:00:04. > :00:06.300 African migrants are now feared dead after the Mediterranean's worst
:00:06. > :00:18.ever refugee disaster. As survivors are pulled from the
:00:18. > :00:28.water off the Italian coast, the desperate strain of their ordeal is
:00:28. > :00:32.all too clear. Oh, my God. Hallelujah!
:00:32. > :00:35.We're live at the scene as the Italian authorities struggle to cope
:00:35. > :00:39.with the dead, and the living. Also tonight: The mother who starved
:00:39. > :00:45.her son to death is jailed for 15 years.
:00:45. > :00:48.We hear from his father. FIFA admits a summer World Cup in
:00:48. > :00:51.Qatar might be a mistake, but gets no closer to finding a solution.
:00:51. > :00:54.The mother and her children who played dead in the Kenyan shopping
:00:54. > :00:58.mall siege talk of the moment they were rescued.
:00:58. > :01:01.And the brilliant and ruthless Vietnamese general who defeated the
:01:01. > :01:08.French and the Americans has died aged 102.
:01:08. > :01:12.In Sportsday, can Arsenal Ladies make up for losing the league with a
:01:13. > :01:37.win in the Continental Cup over Lincoln?
:01:38. > :01:42.Good evening. Rescuers in Italy now fear more than
:01:42. > :01:47.300 people drowned when a boat carrying African migrants sank
:01:47. > :01:50.yesterday. Divers have been hampered by poor weather conditions at sea
:01:50. > :01:54.today. So far just over 100 bodies have been recovered. The fishing
:01:54. > :01:58.vessel was carrying around 500 migrants, including children, mainly
:01:58. > :02:02.from Eritrea and Somalia. It's thought they had set off from the
:02:02. > :02:06.Libyan port of Misrata, but the boat capsized half a mile off the island
:02:06. > :02:09.of Lampedusa after it caught fire. The sunken vessel lies off the
:02:09. > :02:12.southern coast of the island, where the authorities are calling for help
:02:12. > :02:15.to prevent such tragedies happening again. Gavin Hewitt reports from
:02:15. > :02:30.there. This is the first glimpse of the
:02:30. > :02:34.migrants' boat, which lies 150 feet in Neath the surface. Divers believe
:02:34. > :02:41.many bodies are still inside. They are not looking for any more
:02:41. > :02:45.survivors. This was the moment yesterday when rescue boats arrived
:02:45. > :02:50.at the site where the boat with the migrants had capsized. At one point,
:02:50. > :02:54.coastguard crews were in the water, trying to save people. It is feared
:02:54. > :03:02.up to 300 people lost their lives in the Mediterranean's worst disaster
:03:02. > :03:07.involving migrants. During the rescue, one man warned of the large
:03:07. > :03:17.numbers still at risk. How many people in the boat? 180 or 500. We
:03:17. > :03:28.met one of the survivors, from Eritrea.
:03:28. > :03:33.TRANSLATION: We got out, swimming. The motor did not work any more. We
:03:34. > :03:40.turned on a fire. It got out of control, and everyone jumped into
:03:40. > :03:43.the water. Throughout the day, ships and helicopters have been scouring
:03:43. > :03:47.the waters. There are 200 people unaccounted for. The survivors say
:03:47. > :03:51.they were so close to land that they could see the lights. The boat sank
:03:51. > :03:56.they were so close to land that they 800 metres from these two rocks. The
:03:56. > :04:00.stronger migrants, some of them, over 100 of them, were able to swim
:04:00. > :04:05.and reached the rocks where they were rescued. But the majority of
:04:05. > :04:08.the people on the boat could not make the crossing. Some of the early
:04:08. > :04:14.rescuers have described the moment they arrived at the scene. Domenico
:04:14. > :04:17.is a fisherman, who told us many of those he saved were covered in
:04:17. > :04:23.kerosene. TRANSLATION: When I stopped the
:04:23. > :04:27.boat, you could only see their heads with arms in the air. They were
:04:27. > :04:35.screaming. There were so many people in the sea. We only managed to save
:04:35. > :04:39.20. Two have now died, two women. Some of the survivors have been
:04:39. > :04:44.taken to this detention centre, joining other migrants with stories
:04:44. > :04:47.and pictures of harrowing journeys. European officials openly accept
:04:47. > :04:54.that there will have to be changes to avoid these tragedies. Seven
:04:54. > :04:58.countries today take almost all of the refugees in Europe, but we are
:04:58. > :04:59.setting in place a common European policy with common standards so that
:05:00. > :05:05.setting in place a common European in a year or so, all 28 countries
:05:05. > :05:12.will be ready, in terms of capacity, to receive refugees. Tonight in
:05:12. > :05:16.Lampedusa, a silent procession, a small island in mourning. They know
:05:16. > :05:21.there are no easy solutions to a crisis that drives tens of thousands
:05:21. > :05:26.to their shores. Gavin, you see there are no easy
:05:26. > :05:27.solutions. What are the Italian authorities saying about what can be
:05:27. > :05:33.done to prevent such tragedies? It authorities saying about what can be
:05:33. > :05:37.is worth noting that as this tragedy was unfolding, two other migrant
:05:37. > :05:41.boats arrived bringing hundreds of migrants. In the first six months
:05:41. > :05:45.about 10,000 passed through this island. At the detention centre
:05:45. > :05:50.today, I noticed the number coming from Syria and the Middle East. This
:05:50. > :05:54.is very much seen as the gateway into Europe. But here is the
:05:54. > :05:59.dilemma. There are some who are saying, why don't we make it easier
:05:59. > :06:03.for migrants to come legitimately. But that is difficult when you have
:06:03. > :06:07.26 million people out of work. On the other hand, there are those who
:06:07. > :06:12.say, stop the smuggling and turn people back. But one lesson from
:06:12. > :06:16.what has happened in the last two or three days, it shows the level of
:06:16. > :06:21.risk people are prepared to take to come to Europe. There are no easy
:06:21. > :06:24.options. The alcoholic mother who starved her
:06:24. > :06:28.four-year-old son, Hamzah Khan, to death and left his body in a cot for
:06:28. > :06:31.nearly two years has been jailed for 15 years. Amanda Hutton also
:06:31. > :06:37.admitted neglecting five of her other children aged between five and
:06:37. > :06:40.13, who were living in squalor. The judge told her that she had put her
:06:40. > :06:44.selfish addiction to drink well before her responsibilities to her
:06:44. > :06:47.children. He also had harsh words for the father, Aftab Khan, saying
:06:47. > :06:51.he seemed to have done little to improve the welfare of his children.
:06:51. > :07:00.Mr Khan has been speaking to Ed Thomas.
:07:00. > :07:03.Amanda Hutton, the mother who neglected her eight children, the
:07:03. > :07:09.alcoholic who drank a bottle of vodka each day, as her four-year-old
:07:09. > :07:14.son starved to death. Hamzah Khan was fed scraps until he finally
:07:14. > :07:21.died. And then his body was left in a cot for 21 months. Today, Amanda
:07:21. > :07:26.Hutton arrived at court to be sentenced for her neglect of the
:07:26. > :07:30.most basic of parental duties. Standing in the dock, there was no
:07:30. > :07:36.reaction, as she was jailed for 15 years. Judge Thomas QC told
:07:36. > :07:40.Hamzah's mother she was wicked and devious. He said, the most telling
:07:40. > :07:46.an awful fact about how you starved Hamzah is that when his mummified
:07:46. > :07:51.remains were found he was clothed in a baby grow for a six to nine month
:07:51. > :07:56.child, at the age of four and a half years. I told them, go and check my
:07:56. > :08:02.children, but they thought she was right and I was wrong. In his first
:08:02. > :08:08.BBC interview, Hamzah's father told us that the lease and social
:08:08. > :08:09.services failed. Aftab Khan has a conviction for assaulting Amanda
:08:09. > :08:14.Hutton. After he was arrested, he conviction for assaulting Amanda
:08:14. > :08:19.asked police officers to check on his son. Do you accept any
:08:19. > :08:23.responsibility? I feel guilty and I should have done more, but I was
:08:23. > :08:28.pushed to one side. If once they had believed me and gone to check the
:08:28. > :08:33.children, Hamzah would be alive. Why could you not knock on the door and
:08:33. > :08:39.take Hamzah out? She would not open the door to me. But it was the
:08:39. > :08:44.police who uncovered this squalor. Today, the West Yorkshire force said
:08:44. > :08:49.it did check on Hamzah and Amanda Hutton and at the time there was no
:08:49. > :08:55.cause for concern. How could she care for her children? She was a
:08:55. > :08:59.depressed, abused alcoholic. This woman did not want to be identified.
:08:59. > :09:02.She is a friend of Amanda Hutton and supported her throughout the trial.
:09:02. > :09:08.She was in the middle of the breakdown and drank 24-7. She was
:09:08. > :09:10.not fit to cope with running the house and the children. Those around
:09:10. > :09:14.her could see but did nothing to help. What role did social services
:09:14. > :09:18.play in this chaotic life? Despite help. What role did social services
:09:18. > :09:24.repeated visits, Amanda Hutton managed to hide her neglect. This
:09:24. > :09:30.was a very difficult family to be visiting. The mother, apparently,
:09:30. > :09:33.was very resistant to any kind of interference in her life. She did
:09:33. > :09:39.not want anyone to come. She was pushing people away. That is an
:09:39. > :09:45.extremely difficult context to work in, particularly in cases of
:09:45. > :09:49.neglect. As Amanda Hutton begins her sentence, the council welcomed the
:09:49. > :09:54.Serious Case Review into what it did during her son's shortlife. Whatever
:09:54. > :09:58.it finds, it will be too late for Hamzah Khan, who needed saving from
:09:58. > :10:01.his own mother. The stand-off between Ed Miliband
:10:01. > :10:04.and the Mail newspaper group continues, with the Labour leader
:10:04. > :10:08.urging the owner of the Mail newspapers to examine what he called
:10:08. > :10:11.their "culture and practices". But a senior editor at the Daily Mail now
:10:11. > :10:19.says some in the Labour Party need to apologise to the paper. David
:10:19. > :10:23.Sillito reports. It began as a row with the Mail
:10:23. > :10:27.about Ed Miliband's father but the Labour leader is taking it further.
:10:27. > :10:33.His aim now is the editor, Paul Dacre, the owner, Lord Rothermere,
:10:33. > :10:37.and the way the Mail works. I think what is important now, and the ball
:10:37. > :10:40.is in the Court of the Mail and the Mail on Sunday, I think they need to
:10:40. > :10:44.take a long, hard look at the culture and practices of their
:10:44. > :10:47.newspapers, to ask why these things are happening, because I think it
:10:47. > :10:52.says something about the way they operate these newspapers. I hope
:10:52. > :10:57.they are going to do that. That phrase, culture and practices has
:10:57. > :11:00.not been plucked out of the air. Remember the Leveson enquiry into
:11:00. > :11:07.culture and practices of the press, a process that is about to enter a
:11:07. > :11:10.crucial phase? This is the mother of Abigail Witchel is, who was
:11:10. > :11:16.paralysed after she was stabbed in the neck. What followed, her mother
:11:16. > :11:20.says, were months of press harassment, and despite complaint
:11:20. > :11:27.after complaint, one paper returned five years later. The Daily Mail put
:11:27. > :11:32.my daughter's house under surveillance for four weeks. There
:11:32. > :11:38.were three photojournalists who took it in turns to sit just about 100
:11:38. > :11:43.metres from her house. On occasions, they followed my daughter when she
:11:43. > :11:48.left the house. The culture and practices of the press the despair
:11:48. > :11:51.of the complaints system. Baroness Holland wants reform, but the Daily
:11:51. > :11:56.of the complaints system. Baroness Mail feels that Ed Miliband's anger
:11:56. > :11:59.over his father's reputation is being used for political purposes.
:11:59. > :12:02.over his father's reputation is The Labour Party has stepped over
:12:02. > :12:06.the line by turning on us over a whole week. We have addressed the
:12:06. > :12:12.problem, we gave Ed Miliband space in the paper to rebut the charges
:12:12. > :12:16.against him. He has chosen now to turn it into a political argument.
:12:16. > :12:21.He is using his family to turn it into a political argument against
:12:21. > :12:25.our paper. But how far can this week be allowed to frame the debate.
:12:25. > :12:29.George Jones was on the expert panel. It may be an upsetting
:12:29. > :12:34.headline for the Miliband family, but he feels a line needs to be
:12:34. > :12:38.drawn. In a free society, with a free press, you are, in my view,
:12:38. > :12:43.entitled to say things, even if people do not like them. Certainly,
:12:43. > :12:46.on the Leveson enquiry, we did not wish to become, or to be seen as
:12:46. > :12:53.arbiters of good taste, or bad taste. And next week, many expect a
:12:53. > :12:57.decision will be made on how best to regulate the press. And the faces in
:12:57. > :13:01.this row are supporting rival proposals. One, drawn up by the
:13:01. > :13:11.politicians, the other, by the press. FIFA a president Sepp Blatter
:13:11. > :13:16.has admitted that trying to hold the World Cup in Qatar's searing heat
:13:16. > :13:19.might have been a mistake. He said the governing world body might
:13:19. > :13:23.consult on whether the tournament to be moved to the window. It had been
:13:23. > :13:26.thought a final decision would be made today, but it has been
:13:27. > :13:31.postponed to next summer at the earliest, as David Bond reports.
:13:31. > :13:35.Ever since a fire they awarded cat the World Cup, Sepp Blatter has been
:13:35. > :13:42.under pressure to reverse the decision which shocked football. --
:13:42. > :13:45.either. Today after two days of talks, the executive committee
:13:45. > :13:48.agreed to consult the rest of the game on whether it should take the
:13:48. > :13:53.unprecedented step of moving the World Cup from summer to winter. The
:13:54. > :14:01.worry has always been the heat in Qatar, where temperatures in June
:14:01. > :14:05.regularly top 40 degrees. The FIFA president now admits he may have got
:14:05. > :14:10.it wrong. The mistake is to think we could play this competition easily
:14:10. > :14:15.in the summertime, and now we are in this consultation to decide whether
:14:15. > :14:22.we can or cannot play in summertime. So what are the options to find the
:14:22. > :14:25.seven weeks needed for the tournament? January and February
:14:25. > :14:29.have been mooted, but this would clash with the Winter Olympics and
:14:29. > :14:34.the Super Bowl in America. More likely is a switch to November and
:14:34. > :14:37.December. Either way, domestic competitions like the Premier League
:14:37. > :14:43.would have to start earlier and finish later. I think there would be
:14:43. > :14:46.no choice, it will have to move. I'm sure the Premier League and the
:14:46. > :14:51.people are already starting work on that and thinking about it. But it
:14:51. > :14:56.does look as if it is going to have to be changed. FIFA knows it cannot
:14:56. > :14:59.reverse its decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, but three
:14:59. > :15:06.years on officials here are still dealing with a mess which goes way
:15:06. > :15:12.beyond concerns over the heat. The whole bidding process which led to
:15:12. > :15:16.the selection is still under investigation by FIFA, and in recent
:15:16. > :15:19.weeks the country has faced allegations of appalling abuse
:15:19. > :15:25.against migrant labourers. Today FIFA said it would send a delegation
:15:25. > :15:29.to Qatar for talks on the issue. Today's moved by FIFA has brought
:15:29. > :15:35.Sepp Blatter a bit more time to sort out the 2022 World Cup, but whatever
:15:35. > :15:40.the doubts about Qatar, this whole process will lead many people to ask
:15:40. > :15:46.once again whether FIFA is fit to run the game.
:15:46. > :15:50.It has been one month since the beginning of the school year in
:15:50. > :15:53.England, and from today any children who have not returned from the
:15:53. > :15:59.summer holidays can have their names removed from the class register.
:15:59. > :16:02.They will effectively disappear. According to campaigners, many of
:16:02. > :16:06.those will be girls who have been forced into marriage. Last year
:16:06. > :16:09.nearly 1500 cases were dealt with by the Government's Forced Marriage
:16:09. > :16:14.Unit, ranging across 60 different countries, nearly two thirds of them
:16:14. > :16:18.involving countries in South Asia, mainly Pakistan. Today a leading
:16:18. > :16:21.charity called on the Government to collect figures of how many young
:16:21. > :16:25.people go missing in order to help rescue them. Social affairs
:16:25. > :16:27.correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti has this report.
:16:27. > :16:31.The faces of survivors of a startling betrayal by their parents,
:16:31. > :16:33.these women were forced into marriages they did not want. Most
:16:33. > :16:37.were just girls at the time. It marriages they did not want. Most
:16:37. > :16:42.meant an abrupt end to their education and the end of freedom
:16:42. > :16:46.abnormality. This summer, this teenager's education ended when her
:16:46. > :16:50.parents told her to marry, not an arranged marriage which is
:16:50. > :16:54.consensual, but a forced one. He was from India, twice her age, and she
:16:54. > :17:00.had never met him. She is now in hiding. It was about what I would
:17:00. > :17:02.get when I married, you can have a big wedding, it was kind of bribery
:17:02. > :17:07.a little. They do not care, it was big wedding, it was kind of bribery
:17:07. > :17:10.just kind of like you are an item to sell to see what they can get, like
:17:10. > :17:16.the land and gold and stuff like that. She managed to escape the life
:17:16. > :17:21.they had intended for her. Other young women have found themselves
:17:21. > :17:27.trapped. This woman thought she was going on holiday wants me back to
:17:27. > :17:30.Turkey, the country of her parents, but they abandoned her, forcing her
:17:30. > :17:35.into a marriage of physical and sexual abuse and mental cruelty. I
:17:35. > :17:39.remember his mum, my ex-mother-in-law, saying the only
:17:39. > :17:41.reason why I was in the house, the only reason why I married her son
:17:41. > :17:48.was to be a wife to him at night only reason why I married her son
:17:48. > :17:53.time and a slave and a servant for them during the day. There was no
:17:53. > :17:58.compassion, no love. It was just, you know, I was there just to do two
:17:58. > :18:01.things, and that was it. Although many of the victims of forced
:18:01. > :18:05.marriage are originally from South Asia, their families have been in
:18:05. > :18:10.the UK for several generations. Forced marriage is part of no-one's
:18:10. > :18:13.culture, so why is it still going on in? This campaign as is it still
:18:13. > :18:18.going on in? This campaign says the reasons are complex. It is about
:18:18. > :18:22.immigration, it is about money, it is about control, taking away
:18:22. > :18:23.people's freedoms, and that is one of the Kiwis and is why it is still
:18:23. > :18:32.here. People are harking back to a of the Kiwis and is why it is still
:18:32. > :18:36.past that is not part of their past. She tours schools talking to
:18:36. > :18:39.teenagers about the issue and has written to ministers calling for a
:18:39. > :18:43.national register of children missing after the summer holidays.
:18:43. > :18:48.The government says figures for absence are recorded, but only every
:18:48. > :18:53.term, but the charity said that was not enough. For the teenager we
:18:53. > :18:59.talked to, like is very lonely. Well, I feel quite upset, because it
:18:59. > :19:02.is having no family, well, having no parents, whereas other kids have
:19:02. > :19:07.their parents and have a normal life doing things at my age. She and
:19:08. > :19:11.these women were abruptly removed from their education and their
:19:11. > :19:15.lives. Next year, forced marriage becomes a crime, but campaigners
:19:15. > :19:21.will continue to push government to help stop more girls suddenly
:19:21. > :19:24.disappearing. On the fourth day of the government
:19:24. > :19:28.shutdown in Washington, Japan has warned that failure to resolve the
:19:28. > :19:31.crisis will have grim consequences for the global economy. Hundreds of
:19:31. > :19:36.government workers have been sent home after Republicans refused to
:19:36. > :19:39.pass a budget without changes to President Obama's health-care
:19:39. > :19:44.programme. Today the president cancelled a trip to Asia to deal
:19:44. > :19:47.with the crisis. The release of key economic data, including US jobless
:19:47. > :19:52.figures, was suspended. The dollar is close to an eight-month low as
:19:52. > :19:56.concern in the market deepens. North America editor Mark Mardell has been
:19:56. > :20:01.to Texas, where many people support the stand taken by their Republican
:20:01. > :20:03.representatives in Congress. 55 feet of not very animated cowboy
:20:04. > :20:12.representatives in Congress. looms over the state fair.
:20:12. > :20:16.Everything is bigger and bolder here. There is absolutely no sense
:20:16. > :20:21.of national crisis amongst the people munching their way around.
:20:21. > :20:25.Anything that can be deep-fried is coated in batter and consumed. It is
:20:25. > :20:30.pretty hard-core. The government shutdown is hardly regarded with
:20:30. > :20:32.horror. They should shut it down and keep it down, because I just think
:20:32. > :20:36.that we need to take a stand against keep it down, because I just think
:20:36. > :20:42.Obamacare, I do not like it. The government is getting too big, and
:20:42. > :20:47.these guys are just fighting against this Obamacare, the worst thing that
:20:47. > :20:51.ever happened to us as a country. Opinions in Texas can be rather
:20:51. > :20:53.fierce and in your face. Perhaps it is a legacy of the cowboy heritage
:20:53. > :20:57.fierce and in your face. Perhaps it marked in this magnificent artwork
:20:57. > :21:01.in the centre of Dallas. But you can you abuse like this all over the
:21:01. > :21:05.south and midwest. It is why many Republican politicians do not see a
:21:05. > :21:08.dilemma in adopting a strategy that others brand reckless, and it is not
:21:08. > :21:14.as though Texas was unaffected by the shutdown. It is not as busy as
:21:14. > :21:22.usual. The state has the largest number of federal workers after the
:21:22. > :21:25.DC area and California. Billy is a aviation safety expert, devastated
:21:25. > :21:30.to be sent home. It is quite frightening, not knowing if you have
:21:30. > :21:33.a job or when you will get to come back to work. We have not been told
:21:33. > :21:40.how long this will take. We need to get the government back to work and
:21:40. > :21:44.work out their differences. National parks like Hickory Creek are
:21:44. > :21:47.shutting down, perhaps a relief to some of the inhabitants, but not to
:21:47. > :21:53.the campers who have been given until sundown to leave. The
:21:53. > :21:57.president says no negotiating... Ron Livesey of full-time and does not
:21:57. > :22:02.have to get out, but she is not happy. The president needs to
:22:02. > :22:06.negotiate and roll up their sleeves and work like everybody else. I have
:22:06. > :22:11.never seen a president act like this, no, I am a little embarrassed
:22:11. > :22:15.for him. The George W Bush presidential library has shut down,
:22:15. > :22:23.too. These are the people the current Prime Minister -- President
:22:23. > :22:26.blames for it, Tea Party, which he describes as extremists. They are
:22:26. > :22:31.unapologetic. This shutdown is an indicator of where the people of
:22:31. > :22:35.America stand on this issue. Are the senators and congressmen frightened
:22:35. > :22:38.of your power? They should be, we are voters, we are organised, we
:22:38. > :22:44.communicate, and the public has spoken. In the Lone Star state, some
:22:44. > :22:49.delight that conservatives are making a stand, but in the end
:22:49. > :22:54.someone has to blink. If showdown turns to climb down, there will be a
:22:54. > :22:58.heavy price to pay. It was one of the defining images of
:22:58. > :23:01.the Kenyan shopping mall siege, a mother cowering behind a counter
:23:01. > :23:05.protecting her children as gunfire echoed around the shops and the
:23:05. > :23:11.police and army tried to rescue those still alive inside. Now Faith
:23:11. > :23:15.and her daughter have spoken for the first time about their ordeal to
:23:15. > :23:15.and her daughter have spoken for the East Africa correspondent Gabriel
:23:15. > :23:24.Gatehouse. I was scared. I was trying to sleep,
:23:24. > :23:31.but I could not sleep, and my mum hoped that we would be quiet, but
:23:31. > :23:32.then I stayed quiet. This nine-year-old founders of cowering
:23:32. > :23:38.on the floor next to her mother and nine-year-old founders of cowering
:23:38. > :23:44.little brother as the shopping mall came under siege. -- found herself.
:23:44. > :23:48.I could hear them walking, and I knew this was not just any regular
:23:48. > :23:51.person. They had a conversation, and they called out, my Mac, mamma. I
:23:51. > :23:57.did not know whether they were talking to me. I could hear this
:23:58. > :24:02.lady answering, and less than five seconds later, to shots, and she was
:24:03. > :24:11.quiet. After a while, I felt someone touching my hand, someone saying,
:24:11. > :24:18.are you OK? This is the point where I played dead. And then he came in
:24:18. > :24:27.front to me, and he touched me and said, baby, baby, and I raised my
:24:27. > :24:32.head up, and I asked if he was one of the bad guys. He says, no, baby,
:24:32. > :24:37.I am one of the police, I am not with the bad guys, and I am here to
:24:37. > :24:42.rescue you. After four and a half terrifying hours, the three escaped.
:24:42. > :24:47.They were physically unhurt, but two weeks on the psychological scars are
:24:47. > :24:53.there. We are scared, admittedly we looking over our shoulders, we are
:24:53. > :24:56.more cautious than before, we try to regain normal sea in our lives. For
:24:56. > :25:05.many families, the middle-class Kenyan idyll has been shattered.
:25:05. > :25:09.The Vietnamese general who turned a ragtag guerilla army with car tyres
:25:09. > :25:13.for shoes into a fighting force that defeated two of the most powerful
:25:13. > :25:19.armies in the world has died aged 102. General Giap was an inspired
:25:19. > :25:22.and ruthless self-taught soldier who drove the French out of Vietnam and
:25:22. > :25:25.then went on to defeat the Americans. The American Senator John
:25:26. > :25:30.McCain, who was captured and tortured by the Vietnamese,
:25:30. > :25:33.described Giap as a brilliant military strategist. Paul Adams
:25:33. > :25:38.reports. They called in the Red Napoleon, a
:25:38. > :25:40.brilliant, ruthless general with no formal military training who
:25:40. > :25:47.shattered the myth of imperial invincibility. The battle of Dien
:25:47. > :25:50.Bien Phu in 1954 against the French colonial army sealed his reputation
:25:50. > :25:55.as one of the great tacticians of the 20th century. It was an epic
:25:55. > :26:01.struggle, artillery pieces hold over mountains by hand, 100 miles of
:26:01. > :26:04.trenches Dirk, a news in extra be tightened around the French army
:26:04. > :26:07.before the final rout, a stunning victory still studied in military
:26:07. > :26:16.schools. Speaking about it later, the
:26:16. > :26:23.ebullient general spoke of the morale of his army, the support of
:26:23. > :26:26.the population. One decade later, both would be tested against a much
:26:26. > :26:33.more powerful enemy, the Americans. Again, General Giap's unconventional
:26:33. > :26:38.tactics were crucial. The Ho Chi Minh trail brought supplies along
:26:38. > :26:41.remote parts. In the dense jungles of Vietnam, the Americans faced an
:26:41. > :26:51.enemy that seemed both everywhere and somehow invisible. He was very
:26:51. > :26:58.much a man of the people, and I think that really earned him respect
:26:58. > :27:04.among Vietnamese, and certainly his military prowess earned him respect
:27:04. > :27:08.among the Western opponents that he faced. But his victories came at a
:27:08. > :27:18.price. By the time the Vietnam war ended in 1975, almost 3.5 million
:27:18. > :27:18.soldiers and civilians were dead. That is all