:00:10. > :00:15.as devastating. With the Met facing one of the greatest ever challenges
:00:16. > :00:20.to its authority, the man in charge promises to do better. I will
:00:21. > :00:23.respond to the criticism, make sure we support the enquiries and provide
:00:24. > :00:27.everything I can to get to the bottom of what is a terrible set of
:00:28. > :00:30.events. But tonight the BBC has obtained
:00:31. > :00:33.evidence of another possible police cover-up while Mr Hogan-Howe has
:00:34. > :00:39.been Chief Constable, concerning an allegedly corrupt officer. We'll
:00:40. > :00:42.bring you more on that and asking where all of this leaves the
:00:43. > :00:46.reputation of the Metropolitan Police.
:00:47. > :00:48.European observers are blocked again from entering Crimea, and elsewherea
:00:49. > :00:51.tense standoff between pro-Russian forces and Ukrainian soldiers at a
:00:52. > :00:54.missile base. The Oscar Pistorius trial - an
:00:55. > :00:57.ex-girlfriend tells how he always carried a gun on dates.
:00:58. > :01:01.And the Winter Paralympics begin in Sochi. All but one of Ukraine's team
:01:02. > :01:03.stay away from the ceremony. But team GB are hoping for the first
:01:04. > :01:09.ever gold medal. In Sportsday, Britain's former
:01:10. > :01:11.number one tennis player Elena Baltacha reveals she has liver
:01:12. > :01:40.cancer. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:41. > :01:43.News at Ten. The head of the Metropolitan Police
:01:44. > :01:46.says he will ensure trust and confidence in the police is
:01:47. > :01:48.restored. After a damning review into the Stephen Lawrence murder
:01:49. > :01:54.investigation, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said it was "one of the
:01:55. > :01:56.worst days" of his career. This afternoon, the head of Scotland
:01:57. > :02:00.Yard's counter-terror unit, Commander Richard Walton, has been
:02:01. > :02:03.temporarily moved from his post. It's been revealed Mr Walton had
:02:04. > :02:06.contact with the undercover officer now known to have spied on the
:02:07. > :02:11.Lawrence family after their son's death.
:02:12. > :02:13.And tonight the BBC has obtained new evidence of a possible police
:02:14. > :02:18.cover-up concerning an allegedly corrupt officer linked to the
:02:19. > :02:21.Lawrence case. The documents strongly suggest Scotland Yard's
:02:22. > :02:31.claims not to have a record of his involvement in a separate murder
:02:32. > :02:38.case are inaccurate. Mark Easton has the story.
:02:39. > :02:42.The worst they of my career. After not appearing in public yesterday,
:02:43. > :02:46.this afternoon the Commissioner of the Met broke his silence about
:02:47. > :02:50.claims of corruption and spying at the heart of the Stephen Lawrence
:02:51. > :02:54.murder enquiry, telling me he was determined to restore public
:02:55. > :02:59.confidence. The public deserve to know that I will do it in an open
:03:00. > :03:02.and honest way. I will respond to the criticisms, make sure we support
:03:03. > :03:07.the enquiries and provide everything I can to get the bottom of a
:03:08. > :03:13.terrible set events. You are sure you are the right man to do that?
:03:14. > :03:17.There is no one better, in my view. Yesterday, a review of the Stephen
:03:18. > :03:21.Lawrence murder case enquiry suggested secret documents had been
:03:22. > :03:24.shredded or kept secret and it was confirmed that the Lawrence family
:03:25. > :03:31.had been spied on by the Met after Stephen's death. Peter Francis was
:03:32. > :03:35.that spied, and today an officer who met in the 1990s, Richard Walton,
:03:36. > :03:39.head of Scotland Yard's Counterterrorism Command, was moved
:03:40. > :03:45.to a non-operational role. The review described his account of that
:03:46. > :03:49.meeting as somewhat troubling. There are parts of that report about this
:03:50. > :03:52.officer that have caused some concerns. He is in a very
:03:53. > :03:57.significant position in terms of our counterterrorist response. We think
:03:58. > :04:01.it is the best thing to do at the moment. Responding to criticism that
:04:02. > :04:05.Scotland Yard has covered up or destroyed documents about police
:04:06. > :04:09.corruption in the Lawrence affair, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe also
:04:10. > :04:13.announced a team with independent oversight to ensure no relevant
:04:14. > :04:17.material was withheld. I need to reassure myself we are making the
:04:18. > :04:22.best search for all the information we have. It is not an easy process.
:04:23. > :04:28.It is a big organisation and we are talking about records from 30 years
:04:29. > :04:30.ago. Questions centre on this form are allegedly corrupt detective,
:04:31. > :04:37.John Davidson, now living in Menorca. Did he have a criminal
:04:38. > :04:40.relationship with Clifford Norris, a notorious underworld gangster and
:04:41. > :04:45.father of David Norris, one of Stephen Lawrence's murderers? And
:04:46. > :04:50.did he also had links with Daniel Morgan, a private detective murdered
:04:51. > :04:55.in 1987, who it is thought may have been about to expose police
:04:56. > :05:00.corruption. Yesterday's review revealed how last month Scotland
:05:01. > :05:02.Yard said they had no record of DS Davidson being involved in the
:05:03. > :05:07.investigation into the Morgan murder. But tonight we have obtained
:05:08. > :05:11.this document, apparently a case file from the Morgan murder
:05:12. > :05:18.investigation, and DS Davidson's name appears nine times. The BBC has
:05:19. > :05:21.seen the full document, but this redacted version suggests DS
:05:22. > :05:27.Davidson had a direct and hands-on role in the case. Political pressure
:05:28. > :05:31.is mounting on Scotland Yard. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson,
:05:32. > :05:34.described it as sickening that a police officer investigating Stephen
:05:35. > :05:38.Lawrence's murder was potentially in the pay of the family of one of the
:05:39. > :05:43.killers. On a visit to Bedford today, the Prime Minister said a
:05:44. > :05:48.judicial enquiry was necessary to help to restore trust. The Lawrence
:05:49. > :05:51.family have suffered far too much but this will get to the truth and
:05:52. > :05:57.help us make sure we have the very best in terms of British policing,
:05:58. > :06:00.which is what the country deserves. 21 years after Stephen Lawrence was
:06:01. > :06:04.murdered in an unprovoked racist attack in south London, the
:06:05. > :06:08.questions about what really happened and how the police responded
:06:09. > :06:12.continue to rock Scotland Yard. Mark Easton, BBC News.
:06:13. > :06:14.There's been more fallout from the report today, with lawyers warning
:06:15. > :06:17.many political activists may now appeal against their convictions due
:06:18. > :06:20.to the involvement of undercover police in their cases. There's a
:06:21. > :06:22.renewed focus on the activities of Scotland Yard's top secret Special
:06:23. > :06:24.Demonstration Squad, which infiltrated protest groups for
:06:25. > :06:29.nearly 40 years until it was disbanded six years ago. Today, two
:06:30. > :06:31.activists from the Animal Liberation Front jailed for firebombing
:06:32. > :06:37.department stores in the 1980's came forward to say they intend to
:06:38. > :06:47.appeal. Our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger has this
:06:48. > :06:51.report. They were known as the hairy is, for
:06:52. > :06:56.the way they mimicked the appearances of the political
:06:57. > :07:02.activists they spied on. Officers of the SDS prided themselves on how far
:07:03. > :07:05.they went to remain deep undercover. Environmentalist Helen Steel knows
:07:06. > :07:09.too well. She is one of the number of women trying to sue the Met. She
:07:10. > :07:15.says the man she loved and lived with was a police spy. If you can go
:07:16. > :07:18.through an experience where you live with someone for two years and
:07:19. > :07:22.thought you knew them really well, cared about them, talked about
:07:23. > :07:26.having a family, and suddenly they don't exist, they are not who they
:07:27. > :07:31.said they were, it is a false name and date of birth, false identity,
:07:32. > :07:37.false politics. It is like you did not know that person at all. The Met
:07:38. > :07:40.neither confirms nor denies identities of such officers. Another
:07:41. > :07:46.went public after his lover discovered his betrayal. The result,
:07:47. > :07:50.the convictions of 29 activists overturned because of the role he
:07:51. > :07:55.played in bringing them to court. And more may come. Two animal rights
:07:56. > :08:01.militants who placed firebombs in shops in the 1980s said they would
:08:02. > :08:05.appeal their convictions. They allege that an SDS offers who
:08:06. > :08:09.infiltrated the group planted a third bomb. He has denied it. A
:08:10. > :08:15.lawyer for people targeted by police says that much has yet to revealed.
:08:16. > :08:18.I am confident we have just seen the tip of the iceberg in terms of
:08:19. > :08:22.miscarriages of justice. We have looked at the cases of a fewer
:08:23. > :08:27.officers involved in a few instance -- incidents. It is clear from the
:08:28. > :08:31.evidence that we now have that this unit was active and out of control.
:08:32. > :08:37.The police have defended the tactics, such as officers are
:08:38. > :08:40.assuming identities of dead children for cover stories. But the purpose
:08:41. > :08:46.of the operations has been questioned. When undercutting police
:08:47. > :08:49.-- undercover policing is used to target political activists,
:08:50. > :08:52.environmental campaigners and grieving relatives of a murdered
:08:53. > :08:58.teenager, I think they are not put their best use. Tonight, the Met
:08:59. > :09:03.admitted it was very worried at reports that hundreds of convictions
:09:04. > :09:08.could now be overturned. Mark Easton is with me now. Let's go
:09:09. > :09:12.back to the document you revealed at the top of the programme, connected
:09:13. > :09:16.with the Daniel Morgan case, a notorious case for the Metropolitan
:09:17. > :09:22.Police, involving the murder of a private detective and accusations of
:09:23. > :09:26.police corruption. What makes this document problematic for the
:09:27. > :09:30.Metropolitan Police is that there was a statement only last month
:09:31. > :09:34.saying that such a document did not exist. In other words, there was a
:09:35. > :09:37.denial that such records existed on the watch of Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe.
:09:38. > :09:41.That will make it even more difficult for him to convince people
:09:42. > :09:46.that he really is the new broom that is going to clean up Scotland Yard.
:09:47. > :09:51.And an interesting development this evening. We now know that Doreen
:09:52. > :09:56.Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence, has written to Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe
:09:57. > :10:00.and says in a letter, she asks him to confirm that he will be
:10:01. > :10:05.transparent and honest in his June tea of disclosure. Nothing short of
:10:06. > :10:11.immediate and decisive action by you will begin to help to build the
:10:12. > :10:13.trust that is needed. That is clearly the challenge for Sir
:10:14. > :10:17.Bernard Hogan-Howe and it seems that with almost every day that passes,
:10:18. > :10:19.that challenge becomes even more difficult.
:10:20. > :10:22.There has been a tense standoff tonight at a Ukrainian missile
:10:23. > :10:24.defence base, with Ukrainian forces locked inside fearing that
:10:25. > :10:28.pro-Russian militias were attempting an assault. And today a group of
:10:29. > :10:35.unarmed international observers has been denied access to the Crimea for
:10:36. > :10:38.the second day running. Our World Affairs Editor, John Simpson, has
:10:39. > :10:47.been on the border of Crimea near the village of Chongar following
:10:48. > :10:53.today's events. The road into Crimea. A few days ago
:10:54. > :10:58.this was part of Ukraine. Now it is part of Russia, and you can be
:10:59. > :11:01.arrested for filming here, so we had to do it surreptitiously. Russian
:11:02. > :11:07.troops are everywhere. Some are digging trenches to stop Ukraine's
:11:08. > :11:12.army trying to get Crimea back. This is the kind of thing the observers
:11:13. > :11:18.want to see. They tried to enter Crimea yesterday and were stopped.
:11:19. > :11:23.They are trying again today. As I walked towards the border check
:11:24. > :11:28.point, I could see the buses with the observers in them, stopped on
:11:29. > :11:33.the far side of the border. But it is too tricky for our cameraman to
:11:34. > :11:39.be able to zoom in on them. But these soldiers... The man in charge
:11:40. > :11:43.of the pro-Russian volunteers who have been drafted in as back-up for
:11:44. > :11:50.the Russian soldiers is distinctly wary of our camera. There is not
:11:51. > :11:54.much chance of the buses being allowed into Crimea. But there is a
:11:55. > :11:58.group of demonstrators waiting at the border post, equipped with
:11:59. > :12:03.banners and staves, just in case they do come through. The stand-off
:12:04. > :12:09.lasts an hour, and we cannot stay any more. That is the ridge where
:12:10. > :12:15.the border is. We have driven away from it because they are so paranoid
:12:16. > :12:18.about cameras there. It does look as though the OSCE buses are being
:12:19. > :12:22.stopped and went to be allowed through, which is going to cause
:12:23. > :12:29.another diplomatic problem for everybody concerned. The other side
:12:30. > :12:33.of the border, the OSCE monitors were able to take their own pictures
:12:34. > :12:38.of the Russian soldiers who stopped them. They will try again to get
:12:39. > :12:42.through tomorrow, but it won't happen without Moscow's say so. The
:12:43. > :12:50.arrival of so many armed, uniformed Russians here has brought heightened
:12:51. > :12:55.violence to Crimea. These CCTV pictures from yesterday show some
:12:56. > :13:00.thugs stealing equipment from a pro-Ukrainian TV station and loading
:13:01. > :13:04.it into a van. Then they spot a man across the road taking photos of
:13:05. > :13:11.them. They run over, grabbed him, and one of them threatens to shoot
:13:12. > :13:16.him. It is ugly and worrying. Tonight, in Sevastopol, another
:13:17. > :13:20.group of masked Russian soldiers attempted to take over this
:13:21. > :13:25.Ukrainian missile defence base. The sense of violence and menace is
:13:26. > :13:27.growing here. Meanwhile, Moscow has rejected pleas
:13:28. > :13:30.from the White House to negotiate with the new government in Ukraine.
:13:31. > :13:33.This evening the Kremlin said it hoped there would be no renewal of
:13:34. > :13:37.the Cold War, despite the disagreements between Russia and the
:13:38. > :13:40.West. At the opening of the Paralympic Games in Sochi today, the
:13:41. > :13:44.Ukrainian team was represented by a single athlete carrying the flag.
:13:45. > :13:55.The rest of the team stayed away in protest. From Moscow, here's our
:13:56. > :13:58.correspondent Steve Rosenberg. At a Russian Olympics, it feels like
:13:59. > :14:10.sport and politics are never far apart. In Sochi, Russia's Paralympic
:14:11. > :14:14.team walked out to a song entitled Goodbye, America. Minutes later came
:14:15. > :14:22.the Ukrainian team, or rather, just one member of it. Ukraine's other
:14:23. > :14:25.Olympians had refused to parade in protest at Moscow's military
:14:26. > :14:30.intervention in their country. Crimea has already cast a shadow
:14:31. > :14:37.over these Olympics. But these are no games. America has sent six F-15
:14:38. > :14:43.fighter jets from RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk to the Baltic to boost air
:14:44. > :14:47.patrols there. It is a show of strength on Russia's doorstep, part
:14:48. > :14:52.of the response of the West to the actions of Russia in the Ukraine.
:14:53. > :14:56.Western leaders have accused Russia of invading the Crimea. Washington
:14:57. > :15:00.has threatened to freeze the assets of Russian officials and to impose
:15:01. > :15:05.travel bans. The Kremlin's response to that is that sanctions will hope
:15:06. > :15:11.the West just as much as it will hurt them. So far, Moscow is
:15:12. > :15:15.refusing to back down. On Russian TV today, Vladimir Putin's spokesman
:15:16. > :15:20.went on the offensive, accusing the west of cynicism and double
:15:21. > :15:23.standards over Ukraine. Ethnic Russians there, he said, were in
:15:24. > :15:33.mortal danger. Russia cannot remain indifferent. Which is why Moscow is
:15:34. > :15:40.embracing these MPs from Crimea, who want their peninsular to break away
:15:41. > :15:43.from Ukraine. Today, the head of the upper house of parliament in Russia
:15:44. > :15:49.told them that if Crimea votes to join Russia, the Russian parliament
:15:50. > :15:56.will support that. And to show that the Russian people would, too, rally
:15:57. > :16:01.was organised in red Square. Everybody was expect -- everybody we
:16:02. > :16:06.spoke to was excited that the Crimea might become part of their country
:16:07. > :16:10.once again. Historically, Crimea was always our land, says this lady. We
:16:11. > :16:14.want to be together again. What is more, criticism from Kiev and
:16:15. > :16:17.threats of sanctions from the West, well, they just seem to fuel the
:16:18. > :16:28.partridges. Birmingham City Council has
:16:29. > :16:31.confirmed that it is investigating an alleged plot to replace head
:16:32. > :16:34.teachers with those willing to run schools "on Islamic principles". A
:16:35. > :16:37.leaked letter detailing the plan, known as Operation Trojan Horse,
:16:38. > :16:40.claims up to four schools in the city have already been taken over.
:16:41. > :16:43.It's not known if the letter is genuine or a hoax. It appears to
:16:44. > :16:46.have been written by someone in Birmingham to a contact in Bradford
:16:47. > :16:48.and claims that struggling schools are "easy to disrupt".
:16:49. > :16:52.A former girlfriend of the South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has
:16:53. > :16:56.told his murder trial he always carried a gun on their dates and
:16:57. > :16:59.once fired it through the sun roof of his car after he was stopped by
:17:00. > :17:01.the police. Oscar Pistorius admits shooting his girlfriend, Reeva
:17:02. > :17:04.Steenkamp, but says he mistook her for an intruder. From the High Court
:17:05. > :17:11.in Pretoria, our Africa correspondent, Andrew Harding,
:17:12. > :17:15.reports. It has been a bruising week for him
:17:16. > :17:21.in court. Once South Africa's golden boy, now, under the harshest
:17:22. > :17:29.spotlight. Today, his ex-girlfriend Dave Oscar Pistorius a character
:17:30. > :17:33.reference he will not thank her for. Often in tears but not shown on
:17:34. > :17:36.camera, Samantha Taylor told the court her old boyfriend was
:17:37. > :17:43.unfaithful, often angry and always armed. He was angry at the police
:17:44. > :17:48.after being stopped. Thereafter, when they wanted to fire a shot,
:17:49. > :17:54.they found it funny. She described a 2012 incident, reconstructed here,
:17:55. > :17:56.when Pistorius fired his pistol through a sunroof after being pulled
:17:57. > :18:03.over with another friend for speeding. Just metres away from her
:18:04. > :18:06.in court, the story is quietly took notes and hit his emotions. His
:18:07. > :18:12.family were watching from the bench behind. Pistorius began dating Reeva
:18:13. > :18:16.Steenkamp as he was breaking up with some answer. This is where he lived,
:18:17. > :18:22.and where neighbours now say they heard a woman scream before hearing
:18:23. > :18:26.gunshots, suggesting the new couple were Rowling. The defence insists
:18:27. > :18:34.that was actually Pistorius, high-pitched and in anguished. If he
:18:35. > :18:40.is really anxious, he sounds like a woman? That is not true, he sounds
:18:41. > :18:45.like a man. She also raised some questions about his routine at home
:18:46. > :18:48.in his bedroom, but Jens that the prosecution will say show the
:18:49. > :18:54.athlete was lying about why he killed Reeva Steenkamp. This witness
:18:55. > :18:58.spoke to him by phone just after the gunshots. He suggested Pistorius had
:18:59. > :19:03.sought to mislead him. And so, the end of week one. Some tantalising
:19:04. > :19:06.details, but many more unanswered questions.
:19:07. > :19:10.Many British aid projects in Afghanistan are over-ambitious and
:19:11. > :19:13.may fail to survive the withdrawal of international forces, according
:19:14. > :19:15.to an independent report for the Department for International
:19:16. > :19:18.Development. It says some projects have had a positive impact, but in
:19:19. > :19:24.future there should be a simpler focus, on reducing poverty. The UK
:19:25. > :19:31.gives around ?190 million each year to Afghanistan. Around a third is
:19:32. > :19:35.spent supporting economic growth. The report says those projects
:19:36. > :19:37.perform "relatively poorly". And it questions rural development efforts
:19:38. > :19:40.to cut opium production, saying there is "no evidence of long-term
:19:41. > :19:43.sustainable change". Our correspondent Karen Allen reports
:19:44. > :19:55.from Herat in western Afghanistan, on the future of the aid programme.
:19:56. > :20:02.How much impact does British aid have in Afghanistan, and what
:20:03. > :20:07.future, after this critical year? Mine clearance by this charity is
:20:08. > :20:11.making a major difference in Afghanistan, according to monitors.
:20:12. > :20:15.15% of its budget comes from British aid. It is not simply saving lives,
:20:16. > :20:23.but it is also transforming the farming community. We now have
:20:24. > :20:28.work, he says. We can provide the basics of life and send our it feels
:20:29. > :20:31.incredible that less than a year ago, it would have been impossible
:20:32. > :20:36.to walk through this field because it was so heavily mined, many of
:20:37. > :20:40.them dating back to the Soviet era. I have now been cleared, the land
:20:41. > :20:44.has been returned to the local community, which has helped to boost
:20:45. > :20:50.Afghanistan's shattered economy. But now, a warning, that some aid
:20:51. > :20:55.initiatives elsewhere have been less successful, too ambitious, and
:20:56. > :20:59.lacking in focus. Millions has been pumped into helping women in
:21:00. > :21:03.Afghanistan like this clothing business. Although thousands of
:21:04. > :21:06.Afghan women have been turned into successful entrepreneurs,
:21:07. > :21:11.independent monitors say the UK should focus on the simple goal of
:21:12. > :21:15.alleviating poverty, not transforming the economy, especially
:21:16. > :21:22.with the so uncertain. I asked this lady if she worried this project
:21:23. > :21:26.might not survive. It is in God 's hands, she says. But even if we have
:21:27. > :21:35.to work from home, we can still be productive. Britain has a history of
:21:36. > :21:40.misguided ventures in Afghanistan, and that is why warning signs are
:21:41. > :21:43.going up now. The Ministry of Defence land to boost power from
:21:44. > :21:51.this down, but it ended in lives lost after it was sabotaged by the
:21:52. > :21:55.Taliban. The trust has convinced the aid watchdog that it can survive
:21:56. > :21:58.here long term. That means British taxpayers digging deep into their
:21:59. > :22:03.pockets after foreign troops packed up and go. There is a concern within
:22:04. > :22:08.the development community here that the funding is going to start drying
:22:09. > :22:14.up. But at our trust, we have worked here for many years, through the
:22:15. > :22:17.good times and the bad. We believe that post-2014, we will just
:22:18. > :22:22.continue with what we are doing. Britain has committed billions to
:22:23. > :22:26.help grow a future Afghanistan. But with foreign troops leaving in less
:22:27. > :22:27.than a year's time it is far from clear which aid projects can
:22:28. > :22:39.survive. Lawyers walked out of court across
:22:40. > :22:44.England and Wales today testing against planned cuts in the legal
:22:45. > :22:47.aid budget. The Government says the legal aid system is one of the most
:22:48. > :22:52.expensive in the world, and costs need to be reduced.
:22:53. > :22:56.Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has urged voters to reject what she
:22:57. > :22:59.calls the "damaging Europhobia" peddled by UKIP in May's European
:23:00. > :23:02.election. Ms Wood has told Plaid's spring conference in Cardiff that
:23:03. > :23:05.only her party could "further the Welsh national interest at the heart
:23:06. > :23:06.of Europe". She added Plaid was a "socially progressive voice over the
:23:07. > :23:16.din of despair". The owner of Birmingham City
:23:17. > :23:20.football club has been jailed for six years for laundering more than
:23:21. > :23:24.?55 million. A former hairdresser turned tycoon was found guilty of
:23:25. > :23:29.five counts of money-laundering over a six-year period by a court in Hong
:23:30. > :23:32.Kong. He stepped down as chairman of Birmingham City last month.
:23:33. > :23:36.Despite the crisis in Ukraine, Russia's President Putin welcomed
:23:37. > :23:39.the sporting world back to Sochi today, with a spectacular ceremony
:23:40. > :23:42.for the start of the Winter Paralympics. 547 athletes from 45
:23:43. > :23:45.countries will compete in the Games. There are 72 gold medals up for
:23:46. > :23:48.grabs in five sports over ten days. Britain have sent a 15-strong team
:23:49. > :23:50.to Sochi as they attempt to win their first Winter Paralympic gold
:23:51. > :24:05.medal. Joe Wilson reports. Britain's winter Paralympians did
:24:06. > :24:09.not choose the host city. They were not responsible for Britain's absent
:24:10. > :24:12.dignitaries at the opening ceremony. This was their opportunity. The
:24:13. > :24:19.visually impaired skier, Millie Knight, carried the flag. She is 15.
:24:20. > :24:23.About an hour before, I was not nervous, I was excited. And then the
:24:24. > :24:28.moment we were about to walk on, I was so nervous. Britain's official
:24:29. > :24:34.target at Sochi is at least two medals. Britain has never won gold
:24:35. > :24:38.at the Winter Paralympics. These skiers may have the best chance.
:24:39. > :24:44.Then of course, there is curling, a mixed sport, and Britain's Aileen
:24:45. > :24:49.Neilson is the only female captain in Sochi. In total, it is the
:24:50. > :24:53.biggest ever Winter Paralympics, and the head of the Paralympics raised
:24:54. > :24:59.the attitude of Russia in staging the event, which, he reminded the
:25:00. > :25:04.world, is about sport. Athletes and officials from a record 45 national
:25:05. > :25:11.Paralympic midis, welcome to the games. -- Paralympic committees. It
:25:12. > :25:18.is a Games where sport must be the winner. Amongst the imagery in the
:25:19. > :25:23.opening ceremony, an icebreaker, slowly symbolising movements
:25:24. > :25:36.somewhere. There was also plenty of ballet, with subtle arrangements and
:25:37. > :25:39.formations. But the boldest arrival belonged to the American team. They
:25:40. > :25:42.made their presence as visible as possible.
:25:43. > :25:45.That's all from us, don't forget - there is a first look at the papers
:25:46. > :25:48.over on the BBC News Channel, but now on BBC One, it's time for the
:25:49. > :25:54.news where you are.