12/01/2014 BBC Weekend News

Hello, very good afternoon. The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan

Smith has said he'd like to see the ban on immigrants being able to

claim some benefits extended beyond the current three months. But Mr

Duncan Smith says this should be done only in conjunction with other

EU countries. This morning the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg

agreed with the idea in principle but warned the Conservatives not to

pull up the drawbridge on Europe. Here's our Political Correspondent

Louise Stewart. The debate over migrants' Wright has intensified

following the EU restriction at the start of the year being lifted. Now

the work and pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has proposed even

tighter curbs. There has been no sign of an influx of Romanians and

Bulgarians, Iain Duncan Smith says he is hoping to bring pressure on

Brussels to allow countries to make their restrictions stricter. It is

eminently sensible to say that if we can come to an agreement that says

you have to jump through certain hoops before you can claim benefits

having moved to a different European country, fine. Earlier this week

Boris Johnson also suggested migrants should have to wait longer,

up to two years before being able to claim benefits. Labour said they

would support measures that make sure people are coming to the UK to

contribute. If they come up with concrete proposals that protects the

security system and the principle that you have to pay something in

before you get something out, we would support that. There may be a

rare consensus between the political parties over the principle of

looking at reform of benefits for migrants, but deep divisions still

remain over the future in Europe. Louise is here now. Louise, the

Conservatives problems with Europe aren't confined just to the issue of

how to deal with immigration, are they? That's right, 95 backbench

Conservative MPs have signed a letter sent to the Prime Minister

urging him to block, to give the Commons power to block new

legislation from EU and to repeal some existing legislation, and they

say that would allow them to stop some of the red tape from Europe

over business issues, and also to take back greater control over

Europe. The Prime Minister has pledged that he will renegotiate

powers with the EU and offer that to a referendum in 2017, but I think

this letter attests to how frustrated some Conservative

backbenchers are over the relationship with the European

Union. Thank you. Mourners are filing past the coffin

of the former Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon. His body is

lying in state outside Israel's parliament, the Knesset. The coffin

was taken there by a military convoy. Mr Sharon died yesterday

after spending eight years in a coma. Let's speak to our

Correspondent Quentin Somerville who's there. Quentin. The crowds

have been small here today but they have been steady. As you mentioned,

Ariel Sharon spent the last eight years in a coma, but for many of the

mourners here today he is still very much alive presence in Israeli

politics, some of them mentioning his military career. All of the

mourners talking about the war with Egypt, personally crediting him with

saving Israel by seeing off Egyptian forces. Many of them have been

talking about his move from Gaza. Palestinians take a different view,

they have celebrated his death. Ariel Sharon's own funeral will take

place in the south of the country. His place as a shaper of Israeli

history is secure. The Foreign Secretary William Hague

has rejected claims that British soldiers were involved in the

systematic torture of Iraqi detainees during the Iraq War. A

dossier of allegations is being submitted to the International

Criminal Court in the Hague by a group of lawyers. The British Armed

Forces uphold high standards, they are the finest Armed Forces in the

world, and they uphold those high standards so we reject allegations

of systematic abuse, but where there are substantiated allegations of

things going wrong, these things have been or are being investigated.

That does not require references to the International Criminal Court.

Police in north London are making door-to-door enquiries in their

search for two 12-year-old girls who haven't been seen since around five

o'clock last night. Wiktoria Popieland and Vitalija Sidlauskaite

were last seen walking to a bus stop in Wood Green. Their disappearance

is said to be completely out of character.

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, is to

be created a cardinal by Pope Francis. Archbishop Nichols will be

among 19 new cardinals appointed from across the world to be formally

installed at a ceremony in the Vatican next month. He says he's

deeply moved by the honour. Jaguar Land Rover has announced

record sales for last year, selling more than 400,000 vehicles. The

figures were boosted by an export-led leap in sales of Jaguar

of more than 40% with the car proving popular in America, Germany

and India, as our Business Correspondent Joe Lyman reports. It

is the vehicle of choice for prime minister 's and future King 's, and

increasingly so for thousands of drivers around the world. Jaguar and

Land Rover have never sold as many years there -- as many of their

luxury cars as they did last year. In all Jaguar Land Rover sold

425,000 of its luxury vehicles around the world, up nearly a fifth.

The Land Rover brand accounted for 350,000 of those sales, up 15%.

Nearly 80,000 Jaguar cars were sold, up 42% on the previous year. All of

these cars being sold means they are hiring nearly 2000 more people to

make them in their factories in the West Midlands and Merseyside,

bringing to 26,000 the number of UK-based staff. It is a massive

turnaround since the recession, which rocked the entire industry.

Then they had to stop production at all of their plants, and the

company's Indian owners asked for financial support from the

government. They realise this was a country with a long-term future so

big investment has gone in, and they are now paying dividends in terms of

opening up new markets around the world. Car sales in Britain are at

their highest since 2007, thanks to a recovering economy, cheap

financing packages, and repayments of mis-sold payment protection

insurance. Now sport and England's dismal tour

of Australia has continued with defeat in the first one day

international in Melbourne earlier this morning England made 269 for

seven after deciding to bat first but that total never proved

challenging enough. Openers David Warner and Aaron Finch took

England's attack apart. Finch scored a century for Australia and they

reached their target with six wickets and 26 balls to spare. The

next match is in Brisbane on Friday. England you'll remember lost the

test series 5-0. The Golden Globes are announced

later today in America - the awards often being a good guide to who

might be in the running for the Oscars. There's a particularly

strong showing for British films and actors this year. Our Los Angeles

Correspondent Peter Bowes reports. Posing for the cameras and lapping

up the attention, some of Hollywood and the UK's biggest names have

already been out on the town, celebrating the success of British

nominees at the annual tea party hosted by BAFTA. 12 years a slave

has the most nominations for the Golden globes, a film about a man

from upstate New York who was abducted and sold into slavery is

based on a true story. The main character's actor has been

nominated. We are thrilled to be in this moment and in the midst of a

year that has had so many different films and an incredible range and

diversity of cinema and so many different topics and styles, and I

think that is great for everybody. He is up against strong competition,

including Tom Hanks, who plays the captain of a container vessel

hijacked by Somali pirates in Captain Phillips, another story

based on real events. Would it be possible not to use my real name

when you write this story. Philomena is the story of a woman who goes in

search of her son conceived out of wedlock after he was taken away from

her by a branch of the Catholic Church. She is played by Dame Judi

Dench but it was the real Philomena we met on the red carpet. What do

you think of her betrayal of you? What a lovely lady, she got some of

the characters really well, yes, she has. She plays a picture of a lady

with quite a personality. She is an absolute darling. This is the start

of a busy awards season in Hollywood, and if it lives up to its

reputation it could be a night of surprises. We should keep a close

eye on that. You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News

Channel. The next news on BBC One is at 17.35. Goodbye for now.

It has been a pretty decent weekend weather-wise, we could do with a few

weeks of this fine and dry