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Police launch a murder inquiry
after another Russian exile | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
is targeted in London. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:12 | |
Nikolai Glushkov, a Russian
businessman, was found dead | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
in his home on Monday,
it appears he was strangled. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
The police are keeping guard
outside his house tonight, | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
they say there is nothing yet
to link his death to | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
the attack on Sergei Skripal. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
With Mr Skripal and his daughter
still critical in hospital, | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
the Foreign Secretary blames
Vladimir Putin for | 0:00:28 | 0:00:29 | |
the nerve agent attack. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
Our quarrel is with Putin's Kremlin,
and with his decision - | 0:00:32 | 0:00:37 | |
and we think it overwhelmingly
likely that it was his decision. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
The Kremlin retaliates by calling
Mr Johnson's comments | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
shocking and unforgivable. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
Also tonight... | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
The Iraqi teenager found guilty
of the Parsons Green tube bombing, | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
who was on the government's
anti-radicalisation | 0:00:51 | 0:00:52 | |
programme at the time. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
Thee African countries, home to most
of the continent's elephants, | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
call for all ivory to be banned. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:03 | |
They say even antique ivory should
be banned. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
More elephants are being killed
every year than are being born. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
It's still a big crisis
for Africa's elephants. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:12 | |
And the three mile duel that
saw Native River win | 0:01:12 | 0:01:15 | |
the Gold Cup at Cheltenham. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News,
Liverpool and Manchester City | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
will meet in the last eight
of the Champions League, | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
the first all-English
quarterfinal since 2011. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
Good evening. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:49 | |
Detectives from Scotland Yard
are treating as murder the death | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
in London of a Russian
exile and businessman. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
Nikolai Glushkov, who was 68, was
found dead at his home on Monday. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
A postmortem concluded he'd suffered
compression of the neck, | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
suggesting he'd been strangled. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
His death, just a week
after the poisoning of a former | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
Russian spy and his daughter
in Salisbury, is being investigated | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
by counter-terrorism police. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
They say there's no evidence
at the moment to link the two cases. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
Our home affairs correspondent
Tom Symonds has more. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:18 | |
It was an ominous development,
given what has happened elsewhere. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:23 | |
Monday night, a 68-year-old man
found dead, his body taken | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
for a postmortem examination. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:31 | |
Ominous because Nikolai Glushkov
was Russian, a political exile, | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
number one on that country's list
of people it would like | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
sent back to Russia. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
Not that his neighbours had much
idea of his background. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
I think he presented
as a normal Englishman. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:46 | |
I didn't know he was Russian. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
It's horrible to be on your
doorstep, for one thing, | 0:02:49 | 0:02:57 | |
About to happen to him, it must be a
horrible thing to have happened. The | 0:02:57 | 0:03:02 | |
daughter must be terribly upset. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
All week, his house has been
the subject of a detailed search. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
The tents were for protecting
items of interest. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
The pathologist has concluded that
Nikolai Glushkov died as a result | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
of compression of the neck,
suggesting strangulation, | 0:03:11 | 0:03:15 | |
but detectives are clear
they are keeping an open mind. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
They'll be looking at all aspects
of his life, and of course his past. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
But the stakes for them are high,
not least because of the possible | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
consequences for Britain's
relationship with Russia. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:31 | |
In the 1990s, Glushkov was director
of Russia's state airline, Aeroflot, | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
but in 1999 he was charged
with fraud and money-laundering. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:40 | |
After five years in prison,
he fled to the UK and was | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
given political asylum. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
Among his friends here
was the Russian billionaire | 0:03:46 | 0:03:48 | |
Boris Berezovsky, a prominent critic
of Vladimir Putin, found dead | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
in 2013 at his former
wife's Berkshire home. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
The coroner recorded an open
verdict, but Nikolai Glushkov | 0:03:55 | 0:04:00 | |
was convinced that Berezovsky
and other Russian exiles | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
had been murdered. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:04 | |
This week, Glushkov was due
to appear in court in London. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
The Russian authorities
were continuing to pursue him | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
for more than £100 million
of Aeroflot's money. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
Did his past make him a target? | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
Russia's sternest critics have no
problem believing that. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:23 | |
Mr Glushkov's death fits
into a wider pattern of the last 12 | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
years or so of Kremlin opponents
dropping dead across Europe. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:33 | |
The consequences for the Kremlin of
this were limited for far too long. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
The UK response has recently been
much stronger but there's | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
still an awful lot more
that we could do. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:42 | |
But it's clear to take the strongest
possible action Britain will have | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
to rely on the gathering
of solid evidence. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:48 | |
So the world watches another complex
investigation unfolds. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:51 | |
Tonight, we have spoken to Lord
Bell, the former advertising | 0:04:58 | 0:05:03 | |
executive and PR executive. He has
told us he is a friend of Mr | 0:05:03 | 0:05:09 | |
Glushkov, and he says he is
concerned that his friend's passed | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
might have put him on the list of
people that Russia might suspect of | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
working against his country. In
fact, we have got to the point where | 0:05:15 | 0:05:20 | |
the police and security services are
reassessing their previous view that | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
Russian exiles were at a low risk.
So much so, that the police are | 0:05:22 | 0:05:27 | |
starting to contact some of those
Russian exiles to discuss their | 0:05:27 | 0:05:31 | |
safety. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
Tom Symons, in south-west London.
Thank you. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
A direct attack by the the Foreign
Secretary on the Russian President | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
has triggered a swift and angry
response in return. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:42 | |
Boris Johnson says he believes it's
"overwhelmingly likely" that | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
President Putin was personally
responsible for directing | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
the use of a nerve agent
on the former spy Sergei Skripal | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
and his daughter in Salisbury. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
The Kremlin has called his comments
shocking and unforgivable. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
Our diplomatic correspondent
James Landale's report contains | 0:05:55 | 0:05:56 | |
some flashing images. | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
Boris Johnson brought
the Polish Foreign Minister | 0:06:01 | 0:06:03 | |
to a Battle of Britain Museum today,
a memorial to a war | 0:06:03 | 0:06:05 | |
fought in the air. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:10 | |
Every single plane that Britain
had, was up in the sky. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:15 | |
And the Foreign Secretary used
the opportunity to push forward | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
Britain's current battle with Russia
- fought this time over | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
the airwaves, blaming Vladimir Putin
personally for the nerve agent | 0:06:21 | 0:06:26 | |
attack in Salisbury. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:28 | |
Our quarrel is with Putin's Kremlin,
and with his decision | 0:06:28 | 0:06:32 | |
- and we think is overwhelmingly
likely that it was his decision - | 0:06:32 | 0:06:37 | |
to direct the use of a nerve agent
on the streets of the UK, | 0:06:37 | 0:06:41 | |
on the streets of Europe,
for the first time since | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
the Second World War. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:44 | |
That is why we are
at odds with Russia. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
Today, President Putin visited
a medical centre in St Petersburg | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
ahead of Sunday's elections. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
His spokesman issued an angry
statement, accusing Mr Johnson | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
of a shocking and unpardonable
breach of diplomatic etiquette. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:02 | |
The Kremlin confirmed that
some British diplomats, | 0:07:02 | 0:07:03 | |
based here at the embassy in Moscow,
would be expelled, | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
an announcement officials said
could come at any moment. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:11 | |
A response to the UK's decision
to expel 23 Russian intelligence | 0:07:11 | 0:07:15 | |
officers who will leave London next
Tuesday. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:20 | |
Once again, Russia's Foreign
Minister denied any involvement | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
in the Salisbury attack. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
TRANSLATION: I don't
really want to comment | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
on the current situation any more. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
Let it stay on the conscience
of those who have started this | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
shameless, groundless,
Russophobic game. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:36 | |
And as for the undiplomatic language
or the Defence Secretary, | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
Gavin Williamson? | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
TRANSLATION: He says Russia should
go away and shut up. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
Well, maybe he lacks education?
I don't know. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:49 | |
Officials here at the Foreign Office
believe that the robustness | 0:07:49 | 0:07:51 | |
of Britain's response and the unity
of the Western allies | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
has surprised Russia,
and they say they are ready for any | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
form of retaliation
coming from Moscow. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:01 | |
As one source said, "We've got more
stuff in the locker." | 0:08:01 | 0:08:06 | |
It's now almost two weeks
since the former Russian | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
intelligence officer Sergei Skripal
and his daughter, Yulia, | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
were poisoned with something
London's Russian ambassador named | 0:08:11 | 0:08:15 | |
today as Novichok A234,
a delayed casualty nerve agent. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:22 | |
Downing Street said officials
from the chemical weapons watchdog | 0:08:22 | 0:08:26 | |
would come to Britain imminently
to start verifying the nerve agent. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:29 | |
The investigation in Salisbury
focused on Mr Skripal's car, | 0:08:29 | 0:08:31 | |
potentially containing clues
about how he and his | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
daughter were poisoned. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
The police here were still
in their protective gear, | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
still investigating,
still making the streets safe. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
James Landale, BBC News. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:47 | |
An Iraqi teenager who smuggled
himself into Britain | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
on a lorry to seek asylum has been
found guilty of the London | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
tube bombing at Parson's Green. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:54 | |
18-year-old Ahmed Hassan
left his bomb on a packed | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
underground train during rush hour. | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
The device only partially detonated,
but injured 50 people. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
It's emerged that Hassan
was on the government's | 0:09:02 | 0:09:04 | |
de-radicalisation programme
"Prevent" while he was | 0:09:04 | 0:09:05 | |
plotting the attack. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
The Government says
there are lessons to be | 0:09:08 | 0:09:10 | |
learned from the case. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:11 | |
June Kelly reports. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
Ahmed Hassan, buying batteries
and screwdrivers in Asda. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
Everyday items, but for
a violent extremist, | 0:09:18 | 0:09:19 | |
part of his bomb-making kit. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:24 | |
He's asked for ID. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:25 | |
He may have looked young but Hassan
is said to be mature, | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
highly intelligent and calculating. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:33 | |
CCTV cameras captured his journey,
as the following morning he left | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
home early with his bomb in a bag
and a murderous plan in his head. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:40 | |
He was setting off to cause carnage
on the London Underground system. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:45 | |
He made for a train and then,
a few stops down the District Line, | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
he got off, empty-handed,
his bomb on a timer left behind. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:55 | |
Just after the train pulled
into Parsons Green station, | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
the bomb detonated, creating
a massive fireball which rolled | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
down the carriage. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
Passengers were left burning
and screaming in pain. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:08 | |
A gassy flare ran up
above my head, singed my hair. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:14 | |
There was panic all
around me on the train. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
People were diving off the train. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:17 | |
Fortunately the doors were open
so I managed to get off the train. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:21 | |
My initial reaction was that there
was a fault on the train | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
rather than a device. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:25 | |
Hassan had strapped
shrapnel to the device - | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
nuts, bolts, screws and knives -
to cause maximum death and injury. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:34 | |
It was said to be pure luck that his
bomb only partially exploded. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
This computer-generated
graphic shows the scene | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
in the carriage after the attack. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:45 | |
He had used the explosive TATP,
known as Mother of Satan. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:50 | |
At Parsons Green, a major emergency
operation got under way. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
Terrified passengers
were taken off the train, | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
injured commuters carried out
of the station. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
Meanwhile, the teenage bomber left
London and went on the run. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:04 | |
The year before, he declared
it was his duty to hate Britain | 0:11:04 | 0:11:07 | |
because his father had been killed
by coalition forces in Iraq. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:14 | |
At the time of his attack
he was on the Government's | 0:11:14 | 0:11:17 | |
de-radicalisation programme,
Prevent, aimed at turning people | 0:11:17 | 0:11:18 | |
away from terrorism. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
He was very cunning and devious and,
on the face of it, Hassan | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
was engaged on the programme,
but coming back to his devious | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
nature, he kept it very secretive
in relation to what he was doing, | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
what he was planning,
and nobody around him actually | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
knew what his plot was. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:38 | |
Armed police! | 0:11:38 | 0:11:40 | |
24 hours on from the attack,
firearms officers were surrounding | 0:11:40 | 0:11:42 | |
Hassan's house in Sunbury in Surrey. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
Inside were his petrified
elderly foster parents, | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
Penny and Ron Jones. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
This was a couple who had received
MBEs from the Queen for fostering | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
hundreds of children. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
Ahmed Hassan repaid them
for giving him a home by secretly | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
building a bomb in their kitchen. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
And it came out in court
that the teenager staying | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
in their spare bedroom had told
immigration officials he had been | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
kidnapped and trained to kill
by the Islamic State group. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:11 | |
It is understood the Joneses
were not given his full story. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
After the bombing,
Hassan headed for Dover. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
He was arrested as he tried to flee
the country which had given him | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
a home and an education,
but for which he felt only hatred. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
He will be sentenced next week. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
People are going to be wondering how
a young man who was on a programme | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
designed to prevent getting involved
in terrorist activity was making a | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
bomb while on the programme? It is
an astonishing story. It was with an | 0:12:40 | 0:12:46 | |
elite immigration official interview
when he said he had been kidnapped | 0:12:46 | 0:12:48 | |
and trained to kill by the Islamic
State group. A charity worker from | 0:12:48 | 0:12:52 | |
Barnardos was sitting on that
interview and raise the alarm, not | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
immigration officials. That was a
failing. When orders were told by | 0:12:54 | 0:12:59 | |
somebody from the Prevent
deradicalisation programme that | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
there was no cause for concern and
they should look out for signs of | 0:13:02 | 0:13:05 | |
strange behaviour, such as him
hanging black flags in his room. At | 0:13:05 | 0:13:09 | |
that stage, he was living in a
Barnardos home. It was decided he | 0:13:09 | 0:13:14 | |
should go on the Prevent programme.
Surrey County Council, responsible | 0:13:14 | 0:13:19 | |
for his welfare at that point, we
are told that they did not involve a | 0:13:19 | 0:13:24 | |
specialist Home Office mentor to
oversee him on that programme. While | 0:13:24 | 0:13:30 | |
he was on that programme, he was
actually building his bomb. Surrey | 0:13:30 | 0:13:34 | |
County Council said they apologise,
they realise that there were | 0:13:34 | 0:13:37 | |
failings in the case and that
lessons have been learned. They also | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
apologised to his foster parents. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
The father of a female engineering
student allegedly attacked | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
by a group of women in Nottingham
has called for justice | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
for his daughter. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:49 | |
18-year-old Mariam Moustafa died
on Wednesday, nearly a month | 0:13:49 | 0:13:51 | |
after she was assaulted on a bus
in the city centre. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:55 | |
The case has caused outrage in Egypt
where Mariam's family are from. | 0:13:55 | 0:13:58 | |
Nottinghamshire Police says
there is nothing to suggest | 0:13:58 | 0:14:00 | |
it was a hate crime,
though they are | 0:14:00 | 0:14:04 | |
keeping an open mind. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:05 | |
Sima Kotecha reports
from Nottingham. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:08 | |
18-year-old Mariam Moustafa, an
engineering student in Nottingham. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:12 | |
Her family are from Egypt and came
here for a better life. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:17 | |
Her sister and father
described her as loving, | 0:14:17 | 0:14:19 | |
cheerful and intelligent. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:24 | |
Mariam was always looking
at, looking forward | 0:14:24 | 0:14:26 | |
to being in engineering. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:28 | |
She was a hard worker. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:30 | |
She always put all her effort
into being in engineering. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:35 | |
In February, as the teenager
was making her way to see her mother | 0:14:35 | 0:14:38 | |
and sister, she was attacked. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
She caught a bus on this street
to try and get away from the girls. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
However, they followed her. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:45 | |
Police say she was
punched several times. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
She died on Wednesday. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:51 | |
This footage on social media shows
what happened on the bus. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:56 | |
You, move out my way.
You, move out of my way. | 0:14:56 | 0:15:00 | |
Yesterday, police said there was no
information to suggest | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
it was a hate crime,
but that they were | 0:15:03 | 0:15:05 | |
keeping an open mind. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
However, today, they acknowledged
there had been a previous incident | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
involving Mariam and that the family
had expressed concern about it. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:15 | |
Officers said they were
reviewing that case. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:19 | |
Mariam was discharged
from hospital after the attack, | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
but then she fell ill
and was readmitted. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
That's when she went into a coma. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
The family gave us these pictures. | 0:15:27 | 0:15:31 | |
For me, I still can't
believe that she's gone. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
I still feel like she's around me,
I feel like she's going to come | 0:15:34 | 0:15:37 | |
knocking on the door saying,
"Mallak, I'm here." | 0:15:37 | 0:15:39 | |
But that's not happening. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:44 | |
The Egyptian government,
as well as her family, | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
have called on the UK authorities
to bring those who did | 0:15:46 | 0:15:51 | |
this to justice quickly. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:52 | |
A 17-year-old girl was arrested
on suspicion of assault, | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
but has been released
on conditional bail. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:59 | |
In a tweet this afternoon,
the Foreign Secretary, | 0:15:59 | 0:16:01 | |
Boris Johnson, assured the Egyptian
authorities that Nottinghamshire | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
Police was investigating the case. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:09 | |
Sima Kotecha, BBC News, Nottingham. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:15 | |
As we heard earlier,
the Russian leader Vladimir Putin | 0:16:15 | 0:16:17 | |
was out on the campaign trail today,
ahead of the country's Presidential | 0:16:17 | 0:16:20 | |
election, on Sunday. | 0:16:20 | 0:16:21 | |
Mr Putin is hoping to win his
fourth term in office - | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
he's the clear favourite
in the opinion polls which show him | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
on nearly 70% of the vote -
his next nearest rival is on 7%. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:32 | |
So why is Mr Putin so popular? | 0:16:32 | 0:16:33 | |
Our Moscow correspondent,
Steve Rosenberg travelled | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
to Karabash in the Russian rust belt
to find out. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:43 | |
The West fears the Kremlin
is spreading disorder, | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
but at home many see Vladimir Putin
as a cog that keeps Russia moving. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:54 | |
This is Carol Karabash,
rust belt Russia. | 0:16:54 | 0:17:02 | |
This is Karabash, rust belt Russia. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:03 | |
Karabash overwhelms the senses,
from the smoke of copper | 0:17:03 | 0:17:07 | |
works to the biting cold. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:08 | |
Outside, it's 20 below. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:09 | |
Inside, the heat hits you. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
This is Russian fire and fury. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:16 | |
Many here support Vladimir Putin,
not because he's forged a great | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
country, but at least one that feels
more stable than 1990s Russia | 0:17:19 | 0:17:24 | |
after the fall of communism. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:30 | |
"Stability will continue under
Putin", Sergei says. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:35 | |
"There is no one else
worth voting for". | 0:17:35 | 0:17:39 | |
And yet real incomes
in Russia are falling, | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
the economy stagnating. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:45 | |
So the government
appeals to patriotism. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
It tells the people, "We are
a player on the world stageW. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:54 | |
It tells the people,
"We are a player on the world stage. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
That's little comfort to Nina. | 0:17:57 | 0:17:58 | |
Her biggest concern is making it
home, because no one clears the ice | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
outside her apartment block. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
Nina complains her heating
bills are getting bigger, | 0:18:04 | 0:18:08 | |
but she doesn't blame the Kremlin
and she doesn't want | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
a new president. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:12 | |
For the retired maths teacher,
it's a simple equation. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
No change equals no risk. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:21 | |
"I'll vote for Putin", Nina says,
"so that life doesn't get any worse. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:26 | |
"As long as we have no war here,
that's what matters". | 0:18:26 | 0:18:30 | |
Under Vladimir Putin,
you see two very different Russias. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
There is Russia, the military
and cyber superpower, | 0:18:33 | 0:18:37 | |
flexing its muscles
on the international stage. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
And there is another Russia,
where more than 20 million people | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
live below the poverty line,
and where life is a daily struggle. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:49 | |
Tatiana can afford the basics,
like milk, but not much else. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:55 | |
Her pension is barely
enough to live on. | 0:18:55 | 0:18:57 | |
She has to borrow to get by. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:02 | |
When I visit Tatiana at home,
I meet her daughter, Natalia. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:07 | |
She has been unemployed for four
years, but she still has | 0:19:07 | 0:19:10 | |
faith in the Kremlin. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:14 | |
"I'm for Putin", Natalia says. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
"At least Putin tries his best". | 0:19:16 | 0:19:24 | |
Many Russians fear change. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
They worry that change can bring
greater instability. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
And those in power
exploit that fear. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:33 | |
That benefits Vladimir Putin. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:37 | |
It allows the Kremlin to argue it's
safer to stick to the same path. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:44 | |
Steve Rosenberg, BBC News, Karabash. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:52 | |
A brief look at some
of the day's other news stories. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
As many as 70,000 people have fled
two separate offensives | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
in Syria in recent days. | 0:19:57 | 0:19:59 | |
The UN estimates almost 50,000
people have left the northern town | 0:19:59 | 0:20:01 | |
of Afrin in the last few days,
while activists say 20,000 | 0:20:01 | 0:20:05 | |
have escaped rebel-held
Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:11 | |
Police in Miami are continuimg
to search under a collapsed | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
footbridge, 24 hours after it fell
onto an eight-lane motorway near | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
Florida International University. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
At least six people
were killed, and nine injured. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:21 | |
The bridge was only
completed last Saturday. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:29 | |
Police in East Sussex are responding
to a report of a shooting at a | 0:20:33 | 0:20:37 | |
property in Saint Leonards. People
are advised to stay away and remain | 0:20:37 | 0:20:42 | |
indoors but the incident is not
thought to be terror related. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:46 | |
The former President
of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, | 0:20:46 | 0:20:48 | |
will face prosecution for 16
charges of corruption. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:49 | |
Mr Zuma denies the charges, which
relate to a multi-billion-pound arms | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
deal before he took office
and include counts of fraud | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
and money laundering. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
Three African countries that
are home to the majority | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
of the continent's elephants have
signed a petition asking Britain | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
and the rest of the EU to ban
the legal trade in antique ivory. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:04 | |
At a wildlife summit in Botswana,
the country's president said | 0:21:04 | 0:21:07 | |
a complete trade ban would help
protect the remaining elephants. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:10 | |
He criticised Donald Trump for
lifting a ban on hunting trophies, | 0:21:10 | 0:21:13 | |
saying he was
"encouraging poaching". | 0:21:13 | 0:21:17 | |
Our Africa correspondent Alastair
Leithead reports from Botswana. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:24 | |
Botswana is the last sanctuary
for Africa's elephants. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:28 | |
Half of the animals left
on the continent live | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
here and on its borders. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
But conservationists say
the continuing trade in tusks, | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
be it legal or illegal,
to feed the market for ivory | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
in China, means the elephants
are still seriously endangered. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:45 | |
Thousands of elephants
are still being killed | 0:21:45 | 0:21:47 | |
for their ivory across Africa every
year, leaving orphans, | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
like these guys. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:52 | |
Although the scale of the poaching
is down from what it was a few years | 0:21:52 | 0:21:55 | |
ago, more elephants are being killed
every year than are being born. | 0:21:55 | 0:22:00 | |
It's still a big crisis
for Africa's elephants. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:03 | |
We haven't passed the worst
of the poaching crisis. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
I fear the worst is yet to come. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:09 | |
The political will to address these
issues, unfortunately is not there. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
It has been in Botswana,
and if our neighbours can learn | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
from Botswana's example,
I feel that we can address | 0:22:15 | 0:22:17 | |
this poaching crisis. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:24 | |
This is one way to address
it, cracking down hard | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
on the poachers and traffickers. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
A demonstration at the Giants Club
Summit shows how lessons learned | 0:22:28 | 0:22:31 | |
in counterterrorism are now
being used for anti-poaching. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:35 | |
Making sure animals are worth
more alive is important, | 0:22:35 | 0:22:37 | |
but many here think ending
trade is key. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:43 | |
This ivory ornament was bought
at auction in the UK as an antique, | 0:22:43 | 0:22:46 | |
and therefore legal to sell. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
But radiocarbon dating proved
it was from an elephant | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
killed 13 years ago. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
If the experts can't
tell, then how on earth | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
are the public supposed to know? | 0:22:56 | 0:22:57 | |
And I think the default setting
when you have that level | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
of uncertainty simply has to be,
"We can't afford to sell ivory". | 0:23:00 | 0:23:05 | |
That's why a global petition
is pushing for an EU and UK ban | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
of antique ivory sales,
now signed by three | 0:23:08 | 0:23:10 | |
African presidents. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
Well, I think the way we are moving
now, when you look at the other | 0:23:14 | 0:23:17 | |
countries coming on board,
for example, like China. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:19 | |
I think they are setting a wonderful
example for others to follow, | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
whether it is the UK,
the European Union or anyone else | 0:23:22 | 0:23:25 | |
involved in the trade. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
Banning the legal ivory trade
won't stop the illegal killing | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
and orphaning of elephants,
but it's another step towards making | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
ivory a less acceptable ornament. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:37 | |
Alistair Leithead,
BBC News, Botswana. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:41 | |
The first polar bear cub born
in Britain for a quarter | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
of a century has been
filmed for the first time | 0:23:44 | 0:23:46 | |
in the Scottish Highlands. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:47 | |
As you can see, mum and cub,
born in December, are doing well. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
The footage was captured by remote
cameras for a Channel 4 documentary. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:53 | |
Highland Wildlife Park is yet
to find out if the cub is a boy | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
or a girl, but it's
already proving to be | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
a confident little
character, and very cute. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:07 | |
In a thrilling two-horse race duel,
Native River ridden by champion | 0:24:07 | 0:24:09 | |
jockey Richard Johnson has beaten
the favourite Might Bite to win | 0:24:09 | 0:24:12 | |
the Gold Cup at Cheltenham. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
It's Johnson's second Gold Cup win, | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
and comes nearly two
decades after his first. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
Andy Swiss was there
to see all the action. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:24 | |
# Life could be so sweet
on the sunny side of the street.# | 0:24:24 | 0:24:29 | |
In racing you need that bit
of optimism and with what seemed | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
like the most open of Gold Cups... | 0:24:32 | 0:24:33 | |
Any more bets? | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
Punters certainly required it. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:38 | |
So many factors,
not least the soggy, | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
stamina-sapping conditions. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
But while there were 15
runners, this proved | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
the ultimate two-horse race. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
In the white nose band Native River,
and next to him Might Bite. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
The rest mere observers
as fence after fence, | 0:24:50 | 0:24:54 | |
furlong after furlong,
they slugged it out. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:55 | |
Going into the last,
they were seemingly inseparable... | 0:24:55 | 0:25:00 | |
Who will prevail up
the Cheltenham Hill? | 0:25:00 | 0:25:01 | |
Native River and Might Bite... | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
But on that final, gruelling
gradient it was Native River | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
who edged ahead, a remarkable duel
and a remarkable victory. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
He wins the Gold Cup! | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
For jockey Richard Johnson,
a second Gold Cup win, | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
some 18 years after his first. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
This was even sweeter. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
I'm still a bit speechless now. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
The first time I don't think
I realised how amazing | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
it was and how hard it is. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
18 years later, you realise just
to get one of these horses to ride, | 0:25:30 | 0:25:33 | |
let alone to win the race,
is very difficult. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:37 | |
And delight too for Dorset
trainer Colin Tizzard - | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
once a dairy farmer and now part
of a Gold Cup-winning team thanks | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
to a horse seemingly
enjoying his big moment. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:49 | |
Well, the Gold Cup has seen some
dramatic duels over the years, | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
and this was right up there,
on a day when leading | 0:25:51 | 0:25:55 | |
from the start produced
the perfect finish. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
Andy Swiss, BBC News, Cheltenham. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:03 | |
That's it. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:04 | |
Now on BBC One, it's time
for the news where you are. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:25 |