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The battle for Libya. At the end of the week in which the rebels | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
entered Tripoli, who's running the country? | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Sporadic fighting continues in the capital as supplies run low. Some | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
of the wounded are left untreated in hospital. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
In this hospital, and around this hospital, there are hundreds of | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
dead bodies. Men, women and children. They are lying on | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
trolleys every -- everywhere. We don't know who they were, if they | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
were fighters or African mercenarys. Also on tonight's programme: | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
The death of a mother and father within days of each other leaves | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
four children orphaned while on holiday in Morocco. Experts predict | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
40% of adults in the UK will be obese by 2030. Chips you can buy | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
microwave chips for what - a quid. That is quick and easy. Pizzas are | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
�1.75. Quick and easy meal for �3. If you have a lot of kids that is | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
what you'll do. A man who stole a T-shirt from this store in | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
Birmingham during the riots is jailed for 20 months. And coming up | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
in the sport: Joey joins QPR, Barton leaves Newcastle and joins | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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the newly promoted London side on a Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
News at 6pm. Five days after rebels entered the Libyan capital it's | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
still not clear if they are ready to take over the running of the | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
country. There remains sporadic firing in Tripoli. Essential powers | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
are -- supplies are running low. There appears to be no running | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
water in the capital. In one hospital many were left to die as | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
fighting forced medical staff to flee. The battle for Libya is | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
spreading to Sirte - the home town of Colonel Gaddafi, with British | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Tornado jets bombing targets there. Leaders are ready to re-establish | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
law and order. They will move their transitional Government to the | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
capital. In Abu Salim district, just the | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
embers of battle remain today. Yesterday, there was fierce | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
fighting on these streets. By morning, Colonel Gaddafi's troops | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
had melted away. We found rebel units still | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
searching in other areas. They moved on foot, warning residents to | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
stay inside for their own safety. They exercised the -- exsore sized | :03:04. | :03:13. | |
the past, along the way. We know the area, we are trying to | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
clean this area from the Gaddafi enemy. How many Gaddafi troops do | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
you think there might be? Not up to 100, I think so. I'm not sure. | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
Maybe there's a lot, but I don't know. The hated Green Flag of the | :03:27. | :03:37. | |
Gaddafi era was torched wherever it was found. We're looking for | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
Gaddafi. Maybe we'll find him here. Another rebel unit and another | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
target. This was a club for Gaddafi functionrys. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
-- functionaries. Well, they have been making their | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
way through the building here. They have been told by local people that | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
there are some Gaddafi forces inside. They are literally kicking | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
down doors. They are going room by room to make sure this area is | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
secured. They found documents and files. | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
The regime's men had no hiding place here. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Prisoners of the regime have freed themselves this week. This | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
extraordinary amateur footage shows a mass breakout from Tripoli's | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
notorious Abu Salim jail. This former prisoner came back to visit | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
today. He was released in 2001. He was | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
arrested for praying too much, he says and spent a decade in jail. At | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
that time, there was only one window here, he told us. We got | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
very little air. We slept packed together. | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
One of the regime's worst atrocities happened here in 1996, | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
when an estimated 1200 prisoners were killed. | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
Now the doors to the past are wide open. | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
More than 80 bodies have been found at an abandoned hospital in the Abu | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
Salim area of Tripoli. The area has been the scene of busy fighting. | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
The hospital was abandoned five days ago after medical staff | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
abandoned it after fire. This is the Abu Salim hospital in the | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
district of Tripoli where most of the heavy fighting has been taking | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
place. This is one of the most distressing sights I have ever seen. | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
In this hospital and around this hospital there are hundreds of dead | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
bodies, men, women and children are lying on guernieys, on trolleys | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
everywhere. We don't know who they were, whether they were fighters, | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
civilians or African mercenarys. We what we know is when injured people | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
were brought to the hospital here there were no hospital staff here | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
to treat them because of the fighting which was going on in | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
buildings just around here. Some people were left to die, were left | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
here injured and they slowly died. The result is there are now | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
hundreds of bodies in the wards, in the corridors lying on guernieys, | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
bodies everywhere. It is a distressing sight. Many are blaming | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Colonel Gaddafi's Government, his regime for this. Who is responsible, | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
it's impossible to say. These are local people trying to clean up the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
mess but it is a huge, huge task. Our correspondent there. We can | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
speak now to our world affairs editor who is in Tripoli. Seeing | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
the scenes there that we were seeing, the reports of no running | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
water, there are some pockets of resistance in the capital, is it | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
posstobl say how long before the rebels start to -- possible to say | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
how long before the rebels start to get the country up and running | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
again? It depends on the council and when they come here to form a | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
Government. You can hear the noise in the background. A lot of that is | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
just letting off steam really. There's very little fighting now. | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
It is starting to settle down, but there doesn't seem to be any proper | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
infrastructure. There's no television station. For a start, | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
they can't decide what to do. So the only television people can | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
watch is this weird television station which is dedicated to | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
putting out the views of Colonel Gaddafi and racing around the | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
streets trying to avoid any kind of arrest or capture. There's just a | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
sense of nothing quite happening at the moment. | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Therefore, these terrible things, I was also at that hospital, one of | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
the most terrible scenes of my entire career, I think, was | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
watching the bodies, looking at the bodies and watching the blood- | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
stained floor. Very, very unpleasant indeed. These things | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
assume a much greater importance, as does the light fighting which is | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
going on here, simply because there's nothing else, because there | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
is no Government. I think that will have to be | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
addressed before this whole situation will start to calm down. | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
Thank you. And there's more about the | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
situation in Libya later in the programme. On our special live page | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
online. It brings together all the latest news and analysis. The | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
address is: Other news now and four children | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
have been orphaned after their parents died within days of each | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
other during a family holiday to Morocco. Mathilde Lamb fell from | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
the third floor balcony of their holiday apartment in Essaouira. She | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
later died in hospital. Her husband, Roger, fell down the stairs of the | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
hotel a few days later. Our correspondent is outside the family | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
home in Worcestershire. This is a terrible tragedy. What more can you | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
tell us? Well, Fiona details are sparse. The family here in rural | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
Worcestershire. Initial reports were that Mr Lamb, Tilly, as she | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
was known to family and friends had somehow fallen over the cliff and | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
her husband went to rescue her in some way. A family friend coming to | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
the home this evening. What we have discovered is that Mrs Lamb fell | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
from the window of her apartment. She died in hospital then on | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
Thursday. Her husband appears to have fallen down the stairs in a | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
hotel a couple of days later, over the weekend. His family was | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
informed of his death just on Monday. A statement has been | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
released on behalf of both families. It says "our principal concern is | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
to provide love and support to the four sons aged between nine and 16 | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
who have had to suffer the loss of both a mother and father in swift | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
succession." The family say the boys are being well cared for here | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
in the UK. As regards the details of how their parents died, we'll | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
have to wait and hear from the Moroccan authorities. | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
Back to you. Thank you. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
The UK economy remains sluggish, according to official figures | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
released today. The Office for National Statistics confirmed | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
growth was 0.2% in the second quarter. Manufacturing output fell | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
by 0.5% from April to June. But the construction and service sectors | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
each grew by the same amount. A 30-year-old man has been charged | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
with six murders including his wife and two young children. | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
The man, originally from Poland is accused of carrying out stabbing | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
during a family BBQ. His wife, parents, family friend and daughter | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
all died earlier this month. Nearly half the UK population could | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
be dangerously overweight in 20 years' time. This action is -- | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
unless action is taken now to tackle obesity. Writing in the | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
journal, the Lancet, they say rich food, too little exercise and a | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
lack of political will to take on the food industry are combining to | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
cause the highest obesity rate in the developed world. Watching our | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
weight as a nation. Scientists and doctors are worried about the UK. | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
In 2009, 26% of adults were obese. By 2030, 40% of adults could be | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
obese. That's 26 million people whose weight compared to their | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
height is a lot higher than the normal range. What are the | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
challenges in slimming down the nation? Rotherham in Yorkshire is a | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
town with a weight problem. On every estate, fast food is easier | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
to find than fresh food. Many families are shopping on a tight | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
budget. All it is two minutes in a microwave. Chips you can buy | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
microwave chips for what, a quid. So that's quick and easy. Pizzas | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
are �1.75, something like that. A quick and easy meal for �3. If you | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
have a lot of kids that is what you'll do. You have to buy things | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
on offer. They tend to be things which are unhealthy. When you talk | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
to families it is clear that costs and convenience are the two big | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
influences on the choices they make about food. | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
Quite simply, it can be cheaper and quicker to buy fast foods than to | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
cook a meal with healthy ingredients. | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
Rotherham is storing up health problems. A lot of extra weight | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
increases the risk of serious diseases. The NHS here is spending | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
millions to help the town lose weight. So there are choices ahead | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
for Governments. Experts back programmes like this summer kam in | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
the town, but say tough action is - - camp in the town, but say tough | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
action is needed against the food industry, which is borrowing from | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
tobacco industry lobbying tactics. To prevent regulation, of doubting | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
the science and sowing the seeds of doubt. All those tactics we are | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
seeing played out in this battle on obesity. In England, the Government | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
wants to work with the food industry, not tell it what to do. | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
People will not get thinner by Government regulating or taxing. | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
There are a number of tools in the box we have to use. | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
Legislation and regulation is slow and can be counter pro-duckive. | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
Changing the habits of a nation is hard. -- productive. Changing the | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
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A man has been jailed for 20 months after stealing a T-shirt during the | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
riots in Birmingham,. As the courts continue to jail hundreds following | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
the mass disorder the number of prisoners in England and Wales has | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
reached a record high for the third week running. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
First a trickle and then a flood of looters. | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
The Armani store in Birmingham, 10pm, 9td August. �500,000 worth of | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
designer clothes gone in a flash. Among the looters was 25-year-old | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
Acer Harding. Identified by his blood left at the scene. The T- | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
shirt he stole cost him dearly. 20 months in jail, as the first | :14:22. | :14:32. | |
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sentences were handed down in the This is so even where to date, | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
those who have carried out these acts have never appeared before the | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
courts before. These pictures outside Armani are just a few | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
seconds of up to 40,000 hours of footage being examined in England. | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Half of it is in London. Day after day, police here are sifting | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
through the faces captured on the streets and in the shops of the | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
capital. This is going to take months. Six months, a year, it can | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
get into that. It's difficult to be precise. That is just one part of | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
the whole investigation, which is reviewing the CCTV. The multitude | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
of writing convictions means that more people behind the walls of | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
Prisons, like Wormwood Scrubs here in London. According to the latest | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
figures, 87,000 people are in jails across England and Wales, that's an | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
increase of 1300 over the past three weeks. Leading 1500 spare | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
places. Be enough to cope, says the government. There'll be plenty more | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
sentences like today's. Hundreds were arrested in Birmingham on the | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
night the Armani store was looted. But others simply vanished and the | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
police say that with each day that passes the chance that they will | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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Our top story - the battle for triple-A continues. Sporadic | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
fighting goes on as supplies of water and other basic supplies run | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
low. Many would apply and treated in hospital. Coming up... Foot | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
stamping and head-scratching in Scotland after a disastrous night | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
of European football. Inside F1 is back on BBC News at 645. The race | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
for the title resumes after the summer break, but is it still red | :16:24. | :16:34. | |
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At least 18 people are believed to have been killed in a suicide car | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
bomb attack at the United Nations building in the Nigerian capital, | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
Abuja. At least 60 elders are thought to have been wounded. A | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
spokesman for the Nigerian radical Islamist group it had carried out | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
the attack. Stunned, bleeding and in shock. Survivors of this | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
morning's bomb blast were brought out one by one. The attacker had | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
driven a car packed with explosives through two ineffective barriers | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
before detonating it, destroying two stories and many of those | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
within. I counted five dead bodies, then the agencies came around. I | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
saw the whole window shattered. I gathered the other portion of the | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
building collapsed. A lot of casualties. The it's the worst | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
attack on the UN building in over three years. Suspicion immediately | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
fell on the local extremist group, Boko Haram. Soon afterwards, the | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
group rang the BBC in Nigeria to claim responsibility. Today's bomb | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
in a butcher marks a major escalation for Boko Haram. Up to | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
now they've targeted mainly Nigerian officials. Who are they? | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
Their name means Western education is sinful. Founded in 2002, they | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
are seeking a Taliban style government throughout Nigeria. | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
Human rights groups say they've killed around 250 people in the | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
last year, after a failed government attempt to crush them. | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
The UN Secretary-General was quick to condemn the blast. It was an | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
assault on those who devote their lives to helping others. We condemn | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
this terrible act utterly. We do not yet have precise casualty | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
figures but they are likely to be considerable. The investigation is | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
being led by the Nigerian authorities. But the UN's own | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
investigators will want to know how security was so badly breached, and | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
why the United Nations was singled out for this devastating attack. | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
They are boarding up or moving out along large parts of America's | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
eastern seaboard this evening, as Hurricane Irene closes in. It's | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
already claimed lives and week havoc throughout the Bahamas. It is | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
due to hit North Carolina tomorrow. America's most heavily populated | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
city, New York, on Sunday. People in the path of the storm had been | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
told to evacuate the area. Irene, the first hurricane of the Atlantic | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
season, could affect up to 65 million people in cities along the | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
east coast. In all, seven US states have declared a state of emergency. | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Iris Robinson, the wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
Robinson, has been cleared of any wrongdoing over a council contract | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
that was awarded to her then teenage lover. An investigation was | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
commissioned in response to a BBC programme. Mark Simpson has the | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
details. Iris Robinson recently returned to public life after 18 | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
months away from the media spotlight. She met the Queen during | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
the royal visit to Dublin, as well as being the wife of Northern | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson, she was a high-profile | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
politician in her own right until she quit politics amid controversy | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
about her relationship with a young businessman. She had an affair with | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
a 19 year-old at the time he was 59. He won a council contract to run a | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
riverside coffee-shop near Belfast while she was a councillor in the | :20:20. | :20:28. | |
area. An investigation by the BBC Panorama programme alleged that Mrs | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
Robinson had failed to properly declare her interest when the | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
council agreed to award her love of the lease for the cafe. But an | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
independent report published today found that no local government | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
rules had been broken. The report exaggerates every one of wrong | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
doing. The entire Robinson family have been in our thoughts and | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
prayers during many difficult months. We hope that the final | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
conclusion of this episode will help Iris's recovery. Mrs Robinson | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
has been undergoing psychiatric treatment for the past 18 months. | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
There has been no comment from Iris Robinson about today's report, but | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
her solicitor is expected to issue a statement in the near future. As | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
for the BBC, they defended the Panorama programme. In a statement | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
a spokesperson said, the BBC stands by its journalism. We believe that | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
the issues were of significant public interest and were well | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
sourced. The allegations surrounding his wife threatened | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
Peter Robinson's career. But in the past year he has not only rebuild | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
his marriage but confirmed his position as leader of Northern | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
Ireland's most popular party. For the first time in half-a-century, | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
Scottish interest in European football is over before August has | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
ended. Last night, Celtic, Rangers and Hearts were all knocked out of | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
the Europa League. James Cook is that Scotland's national stadium in | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
Glasgow. It was a pretty miserable evening. Yes, there was nothing | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
beautiful about the game of football last night if you are | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
Scottish. It was the worst night in Europe for more than 50 years. Some | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
are even suggesting that this marks the death of Scottish football. | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
film is fading now, so are the memories. But these were the glory | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
days. The 60s, Celtic become the first British team to win the | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
European Cup. The 70s, a triumph for the other half of the old firm | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
a. Success matched by Aberdeen in the 80s. A side managed by a young | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
Alex Ferguson. But the glory days are long gone. It's a disappointing | :22:47. | :22:55. | |
time for Scotland. This is what he's talking about. Disaster for | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
Celtic. And last night went from bad to worse. Rangers struggled | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
against Maribor of Slovenia. Hearts fought a losing battle against | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
Spurs. At full-time there were all out. Frustrating, isn't it? There | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
is no money in the game appear. youngest son is a Rangers supporter | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
and the rest of the family of Celtic supporters, so nobody was a | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
winner last night. No money in the game, poor signings. The party is | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
over. But are changing times also to blame? There is no one single | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
reason for it. But underlying it is the fact that the natural route | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
from St football to the professional game has been over the | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
years devoted. So the glory days are gone and there's no sign of | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
them coming back. There is a glimmer of hope for Celtic at least. | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
They could be reinstated in the Europa League after their opponents | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
were accused of fielding ineligible players. But solving the underlying | :23:59. | :24:08. | |
problems of the Scottish game will require more than a bit of luck. | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
The situation in Libya now. One of the many unanswered questions | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
arising from the revolution there is what has happened to Abdel | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
Basset al-Megrahi, the man jailed for the Lockerbie bombing in 1988. | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
Criticism is being expressed in Scotland about the terms of his | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
release by the Scottish Government two years ago. We've been trying to | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
find out what has happened to him. He has sent this report. -- Daniel | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
Sandford has sent this report. Anti- Gaddafi fighters firmly in | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
control of a district that was once home to many Gaddafi loyalists. | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
This is the main road through Haider mask, where the man | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has his home. He lives on a quiet | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
street full of mansions behind high walls. But when we called there | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
this afternoon at no one was answering the door. The gate hides | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
the bombers vast mansion. When he was released from prison in | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
Scotland because he was dying, one condition was that he should notify | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
any change of address. But the Scottish authorities have not heard | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
from him for over a week. Libya's official position has always been | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
that he is innocent. But on the streets in his district, some | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
believe the mansion was a payment. Gaddafi gave it to him as a reward | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
for killing all of the innocent people. And now you think he has | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
run away? Yes, he is in hiding. people who will working with the | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
Gaddafi regime have run away now. He was working with the Gaddafi | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
regime. He was convicted of killing 270 people by blowing up Pan Am 103 | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
at Lockerbie in 1988 - something he's always denied. He was | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
sentenced to 27 years in prison, but was controversially released | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
after eight years because he had terminal prostate cancer. To the | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
anger of his victims' relatives, he returned to a hero's welcome. The | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
last time he was seen in public was here in Tripoli's Green Square, now | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
renamed martyr's Square. It was back in July and they were very | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
different times. He was at a rally in support of Gaddafi. He looked | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
frail but he was clearly still alive. He has since broken his | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
conditions of parole by moving without telling anyone. Scotland | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
now has to decide whether to try and recover him from war-torn Libya. | :26:37. | :26:46. | |
Let's take a look at the weather We've got a Met Office amber | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
warning out for rain in western Scotland. We can see some | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
disruption to travel and also some flooding. The showers are slow | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
moving around Glasgow and Loch Lomond areas. South Wales and | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
south-west England, some very heavy thunderstorms and more persistent | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
rain through the North East of England, which will last into the | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
first part of the night. A few showers will still be going into | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
the morning. It's a coolish night. Tomorrow will have some dry and | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
bright weather around, some of you will stick with it. But it's going | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
to be increasingly breezy, north east Scotland especially. The | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
breeze will bring showers across many parts throughout. Best | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
favoured areas for staying dry is probably the south coast. As we | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
travel northwards for the afternoon, you can see showers just about | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
anywhere. The heaviest will be through the Midlands and into the | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
Liverpool Bay area. One of two heavy ones across northern England, | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
southern Scotland and Northern Ireland. But Central, Northern and | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
Midland Scotland will have a dry day. But the breeze will be | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
strengthening into the afternoon and it will become significant of a | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
night and into Sunday, particularly to the far north. Persistent rain | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
to start Sunday, that will last all day long. South-east Scotland will | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
have a dry day. Elsewhere, it's a story of sunshine and showers. The | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
trend continues into Monday. A bank holiday for many of you. High | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
pressure starts to build in from the south-west. Still a few showers | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
and some gusty winds in the north- east. We have more details of the | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
Bank Holiday weather and more details of Hurricane Irene on the | :28:27. | :28:35. |