:00:08. > :00:14.Thousands occupy central Cairo once again after a weekend of violent
:00:14. > :00:17.clashes. Several deaths are reported as the
:00:17. > :00:24.security forces try to evict protestors angry at the slow pace
:00:24. > :00:28.of change in Egypt. We didn't expect that we will
:00:29. > :00:34.return to the same place we used to work in January against the former
:00:34. > :00:37.regime and fighting. Nothing changed.
:00:37. > :00:44.In Libya, a captured Saif Gaddafi appears on television saying he is
:00:44. > :00:49.being treated well. Spain's Conservatives celebrate a
:00:49. > :00:51.landslide victory in the country's general election.
:00:51. > :01:00.Fog grounds flights at Heathrow and other airports bringing delays and
:01:00. > :01:10.misery to passengers. And old boy Glen Johnson returns to
:01:10. > :01:20.
:01:20. > :01:23.Chelsea to grab victory for Good evening.
:01:23. > :01:26.Thousands of protestors remain on the streets of the Egyptian capital
:01:26. > :01:28.Cairo tonight after a weekend of violent clashes. At least seven
:01:28. > :01:32.people have been killed today and hundreds injured. Police used tear
:01:32. > :01:35.gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse the crowds. The Army was
:01:35. > :01:43.also brought in and for a time managed to regain control of Tahrir
:01:43. > :01:48.Square. Our correspondent Jon Leyne Jon.
:01:48. > :01:51.What we are witnessing here is an outpoint of fury against Egypt's
:01:51. > :01:54.military rulers. The people are angry at the way they have been
:01:54. > :01:58.running the country. They are angry about their plans for the future
:01:58. > :02:02.and they are furious about the way they have been brutally treating
:02:02. > :02:12.the demonstration. Today, after a day of violent
:02:12. > :02:12.
:02:12. > :02:16.confrontations, the protesters are They are already calling it the
:02:16. > :02:21.second revolution. These Egyptians have lost patients with the
:02:21. > :02:27.military rulers who took over from Hosni Mubarek. So it is back to a
:02:27. > :02:31.battle for the streets. For a day-and-a-half, the police
:02:31. > :02:36.have been firing volley after volley of tear gas, sending the
:02:36. > :02:41.protesters scurring for cover. But time and again the demonstrators
:02:41. > :02:45.regained their ground. This is the front-line, the police over there
:02:45. > :02:48.are protecting the Interior Ministry and the protesters are
:02:49. > :02:53.battling it out. The air is thick with tear gas. We thought we had
:02:53. > :03:00.seen an end to this, with the end of Hosni Mubarek's rule, but this
:03:00. > :03:04.crowd is as angry as I have seen them in angry. A a fleet of
:03:04. > :03:08.motorcycles rush the injured into a hospital. They are treating
:03:08. > :03:12.suffocation from tear gas and gunshot wounds. The same doctors in
:03:12. > :03:15.the same space they used back when they were fighting Hosni Mubarek's
:03:16. > :03:19.forces. We were so proud of our Army and so
:03:19. > :03:24.proud of our revolution. We didn't expect that we will return to the
:03:24. > :03:27.same place we used to work in January against the former regime
:03:28. > :03:32.and fighting against the same regime. Nothing changed. All the
:03:32. > :03:35.time the crowds were flooding back into Tahrir Square.
:03:35. > :03:40.They are re-establishing the old regime and we don't want the old
:03:40. > :03:47.regime. We don't want the generals of Mubarek. We did a revolution and
:03:47. > :03:51.we are continuing it. Late in the day, the Army came in
:03:51. > :03:57.to reinforce the police. They moved back into Tahrir Square taking
:03:57. > :04:06.control sometimes brutally. In one corner, protesters knelt to
:04:06. > :04:12.pray. A guess fewer of de-- des ture of defiance the soldiers
:04:12. > :04:15.respected. Wung again Wung once again the protesters swarmed back.
:04:15. > :04:18.Tonight, there are thousands occupying the square with more
:04:18. > :04:23.arriving all the time. They are in the most direct confrontation with
:04:23. > :04:28.the military, who claim still to be defending the revolution.
:04:28. > :04:36.There is no sign how the military can restore the stability that most
:04:36. > :04:42.Egyptians want above all. The big question now, of course, is
:04:42. > :04:46.whether elections due in eight days time can go ahead. The military say
:04:46. > :04:51.they are determined they will, but there must be questions about
:04:51. > :04:57.whether they can provide the security. Has the Egyptian Army
:04:57. > :05:00.finally lost the trust of the In Libya, Colonel Gaddafi's
:05:00. > :05:03.captured son, Saif, has been seen on television saying that he is
:05:03. > :05:06.been treated well. In a pre- recorded video message given to an
:05:06. > :05:11.Arabic TV station, he says there are no problems and he expects to
:05:11. > :05:14.have an operation on an injured hand. His captors say they want to
:05:14. > :05:16.keep him in the Libyan town of Zintan for the time being. Our
:05:16. > :05:26.correspondent Caroline Hawley has travelled there and has just sent
:05:26. > :05:32.High in Libya's western mountains, we headed for the town of Zintan.
:05:32. > :05:37.Somewhere here is Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi. Local officials won't say
:05:37. > :05:41.where, only that he is being held in a Private home and is well
:05:41. > :05:46.guarded. Pictures released today show Saif Al-Islam after his
:05:46. > :05:49.capture. The man who Libyans see as the black box of Colonel Gaddafi's
:05:49. > :05:54.regime, no doubt relieved to be alive after what happened to his
:05:54. > :05:58.father. We have been told he asked for shaving foam to remove the
:05:58. > :06:03.beard he grew on the run. That request has been granted. Though he
:06:03. > :06:08.has not been allowed the mobile phone he also asked for. But he has
:06:08. > :06:18.seen a doctor for the injuries to his hand, he says, he sustained in
:06:18. > :06:19.
:06:19. > :06:21.a NATO raid. TRANSLATION: During the raid 26
:06:21. > :06:24.young martyrs were killed by the crusaders attack and many were
:06:24. > :06:26.badly injured. We were in the company of my brothers and comrades.
:06:26. > :06:30.We were conferring, talking and discussing issues when the raid
:06:30. > :06:33.took place. No mistaking the satisfaction of
:06:33. > :06:38.the men who caught him. The commander involved told us that
:06:38. > :06:48.Saif Al-Islam had two guns and a rifle on him, but he hadn't had the
:06:48. > :06:48.
:06:48. > :06:51.chance to use them. TRANSLATION: He acted at first as
:06:51. > :06:54.if he was still in power, but maybe there was fear because he asked me
:06:54. > :06:57.to shoot him dead. I refused. What happens to Saif Al-Islam now?
:06:57. > :07:01.The authorities here say they will co-operate with the International
:07:01. > :07:06.Criminal Court, but he won't find a Libyan in Zintan who thinks he
:07:06. > :07:14.shouldn't be tried right here in the town whose militiaMencap tured
:07:14. > :07:23.him. They want to see him in court in the capital and how Saif Al-
:07:23. > :07:26.Islam is treated now will be a test The Arab League has rejected Syrian
:07:26. > :07:28.demands to alter plans to send observers into the country so they
:07:28. > :07:31.can monitor ongoing clashes between protestors and government forces.
:07:31. > :07:34.There has been further violence in Syria over the weekend, but
:07:34. > :07:42.President Assad says he won't bow to international pressure to end
:07:42. > :07:45.his regime's crackdown. We are not talking about the most peaceful
:07:45. > :07:49.demonstrations. We are talking about militants. Whenever you have
:07:49. > :07:53.militants, you have killing. So the role of the Government is to fight
:07:53. > :07:56.fight those militants in order to restore the stability and to
:07:56. > :07:59.protect the civilians. With me now to discuss these
:07:59. > :08:04.various developments in the Middle East, I'm joined now by John
:08:04. > :08:07.Simpson. Let's start with Syria, Jon. President Assad is sounding
:08:07. > :08:11.defiant, but can he really keep that up in the face of the
:08:11. > :08:14.pressure? It is not clear whether he understands what is happening in
:08:14. > :08:19.his own country. The country is clearly on the edge of civil war,
:08:19. > :08:27.if it isn't starting to topple over into it. He understands the dangers
:08:27. > :08:30.that this presents to a country which is so separated in terms of
:08:30. > :08:34.the ethnic make-up of the country and religious and so forth make-up
:08:34. > :08:40.of it, but he doesn't seem to understand who it is that's doing
:08:40. > :08:44.the fighting. My guess is that he has not himself, got the toughness
:08:44. > :08:49.to really stick this out, but he has got some quite unpleasant
:08:49. > :08:53.people in his Government who may very well want to continue.
:08:53. > :08:58.As we look at the news tonne, it is Syria, it is Libya, where the
:08:58. > :09:01.elections are a long way away and if we look at Egypt, we have
:09:01. > :09:05.protesters occupying Tahrir Square again? Egypt is the serious one at
:09:05. > :09:12.the moment, but Syria I'm sure in the coming days will become the
:09:12. > :09:18.important one, but what's happened in Egypt is that the Arab Spring
:09:18. > :09:23.didn't get beyond February with the fall of President Mubarak. After
:09:23. > :09:28.that, well pretty much the same set-up remained, absolutely fixed
:09:28. > :09:34.with the military in full command. What is causing these
:09:34. > :09:39.demonstrations at the moment is the military's determination to try to
:09:39. > :09:43.get a control over the constitution and people are determined that that
:09:43. > :09:47.should not happen. Who is going to win? It is still very difficult to
:09:47. > :09:49.say. Thank you.
:09:49. > :09:52.A soldier from the 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal
:09:52. > :09:55.Regiment has been killed by a roadside explosion in Afghanistan.
:09:55. > :10:01.He was on patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Central Helmand.
:10:01. > :10:06.His family have been informed. Conservatives in Spain are
:10:06. > :10:08.celebrating a landslide victory in today's national elections. With
:10:08. > :10:11.three quarters of votes counted, the right-of-centre Popular Party
:10:12. > :10:19.has already obtained a majority in the lower house of parliament. Top
:10:19. > :10:24.of the new government's agenda will be Spain's faltering economy. Live
:10:24. > :10:30.now to Gavin Hewitt in Madrid. you can probably see and hear,
:10:30. > :10:33.large crowds are still standing outside the People's Party
:10:33. > :10:38.headquarters. Today, yet another Government in the eurozone became a
:10:38. > :10:46.victim of that crisis and lost power and for the right here in
:10:46. > :10:51.Spain, this has been a truly miss toric victory -- historic victory.
:10:51. > :10:54.The supporters of the centre right People's Party waved their flags
:10:54. > :10:58.and danced and cheered, but it was a muted celebration because the
:10:58. > :11:03.party has promised serious and profound austerity cuts. Spain is
:11:03. > :11:08.at the heart of the eurozone crisis, but tonight, senior party officials
:11:08. > :11:12.were trying to reassure the public. No cuts on pensions. No cuts on
:11:12. > :11:16.healthcare. No cuts on education. We're going to cut where it needs
:11:16. > :11:21.to be cut. REPORTER: Where will the cuts come?
:11:21. > :11:23.On unnecessary spending. The new Prime Minister will be
:11:23. > :11:26.Mariano Rajoy. Voters turned to the Conservatives out of frustration
:11:26. > :11:31.with economic collapse and unemployment, but during the
:11:31. > :11:35.campaign, he didn't provide many details of his plans and the hard
:11:35. > :11:42.part starts now. And this is why. Spain has not
:11:42. > :11:47.recovered from a housing boom which went bust. This is a ghost town,
:11:47. > :11:53.10,000 apartments, completely empty, both the personal and company debt
:11:53. > :12:02.still hangs over the country's banks. In Madrid, this family know
:12:02. > :12:11.all about the fact that five million people here are out of work.
:12:11. > :12:16.The father and son is weary of sending ut out job applications.
:12:16. > :12:20.More than 1,000. How many replies? 10, 15.
:12:20. > :12:26.TRANSLATION: For his generation, it is very bad. It is It is
:12:26. > :12:31.practically a lost generation here in Spain. The Popular Party said
:12:31. > :12:36.tonight, it's priority was creating jobs and cutting the deficit.
:12:36. > :12:39.What impact will more austerity have have on a country with almost
:12:39. > :12:42.no growth and the highest unemployment in the industrialised
:12:42. > :12:48.world. Where will the growth come from to help with their debt
:12:48. > :12:51.burden? Last week, Spain's borrowing costs
:12:51. > :12:56.moved dangerously hype. The first task of this new administration
:12:56. > :13:01.will be to convince the markets it has a convincing plan. The
:13:01. > :13:05.interesting fact is that this country has had spending cuts, for
:13:05. > :13:09.almost two years and almost tonight the voters have given a new
:13:09. > :13:17.Government a mandate for truly radical austerity cuts. It will be
:13:17. > :13:20.interesting to see how that works Thick fog has been causing problems
:13:20. > :13:23.for flights in and out of Heathrow and a number of other regional
:13:23. > :13:30.airports today with dozens of flights cancelled or delayed. Luisa
:13:30. > :13:34.Baldini at Heathrow now. Luisa. How is it looking?
:13:34. > :13:39.Yes, thousands of passengers are facing disruption this evening here
:13:39. > :13:43.at Heathrow just over 100 flights have been cancelled, but the
:13:43. > :13:48.airport has remained open and the majority of flights are operating,
:13:48. > :13:52.there are delays which are going to continue into the night because air
:13:52. > :13:57.traffic controllers have had to reduce the rate at which planes
:13:57. > :14:00.land. At London's City Airport, there have been a few cancellations,
:14:00. > :14:05.but there have been delays and some diversions. There has been
:14:05. > :14:10.disruption also at Leeds Bradford Airport and also Norwich Airport.
:14:10. > :14:15.It is not entirely unusual, there was disruption caused to flights by
:14:15. > :14:18.fog exactly a year ago, but if you are due to fly tonight or in the
:14:18. > :14:23.morning, then you should contact your airline, not only because of
:14:24. > :14:28.the existing disruptions, but because this evening the mefs
:14:28. > :14:31.issued a -- Met Office issued a warning for more dense fog for
:14:31. > :14:41.London, the South East and parts of the Midlands.
:14:41. > :14:46.
:14:46. > :14:49.Thank you. The the unions say the Government
:14:49. > :14:53.is still not negotiating properly and until that changes, the strikes
:14:53. > :14:57.will go ahead. Here is Ben Wright.
:14:57. > :15:01.The country's biggest unions with millions of members have voted to
:15:01. > :15:03.strike and NHS workers, civil serveants and teachers are set to
:15:04. > :15:06.join the walkout at the end of the month. They are protesting at
:15:06. > :15:09.Government plans for public sector pensions and this morning, its
:15:09. > :15:12.minister leading negotiations was asked whether the Government's
:15:12. > :15:17.latest offer would be withdrawn if the strike goes ahead.
:15:17. > :15:20.Absolutely. That is within our power to do that. We have made it
:15:20. > :15:25.clear, this is not an unconditional offer and we will have the ability
:15:25. > :15:28.to withdraw it and impose something which will still meet our concerns
:15:28. > :15:31.of protecting lower paid people, of being fairer.
:15:31. > :15:35.In Private, the Government has accepted that this month's strike
:15:35. > :15:38.is likely to happen. It is further industrial action that could derail
:15:38. > :15:41.a deal. Ministers say that the trade unions
:15:41. > :15:45.have jumped the gun by balloting for strikes while talks are
:15:45. > :15:48.continuing, but Government sources stress that a walkout on 30th
:15:48. > :15:52.November will not mean that the latest pension offer is taken off
:15:52. > :15:55.the table. Discussions will continue, but not indefinitely and
:15:55. > :15:59.ministers want an agreement reached by the end of the year.
:15:59. > :16:03.So what is the offer on the table? Well, a particular sticking point
:16:03. > :16:06.is that public sector employees would have to pay more for their
:16:06. > :16:10.pensions. The Government would contribute more as well. Those
:16:10. > :16:13.under 50, would have to work longer before they receive their pension,
:16:13. > :16:17.but those within ten years of retirement would receive the same
:16:17. > :16:21.pension that they currently are due to get. It is this final part of
:16:21. > :16:25.the deal the Government may revise in the event of further strikes.
:16:25. > :16:28.I don't think it is helpful for ministers to be ratcheting up the
:16:28. > :16:34.rhetoric in this way, threatening to withdraw the proposals that are
:16:34. > :16:36.on the table for example. What we need is for ministers to sit down,
:16:36. > :16:40.seriously negotiate on the issues that need to be resolved.
:16:40. > :16:44.The two sides have been sitting down for a year without a
:16:44. > :16:54.breakthrough. In ten-days time we are likely to see the biggest
:16:54. > :16:58.
:16:58. > :17:01.Now the sport with Celina Hinchcliffe. Hello. Match Of The
:17:01. > :17:04.Day is on BBC Two now with highlights of today's game. There
:17:04. > :17:07.was only one - Liverpool snatched a late win against Chelsea at
:17:07. > :17:09.Stamford Bridge. It was a former Chelsea player Glen Johnson who
:17:09. > :17:14.scored the winning goal. The 2-1 victory lifts Liverpool level on
:17:14. > :17:19.points with the Londoners. Tim Franks reports. Liverpool and
:17:20. > :17:23.Chelsea have lofty dreams and deep pockets, but niggling seasons. In
:17:23. > :17:27.the first-half, Liverpool sparkled and Chelsea stumbled. John Obi
:17:27. > :17:31.Mikel controlled the ball as if he had fallen out of bed. The
:17:31. > :17:35.Liverpool mid-field pounced, Maxi Rodriguez finished. Child's play.
:17:35. > :17:41.Early in the second half, it was the Liverpool defence who were
:17:41. > :17:47.guilty of slum slumbering on the job.
:17:47. > :17:51.Daniel on Daniel Sturridge on as a substitute. A minute later,
:17:51. > :17:59.Liverpool could have fallen behind had it not been for the brilliance
:17:59. > :18:05.of their goalkeeper, Pepe Reina. A former Chelsea player won the game.
:18:05. > :18:13.First Ashley Cole was nutmeged. For Chelsea, the unusual pain of back-
:18:13. > :18:17.to-back Premier League defeats at Roger Federer won the opening match
:18:17. > :18:20.of the ATP World Tour finals at the O2 Arena in London. The defending
:18:20. > :18:23.champion is aiming for a record sixth title here, the event
:18:23. > :18:29.features the top eight players in the world. Today, he beat Jo
:18:29. > :18:31.Wilfreid Tsonga in three sets. Andy Murray plays David Ferrer tomorrow.
:18:31. > :18:36.The British Olympic Association are bracing themselves for a legal
:18:36. > :18:38.challenge to their lifetime ban for drug cheats. Tonight, the World
:18:38. > :18:47.Anti-Doping Agency say the BOA stance fails to comply with their
:18:47. > :18:49.code and they will pass their findings onto the IOC. It will give
:18:49. > :18:55.hope to British athletes like Dwain Chambers, currently banned for life
:18:55. > :18:58.from the Olympics for past doping bans. It now seems likely that the
:18:58. > :19:02.BOA will have to defend their byelaw at the Court of Arbitration
:19:02. > :19:05.for Sport. Rugby Union now and the Heineken
:19:05. > :19:07.Cup holders Leinster are top of their group after an easy win
:19:07. > :19:10.against Glasgow Warriors. Leinster had already insured a bonus point
:19:10. > :19:17.win by half time and Isaac Boss rounded off an impressive
:19:18. > :19:19.performance scoring in injury time, 38-13 the final score. Bath are