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Hundreds line the streets in Londonderry | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
as the coffin of Northern Ireland's former deputy leader | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
The former IRA commander turned politician died early this morning | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
after a short illness - he was 66. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Martin McGuinness first came to prominence at the height | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
of the IRA's violent campaign against British rule. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
But the man who began with violence turned into a politician | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
with a pivotal role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
The same fierceness that he brought to the arms struggle, | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
he then brought to the cause of peace. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
He was determined to give Northern Ireland a different future. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
Thousands of people were killed or injured | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
many who suffered will never forgive him. | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
You can't forget what he did in his past, which is what everyone seems | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
We'll be looking back at the life and legacy of Martin McGuinness. | :01:02. | :01:13. | |
Also tonight: Security alert - electronic devices will be banned | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
in hand luggage on flights to the UK from six Middle Eastern | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
Food and fuel prices are blamed for a sharp rise | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
in the rate of inflation - it's at its highest | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
And the man who created Inspector Morse, the writer | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Colin Dexter, has died at his home in Oxford at the age of 86. | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Gareth Southgate says striker Jamie Vardy is in a good frame | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
of mind, despite the Leicester striker receiving death threats | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
following the sacking of Claudio Ranieri. | :01:46. | :02:05. | |
Thousands of people have gathered at a candlelit vigil in Belfast | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
tonight following the death of Northern Ireland's former deputy | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
The IRA commander turned peacemaking politician | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
was thought to be suffering from a rare heart condition. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
Leading figures in the peace process paid tribute to the role he played | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
in securing the Good Friday Agreement. | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
Buckingham Palace said the Queen, who finally shook hands | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
with him in 2012, was sending a private | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
The families of some of the IRA's many victims said | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
Our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler reports. | :02:39. | :02:50. | |
In the streets once scarred by sectarian conflict, Martin | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
McGuinness's body was carried home. It was here in Derry's Bogside that | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
his own brand of Irish republicanism was formed amid the turmoil of | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
unrest, and he leaves a legacy of contradictions. He will be | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
remembered as both the ruthless paramilitary and a committed | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
peacemaker. A pioneering piece and pioneering outreach, Martin went | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
beyond what was expected of him. He all the time set the bar very high. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
You can't ignore the violence whenever you look at his life, can | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
you? Know, and I don't try to. I don't try to. And Martin | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
McGuinness's personal history is tied to Northern Ireland's troubled | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
past. During years of Irish republican violence, you was one of | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
the faces of the IRA's leadership. McGuinness has changed considerably | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
from the young man who used a swagger around the no-go areas of | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Londonderry as a mantra the Provisional IRA doubt. Born in Derry | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
into a large Catholic family, McGuinness came of age as the | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
troubles deepened. He joined the IRA, quickly rising through its | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
ranks. What had started as a fight for civil rights had become a | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
vicious battle, and the IRA appeared to have a ruthless disregard for | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
life. Republicans were responsible for many notorious attacks, | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
including bombing Brighton's grand hotel during the Conservative Party | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
conference in 1984. Lord Tebbit and his wife Margaret were seriously | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
injured. Today, he said he hoped Martin McGuinness was now parked in | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
a particularly hot and unpleasant coin of hell. He knew that the IRA | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
had been penetrated to its highest levels and that before long, he | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
would have been arrested and charged with some of the many murders which | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
he personally committed. So he opted for the Coward's way out and said, | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
oh, I'm a man of peace. Martin McGuinness did see opportunities at | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
the ballot box for Sinn Fein. The political party linked to the IRA. | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
It even them, the language of threat remained. We don't believe that | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
winning elections will win the freedom of Northern Ireland. At the | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
end of the day, it will be the IRA that will bring freedom. But after | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
years of killings and chaos, in the 1990s, IRA ceasefire is offered the | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
opportunity for talks between unionists and Republicans. Would you | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
like to shake hands? I am prepared to. When there are no guns. There | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
are some people who will always remember him as a man of war and who | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
can never forget the violence of his early years. But for those of us who | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
helped put together the Northern Ireland peace process with him, we | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
will remember his legacy as the man of peace. Martin McGuinness was one | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
of the key negotiators in the long nights of deal-making that led to | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
the Good Friday Agreement and eventually the huge achievement of | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
power-sharing at Stormont. That government brought together at its | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
head the unlikely partnership of two former enemies, Ian Paisley and | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Martin McGuinness. The firebrand unionist and radical Republican | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
became so close that they were nicknamed the Chuckle Brothers. That | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
remarkable journey is something which is incredibly important. I | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
must say as a Christian, as a person who reflects on life, it is not how | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
you start your life, what is important is how you finish your | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
life. There were republicans who continued to threaten that political | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
progress, but when a police officer was killed, the then Deputy First | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Minister stood side by side with the Chief Constable to condemn those | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
dissident groups. They are traitors to Ireland. Alongside the words, | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
there were actions on all sides. The Queen's is in Lord Mountbatten was | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
killed by the IRA, yet after the Troubles, royal and Republican were | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
able to put their differences aside. I'm still alive. Buckingham Palace | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
says the Queen is sending a private message to Mr McGuinness's widow. No | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
one can forget the past, but I think we can equally look at the | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
contribution that Martin did play, his real focus on reconciliation and | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
reaching out to different communities. But when he resigned as | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
Deputy First Minister this year, he brought down power-sharing. It will | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
now be for others to overcome the disputes between Unionists and | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
Republicans at Stormont. My heart lies with the people of | :07:51. | :08:12. | |
Derry. Tonight, that voice was absent as Republicans gathered to | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
pay their respects. Not all will remember him so fondly, but few | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
would be able to deny that he was a key figure in changing Northern | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
Ireland. Chris Butler, BBC News. Martin McGuinness' life spanned some | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
of the most tumultuous years in Irish history as he moved | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
from IRA commander to Our Special Correspondent Fergal | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
Keane has been to Belfast and Londonderry to assess | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
Martin McGuinness's legacy and the changing | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
political landscape. It was in this city that much of the | :08:35. | :08:49. | |
worst violence happen, and here too, the first secret meetings that | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
brought it to an end. In a room at this monastery in republican west | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Belfast, the IRA began its long march to peace 31 months ago -- 31 | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
years ago. Father Adrian Egan was one of the helpers at that meeting | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
and eventually came to know Martin McGuinness. Despite the current | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
political crisis, his faith in the peace process is absolute. There is | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
no possibility of going back to where we were. Nobody wants to be | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
back there, and I believe that one of the legacies of Martin McGuinness | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
and others who were engaged in the peace process is that it will last | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
and last well into the future. Nearby is the peace line which still | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
separates Protestant and Catholic communities in west Belfast, a | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
reminder that smiles between Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley couldn't | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
of themselves drained the deep well of mistrust. This war represents the | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
sectarian reality that may take generations to change, but the | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
absence of violence is a crucial start to that process. And it has | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
involved Loyalist man-of-war making the same journey as Martin | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
McGuinness. On the loyalist Chang Hill road, I met Billy Hutchinson, | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
who was jailed for sectarian murder in the 1970s before he took the | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
political road. I don't want to see any young loyalist condemned to a | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
prison or a graveyard, so I think we have got that. But we are in nervous | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
moments at the minute. We have Brexit. We have had the last | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
election, but I still think that people will go via the democratic | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
process. This is a day that inevitably brings the human cost of | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
the Troubles to the fore, the thousands dead and all left on them. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
The worst atrocity was carried out after IRA ceasefire, 29 people | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
killed at Omagh. Kevin lost his wife at Omagh. He respects Martin | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
McGuinness, but feels that peace has brought neither justice nor truth. | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
The victims are always at the bottom. They always have been at the | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
bottom. The victims issue must be dealt with. If the peace process is | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
going to go anywhere, it must be dealt with now. Drive west towards | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
the edges of the old Protestant plantation, and you reach the | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
political heartland of Martin McGuinness, where he joined the IRA | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
to fight for a united Ireland. As he was dying, and electorally | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
triumphant Sinn Fein called for a referendum on the issue. These two | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
men, one a Catholic peace activist, the other a Protestant minister, | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
were his friends. I have said to him on occasions that yes, there is that | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
journey that Sinn Fein and many nationalists are on, but please, do | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
not rush down that road, ignoring how the unionist family are | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
responding to this call for a border and a united Ireland. Politically, I | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
think it is not realistic, but what is realistic is to imagine that | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
people can learn to respect one another and to have a united Ireland | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
in that sense, a place of respect. Perhaps the most enduring legacy of | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
the generation that moved from war to peace is realism, learned by | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
Martin McGuinness and others at an immense cost to this society. Fergal | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
Keane, BBC News. The campaign of violence carried out | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
by the Provisional IRA against British rule included | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
several attacks on English cities and towns that left | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
dozens of people dead. The families of some | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
victims came to know Others said they could never come | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
to terms with what he had done. This report is from our home | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
editor Mark Easton. The IRA's campaign of bombings | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
and murders on mainland Britain saw At the time, Martin McGuinness | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
was a vocal supporter of what he called the war | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
against British rule. The only way that Irish people can | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
bring about the freedom of their country is through the use | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
of armed struggle. In 1974, the IRA planted bombs | :12:59. | :13:08. | |
in English pubs, in Guildford, Woolwich and in Birmingham | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
when a series of explosions one November night killed | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
21 people and injured 182. Among the victims, 18-year-old | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
Maxine Hambleton, whose family still regards Martin McGuinness | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
as complicit in mass murder. You can't forget what | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
he did in his past. That is what everyone seems to be | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
forgetting. He has blood on his hands, and he allegedly has killed | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
people. He turned from government to peacemaker, but Martin McGuinness | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
never apologised for the IRA's attempt to assassinate Prime | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
Minister Margaret Thatcher in Brighton. Many will never forgive | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
him for the death and carnage. Conservative peer Lord Dobbs was at | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
the Grand Hotel that terrible morning. I can't forget. Can I | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
forgive? Well, it doesn't matter whether I can forgive or not, what | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
matters is what is going on in Northern Ireland today, and that is | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
excellent and we must never take that for granted and believe that | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
the old times couldn't come back. What we have is a very precious | :14:17. | :14:25. | |
jewel of peace. It shouldn't have happened. In 2001, Michael | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
McGuinness went to Warrington, where an IRA bomb had killed two boys | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
eight years earlier. Of the peace centre set up in the Young victims' | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
names, the Sinn Fein leader told the parents of the children that he | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
accepted some responsibility for the tragedy. Having the challenge of | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
meeting this figurehead, this man who was seen as an ogre and a | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
merchant of death by the British generally, to meet him face-to-face | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
was quite unsettling. We spoke man-to-man. There was no rancour. I | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
can not forgive and equally, not be angry. How times change. In 1991, | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
the IRA fired three mortar shells into Downing Street. Today, prime | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
ministers past and present paid tribute to an IRA commander who | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
would once have willed that attack to find its target. Just as Martin | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
McGuinness's relationship with Britain changed over the decades, so | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
Britain's relationship with Irish Republicanism has changed. Just a | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
couple of years ago, Number Ten described Anglo-Irish relations as | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
being at an all-time high. The threat from Ireland - related | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
terrorism in mainland Britain is still officially described as | :15:38. | :15:46. | |
substantial. But at last we can's Saint Patrick's Bay Parade | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
demonstrated, of equal importance is the friendship which is as close as | :15:52. | :15:52. | |
it has ever been. And our Ireland correspondent | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
Chris Buckler is in Londonderry now. We have seen people on the streets | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
of Londonderry and the streets of Belfast tonight but will Martin | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
McGuinness's role in the peace process, his legacy be one that | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
lasts long into the future? Well, this might sound strange but I think | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
there will be many unionists along with nationalists and republicans | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
who do feel Martin McGuinness's loss and that's partly because he was a | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
negotiator, a man who was capable of compromise. If you look at the | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
moment that Stormont is in crisis, power-sharing is in need of | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
restoration, he would have been a key figure in those talks and | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
ultimately he will be missed from that table. Whenever you look back | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
on someone's life you very often try to paint them as either a hero or | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
villain, truth is it's normally more complicated and that and that's | :16:44. | :16:44. | |
certainly true with Martin McGuinness. He was a man who for | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
years defended IRA violence, but he also pushed politics forward here | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
and the difference can be seen on the streets of places like Derry, | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
where once Army and police patrols would have been on the streets, | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
where paramilitary activity would have been a real concern. Now all | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
those images of history are just reflected on the walls in murals. | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
The real and true lasting legacy of Martin McGuinness will be to try and | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
ensure that those images are not repeated in the future. | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
Thank you. Airline passengers travelling | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
to the UK from six countries in the Middle East and North Africa | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
are to be banned from carrying laptops and other electronic | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
devices bigger than a phone The Prime Minister's | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
spokesman said the measures The move follows a similar | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
ban announced by the US Our security correspondent | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
Frank Gardner reports. Getting laptops and other electrical | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
devices through airport security on certain direct flights | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
from the Middle East to the UK is about to get | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
even more complicated. Anything bigger than | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
a smartphone will now have to go in the hold, | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
creating new opportunities British Airways, easyJet and four | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
other UK airlines are affected. So too are eight Middle Eastern | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
and North African carriers. It follows a similar measure | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
introduced by the United States which shares its intelligence with | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
Britain. Elevated intelligence that we're | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
aware of indicates that terrorist groups continue to target commercial | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
aviation and are aggressive in pursuing innovative methods | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
to undertake smuggling explosive devices | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
in various consumer objects. There is some recent evidence | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
of bombs getting on to planes. This aircraft had a hole blown | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
in its side over Somalia last year when an al-Shabab militant smuggled | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
an explosive laptop on board. He was killed but miraculously | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
everyone else survived. The passengers on this | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
Russian airliner in 2015 It came down over the Egyptian Sinai | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
killing everyone on board after so-called Islamic State had | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
placed a bomb in the hold, the very place travellers | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
are being told they'll now Behind closed doors in Whitehall | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
there's been intensive discussion over how far-reaching | :18:59. | :19:08. | |
to make this ban. Security officials believe | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
the ongoing threat from jihadists But there'll be a price | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
to pay for this. Both commercially | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
and diplomatically. The countries affected | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
are western allies. All this comes on the back | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
of President Trump's highly controversial ban on travellers | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
from Muslim majority countries. Now this latest measure will be | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
viewed by many around the world as discriminatory and even | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
anti-Islamic, possibly Business travellers deprived | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
of their laptops, families deprived of their gaming tablets, | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
the Government knows this ban is not going to be popular | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
and there's no end date in sight. The ban on carrying | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
liquids over 100mls, introduced 11 years ago, | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
is still in place. A man has appeared in court | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
charged with the murder Bidhya Sagar Das, who is 33, | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
is also charged with the attempted murder of the boy's twin sister, | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
who remains in a critical Both children were discovered | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
with serious injuries at a flat Rising food and fuel costs | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
are being blamed for a sharp rise It jumped from 1.8% in January | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
to 2.3% last month, its highest Here's our economics | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
editor Kamal Ahmed. Whether it's the food we buy | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
or the fuel we fill up on, the new model laptop we want | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
or the upgraded television, prices are rising, as inflation | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
creeps back into the UK economy. Today, it hit 2.3%, | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
the highest since 2013 Part of what is going | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
on is the effect of the fall in the price of sterling, | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
following the referendum. But there is often a number | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
of factors that will be going on. We have also seen commodity prices | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
around the world starting to rise, so oil prices have been | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
rising as well. So, there are often | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
a number of factors, So, this is our workshop, | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
this is where we do... Rob Cole runs a kitchen | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
business in Sheffield. For him, rising prices | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
are a headache. We've had price rises | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
on appliances and on components One reason we get them | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
in from Europe is the quality is there, which we don't have | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
in the UK. So, price rises on all | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
of those things. And it's very difficult for us | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
to pass all of those price rises on to our customers | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
in a very competitive market. Rising inflation has raised fresh | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
fears over a pay squeeze. In 2015, our incomes were increasing | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
at an average of 2.8%. At that time, prices | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
were only going up by 0.4%. Since then, inflation | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
has been increasing. For incomes, they did rise a little | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
but are now falling, to the same The consumer has kept spending | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
since the referendum, keeping the UK economy purring | :22:12. | :22:20. | |
along pretty nicely. But a recent survey of thousands | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
of consumers across Britain about what they were worried | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
about revealed that two concerns had Above concerns about immigration, | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
above concerns about the NHS. And the two concerns are these - | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
the economy and rising prices. Attention now moves here, | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
the Bank of England, where rising inflation often means | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
one thing - rising interest rates. But with those consumer concerns | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
and living standards under renewed pressure, | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
most economists believe we won't see Somalia's drought has claimed more | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
victims with six million people, that's half the country's | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
population, now in Aid agencies are continuing | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
to warn that the situation However, even if famine is averted, | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
for many families the current drought has already had | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
a devastating impact as Andrew Harding reports | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
from Puntland in northern Somalia. We are deep in northern Somalia | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
where roads are as rare as rivers and every drought is a test | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
to be stoically endured. We find 1,000 nomadic families | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
gathered in the stifling heat They've travelled miles | :23:46. | :23:55. | |
in search of help. Guns everywhere, of course, | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
clan wars, pirates, militants - But this drought is something | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
out of the ordinary. They say they've never lived | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
through anything like it before. There's not much in town | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
except for a well. Abduwali and his wife | :24:20. | :24:29. | |
are accomplished builders. Five of you sleep here every night, | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
it's quite a squeeze. You might assume they're used | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
to this sort of poverty. Then a mobile phone | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
appears from a pocket. It's a useful reminder that these | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
aren't poor people at all, And what they're experiencing today | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
is what we'd recognise Outside town, like rock paintings, | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
the nomads' dead livestock. Across Somali, the drought has | :25:00. | :25:10. | |
already killed millions of goats. This family had 100, the equivalent | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
of almost ?10,000 in savings. We were wealthy before this, | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
she says, now we're destitute, Some of the sickest children have | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
been taken to a clinic in town. But their youngest child | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
never made it this far. Abduwali and a five-year-old show | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
us the unmarked grave of a nine-month-old, | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
he died last week. If this drought continues | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
I fear my other children will die too, he says, | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
we have only two goats left. It's not enough, | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
I will have to beg now. For now, of course, the priority | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
is to save lives and to drag Somalia away from famine but beyond that | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
with the climate changing and the droughts here getting | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
tougher, it's tempting to wonder whether the days of | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
the nomad are numbered. Sunset, and the wind picks | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
up, but still no rain. Andrew Harding, BBC News, | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
in northern Somalia. Scotland's First Minister, | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
Nicola Sturgeon, has told members of the Assembly that it would be | :26:36. | :26:37. | |
unfair and utterly unsustainable for the Westminster Government | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
to refuse to allow a second She was speaking at the start | :26:41. | :26:42. | |
of a two-day debate on whether the Scottish Government | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
should ask the UK for the power Conservative, Labour | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
and the Liberal Democrat Our Scotland editor | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
Sarah Smith reports. Nicola Sturgeon hopes | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
she is marching towards another vote The first step is to get | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
the Scottish Parliament to follow her and ask the UK | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
Government to allow a referendum. Whether we like it or not, | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
Scotland again faces a fundamental decision about what sort of country | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
we want to be. The question before this | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
chamber is simple - For the UK Government to stand | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
in the way of Scotland even having the choice would be, | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
in my view, wrong, unfair Tories here and in Westminster | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
believe they can sustain their position that now | :27:31. | :27:38. | |
is not the time. The people of Scotland don't want | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
it, it will not wash to have a First Minister standing | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
there, washing her hands, saying, it is not me | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
that is dragging us there, it is with a heavy heart, | :27:49. | :27:50. | |
a big Tory did this, and ran away. It won't do, First Minister, | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
take responsibility. Nicola Sturgeon wakes up every | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
single day thinking of ways to engineer another referendum, | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
because leaving the UK is the only The SNP need the Greens | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
to win the vote. They fear Scotland won't have a say | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
in the Brexit process. The citizens of Scotland, the only | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
people voiceless in that process. The SNP will almost certainly win | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
this vote, even though the Tories, Labour and the Lib Dems | :28:19. | :28:32. | |
will all vote against them. The nationalists have got | :28:33. | :28:34. | |
the numbers in Parliament. But the opposition parties are sure | :28:35. | :28:36. | |
that beyond here Scottish voters It is mostly No voters who don't | :28:37. | :28:38. | |
want to go through it all again. Many Yes voters can't wait | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
for another referendum. I don't think there | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
should be another one. They had their chance, and we voted | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
to remain part of the UK. I think my mother is completely | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
wrong because we were basically promised we would stay | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
in the European Union, basically. And we are not in the | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
European Union, so that is a bit The debate in Holyrood | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
will continue tomorrow. The debate over Scotland's future | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
will not be resolved so soon. There is a long road | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
ahead in this battle over who gets to decide | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
when or if there is The man who created Inspector Morse, | :29:23. | :29:24. | |
the writer Colin Dexter, The Morse novels sold millions | :29:25. | :29:32. | |
and were adapted for television. Our arts correspondent Lizo Mzimba | :29:33. | :29:39. | |
looks back at his life. Two of literature and television's | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
best-known policemen. So many crimes solved | :29:44. | :29:54. | |
by them over a pint. Which came first, | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
the death or the theft? And, occasionally, | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
under the watchful eye Dexter came up with Morse | :30:05. | :30:06. | |
during a wet family I gave him a few of my qualities, | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
a great liking for crosswords and real ale and Richard Wagner | :30:13. | :30:19. | |
and so on. So, I suppose in a way | :30:20. | :30:21. | |
it's a composite factor, Hang on a minute, I'm as unhappy | :30:22. | :30:24. | |
as you are about being The intricately plotted books | :30:25. | :30:36. | |
were a hit with readers and their adaptation for TV | :30:37. | :30:50. | |
made his characters As a writer, what I will remember | :30:51. | :30:51. | |
him for is the convoluted Nobody plotted with more | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
deviousness than Colin Dexter. As trees are by their | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
bark embraced... Morse ran for almost 15 years, | :30:59. | :31:05. | |
its appeal not just its complex storytelling but more | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
the relationship of its An added appeal for fans, | :31:09. | :31:10. | |
the chance to spot Colin Dexter's People often ask me why | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
I killed Morse off. I say, I didn't kill him off at all, | :31:17. | :31:23. | |
I say, he died of natural causes. His crime writing may have been | :31:24. | :31:31. | |
dark and threatening. He will be remembered as an author | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
who was the opposite, warm, The writer Colin Dexter who's | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
died at the age of 86. We speak to one man whose father | :31:39. | :32:06. | |
took a bullet in the back of the neck. Join me now on BBC Two. | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
Here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are. | :32:12. | :32:12. |