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Still no end to the hostage crisis in Algeria. While at least four | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
Britons are known to be safe, ten are believed unaccounted for. Some | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
of the hundreds of workers being held by Islamist militants have | :00:15. | :00:24. | |
been freed but it's unclear exactly how many remain in danger. As much | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
as we are glad to be out, our thoughts are with colleagues who | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
are still there at the moment. The Prime Minister is in regular | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
contact with his Algerian counterpart who explains why the | :00:35. | :00:43. | |
rescue operation was launched without any warning. He said the | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
tourists tried to flee, and that they judged an immediate threat to | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
the lives of hostages and felt obliged to respond. -- terrorists. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
As the crisis heads towards its fourth day, we'll bring you the | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
latest on the mission to release those still held captive. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Also tonight: A day of heavy snowfall across the | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
UK brings disruption to roads. Rail services are severely affected and | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
hundreds of flights are cancelled. South Wales was issued with a red | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
warning from the Met Office. The snow left thousands of homes | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
without power. How China's former powerhouse | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
economy is faltering, growing at its slowest rate for a decade. | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
Through all seven of your tour de France victories, did you ever take | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
banned substances? Yes. In Sportsday: | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Mauricio Pochettini faces an uncertain welcome at Southampton as | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
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the new manager, after Saints Good evening. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
Around ten Britons are still unaccounted for as the hostage | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
crisis at a remote gas plant in Algeria continues. There is little | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
hard and fast information emerging from what is a complex and | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
confusing situation, but this is what we do know tonight. Three days | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
since Islamist militants stormed the plant, hundreds of Algerian and | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
foreign workers have now been freed. Four Britons are thought to be safe | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
but one Briton is understood to have been killed. David Cameron has | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
told MPs that Britain will do everything it can to hunt down | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
those behind what he called the "brutal and savage" incident. James | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
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One of the survivors one of the survivors of the attack. Algerian | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
state TV has been showing pictures of some who escaped the gas complex, | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
including several from Britain, starting their journey home. They | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
are still confused about details of first the hostage taking and then | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
the Algerian military response. Very, very relieved to be out, | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
obviously. We still don't know what has happened back on site. So as | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
much as we are glad to be out, our thoughts are with colleagues that | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
are still there at the moment. feel safe at the moment but I will | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
not feel 100% happy until I am back in the UK and I see my family. My | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
heart goes out to the guys that are still there. Hopefully they will | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
come home safe. David Cameron briefed MPs this morning, saying | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
Algeria's Prime Minister told him troops were still pursuing | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
terrorists and the remaining hostages. He said the terrorists | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
had tried to flee, and that they judge there to be an immediate | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
threat to the lives of hostages and felt obliged to respond. Last night, | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
the number of British citizens at risk was less than 30. Thankfully, | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
we now know that number has been significantly reduced. What do we | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
know about this hostage crisis, one of the most complex in recent | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
years? The gas installation is located in remote desert in the | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
east of the country, close to the Libyan border. It was attacked | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
under cover of darkness in the early hours of Wednesday morning. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
The first targets were two buses on route to an airfield. Two workers | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
were killed, including one Briton. Then the residential compound was | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
seized and many hostages taken. The militants moved on to the nearby | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
gas processing plant, seizing more of the workforce. On Thursday, | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Algerian security forces went in hard, apparently convinced the | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
militants were planning to flee into the desert, taking their | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
hostages with them. There is still great uncertainty, but Mark Grant | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
is known to be among a number of Scots who have survived. So did | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Stephen McFaul from Belfast. He told his wife he had had explosives | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
tied around his neck. She described the experience that he had as truly | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
horrific. And it is clear from what she told me that, unfortunately, | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
there are a number of the kidnapped victims who have not been as | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
fortunate as Stephen. This is the man accused by Algeria of | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
masterminding the attack. Mokhtar Belmokhtar was a senior Al-Qaeda | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
commander and too much -- last year, but also specialises in kidnap for | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
ransom and cigarette smuggling to finance operations. Both Japan and | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
the United States are victims of this attack, Japan sharply critical | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
of the Algerian military response. Hillary Clinton says utmost care | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
must be taken to preserve life, but she is also talking tough. We will | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
not rest until we do as much as we can, alone and in concert with our | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
partners, to restore security to this vital region and to bring | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
those who would terrorise and kill innocent people to justice. Amid a | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
joyful reunions for some, the ordeal for others goes on. With | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
militants threatening more attacks on energy facilities, security | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
across North Africa is being urgently refused. | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
We can speak to Nick Robinson in Downing Street. With this crisis | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
heading towards its 4th day, this is going to be a tense night in | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Downing Street, waiting for news. Another night for the hostages, | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
their families and friends, and another night for Downing Street | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
where, unusually in a crisis of this sort, they feel almost as | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
powerless as the families. There are no British forces in the area | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
and, I am told, no plans to send British forces into the area. They | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
are entirely dependent on the Algerian government and its | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
military to release the remaining hostages. Not just that, but | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
entirely dependent on the Algerian government for any news about the | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
fate of the hostages. Except, that is, if anyone emerges and | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
telephones. The reason the numbers are smaller than they were when I | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
was speaking last night is because in the early hours of the morning | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
and during today, one or two people emerged to call family and friends | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
and to say, I am safe. Or else there were people who said, I have | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
seen your son or husband. That is how this news is currently getting | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
out, which is why the Prime Minister, although looking strained, | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
I think, was a little relieved at that news. But what was most | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
striking about today's statement in the House of Commons by the Prime | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
Minister was not what he said about this crisis but what he said about | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
North Africa as a whole. Bear in mind that for many people, and I | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
include myself, we are talking about countries we barely know and | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
cannot 0.2 on the map. And yet David Cameron today talked about | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
Al-Qaeda, extremist terrorism, his words, in North Africa, in terms | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
last used by Tony Blair about Iraq or Afghanistan, in other words, as | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
a location for terrorist bases, as a potential source of real danger | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
to Britain and to Europe. Long after this particular crisis is | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
over, it is clear to me that we will still be talking about these | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
countries. We will still be talking about North Africa. And we will be | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
talking about possible British long-term military involvement. | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
Heavy snow has caused severe disruption across the UK with the | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
closure of roads, runways and thousands of schools. The Highways | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
Agency warned drivers to avoid travelling tonight, while the RAC | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
says reaching stranded motorists has been a "real challenge". | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
Hundreds of flights at airports, including at Heathrow, have been | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
cancelled and some rail services delayed, as Luisa Baldini reports. | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
It was forecast, it did arrive, and it has lived up to its expectations. | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
The first major UK-a wide snowfall of the winter swept up the Bristol | :09:07. | :09:17. | |
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Channel, over the Welsh mountains, Commuters who tuned to local radio | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
found little to encourage them. Those who did venture out, whether | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
on foot or on four wheels, must have wished they had not. This is | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
the worst I have known it for quite a few years, to be honest. | :09:52. | :10:01. | |
roads have been bad in places where the salt is not working. Through | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
the day, the snowy tightened its grip on many airports. Over 400 | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
flights were cancelled at Heathrow, where runaways had to be | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
temporarily closed. Overlooking Heathrow, we have been able to see | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
snowploughs working continuously throughout the day. Heathrow | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
Airport has invested �36 million in their snow contingency plans over | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
the last three years, including more than doubling their fleet of | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
snow clearing vehicles, so they can do as much as they can to keep the | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
airfield running. But they have less control over the visibility. | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
Visibility was so bad, air traffic control had to reduce the number of | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
flights landing and taking off, which led to many cancellations. In | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
Birmingham, travellers packed into departures and revise their plans. | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
In Southampton, they had to wait until this afternoon to see flights | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
resume. Safety is paramount and we have to make sure the runway is | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
without any slush for ice on it, and the actual duration of the | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Synod today has been 11 hours and the best part of 10 centimetres. - | :11:08. | :11:17. | |
Rail operators reported difficulties across England and | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
Wales, delays and cancellations which extended into the Friday rush | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
hour. There has been disruption and there is likely to be continued | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
disruption for the rest of the evening, although we are keeping | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
trains moving. For many, the weekend will offer some respite | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
from travel worries, but then further snow is forecast, just as | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
we turn our thoughts to a fresh working week. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
The worst affected area today has been South Wales, where the Met | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Office issued a red warning for snow for the first time in two | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
years, meaning the snow presents a risk to life. Up to 12 inches of | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
snow has fallen and thousands of homes are without electricity. | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Hywel Griffith is in Merthyr Tydfil for us tonight, How bad is it | :12:01. | :12:11. | |
there? Well, it has finally stopped snowing but the winds mean there is | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
still a risk of smoke drifting. The red warning from the Met Office | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
finally expired about an hour ago, but several parts of the UK are | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
under Amber and yellow warnings, meaning people still need to take | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
care if they head out, particularly on the roads. Altogether, it has | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
been a day to test people's resolve. Buried in a blizzard. Across the | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
West Country and Wales, a blanket of snow faced those trying to start | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
their day. In Bristol, commuting must have felt what an uphill | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
struggle. With over 3000 schools closed in England, Scotland and | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
Wales, including this one in Portishead, many parents were | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
forced to change their plans at the last minute. Pupils with A-level | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
and GCSE exams were encouraged to attend where possible. The severe | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
weather added to the stress for these teenagers in Stroud. Lots of | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
our friends will not be able to make it in, and they will have to | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
resit in the summer, which is annoying. One family face them | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
equally anxious morning, having woken to find that these cars had | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
landed with the snow. We heard this almighty crash. My husband was | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
outside looking to see if there was any further damage. And her vehicle | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
had come right the way through and my husband had to rescue the driver | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
out of the back passenger door. With sub-zero temperatures, losing | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
the power supply was the last thing homeowners in Pembrokeshire wanted. | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
Tonight, 1000 people are still without electricity. And in the | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
hills of west Wales, concern for the livestock ahead of the lambing | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
season. The Met Office's red alert for South Wales successfully | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
convinced many people to stay at home and avoid unnecessary journeys. | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
This road goes through the Red Zone, the main dual-carriageway that | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
connects the heads of the South Wales valleys. Normally, this would | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
be busy with commuters, but today there are just a few hardy souls | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
venturing out. In Merthyr Tydfil, it took the grit and a fair bit of | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
determination to help to get people to work. The few shops that manage | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
to open were soon raided for supplies of milk and bread. Others | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
closed early so that staff could try to find a way home. But in many | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
parts of the country, that journey was a miserable one. Snowed turned | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
to ice, and the road home became an obstacle course. There are a few | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
who relish days like this. But most will hope the weekend will see | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
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The biggest risk now comes from some of the snow turning to ice, | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
particularly as temperatures will drop below zero, and I am sorry but | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
the forecast for this weekend is for yet more cold weather. | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
A BBC team has found evidence of a massacre that took place this week | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
in central Syria. Local people said at least 100 people were killed and | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
burned in their homes. Some blamed government militia, others rebel | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
forces. Lyse Doucet has just returned from the village of | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
Haswiya, near the city of Homs, and sent this report. I should warn you | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
it contains some very distressing images. | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
The army took us in. The village of Haswiya is just around the corner | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
from their base. As we enter the village, there is a powerful sense | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
of shock. Police stormed into my house, this woman says, they | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
slapped my face, I fell on the floor, they beat and stripped me | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
and my daughters. Most of the killings took place in | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
houses down this hills. The army tells us they have clear the area, | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
taken away the bodies. But they say it is not safe for us to go further. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
We persuade them to let us take another route. And the horror | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
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There is blood on the cement and a body... Is straddling the doorway. | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
One is brought in the yard. Impositions which suggest they were | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
trying to flee. -- in positions. These people had been shot and | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
burned. The bottle of fuel is still there. Further inside this compound, | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
another grim discovery. A trail of blood from the kitchen. At least | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
two people seem to have been killed here. Their bodies dragged away. | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
The floor is still littered with bullet casings. And around the back, | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
even more bodies. A woman, completely chart... In her | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
bed. The soldier with a says hundreds of men came across these | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
fields. He says they were from the Nusra Front, an Islamist group the | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
BBC interviewed this week. They denied killing civilians. All sides | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
do. Others in the village gave us the same account in front of the | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
soldiers to surround us. One person manage to speak to us of camera, | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
out of their earshot. She told us the army was there that day, that | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
some had apologised, saying others were acting without orders. | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
Activists say this was the work of pro-government militia known as | :17:58. | :18:07. | |
shibiha. Some day we will know who did this. A war crime happened here. | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
Coming up on tonight's programme: Could vicious rivalry be why | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Moscow's star of the Bolshoi Ballet is now in hospital, the victim of | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
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China's leaders have revealed that the country's economy is growing at | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
its slowest rate for more than a decade. From more than 11% six | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
years ago, annual growth has fallen below 8%. That is still a figure to | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
be envied by most nations. But China is struggling to modernise | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
its economy and develop new, high- tech industries. | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
Through the grime, the sun barely shines, the tower blocks, shadows. | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
This is industrial Wuhan on the banks of the Yangtze. Chairman Mao | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
built its giant iron and steel works, one of the biggest in the | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
world, which employs 80,000 people. As China boom, so did this business | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
but now China is slowing and Wuhan is struggling to make a profit. The | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
slowdown in the economy means there is too much steel and iron being | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
produced. As a giant state-owned enterprise, Wuhan has been told to | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
cut production but is not allowed to cut large numbers of jobs to | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
save money. It is China's dilemma. Giant state firms still dominate | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
parts of the economy. Many are inefficient but where will new jobs | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
come from? TRANSLATION: It is light deep | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
winter for the whole of the steel industry. It may last another five | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
years. To get through, we need to reform and diversify. Despite the | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
problems at its biggest employer, Wuhan is one of the fastest-growing | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
parts of China. Construction, everywhere you turn. China's new | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
leaders know the building spree cannot last for ever. The whole | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
economy needs reform. So to replace the grimy old ways, they are | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
encouraging spotless new industries. Innovation and high technology are | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
what Wuhan now craves. Here they make screens for mobile phones. | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
Hire skilled, higher-paying jobs, what China wants its future to look | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
like -- high skilled. In the past, China is succeeded by producing on | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
a massive scale. Low-quality but low cost. We are losing that | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
advantage. In the coming tenure is, we have got to change. -- in the | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
coming ten years. That means China's new consumers becoming a | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
mainstay of the economy. Imports, not exports. That should be good | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
news for Western brands looking for new markets. We are expecting | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
Chinese imports of goods from the rest of the world will be two | :21:11. | :21:19. | |
trillion dollars. Rising income should mean rising spending as | :21:19. | :21:27. | |
China grows his middle classes. The Prime Minister is set to warn | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
that the UK risks leaving the European Union unless there is | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
reform in the EU. David Cameron was due to give a long-awaited speech | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
on the UK's relationship with Europe today, setting out a | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
positive vision for the future of the EU, but had to postpone it to | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
respond to the Algerian hostage crisis. Vicki Young is in | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
Westminster. The speech has been postponed but some extracts of what | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
David Cameron was going to say have been released. | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
Yes, and his argument was going to be that he wants the UK to play an | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
active role in the EU but only if it changes its ways. He would look | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
at prosperity, say the EU needs less regulation, but also the issue | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
of unpopularity, not just in Britain. He think citizens feel | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
that EU institutions are too remote, too expensive and not | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
democratically accountable. His warning is that the danger is that | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
Europe will fail and British people will drift towards the exit. No | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
details on the referendum. Many Tories are pleased he is addressing | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
the threat from UKIP but Labour are warning that these years of | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
uncertainty are bad for Britain. The artistic director of the | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
Bolshoi Ballet in Russia has suffered severe burns after a man | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
threw acid in his face. Sergei Filin was attacked outside his home | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
in Moscow late last night. His colleagues say there is little | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
doubt the incident is linked to vicious rivalries within the ballet | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
community, as Steven Rosenberg reports from Moscow. | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
He was a big start at the Bolshoi Ballet. Sergei Filin graced the | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
famous stage but 20 years, eventually becoming the Bolshoi | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
Ballet's artistic director. Now he has become the target of horrific | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
attack. Today, a Russian TV showed Sergei Filin in hospital. A man | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
came up to me, he says. He threw something into my face. It was an | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
acid attack. Doctors are fighting to save his eyesight. The incident | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
happened late last night, as Sergei Filin was arriving home. Police | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
have recovered the job that contains the acid. They are now | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
hunting for the attacker. At the Bolshoi Ballet today, a deep sense | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
of shock. It is impossible. I cannot believe. I don't understand | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
how it is possible. It is...! why was he targeted? One theory put | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
forward by the Bolshoi is that Sergei Filin had made enemies in | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
his role as artistic director. puts this person to play this role. | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
That means that some other girl cannot play this role. Every day he | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
takes a decision which are not pleasant to everybody. It is normal | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
in theatre world. But it is not normal that the reaction is light | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
that. Today the Bolshoi Ballet revealed that Sergei Filin had | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
recently expressed concern over growing intimidation. His car tyres | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
had been slashed. He suffered a cyber attack. Now he has suffered a | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
physical attack, which are sent shockwaves through the world of | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
Russian culture. -- which have sent shockwaves. | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
Archaeologists hunting for World War II Spitfires in Burma say they | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
now believe there are no planes buried at the sites where they have | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
been digging. The team says the evidence does not support the | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
original claim that as many as 124 Spitfires were buried there at the | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
end of the war. But the project leader insists they are looking in | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
the wrong place and he remains convinced Spitfires are buried in | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
Burma. Senior figures in the world of | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
cycling have criticised Lance Armstrong's appearance on the Oprah | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
Winfrey Show last night, where he confessed to using performance | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
enhancing drugs after years of angry denials. In the interview he | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
claimed that using drugs was part of the job, like having air in his | :25:28. | :25:37. | |
tyres. Lance Armstrong, champion, icon, | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
campaigner and now, in a confession televised around the world, liar. | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
For more than a decade, he denied using banned drugs. Finally today, | :25:47. | :25:55. | |
he told Oprah Winfrey the truth. This is too late. It is too late | :25:55. | :26:05. | |
:26:05. | :26:09. | ||
for probably most people. And that is my fault. You know, I view this | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
situation as one big lie. That I repeated a lot of times. Armstrong | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
turned the Tour de France into a one-man show, winning seven | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
consecutive titles. We now know every one of them was achieved with | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
the help of EPO, testosterone and blood doping. This is my body. And | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
I can do whatever I want to it. Even as suspicions grew, he went on | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
the attack, a bracingly denying and bullying those who doubted the | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
Armstrong fairy-tales. Everybody wants to know what I am on. What am | :26:47. | :26:55. | |
I on? I am on my bike. It is a major flaw. It is a guy who | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
expected to get whatever he wanted and to control every outcome. And | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
it is inexcusable. When I say there are people that will hear this that | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
will never forgive me, I understand that. As ever with Lance Armstrong, | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
this interview was a carefully calculated strategy, the first step | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
on a personal journey to redemption, but while he finally admitted his | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
guilt, he showed few genuine signs of remorse, refused to name names | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
and left a lot of important questions unanswered. He has | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
already been stripped of these, his prized yellow jerseys. But his | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
confession now leaves him vulnerable to perjury charges and | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
multi-million-dollar lawsuits. And what of cycling's governing body? | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
They stand accused of failing to tackle the culture of doping and | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
bungling the ongoing review into the Armstrong affair. Some BO | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
believe that France should look beyond the crisis. -- some though. | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
Every big expected him to tell the truth but we have to remember that | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
is one man, it is not the whole sport -- everybody expected him. | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
The huge majority of cyclists are clean. Thanks to Armstrong, many | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
will find that hard to believe and until cycling shows it is prepared | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
to tackle its toxic past, there will still be doubts about its | :28:19. | :28:21. |