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a landmark case at the European Court of Human Rights. The men | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
claimed it was inhuman not to have any chance of parole. Ministers | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
disagree. I think the British people will be deeply frustrated. It's | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
certainly not what they want or what they believe is right. It reaffirms | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
to me my own determination to see real changes to our human rights | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
laws. One of the men is Jeremy Bamber, who killed five members of | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
his family. A cousin rejects today's ruling. I would be very concerned | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
should he ever be let out, because he would be a threat to the public. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
We'll ask how this could affect the UK's relationship with the court. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Also, Ed Miliband sets out plans to change the relationship between | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
Labour and the unions, after the recent controversy over union | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
influence. This is the most humble day of my life. Rupert Murdoch is | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
invited back to a committee investigating the phone hacking | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
scandal. The captain of the Costa Concordia, which ran aground off | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
Italy last year, has gone on trial. And, on the eve of the Ashes, we ask | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
if England's cricketers will continue the summer of British | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
sporting success. Coming up in Sportsday, Britain's Mark Cavendish | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
finishes third in the tour defans after being involved in a crash. -- | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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Tour de France, after being involved murderers, who were sentenced to | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
spend the rest of her lives in prison, have won their case in | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Europe. The judges ruled that never having the possibility of parole was | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
inhuman, or degrading. The Prime Minister said he profoundly | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
disagreed with that decision, as we now report. Multiple murderers, | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
Jeremy Bamber, Douglas Vinter and Peter Moore. Three members of a | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
group of 49 people, serving the whole of their lives behind bars in | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
England and Wales. They are the worst and most notorious murderers. | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
They include rose west and the killer of five-year-old April Jones, | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
Mark Bridger. There has been a violation. Today, the European Court | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
of Human Rights ruled that with a whole life sentence there needed to | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
be both a possibility of release and review and that therefore there had | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
been a violation of human rights in the case of all three men. I think | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
it's very important, all the evidence shows that where people | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
serving sentences have some hope, have some possibility of review, | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
there is a much greater incentive to engage with the system, to work on | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
behaviour. Do the very worst murderers deserve that hope? On 7th | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
July August 1985, Jeremy Bamber shot his adopted parents and sister and | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
her two young sons. Following his conviction, the trial judge | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
recommended that he serve 25 years. But under the system that operated | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
at the time the then Home Secretary imposed a whole-of-life sentence. | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
His cousin gave his reaction. have had 27 years and I've lost five | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
members of my family and I would be very concerned should he ever be let | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
out. He's killed five people. He should stay where he is. Already | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
angered by rulings from the court on issues such as prisoner voting, | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
today's judgment infuriated the Conservatives. I think the British | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
people will be deeply frustrated by this. It's certainly not what they | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
want. It's not what they believe is right. It re-affirms to me my own | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
determination to see real changes to our laws. Changing human rights laws | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
currently applied by British judges would be extraordinarily difficult. | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
The Lib Dems are opposed and many argue it could damage the UK's | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
reputation around the world. The Government now has six months to | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
bring in a system to review whole-of-life sentences. If that | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
happens, then today's judgment makes it very likely that in the case of | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
my individual prisoner they would have to serve 25 years behind bars | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
before their sentence could be reviewed. The court's ruling doesn't | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
raise the prospect of imminent release, but it gives a glimmer of | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
hope to some of the most reviled murderers of modern times. | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
Live to Westminster and our deputy political editor, James Landale. How | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
do you this ruling affects the debate about the legislation? | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
won't be much difference. Nothing changes quickly when it comes to | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Europe and the Government is in no mood to rush, but it could have an | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
impact. Ministers have been out and about saying how disappointed and | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
frustrated they are, but behind the scenes they are not untieRle | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
unhappy. That's because they think the court has overreached itself | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
here. They thought this cost -- court fought this court over Abu | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Qatada and prisoner voting and they think they have an even greater | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
reason to push for reform and a reason they think the public will | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
ready. The Home Secretary says that nothing is off the table, not even | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
potentially with drawing from the jurisdiction of the court and even | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
the Convention, but all of that will have to be for a manifesto. The Lib | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Dems are opposed to pulling out of the court. That said, I have spoken | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
to a lot of Conservative and Labour MPs have made the point that Britain | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
gave up the death penalty, capital punishment in 1965, because the | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
public had been promised that in return there would be a proper life | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
sentence that meant a life sentence. Those MPs said that they will be | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
prepared to vote to protect that. James, thank you. | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Ed Miliband has set out plans to change the relationship between | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Labour and the trade unions. The plans include the pledge to end the | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
automatic affiliation fee, which is paid by millions of union members to | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
the party. He said he was seizing the moment, after the controversy | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
surrounding the choice of a candidate in Falkirk. Our political | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
editor has more details. It's a relationship as old as the | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
party itself. The unions founded Labour. But today, the party's | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
leader declared he wanted to change that relationship to suit this | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
century and not the last. Ed, not David Miliband, got this job, thanks | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
in no small part to the unions. He's always felt under pressure to prove | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
that he's not their creature. Working people should be right at | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
the hard of our party. That's why our relationship with individual | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
union members has got to change. proposals were revealed in what was | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
the home of Fleet Street's once mighty print unions. The details of | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
-- are yet to be agreed. Much of the page is still blank. But here's the | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
headline, which really matters - in the 21st century it doesn't make | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
sense for anyone to be affiliated to a political party unless they've | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
chosen to do so. In theory, this this will end automatic membership | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
and give individuals the choice whether to join or not. It was a | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
speech which a former leader said he wished he had made. I think this is | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
a defining moment and I think it's bold and strong. It's real | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
leadership, this. What is more than a little puzzling is that the speech | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
was also hailed by the leader of Britain's largest trade union, who | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
most assumed was the target of the sort of reforms Tony Blair favours. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
If Tony Blair's in favour and Len is in favour, they can't be talking | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
about the same thing? Well, Ed's achieved what might have seemed an | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
impossible position. My understanding is that Tony Blair and | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
I don't always agree with him, but I don't always disagree, but on this | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
occasion he says that this was a leadership speech and somebody | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
giving lead and I agree, it was. Will it mean that there will be many | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
fewer Unite members who are affiliated? There's no doubt about | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
that. Will there be much less money? I suspect there might be, yes. | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
Another big union, the GMB, said the plan was completely without the | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
necessary substance required to see if it's workable. The relationship | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
between the unions and Labour has a long history. Why only now is Ed | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
Miliband asking questions about it in his third year as party leader? | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
The answer is obvious of course, he's been caught up in a row over | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
whether the unions are trying to rig the selection of Parliamentary | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
candidates. That's the allegation made here in Falkirk. Labour called | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
in the police to investigate claims, which Unite, the union deny, that | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
people were signed up to the party without even knowing it. That was to | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
help choose to candidate likely to be the town's next MP. What we saw | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
in Falkirk is part of the death throws of the old politics, one that | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
was hated and rightly so. His remedy is a new Code of Conduct for those | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
wanting to become Labour candidates, spending limits for their campaigns, | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
and examining the use of American-style primaries, in which | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
party supporters, not only members, can vote. The Tories are unimpressed | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
and claim the plan could give the unions more power not less. He comes | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
out today and makes an emergency speech and it transspires that the | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
leaders love it and not surprising, because they'll get more power in | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
the Labour Party. Ed Miliband spent four days drawing up plans to change | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
the way his party's been organised for decades. He says he's seizing | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
the moment. Maybe, but no-one seems sure what his plan will add up to in | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
practice. Rupert Murdoch, the head of News | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
Corp, says he welcomes an invitation to re-appear before the Culture, | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Media and Sport Select Committee. Last week a secret recording emerged | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
in which he seemed to be telling journalists that he regretted the | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
co-operation that the company had given to the police into phone | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
hacking and illegal payments. When Rupert Murdoch last met MPs he told | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
them he was shocked, appalled and ashamed of what some of his | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
journalists had done. He was going to do everything to root out | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
wrongdoing and uncover the truth. Who could forget this opening | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
statement. This is the most humble day of my life. Two years on, a | :11:17. | :11:26. | |
secret recording broadcast last week by Channel 4 revealed a rather more | :11:26. | :11:36. | |
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He was addressing a group of around 30 journalists from the Sun, most of | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
whom are under investigation, suspected of making illegal payments | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
to officials. Inside that meeting, journalists weren't told of | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
co-operation, instead it was criticism the police were receiving. | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
Documents were no longer being handed over, they were asking for | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
court orders. Those journalists were told they would have his support | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
even if they were convicted and the whole issue was described as next to | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
nothing. I'm referring to the statement... Today, appearing from | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
the Home Affairs Committee, the Metropolitan Police had this to say. | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
The relationship hauls been a challenging one. Since May of this | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
year voluntary co-operation has been significantly reduced. And the | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
police want to study the recording as part of investigations that have | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
led to 126 arrests, 42 charges, six convictions. Rupert Murdoch | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
meanwhile was said tonight to be welcoming a chance to return to face | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
MPs in order to clear up any misconceptions. | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
In Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood has rejected plans for new elections to | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
be held next year. The group said that the preels put forward by the | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
caretaker President were unlawful and during the day there were more | :13:03. | :13:13. | |
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protests on the streets of Cairo and have huge symbolic meaning. They | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
carried 50 shrouds to commemorate the men that were killed in | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
yesterday's on the attack. They said this was not a pro-Islamic rally at | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
a protest for democracy, and against army control. I got my vote in the | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
election, I wrote it and they took my vote and they wrote it again. | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
Egypt's interim government has proposed that the constitution be | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
written and put to a referendum in four months, followed by | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
Parliamentary elections in 2014. Only then will there be presidential | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
elections. There is no appetite for the new plan among the supporters of | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
Mohamed Morsi. They say they cannot affect it because it comes with Adly | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
Mansour, who they view as a military student should. They think the | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
military should not be having any part in Egyptian politics. The | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
Muslim Brotherhood will not speak to Adly Mansour or his ministers. | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
has literally no cottages know basis, he is an illegitimate | :14:32. | :14:41. | |
president. -- he has no legitimate basis. After days of political | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
wrangling, Adly Mansour has picked a prime minister. Despite the unrest, | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
he is pressing on with his government. Tonight the political | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
parties that opposed Mohamed Morsi sent a message to the Muslim | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
Brotherhood. Let's go to early elections in which you will take | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
part and that offer is still on the table. Except reconciliation, except | :15:06. | :15:14. | |
that we are at the verge of civil war, the country is in a state of | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
chaos. Another funeral procession in Alexandria for two policeman killed | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
yesterday. These events make it all the more difficult for protesters | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
and politicians to reach the compromise that Egypt is so | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
desperately needs. The captain of the Costa Concordia, | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
the cruise liner that ran aground off the Italian coast last year, has | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
appeared in court charged with multiple counts of manslaughter. | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
More than 4,000 passengers were onboard when the liner hit a reef | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
off the island of Giglio. 32 passengers died in the accident. | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
Francesco Schettino has been accused of cowardice by parts of the Italian | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
media, as our correspondent Christian Fraser reports. | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
The Italian captain, Francesco Schettino, striding into court this | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
morning with that same confident swagger he displayed a board his | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
ship. He had sailed the Costa Concordia within 100 metres of a | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
coastline and on its ill-fated approach to the island of Giglio, | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
prosecutors say he was talking on his mobile phone. | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
TRANSLATION: Not only did he fail in his management of the emergency, he | :16:24. | :16:34. | |
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put his own life above the lives of his passengers. Today, the shipwreck | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
is surrounded by cranes, the biggest salvage operation ever. In evidence | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
they will play the Black box recordings which include the | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
captain's conflicted orders and the chaos that followed. The ship left | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
its planned route. The captain did spot the rock but it was too late. | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
He's turned ripped a hole in the stern. The power failed. Only by | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
like did the ship drift back to the reef, where it tipped violently to | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
starboard. It took Francesco Schettino 45 minutes to issue the | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
emergency. Those stranded were now on their own. There are three issues | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
which this trial will tackle. Why did captain Francesco Schettino | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
leave the safety of the deep channels? Did his delay in calling | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
the order to abandon ship cost more lives? And why was he online -- on | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
land when hundreds of his passengers were still on the ship? Francesco | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
Schettino still maintains he slipped and fell onto one of the life boats. | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
One of the coastguards never really believed him. Newlyweds, Ian and | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
Janice, were among the last to escape. They were celebrating their | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
honeymoon. They climbed through a porthole but at this point Francesco | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
Schettino had checked into a hotel. He was a sponsored in his bed while | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
I was clambering off a ship down a rope ladder. I could not believe | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
anybody would be so selfish. passengers did not escape. The only | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
solace for their families is that Captain Coward, as he is called by | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
the Italian media, is facing 20 years in jail. Not that justice will | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
be quick. The trial has been postponed for a week because of a | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
lawyer strike. An inquest jury has decided that an | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
Angolan man who died while being deported from the UK was unlawfully | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
killed. The inquest heard that Jimmy Mubenga was restrained on a plane by | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
three G4S guards at Heathrow and made repeated appeals for help | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
before losing consciousness. The Crown Prosecution Service had | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
decided not to bring charges in relation to Mr Mubenga's death but | :18:52. | :19:02. | |
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that may change, as our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger reports. | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
46-year-old Jimmy Mubenga lived legally in Britain for 16 years but | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
in 2010 he was being reported to Angola -- deported to Angola. He | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
died before his plane left the ground. His widow welcomed the | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
verdict that he had been unlawfully killed. I feel like Jimmy is resting | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
in peace now because everything was behind the door and now it has come | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
out. I feel happy. Jimmy Mubenga did not want to leave the UK but it | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
wasn't until he boarded the British Airways flight to Angola that he | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
showed signs of violence. After a struggle between Mr Mubenga and the | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
guards, fellow passengers said they heard him screaming repeatedly, I | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
can't breathe, you are killing me. He was handcuffed from behind and | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
his head was forced down to his knees. It was unreasonable force, | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
said the jury, and a significant cause of his death. And earlier | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
decision not to prosecute the G4S guards would be reconsidered. The | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
company said it acted appropriately. Campaigners say it was a tragedy | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
waiting to happen. We need to have an urgent review of the way in which | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
private companies are involved in deportations because there has been | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
a long documented history of evidence of allegations of excessive | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
force well before Jimmy Mubenga died. The Home Office is currently | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
reviewing restraint techniques. With regard to the case of Jimmy | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
Mubenga, it says it expects the highest standards from its | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
contractors. Investigators in Canada are still | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
trying to work out what caused a train carrying oil to crash and | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
explode in a village in Quebec, killing at least 13 people. -- 15 | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
people. Today the firm in charge and fire-fighters called to an earlier | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
blaze onboard were both blaming each other for the disaster. Around 40 | :21:01. | :21:09. | |
people are still missing. -- 50 people. | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
Once a sleepy lakeside town of short distance from the American border, | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
Lac-Megantic has now been reduced to rubble. A runaway train containing | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
pressurised containers of crude oil came barrelling down the hillside | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
and once it reached here, jumped the rails and exploded. The first photos | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
of the town centre released today show a scene of absolute | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
devastation. This man and his wife were among those whose home was | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
destroyed by the explosion. We have five neighbours for sure that are | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
dead. Five neighbours. With fire is still burning, there are parts of | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
the town that investigators are still unable to get to. The key | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
question of course is what went wrong. Particularly puzzling is the | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
fact that a small fire broke out on the train as it was parked up in a | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
nearby village prior to a shift change. Firefighters dealt with that | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
but a short while later, the train was barrelling down hill, destined | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
for this small town. One suggestion is that by shutting off the | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
locomotive in order to deal with the fire, the firefighters could have | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
unwittingly shut off its brakes as well. Thus causing the carriages to | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
roll down. Officials meanwhile struggling to identify the bodies | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
and there is a feeling that many of the dead will never be traced. | :22:41. | :22:50. | |
don't have any more bodies that have been found. How did they manage to | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
derail? That is part of the investigation. Officials are asking | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
if families of those missing to provide raises or anything with | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
samples of their DNA. This one sleepy town is bracing itself for | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
more bad news in the days ahead. Dozens of people were injured today | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
in a car bombing in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The blast happened | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
in a suburb loyal to the Shia militant group, Hezbollah, whose | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
fighters have been supporting President Assad's forces in | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
neighbouring Syria. No group has said it carried out the attack. | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
The International Monetary Fund has increased its economic growth | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
forecast for the UK this year from 0.7% to 0.9%. It's the first time | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
since April 2012 that the IMF has raised its UK forecast. Our | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
economics editor Stephanie Flanders is with me. Should people be | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
celebrating? It is clearly good news and it is | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
bit of a novelty. I have been telling you in the last few years | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
that the IMF have cut our growth forecast again. Today they raised it | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
slightly on a day where they were cutting the forecast for quite a | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
large part of the world, particularly in that you market | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
economies like China, Russia and Brazil. So you could see the IMF is | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
catching up with some of the good news we have heard about the economy | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
in the last few months in the UK. The UK think tank said today that | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
the economy grew by 0.6% in the last three months. But let's be clear, | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
this is still a very modest recovery by historical standards. Even the | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
IMF forecast is a bit lower than they were hoping for at the start of | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
the year and they are still expecting only fairly modest growth | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
next year as well. You can see why we might still need to worry. The | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
Eurozone is still deep in recession and a massive question over the | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
emerging market economies. Can they cope with the possible end of the US | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
policy of pumping cheap money into the global economy? All of that | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
could contain our growth. Thank you, Stephanie. | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
The Ashes series between England and Australia begins at Trent Bridge | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
tomorrow. The Australian captain, Michael Clarke, admitted the hosts | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
were favourites to make it three in a row. Joe Wilson reports. | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
England versus Australia, the cricket series which sells itself | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
and sells out grounds but that does not mean you can't add some hype. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
Alistair Cooke is a near captain, realising that when it is the Ashes, | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
everyone suddenly cares. I want to wish the best of luck. The red | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
arrows are right behind the England cricket team. Best of luck to | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
Alistair Cooke and the boys. Pressure? One of the big differences | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
in the series against Australia is the general interest in the series. | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
Over the last couple of weeks, a lot of people have come up in the street | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
and said good luck. On the other side of the world, these cricketers | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
in Sydney know the Ashes are happening in England and may choose | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
to sleep through it. The ponds are favourite and they deserve to be. | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
would be closer than we are led to believe but I still think it will go | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
England's way. Australia lost their last test series in India but since | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
they have been in England they have gone from disarray to transition. | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
Comparing the two, England has solidity. Andy Flowers won the Ashes | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
twice and Darren Lehman only took over Australia recently. Australia | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
depend on Michael Clarke, great record but suspect back. James | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
Anderson seems to be in his prime. James Pattinson is quick and | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
talented but inexperienced. England are expected to win. The Australian | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
team have nothing to lose, I guess, so hopefully they will give it | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
everything. The Ashes breathes life into test cricket. Mass media | :27:11. | :27:15. |