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evacuated from their homes. I can't even think about it. I would have | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
done anything to have saved my home. The Prime Minister visits the | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
marooned residents and promises action. We are facing extraordinary | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
weather events, from the coast and from the quantity of rain, but the | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
government will do whatever it can to coordinate the response. | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
And there's flooding across other parts of southern England too, from | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
Cornwall to Oxfordshire. Also tonight: The Prime Minister | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
says the UK would be deeply diminished if Scotland votes for | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
independence. Did a Briton drive this suicide | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
truck bomb into a Syrian jail, sparking a battle to free hundreds | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
of prisoners? A spectacular opening ceremony for | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
the most expensive ever winter Olympics. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
And 50 years ago today Beatle-mania hit the USA. | :01:10. | :01:19. | |
In Sportsday: A tribunal rejects West Ham's appeal against Andy | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Carrol's suspension. Good evening. | :01:23. | :01:51. | |
Large parts of southern England are enduring another battering from | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
heavy rain and winds of up to 80mph. Marines are on stand-by to step in | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
again tonight amid concerns more people may have to be evacuated from | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
the Somerset Levels. After days of complaints from residents there, | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
today they received not one but two visits. First, the chairman of the | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
Environment Agency, Lord Smith, took the flack. Then David Cameron | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
arrived in Somerset, pledging to tackle the flooding, but warned it | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
could take some time. Jon Kay reports from there. | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
The people of Moorland tried to defend themselves, but they have | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
been beaten. Villagers who were told to evacuate their homes will now | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
return to waterlogged properties. Thank you. It is the call she has | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
been dreading. Briony's house is among those that have gone under. | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
She and her family had to leave last night as the water rose. It is in. | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
In the house. I would have done anything to have saved my home. What | :03:01. | :03:15. | |
do you do? This afternoon, the Prime Minister came to see things for | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
himself, to see the differences that have failed, the pumps that did not | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
do enough, and the families who believe they have been let down by | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
the outside world. The resources are there, the money is there, councils | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
will get the money from central government, the military are on | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
stand-by to help where they can. We will go as fast as we can but these | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
things will take some time to get right. We are facing extraordinary | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
weather events, both from the coast and in terms of the quantity of | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
rain. It emerged today that Mr Cameron was called by Prince Charles | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
earlier this week, after he paid his own visit here. Another high-profile | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
visitor today, Lord Chris Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency, | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
the body many here blame for causing this crisis by not dredging the | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
rivers. Our house is going under, as simple as that. Moorland has gone. | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
It is nice to see that this time you actually have a pair of wellies on. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Lord Smith agreed to meet the handful of locals behind closed | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
doors. Briony was among them. What is going through your mind? Let's go | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
and see what happens. They talked for more than an hour in what | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
appeared to be a tense meeting. Lord Smith told them he had no intention | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
of resigning, but afterwards he revealed dredging would begin | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
shortly. These people have told you they feel let down by you. Do you | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
agree you have let them down not just recently but over years? I can | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
absolutely understand the distress and concerned local people have. The | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
sort of weather we have been seeing over the last two months has grown | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
more water at the Somerset Levels than it has ever experienced | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
before. So, was Briony satisfied with what she heard? If they are | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
going to dredge, we can go on and rebuilt our lives and it is a fight | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
worth fighting. Are you more confident? Yes. Going home will not | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
be for a while, but she was reunited with her horse, who she thought had | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
drowned. Back together, but miles from home. | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
It's not just Somerset that's suffering. Great swathes of the | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
south of the UK reported flooding today, from Cornwall to Kent, and | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
with more heavy rainfall hitting part of southern England and Wales | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
again tonight, the Environment Agency is warning of more flooding | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
misery to come. Our Science Editor, David Shukman, reports. | :05:44. | :05:55. | |
For mile after mile after mile, the endless vistas of flooding that have | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
transformed so much of Britain this winter. Between Bristol and Exeter | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
today, a train forced to a halt, stranded amid a vast and spectacular | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
ocean covering the fields, just one of countless examples of what | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
extreme weather can mean for us. Have another check on Riverside. For | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
the second time in a week, the village of Bridge in Kent has been | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
flooded. There has been so much rain that water is now bubbling up | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
through the ground, but unlike in Somerset, people here do not think | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
anyone is to blame. The real worry is the water coming up from ground | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
water actually through the flooring now. So there is not a lot we can do | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
with that, I am afraid. People keep coming round but there is no use | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
pumping it now because as soon as they pump it, it still keeps coming | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
up through the floors. In Surrey this afternoon, we found water | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
spilling over the roads. The River Thames is rising again. You might | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
expect this kind of thing every few years, but not nearly as often as we | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
are seeing now. This lane has become something of a river. There are | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
scenes like this up and down the country and the real challenge is | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
the sheer scale of what is happening, and it is going on on | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
multiple fronts. There is flooding from swollen rivers, and from | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
intense rain, and from the sea. And the real difficulty is that it has | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
just been going on for so long. Two months so far and the worst is that | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
it is not over yet. Yet again, the Environment Agency's flood map is | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
crammed with warnings, including two severe ones meaning life is at risk. | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
The last two months have seen over 5000 homes flooded, but across the | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
country well over a million homes have been protected. Many defences | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
have worked. If we look at the aftermath of this and start to learn | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
the lessons, one question to ask is how many homes would have been | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
flooded, properties affected, if there had not been the work that has | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
been done over the past five or six years. An effort to save Chal Grove | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
in Oxfordshire. More storms are forecast. The country faces | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
difficult choices for the future about where to defend and how best | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
to do it. Duncan Kennedy is in Dawlish in | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
Devon where the railway line was washed away earlier this week. It | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
looks like the weather has set in again already. Absolutely, another | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
storm rattling through tonight. You can see it pounding against the | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
promenade behind me, wave after wave, smashing into the promenade, | :08:44. | :08:53. | |
just like on Wednesday. The same kind of waves coming into night. It | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
must be worrying for the people in those properties, which were damaged | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
and flooded on Wednesday. We are seeing the same to night. 60 mph | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
gusts rattling through. Tipping down with rain. The same conditions they | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
had on Wednesday. One man was going to watch it from his bedroom window | :09:16. | :09:25. | |
just over there. It is all adding to the chaos. | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
The rain causing problems with our link there. | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
For all the latest on the weather, you can visit our website. It has | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
live updates on the situation across the country and a link to the | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Environment Agency's website. David Cameron has said he fears the | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
UK would end up "deeply diminished" if people in Scotland voted for | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
independence in September's referendum. He said people living in | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
the rest of the UK should call on friends and family in Scotland to | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
reject independence. The Confederation of British Industry | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
has echoed his view that the UK is stronger together. But Scotland's | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
First Minister, Alex Salmond, said Mr Cameron should debate the issue | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
with him instead of, as he put it, delivering a "sermon from Mount | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
Olympus". Our Political Editor, Nick Robinson, reports. | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
Summoning up the spirit of the Olympics, David Cameron is calling | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
on Britain's quiet patriots to save Team GB. Two summers ago, a Scot, | :10:21. | :10:30. | |
Sir Chris Hoy, became Britain's greatest ever Olympian. The Prime | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
Minister celebrated at London's velodrome that night. Today, he | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
returned there to issue a warning about what might happen in seven | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
months. If we lost Scotland, if the UK changed, we would rip the rug | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
from our own reputation. There are 63 million of us who could wake up | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
on September the 19th in a different country with a different future | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
ahead of it. This plea to keep Scotland in the UK was delivered | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
from England. David Cameron called on those who thought they were mere | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
spectators, who don't have a vote, to join him in the cause. Frankly, I | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
care too much to stay out of it. This is personal. This is our home | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
and I could not bear to see it torn apart. Scotland's destination, he | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
said, was a decision for those living there, but he wanted everyone | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
else, including 800,000 Scots who have moved south, to help them make | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
up their minds. You don't have a vote, but you have a voice. Let the | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
message ring out from Manchester to Motherwell, from Pembrokeshire to | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
Perth, from us to the people of Scotland, let the message be that we | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
want you to stay. David Cameron came here in order to claim that Team GB | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
represents a set of shared values. But he knows all too well that Alex | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
Salmond is portraying him as an English Tory lecturing the people of | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
Scotland from a long way away. Sir Chris Hoy is now leading the | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
celebrations of another Games, the Commonwealth games in Glasgow. | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
Scotland's First Minister says David Cameron should make the journey to | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
debate with him. The Prime Minister of the UK against the First Minister | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
of Scotland is the debate that should happen and people want to | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
see. David Cameron cannot enter into that but not actually have it in a | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
democratic fashion. He wants to pronounce from the Olympic Stadium, | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
from Mount Olympus in London, instead of having the democratic | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
debate. What if the rest of Britain joins the debate? What will they | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
say? If they feel they can be independent from the rest of the UK | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
and that is most important of them, they should go for it. I would | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
rather Scotland stays as part of the UK. I believe we are stronger | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
together. What difference would it make to me? You don't care? No. What | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
made the Olympics special were the crowds who came. Today, David | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
Cameron seemed to say, if Scotland won't listen to me, maybe they will | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
listen to you. Lorna Gordon is in Glasgow for us. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
How has the speech by David Cameron gone down in Scotland? Much of the | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
debate so far has been framed in economic terms. Today we saw a | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
slight shift in the language. Every time he makes the case for the | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
union, the Nationalists focusing on his refusal to engage in a debate | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
with Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, going so far as to call him | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
afraid for not engaging in this debate. They have the wind in their | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
sales at the moment. There have been a few calls since the Scottish | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
government published its White Paper in November, and they have shown a | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
very small but perhaps significant shift towards the yes camp. An | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
increase in the number of people who would vote in favour of | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
independence. It is still a minority, but it is a shift, so they | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
will continue to hammer away at this. David Cameron says he will | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
come to Scotland in the coming months to make his case. He will | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
make it directly to the Scottish people, and not in the gladiatorial | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
arena of a TV debate with Alex Salmond. Thank you. | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
A terror group in Syria claims a British citizen has become the first | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
to blow himself up in a suicide truck bomb attack. The claim by the | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Nusra Front, a terror group linked to Al-Qaeda, was made as people were | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
evacuated from the besieged city of Homs for the first time in 18 | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
months. Paul Wood reports. The siege of Homs isn't over. These | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
are the first people to escape in a very long time. Weary and hungry, | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
some 80 women, children and old men were allowed out through the Syrian | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
Army's cordoned. They had in George 600 days of siege in the Old City of | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
Hamas. -- of Homs. Food and water is so short inside, he says. Look at | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
me. There are only bones. The Syrian regime has pursued a policy known as | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
surrender or starve. The rebels want to keep people inside besieged | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
areas. The regime has promised to allow some aid supplies in | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
tomorrow, but not if any goes to the rebels. This cease-fire is extremely | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
fragile. No cease-fire in Aleppo. A rebel commander tells his men, a | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
suicide bomber just left. The whole Islamic nation will hear him raw. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
The bomber was British, driving this truck packed with explosives. He is | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
thought to be the first British suicide bomber in Syria. The war | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
continues, then, with no end inside. The Syrian regime's very | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
slight easing of the siege of Homs might be seen as the first fruits of | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
the UN sponsored peace talks in Geneva, but the jihadis are not part | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
of that dialogue, and they are doing most of the fighting now in Syria. | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
The 22nd Winter Olympics are officially under way, after an | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
opening ceremony in the Russian resort of Sochi combined spectacular | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
effects with the customary questionable team outfits. They are | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
the most expensive Olympic Games ever. Building the infrastructure | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
from scratch, as well as intense security, is estimated to have cost | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
more than ?30 billion. 3000 athletes from 88 countries are set to take | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
part. Another 700 will compete in the Paralympic Games next month. | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
And, the world is watching. Some three billion people across the | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
globe are expected to see the Games on TV. Our sports editor, David | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
Bond, was watching the ceremony. There are flashing images in his | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
report. After so many years and so much | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
money, this was finally Russia's time. In front of 40,000 people in | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
the Fisht Stadium, and opening ceremony designed to wow the world. | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
It was an avant-garde journey through this country's cultural and | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
political history, but not everything went according to plan. | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
One of the iconic Olympic rings failed to open. Let's hope the | :17:47. | :18:01. | |
president didn't see, for these games are a showcase for Vladimir | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
Putin's modern Russia. For Britain's athletes, the expectations | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
are also high, after the success of London, Team GB are aiming for their | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
biggest Winter medal haul for 78 years. With the athletes parade | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
over, the show returns to the theme of the evening - a celebration of | :18:30. | :18:38. | |
Russia's might. But the significance of this display of traditional | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
family values will not have been lost on those who have attacked | :18:43. | :18:52. | |
Russia for its stance on gay rights. There were concerns that President | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
Putin might try to hijack the ceremony, but in opening the Games, | :18:57. | :19:08. | |
he kept it short. It was then left to two of Russia's most | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
distinguished Winter Olympians to light the Olympic called run, and | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
provide a stunning finale. So the Sochi Games are officially under | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
way, and while tonight's ceremony has passed successfully, the | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
organisers know they still face major challenges in the coming days. | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
But, for now, all the concerns about security, human rights and | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
atmosphere can wait. Tonight was all about Russia's party. | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
Well, the Winter Olympics may have got under way smoothly, but | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
preparations for this summer's World Cup in Brazil have been marred by | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
violent protests in Rio de Janeiro. Among the grievances are complaints | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
that while a huge amount of money is being spent on the football, life | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
for many ordinary Brazilians is increasingly tough. From Rio, Wyre | :20:00. | :20:10. | |
Davies sent this report. Led by the radical hard-core Black | :20:11. | :20:20. | |
Blocs thousands of demonstrators marched through Rio, denouncing | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
excessive World Cup spending. The protesters cry, FIFA, pay my fair. | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
But events soon descended into violence, and the running battle | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
between riot police and demonstrators. These are the most | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
violent scenes we have had in Rio now for several weeks and months. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Thousands of protesters have marched into the Central Station, where they | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
are being met by riot police with tear gas and smoke bombs. The | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
situation has become desperately violent. Hundreds of commuters were | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
caught between the two sides, and the clashes spilled out onto Rio's | :21:01. | :21:09. | |
Main Avenue. As what appears to be a home-made device, or improvised | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
firework explodes, a journalist falls to the floor. First to help, | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
we tried to stop the bleeding from a gaping wound to his head. Angry | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
protesters blamed police for the attack, but it quite possibly came | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
from the other side. Six minutes later we managed to get him to | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
hospital, still alive, but now in a deep coma. And the clashes soon | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
resume. These anti-World Cup, anti-government protests have not | :21:44. | :21:55. | |
relented. The US says it's increasing its | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
military operations in the Horn of Africa to try to tackle violent | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
extremism. America's base in the tiny state of Djibouti is the focus | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
for counter-terrorism operations against Al-Shabab in neighbouring | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
Somalia and Al-Qaeda in Southern Yemen, both organisations which have | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
targeted British civilians. Our security correspondent, Frank | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
Gardner, has this exclusive report from Djibouti. | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
In the deserts of Djibouti, the US military is stepping up operations. | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
It is flying long-range missions all over East Africa, determined to | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
counter what it calls violent extremism. These are special forces | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
rescue paratroopers, trained to retrieve troops from deep inside | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
Somalia. From its base in Djibouti, America is extending its reach | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
across this region. It isn't alone. This is a French helicopter | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
refuelling from a US tank. This long-range air to air refuelling is | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
just one tiny part of the huge build up in US and coalition military | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
operations here in the Horn of Africa, and Djibouti is the nerve | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
centre. This former French colony has thrown in its lot with the | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
West. Its Foreign Minister tells me it makes it a target for Al-Shabab, | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
so he supports controversial US drone strikes launched from this | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
country. These people are very dangerous, Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabab | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
elements, so whatever it takes. If we can contain them, OK. If we can | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
get rid of them, it's better, but we don't have to waste time in asking | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
the rest of Africa if we should use drones or not. The US base here has | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
swollen to over 4000 people. Soldiers are sent from here to fight | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Al-Shabab, seen by Washington as the main threat in the region. The | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
reason we are here is to neutralise Al-Shabab in Somalia. That's why I'm | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
sitting right hip, so I can assist the other nations to neutralise | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
Al-Shabab in Somalia, so it will not leave Somalia or threaten the United | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
States interests, or our country as a whole. America certainly has the | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
tools and its armoury, but does it have the patience? 20 years ago, it | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
rushed to leave this region after getting embroiled in Somalia's clan | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
wars. Now it is trying a different approach, but defeating extremism | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
here could still take years. It was 50 years ago today - that the | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
Beatles conquered the USA. The Fab Four touched down in New York for an | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show that made them instant household | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
names, from LA to Arkansas. Nick Bryant reports from New York. | :24:43. | :24:57. | |
Severally the seventh 1964, and the Beatles arrived in a country that | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
wanted something to smile about. -- February the 7th. Just 77 days after | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
the death of John F. Kennedy. The Beatles were the tonic the nation | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
needed. They lifted the national mood in an instant. Ladies and | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
gentlemen, the Beatles. This was the moment they sang themselves into | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
history. Their performance on the Ed Sullivan Show was watched by almost | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
half the American population. It helped usher in the country's modern | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
age. What happened inside this theatre changed America, from the | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
clothes people walk to the way they style their hair. The Fab Four also | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
set the musical agenda for the rest of the 60s. Memphis and Elvis gave | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
way to Merseyside and the Beatles. Henry Grossman was there that | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
night. It was incredible to be there, to partake in that moment in | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
what we now know is history. This became an iconic image of the 60s, | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
this teenager a symbol of a generation. I thought Paul McCartney | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
was the best looking thing I had ever seen in my life, and I wanted | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
to marry him. The Beatles thought they wouldn't make a lasting impact. | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
50 years on, it is still being felt. That's all from | :26:32. | :26:32. |