:00:09. > :00:12.Tonight at Ten - two police women have been shot dead in Manchester.
:00:12. > :00:22.They were both responding to an emergency call, which turned out to
:00:22. > :00:22.
:00:22. > :00:27.be a trap. Clearly, this is one of the darkest days of Greater
:00:27. > :00:34.Manchester police, if not the Police Service overall. They were
:00:34. > :00:41.attacked with a gun and a hand grenade at a house in Mottram.
:00:41. > :00:48.heard lots of gunshots, like bang, bang, bang. A man handed himself in,
:00:48. > :00:51.already a suspect in two murders. Also tonight - fewer joint patrols
:00:51. > :00:54.in Afghanistan, says NATO, after the latest attacks on coalition
:00:54. > :00:57.forces. William and Kate on their foreign tour are pleased with a
:00:57. > :00:59.French ban on those topless photos. Seven weeks to polling day,- as
:00:59. > :01:07.Mitt Romney tries to explain controversial remarks in a secret
:01:07. > :01:17.recording. And, Ronaldo has the final word against Manchester City
:01:17. > :01:17.
:01:17. > :01:20.in a dramatic night in the Champions League. Coming up - Kevin
:01:20. > :01:30.Pietersen's England future hangs in the balance after he's left out of
:01:30. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:46.the squad to India, dispute an apology. - despite an apology. Good
:01:46. > :01:49.evening. In one of the worst incidents in the history of British
:01:49. > :01:52.policing two female officers have been shot and killed in Greater
:01:52. > :01:56.Manchester. PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone were responding to what
:01:56. > :01:59.turned out to be a bogus emergency call. Shortly after, a man handed
:01:59. > :02:04.himself into police. Dale Cregan was already wanted in conncetion
:02:04. > :02:14.with two murders. Our home editor, Mark Easton, is in Manchester
:02:14. > :02:15.
:02:15. > :02:19.tonight. Well, mercifully murders of police officers in the line of
:02:19. > :02:23.duty are actually rare occurrences, but here in Manchester tonight,
:02:23. > :02:30.colleagues of the two dead officers are talking about the long, dark
:02:30. > :02:34.shadow which has fallen across the whole of the Police Service. It was
:02:34. > :02:37.a routine call on I sunny morning, but it became one of the blackest
:02:37. > :02:41.days in the history of British policing. The tents and sheets of
:02:41. > :02:44.investigators now around the lawn of an unaassuming terrace house,
:02:44. > :02:48.where two pim police constables were shot and killed -- women
:02:48. > :02:51.police constables were shot and killed. Nicola Hughes and Fiona
:02:51. > :02:55.Bone answered a call to what they were told was a burglary. They were
:02:55. > :03:01.not to know they were being led to a man regarded as one of the most
:03:01. > :03:05.dangerous in a country, a fugitive with a �50,000 reward on his head.
:03:06. > :03:09.29-year-old Dale Cregan was being hunted in connection with two
:03:09. > :03:14.murders. The blue light were still flashing on the car and the two
:03:15. > :03:18.were targeted by gunfire. Witnesses said there was a crackle of
:03:18. > :03:24.numerous bullets and then an explosion. The two officers fell to
:03:24. > :03:29.the ground. I heard ten shots quite close together, bang, bang, bang,
:03:29. > :03:33.like that. Really loud shots close by. Then I heard a big bang, like a
:03:33. > :03:37.big explosion about ten seconds after the shots. The police
:03:37. > :03:41.officers were coming up the road crying. About four or five police
:03:41. > :03:46.officers crying. Today, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester
:03:46. > :03:49.police suggested that the two women were deliberately lured to their
:03:49. > :03:53.deaths. We believe either he has made the call or got somebody else
:03:53. > :03:59.to make the call and it would appear, yes, for the purposes of
:03:59. > :04:03.drawing the two officerss to that particular scene. And then he shaz
:04:03. > :04:10.come out and shot and -- he has come out and shot and killed them
:04:10. > :04:17.both. Absolutely, it would appear to be deliberate. It's an act of
:04:17. > :04:20.absolutely cold-blooded murder. around lunchtime, he walked into a
:04:20. > :04:28.police station in the Hyde area of Manchester, where he was arrested
:04:28. > :04:32.and later driven away. Tributes have been paid to the two women
:04:32. > :04:38.officers - flowers already laid close to where they died. Nicola
:04:38. > :04:41.Hughes was 23 and described today as a great bobby, always smiling.
:04:41. > :04:46.32-year-old Fiona Bone had been planning to get married. Colleagues
:04:46. > :04:50.said he was a calm, gentle woman. It's a shocking reminder of what
:04:50. > :04:55.the police do on our behalf. There are more armed police officers and
:04:55. > :04:59.there are more armed response units, but this was supposed to be the
:04:59. > :05:04.response to a domestic burglary and that wouldn't normally require
:05:04. > :05:08.armed officers. He had been the target of a major police hunt.
:05:08. > :05:11.Armed officers sent on to the streets of Manchester to pursue a
:05:11. > :05:15.man linked to two shocking murders. In May a 32-year-old had been shot
:05:15. > :05:21.dead in the Cotton Tree pub, a killing that bore the whole marks
:05:21. > :05:26.of a gangland execution. Three months later, the dead man's father
:05:26. > :05:30.was gunned down in his own home. Pictures revealed what appeared to
:05:30. > :05:33.be a grenade detonated as part of the attack. It's a trail of
:05:33. > :05:38.violence that Chris crosses the outskirts of Manchester. The pub
:05:38. > :05:43.killing of Mark Short took place here in Droylsden, after his father
:05:43. > :05:48.David had condemned that shooting, he too was killed in nearby Clayton.
:05:48. > :05:52.Now two police officers murdered outside an empty house in Mottram.
:05:52. > :05:55.Police today talked of a gangland feud. There will be questions as to
:05:55. > :06:00.how this could have happened. How two unarmed constables were sent to
:06:00. > :06:05.an estate in a district where senior officers suspected a highly
:06:05. > :06:09.dangerous man was, being protected by a criminal conspiracy to harbour
:06:09. > :06:14.him. Those questions are not for now. The police are now
:06:14. > :06:18.investigating the cold-blooded murders of two colleagues, while
:06:18. > :06:23.praising the courage and sense of duty the two women took with them
:06:23. > :06:26.each day on beat and above all mourning their loss. Mark, you list
:06:26. > :06:32.some of the inevitable questions there and of course, the inevitable
:06:32. > :06:37.debate now about the way that police can protect themselves.
:06:37. > :06:41.course. There is real concern here tonight about what we need to learn
:06:41. > :06:45.from the tragic events of today in terms of how to protect officers,
:06:45. > :06:50.who put their lives on the line, when they patrol the beat. There's
:06:50. > :06:54.also concern, I think, that we don't move on from this tragedy and
:06:54. > :06:57.damage something equally important - the relationship between
:06:57. > :07:04.neighbourhood officers and the communities that they serve. The
:07:04. > :07:09.Chief Constable of granch told me only a few weeks -- Greater
:07:09. > :07:13.Manchester told me only a few weeks ago, that the police carrying
:07:13. > :07:15.Tasers can appear like the military. He Paz put on the wall of the
:07:15. > :07:19.headquarters of the police the principles of Robert Peel and one
:07:19. > :07:22.of which being, the police are the public and the public are the
:07:22. > :07:25.police. I think that for him and for many senior officers and even
:07:25. > :07:30.those on the beat here in Manchester, there's a concern that
:07:30. > :07:34.we don't take from this the feeling that every police officer has got
:07:34. > :07:39.to be armed, because there's a danger that we then look as though
:07:39. > :07:43.police is enforced rather than having policing by consent. There
:07:43. > :07:49.is this balance to be struck, but tonight our thoughts are really not
:07:49. > :07:52.so much about the tactics and the analysing of the situation, and
:07:52. > :07:57.more about the enormous loss felt here in Manchester and across the
:07:57. > :08:03.Police Service at the deaths of two splendid, young constables. Mark,
:08:03. > :08:06.thank you. NATO has announced restrictions for the time being on
:08:07. > :08:09.joint missions with Afghan security forces. More than 50 NATO troops
:08:10. > :08:14.have been killed by Afghan soldiers and police this year, including two
:08:14. > :08:17.British soldiers at the weekend. But the Defence Secretary, Philip
:08:17. > :08:26.Hammond, has told MPs that there is no change in strategy for British
:08:26. > :08:30.forces. Our defence correspondent, Caroline Wyatt, has more details.
:08:30. > :08:34.Working side by side with Afghan forces is at the heart of NATO's
:08:34. > :08:38.exit strategy in Afghanistan, but now it seems a little more distance
:08:38. > :08:43.has been put between them. It's emerged that on Sunday NATO told
:08:43. > :08:47.its forces to seek clearance from the general before going on lower
:08:47. > :08:50.level operations with Afghan troops. That's made it look as though the
:08:50. > :08:56.Taliban's insider attacks were having an effect, not least at a
:08:56. > :09:00.time of raised tensions over the anti-Islamic film made in America.
:09:00. > :09:05.Sergeant Gareth Thursby and 18- year-old Private Thomas Wroe were
:09:05. > :09:10.shot dead on Saturday: the latest in a growing number of killings by
:09:10. > :09:15.Afghan forces. Increasing the pressure on NATO to do more to
:09:15. > :09:20.limit casualties. These measures are prudent and temporary in
:09:20. > :09:25.response to the current situation. We have said all along that we will
:09:25. > :09:31.take every step necessary to minimise the risks to our troops
:09:31. > :09:33.and that's what we are doing. confusion over the orders for
:09:33. > :09:39.British troops, the Defence Secretary was summoned to
:09:39. > :09:44.Parliament to explain. This is not a strategic initiative that's been
:09:44. > :09:48.taken here. It's a tactical one by commanders in theatre, operating
:09:48. > :09:51.within their delegated responsibility. We would not seek
:09:52. > :09:57.to interfere with the military judgment of commanders on the
:09:57. > :10:01.ground. He insisted British troops would continue to patrol alongside
:10:01. > :10:05.Afghans. But with emotions running high, a Labour MP was suspended
:10:05. > :10:11.from the chamber after refusing to withdraw this remark. Isn't this
:10:11. > :10:16.very similar to the end of the First World War, when it was said
:10:16. > :10:22.that politicians lied and soldiers died and the reality was, as it is
:10:22. > :10:27.now, that our brave soldier lions are being led by ministerial
:10:27. > :10:32.donkeys? Some MPs questioned what was being achieved in Afghanistan,
:10:32. > :10:40.whether the UK still -- where the UK still has 9,500 troops. That
:10:40. > :10:46.will come down to 9,000 with the combat operations ending this year.
:10:46. > :10:49.In Kabul a mini bus was blown up by a young, female suicide bomber.
:10:49. > :10:54.Apparently in retaliation for the controversial anti-Islam video.
:10:54. > :10:58.British and Afghan troops helped in the aftermath. But all this adds to
:10:58. > :11:03.the impression of a campaign in which trust between the forces and
:11:03. > :11:06.public support back at home is ebbing away as NATO heads towards
:11:06. > :11:15.the exit. Live now to Kabul and our world
:11:15. > :11:20.affairs editor, John Simpson. John, they're stressing these temporary
:11:21. > :11:25.measures. How do you see the likely impact on the hand over? To start
:11:25. > :11:30.off with, I think there was an element of panic on the part of
:11:30. > :11:36.Washington over this. They lost four soldiers over the weekend, a
:11:36. > :11:41.weekend where Britain lost two soldiers and less than two months
:11:41. > :11:45.before an election I think the US administration just felt it had to
:11:45. > :11:49.be seen to be doing something and something quickly, so quickly they
:11:49. > :11:55.didn't actually tell the British beforehand. The British had to find
:11:55. > :12:00.out about this after, as did the Afghans. The thing is that this is
:12:00. > :12:05.of course the most essential issue at the moment, this whole question
:12:05. > :12:11.of insider killings. Last week, for instance, Philip Hammond, the
:12:11. > :12:15.Defence Secretary, came here and I heard him saying to his Afghan
:12:15. > :12:22.counterpart that this insider killing business was dangerous for
:12:22. > :12:27.the whole strategy of leaving the - of both countries leaving
:12:27. > :12:33.Afghanistan, both the British and Americans. That's a serious kind of
:12:33. > :12:39.expression to use. The fact is that this sort of mentoring, this sort
:12:39. > :12:44.of walking around and patrolling and so forge has been actually very
:12:44. > :12:48.successful -- forth, has been actually very successful, but it
:12:48. > :12:51.doesn't look successful at a time when NATO feels it's doing pretty
:12:51. > :12:58.well against the Taliban, but you wouldn't be able to understand that
:12:58. > :13:01.from the outside. John, thank you. Three generations of the same
:13:01. > :13:03.family have died in a suspected arson attack in South Wales.
:13:03. > :13:06.Grandmother, Kim Buckley, her daughter Kayleigh died along with
:13:06. > :13:11.her six-month old daughter Kimberley, after the fire broke out
:13:11. > :13:21.in the early hours of this morning in Cwmbran. A 27-year-old man has
:13:21. > :13:22.
:13:22. > :13:26.been arrested on suspicion of arson The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
:13:26. > :13:31.have welcomed a decision by a French court to ban distribution of
:13:31. > :13:34.images of the Duchess sunbathing topless. Judge has ordered the
:13:34. > :13:38.publishers to hand over the photos within 24 hours. Prosecutors are
:13:38. > :13:45.considering pressing criminal charges against the photographer,
:13:45. > :13:50.as Christian Fraser reports. The paradise of Tuvalu, a very
:13:50. > :13:54.different kind of airport transfers. On this tour, the Duke and Duchess
:13:54. > :14:02.have risen above the controversy in France. How could they not in the
:14:02. > :14:04.face of such a welcome? Together, they took part in a colourful
:14:04. > :14:08.highland dancing competition, an occasion where every move is
:14:08. > :14:12.studied closely, but this was the kind of occasion when the royal
:14:12. > :14:18.couple are happy to be on show. It is the private moments that are out
:14:18. > :14:22.of bounds. Thousands of miles away in the Paris suburb of Nanterre,
:14:22. > :14:26.the media were massed around the court clerk, where a representative
:14:26. > :14:33.from the Royal lawyer's office was handed the injunction. Are you
:14:33. > :14:37.happy for your client? Yes, it is a good result, she said. In the
:14:37. > :14:42.judgment, the magistrates banned the future publication and resale
:14:42. > :14:47.of the offending photographs. There will be a 10,000 euros fine, �8,000,
:14:47. > :14:51.for every breach of the order. All the photos are to be handed over to
:14:51. > :14:55.the Duke and Duchess within 24 hours, with another 10,000 euros
:14:55. > :14:59.fine for each day of delay. This lawyer said it was the best
:14:59. > :15:03.possible outcome. The damage has been done, and what the royal
:15:03. > :15:07.couple can hope for is that future damage will be limited if not
:15:07. > :15:12.eliminated by this decision. the Duke and Duchess welcomed the
:15:12. > :15:17.wording, it was, said the man shakes, a prickly exposure on the
:15:17. > :15:20.front page. -- said the magistrates. There is no mention of the
:15:20. > :15:25.photographer in his judgment, although the newspapers speculate
:15:25. > :15:29.he or she may be British. How the photographer was employed by Closer
:15:29. > :15:31.magazine will determine who owns the intellectual property rights.
:15:31. > :15:36.It means that in spite of this judgment, the photographer could
:15:36. > :15:40.still be free to sell the image is abroad. What is more, the ruling
:15:40. > :15:44.only refers to images published, and the editor of Closer magazine
:15:44. > :15:47.has already suggested there are more intimate pictures. These
:15:47. > :15:51.outstanding questions will be covered by the criminal case which
:15:51. > :15:54.the prosecutor opened today. As part of that inquiry, he must
:15:54. > :15:58.determine who is the accused and from which position the photographs
:15:58. > :16:02.were taken. There is a road that runs past the chateau in Provence,
:16:02. > :16:07.with the lawyer acting for the royals say he would need a long
:16:07. > :16:11.telephoto lens to view the balcony. Today's ruling will at least put
:16:11. > :16:15.down a marker. From William in particular, there is a keen sense
:16:15. > :16:18.of wanting to protect his wife. There are obvious parallels here
:16:18. > :16:26.with the treatment suffered by his late mother, and he has made it
:16:26. > :16:34.clear he will resort to the courts again if and when it is necessary.
:16:34. > :16:41.Coming up on tonight's programme: Gervinho! A rather good night for
:16:42. > :16:45.Arsenal in France in their Champions League clash.
:16:45. > :16:49.With just seven weeks to go to the US presidential election,
:16:49. > :16:53.Republican candidate Mitt Romney is having to explain more of the
:16:53. > :16:57.Commons secretly recorded at an event in May. He is heard telling
:16:57. > :17:00.party donors that the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in
:17:00. > :17:05.establishing peace and are committed to Israel's destruction.
:17:05. > :17:09.He says millions of Americans see themselves as victims, dependent on
:17:10. > :17:14.the state. Mark Mardell considers the potential effect of this on the
:17:14. > :17:18.Romney campaign. Mitt Romney does not need headlines
:17:18. > :17:24.like this just 49 days before America votes. His latest problem
:17:24. > :17:27.is the left-leaning magazine Mother Jones publishing a secret video of
:17:27. > :17:31.a dinner with rich financial supporters. The candidates suggests
:17:31. > :17:41.almost half of all Americans are scroungers who would be bound to
:17:41. > :18:00.
:18:00. > :18:02.He also said peace in the Middle East is unthinkable to accomplish
:18:02. > :18:07.because Palestinians have no interest in it and want to destroy
:18:07. > :18:12.Israel. Within hours of the video becoming public, he called a hasty
:18:12. > :18:18.late-night news conference. It is not elegantly stated, let me put it
:18:18. > :18:22.that way, I am speaking of the Cup. The Obama campaign raced out a new
:18:22. > :18:27.advert, the remarks playing to their portrayal of Romney as rich
:18:27. > :18:31.and remote. It shows that he is out of touch if he thinks half of the
:18:31. > :18:37.country feels like victims. Victims? I would not say so.
:18:37. > :18:41.real problem for Mr Romney is that this is not a one-off. He has spent
:18:41. > :18:44.the last seven days explaining away controversial remarks, rather than
:18:44. > :18:48.punching home his message and arguing his case to the American
:18:48. > :18:53.people. And his campaign seems to have descended into semi-public
:18:53. > :18:56.bickering, panicked by the polls. In the race for the White House,
:18:56. > :19:00.Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were neck-and-neck through the summer,
:19:00. > :19:06.but after the party conventions the President pulled ahead. That has
:19:06. > :19:09.narrowed today, but the surge had already spooked the Romney campaign.
:19:09. > :19:13.The campaign has been a little ragged around the edges, it needs
:19:13. > :19:18.to be sharper, the candidate needs to be more focused. That said, by
:19:19. > :19:22.any measure, Romney is in pretty good shape, no worse than four
:19:22. > :19:26.points behind an incumbent President, no worse than even with
:19:26. > :19:29.money. He is pretty strong but he has got to get better. Mitt Romney
:19:29. > :19:33.and the President agreed there is a gulf between their visions of
:19:33. > :19:37.America, but the Republican candidate is learning the hard way
:19:37. > :19:44.that scornfully dismissing voters on the other side of the divide is
:19:44. > :19:49.not particularly good politics. More than 2000 students in Wales
:19:49. > :19:54.have had their GCSE English results upgraded. Of those, 1,200 had their
:19:54. > :19:58.grades changed from a D to a C. The Welsh government intervened after
:19:58. > :20:04.students were awarded lower grades than expected in August. In England,
:20:04. > :20:09.ministers have refused to intervene. The rate of inflation fell slightly
:20:09. > :20:14.in August. Measured by the Consumer Prices Index, the increase in the
:20:14. > :20:20.cost of living was 2.5%, down from 2.6% in July. Hugh Pym has been
:20:20. > :20:24.looking at the figures. It is one guide to how well the
:20:24. > :20:26.economic machine is working, the speed at which prices are
:20:26. > :20:32.increasing, and at the County Show in Berkshire at the weekend
:20:32. > :20:36.families enjoying the sunshine all had views on that. The latest news
:20:36. > :20:41.is that inflation, the cost-of- living increases, has been shipped
:20:41. > :20:48.back. Measured by the Consumer Prices Index, the annual rate was
:20:48. > :20:52.5.2% last September, but it had fallen to 2.5% by August this year.
:20:52. > :20:56.Seb and Elizabeth were at the show with a young family. They say they
:20:56. > :21:00.can cope with the current rate of price increases. We are in a lucky
:21:00. > :21:05.position, I have just got a new job and we are sorted financially. We
:21:05. > :21:09.have noticed bills going up, but really we are all right. Even with
:21:09. > :21:12.lower inflation, prices are still rising, and the family needs to
:21:12. > :21:17.watch what happens to the hard- earned cash. When you do the weekly
:21:17. > :21:21.shop, it does seem very expensive. We try to come up with seven meals
:21:21. > :21:25.of an evening, and by the time you get to the till, you think you have
:21:25. > :21:30.done well and then you see the price come up. Yeah, it is very
:21:30. > :21:36.expensive. Michael Bowden was one of the show's organisers. He farms
:21:36. > :21:39.in the area near Newbury. Back in his day job, preparing to sow the
:21:39. > :21:43.seed for the next crop, he has been watching global grain prices rising,
:21:43. > :21:48.partly because of drought and the USA. He believes this will
:21:49. > :21:56.eventually affect consumers here. It is not just �5 or �10 per tonne
:21:56. > :22:00.for a ton of wheat. The prices have gone up �40 per tonne. That will
:22:00. > :22:03.have a big knock-on effect. price of grain, and other
:22:03. > :22:08.agricultural products, is always important for shoppers and a range
:22:08. > :22:11.of businesses, but just where it goes from here is particularly
:22:11. > :22:17.significant for policy makers as they try to work out where
:22:17. > :22:20.inflation is heading. What happens in the farmyard and on world
:22:20. > :22:23.agricultural markets could have an impact on prices paid by shoppers,
:22:23. > :22:28.although there is no certainty in that. It is simply a warning that
:22:28. > :22:34.while inflation is falling, it may come down further, but there could
:22:34. > :22:37.yet be a change of direction. In China, the trial of a police
:22:37. > :22:41.chief accused of covering up the murder of the British businessmen
:22:41. > :22:44.Neil Heywood has come to an end in the city of Chengdu. Officials said
:22:45. > :22:49.that Wang Lijun had not contested the charges and might receive a
:22:49. > :22:54.lenient punishment. The wife of a senior politician has already been
:22:54. > :22:59.convicted of murdering Mr Heywood. Damian Grammaticas has the latest.
:22:59. > :23:06.He was once a hero in China, the crime-fighting cop now a villain on
:23:06. > :23:11.trial in after he spilled this country's dirty secrets. He exposed
:23:11. > :23:15.murder, cover-up and corruption by some of China's most powerful. The
:23:15. > :23:20.court was ringed by police, the trial supposedly open, but off-
:23:20. > :23:25.limits to journalists. China's Communist leaders, embarrassed,
:23:25. > :23:28.wants to close the scandal. It began in the giant city of
:23:28. > :23:32.Chongqing, where Wang Lijun was a police chief doing the dirty work
:23:32. > :23:36.for his Communist Party boss. In February, he made a dramatic flight
:23:36. > :23:40.to the nearest US consulate, where he sought refuge and dropped his
:23:40. > :23:45.bombshell. He told diplomats that Neil Heywood, a British businessman
:23:45. > :23:49.who died in China last year, had been murdered by this woman, Gu
:23:49. > :23:54.Kailai, the wife of Bo Xilai, one of China's most powerful
:23:54. > :23:59.politicians. Last month, she was convicted of the Britain's killing.
:23:59. > :24:02.Wang Lijun had initially help to cover up the crime, but now he is
:24:02. > :24:05.co-operating in the hope that he will escape a death sentence. The
:24:05. > :24:10.parts of the trial that have happened in secret are the most
:24:10. > :24:16.sensitive ones. His attempt to defect, charges that he secretly
:24:16. > :24:21.recorded conversations, and what Wang Lijun has done is open a
:24:21. > :24:25.window into the usually closed word and embroiled the Communist Party
:24:25. > :24:31.in scandal that it wants to resolve, so it can press ahead with its
:24:31. > :24:34.leadership change due in just a few weeks' time. Outside the court
:24:34. > :24:39.today, a lone protester quickly dealt with. The Communist Party
:24:39. > :24:43.seems far less sure what to do about Bo Xilai, once a contender
:24:43. > :24:48.for a leadership post, now suspended. His fall has left its
:24:48. > :24:52.divided and tarnished at a critical juncture.
:24:52. > :24:55.Some football news, a busy night in the Champions League with both
:24:55. > :24:59.Manchester City and Arsenal in action. Patrick Geary has been
:25:00. > :25:03.watching the action. The champions of England and Spain
:25:03. > :25:07.divided by a fence, but much more separates them in football terms.
:25:07. > :25:12.Real Madrid have been crowned kings of the Continent nine times, and
:25:12. > :25:20.they set about asserting their status. To stay in it, Joe Hart
:25:20. > :25:24.have to be at his acrobatic best. City had no option but to remain
:25:24. > :25:29.patient until they found a hole in the white blanket. Edin Dzeko, a
:25:29. > :25:35.substitute, shook everything up. Real Madrid rallied, the full-back
:25:35. > :25:40.Marcelo was invited into ruin the fund. His deflection finely
:25:40. > :25:44.outfoxed Joe Hart. The game lost its moorings. City took the lead,
:25:44. > :25:48.shabiha Alonso searching into his own net, and a famous victory was
:25:48. > :25:53.back on. And then in a stroke of the boot, it was gone again, Real
:25:53. > :25:58.Madrid level and now hungry. In the last minute of the 90, the ball
:25:58. > :26:04.fell to Cristiano Ronaldo, once of Manchester United, the Master of
:26:04. > :26:07.the theatrical. Arsenal's campaign began with a jolt, provided by
:26:07. > :26:14.Thomas Vermaelen, handing Montpellier the chance to take the
:26:14. > :26:18.lead. Despite all that, the Gunners are confident cross-Channel
:26:18. > :26:23.campaigners, and their record in France is impressive, as was their
:26:23. > :26:28.equaliser, scored by Lukas Podolski. Before long, they had the advantage,
:26:28. > :26:32.Gervinho left blissfully alone to make it 2-1. It would not stay that
:26:32. > :26:37.simple, Montpellier pushed hard for an equaliser, but Arsenal will be