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Tonight at ten, lower growth and higher unemployment - the troubling

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state of the British economy. The Bank of England says hopes for good

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economic growth this year and next year fade away. The journey to a

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more balanced world economy will be long and arduous.

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Young people are among the hardest hit - more than a million are now

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out of work. You just get stuck in a rut. You sit in all day, doing

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nothing. It is depressing. It makes you feel low and bleak. We will be

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asking what this means for the government's economic strategy.

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Also tonight: The family of Milly Dowler and

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other victims of press intrusion explain their suffering at the

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Leveson inquiry. More turmoil in Syria amid reports

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that thousands of government troops are defecting.

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FIFA boss Sepp Blatter under attack for suggesting how racist incidents

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can be settled. The one who is affected by that, he should say it

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is a game. At the end of the game, we shake hands.

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And at Westminster Abbey, a celebration of 400 years of the

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King James Bible. And I will be here with Sportsday

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later on the BBC News Channel, including Johnson's parting shot -

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he reveals why he left the England Good evening. The Bank of England

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has revealed the depth of its concern about the state of the

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economy. Growth is now expected to be much weaker than predicted this

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year and next. The Governor, Mervyn King, said the debt crisis in the

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euro-zone remained the "single biggest risk" to the UK. He spoke

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as unemployment reached its highest level for 17 years. We will have

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more on that shortly. First, this Up anyone looking for good news

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about the economy from the Bank of England today would have been

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sorely disappointed. The difficult economic environment will be flat,

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long and arduous. The details of the bank's new forecast were even

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gloomier than the Governor. Three months ago, the Bank of England was

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expecting the economy to grow by more than 2% next year. In this new

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report, the forecast is for growth of just 1%. We are not expecting

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much growth at all over the next few months. The only good news in

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these bleak pages is that for once, they have lowered their inflation

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forecast as well. Inflation has climbed relentlessly over the last

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two years to more than 5%. But from now on, the bank expects it to drop

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like a stone to barely 2% by the end of next year. So there is light

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at the end of the tunnel, even if the tunnel is a lot longer than the

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Bank originally thought. We expect that next year, real take-home pay

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will start to recover slowly. It will be gradual, but the

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extraordinary squeeze on real take- home pay that we have seen over the

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past three years should begin to come to an end. A bank watchers

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drew a clear lesson - the Bank of England will be printing more money

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to support the economy, maybe a lot more. Even the bank's new forecasts

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depend on the crisis in the Eurozone being resolved. Italy saw

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its new technocrat Prime Minister sworn in today, but so far the

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financial markets seem unimpressed. France and Germany are at odds over

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what happens next. France thinks the European Central Bank should

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come to the single currency's rescue, but today the German

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Chancellor again said no. And in case you are wondering, Sir Mervyn

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King is on her side. Do they wished to make transfers within the euro

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area or not? That is not something which a central bank can decide for

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itself. That is something which only the governments of the euro

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area can come to a conclusion on. But someone who used to work at the

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ECB thinks all roads lead to the central bank. First we will see the

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government's trying to implement the rescue fund and see if this can

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solve the crisis. Only once this fails, which in our view is likely,

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the ECB will be the last resort and in the end will have to step in

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because if it does not, it will not even be able to save itself from

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the abyss. In the long run, the Governor likes to say we are

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masters of our fate. The bank and the Government have a plan for

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recovery, and eventually we will get there. But the long run is

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turning out to be much longer than anyone hoped or the Bank expected.

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As hopes for stronger growth were undermined, so were people's

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prospects of finding work. There has been a sharp rise in

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unemployment to 2.62 million, and the number of young people seeking

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work has passed the 1 million mark. The jobs market weakened in almost

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every part of the UK. There is not much light in the

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gloom of the jobs market. Unemployment has risen to its

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highest since 1994. There are variations. In the south-west,

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there was an increase in the jobless total, while in Northern

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Ireland there was a slight fall. But what stood out was the figure

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of nearly a million young unemployed, including students

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looking for work. Sam, 17, has just done a two week course at

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Gloucestershire College to help him in the hunt for a job. He wants to

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work in catering, but after several months, he has had no luck.

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just get stuck in a rut. You are sitting in all day, doing nothing,

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sitting around being bored. It makes me want to get a job, because

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if you have a job, you have income and you can live life a lot better.

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But Sam believes eventually he will find something. I believe I can

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work hard and I am a strong worker. What is your message to employers?

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Employ me! The worry is that with slow growth, the economy will not

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create enough jobs both to bring down unemployment and provide

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enough openings for young people leaving full-time education to join

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the workforce. The Labour leader, on a visit to a crane manufacturer,

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said it was time for ministers to act. Instead of blaming everybody

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else or making excuses, the Government should listen. It should

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change course and take action to get our economy moving. And most of

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all, to put our young people back to work. Meanwhile, the Business

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Secretary hosted an apprenticeship summit to highlight initiatives to

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help young people. There is no silver bullet. We are concentrating

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on this apprenticeship initiative, giving small companies an incentive

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to take on young people. Some older workers like Martin are finding

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life just as tough as their younger counterparts. He is learning

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plumbing. He left the RAF after 22 years believing he was well placed

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to find a new job, but his hopes have been dashed. There is no

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interest whatsoever in employ me. That was shocking. I thought there

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would be something out there. are job vacancies, for example at

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Royal Mail, the Christmas work. But it has had six applicants for every

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position. And with the industrial giant Rio Tinto announcing today

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that over 500 jobs could go in Northumberland and British Gas

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reporting that 850 posts would be cut, it is clear that the jobs

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market is not getting any easier. With that rising unemployment and

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falling growth, what is the pressure on the government's

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economic strategy? Let's talk to our political editor Nick Robinson.

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How do you see things going now in terms of that strategy for the

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months ahead? Government insiders say there are two scenarios for the

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economy in the next few months. One involves flat growth and rising

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unemployment. The bad news is that that is the good scenario. The bad

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scenario involves the Eurozone crisis getting worse, a country

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defaulting and basically disaster. So the Chancellor is now having to

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prepare a sort of mini Budget for a week on Tuesday, with measures

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which he knows cannot transform that, but he hopes will make it a

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bit better. Yes, there will be a programme to deal with that

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terrible problem of youth unemployment, but not the sort of

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tax subsidies that some businesses have been asking for in order to

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convince them there is an incentive to take on the young unemployed.

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There will be a programme to invest money in the infrastructure, but

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that will largely be about 20 use low long-term borrowing rates to

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get the private sector, not the Government, to spend the money,

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because they haven't got it. Finally, there will be what David

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Cameron called it a Tory housing revolution in his conference. They

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will underwrite mortgages, in effect saying to lenders who are

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frightened to lend money to people who cannot afford deposits, we will

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stand behind you. All those measures are designed to make it

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easier. But figures out my show the Government is already �100 billion

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off its own borrowing targets. Labour say that means we have had

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all the pain and none of the game. Imagine how much worse it would be

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if we were spending government money we did not have.

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All of the British tabloid press, not just the News Of The World, is

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in effect standing in the dock because of the phone hacking

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scandal. That was the message of a lawyer representing victims of

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press intrusion at the Leveson inquiry into press standards. David

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Sherborne spoke of "systematic, flagrant and deeply entrenched

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abuses", and said there has been a breakdown of trust between the

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press and the public. Nick Higham has been following events at the

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Royal Courts of Justice. Today's shocking and sobering

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litany of newspapers' failings started with the News Of The World.

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The paper's hacking of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler's voicemail

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was described as despicable, but her parentss' voicemails were

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apparently also hacked. They took part in arranged photo calls, but

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when they sought in private to retrace her last walk, the News Of

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The World's photographer had been alerted. First stolen voicemail

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messages. Why not then steal these precious moments, too? Epic you,

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what is the difference? But the inquiry was told the whole of the

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British press is in the dock. There were Kate and Gerry McCann, her

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private diary published after Portuguese police apparently leaked

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it. And there was Christopher Jefferies, wrongly suspected of

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murdering Joanne Yeates in Bristol. David Sherborne said there had been

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a frenzied campaign using smear, innuendo and fiction to blacken his

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name. Like clumsy thieves, drunk on the frenzy of an intoxicatingly

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good story, the press broke into his life and trashed everything.

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And the inquiry heard the newspaper abusers are still going on. Ten

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days ago, the People ran a story about Charlotte Church supposedly

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drunk in a karaoke club. It was fiction. She was not there. The

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story was not checked. Hugh Grant's former girlfriend and mother of his

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child was threatened after he spoke out about hacking in the tabloids.

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She received a barrage of phone calls from a withheld number from

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someone who managed to get it from somewhere. When she finally

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answered, she was threatened in the most menacing terms, which should

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for reverberate around this inquiry. "Tel Hugh Grant he must BLEEP". She

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was too stressed to call the police. David Sherborne launched a

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devastating critique not just of the News Of The World, but of the

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tabloid press generally. The onslaught will continue next week,

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when more than 20 victims of press intrusion will give evidence in

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At the Old Bailey, eyewitnesses who saw Stephen Lawrence being stabbed

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to death in south London 18 years ago have been giving accounts of

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the moments before and after the attack. One said a gang of youths

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took only 10 seconds to stab the teenager and then casually walked

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away. Gary Dobson and David Norris, who are both from south London,

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deny murder. The Ministry of Defence says a soldier from 2nd

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Battalion, The Rifles has been killed in southern Afghanistan. He

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died in an explosion while providing security in the Nahr-e

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Saraj district of Helmand province. His family has been told. In Syria,

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there are reports that a group of army defectors has attacked a

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military base near Damascus. If confirmed it would be most high-

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profile attack - by what's becoming known as the Free Syrian Army -

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since the anti-government protests began. The man leading the group

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has spoken to the BBC and claimed that 15,000 soldiers have switched

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sides so far. This report contains some strong images. This is an anti

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regime demonstration in the area where the attack happened on the

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edge of Damascus. Since most foreign journalists are barred from

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Syria, we are relying again on pictures and information emerging

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via the web. The regime has a strong presence in the area. The

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fact that such a prominent target was attacked was another sign that

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the opposition is becoming more militarised and more daring. It is

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claiming that least 15,000 defectors from Assad's military

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have joined the uprising with their weapons. He is saying, we will

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continue with the struggle and we will win all we all die. And in

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this video another man talks about attacks in and around Damascus. He

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warns what he calls the regime's thugs not to harm unarmed, peaceful

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protesters. He says they will keep on fighting until their enemies lay

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down their arms ever since the uprising started back in March,

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President Assad has said armed extremists are trying to destroy

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Syria. But the evidence was that the vast majority of the protests

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were peaceful, and that the Assad regime's forces have been killing

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unarmed people. Increasingly, President Assad's forces we are

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facing a tax. There are still peaceful protests, but now there

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are also predictions of civil war in Syria. We've been talking to the

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head of the so-called Free Syrian Army, made up of defectors from the

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regime's armed forces. The only language the tyrants like Mashaal

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acid and Gaddafi here is the language of violence, because they

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are tyrants and that is the only language they understand.

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Morocco, the Arab League has confirmed that Syria is being

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suspended, and it has given Damascus three days to allowing an

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observer mission. The Arab spring is now fixed up with the region's

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existing conflicts. Saudi Arabia believes that targeting Assad also

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targets Iran. The reason? Iran is Syria's alike. And also the Saudi's

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arch enemy in the Gulf. Back in Syria, state TV has been showing

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for pro-Asada demonstrations. Syria calls itself the beating heart of

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the Arab world, but it could face Arab economic sanctions. And a

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graphic video has emerged of the head of one municipality being

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tortured by regime the soldiers. We are going to show everyone what is

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happening to you, one soldier tells him. For God's sake, I've done

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nothing, he pleads. Someone says go easy on him. But he is kicked

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unconscious. Activists say they don't know what's happened to him

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A glimpse their of the continued violence in Syria and the

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predictions of civil war. Still to come... After the disappointment of

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the Rugby World Cup, Martin Johnson Sepp Blatter - president of FIFA,

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football's world governing body - has said the game does not have a

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problem with racism, and believes any racist incidents can be settled

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with a handshake at the end of the match. He made the comments on the

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day the FA charged Liverpool striker Luis Suarez over alleged

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racist remarks and the investigation into Chelsea's John

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Terry continues. It just gets worse and worse for Sepp Blatter. Already

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mired in a corruption crisis, to David gaffe-prone FIFA President

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created a new storm with his views on racism. In an interview with CNN,

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he appeared dismissive of the issue. There is no racism. There is maybe

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one of the players towards the other, he has a word or a gesture

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which is not the correct one. But also the one who is affected by

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that, he should say, it is a game. We are in the game and at the end

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of the game we shake hands. This can happen. After the interview he

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issued a clarification on the FIFA website, claiming he had been

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misunderstood and was in fact committed to that fight against

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racism in football. Sepp Blatter's latest gaffe comes at a time when

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FIFA's reputation has never been lower and he has never been more

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vulnerable. But it's also a sensitive time for English football,

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with officials here at the Football Association having to deal with two

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high profile racism cases. This afternoon, the FA charge Liverpool

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forward Luis Suarez with racially abusing Manchester United defender

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Patrice Evra. And the England captain, John Terry, is still

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waiting for the outcome of separate police an FA investigations into

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claims he racially abused QPR's Anton Ferdinand. With Sepp Blatter

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facing a major back row -- backlash, Ferdinand's brother, a real, wrote,

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your comments on racism are so condescending it's almost laughable.

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It advanced shout racist chants but shake our hands, is that OK? People

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are outraged and that is right and proper. The real thing will be what

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will be the solution, the action to this? What has been happening in

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terms of racism around the world and closer to home has been to

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ignore it, to sweep it under the carpet. Hopefully this will

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galvanise people to realise that we have a huge problem. For Sepp

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Blatter the problems keep on mounting. With the FIFA in

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desperate need of reform, today's controversy will pose fresh

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questions about whether he is the right man to clean up world

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Eviction notices have been attached to tents occupied by anti-

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capitalist protestors outside St Paul's Cathedral in London. The

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notices, drawn up by the City of London Corporation, say that if the

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tents are not removed by 6pm tomorrow proceedings will be issued

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in the High Court. The GMB has become the latest union to vote to

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join a national strike on November 30th over planned changes to public

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sector pensions. The GMB represents different groups of workers

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employed in local government, the NHS and the civil service. The

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TUC's day of action now has the support of 15 trade unions, with

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more still to declare their ballot results. The England Rugby coach

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Martin Johnson has resigned. His decision follows the team's poor

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performance in the World Cup in New Zealand, which also featured

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controversy off the field. This report by our sports correspondent

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contains some flash photography. Martin Johnson remains arguably the

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most successful player in English rugby history. The only man to lead

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his mission to World Cup glory in 2003, Johnson secured his place in

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sporting folklore. The hope was that is unique status would make up

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for a lack of managerial experience. And winning this year's Six Nations

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hinted at progress. But from the moment England crashed out of the

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World Cup quarter-finals at the hands of France last month, the

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manager's position was in peril. Today, he decided to bring the

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uncertainty over his job to an end. I didn't come to this decision

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lightly. I think it's the best interests of myself and the England

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team that I don't carry on into next year. From the moment a

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drinking session spiralled out of control, England's dismal World Cup

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campaign was blocked by off-field issues. Mike Tindall's behaviour

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during that night out in Queenstown just one of the series of

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controversies. The sense was that Johnson had been undermined by both

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the behaviour of the players and his employers, who remained silent.

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I would have liked to have seen him with a bit more backing from the

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RFU, a bit more support with the PR of the whole World Cup, giving him

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a bit more support them and used his strength. Johnson denied that

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unprecedented recent a people here at Twickenham had contributed to

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his departure. But many believe the RFU should take some of the blame.

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Surely you are accountable as well to some extent? Absolutely, in

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terms of the department and the structure of the professional game.

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That is the understanding of my role in this, which... So you won't

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go, you are not resigning? I'm not resigning. The RFU must now decide

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who should replace Johnson, with a first foreign coach, such as New

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Zealander Graham Henry, another World Cup winner, Sir Clive

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Woodward, and Jim Wallander, of Northampton Saints, all in

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contention. Whoever is chosen, Johnson has rarely tasted defeat

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like this. He remains one of rugby's icons, but playing great

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this did not translate into Four centuries ago, at Westminster

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Abbey, a group of scholars completed a new translation of the

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Bible. The Authorized Version, commonly known as the King James

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Bible, took seven years to produce. At a special anniversary service in

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the Abbey today their translation was described by the Archbishop of

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Canterbury as one of abiding importance for the Church of

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England and for the English language. Allan Little explores the

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power and influence of the King To Westminster Abbey the

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translator's came 400 years ago to agree the final text. The Queen

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came today, to venerate their remarkable literary achievement.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury said the key to the character of the

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King James Bible was that it was written not for the eye but for the

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year. It was meant to be read aloud. And that means it was rent -- meant

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to be part of an event, a shared experience. Gathered as a Christian

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community, a parish would listen. The translators have paid special

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heed to metre and cadence, that has shaped much of our literature. You

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can hear the rhythms of the King James Bible in TS Eliot and Ernest

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Hemingway. In America, its lofty, poetic style has entered the

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nation's discourse. Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing

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we have to fear is fear itself. belief that the rights of man come

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not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

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England of King James was God- fearing but fractures and

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dangerously divided. High Church Anglicans and low-church Protestant

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had their own separate versions of the Bible. James, a Scottish king

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on the English throne, wanted a single text that would unify his

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realm. This Bible was also a political project. They gathered

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the best minds in the country together in order to produce this

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new translation. It helped unify the people and help to unify the

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country, having won Bible to be used each and every Sunday in the

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services. The Church of England often uses more modern translations

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in the hope that they will be easier to understand. But their

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language is often prosaic, earthbound in comparison to the

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1611 text. 400 years on, the unique spell cast by the King James Bible

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