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The increasingly desperate plight of civilians caught in Syria's civil | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
war, cut off from food and medical supplies. | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
Rare footage from inside rebel held areas where people are trapped by | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
the fighting, with the shops running out of food. | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
TRANSLATION: If they want to attack us with chemical weapons, then just | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
do it, but can they make them with the smell of bread so we can die | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
happy? We'll be looking at what progress | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
has been made towards resolving the conflict. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Also tonight: Shameful - a coroner rules neglect contributed to the | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
deaths of five elderly residents at a care home in Sussex. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
Police protection for moderate British Muslims after they are | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
targeted in a video by Islamist extremists. | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
For sale off the coast of Brazil - one of the biggest offshore oil | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
deposits ever found. And could Andros Townsend lead the | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
next generation of England footballers? | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
On Sportsday, Andros Townsend signs a new four-year contract with | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Tottenham Hotspur. He's also told the BBC he took Roy Hodgson's joke | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
as a compliment. Good evening. | :01:05. | :01:29. | |
The desperate plight of civilians caught up in Syria's conflict is | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
causing increasing alarm among aid agencies tonight. Food supplies in | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
rebel held areas of the capital, Damascus, are close to running out, | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
and the International Committee of the Red Cross is calling on all | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
sides to allow them in to help. The Syrian army has told the rebels to | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
surrender or starve. The situation is so desperate that an influential | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Muslim cleric has issued a religious ruling allowing people to eat cats | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
and dogs. The BBC has had access to rare footage shot inside one of the | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
areas cut off from outside help. Paul Wood reports. | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
Surrender, or starve. That is what the Syrian military calls its tactic | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
of besieging rebel held parts of Damascus. This is how the regime has | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
been shelling this suburb in recent weeks. Encircled and cut off, no one | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
can get out and nothing can get in. One family's struggle for existence | :02:31. | :02:44. | |
was filmed by an activist. Conditions are so desperate that a | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
cleric has ruled people can eat cats and dogs. This 11th -year-old boy | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
and his nine-year-old sister have seen many friends die. | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
TRANSLATION: My dream is to go back to school and play with my friends. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
We had a slogan, one for wall, and all for one, but I don't think that | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
can happen now because half my friends are dead. We are bored of | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
this. If they want to attack with chemical weapons, then do it. But | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
can they make them with the smell of bread so we can die happy? His | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
mother, who asked not to be identified, says she cannot face | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
what they might have to do to survive. | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
TRANSLATION: I would rather die than eat cats and dogs. Two weeks ago I | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
saw the head of a cat in the Street. Just imagining the picture | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
of people eating cats make me sick for the whole day. There is little | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
comfort on a trip to the market. A few radishes and leaves, all that is | :03:51. | :04:02. | |
left to sell here. For children already ill, the shortage of food is | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
deadly. Activists say they are starting to record the first deaths | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
from complications caused by malnutrition. Tens of thousands of | :04:12. | :04:23. | |
people are affected in Damascus. Several areas are worse than others. | :04:24. | :04:35. | |
They have been cut off for months. Here, on Wednesday, the government | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
told noncombatants, women, children and elderly men that they could | :04:41. | :04:49. | |
leave. But shelling began as one group crossed no man's land. We are | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
helpless, says this man, having been turned back. All that we have is | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
God. Several thousand escaped, but many more remained behind, unwilling | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
to risk this. The UN Security Council has just passed a resolution | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
instructing all sides to allow humanitarian supplies to cross front | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
lines. That is not happening in the suburbs of Damascus. But the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
international community may have reached the limit of its influence | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
in Syria, able to get access to weapons inspectors but not for aid | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
to desperate people whose food is running out. The family share their | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
one meal of the day. A handful of lentils has made a thin broth and | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
some bread. In four or five days they say the little that they have | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
will be gone. Bridget Kendall is here. What | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
progress on a diplomatic solution to end the misery we saw? On the face | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
of it, there has been progress. Chemical weapons inspectors say they | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
are able to get on with their job, and the Syrian regime is talking a | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
prospect of a peace conference in Geneva although others are saying it | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
is too early to talk about that yet. But over the last few weeks, Syrian | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
diplomatic diplomacy, the process of diplomacy has been turned on its | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
head. Just a few weeks ago, the United States was contemplating air | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
strikes on Syria. They went from bad to a piece deal over chemical | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
weapons, which some of Syria's neighbours is just legitimising | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
President Assad and will do nothing to stop the conflict, the bloodshed, | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
the misery we saw in that film. Today we got the measure of the | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
anger and frustration countries like Saudi Arabia are feeling. Saudi | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
Arabia announced it was refusing to take up its rotating seat on the UN | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
Security Council, shocking everybody, saying it was partly in | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
protest at what is happening in Syria. It is a symbolic gesture but | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
it is a good measure of the divisions and frustrations around | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
Syria and just how complicated it will be to solve the conflict. | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
A coroner has ruled that neglect contributed to the deaths of five | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
elderly people at a residential home in Sussex. She said there was | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
institutionalised abuse throughout Orchid View Care Home and nobody did | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
anything about it. Some residents were given overdoses or the wrong | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
medication altogether, left dirty, distressed and unattended. The Care | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Quality Commission also came in for criticism. It had given the home a | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
rating of "good". Duncan Kennedy reports. | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
Mothers, fathers, parents and grandparents. The elderly residents | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
who went into a home of care, only to suffer pain and neglect at the | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
hands of their carers. The 19 who died lived at the Orchid View home | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
near Crawley. The inquest heard residents were not given pain | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
relief, were locked in rooms and had injuries left untreated by staff, | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
who were drinking tea. Lindsay's mother was among those who suffered. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
She was given an overdose of her own drugs and had her medical notes | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
shredded to cover it up. Every days seemed like a battle in trying to | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
get the care she needed. Having read and listened to the other evidence, | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
it is amazing that anyone came out of Orchid View alive. The coroner | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
condemned the home and its management. She said residents were | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
found naked, one in pain with his catheter twisted. Others were left | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
soiled in bed. Another had a fractured ankle that took staff days | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
to discover, and some even have their wounds dressed with Seller | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
tape. The scandal came to light when the administrator turned | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
whistle-blower. Her manager had ordered her to shred medical notes. | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
Morally, I know I did the right thing but personally I have not | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
worked for two years and the case has had a huge impact on my life. | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
However, I would not want to dissuade anyone from doing the right | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
thing in future if they see vulnerable elderly people being | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
abused and neglected. The coroner also criticised the Care Quality | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
Commission for not acting sooner to close Orchid View. Tonight, the CQC | :09:23. | :09:30. | |
said mistakes were made. One of the things I am going to do is to | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
personally oversee a review of the actions we took and what we can | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
learn from that, and build that into the new way of inspecting services. | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
The home is now under new management and has a different name, but for | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
the coroner what went on here was heartbreaking. She said there was | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
institutional abuse, a place which had, from top to bottom, been | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
completely mismanaged. The coroner said all of those involved in Orchid | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
View should be ashamed. This was a story about residents denied the | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
committee and respect, who had a home, but not the care. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Well, the Health Secretary has expressed his concern about the care | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
of the elderly, not just in terms of protecting them from abuse but also | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
from loneliness. Jeremy Hunt described as a source of national | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
shame that 800,000 people in England say they are chronically lonely. | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
He's urging families to take more responsibility, as Mark Easton | :10:26. | :10:26. | |
reports. Loneliness is a matter of life and | :10:27. | :10:39. | |
death. For people like Ron, who has experienced a profound sense of | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
isolation, the evidence is chilling. A lack of social relationships is as | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
dangerous as smoking, obesity or high blood pressure. It is awful. | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
You seem to have no purpose in life any more. It was terrible. I was not | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
eating properly. I felt nobody cared, to be quite honest. He is not | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
alone in his loneliness. This Sunday a poll for BBC Two is faith in the | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
world week suggests almost half of image people feel lonely sometimes. | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
Evidence that older people suffer chronic loneliness was described by | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
Jeremy Hunt today as a source of national shame. If we are to tackle | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
the challenge of an ageing society, we must restore and reinvigorate the | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
social contract between generations. Uncomfortable though it is to say | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
it, it will only start with changes in the way we personally treat our | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
own parents and grandparents. But is he right to suggest Britain should | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
adopt an oriental approach, with families rather than the state | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
looking after the old? Research done in a few years ago suggests that in | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
Japan, two thirds of their elderly live with their children. In Italy | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
it is 40%. Here in Britain it is only 15%. But come to this lunch | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
club, and you will find that many older people say they do not want to | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
live with their children. I have one son who lives in Northampton. He | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
wants me to live with him but I don't want to. You don't want to? My | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
granddaughter wants me to live with her, but I have my own life and I | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
want to do what I want to do. You are 92 and happy? Yes. Research | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
finds that in Eastern Europe upto 30% of the elderly are lonely. In | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
southern Europe it is up to 20%. In Britain and other parts of northern | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
Europe, between three and 10% of older people are lonely. I heard how | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
older men had set up a club to counter isolation. It is called the | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
keys are's club. It is about countering loneliness? Without a | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
doubt. An ageing population means loneliness is a challenge for our | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
society, irresponsibility to be shared between families, communities | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
and charities, as well as the state. -- a responsibility. | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
A number of British Muslims who've spoken out against Islamist | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
extremism are being protected by the police because of concerns for their | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
safety. They've been warned that they could be targeted by members of | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
the Somali jihadist group, Al-Shabab, after they were named in | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
a video which encourages attacks in the UK. Al-Shabab has claimed | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
responsibility for the recent shopping mall siege in Kenya that | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
left 67 people dead. June Kelly reports. Those who had been at | :13:36. | :13:49. | |
Friday prayers at one central London mosque today heard the message that | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
terrorism has no place in Islam. The imam preached that as a direct | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
response to the news that he is decided in the latest video by | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
Al-Shabab. He has been visited the police because of concerns over his | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
safety, but he is defiant. I am not worried about this death threat. I | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
am bent to continue with my good work, speaking against terrorism and | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
extremism, and speaking for fairness and justice for everybody in the | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
world. I will continue. The Al-Shabab video focuses on Islamist | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
attacks and the people who have spoken out against them. This imam | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
on the left is one of the number of leaders criticised. Also depicted as | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
a traitor to Islam is Mohammed Ansar, a film-maker and journalist. | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
He has recently been filming this BBC documentary with the now former | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
leader of the far right English Defence League Tommy Robinson, who | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
also appears in the Al-Shabab video. Now, both these men have been told | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
there is a threat to their safety. So, what precautions has the | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
film-maker put in place? We have had security people around, we have had | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
lots of briefings, changed locks, reinforced security, had police cars | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
stationed at our premises, and we have regular patrols checking on us. | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
Yes, we take it very seriously. In the video, a masked man speaks about | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
Joe right, 's who have travelled from the UK to Somalia to fight with | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
Al-Shabab. They were accompanied by many Somali brothers from London, | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
Liverpool, Cardiff, Bristol and Birmingham... It was Al-Shabab which | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
was responsible for the attack on the Westgate centre in Kenya. Last | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
night, the BBC reported on how one of the gunman involved in the | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
massacre here grew up in Norway. Well I've tidied, Al-Shabab is a | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
terror network with a global reach. -- like Al-Qaeda. Now, it is | :15:50. | :16:02. | |
expected to be one of the biggest deals in the history of the oil | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
industry, affecting the future of global fuel supplies. On Monday, | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
Brazil will auction rights to the Libra oilfield, discovered off the | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
coast of Rio de Janeiro. It is thought to contain up to 12 billion | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
barrels of oil, and would make Brazil one of the largest producers. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
The firm which wins the auction stands to make up to ?740 billion | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
from the proceeds. As Wyre Davies reports, many Brazilians are worried | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
about selling off a major national asset, and about where the money | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
will end up. Ozil is about to join the big league, and anyone who is a | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
player in the oil business is heading south. -- Brazil. Beneath | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
these waves is the Libra field, one of the largest offshore deposits | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
ever found, and Brazil is selling the rights to develop the area, but | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
with some tight strings attached. This is Brazil's new frontier. The | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
figures are mind boggling, the opportunity is almost endless. When | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
the Libra field goes on stream, it will produce an extra 10 million | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
barrels of oil every day for Brazil, worth trillions of dollars for the | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
national economy. Just to the north of Rio de Janeiro, in this fishing | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
village, or oil is taking over. Big multinationals and contract as are | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
queueing up for their share of the windfall. Big British companies are | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
well established in Brazil, including BP. Also, the lesser-known | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
BG Group. They are not bidding for the rights to the Libra field, but | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
many smaller UK supply firms, like the Swire Group, say they have to be | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
where the oil is now. The North Sea is on the downside, every day, there | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
is less oil and gas, so the companies are not looking at Africa | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
and South America as the future, because their business is going to | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
shrink. -- if those companies are not looking... Thousands of workers | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
are coming from poorer parts of the country to work on the oil | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
platforms. But there are concerns about the experience and | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
infrastructure present in the country. A strike by oil workers | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
opposed to the involvement of foreign companies in the petroleum | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
industry has disrupted production. But the head of Brazil's national | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
oil agency insists the country's state dominated sector can cope with | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
the huge challenge. Everything is happening in the correct place, so | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
we are confident that everything will be OK. Oil has always proved to | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
be a blessing and a curse. Here on the impoverished fringes of one | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
region, some improvements are finally being made to people's | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
lives. But what Brazil does with the windfall from the Libra auction will | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
be watched very closely here. The Defence Secretary says he is | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
concerned that legal action against the MoD is having an impact on the | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
ability of servicemen to carry out duties on the battlefield. He was | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
reacting to a report by a think-tank which says legal claims brought | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
under the Human Rights Act are sapping the ability of Britain to | :19:29. | :19:37. | |
fight wars. Caroline Wyatt reports. Over a decade of fighting in | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
Afghanistan and Iraq has taken its toll. Soldiers' deaths there have | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
led to legal battles back at home over equipment or decisions made in | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
the heat of battle. Iraqi and Afghan detainees have also launched claims | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
against the MoD. Now, a report says applying human rights law to | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
soldiering is affecting the front line. We have got Lance Corporal 's | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
and left tenants taking very difficult decisions, taking them at | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
night, when they are afraid, when they are under fire. -- Lance | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
Corporals and lieutenancy. Second-guessing what a lawyer or a | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
judge might say in a few years' time stops them thinking about what they | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
should be thinking about, how to get home alive. The report says the MoD | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
has fought over 6000 cases in the past year, putting aside ?130 | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
million out of its budget to pay for them. It employs more than 300 | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
lawyers to do battle in court. The Policy Exchange report expresses | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
widespread concerns from commanders and politicians alike. The Secretary | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
of State for Defence, Philip Hammond, has said he remains | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
concerned about the challenge to combat unity arising from these | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
judgements. Sue Smith disagrees. Her son was killed when his Snatch Land | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
Rover hit a roadside bomb in Iraq. He was 21. His lawyer argued the MoD | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
breached his human rights and should have provided better protected | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
vehicles. They were not allowed to let it continue because there was no | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
way anybody could challenge it. For myself, it needed to be challenged, | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
because they should have the right to life, right to protection. Her | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
lawyer insists the Human Rights Act does have a place on the | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
battlefield. What I would like to see coming from this is a | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
recognition from the MoD that they have to put safety on the agenda, as | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
one of the considerations when we go into war. For British troops, the | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
Afghan war may soon be over, but for the opposing armies of lawyers, the | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
fight is not yet done. The Scottish national party says that if the | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
Scottish people vote for independence, it would introduce a | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
cut in energy bills. The Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
said the cuts would allow the Scottish government to save | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
households about ?70 each year. James Cook reports. Perth is power | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
city. The River Tay gave birth to an energy giant, SSE, which is now | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
leading the charge to push up prices, a problem for politicians. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
The SNP had already rejected Labour's plan to freeze bills, so | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
what would they do, as the clock ticks down to the referendum? | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
Delegates, I can announce to you today that an SNP government in an | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
independent Scotland will remove the cost of energy-saving measures and | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
the warm home discount from Energy Bill 's. She said that would cut ?70 | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
off the average bill, but of course, the money has to come from | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
somewhere. Is it not at the basic level taking money out of budgets | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
for schools and hospitals to save the energy companies? Right now, | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
people find this out of their pockets, through the energy bills. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
It is not progressive, because it hits you whether you are very highly | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
paid all only paid. It is very regressive. How does this go down on | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
the high street in Perth, where 2500 people work for just one energy | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
firm? We get lots of promises from politicians, but does it happen? No, | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
I do not think it would make a difference. I believe it should not | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
be part of the energy cost, it should be some other form of | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
taxation, whether national, income or local. As Scotland prepares to | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
vote on independence next year, the SNP is trying to bridge divide, to | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
be on the side of the consumer, without scaring off big business. | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
The England player Andros Townsend has tried to defuse the race row | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
prompted by comments by the manager, Roy Hodgson, describing the comments | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
as a condiment. Townsend is England's write new hope, for the | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
World Cup in Brazil and beyond. -- as a compliment. His debut was a | :24:11. | :24:21. | |
rare explosion on the national stage. It's saw him hailed as | :24:22. | :24:31. | |
England's next great hope. Being at the centre of a racism storm was not | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
something Andros Townsend was expecting. Today he told me he took | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
the team talk as a compliment. It has been a week to remember. It was, | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
in a way I was going home on Friday night, watching the game over and | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
over again, watching the gold. The last time fans were this infused | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
about an England player was Wayne Rooney, blasting on the scene for | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
Everton at 16 years old. Why do players like these, round so | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
infrequently? At his old club, the players elite performance plan has | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
been around for a year. The aim of the plan is to get players closer to | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
10,000 hours of high-level coaching by the age of 18. Here, they say it | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
has got to start earlier. You see nine-year-olds playing with the | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
wrong size pitch, the wrong size ball, all of those fundamental | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
things. It is really sad. If that is the feeder system for the elite | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
programme, and it is letting us down. There is no argument about | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
that. The FA says it is working hard to develop better practice for | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
children, children who idolise these foreign Premier League stars, who | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
have helped it to become arguably the best league in the world. But | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
many believe it is at the expense of the national side. Everton's manager | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
is not one of them. It is easy to say we have it does not matter where | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
you are from, the players who play is the best ones in the squad. We | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
need to make sure the British players are the best ones in the | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
dressing room. The Premier League is adamant that their system means | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
England fans will enjoy plenty more good nights, and on a more regular | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
basis. That is all from us. Newsnight follows on BBC Two. | :26:29. | :26:34. |