:00:19. > :00:22.Good afternoon. Security forces in Pakistan have
:00:23. > :00:24.been put on high alert following a suspected American drone strike
:00:25. > :00:30.yesterday which killed the Taliban leader, Hakimullah Mehsud. Pakistani
:00:31. > :00:34.government ministers say the attack has destroyed their attempts to hold
:00:35. > :00:37.peace talks with the militants. Mehsud was killed in north-west
:00:38. > :00:47.Pakistan, near the Afghan border. From Islamabad, Richard Galpin
:00:48. > :00:51.reports. The security forces in the capital
:00:52. > :00:59.and across the country now on high alert. Everyone here where Taliban
:01:00. > :01:03.militants may try to retaliate for the killing of their leader --
:01:04. > :01:09.everyone here is aware. Thavisha Peiris died in a drone strike in the
:01:10. > :01:17.compound yesterday -- Hakimullah Mehsud died. Just a day before
:01:18. > :01:21.negotiators were due to meet him to discuss peace talks. News of the
:01:22. > :01:27.death, welcomed by many, has caused condemnation of the Americans given
:01:28. > :01:30.the highly sensitive timing. TRANSLATION: Talks were about to be
:01:31. > :01:37.held between the government and Taliban, so to attack another this
:01:38. > :01:41.time was very wrong. America wants Pakistan and the Taliban to keep
:01:42. > :01:46.fighting. America has done a terrible thing.
:01:47. > :01:50.Thousands of people have been killed and injured in attacks like this by
:01:51. > :01:55.the Pakistan Taliban and Hakimullah Mehsud. The bombings and shootings
:01:56. > :01:59.hitting almost all major cities here. It is this relentless violence
:02:00. > :02:08.that the government had hoped to bring to an end to negotiations. In
:02:09. > :02:11.a recent BBC interview, Mehsud indicated he was potentially
:02:12. > :02:16.interested in talks. TRANSLATION: We believe in talks,
:02:17. > :02:21.but the government has taken no serious steps to approach us. The
:02:22. > :02:26.government needs to sit with us, then we present our conditions. This
:02:27. > :02:30.is one of the men now being discussed by the Pakistan Taliban as
:02:31. > :02:37.a potential new leader. He is thought to be less hardline
:02:38. > :02:41.than Mehsud. But the death of Mehsud is a big blow for the militant
:02:42. > :02:46.movement, and right now they are unlikely to be interested in talking
:02:47. > :02:48.about peace. With me now is our world affairs
:02:49. > :02:55.correspondent, Rajesh Mirchandani. Rajesh, where does this leave talks
:02:56. > :02:59.with the Pakistan and Taliban? The timing couldn't be worse.
:03:00. > :03:03.Pakistan officials were due to meet with the Taliban today, now the
:03:04. > :03:06.Taliban is saying that Hakimullah Mehsud martyred himself and they
:03:07. > :03:12.will continue their activities. So any belief or trust that had been
:03:13. > :03:15.built up has been shattered. Pakistan's interior Minister said
:03:16. > :03:19.this attack was an attempt to sabotage the peace process. Why
:03:20. > :03:24.would the Americans want to do that? Firstly, they considered
:03:25. > :03:26.Hakimullah Mehsud to be a dangerous terrorist they put a
:03:27. > :03:30.5,000,000-dollar bounty on his head. They don't want the Taliban anywhere
:03:31. > :03:34.near a legitimate political process because the country has nuclear
:03:35. > :03:38.weapons. That is the geopolitical backdrop of this position. That
:03:39. > :03:43.said, taking over from Mehsud in the Pakistani Taliban, the people seem
:03:44. > :03:47.to be more in favour of talking to the government, the government wants
:03:48. > :03:49.to talk to the Taliban and Pakistanis desperately want an end
:03:50. > :03:52.to the bloodshed. Two people have been remanded in
:03:53. > :03:54.custody after appearing before magistrates in Sheffield charged
:03:55. > :03:57.with the murder of a Sri Lankan graduate. Thavisha Peiris, seen here
:03:58. > :04:00.on the right with his parents and brother, was killed as he made his
:04:01. > :04:06.final delivery for Domino's Pizza. He'd been due to start a new job as
:04:07. > :04:08.an IT consultant. Let's go live to Sheffield
:04:09. > :04:15.magistrates court and join Gerry Jackson, who's there. Gerry, what
:04:16. > :04:24.more can you tell us? 25 year-old -- a 25 year-old and a
:04:25. > :04:29.17 year-old stood together in the dock for the brief hearing. They
:04:30. > :04:34.spoke only to confirm their names and addresses, both were remanded in
:04:35. > :04:36.custody. They will appear before Sheffield Crown Court in a
:04:37. > :04:42.fortnight. They are both accused of the murder of Thavisha Peiris. He
:04:43. > :04:46.graduated in information technology at Sheffield Hallam University two
:04:47. > :04:51.years ago and had worked and then for the Domino's Pizza chain. It was
:04:52. > :04:57.his last shift with the company and he was found stabbed to death in his
:04:58. > :05:03.car later that night. His family is due to fly in from Shri Lanka to the
:05:04. > :05:08.UK in the next couple of days. -- from Sri Lanka. They said they had
:05:09. > :05:11.sent their son to the UK for a better life and now they are left
:05:12. > :05:13.with broken hearts. The daughter and son-in-law of an
:05:14. > :05:16.elderly Nottinghamshire couple who went missing in 1998 have appeared
:05:17. > :05:18.before magistrates charged with murder. The remains of two people,
:05:19. > :05:22.believed to be William and Patricia Wycherley, were found buried in the
:05:23. > :05:26.garden of a house in Mansfield three weeks ago.They had both been shot.
:05:27. > :05:28.Susan and Christopher Edwards are each charged with two counts of
:05:29. > :05:33.murder. Now, the Samaritans charity is
:05:34. > :05:35.celebrating its 60th anniversary. The organisation, which provides
:05:36. > :05:38.emotional support to people in distress, received its first call in
:05:39. > :05:50.1953 and now has over 20,000 volunteers. Richard Foster reports.
:05:51. > :05:55.The Samaritans' message hasn't changed in 60 years, it is via to
:05:56. > :06:01.try to stop people taking their own lives. It started in nature which in
:06:02. > :06:08.the City of London in 1953. -- it started in a church.
:06:09. > :06:12.The first call was answered by this man, Chad Varah. He founded the
:06:13. > :06:18.organisation because he wanted to help people struggling to cope. From
:06:19. > :06:24.phone call, the Samaritans group, and now has 21,000 volunteers in 201
:06:25. > :06:28.branches across the UK. It has the support of celebrities
:06:29. > :06:30.and its patron is the Prince of Wales. It is most impressive, I
:06:31. > :06:33.think, to see the work they do to Wales. It is most impressive, I
:06:34. > :06:40.support those living in rural isolation, especially farmers at the
:06:41. > :06:49.high risk of suicide nowadays. But, equally, to support those who
:06:50. > :06:53.are subjected to such stress and pressure within the urban
:06:54. > :06:59.environment. The charity answers a phone call, e-mail or text every six
:07:00. > :07:03.seconds, that is 115 million calls for help in 60 years.
:07:04. > :07:07.You can see more on those stories on the BBC News Channel.
:07:08. > :07:10.There will be more from the