:00:09. > :00:17.Britain's newest partnership in the fight against terror, David Cameron
:00:17. > :00:21.flies into Algeria to sign a Remembering the British victims of
:00:21. > :00:25.the Algerian hostage crisis, Mr Cameron is offering shared
:00:25. > :00:28.intelligence and joint planning. intelligent approach that brings
:00:28. > :00:33.together all the things we need to do with countries in this
:00:33. > :00:36.neighbourhood to hold them and make us safer, too. We will be asking if
:00:36. > :00:41.the Algerians will make dependable partners.
:00:41. > :00:45.Also tonight, an angry reaction from motoring organisations after
:00:45. > :00:49.an official report says drivers are not being ripped off at the pumps.
:00:49. > :00:54.This is a bit of a whitewash, because the OFT has said there is
:00:54. > :00:57.no problem with prices rising like a rocket and falling like a feather.
:00:57. > :01:01.They have looked at it for six weeks, we have looked at it for six
:01:01. > :01:05.years. Highly radioactive waste in need of
:01:05. > :01:09.a home, the search for a disposal facility is still on after Cumbria
:01:09. > :01:12.says no. And a dramatic appeal for gun-
:01:12. > :01:22.control and America from the Congresswoman shot in the head two
:01:22. > :01:25.
:01:25. > :01:29.years ago. Be bold. Be courageous. Americans are counting on you!
:01:29. > :01:32.Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, a busy night in the
:01:32. > :01:42.Premier League, all the scores, or the consequences ahead of transfer
:01:42. > :01:55.
:01:55. > :01:59.Good evening. David Cameron is in Algeria tonight, the first visit by
:01:59. > :02:02.a British prime minister in more than 50 years. After a meeting with
:02:03. > :02:06.the country's leaders, he has unveiled a new security partnership
:02:06. > :02:09.that could include shared intelligence and joint planning in
:02:09. > :02:13.the fight against Islamist militants in the region. It follows
:02:13. > :02:17.the death of dozens of foreign workers, including six British
:02:17. > :02:21.citizens, after insurgents linked to Al-Qaeda to control of a gas
:02:21. > :02:25.plant two weeks ago. Political editor Nick Robinson is travelling
:02:25. > :02:31.with the Prime Minister and has just sent this report.
:02:31. > :02:34.It may look like Kent, but this is the coast of North Africa. He plays
:02:35. > :02:42.David Cameron has warned could become a magnet for Al-Qaeda
:02:42. > :02:48.terrorism. -- the place. What happens here has the capacity to
:02:48. > :02:54.affect us all, the Prime Minister claims. Two weeks after six Britons
:02:54. > :02:57.died in an oil plant in the desert, it hardly needs saying. At the
:02:57. > :03:02.memorial to the martyrs, the thousands who died here fighting
:03:02. > :03:07.the French, the obvious question, though, is whether foreign
:03:07. > :03:09.involvement makes things better or worse. What I wanted to his work
:03:09. > :03:13.with the Algerian government and with other governments in the
:03:13. > :03:16.region to make sure that we do everything we can to combat
:03:16. > :03:20.terrorism in a way that is both tough and intelligent and uses
:03:20. > :03:25.everything we have at our disposal, which will make them safer and make
:03:25. > :03:29.a saver, make the world safer. you reassure people watching that
:03:29. > :03:34.North Africa will not become too David Cameron Watt Afghanistan or
:03:34. > :03:37.Iraq were for Tony Blair? I can give that assurance, because we do
:03:37. > :03:43.not look at this region of the world and think that the answer is
:03:43. > :03:47.purely a military one. It is not. What is required in countries like
:03:47. > :03:52.Mali, just as Somalia on the other side of Africa, is a combination of
:03:52. > :03:55.a tough approach on security, aid, politics, settling grievances and
:03:55. > :04:02.problems, and an intelligent approach that brings together all
:04:02. > :04:06.the things we need to do to make them and us savour. This is the new
:04:06. > :04:12.front line in what David Cameron has called a generational struggle,
:04:12. > :04:16.much of it a vast stretch of desert. The gas plant is over 800 miles
:04:16. > :04:21.south of the capital. Next door, Libya, now so dangerous that
:04:21. > :04:26.British people have been advised to evacuate Benghazi. And the
:04:26. > :04:29.Algerians believe that the terrorists who attacked the oil
:04:29. > :04:35.plant trekked across the Sahara from Mali, where French soldiers
:04:35. > :04:39.are now fighting. When the cameras were not filming the Prime Minister
:04:39. > :04:45.and his Algerian counterpart, they were joined by the head of MI6 to
:04:45. > :04:50.agree a security partnership, the sharing of intelligence and advice
:04:50. > :04:56.on board an aircraft security. The Cameron vision is not just better
:04:56. > :05:00.security, but expanded trade links and, of course, oil. David Cameron
:05:01. > :05:04.insists that his approach to this region, to North Africa, is to help
:05:04. > :05:11.what he calls this neighbourhood to help itself. The question that he
:05:11. > :05:16.knows he faces at home, though, is at what price, in men and the money.
:05:16. > :05:23.His answer, working with countries we once ignored is cheaper than
:05:23. > :05:26.walk, and cheaper than doing nothing. -- war.
:05:26. > :05:30.As we have heard, the Prime Minister says Algeria is critical
:05:30. > :05:34.in the fight against terrorism in North Africa and beyond, but what
:05:34. > :05:38.kind of relationship can the UK expect? Special correspondent Allan
:05:38. > :05:41.Little is here. George. When Algerian forces
:05:41. > :05:45.stormed the gas plant that had been seized by Islamist militants this
:05:45. > :05:48.month, it should have come as no surprise. Violence and the fight
:05:48. > :05:52.against Islamic extremism have played prominent roles through much
:05:52. > :05:57.of the country's modern history. The Algerian state has been moulded
:05:57. > :06:02.by that experience. Today's Algeria was born in
:06:02. > :06:07.violence. Its decade-long war for independence from colonial France
:06:07. > :06:10.ended in 1962. It was a pity -- bitter and bloody guerrilla
:06:10. > :06:16.conflict. Both sides use torture, there was acts of terror against
:06:16. > :06:20.civilians. When it ended, Algeria said 1.5 million people had died.
:06:20. > :06:24.The euphoria of independence did not last long. Post-colonial
:06:24. > :06:28.Algeria became a one-party dictatorship, Islamic militancy
:06:28. > :06:32.took root among the opposition, the country slipped into a civil war
:06:32. > :06:36.that lasted throughout the 1990s. The state crackdown on the
:06:36. > :06:40.Islamists was ruthless, tens of thousands were killed. Peace and
:06:40. > :06:44.security were restored by the end of the 1990s, but the social
:06:44. > :06:50.conditions in which extremism had grown have not gone away.
:06:50. > :06:53.challengers are, how does President Bouteflika and his government
:06:53. > :06:59.produce social change in that country? How do they get the wealth
:06:59. > :07:02.to trickle down to the poor villagers? It is, I'm afraid, not a
:07:02. > :07:07.very well organised country, they could do a lot better, and frankly
:07:07. > :07:10.they need to. Britain is now forging a new security partnership
:07:10. > :07:15.with an autocratic state that has shown few scruples about the use of
:07:15. > :07:20.force. What can David Cameron of a country that already has so
:07:20. > :07:24.powerfully security apparatus? is going Algeria specifically to
:07:24. > :07:26.develop local relations with the Algerians, to help develop their
:07:26. > :07:30.counter-terrorism programmes as much as they needed. They have got
:07:30. > :07:35.quite advanced programs already. It is probably a case of intelligence
:07:35. > :07:39.sharing. Our government has good intelligence networks, and helping
:07:39. > :07:44.the Algerians, giving access to some of this intelligence will help
:07:44. > :07:49.them counter their problems. attack on the gas plant was an
:07:49. > :07:53.audacious assault on Algeria's most vital strategic asset, a profound
:07:53. > :07:57.shock to a state that thought it had contained the terrorist threat.
:07:57. > :08:00.Well, for Britain, North Africa is a new and emerging theatre in the
:08:00. > :08:04.fight against terrorism, but Algeria has faced a terrorist
:08:04. > :08:07.threat for decades, and it showed the world this month that it is
:08:07. > :08:12.ready to act swiftly, with lethal force and without compromise.
:08:12. > :08:15.George. Here, motoring organisations have
:08:15. > :08:19.expressed their shock after an official study found that drivers
:08:19. > :08:22.are not being ripped off at the pumps. An investigation by the
:08:22. > :08:27.Office of Fair Trading has found that competition in the fuel market
:08:27. > :08:31.is working well, but the OFT did say that much of the increase in
:08:31. > :08:34.prices over the last decade was down to government taxes. Business
:08:34. > :08:38.correspondent Emma Simpson as the story.
:08:38. > :08:44.No matter how much we hate doing this, the message from the OFT is
:08:44. > :08:48.that we are not being ripped off. It found that competition overall
:08:49. > :08:53.is working well. It had no evidence that there were anti-competitive
:08:53. > :08:59.practices. Motorists still need convincing. It is more expensive
:08:59. > :09:05.now than it ever was. It is getting ridiculous. They go up quick enough
:09:05. > :09:09.and never come down. If they do, a month later. But the OFT found no
:09:09. > :09:12.proof that retailers were profiteering, and neither did they
:09:12. > :09:16.think that supermarkets were forcing smaller independent
:09:16. > :09:21.retailers out of business through aggressive pricing. We found that,
:09:21. > :09:26.generally, the market is working competitively, and if you look at
:09:26. > :09:30.UK prices pre-tax, we have amongst the lowest prices in Europe. The
:09:30. > :09:35.reason for the increases that we have seen in recent years is
:09:35. > :09:41.primarily the increase in the cost of crude R&D increases in tax.
:09:41. > :09:45.this is a breakdown. On a litre of petrol price that �1.36, first the
:09:45. > :09:51.margins, representing the costs and profits for refiners, distributors
:09:52. > :09:57.and retailers. Then the cost of the oil itself. But the biggest cost is
:09:57. > :10:01.in taxes, VAT and duty. The Government says it has been helping
:10:01. > :10:06.motorists by freezing fuel duty. Motoring campaigners said the
:10:06. > :10:09.inquiry was a missed opportunity. This is a bit of a whitewash,
:10:09. > :10:13.because the OFT have said there is no problem with prices rising like
:10:13. > :10:17.a rocket and falling like a feather. They have looked at it for six
:10:17. > :10:23.weeks. We have looked at it for six years. What we need is more
:10:23. > :10:29.transparency. So how can we reduce our bills? The obvious advice from
:10:29. > :10:33.the OFT, shop around. When it comes to filling up, the price you pay at
:10:33. > :10:40.the pump can depend very much John where you live. Here in Newbury, at
:10:40. > :10:44.this forecourt, it is �1.37 for unleaded. But his there a better
:10:45. > :10:53.deal to be had? Just a few miles down the road, here in Reading,
:10:53. > :10:56.unleaded is selling for just under up one �33 per litre. -- �1.33. The
:10:56. > :11:00.difference is often down to the local competition and what the
:11:00. > :11:06.supermarkets are selling it for. Here it is six pence per litre
:11:06. > :11:11.cheaper than back in Newbury. The OFT did raise concerns about higher
:11:11. > :11:15.prices at motorway service stations. It is calling for new road signs so
:11:15. > :11:20.that drivers can see the charges before they pull in. It has put the
:11:20. > :11:26.brakes on any further action for now. Just as motorists are being
:11:26. > :11:30.warned to brace themselves for higher prices at the pumps.
:11:30. > :11:37.The Syrian government says Israeli warplanes have bombed a military
:11:37. > :11:41.research centre north-west of the capital, Damascus. The statement,
:11:41. > :11:44.read on state television, denied earlier reports that the strike had
:11:44. > :11:48.targeted a military convoy heading to Lebanon. There has been no
:11:48. > :11:51.official confirmation of the attack from Israel.
:11:51. > :11:54.There is uncertainty tonight about government plans for the long-term
:11:54. > :11:58.storage of nuclear waste. It follows a decision by councillors
:11:58. > :12:02.in Cumbria, who voted against citing a multi-billion-pound
:12:02. > :12:06.underground facility in the county. But ministers say they will
:12:06. > :12:09.continue to look for a suitable area for disposing of highly
:12:10. > :12:16.radioactive waste from Britain's past, present and future nuclear
:12:16. > :12:20.power stations. This report from Chris Buckler in Sellafield.
:12:20. > :12:23.This is the waste that nobody wants, but the UK has to find a place to
:12:23. > :12:30.keep it. Currently radioactive material is held in stalls above
:12:30. > :12:33.the ground, here at Sellafield and elsewhere. But in the long term, a
:12:33. > :12:37.proper facility is needed, and the government hoped the answer could
:12:37. > :12:42.be found somewhere beneath the picturesque countryside of Cumbria,
:12:42. > :12:46.with a huge underground storage facility. Campaigners have been
:12:46. > :12:49.fighting the proposal, and today councillors listens to their
:12:49. > :12:53.concerns, rejecting the idea years before they would even have to
:12:53. > :12:57.consider a final decision. It is a victory for those who argued the
:12:57. > :13:02.area was not geologically suitable. In the Government's defence, the
:13:02. > :13:06.country needs a long-term solution for high-level and intermediate
:13:06. > :13:10.waste, but most countries around the globe find the best geology
:13:10. > :13:14.first and then have a conversation with potential host communities.
:13:14. > :13:18.The problem is that no other community in the UK has got as far
:13:18. > :13:22.as this stage of considering further talks and tests, and that
:13:22. > :13:26.is for a repository that could end up being the size of a small city.
:13:26. > :13:30.There is an open invitation to communities around the country, and
:13:30. > :13:33.when they see the fact there is a benefit package worth hundreds of
:13:34. > :13:38.millions of pounds, as well as the economic benefit of many jobs for
:13:38. > :13:42.decades to come, we think there will be a lot of people
:13:42. > :13:45.volunteering to come forward. existing and past nuclear
:13:45. > :13:51.facilities, the government has to find a place with the right geology
:13:51. > :13:55.to bury 470,000 cubic metres of waste. When you add the plants it
:13:55. > :14:05.hopes will be built in a future, that becomes 1.1 million cubic
:14:05. > :14:10.
:14:10. > :14:18.metres, equivalent of filling the Many other countries have having it
:14:18. > :14:20.Decision. 1234 It is hard it see a practical
:14:20. > :14:24.alternative. If you look internationally almost every
:14:24. > :14:28.country this has waste to manage, will manage it by burial in this
:14:28. > :14:31.way. Even if there was an agreement to build a radioactive waste
:14:31. > :14:35.facility in the UK it. Would be decades before it is completed.
:14:35. > :14:39.Time is an issue for the Government and nuclear industry. This was the
:14:39. > :14:43.only area even considering such a fasil. Now, wpbz again, they find
:14:43. > :14:53.themselves -- now, once again, they find themselves trying to find a
:14:53. > :14:54.
:14:54. > :15:04.Coming up: it was a battle that changed the course of the Second
:15:04. > :15:05.
:15:05. > :15:08.World War. It's 70 years since Stalingrad.
:15:08. > :15:18.What happened here is almost beyond imagination. It all happened within
:15:18. > :15:22.just a if you months. Two years ago form US Congresswoman Gabrielle
:15:22. > :15:32.Giffords was shot in the head. Sheedted she returned to Senate to
:15:32. > :15:37.
:15:37. > :15:43.appear in front of the a Another day, another mass shooting.
:15:43. > :15:47.This one in Phoenix, Arizona. Three were injured, one critically, as
:15:47. > :15:49.though they were being taken to hospital, the politicians were
:15:49. > :15:55.hearing evidence about plans for new gun controls and President
:15:55. > :15:59.Obama has a powerful new ally, a politician, a survivor. How are
:15:59. > :16:03.you? Alive but her awkward steps show, not fully recovered from the
:16:03. > :16:08.bullet that passed threw her brain. Her husband, leading the way, said
:16:08. > :16:13.the former Congresswoman's gift for speech is a distant memory. But her
:16:13. > :16:19.power to move an audience has not disappeared. Speaking is difficult.
:16:19. > :16:28.But I need to say something important.
:16:28. > :16:38.Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too
:16:38. > :16:39.
:16:39. > :16:43.many children. We must do something. Giffords Giffords giver life
:16:43. > :16:47.changed forever in this Arizona car park. Shot by a mentally ill young
:16:48. > :16:53.man, armed with a semi-automatic pistol with a 33 round mag zeeb. He
:16:53. > :16:59.killed six people and injured 13 more. -- magazine. The pressure for
:16:59. > :17:09.a ban on such weapons is growing. It will be hard but the time is now.
:17:09. > :17:09.
:17:09. > :17:17.You must act. Be bold, be courageous. Americans
:17:17. > :17:22.are counting on you. ! Thank you.
:17:22. > :17:25.This debate is moving. This march last weekend, part of it. Not long
:17:25. > :17:30.ago gun control was seen as politically impossible but after
:17:30. > :17:35.the massacre of 20 children in Newton just before Christmas the
:17:35. > :17:41.President moved it to the top of his agenda. But owe pennents say
:17:41. > :17:45.the plan to ban assault weapons is illogical. -- -- opponents. They
:17:45. > :17:49.spray bullets. They are more powerful. They are heavy armour.
:17:49. > :17:54.Not true. The gun lobby is immensely powerful. President
:17:54. > :17:56.Obama's strategy is to mobilise public opinion and raise the
:17:56. > :18:02.emotional temperature. Gabrielle Giffords' testimony today certainly
:18:02. > :18:11.helped with that. A runner who collapsed and died
:18:11. > :18:13.near the end of the London Marathon was taking a legally available
:18:13. > :18:19.perfrmance enhancing drug at the time.
:18:19. > :18:23.The drug has since been banned. Her death prompted more than 31 million
:18:23. > :18:27.in donations to the charity she was supporting. -- �1 million. There
:18:27. > :18:29.has been a surprise downturn in the US economy in the final three
:18:29. > :18:34.months of last year. Initial estimates showed there was a
:18:34. > :18:38.contraction of 0.1% between October and December. Our Economics Editor,
:18:38. > :18:42.Stephanie Flanders is with me. This is afterall the world's largest
:18:42. > :18:46.economy. How worried should we be? It was a surprise. You would think
:18:46. > :18:50.we would be pretty worried much this is the world's biggest economy.
:18:50. > :18:53.Its recovery is absolutely central to the hopes of a global recovery
:18:53. > :18:56.and indeed growth in the UK. But it was interesting when this news came
:18:56. > :19:00.out, although people weren't expecting the economy to have
:19:00. > :19:05.shrunk, they were expecting it to slow down and they largely shrugged
:19:05. > :19:10.off this news. The markets only fell light slightly. The US Central
:19:10. > :19:13.Bank said it was a pause in gro. If you look at the numbers, it is a
:19:13. > :19:17.small decline. They talk about their GDP figures in a way that
:19:17. > :19:21.makes it seem larger than it actually is. It is a really very
:19:21. > :19:26.small decline. There are special factors there like that storm that
:19:26. > :19:30.hit the east coast, Hurricane sandy and the uncertainty around the
:19:30. > :19:33.Fiscal Cliff. Around the possibility of big tax rises and
:19:33. > :19:36.spending cuts. Some of that uncertainty may carry over into the
:19:36. > :19:40.start of this year. You may see slow growth in the first three
:19:40. > :19:43.months of this year. In general, I'm struck by a lot of optimism
:19:44. > :19:49.around at the moment. Financial markets doing very well. Investment
:19:49. > :19:53.rising. It is in contrast with the UK and the eurozone much, much more
:19:53. > :19:56.of a positive mood in the US economy than there is in either the
:19:56. > :20:00.UK or Europe. The Scottish Government has agreed it change the
:20:00. > :20:03.question voters will face in next year's independence referendum. It
:20:03. > :20:05.comes after the Electoral Commission ruled that the
:20:05. > :20:09.Government's preferred option might have given the impression that
:20:09. > :20:14.independence had already been agreed. So, what's in a question?
:20:14. > :20:18.Here is our Scotland Political Editor, Brian Taylor.
:20:18. > :20:22.Words matter, especially in a referendum. The SNP Scottish
:20:22. > :20:24.Government had wanted to ask do you agree that Scotland should be an
:20:24. > :20:28.independent country? But the Electoral Commission thought that
:20:28. > :20:33.was slightly leading the voters and suggested instead, should Scotland
:20:33. > :20:37.be an independent country? When we spoke to people, we asked them on
:20:37. > :20:41.the ballot paper, yes or no and how they would vote or don't know.
:20:41. > :20:46.Across the board those who said they were in favour of yes, or no
:20:46. > :20:51.or who hadn't made up their mind, they all, across the board said -
:20:51. > :20:56.do you agree, might incline people to say yes. So it is on with the
:20:56. > :21:02.referendum. The mock version, that is at this Lanarkshire school.
:21:02. > :21:08.They were all ready to use the SNP question. But they like the change.
:21:08. > :21:12.Should doesn't lead people as much as "do you agree" does. It is more
:21:12. > :21:16.a neutral question. You can never please both sides. That's what we
:21:16. > :21:19.are going to have to accept. Everyone was happy last autumn when
:21:19. > :21:22.David Cameron and Alex Salmond signed an agreement to hold the
:21:22. > :21:27.referendum. Today's report says the two governments should work to the
:21:27. > :21:31.again to tell voters what would happen in the event of a yes or no
:21:31. > :21:36.vote. The recommendation of the commission to both Scottish and the
:21:36. > :21:40.UK governments to sit down now and reach a shared understanding of the
:21:40. > :21:44.process that will follow a yes vote is very, very important. I have
:21:44. > :21:47.been making that suggestion to the UK Government for sometime now.
:21:47. > :21:51.the Prime Minister says there are limits. Of course we will work with
:21:51. > :21:56.the Scottish Government, in providing information. But let me
:21:56. > :22:00.be clear about what we won't do. We will not prenegotiate Scotland's
:22:00. > :22:03.exit from the United Kingdom. Both sides acknowledge the people
:22:03. > :22:08.will choose in autumn next year and that choice just got clearer.
:22:08. > :22:11.Now there is a long way to go. The Bill to legislate for next year's
:22:11. > :22:15.referendum has yet to be introduced here at the Scottish Parliament,
:22:15. > :22:18.let alone carried. But we learned a lot today. We have an agreed
:22:18. > :22:23.question for the referendum. We have firm rules on what the
:22:23. > :22:26.campaigns can spend to attract votes. Next, the competing
:22:26. > :22:33.arguments which will help determine whether Scotland stays in the union
:22:33. > :22:36.or not. It's the latest battle for
:22:36. > :22:40.supremacy in the Smartphone market. The troubled manufacturer,
:22:40. > :22:44.BlackBerry has launched two new handsets and a new operating system.
:22:44. > :22:48.The technology firm is desperate it win become customers after fierce
:22:48. > :22:53.competition from rivals such as Apple and Samsung. BlackBerry now
:22:53. > :22:58.accounts for less than 4% of the smartphone market.
:22:58. > :23:03.Tomorrow it'll be 70 years since the commander of the German forces
:23:03. > :23:06.at Stalingrad surrendered to the Soviet Army. This weekend the city,
:23:06. > :23:10.since renamed Volgograd will commemorate the event. One of the
:23:10. > :23:14.turning points of the Second World War, the Battle of Stalingrad is
:23:14. > :23:19.still regarded as one of the most brutal ever fought. As many as a
:23:19. > :23:26.million soldiers are believed to have died in six months of intense
:23:26. > :23:34.urban warfare. Daniel Sandford has been talking to some survivors.
:23:34. > :23:37.70 years since the end of one of the world's bloodiest battles.
:23:37. > :23:43.The Stalingrad Memorial remains one of the most symbolic sites in
:23:43. > :23:50.Russia. Here, close to a million soldiers died in just six months of
:23:50. > :23:54.ruthless combat., in appalling conditions.
:23:54. > :23:58.A breathtaking German advance into Russia had been blocked at
:23:59. > :24:05.Stalingrad. Hundreds of thousands of men died in brutal urban warfare,
:24:05. > :24:12.as the Red Army refused to yield. Then, once the Russian winter set,
:24:12. > :24:17.in fresh Soviet forces surrounded Hitler's entire Sixth Army, killing
:24:17. > :24:27.or capturing every man. The German commander was forced into a
:24:27. > :24:28.
:24:28. > :24:32.humiliating surrender. This man witnessed the surrender but the
:24:32. > :24:37.images that are etched most strongly on his 90-year-old memory
:24:37. > :24:41.are the imaging of death and a burning river.
:24:41. > :24:47.TRANSLATION: Everything was on fire. The bank of the river was covered
:24:47. > :24:51.in dead fish, mixed with human heads, arms and legs, all lying on
:24:51. > :25:00.the beach. They were the remains of people who were being evacuated
:25:00. > :25:05.across the Volgo when thermobombed. The scale of the logs of life at
:25:05. > :25:11.the battle of Stalingrad is beyond imagination it happened in a few
:25:11. > :25:14.months. All these gravestones have the same dates of death. Either the
:25:14. > :25:19.end of 1942 or the very beginning of 1943.
:25:19. > :25:25.For this week's aners have ri,17,000 new names have been
:25:25. > :25:30.carved on the monuments, including the father of this woman. When she
:25:30. > :25:34.was just five, she survived the battle by eating clay while living
:25:34. > :25:39.in a mud bank. For 67 years she searched for her father's body.
:25:39. > :25:45.Then three years ago she discovered it was just two miles from her home.
:25:45. > :25:48.They have only started putting up these plaques now, 70 years after
:25:48. > :25:54.the battle, with my generation dying out and my mother already
:25:54. > :25:58.dead. The Stalingrad memorial is built on
:25:58. > :26:02.a hill that saw some of the bloodiest fighting. Tens of
:26:02. > :26:07.thousands of bodies lie under this frozen earth. Among them fathers
:26:07. > :26:13.and friends of the few-remaining survivors to whom the horrors of