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In court, the man charged with the murders of the two police officers | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
killed this week. Dale Cregan was taken to court in a | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
police convoy amid high security. Armed officers stood guard inside | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
the building and in the streets around. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Cregan stood in the dock flanked by more police, charged with four | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
murders and four attempted murders. Another man arrested on suspicion | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
of conspiracy to commit murder has been released. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Also tonight: The Government Minister accused of | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
calling a police officer a "pleb". He denies it, but is forced to | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
apologise. What he did was not appropriate. He | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
was wrong and it is right that he has apologised. He has apologised | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
to me, but he has apologised to the police. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
Violence across Pakistan as thousands protest against an anti- | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
Islam film made in America. The trouble has just broken out | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
here. The police have opened fire in this direction towards | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
protesters who managed to come through the barricades. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
China's one-child policy and the shocking impact on women forced to | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
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Laura Robson becomes the first British player in 22 years through | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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Good evening. The man charged with the murder of | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
two police officers in Greater Manchester appeared in court today | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
amid a huge security operation. Dale Cregan was taken to Manchester | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
City Magistrates' in a convoy of police vehicles and there were | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
armed officers both inside and outside the building. As well as | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
the murders of PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes, Cregan has been | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
charged with the murders of father and son, David and Mark Short and | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
with four attempted murders. Tonight, a 15-year-old boy has been | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
arrested in connection with the murders of the two police officers. | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
But has been released on bail. Our correspondent, Danny Savage | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
reports. It was just before 8am when a police convoy carrying Dale | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Cregan swept through the streets of Manchester. This was a high | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
security operation involving many armed officers. Rarely seen on the | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
streets of Britain. Once the convoy was in the Underground car park of | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
the Magistrates' Court, they stood guard outside. The pedestrian | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
entrance to the court was watched by armed response vehicles. The | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
family and friends of some of those ceeg Cregan is accused of killing | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
had a police escort to the door. At 10am, Dale Cregan, who only has one | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
eye and has grown a beard was brought into court 16. He was | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
flanked by policemen who kept their hands tucked into the top of their | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
body armour. When asked to confirm his name and age he replied "yep" | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
before being told to sit down. Cregan is accused of murdering four | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
people. In May Mark Short was found dead at a pub. Three months later | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
he is accused of killing Mark Short's father, David, who died in | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
a gun and grenade attack. Cregan is accused of killing Fiona Bone and | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
Nicola Hughes. They died of gunshot wounds. Additionally, Dale Cregan | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
faces four other counts of attempted murder in the Manchester | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
area. As the court hearing took place, | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
forensics work continued at the scene of Tuesday's killings. The | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
Prime Minister was in Manchester today for a private meeting with | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
the policewomen's families and talked about what happened here. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
It is right that we praise the work they did and remember all that they | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
have done. I think it is also important that the Government makes | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
sure that it is doing everything it can to help the Greater Manchester | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
Police force tackle organised crime and gang related violence. | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
Greater Manchester Police say a man arrested earlier in this | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
investigation on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder has | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
been released without charge. While at the scene, many people are still | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
coming here this evening to leave their tributes and read those left | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
by others. Friends and family of Fiona Bone | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
and Nicola Hughes have posted pictures online in memory of them. | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
The man accused of killing them will appear at at Manchester Crown | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
Court on Monday and in the last hour Greater Manchester Police | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
announce that had as part of the inquiry a 15-year-old boy was | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
arrested at school today on suspicion of assisting an offender. | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
Tonight, he has been released on The Conservative Chief Whip, Andrew | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Mitchell is under pressure tonight after reportedly swearing at a | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
police officer in Downing Street and calling him "a pleb". The | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
altercation happened after Mr Mitchell was barred from cycling | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
out the main gate. He denies using the words, but has admitted not | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
treating the officer with respect. David Cameron condemned the | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
behaviour as "wrong" and "inappropriate". Our political | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
correspondent, Carole Walker, is in Downing Street tonight. This is all | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
rather embarrassing particularly given the timing? Yes, Fiona and | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
tonight we have conflicting accounts of the confrontation at | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
these gates between Andrew Mitchell, the minister in charge of | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
discipline, and the police protection officers. Labour | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
described his behaviour as disgraceful and are demanding a | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
full explanation of what happened. Andrew Mitchell is used to wheeling | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
his way around Westminster and the man newly promoted to take charge | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
of party discipline did not take kindly when he was told to toe the | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
line by police in Downing Street. On Wednesday night, his attempt to | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
take his bicycle outside the vehicle gate was thwarted when | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
police insisted he use a pedestrian gate. What happened next is dispute. | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
The Sun described an outburst where Mr Mitchell called the police plebs. | :06:34. | :06:44. | |
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The Downing Street CCTV cameras have no audio recording, but the | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
police are said to have written an account of the incident in their | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
notebooks. The Prime Minister in Manchester to pay tribute to the | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
police after the deaths of two women officers, did not hide his | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
anger. What Andrew Mitchell said and what he did was not appropriate. | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
It was wrong and it is right that he has apologised. He has | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
apologised to me, but more importantly, he apologised to the | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
police and that needs to be done. Andrew Mitchell did much to shed | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
his old image as a forceful right- winger. The millionaire, former | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
investment banker, had a tough reputation. In Opposition, he was | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
Shadow Police Minister, but representatives of the force say he | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
has shown a lack of sensitivity after the two deaths in Manchester | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
this week. I think Mr Mitchell should resign | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
from office. It is clear to me from the reports that we have seen in | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
The Sun newspaper today and from speaking to officers that I | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
represent that his comments were inappropriate. | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
Today Mr Mitchell was nowhere to be seen in his constituency, local | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
people were not impressed. You can't just swear at people like | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
that. They were only doing their job, weren't they they they? He has | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
a lot of influence and he shouldn't be acting in that way. | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
Try to be polite. He should have known better. Andrew Mitchell has | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
apologised to the police officer concerned and to the Prime Minister, | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
but some in his party fear his behaviour will make it harder for | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
them to shake off the accusation that they are arrogant and out-of- | :08:23. | :08:32. | |
Well, to add to to that pressure from within the Conservative Party, | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
Boris Johnson, who said that anyone who swears at a police officer | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
should be arrested, has said that he is unimpressed at what he heard. | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
Well, for the time being, Andrew Mitchell remains in his job, but | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
the Prime Minister may have to choose whether to accept the word | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
of one of his senior ministers or that of the police protection | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
At least 15 people have been killed in Pakistan as violence erupted in | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
parts of the country during protests against an anti-Islamic | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
amateur film made in America. Thousands of people took to the | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
streets. Buildings were burnt down in the city of Peshawar including | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
cinemas and an Anglican Church. There were more protests following | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
Friday Prayers in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Lebanon and Iraq. Orla | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
Guerin sent this report from Pakistan. In the city of Lahore, | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
anger that could not be contained. What was billed as a day of love | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
for the Prophet Mohammed quickly became a day of rage. Pakistan's | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
commercial capital, Karachi was closed for businesslike the rest of | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
the country. TRANSLATION: We want to show the world that all Muslims | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
are united on this. We are ready to die for the prophet. | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
The deadliest unrest was in Karachi and there were policemen among the | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
victims. President Obama had hoped to prevent all this with an ad | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
broadcast on Pakistani TV. He condemned the video and emphasised | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
America's commitment to religious tolerance. | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
On the streets of Islamabad, this was the response. | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
American dogs, they chanted. And then they tried to push forward | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
towards the high security, diplomatic quarter. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Well, trouble has just broken out here here within the last few | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
minutes. The police have opened fire in this direction towards | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
protesters who managed to come through the barricades. For the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
second day running they have gathered in this area, attempt to | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
go reach the US Embassy up the road. For hours, a battle raged. For many | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
here, the attack on their prophet is an intolerable personal affront. | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
They were ready to risk life and limb to make their point. | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
Up ahead, keeping watch, we found Pakistan's de facto Interior | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
Minister. He defended the Government's decision to make today | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
a public holiday saying it reduced the numbers on the streets. Imagine | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
if I had not done the holiday and the schools were open and shops | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
were open, the transport was on the road, who could have handled it? At | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
least the police has got only one confrontation to handle the | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
protesters. Many may say that decision | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
backfired badly. Fuelling the unrest. By evening, riot police | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
were hurling stones at the protesters and still blocking the | :11:51. | :12:01. | |
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Two soldiers have died in separate incidents in Afghanistan. One was | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
from the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and the other | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
was from 28 Engineer Regiment. Both were in Helmand province in the | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
south of the country. Neither of the deaths is thought thought to be | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
the result of enemy action. Their families have been informed. | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
The Government borrowed more money in August than it did at the same | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
time last year, according to new figures released today. It'll add | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
to the pressure on the Chancellor George Osborne over his target to | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
bring the Government's debt down within three years. Our chief | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, has more details. It is the latest | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
snapshot of the nation's finances, the bill which comes in every month | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
showing what the Government has run up on its credit card and it shows | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
nearly �14.5 billion was borrowed in August. That was in line with | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
what analysts expected, but the Treasury wasn't denying the scale | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
of the of the problem. We have limited room for manoeuvre. The | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
idea that we can choose to borrow a lot more is demonstrated to be a | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
false view because borrowing is already higher than we would like | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
it to be. We have made progress, but we have got further to go. | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
The Government's financial statement reveals the impact of | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
recession. Corporation tax paid by companies on profits is down nearly | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
10% in the financial year to date, but that's down to North Sea | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
production problems. Spending on benefits is up 6.5% on the same | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
time last year. Labour says George Osborne is to | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
blame by pursuing policies which prevented the economy recovering | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
and adding to the UK's borrowing It shows the deficit is actually | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
rising, as a result of the Government's economic plan failing. | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
It is the worst figures for August on record. This is not what the | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
Chancellor promised. One of the Treasury's key targets is reducing | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
debt by the 2015 financial year. It has debt rising to a peak of just | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
over 76% of national income and falling slightly in 2015. Achieving | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
that is looking harder. Now, you might have thought the idea of | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
dropping the debt target would not go down well in the City. In fact | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
the Bank of England has given its blessing to the idea. The governor | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
said it would be acceptable for the Chancellor to push back on the | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
target if growth does not materialise as expected because of | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
factors beyond his control. And the City view is veering towards giving | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
Mr Osborne the benefit of the doubt if the debt plans are changed. | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
market understands that. I think the markets will give the | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
Chancellor some leeway, but however, if the fiscal position does not | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
improve over the next two to three years, I think at that point | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
investors will be running out of patience. So, the Chancellor has to | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
work out how much more he can afford on the nation's credit card | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
and how he'll present his next big financial statement in December. | :14:59. | :15:08. | |
Coming up on tonight's programme: Home to some of the world's biggest | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
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performers, EMI at the centre of a major music industry shake-up. | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
China's Communist Party is preparing to install a new | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
generation of leaders to run the country for the next decade. One of | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
the most difficult questions is whether to end the controversial | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
one-child policy, originally introduced to curb population | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
growth. Latest figures show the Chinese birth rate is way below the | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
level necessary to keep the population stable. Our | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
correspondent, Damian Grammacticas, travelled to Anhuay province for | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
this special report, beginning his journey in Shanghai. You may find | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
some of his report distressing. She is just four days' old. | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
In her mother's eyes - a little angel. She'll have no brother or | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
sister. She's the one child this family can | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
have. TRANSLATION: One child is too few. We should be allowed at least | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
two. They should change the rules. Pressure for change is growing. | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
China may have the world's biggest population, but it needs more | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
babies. The one-child policy has been too successful. | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
Shanghai now has one of the lowest birth rates in the world - 0.7 | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
children per family. So low it may never recover fully. Not acting to | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
face the policy would be one of the long-lasting legacies, a negative | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
one, for the outgoing leadership. They've missed the opportunity to | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
sort this. The rules are complex - many couples are exempted. If you | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
live in the city you can have one child only, unless both parents are | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
single children, then crow can have two. One n the countryside, one | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
child if it is a boy. If the first is a girl, then you can have | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
another. Enforcement of the policy can be brutal. At an unmarked grave | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
a father mourns his baby - a boy, the family say murdered by | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
officials. They already have a child. She is allowed a second | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
under the exemptions. When she was six months' pregnant, officials | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
dragged her to hospital and injected her to force an abortion. | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
TRANSLATION: My baby didn't die immediately. It kept on struggling | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
inside me. It broke my heart. The next day, it was born still alive. | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
It cried. The doctor said, "Don't look at it. You'll have | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
nightmares." This is where the abortion happened. Many in China | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
now want this harsh policy to end. This is another reason to scrap it | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
- a back street ultrasound clinic. We filmed secretly. Can you see the | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
sex of my baby, the woman asks. It is illegal to tell her, because if | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
parents know they prefer their one child to be a boy. It is probably a | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
girl, is the reply. It is here, in the heart of rural Anhuay province, | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
where the gender imbalance is at its worse. This is Two Rivers | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
Primary School, aborting huge numbers of baby girls is storing up | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
serious problems for the future, which China's incoming generation | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
of Communist leaders about to take power are going to have to face. | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
Year one is the worst. 10 boys and just two girls. In the school as a | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
whole boys outnumber girls by 50%. Multiply that by millions across | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
China and who will all the boys marry? China's Communist rulers are | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
reluctant to relax their controls, fearing a new population explosion. | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
But they'll have to choose - take a risk, or soldier on with the policy | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
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that is increasingly unpopular and And there's more on how China's | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
population is changing on our website, with the projections for | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
the decades ahead and what it could mean for China and the wider world. | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
The address is on the screen there: South African authorities have | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
issued an arrest warrant for the controversial politician Julius | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
Malema, the former ANC youth leader is expected to appear in court on | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
charges of money laundering and fraud. Mr Malema, once one of | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
President Zuma's closest supporters was expelled from the ruling party | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
in April for indiscipline. The leader of the UK Independence Party | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
has set out his terms for a possible electoral deal with the | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
Conservatives. Nigel Farage said a deal could be reached in return for | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
a guarantee written in blood, that there would be a referendum on | :20:13. | :20:23. | |
Britain's membership of the EU. Europe is in crisis and because of | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
it Nigel Farage believes UKIP's fortunes are blooming. They want to | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
be seen as Britain's fourth national political party. But a big | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
break through, a Member of Parliament, has not happened so far. | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
You have not persuaded me? You will not, I am afraid. They have been | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
labelled extremists and racists in the past. They believe they are in | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
the ascendancy. An alternative for those who hanker after a stronger | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
view on Europe. Conservatives in particular. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
Now, there's talk of some kind of deal with the Tories at the next | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
election, to spare David Cameron from the UKIP threat. The price | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
though will be high. The only way we would even consider | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
a negotiation of any kind at all would be a first if an absolute | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
promise was made to give this country a full, free and fair | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
referendum, so that we could decide whether we remain members of the EU | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
or not. That would have to be on the table before we even considered | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
any proposal. The UKIP leader went further. He said he wants any | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
promise written in blood before there's the chance of formal talks. | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
He knows here, in the party's Midland heartlands, their numbers | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
may be small, but it is big enough to scupper the chances of the | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
Conservatives winning the next general election outright. Europe | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
is moving says the Prime Minister towards an ever-closer political | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
union. He has ruled out a referendum on Britain leaving the | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
EU completely. I don't believe leaving the EU would be best for | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
Britain, but nor do I believe that voting to preserve the exact status | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
quo would be right either. To UKIP that is enough, enough they hope to | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
fuel a political earthquake, they say n the next Euro-elections in | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
two years' time. People vote differently at European elections | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
than at general elections. The next are in 2014. We could see UKIP | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
becoming the largest party. Last time they were second behind the | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
Conservatives. UKIP has been dismissed as a campaign group, so | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
it is talking about wind farms, prisons, a radical new flat-tax for | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
all. Europe's economies are now the inescapable issue. UKIP's issue is | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
an in-out referendum. David Cameron might have to consider whether that | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
is a price worth paying. Just 12 years after taking up the | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
sport the Afghan cricket team has played against England, who are | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
defending their Twenty20 title. Things got off to a great start for | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
Afghanistan. Craig Kieswetter out for a duck. England came away with | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
a convincing 116-run victory with Luke Wright scoring 99, not out. | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
It has been home to some of the biggest music acts to top the | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
British charts, including the Beatles, queen and Kylie Minogue. | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
They all came under the EMI umbrella. Now it is being taken | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
over by Universal music. There are fears it would be too dominant in | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
the music industry. It has been given the go ahead by regulators, | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
only on the condition that some of the biggest bands, such as Coldplay, | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
It is one of the world's biggest record companies. Kylie Minogue is | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
an EMI artist. The Sex Pistols were briefly on EMI. | :23:52. | :24:00. | |
It didn't work out. And so were the Beatles. It is that | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
near priceless back catalogue that most attracted Universal. | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
The most exciting aspect of this deal for Universal will be they own | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
the Beatles, the Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones catalogue, the holly | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
trinity. EMI is a company with a long history. It was founded in | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
1897. The famous recording studios opened in 1931. This is where the | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
Beatles made their records in the 1970s and 1960s. In an age where | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
there are sales from the back catalogue are overtaking sales of | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
new music, it is that heritage, that history that one of EMI's | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
greatest assets. The fans still gather outside the studios and on | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
the pedestrian crossing made famous by the cover of the Beatle's album. | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
They are buying fewer CDs and the ones they tend to buy are old | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
recordings, not new ones. The deal comes at a price. EMI's stake in | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Mute records must be sold and Parlophone, home to star acts like | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
Coldplay. They have to go, regulators decided, so the merged | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
company is not too powerful. Some say it will be any way. | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
Everybody involved in music Universal have a huge market share | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
now. There is a fear in all modern culture that big corporations are | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
taking everything over and making our culture souless. It is a fear | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
to anybody who likes music that this could be the case. | :25:36. | :25:45. |