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Good afternoon. WHITE Lord Heseltine, the | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Government's adviser on economic growth, has warned David Cameron | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
that holding a referendum on Britain's relationship with the | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
European Union would be, "an unnecessary gamble". He said it | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
could drive away investment because of what he called, "a cloud of | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
uncertainty". The Prime Minister is expected to announce details of his | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
proposals in a speech later this month. Our political correspondent | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
Alan Soady reports. Is David Cameron the Prime Minister who is | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
to give voters a referendum on Europe? He will set out later this | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
month the plans on Britain's future relationship with the European | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Union and it is expected he will give the public a vote for the | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
first time since the 1970s. But the Conservative former Deputy Prime | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Minister, Lord Heseltine, now the Government's adviser on economic | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
growth, is worried. In a newspaper interview, Lord | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Heseltine says, to commit to a referendum about a negotiation that | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
has not begun, on a timescale, you cannot predict, on an outcome that | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
is unknown, where Britain's appeal is an inward investment market is | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
the centre of the debate, seems an unnecessary gamble. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
David Cameron favours renegotiating the terms of Britain's membership, | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
but he did not rule out the possibility of leaving the EU in | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
the future. His Chancellor, George Osborne, has also raised the | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
question of EU membership, saying he would like Britain to stay in | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
but on new terms. Renegotiation would rely on the willingness of | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
other EU leaders, like the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, but a | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
senior member of her party warned Britain could be making a mistake | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
if it chose to leave the European Union. Lord Heseltine has been on | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
the pro-European wing of the Conservative Party. There are those | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Euro-sceptics who may say this is a case of he would say that, wouldn't | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
he? But David Cameron did hire him as the adviser on growth. There may | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
be some MPs on the Prime Minister's side who has sympathy for what Lord | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Heseltine is saying. The Liberal Democrats Business Secretary, Vince | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
Cable, has warned that the debate over Europe is disruptive and | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
unhelpful, but the debate goes on, and with it public divisions at the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
heart of Government. Four police officers have been | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
injured during another night of violence linked to Union flag | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
protests in Northern Ireland. Police fired plastic bullets as | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
rioters threw more than 30 petrol bombs. From Belfast, Chris Page | :02:52. | :03:02. | |
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reports. Politicians, the police and the business people said it | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
should stop, but last night the rioting returned after two nights | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
of peace. In the Rathcoole estate on the outskirts of north Belfast, | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
the loyalists attacked the police with petrol bombs, rocks and | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
firebombs. In Carrickfergus there was more rioters with more than 3 | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
petrol bombs thrown. The police responded by using water canons. | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
Four officers were injured. There were a number of other | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
demonstrations that were peaceful, but while the vast majority of | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
people have not seen street violence, many have been affected | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
by roadblocks, traffic was prevented from passing down several | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
main roads. The company that runs public transport says it is losing | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
out badly. Yesterday we had to withdraw | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
services to most parts of Belfast. Only services running to airports | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
were open. All other roads were blocked. We had to look after the | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
safety of our staff and the customers. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
The violence that has caused this disruption has been confined to | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
small areas, but it has cost the police and the businesses here | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
millions of pounds. Almost six weeks into the dispute, there is no | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
sign of the demonstrations ending. More details have emerged of the | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Government's plans for a flat rate pension, for people retiring after | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
2017. Its expected to be �144 a week. Some people are expected to | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
benefit from the change such as women who take long career breaks | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
to bring up children but that others will have to pay hundreds of | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
pounds more in national insurance during their working lives. The | :04:40. | :04:50. | |
Government's white paper will be published on Monday. | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
Government forces in Mali have regained territory from Islamist | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
militants following air strikes by the French military. France has | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
sent troops into the West African country to help the government | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
repel an advance by the rebels. The French president Francois Hollande | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
described the militants, who are linked to Al-Qaeda, as terrorists | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
threatening Mali's very existence. Firefighters in Australia are | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
continuing to tackle more than 100 bushfires. Gusty winds are making | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
it hard to control the blazes, in the states of New South Wales, | :05:21. | :05:30. | |
Tasmania and Victoria. Nick Bryant reports. The forecast was for the | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
temperatures in the whos and a return to angry winds of earlier in | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
the week. So the helicopters were in the skies early, dumping water | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
from the planes. Of the 100 or so fires, three blazes posed a risk to | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
the communities. For a time this fire front outside of Cooma, south | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
of Canberra, threatened 15 properties, but relief came with a | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
drop in temperatures and friendly winds. That's the story across New | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
South Wales. Here, the fire crews deliberately set alight to the bush | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
land. Such are the dry conditions, that in a matter of minutes it was | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
ablaze. The crews are playing a guessing game with the fire, trying | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
to predict its path and to deprive it of fuel. It's been a torrid week | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
for the teams trying to contain the blazes, but given the catastrophic | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
conditions, it is amazing that there has not been more destruction. | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
Mate, the conditions we have had in the last several days, considering | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
were was catastrophic fire danger and there has been no property loss | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
it is remarkable and a credit to the firefighters who are all | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
volunteers. Fires on the eastern side of this | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
vast Continent are seeing this gigantic antic wall of dust close | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
to the coastline. It looks like a creation of Hollywood, rather than | :06:56. | :07:01. |