:00:11. > :00:16.President Obama is to meet the families of the victims of one of
:00:16. > :00:21.the worst mass shootings in US history. He has just arrived in
:00:21. > :00:25.Connecticut, where a gunman killed 26 people at a school. 20 of those
:00:25. > :00:31.who died were children, aged just six or seven. One father paid
:00:31. > :00:40.tribute to his beautiful daughter. Her love and the strength she gave
:00:40. > :00:47.us and the example she showed us is remarkable. She is an incredible
:00:47. > :00:57.person. Japan is set to form a new Government that could raise
:00:57. > :01:02.pensions -- that could raise tension with China. The sports
:01:02. > :01:12.person of the year is Bradley Wiggins. Bradley Wiggins is crowned
:01:12. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:26.the BBC Sports Personality of the A very good evening to you.
:01:26. > :01:30.President Obama has arrived in Connecticut to visit the families
:01:30. > :01:33.of victims of one of America's worst ever mass shootings. Church
:01:33. > :01:37.services have been held throughout the day in memory of those who died.
:01:37. > :01:41.Six members of staff and 20 children, all aged six or seven,
:01:41. > :01:44.were shot dead on Friday at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. New
:01:45. > :01:49.details have emerged about the lone gunman, whom police confirm was
:01:49. > :01:54.Adam Lanza. They say he fired hundreds of rounds of ammunition
:01:54. > :01:57.and had hundreds more left. A British boy was among his victims.
:01:57. > :02:03.Our correspondent is in Newtown for us tonight.
:02:03. > :02:06.Well, in the past few minutes the Presidential motorcade arrived here
:02:06. > :02:11.in Newtown. Barack Obama will meet in private with the families of the
:02:11. > :02:16.children and the teachers who died in that school on Friday and he'll
:02:16. > :02:21.then address an interfaith vigil, in what promises to be another
:02:21. > :02:25.emotional address. Members of his staff say the President has been
:02:25. > :02:32.working on that speech himself here. It comes on a day when we have
:02:32. > :02:36.learnt more about the young lives that ended so brutally. Bright,
:02:36. > :02:41.eager, full of life - these were some of the children who went to
:02:41. > :02:45.school on Friday morning but never came home. These, the teachers and
:02:45. > :02:50.support staff who died trying to protect them. Like all the names
:02:50. > :02:55.you are about to hear, Olivia Engel was six years old. She was to have
:02:55. > :03:00.been the angel in a nativity play. Noah Pozner was a mature,
:03:00. > :03:10.inquisitive boy, with two sisters who survived the attack. One, two,
:03:10. > :03:10.
:03:11. > :03:19.three, ready and go... This is Ana Marquez-Greene performing a hymn
:03:19. > :03:22.with her brother in a video posted by a local newspaper. Emily Parker
:03:22. > :03:30.was remembered publicly by an agonised father.
:03:30. > :03:40.She was the type of person who could just light up the room. She
:03:40. > :03:45.always had something kind to say about anybody. Her love and the
:03:45. > :03:49.strength she gave us and the example she showed us is remarkable.
:03:49. > :03:54.At six years of age Dylan Hockley had spent much of his young life in
:03:55. > :03:59.Britain. With his brother, father and American mother he had moved
:03:59. > :04:03.from Hampshire to Newtown early last year. The family settling in
:04:03. > :04:07.an up-scale neighbourhood, which chillingly was also home to his
:04:07. > :04:11.killer. Behind the police cordon the Hockley family house and the
:04:11. > :04:15.gunman's home are just a short distance apart. It was a street
:04:15. > :04:17.which was prized for feeling safe. It is shocking. We all moved to
:04:18. > :04:21.this neighbourhood, you want to bring your kids up the right way.
:04:21. > :04:26.You want them to feel safe, you want them to be in a neighbourhood.
:04:26. > :04:30.That is what we liked here - it was a neighbourhood. A father leaves a
:04:30. > :04:36.paper angel at a make-shift memorial. Tell your kids you love
:04:36. > :04:40.them, it reads. As if parents could possibly forget. The numbness of
:04:40. > :04:46.Friday is giving way to a rare, unbearable grief, a collective
:04:46. > :04:50.burden of loss. But up the road, a reminder too of
:04:50. > :04:55.how on edge this community remains. The police had evacuated a packed
:04:55. > :04:59.church after a threatening phone call. Whatever this is, it is an
:04:59. > :05:02.incredibly tense situation. Police officers with guns drawn, Swat
:05:02. > :05:07.teams surrounding what appears to be one of the Church buildings.
:05:07. > :05:12.After a tense wait, guns were back in holsters. It appeared to have
:05:13. > :05:18.been a hoax. How could anybody do this? How could anybody call the
:05:18. > :05:23.Church in the middle of the mass? After everything - everybody has
:05:23. > :05:27.been through in Newtown. We learned more today about Adam Lanza, the
:05:27. > :05:32.young man only just out of his teens who shot his mother multiple
:05:33. > :05:37.times before forcing his way into the school.
:05:37. > :05:41.The caller indicates... children died in two classrooms.
:05:41. > :05:48.Lanza then took his own life. The police have now officially
:05:48. > :05:53.confirmed the obvious - the killer was well armed. 30 rounds per
:05:53. > :05:58.magazine. How many? Numerous. Hundreds of bullets, yes. Tonight,
:05:58. > :06:02.Barack Obama will give voice to America's heartbreak, as a father
:06:02. > :06:08.and an elected leader to whom those who want tighter gun laws are
:06:08. > :06:13.turning. And the police investigation, well
:06:13. > :06:17.its focus is the guns used by Adam Lanza - four in all, we are told,
:06:17. > :06:22.were retrieved from the scene. One from his car. It is believed, but
:06:22. > :06:26.not confirmed, those guns were owned legally by Lanza's mother. Do
:06:26. > :06:30.we get a sense about what the President might be thinking in
:06:30. > :06:33.terms of gun control legislation? Yes. This issue has been discussed
:06:33. > :06:39.at length on television today. There are senior politicians now
:06:39. > :06:43.calling for tighter gun laws. First of all, for the reinstatement for a
:06:43. > :06:48.ban on assault weapon, including the type of rifle used by Lanza.
:06:49. > :06:51.There was a ban for ten years. It lapsed in 2004. There are calls for
:06:51. > :06:57.restrictions on the sale of ammunition. In some States you can
:06:57. > :07:01.walk into a super marbt and buy bullets off the shelf.
:07:01. > :07:03.There are politicians who would like to see him act against that
:07:03. > :07:10.through Congress, but it will not be easy.
:07:10. > :07:13.Thank you. Now Japan's right-wing party is set
:07:14. > :07:17.to form a Government after a victory in the country's general
:07:18. > :07:23.election. Its leader has promised to get the economy back on track
:07:23. > :07:28.after two decades of slump. His victory could raise tensions with
:07:28. > :07:36.China, over a territorial dispute over islands was at the heart of
:07:36. > :07:42.his campaign. Cheer as well they might. The old
:07:42. > :07:49.boys of the LDP are back. The party that ruled Japan for half a century
:07:49. > :07:54.is tonight once more in control. Japan today turned dramatically
:07:54. > :08:04.against a Government which had swept the old LDP from power just
:08:04. > :08:08.
:08:08. > :08:12.three years ago. In 2009, this woman voted for the democrats, not
:08:12. > :08:18.today. I wished for a Government to make the economy improve a little
:08:18. > :08:23.bit for our children. In three years, Japan has had three
:08:23. > :08:28.different Prime Ministers. The country has been ravaged by natural
:08:28. > :08:33.disaster. A nuclear power plant has exploded and the economy is back in
:08:33. > :08:38.recession. Even Shinzo Abe admits it is why his party won.
:08:38. > :08:42.TRANSLATION: It's not that trust has returned. I feel that the
:08:42. > :08:47.people of Japan have said no. Two or three years of confusion from
:08:47. > :08:51.the Democratic Party. The first priority for Japan's new Prime
:08:51. > :08:58.Minister will be China. Tokyo and Beijing are locked in a bitter
:08:58. > :09:02.dispute over this group of island in the East China sea. It has
:09:02. > :09:07.caused violence across China. Mr Abe believes it is time to get
:09:07. > :09:11.tough with Beijing. Tonight, Japan stands at a crossroads. The new
:09:11. > :09:15.Prime Minister could choose to repair relations with China, or he
:09:15. > :09:19.could choose to take the path of confrontation. Which way he decides
:09:19. > :09:27.to go will have profound implications to the security and
:09:27. > :09:32.stability of this region. The family of the nurse found dead
:09:32. > :09:37.days after a hoax phone call about the Duchess of Cambridge has been
:09:37. > :09:42.flown to India for her funeral. Her husband and two children
:09:42. > :09:45.accompanied her body. Her funeral will take place
:09:45. > :09:50.tomorrow. A medical tribunal has ruled a former British Army doctor
:09:50. > :09:55.failed to protect detainees and acted dishonestly over the death of
:09:55. > :10:00.Baha Mousa, who was beaten by British soldiers in Basra in 2003.
:10:00. > :10:04.Dr Derek Keilloh, who works as a GP, claimed he had seen no injuries on
:10:04. > :10:08.Mr Mousa's body on the day he died. A tribunal will consider what
:10:08. > :10:12.action to take. Some routine NHS services in
:10:12. > :10:18.England could be in future available at weekends. A new group
:10:18. > :10:28.is to look at the obstacles preventing the NHS from providing
:10:28. > :10:30.services like day surgery and scans seven days a week.
:10:30. > :10:34.South Africa's ruling African national Congress is meeting to
:10:34. > :10:37.decide who will lead it into the next general election. The ANC is
:10:37. > :10:41.facing allegations of corruption and poor leadership, while a
:10:41. > :10:49.growing number of South Africans are wondering how long it can or
:10:49. > :10:59.should remain in power. Some politicians are already quitting
:10:59. > :11:00.
:11:00. > :11:05.the party. Luxury beaches and stubborn poverty. It is on display
:11:05. > :11:12.here. Could this town show a struggling nation a way forward.
:11:12. > :11:17.Memory Booysens hopes so. He's the new mayor. He needs a new guard.
:11:17. > :11:22.had death threats. I was scared. Here is why - for years it was
:11:22. > :11:27.controlled by the ruling ANC - the party of Nelson Mandela. Disgusted
:11:27. > :11:30.he said by the corruption that was bankrupting them. He joined the
:11:30. > :11:34.opposition and won the next election.
:11:34. > :11:39.It was corrupt from top to bottom. It was part of the fabric of the
:11:39. > :11:43.way the ANC, at the time, was running the town. Do you believe it
:11:43. > :11:49.is a snapshot of South Africa in general? It is what the ANC is all
:11:50. > :11:55.about. The ANC has not taken defeat or memories -- Memory's defection
:11:55. > :12:00.too well. He's a traitor. He is nothing more than a political
:12:00. > :12:05.prostitute. His task now is to convince the
:12:05. > :12:10.poorest communities here that he can deliver on Mandela's promise on
:12:10. > :12:16.a better life for all. The values of Nelson Mandela are actually
:12:16. > :12:20.lived within the Democratic Alliance. Not within the ANC?
:12:20. > :12:27.just lip-service. People seem ready to listen. It was the ANC before.
:12:27. > :12:33.So, for more than five years... the ANC made you lots of promises?
:12:33. > :12:36.But did not achieve promises. years, South Africans have voted
:12:36. > :12:40.almost instinctively for the ANC, the party that liberated them. What
:12:40. > :12:45.is happening here is showing that loyalty can no longer be taken for
:12:45. > :12:51.granted. Slowly, sometimes violently, multi--party democracy
:12:51. > :12:55.is starting to take root here. I do want to shake your hand.
:12:55. > :13:00.Memory keeps on reaching out, convinced that Mandela's dream of a
:13:00. > :13:09.rainbow nation is not dead. If one small town can cope with change,
:13:09. > :13:13.why not others? Now, the wait is over, the cyclist
:13:13. > :13:17.Bradley Wiggins has been crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
:13:17. > :13:22.The ceremony saw the Duchess of Cambridge made her first public
:13:22. > :13:29.appearance since leaving hospital. She handed a Lifetime Achievement
:13:29. > :13:33.Award to Lord Coe. Thousands of fans slowly leaving here after what
:13:33. > :13:37.was a celebration of an extraordinary year for British
:13:37. > :13:43.sport. Trying to pick one winner was always going to be a struggle.
:13:43. > :13:49.In the end, it went to the man who made cycling history.
:13:49. > :13:53.Bradley Wiggins. It was the perfect ending to a
:13:53. > :14:00.perfect year. A deafening ovation for Bradley Wiggins, in a
:14:00. > :14:05.remarkable 2012 for British sport, once again he had beaten the best.
:14:05. > :14:09.History um of in the Tour de France and Olympics had captured the
:14:09. > :14:14.country's imagination. Now he captured one of the most
:14:14. > :14:18.prestigious awards. What a year. To stand on this stage with the likes
:14:18. > :14:21.of these people next to me, it's incredible. I would like to thank
:14:21. > :14:27.my team-mates. Without them, I would not be here tonight. I would
:14:27. > :14:31.not be on this stage. One of the evening's other
:14:31. > :14:35.highlights was a Lifetime Achievement Award for Lord Coe,
:14:35. > :14:40.also presented by the Duchess of Cambridge.
:14:40. > :14:46.In a year defined by the London Olympics and Paralympics, Lord Coe
:14:46. > :14:51.had been the driving force. The man who did more than most, to deliver
:14:51. > :14:58.an unforgetable 2012. I guess it is just another quiet night in East
:14:58. > :15:06.London, in an Olympic venue. I'm so flattered and so honoured to be the
:15:06. > :15:11.recipient of this trophy tonight. But this was a night that belonged
:15:11. > :15:16.to Bradley Wiggins, in a glorious year for British sport, he is the
:15:16. > :15:21.champion of champions. It was a night with plenty of other
:15:21. > :15:26.big awards. The team of the year went to Team GB and Paralympics GB.
:15:26. > :15:29.Coach of the Year went to Dave Brailsford. And overseas
:15:29. > :15:35.Personality of the Year was Usain Bolt. No doubting the star of the
:15:35. > :15:39.night - it was Bradley Wiggins. Many thanks.
:15:39. > :15:45.Well, from those towering sporting achievements to today's sport
:15:45. > :15:51.action. Thanks very much. Play will resume
:15:51. > :15:56.in just a few hours' time in Nagpur, with England's cricketers on the
:15:56. > :16:01.brink of a famous victory. England have not won a Test series there in
:16:01. > :16:07.27 years. Needing a draw to go into the final day, go into the lead
:16:07. > :16:11.with 165 runs. Following the trail of the Test Match from an English
:16:11. > :16:17.perspective, Sunday could go slowly. For the English fans, a draw would
:16:17. > :16:21.certainly do. Could it be the day when cricket stood still?
:16:21. > :16:26.Alastair Cook scored one run. Simply seeing out time was
:16:26. > :16:30.England's tactic. After 93 balls he rocketed to 13. Maybe the umpire
:16:30. > :16:36.was bored. He gave him out caught and Cook was convinced he had not
:16:36. > :16:41.hit the ball. Every replay backed him up. Next the mystery ball. If
:16:41. > :16:47.he has bowled it, you can hit it. That is Jonathan Trott's mentality.
:16:47. > :16:53.It had not been called a dead ball and everyone was amused.
:16:53. > :16:57.Ashton suggested that Trott had abused the spirit of the game.
:16:57. > :17:01.Pietersen batting, but not for long. Gone for six. Maybe England were
:17:01. > :17:05.perceiving demons that were not really there. India were convinced
:17:05. > :17:11.they had seen the ball edge Trott's battle. Maybe heard it. This time
:17:11. > :17:15.the umpire did not agree. Trott's approach was obvious - going
:17:15. > :17:20.nowhere. India continued to object. Perhaps their real frustration was
:17:20. > :17:24.that England closed just three down, 165 ahead. England's attempt to
:17:24. > :17:29.grind out a draw to protect themselves at all costs seems to be
:17:29. > :17:34.working. Remember, it would be enough for them to win the series.
:17:34. > :17:39.A clatter of wickets on the final morning could change everything.
:17:39. > :17:42.Match of the Day 2 follows the news. If you do not want to know today's
:17:42. > :17:48.football results please avert your eyes and cover your ears. Spurs are
:17:48. > :17:52.up to fourth in the Premier League after beating Swansea 1-0 at White
:17:52. > :17:55.Hart Lane. Vertonghen scoring in the 75th minute. West Brom missed a
:17:56. > :18:02.chance to go level on points with Spurs after being held to a
:18:02. > :18:09.goalless draw by West Ham. Chelsea's quest to be crowned Club
:18:09. > :18:14.World Champions has ended. They were beaten 1-0 by Corinthians.