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Good afternoon. Police in the West Midlands have released video | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
showing rioters firing what's believed to be live rounds at | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
officers during the violence in Birmingham earlier this month. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Shots were also directed at a police helicopter in the Newtown | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
area on August 9th. Police say a minimum of four handguns were used. | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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Jane-Frances Kelly reports. This dramatic new CCTV footage shows a | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
masked man among a group of 30 to 40 you this. He carefully observes | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
have surroundings before taking a man firing. They say a minimum of | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
four hand guns were used and 11 shots fired at officers and also at | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
the force helicopter which took these black-and-white shots. West | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
Midlands police say they have taken the unusual decision to release the | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
footage because of its disturbing nature. I look at that footage and | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
think the only motive can have been to maximise the harm that they | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
could cause to police officers and potentially other members of the | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
public. Earlier, the group caused damage to a pub while staff were | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
still inside. The crowd threw chairs into the road. A small | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
amount of money was stolen. Officers say petrol bombs were also | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
thrown at a police car. They say the use of alcohol and petrol leads | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
them to believe there was the intention to set the part the like. | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
It was clear they intended to cause damage to those premises. We know | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
they were in possession of petrol bombs and there was a concerted | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
effort to build -- the Bernath building down. It presented a risk | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
to the lives of people inside. violence has been particularly | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
tragic. During the week thousands turned out for the funerals of | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
three men hit by a car during the riots that should the country a | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
fortnight ago. The father of one of the victims has been praised for | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
bringing the community together in the aftermath. Now police are | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
investigating a major incident in which they say it was lucky nobody | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
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lost their lives. Rebel fighters in Libya appear to be closing in on | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
the capital, Tripoli. They've been engaged in fierce battles with | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
troops loyal to Colonel Gaddafi. Rebels claim to have seized most of | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
the city of Zlitan to the east. In Zawiya, street battles ended with | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
the rebels in control of the city centre. Plans are being put in | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
place to get those foreign nationals who wish to leave out of | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
Tripoli. Live now to Tripoli and our Correspondent there, Matthew | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
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Price. What is the latest situation? That city is now in | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
rebel hands. They have pushed out the authorities. It represents that | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
the Libyan army has clearly had its capacity to fight badly affected by | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
the NATO airstrikes against it in recent weeks in that area. Those | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
claims of rebel against to the east are less hard to -- are less easy | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
to verify. We have to be cautious. But if they turn out to be true | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
then it is very significant because it would mean either the Libyan | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
army is pulling back from its positions in order to defend | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
Tripoli, or it is losing the will and indeed the capacity to fight. | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
There are many rumours going around at the moment. Colonel Gaddafi and | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
his family possibly about to leave the country, whether that is | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
wishful thinking or based on reality, it is impossible to know. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
The government here is calling for a ceasefire. It is well recognised | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
amongst diplomats that I have spoken to that if the fight get to | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
Tripoli it will be a bloody urban warfare. There is a lot of | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
diplomacy in the background trying to avoid that. | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
The foreign office minister Alastair Burt has indicated that | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
Britain will back further sanctions against the Syrian government this | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
week. Syrian activists say 40 people were killed yesterday by | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
security forces despite official assurances that all military action | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
against civilians had stopped. The Scottish government says it stands | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
by the decision two years ago today to release the Libyan man convicted | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
of the Lockerbie bombing. Abdelbasset al Megrahi, who has | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
cancer, was freed on compassionate grounds after doctors advised that | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
he had just months to live. 270 people were killed when Pan Am | :04:51. | :05:01. | |
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flight 103 exploded in 1988. Raymond Buchanan reports. This was | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
the last time the Lockerbie bomber was seen in public. He recently | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
appeared at a prayer Gaddafi rally in Tripoli. It is now two years | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
since the last -- since he left his jail cell, sent home to die with a | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
life expectancy of three months. That decision by ministers in | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
Edinburgh has been criticised. But the First Minister in Scotland | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
still insists it was the right thing to do. The key thing for us, | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
this has survived through the cabinet secretary and WikiLeaks | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
release of information, after two years every inquiry and piece of | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
information demonstrates that the Scottish government made a decision | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
based on Scottish justice and in good faith. But Labour have called | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
on Mr Salmon to apologise and the Conservatives are urged him to | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
publish or medical evidence on which the decision was made. | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
Neither is likely to happen. Even with the recent turmoil in Libya, | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
al-Megrahi has been maintained contact with criminal-justice | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
officials here. It was a condition of the deal which saw him released | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
from prison. If he broke those conditions then technically he | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
could be returned to a Scottish jail. Most of the 270 victims of | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
the Lockerbie bombing were from the US. Now senators want any new | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
Libyan regime to send him across the Atlantic to face justice. They | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
say he remains a terrorist with American blood on his hands. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Norwegians are holding a weekend of remembrance for the 77 people who | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
were killed by Anders Breivik in bomb and gun attacks last month. | :06:50. | :06:53. |