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Corruption in Test cricket. Former Pakistani cricket captain, Salman | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Butt and fast bowler, Mohammed Asif, are found guilty of conspiracy to | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
cheat during last year's tour of England. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
The UK economy picks up as the latest figures show it grew by 0.5% | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
over the summer. It is a positive step forward for the British | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
economy, a better figure than some were expecting this week, given | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
what is happening in the world, and the British economy has a difficult | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
journey to take from its debt fuelled past. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Financial markets across Europe dive after Greece's surprise | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
decision to hold a referendum on the EU's plans to solve its debt | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
crisis. Protestors camped outside St Paul's Cathedral are about to be | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
told they have 48 hours to leave as legal action is launched. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Plans for a minimum price for alcohol in Scotland to tackle some | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
of the worst drink-related problems in Europe And the real life slumdog | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
millionaire - the office worker who couldn't afford a TV wins a million | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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Later, Chelsea and Arsenal are in Champions League action tonight. | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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Chelsea are in Belgium, but without Good afternoon. Within the past | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
hour, two Pakistani cricketers have been found guilty of plotting to | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
fix part of a cricket match at Lords last summer. Salman Butt and | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
Mohammad Asif were found to have conspired to cheat by a jury at | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Southwark Crown Court. Our sports correspondent is there. What | :01:58. | :02:08. | |
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happened in court? Allegations of three no-balls being bowled on | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
purpose, well first today the jury delivered verdict on Salman Butt, | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
the former captain of the Pakistani cricket team. He and his team-mate | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
are facing charges of taking corrupt payments, and also of | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
cheating. The jury gave a clear verdict of guilty on both of those | :02:31. | :02:39. | |
charges. The first charge was the majority, unanimous for the second. | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
At the moment there is no verdict for Mohammad Asif on accepting | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
corrupt payments. They have reached a unanimous verdict that he was | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
guilty of the second charge of cheating to enable others to gamble. | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
What are the wider implications of this? Some major questions raised | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
for international cricket. The biggest question is the ICC has its | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
anti-corruption unit which has been in place for many years, so why was | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
a national newspaper, the News of the World, having to come up with | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
these allegations to do the dirty work? If it hadn't been for these | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
allegations, they would never have been made. The second question is | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
you only have two players in the dock, but a number of cricketers | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
were named during this case - what now will happen to those players? | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
How widely can these allegations continue? Thank you. | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
The financial and service sectors helped the UK economy grow by 0.5% | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
between July and September, more than many economists had predicted. | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
The Chancellor said it was a positive step but he was warning of | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
the difficult journey ahead for the British economy. | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
Take the value of all the goods and services we produce, add them up | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
and you get gross domestic product, GDP, a barometer for the health of | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
the economy. Today we learned there was growth of 0.5% between July and | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
September. That was encouraging news for the Chancellor, visiting a | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
construction site today. I think this is a positive step forward for | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
the British economy. It is a better figure than some were expecting | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
this week, given what is happening in the world. The British economy | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
has a difficult journey to take from its debt field past, made more | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
difficult by the problems in the euro-zone. A looking back over six | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
months, the figures suggest sluggish growth in the UK economy. | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
There was growth of 0.5% between July and September, but to an | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
extent that was a predictable bounce back after a very weak | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
figure of just 0.1% between April and June, affected by factors like | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
the extra bank holiday. Underlying growth is underneath the average | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
figure of 0.6% a quarter. It would be any complacent Chancellor who | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
took comfort from these figures. We have barely grown, it has been the | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
slowest recovery since the First World War. Business services saw | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
growth picking up over the third quarter, and this marketing and | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
printing company in Derbyshire wants to advertise the fact it is | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
coping with economic challenges. It has had to adapt to customers | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
cutting back on their spending. Remember that this has been a long, | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
lean period for business and we have been able to adapt, expand, | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
develop, and also offer customers more choice and better value for | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
money. On the consumer side of the economy, the mood is more downbeat, | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
squeezed by high inflation. We have seen from surveys of consumers and | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
business that confidence is weakening again, and there are | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
concerns about what is happening in the wider world. Shoppers we spoke | :06:16. | :06:26. | |
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to in Glasgow today spelt out their concerns. I find it difficult, I | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
have four children. Just a worry, come Christmas, worried about what | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
they will be asking for. I can't afford it. You could say that GDP | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
growth was respectable in the late summer book looking forward there | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
is uncertainty. A lot of uncertainty as you just | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
said, despite some good news? the Chancellor is entitled to say | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
the figure for the third quarter was better than expected, | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
confounding some of the gloomier expectations. Equally, I don't | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
think he is pretending things are resumed looking forward. In a sense | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
we have the rear-view mirror today on what did happen, so where are we | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
now? There was a worrying survey produced today, which is basically | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
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an opinion poll showing a lot of uncertainty about the euro-zone. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Exports go there, so if there is a sharp slow down next year, which | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
was predicted yesterday, then that could affect the UK. In a sense, | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
what goes on outside the UK is one of the biggest factors in what | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
happens in our economy. Given the figures we have been out lining, it | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
is not surprising the Chancellor was quick to point out the | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
difficult journey ahead for the British economy. I'm sure the | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Chancellor did a metaphorical wiping of his brow that the growth | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
figures in this quarter were at least better than the derisory 0.1% | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
of the previous quarter. There has been no sense of celebration, | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
congratulation whatever in the Treasury today. Quite the reverse, | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
they have been adopting a sombre, even down playing these figures. | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
That is because the British economy is still stuttering along. We faced | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
a long, slow protracted slog out of this possession and is not going to | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
be like previous recessions where there is a quick bounce back. | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Ministers want to brace themselves for the fact this will take time. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
Talking to those around George Osborne, they think it is possible | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
that towards the end of the year growth could falter again, economic | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
prospects could dip backwards. I detect real apprehension and the | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
anxiety about what is going on in Greece and Euro land, and a real | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
fear that if the euro-zone crisis not only staggers on but intensify | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
as, that could snuff out the flickering embers of what is | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
already a pretty dysentery recovery. Share prices have dropped sharply | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
across Europe following the decision by Greece to hold a | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
referendum on the latest aid package to tackle its debt crisis. | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
Last week, euros only does agreed they should have 50% of its debts | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
with private banks written-off. The talk of a referendum has now thrown | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
the deal into doubt. This idea of a referendum caught | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
everybody by surprise, even would you believe the Greek Finance | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
Minister himself. In Brussels, Paris and Berlin they knew nothing | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
about it. The ruling party in Athens has lost... Its majority has | :09:54. | :10:02. | |
gone down to two, and the decision to hold a referendum has caused | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
worldwide turbulence. This is what the threat looks like on the market | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
- down. Private investors and pension funds lost money this | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
morning, and out on the streets of Germany, which has been | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
instrumental in bailing out Greece's lifeless economy, they | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
weren't happy either. TRANSLATION: We can't keep supporting Greece. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Last night in the Greek parliament, the Prime Minister gave no warning | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
that he was about to turn decision- making over to his people. It's a | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
referendum on the crucial question facing our country, George | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
Papandreou said, we trust the citizens. It has been a year and-a- | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
half of pain, of cuts, of job losses for Greeks, now they are | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
being asked whether they accept the terms of the bail-out package. | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
Indications for now are that they will vote No, so why is the Prime | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
Minister doing this? He is trying to say I went in this building over | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
there, I made a deal, and this is the best I can do. If you want it, | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
vote yes, and stop rioting and back-stabbing me. The Greek | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
decision has caused officials in Brussels by surprise. They hoped | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
the deal had bought them some time. Now they are fully aware that if | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
the Greeks vote No in the referendum on another bail-out for | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
their country, it could ultimately lead to Greece leaving the euro- | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
zone. Some might think that is good for the single currency, cutting | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
out the cancer of Greece, but many fear it would lead to even greater | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
instability than we have now. This afternoon President Sarkozy and | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
Angela Merkel will speak about this latest crisis within a crisis. Last | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
week's summit they felt was a success, it was short lived. The | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
immediate question is whether that referendum will indeed take place. | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
The Greek Prime Minister appears to be haemorrhaging support this | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
lunchtime, and if there were to be early elections one would assume | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
the referendum would be cancelled, but even if that scenario does play | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
out, it will do nothing to remove yet another new and potentially | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
very damaging source of instability at the heart of Europe's debt | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
crisis. With me now is our business editor. | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
Hypothetically, if there was a referendum and they voted No, what | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
are the implications? Let's pick up on what Matthew just said. He said | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
if there is an early general election, if the government falls, | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
maybe there will not be a referendum. Let's be clear, the | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
general election would not have the same impact of a referendum. It | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
would throw up into the air the whole question of whether the | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
rescue package will go through, and it is profoundly worrying for | :13:06. | :13:14. | |
bankers, investors, 4 euros own government heads because it raises | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
a two scary prospect for them. One, that Greece will say we will not | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
pay back any of our debts, and two that they will say on top of that | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
we will leave the euro-zone so a currency can fall to a level where | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
industry stands a chance of being competitive again. You can see why | :13:35. | :13:44. | |
those outcomes my -- might look attractive to the Greeks, but it | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
would crystallise losses for banks and raised the possibility in the | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
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minds of those who led -- lent billions to them that other | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
countries could follow Greece's example, they might stop lending to | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
banks, and we would be in a situation of financial paralysis | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
within the euro-zone. It is on the back of this that European stock | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
markets have fallen, banks are on average down about 10%, and we are | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
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Motorists have been suffering long delays on the M25 in Kent following | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
a diesel spill this morning. The road has had to be resurfaced, | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
causing delays of more than two hours for motorists, and traffic | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
jams going back 20 miles. Scotland has taken a major step | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
today towards becoming the first country in Europe to introduce a | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
minimum price per unit for alcohol, in an effort to reduce drinking- | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
related problems. The SNP says Scotland's drinking culture is | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
causing severe health and social problems. They hope minimum pricing | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
will force down consumption, and lead to fewer hospital admissions | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
and less crime. Our scotland correspondent, Lorna Gordon, | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
reports. Scotland has a difficult relationship with alcohol, and it | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
is costly. Figures suggest these problems include lost days at work, | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
crime and health, adding up to more than �3 billion a year. These two | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
are both started drinking in their teens. It got really out of control | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
about 16, 17, that was drinking vodka during the day. It has left | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
them both with serious health problems, including cirrhosis of | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
the liver for this 26-year-old. Both of them have now been sober | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
for five months, and are in rehabilitation. You would not drink | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
as much, definitely, because there is not so much money going about. | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
So, would you support minimum pricing? Definitely, yes. There are | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
already a range of measures in Scotland to try to reduce alcohol- | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
related harm. Minimum pricing would be just one. The SNP government is | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
absolutely convinced that cheap drink is making a bad situation | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
worse. The relationship between the price of alcohol and the | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
consumption of alcohol is well known. We see emerging evidence | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
from Canada that a minimum price reduces consumption. It is not a | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
magic bullet, we have never said that, but it is a crucial part of | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
an overall approach. But some say cost is not the issue. Supermarkets | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
are already tackling things like under-age sales, giving clear | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
information to drinkers. That's the way you change the culture, through | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
education. This legislation is almost certain to go through. But | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
we will not know until the new year, after more research, what the | :17:08. | :17:16. | |
minimum price will be. Our main headline - former Pakistani cricket | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif are found guilty of | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
conspiracy to cheat during last year's tour of England. Coming up - | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
film becomes fact, the Indian government worker who scooped the | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
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Protesters outside St Paul's cathedral are expected to be told | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
this afternoon to remove their tents. The City of London | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Corporation is to hand over a letter warning of high court action | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
unless the camp is cleared within 48 hours. But in the last few | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
minutes, the Chapter of St Paul's has announced it is going to | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
suspend its current legal action against the camp. Our correspondent | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
is at St Paul's. What has just happened? Yes, this is dramatic | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
news, just a day after the Dean resigned, it seems the cathedral | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
has undertaken an about turn, it is opening its doors to the protesters | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
and engaging with them about the issue has they're concerned about, | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
without the threat of forcible eviction. It is going to launch an | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
initiative headed by a merchant banker, to try to reconnect, they | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
say, the financial and the ethical. Giles Fraser, the former Canon | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
Chancellor who resigned, is going to play a part in this. These are | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
quite astonishing changes, and I think it is because the bid of | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
London, Richard Chartres, has been brought in as an adviser to the | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
cathedral. But having said all of that, the action by the City of | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
London Corporation seems to be going ahead, which could impact on | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
things. The land around here has a complex pattern of ownership, | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
because of which it could be that the compass could be displaced onto | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
cathedral and. At the moment, we're waiting to see what will happen | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
with that. Protesters were waiting for notice to quit this morning, | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
expecting an order to move their tents and equipment or face legal | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
action. But they say they are in stronger heart than ever. They say | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
they are receiving supplies of money and new campaigners, and do | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
not intend to go anywhere. We have just had the example of the | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
appalling eviction at Dale Farm. If it becomes apparent that that might | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
happen here, more and more people will come to help us. You assume | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
that I do not hold the same views as you... The day after the Dean | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
resigned, the third member of the clergy to step down, Anglicans are | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
asking how the cathedral reached this position. The idea of forcibly | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
removing the protesters is just too far for any Christian body to go. | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
It is a ridiculous step. Unless they pull back from that, which I | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
do not think they can or will, it is going to get worse. St Pauls | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
says it is playing no part in today's formal legal notice, and | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
that it still hopes for a peaceful resolution. The Bishop of London | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
has said today that alarm bells are ringing all over the world, and the | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
cathedral once emphatically to open its doors and enter into | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
discussions with the protesters. It seems to be a rather fluid | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
Tougher penalties for people who belong to gangs, but also help for | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
those wanting to leave them, are some of the proposals to tackle | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
gang culture being unveiled later today by the Home secretary, | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
Theresa May. The plans for England and Wales are also likely to | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
include proposals to toughen up some punishments for other gang- | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
related crimes. Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, reports. | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Stockwell, south London. We are with a group of young men who have | :21:22. | :21:30. | |
lived the gang life for years, and now want out. Right over where the | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
telephone box is... This man watched a motorcycle hit man killed | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
his friend just six months ago. saw him stop, he put his hands up | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
to the motorbike person, what do you mean? Then I heard shots. | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
British 20-year-old do not speak like this. No-one wants to die. | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
crucial question for the Government - how do young people end up living | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
like this? It has been since I was nine, no family members looking | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
after me, I'm by myself in the park, crossing the road by myself, | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
meeting new people. And so the early years of their lives, on | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
estates like this, is where the Government's new strategy starts. | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
Crucially, we want to try and prevent young people getting | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
involved in gangs in the first place, also offer pathways out for | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
those who do get involved, and for those who carry on, make sure the | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
police have got the power to take action against them. That | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
enforcement includes considering tougher penalties, possibly life, | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
for supplying the guns which are passed around by teenage gangs on | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
each other, and also deporting convicted gang members were | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
possible. This strategy was triggered by the riots, but seeks | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
to attack the whoops of the problem. Ministers will consider how gang | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
members might be considered to leave. Back in Stockwell, one youth | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
worker says the key is to use former gang members like him to do | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
the persuading. It is good if you have got the experience but you | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
have got the wisdom to turn around from that previous life. Someone | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
like that would be ideal. Schemes like this one in Glasgow, combining | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
enforcement with life opportunities for gang members, do work. But | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
there are worries that the funding might not be available for schemes | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
like that. The Government is cutting programmes, with community | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
safety budgets being more than halved, and losing 16,000 police | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
officers. The problem is that gang members who grow out of this sort | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
of thing are replaced by younger ones, a generation, as one man | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
described it, that never ends. With the prospect of harsh winter | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
weather approaching, the Government is introducing a system of weather | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
alerts to help protect elderly and vulnerable people in England. The | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
Met Office will notify agencies such as the NHS and social services, | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
who will then have to take action to ensure people are safe in their | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
homes. But the charity Age UK says fuel prices are the biggest problem. | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
Our health correspondent, Jane Hughes, reports. When the | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
temperature drops, it can take its toll on the oldest and most | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
vulnerable in society. Cold weather increases the risk of heart attacks, | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
strokes, respiratory problems and falls. It is responsible for one in | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
falls. It is responsible for one in 20 of all deaths in the UK. The new | :24:28. | :24:38. | |
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alerts are designed to tackle that The Government is also promising | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
some extra money -- money to help vulnerable people heat and insulate | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
their homes, though it had previously cut funding. None of | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
this comforts Tina Watkin, who just cannot afford to keep her home warm. | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
I have put it on for 20 minutes, just to come into. But I do not | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
have it on for hours on end, I just could not afford it. I do have a | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
gas fire, which, if I'm really cold, I get nearer to! Scotland, Wales | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
and Northern Ireland already have their own cold weather plans, but | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
campaigners say the rising cost of fuel is the big issue. It is going | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
to need something dramatic to make a real difference, to get rid of | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
those winter deaths, and all the misery and unhappiness and indeed | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
cost to the Health Service. From my point of view, it is about what we | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
do this winter, in relation to the NHS and local authorities, to make | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
sure we have identified holeable people. Sometimes it is because of | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
issues relating to the cost of fuel, sometimes it is because we could do | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
much more in terms of energy efficiency, insulation, helping | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
them to have a better heating system. Last winter's weather may | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
seem a distant memory, but before long, we could all be battling with | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
the cold again, putting the most vulnerable at risk. Now how about | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
this for a case of life imitating art? A government clerk from a poor | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
region of India has become the first person to scoop the million | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
dollar prize on the Indian version of the game show Who Wants To Be A | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
Millionaire? Sushil Kumar's win echoes the plot of the Oscar- | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
winning film Slumdog Millionaire, as our correspondent Rajini | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
:26:41. | :26:41. | ||
Vaidyanathan reports. Building up to the million dollar question for | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
Sushil Kumar. It was time for a quick drink of water to calm the | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
nerves. Even the host, Hollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, was | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
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feeling the tension. -- Bollywood. Sushil Kumar and his wife are | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
currently staying in an expensive hotel in Mumbai. It is the first | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
time they have ever flown anywhere, and he has ever had a smart pair of | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
shoes. The winning moment is yet to be broadcast on Indian television. | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
But it is still fresh in the mind of Sushil Kumar. | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
TRANSLATION: I have struggled a lot in my life. I still believe this is | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
a dream. I told the presenter that if I do not see the episode where I | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
won on the television, I will still believe it is a dream. I cannot | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
believe I have achieved this after all of the years of hardship and | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
struggle. The story echoes the plot of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
Millionaire, where a boy from a humble background scooped the top | :27:45. | :27:55. | |
:27:55. | :27:56. | ||
prize on a game show. The right answer! It is a far cry from Sushil | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
Kumar's life back in his village in Bihar, where he earns less than | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
�100 a month. He had a basic education, he says he picked up his | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
general knowledge from listening to the BBC World Service. | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
TRANSLATION: I read magazines and newspapers and listen to the BBC | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
Hindi Service, which gives current affairs in a comprehensive manner. | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
I listen to it a lot. People here in the area where the film Slumdog | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
Millionaire was set say they will be watching the real live | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
performance. Sushil Kumar's is a story of success against the odds. | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
Here in India, the land of Bollywood, it resonates so much | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
because everybody loves a happy ending. He might have a cheque, but | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
he has not received his winnings yet. He says he will donate much of | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
it to building a school, as well as a library for himself. Like most | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
overnight billionaires, he promises the money will not change him. It's | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
time now for the weather forecast, with mean a ridge. We have got some | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
fine weather at the moment. Some good sunshine this afternoon. For | :29:04. | :29:11. | |
many, it will be dry. We have had a bit more cloud across the south- | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
bit more cloud across the south- east corner. That is taking some | :29:13. | :29:19. | |
time to clear away, but behind it, plenty of fine weather. Over the | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
next couple of hours, it will continue to be sunny for the south- | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
west of England, apart from a few showers around the coast. Again, in | :29:29. | :29:35. | |
Wales, just the odd shower. Otherwise, dry and bright. In | :29:35. | :29:41. | |
Northern Ireland, unlike yesterday, plenty of sunshine. There are some | :29:41. | :29:47. | |
showers in Scotland, particularly in the north-west. It will be | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
cooler in eastern Scotland, despite the bright weather. More cloud in | :29:52. | :30:02. | |
:30:02. | :30:05. | ||
East Anglia and the south-east of England. It is still miles. -- mild. | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
There will be some mist and fog overnight, but it will be breezy in | :30:09. | :30:18. | |
the west. We will just about get down into single figures tonight. | :30:18. | :30:25. | |
Some early brightness in the east tomorrow morning. Out towards the | :30:25. | :30:33. | |
west, a very windy day. It will be more cloudy. But despite that cloud, | :30:33. | :30:42. | |
it is still going to be mild. The wettest of the weather holding off | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
until later in the afternoon. It will be moving through Northern | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
Ireland and the south-west of England. It is linked with this | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
deep low pressure in the Atlantic. It is the same system which brought | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
the snow to the United States over the weekend, but having travelled | :30:58. | :31:08. | |
:31:08. | :31:13. | ||
over the Atlantic, it will be not snow but rain for us. Some frequent | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
checks on Thursday, at times they're likely to be heavy, | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
especially for southern and western areas. We have still got the breeze | :31:23. | :31:33. | |
:31:33. | :31:39. |