:00:10. > :00:13.$:/STARTFEED. Tonight, more than six months after little April Jones
:00:13. > :00:19.disappeared in mid-Wales, a man goes on trial charged with her
:00:19. > :00:23.murder. Mark Bridger is accused of a sexually motivated attack. The
:00:23. > :00:28.prosecution reveals that child pornography was found on his
:00:28. > :00:33.computer. The unsuccessful search for April was the biggest operation
:00:33. > :00:37.in police history. She was playing near her home in October last year
:00:37. > :00:45.in Machynlleth. Also, the uninsured car that led to
:00:45. > :00:53.the discovery of a terrorist plot. Six men have admitted planning a
:00:53. > :01:00.bomb attack. Amanda Knox speaks out. She faces a retrial. I felt like
:01:00. > :01:04.after crawlling through a field of bashed why it turned out it was the
:01:05. > :01:10.or rise on. A hunger strike by prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
:01:10. > :01:15.President Obama says he'll make another attempt to close the camp.
:01:15. > :01:21.And Sam Warburton of Wales will captain the British Lions' tour of
:01:21. > :01:25.Australia. He'll be joined by no fewer than 14 of his Welsh team-
:01:26. > :01:35.mates. Later, I'll be here as the first of the Champions League
:01:36. > :01:51.
:01:51. > :01:54.finalists makes it to Wembley. We Good evening, more than six months
:01:54. > :01:59.after the disappearance of April Jones in the mid-Wales town of
:01:59. > :02:03.Machynlleth, a man has gone on trial. Mark Bridger denies the
:02:03. > :02:08.charges. The prosecution revealed that blood matching the five-year-
:02:08. > :02:14.old's DNA was found in his home and they accused him of a sexually
:02:14. > :02:18.motivated attack. Our reporter is at Mold Crown Court for us tonight.
:02:18. > :02:22.April Jones' disappearance shocked not only the small community where
:02:22. > :02:25.she lived, but many parents following the story across the
:02:25. > :02:31.world. Today, April's own parents were in court to see the man
:02:31. > :02:34.accused of her murder in the dock. Mark Bridger was described as a man
:02:34. > :02:39.with a clear interest in child pornography and child murder
:02:39. > :02:48.victims. A search of his computer showed he had also stored pictures
:02:48. > :02:51.of local girls, including April. Tracked by the lenses of the press,
:02:51. > :02:58.Mark Bridger arrived, his head covered by a blanket. Brought to
:02:58. > :03:01.stand trial. He's accused abducting five-year-old April Jones and
:03:01. > :03:06.taking her from outside her home before killing her and destroying
:03:06. > :03:12.the evidence. April Jones' parents arrived knowing that what they were
:03:12. > :03:15.about to hear would be harrowing. Both wore pink ribbons, a symbol of
:03:15. > :03:20.the search for their daughter. In court, Mark Bridger stared straight
:03:20. > :03:25.ahead, as the jury was told April's friend had watched him talking to
:03:25. > :03:28.the five-year-old and was smiling as se got into his Land Rover. The
:03:29. > :03:34.prosecution what happened next could only be known to April, Mark
:03:34. > :03:39.Bridger, but she can't tell us and the defendant won't. Mark Bridger
:03:39. > :03:47.told police he had run April over with his vehicle and claimed after
:03:47. > :03:57.driving her away, his memory of what happened next is blank. The
:03:57. > :04:02.
:04:02. > :04:07.April's disappearance triggered the largest search in British policing
:04:07. > :04:10.history. When officers went to Mark Bridger's home they found blood
:04:10. > :04:16.stains that match April's DNA and fragments of a child's skull in the
:04:16. > :04:21.fire place. The forensic teams found his laptop contained hundreds
:04:21. > :04:25.of indecent images of children. Mark Bridger also had photographs
:04:25. > :04:30.of local schoolgirls, including April and her half-sisters. And a
:04:30. > :04:36.folder of young murder victims, including those killed in Soham.
:04:36. > :04:42.April's parents listened as the jury was played the first 999 call
:04:42. > :04:46.reporting her disappearance. Her mother's voice pleading, "Someone's
:04:46. > :04:49.kidnapped April." The wept as it was played. He denies the charges
:04:49. > :04:56.of abduction, murder and perverting the course of justice. He'll return
:04:56. > :05:00.to the court tomorrow morning. The prosecution case will continue
:05:00. > :05:05.tomorrow. On Thursday, the jury will visit Machynlleth. There, they
:05:05. > :05:10.will go to the home of Mark Bridger and also to the estate where April
:05:10. > :05:13.and her family lived and where she was last seen alive. The trial's
:05:13. > :05:20.expected to last for up to six weeks.
:05:20. > :05:23.Thank you very much. Six men from Birmingham have
:05:23. > :05:27.admitting planning a terrorist attack last summer on a rally
:05:27. > :05:31.organised by the English Defence League. West Yorkshire Police said
:05:31. > :05:35.it would have caused mayhem had it been successful. The police and
:05:35. > :05:40.security services apparently had no intelligence, despite one of the
:05:40. > :05:44.men was under surveillance at the time. A summer evening last year
:05:44. > :05:48.and police on the M1 in South Yorkshire have pulled over a
:05:48. > :05:53.vehicle in a random check. What the police here didn't realise is that
:05:53. > :05:58.by stopping this car, they were breaking up a terrorist cell. The
:05:58. > :06:01.passenger, Jewel Uddin and the driver, Omar Khan were told the car
:06:01. > :06:06.was being impounded for no insurance. They were exposed as
:06:06. > :06:10.part of a group of six violent extremists, who today pleaded
:06:10. > :06:14.guilty to terrorism charges. Five of the money had travelled to
:06:14. > :06:21.Dewsbury in West Yorkshire to mount an attack. CCTV showed them in the
:06:21. > :06:24.town. And this was their intended target, a rally by the far-right
:06:24. > :06:27.English Defence League, but by the time the men got herele the rally
:06:27. > :06:34.was over. Its with after the car was impounded that the contents of
:06:34. > :06:38.the boot were discovered. There were knives, machetets and guns and
:06:38. > :06:43.live ammunition. As well as an I am provised explosive device and pipe
:06:43. > :06:49.bombs in the making. There was also a message to the EDL and the Queen.
:06:49. > :06:58.They called her the female devil and the self-proclaimed queen and
:06:58. > :07:03.her her Jubilee fooling a nation of blind sheep. They told the EDL,:
:07:03. > :07:07.you read from their letter they are targeting the EDL, but they mention
:07:07. > :07:10.David Cameron, they mention the Queen and they probably could have
:07:10. > :07:13.targeted other Muslims and innocent members of the public there. Police
:07:13. > :07:17.officers who were there too. These men had no care for who they
:07:17. > :07:21.targeted. It quickly emerged that one of the men in the car with the
:07:21. > :07:25.weapons, Jewel Uddin was known to the police and the security service
:07:25. > :07:29.MI5. He was an associate of a group of Birmingham men jailed last week
:07:29. > :07:33.for a suicide bomb plot. He had been involved in the street
:07:33. > :07:38.collections which the would-be suicide bombers had used to finance
:07:38. > :07:41.their plot. While not arrested or charged over that, he was
:07:41. > :07:45.subsequently put under surveillance, although not constantly. It is said
:07:45. > :07:50.there was no intelligence he was a serious threat. Just five days
:07:50. > :07:53.before the EDL rally he was observed going into this shop with
:07:53. > :07:56.a police undercover team. When he came out of the shop here, he was
:07:56. > :08:01.carrying a bag. What the police didn't establish was that in that
:08:01. > :08:06.bag was a set of knives. And he was planning to use them in the attack.
:08:06. > :08:09.They were among the weapons recovered in the car. We definitely
:08:09. > :08:16.didn't have information that either in the previous plot or since that
:08:16. > :08:20.he was involved in attack planning or getting together as a larger
:08:20. > :08:24.group to put the public in danger. It seems it was only timing that
:08:24. > :08:26.stopped the men from causing carnage on the streets and a lucky
:08:26. > :08:30.traffic check meant they were prevented from trying again
:08:30. > :08:34.anywhere else. We'll talk more about this. June is
:08:34. > :08:39.with me here. June, given the circumstances that you described
:08:39. > :08:44.there, do police and the security service acknowledge or say this was
:08:44. > :08:49.a major intelligence failure? they don't. What they say is
:08:49. > :08:52.they've reviewed the decisions they made on this man, Jewel Uddin and
:08:52. > :08:56.they say that on the intelligence they had at the time they would not
:08:56. > :09:01.have done things differently, but this case does have echoes of 7/7,
:09:02. > :09:04.because the leaders of that plot had cropped up in a previous
:09:04. > :09:09.counter-terrorism investigation. They weren't considered as serious
:09:09. > :09:13.threats and they went on to lead a plot in which 52 people were
:09:13. > :09:18.murdered and if this had succeeded the authorities would have been
:09:18. > :09:22.facing the same questions. Why wasn't he put under greater
:09:22. > :09:25.scrutiny. Since the attack, the police and MI5 have foiled a series
:09:25. > :09:28.of plots, working on intelligence and stopped them getting through.
:09:28. > :09:32.It's a well-worn phrase they only have to get lucky once and in this
:09:32. > :09:39.case the luck was on the side of the police and MI5 and the men will
:09:39. > :09:42.be sentenced in June. Thank you.
:09:42. > :09:46.In Syria an explosion in the capital has claimed the lives of at
:09:46. > :09:49.least 14 people, according to State television there. More than 70
:09:49. > :09:53.people were injured in a commercial district, which the authorities
:09:53. > :09:58.blamed on terrorists. It comes a day after the Syrian Prime Minister
:09:58. > :10:01.survived a car bomb attack in the capital.
:10:01. > :10:06.Government departments in Whitehall have just a few hours left to
:10:06. > :10:11.submit their spending plans for 2015-16 and to outline how they
:10:11. > :10:15.intend to deliver cuts of up to 10%. The debate among ministers about
:10:15. > :10:19.the departments most in need of protection is intensifying, so over
:10:19. > :10:23.now to James Landale at Westminster. He has more on the debate, as it's
:10:23. > :10:28.going on. James. As you say, the Government's
:10:28. > :10:31.looking to find cuts of around �11.5 billion from the spending and
:10:31. > :10:35.ministers have until midnight tonight to tell the Treasury where
:10:35. > :10:39.they think the axe should fall. Normally this debate takes place
:10:39. > :10:43.behind closed doors, but today Nick Clegg went public, making two key
:10:44. > :10:47.points. He said first that he would accept no further cuts to welfare
:10:47. > :10:53.unless they were to pensioner benefits, things like the winter
:10:53. > :10:56.fuel allowance, that he thinks richer pensioners shouldn't claim
:10:56. > :11:00.and secondly, no cuts to the protected budget like health,
:11:00. > :11:04.schools and overseas aid. The reason he said that, was because
:11:05. > :11:07.there are some ministers like the Defence Secretary and the Business
:11:07. > :11:10.Secretary who think their departments are facing
:11:10. > :11:16.disproportionate cuts, because so many of the other departments are
:11:16. > :11:23.being protected. They are, I am told, looking for gaps in the ring
:11:23. > :11:27.fence p fences that are protecting these -- ring-fencing -- ring-
:11:28. > :11:31.fences that are protecting these departments. They will have many
:11:31. > :11:40.repercussions in two years' time. We'll find out who has won this
:11:40. > :11:43.particular important game in June. A woman has been found guilty of
:11:43. > :11:47.murdering five members of the same family, including three children,
:11:47. > :11:49.by deliberately starting a fire at a block of flats in Prestatyn in
:11:49. > :11:54.North Wales. Mold Crown Court was told that Melanie Smith, who lived
:11:54. > :12:01.in the flat below the victims, set light to a pushchair in a dispute
:12:01. > :12:06.about a shared haul way. -- hallway. They were killed because of a
:12:06. > :12:10.trivial row over a pushchair. Lee- Anna Shiers, her partner Liam and
:12:10. > :12:15.their 15-month-old son Charlie, died along with her nephew Bailey
:12:15. > :12:19.and niece Sky, as fire for through their first-floor flat. Today,
:12:19. > :12:24.their downstairs neighbour, Melanie Smith, sobbed in the dock as she
:12:24. > :12:28.was convicted of their murder. Smith, who had a history of violent
:12:28. > :12:33.and drunken behaviour had been angered by the family's buggy
:12:33. > :12:35.clocking the communal hallway and set it alight. Outside the court,
:12:35. > :12:40.friends and relatives of her victims welcomed the guilty
:12:40. > :12:45.verdicts. They said her actions have left them devastated. How do
:12:45. > :12:50.you get over something like this? Not only have they took my daughter,
:12:50. > :12:55.my grandchildren, they've took my best friend and they've took our
:12:55. > :13:00.way of life. She has took a lot of stuff away from us, not just them.
:13:00. > :13:04.Melanie Smith made no secret of her contempt for her neighbours. She
:13:04. > :13:10.told Lee-Anna Shiers, "I'm going to set fire to your home with you and
:13:10. > :13:13.your kids in it." After the blaze, she betrayed -- portrayed herself
:13:14. > :13:18.as a victim, claiming she had climbed out of a window. Neighbours
:13:18. > :13:22.tried to rescue the family, but were beaten back. The father of
:13:22. > :13:26.Bailey and Sky was among those watching on helplessly. I seen them
:13:26. > :13:31.when they brought my kids out. I seen the condition they were in.
:13:31. > :13:36.And I knew they had already gone. They were hoding me back, saying I
:13:36. > :13:39.couldn't go near them and let the paramedics do their jobs. As if I
:13:39. > :13:44.would stop them trying to save my children, but I wanted them to know
:13:44. > :13:48.I was there. Smith was also found guilty of trying to burn down
:13:48. > :13:58.another woman's home. The family of Lee-Anna Shiers will return to
:13:58. > :14:05.
:14:05. > :14:09.President Obama says he wants to renew his efforts to close the
:14:09. > :14:14.Guantanamo Bay detention centre. He has called on Congress to help him
:14:14. > :14:19.find a long-term legal solution. There are currently 166 prisoners
:14:19. > :14:24.being held in Guantanamo Bay. It is thought 100 of them are currently
:14:24. > :14:30.on hunger strike, and 21 are now being force-fed by medical staff,
:14:30. > :14:35.as our correspondent reports. It is where the US military act as live,
:14:35. > :14:39.judge and jury to men captured in President Bush's war on terror.
:14:39. > :14:45.Some have been left in legal limbo here for more than 10 years, out of
:14:45. > :14:49.reach, and mostly out of sight. One of his first acts when he became
:14:49. > :14:54.President was to sign an order to shut Guantanamo down within a year.
:14:54. > :14:59.Five years on, it still has not happened. But today, President
:14:59. > :15:02.Obama insisted he had not given up. I am going to go back at this.
:15:02. > :15:07.have asked my team to review everything that is currently being
:15:07. > :15:11.done, everything that we can do, and I am going to re-engage with
:15:11. > :15:15.Congress to try to make the case that this is not something which is
:15:15. > :15:19.in the best interests of the American people. This is why he has
:15:19. > :15:24.had to renew old fouls - the growing protest, with most
:15:24. > :15:29.prisoners are now refusing food. In the past, when I have visited
:15:29. > :15:34.Guantanamo, medical staff were already well versed in explaining
:15:34. > :15:39.how they dealt with those on hunger strike. The this catheter is passed
:15:39. > :15:43.through the nostril, into the stomach. We saw the chair in which
:15:43. > :15:48.prisoners are restrained and force- fed. But this latest protest is on
:15:49. > :15:53.a much larger scale, and some say it is a sign of growing despair.
:15:53. > :15:56.Six people have committed suicide in that camp, and only three people
:15:56. > :16:00.have been convicted, which is not good odds for a place which is
:16:00. > :16:05.meant to bring justice to America. There will be deaths, no doubt
:16:05. > :16:09.about it. President Obama says he does not want anybody to die. Extra
:16:09. > :16:13.medical staff have been sent to deal with the protest. But he may
:16:13. > :16:18.find it hard to persuade a sceptical public to close down
:16:18. > :16:24.Guantanamo, when the alternative is holding prisoners closer to home.
:16:24. > :16:30.Former as Americans, it is out of sight, out of mind. As long as they
:16:30. > :16:35.view this as an us and them proposition, the public do not seem
:16:35. > :16:40.to care a lot. Congress blocked his efforts to transfer some prisoners
:16:40. > :16:45.for trial in the US. The President says he will start those talks are
:16:45. > :16:55.fresh, but so far, his words have not been matched by deeds, and for
:16:55. > :16:55.
:16:55. > :17:00.now, closing Guantanamo remains a Two men are on the run after
:17:00. > :17:07.escaping from a prison van in an armed ambush. The two were freed by
:17:07. > :17:10.three masked men who attacked the vehicle in Salford this morning.
:17:10. > :17:15.Police say Stevie McMullen and Ryan MacDonald should not be approached.
:17:15. > :17:19.Amanda Knox, the American student who spent four years in an Italian
:17:19. > :17:23.jail for the murder of her British flat mate, Meredith Kercher, has
:17:23. > :17:27.given her first television interview. She asked to be
:17:27. > :17:33.reconsidered as a person. She was acquitted two years ago, but faces
:17:33. > :17:38.a retrial. This report contains flash photography. Released on
:17:38. > :17:44.appeal 18 months ago after serving four years in an Italian prisoner.
:17:44. > :17:48.Last month, Amanda Knox was told the Italian authorities intend to
:17:48. > :17:55.re-try her for the murder of her British flat mate Meredith Kercher.
:17:55. > :17:59.Today, she gave her reaction the shop it was incredibly painful. I
:17:59. > :18:03.felt like after crawling through a field of barbed-wire and finally
:18:03. > :18:09.reaching what I thought was the end, it just turned out that it was the
:18:09. > :18:13.horizon, and I had another field of barbed-wire which I had ahead of me
:18:13. > :18:18.to go through. Meredith Kercher's body was found in the bedroom of
:18:18. > :18:22.the home she shared with Amanda Knox in the Italian town of Perugia.
:18:22. > :18:26.Amanda Knox maintains in her autobiography that she was not
:18:26. > :18:33.there at the time, and she can hardly believe the way she has been
:18:33. > :18:42.portrayed in the press. She did well with an angel face, Sphinx of
:18:42. > :18:48.Perugia... I have not heard those. I mean, have hurt the gist of them.
:18:48. > :18:52.And they are wrong. It is one thing to be called certain things in the
:18:52. > :18:56.media, it is another thing to be sitting in a courtroom, fighting
:18:56. > :19:02.for your life, while people are calling you a devil. For all
:19:03. > :19:12.intents and purposes, I was a murderer. Whether I was or not. And
:19:12. > :19:16.I had to live with the idea that that would be my life. It to the's
:19:16. > :19:21.Supreme Court cannot compel Amanda Knox to return for the retrial, but
:19:21. > :19:29.it could ask the US to extradite her. Legal experts believe the
:19:29. > :19:32.memoir could be used in court. Should the judges of the new
:19:32. > :19:35.trialled consider this book to be relevant, it will be acquired as
:19:35. > :19:41.new evidence in the criminal proceedings. Italian prosecutors
:19:41. > :19:45.are not the only ones who do not by Amanda Knox's claims of innocence.
:19:45. > :19:48.Neither do members of Meredith Kercher's family, who said tonight
:19:49. > :19:55.they had no interest in reading the book. Here in America, meanwhile,
:19:55. > :20:03.the effort to reveal her image is already well under way. -- to
:20:03. > :20:09.rebuild. NASA has revealed striking images of an enormous hurricane on
:20:09. > :20:14.Saturn. It is almost 300 miles wide. The images were captured by the
:20:14. > :20:21.Cassini spacecraft, which first detected the Harry Kane back in
:20:21. > :20:25.2004. Sam Warburton will captain the British and Irish Lions on
:20:25. > :20:30.their tour of Hong Kong and Australia. 14 of his Welsh
:20:30. > :20:34.teammates will be joining him. He was picked as captain ahead of more
:20:34. > :20:39.experienced players, like Brian O'Driscoll and Paul O'Connell. The
:20:39. > :20:46.squad also includes 10 English, nine Irish and three Scottish
:20:46. > :20:51.players. Lions selection represents the pinnacle of a player's Korea.
:20:51. > :20:56.16 years after the last series victory, pride needs restoring.
:20:56. > :21:02.Today we learned that Sam Warburton will be the captain. The 24-year-
:21:02. > :21:08.old flanker has commanded his Welsh side with distinction. And today,
:21:08. > :21:16.he told me exactly what the captaincy of the lions means to him.
:21:16. > :21:21.A absolutely delighted. It is an honour which very few players have.
:21:21. > :21:24.Amid the attention, Sam Warburton has an awesome responsibility, to
:21:24. > :21:29.lead the British and Irish Lions to a much needed series victory. The
:21:29. > :21:31.squad is dominated by the Six Nations champions. The Welsh
:21:31. > :21:36.provide 15 members of the squad. provide 15 members of the squad.
:21:36. > :21:42.England have the next biggest contingent, followed by Ireland,
:21:42. > :21:45.with just three Scots included. One man not going is Jonny Wilkinson.
:21:45. > :21:49.The former England fly-half has been in fantastic form for his
:21:49. > :21:55.French club, Toulon, but it has French club, Toulon, but it has
:21:55. > :21:59.emerged that he ruled himself out. I rang him, he appreciated the call,
:21:59. > :22:03.but he was not available for the start of the tour. He is committed
:22:03. > :22:07.to Toulon. He also said he was struggling physically. Chris
:22:07. > :22:16.Robshaw is another name notable by his absence, despite being England
:22:16. > :22:20.captain. The lions last won a Test series down Under in 1989. One of
:22:20. > :22:25.the heroes of that tour had this message for those surplus to
:22:25. > :22:30.requirements. The few have not been picked, do not worry. I was not
:22:30. > :22:34.picked to go in the first place. I think there will be players who are
:22:34. > :22:40.not in that 37 who will play on the tour. They do not know who they are
:22:40. > :22:44.yet. But whatever you do, keep training. This is a golden era for
:22:44. > :22:50.Welsh rugby. Now, if the British and Irish Lions are to taste
:22:50. > :22:57.success, the chances are, it will be a victory forged in Britain's
:22:57. > :23:01.rugby heartland. The people of the Netherlands have the first king in
:23:01. > :23:05.more than a century. King Willem Alexander was sworn in at a
:23:05. > :23:15.ceremony in Amsterdam. His mother formally gave up the throne this
:23:15. > :23:16.
:23:16. > :23:22.morning, after 33 years. It was a day for dressing in orange. The
:23:22. > :23:26.national colour dominated the square in front of Amsterdam's
:23:26. > :23:32.Royal Palace. This is an informal country, with an informal kind of
:23:32. > :23:42.monarchy. There was little ceremony. Her Majesty simply signed herself
:23:42. > :23:42.
:23:42. > :23:47.off the throne. A mother passing on the job to do son. He, their first
:23:47. > :23:52.king in 123 years - power goes to the eldest child, regardless of
:23:52. > :23:58.gender. It is a once-in-a-lifetime event, which was why I wanted to
:23:58. > :24:02.come. My husband is Republican, so he is not into the monarchy, but I
:24:02. > :24:07.think it is a very good thing. fact that everybody can get so
:24:07. > :24:11.close is a sign of how down-to- earth the Royal Family hear is, or
:24:11. > :24:15.at least, wants to appear to be. Unlike the monarchy in Britain,
:24:15. > :24:19.they do not have that same untouchable feel about them. The
:24:19. > :24:27.new King has already said that he wants to be seen as a man of his
:24:27. > :24:31.people. He will not stand on ceremony. The guests filed in, not
:24:31. > :24:40.for a crowning, rather an inauguration. Among them, and other
:24:40. > :24:45.future king, almost 20 years older than Willem Alexander. Then, enter
:24:45. > :24:49.the monarch and his new Queen, Maxima, an Argentinian born
:24:49. > :24:56.economist. His mother said it was time for a new generation. This was
:24:56. > :25:01.his message... A TRANSLATION: As King, I would like to encourage
:25:01. > :25:05.people to actively use the opportunities available to them,
:25:05. > :25:08.however great medal diversity, however different our convictions
:25:08. > :25:16.and dreams may be. Everyone is allowed to make their
:25:16. > :25:26.voice heard. But the pomp did not last long. This evening, the king
:25:26. > :25:33.
:25:33. > :25:38.and Queen were feted in a frenzy of And in this city built on water,
:25:38. > :25:44.they hold a River Pageant. This appears to be a monarchy at ease