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