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A prison officer is killed in Northern Ireland - the first murder | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
of its kind there for 20 years. David Black was shot on his way to | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
work. It's thought dissident Republicans are responsible. He was | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
ambushed in his car on a motorway. Northern Ireland's First Minister | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
condemns the attack. The whole of this community is roundly and | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
unitedly opposed to them and will continue to stand up to them. We | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
will face them down and they will never win. We'll be assessing what | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
impact the murder may have on Northern Ireland's peace process. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Also tonight: The comedian Freddie Starr is arrested as part of the | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Jimmy Savile investigations. In an earlier interview, he insisted he | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
is innocent. The allegation is ridiculous. It's... I am done for | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
words. New Yorkers in a jam as commuters | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
try to get into work after Superstorm Sandy. Meanwhile, Obama | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
and Romney are on the campaign trail as the polls show they are | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
still neck and neck. And, the latest casualty on the | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
High Street - Comet goes into administration, 6,500 jobs are at | :01:13. | :01:22. | |
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risk. I will be here with Sportsday later, including Murray's Masters | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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meltdown in Paris. Knocked out by a Good evening. It's the first murder | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
of its kind in 20 years in Northern Ireland - a prison officer has been | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
shot and killed on his way to work. No one's yet claimed responsibility | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
for the death of David Black but the finger of blame is being | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
pointed at dissident Republicans. Stormont's First Minister, Peter | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Robinson, and his deputy, Martin McGuinness, stood together to | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
condemn the attack and insisted it would not destabilise the peace | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
process. Chris Buckler has more. David Black was shot dead as he | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
drove to work. In the minds of dissident Republicans it was that | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
job as a prison officer that made him a target. The attack was a | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
simple ambush. As he drove along the M1 motorway near the start of | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
rush hour a car pulled up beside him and a gunman fired several | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
shots. By the time his car crashed into the side, it's believed he was | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
already dead. David Black is the 30th prison officer to be killed by | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
paramilitaries since the 1970s. And the first to be murdered in almost | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
20 years. The whole of this community is roundly and unitedly | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
opposed to them and will continue to stand up to them. We will face | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
them down and they will never win. David Black had left his home in | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Cookstown and was on his way to start a shift at Maghaberry Prison. | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
He was driving along the M1 between Portadown and Lurgan at about | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
7.30am this morning when a car pulled up alongside him and shots | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
were fired. The car used by the gunmen was later found abandoned a | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
distance away near Lurgan in County Armagh. The vehicle which had | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
Dublin number plates had been burned out. It was a completely | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
senseless attack. It demonstrates aptly the wrecklessness, the | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
ruthlessness and the sheer dangerousness of those who still | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
oppose peace. Dissident Republicans are involved in a protest at the | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
jail where David Black worked. They're demanding special political | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
status and an end to strip searches. Alongside the police and army many | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
prison officers were targeted in attacks during the years of The | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
Troubles. What they can't kill is the peace process. And we are the | :03:56. | :04:05. | |
proof of that. Our community stands absolutely four square and united. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
The shooting happened a matter of miles away from this estate in | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Craigavon, where the first member of the Police Service of Northern | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
Ireland was killed just a few years ago. There are still pockets of | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
hardline Republicans determined to oppose political change in Northern | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
Ireland at whatever cost and for a public now used to peace, what was | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
in effect a drive-by shooting is particularly shocking.. It's like | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
something you would see in a movie. It's just frightening when you | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
think about it. The return of violence is a worry for many here. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
But it's devastating for David Black's family. He had applied for | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
early redundancy and was planning for life after serving as a prison | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
officer during some of the worst kwraoerbs of The -- years of The | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Troubles. Chris is live now for us in | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Stormont. What effect will today's murder have on the peace process | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
there? Well, when you take a look at this there's been condemnation | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
from all sides, both north and south of the Irish border and | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
people are united. This will also involve an investigation from | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
police officers from the Republic of Ireland as well as Northern | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
Ireland. They will stand very much united. At the same time, this | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
attack does show once again the threat posed by dissident | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Republicans and in recent months there have been indications that | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
those groupings, although small, have been attempting to become more | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
organised. A number of prison officers in the last year have been | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
warned about the safety, some even moved from their home. But it's | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
worth emphasising again that it was back in 1993 that the last prison | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
officer was killed by paramilitaries. As a result, this | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
has caused a great deal of shock, in a place where such killings were | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
once common and that does show that Northern Ireland has changed, just | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
that shock, but at the same time the shooting also shows the threat | :05:50. | :06:00. | |
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that remains. Thank you. The death toll on the north-east coast of | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
America from Superstorm Sandy is continuing to rise. Eighty people | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
are believed to have been killed with many feared missing and | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
millions of people are still without power. There have been | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
chaotic scenes in New York as commuters battle to get into work. | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
Steve Kingston has the first of our reports tonight from New York. | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
It was the commute from hell. A painful crawl that would test the | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
patience of even the most hardened New Yorkers. This is crazy. It's | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
taking me 45 minutes just to get from there on 3rd Street. I never | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
seen traffic like this in my life. This was the bus queue in Brooklyn, | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
snaking around a giant sports arena. And here the fuel queue at one of | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
the number of places where petrol is still flowing. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
We are finally crossing the bridge into Manhattan now. One of the | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
things that the mayor's office has done in theory to make the flow of | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
trafg smoother -- traffic traffic smoother is so say every car has to | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
have at least three people in it but it's still been a torturous | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
journey. At checkpoints the police were counting heads to enforce that | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
new rule. While in neighbouring New Jersey | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
the National Guard are taking the lead, moving residents out of | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
waterlogged homes, among them those who will hear stories of their | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
escape in years to come. But other lives were cut short. He was a | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
really kind person, with a very gentle sweet spirit. When Marcia | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
called her son's phone on Tuesday morning a policeman answered. Jacob | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
had been killed by a falling tree. It feels like a dream and when I | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
woke up this morning and realised my son's never coming home... You | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
know, it keeps sinking in, that we have lost him. | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
The material damage can be put right but here in Long Island the | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
clearup will be time consuming and costly. | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
While back in New York's China Town police officers are directing the | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
traffic. The lights are still out in Manhattan alone a quarter of a | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
million people are without electricity. | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
Do you have power? Do I have power? No. I am in the dark. There is one | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
ray of light, and it's underground. The New York subway began offering | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
a restricted service this morning but it will be many months before | :08:21. | :08:30. | |
the familiar everyday chaos of this city returns. | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
President Obama has resumed his election campaign, which he'd | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
suspended because of the storm. But with less than four days to the | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
elections, one of the latest polls show that the presidential race | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
remains effectively tied - President Obama is on 47% and | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
challenger Mitt Romney is only one point behind. Bridget Kendall | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
reports from the campaign trail. Arriving in style for his first | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
campaign appearance since the hurricane. Barack Obama in | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
Wisconsin today with a new spring in his step, seizing his slogan of | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
change back from his opponent, Governor Romney. He is saying he is | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
the candidate of change. Well let me tell you, Wisconsin, we know | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
what change looks like. And what the Governor's offering sure ain't | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
change. A sign the fight to the finish is on. I will fight for you | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
and your families every single day as hard as I know how, you know | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
that. What a turnaround. No longer on the back foot, the President is | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
basking in new high approval ratings for his leadership during | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
the storm. President Obama's campaign slogan | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
is Forward. I think a better term would be Forewarned. In Virginia | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
another swing state, the former Governor and millionaire | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
businessman Mitt Romney needs Republicans to keep the faith. | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
know that the President wants to see four more years and that's his | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
chant. Four more years. Our chant is this - five more days, five more | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
days. This Republican rally is all about hype, getting energy back | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
into the Mitt Romney campaign after a tricky few days. It may have got | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
harder to attack President Obama for failure of leadership, or | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
failing to work with Republicans, but the message Mitt Romney is | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
drumming home here is that he is still the better candidate to sort | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
out the American economy. Virginia is a key battle ground, | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
last time Obama won here. But this time Republicans thought they had | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
the edge until the hurricane came along. But could the storm affect | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
the race? Transport worker Steven thinks so. Even though he is a | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
Romney voter. I think benefited, politically, President Obama. He | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
was there right on the ground, right in the beginning. I think | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
that's what leaders need to do. John is someone whose views could | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
really mat are next -- matter next week, still an undecided volter -- | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
voter has it affected your view? I am still in the middle. I don't | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
know what to think. I am going to think when I vote on Tuesday. | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
only four full campaigning days left to go, it may be the deciding | :11:11. | :11:21. | |
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factor, whether the hurricane tips this election one way or another. | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
The comedian Freddie Starr has been arrested in connection with the | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Jimmy Savile abuse investigation. Scotland Yard said he was being | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
held at a police station in Warwickshire on suspicion of sexual | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
offences. Freddie Starr has previously offered to speak to the | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
police, and has denied any wrongdoing. David Sillito has the | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
latest. The police at Freddie Starr's home | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
this evening. The comedian had said last week he wanted to speak to | :11:46. | :11:54. | |
police to clear his name. Back in in 1974 he had appeared | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
with Jimmy Savile on a programme called Clunk Click. Also in the | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
audience in the yellow top a teenager, Karin Ward. She She has | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
accused Freddie Starr of groping her in a dressing room with Jimmy | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
Savile and Gary Glitter. A few days ago, Freddie Starr and his fiancee | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
invited cameras in to protest his innocence. The allegation is | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
ridiculous. For someone to say that I went in a dressing room with with | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
with Jimmy Savile and Gary Glitter is beyond belief. It is... So far | :12:28. | :12:37. | |
out, it's like yeah, in your dreams. He was, he said, appalled at what | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
he heard about Jimmy Savile, especially as he himself claims he | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
too was sexually abused as an eight-year-old. I know how they | :12:45. | :12:55. | |
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feel. I know that. Because I feel the same way. I feel so sorry for | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
them that this animal has been going around for years and years | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
and years, the press knew about it, the police knew about it. You know, | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
the BBC knew about it. When skwraoeul in a -- meanwhile in a a | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
separate development a lawyer representing people who claim to | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
have abused says he has issued legal letters seeking compensation | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
from Savile's estate and also in one case, the BBC. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
An auction back in July added to the millions waiting to be | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
distributed to Jimmy Savile's beneficiaries, that account was | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
today on hold. Meanwhile, in Warwickshire police remained at | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
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Christopher Tappin, whose 65, will be sentenced in January. His | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
lawyers said a deal with prosecutors that he was unlikely to | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
serve any prison term back in the UK. The Prime Minister's troubles | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
over Europe have intensified. After last night's Commons defeat, David | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
Cameron said he would listen to concerns by Tory rebels about the | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
size of the EU budget. But Nick Clegg said there was no chance of | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
securing a budget cut. The also warned that Conservative plans to | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
reclaim powers from Brussels Ra false promise wrapped in the Union | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
Jack. Stop obsessing about Europe, David Cameron told his party when | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
he became their leader. Now it is him who is being forced to obsess | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
about it, as he's torn between the demands of Tory rebels, the Lib | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
Dems and Europe. 307. 294. government suffered a rare defeat | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
in the Commons last night as MPs voted to cut the EU's next Budget. | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
Tory rebels aligned themselves with Labour. Of course I will listen | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
carefully, but we should be absolutely clear. This government | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
is taking the toughest approach to the EU budget of any other | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
government in this country's history. It fell to his Debbie did, | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
Nick Clegg, to translate what that means. Telling MPs in effect that | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
what they devoted four could not and would not be delivered. There | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
is absolutely no prospect of securing a real-terms cut to the | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
European Union budget. A coalition government position remains the | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
same. We will not accept increase above inflation to the EU budget. | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
Be realistic about what can be negotiated, is Nick Clegg's message. | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
Stand up and fight, say the Tory rebels in reply. I find that when I | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
going to a negotiation I don't give away with my bottom line to start | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
with, I start with something I really, really want and see how far | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
I can get. I think the government needs to toughen up its position. | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
David Cameron has already experienced what it's like to find | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
himself isolated in Europe. He now knows he needs to find allies not | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
just to curb the EU budget but to agree how the cake is sliced up | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
between different competing interests. The EU spends | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
approximately �100 billion a year. Not just on so-called neural crafts, | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
but on subsidies for farmers and Investment in Europe's poorer | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
regions. Brussels is proposing an increase in a budget of 5%. They | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
have the backing of many countries, the 17 out of Preddie seven member | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
states gain more than they put in. Britain has one of those who | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
doesn't. The Treasury puts our annual net contribution at over �8 | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
billion. Today, Greek public sector workers protested again against | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
austerity measures. They, like voters in many European countries, | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
see an increase in the EU budget as something to welcome not condemn. | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
If negotiating a new EU budget is causing David Cameron a headache, | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
even more so his plan one day to renegotiate Britain's entire | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
relationship with Europe. Today, as deputy Nick Clegg said, that in | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
effect that idea was a total non- runner. Britain may want to claw | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
back some powers from the EU, Nick Clegg said, but the rest of Europe | :17:08. | :17:16. | |
wouldn't allow a deal that suited us alone. A look a little closer. | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
Because they Grant, unilateral repatriation of powers might sound | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
appealing but in reality it is a false promise wrapped in a Union | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
Jack. If only David Cameron could get the coalition, his own MPs and | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
the rest of Europe to all agree with him, he wouldn't have a | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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Coming up... A tale of two Chinas, the haves and have-nots, as the gap | :17:45. | :17:54. | |
grows between rich and poor. The electrical giant Comet was going | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
into administration, putting 6500 jobs at risk. It's the latest and | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
one of the biggest high-street failures of recent years. The store | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
has traded since 1933 and has been hit hard by the recession and the | :18:08. | :18:17. | |
rise of online shopping. Comet, we deal in your ideal. But things have | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
been far from ideal for a long time for this loss-making retailer. | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
Today, at its head office in Hull, anxiety and confusion for workers. | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
I don't know anything. You probably know more than we do. We are gutted | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
really. Apprehensive. Been there before. Just back in February Comet | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
was sold for a token �2. A sign of how much trouble it was in. Now, at | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
the most crucial time of the year, Comet is being forced to pay | :18:51. | :18:59. | |
suppliers up front., causing cashflow problems. The final blow. | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Comet Double B pursued a retail strategy and it ignored the | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
internet and e-commerce. Fundamentally that is what caused | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
the downfall. For 10 years they just focused on not embracing the | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
Internet in the way that other retailers have. This is one of the | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
biggest retail collapses since Woolworths back in 2008. This year | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
we've seen a whole host of retailers falling into | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
administration. From Game and Clinton Cards, To more recently JJB | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Sports. Now there's another household name and it all shows | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
just how fast the High Street is changing. A new era for retailers | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
is under way. You need less stores to reach customers. You need fewer | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
chains than we've got at the moment. That's why we've seen all of these | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
players dropped out and even players who are quite healthy are | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
shutting stores and readjusting space to new requirements. Tonight | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
Comet's website went down, overwhelmed, it seems, by customers. | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
The Cavaday says it's urgent be working on plans to secure its | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
future. Stores remain open for now. Deliveries for items already paid | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
for will be honoured. As for gift vouchers, the message is used now | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
while stocks last. The body of the missing schoolboy Pierre Farnes is | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
believed to have been found off the island of Porquerolles in the south | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
of France. He went missing on Saturday afternoon, just hours | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
after arriving on the island for a half-term holiday. His family are | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
due to form a identify his body. In a week's time, China's Communist | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
Party will gather in Beijing to appoint new leaders who will rule | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
the country for the next decade. One of the main challenges they | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
will face is the growing gap between the rich and the poor. In | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
recent years millions have been lifted out of poverty but many have | :20:48. | :20:57. | |
been left behind. Our reporter sense this from Guizhou in China. | :20:57. | :21:05. | |
In China's poorest province, deep in its Rohart, life still ambles by. | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
The economic boom in the cities along the coast is happening far | :21:08. | :21:18. | |
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from here. Nevertheless, today they are celebrating. It is this man's | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
first child. There's a banquet and gifts, a refrigerator, a new bed. | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
He could never afford these himself. A farmer and labourer, he's learnt | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
nothing this year. He is one of over 100 million Chinese in its | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
villages still living below the poverty line. | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
TRANSLATION: It's not fair. I've been to the city's, they are rich, | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
eat in fancy restaurants every day. My life doesn't compare. It's a | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
problem China's next leaders know they must tackle. China's economic | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
growth has been deeply unfair, some have not benefited much. The gap | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
between the rich and the rest is yawning ever wider. It may not be | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
sustainable. A three-hour flight away in Beijing, people now enjoy | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
income is comparable to parts of Europe. The Communist Party's rule | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
here rests on the assumption it is making everyone better off. But | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
China is now one of the most equal so -- one of the most unequal | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
societies everywhere. The inequalities of blaring and growing. | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
1 million Chinese are now millionaires. They dressed in | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
designer outfits which cost more money than a farmer in his village | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
has had in his lifetime. TRANSLATION: In the West polo is | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
for the elite. In China we are rich now so we want what is fashionable | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
and sophisticated. It's natural. Sophistication means a French | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
chateau. We created near Beijing. Those with money come here to | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
sample Western lifestyles and get a taste for leisure and luxury. The | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
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most pricey wine grown at the Chateau costs �1,000 a bottle. Cao | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
Pengfang is also spending �1,000 on the castle themed wedding photos. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
They want to impress their relatives who've never left China. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
Both estate agents, they are part of the rising middle class. But | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
China's inner qualities mean they, too, don't feel particularly well- | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
off, not when they see how will be some are becoming. | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
TRANSLATION: Our lives are better than the poorest but far worse than | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
the rich. It's not great, we are stuck in the middle. The poorest | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
feel stuck, too, in the countryside. It is why China's communist rulers | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
say tackling inequality is now one of the most urgent tasks. Earring | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
if they fail it could undermine the legitimacy of their one-party rule. | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
In the last half-hour the prestigious Mercury Prize for Best | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
Album of the year has been awarded to Alt-J, an electronic rock | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
quartet and relative newcomers to the UK music scene. With digital | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
downloads of individual songs far outselling albums, is the prize | :24:19. | :24:28. | |
beginning to lose its relevance? The winner of the 2012 Barclaycard | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
Mercury Prize is... Alt-J! For their album, An Awesome Wave. | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
the winners of this Mercury Prize for their debut album, praised for | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
its style of original electronica rock. I definitely prepared myself | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
for there's no way we are going to win it so don't even bother | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
entertaining the idea. I can't quite believe where we are right | :24:51. | :25:00. | |
now. Seriously. I'm literally curdling with excitement! This is a | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
prize famous for throwing the musical spotlight on to the new and | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
relatively unknown. Also on tonight's short list were the likes | :25:08. | :25:17. | |
of Sanli... Lianne La Havas... And Ben Howard. None of them yet close | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
to being household names. It is a difficult time for the album. While | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
single sales have been increasing up from 87 million in 2007, to 278 | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
million in 2011, albums that sales have been steadily dropping. It is | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
an issue recognised by many of tonight's nominees, such as BRIT | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
Award winner Plan B. People do just by the songs they want. That's why | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
I've always tried to give the public another reason to buy my | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
music, by incorporating the story. If you only take one Lord two songs | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
you are missing other parts of the story. The industry is always | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
looking for the stars of tomorrow, but rather than giving it through | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
something like a TV talent show, the Mercurys pride themselves on | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
discovering artists who come up through the traditional grass roots | :26:11. | :26:17. |