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Good evening. Eyewitnesses say Syrian troops have | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
opened fire on refugees fleeing the country into neighbouring Turkey. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Two people were killed trying to cross the border while a number of | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
others were injured in a refugee camp on the Turkish side. The | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
violence comes amid scores of deaths in other parts of Syria and | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
fears that a UN-backed peace plan brokered by the former UN | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, is unraveling. Our correspondent, | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
Jonathan Head, sent this report. The violence building up just | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
inside Syria spilled over the border today. Refugees who thought | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
they'd reached safety in Turkey either fired on or caught in | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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They are killing us, just come and see all the dead. You, the world, | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
come and watch. They are slaughtering them with knives, | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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bombing the houses. You people help There were 20 injured being treated | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
in this hospital and for the first time, some had been shot on the | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Turkish side. The failure of international | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
diplomacy to stop the fighting has been a crushing blow for refugees | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
who've been waiting many months to go home. Even more so for those | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
who've been driven here just in the past week when the Annan peace plan | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
was supposed to be gaining momentum. TRANSLATION: The helicopter gunship | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
swooped down on the village. This man arrived three days ago from a | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
destroyed village. Bullets hit two of his sons who're now in Turkish | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
hospitals. The Kofi Annan peace plan, far from being Syria's last | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
great hope, has for the people who've recently arrived at this | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
camp brought only increased suffering. Sort of a diplomatic | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
miracle here in the next 24 hours, they believe they'll just have to | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
fight for their freedom. Their Turkish hosts are now inclined to | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
agree. The Annan peace plan is the only one endorsed by the Security | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
Council, including China and Russia. It calls for the Government to | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
begin withdrawing its forces and stop using heavy weapons in | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
population centres. For the opposition to commit to stop | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
fighting. And calls for all parties to ensure | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
humanitarian assistance reaches all areas affected by the fighting and | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
to implement a daily two-hour humanitarian pause. | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
Ahead of tomorrow's deadline, the Syrian Government has escalated its | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
attacks on opposition-held areas and now it's attaching impossible | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
conditions to its promise withdrawal. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
This is the village of Latamneh today. They've been pulling people | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
out of what is left of their homes after another bombardment. 35 | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
people are believed to have died here, including women and children. | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
A peace plan is unraveling. But if it fails, what then? There's | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
no alternative plan at the UN and little likelihood of enough | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
agreement there to end Syria's agony. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Options for a new type of private pension to replace final salary | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
schemes are being considered by ministers. One idea could involve a | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
company guaranteeing a fixed pension pot on retirement. The | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Government says while many businesses want to offer decent | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
pensions, final salary schemes are just too expensive. Our business | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
correspondent, Emma Simpson, reports. | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
Building up the pension pot. It's not as easy as it once was. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
Generous final salary pension schemes are increasingly scarce. | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
Today, new workers usually have to shoulder all the risk without a | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
guaranteed return. But the Pensions Minister says | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
there could be a third way - a new type of pension that would see | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
employers and their workers sharing some of those investment risks. | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
What we are trying to make sure is that firms who still want to offer | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
a decent pensions deal are helped to to so. Maybe it won't be the | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
gold-plated guaranteed pensions of the past but maybe an element of | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
guarantee, maybe the work take some uncertainty and the firm -- worker. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Morrisons is already taking this new path, as well as its existing | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
schemes it's also going to offer its workers a guaranteed pension | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
fund on retirement. But workers would then have to decide what to | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
do with that money. These days, only one in three | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
private sector workers are reckoned to be in any occupational pension | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
plan, and with final salary schemes disappearing fast, the challenge of | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
how to secure enough income for a decent retirement has never been so | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
important. If investment returns don't work | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
out, if inflation turns out to be very high, if costs work out to be | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
very expensive or if everyone starts living much, much longer, | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
the old way of thinking about pensions will have to change. | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
But some in the industry say the Government's missing the point. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
underlying problem with them, the thing that needs to be addressed if | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
we are to fix the crisis is that people aren't paying enough in. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Until we increase the rate, we won't fix the problem. Getting it | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
full is the challenge. Many companies though may be sceptical | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
about giving any more future pension guarantees. It's early days, | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
but the debate has now begun. A soldier who died in hospital in | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
Birmingham more than two months after being injured in an explosion | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
in Afghanistan has tonight been named as Corporal Jack Stanley from | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
the Queen's Royal hussards. He was seriously injured by a roadside | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
bomb while on patrol east of Lashkar Gah. The NUT has voted to | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
ballot its members on strike action if the Government scraps national | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
pay rates. The review body, which deals with pay and conditions, has | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
been asked to investigate bringing wages in line with local pay rates | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
across England and Wales. It's one of the world's most | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
reclusive and repressive regimes and this week, North Korea will | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
stage the biggest celebration in its history to commemorate its | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
founding father. The 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
Sung will be marked by the launch of a rocket and ceremonies across | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
the land. Damien Grammaticas is the only British broadcaster inside the | :06:57. | :07:06. | |
country and sent this report from the capital, Pyongyang. Every | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
single one in the crowd, perhaps 100,000 strong with a week of | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
celebrations. And emotion almost sounds | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
exaggerated. North Korea's two dead dictators, the Kims, father and son, | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
are worshipped like Gods and its people are urged to give thanks for | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
the way their nation they're told has been turned into a powerful | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
prosperous land. Today, few outsiders would | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
recognise North Korea as powerful or prosperous, but what sustains it | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
is a personality cult built around the Kim dynasty and the system of | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
totalitarian control. As the crowds dispersed, we were | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
told that we could not talk to any of them. Instead, we were brought | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
to this model silk spinning factory. It's never fired a single worker, I | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
was told. They are all so good. Apparently, it's all down to the | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
generous guidance of the two Kims. Kim ill sun always grinning in | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
every image and Kim Jong-Il, less Smiley. Under their watch, the | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
workers get interactive instruction in mathematics, physics and English. | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
This birthday celebration for Kim Il Sung, she says, is the biggest | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
national event in our country. I'm going to celebrate by working even | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
harder. Outside, there are glimpses of a different North Korea that | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
flash past which we'd like to stop and see but we can't. | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
They are hints of a less perfect world. The grey monotony of the | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
city, long, patient queues for the morning tram, the uniformity of it | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
all, reflections that suggest the land of the Kims isn't quite a | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
socialist paradise. Almost a century after the Titanic | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
set off on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, memorial | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
cruise is retracing her route. HMS Balmoral has arrived in Cobh this | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
evening, the last port of call visited before sinking. Jon Kay | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
sent this report. This was always going to be an unusual cruise, and | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
so it's proving to be. After rough seas and gale force | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
winds, a welcoming sight for passengers on the memorial voyage. | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
When Titanic made her final stop here 100 years ago, this port was | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
called Queenstown, it's it's changed to Cobh, but the welcome | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
remains the same. 100 years on, isn't it. It's good to remember it | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
I think. It's part of our history, of course. We are hopefully making | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
a few Bob out of it now, we need it badly! For the ship's passengers | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
who were tracing Titanic's exact route, it was a final chance to be | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
on dry land before crossing the Atlantic. To be here and be part of | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
this, it's a once in a lifetime experience. It's very touching. | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
just brings you right back to the Titanic. | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
123 Irish passengers boarded here a century ago. Most of them drowned | :10:21. | :10:26. |