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Up All Night: 09/02/2012

09/02/2012

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Fabio Capello resigns as England manager.

Italian football commentator Massimo Marianella tells Up All Night why his friend Fabio Capello couldn't stay on as England manager.

Rhod Sharp with news from home and abroad. After Fabio Capello's shock resignation as England manager, Italian football commentator Massimo Marianella tells Up All Night why his friend couldn't stay on.
"I know Fabio very well...  He's a good friend of mine,  I know how much he loves being the England manager, but for a manager like him, his history, his CV, the decision to strip the armband from JT that was made above his head, it was in the end too tough to swallow."
" Everybody knew that the contract was soon to expire during the summer, after the European Championship, and maybe that made the decision easier for him to resign and for the FA to accept the resignation. But, believe me, I know him so well, he will be disappointed at the end because the way this story ends, and even the reason, because that story ends"
In the Homs suburb of Baba Amr, Omar, an opponent of the Syrian regime, tells how the house next door has been hit by a missile and his neighbour's baby has been killed. 
 "My neighbour's house has been targeted with a rocket...so his little baby died...he was in shock, he can't speak with anyone, he's just crying...he keeps saying, 'she's a little baby what has she done? She doesn't deserve that...my baby baby wasn't a terrorist, she wasn't armed, she was just a little baby of two years old...'"
"We are expecting the army will try to come into the neighbourhood and the regime will eradicate every guy- every young guy."
   
"I'm really tired, haven't slept at all in four days, I am surviving on little food... hearing the whistle in the sky is very scary...you can't imagine the situation - it's very bad. "
And, for the first time in 20 years, the Beach Boys are reforming for the Grammy Awards on Sunday night. Brian Wilson biographer Peter Ames Carlin isn't convinced it's a good idea.

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