:00:09. > :00:19.The Taliban launch a spring offensive with a wave of co-
:00:19. > :00:21.ordinated attacks in Kabul. Gunfights continued into the night.
:00:21. > :00:26.Western Embassies, NATO's headquarters and the Afghan
:00:26. > :00:29.parliament all targeted. They might have entered the city
:00:29. > :00:38.today, but Afghan National Police are showing them clearly where
:00:38. > :00:40.their limit limitations are. to risk losing millions of pounds
:00:40. > :00:44.in donations. A show of strength, a military
:00:44. > :00:49.parade in North Korea sees its new leader Kim Jong Un speak in public
:00:49. > :00:55.for the first time. This is the regime that is in total
:00:55. > :00:58.control and which demands loyalty to its new young leader.
:00:58. > :01:08.A bolt from the Blues, Frank Lampard's stunning free kick helps
:01:08. > :01:23.
:01:23. > :01:25.Good evening. There has been fierce fighting in the Afghan capital,
:01:25. > :01:29.Kabul, today with Taliban insurgents launching a wave of co-
:01:29. > :01:32.ordinated attacks and calling it the start of a spring offensive.
:01:32. > :01:37.Several Western embassies including Britain's were targeted as well as
:01:37. > :01:39.NATO's headquarters and the parliament building. The Afghan
:01:39. > :01:49.Government says 19 gunmen were killed. Quentin Somerville sent
:01:49. > :01:54.
:01:54. > :01:58.The Taliban once again in the heart of Kabul. Suicide bombers and
:01:58. > :02:03.gunmen spread across the city. The Afghan police were quick to respond,
:02:03. > :02:11.but these pictures appear to show a policeman killed by the insurgents.
:02:11. > :02:14.TRANSLATION: I was in my workshop when I heard the sound of shootings.
:02:14. > :02:17.I saw two men come down from a black glass land cruiser car. They
:02:17. > :02:22.were wearing local cloths. One of them opened fire on a policeman and
:02:22. > :02:26.killed him. But it was the Taliban who took
:02:26. > :02:32.most of the casualties. In a similar attack last September,
:02:32. > :02:34.Afghan security forces floundered. Today, they seemed to have proved a
:02:34. > :02:39.match for the insurgents. Among the targets, the German and British
:02:39. > :02:43.embassies, but the attacks caused little damage and few casualties.
:02:43. > :02:48.The international mission said Afghan forces were in charge.
:02:48. > :02:53.is obviously aimed to send a signal. The signal could be that they are
:02:53. > :02:57.able to enter the city. Well, they might have entered the city today,
:02:57. > :03:05.but Afghan National Police are showing them at the moment very
:03:05. > :03:13.clearly where their limitations are. American soldiers fire on a Taliban
:03:13. > :03:17.position. Moments after a rocket was fired at their base.
:03:17. > :03:20.Today's attacks didn't just hit Kabul, they were across the country
:03:20. > :03:24.including this combat outpost in the east of the country. You saw
:03:24. > :03:28.that the soldiers responded with six rounds on the insurgents
:03:28. > :03:33.position, the message from the Taliban today is that the fighting
:03:33. > :03:43.season here in Afghanistan has well and truly begun.
:03:43. > :03:44.
:03:44. > :03:47.An airfield outside Jill albad was attacked. There were explosions in
:03:47. > :03:51.several provinces. This was a co- ordinated effort.
:03:51. > :03:57.The assault isn't completely over. It is likely the first of many
:03:57. > :04:04.attacks in Kabul this year. The spring offensive has got off to an
:04:05. > :04:07.The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has revealed his proposals for changing
:04:07. > :04:12.party funding which he says will cost Labour millions of pounds in
:04:12. > :04:15.an election year. He wants to limit donations to �5,000 a year
:04:15. > :04:20.including those from trade unions, but fees paid by their members
:04:20. > :04:30.would stay unchanged. The Conservatives have called the
:04:30. > :04:30.
:04:30. > :04:35.proposals "virtually meaningless". Everyone at Westminster agrees that
:04:35. > :04:40.money and politics are two in-- too intertwined. All three political
:04:40. > :04:45.parties want to become less reliant on wealthy donors, but talks on the
:04:45. > :04:48.subject just keep stalling. Ed Miliband says it is now time to try
:04:48. > :04:52.again to clean-up the political process.
:04:52. > :04:57.Let's take the big money out of politics. Now I hope that Nick
:04:57. > :05:03.Clegg and David Cameron will come forward with their own proposals
:05:03. > :05:08.which say, "Look we are willing to to take a bit of pain. We are
:05:08. > :05:12.willing to make charges." -- changes.". The Labour leader wants
:05:12. > :05:16.a cap on individual donations of �5,000, half the amount recommended
:05:16. > :05:22.by an independent report. That is comparison to the Conservatives
:05:22. > :05:26.preference for a �50,000 limit on individual gifts. Ed Miliband
:05:26. > :05:31.claims his cap would mean a sacrifice in an election year of �9
:05:31. > :05:35.million for Labour. But crucially the cap wouldn't affect the
:05:35. > :05:40.millions of pounds Labour gets every year from its affiliated
:05:40. > :05:43.unions through membership fees. The Liberal Democrats argue that
:05:43. > :05:49.arrangement needs reforming and the Conservatives agree.
:05:49. > :05:53.It is the unions that have have been blocking it and the unions run
:05:53. > :05:57.and control Ed Miliband, the Labour leader.
:05:57. > :06:02.Some reformers say the solution is to have more taxpayer funding, but
:06:02. > :06:11.the main parties seem reluctant in the present climate. The debate
:06:11. > :06:13.rumbles on, but an agreement is as The Government says it will work
:06:13. > :06:15.with charities to ensure their income is not "significantly"
:06:15. > :06:18.affected by plans to limit tax relief on donations. More than 40
:06:18. > :06:28.philanthropists have expressed opposition to the idea as well as
:06:28. > :06:28.
:06:28. > :06:31.the Conservative Treasurer, Lord North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong
:06:31. > :06:35.Un, has spoken in public for the first time since taking power late
:06:35. > :06:37.last year. Addressing a huge military parade in the capital
:06:37. > :06:41.Pyongyang, he vowed to maintain his country's military might just two
:06:41. > :06:51.days after the failure of a high profile rocket launch. Damian
:06:51. > :06:57.
:06:57. > :07:01.A goose-step in absolute time. Rank upon rank. This is probably the
:07:01. > :07:05.most militarised State on earth and now heading its repressive regime,
:07:05. > :07:10.a new supreme leader who has inherited the role from his father
:07:10. > :07:14.and grandfather before him. Kim Jong Un grind and chatted as he
:07:14. > :07:21.reviewed his troops. It is the perfect precision of it all that is
:07:21. > :07:23.so striking. This is the regime that is in total control and which
:07:23. > :07:29.demands loyalty to its new young leader.
:07:29. > :07:33.TRANSLATION: He is not even 30 years old. This was the first time
:07:33. > :07:38.his people had ever heard his voice. North Korea's enemies, he said,
:07:38. > :07:43.could no longer blackmail it with nuclear weapons, hinting his nation
:07:43. > :07:52.has its own bomb. It makes you wonder who the enemies
:07:52. > :07:58.are. Every tank bears the slogan, "We will smash the American
:07:58. > :08:02.imperialists." There looked like a new weapon on display. A similar
:08:02. > :08:09.rocket failed to put a rocket into space on Friday. That was forgotten.
:08:09. > :08:16.The cult of the leader is all important here. Kim Jong Un seemed
:08:16. > :08:22.to bask in the adull adulation. Sometimes it seems staged. But on
:08:22. > :08:29.the banks of the Taedong River, the celebrations were simultaneous.
:08:29. > :08:34.Hymns of praise. "we don't believe in heaven, we believe in you." Some
:08:34. > :08:40.were moved to tears. Reverence for the leaders is like a religion here.
:08:40. > :08:46.TRANSLATION: I took heard when I heard Kim Jong Un. He loves our
:08:46. > :08:52.people. In return for their devotion, this is what North
:08:52. > :08:57.Koreans get. Displays designed to awe them and
:08:57. > :09:05.along with one of the world's biggest armies, promises that the
:09:05. > :09:13.Kim dynasty will bring prosperity Steel making is set to return to
:09:13. > :09:18.Teesside. The blast furn nast at the Corus works was relit today and
:09:18. > :09:24.many of the hundreds of people who lost their jobs have been
:09:24. > :09:29.reemployed by its new Thai owners. They have waited a long time for
:09:29. > :09:34.this. After two years, the blast furnace was relit and steel making
:09:34. > :09:38.returned to Teesside. This is fantastic. It is the end of, well
:09:38. > :09:41.the end of a tough year to be honest. This is great.
:09:41. > :09:46.It is fantastic news for all of Teesside. It is fantastic news for
:09:47. > :09:55.all the people who work here. history of steel making here goes
:09:55. > :09:59.back over 150 years. But in 2010, the plant's owner Tata switched off
:09:59. > :10:05.the furnace. The recession meant its order books were empty and 1600
:10:06. > :10:09.jobs were lost. In 2011 it was bought by the Thai company SSI,
:10:09. > :10:11.demand for steel is growing in Thailand and that means 1700 new
:10:11. > :10:17.jobs here. All of our volume will go to
:10:17. > :10:21.Thailand to be turned into coil which is like a sheet of steel
:10:21. > :10:29.which will find its way into automobiles and the white goods
:10:29. > :10:30.industry. It cost nearly �2 billion to get
:10:30. > :10:35.this furnace ready and there is plenty of pride here on the shop
:10:35. > :10:39.floor, but there is also relief because this guarantees jobs on
:10:39. > :10:43.Teesside, an area with one of the highest unemployment rates in the
:10:43. > :10:53.country. The first steel slabs are expected
:10:53. > :10:55.
:10:55. > :11:00.by Tuesday and with them, the the story of steel making on Teesside
:11:00. > :11:05.The two main contenders for the French presidency have staged
:11:05. > :11:13.separate rallies ahead of next week's election. They remain neck
:11:13. > :11:19.in neck in the polls as good In the battle of the street rallies,
:11:19. > :11:26.President Sarkozy packed this area with supporters. The president
:11:26. > :11:32.behind behind in the polls made his appeal to the silent ma majority,
:11:32. > :11:39.by by claiming that France would defend its culture and identity.
:11:39. > :11:43."people of France hear my appeal. Help me. Help me.". Aidez-moi.
:11:43. > :11:48.Aidez-moi. Increasingly President Sarkozy is
:11:48. > :11:53.trying to convince voters that he is the only leader to be trusted in
:11:53. > :12:01.a crisis. A tested leader compared to his rival, who he says, will
:12:01. > :12:04.unleash a festival of spending. Six miles across the city at the
:12:04. > :12:12.Chateau de Vincennes, Francois Hollande was selling himself as the
:12:12. > :12:17.saviour of the French dream. Once candidate prepared to stand up to
:12:17. > :12:20.the markets. TRANSLATION: I will be the
:12:20. > :12:24.President of a republic that will not be ruled by the markets. A
:12:24. > :12:28.France stronger than the world of finance. At this rally, they liked
:12:29. > :12:34.Francois Hollande's spending plans. We cannot fight against the crisis
:12:34. > :12:38.only by cutting the Budget. The other side of the city, they
:12:38. > :12:43.preferred President Sarkozy's austerity.
:12:43. > :12:47.Nicolas Sarkozy has great ideas to get out of the crisis.
:12:47. > :12:57.Much is at stake with a week to go to the first round, the polls
:12:57. > :12:59.
:12:59. > :13:09.suggest the left could gain power It is time for sport. A round-up of
:13:09. > :13:09.
:13:09. > :13:16.the day's action. Chelsea will face Liverpool after
:13:16. > :13:21.they thrashed Tottenham with a 5-1 victory. The goal line technology
:13:21. > :13:26.debate is likely to be admitted after John Terry admitted one of
:13:26. > :13:30.their goals didn't cross the line. 23 years ago today, 96 Liverpool
:13:30. > :13:35.fans died at the start of that year's FA Cup semi-final. So a
:13:35. > :13:39.moment's silence was called for. But it was a moment too much for a
:13:39. > :13:45.swathe of Chelsea fans. The first-half had been scratchy.
:13:45. > :13:49.Cagy. Then Didier Drogba did what he does best, facing the wrong way,
:13:49. > :13:55.the defender stabled to his back, he found the strength to spin and
:13:55. > :13:58.strike. Far less elegant was Chelsea's
:13:58. > :14:04.second goal. Indeed, was it a goal at all? The referee's confidence
:14:04. > :14:10.that it crossed line, not not shared by the Spurs players.
:14:10. > :14:16.Minutes later, Spurs ripped through the Chelsea mid-field, before
:14:16. > :14:24.Gareth Bale stroked home. It was not enough.
:14:24. > :14:28.First Ramires dinked. Lampard lashed.
:14:28. > :14:32.An emphatic scoreline and a striking statistic. This will be
:14:32. > :14:36.Chelsea's fourth final in six years. There is no time to wallow, come
:14:36. > :14:40.Wednesday they have the prospect of taming Barcelona in a Champions
:14:40. > :14:50.League semi-final. It has been a turbulent season for Chelsea, but
:14:50. > :14:51.
:14:51. > :14:55.now at least, it is sprinkled with Hearts set up the first all
:14:55. > :14:58.Edinburgh Scottish Cup final after beating Celtic. But the game ended
:14:58. > :15:04.in controversy fashion with Hearts awarded a penalty for this handball
:15:04. > :15:08.in the closing minutes with the score at 1-1. Beattie converted the
:15:08. > :15:13.spot kick to set-up a final against Hibernian.
:15:13. > :15:23.There was a questionable penalty at Old Trafford as Manchester United
:15:23. > :15:24.
:15:24. > :15:29.Explaining how Manchester United lost to Wigan in their last match
:15:29. > :15:37.takes some doing. Anyway, it was a puzzle they weren't dwelling on.
:15:37. > :15:42.Young was bizily posing Aston Villa problems.
:15:42. > :15:48.A flying start indeed. Wayne Rooney's penalty was less dramatic.
:15:48. > :15:52.One up in seven minute, Manchester United had their swagger back.
:15:52. > :15:56.Almost sauntering past zap villa until Danny Welbeck added a second
:15:56. > :16:00.before half-time. Game effectively over, the second half resembled a
:16:00. > :16:03.training session at times. The moment Manchester United stepped it
:16:03. > :16:06.up a notch they had a third. Rooney's second on what had become
:16:06. > :16:10.a Sunday afternoon stroll for the hosts. There was time for Nani to
:16:10. > :16:15.slip in a fourth and improve the goal difference, but with the gap
:16:15. > :16:25.over Manchester City back up to five points, it may not get that
:16:25. > :16:30.
:16:30. > :16:37.I didn't compt to be that -- expect to be that fast was was Nico
:16:37. > :16:45.Rosberg's verdict. He gave Mercedes their first victory since 1955.
:16:45. > :16:50.Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton finished second and third.
:16:50. > :16:58.Matilda The Musical has proved to be the star of the night at the
:16:58. > :17:03.Olivier Awards. Will Gompertz reports.
:17:03. > :17:08.The award goes to Matilda The Musical.
:17:08. > :17:13.The 2012 Olivier Awards turned out to be a big night for a little girl.
:17:13. > :17:18.Or four little girls as Matilda The Musical won a record-breaking seven
:17:18. > :17:26.awards with the four schoolgirls who took it in turns to play the
:17:26. > :17:36.lead sharing the Best Actress prize. Behind me are the Matildas. They
:17:36. > :17:37.
:17:38. > :17:44.are the youngest winners of a a Olivier Award.
:17:44. > :17:53.How does it feel? Amazing. A really big honour.
:17:53. > :18:02.Matilda won Best New musical. experience of getting the
:18:02. > :18:12.work with the best people in the world is all beyond my wildest
:18:12. > :18:15.
:18:15. > :18:16.dreams. This feels sort of absurd. Another popular winner was Sir Tim
:18:16. > :18:21.Rice. Enough already.
:18:21. > :18:26.I am not sure who I should thank because over nearly 40 years or a
:18:27. > :18:29.bit more than 40 years, there are just so many people without without
:18:29. > :18:34.whom I wouldn't be here. The consensus was the real winner