:00:10. > :00:13.war - evidence is shown to the BBC of what's claimed to be one of the
:00:13. > :00:23.worst massacres yet. Opposition activists claim over 200 men, women
:00:23. > :00:23.
:00:23. > :00:28.and children were killed by Government forces. An entire family
:00:28. > :00:37.were slaughtered in one house. What more can I say? There was so much
:00:37. > :00:40.blood. The evidence of the atrocity emerges as the EU clears the way for
:00:40. > :00:43.arms to be supplied to Syrian opposition fighters. But Russia
:00:43. > :00:45.retaliates by saying it will supply anti-aircraft missiles to the Syrian
:00:45. > :00:49.government to try to deter any foreign intervention. Also tonight -
:00:49. > :00:51.one of the men suspected of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby is
:00:51. > :00:54.discharged from hospital and immediately arrested by police. The
:00:54. > :00:57.family of the other suspect talk of their profound shame and distress.
:00:57. > :01:01.We report from Kenya on how one of the suspects was arrested there for
:01:01. > :01:04.allegedly planning to train with Islamic militants in Somalia. The
:01:04. > :01:07.Chancellor announces cuts across seven Government departments, but he
:01:07. > :01:10.still has to find up to nine billion more in savings. And, as we're
:01:10. > :01:20.encouraged to conserve forests, how a fifth of Britain's renewable
:01:20. > :01:24.
:01:24. > :01:29.energy will soon come from timber imported from America. Coming up in
:01:29. > :01:33.sport on the news channel, Roberto Martinez could be the new manager of
:01:33. > :01:43.Everton by the end of the week, after telling Wigan that he wants to
:01:43. > :01:57.
:01:57. > :02:01.evidence of what appears to be one of the worst massacres so far in
:02:01. > :02:06.Syria. In what is already a bledy civil war. Opposition activists
:02:06. > :02:09.claim over 200 men, women and children were killed in two towns in
:02:09. > :02:14.the west of the country. The Syrian Government doesn't dispute that an
:02:14. > :02:18.attack took place, but says it was targeting terrorist fighters. We
:02:18. > :02:24.have this exclusive report from inside Syria. It contains graphic
:02:24. > :02:29.images that you may find disturbing. Rebel fighters in the north get
:02:29. > :02:36.ready to attack. Few here took of freedom and democracy these days.
:02:36. > :02:44.What motivates these men is revenge. Using rockets they captured from one
:02:44. > :02:47.Government military base, they bombard another. This attack is
:02:47. > :02:53.retaliation for what they believe was a brutal massacre in the wets of
:02:53. > :02:56.the country. -- west of the country. It's a conflict that is increasing
:02:57. > :03:01.violent and sectarian and seems unstoppable. Attacks like this are
:03:01. > :03:05.now taking place across Syria as the rebels grow stronger and so does the
:03:05. > :03:12.Government's response. But the truth is, there are no real winners here,
:03:12. > :03:19.just losers. Syria is consumed by war. But what happened in the town
:03:20. > :03:27.of bannia and neighbouring bade da is one of the -- bay da is one of
:03:27. > :03:33.the darkest hours. Neither side disputes that this attack took
:03:33. > :03:38.place, but this leaked video apparently filmed by pro-Government
:03:38. > :03:44.fighters showed the troops in the square. State media says they killed
:03:44. > :03:48.40 terrorists, but locals talk of a sectarian assault, where Alawite
:03:48. > :03:54.soldiers who support the President attacked the local Sunni population.
:03:54. > :03:58.We met two women who have escaped and they say they're too afraid to
:03:58. > :04:02.show their faces, but the story they tell is matched by others we have
:04:02. > :04:06.spoken to. TRANSLATION: There was a black cloud of smoke covering the
:04:06. > :04:14.village. You couldn't see anything. Fire engulfed the village. All you
:04:14. > :04:18.could hear was the screaming of men, women and children. They describe
:04:18. > :04:22.soldiers, pro-Government militias coming to their village. They say
:04:22. > :04:28.men and boys were rounded up and killed. This video apparently taken
:04:28. > :04:33.by a Government fighter, appears to back this story. Activists claim the
:04:33. > :04:38.two-day offensive left more than 200 dead. TRANSLATION: I ran down the
:04:38. > :04:42.road and saw 20 to 30 men laying on the ground. All shot up. Then I saw
:04:42. > :04:46.my husband and my father-in-law. They were laying on the ground, shot
:04:46. > :04:53.in the head. There was nothing left of my husband's face apart from his
:04:53. > :04:58.mouth and his nose. It was hideous. What you are about to see is
:04:58. > :05:02.sickening. The militias moved on to the neighbouring town. This
:05:02. > :05:06.unverified video claims to show the aftermath of the attack there.
:05:06. > :05:11.Activists say 20 members of one family were killed here. The video
:05:11. > :05:18.shows a group of women slumped together. A mother and child
:05:18. > :05:23.slaughtered on the bed. Another woman with what seemed to be five
:05:23. > :05:29.children all of them dead. There are many images of other families. Most
:05:29. > :05:35.are too graphic to show. The women say there were similar scenes in
:05:35. > :05:40.their village too. TRANSLATION: There were slaughtered and charred
:05:40. > :05:46.bodies everywhere. Houses were on fire. The people in side them were
:05:46. > :05:55.burning. Anne tire family laid down dead, slaughtered in one house. What
:05:55. > :05:58.more can I say? There was so much blood. Those who escaped are now
:05:58. > :06:03.refugees, trapped inside their own country. We cannot be sure what has
:06:03. > :06:07.happened. But what does seem beyond doubt is that many innocent people
:06:07. > :06:10.were killed, without any possible reason. And while nations place
:06:10. > :06:20.their faith in diplomacy, the country is soaked in the blood of
:06:20. > :06:25.
:06:25. > :06:32.armed embargo against the Syrian opposition, allowing Britain and
:06:32. > :06:39.France to supply opposition fighters. Russia has said it will
:06:39. > :06:43.continue to supply the Syrian Government. Britain and fans,
:06:43. > :06:47.Europe's marshal powers, push their reluctant European partners well
:06:47. > :06:51.into the night and won in the end what they wanted - the right to arm
:06:51. > :06:55.Syria's rebels. The Foreign Secretary said sending weapons was
:06:55. > :07:00.now possible, though not yet inevitable. We would only take the
:07:00. > :07:03.step of sending arms in company with other nations, in carefully
:07:03. > :07:08.controlled circumstances and in compliance with international law,
:07:08. > :07:12.but this decision today gives us the flexibility in the future to respond
:07:12. > :07:17.to a worsening situation or to a refusal of the Assad regime to
:07:17. > :07:22.negotiate. There is anxiety though. Many in Europe believe a resort to
:07:22. > :07:26.arms now may wreck any remaining chance of a negotiated peace.
:07:26. > :07:30.have the first possibility for a very long time, since last summer,
:07:31. > :07:35.for a process and I think it is extremely wrong not to rock the
:07:35. > :07:39.boat. Russia said today it would go ahead with a plan to supply
:07:39. > :07:44.antiaircraft missiles to the Syrian regime. It said the weapons were
:07:44. > :07:50.defensive, designed to deter further foreign interference in Syria. But
:07:50. > :07:55.increasingly Russia and the West are being drawn into Syria's war on
:07:55. > :08:02.opposing sides, risk a war by proxy on Syrian soil. Russia condemned the
:08:02. > :08:05.EU's decision to end the embargo. TRANSLATION: You cannot on one hand
:08:05. > :08:15.declare your intention to stop the bloodshed, but on the other hand,
:08:15. > :08:16.
:08:16. > :08:21.move in the direction of pumping Syria with yet more weapons. In the
:08:21. > :08:25.Israeli occupied Golan Heights Israeli troops are with -- were on
:08:25. > :08:30.the move. One minister issued a clear warning - if the missiles
:08:30. > :08:33.arrive at Israel, God forbid, he said, we will know what to do.
:08:33. > :08:41.Another dismissed Russia's claims that the missiles were purely
:08:41. > :08:47.defensive. The use of the missiles is making them not just defensive
:08:47. > :08:52.weapons, but also offensive weapons. Britain and France aren't arming
:08:52. > :08:56.anyone yet. Their hoping hope is the threat alone will be enough to bring
:08:56. > :08:59.the Assad regime to the negotiating table, but the Foreign Office is
:08:59. > :09:06.facing questions - what if it does work? What kind of weapons might be
:09:06. > :09:14.sent? What kind of rebels might benefit? For the Free Syrian Army is
:09:14. > :09:21.not the only rebel force. The war has pulled in Islamist extremists,
:09:21. > :09:25.some with Al-Qaeda. Might the weapons end up in their hands? The
:09:25. > :09:32.threat to arm the rebels is designed to put pressure on President Assad
:09:32. > :09:35.to seek peace, but it has polarised Russia and the West and their
:09:35. > :09:45.co-operation is essential if the peace conference has any chance next
:09:45. > :09:47.month. One of the suspected killers of Drummer Lee Rigby has been
:09:47. > :09:50.discharged from hospital and taken into police custody. Michael
:09:50. > :09:52.Adebowale, who's 22, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
:09:52. > :09:55.Meanwhile, the family of the other suspect, Michael Adebolajo, has
:09:55. > :09:57.issued a statement describing their horror, profound shame and distress
:09:57. > :10:04.at Drummer Rigby's senseless killing. Our Home Affairs
:10:04. > :10:09.Correspondent, Matt Prodger, reports. Police have waited six days
:10:09. > :10:12.to question Michael Adebolajo. Today he was discharged from hospital and
:10:12. > :10:18.promptly arrested on suspicion of murder. He's been held at a police
:10:18. > :10:28.station in south London. His alleged, Michael Adebowale remains
:10:28. > :10:51.
:10:51. > :10:54.in hospital, but tonight there was last year approached an
:10:54. > :10:59.organisation, which advises people who believe they were wrongly
:10:59. > :11:03.imprisoned in the war on terror. A case worker said they complained of
:11:03. > :11:13.being harassed by British security agents after he was arrested in
:11:13. > :11:18.Kenya in 2010 and returned to Britain. They did not stop to
:11:18. > :11:22.contact him. And seek to arrange meetings and so on. They even
:11:22. > :11:28.approached other members of his family to try to convince him to
:11:28. > :11:33.work with them. He made notes of the conversation. In them, they say that
:11:33. > :11:37.last year Michael Adebolajo met an agent in central London at the
:11:37. > :11:41.request of the security services. They offered him work, but he
:11:41. > :11:46.refused. He also received texts from them. The last of them which said,
:11:46. > :11:49."We have no option but to proceed without you." It is said that his
:11:49. > :11:53.father felt pressured when MI5 dauleed called him to request a
:11:53. > :11:58.meeting and asked him to convince his son to co-operate. The meeting
:11:58. > :12:06.left him in a state of great distress. If this is true, it means
:12:06. > :12:09.that here at MI5 they not only new one of the suspects but they tried
:12:09. > :12:17.repeatedly to turn him. That's one of the issues that will be looked at
:12:17. > :12:22.by MPs over the coming days. More details have emerged about the time
:12:22. > :12:29.Michael Adebolajo spent in Kenya, before his arrest there. Police have
:12:29. > :12:39.told the BBC they suspected he was about to travel to Somalia. We have
:12:39. > :12:48.
:12:48. > :12:52.this report from Kpate where he was these waters, especially when
:12:52. > :12:59.al-Qaeda were at the height of their power. But Michael Adebolajo did,
:12:59. > :13:04.you landed on Pate Island. This -- he landed on Pate Island. This is a
:13:04. > :13:08.small fishing community where very little ghost unnoticed and any
:13:08. > :13:13.association with al-Shaabab, however slight, can land you in jail. Most
:13:13. > :13:23.are too nervous to talk about the case. This is the guest house where
:13:23. > :13:24.
:13:24. > :13:29.the men stayed. It is shouted -- it is boarded up and closed. Michael
:13:29. > :13:35.Adebolajo and five young Kenyan men travelled on to the village of
:13:35. > :13:44.Kizingitini where we are told a boat was ready and waiting. Thanks to a
:13:44. > :13:50.tipoff, so were the police. We knew they were going to Somalia, because
:13:50. > :13:59.we have been resting so many on their way to Somalia. -- arresting
:14:00. > :14:05.so many. In this fishing village they arrested market -- Mark Michael
:14:05. > :14:09.Adebolajo. This was a lawless area and a jumping off point for
:14:09. > :14:13.jihadists travelling to Somalia. Michael Adebolajo appeared in court
:14:13. > :14:18.in Mombasa but no charges were ever formally brought and he was
:14:18. > :14:23.released. The Kenyan government said it handed over -- him over to
:14:23. > :14:27.petition officials before he was deported. -- handed him over to
:14:27. > :14:30.British officials. Kenyan officials suggested this man might have had a
:14:30. > :14:36.hand in trying to help the future will each suspect linked up with
:14:36. > :14:42.militants. Aboud Rogo was a controversial reacher based in
:14:42. > :14:45.Mombasa until his arrest last year. If Michael Adebolajo was trying to
:14:45. > :14:52.join the jihadists, it seems his aims were throated on this occasion.
:14:52. > :14:54.But many others succeeded -- worth 40. In 2011 security forces
:14:54. > :15:01.estimated at around 100 British nationals had travelled to Somalia
:15:01. > :15:03.to fight, and Kenya was known to be the preferred route.
:15:03. > :15:07.Police in Northern Ireland have described a pipe bomb attack last
:15:07. > :15:11.night as a blatant attempt to murder two police officers. Two large bombs
:15:11. > :15:15.were thrown at the officers as they responded to a 999 call in a
:15:15. > :15:20.loyalist part of north Belfast. It is the second time in two weeks that
:15:20. > :15:22.police in Belfast have been attacked. The Chancellor has agreed
:15:22. > :15:27.savings with seven Whitehall departments ahead of next month
:15:27. > :15:32.spending review. George Osborne wants to repeat -- reduce spending
:15:32. > :15:41.by �11.5 million by 2015. Even with the cuts, he still has to
:15:41. > :15:45.find a further eight to nine William pounds. -- eight to �9 billion.
:15:45. > :15:48.The Treasury is still searching for savings and they want you to know
:15:48. > :15:52.they have found some full seven departments have settled their
:15:52. > :15:58.budgets, those deals and early decisions mean over 20% of the cuts
:15:58. > :16:02.that the Treasury needs in that year have been secured. We are taking
:16:02. > :16:07.tough decisions, saving money in welfare, saving money in Whitehall,
:16:07. > :16:09.so we can invest in services that really matter to people. Frontline
:16:09. > :16:14.services and the NHS and investment in the economic structure that will
:16:14. > :16:17.create jobs in the future. He went to Merseyside to make that point
:16:17. > :16:23.where the government is helping to pay to dredge the river to
:16:23. > :16:27.accommodate bigger ships. It was a chance for George Osborne to be seen
:16:27. > :16:31.making things happen now. When he gets back to the office committee
:16:31. > :16:35.will have to look to the future. With less than a month to go before
:16:35. > :16:45.he has two set apartment budgets for 2015 and the current spending plan
:16:45. > :16:46.
:16:46. > :16:49.runs out. -- he has to to set apart -- department budgets. The budgets
:16:49. > :16:54.for the NHS schools and foreign aid ring fenced, which means he can't
:16:54. > :17:00.cut them. Today he made it clear there would not be extra welfare
:17:00. > :17:04.cuts either. It means the trickiest decisions are still to be made.
:17:04. > :17:08.Office, defence, transport, local government, these are the big ones
:17:08. > :17:13.to come. Making significant cuts in all of those on top of really big
:17:13. > :17:17.cuts that have already happened will inevitably be difficult.
:17:17. > :17:20.Smalltalk might flow more easily here than in West Mr for a while.
:17:20. > :17:26.With some of the Chancellor 's colleagues fighting him hard and
:17:27. > :17:30.sometimes publicly for budgets. The message from some departments to the
:17:30. > :17:33.Treasury is, don't expect us to tackle our budgets until the last
:17:34. > :17:38.possible minute before the spending review is announced to Parliament.
:17:38. > :17:41.In the words of one source, this will go right to the wire. As for
:17:41. > :17:48.Labour, they won't reveal their plans but they don't like the
:17:48. > :17:51.Chancellor's. His priorities should be growth in 2013, instead of trying
:17:52. > :17:59.to second-guess what he can't predict. He needs to start focusing
:17:59. > :18:05.now on preparing the economy and repairing public finances.
:18:05. > :18:09.Chancellor has to focus on finding and making the case for more cuts.
:18:09. > :18:12.As part of trying to reduce greenhouse gases we are often
:18:12. > :18:15.encouraged to save the rainforest or protect woodland. Now cutting down
:18:15. > :18:22.trees is forming a key part of the government's renewable energy
:18:22. > :18:27.policy. Trees which will then be burned in British power stations. By
:18:28. > :18:32.2020, 15% of all energy needs are to come from renewable sources. Almost
:18:32. > :18:36.a third is likely to come from wind and a fifth from wood. Ministers say
:18:36. > :18:46.the trees will be replaced, making them renewable. Environmentalists
:18:46. > :18:49.
:18:49. > :18:53.say it is bad for wildlife and in the short term, increases pollution.
:18:53. > :18:57.The forest plantations of the south-east USA, some of the world 's
:18:57. > :19:01.most productive, mainly grown for construction timber. Some of the
:19:02. > :19:07.trees will be burned in Britain, to make electricity. It helps the UK
:19:07. > :19:12.hit its targets for renewable power. Environmentalists don't like it but
:19:12. > :19:15.foresters say it is only low-grade trees that are burned anyway.
:19:15. > :19:23.would leave the bigotry is to continue to grow and add more value
:19:23. > :19:27.which allows smaller trees to be used for energy. New trees are
:19:27. > :19:32.planted to replace ones that are burned. As they grow, they soak up
:19:32. > :19:38.the carbon dioxide that is heating the planet. But George also boasts
:19:38. > :19:42.natural swamp forests, full of rare species like this swamp canary.
:19:42. > :19:49.These woods are also being cut. This would tell a factory is clearly
:19:49. > :19:54.processing logs from natural swamp forest. This is the native forest in
:19:54. > :19:57.the south-eastern United States, which are tremendous -- tremendously
:19:57. > :20:01.valuable resources. This is a misguided policy that will do little
:20:01. > :20:05.or anything to address climate change, but has the potential to do
:20:05. > :20:09.great damage to the environment in the south-eastern United States.
:20:09. > :20:18.next stage is for the trees to be turned into wood chips. And dumped
:20:18. > :20:24.here, on this mountain of wood. And it is a massive scale of this
:20:24. > :20:27.operation that so alarms environmentalists. They say it takes
:20:27. > :20:32.50 years for new trees to compensate for the CO2 released by old trees
:20:32. > :20:40.when they are burned. And here is the world biggest importer of
:20:40. > :20:46.American woodfuel, a power station in Yorkshire. The firm says burning
:20:46. > :20:51.wood does save carbon emissions. analyse the use of carbon all the
:20:51. > :20:53.way through two out of the furnace. We can demonstrate that we are
:20:53. > :20:59.delivering real major carbon saving so it is very good for climate
:20:59. > :21:03.change. Drax is converting half of its boilers from coal to wood
:21:04. > :21:09.pellets, with a subsidy of around �1 billion. The UK is struggling to
:21:09. > :21:15.meet targets for renewable power. And that is why ministers won't be
:21:15. > :21:19.dumping the woodfuel subsidies any time soon.
:21:19. > :21:26.A newborn baby is recovering in hospital in China after being found
:21:27. > :21:29.trapped in a sewage pipe in a block of flats. The two-hour operation to
:21:29. > :21:32.free the baby boy was filmed and contains some distressing images.
:21:32. > :21:35.Firefighters were called after cries were heard coming from a toilet,
:21:36. > :21:38.with only the baby's foot visible. A section of the pipe beneath was cut
:21:38. > :21:41.away and, after a painstaking operation, the baby was finally
:21:41. > :21:46.freed. He wasn't seriously injured and is recovering in hospital in
:21:46. > :21:51.Zhejiang province. It isn't known how he ended up in the pipe but
:21:52. > :21:55.police are treating it as attempted murder.
:21:55. > :22:00.Max Clifford has appeared in court, charged with 11 counts of indecent
:22:00. > :22:05.assault against seven teenage girls, the youngest aged 14. The
:22:05. > :22:10.offences are alleged to have taken place between 1966 and 1985. The
:22:11. > :22:15.publicist and eyes all charges. Tom Symons' report contains flash
:22:15. > :22:20.photography. The man so often behind the story,
:22:20. > :22:28.this morning was the story. That meant fighting his way with his
:22:28. > :22:33.wife, past the cameras, to get into the court. What do you say to the
:22:33. > :22:38.allegations? Max Clifford's answer, we are bearing up and I am not
:22:38. > :22:41.guilty. He was arrested in December, charged last month and this brief
:22:41. > :22:47.appearance in front of a Westminster Magistrates' Court the start of the
:22:47. > :22:53.core process, it was over in minutes. Max Clifford confirmed his
:22:53. > :22:59.name. He listened while all 11 charges were read to him, and each
:22:59. > :23:09.time, quietly, he said, not guilty. The prosecution is accusing him of a
:23:09. > :23:25.
:23:25. > :23:30.pattern of sexual offending, dating They cover the period during which
:23:30. > :23:34.Max Clifford developed his formidable reputation as a celebrity
:23:34. > :23:38.public relations adviser. He claimed to reporters this morning that until
:23:38. > :23:47.recently, he had been kept in the dark as to the identities of those
:23:47. > :23:50.making the allegations. The England manager Roy Hodgson has
:23:50. > :23:55.appealed to fans going to tomorrow's friendly against Republic of Ireland
:23:55. > :24:01.to behave themselves. It will be their first meeting in 18 years.
:24:01. > :24:06.Their last one, in Dublin, was abandoned because of rioting.
:24:06. > :24:12.It was a night that shamed football. February 1995, and
:24:12. > :24:14.violence erupts at Lansdowne Road. As you may be aware, tonight
:24:14. > :24:19.international between England and the Republic of Ireland in Dublin
:24:19. > :24:23.was abandoned. Amid the ongoing troubles between the two countries,
:24:23. > :24:27.far right militants had infiltrated England's fans in Dublin. The mayhem
:24:27. > :24:30.that followed meant this was the last time the two teams played each
:24:30. > :24:35.other. Tomorrow night, they meet again and England's fans have been
:24:35. > :24:39.reminded of their responsibilities. The FA has appealed for no chanting
:24:39. > :24:43.of a religious or political nature. There have been problems between the
:24:43. > :24:46.two countries. We can't rewrite history. On the other hand, we are
:24:46. > :24:51.playing a football match in totally different circumstances to the games
:24:51. > :24:55.that were played in the past. We expect our supporters and the Irish
:24:55. > :24:59.supporters to behave in the correct manner. Alan Kelly was Ireland's
:24:59. > :25:05.goalkeeper in 1995 and he is still haunted by what he witnessed at
:25:05. > :25:10.night. Seeing the pictures again brings it all back, that this is a
:25:10. > :25:15.major incident, people are going to get hurt. I was on that pitch that
:25:15. > :25:25.night and saw it on false, it still sends a shiver down my spine.
:25:25. > :25:28.
:25:28. > :25:32.ripping up seeds and throwing missiles onto the fans sat below.
:25:32. > :25:37.Just like the wider political landscape, much has changed since.
:25:37. > :25:40.Lansdowne Road has been completely rebuilt and renamed. As a
:25:40. > :25:44.12-year-old, Denis O'Connor was taken to the match here by his
:25:44. > :25:50.father. Tomorrow, the two of them will be at Wembley. How important is
:25:50. > :25:54.this game? Extremely important. We will never forget what happened in
:25:54. > :25:58.1995, it was a very frightening experience for me and everybody who
:25:58. > :26:02.was there. I think if everything goes smoothly, it will heal a lot of
:26:02. > :26:08.old wounds. The Irish trained at Wembley for the first time in a