There was incredible, there was amazing

atmosphere

. There were almost 1,000 maybe even more people gathered at the grave of the first president to the south, the former rebel leader, and it's the focal point in the town. People gathered there, and there was an open-air cinema screen, so the results in Khartoum were screened here live in Juba. When the results came out, every time there was an announcement, people stood up, they waved flags, they cheered. It was an incredible mood, a real feeling of history as what one of them said to me just after the announcement came out.

An official report into the release from a Scottish jail of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Libyan man convicted of blowing up an airliner over the town of Lockerbie in 1988, has concluded that Britain's last Labour government wanted him freed before he died and did all it could to secure his release.

With more details on the report, here's Rob Watson.

Although the report says the then Labour government didn't lobby or pressure the Scottish authorities into releasing Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, it does conclude it did want to see him freed and decided to help bring that about. That help

amounted to

British officials advising the Libyans on how to proceed legally. The current Prime Minister David Cameron said while there clearly wasn't some conspiracy involving the previous government, British oil interests and the Libyans, he did accuse former Labour ministers of