the world. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Police in France have given more details of yesterday's shootings in | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
which three members of a British family were murdered, and their | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
young daughter was seriously wounded. A second daughter was | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
found alive by police hours later, hidden among the bodies. A cyclist | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
was also found shot dead nearby. The father has been named locally | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
as Saad al-Hilli from Claygate in Surrey. The family were on holiday | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
near Lake Annecy, from where Jon Kay sent this report. In the | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
tranquility of the Alps, a fleet of herss carrying the bodies of a | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
family from Surrey, gunned down on their summer holiday. | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
They'd been in their car at this remote beauty spot when they were | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
shot in the head at point-blank range. The police say what happened | :07:33. | :07:42. | |
in this vehicle was an act of extreme savagery. This woman heard | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
the automatic gunfire. She told me it lasted 30 seconds, and then | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
silence. "why? Why did it happen here? Was | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
it random, was it some kind of revenge attack? Those poor little | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
girls, it is horrible," she says. At the campsite where the family | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
have been saying, the police are trying to find answers. They say | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
there is no clear motive for the attack, but one possibility is that | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
it was a targeted assassination. They are looking into the family's | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
background in Iraq and Mr Hilario's work as a satellite engineer. -- | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
pll Saad al-Hilli's work. The police have been talking to | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
other holiday-makers, searching through the campsite, trying to | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
find clues to explain what has happened. So what do we know? The | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
family left the campsite yesterday around lunch time and drove their | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
BMW from the small town of Saint- Jorioz, along a tourist route | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
through the forests to the Hamlet of Chevaline. Next we know is just | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
before 4.00pm, local time, their car was found by a British cyclist. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Inside were the bodies of the three adult members of the family. | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Outside the older daughter was found seriously injured. The body | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
of a local man was also discovered. It's thought he might have been | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
shot because he happened to witness the killings. Police sealed off the | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
area, and it was only when forensic teams arrived from Paris, eight | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
hours later, that the four-year-old girl was found in the car, hiding | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
under her dead mother's legs. TRANSLATION: The little girl is | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
deeply upset and traumatised. She has asked for her family. We need | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
to help her and her older sister explain to us what has happened. | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
On the shores of Lake Annecy, there is disbelief tonight. Disbelief | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
that it took so long to find the little girl. But also disbelief | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
that the shootings happened here at all. These British holiday-makers | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
were driving in the same area at the time of the attack.! It's scary. | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
When we looked at the map this morning, and traced where we had | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
been and how close it was to the -- to where the incident happened. | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
It's dreadful. As well as shock, there is fear in this region | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
tonight, that the perpetrators are still at large. The French | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
President says everything possible will be done to find them and to | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
restore the Alpine calm. As we've heard, Saad al-Hilli was | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
originally from Iraq and moved to Britain where he worked as a | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
computer engineer and lived in Claygate in Surrey, where | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
neighbours have been trying to come to terms with the news, as Ben | :10:32. | :10:42. | |
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Geoghegan reports. A few days ago, Saad al-Hilli left his home here in | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
Claygate, towing his caravan to France for a family holiday. | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
But this afternoon the police arrived and local people began to | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
realise that it was their own neighbour who had been brutally | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
murdered in France. Shock and - you know, you just feel sick. French | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
police say Saad came to the UK from Iraq in 2002. Although neighbours | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
think the family moved here much earlier. His wife, Iqbal, trained | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
as a dentist in Iraq and was hoping to practice in the UK. Saad worked | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
for a firm in Guildford, called Surrey satellites, and he had other | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
business interests. Neighbours say they were a very close family | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
was an engineer. Very dedicated to his family and to his children and | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
very proud of his children as well. And it's indeed a very sad loss and | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
a very, very sad day for everyone who has known him and a very sad | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
day, of course for his children because, it will be very difficult | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
for them to grow up without a father or a mother. The question | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
being asked by everyone is why Saad al-Hilli and his family were | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
attacked, and why it was so violent? They were shot through the | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
head, so that sounds like a professional killing, which is | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
really very worrying, because you wouldn't think it was a casual | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
killer who would do that. That's a worrying thing. But the reason for | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
that, I haven't got a clue. Police have been here all afternoon at the | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
home in Claygate and they have spoken to some of the neighbour | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
abouts what has happened to Saad al-Hilli and his family. It is | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
clear that officers here in the UK will play an important part in the | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
investigation in southern France. Saad's two daughters may hold the | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
key to this investigation. But no- one knows when they'll be able to | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
speak about what has happened to them. | :12:36. | :12:46. | |
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And no-one knows, if they will ever return to the family home. | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
For the latest from the French Alps tonight let's talk to Jon Kay who | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
is there. Do you detect any sign of any meaningful progress in this | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
investigation now? On the face of it, Ehui, no, not at the moment. -- | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
Huw, no. No news of any breakthrough in this investigation. | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
No sign of any arrests, as far as we know there is a gunman or gunmen | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
at large in this remote part of the French Alps close to the bored we | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
are Switzerland. The French authorities are stressing they are | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
committing large resources to this but are taking it very seriously. | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
They know they face criticism for failing to find the little girl in | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
the car for so long. They say that happened because they were trying | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
not to disturb the evidence, trying not to contaminate the scene of the | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
crime. The British Ambassador has been here tonight and he says he | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
has no problem in the way in which the French authorities are doing | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
this. The police here say they are ruling nothing out. And of course | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
the danger of that is that it means that every rumour, every conspiracy | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
theory in a way is an open door but they know that the two people they | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
really need to talk to, are those two little girls who survived the | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
incident but the gendarmes have told us that they know that talking | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
to those little girls is going to be a long, difficult and very | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
sensitive process. We will get an Businesses and housing associations | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
have welcomed the Government's plans to boost house building in | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
England. For a limited period, homeowners will be able to build | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
bigger extensions without planning permission and some developers | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
won't need to include affordable homes when building new | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
developments. But Labour says it's hardly likely to make a difference | :14:23. | :14:32. | |
to economic growth, as James Landale reports. These are the | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
apprentices who will get the jobs to bill the homes that will house | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
the families and get the economy moving. That is why David Cameron | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
hopes will happen when he relaxes the building rules, changes | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
planning laws and offers hope to first-time buyers. I want private | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
and social housing built. We want to get Britain building and both | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
those things will happen. It should provide at least 140,000 jobs, and | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
saying to people, if you want to build a conservatory and a house, | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
you can. Let's get Britain building and hope to get Britain working. | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
today, he and Nick Clegg rewrote the rules for building in England. | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
Homeowners can extend their houses by up to eight metres without | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
planning permission and there will be similar changes for businesses. | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
There will be held for up to 16,000 first-time buyers by extending a | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
scheme where the Government and developers lend people up to 20% of | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
the deposit for a mortgage. But perhaps most importantly, the rules | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
forcing developers to build affordable housing will be relaxed | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
next year, so commercially risky schemes become more viable and are | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
more likely to go ahead. The firm behind this development in | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
east London has to ensure that one third of the flats will be | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
affordable, sold or rented below market value. But today's changes, | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
agreed last night, mean that for the next three years, firms will be | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
freer to build more profitable homes. In return, the Government | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
will build 15,000 affordable homes at a cost of �300 million. The | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Government has a huge problem with the economy. There is not enough | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
growth. Today, the economic think- tank the OECD slashed its forecast | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
for Britain saying the economy this year will shrink by 0.7%. So the | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
Government's fate depends in part on more homes like these being | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
built. The question is, will these new reforms make a difference? The | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
view from industry and housing groups was that they would. | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
welcome help for first-time buyers, which is good news for | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
housebuilders and first-time buyers. We are pleased with the reforms | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
that will help to build their homes and we would like more hope for | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
homebuyers. At the end of the day, it is the problem of deposits, so | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
we would like more money channelled in from the Government. Those not | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
building but adding to Holmes said relaxing planning for extensions | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
would help, but more could be done. I welcome it but I think it needs | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
to be tied with a serious look at the VAT threshold, because for us | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
that is the real killer. That is music to his ears - Labour wants | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
the VAT cut, too, and he does nothing more extensions amount to a | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
proper economic policy. I want these schemes to work. I do not | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
want the economy stuck in the position that it is in, but I fear | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
this will not have the effect the Government is hoping for because | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
they are not dealing with the central problem, the failure of | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
Plan A. But David Cameron and Nick Clegg believe as they can give | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
Britain building they will be on to a winner. But for now, they will | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
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just have to cross their fingers. Coming up on tonight's programme. | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
A third gold for David Weir on a night of British success at the | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
Paralympics. In a few hours Barack Obama will | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
address the Democratic Convention in North Carolina and accept his | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
party's nomination for a second presidential term. His candidacy | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
has already been given a stirring endorsement by former President | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
Clinton who warned Americans against handing the White House to | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
the Republicans. Let's join our North America editor, Mark Mardell, | :18:06. | :18:15. | |
at the convention. Well, the crowd are enjoying a | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
performance by James Taylor at the moment but in a few hours it will | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
be the President on the stage. Surprisingly, with just 60 days to | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
go before the vital election, he has not really set out what he | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
would do with his second term in the White House. We know his vision, | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
but this is a chance to talk about his plans. Earlier, his record was | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
defended by one of the biggest beasts of American politics. | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
President Bill Clinton. The once disgraced President wrote to the | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
rescue. Obama mania has faded, along with hope and change, and the | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
man who defends himself as a little country boy is the best for now. | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Only sheer charisma can hold a crowd enraptured with a speech of | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
facts and figures explaining Obama's achievement, riffing on his | :19:06. | :19:15. | |
values, defending his record. we where we want to be today? No. | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Is the President's satisfied? Of course not. But are we better off | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
than we were when he took office? The President came on, a brief | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
Hyogo. They are not friends but they are now allies. It -- there | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
was a brief embrace. Although the magic has faded, many still love | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
Obama. But the streets outside the convention centre bear witness to | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
the raw passion raised in this election. If you Oreo homosexual... | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
Particularly on issues like gay marriage and abortion. Detailed | :19:54. | :20:04. | |
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plans are another matter. Thomas voted for Obama last time but he is | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
wavering and is here looking for answers, asking what the President | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
will do if re-elected. Most of what I have heard is about gay marriage, | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
abortion, social issues. I am not going to have an abortion and am | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
not worried about gay marriage. I am concerned about the economy and | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
I am not hearing a lot of answers about the economy. That will make | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
my decision at this election. 2008, Obama's election rally was | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
inspirational. Tonight was going to be in another big stadium. | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
Democrats say that it was moved because of the weather, but | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
Republicans say it was because they could not fill the seats. Obama has | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
had four years now. He did not focus on the economy, the debt and | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
the deficit. Anything contrary to that tonight is just smoke and | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
mirrors. Tonight, Obama stands alone, his turn to defend his | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
record. They are clapping now and I'm sure | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
there will be raptures when the President comes on stage, but there | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
is no doubt about his soaring rhetoric. People will be looking | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
out to see if he gets the tone light in the middle of a difficult | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
economic time, and if he comes up with any details about what he | :21:13. | :21:23. | |
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would do in a second term. In South Africa, a small number of | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
miners are back at work at the mine in Marikana where 34 strikers were | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
shot dead by police last month. A breakaway union refused to sign the | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
deal with the owners which was meant to bring an end to the long- | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
running dispute over pay levels. Karen Allen reports. | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
Jubilation, as protesters walked free today from court, as murder | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
charges against them were withdrawn from what has now been called the | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
Marikana Massacre. This, the enduring image of the strike, | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
protesters at the mine gunned down as they demanded more pay. Pictures | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
captured the moment when the police opened fire. 34 miners dead. Now, a | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
maverick youth leader, expelled from the ANC, has repeated his call | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
to make the mind is impossible to govern. What do we mean by that. I | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
mean they must put down their tools. I am not calling for violence. I am | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
not calling for killing of anybody. Workers must refuse to sell their | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
labour. But hours after this March late yesterday, a breakthrough. | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
Management at the platinum mine and all but one of the trade unions | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
signed a deal paving the way for talks. It is very important for | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
people to return to work. That frees us up to engage in this | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
negotiation and within the next 30 days to find ways of ensuring that | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
we can arrive at an amicable solution. Meanwhile, bleak scenes | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
at the Marikana mine today, as storms saw further protest | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
dismissing the deal cancelled. The weather seemed a fitting metaphor | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
for the turbulence of the past few weeks. Although the hailstorms have | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
scuppered plans demonstrations, they have served to expose the | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
appalling conditions so many South African as the face. This dispute | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
is as much about ongoing inequality and frustration about leadership as | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
it is about pay. I find a striking miner mopping up after another | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
downpour. Once, this family voted for the ANC without question. They | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
hoped that their lives would improve. But political infighting | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
and broken promises have left them out in the cold. Who do you blame | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
for the ongoing inequalities? TRANSLATION: I think the government | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
are responsible. They are the ones in charge. They are the ones who | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
should be blamed. It is their duty to improve our lives. What happens | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
here may be a wake-up call, but not an Arab Spring. Even so, there is | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
bitterness that poverty that stubbornly persists is being used | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
to settle political scores. It has been a great night for | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
Britain at the Paralympics. Jonnie Peacock has won his 100m final, the | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
showcase sprint event of the Games, beating defending champion, Oscar | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
Pistorius of South Africa. Earlier, there was a third gold medal on the | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
track for David Weir, as Britain surpassed its metal target, as | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
David Bond reports. -- It's a medal target. | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
The Olympic Stadium has already witnessed so many great nights, but | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
for the Paralympics this promised to be the best so far. There might | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
be more than 20 different 100m finals, but here was the most | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
eagerly anticipated. Britain's Jonnie Peacock, the fastest amputee | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
in the world, against Oscar Pistorius, the face of the Games. | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
Even before it started, the 19- year-old was in complete command. | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
And once the gun went, it was obvious we were watching the | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
emergence of a new sporting superstar. Peacock had his right | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
leg amputated after contracting meningitis as a young boy. He only | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
took up sprinting in the last three years, but here he was, beating a | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
world-class field which included Pistorius. The South African as one | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
last shot at individual gold in the 400m, but this felt like a Changing | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
of the Guard. If Peacock is the new Prince of Paralympic track-and- | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
field, David Weir is the undisputed king. With two gold medals already | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
under his belt, he was aiming for his third in the T 54800 metres. It | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
was tight, but the roar of the home crowd it did its bit again. He will | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
aim to complete an unprecedented quadruple in the marathon on Sunday. | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
Earlier, Hannah Cockroft set the tone for a remarkable evening by | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
winning the T34 200m and completing the sprint double. If the Olympics | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
had super Saturday, there is no question today was the most | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
memorable day of the Paralympics for Great Britain. From the stadium | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
to the swimming pool, to the Cycling, there was success after | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
success, as the hosts surpassed their medal target for the Games. | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
At Brands Hatch, Sarah Storey won the women's Road Race by a | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
staggering seven minutes. That is now four gold medals in London and | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
11 Paralympic titles, an achievement which equals the modern | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
British record held by Dave Roberts and Tanni Grey-Thompson. What she | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
has achieved is amazing, because to compete at six Games and IND two | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
sports is something very few people can do. 15-year-old Josef Craig | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
also showed himself to be a rare talent tonight, breaking the world | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
record for the second time in a day, as he powered to gold medal in the | :26:55. | :27:04. |