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. The Government defends plans to cap benefits payments at �26,000 a | :00:05. | :00:07. | |
year, but there is strong opposition to the Welfare Bill on | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
the eve of a parliamentary vote. I voted with the Government on | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
everything until now. I see it as my job as an ex-leader to support | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
my successor. I will not support the benefit cap in its present form. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
In Syria, further pressure on the authorities to stop the violence. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
We report from inside the country. Italian officials say unregistered | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
passengers may have been onboard the Costa Concordia. | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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And Manchester City's last gasp Good evening. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
The Deputy Prime Minister has defended plans to limit benefit | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
payments to �26,000 per family a year in England, Scotland and Wales. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
The Government is facing strong opposition to the Welfare Bill | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
ahead of a vote in the House of Lords tomorrow. But speaking to the | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
BBC, Nick Clegg suggested changes could be made to soften the impact | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
of the cap. Here is Robin Brant. Welfare aacounts for the biggest | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
slice of the Government'sierly spend, around �195 billion. Cutting | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
benefits is a key part of the deficit reduction plan, but | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
coalition ministers think the system is unfair. They say it | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
doesn't do enough to encourage people to find work. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
So they want to bring in a cap of �26,000 a year. The average family | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
income. No household will be able to get more on benefits, around | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
50,000 families could lose out. If Parliament approves, the changes | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
kick in in April 2013. Critics claimed children could be the | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
hardest hit, particularly those from big families and opponents on | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
the Government's side want help for them or they will try to block it. | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
I am not against a benefit cap, I am in favour of one. But the | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
provisions as currently drafted as they will appear before us in the | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
House of Lords on Monday, I cannot support. If the Government brings | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
into operation those transitional measures that I know in know Nick | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
is arguing for and Mr Duncan Smith promised us that might be different. | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
The Deputy Prime Minister promised to help those affected. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Iain Duncan Smith said we will look at the transitional arrangements. | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
There is a lot of detail. A lot of that is not resolved, but the | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
central principle that you can't on benefits earn more than you would | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
if you went out and earned �35,000 before tax is one that most people | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
in the country recognise is a good thing. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Those transitional arrangements could be crucial. Government | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
sources say it could mean extra intensive help finding work over | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
the next 12 months before the cap comes in. But I'm told families and | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
children facing real hardship would still get support from the State. | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
Labour said it won't vote against the cap, but it has serious | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
concerns about how it will be implemented. | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Well, we have said in principle, we don't have an issue with a benefit | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
cap, but we would seek to implement it in a fair way. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
The Government insisted it is not trying to punish families who rely | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
on benefits, but it wants more parents in work so it can tackle | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
what it claims is a dependency that Robin joins us now. | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
It seems a big part of the debate over the Welfare Bill seems to be | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
whether child benefit should be part of the cap? Yes, the changes | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
are ambitious, but controversial. So much so that in recent weeks, | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
the Government has suffered several defeats on proposals at the House | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
of Lords and in Parliament. So ahead of tomorrow, there is talk of | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
compromise. There is talk of concessions. Talk of a delay delay | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
implementing the changes and talk of taking child benefit out of the | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
calculation when it comes to the budget cap. Critics on the | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Government's side say that could leave the Bill as meaningless. The | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
Government is determined to force this through. Determined to change | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
the law irrespective of what happens here tomorrow. The | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
Chancellor, George Osborne, believes this a key test of the | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
Government's credibility. A key test for him personality on dealing | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
with the deficit reduction plan, but it will be hard for ministers | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
to escape the accusation that the disabled, the poorest children | :04:44. | :04:53. | |
could be the hardest hit with the In Syria, Arab League observers are | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
expected to remain in the country for an extra month. The move is | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
designed to increase pressure on the Syrian authorities to stop the | :05:01. | :05:11. | |
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violent suppression of protests. Minutes after we arrived in | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
Damascus, we were surrounded by support for President Bashar al- | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
Assad. They were expecting us and had | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
their banners ready, but there is no reason to suppose that this is | :05:26. | :05:35. | |
not genuine. These people, like the president, | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
are from the religious sect, 10% of the Syrian population and all they | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
want from the Arab League is backing for President Bashar al- | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Assad and for what they regard is his fight against terrorism and | :05:46. | :05:56. | |
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against the foreign conspiracy to destroy Syria. | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Our president loves us. We love him from our heart. | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
I love President Assad. We love President Assad. Everyone loves | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
President Assad. This is the bedrock of President | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Bashar al-Assad's support. People from his own community. They are | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
100% behind what he is doing. They believe that this uprising, if it | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
takes him down, might threaten their lives. District 86 is named | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
after a military unit. Many of the men who live here work for the | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
Security Services and some have been killed during the fight | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
against the protests. These boys say their older brother was killed | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
this month. He says, he just signed up with | :06:48. | :06:58. | |
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State Security. He might find himself in Douma, a a | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
suburb, which the BBC has not been allowed to visit this weekend. | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
These videos seem to confirm reports that a funeral in Douma was | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
attacked. Four people, protesters say, were | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
killed by the military. The dead were laid out in the | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
mosque. The army was outside. | :07:26. | :07:34. | |
Later, it was claimed they were driven out of Douma. The free Syria | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
army said they did it and threatened to attack the | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
Presidential Palace and hang five prisoners if the regime's forces | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
came back. The Arab League warns of the risk of civil war in Syria. So | :07:46. | :07:56. | |
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far, it has not found a way to stop Plans by the Government to reform | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
the NHS in England are expected to be severely criticised this week in | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
a report by senior MPs. The Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, is set | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
to be challenged by the Health Affairs Select Committee over his | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
strategy of trying to save billions of pounds while attempting to carry | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
out a major overhaul of the NHS at the same time. A man has handed | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
himself into police after a six- year-old girl had part of her ear | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
bitten off, when a dog attacked her in a London park. The man, who is | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
56, was arrested on suspicion of allowing a dog to be dangerously | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
out of control in a public place. The girl also suffered injuries to | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
her neck and shoulder and has undergone plastic surgery at a | :08:35. | :08:45. | |
Divers have recovered another body from the wreck of the Costa | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
Concordia cruise liner. 13 people are now confirmed dead after the | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
ship hit rocks off the Italian coast more a week ago. Luisa | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
Baldini is at the scene now. A team of forensic officers has been | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
drafted on to the island because they specialise in the | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
identification of victims, but so far, they have only managed to | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
identify eight of the 13 bodies which have been recovered. And then | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
officials said today that they believe the Costa Concordia was | :09:13. | :09:23. | |
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Dwarfed by the wreck of the Costa Concordia, police patrol the ship | :09:23. | :09:30. | |
submerged in the sea. On land, a scale model of her her | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
sister ship is used by emergency crews for guidance as they discuss | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
and prepare today's stop and search -- today's search. | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
At church this morning, relatives of the four French victims attended | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
Sunday Mass with the local community. | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
They can at least begin the grieving process. 24 other families | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
are still waiting for their loved ones to be identified or even | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
recovered. We're feeling low, this local woman | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
told me. We have never seen anything like it. We are feeling | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
such pain. I feel sorry for those people. | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
On the headland above the wreck, measuring equipment monitors the | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
ship's position. The worst case scenario was that the ship slips | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
off the rocky ledge on which it is resting. How probable is that? | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
think the last is not very probable, but we cannot exclude that and we | :10:34. | :10:42. | |
need one or two more data and also the comparison with the tide, the | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
currents, data to decide. Meanwhile salvage crews wait to go | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
start pumping oil from the ship, are bringing in their equipment. We | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
can now see preparations being made for the fuel recovery. These | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
enormous concrete blocks are going to be placed in the sea and | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
attached to them, will be these huge yellow steel buoys. Those are | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
going to be used to keep the barge which will be holding the pumping | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
machinery as stable as possible. A container ship will then be brought | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
in, the fuel pumped on to it and taken away. | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
No fuel is leaked yet, but the sea has been polluted by all the | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
solvents and products needed on a ship this big and by all those who | :11:30. | :11:39. | |
In the background, there has been this war of words reported in the | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
Italian press between captain captain captain and the the | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
management. We were hoping for answers, but Costa pulled out of an | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
interview and cited legal advice and say they won't comment whilst | :11:56. | :12:05. | |
In the latest stage of the race to be the next Republican candidate | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
for the US presidential election, Newt Gingrich has scored a | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
convincing win. In the South Carolina primary, he emphatically | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
beat the early favourite Mitt Romney, securing 40% of the vote. | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
Newt Gingrich's supporters had a lot to celebrate, a big win in a | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
State that has always picked the winner. Republican race, but he has | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
a lot of work to do if this victory is to be anymore than a flash in | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
the pan. The former Speaker told the crowd why he wanted to win the | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
right to take on President Obama in the election. | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
I believe because we concluded that this is the most important election | :12:47. | :12:56. | |
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of our lifetime. If Barack Obama can get re-elected, after this | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
disaster... BOOING | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
Right, just think how radical he would be in a second-term. | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
Even as a young professor, Newt Gingrich talked about becoming | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
president. He has self regard and raises strong feeling. A Speaker of | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
the House of Representatives, he masterminded a Republican victory, | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
clashing with with President Bill Clinton. | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
Even as he hounded Clinton over Monica Lewinsky, he was carrying on | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
with the woman who had become his third wife. His opponents said he | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
is impossible to work with. Newt Gingrich's strike is a blow to | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
Mitt Romney, the front-runner who is distrusted by many Republican | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
Conservatives. He warned Newt Gingrich to lay off ta acting his | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
reputation as a businessman. Our party can't be led to victory | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
by someone who never had a business or never had a State. | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
My opponents are not oj attacking me, they attacking every person who | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
dreams of a better future. He is attacking you. | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
Newt Gingrich's supporters will have little time to party. The the | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
Conservatives will hope they found one candidate and oppose Mitt | :14:23. | :14:32. | |
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Romney. The road ahead will be long A Dutch teenager has become the | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
youngest person to sail around the world solo. 16-year-old Laura | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
Dekker sailed into port in the Caribbean almost exactly a year | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
after beginning her voyage. But despite her endeavours, she won't | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
be able to claim an official place in the record books as Sangita | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Myska explains. Greeted by shouts from her fans, the remarkably | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
collected Laura Dekker guided her yacht, Guppy back into port. The | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
16-year-old battled tresherous conditions to make it back to Sint | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Maarten, but today that was a distant minimumry. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
-- memory. There were moments when I was like, | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
"What the hell am I doing out here?" I never wanted to stop. | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
wasn't just practical problems which Laura did bat battle, there | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
were the adults. Dutch authorities concerned about her age ordered she | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
stay at home in the Netherlands, but she won a court battle and set | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
sail. Despite her achievement, there is one honour sheer grit | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
won't get her. The Guinness Book Of Records says it can not recognise | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
her voyage for fear of encouraging other youngsters to take risks. | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
Now with all the sport, here's Celina Hinchcliffe. | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
Good evening. There was a five goal thriller in the Premier League this | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
afternoon. Top of the table Manchester City enjoyed a victory | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
over third placed Tottenham. All the goals came after the break. Tim | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Franks watched the action. Tomorrow the Spurs manager Harry red nap | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
going on trial. He is due in court on charges of tax evasion. Today, | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
the test was to dent Manchester City's perfect home record. City | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
scored first. Nasri a brutal finish. Three | :16:20. | :16:29. | |
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minutes later, 2-0. Then a Defoe made it 2-1. Within | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
five minutes a handsome swish of the foot from Gareth Bale and Spurs | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
were level. Into stoppage time, Spurs almost | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
won it. Bale supersonic and almost too quick for Defoe. | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
Then with seconds to go, Ledly king floored Mario Balotelli. Penalty, | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
goal. City extend their lead. Spurs wonder if that was their last best | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
Manchester continued its domination over north London as United beat | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Arsenal 2-1 at the Emirates Stadium in the other match this afternoon. | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
Danny Welbeck scored the winning goal for United. The result keeps | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
them within three points of their rivals City. This was the Gunners | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
third league defeat in a row and dents their chances of qualifying | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
for next season's Champions League. Saracens are England's only | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
representatives in the quarter- finals of the Heineken Cup. They | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
enjoyed a 26-20 win over Treviso in Italy. David Strettle was a try | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
scorer. So Saracens will have a home tie against Clermont Auvergne | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
in the last eight. Edinburgh's last minute try against London Irish | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
means they pipped Cardiff Blues to win pool two, but the Blues still | :17:47. | :17:49. |