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Justice for the victims and survivors of the Oslo massacre. | :00:06. | :00:12. | |
Anders Breivik goes on trial. No apology, no remorse. He admits | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
killing 77 people but pleads he was acting in self-defence. Dozens of | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
teenagers were killed at a summer camp when Breivik went on the | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
rampage last July. It is good to see him now when he is surrounded | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
by police and in a safe place. Also on tonight's programme: The | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
drought zone spreads across England. The most severe water shortage for | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
more than 30 years. Plans to cap tax free donations. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
The government says it will consult charities after a barrage of | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
criticism. A crackdown on school truants in | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
England. A top government adviser says families should lose some | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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child benefit. Taking away parents' benefits is bad. They are sending | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
their chart to school and is going to work, they don't know if they | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
are attending school or not! The goal that never was. After the | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
Chelsea-Spurs match, more calls for the use of technology. Coming up. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
Fabrice Muamba leaves hospital a month after collapsing on the pitch | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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after a cardiac arrest. The Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
News at Six. Anders Breivik, the man accused of Norway's worst | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
atrocity of modern times, has gone on trial today. The 33-year-old | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
showed no remorse in court, saying he killed 77 people as an act of | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
self-defence. Last July, Breivik first planted a car bomb in the | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
centre Oslo, before shooting 69 young people at a youth camp. As | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
Matthew Price reports, survivors and families of the victims were in | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
court as the prosecution showed in detail how Breivik planned and | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
carried out his massacre. The mastermind of Norway's | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
suffering was late in, his hands cuffed. He seemed relaxed. Eager. | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
He always wanted this. The chance to present his views in public. He | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
started with a salute to the far- right. No remorse. And for the | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
first time in court, we heard the voice of the killer. | :02:45. | :02:54. | |
TRANSLATION: Acknowledged the acts but I do not plead guilty. -- I | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
acknowledge. I was doing it in self-defence. For the first time, | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Breivik shed a tear but not it seems for his victims. The court | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
was shown a video he had made. The emotion most likely for his own | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
warped beliefs. He says the bomb in Oslo that killed eight people, and | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
his killing of 69 on a nearby island of Utoeya, with the opening | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
shots in a war against multiculturalism, against political | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
parties that support immigration. Each of those murdered was named. | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
Two shot to the head, another in the back for many. Others hit as | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
they tried to escape. If ten-week trial inside a courtroom 250 he's | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
been very carefully managed. The most disturbing and sensitive | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
evidence will be given only once the television cameras have been | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
switched off. Anders Breivik's appearances on camera will | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
themselves be limited so as not to give him a platform for his views. | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
He says that his courtroom propaganda. The prosecution shows | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
us the room he lived in in Oslo, the car he drove to get to the | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
island, the uniform he was wearing there, his steady progress across | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
the summer camp, each red dot another death. And this phone call | :04:22. | :04:32. | |
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he made to the police. Then, for just a few minutes, | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Breivik's lawyer spoke and defended his claim to's right to have his | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
say in court. TRANSLATION: It will be hard for | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
the victims to hear him but it is his right and it will be the most | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
important evidence in deciding whether he is legally sane. Among | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
the survivors in court was this woman. It is good to see him now | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
when he is surrounded by police and in a safe place because it gets a | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
little closer... Are you still afraid of him? No, because he is | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
going to be locked up no matter what for the rest of his life. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
it will be a long and drawn-out process. Breivik takes the stand | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
tomorrow. And Matthew Price is in Oslo now. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
He has admitted the killings. Why should there be such a drawn-out | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
trial? It does seem strange, doesn't it, | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
George, but the point is he will be found guilty at the end of this, it | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
is just whether they pronounce him criminally insane or not. To | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
summarise Breivik, he believes he was acting in self defence, he says | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
he needed to act to stop as he sees it be increasing Islamification off | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Norway and Europe, and therefore he had to act against political | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
parties that Foster multiculturalism and that is why he | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
attacked the Labour Party summer camp and killed so many teenagers. | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
If that sounds like the thought of a mad man then that is exactly what | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
in essence this trial is trying to determine. Was he criminally insane | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
or fame when he carried out these facts? That will determine whether | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
he goes to prison for the rest of his life or a psychiatric | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
institution. Half of Britain is now officially | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
in drought. The Environment Agency has added another 17 counties in | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
the Midlands and South West to areas already affected by a | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
shortage of rainfall. Experts say we are seeing the worst national | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
water shortage since 1976. Daniel Boettcher is in the Gordano valley | :07:06. | :07:15. | |
in Somerset. This is a reserve run by the Avon | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Wildlife Trust and one it looks like there is a lot of water, this | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
drainage ditch has stopped flowing, the water table is far too low, | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
because the area behind we should be wetlands but it is almost | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
completely dry. But at the moment there are no prospect of | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
restrictions for water customers in these new drought areas. Wetlands | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
running short of water. Even recent rain has not helped much. More | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
rivers running low. This is the River Stour in Dorset, important | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
for salmon and trout. In Gloucestershire, stretches of the | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
River Leadon are at the lowest levels recorded for this time of | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
year. The Environment Agency 17 more counties in England are in | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
drought and it could last until the end of the year. We are heading | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
towards one of the worst in record, and certainly if it continues to be | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
warm and dry in the summer we got in that situation, and it worries | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
us if this drought continues beyond the worst we have seen historically. | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
Agriculture is suffering. On this farm, there is not enough grazing | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
for some of the sheep and in the valley, the river that should | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
provide water for the livestock has dried up and has to be pumped from | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
a borehole. We are still very short of water and the table levels are | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
extremely low, so we are getting towards been close to a desperate | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
situation and again, it is not just the water, it is the crops and the | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
amount the grass will grow to keep the animals going. The drought | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
In March, areas of the south-east of England were added, then | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
Yorkshire, and now wall of the Midlands and the south-west. But | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
water companies in the new drought areas say they have enough in their | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
reservoirs and do not plan to impose restrictions, like the | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
hosepipe ban brought in for 20 Our customers will not see any | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
restrictions over the summer and we have sufficient water for drinking | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
water purposes. Earlier this month, Severn Trent offered to sell water | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
to a neighbouring supplier. Regulated and the industry believe | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
that maybe one way to prepare for the possibility of a more prolonged | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
drought but there will be a cost. We do not have the level of | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
infrastructure that would be sufficient to overcome the drought | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
conditions we have got, so we will need to invest in more Pipelines | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
and in more pumping. As the drug spreads, plans are already being | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
made for coping with the effects of the third consecutive dry winter, | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
if that happens, later this year. That may be a long time off but | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
they are having to make plans already because even if there is | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
significant rainfall over the summer, that may not be enough to | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
replenish groundwater resources, so these concerns are growing all the | :10:11. | :10:21. | |
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time. The government's charity packs | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
proposal has led to continued criticism from all parties. The | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
Treasury says it is unfair that people are able to avoid paying tax | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
but it is willing to look at a number of options. | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
Who would have thought it could be so controversial to write a cheque | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
for millions for a good cause? Charities say a treasurer proposal | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
to cap tax relief on donations is already hurting. They have already | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
done a huge amount of damage to charities. People are holding back | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
on gifts and we need this to stop now. What is the problem? Currently, | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
if you earn �4 million, you can give it all to charity and pay no | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
income tax at all. The plan from next year is to cap tax reliefs. So | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
only a million pounds and a quarter of your income could go to charity | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
tax free. More money for the Treasury, but potentially the best | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
for charity. But listen: That plan may be about to change. This was | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
never given to be introduced until next year. Plenty of time to get it | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
right, to consult and to listen but the key principle is, more a | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
philanthropic giving yes, allowing people to drive their tax rates | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
down to 10%, no. This is what the wealthy can pay for. The Sainsbury | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Wing of the National Gallery was funded by the figure market family, | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
the Royal Opera House's Floral Hall was paid for by wealthy donors and | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
cancer research is often funded this way as well. Why should the | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
very wealthy be taxed on the money they want to give to charity? Why, | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
comes the reply, should they not be taxed on money they can give to an | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
opera house or a donkey sanctuary and not paid to the Treasury to pay | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
for schools and hospitals? For Labour, normally in favour of | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
raising taxes on the rich, the government's confusion is a free | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
political gift. What we know is that this was a Budget that raised | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
taxes on charity, raised taxes on pensions, raise taxes on working | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
families and cut taxes for millionaires and frankly, the way | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
the government has gone about this shows that they are unfair, out of | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
touch and incompetent. government say they want more rich | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
people to give away more of their money but to put it charitably, | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
their policy is currently in a bit of a mess. | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
It has emerged that a convicted terrorist from Gloucester, who | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
plotted to blow up a plane over the United States in a suicide attack, | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
was freed from prison early as part of a deal with prosecutors. In the | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
first such arrangement, Saajid Badat had his 13-year sentence | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
reduced by two years, and was released two years ago. He has | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
agreed to testify at the trial in America of a man accused of being | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
involved in a plot to bomb the New York subway. | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
Flights in and out of Gatwick were suspended for more than an hour | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
today after an aircraft travelling to the United States was forced to | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
make an emergency landing. The Virgin airliner had left Gatwick | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
bound for Orlando in Florida, when it had to return due to a technical | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
issue. Firefighters said they had received reports of a small fire on | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
board. Four passengers suffered minor injuries during the | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
evacuation. Parents of children who repeatedly | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
stay away from the classroom should lose some of their child benefit. | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
That is the view of a senior government adviser on school | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
behaviour in England. Charlie Taylor was asked to look at the | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
problem of truancy in the wake of last summer's riots and says the | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
current system of fining parents isn't working. | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
Last summer's riots in England were the trigger for today's report on | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
truancy. Looting and destruction were, according to Michael Gove, | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
the work of an educational underclass which included | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
persistent truants. The report says the system of fines needs to be | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
toughened up. My recommendation was that parents are fined for | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
persistently not sending their child to school �60, and that that | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
is doubled after 28 days, and the money is then recovered to child | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
benefit. Truancy figures have remained fairly constant in recent | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
years but ministers are worried by a hard core or 400,000 children who | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
are persistently absent. When it comes to fines, 127,000 penalty | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
notices have been issued since 2004 but of those, 50% were withdrawn or | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
unpaid. Not all Truman's are out on the streets, some are taken out of | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
school knowingly by parents to go on holiday -- trim ands. It is not | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
the parents thought always. Sometimes but not always. I know | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
that from my own experience. might be a bit harsh, but if they | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
try went all the time something needs to be done. Taking away | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
parents' benefits is bad. They are sending their child to school, they | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
don't know whether they are governing. It will make people go | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
deeper into poverty. Ministers think there are too many people on | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
the street who should be in school but they also know that docking | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
child benefit to deal with it would be hugely controversial and it is | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
not something to which they are committing yet. Ten years ago, Tony | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
Blair's government considered and then abandoned the same idea. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
Tackling truancy has long been a political priority but there seems | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
to be no simple solution. Our top story tonight: Anders | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
Breivik goes on trial over the Oslo massacre. He admits killing 77 | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
people but says he was acting in self-defence. | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
Coming up: The controversial goal. If cricket and tennis use | :16:18. | :16:28. | |
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The stakes grow ever higher, calls for a means of distinguishing | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
between goals that should and should not stand are intensifying. | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
It is getting tough for Spain, can its economy cope with the growing | :16:45. | :16:55. | |
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cost of debt? And the World Bank is For over a year, we have reported | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
on the violence in Syria, the protests, the crackdown and the | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
international response. Now a shaky truce is in place, but there is | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
still some of violence and at big question. Well the truce hold or | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
will the country's slide into an even bigger conflict? Syria | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
restricts access for journalists, but Ian Pannell and cameraman | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
Darren Conway sent this report from Idlib province. | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
There is supposed to be a truce in Syria. In parts it does not sound | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
like it. At best the calm here feels uneasy and the ground remains | :17:40. | :17:48. | |
highly dangerous. We moved with rebel fighters into a northern town | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
firmly under the grip of President al-Assad's men. The Free Syrian | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
Army relies on stealth and cunning, they know these routes well. Down | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
below you can clearly see not all Government forces have withdrawn. | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
Every few minutes there is a short bursts of gunfire. We do not know | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
which side his shooting, but whoever is responsible, it leaves | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
the peace plan looking shaky. We are just overlooking the town, | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
which is pretty much a ghost city. The Government is in control of | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
this area and they have set up checkpoints and over the last hour, | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
you can hear now, the sound of gunfire. This is a few days after | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
the ceasefire. We saw Government road blocks on | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
the road into town, stopping and checking vehicles, looking for the | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
men they called terrorists. This struggle is about the future of the | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
people. The girls and Lady Young, but they already know the language | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
of the Syrian revolution. Last week, this area was under attack, but | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
today women and girls dared to leave their homes once again, | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
coming back onto the streets with a call for change that is perhaps a | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
louder than ever. It is a mistake to think all Syrians share their | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
due. Some see these people as an Islamic threat. But if there is to | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
be peace, it must be made in places like this, and after so much death, | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
positions have only hardened. Fear is not far away, even for 19 year- | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
old Abdul. President Assad's army is slaughtering us, he says. When | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
Kofi Annan left last time, they attacked us, says this woman, she | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
has no faith the UN monitors will make a difference. After the | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
bloodshed of the last few weeks the truth is that these people have | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
come too far and lost too much to give up now. In the words of one, | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
we will carry on protesting until the last man standing. | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
David Cameron has launched the Conservative campaign for the local | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
elections in England with a speech in Derbyshire. He praised the | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
record of Tory councils in providing good value for money and | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
accused Labour authorities often being trapped in old, wasteful ways. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
The Scottish Liberal Democrats have launched their campaign, saying | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
they are more committed than any of the other parties to local | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
decision-making. It plays a role in 13 of Scotland's 32 councils, which | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
are elected under a PR system. The Green Party says it is a party | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
of hope and radical challenge and his having more than 900 candidates | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
in England and Wales. Later this week we will get the | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
latest unemployment figures. The North East of England has some of | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
the most deep-seated challenges, with the highest jobless rate in | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
the UK are running at 11%. Despite some recent good use, like the | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
return of steelmaking to the region, there are still places where people | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
feel they have little prospect of finding a job. Anna Adams sent this | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
special report from Newcastle. On the banks of the River Tyne, | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
this is a neighbourhood that has struggled to survive since the | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
shipyards closed. Now more than a quarter of jobs are in the public | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
sector and the Government cuts are being felt. I met Maria and her son | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
Colin who both worked in the public sector. She was a pensions | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
administrator and he was a cleaner. A few years ago they were both made | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
redundant. You are applying for jobs, jobs that you have done for | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
so long, and they reply saying you are not successful and you think, | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
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why? It is so depressing. There are times when I have wished I was and | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
Allied. Her son has been working for free in McDonald's as part of | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
the Government's workfare scheme and he has not been kept on. | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
makes you really down. I am on the verge of depression, it is really | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
bad, really horrible. In another of Newcastle's blackspots I met Jeff. | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
His challenge is to get people who may never have had a job in their | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
lives ready for work. There are areas where parents have not worked | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
and their parents have not worked and the kids do not have the | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
support. This community centre is where the unemployed spend their | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
time. Almost one in five young people in this part of Newcastle | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
are not in unemployment, education or training. It is one of the | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
highest figures in the country. This group think they are better | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
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off on benefits. You pay rent, gas, electricity and foot and by the | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
time you have finished there is nothing left. Where do you see | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
yourself in five years? Probably locked up, in jail. Why? I have to | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
do something else to make money. But that is not the majority view, | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
most people say it is not just about money, it is about self- | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
respect and having a reason to get out of bed. Scott is one of them. | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
His grandmother bought him his scooter to get to job interviews, | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
but the opportunities are scarce. There is no work for me to go for. | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
What have you gone for? Nothing, really, there are no jobs, so you | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
can't do anything. This area has the highest levels of unemployment | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
in the country, so unless something changes, there is a real danger | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
that people are going to completely lose hope of ever getting back to | :24:22. | :24:31. | |
work. Now, the Bolton Wanderers | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
footballer Fabrice Muamba has been discharged from hospital almost a | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
month after he suffered a cardiac arrest while playing against | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
Tottenham in the FA Cup quarter- final. | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
He paid tribute to staff at the London Chest Hospital, describing | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
their dedication as simply amazing. Now the goal that never was in | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
yesterday's FA Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Tottenham | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
Hotspur. It has piled more pressure on the footballing authorities to | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
allow goal-line technology to be used. The head of the Professional | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
Footballers' Association said FIFA's refusal to use video | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
technology is perverse. It is the goal that may finally | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
forced football to act. When Chelsea's Juan Mata was adjudged to | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
have scored, Spurs were furious. This is why. Replays clearly showed | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
the ball had not crossed the line, yet another contentious call and | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
some believe now is the time to help match officials get it right. | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
It is not an infrequent occurrence and it is critical to the overall | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
outcome, that we say that help for the referee to make the decision is | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
inevitable. Frank Lampard! issue of goal-line technology in | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
football to avoid injustice is nothing new. The debate over Sir | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
Geoff Hurst's legendary goal in the 1966 World Cup final continues to | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
this day. Technology has been alive football has not wanted to cross, | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
with those involved in the sport reluctant to meddle with the | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
traditions of the game. But as the stakes grow ever higher, calls for | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
distinguishing between goals but should and shouldn't stand are | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
intensifying. It is looking very strange that football is so | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
perverse to not introduce what other sports have introduced. | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
Hawk-Eye system is one of two solutions that football's world | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
governing body FIFA is looking to try. It gives a clear indication of | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
goal or no goal. Every referee could have that opportunity at his | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
arm. In football it seems the tension between technology and | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
tradition has reached a crucial point. | :26:59. | :27:09. | |
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It will be -- it will not be as cold tonight as it was last night. | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
The cloud and wind and rain is spreading into Northern Ireland. It | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
will reach of much of western Scotland and eventually get to the | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
east coast during the early hours. Heavy snow across the hills and | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
mountains in the central belt of Scotland. Most temperatures will | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
stay a few degrees above freezing. It will be a fairly miserable | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
affair across eastern areas. For Wales and the south-west it should | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
be moving away by 8 o'clock. Further east it is pretty miserable, | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
heavy rain and strong winds all the way across most of northern England | :27:51. | :27:58. | |
and still wet across much of Scotland, with further snow. But | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
for Northern Ireland the rain has cleared, but the showers will be | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
starting to spread in. Those strong winds chase the rain away across | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
the eastern areas. Then there showers develop quite widely. It is | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
a question of sunshine and scattered showers for all of us by | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
the afternoon. They moved quite quickly because of the breeze, and | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
the temperatures lift up to 14, cooler in northern Scotland. More | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
rain overnight tomorrow night and it could get very lively with the | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
winds on Wednesday morning. Wednesday is a cloudy day for | :28:35. | :28:39. |