:00:32. > :00:38.The Home Office website is targeted by hackers, a group called
:00:38. > :00:40.Anonymous claims responsibility. Hopes for a UN-backed ceasefire in
:00:40. > :00:50.Syria fade as President Assad demands new guarantees from his
:00:50. > :00:53.
:00:53. > :01:03.opponents. On the lining. Who was it? And joy for Hoy as Sir Chris
:01:03. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:15.wins Gold at the World Cycling The BBC has been given rare access
:01:15. > :01:19.to North Korea, one of the world's most secretive nations, as it
:01:19. > :01:23.prepares to launch a long-range rocket that some fear is a test for
:01:23. > :01:26.a ballistic missile. The international community has warned
:01:26. > :01:34.of sanctions if the launch goes ahead as planned in the next few
:01:34. > :01:36.days. Japan and South Korea have threatened to shoot it down. Our
:01:36. > :01:38.correspondent Damian Grammaticas was the only British broadcaster
:01:38. > :01:46.invited to witness the launch preparations, in Tongchang-dong in
:01:46. > :01:51.the north west of the country. Hidden in the hills, a birthday
:01:51. > :01:56.gift for a long dead dictator. Kim Il-Sung died 17 years ago, but he
:01:56. > :01:59.is officially the eternal president of North Korea. So to celebrate the
:01:59. > :02:05.centenary of his birth this week, his country is preparing to put a
:02:05. > :02:10.satellite in space. America and other nations are out rage. It is
:02:10. > :02:13.not what but Warwick -- rocket is carrying, but what is meant the. It
:02:13. > :02:18.is meant to be an international ballistic missile tests. North
:02:18. > :02:22.Korea possesses nuclear bombs and is developing missile technology to.
:02:22. > :02:27.The regime believes that is what guarantees its survival in the face
:02:27. > :02:30.of threats from America and elsewhere. Our journey to the
:02:30. > :02:34.launch site took five hours by train. The satellite is meant to
:02:34. > :02:39.show the world that the North Korean nation is strong and
:02:39. > :02:43.prosperous. We saw little that looked stronger or prosperous. The
:02:44. > :02:48.country ruled by Kim Il-Sung's grandson, remains isolated,
:02:48. > :02:56.stubbornly socialist and unable to feed all its people. And suspicious
:02:56. > :03:00.as well. Three times we were searched by security. North Korea
:03:00. > :03:06.insists launching a satellite is its sovereign right. The this has
:03:06. > :03:09.been planned long ago. This is done on the occasion of the 100 birthday
:03:09. > :03:15.of our President Kim Il-Sung. We are not doing it for a provocative
:03:16. > :03:21.purpose. We were shown at the satellite itself. It will broadcast
:03:21. > :03:26.songs glorifying the dead President. North Korea wants it -- a CSO it
:03:26. > :03:29.can say has nothing to hide and its intentions are peaceful. The UN
:03:29. > :03:33.Security Council has banned it from missile launchers. In the control
:03:33. > :03:36.room they say everything is ready for a list of this week. North
:03:36. > :03:43.Korea has problems begin its own people. Does he think it is right
:03:43. > :03:46.to spend this much money and effort on this Robert -- programme? If we
:03:46. > :03:51.do not develop our own technology, says the launch director, will
:03:51. > :03:55.become slaves. We need our own technology to be in advanced
:03:55. > :03:59.country and be a powerful space nation. The launch could trigger a
:03:59. > :04:02.dangerous sequence of events. South Korea and Japan say they will shoot
:04:02. > :04:06.down the rocket if it goes over their territory. America may seek
:04:06. > :04:14.new sanctions, and the North says any of those would be seen as BOP -
:04:14. > :04:20.Hackers who claim to have brought down the Government's Home Office
:04:20. > :04:23.website last night are threatening to strike again. A Twitter message
:04:23. > :04:25.from the group Anonymous UK, says the Government can expect attacks
:04:25. > :04:31.every Saturday from now on. Here's our Political Correspondent Ben
:04:31. > :04:35.Wright. They are called Anonymous, an online activist group who
:04:35. > :04:38.claimed to have attacked the Home Office website. It is the latest in
:04:38. > :04:41.a number of incidents involving official site since the start of
:04:41. > :04:48.the year. From 9pm last night, the department will website could not
:04:48. > :04:51.be accessed for several hours. People rely on a side like that for
:04:51. > :04:56.information and things that are akin to safety. People must realise
:04:56. > :05:02.there is no advantage in trying to block the site. The battle is
:05:02. > :05:10.between the people, us, Anonymous, and those who are in power. If you
:05:10. > :05:14.care at all about this stuff, then you are Anonymous. Anonymous is a
:05:14. > :05:19.loose global organisation and the Vatican and Mastercard websites
:05:19. > :05:22.have been previous targets. But why the Home Office? Some messages on
:05:22. > :05:27.the social networking side Twitter claimed it was in protest against
:05:27. > :05:30.the extradition of US -- UK citizens to the US, including Gary
:05:30. > :05:35.McKinnon and the student Richard O'Dwyer, accused of breaching
:05:35. > :05:39.copyright laws. Politicians of all parties have condemned the attack.
:05:39. > :05:42.I don't think it is very helpful. If you have grievances with
:05:42. > :05:46.government policy you should raise it in the usual way. We can't have
:05:46. > :05:50.a situation we have people hacking different government websites
:05:51. > :05:54.willy-nilly. Technology experts say it was not one of the most
:05:54. > :05:58.sophisticated cyber attacks. they have done is flooded the
:05:58. > :06:02.website with traffic so it is unavailable for legitimate requests.
:06:02. > :06:07.You can do this by getting a bunch of mates together and say click
:06:07. > :06:10.like crazy, or you can rent compromised computers, so there are
:06:10. > :06:14.millions of compromise computers that have some bitter that the
:06:14. > :06:19.virus where and you can rent them by the hour. It is easy and cheap.
:06:19. > :06:21.A Home Office said the public website was subject to an online
:06:21. > :06:24.protest but denied it had been hacked. A spokesman said the
:06:24. > :06:29.website contains no sensitive information and people here will
:06:29. > :06:33.carry on monitoring the situation. A soldier from the Queen's Royal
:06:33. > :06:35.Hussars has died two months after being injured by a roadside bomb in
:06:35. > :06:37.Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defence said tonight he'd been
:06:37. > :06:44.treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham since the
:06:44. > :06:46.beginning of February. His next of The prospects of a ceasefire in
:06:46. > :06:49.Syria to meet the Tuesday deadline backed by the United Nations
:06:49. > :06:51.suffered a severe setback today. The Syrian government says it now
:06:51. > :07:01.wants "written guarantees" from the opposition before it withdraws
:07:01. > :07:02.
:07:02. > :07:05.troops and artillery. From Beirut, An unusual show of air power by the
:07:05. > :07:09.Syrian regime, flying military jets over the north of the country as
:07:09. > :07:15.troops and tanks battled on the ground below. Unlike Libya,
:07:15. > :07:19.Damascus knows there is no risk of getting shot down by NATO here.
:07:19. > :07:22.Further south, in Homs, several districts continue to be pounded by
:07:22. > :07:28.artillery and tanks. The bulk of the casualties inflicted by heavy
:07:28. > :07:33.weapons like these may be civilians, but as the opposition fighters are
:07:33. > :07:36.entrenched year, that is to the regime are after. After months of
:07:36. > :07:40.battering it has not been able to regain control. That is why just 48
:07:40. > :07:44.hours before it was meant to pour the military out of towns and
:07:44. > :07:47.cities, the foreign ministry announced its insistence on written
:07:47. > :07:51.guarantees that the rebels would stop fighting and surrender arms.
:07:51. > :07:56.It also wants guarantees that countries backing them, Saudi
:07:56. > :08:02.Arabia, Qatar and Turkey will promise to stop. The demands though
:08:02. > :08:06.the whole Kofi Annan plan into doubt. Government troops backed by
:08:06. > :08:09.tanks and artillery heavily art gone -- heavily outgunned the
:08:10. > :08:19.lightly armed rebels. Activists on the ground were scathing about the
:08:20. > :08:31.
:08:31. > :08:36.But the government is taking hits. An armoured vehicle and the tank
:08:36. > :08:40.were knocked out in Homs. The government -- the rebels then they
:08:40. > :08:48.cannot conduct a peace plan, because if they pulled out the
:08:48. > :08:51.opposition would take over in many areas. Pakistan's President Asif
:08:51. > :08:53.Ali Zardari has visited India to try and ease strained relations
:08:53. > :08:56.between the two nuclear states. He's the first Pakistani leader to
:08:56. > :09:02.make the journey in seven years. Relations have been tense since the
:09:02. > :09:05.2008 Mumbai terror attack by Pakistani extremists.
:09:05. > :09:08.A teenager and his father have been killed in a car crash which has
:09:08. > :09:11.left his mother and nine-year-old sister in a critical condition in
:09:11. > :09:17.hospital. A pensioner also died when her car collided head-on with
:09:17. > :09:20.the family's VW Golf on a bridge in East Yorkshire. Fiona Trott reports.
:09:20. > :09:24.The the family from Birmingham were travelling over this bridge when it
:09:24. > :09:33.collided with a Volvo being driven by a 70 old woman. She died at the
:09:33. > :09:39.scene, along with the father and son. It was a head-on collision.
:09:39. > :09:44.There was smoke coming out of the Volvo. Children screaming. It was
:09:44. > :09:47.terrible. The pensioner's daughter was following close behind and
:09:48. > :09:52.arrived just seconds later. The woman has been named as Sheila
:09:52. > :10:02.Stavert-Lee, who lived near York. The other driver was Derek Sarkar.
:10:02. > :10:03.
:10:03. > :10:06.His son Ethan was just 14. The two survivors, who were the wife of the
:10:06. > :10:10.driver and the nine-year-old daughter from the same family, they
:10:10. > :10:13.are in the General Infirmary in a critical condition. The road has
:10:13. > :10:21.now reopened. The police are asking anyone with information to come
:10:21. > :10:24.The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has used his last Easter
:10:24. > :10:26.sermon before standing down to remind the Church of England of the
:10:26. > :10:36.basis of its faith. Our religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott
:10:36. > :10:36.
:10:36. > :10:40.reports. Happy Easter, archbishop! Greeted
:10:40. > :10:47.by well-wishers, Rowan Williams entered Canterbury Cathedral for
:10:47. > :10:51.his final Easter service as archbishop. He used his sermon to
:10:51. > :10:56.reinforce what he said was the central claim of Christianity, that
:10:56. > :11:00.God really did raised Jesus from the dead. Almost a decade, Dr
:11:00. > :11:05.Williams has been warning that religion is being marginalised in
:11:05. > :11:11.public life. Today he spoke of a change in attitude. There are a few
:11:11. > :11:16.signs that the climate is shifting ever-so-slightly. Not towards a
:11:16. > :11:22.mass return to face, but at least towards a reluctant recognition
:11:22. > :11:26.that religion can't be blamed after all for absolutely everything.
:11:26. > :11:30.Archbishop Williams said a secular society was coming to regard
:11:30. > :11:35.Christianity is socially useful, as a tool, for example, for reforming
:11:35. > :11:38.what he called Our ludicrous and destructive economic habits. But Dr
:11:38. > :11:46.Williams warned that Christianity could not be stripped of its
:11:46. > :11:49.awkward beliefs such as the literal resurrection of Jesus, and
:11:49. > :11:54.continued to make sense. The archbishop who last week quashed
:11:54. > :11:59.the film -- ft of pilgrims said people could act in the world even
:11:59. > :12:02.to make peace in the Middle East. It was a view acute by the leader
:12:02. > :12:07.of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales. -- Abu echoed.
:12:07. > :12:10.The very fact of rising from the dead gives everyone hope in those
:12:10. > :12:14.circumstances, which is why I believe that this time we really
:12:14. > :12:20.should appreciate afresh and support with our prayers those who
:12:20. > :12:25.patiently work for peace. The Queen celebrated Easter at St George's
:12:25. > :12:31.Chapel in Windsor. In 60 years as head of the Church of England she
:12:31. > :12:33.has seen several archbishops, and A cruise retracing the route of the
:12:33. > :12:37.Titanic has set sail from Southampton, almost a century to
:12:37. > :12:41.the day since the liner left the same port on its ill-fated maiden
:12:41. > :12:51.voyage. Among those on board the MS Balmoral is our correspondent Jon
:12:51. > :12:53.
:12:53. > :13:00.1,300 passengers, the same number as Titanic, about to set off from
:13:00. > :13:05.the same dogs following the same route. It is just emotional,
:13:05. > :13:12.phenomenal, so exciting. It has been two and a half years of
:13:12. > :13:17.planning, this. There are people from 28 different countries on
:13:18. > :13:22.board. Tickets sold out two years ago. Some have questioned whether a
:13:23. > :13:27.cruise is an appropriate way to mark the centenary of a disaster in
:13:27. > :13:31.which 1,500 people perished, but Susie Miller from Belfast, whose
:13:31. > :13:36.great-grandfather died on the Titanic is proud to be on board.
:13:36. > :13:42.is not mawkish or ghoulish, it is about setting down a marker that
:13:42. > :13:47.week as a family are proud of what he did. -- we as a family. As the
:13:47. > :13:56.Balmoral pulled away from the very birth that the Titanic left, some
:13:56. > :14:01.passengers were clearly thinking about certain aspects of history.
:14:01. > :14:05.It will be fine. Absolutely fine. Icebergs are less of a hazard these
:14:05. > :14:11.days. The captain has technology to guide his ship across the Atlantic.
:14:11. > :14:17.The voyage is about 2000 miles. From Southampton to Cherbourg in
:14:17. > :14:20.northern France, where Titanic picked up extra passengers. Then
:14:20. > :14:25.tomorrow to County Cork, where most of titanic's Irish passengers
:14:25. > :14:30.joined. Then we will head to the site of the wreck, in time for a
:14:30. > :14:35.remembrance service next weekend, precisely 100 years after the
:14:35. > :14:39.disaster. After all the excitement of the departure, tonight, in open
:14:39. > :14:49.seas, the mood on this ship has changed as people reflect on where
:14:49. > :14:51.
:14:52. > :14:55.they are going and what this is all Sport now and Lizzie Greenwood-