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Hello, good evening. Early figures suggest there has been a big turnout | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
in Afghanistan's landmark presidential election. More than 7 | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
million people have voted, despite threats to their security. Hundreds | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
of thousands of troops were deployed in a massive security operation. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
There was some violence. The Taliban rocket killed several people at a | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
polling station and two policemen were killed by a roadside bomb. | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
David Loyn reports from Kabul. Election officials here show that | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
the ballot box is empty before sealing it for the day. There is | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
pride in the process, watched by official national election | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
observers, those from the candidates independent bodies. We checked by | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
this light the fingers, like this. I tried out measures to prevent people | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
from voting twice. Ink on one finger and a marked detectable by | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
ultraviolet light on another. This is important for Afghanistan because | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
we saw problems in Afghanistan, a long time the war is going. We need | :01:26. | :01:26. | |
this, down the door. involved the police | :01:27. | :02:04. | |
say many Taliban attacks were foiled. Tonight, counting is already | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
begun in thousands of polling centres across the country. | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Unofficial early indications could emerge shortly, but the official | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
result will not be known for days, or even weeks to come. | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
The Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps has said it is time to | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
draw a line under the row about Maria Miller's expenses. It follows | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
new claims that the Culture Secretary tried to intimidate the | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Parliamentary watchdog that was investigating her. Today, the prime | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
minister faced more questions over his support for her as he addressed | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
the Conservatives' Spring Conference. Robin Brant reports. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
The Prime Minister went shopping first thing. Small business like | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
this butchers could benefit from tax changes on the way next week, but | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
the cloud of expenses has returned and this time it is his Culture | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Secretary. Should Maria Miller lose her job? He has accepted Maria | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
Miller's apology. She will give back ?6,000 she has ever claimed. The | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
Prime Minister wanted to talk about tax cuts. Let's tell them why we are | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
cutting taxes. It is not because we are ideological committed to a small | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
state, but it is because we get this simple fact. It is your money. This | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
lot are gearing up for elections, as is he, next month, and the big one | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
next May. They are trying to look forward, but the problem is an issue | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
of the past has reared its head again. The questions keep coming for | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
Maria Miller. There are renewed accusations, fiercely disputed by | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
the government, that one of her senior advisers had also threatened | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
a reporter about future press regulation and letters the Culture | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
Secretary exchanged with the investigators have been released, | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
suggesting she was reluctant to fully cooperate. In December last | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
year, she said it would not be appropriate for the commission to | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
broaden its enquiry. Then, she suggested she would go over its | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
head. I think it is for me to write to the Standards Committee, setting | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
out my concerns, she wrote. Labour is continuing the pressure. Well, | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
how dare she abuse and intimidate the Parliamentary Commissioner for | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
standards that Parliament appointed in this way? She is not just an MP, | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
but the member of the government and Cabinet responsible for press | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
freedom in this country. But a fellow cabinet minister says it is | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
time to let it go. Maria Miller has entirely accepted what their | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
recommendation, it has come to Parliament and done that. The Prime | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
Minister has accepted that. There is not much of the place for it to go. | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
In her seat of Basingstoke there is concern. I think she should be | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
sacked. She should leave. If it was an ordinary person, they would have | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
been reprimanded a lot more. She said it was a genuine mistake and I | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
imagine if that is what she said it was, it must be. The Prime Minister | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
has stuck by his Culture Secretary, who was notably one of only a | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
handful of women at the top of the government. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
The Chinese ship searching for the missing Malaysian airliner is | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
reported to have picked up a signal that may be from the plane's black | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
box flight recorder. China says it is not yet clear if there is a | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
connection with the missing plane, but the frequency is the same as | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
that transmitted by flight recorders. Our correspondent Jon | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Donnison has more from Perth. Could this Chinese ship finally have | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
provided the breakthrough the search for MH has been waiting for? The | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
reports need to be treated with caution and have not been confirmed | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
by officials, but Chinese media says the ship picked up possible signals | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
from the plane's missing black box flight recorder first on Friday and | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
then again on Saturday. The Indian Ocean search initially began here | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
before moving to this area, further north. The pings were reportedly | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
detected here, in between the two search zones. The signals were | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
apparently at a frequency the same as those emitted by the black box. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
But it is a race against time. As the flight recorder's battery only | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
lasts around 30 days. Of course, the signals heard may have nothing to do | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
with the missing plane. There are a number of other objects it could be. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
There are many pieces of kit in the ocean's oceanography and some of | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
those do is transmit on frequencies. Until we know if they have a clear | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
signal, there is a possibility it could be other background noise from | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
ships or even from marine animals. Even if the signals are coming from | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
the black box, recovering at will be valid challenging. This flight | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
recorder is from the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic in | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
2009, but that was in more shallow water and in nowhere near as remote | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
location. It took two years to raise it from the ocean floor. The search | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
by air and sea has now been going on for almost a month. This could be a | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
significant development. It could also be another false lead. | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
A convicted member of the Mafia, who avoided extradition from the UK last | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
month, has appeared in court again. Domenico Rancadore, 69, was | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
rearrested in west London last night, after a fresh invested -- a | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
fresh international arrest warrant was received in Italy. He was | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
remanded in custody until his next hearing. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
Sport, after a somewhat chaotic start, Pineau De Re written by | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Leighton Aspell was the surprise winner of a dramatic Grand National. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
The horse, trained by a former GP, was not one of the favourites our | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
sports correspondent Andy Swiss reports. | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
Even on the greatest Grand National day, Aintree was a feast of colour | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
of 70,000 flocked for the latest instalment of one of sport's most | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
unpredictable events. First, a false start, before belatedly they were | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
under way. Teaforthree set out as favourite. He did not finish. There | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
were some crashing falls, but for the second year running thankfully | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
no injuries. Across the Bay led for much of the race, but when he was | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
taken out by a loose horse, the path was clear for Pineau De Re, pursued | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
by offers arcing and Double Seven, but to no avail. He will take the | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
Crabbie's Grand National. Victory for the jockey who briefly retired | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
and for the trainer, Doctor Richard Newland, a former GP. Pineau De Re | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
was his first-ever runner at the Rat-macro National. Just what the | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
doctor ordered. He jumped well, you do not know what is behind you. I | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
caught the commentary, I was six lengths clear which is a lovely | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
caution. Even if I was going to tire, nothing would finish to | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
quickly and the National. Jockey on a comeback on a part-time trainer, | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
another victory for Cup national folklore. Despite the soggy | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
conditions another dramatic Grand National and one has earned Pineau | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
De Re a place in racing history. Finally, tributes have been paid to | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
one of the most successful television writers of the 20th | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
century. Rob lobby, who died this week at the age of 79. -- Bob | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Larbey. He formed a prolific write the partnership creating shows such | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
as The Good Life, Ever Decreasing Circles and Brush Strokes. There is | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
more throughout the evening on the BBC News channel. We are back with | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
the late news that just | :09:59. | :09:59. |