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Unemployment falls again with a record number of people now in work. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
The number of people fell by 50,000 in the months to August. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
The Prime Minister says he is appalled by the ugly scenes, and | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
the alleged racist taunts - at the end of the England under 21 | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
football team's match against Serbia last night. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Disability Campaigners say around half a million people and their | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
families will be worse off under planned benefit changes. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Barack Obama and White House challenger Mitt Romney go head to | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
head for the second time with angry exchanges on the economy, energy | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
and the Middle East. It's the gavel not the guillotine for Marie | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
Antoinette as her shoes and dinner plates are auctioned in Paris. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
Later on BBC London: Fears over fire cover in the | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
capital - 17 stations could be closed with hundreds of jobs under | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
threat. And a large hoard of rare Roman | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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coins is found in a field near St Albans. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
Hello and Welcome to the BBC News at One. Unemployment fell by 50,000 | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
in the three months to August. The number of people out of work now | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
stands at just over two and a half million. Youth unemployment fell | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
62,000 to its lowest total for more than a year, and there was a | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
significant rise in the number of people taking part-time work. | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Ministers say it's proof that Government's welfare policies are | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
having a positive effect. Our chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
reports. It's certainly brighter news on the | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
economy. Unemployment has fallen to its lowest in more than a year. | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
myself, I thought I'm going to take this job. These young workers have | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
been recruited by the hotel chain Premier Inn, which has been | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
expanding across the south-east. This morning they met the | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Employment Minister who hailed news the total numbers of work in the | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
economy had gone up again. These are landmark figures, more people | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
in work than ever before. We have seen 170,000 fewer people on out- | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
of-work benefits than there were on benefits in 2010, but there is | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
still a lot to do. Whilst youth unemployment is below a million we | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
know we can't be complacent about it. The overall up employment total | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
was down 50,000 between June and August compared to the previous | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
three months to leave 2.53 million out of work. High above the London | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
landscape, skyscrapers are being constructed, and that means more | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
solid foundations for the labour market. 9,000 jobs are being | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
supported as a result of this development and not just in the | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
capital. Those jobs are both within London and also throughout the UK. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
Certain parts of this building will pre-fabricate in size and in the | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
north of England, Yorkshire and Scotland. More jobs are being | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
create. The employment picture looks brighter but even in areas of | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
buoyant private sector activity there are still challenges. The | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
number of long-term unemployed, for example, those out of work for more | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
than a year, has gone up again. Even a short distance from the City | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
of London, it can be a struggle to find work. Here the charity | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
Lifeline organises training to help the long-term jobless. It's a | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
programme funded by the Government. She's just started her own catering | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
business after battling for months to find a full-time job. There were | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
so many people wanting jobs. I have been to so many interviews I can't | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
even count them, so many, but it's been a great experience because | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
through all the interviews I have gone to, it's helped me build | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
myself up. Labour claims despite concessions like these, the | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Government is failing to get to grips with long-term unemployment | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
An incredible one-third of people out of work have now been out of | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
work for a year. These are the people the Government said they | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
were going to help with their work programme. I am afraid these | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
figures are fresh evidence that programme is comprehensively | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
failing. It's a mixed picture across the UK. While unemployment | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
in Wales was down, it was up in Scotland and Northern Ireland. | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Let's get more on those unemployment figures from our chief | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
political correspondent Norman Smith. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
Norman Texas Government then claiming this as a success, | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
particularly where its welfare policies are concerned, then. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
I don't think one can overestimate how important to the Government | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
these figures are psychologically and politically. Psychologically | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
because, let's face it, the Government have had to endure a | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
fairly steady diet of grim economic news over recent months with | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
successive downgrades of bodies like the IMF of our growth | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
forecasts. Now they can trumpet unemployment being at its highest | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
level ever and more people being in work at any time since the banking | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
yeah, more important is the politics and the figure that youth | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
unemployment has dipped below the politically symbolic figure of one | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
million for the first time in 12 months. Although you can tease out | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
awkward details from the figures such as youth unemployment long | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
term, youth unemployment is still continuing to rise, it seems to me | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
politics is often fought in the headlines. People don't read | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
paragraphs two, three and four. They just read the headline, and | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
the headline the Government will want is the simple one that youth | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
unemployment dips below one million, added to which it dents and takes | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
some of the momentum out of Ed Miliband's favoured line of attack | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
over the so-called lost generation and the so-called forgotten 50% who | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
don't go on to university and struggle to get a job, so from the | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
Government's perspective, today is an important day which I think | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
they'll regard as a key moment in terms of any revival in their | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
political fortunes. Thank you very much for that. Up to half a million | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
disabled people and their families will be worse off under the | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
Government's proposed benefit system. That's according to a | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
report conducted for several charities. They're urging Ministers | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
to rethink their Universal Credit Scheme. The Government calls the | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
report highly selective and says it could lead to irresponsible scare- | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
mongering. Our social affairs correspondent has more. | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
Today was a good day for the LockHarts. 13-year-old Dante can be | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
disruptive, occasionally smashing furniture. The family gets �50 a | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
week to help with the costs of looking after the teenager. Under | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Government proposals, that is set to be halved. The reality of it is | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
that life is very much a struggle, and for families like ours with a | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
child with a disability, it feels like we're being targeted. It just | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
feels like it's very unfair. Today's report says around 450,000 | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
disabled people could lose out due to the move to universal credit. | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
That figure includes 100,000 families with disabled children who | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
could lose �28 per week and 116,000 working disabled people who could | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
lose up to �40 per week. My biggest worry is we have had a number of | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
people coming back to us saying - over 80% - that they'll be having | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
to buy less food. They won't be able to afford their heating bills. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
They might have to consider moving home. The really worrying thing is | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
a number of parents have said they'd consider putting their child | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
into residential care. That is just not the best thing to happen to any | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
family. Universal credit is the Government's plan to radically | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
overhaul the �200 billion welfare system to ensure people are always | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
better off in work than on benefits. The Government says this report is | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
highly selective. They say when Universal Credit is introduced next | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
October no-one will lose out in cash terms, and they say the | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
reforms will mean that more money is targeted at the most needy. | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
We're sweeping away a tangled mess of benefits and introducing | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Universal Credit, which is a much simplified system which people at | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
last will be able to understand. Many disabled people feel a variety | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
of benefit changes have unfairly targeted them. Today's report will | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
only add to those concerns. Anti-racism groups have called on | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
football's European governing body to ban Serbia after England's | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
under-21 players were subjected to racist abuse last night. The Prime | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Minister says he's appalled at the incidents, and the Sports Minister | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
Hugh Robertson has written to UEFA calling for tough action. The | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
Football Association has sent in an official complaint about the | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
behaviour of the Serbian crowd. There was a brawl involving players | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
and coaching staff from both sides at the end of the match, which | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
England won. Our sports correspondent Dan Roan has the | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
latest. They were the sounds and scenes that shamed football - | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
players and coachs from England's under 21 squad under physical and | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
verbal attack after their match against Serbia last night - | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
accusations of racist abuse from the stands. I think there was one | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
or two racist incidents that come on certainly from the crowd, and | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
they have been reported to UEFA, I believe, by ourselves, and it's in | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
their hands now. They'll have to deal with it. I'm very proud of my | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
players and my staff, to be fair. As I say, I'm very proud of the | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
achievement of getting to the fourth tournament in a row. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Honestly, I don't understand that you after everything and your | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
qualifying and qualification, the first question you ask about these | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
things, so it's - that has nothing to do with football. You should be | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
happy to qualify. The trouble began when Connor Wickham scored | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
England's winner in crescendos. The visitors pelted with missiles as | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
they celebrated reaching the championship finals. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
The match had finished, but defender Danny Rose then angrily | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
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kicked the ball into the crowd and was sent off as tempers flared. | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Visibly upset, the Sunderland player making clear with this | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
gesture that he'd reacted to racist abuse throughout the game. The FA | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
said several of their black players were subject to racism by the crowd | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
and were reported to UEFA. Some want the footballing authoritys to | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
get tough. Comparatively, I think you can liken it to the situation | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
we had here in English football with the hooliganism and the | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
violence. We were banned from European competition for a number | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
of years, and that significantly impacted the way we approached | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
hooliganism and it instigated a period of self-governance. I think | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
something similar to that - ban them for a tournament or a couple. | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
These scenes in Serbia, which the Prime Minister has described as | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
appalling, are merely the latest in a series of race-related | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
controversys the sport has had to contend with. John Terry must | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
decide this week whether to appeal against his four-match ban after he | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
was found guilty of abusing opponent Anton Ferdinand. Football | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
has come a long way since the dark days. Others are yet to start that | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
journey. So how is the fall-out from last | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
night's match being seen in Serbia? Let's talk to our correspondent in | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
Belgrade, Guy Delauney. How is the incident being reported there? | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
A lot of them are extremely embarrassed. The wet site of the | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
tabloid Blitz has footage of last night's match under the headline | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
"Serbian shame, racist riot" and one of the most popular radio | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
stations, B92 talks about scandal. A lot are concerned about the bad | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
image their country has which, of course, started with the war of the | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
1990s and considered into this century. These incidents in | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
football matches, there have been several in the last few years - | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
while some take gratification in them, for others it's mortification. | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Can any action be taken? Is any action being taken? The Serbian | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
Football Association appear to have been utterly caught on the hop. | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
They were mostly at the senior match last night where the Serbian | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
National team were playing. They still haven't formulated a response | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
to this. Clearly they're going to have to. There is a rather | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
unfortunate picture developing of the authorities bowing down to | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
hooligan groups. Couple of weeks ago a gay pride march was banned | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
after being threatened by ultra- Nationalists. It was banned for | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
public safety, but a lot of people saw that as bowing down to | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
extremist groups. Guy, thank you. | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
$NEWLINE Gatwick Airport executives are beginning detailed work on an | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
option for a new runway. The plans have to honour a 1979 legal | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
agreement that no runway can be built there before 2019. The survey | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
at Gatwick, which handles 34 million passengers a year, will | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
evaulate various options and assess their economic and environmental | :13:01. | :13:10. | |
impacts. The Bank of England Deputy Governor | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Paul Tucker has called for bank bosses to be partly paid in debt - | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
linked to the company's financial performance. Speaking to the | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
British Bankers' Association, Mr Tucker said this would mean the | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
bosses take a stronger interest in the fortunes of their banks. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
Royal Bank of Scotland has moved a step closer to becoming a private | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
company after it withdrew from a government scheme that insured the | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
bank's riskiest assets. It means RBS saves by not having to pay an | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
annual premium and reduces risk to the taxpayer. The move has been | :13:36. | :13:44. | |
welcomed by Ministers. Tell us a little bit more about the | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
scheme and why RBS is leaving it. This insurance scheme began back in | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
2009 when people were still worried that our banks, including RBS, | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
could go bust. Now, you could liken this scheme to someone having a | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
hefty, risky mortgage where the parents had to step in and be a | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
guarantor these payments would be made, and we did this - we, the | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
taxpayer, with RBS on a large scale, but what it did - it provided RBS | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
with cover to give it valuable time to offload all of those risky, | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
toxic assets - those loans that had the potential to go bad. To begin | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
with they had �282 billion of loans insured. That's now fallen to �105 | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
billion as RBS shrinks its palence sheet. It was paying a hefty | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
premium for that and a big excess, and now it's saying today it | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
doesn't need that insurance cover anymore. It doesn't need it. Does | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
that indicate it's part-way to becoming a private company again | :14:46. | :14:55. | |
This is a hugely symbolic step. The big boss Stephen Hester saying | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
today it was a milestone in RBS's recovery. We can say this is a bank | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
that's not in any danger of going bust, but it still has a problem of | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
nursing itself back to health. There is still 15 months to go in a | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
turnaround plan. As for privatisation, Government Ministers | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
were saying today it was a significant step towards that, but | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
selling the state was something they were continuing to look on, | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
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but it would be long term, a long Our main headline - unemployment | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
has fallen again, with a record number of people now in work. | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
Almost 30 million people have jobs, but that figure includes more | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
people in part-time work than ever. Coming up, why a passenger plane | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
dropped 30,000ft to help a yachtsman in distress. My heart | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
started beating a bit faster. Anything out of the ordinary on an | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
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international flight like that is a Just three weeks before the | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
election in America, Mitt Romney and President Obama have been | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
answering questions in their live televised debate. Our correspondent | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
reports from Washington. The opening handshake was as cordial as | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
it got. Moments later, this second encounter would descend into a bad- | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
tempered political brawl. Why? Because a President who was so | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
passive last time around removed the gloves, first on his opponent's | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
tax plan. Mitt Romney was a very successful investor. If somebody | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
came to you, governor, with a plan which said, I want to spend seven | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
or eight trillion dollars, and we're going to pay for it, but we | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
cannot tell you until after the election how we are going to do it, | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
you would not have taken such as Gucci deal. That was just the start, | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
as the President drew the kind of policy contrasts which had eluded | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
him in the first debate, and so when he got under his opponent's | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
skin. You will get your chance in a moment. Looking on was an audience | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
of undecided voters, who posed the questions, but at times, the | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
candidates seemed oblivious to their surroundings. It is not true. | :17:40. | :17:48. | |
Governor, we have produced more oil... Here is what we did... | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
was on energy production, and this, on personal investments in China. | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
Mr President, have you looked at your pension? I have got to say... | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Mr President, have you looked at your pension? I do not look at my | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
pension, it is not as big as yours. This time, it was the challenge on | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
the back foot, but Mitt Romney stuck to his message. 23 million | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
Americans out of work, that is what this election is about. It is about | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
who can get the middle class in this country a bright and | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
prosperous future. They ended with foreign policy. On Libya, Barack | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
Obama shouldered responsibility for the recent killing of America's | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
ambassador, but visibly angry, he accused his opponent of | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
politicising national security. suggestion that anybody in my team, | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
whether it be the Secretary of State or our UN ambassador, anybody | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
on my team, would play politics or mislead, when we have lost four of | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
our own, governor, is offensive. When it finished, there was a | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
distinctly cool go by, then the traditional family embrace for two | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
bruised warriors, both still contenders, both wondering what | :19:02. | :19:11. | |
America made of that. A trainee NHS doctor appeared in court today | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
accused of kidnapping a British photographer in Syria. 26-year-old | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
Shajul Islam was arrested last week after arriving at Heathrow airport. | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
Our correspondent can tell us some more, from Westminster Magistrates' | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
Court. This was the first time that Shajul Islam had appeared in court. | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
As you said, he was arrested at Heathrow Airport more than a week | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
ago, when he arrived back on a flight from Egypt. He has been | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
questioned by anti-terrorism officers. He arrived this morning | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
in a police van for a hearing which lasted about half-an-hour. During | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
that hearing, we had quite a few things about him. He is from | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
Stratford in east London, and he is a recently qualified trainee doctor. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
He had been studying at St Bartholomew's Hospital and | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
University of London Hospital, qualified, we understand, earlier | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
this year. The allegation is that he flew to Turkey earlier this year, | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
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where he crossed the border into Syria and joined the camp of | :20:24. | :20:33. | |
jihadists. We understand that that camp was entered by a Dutch | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
journalist, Jeroen Oerlemans, and his colleague, a British | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
photographer, who has worked for the Sunday Times. They had been | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
covering the situation locally, they had also crossed the border | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
from Turkey, but when they stumbled across this camp, they thought it | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
was a camp where they were aiming to meet Syrian freedom fighters. | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
They were held captive for a week, and the charge is that Shajul Islam | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
was the doctor at that camp who treated the pair when they were | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
injured and shot during a failed attempt to escape. They did manage | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
to get out of the camp after about eight or nine days, when it was | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
overcome by Syrian freedom fighters. Well, he was remanded in custody, | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
and Shajul Islam will next appear in court at the Old Bailey on the | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
2nd November. David Cameron and Ed Miliband have | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
clashed over the future of Andrew Mitchell, the Chief Whip, after his | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
argument with police in Downing Street. Mr Cameron said the police | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
officer involved had accepted an apology, but the Labour leader said, | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
in his words, that Andrew Mitchell was no toast. However much they | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
might want the story to go away, it is not. That's right. It is nearly | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
a month since that infamous clash in Downing Street when the police | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
would not let Andrew Mitchell go through the main gate. Today, he | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
was sat on the front bench, looking pretty ashen-faced and | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
uncomfortable as Ed Miliband Moody tried to throw the book at the | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Prime Minister for the first time over this, questioning why Mr | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
Mitchell was still in his job. Andrew Mitchell had denied ever | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
using the word pleb but Ed Miliband pointed out that if your bona | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
Saturday night was to swear at the police, he would end up with a | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
night in the cells. For Mr Mitchell, it meant a night at the Carlton | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
Club. The Prime Minister stood his ground. This apology has been | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
accepted by the head of the Metropolitan Police. It is clearly | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
not going to be accepted by the Leader of the Opposition, because | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
he does not want to talk about what we need to do in this country to | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
get the deficit down, because he has got no plans! Ed Miliband was | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
not going to let him change the subject, and he seized on the | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
suggestion that some other ministers would prefer it if Andrew | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
Mitchell did stand down. It is good to see the Cabinet in their place | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
supporting him in public, but in the newspapers, what are they | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
saying? His position is untenable, in other words, he is toast. That | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
is the reality. This was a pretty uncomfortable session, not just for | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
the Prime Minister, not just for Andrew Mitchell, sitting just a | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
couple of seats away, but for several of the other ministers | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
sitting alongside them. The difficulty for the Prime Minister, | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
for the Government, in this, is that much as they can continue to | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
say, well, he has apologised, he did not actually use the word pleb, | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
the difficulty is that that work reinforces people's worst | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
perceptions of the Tory party, and makes it very, very difficult | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
indeed for David Cameron to come back and say, look, we really are | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
on your side. Labour know this, and as long as Andrew Mitchell is in | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
his job, they're going to make the most of the Tories' embarrassment. | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
Thousands of mourners have lined the streets of the Cambodian | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
capital, Phnom Penh, to pay their last respects to their former King, | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
Norodom Sihanouk, who died in China on Friday. His body has arrived | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
from Beijing, where he spent the last years of his life. His body | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
will lie in state for three months. He led Cambodia to independence | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
from France in the 1950s. Now, news of a rather unusual | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
rescue mission in the Tasman Sea. A passenger plane dropped 30,000ft to | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
help a yacht in distress. The plane had been bound for Sydney, but | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
strayed from its flight path to help the yacht, which was low on | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
fuel, and had a broken mast. Daniela Relph reports. A lone | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
yachtsman stranded in rough waters with a broken mast and low fuel. | :24:44. | :24:52. | |
Help came in the unlikely form of a diverted passenger jet overhead. A | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
15-hour journey from Vancouver to Sydney was interrupted for those on | :24:58. | :25:07. | |
board Air Canada flight 003. The crew and passengers became lookouts. | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
Everybody's heart started beating faster. Anything out of the | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
ordinary on an international flight like that is a bit concerning. He | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
said, we would really appreciate it if everybody could look out of the | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
windows, and if anybody has any binoculars which could help to | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
identify this yacht, it would be really helpful. The trip from | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
Vancouver was nearing its final destination of Sydney when the | :25:28. | :25:36. | |
pilot was asked to divert, meaning it had to descend from 35,000ft to | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
just 5,000 camel while, allowing everybody on board to see the ocean | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
below. -- 5,000ft. I made an announcement, please help us if you | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
see anything, because it is very difficult to find anything even at | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
5,000ft, which is almost a mile above the water. Almost immediately, | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
as we closed in on the area, the First Officer said, I can see what | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
I think is the boat. We went right over it, it was almost exactly | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
where they had told us it would be. Once he had been spotted, an | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Australian police boat picked up the yachtsmen. He is said to be in | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
good condition after his dramatic rescue. | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
Personal belongings of the 18th century French Queen Marie | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
Antoinette will be auctioned today to mark the anniversary of her | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
execution. The 80 lots include a pair of silk slippers, and the | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
clothes she wore in prison before she was guillotined in 1793. From | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
Paris, Christian Fraser reports. Before Marie Antoinette arrived at | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
the guillotine in October 1793, she had amassed an opulent collection | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
of art work and furniture. There are some rare pieces in this | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
auction, of particular note, this pair of slippers, which belonged to | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
the Queen - not one of the shoes she dropped while climbing the | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
Schaffel old - that still resides in a museum in France. -- climbing | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
the scaffold. This is a fragment of a silk gown she owned before her | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
arrest, one of hundreds of dresses which were said to fill three rooms | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
in the Royal Palace. The revolutionaries at least recognised | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
the value of what they confiscated. Over the years, some of it has come | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
back. Among the 80 lots are portraits and etchings of the King | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
and Queen. TRANSLATION: all those who acquire | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
an object which belongs to Marie Antoinette or another historic | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
figure have this feeling that by owning a part of her possessions, | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
they own something legendary. That's what is moving. To say that | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
a pair of shoes which belonged to the Queen are today, 200 years | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
later, on sale, that is pretty fantastic. Let them eat cake, said | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
the Queen, when told the Parisians were starving - at least, that was | :28:00. | :28:06. | |
the myth. But the extravagance of Versailles was real. Maybe these | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
are the symbols of a decadent tyranny, but they still hold great | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
fascination, and not just for the fascination, and not just for the | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
French. Time for the weather. You would have needed more than silk | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
slippers last night if you were in Highland Scotland. Temperatures | :28:23. | :28:33. | |
went down to minus 8, would you believe, at Braemar? Further to the | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
south, it was in the mid-teens by the end of the night. The mild air | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
has been moving northwards across the UK, producing some pretty heavy | :28:41. | :28:51. | |
rain. It is producing some snow at the moment across the mountains of | :28:51. | :28:57. | |
Scotland. Even if you have not got the snow, it is feeling decidedly | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
raw in the central belt. Coming further to the south, we have still | :29:01. | :29:10. | |
got that dry, bright weather, quite a pleasant afternoon. Brisk winds, | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
but temperatures in the mid-teens - not too bad for the middle part of | :29:14. | :29:21. | |
October. Stronger winds further to the west, with showers across parts | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
of Wales and the south-west of England. Those gale-force winds | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
will combine with high tides and later in the day, which could cause | :29:28. | :29:35. | |
problems with coastal problem -- with coastal flooding. Damp and | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
chilly across Northern Ireland, but turning particularly wet here this | :29:39. | :29:46. | |
evening and overnight. The south- west of Scotland looking wet, too. | :29:46. | :29:48. | |
Many eastern counties of England looking very wet as the night goes | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
on. Temperatures mostly staying in double figures. Even across | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
Scotland, certainly a milder night than last night! Tomorrow, a fairly | :29:59. | :30:06. | |
cloudy start to the day for most of us, but not as much rain around. | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
Never quite getting rid of that range from the south-eastern corner | :30:11. | :30:18. | |
of England. Most places will end up with a dry afternoon tomorrow. The | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
area of low pressure which is bringing the unsettled weather | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
gradually fades as we move into Friday. But that weather front | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
never really gets away from the far south-east of England. Otherwise, a | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
lot of dry weather to be enjoyed, with light winds. Temperatures | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
about where they should be for this time of year. Saturday will be the | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
better day of the weekend for most of us. Sunday sees rain gradually | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
working northwards across England and Wales. Next week, just a hint | :30:50. | :30:58. |