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Good afternoon. Rebels in Syria say they have | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
launched a major offensive to capture a military airport in the | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
north of the country. It comes as members of Syria's fragmented | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
opposition prepare to meet this weekend. They are trying to form a | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
united front. The latest fighting by rebels has been taking place | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
near Taftanaz, near Aleppo. Our World Affairs Correspondent, Peter | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
Biles, reports. The rebel offensive began at first | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
light. The fighters opened fire on the Taftanaz air base, using | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
multiple rocket launchers and mortars. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
The video footage has not been verified, but it is thought to be | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
genuine. As many as five different rebel | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
units are said to be involved in the attack. | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
If they manage to capture and to hold the air base, it will be a | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
significant development. Taftanaz lies in a streak area between | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Syria's two biggest cities, Aleppo and Damascus. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
For some time the rebels have been trying to counter the government's | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
increasing use of air power. Syrian TV today, it said an armed | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
terrorist group attacked the airport with heavy weapons, but | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
that the assault was repelled by the army. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
The latest offensive comes before an important Syrian opposition | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
meeting in the Gulf state of Qatar, but 19 months after the uprising in | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
Syria began, there is no sign of the conflict abating. | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
A man claims he was abused by a leading Conservative politician | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
more than three decades ago is seeking to meet with the Prime | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
Minister. The claims dates back to a scandal, the subject of a public | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
inquiry into child abuse in North Wales in the 1970s. The allegations | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
involved somebody alive but not named by the BBC's Newsnight | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
programme. We were abused, drink would be | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
involved. It was basically rape, but there would not just be him. | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
There were others involved as well. Barack Obama and his rival to the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
US presidency, Mitt Romney, is facing a final weekend of | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
campaigning. Both candidates are insisting that they can win the | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
race for the White House. Polls in swing states suggests that the | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
contest is still tight. Let's go live to Washington. Our | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
correspondent, Zoe Conway, is there. A frantic weekend, then? Frantic, | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
yes. Barack Obama is visiting eight states in the next three days, Mitt | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
Romney is visiting six. They are spending a lot of time in Ohio, a | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
state that they are desperate to win. President Obama has a narrow | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
lead there, but in a sign of how nervous sides are, there are | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
thousands of lawyers on the ground, getting ready if they have to | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
challenge the result there. President Obama has a narrow lead | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
in most of the background states, but what is striking is how few | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
political commentators in Washington are prepared to stick | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
their necks out to say that the President will win that is because | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
they know that the crucial factor in all of this is turn out. How | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
enthusiastic are the voters? How many of them will bother to go to | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
the polls on Tuesday? Thank you. It is emerging that letters from | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
the former Labour minister, Denis MacShane, in which he admits | :04:12. | :04:17. |