:00:21. > :00:23.Good afternoon. The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has
:00:23. > :00:29.warned that Iran's nuclear ambitions could plunge the Middle
:00:29. > :00:32.East into a Cold War. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph,
:00:32. > :00:34.Mr Hague says that if Iran builds an atomic bomb, it would trigger
:00:34. > :00:44."the most serious round of nuclear proliferation since nuclear weapons
:00:44. > :00:46.
:00:46. > :00:50.were invented". Peter Biles reports. Iran's nuclear ambitions continue
:00:50. > :00:55.to be a matter of international concern. The West has long
:00:55. > :00:58.suspected that Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons. Tehran
:00:58. > :01:02.insists the nuclear programme is purely for civilian purposes and
:01:02. > :01:09.says it has a right to press ahead with these plans. William Hague
:01:09. > :01:14.says, if Iran does create a nuclear weapon, this could trigger an arms
:01:14. > :01:18.race. He said this is a crisis coming down the tracks. He said it
:01:18. > :01:22.would be the most serious round of nuclear proliferation since nuclear
:01:22. > :01:27.weapons were invented, and that would be a disaster in world
:01:27. > :01:31.affairs. Analysts agree that if Iran got the bomb, then Saudi
:01:31. > :01:37.Arabia and other countries in the Middle East would want to follow
:01:37. > :01:40.suit. Saudi Arabia would look to Pakistan to get its own, Egypt and
:01:40. > :01:45.Turkey would reconsider their Non- Proliferation countries, although
:01:45. > :01:50.they would not obtain a bomb in the short term. Other countries would
:01:50. > :01:54.look to the outside world for assistance. Iran has just sent two
:01:54. > :01:59.of its naval ships through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean.
:01:59. > :02:03.Israel will see that as another provocation, although the latest
:02:03. > :02:05.signals from Tehran suggest a willingness to resume talks on the
:02:06. > :02:08.nuclear issue. 40 children wrongly held in adult
:02:08. > :02:11.detention centres while seeking asylum are understood to have
:02:11. > :02:17.received a share of more than a million pounds in compensation from
:02:17. > :02:23.the Home Office. Our political correspondent Naomi Grimley is here.
:02:23. > :02:29.Naomi, why has the Home Office had to pay out this money? This is
:02:29. > :02:35.regarding cases back in 2005, 40 cases of asylum seekers from
:02:35. > :02:39.countries like Afghanistan, Uganda, Somalia, even a 14 year-old girl
:02:39. > :02:43.from Sri Lanka. When they were interviewed by officials who were
:02:43. > :02:48.not experts, they were classed as adults even though they were in
:02:48. > :02:52.fact children. That meant they were locked up in adult detention
:02:52. > :02:57.centres and they shouldn't have been, hence why they have had to
:02:57. > :03:02.agree to pay compensation. Are the children still being detained now?
:03:02. > :03:07.Nick Clegg has said trial detention should not happen. It can still
:03:07. > :03:11.happen in a handful of cases in a child-friendly environment but the
:03:11. > :03:15.refugee Council is saying an added problem is that children may be
:03:15. > :03:17.being processed as adults if they don't have any documentation to
:03:18. > :03:21.show otherwise. New research suggests average house
:03:21. > :03:24.prices have risen in just two local authority areas since the UK's
:03:24. > :03:28.property boom peaked in 2007. Best performing was Rochford in Essex
:03:28. > :03:37.which showed a 1% rise. Nine of the worst ten areas were all in
:03:37. > :03:42.Northern Ireland. On average, the study for the Halifax bank found
:03:42. > :03:46.house prices have fallen by 24% since 2007.
:03:46. > :03:51.Syrian forces have opened fire with live ammunition to break up a
:03:51. > :03:56.protest against President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. Shooting
:03:56. > :04:00.broke out at the funeral of three youths killed in earlier protest
:04:00. > :04:05.against the President on Friday. The demonstration comes as a
:04:05. > :04:10.Chinese envoy visiting Syria has called on all sides to end the
:04:10. > :04:13.violence. This footage is thought to be killed in a region of
:04:13. > :04:16.Damascus. After nearly 40 years, there is
:04:16. > :04:19.fresh evidence that Lord Lucan fled to Africa to avoid being questioned
:04:19. > :04:22.about the murder of his children's nanny and the attempted murder of
:04:22. > :04:26.his wife. The unsolved mystery of the peer's disappearance is one of
:04:26. > :04:30.the most infamous cases in British criminal history. But now a former
:04:30. > :04:40.employee of one of Lucan's closest friends has shed new light on the
:04:40. > :04:40.
:04:40. > :04:45.case, as Glenn Campbell reports. Lord Lucan vanished on seventh
:04:45. > :04:51.November 1974, after murdering his children's' nanny and attempting to
:04:51. > :05:00.murder his estranged wife. His car was found abandoned here in New
:05:00. > :05:03.Haven in Sussex, and detectives suspected he may have been smuggled
:05:03. > :05:10.abroad by friends. Today the suspicion has been confirmed by a
:05:10. > :05:20.former personal assistant to Lord Lucan's personal confidant, John
:05:20. > :05:21.
:05:21. > :05:26.Aspinall. Arrangements were made for John Bingham, also known as
:05:27. > :05:34.Lord Lucan, to see his children. I have to put them on flights to
:05:34. > :05:41.Africa. I don't know the exact dates, it was between 79-81.
:05:41. > :05:51.woman says she arranged the flights twice so he could see his children.
:05:51. > :05:52.
:05:52. > :05:56.At some point, I think in Gabon, his -- he wanted to see how they
:05:56. > :06:01.were growing up, to look at them from a distance. It was clear he
:06:01. > :06:04.would not speak to them or make himself known to them because that
:06:04. > :06:11.would make it difficult for them going back to their mother, saying
:06:11. > :06:15.I had seen daddy. That was it. theory Lord Lucan has fled to
:06:15. > :06:21.Africa was confirmed by the detective who led the inquiry
:06:21. > :06:26.during the 1980s. I made a few inquiries around and it was quite
:06:26. > :06:31.obvious that people were aware that Lord Lucan was not dead, and the
:06:31. > :06:36.word was that he was in Africa. John Aspinall never publicly
:06:36. > :06:41.admitted any involvement in his disappearance, and died of cancer
:06:41. > :06:45.in 2000, but his former personal assistant says she is now willing
:06:45. > :06:49.to talk to detectives about the role she played in Lord Lucan's
:06:49. > :06:53.abroad. If you're in London and the south