01/10/2013 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten, hundreds of thousands of Americans off work with

no pay because of a budget deadlock. Prominent sites and public services

are closed as Republicans are accused by the president of holding

the government to ransom. I urge House Republicans to reopen the

government, restart the services that Americans depend on and allow

the public servants who have been sent home to return to work.

So far there is no sign of compromise on either side, we will

be asking how long the shutdown could last.

Also tonight, Labour leader Ed Miliband accuses the Daily Mail of

lying about his late father, Ralph Miliband. Briton saved his life, it

saved his life, and this paper is saying that he hated Britain. And

that is a lie, that is a lie. The little boy described as a fussy

eater by the mother accused of starving him to death. In Rome,

signs that Silvio Berlusconi's authority over members of his own

party is weakening. And Arsenal drive forward in the

Champions League with another convincing win tonight.

Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, all the results from the night's

Champions League matches, and all the goals involving the British

sites, including a classic own goal. Good evening. For the first time in

17 years, part of the US Government have shut down after Congress failed

to agree a new budget. President Obama has accused the Republicans of

holding the government to ransom. More than 700,000 employees are

facing unpaid leave, but essential staff, including 1.4 million

military personnel, are at work and will be paid. Experts predict that

the loss to economic output will cost $320 million per day. North

America editor Mark Mardell has the latest now from Washington.

America has not descended into anarchy, there are police on the

streets and normal life goes on, but anarchy, there are police on the

the government is only spending what it must. Above earth, on the space

station, astronauts are working, but most at NASA are not. Animals will

be fed at the zoo, but the cameras have gone dark. It is not dealing

with a disaster so much as a national embarrassment. The

president, surrounded by those who like his health Law, said he would

not be bullied into it. Congress does not have to just abandon this

shut and reopen the government. Congress has to stop governing by

crisis. They have to break this habit. It is a drag on the economy.

It is not worthy of this country. For Washington, this is almost

personal. The nation's capital is very much a government town, and the

shutdown of federal buildings like these really hurts. Many federal

workers turned up this morning and were sent home. The trickle-down

effect is scaring, you know, everybody, they are hurting

already, and this just adds to it. I had to come in and shut myself down

and go home again, and I don't know how long I will be not working, but

and go home again, and I don't know I just be like Congress isn't doing

their job. The Moll is lined with I just be like Congress isn't doing

some of the most impressive museums in the world, all shot. These

veterans came all the way from Mississippi to see the nation's

World War II memorial and found it cordoned off. I think it is kind of

stupid that they can close it down, but who am I? It is very

disappointing that we are not allowing veterans to go in. Even the

White House has sent home two thirds of its staff, although not everyone

gets off work. The President signed a law to make sure the military was

paid, but his wife's Twitter account fell victim to the shutdown. In

Congress, the morning after the night before, arguments continue

with all the same bitterness and little of the agency. The

Republicans blame the President's party for fusing to talk about

delaying his health care bill. Our country has big problems. Today our

government has big problems. The only way they will be resolved is if

we sits down amicably and keep the American people in mind and come to

an agreement. As much harm as this shutdown may be doing, there are

greater worries about the crisis around the corner, what happens if

Congress will not raise the debt ceiling. If we get to October the

17th without a deal, that is economic Armageddon, really. That is

Pandora's box, it will be a mess with no policy response. There is no

saying when the nation's moneymen is will be open again, but this latest

crisis -- monuments will be open again, but this will only increase

contempt for Congress in its failures.

Robert Peston, we have heard about the cost to the United States of the

shutdown, what about elsewhere? It depends how long it goes on. If it

lasts the same length of time as the last such shutdown in 1986, which

went on for three or four weeks, economists think that the growth

rate of a recovering United States could half in the last quarter of

the year. What you have to remember is that America, with all the talk

of Chinese growth, is still by a margin the world's biggest economy.

If America does well, the rest of the world does pretty well. If it

does badly, the rest of the world tends to be a bit more feeble. And

America are's health is tends to be a bit more feeble. And

important to Britain. It is by far our biggest trading partner, and

unlike many of our other trading partners, we actually sell more to

America than we buy from America. Pretty unusual. And therefore,

again, if there is a slowdown in America, that will not be good for

us. There is another thing which Mark Mardell alluded to in his

film, which is that in just a few weeks there is a very grave risk

that America will run out of money. The federal government is not

allowed to borrow more than a certain amount agreed by Congress,

it is called the debt ceiling, and that amount is a staggering $16.7

trillion, but believe it or not, the American government is right up

against that limit. Now, Congress has to approve an increase in that

ceiling. The US president and the government need that to be able to

borrow more. With this failure of the Democrats and the Republicans to

reach an agreement on the budget, there are many people who fear they

will not reach an agreement on raising the debt ceiling. America

may not pay its bills. In simple terms, it would default. That is an

almost unthinkable prospect, because America's debts are viewed by

investors all over the world as the equivalent of solid gold. If they

were no longer viewed as that kind of quality, well, that would shake

global markets. It would undermine confidence in a way that we have not

seen since the 2008 financial crisis. It would take us right back

to that kind of calamity, which is why right now people like me think

that America will come to its senses, and there will be a deal.

But there is not a deal right now, which is why it is right to be a

little bit nervous about economic and financial prospects.

Now, Labour leader Ed Miliband has accused the Daily Mail of printing

lies about his late father, sociologist and prominent Marxist

thinker Ralph Miliband. The paper sociologist and prominent Marxist

alleged he was a man who hated Britain. The paper says it stands by

every word, but the Labour leader said there should be boundaries were

politicians' families are concerned. He spoke to Ross Hawkins.

A Marxist who came to Britain to flee the NATS ease, an officer in

the Royal Navy during the war, Ed Miliband's father. According to the

Daily Mail, he was a man who hated Britain, and his son is clearly

furious. Briton saved his life, it saved his life, and this paper is

saying that he hated Britain. And that is a lie, that is a lie, and I

am not willing to let it stand. You say you are not willing to let it

stand. What more can you do, will you do? Look, the Daily Mail

publishes what it publishes, it is not about regulation, but it is

about me, you know, using the platform I have as a son, really, to

defend my father. In the end, the British public have to make a

decision about what they think, whether they think it is fair or not

for the Daily Mail to act in this way. The Daily Mail's view was

tetchy and menacing, and it stuck by its story, even as other politicians

sympathised. Is someone attacked my dad, whom I think about a lot and I

miss everyday, I would rush into print and defend him as best I

could. Ed seems to be doing exactly the same thing. The Daily Mail

insists that the politics of the father matter when the sun has told

voters that he is bringing back socialism. It respects Ed

Miliband's right to mount a defence, but it added that Ralph Miliband

hated the Queen, the Church and the army and wanted a workers'

revolution. Our readers, it says, have a right to know that. Time is

running out for politicians to decide how the press should be

regulated in future. The paper based here says that the doctrine backed

by Ralph Miliband crushed freedom of expression and it suggests that his

by Ralph Miliband crushed freedom of son might do the same. 20 years

after his death, that puts this man at the heart of a deeply personal

row between that Sun, who could be Britain's next Prime Minister, and

one of the country's most powerful papers about just what views are fit

to print. David Cameron says that further cuts

in public spending would not David Cameron says that further cuts

necessarily be needed to achieve a budget surplus in the next

Parliament. The Prime Minister insisted the coalition have already

shown how services could be improved, even when there was less

money available. He was speaking to Nick Robinson at the Conservative

Party conference in Manchester. Is the Tory prescription for the

nation's economic health another dose of austerity medicine? I have

got my speech tomorrow, don't take my blood pressure today, it will be

off the chart! That is the question that David Cameron faced today,

after the promise that government will spend less than its taxes, he

promised that a friend and foe alike have said would lead to a dose of

cuts. The Prime Minister insists that his plan is not ideological, it

is common sense. If you have overdraft over overdraft year after

year, it does matter that in the good years you start putting some

money aside for potentially rainy days that might like a long wait

haired. Can we be clear what that means? Seven more years of cuts to

government departments. It does not necessarily mean that, if the

economy grows, if tax revenues increase, if unemployment falls,

there would be money to spend on other departments. No previous

chancellor or Conservative Prime Minister has promised a budget

surplus year in, year out, and the reason is it can mean cuts in public

spending. It is early days, but it reason is it can mean cuts in public

could mean a real terms freeze, and we would have to make decisions

about what you do with each department, but we have demonstrated

in government that you can make reductions but improve services. The

other big economic announcement here in Manchester was about housing, the

earlier than expected launch of the government's controversial scheme to

help people who are struggling to raise funds for a deposit to buy

their home. The Government is now subsidising someone who could afford

to buy a £600,000 house while cutting benefits from people who

barely can afford enough to make ends meet. I don't accept that for a

minute. What we are doing with the Help To Buy scheme is not a subsidy

to people, it is a mortgage guarantee, and a mortgage

guarantee... An interest-free loan. I could take you to street within

minutes of year where you could buy an entire house for £120,000. People

cannot buy an entire house around here because you cannot get a 95%

mortgage anymore, so there are young people in our country who have good

jobs, decent incomes, they could afford the mortgage payments but

they cannot buy the house. It is a failure in our banking market, in

our banks. There is one other new policy year, and it centres on this

man. All will be revealed in the speech! Boris Johnson, the Tory who

reaches parts that other politicians cannot, charmed his party with

another jokey hint at the extent of his political ambition. Not so long

ago I welcome the former French Prime Minister, Alain Juppe, to my

office in City Hall, and he told me that he was now the mayor of

Bordeaux. This came after David Cameron made it clear he wanted the

Mayor of London back as a Tory MP. He has a huge contribution to make.

Whenever Boris wants e, he -- to, he will get a huge welcome from me.

Whenever Boris wants e, he -- to, he REPORTER: Would you like to see

Boris back? I love Boris. Boris has yet to decide whether to take up

that offer. Perhaps he's waiting to see whether the Prime Minister's big

speech tomorrow makes him look like a winner.

A committee of Kenyan MPs halls started an inquiry -- has started an

inquiry into the attack on a shopping centre in Nairobi in which

67 people are known to have died. These new pictures are from inside

the complex. Shop keepers were allowed to assess the damage and

reclaim goods. Extensive looting is reported to have taken place with

allegations that members of the reported to have taken place with

Security Services were involved. The fate of dozens of missing civilians

remains unclear. A woman, accused of starving her son

to death, has told Bradford Crown Court that she believed he was a

fussy eater. Amanda Hutton denies the manslaughter of four-year-old

Hamzah Khan but admits child neglect. His body was found at his

home two years after he died. Hamzah Khan's own maerge is --

mother is accused of starving him to Hamzah Khan's own maerge is --

death and leaving his lifeless body in a cot for two years while she

drank a bottle of vodka a day. For the fiers time Amanda Hutton arrives

at court to deny manslaughter. Standing in the witness box, crying

at times, she told the court he had difficulty from birth. "He was a

fussy eater. Sometimes he'd eat, then decide he can't want to eat. He

was very up and down." She was asked why she didn't ring for hem after he

died. She said, "I wanted to call the police but Tariq stopped me." We

can't identify the house where they lived. Today Amanda Hutton told the

court her life was in limbo after her son died and only then did

court her life was in limbo after start drinking heavily. But the

prosecutor said she was a nasty drink keeping her son's death a

secret. She said no, it was like a rolling snowball getting bigger

every day. Looking straight at Amanda Hutton,

Paul Green green, QC -- Paul GreaneyQc asked: . You cared more

about alcohol than you did about that child. She replied, "No, that's

not true." Amanda Hutton told the jury, chef didn't think she needed

any help for his lack of eating because she thought he would grow

out of it. The 43-year-old has already admitted neglect buff denies

out of it. The 43-year-old has the -- but denies the manslaughter

of her son. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin

Netanyahu, has told the United The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin

Nationses General Assembly that his country will never allow Iran to

develop nuclear weapons even if it has to act alone. He dismissed what

he called the recent charm offensive of Iran's new president, Hasan

Rouhani, and described him as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Jermey Bowen

reports from New York. The Israeli Prime Minister's

motorcade was relatively low key, his message was not. Mr Netanyahu

once again compared the rulers of Iran to the Nazis, claiming that the

once again compared the rulers of Iranians are developing nuclear

once again compared the rulers of weapons to give them the power

once again compared the rulers of annihilate Israel. His mission was

also to counteract last week's charm offensive by Iran's new president,

Hasan Rouhani. Smiling all the way, he said he was here to offer a fast,

negotiated deal on the future of Iran's nuclear programme, which he

insisted was for peaceful purposes. The Assembly will hear a statement

insisted was for peaceful purposes. by His Excellency, Benjamin

Netanyahu. APPLAUSE

Israel's Prime Minister used to find it easier at the UN to take aim at

previous Iranian president, who delighted in being the West's bogey

man. Mr Netanyahu warned that Iranian presidents don't change.

When it comes to Iran's nuclear weapons programme, the only

difference between them is this: Ahmadinejad was a wolf in wolf's

clothing. Rouhani is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Mr Netanyahu said,

don't lift sanctions, try diplomacy, but he renewed his threat to attack

Iran. Israel will never ack weess to arms in the hands of a rogue regime

that repeatedly tries to wipe us off the map. Israel will have no choice

but to defend itself. Iranians boycotted his speech. After they

came back to warn that Iran would defend it self-if attacked and to --

itself if attacks and remind the UN defend it self-if attacked and to --

that Israel already has WMDs, weapons of mass destruction. He

talked a lot of WMDs in the Middle East without mentioning that Israel

is the only one in the region that possesses all types of WMDs, but is

not a party to any of the treaties banning them. The next stage in the

diplomatic process started here banning them. The next stage in the

the UN in New York is a meeting in Geneva later this month, at which

Iran is due to come up with its Geneva later this month, at which

for dealing with this problem of its nuclear programme. The threats

traded by Israel and Iran in the nuclear programme. The threats

General Assembly are a reminder of why this thing needs to be settled

peacefully. If it isn't, there is a real risk of another Middle East

war. The racing commentator, John

war. McCririck, has denied that his

authority was undermind by his appearance on reality television

shows and denied that what he calls his pantomime villain there act

damaged horse racing. He alleges he was fired by Channel 4 and the

channel company IMG Media because of his age, a claim that the companies

deny. This report does contain flash photography.

He is an award winning racing pundit. He's also a self-confessed

loud mouth. This morning John McCririck was in full voice claiming

he was unfairly sacked because of his age. It's very important for

he was unfairly sacked because of everybody, from their 30s to their

70s, who dread anonymous suits and skirts coming in and on a whim

sacking them. John McCririck is famous for his expertise boisterous

manner and unique taste in clothes and jewellery, but he was dropped as

a racing presenter last year. Today it was suggested he was sacked

a racing presenter last year. Today because of his age, but because of

his sexist views and his appearances on reality TV shows. You are so

disgusting! When he took part in on reality TV shows. You are so

Celebrity Big Brother, he was seen in his underwear and referred to the

model Caprice as "the totty". He was also on Celebrity Wife Swap. Park as

soon as you can park. He claimed Channel 4 approved and denied

reality TV had damaged his image as a racing expert. He was asked, "Are

you seriously suggesting Celebrity Big Brother and Celebrity Wife Swap

would not raise questions about your gravitas? John McCririck explained,

"My gravitas has not been affected gravitas? John McCririck explained,

by doing the reality shows. You could say it attracted more people

to racing, people knew me and watched what I was saying on and off

racing." John McCririck accepted today that he sometimes liked to

portray himself as an obnoxious, sexist pig, buff he said it was part

of a pantomime act. The real reason he claims Channel 4 dropped him is

his age. John McCririck is seeking a six-figure sum in damages, buffer

Channel 4 de-- but Channel 4 denies age discrimination. The man who

sacked him is expected to give evidence to the tribunal tomorrow.

In Italy, there are signs that Silvio Berlusconi's attempt to bring

down the ruling coalition appears to be faltering. Colleagues in his

party have rejected his call to withdraw support from the government

ahead of a crucial confidence vote tomorrow. As Gavin Hewitt explains,

it's a rare challenge to the former Prime Minister's political

authority. There is rash photography again -- flash photography again in

this report. Only yesterday Silvio Berlusconi was

in his usual flamboyant mood, carrying his girlfriend's dog into

his residence. He had just pulled out his ministers from the governing

coalition, threatening to bring down the Italian government. Tonight,

that looks like a humiliating miscalculation. On the street, where

youth unemployment today moved above 40%, the mood was hostile towards

more political turmoil. They don't care. They only do their own

business. They are just fighting each other.

TRANSLATION: I'm disgusted, totally disgusted. The Prime Minister,

Enrico Letta, accused Silvio Berlusconi of a crazy gesture. He

said with drawing support from the government had nothing to do with

policy, but was for personal reasons. Later this week, there will

be a vote as to whether to expel Mr Berlusconi from Parliament for tax

fraud. Mr Letta has called for a vote of confidence in his own

leadership tomorrow. Here at Silvio Berlusconi's residence, it rapidly

became apparent that he did not have the fullbacking of his own MPs. What

started out as a threat to the the fullbacking of his own MPs. What

survival of the coalition government, rapidly became a

challenge to his own health authority amongst his own -- his own

authority amongst his own supporters. As crowds gathered, many

in Mr Berlusconi's party began having doubts about bringing down

the government. This afternoon, one of Mr Berlusconi's ministers, who

the government. This afternoon, one had resigned, was now seen at the

window of the Prime Minister's had resigned, was now seen at the

office. Moments later, one of Mr Berlusconi's allies was suddenly

discovered saying he wanted the government to continue. "We are

going to continue with Enrico Letta."

At Silvio Berlusconi's residence tonight, a crisis meeting was held

as some in his party were saying that more than 40 of his MPs would

defy him, a challenge to his authority. I think that Berlusconi

is bloom mailing the -- blackmailing authority. I think that Berlusconi

the country. He doesn't understand that he might accelerate his

political end. It would be unwise to write off Silvio Berlusconi. He is a

great survivor, but tonight, his centre-right party is split and the

great survivor, but tonight, his man who has dominated Italian

politics for 20 years is a weakened politician.

Tonight's football and there were convincing wins for both Arsenal and

Chelsea in the Champions League this evening. But Celtic narrowly lost to

Barcelona after having a man sent off. Joe Wilson has the latest for

us. A year after they visited Celtic and

lost, back to Glasgow came Barcelona, without injured Lionel

Messi. Worried? Well they had to fall back on Naymar. He was close

here. Scott Brown got near in the second

half, contact as the Brazilian fell and a little when he was on the

ground too. The reaction? Not subtle. The referee saw enough for a

straight red card. Sill Celtic were 15 minutes from holding out when

Fabregas headed the ball exactly where the goalkeeper wasn't and 1-0

it finished. While other teams toil on the turf, Arsenal are playing on

silk. It's the confidence which comes when you have Orzil in the

centre. They were 2-0 up against Napoli in 15 minutes. The visitors

barely had a kick. Giroud this tim Nothing more needed. Chee's season

had reached the stage where a scrappy goal at Steaua Bucharest was

significant. Chelsea really needed something here. Still Mourinho

played it cool. He was right to. Stand by for a cracking finish.

After that you'd happily disappear, instead he found himself entangled

in the web of his own miss fortune, ever more embarrassing. When Lampard

brought the net into play again in the 90th minute it was 4-0 to

Chelsea. the 90th minute it was 4-0 to

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