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Tonight at Ten: David Cameron arrives in Washington at the start

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of a three-day visit. It is his second visit to the USA as Prime

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Minister. The agenda is likely to be dominated by Afghanistan. The

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leaders are expected to agree that British forces should pull back

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from their front line role earlier than planned. I am confident we can

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continue the work of meeting our objectives, protecting our country

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and responsibly bring in this war to a close. We will have the latest

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from Washington on the prospects for the visit. Also tonight:

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Rebekah Brooks and her husband are among six arrested by police

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investigating phone hacking. The inquiry into Stephen Lawrence's

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murder should now be re-opened, according to his mother. It is not

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just racism. There has to be a corruption somewhere. Why Britain's

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biggest life insurer is threatening to move to Asia. And, a mix of joy

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and sadness, at the opening of this year's Cheltenham Festival. Later

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with the sport on the News Channel, Liverpool looked to revive their

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Good evening. David Cameron has started a three-day visit to the

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USA. Tonight, he's in Ohio with President Obama, watching

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basketball. But the official talks in the coming days are likely to

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focus on Afghanistan with British troops pulling back from their lead

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combat role by the middle of next year earlier than planned. Nick

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Robinson is travelling with the Prime Minister. Off to watch the

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game. That is where millions of Americans are headed tonight. Not

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everyone gets to go to the basketball with the President of

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the United States. This, a symbol of a relationship with Britain and

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America which Barack Obama and David Cameron of say is essential

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and a partnership of the heart. Where is the war effort headed? It

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is a partnership which now its own people increasingly believe is

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fighting an unwinnable war. Today there were protests in Afghanistan

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after the murder of innocents by a rogue American soldier. Before

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setting off from London, the Prime Minister spoke to American TV about

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the sacrifices both countries have already made. We have been in the

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toughest part of the country - in Helmand province - and we have been

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there for many years. That is why I set the deadline. In 2014 there

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will not be anything like the number of troops there are now. And

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they will not be in a combat role. They will try to go beyond the

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headline promise that all combat troops will be out by 2014. The

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Americans recently surprised the British by the care in the Afghan

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Army would lead all security operations from mid-to-late 2013.

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It could be an opportunity for of UK and US troops to start

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withdrawing in significant numbers next year. Today I will meet with

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Prime Minister Cameron, who is part of the broad coalition, serving in

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Afghanistan. We will consult about the way forward as we prepare for

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the NATO summit in Chicago later this spring. Make no mistake, we

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have a strategy that will allow us to responsibly wind down this war.

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At the White House tomorrow, hundreds of guests will crowd on to

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the lawn to welcome Mr and Mrs Cameron. There will even be a 19

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gun salute. What will really matter is not the latest pictures in the

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album marked special relationship Macro, but the decisions these two

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leaders take. How to avoid a new wall with Iran over its nuclear

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programme. For the latest on the visit and the prospects for the day

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ahead, let's talk to Nick Robinson. A pretty lavish attempt to see how

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close these two men are. You ain't seen nothing yet, as they say in

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America. Tomorrow will be an extraordinary display of affection

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for Britain and support for David Cameron as well. Who would have

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thought the leader of the British Right Thing praised in the way he

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is by the pin up of the global left? -- being praised. They are

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watching the basketball in Ohio. Mr Cameron happens to not be meeting a

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single one of the potential Republican rivals to Barack Obama.

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The two men to like each other. On the plane over here, Mr Cameron

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told reporters he regarded the President as deeply rational and

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reasonable and very strong. He won need to be, given the challenge is

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not just in Afghanistan but the desire to as President Assad. The

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Prime Minister told me on the plain that he was kicking the tyres in

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frustration as he tried to find new ways of dealing with that problem.

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They face the prospect of war in Iraq if Israel decides that is the

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right course. Nothing really you might think could go wrong, said

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one thing, the Prime Minister has been told tonight, do not for

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goodness sake, touched a basket full and do not please try to shoot

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a hoop. -- basketball. Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive

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of News International, has been arrested for a second time by

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police investigating phone hacking. She was released on bail this

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evening, along with her husband, the racehorse trainer, Charlie

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Brooks, who was also among the six detained this morning on suspicion

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of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Our home affairs

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correspondent has the latest. For years, Rebekah Brooks was the most

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powerful woman in British newspapers. She went for a tabloid

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editor to the top of the Murdoch empire. Today she was arrested for

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the second time - this time with her husband, Charlie Brooks. They

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have been questioned all day about a possible criminal cover-up. The

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couple here with James Murdoch were married in 2009 with Labour and

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Tory leaders on the guest-list. Two months ago, through a surrogate

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mother, they had their first child, a daughter. It was the explosion in

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the phone hacking scandal last summer which brought Rebekah Brooks

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centre stage. On July 15th, she resigned as chief executive of News

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International. Two days later she was arrested for the first time on

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suspicion of phone hacking and corruption. Today she has been

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arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

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Today his arrest shows that this story is nowhere near over and who

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knows where it will end up? The original criminality they were

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investigating - phone hacking - is nowhere near as serious as what

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they are now investigating, which is conspiracy to pervert the course

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of justice. Rebekah Brooks and Charlie Brooks were arrested at

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their home in Oxfordshire after an early-morning knock from the police.

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David Cameron is a neighbour and friend of both of them. He was at

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Eton with Charlie Brooks. The Prime Minister recently admitted he did

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ride a horse loaned to the couple by Scotland Yard. Before the

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election, yes, I did go riding with him. He has a number of different

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courses. One was a former police force. I did write it. Tonight,

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Rebekah Brooks was released after hours of questioning. Like her

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husband, she has been bailed until next month. Of all the possible

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crimes, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice is the most

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serious. People who had been found guilty had been jailed for up to 10

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years. She has not been charged with any offence, as the

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investigation he continues. -- here continues. The mother of Stephen

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Lawrence has told the BBC she wants the Government to re-open the

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formal inquiry into her son's murder. She says there are concerns

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that the initial investigation 19 years ago was hampered by police

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corruption. Her call follows allegations in court last year that

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a detective on the case had links to the father of one of Stephen's

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killers. It took 18 years to find the man who killed Stephen Lawrence

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met a London bus stop - or at least two of them. Gary Dobson and David

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Norris were jailed in January. The police were watching them but did

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not make arrests for two weeks. Time for enough evidence to be

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destroyed. Why? Amid angry scenes, the Macpherson Inquiry questioned

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witnesses, including these - the suspects. Its conclusion, racism

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was to blame. Now Doreen Lawrence believes a new inquiry needs to

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examine evidence of corruption. There are so many things that we

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can question as to why. Then you come up with the answer, could it

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be corruption? It is not just racism. You firmly believe that?

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Yes, definitely. The allegations centre on John Davidson, a former

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detective who worked on the murder squad. It was claimed he was in the

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pay of Clifford Norris. Then involved in criminal activity and

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the father of David Norris, the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Neil

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Putnam insists he warned the Met several times about their

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relationship. The police watchdog, the IPCC, investigated. It

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concluded there was no evidence a corrupt relationship affected the

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original investigation. Last year Neil Putnam repeated those claims

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Again, in court, under oath. Describing a discussion about the

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Dr Richard Stone was an adviser to the Macpherson inquiry. He poses

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the question, where police failures due to racism or corruption? They

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could have been both. New evidence seems to be coming out -

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uncertainty seems to be coming out to justify their should be an

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inquiry of some kind or another. And so the Stephen Lawrence case

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continues to stalk the police. Both the Met and the IPCC say it if

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there is new evidence, it will be investigated. The car maker, Jaguar

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Land Rover, is to create 1,000 jobs at its factory in Halewood in

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Merseyside. The plant is moving to 24 hour production to meet demand

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for two of its models. The number of workers employed at the Halewood

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plant has trebled in the past three years. The Home Secretary, Theresa

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May, has approved the extradition to the United States of a student

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accused of breaking copyright laws. Authorities in the US claim that

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23-year old Richard O'Dwyer's website, TVShack, hosted links to

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pirated films and television shows. If convicted, he could face up to

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The Prudential, Britain's biggest life insurer, says it is seriously

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considering moving its headquarters to Asia. It is blaming new European

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rules on the amount of capital it's required to hold. Prudential was

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founded in London in the mid-19th century. Its pre-tax profits rose

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by a third in the past year and much of that growth came from its

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Asian business. The Prudential, a pillar of the

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City of London for 160 years. Now huge in Asia, the biggest

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contributor today to the Pru's profits, and as the Pru's chief

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executive told me, it is doing very nicely in general.

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Why it against that backdrop would you think of relocating this

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venerable British institution abroad? It is a problem we wish we

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did not have because we are very happy in London, the company was

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created in London. We are looking at offers, we cannot deny that,

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because we have to. For our shareholders. This whole process

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has been too volatile. Prudential says new rules coming

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from Brussels, that go by the unappetising name of solvency II,

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will make it but to be deplete -- will make it prohibitively

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expensive for the company to stay in London. So why do members of the

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European Parliament want this new law? We had a financial crisis.

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People want to make sure we do not have the systemic threat that we

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had in the recent past, and an insurance law at European level

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makes sense. Everybody agrees with it. They may argue about the finer

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points but let's be realistic, this makes sense and a much safer

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financial world for us. Why hasn't the British Government made

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stronger of representations on your behalf? They have been very vocal

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to be fair to them but the UK is one country among 27. The Pru is

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not the biggest issue at stake. I know a lot of the attention is

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focused on us but my concerns for the UK economy are much more

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significant about what may happen to the Prudential. This is about

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job creation and the long-term economy. If approved to move to

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Asia, its shareholders would be protected, but there would be less

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money provided by insurers to invest in Britain's economic future,

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which is why the Pru still hopes that Brussels will back down.

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Coming up on tonight's programme: More evidence of the health dangers

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of eating red meat, especially the processed kind.

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NATO is warning of an increase in Somali piracy off the Gulf of Aden.

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Ten ships have been attacked or boarded in the past six weeks but

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despite the higher risk, pirates' attacks are becoming less and less

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successful, with better patrols and merchant ships arming themselves.

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Our security correspondent Frank Gardner joined a merchant vessel,

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sailing from the port of Muscat through the Gulf of Aden towards

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It is a voyage made by thousands of ships a year, passing through the

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Gulf of Aden. It is also home to They have spotted suspected pirates

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up ahead. The ship have activated its water cannons to make boarding

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more difficult. The foghorn is to tell them they have been spotted.

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Code yellow. Kogelo. Security alert. Now the on-board security is

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summoned. We have a couple of skiffs dead ahead. For much Royal

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Marine commandos, they have a well practised drill. Opening fire is a

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last resort. The two boats you can see are suspected pirate mother

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ships and the skiff, one of the fast attack boats, and we have had

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them the lead because both the ship in front and this ship are pretty

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convinced that they are pirate scoping us out -- we have had an

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alert. It could be an innocent fisherman but they have showed

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their weapons in the air so that whoever is in the boat will know

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this is a hard target to seize. The vessels move off, reportedly

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threatening another ship afterwards. The seas are full of such craft.

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Pirates use them to sneak up on ships as big as these, take them

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over and demand multi-million dollar ransoms. One of our crew was

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on another ship without guards when it came under attack. Four times

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they fired rapid propelled grenade, so really, really scary. But now we

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feel relieved because of these armed guards that we have. Naval

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warships like this one from China to escort convoys alongside Yemen.

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The pirates have simply expanded their operations elsewhere in the

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Indian Ocean. So it is down to ships to take their own precautions,

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putting up passive defences like this, which is not always enough.

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Increasingly shipping companies are turning to more robust measures.

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Putting armed teams like these on ships is controversial but their

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leader says Somalia's pirates are well armed and determined. Once we

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have gone through the other escalation methods and we have

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deemed that weapons of the final choice, we will fire several

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warning shots need to be skiffs, not endangering them at all, and

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the use of lethal force is an extreme and last resort. This

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ship's company policy is to always put on two teams on this route and

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so far no on the vessel has ever been hijacked, but until Somalia

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finds peace, maritime piracy will continue, leaving ships like this

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to run the gauntlet of some of the world's most dangerous water ways.

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The Syrian president has announced parliamentary elections for May,

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the first time the voters will go to the polls under the new

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constitution, but the announcement was condemned by the United States.

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They said that would be ridiculous while the country is in the grip of

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so much violence. There is more evidence, this time

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from an American study, that eating too much red meat increases the

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risk of dying from heart disease and cancer. The research, carried

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out at Harvard University, concludes that processed red meat

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in particular increases the likelihood of premature death, as

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our health correspondent reports. It is a staple part of what many

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people eat but red or processed meat, like bacon and sausage, can

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be bad for our health. It raises the risk of cancer, heart disease

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and stroke and it is now clear just how much a meat rich diet can be

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life shortening. This report is another step in our knowledge of

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the kind of things that increase the risk of cancer, and it shows

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that eating lots of processed and red meat will increase your risk.

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The research found that having a portion of processed meat every day

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increased the risk of premature death by 20%. A portion of ordinary

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red meat to Dame -- a day increased it by 13%. The government says we

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should eat no more than 70 grams a day, equivalent to a small stake

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and three slices of ham, but this services if you eat even less, 42

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grams a day, be significantly reduce your risk of dying early. --

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you significantly reduced. It may be that a high fat content as well

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as the preservatives in processed meat is what raises your risk of

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cancer, stroke and heart disease, but that is not to say that all

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meat is bad. Meat is a useful source of many nutrients, it is a

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useful way to get protein, vitamin B12 and iron, but you do not need

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huge amount of it. Eating it several times a day is likely to do

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more harm than good. Much better it is replacing red meat with chicken,

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fish and grains, as well as eating a balanced mixture of fruit and

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vegetables. All that can reduce the risk of dying early by a

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significant amount. The organisation which represents the

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meat industry has rejected the findings. It said red meat was an

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important source of nutrients. It is also something a lot of people

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enjoyed and whatever the health warnings, changing their daily

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eating habits may not be easy. More than 50,000 people attended

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the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival, where the Champion Hurdle

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was won by the unfancied Rock On Ruby, trained by Paul Nicholls and

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ridden by Noel Fehily. The favourite, Hurricane Fly, finished

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Cheltenham expects to well, almost a quarter of a million spectators

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this week. The crowds are up. The most traditional of sporting

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festivals seems to have grown in appeal, and here is one of the

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reasons why. Noel Fehily overturn the odds to win the big race of the

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day, the Champion Hurdle, riding Rock On Ruby. The kind of dream

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finish that Cheltenham revels in. The capacity to enthrall and

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surprise remains horse racing's Can you explain the feelings in

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those final few yards? I can't explain! Try it! It is very hard.

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It is a dream, you dream about winning it but it -- but you never

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think it will happen. But with a reward is a risk. Three horses died

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in Tuesday's Chris Sims. Fatalities are not unexpected but any death is

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bad and three in one day is troubling. The first day of the

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festival has reminded us that there is a balance of protecting the

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welfare of the animals and providing thrilling racing, and

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maintaining that balance is a real challenge.

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A 26-year-old businessman from Aberdeenshire is set to become the

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latest internet millionaire. Pete Cashmore started the technology

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website Mashable when he was a teenager. An American media firm is

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said to be negotiating to buy it for more than �100 million. But

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what makes this website and others like it attract such hefty price-

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tags? Rory Cellan-Jones explains. It is a website started just seven

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years ago by a 19-year-old in his bedroom. Pete Cashmore's Mashable

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serves up a diet of gadgets and social media news and it could be

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about to make him very rich indeed. He is already an internet celebrity.

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We are going to the hotel because we have an event. Flitting between

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California and New York to promote his fast-growing business, but it

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all started a long way from here. Here is where Mashable was born, at

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his childhood home in Aberdeenshire, and it was at Banchory Academy that

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he first got acquainted with computers. Peter did computer

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studies at school. At home he would be someone who would see business

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sense and be able to use the internet in a way to make money.

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Now it seems that the cable TV giant CNN is looking at buying

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Mashable. The price-tag is talked of �100 million. Mashable is not

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the only young website to have attracted the attentions of the

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media giant. A technology website was snapped up for �60 million.

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Last FM, the London-based music side, was bought by CBS for 100

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NATO -- �180 million, and MySpace was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News

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Corp the �380 million. But they did not all end well. MySpace ran out

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of steam and was sold on by Rupert Murdoch at a big loss. Stuart Miles,

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another British technology expert, says it is clear what giant media

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firms hope to get when made by the likes of Mashable. They have a

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really big audience. They are interested in the internet, they

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know how it works, they are sharing stuff. There is still a way to go

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before any deal to sell Mashable is agreed but right now, Pete Cashmore

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looks like the most successful Web tycoon that Scotland has produced.

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Newsnight is starting on BBC Two in a moment. They will be focusing on

:25:42.:25:46.

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