Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're starting the programme with the news that the former US Vice President, Dick Cheney, has died.
He was 84 and served two terms during the administration of George W.
Bush at the start of the century.
Often described as one of the most powerful vice presidents in US history,
he'll be remembered in particular for the role he played in orchestrating America's controversial war on terror.
In a few minutes we'll hear from an Iraqi perspective and from a colleague who is often in the room with Dick Cheney.
But first, our former Washington correspondent Paul Adams reports.
And I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office.
On which I'm about to enter, so help me guide.
On which I'm about to enter, so help me guide.
Congratulations.
Richard Bruce Cheney, sworn in as vice president in January 2001,
a Washington veteran returning to the heart of power after almost a decade in business,
but a man whose lasting reputation would be forged in a battle that began just a few months later.
In some ways Dick Cheney was an archetype of the American West,
strong, silent, more interested in action than words.
He said his favorite virtue was integrity and his vision of happiness was fly fishing on the Snake River in his home state of Wyoming.