:00:13. > :00:19.charge, as Parliament voted to oust him. Tonight, tens of thousands of
:00:20. > :00:24.people have gathered in Kiev, to hear a key opposition figure who's
:00:25. > :00:30.been freed from jail. Tonight, we'll be asking what now for Ukraine? Also
:00:31. > :00:32.on the programme: The UN Security Council has unanimously backed a
:00:33. > :00:38.resolution, calling on Syria to allow humanitarian aid to reach
:00:39. > :00:41.civilians. And England have ended Ireland's
:00:42. > :01:02.hopes of a Six Nations Grand Slam, with victory at Twickenham.
:01:03. > :01:07.Good evening. It's been a day of high political drama in Ukraine,
:01:08. > :01:13.with President Yanukovych fleeing the capital and heading for the east
:01:14. > :01:17.of the country. He defiantly said he wouldn't resign, before a
:01:18. > :01:20.Parliamentary vote to oust him. At the same time, a key opposition
:01:21. > :01:23.figure has been released from jail. Yulia Tymoshenko returned to Kiev
:01:24. > :01:28.and tonight addressed tens of thousands of people gathered in
:01:29. > :01:37.Independence Square. Our Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt, is live in
:01:38. > :01:41.Kiev. Clive, by any measure this has been an extraordinary day. Ask the
:01:42. > :01:46.people still on the street out there and they will say this was Ukraine's
:01:47. > :01:51.day of revolution. A day that saw the riot police disappear, they saw
:01:52. > :01:57.the President leave the capital, and then tonight on the stage behind me
:01:58. > :02:05.a dramatic reappearance of a key opposition figure.
:02:06. > :02:11.Early morning and it felt like a revolution. Protesters on board army
:02:12. > :02:16.trucks driving around streets that only yesterday were held by riot
:02:17. > :02:20.police. Columns of protesters armed mainly with clubs headed for
:02:21. > :02:25.parliament and the Presidential compound. People poured into the
:02:26. > :02:29.streets, scarcely able to believe that overnight the feared riot
:02:30. > :02:35.police had vanished and the President had left the capital. Only
:02:36. > :02:40.two days ago there were two or three lines of heavily armed riot police.
:02:41. > :02:46.Now groups of protesters are coming in here to go down and protect the
:02:47. > :02:50.outside of the parliament. At the parliament itself these were the new
:02:51. > :02:55.faces of the guards, men who only yesterday had been behind
:02:56. > :03:00.barricades. Very quickly crowds, having lost their fear, rushed to
:03:01. > :03:07.the parliament but they were wary of claiming victory. We are not giving
:03:08. > :03:14.up. It's not the victory yet. Everyone is ready to fight. The
:03:15. > :03:20.whole country was now watching what the parliament would decide. Some
:03:21. > :03:26.MPs loyal to the Government were harassed by the crowds as they
:03:27. > :03:32.approached the parliament. They wanted the President and the old
:03:33. > :03:37.guard removed. Then President Yanukovych issued a video saying he
:03:38. > :03:43.wouldn't resign, he wouldn't leave Ukraine and announcing his opponents
:03:44. > :03:48.as Nazis. Shortly after, parliament voted by a large majority to remove
:03:49. > :03:56.him from power and to hold elections in May. MPs cheered and sang the
:03:57. > :04:01.anthem. As flowers were laid where many
:04:02. > :04:06.protesters had died came news of another momentous decision.
:04:07. > :04:11.Parliament ordered the immediate release from detention of Yulia
:04:12. > :04:16.Tymoshenko, a pro-western former Prime Minister suffering from
:04:17. > :04:20.ill-health. She immediately went to Independence Square in Kiev, in
:04:21. > :04:29.front of a crowd of 50,000 she was pushed on to the stage to a
:04:30. > :04:35.tumultous welcome. TRANSLATION: You are heros, you are
:04:36. > :04:40.the best of Ukraine. She struggled to hold back tears and then had this
:04:41. > :04:46.message for the protesters. TRANSLATION: It is you who changed
:04:47. > :04:50.everything. Not diplomats, not politicians, not the world, just
:04:51. > :04:54.you. If somebody tells you you have finished your work and you can go
:04:55. > :04:59.home, don't believe it. Don't leave this square until we achieve real
:05:00. > :05:06.change. Her appearance ended a long day that has utterly changed this
:05:07. > :05:13.strategically important eastern European country.
:05:14. > :05:16.Victor Yanukovych fled Kiev in the early hours of the morning,
:05:17. > :05:18.abandoning his official residence just outside of the capital.
:05:19. > :05:22.Opposition guards then took control of the building and let hundreds of
:05:23. > :05:28.people in to have a look around. Steve Rosenberg was there.
:05:29. > :05:33.It looked like a Saturday afternoon stroll in the park. But it was
:05:34. > :05:39.curousity which had brought out these crowds. Protesters had broken
:05:40. > :05:44.in to Viktor Yanukovych's res deans near -- residence near Kiev and
:05:45. > :05:49.opened it up to the public. People stared in amaizement at the
:05:50. > :05:53.splendour inside and the unexpected decorations outside -- amazement.
:05:54. > :06:00.But it was the scale of things that shocked people the most, 140
:06:01. > :06:11.hectares that seemed to stretch to eternity. Visitors took sour niche
:06:12. > :06:15.photos. -- sour 15 -- souvenir photos. I am speechless. This is
:06:16. > :06:18.built on our money and at the same time we have a lot of problems which
:06:19. > :06:23.needs those money but they spend on that. If you are President of a
:06:24. > :06:27.country and you suddenly have crowds of people wandering through your
:06:28. > :06:35.back garden, that means you have a problem and Viktor Yanukovych's
:06:36. > :06:40.problem is his power is crumbling. There were many doors and many keys.
:06:41. > :06:46.It wasn't easy finding the right one. But eventually they did find a
:06:47. > :06:54.way into Viktor Yanukovych's sauna, complete with massage table and
:06:55. > :07:00.tastefully folded towels. This was the day Viktor Yanukovych lost his
:07:01. > :07:09.power and his privacy. It was the ultimate humiliation.
:07:10. > :07:12.In a moment we'll have more from Gavin Hewitt in Kiev, but first to
:07:13. > :07:15.Kharkiv in the east of the country and Daniel Sandford is there.
:07:16. > :07:21.Of course the big question tonight, where is the President, where is
:07:22. > :07:26.President Yanukovych? Well, we think he is here in one of his eastern
:07:27. > :07:30.strongholds, a city where we have seen scuffles tonight around that
:07:31. > :07:33.Statue behind me between his supporters and those of the new
:07:34. > :07:38.Government in Kiev, the reason we think he is in Kharkiv because he
:07:39. > :07:44.gave an interview in which he described events him as a coup and
:07:45. > :07:48.an interview in which the local television said was done here. Also
:07:49. > :07:54.here today there was a meeting of governors of the pro-Russian eastern
:07:55. > :07:57.provinces, attended by several senior Russian politicians, as well.
:07:58. > :08:00.That has raised the spectre what everyone has been worrying about
:08:01. > :08:05.since this crisis began back in December, and that's the possibility
:08:06. > :08:11.of a split in Ukraine and the risk of much more serious violence.
:08:12. > :08:18.On to you, Gavin in Kiev. After what has been a dramatic day of twists
:08:19. > :08:21.and turns where has the political upheaval left Ukraine? Well, the
:08:22. > :08:26.protesters have got largely what they wanted, the removal of the
:08:27. > :08:30.President and also snap elections and this was done by a decision
:08:31. > :08:35.taken in parliament and not by a coup. But there are really two big
:08:36. > :08:40.questions. Firstly, will the opposition stay united? Also, how
:08:41. > :08:45.will they cope with the reemergence of somebody so ambitious as Yulia
:08:46. > :08:49.Tymoshenko? And then there is the question of the President who has so
:08:50. > :08:53.far refused to resign. There are some reports tonight that he was
:08:54. > :09:00.stopped from taking a flight to Russia. But the other question is
:09:01. > :09:04.this, will he try and marshall support in the east of the country?
:09:05. > :09:09.If he does that, will it threaten the integrity of Ukraine? I suppose
:09:10. > :09:13.that's the biggest question, will this country be able to stay
:09:14. > :09:22.together after these dramatic events?
:09:23. > :09:26.Thank you. The United Nations Security Council
:09:27. > :09:28.has voted unanimously, in favour of a resolution calling for
:09:29. > :09:32.humanitarian aid convoys to be allowed access to besieged parts of
:09:33. > :09:36.Syria. It says there must be an end to the bombing and shelling that has
:09:37. > :09:39.hampered the movement of aid from across the border in Iraq and Turkey
:09:40. > :09:46.and the government should lift its siege of areas such as Homs. Nick
:09:47. > :09:51.Bryant is at the United Nations in New York. What is significant about
:09:52. > :09:57.this resolution I suppose is that the Russians and the Chinese seem to
:09:58. > :10:03.be on board. Yeah, for the first time in three years that must be
:10:04. > :10:06.unfathomable to people who have watched this unfold and don't
:10:07. > :10:09.understand the politics of the United Nations. For the first time
:10:10. > :10:15.in three years they've managed to get a humanitarian aid resolution
:10:16. > :10:17.passed at the United Nations Security Council, Russian
:10:18. > :10:24.obstructionism for the time being has ended. It has the chance to be a
:10:25. > :10:27.real humanitarian game-changer. It could change things on the ground.
:10:28. > :10:31.Its key demand, for instance, is the opening up of borders so that aid
:10:32. > :10:36.convoys could go in and UN officials say they could reach people shortly
:10:37. > :10:42.and get aid to a million people. The question is will it be implemented?
:10:43. > :10:45.The price of Russian support was to remove sanctions from this
:10:46. > :10:49.resolution and that means that if the Syrian Government keeps borders
:10:50. > :10:53.closed, there's no immediate way of punishing it or forcing it to open
:10:54. > :10:57.them. At the moment this resolution is words, the key test is whether
:10:58. > :11:01.those words are translated into action and we see aid being
:11:02. > :11:12.delivered to the people who are in such desperate need of it. Thank
:11:13. > :11:15.you. The leader of the Roman Catholic
:11:16. > :11:18.Church in England and Wales, the Archbishop of Westminster Vincent
:11:19. > :11:22.Nichols, is now a Cardinal. He's one of 19 created today by Pope Francis
:11:23. > :11:26.in a ceremony in Rome. Alan Johnston reports from the Vatican. The coming
:11:27. > :11:33.of the Pope, his grand entrance in the vastness and splendour of St
:11:34. > :11:39.Peter's. A Papal occasion, not just one Pope, but two. Francis greeting
:11:40. > :11:44.his retired predecessor Benedict. But this was the day of the
:11:45. > :11:49.Cardinals, these clerics in Scarlett are sometimes called the Princes of
:11:50. > :11:53.the Church. New men being added to this powerful upper echelon that's
:11:54. > :11:57.the honour of electing the Pope. Among them the leader of the
:11:58. > :12:02.Catholic Church in England and Wales, the Archbishop of
:12:03. > :12:07.Westminster, Vincent Nichols. He was deeply moved, he said, by this
:12:08. > :12:12.elevation in rank. He is an outspoken figure, just days ago he
:12:13. > :12:19.criticised the Government over its welfare reforms. This Pope of the
:12:20. > :12:23.poor lives surrounded by the opulens of the Vatican but most of his
:12:24. > :12:29.newest Cardinals come from poorer countries like the Ivory Coast and
:12:30. > :12:33.Haiti. Out in the sunshine in St Peter's Square crowds of the
:12:34. > :12:38.faithful had followed the events in the great Bascillica. We just
:12:39. > :12:42.watched Pope Francis appoint new cardials for the first time. He has
:12:43. > :12:46.gun that important process of filling his highest ranks with the
:12:47. > :12:53.kind of men who he believes are best suited to lead the Catholic world
:12:54. > :13:02.into the future. Now with all the sport here's Olly
:13:03. > :13:05.Foster. Thank you. There'll be no Grand Slam in Rugby
:13:06. > :13:07.Union's Six Nations Championship this year. England beat the
:13:08. > :13:11.previously unbeaten Ireland 13-10. In Rome, Scotland won by a single
:13:12. > :13:16.point against Italy. Patrick Gearey reports from Twickenham. This one
:13:17. > :13:22.didn't need the special effects, the plot should have been strong enough.
:13:23. > :13:25.Brian O'Driscoll would celebrate welcoming the world Test caps
:13:26. > :13:30.record, but England were the spoiler. Even if they themselves
:13:31. > :13:33.ruined the chance of an early try, the opportunities slipping from
:13:34. > :13:38.May's grasp. Farrell's boot was more secure. It delivered the only points
:13:39. > :13:42.of the first half. More came quickly in the second but from Ireland.
:13:43. > :13:46.Kearney's try would have been trademark O'Driscoll once. But
:13:47. > :13:50.neither he nor Ireland have the copyright. England made their own
:13:51. > :13:57.insignificance. Brown cut through and there was Danny Care. The
:13:58. > :14:00.conversion opened up a three-point English lead that Ireland simply
:14:01. > :14:03.couldn't overhaul. England celebrate potentially a crucial win in the
:14:04. > :14:08.context of this season's Six Nations. They've ended Ireland's
:14:09. > :14:11.Grand Slam hopes and thrown this tournament wide open.
:14:12. > :14:14.It's probably too much to count Scotland in the mix to win it but in
:14:15. > :14:18.coming from behind to beat Italy they got a much needed boost. They
:14:19. > :14:24.hadn't scored a try in the tournament until two came in 13
:14:25. > :14:32.minutes, both from Dunbar. Victory looked like eleading them until the
:14:33. > :14:41.last minute. -- eluding. This was the magic Scottish rugby had so
:14:42. > :14:44.craved. To the football, and all the goals
:14:45. > :14:49.from today's seven Premier League matches will be on Match of the Day
:14:50. > :14:53.after the news, but if you want the results now here they come. One goal
:14:54. > :14:56.was enough for Chelsea to stay top of the table. John Terry scored in
:14:57. > :14:59.injury time to beat Everton 1-0 at Stamford Bridge. And, after signing
:15:00. > :15:02.a new ?300,000 a week deal yesterday, Wayne Rooney scored his
:15:03. > :15:06.first goal since Boxing Day as Manchester United beat Crystal
:15:07. > :15:09.Palace 2-0. Arsenal are still one point behind Chelsea after beating
:15:10. > :15:13.Sunderland 4-1. Hull thrashed struggling Cardiff 4-0. Manchester
:15:14. > :15:16.City beat Stoke 1-0 and stay third. Bottom club Fulham drew at West
:15:17. > :15:26.Brom. And West Ham beat Southampton 3-1. Celtic are now 24 points clear
:15:27. > :15:31.in the Scottish Premiership. They won 2-0 at Hearts. A 13th clean
:15:32. > :15:34.sheet in a row saw their keeper Fraser Forster set a new Scottish
:15:35. > :15:38.record and Leigh Griffiths scored his first for the club after signing
:15:39. > :15:41.from Wolves last month. Elsewhere, Kilmarnock and Hibernian drew 1-1.
:15:42. > :15:45.But there were wins for Partick Thistle, Ross County and Inverness.
:15:46. > :15:49.No more medals for Great Britain today in Sochi but they have an
:15:50. > :15:53.outside chance on the last day of the Winter Olympics tomorrow. With
:15:54. > :15:56.two more runs to go, John Jackson's, four-man bobsleigh team, GBR1, lies
:15:57. > :16:04.7th at the halfway stage. The GBR2 bobsleigh is 18th.
:16:05. > :16:08.That's all the sport. That's all from us tonight. From me
:16:09. > :16:14.and the rest of the team, have a very good night.
:16:15. > :16:25.Hello again. It's staying mild this weekend but as we have seen all
:16:26. > :16:28.winter higher temperatures mean wind and rain. That's what we have
:16:29. > :16:32.heading our way at the moment. Slowly but surely this broad band of
:16:33. > :16:35.cloud is moving in from the Atlantic to bring heavy rain over western
:16:36. > :16:37.hills. The wettest weather overnight will