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Former members of an undercover unit used by the British army in Northern | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Ireland tell the BBC's Panorama that unarmed civilians were killed. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Ex-members of the Military Reaction Force said they had been tasked with | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
"hunting down" IRA members in Belfast and that their unit saved | :00:17. | :00:28. | |
many lives. We were there to act like a terror group. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Will be hearing reaction from the Ministry of Defence. Also this | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
lunchtime: Labour accuses David Cameron of launching a "smear | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
campaign" over their dealings with the Co-op Bank and its disgraced | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
ex-chairman Paul Flowers. London Underground announces plans | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
to run 24-hours a day at weekends and close all ticket offices, unions | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
say they'll take action over the 750 jobs that will go. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
The huge campaign on social networks that, against all the odds, found a | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
bone marrow match for this two-year-old boy. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
And Stuart Broad gives England the upper hand on the first day of the | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
Ashes Series in Brisbane. Later on BBC London: Plans to close | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
every Tube ticket office. How will it affect the capital's | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
commuters? And Croydon University Hospital is | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
told it still needs to make significant improvements. | :01:15. | :01:34. | |
Good afternoon. Soldiers from a secret British Army | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
unit have admitted shooting unanswered billions during the | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Troubles in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s. -- shooting unarmed | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
civilians. The Ministry of Defence said the | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
revelations have been referred to the police. | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
In 1972, Belfast was one of the most dangerous places on earth. There | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
were multiple bombings and shootings almost daily. Panorama has learned | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
soldiers operating in that year acted outside the law, and shot | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
unarmed civilians. The Military Reaction Force had about 40 men | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
hand-picked from across the British Army. Three former members have | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
agreed to appear on camera, on condition their identities were | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
disguised. What was the mission? To draw out the IRA and minimise their | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
activities. If they needed shooting, they would be shot. We were not | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
there to act like an army unit, we were there to act like a terror | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
group. Some plainclothes soldiers shot it was -- thought it was all | :02:56. | :03:08. | |
right to shoot unarmed civilians. There were strict rules. I knew the | :03:09. | :03:17. | |
rules of the yellow card inside out. I want to be clear about where the | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
red line was? The operation was wound up after 18 months. | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
Patricia's father was shot dead in 1972 as he stood talking to some | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
friends of manning a civilian barricade. We would like a new | :03:36. | :03:45. | |
inquest. An open verdict was recorded in 1972. My father was | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
killed on loftily. I would not like it to go down in history that that | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
was the verdict. He was an innocent man and he was killed. We asked the | :03:55. | :04:04. | |
MoD for a response. These allegations have been referred to | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Military personnel are | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
required to operate under the law of the land. Yesterday the Northern | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Ireland Attorney General proposed there should be no more enquiries | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
into conflict related killings. This could mean the end of the historical | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
enquiries team who have been reviewing such cases over the last | :04:25. | :04:25. | |
seven years. Our Northern Ireland correspondent | :04:26. | :04:38. | |
joins us now. What reaction has there been there? As you can imagine | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
there has been outrage and upset. These are effectively claims of | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
state involvement in murder, state sanctioning of murder. That is | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
something which is very difficult for a lot of families. It took place | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
when there was mayhem on the streets behind me here. Hundreds of killings | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
and hundreds of bombings. The families of people killed by | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
paramilitaries, the police, the Army, who was really have never been | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
given justice. There is a difficulty in thinking that in some way the | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
peace process stopped at the signing of the Good Friday agreement and | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
politics changed for ever, it has not. People are still trying to deal | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
with all of these issues. Politicians are currently locked in | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
conversation trying to find some way of looking to the future while | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
dealing with the past. You can just hear the difficulties when you see | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
the reaction to the Attorney General for Northern Ireland's comments | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
yesterday that perhaps we should draw a line and stop any | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
prosecutions on things that happened before 1998. You can see the full | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
Panorama programme tonight on BBC One at 9pm. | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
Labour have accused David Cameron of launching a smear campaign against | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
them about the Co-op. Ministers have made repeated claims about the ties | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
between the Labour leadership and the Co-op Bank's disgraced chairman, | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Paul Flowers. Now Labour is accusing the government of having serious | :06:18. | :06:18. | |
questions to answer. The tale of a disgraced former boss, | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
it has become a Westminster blame game. David Cameron asked why | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Westminster did not tell the authorities -- by Labour did not | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
tell the authorities about this man. We have a Prime Minister making | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
cheap political points rather than sorting out the serious situation at | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
this bank. David Cameron is determined to smear his way through | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
the next 18 months. That is wrong and not what the British people | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
expect from their Prime Minister. Labour say it was on this | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
government's watcher that the Co-op got into trouble. | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
These were the pictures that led to the political row. Paul Flowers | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
filmed allegedly buying drugs. The allegations have not stopped there. | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
A drug charity has said that Flowers was suspended after an investigation | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
into his expenses. There were over right ear of claims and some of them | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
were legitimate. -- there were a variety of claims. The Co-op Bank | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
has loaned Labrie lot of money. Paul Flowers is a former Labour | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
councillor. That, say Tories and Lib Dems, makes it Labour's problem. I | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
am sure the Labour Party will want to account for itself and also make | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
sure that in addition to all the questions which still exists towards | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
how they act as puppets for the trade union bosses, that they are | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
not also connected to old characters like this. There is a high-stakes, | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
political battle going on here with both sides trying to associate their | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
opponents with the career of the Reverend Flowers. Many are asking | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
how this man, with no career in banking, ended up chairman of a | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
bank? Our political correspondent is in | :08:30. | :08:40. | |
Westminster. Is this a political spat or something more significant? | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
Today, we are seeing the start of the Labour fightback. Four days, | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Labour have been receiving a pounding with a steady dribble of | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
allegations. The response of Ed Miliband's team has been to say, we | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
know nothing. We have done nothing wrong. But they have sat down and | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
concluded this strategy has got them precisely nowhere. Now they have | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
decided to go on the offensive and pin the blame on George Osborne, | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
saying the Chancellor tried to help the Co-op by Lloyds branches. The | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Chancellor intervened in Europe on behalf of the Co-op. He must have | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
known what sort of a bank it was and what sort of a man Paul Flowers was. | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
Ed Miliband has weighed in accusing David Cameron of smear tactics. I do | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
not know if you're a military historian, but Napoleon used to have | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
a saying, attack is the best form of offence. Ed Miliband is trying to | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
take a leaf out of his book and defend the Labour Party from these | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
accusations by going on the attack. Stamp duty revenues grew by nearly | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
half to more than ?1 billion in October to help reduce public sector | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
borrowing by nearly 200 billion -- ?200 million. With me now is our | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
business correspondent. Is this good news? The economic recovery has | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
helped these figures, but critics say the reduction in the underlying | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
deficit has still been modest and there is a long way to go. If we | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
look at these figures, the total deficit, that is the difference | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
between what the government get in through taxation versus what it has | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
to to spend, that fell. It is down from 8.2 billion from the year | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
before. But the net public debt, the amount of money we all owe as a | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
country, that rose to ?1.2 trillion. It has risen to a new high. 7.4% of | :10:54. | :11:05. | |
our output. That improving economy does mean that the amount of money | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
the government actually got in through taxation rose to ?48.7 | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
billion. That is mainly down to the fact the economy has picked up, but | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
it is that stamp duty revenue which has been a strong rise. That is up | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
by 46%. As the property market picks up, more transactions take place and | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
more tax is payable on that. That has helped things improve. This does | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
make welcome reading at the Treasury. It is the last set of | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
borrowing data we get before the autumn statement which we will get | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
next month. There is still work to be done, but the economy is heading | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
in the right direction. The phone hacking trial has been shown an | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
e-mail from Clive Goodman in which he warned a personal assistant that | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
they could all end up in jail if payments to police were traced. He | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
is among eight defendants who denied all charges against them. | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
Clive Goodman regularly requested payments to be made to his sources | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
according to today's evidence. They focus on the system under which such | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
payments were authorised at the News of the World. He is on trial because | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
he is alleged to have paid serving police officers, one of them based | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
at St James's Palace, for information including telephone | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
numbers of the Royal household. The jury were told at the News of the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
World journalists like Clive Goodman would request payments to be paid to | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
their more sensitive sources by cash. They sent e-mails, some of | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
which were shown in court. Clive Goodman e-mailed a assistant in | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
2005, as you know, there are only three people I ever pay in cash. We | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
would all end up in jail if anyone traced their payments. They have had | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
special Branch crawling all over them since we ran a story about | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
Operation Trident. In January 2006 he said in any mail, I am afraid he | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
is a cash only contributor because of his extremely sensitive job. The | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
jury has been told that e-mail was sent to a police officer. The | :13:26. | :13:39. | |
recipient denies -- Clive Goodman wrote denies being -- paying for | :13:40. | :13:51. | |
stories. London Underground has announced | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
plans to close every ticket office on the network and cut 750 jobs by | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
2015. The Tube will also run 24 hours a day on Friday and Saturday | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
on some lines. Just how radical is this? Let me put it this way, I know | :14:09. | :14:18. | |
the chewed is a London thing, but as many people get on the London Tube | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
every day as the amount they get on the rest of Britain's trains | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
altogether. That is the significance of it. Over the next couple of years | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
there are going to be some radical changes. You can probably see the | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
ticket office up there. All of the ticket offices across the whole | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
network or going to go. We are told 750 people will lose their jobs. | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
Five of the biggest lines will also start running tubes for 24 hours on | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
Friday and Saturday. Jobs going and ticket offices going might conjure | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
up images of empty stations where people cannot get help. Transport | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
for London are insisting that those people will be moved out of offices | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
but they will be on hand on platforms. They say every station | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
will be staffed when the tubes are running. They are insisting this is | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
good for passengers, but the unions are not happy. | :15:22. | :15:34. | |
Former members of an undercover unit used by the British Army in Northern | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
Ireland tell the BBC's panorama that unarmed civilians were killed. Still | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
to come, Monty Python and the O2 appearance. The comedy team announce | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
a comeback show. The Met Police are being trained and how to deal with | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
mentally ill suspects, after concerns are raised. And can London | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
learn lessons from Berlin when it comes to cycling safely? | :15:58. | :16:06. | |
Just a few days ago, two-year-old Gaurav Bains was facing the prospect | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
of spending this Christmas fighting for his life will stop suffering a | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
rare condition, he was in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
Now, after a massive social media campaign, a perfect match has been | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
found. And that is even more remarkable because finding a match | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
among the Asian community has been all but impossible in the past. | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
Gaurav Bains looks like a happy, playful two-year-old, but he's been | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
diagnosed with a rare blood disorder that will develop into an aggressive | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
form of leukaemia. His parents were told his only hope was a bone marrow | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
transplant, but doctors were struggling to find a match. His | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
family launched an appeal on social media and the campaign took off. At | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
the same time, a perfect match was found. It's given us hope now. A | :16:59. | :17:07. | |
complete stranger has given us that chance of life for our son. It's | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
incredible. I can't explain the feeling. The charity, the Anthony | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
Nolan Trust, estimates that more than 2000 people joined the bone | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
marrow register as a direct result of Gaurav's appeal. And he inspired | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
a huge increase in Asian donors. Doctor Sarah Lawson is planning the | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
transplant at the Birmingham Children's Hospital. When they're | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
only treatment option is a transplant and there isn't a family | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
donor, we need an unrelated donor. The more Asian donors we can get on | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
the panels and other ethnic minorities, the better chance we | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
have of finding someone who is a match and then we can treat these | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
patients. Red and four Gaurav's family, the campaign won't stop | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
here. The awareness that has been created has been fantastic. We are | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
not going to stop here. We want to keep campaigning because it is not | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
just about Gaurav and us. We've been blessed we found one so soon. There | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
have been people waiting for years out there. Doctors are expected to | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
operate before Christmas. It will be followed by eight weeks of gruelling | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
treatment. But this family say it's the best present they could hope | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
for. The Foreign Office says it is investigating reports that four | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
British nationals have been killed in Syria, while fighting alongside | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
rebel forces. Several hundred British citizens are thought to be | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
involved in the British -- Civil War. French police say a man | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
arrested on suspicion of shooting a photographer in Paris served a | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
prison sentence for his involvement in a notorious crime early 20 years | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
ago. The suspect was linked to a far left militant group which killed | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
three policemen and a taxi driver. A huge manhunt was mounted after the | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
shooting in the offices of Liberation newspaper on Monday. He | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
was found inside a car in an underground car park in a western | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
Paris suburb. He was semiconscious after taking an overdose of drugs. | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
Police say it may have been a suicide attempt. He is Abdelhakim | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
Dekhar. Nearly 20 years ago, he was the third man in an infamous | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
shooting spree in Paris. Two young far left radicals bungled a hold-up | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
and killed three policemen and the taxi driver. Abdelhakim Dekhar | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
supplied them with a firearm. He served four years. Those who knew | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
him described him as a delusional figure. | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
TRANSLATION: He frequented alternative far left groups in | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
France. People who were very marginal and very secret, but he was | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
even more marginal, something of a delusional character. Left-wing | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
activists soon became wary of him. He is now recovering under guard in | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
hospital. His DNA links and unmistakably to the attacks early | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
this week. It is a bizarre twist, the re-emergence after nearly 20 | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
years they a once notorious criminal. Police in Paris will want | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
to know what on earth pushed him to take up the shot gun once again. Was | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
it some pestering sense of injustice after the previous affair, or some | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
political grudge? And why was the media his main target? First here, | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
threatening at BFMTV. And then on Monday at Liberation newspaper, when | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
he opened fire and very nearly killed a man. The Conservative MP, | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
Tim Yeo, has been cleared by the parliamentary enquiry of misusing | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
his role as chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Committee. He | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
stepped aside in June while the Parliamentary Commissioner for | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
standards investigated allegations that he has told undercover | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
reporters he could lobby ministers on behalf of a private company. | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
Prince Charles has joined forces with the leaders of the three major | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
political parties to edit -- urge young people to do public service. | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
The Step Up To Serve campaign wants to get 50% of young people to | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
participate in social action by 2020. It is also calling on adults | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
to volunteer. Nicholas Witchel is at Buckingham Palace. | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
The Prince of Wales will convene the leaders of Britain at Buckingham | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
Palace to, quote, precisely the words that have been used about this | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
by Clarence House. That conjures interesting possibilities for the | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
future. This is an initiative by the Prince of Wales which, | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
interestingly, is supported both by the Government and the opposition, | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
to increase substantially the number of young people who are taking part | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
in community service of some kind. The launch is taking place at | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
Buckingham Palace at the moment. The Queen is not at Buckingham Palace, | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
she is visiting the Shard in central London. But the Prince of Wales is | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
there with the Prime Minister. This chimes with the big society | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
ambitions. The ambition of this scheme is to double the number of | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
young people between the ages of ten and 20 something like 1.7 million by | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
the year 2020, who are participating in what they call practical action | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
in the service of others. The Prince of Wales, in his speech a few | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
moments ago, called this a huge and exciting challenge. It is his belief | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
that this sort of structured activity helps not just the young | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
people but society as a whole. Handicapped people, elderly people | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
who perhaps they will be able to visit. The Queen has been getting a | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
birds eye view of London from western Europe's tallest building, | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
the Shard. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh toured the eye-catching | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
building as part of a visit for scheme which helps pay for some of | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
the poorest students going to university. They met staff and | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
recipients of the scheme, which is supported by the Shard. England | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
bowler Stuart broad has taken five wickets to give England the upper | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
hand against Australia on the first day of the Ashes test in Brisbane. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
The home side had been reduced to 132 for six at one point, but went | :23:23. | :23:32. | |
on to end the day at 270 348. This is the year of the nonstop Ashes. | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
One series ends, another begins and Brisbane bustled. Not a sell-out | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
crowd, but they came in search of heroes and villains. There we go... | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
Booze and worse from the crowd greeted the first bowl. Broad's | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
response was rapid, Chris Rogers gone, Australia 12 41. David Warner | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
spent the English summer as the man the crowd love to hate. The | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
aggression at once flowed to his fist is better used on a ball. | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
Australia's beef with Broad relates to his refusal to walk off court | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
during the last Ashes. Mixed in his sights, Australia's hapten. Michael | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
Clarke gone for one. If this test match was turning into a battle of | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
the Ashes bad boys, here came victory for Stuart Broad. 49 for | :24:31. | :24:40. | |
Warner and out. All of Australia's top four batsmen had fallen to | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
Stuart Broad. The broader picture was Australia in tatters, six down, | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
until a stand between Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson clawed back | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
lost ground. Both made 50. The final session swung towards Australia but | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
gap -- back came Broad. Perhaps now even the crowd have realised their | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
chanting had backfired. I'm pleased my mum wasn't in the stadium. To be | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
honest, I was singing along at one stage. It gets in your head and you | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
find yourself listening. Obviously not adding the words in. I had | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
braced myself to expect it. It was good fun. At the close, Australia | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
were 273 48. The weary abuse hurled towards Broad sounded almost | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
respectful. The surviving members of Monty Python have been announcing | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
details of their comeback reunion performance at an eagerly awaited | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
news conference. John Cleese, Eric idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
and Terry Jones said they'd be doing a show at London's O2 Arena next | :25:47. | :25:56. | |
summer. It is what many comedy fans have waited years for. The remaining | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
members of the Monty Python team together on stage again. They were | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
announcing a one-off reunion O2 Arena show to take place in summer | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
2014. There is some new material. We will be stitching together some | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
oldies. People really do want to see the old hits, but we don't want to | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
do them in a predictable way. It will be a mix-up. Monty Python's... | :26:24. | :26:37. | |
They were one of TV's boast successfully comedy acts during the | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
1970s. They produced sketches and routine still famous today. Greene I | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody expects the | :26:46. | :26:59. | |
Spanish Inquisition! Confess! Run for four series and spawned spin | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
offs ranging from books to records. The team also successfully branched | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
out into films. Their first, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, made on a | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
small budget between filming the third and fourth series of their TV | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
show. The sixth member of the group, Graham Chapman, died in 1989. | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
And, up until today, the remaining five have rarely appear together and | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
even then dismissed any suggestions of a full-blown reunion. There will | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
be those hoping that this will end up as more than just a one-off and | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
that they will enjoy the experience so much that they will perhaps | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
consider a new TV series or another film. A dramatic volcanic eruption | :27:39. | :27:47. | |
in the Pacific Ocean has created a tiny new island off the coast of | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
Japan. Pictures filmed by the Japanese Coast Guard showed clouds | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
of heavy smoke and steam billowing over the newly formed Island, which | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
is estimated to be around 200 metres in diameter. The last time a volcano | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
in this area you ruptured was in the 1970s. | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
The weather looks set to be settled and calm over the next few days. | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
This afternoon is pretty pleasant. A lot of sunshine around, though we do | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
have some showers around across eastern areas. The area of low | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
pressure is slipping out onto the near continent. The area of high | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
pressure will nudge in slowly over the next few days, settling the | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
weather down. That said, we will continue to see brisk winds across | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
the south-east corner of the UK, and some pretty heavy showers across the | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
north-east, the Borders and Northumberland. The further west you | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
are, it's a drier picture with the sunshine set to continue. Tonight, | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
showers continue across the north-east of England and the | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
south-east, where we have the keen north-easterly wind. It is set to | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
turn much colder across Scotland and Northern Ireland. A widespread frost | :29:05. | :29:12. | |
developing. Away from here, around the coast of England and Wales, it | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
is generally a frost free night. Tomorrow morning, there will be a | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
few showers across the Northern Isles and Cloutier, but for central | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
and southern Scotland and Northern Ireland it is a cold, frosty start. | :29:26. | :29:31. | |
Further south, a few showers affecting the north-east corner. | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
Away from here, a lot of dry weather for Wales, the South West and the | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
Midlands. Across the south-east we still have the niggling north-east | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
wind and showers pushing into East Anglia and for Kent and Sussex. | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
Those showers continue in the far south-east, eventually clearing | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
away. For most places there will be a lot of sunshine, a perfect autumn | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
day. A couple of showers affecting the Northern Isles but that is | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
really it. Cold through Scotland in the Central Belt, a little bit | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
milder the further south and east you are. This is the pressure | :30:06. | :30:08. | |
picture through the course of Saturday and Sunday. High pressure | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
dominating. It always stays out west, so it looks like we will have | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
a run of very light northerly winds. High pressure doesn't always | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
mean it is going to be sunny. Mainly dry for the weekend. Light winds. | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
There will be variable amounts of cloud but also some sunshine. It | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
will feel on the chilly side. Some sunshine around, feeling pleasant | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
where it does. But where we get clear skies through the day, it will | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
lead to frosty nights with the risk of some fog. | :30:40. | :30:46. | |
Former members of an undercover unit used by the British Army in Northern | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
Ireland told the BBC's panorama that unarmed civilians were killed. That | :30:53. | :30:54. | |
is all from | :30:55. | :30:55. |