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four-year-old Daniel Pelka are sentenced to life in prison for what | :00:06. | :00:12. | |
the judge calls their incomprehensible brutality. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek beat, starved and | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
terrorised Daniel over several months. By the time he died, he was | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
so emaciated he was compared to a concentration camp victim. His | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
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father in Poland voices his anger. TRANSLATION: I was satisfied with | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
the sentence but in my heart and soul I would like them to experience | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
the same as my son. We'll be looking at whether yet | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
another Serious Case Review into the death of a child will stop it | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
happening again. Also tonight: these people have the | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
right to live in this country. Anger at immigration spot checks | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
prompts an investigation into government policy by the equality | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
watchdog. The British Embassy in Yemen is to | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
close this weekend because of security concerns. | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
In Zimbabwe's elections, Robert Mugabe claims victory for his party | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
but Morgan Tsvangirai's opposition claims massive vote rigging. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
And in Afghanistan's airforce, a breakthrough for women's rights - | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
the first female aeroplane pilot. Coming up in Sportsday: Australia | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
take control, as England close day two of the third Ashes Test on 52 | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
for two. The tourists declared on 527 for | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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Good evening. The mother and stepfather of | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
four-year-old Daniel Pelka have been sentenced to life for his murder and | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
told they must each serve a minimum of 30 years in prison. Daniel died | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
after suffering months of abuse at the hands of Magdelena Luczak and | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
her partner Mariusz Krezolek at their home in Coventry. The judge | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
said the scale of Daniel's suffering was "truly horrific" . Here's Sian | :02:14. | :02:24. | |
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Lloyd. Tonight, the couple who carried out | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
acts of unimaginable cruelty are beginning life sentences behind bars | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
for a murder that was shocking and deeply disturbing. Four-year-olds | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
Daniel Pelka was killed by a fatal blow after being beaten and starved | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
for months. His mother, Magdelena Luczak, and stepfather, Mariusz | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
Krezolek, will serve at least 30 years in prison, some of the longest | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
sentences that can be imposed, to reflect the evil of their crime. The | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
couple looked on in passively as the judge told them, he was subjected I | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
both of you to deliberate, escalating and incomprehensible | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
brutality. For reasons which are unfathomable, Daniel became a target | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
for derision, abuse and systematic cruelty. The scale of his suffering | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
was truly horrific. We hope that the sentence today | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
brings closure to this case for the family of Daniel, both in this | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
country and in Poland. This is Daniel on his last day at | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
school, the last time he was seen alive. He was terrified and | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
starving. His mother bribed him not to tell teachers what was happening | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
with the promise of a chocolate bar. But it is clear there were many | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
opportunities to save him, opportunities that were missed. | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Teachers, social workers, the police and doctors have questions to | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
answer. The Serious Case Review carried out by Coventry safeguarding | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
children board will report in six weeks. There were lots of different | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
indications that things were not well with him, but these did not go | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
further, or as far as they should have done, in the view of the board | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
at that time. And that is obviously what we are looking at, to try and | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
understand what it was about behaviours and systems in this | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
particular case that did not work as well as they should. There has been | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
a succession of terrible child abuse cases. In each of these cases there | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
were serious questions about why agencies were not robust enough. | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
This is about the needs of the Child leading your practice. And if you | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
have to blow the whistle and be unpopular, and difficult as a | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
professional, that is your role on behalf of the child. No child can | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
defend their own rights. Adults have to do it. People here in Coventry | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
are shocked and ashamed at what happened to Daniel Pelka in their | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
city. In this neighbourhood, they knew Mariusz Krezolek had a temper, | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
but they had no idea he and Magdelena Luczak could ease so | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
cruel. They showed no remorse jeering the nine week trial. Why | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
they tormented and murdered Daniel may never be known. -- they showed | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
no remorse jewel ring the trial. In Poland, the father of Daniel | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
Pelka has reacted with anger at the abuse of his son, but Daniel's | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
grandmother has blamed the British authorities for not intervening | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
earlier to stop her daughter from killing him. From Poland, Steven | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
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Evans reports. In his flat in Poland, Daniel | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
Pelka's father remembers his murdered son in the only Dick Cheney | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
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has. I know who killed, and you know who killed. He expressed | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
satisfaction at the long jail sentences imposed on the couple who | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
killed his son. He told me that deep in his heart he wanted them to | :06:19. | :06:28. | |
experience the same pain that his child experienced. This is the town | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
where the mother who murdered the sun came from all stop it was once a | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
big textile city that went into decline. Daniel's mother left her | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
rundown home in Poland barely in her 20s. She must have hoped that | :06:48. | :06:57. | |
Britain would offer a better life. Daniel's grandmother finds it hard | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
to grasp what has happened. She is ashamed to show her face. She feels | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
she has lost a grandson, and is now a daughter. She told me that her | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
daughter had come under the spell of a new partner, but she said Britain | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
was also to blame. How, she said, could the authorities not see what | :07:18. | :07:26. | |
was going on? Daniel's father speaks some English from his time in | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
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Coventry. I am satisfied when I know about what is said in court today. | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
She and he get 30 years, and I'm very happy. The family of this | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
little boy wondering how such an innocent child could be murdered so | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
callously by those who should have loved him. | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
The Equality and Human Rights Commission says it's investigating | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
whether recent immigration checks carried out at London Tube stations | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
and railway stations amount to unlawful discrimination. The move | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
follows complaints that people were targeted solely because of the | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
colour of their skin. But the government has strongly rejected the | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
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suggestion that the checks are based on race. June Kelly reports. | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
The temperature is rising in the immigration debate. This was the | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
scene outside a shopping centre in Southall, west London, where there | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
was an operation to find illegal immigrants. And this is the | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
government's message to those who are in the UK but should not be. The | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
reaction has been mixed, but the vans have propelled immigration once | :08:47. | :08:57. | |
again to the top of the political agenda. Stay where you are. | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Yesterday, there were raids across the country targeting suspected | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
illegal immigrant. It is an issue on which politicians of all parties | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
want to appear tough. When it comes to official figures, last year there | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
were 14,000 enforcement operations involving immigration staff, | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
resulting in 9000 arrests. Those figures include stopping people at | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
places like tube stations, which happened at this station this week. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
As they tried to root out people here illegally, it is claimed | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
officials were focused on those from ethnic minorities. They were | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
searching a lot of people for IDE, but mostly Asian guys. I thought | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
that was a bit prejudiced as there are a lot of white people around | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
this area. Anyone who did not look white they were apparently stopping. | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
Basically they were doing racist profiling. The rules state that | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
immigration operations must be based on intelligence. Officials are | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
instructed they must have reasonable suspicion that someone could be an | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
illegal immigrant before they stop them. They are told to monitor | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
behaviour and decide if people are acting suspiciously. Now, the | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
Equality and Human Rights Commission says it is looking at whether such | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
street operations, as they are called, are actually lawful. | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
Ministers are mounting a defence. They are not about the colour of | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
someone's skin, not about their ethnicity. They are about whether | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
they have leave to be here. We welcome migrants coming here to work | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
or study. We have many people who have great skills to bring to the | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
country. We just do not want people who come here to break the law. | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
Ranged against the government, one of Labour's newest peers, Doreen | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
Lawrence. Her son was murdered in a racist attack, and she says she | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
intends to take up the issue. Some have said the immigration debate is | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
toxic. With less than two years to the election, politicians know that | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
immigration is one of the key issues for voters and they are well aware | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
that many support a rigorous approach. | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
The British Embassy in Yemen is to close this Sunday and Monday because | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
of security concerns. Yesterday, Washington announced it would close | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
some US embassies on Sunday as April caution against an unspecified | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
Al-Qaeda threat, and it has now issued a worldwide travel alert. Our | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
security correspondent is here. is clear there is concern about an | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Al-Qaeda attack in coming days, particularly fears focused around | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
the Gulf and perhaps Yemen. Yesterday, the US said it was asking | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
a number of embassies to close across a swathe of North at the car, | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
the Middle East, even south Asia, 21 embassies and consulates in all. -- | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
north Africa. Today, it issued travel advice to citizens in the | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
Middle East and North Africa warning of the potential of an Al-Qaeda | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
attack in August, and now the UK has asked its embassy in Yemen to close | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
on Sunday and Monday, and also asked embassies in other countries in the | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
Gulf to increase their vigilance. What lies behind this it appears is | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
intelligence of a possible threat from Al-Qaeda, an attack on the | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
final stages, perhaps emanating from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsular, | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
based in Yemen. It is clear there is real intelligence about this, but | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
perhaps not specific intelligence about a potential target, hence why | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
the US has issued such a blanket warning to embassies in a region | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
across the Middle East and North Africa. Real concern, but not | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
necessarily clear what the target might be. | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
The Royal Bank of Scotland has said its incoming chief executive, Ross | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
McEwan, won't receive any bonuses until 2017 at the earliest. He'll be | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
paid �1 million a year when he takes over in October, nearly 20% less | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
than his predecessor. Today, RBS announced pre-tax profits of �1.4 | :12:48. | :12:58. | |
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billion for the first six months of the year. Robert Peston reports. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
Royal Bank of Scotland, the gu ant broken bank being put back together, | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
not yet completed. -- giant. To finish the job comes a lanky New | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
Zealander. Ross McEwan to arrived last year to mend RBS's retail | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
operations and now has to do the whole thing. His last big job was at | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
this Australian bank. . We are the largest bank and second-largest | :13:22. | :13:32. | |
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company in Australia. A former RBS company in Australia. A former RBS | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
boss has this advice for him. would hope the real challenge for | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
him is to establish trust within the bank, within the staff and in | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
particular, within the customers and that general negativity associated | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
with the word "bank" and probably, regrettably, with RBS, that is the | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
issue he must address. Judging by the stock market's reaction to the | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
results, Ross McEwan has work to do. The #r6789 BS shares fell. | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
-- RBS. Profits before tax this year was �1. 4 billion. Which looks good | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
compared to last year's losses but that was flattened by the account | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
ing. True peformance is better exposed by operating profits, �1. 7 | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
billion, up only a bit from last year. | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
A familiar branch of Royal Bank of Scotland, which, to a large extent | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
is how the Chancellor, who controls our 81% stake in the bank, sees the | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
future of RBS. Rather than the more esoteric and complicated aspects of | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
investment banking. George Osborne believes that Ross McEwan will re | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
focus the bank to make it more British, serving families and | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
companies, a million miles away from where it was at the time of the | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
crash when RBS was, for a spell, the biggest bank in the world. This is | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
an internal RBS clip of the new boss. There is a major | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
responsibility for me to guide this organisation to focus very strongly | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
back on our customers. McEwan may have caught the public mood by | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
saying he will not pocket any bonuses until 207 and will make do, | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
until then on his �1 million a year salary. -- 2017. Will packs tiers be | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
able to wave GB to ownership and get its money back? -- will tax payers? | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
It depends whether this New Zealand banker is up to the job. The party | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
of Zimbabwe's veteran President, Robert Mugabe, looks set for a | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
resounding strike in the country's elections. Results in the | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
Presidential poll have yet to be announced but ZANU-PF has won | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
two-thirds of the can untri's parliamentary seats. Zimbabwe's | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
Electoral Commission described the process as free and peaceful. The | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
monitors said they had some concerns but concluded it was credible. | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
Morgan Tsvangirai has dismissed the process as a huge farce. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
It was business as usual on the streets of Harare today, but for the | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
capital and the country, as a whole, there is uneasiness, too. Final | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
results from the election aren't in yet but Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
party looks to have won by a large margin. African observer missions | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
have given their cautious approval for the poll. . The fact that some | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
people were turned around from the voting booths, whether that affects | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
the overall election, whether it affects the will of the people | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
expressing their vote, that's something that needs to be seen. | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
is in the rural heartland of this country that the movement for | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
democratic change alleged the rigging started. With village elders | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
being used to intimidate villagers into voting for ZANU-PF. And this, | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
too, is at the very heart of their can claims, the voting register | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
which the MDC claims has been manipulated and have been trying to | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
obtain for months, it was finally handed over in hard coppic, not | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
electronic, on the day of the elections. -- hard copy. One MDC | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
candidate showed me evidence of what he said were irregularities. . | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
were supposed to handover to observers but they were nowhere to | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
be seen. These have never been collected? Never, never, not at all. | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
As the week draws to a close, there's concern here, on the streets | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
of Harare, about whether or not these elections were free and fair. | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
I spoke to a number of people, some who were able to vote. Others were | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
simply turned away from polling stations because their names were | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
not on the voters' roll. I went to vote but I couldn't find my name. My | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
name was not there. Were you able to vote? Yes:They couldn't find my | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
name. As a result, were you turned away at the polling station? Yes, I | :18:05. | :18:13. | |
was. We put these allegation s to ZANU-PF. This election has been | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
endorsed as an election which has been free and peaceful and credible. | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
I don't understand where these allegations are coming from. Despite | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
the opposition claims, ZANU-PF and its veteran leader, look set to | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
emerge from another election with more power than they've had in | :18:28. | :18:37. | |
years. The energy company, Caudrilla has | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
begun test drilling for oil at a site in West Sussex after nine days | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
of protests. Environment campaigners fear it could be the first step | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
towards fracking, an extraction process which has been linked to | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
minor earthquakes. Today two demonstrators were arrested after | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
scuffles with police. From Balcombe John Moylan reports. It's not Texas, | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
it's not even America. This is the leafy Tory stronghold of West | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
Sussex. After several days of delays and more than 30 arrests, this | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
morning, drilling for oil finally began. We do want to drill an ex | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
mrorgs well. There has been one drilled on the same site in 1986. It | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
didn't cause any issues I am aware of. There have been 50 other wells | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
in Sussex which haven't caused any issues. We are not en dangerering | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
anybody's health and safety. Local people and environmentalists don't | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
buy that. This woman was son of several campaigners removed by | :19:33. | :19:41. | |
police, as they cleared a path for vehicles and from the site. For than | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
a week there have been demonstrations against plans some | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
clear could cause earthquakes and pollute the water supply. They are | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
saying there is no evidence of any harm or water contamination. It is | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
not true. We are powerless to stop T we have been down all the democratic | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
routes. None has worked. Now we are only left with one option, direct | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
action. This is what they are worried B Caudrilla plans to drill | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
down 3,000 feet. If they find oil, they may seek to high draw ically | :20:13. | :20:21. | |
fracture the well. That involves injecting water particles and sand | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
under pressure into the soil to flush it back up to the surface. It | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
is hard to believe but the south of England are rich in oil and goes. | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
There are numerous sites like this one, pumping oil. Most go unnoticed. | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
Fracking made the headlines in the north of England but new Government | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
tax breaks could encourage more companies to frack further south, | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
resulting in many more local battles. I think it is inevitable we | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
will see further protests. I think it is due to people's lack of | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
familiarity with the process. The fact that Caudrilla are pioneers in | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
the sector, particularly the UK. People need to remember that the | :20:55. | :21:03. | |
process as a whole gifss them a voice. -- gives them. But few here | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
believe they are being listened to. If Caudrilla decides to frack here, | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
it won't happen until well into next year. The battle of Balcombe is far | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
from over. And this, if you can see it, is | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
really what it is all about. This is oil that was pulled out of the | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
ground at a site not far from here in West Sussex. Caudrilla will argue | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
we need to use techniques like fracking to get more of this out of | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
the ground to meet our energy needs. The question being played out here | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
in Balcombe, in microcosm is - do we as a society want that to happen? As | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
prices rise and incomes are squeezed, it's becoming increasingly | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
difficult for most people to make ends meet, according to a major new | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
report. It found that over half of adults in the UK are struggling to | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
pay their bills. That compares to seven years ago, | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
before the banking crash, when 35% said they found it hard to keep up | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
payments. There are signs that the economic is | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
on the mend but with prices high, and money still tight, most people | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
say they're struggling to cope and the pressure is building on streets | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
across the UK. Families are feeling the heat and so | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
are businesses which serve them, like this chip shop in Crewe, which | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
is offering more affordable fish strips, also a potato fritter in a | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
bap for just 30p because customers have tire actually no cash by the | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
end of the month. The money in your till goes from �10 and �20 down to | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
pound coins and �5 notes. You see it on a monthly basis. Many more people | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
across the UK are running out of money finding it hard it make ends | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
meet. Back in 2006, before the financial crisis, 35% of adults said | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
they were struggling to keep up with their bills and their credit | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
commitments. Now it's 52% when asked the same question, who say they are | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
struggling. In some parts of the UK, it's even worse than that. The | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
English region, where it is highest is the north-west. At 60%. But | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
Northern Ireland is even higher than that, with 66% saying they're | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
struggling and even in the West Midlands, which has the lowest | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
figure, 44% are still under severe financial pressure. London, Wales, | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
Scotland are all about average. The research indicates that hundreds of | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
thousands, like Rachael, a bar manager in Crewe are struggling, | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
even though they aren't on low incomes. She and her partner make | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
nearly �40,000 between them but can't afford childcare, so work | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
opposite shifts. All we do is work, go home, work, go home, there is | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
nothing else other than working. In itself, it is a lovely thing to do, | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
but it is all we do. Rachael is hoping things will get better but it | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
is likely to take time. Earnings have not kept up in line with | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
inflation. That makes us all feel worse off. Over the next few years, | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
those on benefits are also going to feel a particular additional | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
squeeze, as cuts are introduced. People do find ways to manage. There | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
was news today that bankruptcy are falling but there is still a squeeze | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
on family budgets throughout the on family budgets throughout the | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
country. In cricket, Australia have been | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
fighting back on the second day of the Second Test in Manchester | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
following a brilliant performance from their captain, Michael Clarke. | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
Good morning, welcome to sunny Manchester. The Manchester morning | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
came with a weather-warning. Forecasts for Australia, rawedant. | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
Another great day. At the crease, Michael Clarke, | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
Australia's captain. He had already had a century. Now he could make | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
England suffer. Australia had been waiting for this. England were out | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
of ideas. Steve Smith got himself out. He still took some catching, | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
though. Time at last to welcome a new batsman to the crease. Listen. | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
BOOS David Warner, everyone's favourite villain. The moon tried to | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
punch England's Joe Root in a pub. The crowd had not forgotten. A | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
precious review was wasted, when clearly out. Clarke, all class, had | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
made 187 when England got rid of him. So Clarke gone but England's | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
rose still wilting. Australia were still batting by tea. They were past | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
500. It got worse when Australia decided to bowl. Joe Root gone. | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
Bresnan came out, didn't survive and didn't review his wicket. Australia | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
were an inch away from running out Alastair Cook. They have the victory | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
scent again. It may require rain to distract them. | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have formally registered the birth | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
of their son, Prince George. The registrar for Westminster City | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
Council travelled to Kensington Palace for the signatures on the | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
birth certificate and in the section where the parents have to put their | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
occupation, his mother put simply "Princess." | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
With British and other NATO combat troops due to leave Afghanistan by | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
the end of next year, Afghanistan is boosting its own military forces, | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
including building a new Air Force virtually from scratch. In an | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
unexpected breakthrough for women's right, among the recruits is the | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
first woman in the country to qualify as an airline pilot. She's | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
dreamt of this moment since childhood. Today, Nilofer Rahmani is | :26:35. | :26:43. | |
ready to take to the skies. Afghanistan's first female aeroplane | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
pilot is blazing a trail for the women of her country but reaching | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
these heady heights hasn't been easy. It was difficult because you | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
know the female situation, and the roles for women here. I just want to | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
change the culture or the old minds that we can do it. I want to do it. | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
She's joining a military operation which is at a crucial stage, with | :27:13. | :27:20. | |
NATO combat troops due to leave by the end of last year. The of a | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
Afghan s are taking the lead role in fighting insurgents. Women have | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
played a part in Afghan security forces for many years but still make | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
up less than 1 # % of the total. -- 1%. When she became her country's | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
first helicopter pilot, this woman had to battle overwhelming | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
prejudice. Now she's calling on women to join up. TRANSLATION: | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
Afghanistan women, the future of this country is in your hands. We | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
have to work shoulder-to-shoulder to build this country. The command ers | :27:54. | :28:02. | |
claim their contribution is valued. We are very proud of them. Afghan | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
women are showing what Afghan men can do for their country. Women in | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
this country are still largely treated as second class citizens. A | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
recent United Nations report described their conditions as among | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
the wost in the world. Here in Kabul -- cost. Here in Kabul it's | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
estimated that less than two dozen females drive a car which makes | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
Nilofer Rahmani achievement even more remarkable. She's not taking | :28:26. | :28:33. | |
more remarkable. She's not taking anything for granted. If the | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
situation changes, everybody who knows me, they'll make my situation | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
or my life tough and it will be really tough for me. | :28:42. | :28:47. |