:00:06. > :00:11.Nick Clegg says there should be no return to the bad old days of
:00:11. > :00:14.single-party Government. Speaking during the Liberal Democrats
:00:14. > :00:18.conference, the Deputy Prime Minister said he'll ask voters at
:00:18. > :00:24.the next election to give his party another term in coalition. The
:00:24. > :00:30.Syrian Government steps up its assault on rebels, as the US
:00:30. > :00:34.reiterates its threat to use force if chemical weapons are not
:00:34. > :00:39.destroyed. A BBC Panorama investigation uncovers new text
:00:39. > :00:44.messages, suggesting difficulties between Anni Dewani, murdered on her
:00:44. > :00:49.honeymoon and her husband, Shrien, accused of ordering her killing.
:00:49. > :00:55.Oh, my word! And it is a bad day for the Brownlee
:00:55. > :01:02.brothers, as they are braeten to the world World Triathlon title in Hyde
:01:02. > :01:12.Park. -- beat beaten to the World Triathlon title in Hyde Park.
:01:13. > :01:18.A very good evening to you. Nick Clegg says victory for either the
:01:18. > :01:23.Conservatives or Labour at the next election would mean that the
:01:23. > :01:24.sacrifices made by millions of people since the last election
:01:24. > :01:27.sacrifices made by millions of be squandered. Speaking at the
:01:27. > :01:31.Liberal Democrats annual conference in Glasgow, he said a coalition
:01:31. > :01:36.would allow his party to balance politics and enable the Government
:01:36. > :01:44.to finish the job of repairing the economy fairly.
:01:44. > :01:48.Grim opinion polls, spats over policy and rain on their parade. The
:01:48. > :01:54.Lib Demes may be facing head-winds here in Glasgow, but the mood is not
:01:54. > :01:57.as damp as the weather is dreary. That is because the Liberal
:01:57. > :02:01.Democrats know this man could still hold the balance of power after the
:02:01. > :02:05.next general election. Today, Nick Clegg said the coalition had done
:02:05. > :02:10.good things and he urged voters to elect another and let him finish the
:02:10. > :02:14.job. If we go back to the bad old days, not of coalition and balanced
:02:14. > :02:17.politics but either of the right or left dominating Government on their
:02:17. > :02:19.own, you will get a recovery which is neither fair or sustainable. I
:02:19. > :02:22.own, you will get a recovery which think Labour would wreck the
:02:22. > :02:25.recovery. Under the Conservatives, who don't have the same commitment
:02:25. > :02:30.to fairness as we do, you would get the wrong kind of recovery. He would
:02:30. > :02:35.not say which party he would prefer in coalition. Nor would he spell out
:02:35. > :02:38.what he called die in the trench policies, over which he would not
:02:38. > :02:43.compromise. Priorities would include a mansion tax and... We are
:02:43. > :02:48.committed as a party, and I am committed to this to raising the
:02:48. > :02:52.allowance further, such that you would not pay income tax on the
:02:53. > :02:56.minimum wage. That is his pitch - the Lib Demes embedded as the third
:02:57. > :03:02.party of Government, willing to hook up with either the Tories or Labour.
:03:02. > :03:07.The risk is the party looks promise cues, willing to compromise on
:03:07. > :03:11.principals just to stay in power. Today, there was evidence of the
:03:11. > :03:16.party's willingness to compromise, as members backed away from
:03:16. > :03:19.defeating Nick Clegg and voted to keep student tuition fees now and
:03:19. > :03:24.for the first time support nuclear power. Nick Clegg says he's not
:03:24. > :03:30.talking about another coalition, but it is the talk of this conference.
:03:30. > :03:34.While survaifs suggest they would prefer coalition with Labour, for,
:03:34. > :03:41.now at least, their leader is playing for the blue team.
:03:41. > :03:43.Our political editor is in Glasgow for us. The message from the party
:03:43. > :03:46.Our political editor is in Glasgow leadership is, all's going well,
:03:46. > :03:50.don't change course, yet tomorrow, for instance, there is going to be a
:03:50. > :03:55.debate on changing course on economic policy. How does thaw work?
:03:55. > :04:00.There will -- how does thaw work? There will be a debate. It is a
:04:00. > :04:03.debate that Nick Clegg is limbering up in and wants to be seen as a
:04:03. > :04:07.fight. There'll be activists who are calling on this party to back
:04:07. > :04:11.economic policy so far, but to do more to get the economy moving again
:04:11. > :04:15.and Nick Clegg will appear in that debate, saying, no don't throw away
:04:15. > :04:19.the advances we have made, do not change course now. I think he's
:04:20. > :04:25.likely to win that. What is intriguing though is the position of
:04:25. > :04:28.his Cabinet colleague Vince Cable - the Business Secretary. He will play
:04:28. > :04:33.no part in that debate. He has made it clear he thinks this is a bit of
:04:33. > :04:39.a false row, that in fact if they tried harder they could come to an
:04:39. > :04:42.agreement with activists. He says he supports the motion that is being
:04:42. > :04:45.pushed, whether he'll take the time to vote for it tomorrow. There is an
:04:45. > :04:49.pushed, whether he'll take the time argument going on. It is partly an
:04:49. > :04:54.argument, not about economic policy, but about presentation. Does this
:04:54. > :04:57.party want to look full square behind George Osborne's policy or
:04:57. > :05:03.does it want to signal that it is different?
:05:03. > :05:10.Now the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has reiterated that the
:05:10. > :05:16.threat of force remains real if Syria reneges on its commitment to
:05:16. > :05:18.stockpile chemical weapons. A minister claims the deal is a
:05:18. > :05:22.victory for his country. Meanwhile, minister claims the deal is a
:05:22. > :05:28.in Damascus, Government troops have been stepping up their offensive
:05:28. > :05:36.against rebel forces. All day, all night war ruins lives
:05:36. > :05:40.and ends them in Syria. From here in the centre of Damascus,
:05:40. > :05:44.the regime's stronghold, we can see its guns hitting the rebel-held
:05:44. > :05:49.suburbs. On almost every day, except 21st
:05:49. > :05:57.August, when hundreds died in the chemical attack, the war is fought
:05:57. > :06:02.with conventional weapons. Ending all the individual daily
:06:02. > :06:08.tragedies caused by bullets and high explosive is the big challenge for
:06:08. > :06:13.international diplomacy. Bigger than dealing with chemical weapons.
:06:13. > :06:17.This was the day of the cross, an important Christian festival in the
:06:17. > :06:23.Greek Catholic Cathedral in Damascus. Almost all the worshippers
:06:23. > :06:29.fled here from the fighting - a Christian town about 40 miles away.
:06:29. > :06:33.This woman was wounded in the attack. Her family and neighbours
:06:33. > :06:38.were mourning her brother, cousin and his nephew, who were shot, she
:06:38. > :06:44.says, by rebels when they tried to surrender.
:06:44. > :06:48.Picture deprs the first attack -- pictures from the first attack show
:06:48. > :06:53.her being carried to safety. She said the men who killed her
:06:53. > :06:55.relatives had local accents. She said they used to live happily with
:06:56. > :07:03.relatives had local accents. She Muslim neighbours. Could you trust
:07:03. > :07:10.them again after this? No way, she said, never - it is impossible.
:07:10. > :07:18.This didn't start as a sectarian war, but it is becoming one. Jesus
:07:18. > :07:23.help us, she says. So, all this is another sign that what one observer
:07:23. > :07:27.called the Syrian mosaic of different sects, is breaking up.
:07:27. > :07:30.These people don't trust a lot of their old neighbours any more and
:07:30. > :07:37.they have no idea when they'll get home.
:07:37. > :07:43.The school term has started for everyone who had a school to go to.
:07:43. > :07:45.UNICEF says two million Syrian children are not getting educated.
:07:45. > :07:49.UNICEF says two million Syrian Even in this school n a well off
:07:50. > :07:53.part of Damascus, one half to a third of the girls have lost their
:07:53. > :07:57.homes because of the war. We used to be able to travel into
:07:57. > :08:04.the rebel-held suburbs that get pounded by the regime's guns. That's
:08:04. > :08:10.no longer possible. But the pain and loss suffered by civilians crossed
:08:10. > :08:18.the lines of a war that Syrians and foreigners can fuel but can't stop.
:08:18. > :08:24.Two 19-year-old women arrested after a fatal stabbing in Leicester on
:08:24. > :08:27.Thursday have been released without charge. Police are trying to
:08:27. > :08:32.discover if there is a link between the killing and a fire nearby, hours
:08:32. > :08:36.later, in which four members of the same family died.
:08:36. > :08:41.Shehnila Taufiq, her two teenage sons and her daughter, who was 19,
:08:41. > :08:45.all died in the blaze at their home in the Spinney Hills area of the
:08:45. > :08:48.city. Five people are being questioned in connection with the
:08:48. > :08:52.fire. One of two women arrested on
:08:52. > :08:57.suspicion of trying to smuggle cocaine worth £1.5 million out of
:08:57. > :09:02.Peru is reportedly prepared to plead guilty in exchange for a shorter
:09:02. > :09:06.sentence. Melissa Reid from Lenzie, near Glasgow, says she was
:09:06. > :09:14.threatened by an armed gang to traffic the drugs, but is willing to
:09:14. > :09:21.enter a guilty plea. A plea could cut her sentence from 25 years to
:09:21. > :09:25.just under seven. Salvage experts are making final preparations to
:09:25. > :09:31.raise the Costa Concordia. They believe the conditions should be
:09:31. > :09:40.right to begin the operation tomorrow. The ship struck rocks in
:09:40. > :09:44.January 2012, killing 32 people. The BBC has obtained new text messages
:09:44. > :09:48.suggesting difficulties in the relationship between Anni Dewani,
:09:48. > :09:52.who was shot dead on her honeymoon and her husband, Shrien, who is
:09:52. > :09:56.accused of ordering her murder. An investigation by the BBC's Panorama
:09:56. > :10:03.programme has obtained police files containing evidence from the murder
:10:03. > :10:08.inquiry. Here's Jeremy Vine. Was this the look of love between newly
:10:08. > :10:14.weds? No sign on their wedding day that the marriage would end in
:10:14. > :10:19.murder. With him accused of hiring the gunmen during their honeymoon in
:10:20. > :10:24.cape town. CCTV from their hotel shows an apparently happy couple.
:10:24. > :10:28.The BBC has obtained the prosecution file, containing previously
:10:28. > :10:32.unpublished text messages sent by Anni before she died. She messaged
:10:32. > :10:36.her cousin in mid-September, fighting a lot with Shrien. Which I
:10:37. > :10:40.had never got engaged. Six days later - we have nothing in common.
:10:40. > :10:44.He's a perfectionist. Nine days later - we have nothing in common.
:10:44. > :10:48.after that - hate him. The prosecutors may use the texts to
:10:48. > :10:53.suggest the relationship was not what it seemed and during their
:10:53. > :10:58.luxury safari Shrien was planning a violent way out. While in South
:10:58. > :11:04.Africa, Anni texted, "He's a nice guy in all ways, but I don't feel
:11:04. > :11:09.happy at all." A day later, "it is going better than before. Hard to
:11:09. > :11:19.explain.ly call you when I return. Hate the word divorce."
:11:19. > :11:23.She never did return. Three days later, Anni was found shot dead in
:11:23. > :11:26.the back of an abandoned taxi in cape town. We know the names of the
:11:26. > :11:29.men who took her life. They cape town. We know the names of the
:11:29. > :11:34.been through the courts already. The question is whether Shrien paid
:11:34. > :11:38.them. As always with this case the evidence points in different
:11:38. > :11:42.directions. The BBC has obtained medical records which suggest the
:11:42. > :11:47.couple were keen to have a baby. Shrien denied any role in his wife's
:11:47. > :11:51.murder, appears to have had a mental breakdown and is fighting all
:11:51. > :11:55.attempts to get him back to South Africa for a trial.
:11:55. > :12:01.And that edition of Panorama can be seen this Thursday, on BBC One at
:12:01. > :12:06.9pm. Now, more than 55,000 people lined
:12:06. > :12:10.up today for one of the biggest half-marathons in the world - the
:12:10. > :12:16.Great North Run N a sprint finish Mo Farah just missed out on winning his
:12:16. > :12:20.first half-marathon by around one second.
:12:20. > :12:23.first half-marathon by around one A carnival atmosphere on Tyneside.
:12:23. > :12:29.For some, it was about the challenge.
:12:29. > :12:32.For others, simply having fun. For elite athletes the race was
:12:32. > :12:36.about who would be first over the line.
:12:36. > :12:39.The world's most popular half marathon attracts some of the best
:12:39. > :12:46.runners. There were high hopes for Britain's
:12:46. > :12:53.Mo Farah. He was narrowly beaten by an Ethiopian.
:12:53. > :12:58.It was a great race. It was a great race. I thought the face was
:12:58. > :13:02.ridiculous. I thought I would come back and close the gap. Might have
:13:02. > :13:12.closed it a bit. He has a great speed.
:13:12. > :13:20.It was a double victory for Britain in the men and women's wheelchair
:13:20. > :13:25.races. David Weir got his fifth win. Other runners were spurred on by the
:13:25. > :13:31.Red Arrows. And for the rest of today's sport,
:13:31. > :13:36.here's Olly at the BBC's sport centre. Mo Farah was not the only
:13:36. > :13:40.British Olympian left disappointed today. There was heartache for the
:13:40. > :13:47.Brownlee brothers. They were going for the world's triathlon title n a
:13:47. > :13:51.winner-takes-all race. Hyde Park was where the Brownlee brothers lit up
:13:51. > :13:55.the London Games last year. Neither would be taking the title of world
:13:55. > :14:01.champion back to Yorkshire. The weather in London was almost as wet
:14:01. > :14:06.as the 1500 metre swim in the Serpentine. Alastair was well placed
:14:06. > :14:11.for the race on the bike that followed. He led his rivals going
:14:11. > :14:17.into the 10-km run. Dismounting from his bike it was clear an kl injury
:14:17. > :14:25.he had been struggling was worse than feared. It was now for his
:14:25. > :14:31.younger brother to deliver. He had a familiar person on his shoulder.
:14:31. > :14:37.It was just a matter of who had enough left in the tank.
:14:37. > :14:47.Oh, my word, it is Gomez's victory. I am gutted to be honest. I wanted
:14:47. > :14:52.to be world champion. To be beaten by just a few metres or so, it is
:14:52. > :14:58.hard to take. Gomez retains the world title. His come pattryiate in
:14:58. > :15:03.third, which only left space on the podium for one Brownlee brother this
:15:03. > :15:11.time. The Davis Cup team are back in the
:15:11. > :15:18.elite world group. They won both of today's matches.
:15:18. > :15:22.The Tour of Britain started in Scotland today. Sir Bradley Wiggins
:15:22. > :15:25.and Mark Cavendish were among the British riders. Wiggins came ninth
:15:25. > :15:32.on the first stage, which was affected by the weather. Luckily
:15:32. > :15:37.they avoided a chaotic crash in the final.
:15:37. > :15:43.Canoeist David Florence has made history by winning C 1 and C 2 at
:15:43. > :15:49.the World Championships. He took the C 1 yesterday in preying, but was
:15:49. > :15:53.back -- in Prague, but was back with Richard Hounslow.
:15:53. > :15:57.The one Premier League match ended in a draw at St Mary's. James
:15:57. > :16:02.Collins had the best chance to win it late on against Southampton. It
:16:02. > :16:05.finished 0-0. That is all your sport.
:16:05. > :16:09.Thank you for that. There's more throughout the evening on BBC One
:16:09. > :16:09.and I'll be back with the late news