:00:04. > :00:10.The senior Conservative Lord McAlpine publicly denies
:00:10. > :00:13.allegations that he abused children in care homes in North Wales.
:00:13. > :00:17.The former party treasurer hits back at allegations he calls
:00:17. > :00:21."wholly false and seriously defamatory".
:00:21. > :00:30.And tonight, the man who claimed on BBC Newsnight he'd been abused by a
:00:30. > :00:35.senior Tory says sorry. I would just like to offer my sincere and
:00:36. > :00:40.humble apologies to Lord McAlpine. That certainly is not the man that
:00:40. > :00:45.abused me. That is certainly not the man that identified as abused
:00:45. > :00:53.There had been claims and innuendo linking Lord McAlpine to the abuse
:00:53. > :00:56.in Wales for decades. His lawyer says now is the time to act.
:00:56. > :01:01.need to take a number of actions, firstly to take this down from the
:01:01. > :01:06.internet, which is not going to be easy. And then we have to look at
:01:06. > :01:12.Newsnight. In a statement in the last few minutes, the BBC has
:01:12. > :01:14.apologised unreservedly for the Newsnight broadcast.
:01:14. > :01:17.Also tonight: The Government admits it's too late
:01:17. > :01:20.to eradicate the disease killing Britain's ash trees.
:01:20. > :01:23.Tens of thousands sign a petition for the Pakistani schoolgirl shot
:01:23. > :01:26.by the Taliban to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
:01:26. > :01:34.And remembering the troops who battled against the odds in the
:01:34. > :01:44.In Sportsday, Andy Murray reaches the last four of the ATP World Tour
:01:44. > :01:58.
:01:58. > :02:01.finals - he just needed to win a Good evening.
:02:01. > :02:04.After days of speculation on the internet, in the press and on
:02:04. > :02:07.television, the former Conservative Party treasurer Lord McAlpine has
:02:07. > :02:12.publicly denied allegations linking him to the sexual abuse of children
:02:12. > :02:16.from care homes in North Wales. He's hit back at what he calls
:02:16. > :02:20."wholly false and seriously defamatory" claims against him. And
:02:20. > :02:23.this evening a victim of abuse at one of the care homes has
:02:23. > :02:27.apologised to Lord McAlpine, saying he was mistaken in his earlier
:02:27. > :02:30.belief that the Tory peer was his abuser. Steven Messham's claims
:02:30. > :02:33.were what sparked a BBC Newsnight investigation which repeated his
:02:33. > :02:38.allegations that he'd been been abused by an unnamed senior Tory
:02:38. > :02:46.from the Thatcher era. In the last few minutes the BBC has apologised
:02:46. > :02:50.for the Newsnight report. Mark Easton reports.
:02:50. > :02:55.It is now clear that the child abuse scandal of North Wales has
:02:55. > :02:59.claimed another victim. For 20 years, Lord McAlpine, close friend
:02:59. > :03:03.of Margaret Thatcher and former Tory party treasurer, has had a
:03:03. > :03:08.shadow cast upon his personal reputation. Rumours swirled around
:03:08. > :03:12.newsrooms and the internet that he had abused boys at a Wrexham
:03:12. > :03:22.children's home in the 1970s. It simply was not true. And today he
:03:22. > :03:41.
:03:41. > :03:45.found the courage, publicly, to put You can cope with political
:03:45. > :03:50.criticism. He is broken-hearted over this. His family are very
:03:50. > :03:54.upset. And he feels that, you know, bearing in mind that his health
:03:54. > :04:02.isn't that good, that this is a total shock to receive at his time
:04:02. > :04:05.in life. Lord McAlpine's statement comes two decades after rumours
:04:05. > :04:11.first circulated, but days after one of the victims of abuse in
:04:11. > :04:15.North Wales appeared on BBC Newsnight. Steve Messham claimed
:04:15. > :04:20.that a senior Tory politician had raped him. He did not name Lord
:04:20. > :04:23.McAlpine on air, but that is who he thought it was. Today, after being
:04:23. > :04:28.shown a photograph, he realised it had been a case of mistaken
:04:28. > :04:32.identity. I would like to offer my sincere and humble apologies to
:04:32. > :04:38.Lord McAlpine. That certainly is not the man that abused me and
:04:38. > :04:42.certainly not the man identified as abused me to North Wales Police in
:04:42. > :04:52.the 1990s. That is certainly not the man there was on that
:04:52. > :04:53.
:04:53. > :04:57.report. Lord McAlpine has said he is considering legal action.
:04:57. > :05:01.have to be very careful before casting aspersions against
:05:01. > :05:04.individuals, or bandying people's names around, as was being done
:05:05. > :05:08.yesterday, without proper evidence. I think every institution,
:05:08. > :05:13.journalist and politician has to think carefully about those things,
:05:13. > :05:16.so we should all study carefully what he has said. The abuse at
:05:16. > :05:20.North Wales children's homes may have happened four decades ago, but
:05:20. > :05:24.amid the current publicity, new victims -- alleged victims have
:05:24. > :05:28.come forward with stories not previously investigated. One man
:05:28. > :05:33.who contacted the BBC claims that while in care in the early 1970s he
:05:33. > :05:36.was drugged, taken away in a posh car and raped in a hotel or a house.
:05:36. > :05:41.His abuser, he says, threatened him never to breathe a word and until
:05:42. > :05:45.now he has not spoken of his ordeal. If I mentioned it in years to come,
:05:45. > :05:48.said anything, he would send the same people to come and get me and
:05:48. > :05:53.my family and I would never see them again, because he had friends
:05:53. > :05:57.in really high places. Police and other authorities are encouraging
:05:57. > :06:01.people to tell their stories, and often after decades victims are
:06:01. > :06:05.finding the confidence to speak out. But today's events are a reminder
:06:05. > :06:09.of how hard it can be to find the truth.
:06:09. > :06:13.In the last few minutes, the BBC has made a statement about
:06:13. > :06:18.Newsnight, whose report sparked the renewed allegations about Lord
:06:18. > :06:21.McAlpine. That is right. As we have heard, and unreserved apology for
:06:21. > :06:27.having broadcast the programme in the first place. A number of steps
:06:27. > :06:31.have been taken immediately. A senior news executive has been sent
:06:31. > :06:34.in to supervise tonight's Newsnight programme. There will be a full
:06:34. > :06:39.apology on that Newsnight programme for the mistakes they made in
:06:39. > :06:42.broadcasting that programme. An urgent report, we are told, will be
:06:42. > :06:47.sent to the Director General, George Entwistle, on what went
:06:47. > :06:50.wrong. Ken MacQuarrie from BBC Scotland, already involved in the
:06:51. > :06:56.Savile Inquiry is will do that. There has been a pause on all
:06:56. > :06:59.Newsnight investigations as of now. Banda also a suspension of all co-
:06:59. > :07:05.productions with the freelance investigative journalists involved
:07:05. > :07:09.with this story. -- and also a suspension. It is a real mess. The
:07:09. > :07:13.BBC is already under huge criticism, Newsnight already under future
:07:13. > :07:17.criticism. There is a strange irony in this, of course, because the
:07:17. > :07:23.first time they were criticised for not broadcasting allegations of
:07:23. > :07:26.trialled abuse against Jimmy Savile. Now they find themselves criticised
:07:26. > :07:30.for broadcasting the unsubstantiated allegations against
:07:30. > :07:34.a senior Conservative. And the pickle that they find themselves in,
:07:34. > :07:39.in a way, exemplify his, it is a perfect example of the problems
:07:39. > :07:43.with this whole area or court. On the one hand, you have victims who
:07:43. > :07:46.want to tell their stories and be believed, and on the other you have
:07:46. > :07:50.authorities who absolutely have to make sure that what they are being
:07:50. > :07:55.told us the truth. Because if you get it wrong, you get victims,
:07:55. > :07:59.victims, as we have seen today, like Lord McAlpine.
:07:59. > :08:02.The future of Britain's 80 million ash trees is in danger, with the
:08:02. > :08:05.spread of ash dieback disease now inevitable. That's the warning from
:08:05. > :08:09.the Environment Secretary. Owen Patterson acknowledged that the
:08:09. > :08:12.disease cannot be eradicated, as he unveiled a plan to try to limit its
:08:12. > :08:22.spread. Ash dieback has now been confirmed at 129 sites in England,
:08:22. > :08:22.
:08:22. > :08:27.Wales and Scotland. Here's Jeremy Cooke.
:08:27. > :08:31.Britain's woodlands, under threat. Some 30% of our trees are ash, and
:08:31. > :08:35.now it is clear that many, maybe most of them, will fall victim to
:08:35. > :08:39.this killer fungal infection. In London, a meeting of the
:08:39. > :08:43.Government's emergency COBRA committee. No doubts about the
:08:43. > :08:48.scale of the problem. We do not have a magic potion we could stick
:08:48. > :08:51.and a helicopter this afternoon and spray. There is no immediate cure.
:08:51. > :08:55.But what we are confident, from what we have seen on the Continent,
:08:55. > :09:00.is that there is a small number of these trees that can survive.
:09:00. > :09:06.Across Britain there are now 135 locations identified with ash
:09:06. > :09:11.dieback. 70 are in tree nurseries and newly planted areas, where
:09:11. > :09:16.control is relatively easy. But 65 are now in mature would land in
:09:16. > :09:21.England, probably infected by spores broke -- blown across the
:09:21. > :09:26.North Sea. There is now a general acceptance that the disease cannot
:09:26. > :09:34.be eradicated, so the focus now is not so much on how best to save our
:09:34. > :09:39.80 million ash trees, but rather on how best to replace them. Natural
:09:39. > :09:43.resistance could be a long-term answer. If DNA testing can identify
:09:43. > :09:47.the few ash trees resistant to Chalara fraxinea, they might be
:09:48. > :09:52.used to repopulate the landscape, but that means many mature, even
:09:52. > :09:56.ancient trees, could be lost. There may be no known cure for ash
:09:56. > :10:01.dieback, but some are still calling for new research to find a
:10:01. > :10:05.scientific solution. There are trees out there in excess of 1000
:10:05. > :10:11.years old. Is there anything we can actually do to prevent damage to
:10:11. > :10:16.them? Today's action plan calls for newly-planted trees to be destroyed,
:10:16. > :10:20.mature trees to be monitored but not cut down, more study of genetic
:10:20. > :10:24.resistance, and for the public to help to identify trees with the
:10:24. > :10:32.infection. But there is no disguising the fact that this is a
:10:32. > :10:37.disaster. The ash, and native, iconic species, in crisis. -- a
:10:37. > :10:40.native. In his first speech since his re-
:10:40. > :10:43.election, President Obama has laid out the argument he will take to
:10:43. > :10:47.Congress to try to avoid the looming budget crisis. Mr Obama
:10:47. > :10:50.said he was open to co-operation and compromise with Republicans.
:10:50. > :10:58.But he said he wouldn't accept a deal that didn't balance government
:10:58. > :11:02.spending cuts with higher taxes for the rich. We cannot cut our way to
:11:02. > :11:05.prosperity. If we are serious about reducing the deficit, we have to
:11:05. > :11:11.combine spending cuts with the Revenue, and that means asking the
:11:11. > :11:15.wealthiest Americans to pay a little more in taxes. Strong words
:11:15. > :11:20.from the President, but will he be able to bridge the political divide
:11:20. > :11:22.in Congress? It will be very difficult, but he is using all of
:11:22. > :11:27.the moral authority that he has got as a freshly re-elected President
:11:27. > :11:30.to get the sort of deal that he wants. The problem is that they are
:11:30. > :11:34.Republicans controlling the House of Representatives, some of them
:11:34. > :11:38.freshly elected as well, who think they have a moral mandate, saying,
:11:38. > :11:42.we want a different sort of deal. It is free difficult to bridge that
:11:42. > :11:46.gap, but it is imperative that they do, because coming down the
:11:46. > :11:50.pipeline, this automatic huge increase in taxes and huge spending
:11:50. > :11:53.cuts would wreck the American economy, the horrible for the
:11:53. > :11:58.British and the world economy as a knock-on. They know they have to
:11:58. > :12:01.sort it out, and the President is saying, at least give ordinary
:12:01. > :12:05.people a tax break, can't you do that? The Republicans will want to
:12:05. > :12:08.say, no, we have to agree the whole package, but he is putting them on
:12:08. > :12:12.the spot. The Bishop of Durham, the Right
:12:12. > :12:15.Reverend Justin Welby, has spoken of his optimism for the future of
:12:15. > :12:18.the Anglican Church, after being confirmed as the next Archbishop of
:12:18. > :12:21.Canterbury. He restated his support for women bishops. And while
:12:21. > :12:28.opposing same-sex marriages, he said there should be "no truck with
:12:28. > :12:32.any form of homophobia" in the Church. Mike Wooldridge reports. A
:12:32. > :12:35.broad welcome across the church today for Justin Welby, as he and
:12:36. > :12:39.his wife, Caroline, posed for the cameras at Lambeth Palace. Rowan
:12:39. > :12:43.Williams said his successor needs the constitution of an ox and the
:12:43. > :12:47.skin of a rhinoceros, dealing with the trench warfare between
:12:47. > :12:52.traditionalists and liberals. Justin Welby seemed undeterred.
:12:52. > :12:56.am utterly optimistic about the future of the Church. We will
:12:56. > :13:01.certainly get things wrong. I certainly will, but the grace of
:13:01. > :13:08.God is greater than our biggest failures. We will also certainly
:13:08. > :13:12.get much right. As a strong supporter of appointing women
:13:12. > :13:16.bishops, after 20 years of women priests, he hopes the compromises
:13:16. > :13:24.so tortuously hammered out will mean a Yes vote later this month.
:13:24. > :13:27.That would still leave many traditionalists unhappy. But the
:13:27. > :13:33.biggest continuing controversy in the new Archbishop's in-tray will
:13:33. > :13:36.undoubtedly be that Church's attitude to same-sex relationships.
:13:36. > :13:40.I think the future Archbishop will lead to be very careful about the
:13:40. > :13:43.sort of statements that he makes, so he does not immediately rankle
:13:43. > :13:53.with gay and lesbian people with in this country. That has caused
:13:53. > :13:54.
:13:54. > :13:57.problems. It is a fault line issue far beyond this country. A liberal,
:13:57. > :14:03.traditionalist divide across the 80 million-strong worldwide Anglican
:14:03. > :14:05.Church. From Nigeria, this warning. The homosexual agenda being
:14:05. > :14:10.promoted here and there in the Church, and by different
:14:10. > :14:14.governments here and there, if that is the agenda he is coming to
:14:14. > :14:18.promote, of course we will not be part of it. With the threat of more
:14:18. > :14:23.potential breakaways, Justin Welby's reconciliation skills will
:14:23. > :14:27.be tested. I think the whole thing about reconciliation within the
:14:27. > :14:32.Church is a major agenda. As I said in my statement, we are trying to
:14:32. > :14:36.find ways of disagreeing in a way that shows our respect and love for
:14:36. > :14:40.each other. As the next Archbishop sees it, the work of the Church of
:14:40. > :14:43.England is not primarily done at Lambeth Palace or on television,
:14:43. > :14:47.but in over 16,000 churches across the country and through the
:14:47. > :14:52.millions of hours of voluntary service done by parishioners
:14:52. > :14:55.outside the church. And whether it is about that real front line, as
:14:55. > :14:59.he calls it, or the other issues that today's world is grappling
:14:59. > :15:09.with, Justin Welby says he believes it is absolutely right for the
:15:09. > :15:11.
:15:11. > :15:20.Of coming up: the Chinese Communist official who was sacked after being
:15:20. > :15:23.caught wearing nine different watches.
:15:23. > :15:26.Thousands of people around the world have signed online petitions
:15:26. > :15:31.calling for a Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban to
:15:31. > :15:34.be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai,
:15:34. > :15:40.who is now in hospital in Birmingham, was targeted because
:15:40. > :15:43.she was campaigning for girls' education. Gordon Brown, now the UN
:15:43. > :15:47.special envoy for global education, is in Pakistan and told Orla Guerin
:15:47. > :15:52.that Malala would be were the Riz - - with the recipient.
:15:52. > :15:56.To just one month after the Taliban left her for dead, Malala is
:15:56. > :16:03.sitting up, reading get-well cards. From her hospital room in
:16:03. > :16:09.Birmingham, her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, passed on her thanks to
:16:09. > :16:14.supporters worldwide. My Lalla is recovering well, and wants me to
:16:14. > :16:18.tell you she has been inspired and humbled by the thousands of cards,
:16:18. > :16:25.messages and gifts that she has received. They have helped my
:16:25. > :16:30.daughters survive and stay strong. Back in Pakistan, others are
:16:30. > :16:36.drawing strength from her. In this school in Islamabad today, former
:16:36. > :16:40.Prime Minister Gordon Brown, now UN special envoy for education, got a
:16:40. > :16:44.lesson in the Malala effect. has been very brave. She had to
:16:44. > :16:50.stand up to people who were intimidating her, and you all seem
:16:50. > :16:58.to support her? She stood for their rights. You can't stop someone like
:16:58. > :17:02.this. She was braver. She gave us an example to follow. The girls
:17:02. > :17:08.here have big dreams. But when they grow up, many want to be just like
:17:08. > :17:12.Malala. Gordon Brown is hearing about all the ambitions the pupils
:17:12. > :17:17.have here, but there are many girls in Pakistan who never see the
:17:17. > :17:21.inside of a classroom. Malala Yousafzai risked her life to
:17:21. > :17:28.campaign for girls' education, and now in her name, the United Nations
:17:28. > :17:32.is going to carry on that fight. The special envoy is pushing for
:17:32. > :17:36.schools for 32 million girls worldwide, who are denied an
:17:36. > :17:42.education. Malala planned to campaign for them just before she
:17:42. > :17:47.was shot. I don't think there is anybody I know who did not shed a
:17:47. > :17:53.tear, who did not cry. The idea that a girl, simply for going to
:17:53. > :17:58.school, or wanting to go to school, was shot by the Taliban, is
:17:58. > :18:02.unspeakable. The a raised their voices in Malala's honour amid
:18:02. > :18:11.calls for her to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr Brown
:18:11. > :18:15.said the courageous teenager would be a worthy recipient.
:18:15. > :18:19.China's economy will be larger than those of all the Eurozone countries
:18:19. > :18:23.combined by the end of this year and will overtake the US by the end
:18:23. > :18:26.of 2016, according to the Organisation for Economic
:18:26. > :18:29.Cooperation and Development. But despite this apparent success,
:18:29. > :18:33.China's leaders have warned that the Communist Party may fall from
:18:33. > :18:37.power if it does not stop corruption. As they prepare to hand
:18:37. > :18:43.over to a younger generation, they are considering a radical way of
:18:43. > :18:49.tackling it, making party officials declare all their assets.
:18:49. > :18:54.From outside, it looks solid as a rock. But inside, China's Communist
:18:54. > :18:59.Party may be corroding. It's absolute power over a billion
:18:59. > :19:03.people leading to Rank's riddled with corruption.
:19:03. > :19:11.TRANSLATION: We have elevated the fight against corruption to a life-
:19:11. > :19:15.or-death issue for the party. But we believe we can control it.
:19:15. > :19:20.method, by spying on party members using webcams, and getting them to
:19:20. > :19:24.study more Marxism and Leninism to make them more virtuous. What has
:19:24. > :19:27.pushed the issue to the fore is the downfall of Bo Xilai, a contender
:19:27. > :19:31.for the party's new leadership, accused of massive corruption and
:19:31. > :19:37.arrested after his wife admitted killing the British businessman
:19:37. > :19:41.Neil Heywood. In China today, it is harder to hide the party's abuses
:19:41. > :19:47.of power. Under the outgoing leaders, the number of internet
:19:47. > :19:52.users here has grown ten times in the past decade, to over 500
:19:52. > :19:56.million. The internet is giving China's people a tool they have
:19:56. > :20:00.never had to scrutinise the party, and an applet to express their
:20:00. > :20:05.anger at the corruption they seek. That is why the leaders are so
:20:05. > :20:08.worried. Yun Jung Zhai was dismissed as a local official after
:20:08. > :20:12.internet users scrutinised pictures of him and found he had nine
:20:12. > :20:18.different luxury watches, with many times -- worth many times his
:20:18. > :20:23.annual salary. Ordinary Chinese are increasingly outraged. Video of
:20:23. > :20:28.this demonstration against land grabbing officials was posted
:20:28. > :20:33.recently on the anti-corruption website this man runs.
:20:33. > :20:36.TRANSLATION: It used to be that individuals were corrupt. Now it is
:20:36. > :20:41.whole groups of officials. The system is crippled. Nobody is
:20:41. > :20:45.accountable. No damaging for China's communist leaders is the
:20:45. > :20:49.extraordinary wealth that has been amassed by their own families.
:20:49. > :20:53.Legitimately, maybe, but it is embarrassing. Next week, Xi Jinping
:20:53. > :20:59.will be installed as the party's new leader. His riches are
:20:59. > :21:02.estimated at more than �200 million, while Wen Jiabao, the outgoing
:21:02. > :21:09.premier's extended family is thought to have over �1.5 billion
:21:09. > :21:15.of assets. As Hu Jintao and other leaders before him have said, you
:21:15. > :21:20.cannot have the country run by a massive kleptocracy, because one
:21:20. > :21:25.day people will get tired of this. That they may be coming closer, but
:21:25. > :21:31.since the party is unwilling to submit to any outside control, it
:21:31. > :21:34.is not clear if it can really clean itself up.
:21:35. > :21:38.With less than a week to go to the elections for police and Crown
:21:38. > :21:41.Commissioners in England and Wales, candidates have been out on the
:21:41. > :21:45.campaign trail amid fears that turnout could be the lowest for any
:21:45. > :21:48.recent election. The contest has attracted a number of independent
:21:48. > :21:56.candidates, but can they break feature additional strength of the
:21:56. > :22:00.established parties? Politicians once again on the
:22:00. > :22:04.election beat, this time campaigning ahead of next week's
:22:04. > :22:10.vote to elect police and Crown Commissioners. But some fear that
:22:10. > :22:14.these elections risk bringing party politics into the police. The
:22:14. > :22:19.uniforms may have changed since the early days of the police. What
:22:19. > :22:22.hasn't is the importance attached to the force's political
:22:22. > :22:30.independence. And yet three- quarters of those standing to
:22:30. > :22:35.become commissioners are party candidates. Now we are seeing that
:22:35. > :22:39.the party nominees are beginning to dominate, certainly numerically.
:22:39. > :22:42.And yes, if you look at the arithmetic, you can see that the
:22:42. > :22:46.majority of people who will be elected will come with a party
:22:46. > :22:50.ticket round their neck. The police and crime commissioners will have
:22:50. > :22:55.the power to hire and fire chief constables, set out a five-year
:22:55. > :23:00.police and crime plan for the local force, and they will fix the annual
:23:00. > :23:06.police budget. But there are potential conflicts. In the West
:23:06. > :23:09.Midlands, the Force is poised to privatise some of its functions,
:23:09. > :23:12.but many would-be commissioners are publicly pledged to oppose such a
:23:12. > :23:16.move, paving the way for a potential clash between the
:23:16. > :23:20.operational priorities of the chief constable and the political
:23:20. > :23:26.priorities of the Police Commissioner. In Wolverhampton this
:23:26. > :23:30.afternoon, many voters seemed apprehensive about the change.
:23:30. > :23:35.seems more political, rather than people who care about what will
:23:35. > :23:40.happen in the community. We have a Labour candidate and a Conservative
:23:40. > :23:45.candidate. But no other information than their party politics. I am
:23:45. > :23:48.looking for an independent to vote for. These are the candidates, but
:23:48. > :23:52.were for wins will have to work with local councillors and will not
:23:52. > :23:59.be allowed to interfere in day-to- day policing. We will have to see
:23:59. > :24:03.how it beds in. If the service will work constructively with a properly
:24:03. > :24:05.accountable person, it will just happen to be different. Despite the
:24:05. > :24:09.change facing the police and the dominance of the party machines at
:24:09. > :24:19.these elections, ministers believe elected commissioners will give
:24:19. > :24:27.
:24:27. > :24:31.voters a greater say in how they The actor Bill Tarmey, best known
:24:31. > :24:40.for his role as the workshy, accident-prone Jack Duckworth in
:24:40. > :24:44.Coronation Street, has died. He was 71. He appeared in the show for
:24:44. > :24:48.more than 30 years alongside his screen wife, Vera, played by Liz
:24:48. > :24:54.Dawn. Fellow actors described him as a legend who was very wise and
:24:54. > :24:59.dignified. It was one of the turning points of
:24:59. > :25:04.World War II. In 1944, British and Indian soldiers, hugely out LUNT --
:25:04. > :25:07.outnumbered, held off an onslaught from the Japanese. But the men who
:25:07. > :25:12.fought at Kohima in north-east India regard themselves as the
:25:12. > :25:17.forgotten army. As Remembrance Day approaches, Prince Andrew has been
:25:17. > :25:21.hearing some of their stories. The faces of the men whose lives
:25:21. > :25:29.were changed on a battle-scarred hilltop, the men who defended a
:25:29. > :25:32.tiny Indian settlement called Kohima. There was one soldier, who
:25:32. > :25:36.won his major came into his trench, they had been fighting for ten days
:25:36. > :25:41.and nights. He said Sir, What We Die, will it be over or will we
:25:41. > :25:47.still have to go on? Kohima lay in the path of the Japanese advance
:25:47. > :25:51.into India. 15,000 of their troops surrounded 1500 British and Indian
:25:51. > :25:55.defenders, dug into a landscape torn by explosions and littered
:25:55. > :25:59.with the bodies of soldiers who could not be buried. It one of my
:26:00. > :26:04.troops got a burst of machine gun fire, and I tried to get him out.
:26:04. > :26:13.He looked me in the face and said it is no use, I am finished. So I
:26:13. > :26:21.left him. That must have been tough. Yes. It has been on my conscience
:26:21. > :26:27.ever since. The battle lasted over a month. 10,000 lives were lost.
:26:27. > :26:34.Every night, about 9 o'clock, I drink a toast to those that were
:26:34. > :26:40.left behind. I think of the people we were surrounded with, who are
:26:40. > :26:44.not here any more. Remembrance can take many forms. The Duke of York
:26:44. > :26:49.has welcomed the veterans' campaign for an educational trust to help
:26:49. > :26:53.the local communities in Nagaland who lost lives and livelihoods in a
:26:53. > :26:57.conflict that was not of their making. On fortunately, history
:26:57. > :27:02.tends to repeat itself more frequently than we would like. We
:27:02. > :27:07.need to think about the people who it displaces and effects. This is
:27:07. > :27:12.as true today as it was in the Second World War, as it has been in