21/12/2013 BBC Weekend News


21/12/2013

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Good afternoon. Services are being held today in England, America and

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Scotland, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing

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in which 270 people died. Most of the passengers and crew onboard the

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plane were US citizens. 11 people were killed by the falling debris.

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Laura Bicker is in Lockerbie. Laura. Relatives of those killed will come

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here in an hour to this blustery cemetery to lay reefs and remember

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their loved ones. A minutes silence will be held at the local church at

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three minutes past seven, the exact time the bomb exploded over

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Lockerbie. This is Lockerbie's darkest night. A bomb exploded on

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pan and the flight 103, 270 people were killed, 11 of them on the

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ground as the wreckage fell on south-west Scotland. Among the first

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to respond was off police officer Colin Lawrence. It struck me then

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that Lockerbie was never going to be the same. It was one of the things

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that was going to become a national news thing. From that point onwards.

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And, in a horrible way, the whole world was going to note about this

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sleepy town in the south of Scotland. 35 students from New York

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University were on the ill-fated fight, but out of grief as can

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hopefuls of the University offers a scholarship to two scholarship

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students each year. Collins thought was one of them. Here I was having

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the best year of my life, such positive experience, and it'd come

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from such heartache and tragedy. In that moment common --, I had an

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overwhelming feeling for my dad. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was released

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from prison by the Scottish Government on compassionate

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grounds. He died in May last year. His family say they want to appeal

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his conviction. Many families who have lost loved ones say they would

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welcome a new enquiry. There has to be justice and truth. We've never

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had that. You can't go forward in life unless you face up to the

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reality of something and the full reality of this is no who the

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murderer is where. Admits the lost, there is a lasting legacy. A chance

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for people to honour every life and remember every name. The body of a

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British doctor who died in a Syrian prison has been handed over to the

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International Red Cross who will take it to his family waiting in

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neighbouring Lebanon. Dr Abbas Khan was within days of being released

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when Syrian authorities said he committed suicide. The British

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government has however said that he was effectively murdered. President

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Barack Obama has hinted that there may be a review of operations at the

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National Security Agency. It comes after a series of embarrassing

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revelations about spying. They include the latest leaks by Edward

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Snowden published yesterday, which said that an EU commissioner and

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humanitarian organisations were among the targets of UK and American

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surveillance. Katy Watson reports. Ever since he started leaking

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intelligence documents, this man has caused a huge headache for Barack

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Obama. The president has faced tough criticism at home and abroad. And

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has had to defend American spying activities not always successfully.

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President Obama addressed some concerns about the NSA at his last

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press conference of the year. I have confidence in the fact that they are

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not engaging in domestic surveillance or snooping around but

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I also recognise that, as technologies change, and people can

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start running algorithms and programmes, and map out all the

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information we are downloading on a daily basis, and on telephones and

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on computers, we may have to refine this further to give people more

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confidence. He spoke on the same day more details of people and

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institutions targeted by UK and US surveillance where published by

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several newspapers. The list of about 1000 targets included the vice

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president of the European Commission, some private companies,

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and even aid organisations. President Obama needs to win back

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the trust of its people and of the international community. But with

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leaks that just keep coming, that job gets harder by the day. This

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weekend is one of the busiest of the year for pubs and clubs as the

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Christmas festivities get under way. But it also places enormous strain

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on the emergency services. In Greater Manchester, double the usual

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number of officers were on patrol last night in what's been dubbed

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Black Friday. Our North of England Correspondent Ed Thomas joined them.

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A night to remember. A night to forget. Welcome to mad Friday. This

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is Britain on the last weekend before Christmas. Works do. It's a

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works do. We are going out, boys. Here in Manchester, 100,000 people

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were out on the town. Everyone just goes crazy. Everyone has a good

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night in a good way. But with all that drink, limits are pushed. Out

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on patrol with Greater Manchester Police, and the first reports of a

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fight. No one knows exactly what happened, but this man said he was

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attacked. He also told police he didn't want to make a complaint. See

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you later. Elsewhere, it's a different story. Officers have been

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called here by staff reporting and assault. And this man has been

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arrested. For police, the problem is all down to alcohol. He is actually

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crying his eyes out in there. It's proper we just a moment of madness.

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I'm sure, sober, he might be a decent lad. He's just had too much

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drink. What is extraordinary here tonight, is the number of police

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officers who have come out. It seems there are as many police officers as

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their door staff. It seems this is the way to police mad Friday. And

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this is just the beginning. Come to Manchester! New Year's Eve is still

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to come. That's all from

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