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A fewer at a fertiliser plant in Texas, triggers a massive explosion. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
It is not yet clear how many people are dead. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
-- fire. A father and daughter thought they were watching the fire | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
from a safe distance. Then this... Are you OK? Yeah. I can't hear. I | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
can't hear. Get out of here. Please, get out of | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
here. The hunt is on for survivors, | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
scores of buildings, including schools and a care home were | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
destroyed. There was a major explosion. | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
The windows came in on me, the roof came in on me. The ceiling came in. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
I worked my way out to get more help. | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
We bring you the latest from the scene which has been declared a | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
disaster zone. Also tonight: President Obama and his wife, | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Michelle Obama, remember a tragedy of a different kind at a memorial | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
service for those killed at the Boston Marathon. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
A teenager is convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl, just 20 | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
minutes after a meeting with his probation officer. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
The UN describes the situation in Syria as a humanitarian catastrophe. | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
We have a special report on life inside the capital. | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
COMMENTATOR: Who is going to get it?! One of Britain's greatest | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
Olympians says he last race is over. Sir Chris Hoy says he is quitting | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
cycling. I'm here with Sportsday as Andy Murray is thrashed at the | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
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Monte Carlo Masters. Going down in Good evening. | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
There has been a massive explosion at a fertiliser plant in Texas. It | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
is not yet known how many people have been killed. The volunteer | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
firefighters are believed to be among the dead. The blast which | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
registered on the Richter scale, flattened buildings in the town of | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
West. Survivors said it was like being hit by a tornado. Officials | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
believe that hundreds could be injured. A search and rescue | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
operation is still underway. Alastair Leithead joins us now live | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
from West in Texas. Well, the police have cordoned off | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
a huge area, surrounding the area where the factory exploded. They | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
are calling it a search and a rescue operation. It seems unlikely | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
that anyone will be found, but we got in to access, to see the | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
factory area, this place which was hit by the huge explosion. | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
This report, I must warn you, there is some flash photo-y here. It | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
started with a fire. Filmed on a mobile phone from what seemed a | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
safe distance away, but this was a huge explosion. | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
Are you OK? Yeah. I can't hear. I can't hear. | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
Get out of here, please, get out of here. | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
Within minutes, the volunteer firefighters that had come to | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
tackle the blaze were calling for urgent back up. | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
We need erambulance we can get this way. It is bad. There are a lot of | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
firemen down. Darkness complicated the rescue operation. It became | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
clear that the power of the explosion was huge. As the fires | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
burned across the town, how wide an area had been affected? There was a | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
major explosion. The windows came in on me, the roof, the ceiling | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
came in. I worked my way out to go get more help. | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
We lost all communication as the power went out. | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
radius of the blast. Some were trapped inside as the building | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
collapsed. I saw the rest home. The people | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
were buried. The rest home was gone. Yeah, just evacuating the rest home, | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
helping them. Getting the critical ones into the hospital here. | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
It was just crazy. The plant was in a small Texan town | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
of West. A few miles from Waco. The blast was felt up to 45 miles away. | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
The plant was close to a school, homes and a care home. It is | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
thought that the company had 20 tonnes of ammonia stored on the | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
property. At first light, we drove into the | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
worst-affected areas, next to the factory. This two-storey apartment | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
block, torn to shreds by the force of the blast. Some homes had burnt | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
to the ground. Rain helped to douse the flames but they were | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
smouldering hours later. The impact of the explosion on street after | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
street was quite astonishing. People pulled from the wreckage, | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
scores were injured. On the sight of the plant, the fires were | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
burning. Huge silos were torn open by the explosion. This is what is | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
left of the fertiliser factory that caught fire and exploded. Sending a | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
fireball across the neighbourhood. Parts of it are smouldering as the | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
investigators work to establish what caused the explosion. It was | :05:29. | :05:38. | |
hours before the teams of special pro tect or -- in special | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
protection equipment were able to look for people. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
We are blessed to have the best emergency management team in the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
country. They were at their best last night along with the citizens. | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
It is a huge clean-up operation and investigation, picking through the | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
rubble and dozens are still being treated for their injuries. | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
President Obama offered his support and prayers to the victims of the | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
explosion in Texas. He was attending the scene of another | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
tragedy, the marathon bombings in Boston. He attended a memorial | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
service with his wife on Monday. They e hope to have identified a | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
suspect. A man has been seen on CCTV dropping a bag and walking | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
away from the sight of the explosions. | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
Here is our North America Editor, Mark Mardell. The President came to | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the city he once called home as a | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
law student, to praise the people's resilience and resolve. | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
The songs and the players and readings were aimed at comforting a | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
city in mourning, but there was no stinting the grief when the | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
President spoke of the victims. Our prayers are with the Richard | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
family of Dorchester. Our hearts are broken for eight-year-old | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
Martin with his big smile and bright eyes... He said that those | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
he called the small, stunted individuals who wanted to destroy, | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
would face justice and would not win. | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
Your resolve is the greatest rebuke to whoever committed this heinous | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
act. They sought to intimidate us, to | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
terrorise us, to shake us from those values that we are described, | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
the values that make us who we are as Americans. Well it should be | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
pretty clear by now that they picked the wrong city to do it. | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
The President praised those who rushed to help on Monday, despite | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
the danger to themselves. People like Dr Natalie Stavos. | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
They were there cheering for me, to get me through the finish line. | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
They lost their lives and limbs. I have such sorrow. Healing is | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
clearly important. Justice can be a big part of that. The best clue | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
that the police have right now comes from a camera in a department | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
store just down there. The police are sifting through | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
hundreds of videos but the store's cameras have caught shots of people | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
who the FBI want to speak to in particular. Though they are not | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
described as suspects. So why have not the pictures been made public? | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
There is a reluctance to jump the gun. To release information that | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
may not be accurate. To send people chasing in the wrong direction, but | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
it is important to take a step back, to let the law enforcement | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
investigation proceed on course as it is. We think back to the Olympic | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
bombing in 196, they misidentified the suspect initially. President | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
Obama came to a city in shock. His message that America will not cower | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
but pick itself up and carry on. Mark is in Boston for us. The bombs | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
in Boston, the explosion in Texas, the Americans must be wonder eing | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
what next? But President Obama seems to be striking a positive | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
note there? This is true. This is not the first time he has had to | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
make emotional speechs in the wake of tragedies. He has done it after | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
mass shootings and natural disasters but this is the first | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
time he has had to d it after an act of terrorism. Yes, there was | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
defiance and sorrow but a brightness. A deliberate optimism | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
to his words. He does not want America to dwell on this, to feel | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
it is living in an age of darkness, in a country under attack. He used | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
the image of the marathon itself. Saying that there were helping | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
hands around the course. People cheering them on, that the race | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
would be won and would be -- would be run and would be won. A teenage | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
paedophile is facing a possible life sentence after being found | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
guilty of raping an 11-year-old girl in a park as she made her way | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
home from school. Opemipo Jaji, 18, has previously been convicted of a | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
sex attack on another girl and for downloading indecent images of | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
children. Sangita Myska has this report. | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
18-year-old Opemipo Jaji, seen here at the time of his arrest, a brutal | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
sex offender. At the time he raped a child he was already known to the | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
authorities as a dangerous sexual predator. This is Opemipo Jaji | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
filmed on CCTV in November of last year. Moments before he spotted his | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
11-year-old victim on board this bus. | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
Opemipo Jaji followed the victim off the bus to this park as she | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
made her way home after school. He gagged her, threatened her with a | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
knife and subjected her to a three- hour ordeal after which she needed | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
surgery to recover, but this was not the first time that Opemipo | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
Jaji attacked in this way. In February, 2011, he robbed and | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl. A young offender, he was | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
sentenced to a year's detention, he was not put on the sex offender. A | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
year later, he admitted downloading indecent images of children. He was | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
with his row baigs officer, 9 0 minutes before the attack of the | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
11-year-old girl. Opemipo Jaji has never admitted his | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
cupability in all of this. That forced the victim to give evidence. | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
Tonight, the Ministry of Justice is to review if there were failures in | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
the Opemipo Jaji supervision, if he should have been placed on the sex | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
offenders register. Syria is facing a humanitarian catastrophe with | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
almost 7 million people there likely to need outside help. The | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
assessment from the United Nations which warned that the conditions in | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
the country are getting worse. There has been fighting in and | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
around the capital, Damascus. Jeremy Bowen is there. He has this | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
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report. Close your ears to the sound of the | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
guns and Damascus looks almost normal. The regime controls the | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
heart the city it is battered and expensive but it still functions. | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
Go to the edge of the suburbs that ring the city centre and the spell | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
breaks. A few hundred yards down the road are the armed rebels, | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
controlling tracts of greater daplsz. | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
Right now, the rebel -- Damascus. Right now, the rebels don't have | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
the strength to break from the suburbs. | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
We could hear soldiers, guns, tank but but we could not film them. | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
The war in the country is more than just a Syrian matter. Because of | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
the way that it is exporting trouble elsewhere in the Middle | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
East. The world's big powers can't agree and really don't know how to | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
stop the fighting. Increasingly, they are funneling | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
arms and other military supplies to their favoured sides in the | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
conflict. The outlook for the Syrian people is desperate. | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
For this 18-year-old schoolboy, shot in the head by a sniper as he | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
drove with his mother and sister to Damascus. They say that the bullet | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
came from a rebel held suburb. His father is a retired officer, being | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
treated in a Military Hospital. The family have been told that this | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
boy will die. They support the regime and call | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
the rebels terrorists. His mother held Britain, France and | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
America responsible. TRANSLATION: I blame the countries | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
supporting the terrorists. We don't want to eat, to drink, we just want | :13:58. | :14:07. | |
safety. What should Britain, France, TRANSLATION: They should fight | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
terrorism. Stop supporting the terrorists. | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
Doctors say that between 10 and 50 casualties, mainly government | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
soldiers aRightMove at the hospital wounded, dying or dead each day. | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
On the rebel side, where there is not the same level of medical care, | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
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the figures are worse. $:/STARTFEED. This doctor fears | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Syria is bleeding to death. This level of casualties, what does it | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
do to the country? It is destroying the country and destroying | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
everything as a country. In the city centre, the top | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Damascus football team was getting ready for a big game. One of the | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
president's best known supporters, runs the stadium. He said no leader | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
could have got through the last two years without genuine support. | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
TRANSLATION: Yes, sometimes we can hear some sounds of explosions and | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
shelling. We can finish this conflict in a year or two, but the | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
Syrians have the will to destroy all all those terrorist from Al- | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
Qaeda. He said the fact that football has | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
not stopped, is another sign of normal life here. But the way they | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
were is just a memory for most people. Many Syrians are trapped | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
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between the rebels and the regime. Pakistan's former military leader, | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
Pervez Musharraf, has fled from court in Islamabad after a judge | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
revoked his bail and ordered his arrest. In extraordinary scenes, | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Musharraf was whisked away by his own bodyguards while police stood | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
by and watched. The General who seized power 14 years ago in a coup | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
is wanted over allegations he committed treason and he is also | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
accused of not doing enough to protect the former Prime Minister, | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated. With all the details | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
from a dramatic day in court, here's our Pakistan correspondent, | :16:10. | :16:20. | |
Making a hasty get away, Pervez Musharraf flees the High Court, a | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
humiliating retreat for the man who ruled Pakistan for nine years. | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
Lawyers jeered, "look who is running away ", they said. But | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
there was no move from the security forces to stop him. He disappeared | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
behind the walls of his luxury villa, now a wanted man. His lawyer | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
insisted he was unconcerned. He is smoking his cigar and sipping a cup | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
of coffee and he is in a wonderful mood. Very hilarious. He is cutting | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
jokes and what not. Pervez Musharraf remains here inside his | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
heavily fortified farmhouse. There are police outside the door, but | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
they are here to protect him, not to take him into custody. For now, | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
there has been no attempt by the authorities to place him under | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
arrest, but Pakistan's once all powerful military dictator is now a | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
wanted man. Since returning from exile last month, he has been a | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
political sideshow. Isolated, threatened by the Taliban and | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
barred from running for election. Now, the former military ruler is | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
being held accountable by judges. A landmark moment in a country with a | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
history of military take-overs. There was a feeling that the Army | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
has an impunity and cannot be touched by the judiciary or by any | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
other institution, but it is no more the case. And I think this is | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
a good omen in that sense and it also shows that democracy is | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
gaining strength. Tonight, Pervez Musharraf remains | :18:05. | :18:14. | |
in his farmhouse claiming to be the victim of a van a vendetta by | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
judges he once detained. There is speculation the courts will let him | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
stay here under house arrest rather The incoming Governor of the Bank | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
of England has described Britain as one of the world's crisis economies | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
along with the eurozone and Japan. Mark Carney takes up his new role | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
in a couple of months. He made his comments on the same day that the | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
head of the International Monetary growth figures in the UK weren't | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
looking good. Here's our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym. | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
He is set to become one of the UK's most powerful policy makers, Mark | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
Carney, head of the Canadian Central Bank will take over as Bank | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
of England governor in July. At a media event in Washington today, he | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
ducked questions about his new role, though referring to analysis of the | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
world table, he suggested the UK was in the crisis category. | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
The US is breaking out of that pack of crisis economies which very | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
importantly include the eurozone at the centre, the UK and with a very | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
long legacy, Japan. He will arrive here in the middle | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
of a big debate over how to get the economy going and whether | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
Government spending cuts are making things worse. The Chancellor says | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
lower borrowing is essential for the economy to this rife, but he is | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
he is facing a challenge from the International Monetary Fund. Its | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
top economist suggested that the UK needs to ease up on austerity. The | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
MF chief said they aren't altered their position that change was | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
needed only if growth didn't materialise. But the data did not | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
look encouraging. Growth number -- the growth numbers are not good. So | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
in a sense, this is a continuum of the position. What has change sd | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
clearly -- changed is clearly the quality of the numbers. | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, gave his reaction to the IMF's | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
stance. They have argued for more | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
flexibility. We have been flexible and we will be flexible because | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
that's a common sense approach to the Rob and the Government -- | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
problem and the Government does its bit and we have a major deficit | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
problem and we have got to continue to deal with it. | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
At the Treasury they are waiting for figures showing how the economy | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
performed in the first three months of the year. Any growth will come | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
as a relief, but any any contraction will mean the second | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
successive quarter of decline putting the UK back into recession. | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
Labour called for George Osborne to change course. The next growth | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
figures and then the new IMF health check due in a matter of weeks will | :21:01. | :21:10. | |
A paralysed man who wants doctors to end his life without fear of | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
prosecution has spoken publicly for the first time about his legal | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
campaign. Paul Lamb says he is in terrible pain and his life is | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
intolerable, but he is unable to end it without medical assistance. | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
He has been speaking to our legal affairs correspondent, Clive | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
Coleman. Paralysed from the neck down and | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
suffering chronic pain for 23 years. Paul Lamb needs full-time help for | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
almost everything. Having just minimumal use of one hand. He | :21:38. | :21:46. | |
describes his life as tedious and pointless. The pain is horrendous | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
and I just - I am getting less and less. I stay in this room. I stay | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
in here just about all winter. I have no desire to go out most of | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
the times. My will has gone. This was an active Paul Lamb before | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
a car crash in 1990. Now severely paralysed, he can't end his own | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
life, he wants a doctor to kill him. In law, that amounts to murder. He | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
is taking up the legal battle fought by Tony Nicklinson. He died | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
last year just days after the High Court rejected his bid to change | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
the law. He wanted doctors to be protected | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
from prosecution where patients were in intolerable situations and | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
wanted to die. When Tony Nicklinson's case came to the High | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Court last summer, the judges said that it raised some of the most | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
profound, ethical, moral and social and religious issues, but that only | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
Parliament and not the courts, could change the law. But any | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
change to the law will be strongly opposed. Many vulnerable elderly | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
and disabled people will feel pressure whether that's real or | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
imagined so as to end their lives so as not to be a financial or | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
emotional burden upon others. Some campaigners for disabled | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
people like Katherine Araniello want a different focus. It should | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
be about re-evaluating why do people want to die and what can we | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
do to improve the quality of life of individuals such as Paul Lamb so | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
that he has a right, a change of mind. | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
Paul Lamb will take his case to the Court of Appeal next month, but | :23:33. | :23:43. | |
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persuading it to change the law Great Britain's most success | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
successful Olympian, Sir Chris Hoy has announced his retirement. He | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
won six gold medals and eleven world titles, but says it is beyond | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
him to carry on to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. He has been | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
talking to David Bond. He is British sport's own Mr | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
Incredible and for the last decade, Sir Chris Hoy dominated Olympic | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
track cycling. The home of Scottish rugby was an unlikely setting, but | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
today he called called time on a career which was supposed to end at | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
next summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
I feel I have had time to reflect on the last year and on the last 0 | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
years really -- 20 years really of my career and I feel as if I don't | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
have anymore to give and I wouldn't be going there to be competitive. I | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
would be turning up to get the tracksuit and to wave to the crowd | :24:36. | :24:46. | |
and that's not what I want to do. Hoy tasted Olympic success in | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
Athens in 2004, the starting point for a revolution in British cycling. | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
In London, he bestrode the velodrome guiding Team GB to | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
another gold rush on the track. What shape is British cycling in as | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
you leave the sport? Well, British cycling has never been in better | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
health than it is just now. You know, you look back over the years | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
and you just see where it has come from. It is almost unbelievable how | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
far it has come as a sport and just to have been part of that journey, | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
I'm very proud of that. That's one of the biggest things that I can | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
take from my career, that I have been part of this amazing | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
transformation in this sport. Chris Hoy bows out as one of the | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
giants of British sporting history, with six Olympic gold medals, he is | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
the most successful Olympian this country has ever produced and he is | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
arguably the greatest. That debate may never be settled, | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
but there was support today for Hoy from one of British cycling's | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
original trailblazers. He will leave a hole to be filled. We have | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
got some great talent coming up, but it is a time to celebrate what | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
he has done and what has gone before and it was an amazing career. | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
He is the most iconic, best representative of British sport | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
ever. Hoy says it is time to hand over to | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
a new generation, but while others may try to emu late his success, | :26:12. | :26:22. | |
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few are likely to tower over his sport as he did. | :26:22. | :26:26. |