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The liberation of Libya. Tens of thousands gather to hear their | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
nation declared free after 42 years of Gaddafi's rule. | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
TRANSLATION: Today, we are one flesh, one national flesh and we | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
have become a united brothers as we have not been in the past and we | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
love each other. David Cameron joins European | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
leaders as they talk up the chances of more money for ailing euro | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
economies. A silent prayer as worshippers are | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
locked out of St Paul's Cathedral by the anti-capitalism protests. | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
And, red faces for United as they're thumped 6-1 at home in the | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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Good Evening. There are celebrations across Libya tonight | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
as the country has been officially liberated. Addressing a crowd of | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
tens of thousands, Libya's National Transitional Council leader, | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, said the nation must now unite and put its | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
faith in God. He thanked the UN and the nations who had supported the | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
lib wran people in their struggle to overcome Colonel Gaddafi's | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
regime. -- Libyan. Ben Brown is in Tripoli for us this evening. Ben. | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Emily, this really is a moment of history for Libya. Many people here | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
are saying this is an unforgettable day, a day they'll always remember, | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
the best day of their lives. This official declaration of liberation | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
only made possible really by the death of Colonel Gaddafi last week, | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
the fall of his stronghold of Sirte. It marks the end of eight months of | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Civil War and 42 years of dictatorship. The ceremony was held | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
this afternoon in the eastern city of Benghazi. The cradle of the | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
uprising where it all began in February. From there, Jonathan Head | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
reports. This was the moment a nation | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
announced its rebirth. Libyans of all ages and from all across the | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
country came to the place where it all started to hear the official | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
announcement that the war is over. The former judge who now leads the | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
country said, ours will be a rosy future, we must put our trust in | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
God. Eurged people to show tolerance and embrace | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
reconciliation after eight months of bitter fighting against Colonel | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
Gaddafi and his many loyalists. TRANSLATION: My Libyan people, all | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
you have to do is believe in God, put your trust in God, seek unity. | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
Today, we are one national flesh, we have become a united force, | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
brothers, as we have not been in the past, and we love each other. | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
They chose Benghazi for the celebration, as a tribute to its | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
role in igniting and sustaining this rev lues. Once this is over, | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
the spotlight will move from here to Tripoli in the west where the | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
new government will sit -- revolution. The task that awaits | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
them to build a fair and democratic system is daunting. But today, they | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
put that aside to relish their liberation. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Amid all this jubilation and all the uncertainty about what lies | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
ahead for this country, it's worth stopping for a moment and | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
reflecting on what they've achieved. They started with no guns, no | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
experience against an entrenched dictatorship using all its force | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
against them and they won. And that is quite a feat. | :03:39. | :03:48. | |
How do you feel today? I'm very happy. Very happy. I | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
brought my daughters. I came from my small village 450 kilometres | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
from here. The cost has been very high, thousands dead and thousands | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
more horribly wounded. Yet, the determination to win never flagged. | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
It's not often you witness courage on this scale. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
Well, watching that liberation ceremony and announcement in | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Benghazi was our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen. What were your | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
impressions? Well, there was a lot of joy there, | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
extraordinary outpouring of emotion when the announcement was made and | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
a lot of future about the opt mifl even though they have some very | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
serious challenges here -- optimism. Challenges of reconciliation, | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
mentioned in Jalil's speech and he thought it necessary to bring it up, | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
which is significant. One of the biggest challenges is building a | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
new society from the bottom up because nothing is left over of the | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
old system. They have advantages though, what | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
they have is the fact that they have oil money, they have as well | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
as many foreign friends as they need and they have, as we could see | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
today out in that old parade ground on the outskirts of Benghazi which | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
they've renamed Victory Square, they have an extraordinary sense of | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
ownership of the revolution, even though they couldn't have done it | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
without foreign help. The fact is, they believe they did all the heavy | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
lifting, they accepted the danger, made the sacrifices and what | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
everybody there was saying to me is, we are not going to waste this | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
opportunity. We'll see. Thank you very much indeed. They're | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
partying here in Tripoli and in Benghazi and in many other towns | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
and cities right across Libya. This day marks the end of a long, dark | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
chapter in Libyan history and hopefully the beginning of a bright, | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
new one. Back to you. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Thanks. Across the brder from Libya in | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Tunisia where the country where the Arab Spring began, the first | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
election since the uprisings have been taking place. The President of | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
23 years, Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali, stepped down in January and made a | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
wave of protests. Today's pole will elect an assembly that will prepare | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
the country for future elections. From the capital, Tunis, Alan | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
Little sent this report. The right to vote is most precious | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
to those who've long been denied it and have it now for the first time. | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
So they stood in the sun for hours, quietly, patiently, to stake their | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
claim to a democratic future to take charge of their own destiny. | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
It's the biggest day ever. The first time in our life, we have a | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
true and clear election and we don't know the outcome. This is the | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
beauty of it. And it might show the other Arabic countries to way to do | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
it. I asked one man who he thought would win the election. | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
TRANSLATION: We will all win, whatever the result, because we | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
voted democratically and clearly and that's the real victory. | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
More than 100 new political parties, 9,000 polling stations, millions of | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
votes. It's a huge undertaking achieved from a standing start in | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
just nine months. But there is a huge popular will | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
among Tunisians to get this right. This is a young democracy still | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
very much in the making. But already, everybody here knows what | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
a heavy burden it can carries. For what is happening here today has | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
the potential to change the nature of the state in the Arab world. Yes, | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
a lot can still go wrong. But right here, right now, this feels like a | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
moment of real consequence. The Islamist party is likely to | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
emerge as the biggest single group. Do they want an Islamic state in | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
far from it, they say. We've said clearly that we need a democratic | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
state, a civil state that is open to all citizens, that is where | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
there is no discrimination on the basis of colour, race, gender or | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
faith. That is open to all Tunisians of all faiths and no | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
faith. In ten months, Tunisians have built something new and of | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
great prom nice the Arab world. They led to Arab Spring. They're | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
leading it still. Hundreds of people are feared dead | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
in an earthquake in South East earn Turkey. The quake with a magnitude | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
of 7.2 struck the province of Van causing around 40 buildings to | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
collapse. Rescuers are continuing to search the rubble for survivors. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
David Cameron has spent the afternoon in Brussels taking part | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
in talks on the eurozone crisis. Mr Cameron said he had confidence that | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
a stronger rescue package was in sight. Our Europe editor Gavin | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Hewitt is in Brussels following proceedings. Has Mr Cameron been | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
able to achieve much there? Well, he said on the way in that | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
the eurozone crisis was having a chilling impact on the British | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
economy. I think he spies some progress, but certainly no | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
breakthrough yet and some of the key issues haven't even been | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
discussed. He did get involved in a two-hour tussle with President | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Sarkozy over his insistence that on Wednesday when key decisions were | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
being taken, the British and others who weren't in the eurozone should | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
be part of it. That means he will be back here again on Wednesday | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
postponing his travel plans. And Europe is raising its head on | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
the domestic political front for Mr Cameron too? Absolutely. He faces a | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
difficult vote in the Commons tomorrow with some of his | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
backbenchers pushing for a referendum on Britain's position in | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Europe, something that David Cameron is really opposed to. But | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
today, it was announced here that there would be some kind of treaty | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
change on Europe, three times David Cameron said "this gave Britain an | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
opportunity to fight for its national interests" and that was | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
clearly sending a signal to his backbenchers that there were | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
opportunities here, apart from fighting for a referendum. | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
Thank you very much. Clergy at St Paul's Cathedral have | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
been holding private church services because the building | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
remains closed to the public. A demonstration by anti-capitalist | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
protestors camped outside has been going on since last weekend. Our | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
religious affairs correspondent, Robert Pigott, reports. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
Not since the blitz has St Paul's been closed to Sunday worshippers. | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
Inside, services did take place today, but outside the great west | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
door, the devout were left with their own thoughts, as part of the | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
established or state church, the cathedral is legally obliged to | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
perform daily services, so a handful of clergy recited morning | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
and early evening prayer behind closed doors. It's very | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
disappointing. We have come so far, 7,000 miles, and we are not sure on | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
this trip if it will be open again. St Paul's says potential obstacles | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
forced the cathedral to close. The protestors are taking elaborate | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
measures in an effort to show they pose no threat to health and safety. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
When the Fire Service asked us to reorganise the way the tents were | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
set up and put up safety gates over there, we've done this and now we | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
want to clarify any other outstanding health and safety | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
concerns they have. The land surrounding St Paul's | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
belongs, not just to the Cathedral, but to the corporation of London, | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
and the Crown, some of it is common land belonging to the public. It's | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
divided into an intricate patch wok of seven plots. It means if | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
protestors can persuade the authorities that the camp doesn't | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
pose a hazard, any case to move them on could be legally extremely | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
complicated. We are acting in trust and I hope that in trust, the | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
protestors will find they've been heard and will then move on. Some | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
campaigners say they're ready to stay for months. They might not be | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
affecting any banks, but they know they've captured a trophy of | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
Worldwide stature. Now a look at the sport with Ollie | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
Foster. What is going on today?! I don't know, very strange indeed. We | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
expected a one-sided result at the Rugby World Cup today, not Old | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Trafford where Sir Alex Ferguson described Manchester United's 6-1 | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
defeat to Manchester City as their worst ever day. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Patrick gearry reports. An occasion as big as the Manchester Derby is | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
made for a character as big as Mario Balotelli. Sure enough he had | :12:33. | :12:42. | |
says say - his say. Whatever his pleas, Balotelli can't avoid | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
attention, Jonny Evans gave him rather too much in the second half | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
resulting in his dismissal. City were underlining their | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
dominance. Milner picked out Balotelli, the unlikely hero. | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
Rarely, if ever, are United outclassed like this in their own | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
back yard, but City kept the ball with ease, Aguero wouldn't even | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
release it when he scored. When United got hold of it, Darren | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
Fletcher had time for the finest of consolations, excellent but | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
irrelevant as City weren't finished. Deco added a fourth. The champions | :13:16. | :13:25. | |
were being chastened. Deep into injury time, Dzeko's second meant | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
it was the worst defeat in Old Trafford history. | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
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In the Scottish Premier League, Rangers are now nine points clear | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
at the top of the table after beating Hearts 2-0 at Tynecastle. | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
Naysmith and Jelavic got the goals either side of half time. Celtic | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
beat Aberdeen but stay third in the table. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
The Rugby Union World Cup now, and they had to work really hard for it, | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
but New Zealand are champions again. France who knocked England and | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
Wales out pushed the hosts all the way, but the All Blacks edged a | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
compelling final by 8-7. Here is Dan Rowan. | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
24 years they waited for this. Now at last, New Zealanders were back | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
on top of the rugby world, the biggest party in the country's | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
history could begin. Yeah, boys! Earlier, a surge of confidence had | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
accompanied the All Blacks as they arrived at edn Park for their date | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
with destiny. -- Eden Park. This was the first act of defiance | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
in a remarkable performance. Driven on by the desperation of an | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
expectant nation, Tony Wood cock gave the host the lead. They had to | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
wait until the second half to extend the lead. The All Blacks' | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
fourth choice fly half Stephen Donald making a name for himself | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
after coming on. This was far from the walkover many predicted. France | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
were unrecognisable from previous performances and a try from the | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
inspired Francois Trinh-Duc stunned Eden Park. Having been written off, | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
dudenly somehow France were threatening a shock. They had a | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
chance to win but the points couldn't be taken. New Zealand | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
forced to defend as if their lives depended on it refused to yield and | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
by the narrowest of margins, victory was there. Failures to twin | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
Webb Ellis trophy have defined the All Blacks but this was World Cup | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
redemption. It was a great feeling. This thing was about winning and | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
the guys have won the World Cup. That is outstanding. | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
I felt sick for the last 20 minutes. Sick the whole game. It's | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
absolutely everything. It's been a long time coming and it was | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
unbearably tense, but finally the country most in love with the sport | :15:55. | :15:58. |