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No deal with President Assad, says the Government n the fight against | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Talks with Syria would be poisonous | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
says Philip Hammond. The former head of the Army says they must be | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
considered. Some kind of dialogue, whether above or below the counter | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
has to take place with the regime. Tonight, British Muslim leaders | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
denounce the extremists. There's nothing Islamic about it. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
There's nothing that they do that our faith teaches and we condemn it. | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
We'll ask what options are open to the West to tackle the threat. Also, | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
in Gaza, Hamas announces the names of 18 people accused of | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
collaborating with Israel and executes them. | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
Bernie Eccleston gives his first major interview after paying ?60 | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
million to end a bribery trial. I have been found innocent. I just had | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
to pay. To get rid of the case, that's all. | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
And Saturday's most famous fixture - Match Of The Day turns 50. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Later on BBC London - a 14-year-old boy is arrested on suspicion of | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
raping a woman at the Reading festival. A Tube strike on two major | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
lines causes disruption for thousands of travellers. | :01:34. | :01:49. | |
Hello. Good evening, welcome to the BBC's news at ten. The Foreign | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
Secretary has rejected the idea of holding talks with President Assad | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
of Syria. Philip Hammond told the BBC there will be no co-operation | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
with the Syrian Government, which he called "a ghastly regime." His | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
comments came after the former head of the British Army, Lord Dannatt, | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
suggested discussions should be held if there is to be any chance of | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
fighting the militants of Islamic State. Tonight, IS forces dominate | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
large parts of Iraq and Syria. The Syrian Government is reported to | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
have killed 70 IS militants in the last 48 hours of fighting near | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
Raqqa. Our Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, reports. | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
Kurdish fighters have steadied themselves and are pushing back | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
against Islamic State. IS will not be beaten without much more fire | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
power - political, as well as military. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
It won't be hurt badly while it still has a power base in northern | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
Syria. That is why there's talk of doing a deal with President Assad. | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
Syria. That is why there's talk of doing a I think, on practical | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
grounds, we have to possibly consider taking a deep breath and | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
holding our nose and saying that it would seem to us now that the | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
extremely vicious nature of Islamic State and objectives are worse that | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
Bashar al-Assad has been doing. It may be when my enemy's enemy becomes | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
my friend. The West's main so far strategy for ending the Syrian war, | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
includes the departure of President Assad. Britain says it will not | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
change its mind about him. I have said | :03:33. | :03:54. | |
Sectarian conflict in Iraq and across the region makes building a | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
coalition against Islamic State much harder. On the edge of Baghdad | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
earlier this summer, a police general, a Shia, was at pains to | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
point out his chief bodyguard was Sunni. | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Most Arab Sunnis in Iraq don't trust the security forces. If the new | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Iraqi Government cannot get its people to find the gunman, | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
reportedly Shia, who killed around 70 Sunni worshippers in a mosque | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
north-east of Baghdad today, the collapse of Iraq will continue. In | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
London, the Iraqi ambassador was trying to reassure a small group of | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Christian demonstrators outside his embassy. He said peace in Iraq | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
depended on separating Sunnis from Islamic State. To feel they are | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
partners in this Government and partners in real partnership, not | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
only signed and declared over the television, but then next day | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
forgotten. You are talking about a real power-sharing agreement with | :05:00. | :05:00. | |
Sunnis? Absolutely. On the ground. real power-sharing agreement with | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Sunnis? Absolutely. On If you can't get that? We'll be in a difficult | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
position. Very, very difficult position. So, what happens next? The | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
US has said it will do whatever it take against IS. More air strikes | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
are an option. Doing that in Syria, without the regime's conwould be | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
difficult and -- consent would be difficult and dangerous. The forces | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
have good intelligence and are well supplied. The price would be the end | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
of pressure on him to go. Whaebt neighbouring states. Iran is against | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Islamic State. Saudi Arabia says it is too, but | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
building a coalition against IS means getting tangled in difficult, | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
often bloody, regional politics. It will not be easy. | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Now Iraq's own sectarian conflict is emerging with the Syrian war, the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
challenge facing anyone who wants peace becomes twice as big. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
Syria's war has been impossible to stop. No-one yet has a proper | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
strategy to end the war in Iraq either. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
David Cameron is facing calls to do more to combat radicalisation among | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
British Muslims. Some critics have argued neither the Government more | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
the Muslim community is doing enough to stem the tide of young Britons | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
leaving to fight in Syria and Iraq. It comes as investigations continue | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
into the death of the American journalist James Foley, apparently | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
at the hands of a British extremist. Here is our Religious Affairs | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Correspondent. Tonight, the hunt for those who | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
killed the American journalist, James Foley, goes on. | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
The man who may have murdered him is thought to be British, perhaps with | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
family and friends here. This evening, the Secretary-General of | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
the Muslim Council of Britain issued this appeal over the killing. | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
There's nothing Islamic about it and we roundly condemn it. It is our | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
duty to make sure that anyone of us who has seen or witnessed, or is | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
knowledgeable about any wrongdoing, they must report to the police or | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
must report to organisations like the Crimestoppers. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Already at least 500 British Muslims have travelled to Iraq or Syria to | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
support Islamic extremists. Many joining the fighters of Islamic | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
State. Some as young as 16. The oldest, 42. Many are active on | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
social media and keen to recruit more. One British convert to Islam | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
says he can understand why they go. He's careful to stay within the law, | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
but the sentiment still shocked after the violence meted out by | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Islamic State. There is not a single country in the | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
world, whether it is Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or Iran who are | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
implementing Islam in its totality. Now we have this caliphate, I think | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
you will see many Muslims wanting to flock there and leave the insecurity | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
they face in Muslim countries as well as in the West and migrate | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
there and live there peacefully under the Sharia. The Islamic State | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
message was countered by Imams today. The Government's strategy to | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
prevent extremism is supposed to work by engaging the most vulnerable | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
within their communities before they are radicalised. | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
Over the years, the British Government has tried many strategies | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
to stop young British Muslim men going to fight abroad. But | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
increasingly people here are saying the Muslim community itself may also | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
have to do more to help prevent that process of radicalisation. | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
This man is a post graduate student in London. He believes it is up to | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
all British Muslims to act and not stay silent. I am disappointed in | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
our own community. There are some who would rather sweep it under the | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
carpet. Many would love to practise their religion quietly with their | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
own peaceful interpretation and with that silence and only begets the | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
evil that exists out there. And ultimately, peer pressure may prove | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
crucial in countering a message of a group skilled in reaching out to the | :09:10. | :09:10. | |
young and the disaffected. Our Middle East editor, Jeremy | :09:11. | :09:19. | |
Bowen, is with me. Tell me more about the sectarian violence in Iraq | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
- the impact this will have. Horrendous levels of killing. 70 or | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
so dead in a Sunni mosque. Now, the impact that this has is like it is a | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
poison in the political system, this kind of killing. There are already | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
reports this evening, unconfirmed, of some revenge killings taking | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
place as well. And all this is coming at a time when the new Prime | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Minister is trying to get together a new Government in Baghdad and very | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
importantly Sunnis have pulled out of that. At least for a time because | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
of the killing. Now, if they cannot find a way of including Sunnis in | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
the overall political shape of the next couple of years in Iraq, then | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
the kind of chaos that will ensue is the kind of thing that Islamic State | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
thrives on. It will be highly dangerous. The more people that die, | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
the harder it gets for the politicians. Thank you. Now, the | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
rest of the day's news. And NHS patients could soon be treated by a | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
growing number of physician associates. The Government wants the | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
health service to employ more of this grade of medic, who perform | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
some of the same roles as a junior doctor but with fewer years of | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
training. Some patients' groups have expressed concern that they would be | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
employed to cut costs at the expense of care. Here is our health editor. | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
Is that OK for you? Meet Kate, examining a patient with an ear | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
infection. She's not a doctor, but what has been described as a | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
physician associate - a job title which has emerged over the last | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
decade. I wanted to work within a medical field. I wanted to see | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
patients, treat patients and work with them on a daily basis. And I | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
like the challenge of a new career within that area. What does her | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
patient, Bill, feel about that treatment? If they are doing the job | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
that Kate's been doing, OK. I would say, carry on doing it. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
I would say, The Government | :11:26. | :11:25. | |
I would say, The wants to expand the number of | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
associates in England - doubling the number of training places. So, what | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
does the role involve? A doctor has seven years training, a physician | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
associate needs a science or medical degree and two years' training. A | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
doctor has overall responsibility for a patient. An associate can | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
carry out an examination, under a doctor's supervision. Those | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
hospitals wanting to expand medical care on weekdays and weekends, say | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
these posts provide a welcome addition to their staffing options. | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
We need more clinical staff during the day time. They give us an | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
exciting new role which can compliment the doctors on the team | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
and give us the ability to do more across the whole week. Questions are | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
being asked about how far this process will go. And to what extent, | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
if at all, standards of patient care may be compromised and corners cut. | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
Patients' groups say the physician associates are not currently | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
regulated in the same way as doctors and they do have concerns. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
One of the fears that we have is that because money is tight, the | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
powers that be are trying to find ways around spending proper monies | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
on proper care. That is definitely one of our worries. The Government | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
denies that boosting the number of associates who work in GP surgeries | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
as well as hospitals will dilute standards, helping sustain care in | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
the face of increasing demands on docks' time -- doctors' time is the | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
aim. Hamas militants have killed 18 | :13:00. | :13:09. | |
people accused of helping Israel locate targets for air strikes. | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
11 men were shot outside a police station in Gaza City, | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
and another seven people were killed near a mosque. | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
The shootings came after an Israeli air strike yesterday left three | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
senior Hamas leaders dead. Here's Quentin Sommerville. | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
You may find some of these pictures disturbing. | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
On a Gaza city street, just after Friday prayers, a group | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
of men are led to their deaths. Bound and hooded, they are made to | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
kneel as a crowd looks on. They are shot dead. Hamas, which supplied | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
these pictures, say they were collaborators. It was a bloody day | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
in Gaza. As well as the men killed here, 11 were earlier put to death | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
by firing squad, accused of the same crime. | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
TRANSLATION: Because they are spies, they | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
helped to kill people. The Jews don't know there is resistance here. | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
The collaborators tell them. The sign on the wall reads, "They gave | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
information on places of resistance and caused many martyrs". Hamas say | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
the men were sentenced by an emergency court, but human rights | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
groups say these were extrajudicial killings. Two women were among the | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
dead. The deaths came a day after Israel dealt its heaviest blow to | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
the militants, an air strike here in the Gaza which killed three of its | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
top military commanders. The brutality and swiftness of today's | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
killings are an indication of the severity of the blow struck by | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
Israel against Hamas with the killing of its three military | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
commanders. The militants suspect that Palestinians in Gaza | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
colluded with Israel to bring about those deaths. Today's shootings are | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
an attempt to disable any network of informants but also send a message | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
to deter others from collaborating with Israel's intelligence services. | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
Hamas is an armed movement but it has been years since it turned its | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
weapons with such force against its own people. Even so, it warns that | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
more killings will follow. Quentin Somerville, BBC News, Gaza City. | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
The boss of Formula One, Bernie Ecclestone, has given the BBC his | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
first major interview since the end of his bribery trial in Germany. | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
He says he always believed he would walk free and he wants to run | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
the sport for as long as possible. Bernie Ecclestone went on trial in | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
April, accused of bribing a German banker to ensure that F1 would be | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
sold to a private equity company which would keep him in charge. | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
But he walked free after paying tens of millions | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
of pounds to the German court to bring proceedings to a close. | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
Bernie Ecclestone has been talking to Dan Roan at Spa in Belgium, | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
in advance of this weekend's Grand Prix. | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
It may have cost him ?60 million but today Bernie Ecclestone was | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
back holding court in the Formula One paddock, finally clear of | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
the cloud that for so long had hung over his leadership of the sport. | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
Two weeks ago, the 83-year-old tycoon pulled off perhaps | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
his biggest deal to date, paying a settlement for a German bribery | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
case against him to be dropped. For months he faced the threat | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
of jail but today in the luxury motorhome from where he rules F1, he | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
told me he was as defiant as ever. I'm not scared of anything, | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
to be honest. Even a ten year jail sentence? | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
I was never, ever bothered about the jail sentence because I | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
was sure it wouldn't happen. Why did you feel the need to pay up, | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
to settle? Because there is a system in Germany | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
which allows you to do it, gets rid of things. | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
It could have gone on. If they had one, | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
I would have appealed, if I had won, they would have appealed. | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
It could have gone on until next year. | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
He was accused of bribing a German banker over the sale of F1. | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
He insisted he had been the victim of blackmail. | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
In February, he won a multi-million pound High | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
Court damages case, although the judge ruled he had paid a bribe and | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
said he was an unreliable witness. Then came the criminal trial | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
in Munich, but he preserved his innocence after paying the biggest | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
settlement in German legal history. Although it has become almost | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
impossible to imagine Formula One without Bernie Ecclestone, | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
his remarkable reign had been in jeopardy. | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
But now, ahead of this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix in Spa, | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
the sport's most powerful man is back firmly in the driving seat. | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
He is one of the world 's greatest survivors. | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
This man has been through everything, | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
not just the case in Germany. Lots of other cases | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
and situations before. He has a remarkable survival sense. | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
For 35 years, Ecclestone has run F1's commercial rights, | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
becoming a billionaire in the process and helping turn the sport | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
into a gleaming global phenomenon. I'm going to do what I do as long | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
as I can. How long, realistically, | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
do you think that could be? No idea, I haven't got a clue. | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
After a summer break, it was back to business as usual for F1, Mercedes' | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
British driver Lewis Hamilton setting the pace in practice ahead | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
of this weekend's race. Whatever the result on Sunday, | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
behind-the-scenes, only one man leads the way. | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
Dan Roan, BBC News, Spa. Ukraine has accused Russia | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
of staging an invasion, after dozens of lorries carrying aid | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
entered the east of the country without permission. | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
The convoy left the Russian town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and has arrived | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
in the rebel stronghold of Luhansk, where there's been fierce fighting. | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
Here's Daniel Sandford. For more than a week the Russian | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
lorries at the centre of the latest crisis, all specially painted white, | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
have been sitting at the border carrying food, water and generators | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
which Russia says are desperately needed in war-torn eastern Ukraine. | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
They have been held up by arguments between Kiev and Moscow. | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
Today, the Foreign Ministry's chief spokesman told me | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
Russia's patience has run out. Kiev has desperately attempted | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
to derail a very important humanitarian operation. | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
Numerous grounds have been invented, bureaucratic procedures have been | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
introduced to delay to the maximum extent the passage | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
of the Russian convoy. And then, without permission | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
from Kiev, the convoy of over 100 trucks simply drove through | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
the abandoned border post and into rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine. | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
The International Red Cross, who should have been in charge, | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
were left behind in Russia. As the lorries meandered through | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
countryside controlled by pro-Russian gunmen, | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
there was an international outcry. America called it a violation | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
of Ukraine's territorial integrity. The government | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
in Kiev was furious but said it would not shoot at the convoy. | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
TRANSLATION: This is | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
a direct invasion done cynically under the cover of the Red Cross. | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
These are military vehicles. These are military men with fake | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
documents who have been trained to drive combat vehicles, | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
tanks and artillery. The war in eastern Ukraine has been | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
particularly bloody in the last two months. | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
Hundreds of civilians have been killed | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
and thousands take shelter each night, as the Ukrainian army pushes | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
forward on the main rebel held cities of Donetsk and who Luhansk. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
Tomorrow sees the start of a week of frantic diplomacy aimed at | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
bringing the fighting to a close. First, the German Chancellor Angela | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
Merkel will travel to Kiev, and then on Tuesday the presidents | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
of Russia and the Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko, | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
will meet face-to-face in Minsk. But to achieve peace, | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
they will have to make compromises, and it's not clear that either | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
of them is prepared to do that yet. Daniel Sandford, BBC News, Moscow. | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
South Yorkshire Police have accused the BBC of a cover up, | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
in relation to its reporting of the raid on Sir Cliff Richard's | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
home, by officers investigating an alleged historical sexual offence. | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
BBC News had cameras at the scene, after being notified | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
of the operation the day before. The BBC's director general Tony Hall | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
has said BBC journalists acted appropriately. | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
The former Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay has apologised | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
for offensive text messages he sent while working for the club, but he's | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
insisted he isn't racist, sexist, homophobic or an anti-Semite. | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
He shared the text messages with his former colleague Iain Moody. | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
Richard Conway reports. What started as an acrimonious | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
break-up between the owner of a football club and its manager | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
has now enveloped English football in another row over discrimination. | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
Malky Mackay, the man at the centre of this latest affair, has now | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
apologised after admitting he sent a number of offensive text messages. | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
That was something that was unacceptable but I am no racist, | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
I am no sexist, I am no homophobe, and I am not anti-Semitic. | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
The people that know me know that. The League Managers Association had | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
issued an apology on behalf of Malky Mackay in which they sought | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
to justify the texts as banter. Today there was an apology about | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
that apology, but Malky Mackay's former employer, Cardiff City, | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
believe the LMA Chief Executive, Richard Bevan, should stand down. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
In a statement, the club said, "We find it entirely reprehensible | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
that the LMA should itself put up a statement which seeks to dismiss | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
deeply offensive racist comments as friendly banter". | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
Malky Mackay had been considered one of Britain's brightest young | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
managers, but despite this admission of guilt | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
he is confident he can return. I've got values, | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
and I've got resilience. And that being the case, as I said, | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
I've got a love for British football. | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
And I will come back from this. Mackay insists these are | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
isolated incidents. In the face of another crisis, | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
football is finding it harder and harder to make the same argument. | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
Richard Conway, BBC News. It has probably | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
the most famous theme tune of any television programme. | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
Its presenters - David Coleman, Jimmy Hill, Des Lynam - | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
became household names, the voices of its commentators a feature | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
of Saturday evenings at home. Today, Match Of The Day turns 50. | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
Natalie Pirks looks back at half a century of a programme | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
that became an institution. The tune and the titles have | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
been tweaked over the years. But the chills remain. | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
For football lovers, this melody has been a staple of Saturday nights. | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
It was one of the things I was always allowed | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
to actually do by my parents. They always let me watch | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
Match Of The Day. The format has always been simple, | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
the day 's top matches cut down into highlights with chat in between. | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
If it ain't broke... You can watch all the live football | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
in the world but to get that fix in an hour and a half of everything | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
that pretty much happens on that day, it really does work. | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
Welcome to Match Of The Day, the first of a weekly series coming | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
to you every Saturday on BBC Two. Match Of The Day began life | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
as a pre-recorded show in 1964. The first goal broadcast was Roger | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
Hunt for Liverpool against Arsenal on Kenneth Wolstenholme's watch. | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
Since then, a raft of famous presenters have brought their | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
own special charm to the show. Sorry about the noise. | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
And then there are the commentators. That is absolutely phenomenal. | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
One of the most famous voices returns | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
for a one-off commentary tomorrow, ten years after his retirement. | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
In this digital age, fans can now watch goals almost | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
instantly, anywhere, any how, but Barry Davies says the show remains | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
appointment to view television. It is the comfort that people feel. | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
They know they've got the package. It is true that they try not to know | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
the result of other matches, and they go home and watch. | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
There are other places they can watch. | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
They could get all the scores while they were in the ground, | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
let alone when they leave. So it's a phenomenon. | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
50 years may have passed but it seems the same arguments rage. | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
If anybody is still trying to tell you that football was far better | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
ten, 20, 30, 40 years ago, just very politely say to them, "Nonsense". | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
But as long as the goals still give us goose | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
bumps, Match Of The Day will remain a broadcasting institution. | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
And we will see you next Saturday. Good night. | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
You can see a special programme, Match Of The Day at 50, | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
shortly after this bulletin, at 10.35pm on BBC One. | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
In Northern Ireland, it will begin at 10.50pm. | :26:01. | :26:03. |