:00:08. > :00:12.Sgljtsds South Africa and the world mourn the passing of Nelson Mandela.
:00:13. > :00:19.The man described as the greatest leader of our time.
:00:20. > :00:22.In South Africa, the sadness is mixed with celebration and thanks
:00:23. > :00:30.for the man who brought them democracy. Thank you for the gift of
:00:31. > :00:38.Madiba. Thank you for what he has enable
:00:39. > :00:42.enabled us to know we can become. Here in Britain, people pay tribute
:00:43. > :00:47.to a man whose impact was felt all over the world.
:00:48. > :00:51.He lived this extraordinary life. A belief in this simple principal of
:00:52. > :00:57.fighting discrimination. This extraordinary struggle of all those
:00:58. > :01:01.years in prison. Then the immense triumph of against adversity.
:01:02. > :01:04.There'll be a state funeral a week on Sunday. We are live in
:01:05. > :01:10.Johannesburg with the latest. Also tonight - a lucky escape after the
:01:11. > :01:16.worst tidal surge in 60 years as the east of England is left to count the
:01:17. > :01:23.cost. A Royal Marine who killed a Taliban insurgent is lived a life
:01:24. > :01:28.sentence for murder. And the moment England learnt who they will play in
:01:29. > :01:32.next year's World Cup finals. And coming up in Sportsday on BBC
:01:33. > :01:37.News: England face a difficult day as they try and save the second
:01:38. > :01:58.Ashes Test. That is after Australia pile on the pressure on day two.
:01:59. > :02:05.Good evening. Tributes have been pouring in from around the world for
:02:06. > :02:09.the former South African leader, Nelson Mandela, who died yesterday.
:02:10. > :02:13.The current President confirmed he'll be given a full state funeral
:02:14. > :02:16.a week on Sunday. Tonight, we are in South Africa, where people have been
:02:17. > :02:20.mourning, but also celebrating the life of the man they call the father
:02:21. > :02:23.of the nation. We'll have reaction from Britain and elsewhere to the
:02:24. > :02:28.passing of the man who made the journey from prisoner to President.
:02:29. > :02:32.And we will look at Nelson Mandela's legacy in uniting South Africa after
:02:33. > :02:35.years of apartheid. First tonight, our correspondent, Gabriel
:02:36. > :02:39.Gatehouse, is in Johannesburg. What is the atmosphere there?
:02:40. > :02:43.Well, I am standing just outside the house where a little over 24 hours
:02:44. > :02:47.ago Nelson Mandela passed away and you can probably hear the dancing
:02:48. > :02:53.and the singing in the background. These are old antiapartheid struggle
:02:54. > :02:58.songs. Don't mistake this for happiness though. Flags are flagging
:02:59. > :03:06.at half-mast across South Africa. This is a nation in mourning.
:03:07. > :03:16.They come from all walks of life and from all communities to pay respects
:03:17. > :03:23.outside the home of Nelson Mandela. The sense of bereavement is
:03:24. > :03:29.palpable. For some, almost private, personal.
:03:30. > :03:34.But this is also a coming together, a nation united in mourning, but
:03:35. > :03:41.also in celebration of the life of the man they call Madiba.
:03:42. > :03:46.People are celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela. I think that what he
:03:47. > :03:51.would want us to do to celebrate his life. The world saw him at large. We
:03:52. > :03:54.lived through him. We kept on holding on to that change that he
:03:55. > :03:59.did. I hope with his spirit going, it lives and grows in us. As South
:04:00. > :04:04.Africa prepares for a state funeral of unpress departmented proportions
:04:05. > :04:08.-- unprecedented proportions thoughts turn to what sort of nation
:04:09. > :04:16.Nelson Mandela leaves behind. We will always love Madiba for teaching
:04:17. > :04:24.us that it is possible to overcome hatred and anger in order to build a
:04:25. > :04:28.new nation and a new society. Nelson Mandela went to prison an
:04:29. > :04:37.angry young man - a fighter, committed to defeating his enemies
:04:38. > :04:43.by violence, if necessary. 27 years later, he emerged preaching
:04:44. > :04:49.reconciliation, but he never gave up the struggle.
:04:50. > :05:01.I have no doubt that each and every one of you, all these years, can say
:05:02. > :05:13.with authority and confidence that I have travel travelled this long road
:05:14. > :05:22.to freedom. I trust I did not falter.
:05:23. > :05:31.I made miss-steps along the way, but I have discover discovered the
:05:32. > :05:38.secret that after crossing a great hill one only finds that there are
:05:39. > :05:49.many more hills to cross. In church today, Mr Mandela's
:05:50. > :05:55.long-time collaborator in peace, Archbishop Desmond Tutu gave thanks
:05:56. > :06:04.for a global icon. God, thank you for the gift of Madiba. Thank you
:06:05. > :06:13.for what he has enabled us to know we can become.
:06:14. > :06:18.For decades the struggle against apartheid looked like it might be
:06:19. > :06:24.crushed by a brutal regime. A system that applied violence and racist
:06:25. > :06:27.ideology in equal measure to oppress South Africa's black majority and
:06:28. > :06:32.keep a white elite in power. Having won the battle against apartheid,
:06:33. > :06:40.Nelson Mandela shared his victory with his former oppressors.
:06:41. > :06:47.I think his greatest legacy, to South Africa and to the world, is
:06:48. > :06:55.the emphasis which he has always put on the need for reconciliation.
:06:56. > :07:01.It would be a hard heart indeed that wasn't moved by this spectacle,
:07:02. > :07:08.these flowers, candles, these messages - many written by children
:07:09. > :07:13.in in born in a post apartheid South Africa. Messages which boil down to
:07:14. > :07:20.one thing, tata Madiba, thank you for freeing our country.
:07:21. > :07:25.Though the race laws are gone, South Africa is still a land of vast
:07:26. > :07:29.economic inequalities. In death, as in life, Nelson Mandela's unique
:07:30. > :07:37.ability to bring people together and to lift their spirits remains
:07:38. > :07:40.undimmed. In Britain, tributes to Nelson
:07:41. > :07:45.Mandela came from across the political spectrum. The President
:07:46. > :07:49.was the first to sign a book of condolence for Nelson Mandela in
:07:50. > :07:54.South Africa House. He praised his generosity, humour and sense of
:07:55. > :07:59.forgiveness. Our political editor examines the impact Nelson Mandela
:08:00. > :08:02.made on British politics during the apartheid years and since. This
:08:03. > :08:07.report contains some flash photography. In death, as in life,
:08:08. > :08:10.he's a towering figure, who looks over Parliament alongside Winston
:08:11. > :08:14.Churchill and Abraham Lincoln. To millions, he's more father-figure
:08:15. > :08:20.than politician. A man with the power to move as well as to inspire.
:08:21. > :08:27.This morning, the Prime Minister signed the official book of
:08:28. > :08:33.condolence, ending a biblical quote - blessed are the peace makers. The
:08:34. > :08:36.memory I have is his lack of malice towards those who had done this to
:08:37. > :08:41.him. The Labour leader praised not just Mandela but those in Britain
:08:42. > :08:45.who had fought apartheid. I remember all those people who were part of
:08:46. > :08:51.his movement. He once said about Britain that it was the second
:08:52. > :08:58.headquarters of the ANC in exile. On today of all days, people of all
:08:59. > :09:01.parties and of none, unite in praising Nelson Mandela. During his
:09:02. > :09:07.long struggle against apartheid, that was not always the case.
:09:08. > :09:11.In the 1970s, rugby and cricket teams who agreed to play South
:09:12. > :09:16.African touring sides were targeted. There were demands that British
:09:17. > :09:21.companies and companies stopped invested in the regime. A leading
:09:22. > :09:24.campaigner went on to become Britain's Minister for Africa. Many
:09:25. > :09:30.countries in the west, including Britain and the United States almost
:09:31. > :09:33.saw Nelson Mandela and the ANC as agents of Communist. That is the way
:09:34. > :09:37.it was sense. Nelson Mandela had been in prison for 20 years when
:09:38. > :09:42.Margaret Thatcher choose not to boycott South Africa, but welcome
:09:43. > :09:46.her Prime Minister to Chequers. You don't want to always have the
:09:47. > :09:51.stick to South Africa. I think she's a bit fed up of that. When she does
:09:52. > :09:56.things we want her to do, I think we have to encourage her. She was
:09:57. > :10:00.accused of giving respectability to a murderous regime. Her allies
:10:01. > :10:06.insist she was acting to prevent more bloodshed. What we did was to
:10:07. > :10:12.ensure, so far it was in our power, that apartheid ended peacefully.
:10:13. > :10:16.That was what happened. Now, some people may say that was
:10:17. > :10:23.despite our policy. I would like to think it was because of our policy.
:10:24. > :10:27.Some will never forgive Mrs Thatcher for opposing sanctions and calling
:10:28. > :10:31.Mr Mandela's ANC terrorists. Others point to letters that in private she
:10:32. > :10:38.had for years argued for his release from prison.
:10:39. > :10:43.Nelson Mandela was a regular visitor to London. Gordon Brown sought his
:10:44. > :10:48.help when leading negotiations to make poverty history. He kindly came
:10:49. > :10:51.over and he helped me negotiate a settlement on debt relief, with some
:10:52. > :10:55.of the Finance Ministers of the world. Quietly, behind the scenes,
:10:56. > :10:59.unreported, Nelson Mandela helping us bring about another great change
:11:00. > :11:03.in the world. At the unveiling of his statue in Parliament Square,
:11:04. > :11:14.Mandela recalled what he and an ally had said 45 years earlier. We have
:11:15. > :11:22.hope that one day a statue of a black person would be erected here.
:11:23. > :11:26.Freedom fighter, political prisoner, global statesman. Perhaps Mandela's
:11:27. > :11:34.greatest achievement was to bring together those who once disagreed
:11:35. > :11:38.violently. Thousands of people gathered outside
:11:39. > :11:43.Nelson Mandela's former home in Soweto to celebrate his life. The
:11:44. > :11:47.jops burg township was at -- Johannesburg township was at the
:11:48. > :11:54.heart of the fight against apartheid.
:11:55. > :11:59.Paying tribute to the father of the nation through song and dance.
:12:00. > :12:04.Nelson Mandela was the reconcile ler. This is the very house that Mr
:12:05. > :12:09.Mandela returned the to when he was released from prison, back in
:12:10. > :12:15.February of 1990. We met one of Mr Mandela's
:12:16. > :12:19.neighbours. We all know that... He told us how he took the
:12:20. > :12:24.newly-released prisoner to meet those who lived the same street. I
:12:25. > :12:29.went with Mandela to reintroduce him back to the
:12:30. > :12:35.went with Mandela to reintroduce him back to neighbour s. To make them
:12:36. > :12:41.aware he still loves them. When I wept to school here in Soweto in the
:12:42. > :12:47.late 1970s and 1980s Mr Mandela over the road there, where you see that
:12:48. > :12:52.crowd was still in prison. All this was dead road. This is why Soweto
:12:53. > :12:58.embodied the spirit of the fight against apartheid. Mr Mandela
:12:59. > :13:05.inspired this place to keep that fight going against racial
:13:06. > :13:08.oppression. White South Africans feared after
:13:09. > :13:14.Nelson Mandela's death they would face an uncertain future.
:13:15. > :13:17.The men who succeeded Mandela as President told me that there is
:13:18. > :13:22.nothing to fear. There are some people in the country who feel like
:13:23. > :13:28.that, that when Mandela goes, then all hell will break lose.
:13:29. > :13:35.It's wrong. People should not entertain this
:13:36. > :13:41.fear that something disastrous will happen. Tonight, as the people
:13:42. > :13:45.continue to celebrate Nelson Mandela's life through songs,
:13:46. > :13:47.there's no doubt that his legacy in this place will live on for a long
:13:48. > :14:00.time to come. Our world affairs editor is here
:14:01. > :14:05.with me. You have met Mr Mandela. You interviewed him. What are your
:14:06. > :14:10.personal recollections? I was just watching the report there and
:14:11. > :14:14.thinking of the first time I met Mandela, in 1991. I met him quite a
:14:15. > :14:18.lot of times over the years. I went to that house. I was an
:14:19. > :14:22.hour-and-a-half late for the appointment. I thought, I am going
:14:23. > :14:28.to find out whether he is a decent, nice human being or not. And I was
:14:29. > :14:34.full of apologies, of course. He took me in. Put his arms around me
:14:35. > :14:38.and all the time I was apologising, he was thanking me for my kindness.
:14:39. > :14:43.Can you imagine - in coming to see him.
:14:44. > :14:52.He just had that ability - I never found it in any other leader that I
:14:53. > :14:56.have ever met - to treat you at the level that you could perhaps
:14:57. > :15:01.possibly find it in your heart to be - not the flawed, ordinary, normal
:15:02. > :15:08.failed person that you were, but the person you could be. He seemed to
:15:09. > :15:14.treat you like that. I have a very good friend who has got a profoundly
:15:15. > :15:19.disabled son and this friend goes to see Mandela, or used to go and see
:15:20. > :15:23.Mandela a great deal. When Mandela found out about the son, he insisted
:15:24. > :15:29.that my friend should bring him. He looked after him. He talked to him,
:15:30. > :15:32.which was not easy. He fed him. I have interviewed and met a lot of
:15:33. > :15:36.leaders, I cannot think of anybody who could do that kind of thing.
:15:37. > :15:40.Thank you very much. Well, we will have more on the
:15:41. > :15:41.passing of Nelson Mandela and developments in South Africa later
:15:42. > :15:49.in the programme. But first tonight's other news now
:15:50. > :15:52.and hundreds of properties have been flooded across the east coast of
:15:53. > :15:55.England after a powerful storm triggered the worst tidal surge for
:15:56. > :15:58.60 years. In Boston in Lincolnshire, people have begun to clear up the
:15:59. > :16:01.damage caused when flood defences were breached last night. In
:16:02. > :16:06.Norfolk, a number of properties fell into
:16:07. > :16:15.Scarborough, on the north-east coast, and as the tidal surge came,
:16:16. > :16:20.the driver of this vehicle only had seconds to save himself. He
:16:21. > :16:27.clambered to safety as his van was carried out to sea. -- carried out
:16:28. > :16:30.to sea. In North Wales, Rhyl was underwater. The lifeboat crews on
:16:31. > :16:36.the roads were offering lifts to those in need.
:16:37. > :16:43.In Hemsby in Norfolk, Holmes crashed into the sea. Others hung
:16:44. > :16:48.precariously to the cliff side. Last night's tidal surge was the biggest
:16:49. > :16:53.for 60 years. Steve lost everything when his home collapsed. We stood by
:16:54. > :17:02.the patio doors here and we could see the kitchen fold, the
:17:03. > :17:08.floorboards of the kitchen fold up. As the tide rose last night, he
:17:09. > :17:13.fought to save his home, helped by friends and neighbours who formed a
:17:14. > :17:21.human chain to rescue the family's belongings. We will leave it in
:17:22. > :17:24.storage until we get sorted. What they salvaged is being stored in a
:17:25. > :17:29.local pub until they find a new home. In Boston in Lincolnshire,
:17:30. > :17:37.water cascaded into the town. For many, the day was spent clearing
:17:38. > :17:44.the mess. I spent all year saving up to replace my furniture in my
:17:45. > :17:47.lounge, it is all ruined. At this lifeboat station, the crew recorded
:17:48. > :17:57.the moment they were overpowered by the sea. The rescuers almost needed
:17:58. > :18:00.rescuing from the rising tide. In Great Yarmouth, defences held.
:18:01. > :18:06.Officials checked on the sea wall at high tide to make sure. The
:18:07. > :18:12.Environment Agency says flood defences and advanced warning saved
:18:13. > :18:19.up to 800,000 homes along the East Coast. In Hemsby last night, they
:18:20. > :18:29.watched as Holmes drifted out to sea. The community is once again
:18:30. > :18:32.bracing itself against the tide. In Hemsby they have been campaigning
:18:33. > :18:36.for a sea wall to be built and there is anger tonight, people say they
:18:37. > :18:43.have been left down and left unprotected. -- have been let down.
:18:44. > :18:46.In Scotland, snow and ice could be the next challenge.
:18:47. > :18:49.A Royal Marine filmed killing a Taliban insurgent in cold blood has
:18:50. > :18:51.been given a life sentence with a recommendation he serves a minimum
:18:52. > :18:54.of ten years in prison. Sergeant Alexander Blackman was convicted
:18:55. > :18:59.last month of murdering the Afghan in Helmand Province two years ago.
:19:00. > :19:08.You may find some of our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale's
:19:09. > :19:12.report distressing. Sergeant Al Blackman, a Marine with
:19:13. > :19:18.a proud career and promising future. At least until what has been called
:19:19. > :19:23.a moment of madness. His murder of a wounded Afghan fighter. Today in
:19:24. > :19:27.court the same military panel that has already convicted him passed
:19:28. > :19:33.sentence, life with a minimum of ten years in jail. The judge said, you
:19:34. > :19:38.treated that Afghan man with contempt and murdered him in cold
:19:39. > :19:43.blood. The crime was filmed on a helmet camera worn by one of the
:19:44. > :19:48.Marines. These are the stills from the video played in court that, for
:19:49. > :19:53.the first time, shows Sergeant Blackman's face. He can be heard
:19:54. > :19:57.discussing what to do with the wounded Afghan prisoner lying out of
:19:58. > :20:03.you. Then, I should warn you, he fires the fatal shot.
:20:04. > :20:06.Shuffle off this mortal coil, you BLEEP .
:20:07. > :20:16.Prince Charles has visited the scene where nine
:20:17. > :20:23.that he betrayed his uniform and tarnished the British military's
:20:24. > :20:27.reputation. He was marched out of court for the last time after being
:20:28. > :20:33.informed that he was being dismissed with disgrace from Her Majesty's
:20:34. > :20:37.servers. He is very sorry for any damage caused to the Royal Marines,
:20:38. > :20:43.and he would like to thank the public for support shown to him and
:20:44. > :20:47.his wife. Wii REPORTER: Will he be appealing?
:20:48. > :20:49.Yes. These images filmed around the same time by another group of
:20:50. > :20:56.Marines nearby gives the sense of what they faced, an area of Helmand
:20:57. > :21:01.described in court as hell on earth, a reason why this case has proved
:21:02. > :21:06.highly controversial. A friend says it was a relentless fight against a
:21:07. > :21:10.ruthless enemy. I have spent the last two hours with Sergeant
:21:11. > :21:13.Blackman and his wife as they awaited sentence. At heart, he is
:21:14. > :21:23.still a Royal Marines commando, and their main ethos is to go in the
:21:24. > :21:27.face of adversity. He was described by his commanding officer as not a
:21:28. > :21:36.bad man with a normal citizen tainted only by the impact of war.
:21:37. > :21:39.There's been a warning that that balancing the UK's finances could
:21:40. > :21:42.become more difficult, as a result of measures announced by the
:21:43. > :21:44.Chancellor George Osborne in yesterday's autumn statement. The
:21:45. > :21:47.Institute for Fiscal Studies has suggested there will have to be
:21:48. > :21:50.deeper public spending cuts and said it's unclear where the money for
:21:51. > :21:53.some of the plans will come from. Let's get more on this with our
:21:54. > :21:55.chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym.
:21:56. > :22:02.The high road to recovery, that is what George Osborne says is his plan
:22:03. > :22:07.for the UK. As he visited the JCB factory in Staffordshire today, he
:22:08. > :22:12.was keen to stress the economy was growing in the right places. In the
:22:13. > :22:15.Autumn Statement I set out a plan for a responsible recovery. The job
:22:16. > :22:20.is not done, I want to make sure many more jobs are being created in
:22:21. > :22:25.places like JCB, manufacturing businesses around Britain. But on
:22:26. > :22:29.his plans to balance the books and achieve a surplus in five years,
:22:30. > :22:35.there were questions from a leading think tank which are cute austerity
:22:36. > :22:41.was needed. He says he wants a surplus in 2018/19, that is a big
:22:42. > :22:47.additional cuts in public servers spending more, possibly, social
:22:48. > :22:53.security spending. Assuming no tax rises, the IFA says that after
:22:54. > :22:58.public servers cut of 2.3% a year between 2011 and 2016 that will have
:22:59. > :23:05.to be 3.7% cuts for the next three years, or ?12 billion a year of
:23:06. > :23:09.welfare cuts by 2019. After bruising exchanges in the Commons, the Shadow
:23:10. > :23:12.Chancellor was back in the fray. Unless we can have stronger growth
:23:13. > :23:18.working for more people, with living standards rising, we will not be
:23:19. > :23:21.able to get the deficit down and invest in public services. Some
:23:22. > :23:25.economists argue that growth has been too dependent on consumer
:23:26. > :23:30.spending, fuelled by borrowing and people running down savings, with a
:23:31. > :23:35.genuine recovery requiring more business investment and exports.
:23:36. > :23:39.That as Christmas approaches, Mr Osborne will feel that some growth
:23:40. > :23:43.is better than none. -- but as Christmas approaches.
:23:44. > :23:47.Take a look at this - the reaction of the FA chairman Greg Dyke to
:23:48. > :23:50.England's draw in the next year's World Cup in Brazil. England will
:23:51. > :23:53.play Uruguay, Italy and Costa Rica. It's not just the draw that's
:23:54. > :23:56.tough, England will have to play their opening game in Manaus, the
:23:57. > :23:58.jungle city where humidity levels exceed 80%. Our sports editor David
:23:59. > :24:05.Bond reports from the draw in Brazil.
:24:06. > :24:09.Welcome to the World Cup, Brazilian style. Organisers have spent
:24:10. > :24:13.millions of pounds converting this tropical beach resort in to the
:24:14. > :24:18.venue for today's final draw. Much of the talk in recent days has been
:24:19. > :24:23.of the country's problems and handling such a big global event,
:24:24. > :24:27.but as the great and good of the game arrived, a sense at last of
:24:28. > :24:31.excited anticipation. England manager Roy Hodgson was not only
:24:32. > :24:35.worried about who England played but where, with the risk of having to
:24:36. > :24:42.travel vast distances across the country. So the hope was that when
:24:43. > :24:48.1966 World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst drew out the crucial ball, he
:24:49. > :24:58.might give England a lucky break. England! Oh! FHM and Greg Dyke did
:24:59. > :25:03.not hide what he thought. -- FA chairman Greg Dyke. First they will
:25:04. > :25:07.play Italy in the heat and humidity of the Amazon city of Manaus. They
:25:08. > :25:13.will end with that uses match against Costa Rica, but in between
:25:14. > :25:17.is the crucial game against Luis Suarez's Uruguay in Sao Paulo. You
:25:18. > :25:21.don't win on paper, you don't look at games and think which ones you
:25:22. > :25:25.will win, lose or draw, you go out on each occasion, a level against
:25:26. > :25:32.11, the field I mentioned is the same and if you are well required
:25:33. > :25:36.you have a chance of winning -- 11 against 11. England will return to
:25:37. > :25:40.Brazil next summer knowing they start the World Cup as outsiders.
:25:41. > :25:45.While the draw today was far from easy, it could have been much, much
:25:46. > :25:50.tougher. If he was worried, Roy Hodgson was not showing it tonight.
:25:51. > :25:56.He now has six months to find a formula which will help his England
:25:57. > :25:59.team defied expectations. More now on our top story and the
:26:00. > :26:02.reaction to the death of Nelson Mandela. In a rare moment of
:26:03. > :26:05.unanimity, world leaders have paid tribute to the former South African
:26:06. > :26:07.president. From the African nations, to China, Iran, Russia,
:26:08. > :26:12.Europe and across Asia, he's been described as a visionary and the
:26:13. > :26:15.greatest leader of our time. Tributes have also been paid in the
:26:16. > :26:26.United States. Let's go live to Washington and join our North
:26:27. > :26:29.America editor Mark Mardell. The death of no other leader has
:26:30. > :26:33.quite evoked these sorts of reactions from around the world,
:26:34. > :26:38.left and right, north and south, east and West. The message that has
:26:39. > :26:43.come through was that Mandela was a healer, but he was not always seen
:26:44. > :26:49.that way, particularly here. His own struggle inspired President Obama to
:26:50. > :26:52.take his first steps in politics, because there are deep echoes with
:26:53. > :26:56.his struggle in this country, which has fought its own battle against
:26:57. > :27:01.the imposition of one race's political power on another. The flag
:27:02. > :27:05.at the White House flies at half-mast in honour of a man who
:27:06. > :27:10.means much to America. Inside, on the desk of the USA's
:27:11. > :27:16.first black president, sits this photo, a memento of their first
:27:17. > :27:19.meeting. When Obama visited the prison on Robben Island in South
:27:20. > :27:22.Africa he told his daughters of the link between Mandela, Gandhi and
:27:23. > :27:28.Martin Luther King, an example, he says, to the world today. We will
:27:29. > :27:34.not likely see the likes of Nelson Mandela again. So it falls to us as
:27:35. > :27:41.best we can to follow the example he set. To make decisions guided not by
:27:42. > :27:47.hate but by love. To never discount the difference that one person can
:27:48. > :27:57.make. To strive for a future that is worthy of his sacrifice.
:27:58. > :28:00.Nelson Mandela was fated in Washington shortly after his release
:28:01. > :28:04.from prison, but his struggle against apartheid divided the
:28:05. > :28:09.country and he was not taken off the terrorist list until 2008. He was
:28:10. > :28:14.welcomed as South Africa's president, warm hugs from the First
:28:15. > :28:19.Lady who became Secretary of State, who told the BBC that people should
:28:20. > :28:23.mourn and celebrate. We have so much still to learn from him, his
:28:24. > :28:27.example, his understanding of how people need to be brought together.
:28:28. > :28:33.The whole idea of truth and reconciliation, which helped to pave
:28:34. > :28:37.the way for a new South Africa. Mandela was once labelled a
:28:38. > :28:42.Communist by some, but Wall Street fell silent in homage this morning.
:28:43. > :28:45.As the news broke in New York, it was perhaps in Harlem that the
:28:46. > :28:49.tributes were most heartfelt. Mandela was fascinated by the
:28:50. > :28:54.American struggle against white supremacy and is a hero here. We
:28:55. > :28:57.should not mourn him, we should be happy we had somebody to walk the
:28:58. > :29:02.face of this earth and fight for our rights. He was a man, an ordinary
:29:03. > :29:10.man, who decided to fight for what was right. Outside the South African
:29:11. > :29:15.embassy, flowers at the foot of the defiant statue of a man who once
:29:16. > :29:17.evoked fierce divisions but in death is an icon of unity and forgiveness.
:29:18. > :29:20.The anti-apartheid movement in Britain increased the pressure to
:29:21. > :29:24.release Nelson Mandela from his long years in prison. He thanked the
:29:25. > :29:26.British people in a visit in 1996. Razia Iqbal has been looking at his
:29:27. > :29:33.relationship with Britain and the legacy he left behind.
:29:34. > :29:37.From prison to president, he occupied a special place in the
:29:38. > :29:42.heart of a nation thousands of miles from his own. From streets to
:29:43. > :29:46.squares and statues, signposts switch underscored a connection to
:29:47. > :29:52.the study against apartheid outside of South Africa. It is hard to
:29:53. > :29:56.believe the place he was held in higher esteem than the London
:29:57. > :30:01.Borough of Lambeth. It was here in Brixton, home to one of the largest
:30:02. > :30:05.black communities, that he received a rapturous reception. For a man
:30:06. > :30:09.whose life was transformed by the struggle, he in turn transformed the
:30:10. > :30:14.lives of those he encountered. Allah he changed my life, he brought
:30:15. > :30:21.Brixton together, he united us, he was a symbol of peace. Probably the
:30:22. > :30:26.greatest man to have lived in your lifetime. A moment during morning
:30:27. > :30:32.assembly to pray and reflect. Aged ten and 11, these children have been
:30:33. > :30:38.told about Nelson Mandela by their headteacher. He is, like, a great he
:30:39. > :30:45.wrote. Nobody will forget in easily, he will go on for generations. I
:30:46. > :30:49.think he is a great inspiration, a true hero. I think everybody will be
:30:50. > :30:58.remembering him today throughout the whole world. And I think they will
:30:59. > :31:05.in hundreds of years to come, in fact. That is how great he really
:31:06. > :31:09.was. His legacy is enshrined in UK scholarships for disadvantaged
:31:10. > :31:13.students from South Africa. For this lawyer from the Eastern Cape,
:31:14. > :31:19.history is never far from the surface. He ran with my friends to
:31:20. > :31:23.be in the stadium -- I ran with my friends to be in the stadium where
:31:24. > :31:31.he was giving an address. Those henries never fade. -- those
:31:32. > :31:35.memories. The historical and cultural connections are deep. This
:31:36. > :31:43.anthem for a generation was the centrepiece of a concert to mark
:31:44. > :31:46.Mandela's 70th birthday. He was still in prison. His absence then,
:31:47. > :31:48.as well as now, powerfully present. Let's talk to our Johannesburg
:31:49. > :31:52.correspondent Nomsa Maseko, who joins me here in the studio. South
:31:53. > :31:59.Africa is in mourning, as we have seen, but also beginning to look
:32:00. > :32:03.ahead to what South Africa will be without Mandela? That's correct. I
:32:04. > :32:08.am thousands of miles from home at a moment, when news broke yesterday I
:32:09. > :32:12.felt I should have been home, but at the same time I feel this sense of
:32:13. > :32:17.connection with what I am feeling here and people home are feeling,
:32:18. > :32:21.and there is a determination not to let the rainbow nation that Mandela
:32:22. > :32:26.dreamt of two died along with him. There is a determination,
:32:27. > :32:29.particularly from the younger generation carrying the torch of
:32:30. > :32:35.Nelson Mandela, they just society and a free and peaceful country. --
:32:36. > :32:39.of a just society. That's all from us. In a moment on
:32:40. > :32:42.BBC One it's time for the news where you are. We'll leave you now with
:32:43. > :32:45.some of the extraordinary images of the life and legacy of Nelson
:32:46. > :32:52.Mandela, the father of modern South Africa, who has died at the age of
:32:53. > :32:57.95. There is no easy road to freedom.
:32:58. > :33:03.None of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act
:33:04. > :33:10.together as a united people. Let there be justice for all. Let there
:33:11. > :33:20.be peace for all. Let there be work, prior, water for all. Let each know
:33:21. > :33:28.that, for each, the body, the mind and the soul, have been freed to
:33:29. > :33:36.fulfil themselves. Never, never and never again shall it be that this
:33:37. > :33:47.beautiful land will gain experience the oppression of one by another,
:33:48. > :33:50.the sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement.