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The son of IRA murder victim Jean McConville says Gerry Adams warned | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
him of a backlash if he named those he believed had killed her. A file | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
on the Sinn Fein President will be sent to prosecutors this week. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Reports of more deaths in eastern Ukraine as fighting between | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian activists continues. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
The Oscar Pistorius trial resumes and hears evidence from the first | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
person on the scene after his girlfriend Reeva Steencamp was shot | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
and killed. And tributes to the former British | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
number one tennis player, Elena Baltacha, who's died from cancer | :00:40. | :00:40. | |
aged 30. Good afternoon. The son of Jean | :00:41. | :01:06. | |
McConville, who was murdered by the IRA in 1972, has said Gerry Adams | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
warned him of a backlash if he named those he believed were responsible | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
for killing her. Michael McConville has said his family's fight for | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
justice will continue after Mr Adams was freed after four days of | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
questioning about the murder. The Sinn Fein President has denied any | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
involvement in her death. Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler | :01:28. | :01:36. | |
has the latest. Many times, there have been attempts | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
to make a clean start in Northern Ireland, with countless strides | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
forward in the peace process. But the past is a running problem. This | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
morning's Belfast Marathon went through the west of the city, and | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
passed a new mural painted in honour of Gerry Adams while he was in | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
custody. After four full days of questioning, he was released without | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
charge last night. The Sinn Fein resident's anger remains focused on | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
the police. It is the old guard, using the old methods, when a better | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
way of getting the same result would have assisted their investigation | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
and not have sent the signals it sent to people who want hope in the | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
future. What has really outraged members of Sinn Fein is that their | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
leader was arrested during an election campaign. And just a few | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
weeks ahead of votes being held across the country. Gerry Adams | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
turned up at Antrim police station with his solicitor last week by | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
arrangement, so he has a part in the timing arrangements. I'm not sure | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
why he's criticising the police for it. At the heart of this are | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
questions about the notorious murder of Jean McConville. She was abducted | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
from her home in front of her children. Gerry Adams has always | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
denied allegations that he was involved in the killing. But the | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
McConville family once the investigation to continue. This | :03:05. | :03:14. | |
happened in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Nazis were chased around the world | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
for crimes committed in the 40s. There is no difference between them | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
and our mother. At the police station, Gerry Adams was questioned | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
about the murder and friends that he was in the IRA, an allegation he has | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
continually denied. But whether he will be charged is a matter for | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
prosecutors, not the police. Joining us from Belfast is Chris | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Buckler. We are just weeks away from an | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
important European and local elections. What is this episode | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
going to do in those polls? In reality, I don't think it will | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
affect Sinn Fein in any way. Now Gerry Adams has been released | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
without charge, they will continue with their campaign trail and Gerry | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
Adams' focus will move to that campaign trail. Although he is a | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
former member of and four West Belfast, he is now an elected | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
representative in the South of Ireland. In the Republic, he will | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
begin that campaign trail. The European elections are particularly | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
important to Sinn Fein south of the border as well as north. However, in | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Northern Ireland, it will be a particularly fraught and difficult | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
election. Unionists and Republicans can expect to have harsh words for | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
each other as a result of this episode, with people flinging | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
accusations at both Sinn Fein and the words they used about the | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
police, and Sinn Fein throwing accusations back at the police, | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
saying their timing was politically motivated. The other issue is that | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
this whole thing has not gone away. A file has been passed to the Public | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
prosecution service, and they will examine it to see if charges should | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
be brought at some stage in the future. Many thanks. | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
In Ukraine, there are reports that a number of government troops and | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
pro-Russian fighters have endured in Sloviansk. Tension also remains high | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
in Odessa, where a fire left at least 40 pro-Russian activist dead | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
on Friday. Police there have been accused of a disregard for their | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
duties after freeing those expected of starting the fire when the police | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
station where they were being held was attacked. Sarah Rainsford has | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
the latest. He scorched shrine, and the focus of | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
fresh anger. More than 30 pro-Russian activist died here in | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
Odessa as this building was torched during fierce clashes with groups | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
loyal to Kiev. The first funerals will be held today. It has | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
infuriated people in eastern Ukraine, where locals have been | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
reinforcing their defences. Like fury, most people who live here are | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
Russian speakers. But he insists that they are not being controlled | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
by Moscow but they just won't feel that Kiev represents them. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
TRANSLATION: We just want to live as we choose, but no one wants to | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
listen to us. They say Kiev chose Europe . That is fine, but I don't | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
want to live in Europe. So they are preparing for a fight here. Down the | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
road, we found this pro-Russian group in control of the local police | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
headquarters. This man, the whole crowd demanding to know how they | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
could help defend their town. The mood here is angry, aggressive, | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
defiant. These locals do not see the army as liberators. There are | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
barricades like this all along this Main Street. Heaps of tyres and | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
rubble that have been put up because the people I have in speaking to our | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
worried that Ukrainian troops will be heading in here. But even now in | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
some spots, normal life does go on. This woman has been enjoying the | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
weekend with her son, but she is worried. This region will vote on | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
independence in a week, something she tells me the Russian | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
independence in a week, something here want. She believes Kiev is | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
trying to stop that. TRANSLATION: We are afraid. They are not letting us | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
hold a referendum. That is why the violent just started. So things will | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
not be peaceful violent just started. So things will | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
that. There are clearly deep divisions in Ukraine, and every day | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
of fighting drives them deeper. There remains that, BBC News, in | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
eastern Ukraine. The former British number one tennis | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
player, Elena Baltacha, has died at The former British number one tennis | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
the age of 30. She revealed she had liver cancer in March, just months | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
after retiring. Her diagnosis came just a few weeks after she married | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
her long-time coach and partner, Nino Severino. Andy Swiss looks back | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
at her Nino Severino. Andy Swiss looks back | :07:49. | :07:58. | |
She was one of tennis's Nino Severino. Andy Swiss looks back | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
most courageous stars. Elena Baltacha -- she was one of the most | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
bubbly stars. She was reaching the third round of Wimbledon in 2002. | :08:09. | :08:09. | |
She went on to third round of Wimbledon in 2002. | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
one, so news of her death just six months after retiring has left the | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
sport united in sorrow. Her British Colley, Laura Robson, said: | :08:23. | :08:41. | |
her life had been defined by her battling spirit. At 19, she was | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
diagnosed with the chronic liver condition that would have ended many | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
careers, but not hers. I think it helped me realise how much a part of | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
my life tennis was and how serious I want to make it now. Every day, | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
waking up and putting in the sacrifices and commitments. | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Ukrainian born Altai she defied her other problems to reach the world | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
top 50. In the process she became a figurehead from Jewish women's | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
tennis. Her power and passion was plain to see -- making -- being a | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
figurehead for British women's tennis. She was a proud torch bearer | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
and competitor, the realisation of a lifetime's ambition. As injuries | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
took their toll, she was forced to retire at the end of last year, just | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
four months before she was diagnosed with liver cancer both on and off | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
the court, a player who epitomised spirit and sacrifice. A fighter to | :09:39. | :09:49. | |
the end. A three-day strike on the London Underground which had been | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
due to begin this evening has been suspended. Leaders of the RMT union | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
who met Tube managers this morning said they had made significant | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
progress in their dispute over ticket office closures. Let's speak | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
to our correspondent Richard Lister who is outside ACAS, the | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
conciliation service. Does this mean the dispute is settled? It does not | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
mean the dispute is settled, but it means a 72 hour strike that was due | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
to start tonight is now off and given that the London underground | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
carries regularly more than 4 million passengers a day, that comes | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
as a relief. There was major disruption by the strike last week. | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
We understand the two side are very close to a deal over these 260 | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
ticket office closures. It took them just 90 minutes this morning to | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
hammer something out. The RMT said they made progress and the acting | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
general secretary said he welcomed the chance to suspend today's | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
strike. We have got clear understandings from London | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
underground about how we are going to move forward, allowing us to fire | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
their campaign to ensure we keep every booking office open. We have | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
got a statement from the company about protection of earnings for our | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
members and they have backed down on the precondition of cancelling the | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
dispute. The review is due to finish later this month and the two sides | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
will get back together at ACAS to decide on the future. The terrorist | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria three weeks ago. Their claim came as | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
the country's president, Goodluck Jonathan, made his first public | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
comments on the kidnapping. But while he was speaking it has been | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
reported that his wife ordered the arrest of one of the women leading | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
protests about what the parents see as a lack of action in finding their | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
daughters. Gordon Corera has the latest. | :11:52. | :12:02. | |
The first confirmation of the fate of the schoolgirls abducted in | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
Nigeria. In a video released to date the leader Boko Haram says, I | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
abducted your girls. It is a development which will do little to | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
ease the pain of the girls' families. Their grief and heartbreak | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
has moved the world. Their girls were abducted more than three weeks | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
ago, but since then the authorities have been unable to find them. The | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
BBC secured the first TV interviews with the mothers who were in agony | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
not knowing the fate of their daughters. TRANSLATION: Many people | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
come to our house to sympathise with us, but then at night our family | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
stays awake all night thinking of our daughter and all the other girls | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
and what they are going through and where they are being held. The | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
Christian and Muslim girls were seized from this remote school in | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
north-east Nigeria by Boko Haram. Nigeria's president has been accused | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
of not doing enough to rescue them. Last night he spoke about the issue | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
for the first time on TV. Wherever these girls are we will surely get | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
them out. I believe there is no story that any of them have been | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
hurt in terms of injuries. The president admitted that it girls had | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
not even be located, not alone rescued. Questions are being asked | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
about why more is not being done? My parents are helpless, they are | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
crying at home. They should bring the girls back and we will have | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
peace of mind. The President's wife has been drawn into the controversy. | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
Reportedly one-woman leading protests was arrested after meeting | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
with her. That is unlikely to do much to ease the growing pressure on | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
the Nigerian Government over its handling of the abductions. | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius has resumed in Pretoria and has been | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
hearing evidence from a neighbour who was one of the first on the | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
scene after the South African athlete killed his girlfriend. | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
Neighbour Johan Stander said he received a phone call from Mr | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
Pistorius asking him to come and help, saying he had shot Reeva | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
Steenkamp by mistake. Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding has | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
been in court. Bring us up to date with the latest. We heard today from | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
two of Oscar Pistorius' neighbours, both acquaintances of the athlete. | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
Johan Stander and his daughter Carice Viljoen. They say they saw | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
him carrying Reeva Steenkamp's body down the stairs and described him as | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
being distraught, desperate, crying to God, praying for somebody to | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
safer and begging for them to get an ambulance. We heard in graphic | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
detail about how they found towels in the house to try and stem the | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
blood from Reeva Steenkamp's wounds. But it became clear she was | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
beyond help. At one friend we heard from Carice Viljoen, a friend of | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
Oscar's, how the athlete went upstairs and she realised the guy | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
was up there and because of the way he was behaving she became alarmed | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
he might be intending to kill himself. Andrew Harding, many | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
thanks. L. A poll suggests three quarters of British people want | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
limits on the amount of sugar in certain foods. The survey of 1000 | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
people was carried out for the BBC Radio 5 Live. World health experts | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
have recommended we limit our daily sugar intake to just six teaspoons, | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
but the UK 's largest sugar supplier says blaming one ingredient for the | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
obesity crisis is too simplistic. Jo Black has more. | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
obesity crisis is too simplistic. Jo Robert Law is a sugar beet farmer | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
and every year produces 1600 tonnes of the white stuff, but he is not a | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
big fan of added sugar because he has type two diabetes. Every packet | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
of food you buy now you can find out what is on it, but people need to | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
understand what that means. They need to live a healthy, balanced | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
lifestyle, keep active and take note of what is natural in their food. If | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
they looked at percentages and figures on the side of a packet, it | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
can be misleading. This survey found 66% of us would like to see a ban on | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
sugary drinks in schools. It also found 59% of us would like to see | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
health warnings on food packaging similar to those found on | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
cigarettes. Our body shapes are changing and it is our consumption | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
of added sugar that manufacturers and get some health experts | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
worried. The World Health Organisation recently recommended we | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
should try to limit our daily amount to 25 grams, six teaspoons. But what | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
would that mean for the average family? Every time you pick up one | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
of those sweets, you are putting a piece bone in your mouth. This | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
dietician is helping this family with a week-long edit extra as | :17:23. | :17:23. | |
Eriksson -- experiment to help them with a week-long edit extra as | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
recommend their daily intake to six teaspoons. I am putting bananas on | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
my toast instead of chocolate spread or jam. The sugar industry says it | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
is simplistic to demonise one ingredient and as we are consuming | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
too many calories and doing too much exercise. This family managed only | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
four days on a reduced limit. Cutting back is not that easy. And | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
you can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News | :18:03. | :18:03. |