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A mother and her three children are killed in a house fire in Leicester. | :00:04. | :00:09. | |
The police say they're treating it as murder. Emergency crews fought to | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
save them, but all four were found dead in the bedrooms. Neighbours | :00:12. | :00:27. | |
could only watch. If you are upstairs, there was no chance of | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
getting downstairs. Police say they're investigating | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
whether the fire was a revenge attack. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
Also tonight: America and Russia push their talks on Syria into a | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
third day and suggest a date could be set for wider peace talks to end | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
the conflict. But meanwhile, inside Syria, new | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
evidence of atrocities carried out by anti-government rebels affiliated | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
to Al-Qaeda. How nearly half of children in care | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
in England are sent to homes far from their family. The government | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
says it's indefensible. And Twitter plans to launch on the | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
stock market. In Sportsday: Marouanne Fellaini's | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
relief at joining Manchester United - he says he wondered if his | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
transfer would ever happen. Good evening. | :01:06. | :01:33. | |
Police in Leicester say they're treating the deaths of a woman and | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
her three teenage children in a house fire in the middle of the | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
night as murder. Emergency crews fought to save the family but all | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
four were found dead in their bedrooms. Only their father has | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
survived. He was away working in Ireland. Detectives say it may have | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
been a revenge attack linked to the murder of a man nearby several hours | :01:50. | :02:04. | |
earlier. Sian Lloyd is at the scene. At this stage, police are ruling | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
nothing out. They maintain a presence here this evening. The | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
forensic tent has been removed but the investigation is still at a very | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
early stage and there seems no obvious motive for this horrendous | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
arson attack in the early hours of the morning. | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
Family home in flames. This picture taken by an neighbour shows how fire | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
raged through the terrorist house in a suburban street. It was a fire | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
that police say was started deliberately and which claimed four | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
lives. A mother, named locally as Shehnila Taufiq, in her 40s, and her | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
preteenage children, were found in the upstairs bedrooms. -- her three | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
teenage children. You could see it blazing and everything. I went to | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
the front door, just a bit far from it, and you could see the staircase | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
on fire. If you were upstairs, there was no chance of getting downstairs. | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
on fire. If you were upstairs, there In the local mosque, prayers were | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
said to my to remember them and support was offered to a father who | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
has lost his family. He has been named as Muhammad Taufiq, a | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
neurosurgeon who worked away from home during the week. Religious | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
leaders expressed disbelief that a family they described as devout | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
could be targeted in this way. It must be a case of mistaken identity. | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
There is no other explanation the community can think of. Officers | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
have been carrying out a fingertip search of local streets, looking for | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
any clue. Police do not yet know what caused the blaze, but what | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
happened on this nearby road yesterday could be connected. A | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
20-year-old man was attacked in Kent Street last night, and later died. | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
Police say they are not ruling out a possible link between the crimes. I | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
cannot confirm that it is a revenge attack. It may be. It may not be. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
That lines of enquiry will get to the bottom of that. What happened | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
here in the early hours of the morning is still unclear. Police say | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
they need the help of the community in Leicester to piece together why a | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
quiet, studious family were the subject of an arson attack. | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
This family were well-known and respected in this area. They moved | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
to Leicester from Ireland for the local religious schools for the | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
children. There is a great deal of shock and concern here tonight, and | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
local people are hoping a clearer pic of what happened will emerge | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
over coming days. The United Nations General Secretary | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
said tonight he believes inspectors will produce a report that shows | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
"overwhelming" evidence that chemical weapons have been used in | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
Syria. His comments came as US Secretary of State John Kerry and | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
his Russian counterpart said their talks will continue into a third day | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
about how to secure Syria's chemical weapons. We'll have more on those | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
talks in a moment. But first, the BBC has seen new graphic evidence of | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
atrocities being carried out in the civil war, this time by rebels | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
affiliated to Al-Qaeda. Paul Wood sent this report from neighbouring | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Jordan, and I should warn you it contains some strong images. | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
The family of a 64-year-old man grieve over his body. A civilian, | :05:27. | :05:36. | |
they say he was killed by a government more tough. A typical | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
week can see 1000 people die in Syria. But it was the claim that the | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
regime used chemical weapons that brought Western governments to the | :05:46. | :05:55. | |
brink of intervention here. The rebel Free Syrian Army was counting | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
on that. They were left stunned when the West did not bomb. | :05:59. | :06:07. | |
TRANSLATION: The international community has given a green light to | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
Assad to commit more massacres. Another 100,000 Syrians will die by | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
the time the chemical weapons are handed over. So people are turning | :06:15. | :06:23. | |
to the jihadis. A series of sickening images show what rule by | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
Al-Qaeda means. In some rebel areas, public beheadings are common. An | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
independent photographer took these pictures, many too gruesome to | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
show. Men accused of helping the regime are about to be executed in | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
front of a crowd. There were four. The jihadis strove from village to | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
village. They beheaded a man in the public square at each stop. | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Jubilation, as the severed heads are held aloft. Parents brought their | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
children. They watched in shocked silence as the decapitated corpses | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
were laid out in front of them. Such scenes are, to many, an argument not | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
to support the rebels. The Free Syrian Army opposes the jihadis. | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
Once the most powerful rebel group, a southern commander admits they are | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
losing ground to Al-Qaeda. TRANSLATION: The jihadis gained | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
strength right from the beginning because of the world's failure to | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
intervene. The Syrian people would welcome any support if the world | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
continues to fail us. This, then, is how the Free Syrian Army gets its | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
bombs. The Americans have promised to send weapons. One senior | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
commander told me, though, that all to send weapons. One senior | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
he had had so far was roots and jackets. In the camps of | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
neighbouring Jordan, they feel betrayed, angry. Rebel commanders we | :07:51. | :08:00. | |
have spoken to here say that, contrary to reports, they are | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
getting hardly any military support from the Americans and others, just | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
a trickle of small arms and ammunition. That is far from the | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
game changing strike they hoped for and may not be enough to alter the | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
battlefield at all in their favour. In fact, the only effect may be to | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
prolong Syria's Civil War. So the refugees keep coming. Many have | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
decided that even the misery of the refugee camp is better than the | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
horror of what the Civil War in Syria has become. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
Back to those talks in Geneva between America and Russia about | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
putting Syria's chemical weapons beyond use. The US Secretary of | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
State, John Kerry, said the talks had been constructive. But the | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
practical details of how to take possession of Syria's entire | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
chemical arsenal amid all the fighting, and then dispose of it, | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
will not be easy to resolve. James Robins is in Geneva. | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
James, what are you hearing there tonight? We are hearing from an | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
American official that progress is being made, that the talks will run | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
deep into the night and will resume tomorrow. But, as this American put | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
it, we would not be here if we were not making progress. But still, the | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
candles burning behind me because the negotiations are still going on. | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
It has been a long day of talking. John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov are | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
said to get on well. They have even been looking ahead with the top UN | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
official on Syria to the possibility of providing wider peace talks. But | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
first, they have to resolve differences over the chemical | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
weapons issue, not least the right to threaten military strikes. I | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
think we would agree that we had to threaten military strikes. I | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
constructive conversations regarding that, but those conversations are | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
continuing and both of us want to get back to them now. President | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
Putin has been meeting fellow leaders, including his counterparts | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
from China and Iran. Mr Putin, as the architect of the chemical | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
disarmament plan, sounds bullish. TRANSLATION: The initiative to | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
establish international control over Syrian chemical weapons is underway, | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
and we attach much significance to it and hope for positive results | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
which should lead to a peaceful, or create conditions for a peaceful | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
settlement. The UN secretary general has let slip that his inspectors do | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
confirm that chemical weapons were used in last month's attacks. Ban Ki | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
Moon appeared unaware that UN TV was live as he spoke. Our team will come | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
out soon with the report. But I believe that the port will be an | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
overwhelming report that chemical weapons were used. Even though I | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
cannot publicly say at this time, before I received this report. In | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
Geneva, weak against the Russian Foreign Minister on the phone in a | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
break from the search both for political and practical agreement | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
with the Americans on ways to deal with President Assad's chemical | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
arsenal. The United States and Britain are among countries which | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
have disposed of chemical weapons. America has already spent many years | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
and billions of dollars to dispose of its own stocks. Stripping Syria | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
of chemical weapons will not end the Civil War. The new diplomatic | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
momentum might change things, but any failure could be catastrophic. | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
And it is the fear of failure, of course, which means both sides here | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
really want success from these talk is. One small but important | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
indication of the narrowing gaps is that American officials are briefing | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
that when they went into these talks Russian and American estimates of | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
Syria's go weapons stocks differed by 40%. That gap is coming down. If | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
they can agree on that, perhaps they can agree on other things. | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
Official figures released today reveal that thousands of children in | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
care homes in England are being housed outside their local area. The | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
new Department of Education report also reveals some councils are | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
placing all their children outside their own local authority areas. The | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Education Secretary described the practice of sending troubled | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
children to what he called "far-flung" homes as "indefensible". | :12:21. | :12:30. | |
Reeta Chakrabarti reports. For this young man, the term care | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
home is a contradiction in terms, because he says he received no | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
care. Between 11 and 16, he was moved eight times, far from his | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
family home in London, on one occasion to Scotland. I hated the | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
world, and that was because of the way I felt I was raised. I did not | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
feel love or care from anyone. That made me bitter and angry and number | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
inside, and I showed it to people. I was itching for fights, and I felt | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
suicidal. He spent time in prison for robbery. He will not use his | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
childhood as an excuse but he wonders what life might have been | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
like otherwise. That experience might not be uncommon. Figures | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
released for 2012 show that of the 4980 children in homes in England, | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
46% were placed outside their local authority. 16 local authorities | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
placed all of their children in care outside their area. | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
The government collected the data after the jailing last year of nine | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
The government collected the data men from Rochdale and Oldham for | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
child sexual exploitation. One of the victims was in a home having | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
been relocated from Essex, but local the victims was in a home having | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
authorities say sometimes there are good reasons for sending children | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
away. Councils will often look to break the cycle of abuse by sending | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
children away from home, perhaps to get a child away from a paedophile | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
who may be grooming them, a gang that maybe -- may be trying to draw | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
them in. By moving them away, you give them a chance for a fresh | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
start. Ministers accept that but suggest the scale of children being | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
start. Ministers accept that but moved far away has been hidden by | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
officials using data protection as an excuse. The Secretary of State | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
said observed rules prevented the details from being shared. -- | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
absurd. How society deals with vulnerable children was put under | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
scrutiny after the trial in Rochdale. Some accused authorities | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
of hiding behind the rules to prevent examination of how children | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
are being treated. Time and time again you come up against the fact | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
that the rules that are there to protect children's identities are | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
being used and distorted by the public authorities who do not want | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
scrutiny of their actions, and they are not fully accountable to the | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
taxpayer, who is spending a fortune. Summer have been scarred by the care | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
system. The government says it wants to improve life for those still | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
there, but just how is not clear. A court in Delhi has passed the death | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
sentence on four men who wrecked and murdered a student last December in | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
a case which outraged the country and made headlines around the | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
world. The men's lawyers had pleaded for clemency, but the judge ruled | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
that the case fell into the category of the rarest of the rare. After the | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
crime that traumatised India, celebration. | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
This was the mood outside court, as all four men were sentenced to be | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
hanged. Their pictures now released for the first time. The rape and | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
murder so gruesome that the judge said it had shocked India's | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
conscience. The death penalty was the news the student's family had | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
been waiting for. TRANSLATION: Today is like Christmas for me. It is a | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
very big day, not only for me, but the whole of India. Last December, | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
the 23-year-old was beaten and gang raped on this Delhi night bus. Dying | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
two weeks later of her injuries. It sparked weeks of protest, and a | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
shaken government made clear that it supported the death sentence. There | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
will be many Indians who will agree with this crowd saying that the four | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
men are getting what they deserved after the outrage that crime is | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
provoked. But there are also many critics who say this will not be any | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
kind of deterrent as long as rape and other crimes against women are | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
not taken more seriously across the whole of India. There are signs of | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
change in Delhi, with more women prepared to press charges than | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
before, with 1000 reported rate so far this year. But even those who | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
welcomed today's sentence doubt much will change as well. No, because our | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
system is very corrupt and very poor. All the political leaders are | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
involved. Everything is very bad. The system needs to be changed on | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
the law needs to be amended. Some laws have been tightened, but | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
campaigners say India's men have to respect women more. A death sentence | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
in one high profile case is not going to change that. | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
Now, it has revolutionised parts of the internet to become a global | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
cultural force in its own right. Twitter famously allows users to | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
post messages, or tweets, on the web of 140 characters or less. That | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
happens 500 million times every day, making the site a big draw France | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
ties us. Now it is to be floated on the stock exchange, valued at an | :17:40. | :17:51. | |
estimated eye watering £6.3 billion. From presidents to pop stars, from | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
footballers to Royals, they have all decided that a tweet is the best way | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
to speak to the world to publicise your latest album or maybe to | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
to speak to the world to publicise announce an impending birth. It is | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
the instant news channel to spread the word about what they are doing. | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
It allows them to connect to their fans, build a huge fan base | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
following and ultimately sell stuff. Through pictures of the plane which | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
made an emergency landing on the Hudson River to the hunting down of | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
Osama Bin Laden, Twitter has become the place where news often breaks | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
first. And of course, it was in a tweet that the company unveiled its | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
plans to float on the stock market seven years after it was born. It | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
was a simple idea which at first did not look like a money spinner. Here | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
was how it started in 2006, with the first tweet and first typo by one of | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
Twitter's founders, Jack Dorsey. The years, they just concentrated on | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
growing the audience from that one user. By 2008, there were a million | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
of them, and that has now reached 200 million. Only recently has | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
Twitter thought about making money. This year, it is on course to learn | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
£370 million in revenue. John Kimble shows companies how they can use | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
Twitter to promote their products. Twitter have been clever in that the | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
advertising on the site is very subtle. Many users don't even know | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
there is advertising there. That is one of the appeals to both | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
advertisers and consumers. I think that is going to change, and the | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
advertising will become more intrusive. Last year, Facebook's | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
arrival on the stock market saw share prices plunge over concerns | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
over whether advertisers could place adverts on mobile phones. Investors | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
are interested in mobile advertising as a possible revenue system, and | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
Twitter is well placed to do that. But there are issues over whether | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
Twitter can maintain its popularity with users and advertisers at once. | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
Twitter has been under growing pressure to police offensive | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
behaviour on the site. From now on, as it tries to keep users, | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
advertisers and investors happy, it is about to find out what it is like | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
to be a grown-up company. It has emerged tonight that the | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
government wants to introduce a 5p charge for plastic bags in England | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
to try to discourage their use. But it will not come into force until | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
after the election. Nick Clegg will unveil the proposal at the Liberal | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
Democrat conference this weekend. Plastic bag use in Wales, where the | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
Liberal Democrat conference this weekend. Plastic bag use in Wales, | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
Liberal Democrat conference this whether 5p tariff has been in place | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
for two years, is said to be down by around three quarters. She is most | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
successful politicians. In just over a be up for re-election | :20:37. | :20:58. | |
as Germans head to the polls. Germany's strong economy and Mrs | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
Merkel's reputation as a safe pair of hands has kept her approval | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
ratings high, even after eight years in power. She is now looking likely | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
to get another term as Chancellor. Just hands, no words, not even a | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
face. Everyone knows this is Angela Merkel's election message, that | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
Germany is safe in her hands. Her supporters, defying the Bavarian | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
rain, believing their leader's instinctive caution. The warm-up | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
date dancers might give the impression that the German | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
Chancellor is trying to pump up the electorate. She is not. Europe's | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
most powerful politician is avoiding controversy, selling herself as an | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
GB manager who has protected Germany from the worst of the Eurozone | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
crisis. TRANSLATION: We have shown that despite the international | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
financial crisis, despite the Euro crisis, we have had four good years | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
for Germany. Years where unemployment fell to its lowest in | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
two decades. Germany is really good during this time in Europe. We have | :22:01. | :22:10. | |
almost no unemployment. Her campaign is built around herself, her | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
personality, a rather private politician has been happy to see | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
pictures published of herself as a child with a doll. And as a | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
teenager, camping. The election campaign passes through Dresden. Her | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
main opponent is the Social Democrat, Peer Steinbruck. He | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
campaigns for a minimum wage and against low pay, but struggles to | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
attack Angela Merkel. TRANSLATION: Everything is going round in | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
circles, but where is the direction 's the Chancellor has the power to | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
set policy. Mrs Merkel can determine policy guidelines, but she doesn't | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
issue any. It has not helped him that in the past 24 hours, this | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
picture emerged, taken a month ago, when he was asked how how you would | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
respond to his critics. However hard the opposition campaigns, many say | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
that the only undecided question is who Angela Merkel will go into | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
coalition with. It tells you something that of them -- often, the | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
sharpest criticism of her is when she is accused of putting the | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
country to sleep. There has been a narrowing in the polls, but Angela | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
Merkel remains the firm favourite to be returned as Chancellor. But she | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
has given few details of her vision for either Germany or Europe. | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
The leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett, has told supporters | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
at their annual conference in Brighton that the Greens are the | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
only alternative to the indistinguishable big Westminster | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
parties. She used her opening speech to attack the government's welfare | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
reforms and condemned the involvement of private firms in the | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
Royal Mail and the NHS. The NHS is a national jewel that must be grabbed | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
back from the jewel thieves, polished and set back again in pride | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
of place. The profit motive has no place in the health care system, and | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
we will not rest we have expelled every last corporate bloodsucker | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
from our NHS. The man in charge of the 2022 | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
football World Cup in Qatar insists that his country is the right place | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
for the competition, despite concerns about extreme temperatures | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
during the tournament. FIFA is now expected to stage its during the | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
winter months to avoid the heat. Our sports correspondent went to meet | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
Hassan Al-Thawadi at the world's oldest football club, Sheffield FC. | :24:36. | :24:45. | |
The 2022 FIFA World Cup is Qatar! Nearly three years on from being | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
unexpectedly awarded the 2022 World Cup, Qatar are fighting back against | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
their critics. In his first major interview on his country's plans, | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
the head of Qatar's World Cup told me that having won the bid, they | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
will not give it up. Someone is going to take the World Cup away | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
from us? No. There is no reason for it. Every promise we have provided | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
during the bidding stage, we have worked hard to ensure that we are | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
within the rules of hosting agreements. But concerns are | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
mounting. This week, the head of world football, Sepp Blatter, said | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
holding the tournament during a Qatari summer is not the right thing | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
to do. Greg Dyke, chairman of the Football Association, said FIFA can | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
either move it timewise, or to another location. But Premier League | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
executive Richard Scudamore believes chaos would be caught across world | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
football if it got moved. Those views stem from the extreme heat the | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
tiny Gulf state experiences in June and July, but Qatar insists that it | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
can welcome the world at any time of year. I would like to assure | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
everybody that it is not impossible to host the World Cup in the | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
summer. Everybody thinks it is 50 degrees. That number has been | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
plastered on. 50 degrees is the extreme. Whether it is in June, July | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
or November December, at any time, we are ready to host it. As the | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
first World Cup to be held in an Islamic state, many fans will | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
first World Cup to be held in an experience radically different | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
social attitudes in Qatar. Hassan Al-Thawadi must now deliver a | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
successful event. During a visit to Sheffield FC, the world's oldest | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
football club, the newest figure in the game agreed to meet a group of | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
supporters to answer their questions. As a fan wanting to | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
visit, what are the issues with alcohol? Alcohol is available right | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
now. Not as readily available as in England, because it is not part of | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
our culture. The current laws within Qatar are such that gay men are not | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
allowed to be themselves if they want to come to the World Cup. We | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
have our own beliefs, but it does not mean we will restrict anybody. | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
If anybody who comes in respects our beliefs. Qatar may be small, but it | :27:08. | :27:16. | |
is big on ambition. There is a desire to exceed expectations. The | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
World Cup brings football together, but a tournament that is still nine | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
years away is threatening to divide the game. | :27:27. | :27:30. |