:00:22. > :00:27.Good afternoon. Investigators are trying to discover what caused the
:00:27. > :00:31.Adam Mynott to flood in the Swansea valley, trapping and killing four
:00:31. > :00:36.miners below ground. Our Welsh correspondent is close to the mine
:00:36. > :00:40.and joins us now. I am outside of the entrance to the
:00:40. > :00:49.mine where the four men were killed. This morning an appeal fund was set
:00:49. > :00:55.up to support their families. As a community grieves, the
:00:55. > :00:58.investigation into how the four miners died begins.
:00:59. > :01:03.South Wales Police and a team from the Health and Safety Executive
:01:03. > :01:08.began work at the mine early this morning. Their task, to find out
:01:08. > :01:12.how the tragedy happened. This entrance leads to a maize of
:01:12. > :01:18.tunnels inside the mine. The bodies of the four were found close
:01:18. > :01:22.together after the shaft flooded. Flee other miners managed to escape,
:01:22. > :01:25.one is still seriously ill. What the survivors remember of what
:01:25. > :01:30.happened on Thursday could prove crucial to the investigation team.
:01:30. > :01:33.What will happen now is that the mines inspectorate in the UK will
:01:33. > :01:37.take charge of it with the police. They will investigate the plans,
:01:37. > :01:40.work to the individuals that worked there previously and who are
:01:41. > :01:44.working there now. So they will investigate as a crime scenes if
:01:45. > :01:51.you like. This is the first fatal accident in
:01:51. > :01:56.a Welsh mine for more than three decades. The pit had been inspected
:01:56. > :02:00.as erecently at May last year. I spoke to a miner who escaped and
:02:00. > :02:03.to the families. None of them reported any safety concerns, but
:02:03. > :02:07.the investigation which has begun up in the pit now will establish
:02:07. > :02:17.what has happened. As this community prepares for the
:02:17. > :02:17.
:02:17. > :02:21.funerals of the four miners, it could face a long wait for answers.
:02:21. > :02:25.The Health and Safety Executive has just issued a statement in which he
:02:25. > :02:28.says it is too early to speculate on the possible causes of this
:02:28. > :02:31.incident. It says that a full report on what
:02:31. > :02:36.happened will be published in due course.
:02:36. > :02:40.Thank you very much. Now, the Liberal Democrats'
:02:40. > :02:46.conference is getting under way in Birmingham. Deputy Prime Minister
:02:46. > :02:51.and party leader k Nick Clegg has promised to block moves to scrap
:02:51. > :02:55.the 50 pence top income rate of tax. We are joined live now.
:02:55. > :03:01.Nick Clegg is trying to accentuate the positive, Norman, but it has
:03:01. > :03:04.been a terrible year for him and his party, hasn't it? Yes, Nick
:03:05. > :03:10.Clegg's task is to settle his party down after a difficult year with
:03:10. > :03:16.the shattering defeat in the AV referendum. Losss in the local
:03:16. > :03:20.council elections and U-turns on tuition fees and VAT. Nick Clegg's
:03:20. > :03:25.approach seems to point to what he regards as conspicuous Lib Dem
:03:25. > :03:30.gains in Government. To that end he points to things like watering down
:03:30. > :03:35.the Tory changes to the NHS and raises the tax threshold for lower
:03:35. > :03:40.income earners, but he wants to talk about what he regards as key
:03:40. > :03:45.differences with the Conservative Party. That is why in the run-up to
:03:45. > :03:49.the conference, we have heard Nick Clegg talking about vetoing the
:03:49. > :03:54.move to scrap the top rate of tax. We have heard other Lib Dems
:03:54. > :03:58.stressing if there was a move to do that, they would expect first rises
:03:58. > :04:01.in the tax threshold for those on the bottom of the pile and a new
:04:01. > :04:06.tax on the rich, such as a mansion tax.
:04:06. > :04:11.The Government say it is wants to legalise same-sex marriages before
:04:11. > :04:17.the next general election. Consultation a-- is to start next
:04:17. > :04:23.year to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry in civil
:04:23. > :04:25.ceremonies. A vintage fighter plane as crashed
:04:25. > :04:29.in Reno National Championship Air Races. A p15 Mustang went out of
:04:29. > :04:35.control and plunged to the ground. Forces loyal to Colonel Muammar
:04:35. > :04:40.Gaddafi continue to hold out in two of their strongholds in the towns
:04:40. > :04:49.there have been fired rockets and mortars, forcing them to retreat.
:04:49. > :04:53.There have been fierce clashes around Sert. -- Sirte.
:04:53. > :04:59.Our correspondent is following the opposition forces. He has sent this
:04:59. > :05:04.report from the front line. In the desert of central Libya, a
:05:04. > :05:13.war is still very much being fought for Sirte, the birthplace of
:05:13. > :05:17.Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. There's been a lot of heavy
:05:17. > :05:23.fighting today with rockets coming in from the pro-Colonel Gaddafi
:05:23. > :05:29.positions. They are turning -- returning fire now with the long-
:05:29. > :05:34.range rockets. The target is the pro-Colonel
:05:35. > :05:38.Gaddafi defensive line. It is 50 kilometres outside of Sirte, making
:05:38. > :05:46.the calculations is the calm amid the fire.
:05:46. > :05:51.This colonel is making those. TRANSLATION: I'm asking all of
:05:51. > :05:57.those fighting for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to put their guns down. The
:05:57. > :06:02.war is over, it is not necessary for more bloodshed.
:06:02. > :06:07.It is how the Second World War was fought, in the same desert with
:06:07. > :06:10.artillery, tanks and ground troops. The pro-Colonel Gaddafi troops are
:06:10. > :06:18.fighting back. The injured are brought to a field hospital for
:06:18. > :06:25.treatment. They counterattack this oil
:06:25. > :06:30.refinery in raslan uf. Coming out of the des -- in Ras Lanuf. We met
:06:30. > :06:36.this man who escaped but saw what they did to those captured. They
:06:36. > :06:40.held them in three groups along the road, he told me, and then they
:06:40. > :06:44.were excuted one by one, civilians and soldiers alike. He said that
:06:44. > :06:48.the blood stains were still on the tarmac.
:06:48. > :06:52.The rag-tag rebels have come a long way to get here, but the war is
:06:52. > :07:00.still not over. Clearly, this is something or
:07:00. > :07:05.someone in Sirte is worth the defending.
:07:05. > :07:10.Now at the rugby World Cup there has been a major upset after a