:00:15. > :00:18.here and you'll face another Afghanistan. At least 50 people
:00:18. > :00:25.have died in the latest anti- Government protests as
:00:25. > :00:28.international pressure mounts on Relief for tens of thousands of
:00:29. > :00:32.passengers as an Australian court orders Qantas to start flying again.
:00:32. > :00:34.Would you support an eviction? Would you please... That's a direct
:00:34. > :00:36.question. Clash at the Cathedral as the
:00:36. > :00:39.Bishop of London faces anti- capitalist protesters.
:00:39. > :00:49.And victory for Vettel in India's first ever Grand Prix, but painful
:00:49. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:09.viewing for others as Hamilton runs Good evening.
:01:09. > :01:13.Syria's President Assad has warned of an "earthquake" if the West
:01:14. > :01:16.intervenes in his country. At least 50 people are reported to have died
:01:16. > :01:18.in the latest anti-Government clashes. The BBC can't report
:01:19. > :01:23.freely from Syria - Jim Muir has the latest from neighbouring
:01:23. > :01:27.Lebanon. Syria's third biggest city, Homs, with a population of a
:01:27. > :01:34.million - now one of the main battlegrounds between the rejeum
:01:34. > :01:37.and its opponents. Months ago President Assad promised Ban Ki-
:01:37. > :01:46.Moon he'd pull his military out of the towns and cities. That clearly
:01:46. > :01:53.hasn't happened. Internet footage like this is
:01:53. > :01:58.impossible to verify, but it would be hard to fake. Mr Assad has also
:01:58. > :02:03.said his forces are now fighting only armed terrorists, but here at
:02:03. > :02:11.a mosque in Homs they're shown attacking apparently peaceful
:02:11. > :02:16.protesters. One man is wounded. Others risk
:02:16. > :02:22.their lives to sair save him and carry him away. Activists say
:02:22. > :02:29.scenes like this happen daily, leaving scores injured, many dead.
:02:29. > :02:39.The bloodshed is prompting pressure on the government. That's why
:02:39. > :02:40.
:02:40. > :02:48.President Assad is warning loudly any such state would risk creating
:02:48. > :02:52.another Afghanistan. Sear -- it could lead to an earthquake. If
:02:53. > :03:00.that happens in the Middle East, it will affect the situation in the
:03:00. > :03:05.world. Syria largely occupied Lebanon for
:03:06. > :03:09.nearly three decades until 2005. It still wields huge influence here, a
:03:09. > :03:14.deeply divided issue for the already deeply divided Lebanese.
:03:14. > :03:20.Everybody in Syria is watching the conflict closely. They don't know
:03:20. > :03:27.how it will end up but do know it will affect them greatly. Syria has
:03:27. > :03:33.extended its alliances into Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Iran and beyond,
:03:33. > :03:37.and in that sense, it could create a lot of havoc. The Foreign Office
:03:37. > :03:45.repeated today that Mr Assad has lost the support of his people and
:03:45. > :03:53.should stand down, but he insists the public back him, and the regime
:03:53. > :04:00.stages mass support like this every day. External intervention, as in
:04:00. > :04:06.Libya, could seal President asad's fate, and he knows it.
:04:06. > :04:11.Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen is here with me now. We have heard
:04:11. > :04:16.President Assad's warning, don't intervene militarily. Is there a
:04:17. > :04:21.likelihood of that? Not at the moment, not without the Arab league
:04:21. > :04:25.and a rock-solid UN resolution. They can't even get a sanctions
:04:25. > :04:28.resolution through the UN. No, I don't think it's going to happen
:04:28. > :04:33.testimony thing to remember is Syria isn't Libya. Libya is
:04:33. > :04:39.isolated. There are many fault lines, military ones, sectarian
:04:39. > :04:45.ones that go through the Middle East and practically all of them
:04:45. > :04:49.run through or are very close to Damascus. While President Assad
:04:49. > :04:52.says there might be an earthquake if the West intervenes, I think
:04:52. > :04:57.there might be one anyway if the regime continues to do what it's
:04:57. > :05:03.doing. Ever everybody is worried about Syria. Poettially it has a
:05:03. > :05:07.huge impact. No military pressure then. What can be done? The Arab
:05:07. > :05:11.league not exactly giving an ultimatum but a deadline calling on
:05:12. > :05:17.steps to stop the bloodshed. The Chinese as well have said this
:05:17. > :05:22.crackdown cannot continue. And the Chinese have been quite supportive
:05:22. > :05:27.of Assad. The Qatar Foreign Minister involved in this
:05:27. > :05:32.delegation saying the regime is at risk of a massive storm. One thing
:05:32. > :05:37.talked about is some sort of safe area if things continue to
:05:37. > :05:41.deteriorate for rebels. The Turks are at the moment giving some kind
:05:41. > :05:44.of ainsist or at least some protection to people - Syrian
:05:44. > :05:49.rebels in their particular country. The view of the US and the UK in
:05:49. > :05:59.this is if Assad continues with what he's doing, his regime will go
:05:59. > :06:00.
:06:00. > :06:03.down. What we're seeing at the moment is increasing isolation.
:06:03. > :06:06.Two Britons were among the 17 people killed in Kabul yesterday in
:06:06. > :06:08.a car bomb attack. The men, who haven't been named, were
:06:08. > :06:11.electricians working for an American building company. They
:06:11. > :06:17.were travelling with US troops in an armoured bus when it was hit by
:06:18. > :06:21.a Taliban suicide bomber. The men's families have been informed.
:06:21. > :06:23.Qantas jets could be in the air again as early as tomorrow, after
:06:23. > :06:25.an Australian court intervened to end the bitter industrial dispute,
:06:25. > :06:28.that's affected seventy thousand passengers around the world.
:06:28. > :06:31.Yesterday the airline decided to ground its entire fleet of planes
:06:31. > :06:34.after a series of strikes by staff over job security. Tonight, Qantas
:06:34. > :06:44.said it wanted to apologise to its customers for the disruption. From
:06:44. > :06:44.
:06:44. > :06:49.Australia, Duncan Kennedy reports. All day all around the world Qantas
:06:49. > :06:53.jets turned airports into parking lots. There wasn't a single flight
:06:53. > :06:58.as every one of the 108 aircraft in the fleet remained grounded. That
:06:58. > :07:04.meant confusion and frustration for thousands of passengers. It's
:07:04. > :07:08.ridiculous because I've checked in this morning, and there's been no
:07:09. > :07:12.news. I have had no message from Qantas or anything. You plan it for
:07:12. > :07:16.eight months, and then this happens. You just have to make the best. If
:07:16. > :07:19.we have to sit in an aimt, then that's what we have to do. You have
:07:19. > :07:23.nothing to do with the strike action, and this is the response
:07:23. > :07:27.you get. Now we're standing in the queue. We don't know if we'll get
:07:27. > :07:31.to the front. It was in the middle of the night in Melbourne when a
:07:31. > :07:35.panel of judges made their decision. They ordered Qantas unions to end
:07:35. > :07:40.their strike action. It had been the union's series of stoppages
:07:40. > :07:50.which led Qantas to ground all its aircraft. It's unfortunate that
:07:50. > :07:50.
:07:50. > :07:54.it's taken the intervention of the Federal Government to force Qantas
:07:54. > :07:57.to negotiate about those issues around security and to end the
:07:57. > :08:04.lockout. The move was welcomed by the Government, who put pressure on
:08:04. > :08:07.both sides to settle the dispout. We're very conscious there are tens
:08:07. > :08:10.of thousands of travellers that have been stranded in Australia and
:08:10. > :08:15.across the world. We're conscious of the fact that there are people
:08:15. > :08:23.who can't get back to work or back to their families. We're conscious
:08:23. > :08:29.the Australian economy has been at risk of great danger. This needed
:08:29. > :08:36.to come to a halt. Qantas said it would be lunch time, UK time
:08:36. > :08:43.tomorrow, before it can begin to restart flights. The dispute over
:08:43. > :08:47.its plans to move operations to Asia has cost it �20 million. This
:08:47. > :08:51.unprecedented action to ground an entire airline lasted 36 hours, but
:08:51. > :08:56.repairing their reputation will take a lot longer. In the end the
:08:56. > :09:00.company got what it wanted, but it has been a public relations
:09:01. > :09:03.disaster. The Bishop of London came face to
:09:03. > :09:05.face with some of the anti- capitalist demonstrators camped
:09:06. > :09:08.outside St Paul's Cathedral today, and was forced to defend the
:09:08. > :09:11.church's support for legal action to clear the area. Richard Charters
:09:11. > :09:13.said he hoped the protestors could be moved on without violent
:09:14. > :09:15.resistance.The first Sunday service has been held, since St Pauls
:09:16. > :09:25.reopened to the public on Friday.Our religious affairs
:09:26. > :09:29.
:09:29. > :09:34.correspondent Robert Pigott reports. The encounter was close up and more
:09:34. > :09:38.personal than ever. The Bishop of London made the campaigns an offer
:09:38. > :09:42.- end your occupation and I'll make sure your views are held in a
:09:42. > :09:47.cathedral. Would you support an eviction... Would you please...
:09:47. > :09:52.That is a direct question. I am not in a position to give a direct
:09:52. > :09:56.answer. Do you support the eviction? Who knows - who knows -
:09:56. > :10:00.who knows what is going to happen down the road. All right. So take...
:10:00. > :10:04.The one thing I'm very concerned about is that this should not lead
:10:04. > :10:08.to violence. Direct answer have become increasingly difficult for a
:10:08. > :10:13.church which is using the law to evict protesters while insisting
:10:13. > :10:18.that it shares their concerns. ain't got a clue what they're doing
:10:19. > :10:21.either. One bishop said the compromise offered by St Pauls of
:10:21. > :10:25.taking the debate inside the cathedral might not be acceptable
:10:25. > :10:29.to some campaigners. I can understand why that doesn't play
:10:29. > :10:33.very well with the protesters who feel that they're being treated as
:10:33. > :10:40.children or not taken seriously when their concerns are actually
:10:40. > :10:45.core gospel concerns as they see it. The campaigners say banks created
:10:45. > :10:50.the cries I but the most vulnerable are being made to pay the price. St
:10:50. > :10:55.Paul's says it too wants an equitable system. The cathedral
:10:55. > :11:00.says it's trying to avoid violence. We want more of a guarantee this
:11:00. > :11:04.isn't going to happen. Violence is talked a lot about in the abstract.
:11:04. > :11:08.Means me being dragged out of the tent in the middle of the night, my
:11:08. > :11:15.hair being pulled, batoned used against me. It's about real people.
:11:15. > :11:18.And the people camped tonight outside St Paul's have yet to be
:11:18. > :11:21.convinced that the cathedral isn't at least partly influenced by its
:11:21. > :11:25.neighbours in the City of London. A new generation is questioning the
:11:25. > :11:31.established order and is yet to be satisfied with the answers it's
:11:31. > :11:34.getting so will this occupation cast a shadow over St Paul's? Some
:11:34. > :11:38.Anglicans believe we're in a moral as much as an economic crisis. They
:11:38. > :11:41.say a time of rapid economic and social change presents the church
:11:41. > :11:51.with a rare opportunity to make Christian values count, and they
:11:51. > :11:53.
:11:53. > :11:56.say that opportunity is being missed.
:11:56. > :11:59.The Prime Minister has told the BBC that ships sailing under a British
:11:59. > :12:02.flag will be able to carry armed guards to protect themselves from
:12:02. > :12:04.pirates. The Government says it wants to do more to combat
:12:04. > :12:07.lawlessness off the coast of Somalia where ships are regularly
:12:07. > :12:10.hijacked and then ransomed for millions of pounds. About 200
:12:10. > :12:16.vessels could be involved but critics of the plan say armed
:12:16. > :12:19.guards may put crews in greater danger.
:12:19. > :12:22.NATO will formally end its mission in Libya tomorrow after flying
:12:22. > :12:25.thousands of missions over the last seven months. On the ground, the
:12:25. > :12:27.country's interim government is deciding what to do with the few
:12:27. > :12:30.surviving members of Colonel Gaddafi's inner circle. One of them,
:12:30. > :12:33.Mansour Dhao, was with him until the end. He's being held in a
:12:33. > :12:43.detention centre in Misrata and has been speaking to our correspondent,
:12:43. > :12:44.
:12:44. > :12:49.Katya Adler. Tears have turned to smiles in war-torn Misrata.
:12:49. > :12:54.Thousands crowded the streets for this homecoming celebration
:12:54. > :12:59.welcoming fathers, sons and brothers back from the front line.
:12:59. > :13:08.Close by is Misrata's internal security centre. We came to meet
:13:08. > :13:13.one of lib qua's most wanted, ordering the killing and rape of
:13:13. > :13:19.Gaddafi opponents. He was a trusted member of Colonel Gaddafi's inner
:13:19. > :13:24.circle and was captured alongside him in Sirt. He provided a rare
:13:24. > :13:28.insight into the dictator's state of mind in his last hours and days.
:13:28. > :13:34.Gaddafi was nervous. He paced up and down writing in a notebook. We
:13:34. > :13:39.knew it was over. He said, "I'm wanted by the International
:13:39. > :13:44.Criminal Court. No country will accept me. I prefer to die by
:13:44. > :13:49.Libyan hands." Then, he said, Colonel Gaddafi decided to go to
:13:49. > :13:53.his birthplace, the nearby valley of Jadif. Was it a suicide mission
:13:53. > :13:58.in the end? It was a suicide mission. We felt he wanted to die
:13:58. > :14:02.in the place he was born. Colonel Gaddafi's plan was thwarted.
:14:02. > :14:07.His convoy was bombed by NATO, and the once feared dictator scrambled
:14:07. > :14:12.into this water pipe for cover. That's where he was found and
:14:12. > :14:16.captured. With him was Colonel Gaddafi's personal driver. We met
:14:16. > :14:21.him wearing the same bloody shirt he was wounded in that day. Gaddafi
:14:21. > :14:27.got out of the pipe. I stayed inside. I could not get out. There
:14:27. > :14:32.was such a crowd of fighters. Gaddafi had no-where to go. He was
:14:32. > :14:37.one man among many. And the fighters were shouting, "Gaddafi,
:14:37. > :14:43.Gaddafi." But when I asked about terror and torture, the men were
:14:43. > :14:48.less forthcoming. They feared for their lives. Still, he said the
:14:48. > :14:54.Lockerbie bombing was planned by Gaddafi's external security and
:14:54. > :14:57.that Gaddafi ordered the mass murder of political prisoners.
:14:57. > :15:01.Having men like this in prison was very much part of the celebrations.
:15:01. > :15:05.The fighters here in Misrata and their families say they're proud,
:15:05. > :15:09.proud of the role they played in ending Colonel Gaddafi's regime, of
:15:09. > :15:12.bringing his body back here and capturing some of the last
:15:12. > :15:18.surviving members of his inner circle, but this is a crucial
:15:19. > :15:22.moment. Will people here hand over their weapons and prisoners and
:15:22. > :15:26.power to the National Transitional Council? Or will regional rivalries
:15:26. > :15:29.take over before the problems of the past are solved?
:15:29. > :15:32.The British National Party has been holding its annual conference in
:15:32. > :15:35.Liverpool. The leader Nick Griffin - who was narrowly re-elected in
:15:35. > :15:45.July - told members that the party would continue to campaign on
:15:45. > :15:46.
:15:46. > :15:55.issues others weren't prepared to tackle.. We're more popular with
:15:55. > :15:58.the British public than ever before. A freak snowstorm in the United
:15:58. > :16:00.States has left more than three million homes and businesses
:16:00. > :16:03.without power. The early snowfall - across the north-east of the
:16:03. > :16:06.country - grounded planes and caused havoc on roads. Many trees
:16:06. > :16:16.were brought down by the weight of snow on branches that hadn't yet
:16:16. > :16:18.
:16:18. > :16:20.shed their leaves. Sport now and Formula One World
:16:21. > :16:24.Champion Sebastien Vettel took the chequered flag at the first ever
:16:24. > :16:27.Grand Prix in India to notch up his eleventh win of the season. Jenson
:16:27. > :16:29.Button finished second - with Lewis Hamilton coming in seventh after
:16:29. > :16:31.another controversial incident with Ferrari driver Felipe Massa, as
:16:31. > :16:36.Nick Parrott reports. While many had been looking forward to the
:16:36. > :16:45.first Indian Grand Prix, those at the sharp end felt a duty to look
:16:45. > :16:52.back. Main's silence before the race for the recent loss of IndyCar
:16:52. > :16:58.Welden and Semoncelli. Sebastian Vettel started from pole, and as
:16:58. > :17:01.usual raced off into the distance, leaving others to fight amongst
:17:01. > :17:06.themselves. Jenson Button started fourth after struggling in
:17:06. > :17:11.qualifying but was soon into second. Mark Webber fought hard to regain
:17:11. > :17:13.his place but positioned himself perfectly to stay ahead. While they
:17:13. > :17:17.kept their fight clean, Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa clashed
:17:17. > :17:22.for the sixth time this season. Like Mr Bean, they never seem to
:17:22. > :17:26.learn. The stewards decided the Brazilian was to blame. It's a feud
:17:26. > :17:30.that looks unlikely to be resolved any time soon. We had the one
:17:30. > :17:37.minute's silence before the race. Me and Felipe Massa were standing
:17:37. > :17:41.next to each other. He hasn't spoken to me for a long, long time.
:17:41. > :17:46.I put my arm around him and said good luck. I tried to overtake
:17:46. > :17:51.because it didn't look like he was going to give me any space, but we
:17:52. > :17:58.collided. I feel sorry for my time. Vettel steered clear for his 11th