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The man charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing in 1998 | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
appears in court. Seamus Daly is accused of being part of the single | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
bloodiest terrorist attack in the history of the Northern Ireland | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Troubles. A car bomb was detonated in Omagh town centre on a busy | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
Saturday afternoon. Relatives of those who died were in court today. | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
We have to know the truth about what happened and we have to cede those | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
responsible being brought before the court with proper evidence and | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
sentence. Also on the programme tonight: The Co-op says sorry to its | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
customers as it announces the biggest losses in its history. Oscar | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
Pistorius insists in court that he did not hear his girlfriend scream | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
when he fired his gun at the locked toilet door. Getting better, NHS | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
performance across the UK is improving according to a major new | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
study. The woman who brought as Adrian Mole, the author Sue | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
Townsend, has died at the age of 68. On BBC London: Christmas chaos at | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Gatwick, a report calls on all airports to plan for disruption. | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Jailed for life, four Turkish gang members are sentenced for the murder | :01:14. | :01:14. | |
of an innocent man in Hackney. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:15. | :01:38. | |
News at Six. It was the single biggest atrocity of the Troubles in | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Northern Ireland and today the man accused of carrying out the Omagh | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
bombing appeared in court. Seamus Daly is 43 and from the Irish | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
Republic. He was arrested on Monday. He is charged with 29 counts of | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
murder as well as two charges relating to the explosion in August, | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
1998. He has already been found liable for the attack in a civil | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
case but has always denied involvement. Our Ireland | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
correspondent Chris Buckler is in Omagh for us now. | :02:05. | :02:13. | |
Here in the centre of Omagh they have built a garden, a place where | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
people can come and remembered their loved ones who were killed in that | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
bombing. On all of these stones engraved by the names of those who | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
died. What strikes you is not just the names, but the ages. They are | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
both young and old, even a woman pregnant with twins. Today almost 16 | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
years after that explosion which has become notorious as the worst | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
atrocity of the Troubles, a man appeared in court charged with | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
causing all of their deaths. Amid high security Seamus Daly was driven | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
to court to be charged with murdering 29 people. He appeared | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
handcuffed in the dock as details of 23 offences were read out, the vast | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
majority connected to an explosion in the heart of Omagh. The bomb | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
transformed a busy Saturday afternoon shopping into a day of | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
horror. It is a bombing that stands out, even among Northern Ireland's | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
bloody years of violence these images remain scarred amateurs and | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
memories. There have been inquests, many investigators, even court | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
cases, but no one has ever been convicted of the murders that were | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
committed here. In court today a detective inspector set out the case | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
against Seamus Daly. He said the police had forensic, telephone and | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
witness evidence. But Seamus Daly's lawyer claimed there were | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
significant witnesses in their case. Among those in the courtroom | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
was Michael Gallagher. His son Aidan was murdered. Over the past 15 years | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
I have spent a lot of time in court in Dublin and in Belfast and with | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
the civil action taking almost ten years it can be soul destroying. 14 | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
years ago the BBC secretly filmed the man who has now been charged and | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
confronted him. I would like to ask you some questions, please, about | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
the Omagh bombing. Seamus Daly has always strongly denied any | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
involvement in the bombing. Seamus Daly has a conviction for membership | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
of the redial RA and pleaded guilty in a criminal Court in Dublin a few | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
years ago. No matter who was or was not responsible, loss is still felt | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
in Omagh. In the Memorial Garden mirrors have been built to reflect | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
light into the town. But this is a place where they will always be | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
aware of the shadows cast. The Co-op Bank has apologised to its customers | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
after announcing losses of ?1.3 billion, the largest in its history. | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
The bank said it did not expect to make a profit this year or next, but | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
it revealed that the bank's Chief Executive will receive a ?2.9 | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
million pay package, including a performance related bonus. The | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
figures come out as the bank struggles with bad debts and failed | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
ventures. Our business editor Kamal Ahmed reports. It has been a | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
disastrous year for the Co-op. The takeover of the Britannia building | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
society ended with a ?1 billion bill and then the bank's chairman was | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
forced to quit after being filmed buying drugs. Today it announced the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
loss of ?1.3 billion. The Chief Executive brought in to rescue the | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
bank, Neal Booker, will be paid ?2.9 million a year. He announced further | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
cost-cutting with the closure of 44 branches and the possibility of more | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
redundancies. Our members who work in bank branches across the country | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
are concerned about what the future holds for the group. We have lost | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
over 1000 jobs in the last few years and the fear is there will be more | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
job losses to come. Many customers have remained loyal to the bank, and | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
all deposits are guaranteed up to ?85,000. But others, like Andrew | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
Baird who owns a solar panel business in Northern Ireland, have | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
decided to move elsewhere. It seems to want to compete with Barclays and | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
HSBC and that seems to be at the expense of good, rigorous, financial | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
control, strong governance. It seems to have lost all control and lost | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
its way. The Co-op Bank is still dealing with problems of the past. | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
It has said it will now withhold up to ?5 million from former | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
executives. It will also pay ?412 million in compensation for previous | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
mistakes. It also needs to look to the future. An ethical review will | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
promote community banking. It needs to raise ?400 million to secure its | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
future. There are still tough decisions to be made. We can only | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
hope that is the end of the bad news is that we have had and there is not | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
anything else to find in the closet. We have to trust the management know | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
what they are doing and there is a chance of recovering the position | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
from here. But it will be difficult to rebuild the capital base. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
Attention now turns to the Co-op group results next week. The | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
supermarkets and pharmacies owner is expected to reveal heavy losses and | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
a new set of problems for Britain's co-operative movement. | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
The South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has faced a third day of | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
intense cross-examination at his murder trial in Pretoria. He | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
insisted that his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, did not shout or scream | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
as he fired at the locked toilet door last year. Mr Pistorius denies | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
murder and says he thought there was an intruder in his house. From | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
Pretoria Andrew Harding reports. At the end of a punishing week, | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
another session of cross examination. Oscar Pistorius | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
repeatedly accused of lying about how and why he shot Reeva Steenkamp. | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
No video images of the athlete giving evidence were allowed. The | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
prosecutor asked him why he did not talk to his girlfriend and check | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
where he was the moment they felt they were in danger that night. When | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
you heard the noise, you never discussed the noise with her? I did | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
not discuss the noise with her. Weaver, did you hear that? Did you | :08:51. | :09:02. | |
say that? I did not. Pistorius argued it was instinct that prompted | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
him to rush from the bedroom to the bathroom to confront intruders. I am | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
not sure why, my lady, I did not have any time, it was my instinct is | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
to do it, I did not have any time. I find instinct strange. The | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
prosecutor returned again and again to the exact moment Pistorius fired | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
those four shots, insisting that regardless whether he thought his | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
girlfriend or an intruder was hiding in the toilet, his aim was to kill. | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
Did she screamed at all whilst you shot her four times? No, my lady. | :09:41. | :09:50. | |
Are you sure? Are you sure, Mr Pistorius, that Reeve did not scream | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
after the first shot? Reeva Steenkamp's mother never took her | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
eyes off him. The Director of Public Prosecutions | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
has defended the Crown Prosecution Service against accusations it | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
prosecutes weak cases with no realistic prospect of conviction. It | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
comes after the MP Nigel Evans was cleared of rape and sexual assault | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
yesterday. Our political correspondent Vicki Young is at | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
Westminster. There was a lot of criticism from MPs yesterday who | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
felt Nigel Evans was treated differently because he was a public | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
figure, so Alison Saunders came out and defended her corner saying the | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
case must be seen in context. She said 86% of cases brought to court | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
and in convictions. She also says the CPS have to feel there is a | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
realistic prospect of conviction. A jury listening to a case have to be | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
sure beyond reasonable doubt. Meanwhile the Conservative Party has | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
sent out a new code of conduct for its pimply -- employees. What is | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
this? Stories about inappropriate behaviour have been searching -- | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
circulating for years. People felt they could go nowhere with a | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
complaint because they were directly employed by MPs. This says staff | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
must understand the difference between normal work disagreements | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
and bullying and it says MPs must lead by example to foster and aspect | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
of respect and tolerance. This code of conduct is voluntary, so Tory MPs | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
can chuck it in the bin if they want to. There have been significant | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
improvements in the performance of the NHS across the UK according to a | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
major study, which says the gap between England and the other | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
nations is narrowing. The NHS in England still rates highly on | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
ambulance response times as well as life expectancy. But Scotland has | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
seen improvements in waiting times, while in Northern Ireland deaths | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
from MRSA have fallen. Waiting times are a persistent problem in Wales, | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
though satisfaction among many patients is high. The report 's | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
authors suggest that funding and targets were the biggest factors in | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
driving up standards as Dominic Hughes reports. | :12:14. | :12:24. | |
The 15 years since devolution have seen four very distinct health | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
systems evolve in the UK. There was sustained investment across the NHS, | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
but now austerity is biting, no more so than in Wales. Satisfaction with | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
the Welsh NHS is the highest in the UK, but recent budget cuts have seen | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
waiting times increase. This NHS nurse Paul four decades was told she | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
might not get a hip replacement for a year and a half. Facing months of | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
pain she chose to go private. I thought the NHS was there for | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
everybody who lived in the United Kingdom and it was not a two-tier | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
system. If you needed treatment, then you should get the treatment. | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
In England the NHS is built around competition, patient choice and | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
targets. In the early 1990s life expectancy in the North East of | :13:17. | :13:31. | |
England was the same as it was in Scotland, but after a couple of | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
decades of fairly heavy investment, the region has started to pull | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
ahead, so people here can live up to a year longer than their Scottish | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
neighbours. This is the kind of thing that makes a difference. At | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
Wansbeck Hospital in the North of England, Rose was operated on within | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
hours of breaking her hip. Getting patients back home quickly improves | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
their chances of a good recovery, but it requires an injection of cash | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
across the system. The investment has been incredibly important in | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
terms of patient care and from a quality perspective across the board | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
from general practice and into hospital care and community | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
services. In Scotland politicians rejected competition, but some | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
targets have been used to bring down waiting times. But across the UK the | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
NHS faces the challenge of older patients, tighter budgets and | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
greater expectations. In Northern Ireland local politicians have to | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
sell the reform of the health service to their electorate. The | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
system we have is not sustainable. It requires huge change in order to | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
make it fit for the 21st-century. Our politicians and the media have | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
to make sure that the public believe it and are fully committed to it. | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
For all the differences, today's research suggests it is the funding | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
and a few carefully chosen targets that are the key factors in how well | :14:59. | :15:08. | |
it works. Our top story: Seamus Daly has appeared in court | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing in 1998 -the | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
single bloodiest attack in the history of the Northern Ireland | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
Troubles. And still to come: On the brink of | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
greatness - again. Liverpool eye their first league title for more | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
than two decades. On BBC London: Technology on trial. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
Magistrates' courts go paperless to speed up cases. And he won the | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
mini-London marathon as a teenager. Will Mo Farah succeed when he goes | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
the full distance for the first time on Sunday? | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
Sue Townsend, the author famous for writing The Secret Diary of Adrian | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
Mole, has died after suffering a stroke at the age of 68. The diaries | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
of the angst-ridden teenager made millions laugh out loud. The | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
novelist had been working on her latest Adrian Mole book - which | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
would have been the 10th - in her best-selling series. Our arts | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
correspondent David Sillito looks back at her life. | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
It's time I fell in love. After all, I am 13... Poor Adrian Mole, the | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
undiscovered teenager literary genius. You're so beautiful! 15 | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
years later he was still struggling on, still in Awe of Pandora. Adrian | :16:25. | :16:37. | |
was more of a character. In a sense he is my worst side. Spots on my | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
chin for the first day of the new year. If people realise that I was | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
so near to Mole, they would be less... Well, they wouldn't admire | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
me. She was joking, of course. Sue Townsend had failed her 11 Plus, | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
left school at 15 and at 23 was working in a petrol station bringing | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
up three children. Then in her -- in her 30s she wrote the most | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
successful novel of the 1980s. Perhaps one day my heart will be | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
healed. Adrian was a terrible poet. However, many of us have a little | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
inner Mole. This generation Mole has grown up and grown older with | :17:29. | :17:38. | |
Adrian. Is there any Mole-ish in you? Terrible poetry. I think we all | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
have a little of Adrian Mole in us, definitely. A lot of us can equate | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
with some of his experiences. I think Pandora, that's my fantasy. | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
Beyond the Adrian books Sue Townsend wrote other plays and novels. | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
Through it her sight was failing, she had health problems linked to | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
diabetes but she was happy to be remembered for Adrian, this under | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
underdog history of modern Britain, growing up can be painful. Sue | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
Townsend made it funny. The Scottish National Party are | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
holding their last conference in Aberdeen, before Scotland's | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
referendum on independence in September. With polls suggesting the | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
gap between the Yes and No camps is narrowing, the party's deputy | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
leader, Nicola Sturgeon, said the country was on the threshold of | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
becoming independent. Allan Little considers whether the party's | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
buoyant mood is more widely reflected. | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
It is 80 years this week since their party was founded and they believe | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
themselves finally on the threshold of their founding purpose. Alex Sam | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
has dominated the party for -- Alex Salmond has dominated the party for | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
years. The rising star is his deputy. Today she appealed beyond | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
the confines of the SNP in the belief that many disaffected | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
traditional Labour voters are now tempted to vote yes. To every Labour | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
voter in the country I say this, the yes campaign is not asking you to | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
leave your party. Instead, it offers you the chance to get your party | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
back. A Labour Party free to make its own decisions, no longer dancing | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
to a Westminster tune. The polls still put the anti-independence | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
campaign well ahead. But nationalists believe the momentum is | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
all in their direction. Oh, yes, without any doubt we are there. You | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
are going to win? Definitely. Do you think you will win in September? Oh, | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
yes. We must. No decisions are being made here, no | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
policy debated, this is more of a campaign rally than a party | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
conference. They feel the wind at their backs now. They believe in the | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
polls the gap between yes and no is narrowing. But there is another gap, | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
the gap between the enthusiasm and unshakeable conviction in this hall | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
and the enduring scepticism in the country at large. | :20:06. | :20:15. | |
Rural aber den shire is -- Aberdeenshire. At this livestock | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
market there was little evidence of a pro-independence momentum. I am | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
voting no. Why? Well, there is a lot of things you don't know what can | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
happen if you vote yes. We are being asked to vote yes and there are | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
dozens of questions which remain unanswered and we are told by Mr | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
Salmond that this is all to be negotiated. But negotiation doesn't | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
say which way the answers are going to come. This conference is the | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
SNP's attempt to reach out beyond party boundaries. Its message, you | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
don't have to be SNP to vote yes. Nationalists will need to make big | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
in-roads into traditional Labour territory if they're to win in | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
September. But Scottish politics are famously tribal and old tribal | :21:04. | :21:13. | |
loyalties die hard. They are, without doubt, the biggest | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
team never to have won the Premier League. This weekend, Liverpool hope | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
to move a crucial step closer to lifting that coveted trophy. They | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
play Manchester City at Anfield, knowing that victory would leave | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
them within reach of reclaiming their place at the very top of | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
English football. Our sports editor, David Bond, reports. It's been more | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
than two decades since this city dominated English football. Now | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
Liverpool could be on their way back to the top. Beat Manchester City on | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
Sunday and the club's young manager knows it will really start to feel | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
like old times. We will unleash the supporters this weekend yet again on | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
the opponent and it's a very, very difficult place now for people to | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
come and play. I sense a real nostalgia about the place at the | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
moment. A real feel of the old Liverpool. The club's title charge | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
this season is made all the more poignant as it comes 25 years after | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
the Hillsborough tragedy. Here in this cafe, across the road from | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Anfield, fans are starting to dream that this season, of all seasons, | :22:18. | :22:27. | |
could be the one. To win it now, OK, well, 15, 20 years later, it still | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
gets that buzz and excitement that there is a possibility. No more than | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
that, a possibility that we could win it. I think this one, more than | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
any, and I was there for the others, must be 12 of them, I think myself - | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
this is going to be, we won it this year it would be the most important | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
of them all. Coming to this place used to strike fear into opposition | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
players but Liverpool have been waiting a very, very long time to | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
taste the success which they once took for granted. The last Liverpool | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
captain to lead the club to the league title knows just what it will | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
mean to win it now. When you look back at those pictures now did any | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
of you think it would be such a long time before Liverpool would win | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
again? No, if you said then it will be 24 years barren as far as the | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
league championship is concerned people would have said you are off | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
your head. I remember going around the ground after we beat QPR to win | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
the title and it was a sort of muted applause. This time they'll go | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
ballistic. They will go ballistic. Over the last 20 years this city has | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
begun to emerge as a more sigh Brant, confident place -- vibrant, | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
confident place. But football teams have struggled to live up to their | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
glorious past. Liverpool could be about to change all that. | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
Kylie Minogue has announced she's leaving the BBC One singing talent | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
show The Voice after just one series as a coach. On Twitter, Kylie - | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
who's been credited with boosting ratings this year - said she | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
wouldn't be back for the next season because of the timing of her concert | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
tour. Now, earlier this week we brought | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
you the story of a young girl caught up in the horror of Afghanistan's | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
conflict. Seven-year-old Shah Bibi suffered terrible injuries after she | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
was wounded by a stray grenade. She was sent to America for treatment | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
and now, months later, she's arrived back home to be reunited with her | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
father. Our Correspondent Karen Allen sent this exclusive report | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
from Kabul. Today I met Shah Bibi and her | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
guardian as she returned to Afghanistan. A country with an | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
uncertain future. With elections last weekend security is tight. She | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
seemed fascinated by the streets of Kabul. | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
Taliban, she says, pointing to the men with guns. In fact, they're | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
police. I first came across Shah Bibi days after her tiny body had | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
been shattered by a grenade in one of the most dangerous parts of | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
Afghanistan. But she was one of the fortunate few, flown to America | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
after a nurse raised the alarm she's been treated for her injuries and | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
has even been going to school but her family were left behind | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
thousands of miles away. After many months forced apart, | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
finally the moment her father arrives. At first, she seems | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
overchiped by it all. Then -- overwhelmed by it all. Then the | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
intimacy returns. The moment I saw her I laughed and then I cried a | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
little. Seeing her healthy like this I feel deeply indebted to the people | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
who helped. I am bursting with happiness. I feel it in my heart. I | :25:55. | :26:03. | |
can't stop smiling. Shah shows off what little English | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
she has learned. I want to see my brother, my sister and my mother, | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
she tells me, and I want to teach them to write. | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
In a country dominated by images of war, captured is a father's relief | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
that his daughter has survived. Let's look at the weekend weather | :26:30. | :26:30. | |
now. A fine Friday evening. Many places | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
seeing sunshine. Most of us will see some sun this weekend. The northern | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
half of the UK, there will be a brisk wind and rain here. In the | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
south generally it will stay dry and we should have lengthy spells of | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
sunshine. Further north it's clouding over and we have rain which | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
will continue across western Scotland. A strengthening wind, too. | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
For the bulk of England and Wales dry with clear spells and that means | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
another cold one. In some rural areas not far above freezing into | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
the weekend. A chilly start, but some sunshine. However it will cloud | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
over from the north. Outbreaks of rain across Scotland and Northern | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
Ireland through the morning. That should clear and it will brighten up | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
across the central belt of Scotland and much of Northern Ireland. | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
However, blustery showers will continue to pepper the Highlands of | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
Scotland. One or two for Northern Ireland but generally brightening up | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
here. After a bright start across northern England and North Wales it | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
will turn cloudy with some rain through the afternoon. For much of | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
South Wales and south-west England most of the day will be dry. Some | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
brightness across the south-east. Temperatures dropping through the | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
night. A cold start for the London marathon. Should be dry with light | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
winds. Good news for the speculators. For the later finishers | :27:58. | :28:05. | |
it might get too warm. The winds again light across the south with a | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
fine day here on Sunday. Further north again a brisk wind with | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
frequent showers across western Scotland. Temperatures maybe into | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
the mid-teens across parts of the south. More details on the weekend | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
forecast and the latest on that powerful storm hitting Australia are | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
available on the BBC weather website. | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
Thank you very much. Our main stories: Seamus Daly has | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
appeared in court charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh | :28:33. | :28:44. | |
bombing. The Co-Op Bank has said sorry | :28:45. | :28:46. |