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