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