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A major crackdown on anti- government protestors in Syria - | :00:05. | :00:11. | |
over 130 people are killed. Fighting across Syria has made this | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
one of the deadliest days since the uprising began. Britain calls it an | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
assault on the Syrian people. Crucial talks in Washington on | :00:19. | :00:29. | |
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America's debt crisis. Political leaders say a deal is close. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Here, a political row on health spending. The Government denies | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Labour claims that reforms will mean poorer areas lose out. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Ian Bell scores more than 150 for England after a controversial | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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reprieve on the third day of the Good evening. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
More than 130 people are reported to have been killed across Syria in | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
one of the most violent days since the anti-government uprising began | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
there in March. In one city, hospitals were flooded with | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
casualties as tanks smashed through protestors barricades and opened | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
fire. Both Britain and the United States have condemned the violence | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
in Hama, calling it an assault by the Syrian Government on its own | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
people. Our World Affairs correspondent Caroline Hawley has | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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the latest. The assault began at first light. | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
The Syrian regime of bringing war to a city of 700,000. Witnesses say | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
the tanks moved in from several directions, smashing through | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
makeshift roadblocks put up by protesters, and firing | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
indiscriminately. For weeks, the military had been surrounded Hama, | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
which has seen some of the biggest demonstrations since the protests | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
in Syria began. Today, a clear message from the regime on the eve | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
of Ramadan that they will not tolerate more unrest. We started | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
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hearing some artillery shots from all directions. And bombing. And | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
sometimes we heard, the like, anti- aircraft shooting against people. | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Hospitals were swamped. Doctors appealed for blood. Here, a race to | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
get one man to treatment. Hama has a history of resistance to the | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
regime. It is a city still scarred by a massacre in 1982, when the | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
regime killed many thousands and destroyed whole neighbourhoods, to | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
put down an Islamist are rising. Foreign Secretary William Hague | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
said he was appalled by today's storming of Hama. American | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
officials call it a last act of utter desperation. The uprising | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
began 4 and a half months ago. Even before today, other 1,500 civilians | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
had been killed, as well as hundreds of security forces. 12,000 | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
people have been arrested. But for all of the force the regime has | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
been using, it has been unable to crush the protest movement. There | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
has been no prospect of outright victory for either side. Ramadan | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
was a chance for protesters the Gabba against the Government, but | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
the Government has a willingness to use all of its force within the | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
cities. The most likely outcome is the protesters will arm themselves, | :03:36. | :03:44. | |
like they did in Libya. President Bashar al-Assad has made promises | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
of reform, but they have been drowned out by the sound of his | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
regime's guns. This has been one of the bloodiest days in serious since | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
the uprising began. The violence has not been confined to Hama. The | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
authorities and the protesters are in a deadly test of wills for the | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
future of the country. Our correspondent Jim Muir is | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
covering events in Syria from neighbouring Lebanon. Pretty strong | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
comments from Britain and the United States today on the events | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
in Hama. Do those have any kind of influence on Damascus? | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Well, I think international pressure may be playing a role on | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Hama, because it is such a special case because of the massacre there | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
before. There have been statements from the Turkish Prime Minister Mr | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
Ed again, saying there must not be another Hama. -- third began. They | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
could get away with it in 1982, because they did not have the media | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
then that we have today, the same technology. Today, it seems the | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
tanks have pulled back -- pulled back, so they may have drawn away | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
from that confrontation in Hama. We are told by people on the ground | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
that the city is in the hands of its inhabitants, as it has been for | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
the past few months. So despite this attempt to advance and the | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
bloodshed of today, it does seem as though they have drawn back from | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
trying to overwhelm the city altogether. That could be a sign | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
that they are sensitive from the very strong pressures from the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
Americans, and the French, the Europeans are threatening more | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
sanctions. It is things like economic pressures that will begin | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
to tell, because the economy is in very severe trouble, and that could | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
be one of the Achilles heels of this very tough and ruthless regime. | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
He said it has gone on and on, it is four and a half months. You get | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
the impression the protest movement is running out of steam? | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
No, it is the classic situation of the irresistible force of their | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
protest movement that is slowly gaining ground and the immovable | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
object of a regime which is absolutely refusing to budge. What | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
it is doing is offering so-called comprehensive reforms but they have | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
no credibility as far as the people of the opposition are concerned. So | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
it looks as though it will go on for some time, it will be cracks | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
within the army or the economy that could be the thing that eventually | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
brings the Government down. Jim Muir, thank you for joining us. | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
In the United States, Democratic and Republican leaders are reported | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
to be close to reaching a deal which could end the deadlock over | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
raising the country's borrowing limit. Politicians have until | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Tuesday to reach an agreement or risk the country defaulting on its | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
debts. Our North America Editor Mark | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
Mardell is in Washington. What kind of deal might this look | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
like? I think we are very close to a deal | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
with the political elite, the President, the White House and the | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
leaders of both parties. And we have to remember the reason we are | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
in this crisis, that could affect the whole world's economy, it is | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
because when the Republicans won the elections last year and took | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
control of the House of Representatives, they said we are | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
not going to let America borrow any more money, because the reasoning - | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
- the reason is it is spending too much. Let's deal with that first. | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
This would give them around three trillion dollars of cuts in stages, | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
some agreed that and some to be agreed in November. They are pretty | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
close to that deal. So essentially everything is at | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
stake, which is why they are haggling up to the last minute? | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Yes, and the fly in the ointment is what the parties will think about | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
that. There will be many Democrats who think that these cuts are far | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
too deep and will affect the poor, affect programmes that are very | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
important. And probably more of the difficulty, the Republicans, | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
particularly those backed by the Conservative tea-party movement, | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
think the cuts are not deep enough, and some of them say, actually, the | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
problem is we are deep in debt, and you don't borrow more money when | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
you are in debt. So they would be willing to risk the sort of | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
economic crisis that some are warning would end sue if the debt | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
ceiling isn't raised, or rather than do a deal. They don't want a | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
deal at all. It will be a tense few days. | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Mark Mardell, thank you. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
has dismissed calls to scrap the 50% tax rate for top earners. The | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and former Chancellor, Lord Lamont, | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
have both said the rate should be cut. But Danny Alexander today | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
called it a "cloud cuckoo-land" idea. | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
We set out in the coalition agreement, it is something that we | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
as Liberal Democrats pushed hard for, that the Government's first | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
priority in tax reductions would be for people on low and middle | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
incomes, those families working hard to make ends meet. Anyone who | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
thinks we will shift our priority to reduce the tax burden for the | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
wealthy as another think coming. That cannot be the right priority | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
for the country at this time. A political row has broken out over | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
health funding in England, with Labour claiming that poorer areas | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
would lose out to more affluent ones as a result of reforms. The | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Government claims this is misleading as the overall NHS | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
budget is going up. The Health Secretary must be | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
getting a bit sick of all the criticism. Doctors, nurses and even | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
some government ministers pushing for a rethink on his reforms. | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Labour are claiming that the change to the way the NHS is funded will | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
harm the poor and help the rich. Figures calculated by health bodies | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
in Manchester say that less well- off parts of England, not just | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
Manchester, but Liverpool, Tower Hamlets, will lose out when funds | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
are allocated, while richer areas will benefit. The Government is not | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
taking into account health and -- health inequalities, as it used to | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
in allocating money. Inevitably, if you don't take health inequalities | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
in to account sufficiently, poorer areas lose money. Labour believes | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
the Government are vulnerable are the NHS. The Health Secretary has | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
had to delay or change some of the big reforms planned to the services | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
in England. Andrew Lansley knows that if he wants to stage a | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
political recovery, he cannot take the latest criticisms lying down. | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
We are increasing the budget in England. Everywhere is saying that | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
the budget increase of at least 2.5% -- is seeing. And we are | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
making sure that we build from a position of better performance. | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
although the way money is being handed out within the NHS is | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
changing, the overall about it every part of England is going up. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
The NHS Primary Care Trusts in they are less well-off Tower Hamlets | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
will see an increase in its funding, which is very similar to the rise | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
seen in Surrey this year. And in future, the Government says local | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
authorities will get more money to help improve the health of people | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
living in deprived areas. At the Health Secretary will try to prove | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
-- push through bigger changes in the autumn, but these will be | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
examined closely by the opposition and professional bodies that are | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
still worried that the reforms could make the health service worse, | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
not better. It is now a year since Pakistan was | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
hit by the worst floods in its history, with millions of people | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
affected by torrents of water. Almost 2000 people were killed and | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
the flooding and another 3,000 injured. In all, more than 1.7 | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
million homes were destroyed. Today, amid this year's monsoon, many | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
families are still struggling, with little help from the authorities. | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
Aleem Maqbool reports from one of the worst affected parts of north- | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
west Pakistan. The rainy season is just starting | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
again. As harmless as the water looks now, it is failing the people | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
here with dread. It has brought back the memory of the images like | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
these from last year, and the heaviest rains ever recorded, | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
wreaking havoc across Pakistan. Nearly 20 million people were | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
affected. This village in Charsadda or was one of the first places the | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
floods struck. People here had no warning of the disaster that was | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
coming their way. Villagers say a massive wall of water came through | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
here from that direction and hit the village. It destroyed a lot of | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
the houses and also caused a lot of death. In fact, one year on, they | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
still haven't found all the bodies of those who were swept away. This | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
lady did manage to find her two teenage daughters, but it took days. | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
Their bodies had been carried more than three kilometres away by the | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
force of the water. Her family has been able to rebuild part of the | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
house that was damaged, but she remains consumed by grief. | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
TRANSLATION: Of my life was shattered. Without my two girls, | :12:54. | :13:03. | |
living has no meaning any more. spite other massive aid | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
mobilisation, many are still living in tents -- off a massive aid | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
mobilisation. This man and his family lost their home and in the | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
desperation of saving themselves, all of their belongings as well. | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
They are trying to get their lives back on track. TRANSLATION: The | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
last eight we received was six months ago, when we got some basic | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
food rations -- aid. Since then, we have relied on charity from local | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
people. Whether it is through their grief for their homelessness and | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
loss of livelihood, millions are still struggling from last year's | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
floods. Bat, the UN wants, makes them even more vulnerable as their | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
new monsoon season starts -- bat, the UN warns. | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
Time to get the latest board with Olly Foster. | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
A century from Ian Bell has helped England build a very big lead in | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
the second Test against India, but he was involved in a very | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
controversial incident at Trent Bridge. He was given out and then | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
climax, the English batsmen needed to set the pace. Andrew Strauss was | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
perhaps too eager, chasing one from Sreesanth with his team still in | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
arrears. Ian Bell was bright and breezy from the off, seemingly free | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
from pressure. He rapidly move his side into the lead and himself to | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
aircraft the 50. After the interval, Kevin Pietersen picked up the bat | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
on and drove the attack. Bell caressed his way to a fine century, | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
among the best he has scored at Test level. Kevin Pietersen | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
eventually went but England almost survived a further loss up to tea | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
until a bizarre incident. Eoin Morgan as she and he had four runs | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
but the ball was not dead. -- assumed. India removed the bails, | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
with Ian Bell departing for tea. In fact, he was departing run out, to | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
his, his teams and the home crowd's constellation. But peace broke out | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
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over the crumpets, as he re-emerged. Ian Bell on 150 before being | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
permanently out. Morgan followed him and the injured Jonathan | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
Trott's earnings were short but England have already built a high | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
Jenson Button was given a cake last night ahead of his 200th Grand Prix | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
and he got a big bottle of Champagne today after winning in | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
Hungary. Lewis Hamilton was heading for victory but was penalised by | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
the stewards for dangerous driving and finished fourth. The wisdom | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
inside that Helmut comes from 11 years in Formula One. It served | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
Jensen Button well today after winning his first grand prix five | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
years ago also in the wet. From the start, he was all over Lewis | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Hamilton. Both were catching the Sebastian Vettel. His lead from | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
polar lasted just five laps. Hamilton passed first. Jensen | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
Button got his dodgy spot on. Fresher tyres and Sebastian Vettel | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
watched him go through as well. Anything could happen. Hamilton was | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
feeling the heat and lost control. And at the lead. As he spun his car | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
back in the right direction, he almost caused an accident. The | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
stewards view of that could cause him the race. He didn't find that | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
for a few laps, though. Enough time to go wheel to wheel with Jensen | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
Button for the lead. Great racing until the stewards handed down | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
their punishment for that spinner. His brother watched Hamilton take | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
his drive-through penalties. Have 11th race in 11 years, Jensen | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
Button, but it could be an important one. Perfect going into | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
the summer break. His victory puts him firmly in the chasing pack but | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
Sebastian Vettel's second place sees him stretches champion lead. | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
Great Britain's swimmers have signed off from the World | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
Championships in Shanghai with another gold medal. Liam Tancock | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
successfully defended his 50 metres backstroke title taking the teams | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
tally of golds to three for the championships. Only two have come | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
in the pool though. Hannah Miley also took silver today in the 400 | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
metres medley. Golf, and Englishman Simon Dyson | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
has won the Irish Open. And the Women's British Open went to the | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
world number one and defending Champion at Carnoustie. Yani Tseng | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
from Taiwan finished on 16 under par. Four clear of the field. It's | :17:48. | :17:52. |