11/09/2011 BBC Weekend News


11/09/2011

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Good afternoon. It's exactly ten years since the terrorist attacks

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on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, which claimed nearly

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3,000 lives. Ceremonies are taking place around the world to mark the

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day. In the United States, acts of remembrance are being held at each

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of the locations hit by the four hijacked passenger planes. Laura

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Trevelyan is at Ground Zero for us. It is a Sunday in New York, and

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relatives of those killed in 9/11 have been preparing to take part in

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a ceremony of remembrance. As darkness fell on a ground zero,

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they kept coming. New Yorkers, tourists, those in uniform, all

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drawn here by the almost magnetic pull of this place. Shining above

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them 10 years on, Twin Towers Of Light. It is amazing that 10 years

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later there is a building that has already been erected, we are

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celebrating that we have been strong and people are very

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emotional. It is tough, it really is, but Americans, you can't break

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their spirit. The anniversary will play out amid the tightest of

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security, following an intelligence tip that suggest Al-Qaeda intends

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to attack New York using a vehicle bomb. The Americans still don't

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know if a plot is active. Then 9/11 attacks lasted two hours. Planes

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used as missiles, almost 3000 lives lost. The effects of what happened

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here are still reverberating both in America and a world away, in

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Iraq and Afghanistan. The cemetery was covered in debris. It was an

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alien landscape in many respects. To end years ago, this man was a

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priest at this chapel facing ground zero. Now, as then, the Church has

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become a focus for those seeking meaning. I believe in love, hope

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and resurrection. I know that somehow in the mercy of God, even

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this tragedy is being healed. the giant cranes rebuilding Ground

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Zero have fallen silent as America pauses. Later, President Obama will

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join a simple ceremony next to two reflecting swimming pools, erected

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near where the twin towers stud. As you can see, the crowds are

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growing before the ceremony brings. The security has been strengthened,

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a continuing reminder of the threat of Al-Qaeda.

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Services to remember the victims of 9/11 are taking place in Britain.

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In London the families of some of the 67 British victims joined

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representatives from the emergency services at St Paul's Cathedral.

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Nicholas Witchell reports. Closed by the American embassy in London

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is at the Grosvenor Chapel, the American Church, as its known,

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where Britain's remembrance of the events of 10 years ago brought

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together the families that many of the 67 Britons who died in 9/11.

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Mavis flame become a symbol of light that banishes darkness, a

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light of new and everlasting life. Alongside families who were

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bereaved were people who were in the twin towers and escaped, and a

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woman who was working at a nearby church and joined the rescuers.

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the killing heat, bit by bit, the workers sifted the ruins. Kneeling,

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they make to be -, searching for Bones, a piece of fireproof

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clothing, signs that human remains might be nearby. In the services

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here in Britain, as in the United States, the emphasis is on

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remembering those who were lost and celebrating the collective will of

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communities in standing firm against those who attacked them.

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Firefighters from across the United Kingdom have come together to

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remember their colleagues who gave their lives on duty, and in

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particular the victims of 9/11, among whom there were 300 members

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of the Fire Department of New York. Later, amid the tranquillity of the

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memorial garden in Grosvenor Square, the main ceremony here in Britain

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will take place attended by national leaders.

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In other news, trade unions have urged the Government not to be

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swayed by pressure from the big banks ahead of a report out

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tomorrow into banking reform. The TUC boss Brendan Barber called for

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a banking system that works for everybody. The Labour leader, Ed

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Miliband, has also called for reforms that would allow

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irresponsible bankers to be struck off. Our business correspondent Joe

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Lynam reports. Hours before we know what the Commission on banking

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reform will say, the Labour leader has upped the ante saying banks had

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still not mended their ways. Ed His concerns on banking refer --

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reform were echoed by this trade union. We think government needs to

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resist any special pleading for the banking sector, which has to take

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action to make sure banks are safer if we ever faced this sort of

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financial crisis for ordinary people across the UK. The key

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findings in tomorrow's Vickers Report are expected to suggest

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thanks partially ring-fence high- street banking from riskier

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investment banking. If things go wrong on one side, the retail side

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at least would be protected. But would that prevent another

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financial crisis? The primary cause of the last financial crisis was

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lending money to people who could not pay it back, whether that was

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sub-prime mortgages in the US, or wait too much lending to people

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doing deals in the city. Ring- fencing will not change that.

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have seen substantial change since the financial crisis three years

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ago, they now have to hold more reserves than they did back then.

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How much they pay their bankers is now heavily scrutinised and they

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pay a bank levy worth �2.5 million to taxpayers. But the cost will not

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be known for a few years yet. Sport now and Wales came within a

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whisker of beating defending champions South Africa in their

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opening game of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. In the end the

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Springboks shaved it by just 17-16, avoiding what would have been a

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shock defeat. Earlier, Ireland comfortably beat the United States.

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That's it from me. There's more throughout the afternoon on the BBC

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News channel. Including a BBC News special covering the memorial

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