27/04/2013

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:00:29. > :00:34.Britain have started operating armed droned aircraft over Afghanistan for

:00:34. > :00:39.the first time from British soil. The Ministry of Defence said that

:00:39. > :00:44.#k7 reaper drones are operated by remote control from a base in

:00:44. > :00:48.Lincolnshire Here is our Defence Correspondent. RAF personnel used to

:00:48. > :00:55.fly the Reaper aircraft remotely from Creech Air Force Base in

:00:55. > :01:00.Nevada. In October of last year, the RAF created 13 squadron based at RAF

:01:00. > :01:04.Waddington, including pilot, systems operators and engineers. Now

:01:04. > :01:10.piloting missions over Afghanistan from Lincolnshire. The RAF's Reaper

:01:10. > :01:13.drones are used for surveillance and reconnaissance. They are piloted

:01:13. > :01:18.remotely but launched and landed with human help at Kandahar air

:01:18. > :01:23.base. The UK is doubling the number of Reapers to ten. They can carry

:01:23. > :01:29.bombs and Hellfire missiles for strikes on insurgents by the flight

:01:29. > :01:34.crew under strict British rules of engagement. We are not out to kill

:01:34. > :01:43.bad guys in the Yemen or Pakistan, this is supporting British troops

:01:43. > :01:47.and Afghan nation rebuilding. CND and the drone campaign network

:01:47. > :01:51.and the Stop the War Coalition are aiming to campaign. They say that

:01:51. > :01:55.this marks a critical expansion in the nation's drone programme.

:01:55. > :01:59.we are doing is increasing the bitterness, hatred and the anger

:01:59. > :02:03.that the people in the region feel to us. That is not good for anyone.

:02:03. > :02:09.However, the British drones are news not used outside of Afghanistan in

:02:09. > :02:16.the same way as America's CIA airstrikes which many believe do

:02:16. > :02:21.violate international law. You can find out how the drones work and how

:02:21. > :02:29.they operate by visit visiting bbc.co.uk/news. The details are

:02:29. > :02:33.there for you. A young woman, killed in a road accident involving a

:02:33. > :02:39.minibus and Lori on the M 62 motorway has been named by the

:02:39. > :02:45.police. 18-year-old Bethany Jones died at the scene near Castleford in

:02:45. > :02:50.West Yorkshire. 21 passengers had been in the minibus on the way to a

:02:50. > :02:54.hen that were admitted to hospital. The driver of the Lori has been

:02:54. > :03:00.released on police bail. A police watchdog is saying that its

:03:00. > :03:04.investigation of a Taser of a man who caused him to die, was that he

:03:04. > :03:09.was caused to die of serious burns. The Independent Police Complaints

:03:09. > :03:14.Commission are to examine why the office used the weapon on the

:03:14. > :03:19.32-year-old from Plymouth. To his family, a fantastic son and a dear

:03:20. > :03:24.brother, Andrew Plimlott now dead from horrific burns. The police

:03:24. > :03:30.found him holding a can of fuel. It is not clear what happened next but

:03:30. > :03:33.he was engulfed in flames and a Taser used. The IPCC say that their

:03:33. > :03:38.investigation is looking at what information was known to the

:03:38. > :03:43.officers attend tending the scene. The rationale for discharging a

:03:43. > :03:48.Taser, known to be doused on a person in flammable liquid and

:03:48. > :03:53.whether or not the discharge caused the fuel to ignite. There are more

:03:53. > :03:56.than 12,000 Tasers on the streets of England and Wales, in the hands of

:03:56. > :04:00.especially trained officers. In 2011 they were fired more than 1,000

:04:00. > :04:05.times. The police say because they are replacing the use of firearms,

:04:05. > :04:10.that they are saving lives. But there have been increasing numbers

:04:10. > :04:14.of complaints about their use. Here while the man is on the ground. In

:04:14. > :04:20.another, a Taser was used on a blind man when the police mistook his cane

:04:20. > :04:25.for a sword. With firearms there is always a very long training process.

:04:25. > :04:30.With the Taser training it is three days. I have always said that it is

:04:31. > :04:36.not long enough for the risk and the consequences. Front line officers

:04:36. > :04:39.have called for a triple in the numbers of Tasers. For them it is a

:04:39. > :04:43.life-safer, protecting the police and the public, but campaigners fear

:04:43. > :04:49.it becoming a weapon of first choice, leading to injuries and on

:04:49. > :04:55.rare occasion, even death. ??FORCEDWHIT North Korea has

:04:55. > :05:00.announced it will try an American careen -- it will try an

:05:00. > :05:03.American-careen man for attempting to overthrow the government. This

:05:03. > :05:09.latest development could inflame the tensions between the US and the

:05:09. > :05:13.North Korea. With relations deeply fraught after the north warned it

:05:14. > :05:16.was ready to launch military strikes against America. The police in

:05:16. > :05:20.Bangladesh have arrested two engineers involved in the design of

:05:20. > :05:25.the building that collapsed on Wednesday, causing the death of more

:05:25. > :05:31.than 320 people. At least 19 survivors were culled -- pulled from

:05:31. > :05:34.the rubble of the clothing factory. The most serious disaster to hit the

:05:34. > :05:38.garment industry that supplies clothes to Western brands. The

:05:38. > :05:45.police in New York have found what appears to be a part of the landing

:05:45. > :05:50.gear of one of the planes used in the September 11 attack attacks used

:05:50. > :05:56.in 2001. It was discovered wedged between two buildings in lower

:05:56. > :06:00.Manhattan. The site of the worst ever terror attack on the US soil,

:06:00. > :06:03.but more than 11-and-a-half years after 9/11, this piece of metal,

:06:03. > :06:08.bearing a Boeing identification number has been discovered three

:06:08. > :06:11.streets away. It was found on Wednesday, wedged between the site

:06:11. > :06:15.of a mosque and another building. The police in New York believe it is

:06:15. > :06:21.part of the landing gear of one of the planes that hit the World Trade

:06:21. > :06:28.Center. They are treating this as a crime scene. What happened, what

:06:28. > :06:34.will happen now is we wait until Monday morning, the Medical Examer

:06:34. > :06:40.will do an xrags of the part to see if it is tooksic in any way. Check

:06:40. > :06:46.to see if there are any human remains at the site. Almost 3,000

:06:46. > :06:51.people died in the September 11 attacks on America. While rubble

:06:51. > :06:55.from the twin towers was cleared, the debris has been found scattered

:06:55. > :07:00.in areas nearby since then. Now, the latest discovery. For the families