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The United States and Russia agree on a plan to destroy Syria's | :00:04. | :00:10. | |
chemical weapons. After three days of talks, Damascus is told to give | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
UN inspectors immediate access. of talks, Damascus is told to give | :00:12. | :00:24. | |
The surgeon whose wife and children were killed in a house fire in | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Leicester has spoken of his grief. And a five pence charge for plastic | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
bags in large stores is to be introduced in England. | :00:31. | :00:46. | |
Good evening. The United States and Russia have agreed a plan to destroy | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
Syria's chemical weapons by the middle of next year. The American | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
Secretary of State, John Kerry, and his Russian counterpart, Sergei | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Lavrov, announced that President Assad's government would be given | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
seven days to declare all its stocks, and must provide | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
"unfettered" access to international inspectors. | :01:03. | :01:19. | |
The Russians clearly feel this is their moment. Russian's Foreign | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Minister upstaged the Americans by chatting to journalists ahead of a | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
joint news conference to announce the agreement. The American | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Secretary of State was kept waiting until they finally set out together | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
procedures for the destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
programme. It was made necessary, in their words, by the prior use of | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
these weapons in Syria and the volatility of the civil war. The | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
world will now expect the Assad regime to live up to its public | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
commitments. As I said at the outset of these negotiations, there can be | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
no games, no room for avoidance or of these negotiations, there can be | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
anything less and full compliance. But Russia's Foreign Minister | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
stressed that the deal does not include any automatic use of force | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
if Syria fails to comply. TRANSLATION: In the event that these | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
requirements are not implemented, or in the event that anyone uses | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
chemical weapons, the Security Council will take measures under | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Article seven of the Charter of the United Nations. Of course, this does | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
not mean that every violation that is reported to the Security Council | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
will be taken at face value. We will investigate every case. This does | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
feel like a breakthrough. Both ministers have made it clear that | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
actions will be more important than words, and the road ahead remains | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
difficult. The US- Russia agreement allows President Assad just seven | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
days to declare a complete list of Syria's entire chemical weapons | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
stockpile. International inspectors are to be on the ground in Syria by | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
November. All stockpiles are to be removed or destroyed by mid-2014. | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
And there will be a new UN resolution to enforce this. But the | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
two sides differ about what that could mean in practice. But will any | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
of this relieve the suffering of Syria's people? The Americans and | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Russians hope it will. Now, they want to attempt something even more | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
difficult, I trying to open peace talks here in Geneva, with all the | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
parties in the civil war next month. Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
is in Damascus. How realistic is this plan? Well, the Russians would | :03:41. | :03:50. | |
not have gone ahead with this kind of timetable, had they not had some | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
kind of promise of cooperation from the Assad regime. After all, the | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Russians sell them weapons, and they also watch their back dramatically | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
at the UN, which means a lot of leverage. I think the Assad regime | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
must regard giving up its chemical weapons as a fair price to pay for | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
the effective cancellation of a regime threatening air strike from | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
the Americans. That is why the opposition groups of the Free Syrian | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
Army are so angry that this deal is going ahead. They have rejected it, | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
because they wanted that strike to happen. As for the wider issue of | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
whether this will springboard into solving the war, the war he has very | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
deep roots, and making a deal to end it depends not just on the Russians | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
and Americans, but it depends on the regime and the wide range of armed | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
groups honour from the Free Syrian Army to the jihadists. | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
A father whose wife and three children were killed in a house fire | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
in Leicester has spoken of his grief. Dr Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
said he deeply missed his family and hoped justice would prevail. Police | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
are investigating whether they were mistakenly targeted in a revenge | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
attack. My entire family has passed away. I deeply miss my beautiful | :05:10. | :05:20. | |
wife, and three beautiful children. What has happened has happened, and | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
wife, and three beautiful children. nothing can be reversed. But I hope | :05:24. | :05:36. | |
justice prevails. And in future, this should not happen to any | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
family. Our correspondent is in Leicester. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
What are the latest developments in the investigation? As you can see, | :05:41. | :05:50. | |
the police cordon has been lifted the investigation? As you can see, | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
and we can see the damage this fire caused. On Thursday morning, this | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
was just a regular family home, but now it is a murder scene. Half a | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
mile away in that direction, another murder scene. A man in his early 20s | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
was stabbed. He has been named locally today. He was a football | :06:11. | :06:21. | |
coach. Today, players paid review to him with a minute's silence. Police | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
said the family here had nothing to do with what happened to that man, | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
but they are try to establish whether the two cases are linked. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
Meanwhile, the local community here feel that this family were targeted | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
under a mistaken identity. There have been queried into the other | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
man's death. Three people have been arrested. They are in police | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
custody. Shoppers in England are to be | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
charged five pence for plastic bags in supermarkets and large stores by | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
the end of 2015. The Deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, announced the | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
change at the Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow. Charges are | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
already imposed in Wales and Northern Ireland and will be | :07:02. | :07:12. | |
introduced in Scotland next year. Nick Clegg came to a nature reserve | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
today outside Glasgow, on the first day of his party conference. His | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
focus was not the economy or the cost of living, but plastic bags. On | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
average, each of us uses 200 every year, and he said that had to stop. | :07:26. | :07:35. | |
This is not about seeking to somehow raise costs for shoppers. It is | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
about encouraging all of us to use plastic bags less and to reuse | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
reusable plastic bags more. Although there is a charge for plastic bags | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
in Wales and Northern Ireland and soon to be won in Scotland, an | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
astonishing 8 billion are still used across the UK each year. So, from | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
2015, there will also be a 5p charge for bags in England in supermarkets | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
and large stores with more than 250 staff, with the government | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
encouraging, but not forcing shops to give any cash raised to green | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
charities. But with the cost of living rising, should the government | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
be adding to shopping bills? They should be free. We have to play for | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
plastic bags in France, and it works. People would not go out and | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
buy things and expect to pay for the packaging. The Lib Dems are not just | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
trying to burnish their green credentials, they are also trying to | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
show they can make a difference in government. They said they had to | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
work hard to get the Tories to support a plastic bag charge because | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
of fears that it could hit business. But Nick Clegg does not want to | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
spend a week attacking the Tories, he also wants to highlight the | :08:45. | :08:59. | |
success of the coalition. But not everyone has got the message. David | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
Cameron. Call me soft, but am I the only Liberal Democrat who just wants | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
him to be a bit better? If he wants to be a statesman, a bit of | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
consistency would be brilliant. So, a bit of policy and a bit of | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
politics on this first day of conference. Plenty more to come. | :09:10. | :09:19. | |
A leading government tax adviser has resigned after being secretly filmed | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
giving advice on how to keep money, in his words, "out of the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
chancellor's grubby mitts". David Heaton, who went on to advise | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Revenue and Customs on tax avoidance, was filmed at a London | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
conference during an investigation by BBC's Panorama and Private Eye. | :09:30. | :09:39. | |
The conference was called 101 tips for personal tax, and David Heaton | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
was one of the star speakers. He delivered a series of tax ideas, and | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
spelled-out the advantages of one. As part of his speech, he advised on | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
how to use the rules on maternity As part of his speech, he advised on | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
pay to cut tax bills. He called it his bumper plan. -- bump plan. The | :10:02. | :10:19. | |
scheme he recommended would effectively reduce the tax on a | :10:19. | :10:27. | |
bonus from about 42% to around 8.5. When we described the scheme to Her | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
Majesty's Revenue and Customs, they told us it would be an abuse, and | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
they would challenge it. The problem is, Mr Heaton has been working for | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
them. Two months after that conference, he joined a panel | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
advising HMRC and the courts on what is acceptable tax avoidance. The | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
chairwoman of the Parliamentary spending watchdog says it shows the | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
flaws in the system. I am shocked by what you have told me. This is a | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
classic example of where the government passes a law with a | :10:59. | :11:08. | |
particular intent, and the tax advisers then abuse that. I told the | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
tax minister about Mr Heaton's comments. The advisory panel is to | :11:14. | :11:22. | |
identify the aggressive, artificial behaviour. We would not expect them | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
to be coming forward with proposals that were aggressive and | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
artificial. Mr Heaton sells he does not sell a schemes and has not done | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
anything wrong, but his resignation was announced last night and | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
anything wrong, but his resignation welcomed by the Treasury. | :11:36. | :11:44. |