09/04/2012 BBC News at Ten


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Good evening. Eyewitnesses say Syrian troops have

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opened fire on refugees fleeing the country into neighbouring Turkey.

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Two people were killed trying to cross the border while a number of

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others were injured in a refugee camp on the Turkish side. The

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violence comes amid scores of deaths in other parts of Syria and

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fears that a UN-backed peace plan brokered by the former UN

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Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, is unraveling. Our correspondent,

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Jonathan Head, sent this report. The violence building up just

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inside Syria spilled over the border today. Refugees who thought

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they'd reached safety in Turkey either fired on or caught in

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They are killing us, just come and see all the dead. You, the world,

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come and watch. They are slaughtering them with knives,

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bombing the houses. You people help There were 20 injured being treated

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in this hospital and for the first time, some had been shot on the

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Turkish side. The failure of international

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diplomacy to stop the fighting has been a crushing blow for refugees

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who've been waiting many months to go home. Even more so for those

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who've been driven here just in the past week when the Annan peace plan

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was supposed to be gaining momentum. TRANSLATION: The helicopter gunship

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swooped down on the village. This man arrived three days ago from a

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destroyed village. Bullets hit two of his sons who're now in Turkish

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hospitals. The Kofi Annan peace plan, far from being Syria's last

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great hope, has for the people who've recently arrived at this

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camp brought only increased suffering. Sort of a diplomatic

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miracle here in the next 24 hours, they believe they'll just have to

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fight for their freedom. Their Turkish hosts are now inclined to

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agree. The Annan peace plan is the only one endorsed by the Security

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Council, including China and Russia. It calls for the Government to

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begin withdrawing its forces and stop using heavy weapons in

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population centres. For the opposition to commit to stop

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fighting. And calls for all parties to ensure

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humanitarian assistance reaches all areas affected by the fighting and

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to implement a daily two-hour humanitarian pause.

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Ahead of tomorrow's deadline, the Syrian Government has escalated its

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attacks on opposition-held areas and now it's attaching impossible

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conditions to its promise withdrawal.

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This is the village of Latamneh today. They've been pulling people

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out of what is left of their homes after another bombardment. 35

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people are believed to have died here, including women and children.

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A peace plan is unraveling. But if it fails, what then? There's

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no alternative plan at the UN and little likelihood of enough

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agreement there to end Syria's agony.

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Options for a new type of private pension to replace final salary

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schemes are being considered by ministers. One idea could involve a

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company guaranteeing a fixed pension pot on retirement. The

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Government says while many businesses want to offer decent

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pensions, final salary schemes are just too expensive. Our business

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correspondent, Emma Simpson, reports.

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Building up the pension pot. It's not as easy as it once was.

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Generous final salary pension schemes are increasingly scarce.

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Today, new workers usually have to shoulder all the risk without a

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guaranteed return. But the Pensions Minister says

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there could be a third way - a new type of pension that would see

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employers and their workers sharing some of those investment risks.

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What we are trying to make sure is that firms who still want to offer

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a decent pensions deal are helped to to so. Maybe it won't be the

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gold-plated guaranteed pensions of the past but maybe an element of

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guarantee, maybe the work take some uncertainty and the firm -- worker.

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Morrisons is already taking this new path, as well as its existing

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schemes it's also going to offer its workers a guaranteed pension

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fund on retirement. But workers would then have to decide what to

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do with that money. These days, only one in three

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private sector workers are reckoned to be in any occupational pension

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plan, and with final salary schemes disappearing fast, the challenge of

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how to secure enough income for a decent retirement has never been so

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important. If investment returns don't work

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out, if inflation turns out to be very high, if costs work out to be

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very expensive or if everyone starts living much, much longer,

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the old way of thinking about pensions will have to change.

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But some in the industry say the Government's missing the point.

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underlying problem with them, the thing that needs to be addressed if

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we are to fix the crisis is that people aren't paying enough in.

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Until we increase the rate, we won't fix the problem. Getting it

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full is the challenge. Many companies though may be sceptical

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about giving any more future pension guarantees. It's early days,

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but the debate has now begun. A soldier who died in hospital in

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Birmingham more than two months after being injured in an explosion

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in Afghanistan has tonight been named as Corporal Jack Stanley from

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the Queen's Royal hussards. He was seriously injured by a roadside

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bomb while on patrol east of Lashkar Gah. The NUT has voted to

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ballot its members on strike action if the Government scraps national

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pay rates. The review body, which deals with pay and conditions, has

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been asked to investigate bringing wages in line with local pay rates

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across England and Wales. It's one of the world's most

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reclusive and repressive regimes and this week, North Korea will

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stage the biggest celebration in its history to commemorate its

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founding father. The 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il

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Sung will be marked by the launch of a rocket and ceremonies across

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the land. Damien Grammaticas is the only British broadcaster inside the

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country and sent this report from the capital, Pyongyang. Every

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single one in the crowd, perhaps 100,000 strong with a week of

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celebrations. And emotion almost sounds

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exaggerated. North Korea's two dead dictators, the Kims, father and son,

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are worshipped like Gods and its people are urged to give thanks for

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the way their nation they're told has been turned into a powerful

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prosperous land. Today, few outsiders would

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recognise North Korea as powerful or prosperous, but what sustains it

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is a personality cult built around the Kim dynasty and the system of

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totalitarian control. As the crowds dispersed, we were

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told that we could not talk to any of them. Instead, we were brought

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to this model silk spinning factory. It's never fired a single worker, I

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was told. They are all so good. Apparently, it's all down to the

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generous guidance of the two Kims. Kim ill sun always grinning in

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every image and Kim Jong-Il, less Smiley. Under their watch, the

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workers get interactive instruction in mathematics, physics and English.

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This birthday celebration for Kim Il Sung, she says, is the biggest

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national event in our country. I'm going to celebrate by working even

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harder. Outside, there are glimpses of a different North Korea that

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flash past which we'd like to stop and see but we can't.

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They are hints of a less perfect world. The grey monotony of the

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city, long, patient queues for the morning tram, the uniformity of it

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all, reflections that suggest the land of the Kims isn't quite a

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socialist paradise. Almost a century after the Titanic

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set off on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, memorial

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cruise is retracing her route. HMS Balmoral has arrived in Cobh this

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evening, the last port of call visited before sinking. Jon Kay

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sent this report. This was always going to be an unusual cruise, and

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so it's proving to be. After rough seas and gale force

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winds, a welcoming sight for passengers on the memorial voyage.

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When Titanic made her final stop here 100 years ago, this port was

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called Queenstown, it's it's changed to Cobh, but the welcome

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remains the same. 100 years on, isn't it. It's good to remember it

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I think. It's part of our history, of course. We are hopefully making

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a few Bob out of it now, we need it badly! For the ship's passengers

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who were tracing Titanic's exact route, it was a final chance to be

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on dry land before crossing the Atlantic. To be here and be part of

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this, it's a once in a lifetime experience. It's very touching.

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just brings you right back to the Titanic.

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123 Irish passengers boarded here a century ago. Most of them drowned

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