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The Algerian hostage crisis - David Cameron warns the battle against | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
terrorism in North Africa could last decades. Three British workers | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
were killed. Three more are feared dead during the four-day siege at | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
the gas plant in the Sahara. Pictures of two of the four | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
climbers killed an avalanche are released. Christopher Bell was 24. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Una Finnegan was 25. Freezing weather and heavy snow continues to | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
disrupt travel. Hundreds of flights are cancelled at Heathrow. More | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
will be grounded tomorrow. And in sport - Saracens and Leicester book | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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their places in the quarter-finals Good evening. David Cameron has | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
warned that the west faces a decade's long struggle against | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Islamist terrorism in North Africa. The Prime Minister has confirmed | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
three Britons died and another three are feared to have been | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
killed in the hostage crisis which ended when Algerian Special Forces | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
stormed a gas plant yesterday. Most of the kidnappers are thought to | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
have been killed. There are a reports that some were captured | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
alive. 22 who survived the siege are now back home. Our diplomatic | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
correspondent has the latest. The four-day siege is finally over. | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
These new pictures give some sense of the ferocious battles fought by | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
Algerian forces to end it. It is far from clear how many hostages | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
died in these firefights or how many may have been murdered by | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
their captors. Algeria says at least 23 hostages of many | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
nationalities are now dead, as well as 32 of the millants. Algerian | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
police buses have been ferrying injured hostages out of the desert, | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
starting their journeys home. The 22 Britons are now believed to be | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
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back in the UK. The family of one Lou Fear, from Lincolnshire got out | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
alive. His wife said he had been through a horrendous ordeal, a | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
feeling echoed by neighbours. people put thair lives at risk | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
working out there. You don't expect to have to deal with such awful | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
situations. A team of consular officials have been sent out there | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
to bring back the bodies of the dead. The threat has grown, | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
particularly in North Africa. This is a global threat. It will require | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
a global response. It will require a response that is about years, | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
even decades rather than months. This is what David Cameron was | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
talking about - the whole northern part of Africa, where extremists | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
exploit vast, often empty spaces to base themselves and to plot. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
Algeria has long borders, mere lines in the sand, almost | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
impossible to police. Large parts of Mali have fall on the extremists. | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
Historically Britain has focused more effort on strengthening former | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
colonies like Nigeria, with less emphasis on French-speaking areas. | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
I don't think the West assessed the scale of the threat in this region | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
properly. We now see that it is considerable. What should we do | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
about it? That's the difficult question. I think that the Prime | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
Minister is right to say it will take a long time. It is a question | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
of finding them, rooting them out. It is a vast area. This man, | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, says he was behind the attack and even claims | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
to have infiltrated followers into jobs at the plant. | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
Algerian state TV says an army officer negotiated at the height of | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
the siege with the man leading the hostage-takers. | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
In this recording this claim is made - I have spoke on the the | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
British, he says, but they are far away, they have contacted Mali and | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Belmokhtar. Tonight, the Foreign Office said we don't reveal | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
anything about negotiating tactics in managing a hostage crisis. Of | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
course, the claim could be deliberate misinformation. What is | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
not known is about the bloody events of the past few days. One of | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
the British victims of the hostage crisis has been identified by the | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
Foreign Office tonight as Paul Thomas Morgan, who was 46. He has | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
been described as a true gentleman, who loved live and lived it to the | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
full. The Algerian militants have claimed it was in response to | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
France's military intervention in Mali. There are currently 2,000 | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
French troops in the West African country, trying to push back the | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
rebels who control the northern regions. Our Africa correspondent | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
has the latest from Mali. The French build-up here continues. | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
Soldiers arriving at the frontlines in central Mali. | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
Up ahead, the aftermath of a French air strike. Islamist rebels had | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
brought in quite an arsenal when they sieged this town on Monday. | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
Now they have fled, leaving a bewildered population to examine | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
the ruins and wonder where this quietly tolerant country went wrong. | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
They were foreigners, he says. Some Arabs, they spoke a different | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
language,. They tore the cross from the Church. "We are religious here | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
in Mali, but people are abusing our faith to invade this country." | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
Here are the results - a hard-line interpretation of shary ya law | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
imposed in rebel territory. These two escaped after being accused of | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
theft. They did it without any anaesthetic | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
says this man. They are just thieves and criminals. | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
It is hard to join the dots between all the extremist groups fighting | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
here in Algeria of course, in northern Nigeria and as far away as | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
Somalia. There are concerns that what were localised conflicts are | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
starting to emerge into something more alarming. This is not a second | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
Afghanistan, but it is a worry to Africa and for Europe. Which is | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
where the French come in. They may be weary about getting dragged into | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
a long war against a resilient army here, but what alternative is | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
there? It is most important to finish the job. Do you think French | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
troops will have to be involved here? Do you think local African | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
troops can handle this problem? of course I think so. You think | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
foreigners? Yes, of course. longer term answer is to strengthen | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
Mali's own army and to help re- build democracy, not unlike the | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
Afghanistan model. Before last year, this was considered one of Africa's | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
more stable, success stories. Things change fast. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
Let's talk now to our diplomatic correspondent, who is here. The | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
situation in Mali highlights the complexity of the terrorist threat | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
in the region. How difficult will it be to tackle that threat? Very | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
difficult. What we are seeing is very clear, is that Islamist | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
extremists have seen an opportunity in the north of Africa: They are | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
working quick. They moved to take over that whole country and they | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
are being pushed back by the French. It has involved the commitment of | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
European forces N Algeria, a sister organisation, if you like, another | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Al-Qaeda-related franchise, also took the moment, even if it was | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
long in the planning, this attack on the energy installation, it | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
could have been moved forward to coincide with what is happening in | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
Mali. Thank you. | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
Two phD students and a junior doctor have been named among the | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
four climbers killed in an avalanche in Glencoe. Two people | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
survived. One is in a critical condition in hospital. The other | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
escaped without injury. Tonight, he said the group were experienced | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
winter walkers and they all loved the mountains. The climbers who | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
died fell about 1,000 feet and ended up in around two metres of | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
snow. In the shadow of the mountain range | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
where four people lost their lives, the community of Glencoe came to | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
pray and pay its respects. 24-year-old Christopher Bell, a phD | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
student and 25-year-old Una Finnegan, a junior doctor from | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
county Londonderry were among the four killed, along with Tom | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
Chesters, a student from Leeds. A single step on to a snow gully cost | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
them and one other their lives. They were climbing down this peak | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
in Glencoe when the avalanche struck, plunging them nearly 1,000 | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
feet down the mountain. Rescuers were helicoptered there minutes | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
after the alarm was raised. They found one man who managed to step | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
free of the avalanche, helpless as his friends were engulfed in snow. | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
He had made his own way down from the ridge. Obviously, very upset. | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
There wasn't a lot of information, rather there was no information at | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
that time in terms of how people were. It was evident it was a | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
serious event. Today, police spoke on his behalf. | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
It is with much sadness and deep regret some of my friends have died | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
as a result. All in the group loved mountains and are experienced | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
winter walkers. The second survivor - a 24-year-old woman, is | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
critically ill in hospital tonight. The avalanche risk in this valley | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
is currently described as considerable. It is a difficult | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
thing to detect. Even the most experienced climbers, they can be | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
lulled into a sense of security and suddenly the slope goes. | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
Mountaineering Council of Scotland has described what happened here | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
yesterday as a significant tragedy. As you can tell, the weather | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
conditions changed very suddenly. It's yet another reminder that the | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
rewards of climbing these beautiful mountains are considerable, but so | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
are the risks. The freezing conditions across much | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
of the UK which have affected travel over the past few days are | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
likely to cause further disruption. 300 flights were cancelled at | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
Heathrow today. One in ten flights will be grounded there tomorrow. | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
The poor conditions will continue to disrupt the roads and rail | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
network too. At the end of a wintry week, it is | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
de-icing lorries rather than planes that dominate Heathrow's runways. | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
Tomorrow's flights continue to be disrupted. When we have these types | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
of circumstances, we need to leave more gaps between the planes. A | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
little bit like when you are driving on the motorway and these | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
conditions, you need to leave more space between you and the car in | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
front. It is the same at an airport. Because we need more gaps, that | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
means we can land less planes. was the east that bore the brunt of | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
the freezing weather today. Large areas have been transformed into a | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
winter wonder land. There's been plenty of fun to be had. | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
But for some, the snow has been an unwelcome hardship. It disrupts | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
people's lives. It makes planning difficult and trying to work around | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
it is always difficult. And the focus is already turning to | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
the working week ahead and how to keep everything moving. Tomorrow | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
will be the big test. We will be gritting. We have been out two or | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
three times with the gritter lorries. We will carry on | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
throughout the day. That will go on throughout the night. Tomorrow | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
should be OK. This is a band of snow that is moving up the country. | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
Forecasters say tomorrow the main areas affected will be north-east | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
England and Scotland. There's no real sign of the cold | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
weather ending, certainly for much of the working week expect it to be | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
cold, wide-spread night-time frosts, a continued risk of ice. Further | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
snow fluries to come. It is still snowing here in | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
Cambridgeshire tonight. It is bitterly cold and the temperature | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
is plummeting, making driving conditions more treacherous. | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
The reality for many commuters tomorrow will be significant delays. | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
The advice is to check before you travel. | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
Barack Obama has been officially sworn in for his second term as US | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
President in a small ceremony at the White House. It comes a day | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
before his public inauguration. This report from our Washington | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
correspondent. The day began with a wreath-laying | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
ceremony for America's fallen soldiers. | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
A solemn reminder of the wait that comes with this office. I Barack | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
Obama do... Then at the White House, a low-key swearing in ceremony, as | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
required on the 20th January by the constitution. So help me God.... | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
Congratulations. Thank you so much. It was a family affair. Public | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
events come later. He'll do it all over again here tomorrow. | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
Around the capitol, final preparations are underway for an | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
open-air swearing in, followed by a parade. | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
Hundreds of thousands will fill the stands and line the route. The mood | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
is buoyant, but security tight. When Barack Obama delivers his | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
second inaugural address from the steps of the US capitol, the themes | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
will be familiar, securing economic recovery, ending America's longest | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
war and what he calls "nation building" here at home. Today, a | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
senior adviser spelt out what that might mean. Right now, in front of | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
Congress and the country you have the need to continue the economy, | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
energy and climate change, immigration, things are stacked up. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
For his elated followers, hope and change are still alive. Barack | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
Obama will have to move quickly. Eventual wisdom gives a second term | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
President two years to make a mark. After that, thoughts turn to who | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
will live here next. Let's get some sport now. For a | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
full round-up here's Olly Foster. Thank you. The three matches in the | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
English and Scottish Premier League beat the weather today. Depending | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
where you are Match of the Day 2 or Sportscenes follows. I have the | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
results coming up. Manchester United slipped up at White Hart | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
Lane. They thought a Robin Van Persie goal had given them the | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
points but Clint Dempsey scored an injury-time equaliser. United's | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
lead stands at five. Juan Mata and Frank Lampard scored | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
early goals before Theo Walcott pulled one back. In Scotland, | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
Michael Higdon's hat trick for Motherwell saw them beat St | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
Johnstone 3-2 and move level on points with Inverness. The line-up | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
for the quarter-finals of the Heineken Cup is complete. There'll | :16:13. | :16:22. | |
be two clubs from Ireland, three from France and three from England. | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
The ground staff at Leicester removed 50 tonnes of snow from the | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
Welford Road pitch in the two days before their Heineken Cup match. In | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
Toulouse, they had another awkward obstacle to shift. They did it with | :16:35. | :16:45. | |
the boot. Toby Flood gave the Tigers a 9-0 lead over the | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
champions. Things were tricky. Cold hands and unsteady feet help the | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
French side get back into it. On a day like this, qualification came | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
down to will power as much as anything. Leicester showed plenty. | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
Their prize - a trip to the Mediterranean to play Toulon. | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
Sarah Seines reached the last eight. In a very different way. | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
Ashton's try was the second of the afternoon. They secured their bonus | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
point when Hodgeson was allowed safe passage through the defence. | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
They ended up with five. There was a match at the Australian Open as | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
Novak Djokovic made it into the fourth round after a five-hour, | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
five-set thriller against Stanislas Wawrinka. The defending champion | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
and world number one prevailed by 12-10 in the decider. It finished | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
at 1.50am. Mark Selby needs two more frames to become Masters | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
champion for a third time. He is eight frames to five up against | :17:51. | :17:55. |