:00:20. > :00:24.Good afternoon. Services are being held today in England, America and
:00:25. > :00:31.Scotland, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing
:00:32. > :00:34.in which 270 people died. Most of the passengers and crew onboard the
:00:35. > :00:43.plane were US citizens. 11 people were killed by the falling debris.
:00:44. > :00:49.Laura Bicker is in Lockerbie. Laura. Relatives of those killed will come
:00:50. > :00:52.here in an hour to this blustery cemetery to lay reefs and remember
:00:53. > :00:57.their loved ones. A minutes silence will be held at the local church at
:00:58. > :01:03.three minutes past seven, the exact time the bomb exploded over
:01:04. > :01:10.Lockerbie. This is Lockerbie's darkest night. A bomb exploded on
:01:11. > :01:16.pan and the flight 103, 270 people were killed, 11 of them on the
:01:17. > :01:20.ground as the wreckage fell on south-west Scotland. Among the first
:01:21. > :01:26.to respond was off police officer Colin Lawrence. It struck me then
:01:27. > :01:30.that Lockerbie was never going to be the same. It was one of the things
:01:31. > :01:40.that was going to become a national news thing. From that point onwards.
:01:41. > :01:44.And, in a horrible way, the whole world was going to note about this
:01:45. > :01:51.sleepy town in the south of Scotland. 35 students from New York
:01:52. > :01:56.University were on the ill-fated fight, but out of grief as can
:01:57. > :01:59.hopefuls of the University offers a scholarship to two scholarship
:02:00. > :02:05.students each year. Collins thought was one of them. Here I was having
:02:06. > :02:09.the best year of my life, such positive experience, and it'd come
:02:10. > :02:21.from such heartache and tragedy. In that moment common --, I had an
:02:22. > :02:25.overwhelming feeling for my dad. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was released
:02:26. > :02:28.from prison by the Scottish Government on compassionate
:02:29. > :02:33.grounds. He died in May last year. His family say they want to appeal
:02:34. > :02:39.his conviction. Many families who have lost loved ones say they would
:02:40. > :02:44.welcome a new enquiry. There has to be justice and truth. We've never
:02:45. > :02:47.had that. You can't go forward in life unless you face up to the
:02:48. > :02:52.reality of something and the full reality of this is no who the
:02:53. > :02:57.murderer is where. Admits the lost, there is a lasting legacy. A chance
:02:58. > :03:03.for people to honour every life and remember every name. The body of a
:03:04. > :03:06.British doctor who died in a Syrian prison has been handed over to the
:03:07. > :03:11.International Red Cross who will take it to his family waiting in
:03:12. > :03:14.neighbouring Lebanon. Dr Abbas Khan was within days of being released
:03:15. > :03:17.when Syrian authorities said he committed suicide. The British
:03:18. > :03:22.government has however said that he was effectively murdered. President
:03:23. > :03:27.Barack Obama has hinted that there may be a review of operations at the
:03:28. > :03:33.National Security Agency. It comes after a series of embarrassing
:03:34. > :03:35.revelations about spying. They include the latest leaks by Edward
:03:36. > :03:37.Snowden published yesterday, which said that an EU commissioner and
:03:38. > :03:48.humanitarian organisations were among the targets of UK and American
:03:49. > :03:50.surveillance. Katy Watson reports. Ever since he started leaking
:03:51. > :03:57.intelligence documents, this man has caused a huge headache for Barack
:03:58. > :04:01.Obama. The president has faced tough criticism at home and abroad. And
:04:02. > :04:08.has had to defend American spying activities not always successfully.
:04:09. > :04:11.President Obama addressed some concerns about the NSA at his last
:04:12. > :04:16.press conference of the year. I have confidence in the fact that they are
:04:17. > :04:20.not engaging in domestic surveillance or snooping around but
:04:21. > :04:22.I also recognise that, as technologies change, and people can
:04:23. > :04:30.start running algorithms and programmes, and map out all the
:04:31. > :04:37.information we are downloading on a daily basis, and on telephones and
:04:38. > :04:40.on computers, we may have to refine this further to give people more
:04:41. > :04:45.confidence. He spoke on the same day more details of people and
:04:46. > :04:50.institutions targeted by UK and US surveillance where published by
:04:51. > :04:52.several newspapers. The list of about 1000 targets included the vice
:04:53. > :04:59.president of the European Commission, some private companies,
:05:00. > :05:02.and even aid organisations. President Obama needs to win back
:05:03. > :05:05.the trust of its people and of the international community. But with
:05:06. > :05:10.leaks that just keep coming, that job gets harder by the day. This
:05:11. > :05:14.weekend is one of the busiest of the year for pubs and clubs as the
:05:15. > :05:19.Christmas festivities get under way. But it also places enormous strain
:05:20. > :05:22.on the emergency services. In Greater Manchester, double the usual
:05:23. > :05:27.number of officers were on patrol last night in what's been dubbed
:05:28. > :05:34.Black Friday. Our North of England Correspondent Ed Thomas joined them.
:05:35. > :05:42.A night to remember. A night to forget. Welcome to mad Friday. This
:05:43. > :05:50.is Britain on the last weekend before Christmas. Works do. It's a
:05:51. > :05:57.works do. We are going out, boys. Here in Manchester, 100,000 people
:05:58. > :06:04.were out on the town. Everyone just goes crazy. Everyone has a good
:06:05. > :06:07.night in a good way. But with all that drink, limits are pushed. Out
:06:08. > :06:14.on patrol with Greater Manchester Police, and the first reports of a
:06:15. > :06:19.fight. No one knows exactly what happened, but this man said he was
:06:20. > :06:24.attacked. He also told police he didn't want to make a complaint. See
:06:25. > :06:31.you later. Elsewhere, it's a different story. Officers have been
:06:32. > :06:36.called here by staff reporting and assault. And this man has been
:06:37. > :06:42.arrested. For police, the problem is all down to alcohol. He is actually
:06:43. > :06:48.crying his eyes out in there. It's proper we just a moment of madness.
:06:49. > :06:51.I'm sure, sober, he might be a decent lad. He's just had too much
:06:52. > :07:00.drink. What is extraordinary here tonight, is the number of police
:07:01. > :07:04.officers who have come out. It seems there are as many police officers as
:07:05. > :07:10.their door staff. It seems this is the way to police mad Friday. And
:07:11. > :07:16.this is just the beginning. Come to Manchester! New Year's Eve is still
:07:17. > :07:17.to come. That's all from