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Tonight at ten, lower growth and higher unemployment - the troubling | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
state of the British economy. The Bank of England says hopes for good | :00:08. | :00:17. | |
economic growth this year and next year fade away. The journey to a | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
more balanced world economy will be long and arduous. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
Young people are among the hardest hit - more than a million are now | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
out of work. You just get stuck in a rut. You sit in all day, doing | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
nothing. It is depressing. It makes you feel low and bleak. We will be | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
asking what this means for the government's economic strategy. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Also tonight: The family of Milly Dowler and | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
other victims of press intrusion explain their suffering at the | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Leveson inquiry. More turmoil in Syria amid reports | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
that thousands of government troops are defecting. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
FIFA boss Sepp Blatter under attack for suggesting how racist incidents | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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can be settled. The one who is affected by that, he should say it | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
is a game. At the end of the game, we shake hands. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
And at Westminster Abbey, a celebration of 400 years of the | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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King James Bible. And I will be here with Sportsday | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
later on the BBC News Channel, including Johnson's parting shot - | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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he reveals why he left the England Good evening. The Bank of England | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
has revealed the depth of its concern about the state of the | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
economy. Growth is now expected to be much weaker than predicted this | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
year and next. The Governor, Mervyn King, said the debt crisis in the | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
euro-zone remained the "single biggest risk" to the UK. He spoke | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
as unemployment reached its highest level for 17 years. We will have | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
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more on that shortly. First, this Up anyone looking for good news | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
about the economy from the Bank of England today would have been | :02:26. | :02:35. | |
sorely disappointed. The difficult economic environment will be flat, | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
long and arduous. The details of the bank's new forecast were even | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
gloomier than the Governor. Three months ago, the Bank of England was | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
expecting the economy to grow by more than 2% next year. In this new | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
report, the forecast is for growth of just 1%. We are not expecting | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
much growth at all over the next few months. The only good news in | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
these bleak pages is that for once, they have lowered their inflation | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
forecast as well. Inflation has climbed relentlessly over the last | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
two years to more than 5%. But from now on, the bank expects it to drop | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
like a stone to barely 2% by the end of next year. So there is light | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
at the end of the tunnel, even if the tunnel is a lot longer than the | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
Bank originally thought. We expect that next year, real take-home pay | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
will start to recover slowly. It will be gradual, but the | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
extraordinary squeeze on real take- home pay that we have seen over the | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
past three years should begin to come to an end. A bank watchers | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
drew a clear lesson - the Bank of England will be printing more money | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
to support the economy, maybe a lot more. Even the bank's new forecasts | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
depend on the crisis in the Eurozone being resolved. Italy saw | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
its new technocrat Prime Minister sworn in today, but so far the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
financial markets seem unimpressed. France and Germany are at odds over | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
what happens next. France thinks the European Central Bank should | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
come to the single currency's rescue, but today the German | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
Chancellor again said no. And in case you are wondering, Sir Mervyn | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
King is on her side. Do they wished to make transfers within the euro | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
area or not? That is not something which a central bank can decide for | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
itself. That is something which only the governments of the euro | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
area can come to a conclusion on. But someone who used to work at the | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
ECB thinks all roads lead to the central bank. First we will see the | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
government's trying to implement the rescue fund and see if this can | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
solve the crisis. Only once this fails, which in our view is likely, | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
the ECB will be the last resort and in the end will have to step in | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
because if it does not, it will not even be able to save itself from | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
the abyss. In the long run, the Governor likes to say we are | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
masters of our fate. The bank and the Government have a plan for | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
recovery, and eventually we will get there. But the long run is | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
turning out to be much longer than anyone hoped or the Bank expected. | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
As hopes for stronger growth were undermined, so were people's | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
prospects of finding work. There has been a sharp rise in | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
unemployment to 2.62 million, and the number of young people seeking | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
work has passed the 1 million mark. The jobs market weakened in almost | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
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every part of the UK. There is not much light in the | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
gloom of the jobs market. Unemployment has risen to its | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
highest since 1994. There are variations. In the south-west, | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
there was an increase in the jobless total, while in Northern | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
Ireland there was a slight fall. But what stood out was the figure | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
of nearly a million young unemployed, including students | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
looking for work. Sam, 17, has just done a two week course at | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Gloucestershire College to help him in the hunt for a job. He wants to | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
work in catering, but after several months, he has had no luck. | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
just get stuck in a rut. You are sitting in all day, doing nothing, | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
sitting around being bored. It makes me want to get a job, because | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
if you have a job, you have income and you can live life a lot better. | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
But Sam believes eventually he will find something. I believe I can | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
work hard and I am a strong worker. What is your message to employers? | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
Employ me! The worry is that with slow growth, the economy will not | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
create enough jobs both to bring down unemployment and provide | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
enough openings for young people leaving full-time education to join | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
the workforce. The Labour leader, on a visit to a crane manufacturer, | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
said it was time for ministers to act. Instead of blaming everybody | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
else or making excuses, the Government should listen. It should | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
change course and take action to get our economy moving. And most of | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
all, to put our young people back to work. Meanwhile, the Business | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
Secretary hosted an apprenticeship summit to highlight initiatives to | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
help young people. There is no silver bullet. We are concentrating | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
on this apprenticeship initiative, giving small companies an incentive | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
to take on young people. Some older workers like Martin are finding | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
life just as tough as their younger counterparts. He is learning | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
plumbing. He left the RAF after 22 years believing he was well placed | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
to find a new job, but his hopes have been dashed. There is no | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
interest whatsoever in employ me. That was shocking. I thought there | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
would be something out there. are job vacancies, for example at | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
Royal Mail, the Christmas work. But it has had six applicants for every | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
position. And with the industrial giant Rio Tinto announcing today | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
that over 500 jobs could go in Northumberland and British Gas | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
reporting that 850 posts would be cut, it is clear that the jobs | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
market is not getting any easier. With that rising unemployment and | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
falling growth, what is the pressure on the government's | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
economic strategy? Let's talk to our political editor Nick Robinson. | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
How do you see things going now in terms of that strategy for the | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
months ahead? Government insiders say there are two scenarios for the | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
economy in the next few months. One involves flat growth and rising | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
unemployment. The bad news is that that is the good scenario. The bad | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
scenario involves the Eurozone crisis getting worse, a country | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
defaulting and basically disaster. So the Chancellor is now having to | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
prepare a sort of mini Budget for a week on Tuesday, with measures | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
which he knows cannot transform that, but he hopes will make it a | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
bit better. Yes, there will be a programme to deal with that | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
terrible problem of youth unemployment, but not the sort of | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
tax subsidies that some businesses have been asking for in order to | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
convince them there is an incentive to take on the young unemployed. | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
There will be a programme to invest money in the infrastructure, but | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
that will largely be about 20 use low long-term borrowing rates to | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
get the private sector, not the Government, to spend the money, | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
because they haven't got it. Finally, there will be what David | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
Cameron called it a Tory housing revolution in his conference. They | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
will underwrite mortgages, in effect saying to lenders who are | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
frightened to lend money to people who cannot afford deposits, we will | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
stand behind you. All those measures are designed to make it | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
easier. But figures out my show the Government is already �100 billion | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
off its own borrowing targets. Labour say that means we have had | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
all the pain and none of the game. Imagine how much worse it would be | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
if we were spending government money we did not have. | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
All of the British tabloid press, not just the News Of The World, is | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
in effect standing in the dock because of the phone hacking | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
scandal. That was the message of a lawyer representing victims of | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
press intrusion at the Leveson inquiry into press standards. David | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
Sherborne spoke of "systematic, flagrant and deeply entrenched | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
abuses", and said there has been a breakdown of trust between the | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
press and the public. Nick Higham has been following events at the | :10:36. | :10:45. | |
Royal Courts of Justice. Today's shocking and sobering | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
litany of newspapers' failings started with the News Of The World. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
The paper's hacking of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler's voicemail | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
was described as despicable, but her parentss' voicemails were | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
apparently also hacked. They took part in arranged photo calls, but | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
when they sought in private to retrace her last walk, the News Of | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
The World's photographer had been alerted. First stolen voicemail | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
messages. Why not then steal these precious moments, too? Epic you, | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
what is the difference? But the inquiry was told the whole of the | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
British press is in the dock. There were Kate and Gerry McCann, her | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
private diary published after Portuguese police apparently leaked | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
it. And there was Christopher Jefferies, wrongly suspected of | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
murdering Joanne Yeates in Bristol. David Sherborne said there had been | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
a frenzied campaign using smear, innuendo and fiction to blacken his | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
name. Like clumsy thieves, drunk on the frenzy of an intoxicatingly | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
good story, the press broke into his life and trashed everything. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
And the inquiry heard the newspaper abusers are still going on. Ten | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
days ago, the People ran a story about Charlotte Church supposedly | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
drunk in a karaoke club. It was fiction. She was not there. The | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
story was not checked. Hugh Grant's former girlfriend and mother of his | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
child was threatened after he spoke out about hacking in the tabloids. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
She received a barrage of phone calls from a withheld number from | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
someone who managed to get it from somewhere. When she finally | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
answered, she was threatened in the most menacing terms, which should | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
for reverberate around this inquiry. "Tel Hugh Grant he must BLEEP". She | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
was too stressed to call the police. David Sherborne launched a | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
devastating critique not just of the News Of The World, but of the | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
tabloid press generally. The onslaught will continue next week, | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
when more than 20 victims of press intrusion will give evidence in | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
At the Old Bailey, eyewitnesses who saw Stephen Lawrence being stabbed | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
to death in south London 18 years ago have been giving accounts of | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
the moments before and after the attack. One said a gang of youths | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
took only 10 seconds to stab the teenager and then casually walked | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
away. Gary Dobson and David Norris, who are both from south London, | :13:07. | :13:16. | |
deny murder. The Ministry of Defence says a soldier from 2nd | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
Battalion, The Rifles has been killed in southern Afghanistan. He | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
died in an explosion while providing security in the Nahr-e | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
Saraj district of Helmand province. His family has been told. In Syria, | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
there are reports that a group of army defectors has attacked a | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
military base near Damascus. If confirmed it would be most high- | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
profile attack - by what's becoming known as the Free Syrian Army - | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
since the anti-government protests began. The man leading the group | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
has spoken to the BBC and claimed that 15,000 soldiers have switched | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
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sides so far. This report contains some strong images. This is an anti | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
regime demonstration in the area where the attack happened on the | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
edge of Damascus. Since most foreign journalists are barred from | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
Syria, we are relying again on pictures and information emerging | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
via the web. The regime has a strong presence in the area. The | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
fact that such a prominent target was attacked was another sign that | :14:17. | :14:25. | |
the opposition is becoming more militarised and more daring. It is | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
claiming that least 15,000 defectors from Assad's military | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
have joined the uprising with their weapons. He is saying, we will | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
continue with the struggle and we will win all we all die. And in | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
this video another man talks about attacks in and around Damascus. He | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
warns what he calls the regime's thugs not to harm unarmed, peaceful | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
protesters. He says they will keep on fighting until their enemies lay | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
down their arms ever since the uprising started back in March, | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
President Assad has said armed extremists are trying to destroy | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Syria. But the evidence was that the vast majority of the protests | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
were peaceful, and that the Assad regime's forces have been killing | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
unarmed people. Increasingly, President Assad's forces we are | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
facing a tax. There are still peaceful protests, but now there | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
are also predictions of civil war in Syria. We've been talking to the | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
head of the so-called Free Syrian Army, made up of defectors from the | :15:32. | :15:41. | |
regime's armed forces. The only language the tyrants like Mashaal | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
acid and Gaddafi here is the language of violence, because they | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
are tyrants and that is the only language they understand. | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
Morocco, the Arab League has confirmed that Syria is being | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
suspended, and it has given Damascus three days to allowing an | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
observer mission. The Arab spring is now fixed up with the region's | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
existing conflicts. Saudi Arabia believes that targeting Assad also | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
targets Iran. The reason? Iran is Syria's alike. And also the Saudi's | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
arch enemy in the Gulf. Back in Syria, state TV has been showing | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
for pro-Asada demonstrations. Syria calls itself the beating heart of | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
the Arab world, but it could face Arab economic sanctions. And a | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
graphic video has emerged of the head of one municipality being | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
tortured by regime the soldiers. We are going to show everyone what is | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
happening to you, one soldier tells him. For God's sake, I've done | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
nothing, he pleads. Someone says go easy on him. But he is kicked | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
unconscious. Activists say they don't know what's happened to him | :16:53. | :17:02. | |
A glimpse their of the continued violence in Syria and the | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
predictions of civil war. Still to come... After the disappointment of | :17:08. | :17:18. | |
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the Rugby World Cup, Martin Johnson Sepp Blatter - president of FIFA, | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
football's world governing body - has said the game does not have a | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
problem with racism, and believes any racist incidents can be settled | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
with a handshake at the end of the match. He made the comments on the | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
day the FA charged Liverpool striker Luis Suarez over alleged | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
racist remarks and the investigation into Chelsea's John | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
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Terry continues. It just gets worse and worse for Sepp Blatter. Already | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
mired in a corruption crisis, to David gaffe-prone FIFA President | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
created a new storm with his views on racism. In an interview with CNN, | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
he appeared dismissive of the issue. There is no racism. There is maybe | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
one of the players towards the other, he has a word or a gesture | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
which is not the correct one. But also the one who is affected by | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
that, he should say, it is a game. We are in the game and at the end | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
of the game we shake hands. This can happen. After the interview he | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
issued a clarification on the FIFA website, claiming he had been | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
misunderstood and was in fact committed to that fight against | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
racism in football. Sepp Blatter's latest gaffe comes at a time when | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
FIFA's reputation has never been lower and he has never been more | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
vulnerable. But it's also a sensitive time for English football, | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
with officials here at the Football Association having to deal with two | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
high profile racism cases. This afternoon, the FA charge Liverpool | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
forward Luis Suarez with racially abusing Manchester United defender | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
Patrice Evra. And the England captain, John Terry, is still | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
waiting for the outcome of separate police an FA investigations into | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
claims he racially abused QPR's Anton Ferdinand. With Sepp Blatter | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
facing a major back row -- backlash, Ferdinand's brother, a real, wrote, | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
your comments on racism are so condescending it's almost laughable. | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
It advanced shout racist chants but shake our hands, is that OK? People | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
are outraged and that is right and proper. The real thing will be what | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
will be the solution, the action to this? What has been happening in | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
terms of racism around the world and closer to home has been to | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
ignore it, to sweep it under the carpet. Hopefully this will | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
galvanise people to realise that we have a huge problem. For Sepp | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
Blatter the problems keep on mounting. With the FIFA in | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
desperate need of reform, today's controversy will pose fresh | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
questions about whether he is the right man to clean up world | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
Eviction notices have been attached to tents occupied by anti- | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
capitalist protestors outside St Paul's Cathedral in London. The | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
notices, drawn up by the City of London Corporation, say that if the | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
tents are not removed by 6pm tomorrow proceedings will be issued | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
in the High Court. The GMB has become the latest union to vote to | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
join a national strike on November 30th over planned changes to public | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
sector pensions. The GMB represents different groups of workers | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
employed in local government, the NHS and the civil service. The | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
TUC's day of action now has the support of 15 trade unions, with | :20:31. | :20:41. | |
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more still to declare their ballot results. The England Rugby coach | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Martin Johnson has resigned. His decision follows the team's poor | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
performance in the World Cup in New Zealand, which also featured | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
controversy off the field. This report by our sports correspondent | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
contains some flash photography. Martin Johnson remains arguably the | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
most successful player in English rugby history. The only man to lead | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
his mission to World Cup glory in 2003, Johnson secured his place in | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
sporting folklore. The hope was that is unique status would make up | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
for a lack of managerial experience. And winning this year's Six Nations | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
hinted at progress. But from the moment England crashed out of the | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
World Cup quarter-finals at the hands of France last month, the | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
manager's position was in peril. Today, he decided to bring the | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
uncertainty over his job to an end. I didn't come to this decision | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
lightly. I think it's the best interests of myself and the England | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
team that I don't carry on into next year. From the moment a | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
drinking session spiralled out of control, England's dismal World Cup | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
campaign was blocked by off-field issues. Mike Tindall's behaviour | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
during that night out in Queenstown just one of the series of | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
controversies. The sense was that Johnson had been undermined by both | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
the behaviour of the players and his employers, who remained silent. | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
I would have liked to have seen him with a bit more backing from the | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
RFU, a bit more support with the PR of the whole World Cup, giving him | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
a bit more support them and used his strength. Johnson denied that | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
unprecedented recent a people here at Twickenham had contributed to | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
his departure. But many believe the RFU should take some of the blame. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
Surely you are accountable as well to some extent? Absolutely, in | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
terms of the department and the structure of the professional game. | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
That is the understanding of my role in this, which... So you won't | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
go, you are not resigning? I'm not resigning. The RFU must now decide | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
who should replace Johnson, with a first foreign coach, such as New | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
Zealander Graham Henry, another World Cup winner, Sir Clive | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
Woodward, and Jim Wallander, of Northampton Saints, all in | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
contention. Whoever is chosen, Johnson has rarely tasted defeat | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
like this. He remains one of rugby's icons, but playing great | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
this did not translate into Four centuries ago, at Westminster | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
Abbey, a group of scholars completed a new translation of the | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
Bible. The Authorized Version, commonly known as the King James | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
Bible, took seven years to produce. At a special anniversary service in | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
the Abbey today their translation was described by the Archbishop of | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
Canterbury as one of abiding importance for the Church of | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
England and for the English language. Allan Little explores the | :23:38. | :23:48. | |
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power and influence of the King To Westminster Abbey the | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
translator's came 400 years ago to agree the final text. The Queen | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
came today, to venerate their remarkable literary achievement. | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
The Archbishop of Canterbury said the key to the character of the | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
King James Bible was that it was written not for the eye but for the | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
year. It was meant to be read aloud. And that means it was rent -- meant | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
to be part of an event, a shared experience. Gathered as a Christian | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
community, a parish would listen. The translators have paid special | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
heed to metre and cadence, that has shaped much of our literature. You | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
can hear the rhythms of the King James Bible in TS Eliot and Ernest | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
Hemingway. In America, its lofty, poetic style has entered the | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
nation's discourse. Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
we have to fear is fear itself. belief that the rights of man come | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
England of King James was God- fearing but fractures and | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
dangerously divided. High Church Anglicans and low-church Protestant | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
had their own separate versions of the Bible. James, a Scottish king | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
on the English throne, wanted a single text that would unify his | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
realm. This Bible was also a political project. They gathered | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
the best minds in the country together in order to produce this | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
new translation. It helped unify the people and help to unify the | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
country, having won Bible to be used each and every Sunday in the | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
services. The Church of England often uses more modern translations | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
in the hope that they will be easier to understand. But their | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
language is often prosaic, earthbound in comparison to the | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
1611 text. 400 years on, the unique spell cast by the King James Bible | :25:50. | :25:59. |