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The head of the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is to | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
step down. Rowan Williams says he hopes the next Archbishop will have | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
the constitution of an ox and the hide of a rhinoceros. A potential | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
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successor doesn't seem too keen. Do you fancy his job? You can't be | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
serious. We'll be looking at the challenges | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
ahead for the Anglican Church. Also tonight: | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
After an American soldier killed 16 Afghan villagers, the country's | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
president accuses the US of not cooperating with his investigation. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
This form of activity, this behaviour cannot be tolerated. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
The behind the scenes negotiations ahead of the Budget. Could they | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
bring a cut in the 50p top rate of tax? | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
Sachin Tendulkar bats his way into the history books with his 100th | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
international century. And falling sales and the rise of | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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apps hits British computer games I will have a round-up of all the | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
day's sport, including Likud tomorrow's Six Nations showdown, as | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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Wales go for the Grand Slam against Good evening. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, is to step down at the | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
end of the year. As global head of the 80 million-strong Anglican | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Church, he hinted at the strain of the job by saying he hoped his | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
successor would have the constitution of an ox and the hide | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
of a rhinoceros. He's battled with issues that have threatened to | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
split the Church - gay bishops and same sex marriages. He will leave | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
his post before a vote on another divisive issue, the consecration of | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
women bishops. Our religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott | :02:05. | :02:15. | |
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reports. Even as he demanded to be let into | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
Canterbury Cathedral for his enthronement, Rowan Williams was a | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
reluctant leader of a church that he knew was bitterly divided. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
is why the Christian will engage with passion in the world of our | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
society and politics. Let us create our newly enthroned Archbishop with | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
great gladness. During almost all of his leadership of the worldwide | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Anglican Communion, the issue of homosexuality has threatened it | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
with disintegration. The danger came to a head at the once a decade | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
meeting of the world's Anglicans at the Lambeth Conference. The Church | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
stayed intact, but the pressure on Dr Williams remained enormous. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
have said that I do not particularly want to be President | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
of the next Lambeth Conference. I have done that particular job for | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
the Church. The next one will be in 2018. Between now and then, we | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
think about it. The Church recognised in Dr Williams the | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
presence and bearing of a holy man. He described himself as a hairy | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
leftie, but he was also a poet and prolific author who had been | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
Professor of Divinity by the age of 36 and a bishop by 40. I pay | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
tribute to the service he has given to the country and the church and I | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
single out the work he has done in Africa, Sudan and elsewhere, to try | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
to ensure peace, stability and prosperity. He is a very thoughtful | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
and wise man. But Africans, who regarded active homosexuality as a | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
sin, formed a rebellious alliance with in the communion. Despite Dr | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
Williams' popularity with the rank and file there, some | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
traditionalists claim that he prolonged discussions, knowing | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
Anglican beliefs about sexuality were being undermined. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
Archbishop of Canterbury was seen as indecisive, to an extent, by a | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
number of key leaders in Africa and elsewhere. And the very fact that | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
he wanted to keep people discussing was seen as him taking sides, | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
siding with those who wanted to innovate, particularly in the area | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
of sexuality. The ordination of women as bishops in the Church of | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
England could be among Dr Williams' achievements. A crucial vote takes | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
place in July. Dr Williams was sometimes accused of being Wally in | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
his language and his thinking. do not simply have a stand-off | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
between two rival legal systems. There was uproar when he said that | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Muslim law would inevitably become more commonly used in the UK. He | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
later accepted he had spoken clumsily. Who might follow Dr | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
Williams into Lambeth Palace? The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
the Church's most -- second most important cleric, was asked whether | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
he was a contender. REPORTER: Do you fancy his job? | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
can't be serious. Any successor would take on a church still in | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
grave danger of division. Finding the right person will not be easy. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
And we can speak to Robert at Lambeth Palace. Once the Archbishop | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
has gone, how hard will it be for the Anglican Church to hold | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
together over some of these more divisive issues? It will not be | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
easy. For instance, women bishops is not a done deal. Rowan Williams | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
cares about how they brought in. That is why I am surprised he has | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
announced his discussion -- his resignation now, when his prestige | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
and authority could have made a difference to the outcome. The same | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
goes for an agreement he had to draft to keep the Anglican | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
Communion together. The Church faces a divisive debate over gay | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
marriage. And a group of evangelicals said they were | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
prepared to bring in their own bishops to look after them if they | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
did not like those on offer from the church here. So there are | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
potential challengers in the pipeline for his successor. He has | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
often been accused of using something described as carefully | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
judged lack of clarity to deal with problems like this. It could be | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
that his successor does not have that Mac and will not have the | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
experience, prestige and authority to be able to make his word go. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
The Afghan president has accused the United States of failing to | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
cooperate with an investigation into the killing of 16 villagers. | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Hamid Karzai spoke after he met relatives of those who died. The | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
American soldier accused of the murders has now been taken to a | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
maximum security detention centre in a military base in the US. | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
Quentin Somerville reports from Kabul. | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
The blood of Afghans, spilt inside their own homes. They were killed | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
mostly by a single shot to the head. The gunman was an American soldier, | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
it is believed. He gathered them together, including the children, | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
and burnt to their bodies. They started with a prayer. The | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
villagers had come to the presidential palace. 11 people were | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
killed in one home, raged this village elder. They were acting | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
like animals, smashing down doors. President Karzai listened and | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
appeared to agree that this was not the work of a single attacker. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
believe it is not possible for one person to do that. In his family, | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
in four rooms people were killed, children and women were killed. And | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
then they were all brought together in one room and then put on fire. | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
The Afghan investigation team did not receive the co-operation that | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
they expected from the United States. The international mission | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
in Afghanistan has always known that the Afghan people would only | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
tolerate its presence for so long. But two events in quick succession, | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
the accidental burning of the Koran, and the killings in Kandahar, have | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
poisoned the relationship. There is now more pressure than ever full | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
international troops to draw back and hand more responsibility for | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
the fight to Afghans. The reminders day of Britain's continuing | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
sacrifice for Afghanistan. Warminster or in Wiltshire came to | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
a standstill as locals paid their respects to the six soldiers killed | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
in Helmand last week. Five were from the 3rd Battalion, the | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
Yorkshire Regiment. These men are heading for combat in Afghanistan. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
They will not be the last, but the end is in sight, says Britain's | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
ambassador to Kabul. The plan is for us to get combat troops off the | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
battlefield. And to replace them with Afghans, if there is still | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
fighting to be done. That is the plan. Within 18 months, there will | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
not be any British, American or any other troops in the villages. | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Meanwhile, in America, the lawyer of the suspected killer spoke for | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
the first time. We have a soldier who has an exemplary record, a | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
decorated soldier who was injured in Iraq, to his brain and to his | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
body. Despite that, he was sent back. The Army Staff Sergeant, name | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
still unknown, is heading to this maximum-security military prison. | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
It is a long way from Afghanistan but the fate of the soldier will | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
not be far from the minds of the Afghan people. | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
Belgium has held a national day of mourning to remember the victims of | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
Tuesday night's coach crash in Switzerland. 28 people, including | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
22 children, died when their bus hit the wall of a tunnel. Today it | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
emerged that a British boy, 11- year-old Sebastian Bowles, was | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
among the dead. The Prime Minister has held talks | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
with the Prime Minister, George Osborne, and his Liberal Democrat | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
coalition partners, to seek agreement on next week's Budget. It | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
has been suggested George Osborne is arguing for a cut in the 50 | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
pence top tax rate to promote enterprise. Labour has said tax | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
cuts for the richest in Britain would be the wrong priority. Hugh | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
Pym examines the arguments. 50 pence in the pound, the top rate | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
of income tax, its future is now the dominant issue ahead of next | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
week's Budget, with strongly argued views on both sides. David Cameron, | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
back from the US and promoting tourism in his constituency, held a | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
phone conversation today with the Chancellor and the two leading | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
Democrats in the government, they thrashed out precisely what to do | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
about the 50p rate. -- the Liberal Democrats in the Government. There | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
has been a lot for the Chancellor to think about over this issue. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
There is the question of how much extra revenue for top rate of tax | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
brings in. He has asked HMRC to report back combat one. And then | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
there is the political message which will go out with any | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
announcement he chooses to make on the future of the 50p rate. The | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
coalition has continued with a policy adopted by the previous | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
Government. The 50p tax rate was introduced in 20th April 10 as a | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
temporary measure. It applies to earnings of over �150,000 a year. | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
It is paid by around 320,000 people. The Treasury estimated it would | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
bring in an extra �2.8 billion this coming year. But financial experts | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
are sceptical. They argue the Revenue has a lot less because | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
wealthy people find ways to avoid the top rate, and business leaders | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
claimed it damages enterprise. think the 50p tax rate should be | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
scrapped because in practice it is self-defeating. People will change | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
their behaviour in order to get around it, or they will not start | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
the business as they might have started because they are | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
discouraged from turning in those categories. At a time of rising | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
fuel prices, tax credits being cut, family budgets under real pressure, | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
people would think that making a priority, cutting taxes only for | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
those earning above �150,000 would be totally out of touch, the wrong | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
priority. The so-called quad will meet face-to-face on Monday. Nick | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Clegg and Danny Alexander for the Lib Dems have been pressing for tax | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
hikes on the rich in return for scrapping the 50p rate, which is | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
what the Prime Minister and Chancellor want. 50p is in the | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
balance. What happens to it could be one of the defining issues of | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
next week's Budget. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
promised to guarantee jobs for young people who are out of work | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
for more than a year, funded by a tax on bankers' bonuses. He said | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
the announcement would form the first line of the party's budget if | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
it was in power. But it hit a snag when the deputy leader of the party | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
did not know how much the policy would cost, or how much the bankers | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
Ed Miliband led the Shadow Cabinet to his party's youth conference, | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
but he has to convince sceptical voters he can lead the country out | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
of debt and economic downturn. So he set out what he called a bold | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
and radical plan to tackling one of Britain's pressing problems - youth | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
unemployment. Under Labour, a job is guaranteed, | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
paying at least the minimum wage for at least six months with real | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
training. Labour's real jobs guarantee. | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
He went out of his way to say he could be trusted to keep a tight | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
hold on the nation's purse strings. This job scheme would be fully | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
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costed, paid for by a tax on bankers bonusespm. We have got to | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
measure success on the difference we make. It was in this building, | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
just before the last general election, that Ed Miliband's old | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
boss, Gordon Brown, came to invite sceptical voters to take a second | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
look at him and his party. Ed Miliband is doing much the same | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
thing today because he knows his own polling is suggesting that | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
Labour still has to make a greater impact with voters on the crucial | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
issue that can decide elections, the economy. | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
But perhaps the first step in in route back to economic credibility | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
is to ensure your deputy is briefed. The bankers bonus tax is going to | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
raise how much money? I haven't got quite the - I know we have worked | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
out that figure. What's the cost of the real jobs guarantee? | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
Mm, I haven't got that actual figure to hand. | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
There was a measured reaction to Labour's plan for jobs at this | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
local construction company. I am more worried about the actual | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
scheme and that is going on today than these proposed schemes that | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
the Labour Party is giving. We want a long-term commitment. | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
This idea you can train, and you can deliver in six months is not | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
good. . To lay the foundations of success, | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
Ed Miliband knows he will have to work harder to regain the ground | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
Labour has lost on economic Coming up on tonight's programme: | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
He is going to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup. | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
A spectacular win for champion jockey Tony McCoy and Synchronised | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
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It was called the "scoop of the century" as 250,000 US diplomatic | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
cables released by the website, WikiLeaks. The BBC has spoken to | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
key members of the American Government about the leaks which | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
reveal how Iran's nuclear ambitions are not a recent concern for the US, | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
they've been a key factor in US foreign policy for years. Richard | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
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28th November 2010, the day jewel Assange and his WikiLeaks website | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
shared US secrets with the world. The whistle-blowing website | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
released another pile of documentspm. The man accused of the | :16:30. | :16:38. | |
leak is Bradley Manning. At the time, Robert Gates was the US | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
secretary of defence. Is it embarrassing to you personally that | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
it came out of your department? Well, of course, and it was hard | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
for me to look Secretary Clinton in the eye when she said "how did this | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
happen?" It came out of the military installation. | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
Read the cable in detail and some issues never go away, like what to | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
do about the Iranian nuclear programme. | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
The cables show from as far back as 2008, some of Iran's neighbours | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
were encouraging the US to muse military power -- use military | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
power. How were you being urged to attack | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
your own? People were aggressive and pushing it. | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
Who was it and what were they saying? Well, I am not going to go | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
there. Cables show the US desperate for | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
any intelligence. They created a network of Iran watchers whose job | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
was to gather any information they could. The cables show a person in | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
London was a prolific source. I had a very reliable source in | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
Iraq. He gave me a lot of information about the Iranian | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
agents in Iraq. I met an American diplomat. We talked about it. | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
And we tracked down one of those in the State Department who received | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
intelligence from the Iran watchers. There is no question that since | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
this process of the Iran watchers has been stagsalised it improved | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
the understanding of Iran within the US Government. | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
But what is clear, is the debate about Iran's nuclear programme was | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
always alive in the White House. Michael Haden was the director of | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
the CIA. I had three American presidents | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
saying Iran getting a weapon is unacceptable. As a native speaker, | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
I think I know what unacceptable is. The cable reveal America's secret | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
concerns and a succession of US Administrations have been haunted | :18:47. | :18:57. | |
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You can see more on that story in WikiLeaks: The Secret Life of a | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
Superpower next Wednesday at 9pm on He is a global cricket hero to | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
millions and now the Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar has become the | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
first player to score 100 centuries in Tests and one-day internationals. | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
It came against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup and as Andrew North | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
reports from Delhi, it has been a long road since his first century | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
against England more than 20 years There is only one Sachin Tendulkar | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
in cricket mad India. In towns and villages across the | :19:30. | :19:39. | |
country, they worship him. This was the moment Sachin | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
Tendulkar assured his God-like status as he hit the milestone of | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
100 centuries. There was more relief than elation though. It has | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
been an agonising wait, a year since he hit the last one. | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
After scoring 90, 100s, you are made to realise the value. It is | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
not easy to get 100. It was a testing period for me because it | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
was tough. It was really class. It was | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
marvellous. It was fantastic. And there it is. | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
The man they call the little master showed his talents early. Hitting | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
his first century when he was just 17 against England, among these | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
heaping on the praise. Sachen has been the player which | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
which all others are measured in the last 10 or 15 years and for him | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
to go on and get 100, 100s, it is an amazing achievement and unlikely | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
to be achieved again. Where does Sachin Tendulkar stand | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
among the greats of the game? Unquestionably the best batsman was | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
Sir Donald Bradman, no one has come close to his average of 99.9 runs, | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
but in inia no one compares with Sachin Tendulkar. In Mumbai, | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
youngsters come to this park every day, hoping to emulate their hero. | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Some believe Sachin Tendulkar's record of 100 centuries will never | :21:08. | :21:18. | |
The Hollywood actor George Clooney has been arrested outside the | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Sudanese embassy in Washington. He was taking part in a protest to | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
accuse the Sudanese president of provoking a humanitarian crisis | :21:24. | :21:32. | |
firstly by blocking the delivery of food and aid. The second thing we | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
are here to ask, it is a simple thing, is for the Government in | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
Khartoum to stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women and | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
children. Tonight, Britain's computer games | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
industry has been hosting its annual BAFTA Awards, a chance to | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
celebrate the high achievers in a field where British talent has | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
traditionally excelled, but behind the scenes falling sales and the | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
rise of apps are raising fears that for many UK firms it could soon be | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
a case of game over? Rory Cellan- A big night for one of Britain's | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
success stories, but as guests arrive for the BAFTA video games | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
award, sponored by a retail chain threatened with collapse, the | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
industry has a fight on its hands. Here is one team competing for a | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
BAFTA. I Am Player is a social game, mostly played through Facebook. It | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
turns you into a premiership footballer and there is lots of | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
video shot from your point of view. The game earns money through | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
advertising and selling virtual goods like boots and energy drinks. | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
It is one of a new breed. That is shocking. See you on | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
Saturday, yeah? Social games didn't exist four years ago and now 300 | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
million people play social games every month and it continues to | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
grow. We have got this this explosive growth there and on | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
smartphones. If five months, over two million | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
people signed up to play this online social game. Keep the ball. | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
So one small British company thinks it found the formula for success, | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
but the games industry is in a state with plunging sales and | :23:17. | :23:26. | |
doubts over its future direction. Batman: Arkham City is another | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
British made hit, but with sales of traditional expensive console games | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
like this falling, there is a mood of uncertainty. | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
They don't know what types of games people are going to be buying and | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
where they are going to be buying them from. It is terrifying and | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
exciting and I think we're going through this period of flux and we | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
are not sure we will come out of it. Some will succeed, some will fail. | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
The new boss at the organisation representing the industry is | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
pressing hard for tax relief for games firms. | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
Ted UK always had -- the UK always had a fantastic tradition of | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
producing quality games. We need to make sure we are creating the right | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
business environment to continue that fantastic heritage. | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
The big winners tonight did include some traditional blockbuster games, | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
but this industry is changing rapidly and only the anymorelest | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
players -- nimblest players will The Cheltenham Gold Cup has been | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
won by Synchronised ridden by Tony McCoy. There were high hopes for | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
Kauto Star which has won the race twice before, but his jockey pulled | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
him up before the end of the race and the 12-year-old horse is almost | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
certain to retire. Joe Wilson was watching. And they are away. | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
There is a sweet agony to watch at Cheltenham, even for lovers of | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
horse racing, there has been soul searching. They enjoy a sport that | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
has risks to the animal. It doesn't put me off because it is | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
part of the scene really. Like with most sports, there is a | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
risk. With motor racing, there is a risk. | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
Most have come to watch the great Kauto Star, defying the years to | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
battle for a third Gold Cup. Well, his race was over before half-way. | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
At the back of the field, Ruby Walsh decided the horse wasn't | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
moving properly and pulled him out. This was the reaction from those | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
watching. APPLAUSE | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
The vet soon reported that Kauto Star was fine. | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
The race was left to the others and the brown silks defending champion, | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
Long Run struggling to retain his title, but between the last fence | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
and the finishing line and it was Synchronised, guided by AP McCoy. | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
Tony McCoy comes storming up the hill to win the Gold Cup. | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
Any victory for Tony McCoy is greeted by huge warmth here at | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
Cheltenham. It is an acknowledgement of this jockey's | :25:58. | :26:07. | |
enormous contribution to the sport. Moments after vibg after victory | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
Tony McCoy was full of praise for Ruby Walsh. | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
Ruby was thinking about his horse more than anyone else. | :26:17. | :26:20. |