:00:10. > :00:14.President Obama tells a vigil in Newtown, Connecticut, that he will
:00:14. > :00:23.use all the powers of his office to try to prevent further mass
:00:23. > :00:27.shootings, but can he really take on the gun lobby? We prepared to
:00:27. > :00:31.say that such violence visited on our children year after year after
:00:31. > :00:34.year is somehow the price of our freedom. The funeral of a nurse who
:00:34. > :00:42.killed herself following the royal hoax call is taking place in her
:00:42. > :00:44.hometown in southern India. A car bombing in a busy market town in
:00:44. > :00:54.Pakistan's volatile border area kills at least 17 people. Welcome
:00:54. > :00:55.
:00:55. > :01:00.to BBC World News. A sweeping return to power for Japan's Liberal
:01:00. > :01:04.Democratic Party, but can make revive a slumping economy? And the
:01:04. > :01:14.Swiss bank UBS is reported to be facing a $1 billion a fine for its
:01:14. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:25.part in the libel rigging scandal. -- LIBOR. President Obama has given
:01:25. > :01:29.the strongest pledge ever made by a US President to take on the gun
:01:29. > :01:33.lobby. The President was speaking at a service for the 20 young
:01:33. > :01:35.children and six staff who were killed in a mass shooting at a
:01:35. > :01:43.school in Connecticut last Friday. Laura Trevelyan reports from
:01:43. > :01:48.Newtown. A moment but Newtown to come together, after the horror and
:01:48. > :01:51.the heartbreak. And into fake prayer vigil for the dead. In his
:01:52. > :02:01.role as the nation's comforter in- Chief, the President offered this
:02:02. > :02:02.
:02:02. > :02:09.insurance. I'd come to offer the love and prayers of a nation. I am
:02:09. > :02:15.very mindful that words cannot match the depths of your sorrow.
:02:15. > :02:24.Nor can make your your wounded heart. I can only hope it helps
:02:24. > :02:28.when you to roll that you are not alone in your grief. The President
:02:28. > :02:31.praised the teachers who died trying to protect their charges. As
:02:31. > :02:37.families held their children tightly, he said mass shootings
:02:37. > :02:46.couldn't be tolerated any more. can't accept events like this as
:02:46. > :02:56.routine. Are we really prepared to say that we are powerless in the
:02:56. > :03:00.face of such carnage? That the politics are too hard. Are we
:03:00. > :03:07.prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after
:03:07. > :03:14.year after year is somehow the price of our freedom? As Newtown
:03:14. > :03:24.grieved for the 20 Lost children, Barack Obama named each one.
:03:24. > :03:29.
:03:29. > :03:34.Benjamin. Gabriel. Alison. God has called them all home. Newtown is
:03:34. > :03:39.experiencing heart rending sorrow. Watching the President's speech was
:03:39. > :03:44.an emotional experience for many. His coming here is very monumental
:03:44. > :03:48.and I think it means a lot to everyone here. I think he raises a
:03:48. > :03:52.question that everybody is thinking about. What else can we do? More
:03:52. > :03:59.should definitely be done. There's too many kids dying, too many
:03:59. > :04:02.shootings. It doesn't belong anywhere. As this town mourns, the
:04:02. > :04:07.President's call for meaningful action in the wake of these
:04:07. > :04:11.killings will soon be tested. A senior -- a senior Democrat Paul
:04:11. > :04:15.tried to introduce a law to ban weapons. The question is whether
:04:15. > :04:21.the political climate has changed after this tragedy so that such a
:04:21. > :04:23.BAM can pass. In southern India, the funeral has begun of the nurse
:04:23. > :04:27.who committed suicide days after the London hospital where she
:04:27. > :04:30.worked was tricked by a hoax phone call. The Duchess of Cambridge was
:04:30. > :04:32.being treated there at the time and details of her condition were
:04:32. > :04:39.released. Jacintha Saldanha's husband and two teenage children
:04:39. > :04:41.have travelled to the service in her home town of Shirva. Our
:04:42. > :04:49.correspondent Sanjoy Majumder is also there and told me how people
:04:50. > :04:58.have been reacting to news of the nurse's death. There are a lot of
:04:59. > :05:02.questions being raised here. People who knew and worked with Jacintha
:05:02. > :05:05.Saldanha when she was here. Other people who followed it very closely
:05:05. > :05:09.when it was written up in the newspapers will be watched the
:05:09. > :05:16.reports on television. Of course very saddened by it but wondering
:05:16. > :05:19.why things came to pass, what has happened. There's been reports of
:05:19. > :05:22.the three notes she was said to have left behind. People are
:05:22. > :05:25.wondering if they will get to find out what was written in them, which
:05:25. > :05:29.would perhaps give everyone an indication of what was going
:05:29. > :05:36.through her mind just before she died, so that they can have a
:05:36. > :05:42.better understanding of what events led to her death. Let's catch up
:05:42. > :05:46.with the business use. Japan, new leader, new economic policy. Yes,
:05:46. > :05:53.hopefully they will be able to get something to work this time. A
:05:53. > :05:58.long-running recession happening there. We have big lifts coming
:05:58. > :06:02.through on nuclear power stocks. We've got a new premier, Shinzo Abe.
:06:02. > :06:07.He gets a second chance to lead Japan after the landslide victory
:06:07. > :06:10.for his Liberal Democratic Party. Many are hoping that this new
:06:10. > :06:14.government will help the world's third largest economy break out of
:06:14. > :06:19.a 20 year economic slump. Markets reacted well to be news. The Nikkei
:06:19. > :06:23.is currently up by 1% today. The yen is down Meir A20 month low
:06:23. > :06:28.against the US dollar. But finding a solution they not be as easy as
:06:28. > :06:31.many people are expecting. Japan's public debt is more than twice its
:06:31. > :06:35.economic output and it still climbing. Meanwhile, figures out
:06:35. > :06:41.last month showed the country has slipped back into recession for the
:06:41. > :06:44.fifth time in 15 years. The chronically strong yen has
:06:44. > :06:49.continued to hurt the country's exporters. Now the new Prime
:06:49. > :06:55.Minister has promised a revival plan which seems seductively simple.
:06:56. > :07:04.Print lots of money and spend it. But will that do the trick? I was
:07:04. > :07:09.talking with our correspondent earlier. It is a huge challenge.
:07:09. > :07:15.Japan's debt is huge. The economy hasn't been grubbing that much an
:07:15. > :07:19.almost two decades. Even though we have seen it,, it weakened quite
:07:19. > :07:22.significantly after his victory on Sunday, it still remains rather
:07:22. > :07:26.uncomfortably high for exporters who tried to sell their products.
:07:26. > :07:32.They are the backbone of this country's economy. The challenge is
:07:32. > :07:36.huge. In terms of whether Shinzo Abe can resolve all the problems,
:07:36. > :07:41.opinions are quite split. Some analysts say he has learned his
:07:41. > :07:45.lesson since he was once the Prime Minister back in 2006. He will go
:07:45. > :07:48.ahead with some of these bold measures in order to solve the
:07:48. > :07:53.issues around the economy. Others say all those talks were just to
:07:53. > :07:56.win some votes ahead of the election, and Batty would possibly
:07:56. > :08:00.just go back to the old style of running the economy, which could
:08:00. > :08:04.potentially mean possibly more debt for the Japanese government.
:08:05. > :08:08.the political system over there in Japan, over the last 20 years we've
:08:08. > :08:15.seen lots of the Government's come in. They all seem to come out with,
:08:15. > :08:20.yes, we're going to do A, B and C. A lot of this doesn't happen. Is
:08:20. > :08:26.there any indication that this time around it could be different?
:08:26. > :08:30.least this time around Shinzo Abe' Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
:08:30. > :08:39.won a rather landslide victory in the lower house of parliament. We
:08:39. > :08:42.also have the upper house election coming up in the summer. If the LDP
:08:42. > :08:47.manages to win that election as well, then it will solve what we
:08:47. > :08:52.are calling the twist of Parliament, where the two parliaments have had
:08:52. > :08:57.different parties as the leader of the majority. If the LDP manages to
:08:57. > :08:59.win the next election as well, I guess it would mean more smooth and
:08:59. > :09:03.decisive actions from the government when they tried to
:09:03. > :09:07.implement some of the policies. Swiss bank UBS is reportedly on the
:09:07. > :09:11.verge of paying more than $1 billion in fines to settle charges
:09:11. > :09:16.of manipulating the interest rate known as the London interbank
:09:16. > :09:18.lending rate. It will be more than double the find that was levied by
:09:18. > :09:21.regulators in America than Britain against Barclays for the same type
:09:21. > :09:25.of the offences. It doesn't bode well for the Royal Bank of Scotland,
:09:25. > :09:30.which is tipped to be the third bank facing LIBOR rigging of vines
:09:30. > :09:35.in the next few weeks. Industry expert Chris cava explains why the
:09:35. > :09:38.find is expected to be so big. Barclays were the whistleblowers.
:09:38. > :09:42.They were the first to inform the authorities that it was taking
:09:42. > :09:46.place. Potentially there were issues of collusion taking place
:09:46. > :09:50.between the banks. UBS is the first now to be fined. They admitted in
:09:50. > :09:56.Japan criminal wrongdoing, which is quite a significant thing to take
:09:56. > :10:01.place, if that is confirmed. This is a fine which will be between the
:10:01. > :10:05.US, Swiss and UK authorities of over $1 billion, maybe as much as
:10:05. > :10:09.$1.6 billion, which is three times the amount of Barclays. It is
:10:09. > :10:13.showing there is a real move to get the banking system back to where it
:10:13. > :10:18.should become an effective system. Meanwhile, the tax row and the UK
:10:18. > :10:24.is likely to place up again. London's-the Ritz Hotel has not
:10:24. > :10:28.paid any corporation tax in 17 years, since it was taken over. The
:10:28. > :10:38.BBC's Panorama programme analysed the accounts of the hotel bought by
:10:38. > :10:50.
:10:50. > :10:54.We've had a set of declines coming Most of the reason for that being
:10:54. > :11:00.Greco, this is one of the world's largest portable power supply
:11:00. > :11:10.companies. They've been doing badly because in 2013, not so many major
:11:10. > :11:10.
:11:10. > :11:14.events as in 2012, no Olympics, no At least 16 people have been killed
:11:14. > :11:19.and 70 injured in a car-bomb attack in Pakistan's volatile tribal
:11:19. > :11:28.region. It happened in a crowded market in the town of Jamrud, near
:11:28. > :11:33.the Afghan border. Women and We know from police officials that
:11:33. > :11:37.this happened because a car packed with explosives very close to that
:11:37. > :11:41.market place went off mid-morning. All of the dead it appears were
:11:41. > :11:44.civilians, including women and children. There's been lots of
:11:44. > :11:49.discussion since then through the day on the Pakistani news channels
:11:49. > :11:52.as to exactly what the target would have been. All of those people
:11:52. > :11:57.killed were civilians. There were suggestions earlier that it was
:11:57. > :12:01.close to the offices of a political agent, but that was still some
:12:01. > :12:05.distance away. There were no security forces or any basis of
:12:06. > :12:09.security forces closed by. Unfortunately, it's not as if they
:12:09. > :12:13.haven't been attacks in the past where civilians have very much been
:12:13. > :12:17.the target. That debate is going on. We still don't know any more about
:12:17. > :12:20.what the motive was and even who carried this out, because no one
:12:20. > :12:25.has come forward to say they were responsible.
:12:25. > :12:29.It seems that periodically we report these incidences. What kind
:12:29. > :12:35.of reaction does it have amongst the public in terms of course for
:12:35. > :12:39.this to stop? It appals people every time,
:12:39. > :12:44.particularly attacks like this where civilians bear the brunt of
:12:44. > :12:47.the attacks. Pakistanis have gotten used to this over the years, over
:12:47. > :12:51.the last five years or so. Hundreds of people per year have been killed
:12:51. > :12:55.in these militant attacks. Sometimes groups claim to have
:12:55. > :12:59.carried them out as revenge against operations against them. Some time
:12:59. > :13:05.civilians are just caught up in in fighting between particular
:13:05. > :13:08.militant groups. That might have been the case in this area.
:13:08. > :13:12.Pakistanis feel powerless to stop it. But they have been calls
:13:12. > :13:16.recently for the government to do much more. Not just in reaction to
:13:16. > :13:20.attacks like this but in terms of putting the people away who
:13:20. > :13:24.perpetrate these attacks, putting them away in jail. That is seen as
:13:24. > :13:28.the main problem here. Those who carry out these attacks are not
:13:28. > :13:32.punished. Those who plan them are not put away in jail. That is
:13:32. > :13:36.something that Pakistan still hasn't got to grips with.
:13:36. > :13:42.Overall, the battle in this area has now been going on for years. Is
:13:43. > :13:46.it possible to assess whether there's a sense of progress or not?
:13:46. > :13:53.If you want to look at the numbers of people killed in attacks each
:13:53. > :13:56.year, that has come down over the last 18 months or so, if that is
:13:56. > :14:01.the yardstick by which you want to go by. But otherwise there are
:14:01. > :14:05.large areas of the tribal areas that are controlled by militant
:14:05. > :14:09.groups and while the Pakistani government and the authorities here
:14:09. > :14:13.don't have control of those areas, and while those militant groups are
:14:13. > :14:21.able to continue their training, they are recruiting, then of course
:14:21. > :14:26.the attacks they carry out are Still to come... Fiji is battered
:14:26. > :14:34.by its strongest cyclone in 20 years. Homes are destroyed and
:14:34. > :14:43.roads washed away. In Greece, football teams are turning to
:14:43. > :14:46.unusual sources to get some money A memorial ceremony has been held
:14:46. > :14:49.at the mausoleum where two former leaders of North Korea are interred.
:14:49. > :14:51.The country is marking one year since the death of its previous
:14:51. > :15:01.ruler, Kim Jong-il. His son and current leader, Kim Jong-un,
:15:01. > :15:06.attended the service with his wife. 17 years in power did little to
:15:06. > :15:10.lessen the mystery of North Korea's former leader. Kim Jong-il di deary
:15:10. > :15:14.go with few people even having heard his voice. The country he
:15:14. > :15:19.passed to his son was starting to look a little better isolated with
:15:19. > :15:24.the prospect of food aid from the United States. One year on and all
:15:24. > :15:27.of that has changed. Kim Jong-un has shown a much shorter, more
:15:27. > :15:31.emotional style of leadership. There's been a lot of hugging and
:15:31. > :15:36.smiling for the cameras, a new theme park with roller-coaster and
:15:36. > :15:40.a relaxed and photogenic young wife. There's also been more money from
:15:40. > :15:45.China, new buildings in the capital and reports of small-scale economic
:15:45. > :15:49.reforms. In fact, according to analysts in the south, North
:15:49. > :15:54.Korea's economy grew 0.8% last year, the first positive growth for
:15:54. > :16:00.several years. But to the irritation of allies and enemies
:16:00. > :16:04.alike, this is what the new leader spent it on. Estimates suggest the
:16:04. > :16:10.two rocket launchers he ordered this year may have cost over $1
:16:10. > :16:15.billion. Enough to buy several years worth of food. There have
:16:15. > :16:19.also been military reshuffles and it's thought purges and both Koreas
:16:19. > :16:23.have beefed up their military hardware along the disputed sea
:16:23. > :16:28.border. So what kind of leader is Kim Jong-un? North Korean
:16:28. > :16:34.leadership is in dilemma. On the one hand, he should continue the
:16:34. > :16:41.mandate of his father, Kim Jong-il, the military's first politics. But
:16:41. > :16:48.on the other hand, he has a mandate to revitalise the economy, feed the
:16:48. > :16:53.people. But those things can't go together. Kim Jong-un is in a catch
:16:53. > :16:58.22 situation. In South Korea, the government's hardline policy
:16:58. > :17:01.towards the north is coming under scrutiny ahead of Presidential
:17:01. > :17:06.elections this week. If the Liberal opposition candidate wins, there
:17:06. > :17:16.could be fresh offers Live Aid, economic ties and ongoing talks.
:17:16. > :17:18.
:17:18. > :17:20.North Korea's new isolation could The headlines:
:17:21. > :17:23.President Barack Obama, speaking at a memorial service for the victims
:17:23. > :17:28.of the primary school shooting in Connecticut, says the United States
:17:28. > :17:31.must do more to protect its children.
:17:31. > :17:34.The funeral of the nurse who killed herself following the royal hoax
:17:34. > :17:41.call to a London hospital is taking place in her hometown in southern
:17:41. > :17:45.Here in Britain, it's emerged that the Queen will attend Tuesday's
:17:45. > :17:48.Cabinet meeting as an observer. It's the first time it's happened
:17:48. > :17:52.since Queen Victoria's reign more than 100 years ago. David Cameron's
:17:52. > :17:56.Cabinet will present the Queen with a gift - paid for by themselves -
:17:56. > :18:00.in honour of her Diamond Jubilee. She is expected to sit beside the
:18:00. > :18:09.Prime Minister. Joining me from Westminster is our correspondent
:18:09. > :18:12.Naomi Grimley. I don't know how many political discussions or
:18:12. > :18:17.honesty comes through at the Cabinet table any more, but likely
:18:17. > :18:22.to be very interesting. Yes. She will not be saying much. She will
:18:22. > :18:26.simply sit down as an observer and she will also receive this gift.
:18:26. > :18:30.Cabinet ministers are going to be digging deep into their own pockets
:18:30. > :18:35.to come up with a Diamond Jubilee gift for her. It is a way of
:18:35. > :18:38.rounding off a year of celebrations. Last week she went to the Bank of
:18:38. > :18:42.England so it is thought this week would be a good time for her to
:18:42. > :18:46.replicate what Queen Victoria did and go to Cabinet. For former prime
:18:46. > :18:50.ministers always say she is incredibly well-informed, but the
:18:50. > :18:54.key point is the Queen has no political power these days.
:18:54. > :19:00.doesn't, but she does have an important constitutional role,
:19:00. > :19:04.which is to advise and warm bright ministers, but she does that every
:19:04. > :19:09.week behind closed doors at the weekly prime ministerial audience.
:19:09. > :19:12.She is now on her 12th Prime Minister so she does bring a wealth
:19:12. > :19:17.of experience to that role. have you spoken to any ministers?
:19:17. > :19:22.Will they have scripted any comments? I'm sure they will have
:19:22. > :19:26.to be on their best behaviour. She is not taking the Duke of Edinburgh,
:19:26. > :19:30.who is well known for being forthright in his opinions!
:19:30. > :19:33.Coalition government is interesting at the moment. Thank you.
:19:33. > :19:36.In Syria, the vice-president has said neither the government nor the
:19:36. > :19:38.rebels can win the struggle for control of the country. Meanwhile,
:19:38. > :19:41.activists in the country say government forces have continued
:19:41. > :19:43.their bombardment on the southern edge of the capital Damascus. The
:19:43. > :19:46.BBC's Jim Muir is following developments from Beirut in
:19:46. > :19:52.neighbouring Lebanon and says there's been no response yet to
:19:52. > :19:56.Farouq al-Sharaa's comments. does seem to be the latest sign
:19:56. > :20:02.that the regime is in some distress. When you have the Vice President
:20:02. > :20:07.saying openly that the regime can't win this battle, while his bosses,
:20:07. > :20:11.the President and his coterie, are pursuing what they describe as a
:20:11. > :20:16.security solution to serious problems, it is quite striking.
:20:16. > :20:21.Farouq al-Sharaa is a Sunni Muslim, he has obviously been feeling not
:20:21. > :20:25.very happy because he has been very, very quiet for a long time. He is
:20:25. > :20:30.not seen much in public, there are rumours he may have defected. They
:20:30. > :20:34.are untrue, but there's still a feeling his heart and soul is not
:20:34. > :20:39.with the regime and his declaration that the regime can't win, but
:20:39. > :20:43.neither can the rebels, and that there has to be a negotiated
:20:43. > :20:47.solution, is a sign of the times that things are not going well for
:20:47. > :20:52.the regime. Of course the rebels would take issue with what he is
:20:52. > :20:55.saying, they think they can win. There's no chance at the moment
:20:55. > :20:59.that they would want to share power with Mr Assad and his departure
:20:59. > :21:06.along with at least his top aides is one of their key demands for any
:21:06. > :21:13.kind of political process and peaceful transition. Briefly, more
:21:13. > :21:18.fighting on the edge of Damascus? That's right. On Sunday, there was
:21:18. > :21:22.rocketing by warplanes, allegedly, and according to a video shown on
:21:22. > :21:26.YouTube of a mosque in the Palestinian refugee settlement on
:21:26. > :21:31.the southern edge of the city. Quite a number of people were
:21:31. > :21:36.killed. You could see horrible images of body parts scattered up
:21:36. > :21:39.the steps up to the mosque. Since then, there has been further
:21:39. > :21:43.bombardment of that area of the southern edge of town and bombing
:21:43. > :21:47.and shelling on the eastern side of the city as well, with allegations
:21:47. > :21:50.of cluster bombs being dropped by planes and video to back that up.
:21:50. > :21:53.Thank you. More than 3,500 people have been
:21:53. > :21:56.taken to emergency shelters in Fiji after the biggest cyclone for 20
:21:56. > :21:59.years swept across the Pacific island nation. Authorities are
:21:59. > :22:05.warning people to stay in the shelters as Tropical Cyclone Evan
:22:05. > :22:08.batters the country with gusts of up to 270 kph. Paul Hobbs, a
:22:08. > :22:18.correspondent with TV NZ in Fiji, said the cyclone has caused
:22:18. > :22:23.widespread damage. The cyclone struck probably about six or seven
:22:23. > :22:26.hours ago. When I woke up this morning, there was a very light
:22:27. > :22:31.breeze but it started to build a through the day and about six or
:22:31. > :22:36.seven hours ago it was like the flick of a switch and the winds
:22:36. > :22:41.went from a breeze does something for Russia's. Off it has left this
:22:41. > :22:47.fragile economy stricken. -- a ferocious. Have people got enough
:22:47. > :22:52.places of safety? Not at all. Saying that, there are a evacuation
:22:52. > :22:56.centres set up, but this is a very fragile infrastructure and a very
:22:56. > :23:01.poor country. There are a number of nice homes and good homes and great
:23:01. > :23:08.hotels, but the very -- vast majority of Fijians living very
:23:08. > :23:12.simple homes. We have been driving about and we have seen trees felled,
:23:12. > :23:17.trees through Holmes, power lines down, no cellphone coverage, the
:23:17. > :23:21.internet, the power is out. We have seen at a number of very, very
:23:21. > :23:25.upset and distraught people huddling in evacuation centres in
:23:25. > :23:28.complete darkness as they have tried to come to terms with the
:23:28. > :23:31.fact that they might go home in daylight and see nothing of their
:23:31. > :23:33.houses. The financial crisis in Greece has
:23:33. > :23:36.hit all sectors, including sport. Funding for amateur football has
:23:36. > :23:39.been cut, so two teams have resorted to unusual sponsorship to
:23:39. > :23:49.make ends meet. As Mark Lowen reports, not everyone's happy about
:23:49. > :23:51.
:23:51. > :23:57.The beautiful game has a colourful new backer. In tough times, who
:23:57. > :24:01.else to turn to but the local brothel? And unconventional sponsor,
:24:01. > :24:06.but Villa Erotica has kept the team on the pitch. For matches, the
:24:06. > :24:14.players must tone down with neutral shirts. But the coach says football
:24:14. > :24:19.is full of much shadier sponsors. think it is more a moral to
:24:19. > :24:26.advertise betting companies and alcohol than a sex sells. --
:24:26. > :24:31.immoral. Most men, especially of a young age, have visited these
:24:31. > :24:37.houses because it is a human need. A charitable brothel, he would have
:24:37. > :24:42.thought? Probably not the leggies staff, more focused on other duties.
:24:42. > :24:48.Inside, kitsch is king. Beyond the unique decoration and pricey girls,
:24:48. > :24:53.cash spent here now goes towards a new cause. TRANSLATION: I love
:24:53. > :24:58.Greece and I like helping young people. This brothel is legal. The
:24:58. > :25:02.government doesn't give money for sport or education or anything so
:25:02. > :25:06.why shouldn't the poor football team come to me to give them help?
:25:06. > :25:13.But a warning light from the local Football Union, which says selling
:25:13. > :25:19.sex should be kept out of sport. is not acceptable to promote it.
:25:19. > :25:24.Many football players are under 18. We know prostitution is a part of
:25:24. > :25:28.life, but it is not the right lifestyle for young athletes,
:25:28. > :25:32.especially amateur footballers. the next-door town, a different
:25:32. > :25:39.patron. This funeral parlour has given the local team a new lease of
:25:39. > :25:43.life. They sport black, not pink, and they cross not a brothel.
:25:43. > :25:48.Another unlikely saviour for cash- strapped football. An amateur and
:25:48. > :25:52.national level Greek sport has a bleak future, with almost no
:25:52. > :25:56.investment, budgets slashed and training for Mrs Daley's dash
:25:56. > :26:00.training facilities crumbling. A few years ago greased hosted the
:26:00. > :26:05.Olympics and were crowned champions of Europe. Now teams are having to
:26:05. > :26:10.resort to desperate measures to survive. Which side wins? Both.
:26:10. > :26:17.Vital money raised to spare these teams and perhaps a little more
:26:17. > :26:25.custom drummed up for the undertaker and the madam.
:26:25. > :26:29.Before we go, there is something of a latest news on your revisions.
:26:29. > :26:34.Few was in Switzerland have picked a group from the Salvation Army to
:26:34. > :26:40.represent them next year. Switzerland apparently hasn't won
:26:40. > :26:43.the contest since Celine Dion won in 1988, but the son of a nation --
:26:43. > :26:49.Salvation Army musicians were chosen at the weekend and will
:26:49. > :26:52.compete in Melbourne next year. The band includes and 94-year-old