31/08/2011 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at 10: Plans to reform the banking system could take several

years to take effect. The controversial reforms were promised

in the wake of the financial crisis and one minister says they are

needed now. The uncertainty, the instability in the financial

markets makes it all the more necessary that we press ahead and

make our banks safe and reform them. The changes are meant to stop

scenes like these from happening again but businesses say the timing

is wrong. Now was not the moment. The moment is to manage growth, get

growth moving and do everything we can to help keep jobs and wealth

creation moving in Britain. There were hints today that the changes

could be put off until after the next election.

Also tonight: At Saif Gaddafi delivers another message to his

father's supporters, urging them to fight on. But in Tripoli the focus

is on rebuilding the city and creating a new Government.

National Transitional Council has been recognised by some of the

biggest powers in the world. Around here it is local people taking the

decisions. Dozens of traveller families face

eviction from a big site in Essex following a High Court ruling.

want to stay and die in their homes. We tend assert marks the end of

four years of repatriation ceremonies for the armed forces. --

Wootton Bassett. And 40 years on, a controversial

documentary about a British charity can finally be shown.

We will take you through to the end of the August transfer window and

we have a Football Focus deadline Good evening. Controversial plans

to reform the banking system may not come into force for several

years. The reforms are meant to protect taxpayers from the effects

of any future financial crisis. The banks are warning that now was not

the time in their view to make big changes but Vince Cable says the

reforms are needed now. More details from James Landale.

Remember this? The failing banks, the panic, the lost jobs, the

disgraced bosses? The politicians lined up to share the public fury

and the Government promised action to make sure it could never happen

again. Now it appears their plans to reform the banks may not come

into force until after the next election. Ministers like Vince

Cable, visiting Edinburgh University today, insist the

Government is committed to change and will push it through despite

opposition from many banks. instability in the financial

markets makes it all the more necessary to press ahead and reform

the banks. Pressing ahead may take time. Officials admit privately

that it could take years for Cameron and his colleagues to

steered their reforms through the banks. There will be action to get

them landing and taking few risks, but for now... We have the report

still to come out from Sir John Vickers but let's see what it says

before we respond to it. What are the likely reforms expected to be

proposed? The main plan already backed by Government is for banks

to build a firewall between their High Street operations and they

investment arms so that if the riskier investment it collapses,

the High Street it is safe. Many think that reform cannot come soon

enough. The banks don't like it and some say the CBI would be barking

mad to press ahead now. The economy is now sluggish. Do we want to make

it harder for banks to even money to small businesses? A big

structural change to the way banks are organised will mean they are

less able to lend to businesses in Britain. This point is causing

tension within the coalition. Many Liberal Democrats want swifter

action, implemented before the next general election. But Conservatives

want banking reform not to get in the wake of the economic recovery

and they want to get it right. public want the reforms to be done

properly so that we are never again as a taxpayer put in a situation of

bailing out banks that have not been responsible. We should not

rushing for political purposes but get it right when we do it. Nobody

wants to see images like these again but putting in place as the

changes to make sure they do not could take time. That could mean

action will not be taken sooner rather than later.

Our chief economic correspondents is in London tonight. Your word on

these plans and when they should be implemented? There is no doubting

the real importance of this issue for the City. There are some major

banks that believe that these reforms would push up their cost of

doing business is and they would have to pass it on to customers,

including personal customers. Others in the business world so

they do need to press on and set up a new structure to prevent

taxpayers from future failures. What has emerged today is this.

Into the Chancellor made his speech at the Mansion House. He said he

was minded to go ahead with the main recommendations and would do

so when the report came out in September. Today it seems to be

complicated and legislation needs to be got right and maybe the banks

need some leeway to get the systems into place after the next election.

I think the reason for that change, if there is one, are the results of

the events in Europe and the banking system over the past few

weeks. It could be that it is a long time after the Northern Rock

crisis before reform is put in place and really implemented.

Thank you. In Libya a message apparently delivered by Colonel

Gaddafi's son Saif Al-Islam has been broadcast on television this

evening in which she promises to fight to the death and insists his

father is alive and well. -- he promises. Despite progress by the

rebels, there is still no sign of a Parliament being built in Tripoli.

The war has swept through Tripoli and back out into the desert,

taking a colonel with it. In this fragile capital, gunfire is for

celebration now, not killing. And prayers for Eid, the end of the

holy month of Ramadan. Just after dawn, the former Green Square, now

renamed Martyr Square, was full of people and memories, of almost 42

years of dictatorship. They killed our children, it said the Imam, and

raped our women. He is a murderer and God will punish him. Suburban

roads still have barricades put up by their residents to keep the

violence of Gaddafi's fall away from them. The war had already

touched Al-Antalaka Street. A NATO mistake killed a family here. Now

the children, in new clothing for Eid, can play outside. And this man

can say that the fighters gave their lives and he thinks it will

be fine for his family now. Tripoli is feeling very local at the moment.

People are looking after themselves and their families, and also their

neighbourhoods. There is a backroom at the top. The National

Transitional Council has been recognised by the powers around the

world, but it is local people here taking the decisions. And decision

making on this street start with these men. Locals that picked up

guns to fight the regime, stopping to check us out. Anyone suspicious

get steak into this school, requisitioned by the fighters. --

gets taken to this school. These three are from Niger, they say they

were picked up because they were black but they are innocent workers.

Their captors went through their papers. What do you suspect them

of? Most probably mercenaries but we have to do our investigations

first. Everything is going to be fine. They were terrified and not

very reassured when their captors, fighters from Tripoli, said there

would be justice in the new Libya. The hard part is starting now. Now

we are going to build our country and have creative people. We are

going to produce, do everything. Men with guns still set the pace

here. Not civilian politicians that have been slow off the mark. Long-

term that does not equal stability. Let's catch up with tonight's

events because we have one Gaddafi son promising to fight on and

another offering to negotiate. What do you make of it? A little bit

contradictory but the brothers always had a reputation of being

different to each other. Saif Al- Islam, the man who was supposed to

be Gaddafi's heir apparent. An audio tape was broadcast on a

Gaddafi TV station. He said the resistance continues and victory is

near. I am speaking from a suburb of Tripoli. He also referred to the

home town of Sirte, which the rebels are pressing in on, their

main military target at the moment. He said they were welcome to visit

Sirte and 20,000 armed men are there. A very different tone coming

from Saadi Gaddafi. He is almost as prominent as his brother. Used to

be a professional footballer in Italy for a time. He has been

sending out a number of messages saying that he is interested in

negotiation, some kind of deal to stop further bloodshed, and that he

is speaking with his father's authorisation. I have also spoken

to a good friend of Saadi. He confirms all of that. He says that

emails have been exchanged, calls are being made, and he is trying to

do something at this last minute. But I think really both statements

reinforce the idea that the net is tightening on them. However

aggressive and boorish Saif Al- Islam is trying to sound at the

moment. Thank you.

A Royal Marine who died after being hit by a roadside bar in

Afghanistan has been named by the Ministry of Defence today. --

roadside bomb. Sergeant Barry Weston of 42 Commando died on foot

patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district. He was 40 and he had just become a

father for the third time. The High Court has ruled that

dozens of traveller families can be evicted from a site in Essex, the

biggest of its kind in Britain. The travellers over the land but they

do not have planning permission for their homes. -- the travellers over

the land. Technically the eviction could start at midnight tonight,

but Basildon council says they will give notice.

Only divine intervention can save them now. Time and options have all

but run out for the travellers of Dale Farm. Within two hours,

supposedly, they must be gone by order of the courts. They say they

aren't going nowhere. travellers have a will to die. We

are going to stay. Die in our homes. Today lawyers argued that the

eviction should be stopped because one elderly traveller, who like his

eight year-old needs breathing equipment, would have her human

rights breached if forced from her home. Like my dad, if he needs this

machine in the night and there is no electricity, how can we get it

to them? Despite the defiance, the last glimmer of judicial hope was

extinguished at the High Court. One traveller said it was an act of

No-one has to lose their culture. I think it's unfair that they force

you to lose a culture that you were reared up all your life. For the

Dale Farm travellers, they own the site. Like many, they were

encouraged to buy land when the duty on local authorities to

provide sites was scrapped in the early 90's, but Basildon council

never gave the owners to build homes on half their land. It was

unlawful, but the community put down roots. A decade on and the

council are preparing to rip them up. We won't be by dawn raid or

covert. The amount of plant that is necessary and road closures, people

will be aware, so we will be upfront and let them know when the

operation will commence and that will give the community for the

travels to move off peacefully. Many locals will be delighted. The

travellers are not popular and there's outrage at their refusal to

obey planning rules that apply to everyone else. I've stood up for

this for the last ten years. If anyone came here and lived where

I've had to live and put up with what I lived with for ten years, I

don't think they would last a week. How I've lasted ten years, I don't

know. Tonight, the community was talking of non-violent direct

action when the bailiffs arrive. Eviction may be lawful, but is it

moral? Is there a clash between legal rights and human rights? Is

this a showdown between conventional society and a way of

life at odds with the mainstream? Still to come - America's top

soldier now becomes its top spy. We'll look at his record. Earlier

this evening the people of Wootton Basset marked the end of the town's

role in honouring the British servicemen and women who lost their

lives overseas. From tomorrow, repatriation flights will arrive at

RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. The vicar said that the town was

proud to have earned the title of Royal Wootton Basset, because of

the events of the past four years. They gathered on the high street in

their thousands. Just as they have so many times before. But this

ceremony would be difficult. No coffins or grieving families. This

was Wootton Basset marking the end of its own achievements. Wootton

Basset itself saying goodbye. think if anyone who sold boxes of

tissues they would make a fortune here tonight, because we will all

feel it. We started with a handful of people and it ended up with

hundreds and everybody sort of wants to come and pay respect to us

now, to say thank you for what we have done. As the sunset Wootton

Basset's Union Flag was lowered one final time. What started as a small

impromtu gathering four years ago, now ending with a large and formal

fair well. -- farewell. During that time the flag has flown in all

weathers, all seasons, at all times of day and night. Nearly 400

military coffins have passed through Wootton Basset. But, now,

this town's duty is done. We have done a good job and people are

thankful to us. I don't think that that is foolish pride or a lack of

humility. I think that it's appropriate to say well done.

Tomorrow, in a symbolic handover, the flag will be brought here. This

purpose-built garden, on a ring road, is where bereaved families

will gather now that repatriations are returning to RAF Brize Norton.

Some local people feel this place lacks the authenticity of Wootton

Basset and in the crowd tonight many regretted the move. It's not

going to be the same. I don't know how I feel, just a bit mixed up.

There were a rot and we think it's just so -- lot and we think it's

just so sad. In October the town will become Royal Wootton Basset,

but before then, many will go to Brize Norton next week for the

first repatriation to be held there. A 29 year-old man has been charged

with the murders of three men during the riots in Birmingham.

Shazad Ali, Abdul Musavir and Haroon Jahan died as they tried to

protect homes and businesses from looters. The three men were hit by

a car in the Winson Green area of the city in the early hours of

August 10th. An 11-year-old boy has become the youngest person to be

convicted of taking part in looting during the riots in London earlier

this month. The boy, from Romford, took a waste bin worth �50 from a

Debenhams store. He was given an 18-month youth rehabilitation order

for burglary and a previous arson offence. General David Petraeus,

the former US Commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan, has formally

retired from the armed forces as he prepares to take over as Director

of the CIA. General Petraeus, who oversaw last year's surge of US

troops to Afghanistan, has been congratulated by colleagues for

setting the gold standard for command in the modern era. Our

North America editor, Mark Mardell, considers whether the tributes are

justified by the achievements. At 58, he's something of a pin-up for

an America short of heroes. A hardened warrior an inlectual and

diplomat. Above all, a winner. Even on his last day in uniform, deeply

political, warning against defence cuts. It would be apparent to

maintain a force that not only capitalises on the extra order

experience and expertise in our ranks today, but also maintains the

flexibility that has been maintained. In full dress uniform,

he's more comfortable in combat fatigues. He's widely praised for

saving the situation in Iraq. in the face of a tough fight in

Iraq and tough political climate here, he rose above it all, as he

always has. In Iraq, he combined a surge in the number of troops with

a new strategy, winning hearts and minds. Building up the country. It

was called Counterinsurgency. would bring US troops in, along

with Iraqi security forces, stay in the neighbourhood 24/7 and eat

there and patrol day and night and that gained us the trust of the

population. When the man in charge in Afghanistan, General Stanley

McChrystal was effectively sacked by President Obama for making

unflattering remarks about politicians, the President called

on General David Petraeus to take his place, an even harder job with

continuing arguments about the way ahead. President Obama and the

General have the easiest of relationships. This is one soldier

who fights as hard to win his political battles as military ones,

but in the end, the President rejected his advice and went for a

quicker, larger withdrawal from Afghanistan than the military

wanted. General David Petraeus's favourite tratgy can take years to

pay off. He's tried to make it work in months. This has been the

deadliest month for American troops so far. Few think this is what

victory looks like. He didn't manage to crack the nut, perhaps it

is uncrackable, but even if you do 90% of everything right you still

only make partial headway. He'll exchange his uniform for a suit

when he becomes the head of a CIA, with less risk of Clark with the

President over budgets and strategy. European football's transfer window

will be closing from 11pm. No player will be allowed to switch

before January. One of the club's keenly in the market is Arsenal and

our sports reporter, Dan Roan, is at the Emirates Stadium for you

with some of the details. For Arsene Wenger, at least, this

transfer window deadline day had the potential to be something of a

day of reckoning, such was the nature of the humiliating defeat to

Manchester United by 8-2 at the weekend. It forced his hand and he

had to spend some of the tens of millions of pounds that the sales

of Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas had generated. Has he satisfied the

fans,? It appears to be the case. Arsenal appear to have revived a

�10 million bid for Mikel Arteta, Everton's mid-beelder and Yossi

Benayoun appears close to a deal and Scott Parker has moved from

West Ham to Spurs. Peter Crouch appears to be moving from Spurs to

Stoke. The most eye-catching deal announced involved Owen Hargreaves

moving to Manchester City, such is the money at stake in the sport of

course and clubs are under huge amounts of pressure. Signings can

make the difference between staying in the Premier League and

relegation and with half an hour left, you never know what might

happen. Thank you very much, Dan. A controversial documentary about the

Save The Children Fund made over 40 years ago is finally to be given a

public showing. The film was made by Ken Loach, who back in 1969, was

already famous for hard-hitting documentaries such as Cathy Come

Home. His study of the organisation showed it in a rather poor light

and the charity blocked the release at the time. The film will be

released tomorrow. These pictures of terraced houses on the outskirts

of Manchester opened the 1969 documentary about Save The Children.

Accompanied by this passage, written by the German socialist,

Friedrich Engels. The towns are irregularly built with foul courts,

lanes and back alleys. The tone was set. The film paints a largely

unflattering picture of the charity. The director said he wanted to

expose what he saw as the truth. had to go to Manchester and poor

children were taken to a retreat in the country and stayed there for

three months and we found the way they were treated was shocking. If

they wet the bed in anxiety they were made to have cold badges and

they were hit if they went to the wrong areas. Their parents were

referred to as disseatful and unhygienic, so we showed this.

documentary months from Britain's industrial landscape to Africa and

a school run by Save The Children in Nairobi. It represents our own

ideals and works out quite well. times, the charity appears snonish

and insensitive. I -- Snobbish. The charity protested and London

Weekend Television agreed not to prord cast it. Now -- broadcast it.

Now, the charity has relented and changed. Save The Children has

changed enormously. We would never take children from their families

and put them in institutions. We have amazing programmes here in the

UK where we help children in their families and work with the local

communities and these programmes make a big difference on child

poverty. We would never in Kenya try and bring up children or indock

nate children in terms of being western rather than African.

film was going to be destroyed and it was only at the last moment that

the charity agreed that the British Film Institute would be allowed to

keep a copy. It was stored here, among some of the other 200,000-

plus titles they look after from Queen Victoria's funeral to The

King's Speech. It's one of the largest film collections anywhere

in the world and a safe house of some of those that are seemed

unsuitable for public viewing. That is a vital act of guardianship as