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He would step down, but he'd also create an ability to reach out and

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start a new phase of Syrian political life. We'll be asking if

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King Abdullah's unprecedented intervention marks a turning point.

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Also tonight: The Leveson Inquiry into press

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standards reveals 28 News International staff were involved

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in phone hacking. David Cameron's most outspoken remarks yet about

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the shape of the European Union and how he wants to see it changed.

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should look skeptically at grand plans and utopian visions. We have

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a right to ask what the European Union should and shouldn't do and

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change it accordingly. Two men appear in court charged

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with murdering Stephen Lawrence. The judge says there will be new

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scientific evidence. Beijing had them. Now Britain may

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deploy ground-to-air missiles to protect London during the Olympic

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Good evening. King Abdullah of Jordan has become the first Arab

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leader openly to call for President Assad of Syria to step down.

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Speaking exclusively to the BBC the King said Mr Assad should go in the

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interests of his country. The unprecedented intervention marks a

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further isolation of Syria by its neighbours. Over the weekend it was

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suspended from the Arab League - a move condemned as dangerous by the

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country's foreign minister. Activists say more than 40 people

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have been killed today in the crackdown against anti-government

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protestors. Here's our middle east editor Jeremy Bowen. It was another

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hard and bloody day in Homs which has become the centre of the

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uprising in Syria. Most foreign journalists are banned from the

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country, so we're relying again on pictures taken by opponents of the

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regime and sent out on the internet. The Assad regime says it's fighting

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an armed plot incited by foreigners to destroy the country, but

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evidence has piled up of security forces killing Syrian protesters,

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many or most unarmed and with broken promises to take armour off

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the streets, the Syrian President is now under intense political

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pressure to go, the latest coming from the King of Jordan in a BBC

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interview. If he has the interests of his country, he would step down,

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but he'd also create an ability to reach out and start a new phase of

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Syrian political life. But the answer to the pressure has been

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defiance. At the weekend, pro-Assad demonstration were held in Damascus

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and elsewhere. His regime still has loyalists, but the opposition has

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also alleged that students and others were forced to take part and

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threatened or even shot if they refused. In Damascus this morning,

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the Foreign Minister said a decision by the Arab League to

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suspend Syria's membership was malicious and part of a Western

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conspiracy. "It's dangerous step for the

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future," he said. Syria's at the troubled centre of

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the Middle East, already overloaded with conflict and instability.

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Syria's neighbours are getting very nervous about violence, perhaps a

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civil war spilling into their countries. They think when you look

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at the makeup of Syria, where you have Jews, Kurds, Sunnis,

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Christians, Muslims, it's a far more complicated fabric, and as a

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result, this is why I think all of us in the international community

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are concerned because if it starts to unravel, it's not going to be a

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sort of straight-forward Libyan scenario. It will be an even more

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complicated Iraqi scenario, if that makes any sense to you. In Damascus,

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crowds attacked the embassies of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, who

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have led the condemnation of what's happening in Syria. The Arab League

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has a plan to send observers, allowing them in and letting them

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work will be another test for the regime. Assad's men are still

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powerful, but they haven't been able to stop the demonstrations.

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It's become a stalemate. Foreign pressure, now stronger than

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at any time since uprising started, could change the balance.

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And Jeremy joins me now. To what extent do King Abdullah's comments

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make a turning point, do you think? I think we're into a new phase now.

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I think the stage is set for greater international pressure,

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first, sanctions. There have already been more EU sanctions,

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nothing so far at the UN, because Russia has been blocking them. If

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they haven't called for sanctions, could Russia continue to block

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that? Probably not. Why are the Arab League doing these things?

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Don't forget, this is the first year of people power in the Middle

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East. It's not possible anymore for Arab leaders to condome the killing

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of civilians by another Arab leader in the way that once they could,

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and as well as that the Arab spring has now got very mixed up with

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existing conflicts. Syria is a big friend of Iran. The Saudis, leading

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some of the criticism, consider themselves enemys of Iran. Their

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thought pattern is what's bad for Assad is good for us. Don't forget,

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though, the Arab League was decisive in Libya, calling for a

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no-fly zone. That was - everything that followed came from that, but

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last thing to remember for tonight, anyway is no credible talk yet of

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foreign military intervention, and the reason for that, I think is no-

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one can really think of a way of doing it that doesn't make matters

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a lot worse. Thank you. Thanks. Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into

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press standards got underway today and it's already revealed that

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twenty eight staff at News International were involved in

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phone hacking. It's emerged that there were thousands of victims.

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The inquiry will be looking at whether the press can be left to

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set its own standards. As Lord Justice Leveson put it today, "Who

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will guard the guardians"? Nick Higham was at the inquiry. It was

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the scandal that began with the News of the World, Britain's

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biggest selling newspaper and one of its brashest, the revelation

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that the paper had hacked into the murdered schoolgirl, Milly Dowler's

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voicemails prompted outrage, the paper's closure and the Leveson

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Inquiry. The parents of Madeleine McCann, politicians like Lord

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Justice Leveson and -- Lord press con and Tessa Jowell along with

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celebrities like JK Rowling, Hugh Grant and Sienna Miller were among

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those who gave evidence to the inquiry. Today in the measured

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tones of an Appeal Court judge, Lord Justice Leveson issued a

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warning to newspapers. Those who speak out might be targeted by the

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press as a result. I have absolutely no wish to stifle

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freedom of speech and expression. If it appears that those concerns

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are made out without objective justification, it might be

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appropriate to draw the conclusion that these vital rights are being

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abused. Today, the inquiry heard just how much phone hacking had

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been done by this man, Private Detective Glenn Mulcaire,

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originally said to have been working for a single rogue reporter.

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In his notebooks, police found the names of staff not just at the News

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of the World but at its sister paper the Sun and even the Daily

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Mail, -- Mirror, though they denied involvement. 28 were involved. One

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News of the World journalist alone had made over 1,400 requests for

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information. The inquiry was told it would hear evidence from

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celebrities and ordinary people alike. Common themes are complaints

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of systematic breachs of privacy, of conduct amounting to harassment

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and of unfair, sensationalist and inaccurate reporting. His inquiry

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is actually in two parts. The first is look at the general culture of

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the press, its relations between the police and politicians and

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whether the present system of newspaper regulation is broken, and

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if so, how it should be fixed. The second is into the illegal activity

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by newspapers which started all of this in the first place. But that

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can't begin until the police have finished their investigations,

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which won't be for many months. The inquiry admitted today it's putting

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the cart before the horse. In court for the start of the inquiry today

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was Milly Dowler's Fowler, Bob, victims of press intrusion like him

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will start giving evidence next John Yeates, the former Assistant

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Commissioner at the Metropolitan Police, has been cleared of

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misconduct over allegations that he secured a Scotland Yard job for the

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daughter of the former News of the World executive Neil Wallis. The

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police watchdog - the IPCC - said it could find no grounds for taking

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disciplinary action against Mr Yates over passing on the CV of Mr

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Wallis' daughter. Europe faces its biggest challenge

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since the Second World War. That's the alarming assessment of the

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German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who's at the centre of attempts to

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hold the eurozone together. Here there's a growing argument over

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whether the debt crisis in the Eurozone is affecting our recovery,

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as the Government suggests, or whether Labour is right when it

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says ministers are pursuing the wrong policies. Here is our

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economics editor Stephanie Flanders. The crisis in the eurozone is

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having a chilling effect. Instability in the euro is having a

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huge impact. The eurozone is having a very chilling effect on our

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economy. Well, we know who the Government blames for Britain's

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faltering economic recovery. That was also the Governor of the Bank

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of England's line last month in Liverpool. We were on track, but

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the problems in the euro area and the marked slowing in the world

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economy have lengthened the period over which a return to normality is

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likely. You would certainly expect our exports to be affected by the

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crisis on the continent. 40% of them go to countries in the

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eurozone, as the Chancellor's fond of reminding us - Britain sells

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more to them than Russia, India and China combineded. The British

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economic recovery was choked off well before the instability of the

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last few months in the eurozone, and our unemployment has been

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rising when most European countries in the EU have seen that

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unemployment falling it's not true to say that it was the Euro crisis

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which has caused the problems in Britain. You can blame the crisis

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for the weakening state of major eurozone economies over the past

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few months. When the latest GDP figures come out tomorrow they're

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expected to show little or no growth in the single currency area,

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but the countries closest to the action will have still grown by

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1.4% in the last year. That compares with just half a per cent

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in the UK. Our exports to eurozone countries did fall by 0.2% last

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month, but up until then, they have been a source of strength, up by

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more than 17% over the last year. Pound for pound, most economists

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would expect the Chancellor's tax rises and spending cuts to have had

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a bigger direct impact on growth this year than the eurozone, but

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without his tough approach, Mr Osborne would say we might now be

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facing a crisis like Italy. We have to press on with the deficit

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reduction package, and yes, that can be painful, but the

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consequences of it would be even worse in the absence of the package,

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and we've really got to focus on the eurozone. All eyes today were

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on Mario Monti, the new technocrat Prime Minister of Italy, who is

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supposed to help them turn a corner, but the financial markets don't

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seem to believe the dangers of past. In fact, today, the worries move to

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Spain. The blame game in Westminster will continue, but

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everyone can agree this crisis of confidence on our doorstep could

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As the debt crisis looks set to re- shape relations between members of

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the European Union, David Cameron has made his most outspoken remarks

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yet about the role Britain should play in that process. Speaking at

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the Lord Mayor's banquet at the Guildhall tonight, he said he

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yearned for fundamental reform with powers ebbing back not flowing away.

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For years, people who suggested doing less at the European level

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have been accused of not being committed to a successful European

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Union, but we sceptics have a vital point. We should look skeptically

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at grand plans and utopian visions. We have a right to ask what the

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European Union should and shouldn't do and change it accordingly. As I

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have said, change brings opportunities, an opportunity to

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begin to refashion the EU so it better serves this nation's

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interests and the interests of its other 26 nations too. Well, let's

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talk to our political editor Nick Robinson who is at the Guildhall

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for us tonight. It strikes me the Prime Minister has gone further

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than ever before on Europe. Why? Just listen to the words to back

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that up - a source of alarm and crisis is how he described the EU,

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an organisation in peril, out of touch, immune from developments in

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the real world. Lords, ladies and gentlemen here at the Guildhall,

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that's how a Prime Minister now describes the EU and above all uses

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that phrase "we sceptics", guaranteeed to reassure many in his

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own party, guaranteeed to get the headlines in Euro-sceptic papers

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tomorrow, and yet listen carefully, George, because this is a speech

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about positioning not just at home, but in Europe too. Madam and

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monsieur, he also wanted to tell you in the Chancellories of Europe

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that Britain had an opportunity. He didn't want Britain to get out. He

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didn't regard Britain as an outsider. Indeed, he thought the

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plight of Norway, affected by rules you couldn't in fact change and

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govern, was one that he didn't want for this country, so in the end a

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man who told his party not to obsess about Europe before he

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became Prime Minister, tonight really accepted he has no choice

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but to obsess about it, but he didn't tonight, despite that new

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positioning. Not only did he not answer the questions about the

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future of you know, he didn't even Nick, thank you.

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Coming up: 4, 3, 2, 1... Lift off.

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It was designed in the 1960s, now it is the only way to get

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astronauts to space. Russia resumes its manned space flights.

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The Government is considering to deploy ground-to-air missiles to

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protect London from attack during the Paralympic Games next year.

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Philip Hammond said that the missiles would be deployed if

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deemed operationally necessary. Here is David Bond.

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The Olympic Games, a sporting festival, but also a massive

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security challenge. Last time in Beijing, the Chinese

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made no secret of their plans to tackle the terror threat, deploying

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surface-to-air missiles. Today the Defence Secretary said we would do

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the same. All necessary measures to ensure

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the security and the safety of the London Olympic Games will be taken

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including if the advice of the military is that it is required,

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including appropriate ground-to-air defences.

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Philip Hammond says that the Government will take whatever

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measures are necessary to ensure that the Olympic Games pass

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peacefully. That's why officials here at the Home Office are

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overseeing a review of security in and around the venues next summer.

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After the London Organising Committee got their numbers badly

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wrong. The London Organising Committee for

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the Gamesest maithed that they would need 10,000 private security

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staff to secure the venues, but the review is expected to conclude that

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the numbers required are more than double that. Jumping to around it

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2,000. London 2012 have been allocated

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�282 million of public money for the venue security, but the bill

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will be much higher than that. Test events across London like this

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basketball tournament in the summer were one of the reasons for review.

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The security officials say that the plans are now on track.

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We are working closely with a number of bodies, the event

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organisers and the police services up and down the country to ensure

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these are a safe and secure Games. I am satisfied that while we are

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not complacent and recognise there is a lot to do, we are still in a

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gad place. For the London organisers, the 7/7

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bombings that happened the day after the City won the 2012 bid are

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a reminder of the threat. Some countries like America will bring

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their own security, something that some thing is rite.

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The athletes, if they are concerned about the security measures it

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would be encome bent upon the US to employ a level of security to the

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athletes to get in there and have the performances that they want.

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For all of the impressive progress made, security has always been the

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big unknown for London 2012, the Government is trying to limit that

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uncertainty, but as past Games have shown, there is only so much you

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can plan for. Two men, Gary Dobson and David

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Norris have appeared in court, charged with the murder of Stephen

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Lawrence, 18 years after the teenagers rer's death. The student

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was stabbed twice by white youths in south London on the 22nd of

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April, 1993. The Old Bailey was told that new evidence would be

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central to the proceedings. Stephen Lawrence was 18 when he

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died. He was stabbed while waiting for a bus late one night in south

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London. For his mother, Doreen Lawrence, it was a loss made so

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much worse by the fact that no-one has been convicted of the killing.

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His father, Neville, also came to see the trial begin. The two

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accused men, David Norris on the left is 35 Gary Dobson is 36, both

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deny murder. This is a case with a difficult history. Stephen died on

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the 22nd of April, 1993. There were court hearing in the mid-90s, and

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an inquest in 1997. A full public inquiry was held in 1988 chaired by

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Lord mac fersson. The judge, Mr Justice Treacy, said that the case

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aroused strong feelings, but it was told in the court that what

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happened in the past was irrelevant. That this case had to start with a

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clean slate. The judge said: A reinvestigation

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of the case had led to new scientific evidence. There would be

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an examination of its reliability. The two accused men questioned the

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handling of that evidence. The jurors will consider who killed

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learns Lawrence Lawrence have been told to expect the trial to stretch

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into next year. The FDA trade union which

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represents thousands of high- ranking civil servants, including

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tax inspectors, diplomats and government special advisors has

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voted by 4-1 to strike over changes to pensions. It is expected that

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thousands including teachers and health service workers will be

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involved in the day of action. Anders Braevi eq has made his first

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public appearance in court. He tried to explain his actions to

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survivors and victims. In July, the 32-year-old carried out a bomb

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attack in Oslo and went on a shooting rampage on the island of

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vitora. The Home Secretary, who has accused

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the UK Border Agency has gone further tonight, evealing the

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extent of the problem there. Labour has said they have obtained

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e-mails about the lack of checks on passengers on private flights.

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Carole Walker is at Westminster for us. What have we learned? Well,

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Theresa May said she did authorise pilots to reduce the level of

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checks on some passengers from Europe, but that border staff

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disobeyed her, went further and reduced the level of the security

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for passengers from outside of Europe as well. She's been under

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pressure to say how wide spread this practise was, tonight she's

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revealed that it took place at 28 ports and airports, including

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Heathrow Airport, Glasgow, Manchester and Calais. Now,

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tomorrow, the man who has lost his job over this, the head of the UK

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Border Force, as it was, borrowed borrowed, he is giving evidence

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tomorrow. He made it clear he disputes the Home Secretary's

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events, and to add to the pressure, tonight Labour say that they are

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obtained leaked e-mails about security for private flights. These

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appear to be from worried border staff to say that they are not

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allowed to check the passports of the passengers on the private

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flights and in some cases are not able to verify if the right number

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of people are coming off the planes. We have had a brief statement from

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the UK Border Agency saying it is not true that the passports are not

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checked. That they have not been able to oirptly verify the e-mails,

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but Labour say that the e-mails speak for themselves. Clearly, they

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will have to provide answers on this.

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Russia has resumed its manned space flights with a launch of a Soyuz

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rocket with two Russians and an American on board. The flight had

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been postponed for two months after a similar rocket carrying cargo

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crashed after take-off. With the retirement of the South American

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shuttle fleet, this is the only way to get astronauts into the space

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station. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... Generating vast

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thrusts from the four booster engines, a Soyuz rocket blasting

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off from a snowy Baikonur cosmodrome this morning. On board

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two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut, heading for the

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International Space Station, on what is currently the only route

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into orbit. The launch had been delayed for two months because of

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safety fears, but they said they were not concerned.

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A lot of very, very difficult and diligent work was done to verify

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that rocket, that it is good. I'm not nervous about it.

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This was why he might have been worried, an almost identical rocket

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carrying cargo in August that crashed back to Earth, that led to

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all manned launchs to be put on hold.

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Having fired the imagination of a generation, a ship like no other,

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its place in history is secured, the space shuttle pulls into the

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port for the last time. The trouble is that since the space

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shuttle's retired in July, there was no other way of getting people

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into space, but NASA insists that the Russian-built and op rated

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Soyuz was not rushed back into operation -- Russian-built and

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operated Soyuz. In this case, I think that we

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really worked with the Russians. We had confidence that they had

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resolved this problem. Amazingly, the rocket on which

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everyone is relying, the Soyuz, dates back to the 1960s, the

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Americans don't expect their next manned vehicle launch to be ready

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for five years. When Russia put the first man into orbit 50 years ago

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it led the world in space flight, now, almost by accident it finds

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