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Guilty - the British businessman who made �50 million selling fake | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
bomb detectors to some of the world's most war ravaged countries. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
James McCormick, who has been convicted of fraud, enjoyed a life | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
of luxury with several homes and a yacht. But the fake bomb detectors | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
were based on a novelty golf ball finder - and he knew they didn't | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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work. He has paid no heed to the people who stood on checkpoints, | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
out security posts, believing this device worked. Many of these fake | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
detectors are still being used in Iraq. Also tonight... The | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Chancellor is accused of scaremongering after warnings that | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
an independent Scotland may not be able to keep the pound. In Syria, | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
kidnapping reaches epidemic proportions - we have a special | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
report. Shock in British horse racing as a trainer at the world- | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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famous Godolphin stables admits Coming up in Sportsday, Luis Suarez | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
accepts an FA charge for biting a Chelsea player, but disputes calls | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
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for a ban of more than three Good evening. A British businessman | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
has been convicted of selling fake bomb detectors around the world. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
James McCormick, who's 56 and from Somerset, made millions by selling | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
the devices to governments in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Georgia and Niger. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
The Old Bailey heard the technology was based on a novelty device used | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
to find golf balls and had no grounding in science. The BBC's | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Caroline Hawley first investigated the fraud three years ago - here's | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
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This is how the bogus bomb detector was advertised. With a slick sales | :02:05. | :02:13. | |
pitch, James McCormick sold it around do world. The product was | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
based on no science whatsoever. It made McCormick an extremely wealthy | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
man, with an exclusive property in Bath, complete with swimming pool. | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
He also had houses in Florida and Cyprus and a yacht. Iraq, a country | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
where bombs are a constant threat, was the main market for his fake | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
detectors. With the help of massive bribes, McCormick sold thousands of | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
them to the Iraqi government for a total of $85 million. McCormick, | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
for 10 years, sold this device in countries plagued by terrorism and | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
explosions. He has paid no heed to the people who stood at checkpoints, | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
on security posts, believing this device worked. McCormick went to | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Baghdad after a string of bombings to persuade the Iraqi is that it | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
worked. But one man who used to go on sales trips with him had his | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
doubts. I said, if this does not work, I cannot be any part of it. | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
He said, it does exactly what it says it does. It makes money. | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
scam began with this, a novelty golf ball finder, in reality, just | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
an aerial on a hinge, which could not find anything. He bought | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
hundreds of them from the US for $20 each, but his own labels on | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
them and sold them as bomb detectors for as much as $5,000 a | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
time. He went on to create a more advanced looking version, which is | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
what the Iraqis bought. Police say the only genuine part of it was the | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
case. Haneen Alwan suffered horrific burns in a bomb in Baghdad | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
in 2009. She lost her unborn baby and her husband divorced her | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
because of her injuries. How do you feel about the man who saw these | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
devices? He has no conscience, he is morally bankrupt. How can he | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
destroy other people's lives by selling these things just for | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
money? Today, Jim McCormick left the court unrepentant. Your devise | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
defies the laws of physics - how can you still defended? I am | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
defending it. And the Iraqis are still using it at checkpoints | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
across Baghdad. The man who sold it to them will be sentenced next week. | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
And you can see more of Caroline Hawley's investigation into the | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
fake bomb detectors on Newsnight at 10.30 on BBC Two. | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
The Chancellor has become embroiled in a row with the Scottish National | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Party over whether Scotland would use the pound if it voted for | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
independence. George Osborne said there would be a risk to the rest | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
of the UK - if an independent Scotland got into financial trouble. | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
The SNP has accused him of scaremongering. Our Scotland | :05:07. | :05:17. | |
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political editor, Brian Taylor, A question of money - the SNP want | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
an independent Scotland to keep the pound in order to reassure business. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
It is best done, they say, through agreement with the rest of the UK. | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
In Glasgow, the Chancellor stressed the Scottish people would be | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
perfectly free to vote for independence. As decisions go, they | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
do not come much bigger. This is not a decision for the UK | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Government or me to take. It is a choice for people living in | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
Scotland.. But that does not mean the UK government will spectate | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
from the sidelines. The Chancellor came here to Glasgow's historic | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
Merchant City to deliver his currency message. The choice of | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
setting was entirely deliberate, an attempt to evoke centuries of | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
enterprise by Scottish people within the union. The Chancellor | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
questioned why the remainder of the UK would share a currency with an | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
independent Scotland win that would mean giving up sovereignty and | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
taking on risk. If we had a eurozone-style currency arrangement, | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
that would beg all sorts of questions about economic risk, | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
about why a foreign government, which is what the rest of the UK | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
would become, would want to enter into this arrangement, why it would | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
want to tie itself to the economic policies of the Scottish Government. | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
So, frankly, I think it is unlikely that the arrangement could be | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
agreed with the rest of the UK, or would work. Nationalists say a | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
currency deal makes sense, because Scotland's oil wealth would | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
continue to shore up sterling. Whatever the Chancellor of the | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Exchequer says now is conditioned by his anxiety to stop people | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
voting for independence. The day after a yes vote, economic rather | :07:06. | :07:14. | |
than political interests will prevail. The Chancellor says, to | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
keep the pound, Scotland should reject independence. Nationalists | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
say Scots can have full control of tax and spending, plus a sterling | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
zone. Voters will decide where to place their trust. Our economics | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
editor, Stephanie Flanders, is with me now. When you look at the | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
economics of this, is the Chancellor right to suggest | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
Scotland couldn't be independent and hang on to the pound? He is | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
right to say that it would be different for all of us, but | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
whether it would be as difficult as he is suggesting is another matter. | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
It makes sense for all of us countries to share a currency at | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
the moment, because our economies are very similar and integrated. | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
The Treasury says that would be less true if Scotland was to become | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
independent, because it would be a very small economy, it might be for | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
volatile, we might start to grow apart. We do not know if that is | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
true. But we do know that they would be different countries with | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
their own Financial Systems. We have seen from the eurozone that | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
when you have a lot of sovereign countries signing up to the same | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
currency, you can have problems if you do not have rules governing | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
things like how you are going to bail out banks. He says that the | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
rules in the case of any Scottish currency union would need to be | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
very tough, and even then, Britain might walk away. Whether that would | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
really happen, we do not know. But it is probably true to say that | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
Scotland cannot have all the economic benefits of independence | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
and hold on to the currency. It will probably have to give | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
The Government has suffered yet another setback in its attempt to | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
deport the radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada. Its application to | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
challenge a Court of Appeal decision which upheld an earlier | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
ruling that he wouldn't get a fair trial in Jordan on terror charges | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
has been rejected. The Home Office says it will now take its case | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
directly to the Supreme Court. In Syria, two bishops who were | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
kidnapped at gunpoint yesterday near the northern city of Aleppo | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
have been released. It is not yet clear who was behind the attack, | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
but kidnapping has reached epidemic proportions in Syria. It is often | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
for money, sometimes for political reasons. Our Middle East editor, | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
Jeremy Bowen, has been talking to a victim of kidnap in Damascus. Just | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
a warning - his report contains graphic imagery which you may find | :09:26. | :09:36. | |
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Some memories cannot be wiped. When this shopkeeper, Bassam Wahbh, was | :09:42. | :09:52. | |
kidnapped, his captors demanded a ransom of $1.5 million. They filmed | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
him begging his family to help. When the kidnappers did not get | :09:57. | :10:07. | |
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what they wanted, they chopped off But they sent the video, and the | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
finger, to his family. He was ransomed after they borrowed | :10:19. | :10:28. | |
$80,000. He says he was kidnapped by a Sunni Muslim gunmen loyal ball | :10:28. | :10:37. | |
-- loyal to the opposition Free Syrian Army. Trollope the sectarian | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
factor was clear. They directed sectarian insults to me and my sect. | :10:41. | :10:49. | |
There was a lot of blame. They considered me an infidel. The | :10:50. | :10:59. | |
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streets of Damascus used to be safe. Now, they empty after dark. People | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
hurry home knowing kidnappers include gunmen loyal to both sides. | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
It can be political - often, it is about money. On the checkpoints, a | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
so-called Popular Committee, vigilantes. These men seem part of | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
the community. Elsewhere, there have been complaints that they are | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
abusing their new power. The President has ordered the death | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
penalty for kidnappers, but he is being forced to contract out | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
security. That did not happen when this was a tight police state. | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
Kidnapping is another way in which the war it is doing serious damage | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
to the social fabric of Syria. That matters whoever wins, because | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
longer term, it is going to make it much harder to put this country | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
back together again. The disintegration of Syria is making | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
new men, like Rafiq Lotfe, influential. Negotiates with | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
kidnappers. He helped release the man whose finger was cut off. He | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
has police bodyguards, a sign of how close he is to the regime. He | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
introduced me to leaders of the vigilantes in the old city of | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
Damascus, and he claimed the rebels were losing. So, these are local | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
men? All of them, they live here. They have been given these guns by | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
the government to defend themselves? Are they necessary? | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
Definitely. This 13-year-old boy stopped him, asking him to get his | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
kidnapped father released, 41 days after he was taken. The a only word | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
he said was, I am fine. But we do not know who sent the letter. | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
reality is that kidnapping threatens so reacts on every side | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
of the war that spawned it. But the majority just find themselves | :12:59. | :13:09. | |
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US security officials are to face questions in Congress over whether | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
they mishandled information about the Boston bombing suspect, who was | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
killed in a shoot-out with police. His brother was captured some time | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
later alive but badly bonded. Today, an eye witness has been telling the | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
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BBC about what he saw during that $:/STARTFEED. Last Friday, the hunt | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
for the bombers continued. Andrew watched what followed. I could see | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
both shooters were taking cover behind the black SUV. You could see | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
them holding guns? Yes. He captured a series of images. You can see the | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
two suspects hinding behind a black 4x4. The next shot shows one of | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
them with what appears to be a weapon pointing down the street at | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
police. I had a very clear view of them standing up with back packs | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
and also had further ammunition and explosives. I could see them | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
rebending down and reaching in and getting things out, which included | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
their explosives and their pressure cooker bomb. You can see here on | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
the ground where one of the suspects came forward and detonated | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
a device, believed to be a home mf made bomb. You can see the gouges - | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
- home-made bomb. You can see the gouges. Another exploded next to | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
the fence. It's incredible how many houses bear the marks. You can see | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
tiny bullet holes. This is where the bullet came through the wall | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
and actually came right through penetrating the wall, piercing the | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
desk chair right here. It's absolutely terrifying and in the | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
moment I think I was just overwhelmed with shock and | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
adrenaline and curiosity, which is what drove me to take pictures, but | :15:14. | :15:24. | |
it really hit me after. This is a bullet hole here? Yeah. It's | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
astonishing that none of the residents were killed or injured | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
here. Both the police and suspects appeared to have fired at will. | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
It's certainly a night the residents of Laurel Street will | :15:33. | :15:43. | |
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never forget. British horse racing is facing one of its biggest-ever | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
doping scandals. An inspection at the world-famous Godolphin stable | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
in Newmarket discovered that eleven horses tested positive for banned | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
anabolic steroids The stable is owned by Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
- part of Dubai's ruling family. His trainer has admitted making a | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
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catastrophic error. Joe Wilson For 20 years the Royal-blue silks | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
of gad dolphin have dominated horse racing worldwide. It's a sporting | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
business created and funded to be the best, but at the heart of it | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
the head of Dubai's ruling family, a man who as rubbed shoulders with | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
the establishment, the wealthy and powerful. He's now said to be | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
appalled by the doping that threatens Godolphin's reputation. | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
This is beyond embarrassing and comprehension. This is anabolic | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
steroids and it's a complete no-no and here's the man who is the | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
biggest invest for in racing and a man who has cam paipd for clean | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
racing, who has had the highest of standards and talk about being let | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
down. This is absolutely astonishing. British racing's anti- | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
drugs policy is far stricter than elsewhere in the world. A horse is | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
tested after every race as these pictures show, but the stables in | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Newmarket were targeted deliberately, led by specific | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
intelligence. The horses were the trainer's responsibility. Abu | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
Mussab Al-Zarqawi is liable for any consumed by his horses at any time. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
There is no excuse of not knowing the rules. Eleven horses tested | :17:17. | :17:27. | |
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positive for -- Zwara is liable for anything consumed by his horse at | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
any time. There is no excuse of not knowing the rules. You will lose | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
your money on Certify and that is up to one million, but the | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
circumstances are so ceptional, so bizarre, that many of us bookmakers | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
have decided to refund the Stakes. Customers will not be losing out. | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
Here in Newmarket you don't have to work hard to find evidence of horse | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
racing. It's part of the Landscape in this town and everywhere you'll | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
find Godolphin property. Employees and Godolphin money. Integrity | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
means everything. The spectacle must be believed. Doping threatens | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
that. I ban of several years seems likely for the trainer hoorbgs you | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
but the money from Dubai is something that British racing can't | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
do without. Government borrowing fell to �120.6 billion last year, a | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
drop of a quarter of one per cent on the previous year. Labour said | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
the Government's deficit reduction plan was now catastrophically off | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
course. But the Treasury insisted it was making progress. James | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
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Landale is in Downing Street for us. Who is right? These figures do not | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
represent substantial change. The Government is borrowing pretty much | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
what it was borrowing a year ago and a year before that. It's down a | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
fraction and that means the Chancellor can continue to say that | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
the deficit is getting smaller and that matters to him, because he's | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
had a tough week, when international economists have | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
questioned his strategy and other ratings agency has downgraded the | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
UK's investment status and even the arch arch has said we are living | :19:11. | :19:21. | |
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through a -- Cantgeton has said we are all living through depression. | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
Growth is low and borrowing is high and Labour has said the strategy is | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
not working. The test will come later this week when we get the | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
latest growth figures and we find out whether or not the UK economy | :19:36. | :19:44. | |
has slipt into it's third recession in as many years. Two men have | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
appeared in court in Canada accused of plotting a terrorist attack | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
against a passenger train. Investigators say the men received | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
directions from members of Al-Qaeda in Iran. But Iran's strongly denied | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
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any involvement in the plot. From Toronto, Paul Adams reports. 30- | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
year-old Chiheb Esseghaier arriving in court this morning. Part of what | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
the call are -- the police are calling Al-Qaeda's first terrorism | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
plot. The second man, Raed Jaser together with Chiheb Esseghaier is | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
charged with plotting to derail a passenger train over a bridge. | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
Arrested after a six-month investigation. This house is suburb | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
an tron foe is where Raed Jaser and his wife were living. Local people | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
say they never spoke, but one neighbour said for efrl months last | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
year there seemed to be five or six people living here. Nearby, the | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
mosque was all quiet. No-one wants to talk. The investigation was | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
triggered by a tip from the Muslim community. This man tries to steer | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
disaffected young Muslims away from danger, but says it's not easy. | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
are not going to save everyone or get the details on everybody. Some | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
people are beyond the help we can provide. I would love to say that | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
we save a thousand, but it's not possible and these things will | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
happen. Who was behind the latest plot? The Canadian police say the | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
two men received help from abroad. The individuals were receiving | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
support from Al-Qaeda elements located in Iran. Now, I can tell | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
you that there is no information to indicate that these attacks were | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
State sponsored. Iran says it had nothing to do with the plot. On the | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
face of it, a link with Al-Qaeda might seem unlikely. Al-Qaeda | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
preaches a radical anti-Shia ideology, at odds with Shia Iran, | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
but members of Al-Qaeda are known to have fled from Afghanistan to | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
Iran, where they have been tolerated by the regime. Last | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
September, Canada suspended diplomatic ties with Iran, after | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
listing it as a State sponsor of terrorism. This would be something | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
of a departure if the Iranians were aware or involved in the plot. I | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
suspect the answer is probably no. If they were again, it would be a | :22:13. | :22:21. | |
major departure. It's all left Canada's one million Muslims asking | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
for answers. Toronto has more Muslims than anywhere in North | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
America. They feel at home here and they don't want anyone seeing them | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
in any other light. The technology giant, Apple, has announced its | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
first drop in profits for early a decade. It made $9.5 billion in the | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
first three months of this year, compared with 11.5f billion in the | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
same period in 2012. Rory Cellan Jones is with me. What impact will | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
this cause? It's the share price recently. It had soared last | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
September to $700, on the back of profits and then fell all the way | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
down to $400 recently. Not because of anything bad, but because of the | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
fear that something could happen and the growth story will groind to | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
a halt. The -- grind to a halt. The first fall, so any good news? | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
was some good news. The iPhone sales, 35 million a year ago. They | :23:19. | :23:27. | |
rose to 37.5 million. IPads also up. Those profits did fall by $2 | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
billion, but still making 9.5 billion in three months. The | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
company announced it's got around $140 billion in the bank. | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
Shareholders took a look at these, the first fall in profits for a | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
decade, and what has happened in the last few minutes, the price has | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
started rising again. Thank you. Two British soldiers have been | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
buried with full military honours in a graveyard in northern France, | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
more than a century after they were killed in action in the First World | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
War. Lieutenant John Pritchard and Private Christopher Elphick died in | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
May 1917. But their remains were only discovered four years ago by a | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
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farmer. Jonathan Beale was at the 96 years after they fell in battle, | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
the remains of two British soldiers were finally laid to rest today in | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
a ceremony with full military honours. Lieutenant John | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
Pritchard's sword lay on top of the coffin, recently tracked down to a | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
collector in America. He had insisted on returning to the front | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
line, even after being wounded at the so many. -- the Somme. His | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
remains were found beside Private Christopher Elphick, who was | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
identified by his cygnet ring. He left behind a wife and young son, | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
whose own children until now have never had a grave to visit. I know | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
my father came to see his father's name on the Arras war memorial, | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
because there was no -- nowhere else to go. The two were among the | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
millions on both sides killed during the great war. Those who | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
left the trenches never to return. They are still remembered in | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
cemeteries like this. Some were never identified. Marked simply as | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
a soldier of the great war. While others were never even found. This | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
is the field where the remains of the two soldiers were recently | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
recovered. Left unploughed, it is still believed to hold the secrets | :25:29. | :25:38. | |
of dozens more. But for the families of these two soldiers, the | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
mysteries have been solved, not least for the 89-year-old named in | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
Lieutenant John Pritchard. At last able to lay a wreath at his uncle's | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
headstone. The fact it's so personal to me, very, very moving | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
altogether. You are glad you've now laid him to rest? Indeed. It's a | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
feeling of satisfaction that he's back with the family. Next year, | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
it's the 100th anniversary of the great war. This is the hope that | :26:09. | :26:14. |