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The veteran broadcaster and disc jockey Sir Jimmy Savile has died at | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
the age of 84. He was best known for his show Jim'll Fix It and | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
being the first and last presenter of Top of the Pops. As a charity | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
campaigner he also ran over 200 marathons, raising more than 40 | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
million pounds. Tributes are being paid tonight - Prince Charles said | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
he was saddened by the news. Nick Higham looks back at his life. He | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
loved the limelight and crowd lovesed him, but he was a profound | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
enigma. He became a disc jockey, one of the very first, after a | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
stint as a wrestler. He became known for his died hair, | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
catchphrases and eccentric clothes, but there was much more to him than | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
spinning disks. On his travel, he broadcast live from location all | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
around the country. Listen. How about on the radio | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
we'll play you a niece piece of music. What sort of music would you | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
like? # Jim'll Fix It # | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
He ran Jim'll Fix It, fulfilling ordinary people's dreams like the | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
boy who got to visit a train factory. He became a rich man and | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
wasn't ashamed of showing it. But he also put his money to use. He | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
ran marathons, raised �20 money for the infirmary at stoke mandible and | :01:59. | :02:09. | |
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worked as a porter. I was a single fella, every day is | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
Christmas, New Year's Eve. It was fun. It was fun when I started. | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
It's fun today. He was always in a track suit. He was always Jimmy | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Savile. I don't think anybody got to know him well because he was | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Alzheimer's this larger-than-life character who was always running | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
marathons. He was difficult to fathom. Louis Theroux made a | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
documentary in which the two travelled to Scarborough to his | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
childhood home. He was man who was shy of commitments and | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
relationships. Why was it said in an interview you don't have | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
emotions? Because it's easier. The truth is I am good at masking them. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
In the end he was a puzzle, perhaps a lonely man who craved attention, | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
but found consolation in doing good. Sir Jimmy Savile, who has died at | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
the age of 84. At least 17 people - including 13 | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
American soldiers - have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
a military convoy in the Afghan capital Kabul. It's one of the | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
deadliest attacks on foreign forces in ten years of warfare in | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Afghanistan. Quentin Sommerville sent us this report from Kabul. | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
The bus the troops were travelling in was heavily armoured. It had | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
bullet proof windows and armoured plating, but the force of the | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
explosion was so great it blew it on its side. At the scene, fire | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
cruise worked to put out the flames. The area was cordoned off by Afghan | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
and international forces. Helicopters rushed the injured to | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
hospital. This is one of the deadliest aincome tax this ten-year | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
war. All the soldiers were American. It's unusual for so many troops to | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
die in a single incident. Afghan civilians, including two students, | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
were also killed. Most of the assaults in Kabul are carried out | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
by a Taliban faction. This was last month when they fired on the US | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
embassy and the international mission's headquarters. That attack | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
lasted 20 hours. It's usually Afghan civilians who bear the brunt | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
of these attacks, but today it was American forces who suffered. The | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
actual number of assaults here has fallen over the past year, but time | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
and time again the Afghan Taliban and the Hakani network are able to | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
penetrate the city's defences. In the coming months American troops | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
will begin to leave, with Afghan troops stepping into their place. | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
They're already in control in the capital, but they're still far from | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
able to keep this city safe. Thousands of passengers have been | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
left stranded after the Australian airline Qantas grounded all its | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
domestic and international flights in an industrial dispute. The | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
airline says it will lock out its employees until they agree a deal. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
The Australian government has referred the matter to an | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
industrial tribunal, as our correspondent Duncan Kennedy | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
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reports. The impact was immediate, global and painful. Thousands of | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
passengers left with no planes to fly on. Qantas shutting down its | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
entire fleet without warning. just sort of said, "Unfortunately, | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
all flights, internal and domestic and international, have been | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
cancelled," so sort yourselves out. Bye. It just leaves a really bad | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
taste in your mouth. I have heard so many people say I am never going | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
to play Qantas again. The decision to stop all planes was made by its | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
Irish-born Chief Executive Allen Joyce. He said striking unions were | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
destabilising the company and they were left with no option. We're | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
lock ought the unions until they reach agreement with us. | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
national carrier immediately made this the country's most serious | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
political issue. That may have been their intention. The Government was | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
given just three hours' notice, and the company has called in the | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
nation's arbitration service to end the strikes. What we're seeing is a | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
circumstance with this industrial dispute that could have | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
implications for our national economy. Several Qantas unions have | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
been staging strikes in the past few months angry about Qantas plans | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
to cut jobs and move some operations to bases in Asia, which | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
Qantas says is the only way for it to compete. Although relations | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
between management and union have been at breaking point at Qantas | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
for months, no-one was expecting this. The staff have been told | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
they'll be locked out from tomorrow afternoon, and passengers have been | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
told to stay away until further notice. More than 13,000 passengers | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
had been booked to travel with Grounding aircraft will cost the | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
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That is preconceived, preplanned attempt to hoodwink the | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
shareholders, the Australian community and destroy the brand. | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
The passengers arriving on this Qantas flight at Heathrow were | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
among those caught in midair and mid-dispute. Qantas is trying to | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
oorg alternative airline, but for now, its own jets have been cleared | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
from the world's skies. Joe is at Heathrow Airport for us | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
tonight. Are alternative arrangements being made for | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
travellers? Yeah, Qantas had hoped to operate four flights out of here | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
to Australia today. That's around 1,500 people that won't be flying. | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
The airline said they're going to rebook, rehouse and refund a lot of | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
people. A lot of people will be looking for hotels around the | :07:54. | :08:02. | |
airport. BA runs a code share with Qantas. They too will be refunded | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
and rebooked, and British Airways- operated flights will proceed as | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
normal. Unfortunately, this is likely to drag on for at least 24 | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
hours until the Industrial Tribunal rules on the issue in the next 24 | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
hours. That could force Qantas to start taking off and landing again. | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
Joe, thank you very much indeed. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
are on their way home after an 11- day tour of Australia. Tens of | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
thousands of people turned out to say goodbye to the Royal couple at | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
a traditional Australian barbecue in Perth. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Once again, the crowds could be counted in their tens of thousands, | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
turning out in the centre of Perth to see the Queen on her final day | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
here. It was billed as the big Aussie barbecue, but when the | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
moment came, the sausages and the steaks were left to sizzle as | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
people tried to catch a glimpse of the guest of honour. And talking to | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
that guest, who has been to many cities through her reign, a sense | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
that the warmth she has received in Australia has meant a lot. | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
I can think of no more fitting way to end my visit here than in this | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
idyllic river setting which I have enjoyed on so many occasions. We | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
will return to the United Kingdom with fond memories of our time here | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
and the warm Australian welcome we have received on our 16th visit to | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
this beautiful country. APPLAUSE | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
An amazing send-off at the end of an amazing trip - that's how one | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
palace official has put it. In a sense this visit to Australia has | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
been an unexpected bonus in a year which hasn't been short of | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
highlights. Yes, 2011 will be remembered. There was the historic | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
visit to Ireland and a Royal wedding to look back on, a Diamond | :10:02. | :10:07. |