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Tonight at ten, the economy takes a turn for the worse, raising fears | 0:00:02 | 0:00:06 | |
of a new recession. At the end of last year, growth fell by 0.2%, | 0:00:06 | 0:00:15 | |
provoking a new debate about the government's strategy. How bad do | 0:00:15 | 0:00:19 | |
things have to get in our economy to shake him out of his | 0:00:19 | 0:00:24 | |
complacency? The party opposite has only one answer, and that is to | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
deal with a debt crisis by borrowing more and adding to debt. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
We will be reporting on the growing pressure for the Government to | 0:00:30 | 0:00:37 | |
change course. Also tonight: Your Scotland, your | 0:00:37 | 0:00:38 | |
referendum. Scotland's First Minister spells | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
out his plans for a vote on independence. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
Two aid workers held captive in Somalia have been rescued in a raid | 0:00:44 | 0:00:51 | |
by American special forces. I think the contents have it. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
The biggest defeat so far for the government's welfare reforms in the | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
House of Lords. And the mood in Argentina ahead of | 0:00:57 | 0:01:06 | |
the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
Later on the BBC News Channel, I will be here with Sportsday, with | 0:01:09 | 0:01:13 | |
all the goals from Anfield and the Carling Cup semi-final. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:23 | |
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And City get back into the tie, but Good evening. There is concern that | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
the British economy is heading into recession for the second time in | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
three years. At the end of last year, growth fell by 0.2%, with | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
notable weakness in manufacturing and production. The Chancellor said | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
the figures were disappointing, but not unexpected, and they have | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
provoked more debate today about the wisdom of the government's | 0:01:56 | 0:02:02 | |
strategy. The letters stand for gross | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
domestic product, the sum total of everything produced in the UK. In a | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
recovery, it is supposed to keep getting bigger, but not lately and | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
not in the last three months of 2011. In that fourth quarter, our | 0:02:14 | 0:02:20 | |
national output officially shrank by 0.2%. It is a very weak number. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:24 | |
It is a disappointing number, although it is one that was | 0:02:24 | 0:02:29 | |
expected by analysts and financial markets. It reiterates the | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
challenges that the UK and global economies face as we head into 2012. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:37 | |
The figures show that manufacturing did particularly badly, but for | 0:02:37 | 0:02:41 | |
Tony Hancock in Doncaster, who makes ground handling machines for | 0:02:41 | 0:02:45 | |
the aviation industry, it is not about statistics, it is about | 0:02:45 | 0:02:50 | |
survival. I will survive, because that is my nature. I do not know | 0:02:50 | 0:02:55 | |
yet exactly how I will survive, but the last thing I will do is lose | 0:02:55 | 0:02:59 | |
staff. If I lose any more staff, I would have to look at saying, let's | 0:02:59 | 0:03:05 | |
close the doors and move on. 2009 was the worst year of the recession, | 0:03:05 | 0:03:11 | |
when our economy shrank by 4.4%. 2010 looks better now than it felt | 0:03:11 | 0:03:16 | |
then. Revised figures show growth of 2.1%. Last year was not half as | 0:03:16 | 0:03:22 | |
good, with an expansion of just 0.9%. The average forecast for 2012 | 0:03:22 | 0:03:28 | |
keeps falling. The betting now is that we will barely grow at all. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
The Prime Minister said the figures were disappointing, but don't blame | 0:03:31 | 0:03:37 | |
him. They reflect three things - the overhang of the debt and the | 0:03:37 | 0:03:42 | |
deficit that we have to deal with... They reflect the higher food and | 0:03:42 | 0:03:46 | |
fuel prices that put a squeeze on household income towards the end of | 0:03:46 | 0:03:51 | |
last year, and yes, they also reflect the crisis in the Eurozone | 0:03:51 | 0:03:57 | |
that has frozen Europe's economies. He said unemployment would fall. It | 0:03:57 | 0:04:02 | |
didn't. He said the economy would grow. It hasn't. He said we are all | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
in this together. We are not. When will the Prime Minister's visit to | 0:04:05 | 0:04:10 | |
the fact that his policies are failing our country? It was mainly | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
weak spending here at home that held back the UK economy last year. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
Our trade with other countries and even Europe in fact held up well. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
But the Prime Minister is right that the Government was not the | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
only one squeezing UK households last year. They also faced a big | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
rise of energy and food prices coming from the rest of the world | 0:04:30 | 0:04:34 | |
and uncertainty about the Eurozone probably did not weigh on | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
confidence last year. It will be more important in 2012. Take | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
tourism. Last year, we had more foreign visitors and spending by UK | 0:04:42 | 0:04:47 | |
holidaymakers rose by more than 10%. But 2012 is hard to call. On the | 0:04:47 | 0:04:52 | |
plus side, we have the fantastic global exposure of the Queen's | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. On | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
the negative side, we have the turmoil in Europe. If we have a | 0:04:58 | 0:05:04 | |
flat year, we would still be doing well. Today's news is a bit worse | 0:05:04 | 0:05:08 | |
than expected, but the broad message is the same - the UK | 0:05:08 | 0:05:13 | |
economy is flat. But that is enough bad news to be getting on with two | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
and a half years after the steepest recession in living memory is | 0:05:16 | 0:05:22 | |
supposed to have ended. Let's go live to Downing Street and | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
talk to our political editor Nick Robinson. We are just two months | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
and a bit away from the Budget, so how will these figures affect the | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
thinking? The intriguing thing about today is that any economist | 0:05:31 | 0:05:39 | |
will tell you that it does not make a lot of difference if it is plus | 0:05:39 | 0:05:47 | |
0.2% or minus 2%. But anyone in the building over there will toadied | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
there is a vast difference between a plus and a minus, because it | 0:05:51 | 0:05:56 | |
allows the government's opponents to say, you are going backwards. | 0:05:56 | 0:06:01 | |
Also, it means the politicians inside Downing Street fear the next | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
number. In other words, if there was another negative figure in the | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
next quarter of growth, that is technically how economists define a | 0:06:09 | 0:06:15 | |
recession. And that would be serious for the Government. That | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
means there is more on -- a more lively debate now about what should | 0:06:19 | 0:06:24 | |
be in the Budget. Interestingly, the deputy prime minister Nick | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
Clegg tomorrow will make a speech arguing that the Government should | 0:06:28 | 0:06:32 | |
now make tax cuts for people on low incomes and middle incomes. The | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
chancellor's private reply is bound to be sure, but we have to work out | 0:06:36 | 0:06:41 | |
where we can get the money. The debate going on in government was | 0:06:41 | 0:06:45 | |
echoed inside the IMF. Today you had the head of the IMF, Christine | 0:06:45 | 0:06:50 | |
Lagarde, saying the government has no room to change course. But her | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
own chief economist said that if they can slow down the cuts, they | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
would find there was some benefit for growth. That will be the | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
agonising going on inside government at the moment. But the | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
Chancellor is not an economist, he is a politician, and he needs to | 0:07:04 | 0:07:11 | |
prove that this is not going well. Scotland's First Minister Alex | 0:07:11 | 0:07:19 | |
Salmond has been outlining his proposals for a Richenda -- | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
referendum on independence, which he would like to see in the autumn | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
of 2014. He told the Scottish parliament that the vote would be | 0:07:25 | 0:07:30 | |
the most important decision made by the public of Scotland in 300 years. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
The plan will now go out for consultation. This report contains | 0:07:34 | 0:07:39 | |
flash photography. Edinburgh Castle, Historic Scotland. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:43 | |
Awaiting his place in that history, Scotland's First Minister. Alex | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
Salmond chose the castle's Great Hall for a referendum plan which | 0:07:47 | 0:07:52 | |
could restore Scottish independence. We offer a malice towards nobody. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:57 | |
We offer friendship towards all, particularly those other nations in | 0:07:57 | 0:08:02 | |
these islands. The venue, a calculated echo of 1997, when | 0:08:02 | 0:08:07 | |
Labour's devolution plan was also celebrated at the castle. From that | 0:08:07 | 0:08:12 | |
base of devolution, Scots will now be given the chance to go further, | 0:08:12 | 0:08:16 | |
to adopt independence and so end the union. The proposed question | 0:08:16 | 0:08:26 | |
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is: Alex Salmond wants 16 and 17- year-olds to be able to vote in the | 0:08:27 | 0:08:31 | |
referendum, and he wants the ballot to be held in the autumn of 2014. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
The First Minister now accepts that the Electoral Commission should | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
monitor the ballot, but he wants the option to ask a second question | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
about handing Holyrood full financial power, but short of | 0:08:41 | 0:08:46 | |
independence. If there is an alternative of maximum devolution | 0:08:46 | 0:08:50 | |
which would command wide support in Scotland, it is only fair and | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
democratic that adoption should be among the choices open to the | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
people of Scotland. But his opponents at Holyrood think that is | 0:08:57 | 0:09:02 | |
confusing, and so does the UK government. We must have a | 0:09:02 | 0:09:06 | |
referendum that is decisive and does not allow one side or the | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
other to cry foul. Many constitutional experts will say the | 0:09:09 | 0:09:13 | |
best way to achieve that is with a short, sharp, decisive question on | 0:09:13 | 0:09:17 | |
the issue of whether Scotland remains part of the UK or not. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
Holyrood, they have been preparing for tonight's Burns Supper, but in | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
getting ready for the referendum, they may need to consider how | 0:09:24 | 0:09:29 | |
others see it, because a legally watertight pilot needs | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
Westminster's sanction. So an historic day here at Edinburgh | 0:09:32 | 0:09:36 | |
Castle, but the referendum rules are still hedged around with | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
uncertainty. To be clear, Alex Salmond is still fulfilling his | 0:09:40 | 0:09:44 | |
promise on timing, but he made that promise at least partly because he | 0:09:44 | 0:09:48 | |
suspects that the Scots might not be ready to go for independence | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
right now, at a time of economic uncertainty. But it is about | 0:09:52 | 0:10:00 | |
cultural confidence as well. Helping win new fans for Burns's' | 0:10:00 | 0:10:06 | |
poetry, the First Minister says Scotland would thrive under | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
independence. His opponents say it would be a blow for Scotland and | 0:10:09 | 0:10:16 | |
the UK. Today brought that choice closer. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
Earlier this evening, the Government suffered its biggest | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
defeat so far in the House of Lords over its plans to change the | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
welfare system. Peers rejected plans to charge single parents a | 0:10:24 | 0:10:29 | |
fee to use the Child Support Agency. Our political correspondent has the | 0:10:29 | 0:10:34 | |
details. In your view, how significant was this? This is the | 0:10:34 | 0:10:39 | |
sixth defeat the Government has suffered in the House of Lords over | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
the Welfare Reform Bill. What is extraordinary about this one is the | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
number of Conservative peers who took part, more than 30. The | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
Government wants to encourage parents who separate to make their | 0:10:49 | 0:10:54 | |
own arrangements for maintenance payments, and where they in future: | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
the child support agency to put those arrangements in place, they | 0:10:57 | 0:11:03 | |
will have to pay a fee. Many in the Lords he objected that proposal. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:08 | |
They say it would have the effect of penalising children, so the | 0:11:08 | 0:11:13 | |
Government suffered a huge defeat of 270 votes to 128. But the | 0:11:13 | 0:11:18 | |
government said tonight that CSA cases can cost �25,000 or more and | 0:11:18 | 0:11:26 | |
that if people use that agency, they should be asked to contribute. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
President Obama has paid tribute to the US Special Forces who rescued | 0:11:30 | 0:11:35 | |
two Western hostages from Somali pirates. US Navy Seals freed an | 0:11:35 | 0:11:39 | |
American woman and a Danish man who had been held since October. Nine | 0:11:39 | 0:11:43 | |
of their kidnappers were killed. The raid was carried out by the | 0:11:43 | 0:11:53 | |
same unit that killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan last year. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:57 | |
Kidnapped in Somalia three months ago. Aid workers Jessica Buchanan | 0:11:57 | 0:12:02 | |
from the US and Poul Hagen Thisted from Denmark. Tonight, they are | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
spending their first night of freedom, rescued by in the US Navy | 0:12:05 | 0:12:10 | |
Seal commandos. This was how it was done. The hostages were held in a | 0:12:10 | 0:12:15 | |
compound in northern Somalia. US Navy commanders mounted the | 0:12:15 | 0:12:20 | |
operation. They parachuted into the area, landing close to the compound | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
at 2am. Gunfire broke out as they approached their objective. In the | 0:12:24 | 0:12:28 | |
fighting that followed, all nine kidnappers were killed. There were | 0:12:28 | 0:12:32 | |
no American casualties. The hostages were then flown by | 0:12:32 | 0:12:36 | |
helicopter to the safety of a US based in neighbouring Djibouti. The | 0:12:36 | 0:12:42 | |
entire operation lasted one hour. The president personally authorised | 0:12:42 | 0:12:49 | |
this. We used our special operations forces. The president | 0:12:50 | 0:12:54 | |
gave them the go-ahead. His relief last night was obvious. This could | 0:12:54 | 0:12:58 | |
have gone very wrong. Good job tonight. On his way to give the | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
State of the Union address, President Obama congratulated his | 0:13:01 | 0:13:07 | |
Defence Secretary on a successful rescue mission. He also broke the | 0:13:07 | 0:13:11 | |
good news to Jessica Buchanan's father. His calculated risk paid | 0:13:11 | 0:13:15 | |
off. This morning's raid was the highest profile US military action | 0:13:15 | 0:13:20 | |
in Somalia since US forces pulled out of there in 1994. But that | 0:13:20 | 0:13:26 | |
still leaves over 150 hostages, mostly sailors, held by a Somali | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
pirates and bandits. The ransoms for their release are rising, | 0:13:29 | 0:13:34 | |
running well into the millions. These ransoms are making the | 0:13:34 | 0:13:38 | |
situation in the economy in Somalia worse. Millions of dollars are | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
being poured into a criminal economy, in a country that is | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
bereft of security and administration and where millions | 0:13:46 | 0:13:51 | |
are starving. One of those still held in Somalia is a British | 0:13:51 | 0:13:54 | |
tourist, snatched from this Kenyan beach resort last September. It is | 0:13:54 | 0:13:58 | |
partly what has prompted David Cameron to call an international | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
conference on Somalia next month. Somali piracy and kidnapping will | 0:14:01 | 0:14:06 | |
not stop with a single rescue operation. So while tonight, two | 0:14:06 | 0:14:11 | |
former hostages can sleep safely, preparations are likely to be under | 0:14:11 | 0:14:19 | |
way to hold the next victims to President Obama has delivered his | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
State of the Union Address, his last before this year's | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
presidential election. He called for a fairer tax system with the | 0:14:26 | 0:14:31 | |
wealthiest Americans paying a bigger share - a policy opposed by | 0:14:31 | 0:14:40 | |
most Republicans. It's a short drive from the White | 0:14:40 | 0:14:43 | |
House to the capital, but for President Obama this could be the | 0:14:43 | 0:14:48 | |
last time he makes this journey to deliver the State of the Union. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:52 | |
President of the United States. will only make another if he stays | 0:14:52 | 0:14:57 | |
President and this speech was his manifesto, his campaign blueprint | 0:14:57 | 0:15:05 | |
for re-election. First, a moment of high emotion as he hugged the | 0:15:06 | 0:15:15 | |
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Congress woman Gabby Giffords. shrinking number of people do well, | 0:15:16 | 0:15:22 | |
while a growing number of Americans barely get by. We can restore an | 0:15:22 | 0:15:26 | |
economy where everyone gets a fair shot and everyone does their fair | 0:15:26 | 0:15:31 | |
share and everyone plays by the same set of rules. APPLAUSE As this | 0:15:31 | 0:15:35 | |
White House film shows, months of debate, rewriting and editing goes | 0:15:35 | 0:15:40 | |
into this speech which has become a national ritual. The overriding | 0:15:40 | 0:15:44 | |
theme? Fairness. An end to tax breaks for the wealthy. No bail- | 0:15:44 | 0:15:51 | |
outs, no handouts, no cop-outs. An America built to last insists on | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
responsibility from everybody. Republican attack ads were on | 0:15:54 | 0:16:01 | |
screen before he got to his feet. But it is how the President's | 0:16:01 | 0:16:08 | |
message plays on main street that matters. This man is comfortably | 0:16:08 | 0:16:12 | |
off. America has had a reputation where the rich are admired, not | 0:16:12 | 0:16:17 | |
envied or resented so Republicans are spitting with fury at Obama's | 0:16:17 | 0:16:21 | |
speech. They say when he talks about fairness, what he means is | 0:16:21 | 0:16:27 | |
class war. This business has had a rough time in the recession. The | 0:16:27 | 0:16:31 | |
company has shrunk. He can't rent out this office space and he thinks | 0:16:31 | 0:16:36 | |
the President is looking for scapegoats. I think he's trying to | 0:16:36 | 0:16:41 | |
play on the anger of the middle- class against Wall Street and the | 0:16:41 | 0:16:46 | |
wealthy and it is very easy to rally the troops when you have a | 0:16:46 | 0:16:53 | |
common villain as we saw in Germany. You think it is dangerous? I do. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
This is the State of the Union roadshow. President Obama is take | 0:16:56 | 0:17:00 | |
his message to the country over the next few days. Only if it goes down | 0:17:00 | 0:17:06 | |
well, will he get to talk to the nation this time next year. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:16 | |
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Coming up: The Royal Ballet is rocked by the sudden departure of | 0:17:18 | 0:17:26 | |
one of its biggest young stars. As we approach the 30th anniversary | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
of the start of the Falklands conflict, the diplomatic tension | 0:17:30 | 0:17:34 | |
between Britain and Argentina is rising. Last month, a powerful | 0:17:34 | 0:17:44 | |
South American trading bloc banned ships flying the Falkland island | 0:17:44 | 0:17:48 | |
flag from using certain ports. Fergal Keane is in Argentina and he | 0:17:48 | 0:17:55 | |
reports on the view from Buenos Aires. | 0:17:55 | 0:18:00 | |
Every morning the ceremonial guard arrives. Here at the national | 0:18:00 | 0:18:10 | |
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memorial to Argentina's most bitter defeat. More than 600 Argentine | 0:18:11 | 0:18:15 | |
servicemen died in the conflict. Many of them young conscripts. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:21 | |
Their names are embedded in this wall, reminders of an era that most | 0:18:21 | 0:18:28 | |
people in this country wish to forget. It was the age of dictators, | 0:18:28 | 0:18:33 | |
who sent their troops to the Falklands in a bid to restore their | 0:18:33 | 0:18:41 | |
fading power. When the war was lost, the military junta was overthrown. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:49 | |
This man was 18 when he fought against 3 Para. The islands, las | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
Malvinas as they call them, remain a passionate cause. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:57 | |
TRANSLATION: It has been 30 years, the anniversary allows us to think | 0:18:57 | 0:19:01 | |
of those we have lost but also gives us the strength to keep on | 0:19:01 | 0:19:05 | |
fighting for what is right. As the diplomatic rangle between Argentina | 0:19:05 | 0:19:10 | |
and Britain escalates, protesters have converged on the British | 0:19:10 | 0:19:17 | |
Embassy. The rights of the Falkland islanders to remain brirn aren't | 0:19:17 | 0:19:21 | |
recognised. Surely if they want to remain British, that is their | 0:19:21 | 0:19:23 | |
democratic right? TRANSLATION: We also have a right | 0:19:23 | 0:19:29 | |
to reclaim what is ours. government, the mood has been | 0:19:29 | 0:19:33 | |
hardening. David Cameron's assertion that Argentina was guilty | 0:19:33 | 0:19:38 | |
of colonialism provokes a bitter response. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
TRANSLATION: Argentina was shocked and we felt disrespected by the | 0:19:41 | 0:19:46 | |
British Prime Minister. Argentine history is far from colonialism, | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
that is much more like the British history. It was ironic to listen to | 0:19:49 | 0:19:54 | |
such an accusation from the British. Buenos Aires rules out military | 0:19:54 | 0:19:58 | |
action. The new strategy is to try and isolate the Falklands, just as | 0:19:58 | 0:20:03 | |
British oil firms begin exploration there. Falklands ships are banned | 0:20:03 | 0:20:11 | |
from several Latin American nations including Brazil. Dr Jorge Castro | 0:20:11 | 0:20:16 | |
says Argentina wants to use the growing political clout of Latin | 0:20:16 | 0:20:22 | |
America. South America as a group has become more and more important | 0:20:22 | 0:20:26 | |
because all the emerging countries are now the centre of the economic | 0:20:26 | 0:20:31 | |
growth in world terms. There may be no more military adventures, but | 0:20:31 | 0:20:38 | |
Britain faces a real diplomatic challenge in a region asserting its | 0:20:38 | 0:20:43 | |
new-found strength. That is the view from Argentina. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:49 | |
Next week, we will be reporting on the views among Falkland islanders | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
themselves. A major police search is under way | 0:20:52 | 0:20:56 | |
for a prisoner who escaped from the grounds of a hospital in Suffolk. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:04 | |
Two guards were confronted by a gunman outside Suffolk Hospital as | 0:21:04 | 0:21:11 | |
they arrived there with Andrew Farden. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:16 | |
The Ministry of Defence has named the British soldier who died at a | 0:21:16 | 0:21:20 | |
base in southern Afghanistan yesterday. 21-year-old Signaller | 0:21:20 | 0:21:24 | |
Ian Sartorius-Jones of 200 Signal Squadron was from Runcorn. He died | 0:21:24 | 0:21:28 | |
at a NATO patrol base in Helmand Province. His death is not thought | 0:21:28 | 0:21:34 | |
to have been the result of hostile action. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
David Cameron says the European Court of Human Rights should | 0:21:37 | 0:21:41 | |
interfere less in decisions made by National Courts. He told the | 0:21:41 | 0:21:45 | |
Council of Europe today that the concept of human rights was being | 0:21:45 | 0:21:50 | |
discredited by some of the court's rulings. Britain holds the | 0:21:50 | 0:21:54 | |
presidency of the Council of Europe and the Prime Minister was there | 0:21:54 | 0:22:00 | |
speaking in that capacity. In the wake of the Second World War, | 0:22:00 | 0:22:04 | |
Europe agreed a new convention on human rights, its aim was to give | 0:22:04 | 0:22:09 | |
people back the freedoms they had lost in years of conflict. But | 0:22:09 | 0:22:13 | |
David Cameron came to Strasbourg today to say that the European | 0:22:13 | 0:22:17 | |
Court of Human Rights that upholds the Convention had strayed from its | 0:22:17 | 0:22:22 | |
origins and the time for reform had come. Controversial decisions such | 0:22:22 | 0:22:26 | |
as giving prisoners the vote was corroding support for human rights. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
The court should be free to deal with the most serious violations of | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
human rights and not be swamped with a backlog of cases, it should | 0:22:34 | 0:22:38 | |
not act as a Small Claims' Court. The court should hold us all to | 0:22:38 | 0:22:43 | |
account. It should not undermine its own reputation by going over | 0:22:43 | 0:22:47 | |
national decisions where it doesn't need to. This is what he is talking | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
about, the European Court's decision last week to prevent | 0:22:50 | 0:22:54 | |
Britain deporting the radical Muslim cleric, Abu Qatada, for fear | 0:22:54 | 0:23:01 | |
that he would not get a fair trial in Jordan. But on the very same day, | 0:23:01 | 0:23:06 | |
the court also ruled that three of Britain's most dangerous murderers, | 0:23:06 | 0:23:12 | |
including Peter Moore, shouldn't have their life sentences reviewed. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:17 | |
Supporters of the court says it is getting the balance right and warns | 0:23:17 | 0:23:22 | |
reform carries risk. Some of the proposals from member states, such | 0:23:22 | 0:23:29 | |
as the UK, seriously threaten the rights of individuals all across | 0:23:29 | 0:23:34 | |
Europe to seek justice for human rights violations. David Cameron's | 0:23:34 | 0:23:39 | |
come to Strasbourg because he believes that the judges are | 0:23:39 | 0:23:43 | |
interfering too much in British national life. His reforms even if | 0:23:43 | 0:23:47 | |
they are agreed will take years to implement and, for some, he is not | 0:23:47 | 0:23:52 | |
going far enough. That is because the European Court is expected to | 0:23:52 | 0:23:56 | |
rule on whether prisoners should get the vote. If it insists that | 0:23:56 | 0:24:00 | |
they should, many Tory MPs believe it will be time not for reform but | 0:24:00 | 0:24:05 | |
withdrawal from the Court entirely. For now, David Cameron's won some | 0:24:05 | 0:24:09 | |
support for his reforms and he's bought himself time with MPs | 0:24:09 | 0:24:14 | |
pushing for change. But one day soon the Prime Minister may have to | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
decide between the democratic wishes of the Parliament and the | 0:24:18 | 0:24:21 | |
legal obligations of the court. Nothing he has said today will | 0:24:21 | 0:24:26 | |
change that. Now, the Royal Ballet has been | 0:24:26 | 0:24:31 | |
rocked by the departure of its youngest ever principal male dancer, | 0:24:31 | 0:24:35 | |
Sergei Polunin. He has resigned with immediate effect, days before | 0:24:35 | 0:24:40 | |
the opening of a new production. The 21-year-old has admitted having | 0:24:40 | 0:24:44 | |
some difficulty with the strict regime that is imposed on | 0:24:44 | 0:24:53 | |
professional dancers. He was one of the Royal Ballet's | 0:24:53 | 0:24:58 | |
superstars, compared by some to Nuryev. The company had made him a | 0:24:59 | 0:25:06 | |
principal at just 19 years old. No male dancer had achieved such | 0:25:06 | 0:25:11 | |
heights so young at Covent Garden. Yesterday, when still only 22, | 0:25:11 | 0:25:18 | |
Sergei Polunin stunned the company and the dance world by walking out. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:23 | |
For a 22-year-old dancer who has done so much for us, who has so | 0:25:23 | 0:25:27 | |
much promise, such an amazing career ahead of him, recognised by | 0:25:27 | 0:25:34 | |
all of us to leave us at this point is shocking. He has everything you | 0:25:34 | 0:25:39 | |
would want in a perfect classical line and apart from that, he has | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
the elevation, the jump, the spins, and he's never off balance. I have | 0:25:43 | 0:25:47 | |
never been able to catch him out when I have been looking at him. It | 0:25:47 | 0:25:53 | |
is almost too good to be true. has been suggested he found the | 0:25:53 | 0:25:57 | |
life of a classical ballet dancer too restrictive. He said that he | 0:25:57 | 0:26:06 | |
would love to have behaved badly, an ambition he retains, judging by | 0:26:06 | 0:26:11 | |
some of his tweets. Sergei Polunin might be leaving the Royal Ballet | 0:26:11 | 0:26:16 | |
but that doesn't mean he will be giving up performing. In fact, he | 0:26:16 | 0:26:22 | |
will be dancing here in Sadler's Wells on Friday night. The | 0:26:22 | 0:26:27 | |
production, Men In Motion, is being put on by Ivan Putrov, who was also | 0:26:27 | 0:26:32 | |
once a principal at the Royal Ballet. Being in a company has this | 0:26:32 | 0:26:36 | |
element that you are sometimes told what to do, you have to be part of | 0:26:36 | 0:26:41 | |
the, if you want to be part of the company you have to maybe shut up | 0:26:41 | 0:26:47 | |
and do what you are supposed to do. If you want to be an artist, an | 0:26:47 | 0:26:54 | |
artist creates. Craftsman does what he is told. An artist creates. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:59 | |
Sergei likes to create. Sergei Polunin was due to take the lead in | 0:26:59 | 0:27:04 |