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Russia expresses grave concern following reports that Israeli | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
warplanes have bombed targets in Syria. Iran has responded, saying | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
the alleged attack would have serious consequences. David Cameron | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
arrives in Libya to discuss the threat posed by Islamist terrorists | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
in north and west Africa. The Government promises to stick to its | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
pledge to increase some defence spending from 2016. Millions of the | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
poorest households in England could face council tax rises of up to | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
�200 per year. When you are told that one bit of money that you are | :00:41. | :00:49. | |
given is because you need it, you know - I'm not a scrounger. David | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
Beckham is expected to sign for Paris St Germain. | :00:56. | :01:05. | |
This is a real renaissance treasure chamber. The largest donation of | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
gold in a century goes on show at Later on BBC London: The Health | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Secretary has approves plans to downgrade Lewisham A&E but stops | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
short of closing the unit completely. We'll have analysis | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
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from Westminster and reaction at Hello. Welcome to the BBC News at | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
1pm. Russia has expressed grave concern over reports that Israeli | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
warplanes have bombed a target inside Syria. Two people were | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
killed in at a military research centre. Iran says it will have | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
serious consequences. It has reported that Syria and Iran have | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
threatened to retaliate against Israel for the air raid, which is | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
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All quiet at this border post on Israel's northern front year this | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
morning. Reports of an Israeli air strike on Syrian territory | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
yesterday have stoked tensions internationally. The Syrian | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
official account came on state TV last night. Israeli warplanes | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
violated Syrian airspace and carried out an air strike on a | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
scientific defence centre, says the military statement, adding that two | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
workers were killed and five others injured. Other accounts from | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
diplomats and Sirryal rebels claim Israeli jets bombed a convoy of | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
arms bound for Lebanon possibly intended for the Hezbollah allies. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
As usual, Israel has confirmed nothing. Already there's been a | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
strong response internationally. Russia, which refuses to condemn | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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President Assad, was swift to Iran, one of Damascus's closest | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
allies called the attack "brutal aggression, which will have serious | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
consequences." In western capitals officials have reacted cautiously. | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
Of course there are great dangers from Syrian conflict - dangers for | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
chemical, biological weapons, which we believe Syria to have, or that | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
weapons in Syria can be moved elsewhere in the region. I have | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
nothing more to tell you about that particular incident. Although | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Israel has not confirmed the attack, it would not be the first time. In | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
2007 it apparently bombed what is thought to be an undeclared nuclear | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
site in Syria. In recent days, queues in Israel for gas masks have | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
grown, amid official warnings in case the sophisticated weaponry | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
fell into the wrong hands. What happened happened yesterday t | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
danger of Syria's conflict spreading have just increased. The | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
Prime Minister, David Cameron, is in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, to | :04:25. | :04:34. | |
discuss the threat posed by extremists in north and west Africa. | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
This visit coming amid growing concern about that situation? | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
is right. We saw two faces of the new Libya today. The Prime Minister | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
able to walk about in Martyrs Square, being greeted by people. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Yet, that was also an illusion, because he travelled there in | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
armoured cars. He travelled there after a media blackout, which was | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
insisted upon for security reasons. He travelled there followed by a | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
police helicopter all the way. He couldn't have travelled to Benghazi, | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
where he went a few months ago, because all British citizens were | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
told to leave that city because of the danger of a direct threat to | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
western and specifically to British interests. There is an argument | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
here and elsewhere has been it is right for Britain to be involved. | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
Here in Libya, that insists of paying for some training to try and | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
restore peace and security here. Elsewhere in the region, it is | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
about sending British troops to train those soldiers who are being | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
sent in by the west and north African forces to bring peace in | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Mali. The warning echoes in the Prime Minister's ears though is | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
that of the envoy to Libya, who said that what was happening in | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
Mali was making what was happening here in Libya, worse. | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
Thank you. The Government has set out for the first time how it will | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
spend �160 billion on defence equipment over the next ten years, | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
despite the overall budget falling by 8% since 2010. David Cameron | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
said today he pledged to keep his promise for a real-terms increase | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
in the money for equipment after 2016. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
The debate over the defence budget comes as British forces are | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
deployed in a new conflict. The are raf's C-17s among the assets | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
helping the French in their fight against militants in Mali. Back in | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Whitehall, the battle has begun over how much money the MoD will | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
have in the years to come. In his Autumn Statement the Chancellor cut | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
money from defence. Today, the Prime Minister said his | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
Government's pledge to raise spending after 2015 would be kept. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
I'm not counting my chickens yet. I will clearly be making the case for | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
the funding that we need to deliver Future Force 2020. Our plan for the | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
armed forces and the manpower. Today he unveiled what he termed a | :07:10. | :07:19. | |
�35 million will be spent on submarines. More -- �35 billion | :07:19. | :07:29. | |
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But, uncertainty remains. The hard- fought Spending Review for 2015- | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
2016, in which Philip Hammond will need to fight their corner against | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
other Whitehall departments. This shows it remains a battleground T | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
only guarantee is the statement that the MoD will keep the 1% rise | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
above inflation to its equipment budget after 2015. That spending is | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
around �16 billion a year. That is only half the MoD's overall budget, | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
so the rest remains to be fought for. The country could have | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
confidence in the Labour Party, if we were to win the election, would | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
have a further scope of the threat the nation faces and see how we | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
match wit the funding and the full size we need. With thousands of | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
redundancies in the Armed Forces being made, any more cuts to the | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
defence budget could prove politically damaging. | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
Let's get more on this from your political correspondent. Some | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
confusion over the figures today and presumably concern from | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
departments which have not been ring-fenced? Quite so. What it does | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
tell is is what Mr Cameron wants to spend money on after 2016. He wants | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
to increase spending on the military, which underscores his | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
view that we are facing new and emerging threats such as that from | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
terrorists in West Africa. As you say, it is a decision with | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
important, Knock-on repercussions for other areas of Government. If | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
you protect defence spending, NHS spending and protect school | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
spending, that leaves you much few our departmental budgets to claw | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
back money from to pay off the deficit. It means, I suspect areas | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
like local Government may see steeper curbs. Other ministers may | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
feel a need to administer themselves a large, stiff whisky | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
tonight. One other things before the admirals start to hang up the | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
budgeting, they may face one more year of cuts, 2015-2016 because Mr | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
Cameron's spending proposal only begins in 2016. Thank you. A man | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
has been found guilty of supplying a gun to Mark Duggan, whose | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
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shooting by police sparked the Kevin Hutchinson-Foster - a violent | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
drug dealer and today found guilty of supplying this illegal handgun. | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
Mark Duggan was the man he supplied it to. Police knew about the | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
handover and within minutes they had shot Mr Duggan dead besides | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
this road in Tottenham. The killing sparked riots. They spread across | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
England. The worst unrest for a generation. A passer-by filmed the | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
aftermath of the shooting. Paramedics try to save Mr Duggan. | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
Next to them the unmarked police cars which tried to intercept the | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
minicab. Beyond the fence where the police found the gun. The police | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
officer who fired the shots told the court that Mark Duggan was here | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
and pointing a gun at him. A gun was found several metres away on | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
the other side of this fence. The jury was not asked to decide | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
whether the police shooting of Mark Duggan was justified or not. At the | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
community centre where Mark Duggan once played football, they are | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
waiting for a full inquest, due to begin soon. The way Mark was killed, | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
you know and the reports which have come out have not been consistent. | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
Obviously, the community and the family want justice. | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
Independent Police Complaints Commission has been watching the | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
Kevin Hutchinson-Foster trials with interest. It says its investigation | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
into the shooting of Mark Duggan is almost complete. | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
Millions of the poorest households in England could face council tax | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
rises from April because most authorities will pass on a funding | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
cut, that is according to research from the Resolution Foundation. A | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
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typical bill will rise between �200-�250 a year. | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
Penryn in Cornwall where some of the benefits are being squeezed. | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Many low-income families here pay no council tax at all. That is | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
about to change. �200-�250. Michelle Kent is a single parent | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
living on benefits. She is expecting a bill of over �200 in | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
April and doesn't know where the money will come from. There's | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
nothing else I can give up. There's nothing else I can stop. What do I | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
do? Stay cold? Eat less? I don't know. I don't... When you are told | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
that one bit of money you are given is because you need it, you know - | :12:37. | :12:45. | |
I'm not a scrounger! Council tax benefit is claimed by around five | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
million households. In April the benefit is being cut by 10%. Many | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
families will have to find between �100-�250 extra per year. Residents | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
in Scotland and Wales will not be affected. Some local authorities | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
are managing to find other savings so they can keep to pay the council | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
tax of the lowest income households. For many, including Cornwall, say | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
they have no choice but to ask those on benefits and low pay to | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
find the money. It is a tax increase imposed on people who are | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
poor. They don't have a lot of money - carers, the disabled, mums, | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
people who work. It will come in the same month millionaires get a | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
tax cut. It is not fair! It is up to each local authority to decide | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
how and whether to pass on this cut. Ministers say extra money is | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
available for those keeping increases to a mim mum. The | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
Government believes councils can and should help those most in need. | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
They have to protect pensioners. We've put in �100 million to ensure | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
that councils want to, which we think would be good, that nobody | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
has to pay more than 8.5%. Many councils are looking at keeping | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
what is already in place. To some critics, the new scheme has echoes | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
of the poll tax. The Government says it gives councils the | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
incentive to get people off benefits or into better paid work. | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
Plans to scrap GCSEs in core subjects in England have been | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
strongly criticised by a cross party group of MPs. They say there | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
is little evidence that the replacement English Baccalaureate | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
Certificates will help less able students. Too much, too fast - that | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
is the verdict of MPs on the Government's proposed reforms to | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
exams in England at 16. The speed and nature of the changes could, | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
they say, threaten the very stability of the xm system. Under | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
the proposals, GCSEs in English, maths and science will be replaced | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
with new and tougher EBCs in 2015. EBCs in history, geoggrafwri and | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
languages will follow later, with GCSEs remaining for other subjects. | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
MPs are worried subjects like art, music and RE, which will not be | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
part of the new qualification will become discredited. They are | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
calling on the Government to think again. The head teacher ot this | :15:06. | :15:16. | |
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London school agrees -- at this MPs also say they are worried about | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
how pupils who struggle to get good grades now will cope with the more | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
difficult qualification. The new exams will be harder than GCSEs. | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
When you think about it more than 40% of children fail to get five | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
good GCSEs incluing English an maths. If you make it harder to | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
achieve, what are you doing for those children, who are often from | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
poorer families as well. This week Wales confirmed it was keeping | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
GCSEs at 16, in Northern Ireland, they are under review. Some | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
business leaders support the Westminster Government's moves. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
problem is we know there is a serious issue with GCSEs, we know | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
it is a central qualification for children in this country. So we | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
can't afford to sit round and say we will do it in a few year, we | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
need to solve it now. The changes are controversial, the Department | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
for Education today defended them vigorously, saying the secondary | :16:19. | :16:28. | |
education system was in desperate need of a thorough overhaul. Our | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
top story. Russia expresss grave concern following reports that | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
Israeli warplanes have bombed targets in Syria. Coming up. 60 | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
years on. Remembering the hundreds of victims of the east coast floods, | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
one of Britain's worst ever peacetime disasters. Later on BBC | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
London, a man's arrested ore the murder of a teenager in Pimlico, we | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
will have the latest on the police investigation. And as Comic Relief | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
repairs to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Pixie Lott will tell | :17:01. | :17:10. | |
us how londsers can help. Londoners can help. 60 years ago, Britain | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
suffered one of her worst peacetime disasters. The biggest storm surge | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
recorded sent water from the North Sea flooding enland. More than 300 | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
people were killed in towns and villages on the east coast. Many | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
more were lost at sea. Our correspondent is on the | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
Lincolnshire coast with more. Yes. 60 years ago this whole area was | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
devastated. Today those wild winds are back in Lincolnshire, but this | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
is nothing compared to what it was like in 1953. Then there was a wall | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
of water, 20 feet above the sea- level. Let me show you where it was | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
going. To the homes and communities along the east coast. 42 people | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
died just here in Lincolnshire. Today, every life lost will be | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
remembered. It came without warning. The flood of 53 battered the east | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
coast. With the sea claiming town, communities and taking lives. -- | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
towns. What was it like 60 years ago? Pblgs like a steam train. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
John's family lost everything. Their home swamped by sea and sand. | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
But they survived. This beach was lifted out and put on to the road | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
on the high street. Four foot, five foot sand. Do you feel lucky to be | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
alive? Absolutely. People were terrified and opened the door with | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
a babe in arms and the baby was washed away. Three days of savage | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
storms claimed more than 300 lives. 24,000 homes were damaged. 60 years | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
ago three things happened to create this storm surge. First there was a | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
deep area of low pressure across the North Sea, and this had the | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
effect of sucking up the water levels. There was also an | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
exceptionally high tide, and severe winds. It all created a wall of | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
water, heading from the North Sea, towards towns across the east coast. | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
Waves were 20 feet above sea-level. At the time flood defences from | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
Scotland down to Kent, just couldn't cope. You have concrete | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
defence, robust, they are bigger than 53. 60 years on, in | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
Lincolnshire over �300 million has been spent on flood defences. So | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
far they have held. We are living in an uncertain time. We are | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
climate change, the defence are designed for a certain event. What | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
we are saying as time goes on, those defences probably will be | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
overwhelmed so it is not a question of the, we are say ing it is a | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
question of when. People are bet er prepaerd and importantly the story | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
of 1953 has not been forgotten. -- prepared. So many lost, so much, | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
but 60 years on and a lot of change. The people who live in the houses | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
down there have evacuation plan, so do police, paramedics and the Fire | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
Service, and the Met Office work with the Environment Agency, so | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
they have an early warning system in place, if the floods were ever | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
to come in again. It would give people a chance. Something those | :20:19. | :20:28. | |
who died in 1953 never had. Thank you. Leading can't si firms have | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
been put on the spot by MPs, the pabg which has been invest gating | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
the after fires of major firms such as Google Starbucks and alzon has | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
been quizzing the financial advisers to those companies. Our | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
chief economics correspondent is here, what has been said?. They | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
didn't get an easy time, these big can't si firm, like Deloitte, Ernst | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
& Young giving a grilling by this committee, which has highlighted | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
tax practise of companies like you mention like Starbucks and Google. | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
At one point the kphar of the committee Margaret Hodge held up | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
Pape we are a complex web of transactions and said why do you | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
get involved with helping big companies, set up devices like this | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
to move money round the world. The answer was everything we do is | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
legal. This is not evasion in any way, so they were on the defensive | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
there. This of course comes after David Cameron made his speech last | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
week, at Davos, calling for an enters national crackdown on tax | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
avoidance, he said wake up and Mel the coffee. Then at the weekend | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
Starbucks had been unhappy about that, they say what is going on | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
here, we invest a lot. That was down played that report. But two | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
days ago the boss of Google told the BBC, we will pay whatever taxes | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
are required. If it changes we will adapt. We invest a lot in the UK. | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
So high stakes in this debate. Thank you for that. Banks could be | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
faces another huge compensation bill for mis-selling after the | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Financial Services Authority confirmed that many small | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
businesses had lost money after being sold special plans to control | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
the cost of loans, it said in 90% of vulnerable cases which have been | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
checked, banks hadn't complyed with rules to prevent customer being | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
misled. It is a costly mis-selling scandal for tens of thousands of | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
businesses, like John's property development firm in Beverley in | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
East Yorkshire. They thought they were buying protection from | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
interest rate movement, but to qualify for loans of millions of | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
pounds, they were forced into contracts which left them paying | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
more interest than expected when interest rates fell sharply in the | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
financial crisis, and facing penalty charges of up to 40% of the | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
loan in order to get out of the trap. We feel as though we have | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
been duped, is probably a good word, that you know, this thing was put | :22:57. | :23:07. | |
there to help us and protect us, and it did the opposite. Today, the | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
FSA says 90% of a small sample of vulnerable companies like John's | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
were mis-sold the contracts call interest rate swaps. If interest | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
rates went down the consumer would end up paying higher rates to the | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
banks. That can't be right, that people who are unsophisticated | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
investors were sold those products. Banks have 12 months to review the | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
case of victims and provide redress, which could amount to hundreds of | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
thousands of pounds each for many. There is no justification for mis- | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
selling, the banks have changed their processes now, they have | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
changed their pay policies, to make sure such problems don't happen | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
again. Barclays set aside the highest amount for compensation so | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
far, but most leading banks are involved and the regulator has | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
total them to consider more case, including farms and bed-and- | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
breakfast, who might have been left out. So theover all bill for | :24:04. | :24:13. | |
compensation is set to escalate. Well, where next for Team Beckham? | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
It looks like Paris St Germain. The club have called a news conference | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
for this afternoon, with the former England captain beck expected to be | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
there. Let us get more from Dan at the BBC Sports Centre. It appears | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
that Beckham has been linked with lucrative moves to clubs from every | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
corner of the globe. China, Russia, the Middle East too, but it appears | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
to be a last tango in Paris for the former England Captain. He is | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
almost certain to be the last big move o of what has been a great | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
career. Paris St Germain have called a press conference. Beckham | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
we understand has been undergoing the formality of a medical in the | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
French capital. It's a deal that makes sense. It's a logical move. | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
As row can see he has been training at the age of 37 to keep himself | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
fit, with Arsenal this last week. He has been looking for a new | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
challenge since his deal with LA Galaxy ended at Christmas. I think | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
it makes sense in terms of narrative of his career, he has | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
played for some of the biggest clubs in the world. Manchester | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
United, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Paris fits with that career. It | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
suits his wife Victoria and the family who are keen to settle back | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
in London, and I don't think he could be accused, although he will | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
be paid well by pars, of doing this for financial reason, he wasn't | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
deemed good enough to play for Team GB in the Olympics but he will be | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
eligible to flay the Champions League for Paris St Germain, who | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
buoyed by the cash of their Qatar owners are tried to establish | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
themselves as one of the biggest footballing forces in Europe. They | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
are a sleeping giant of a club but they have been buying some of the | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
biggest names in world football over the last season or two, and | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
Beckham is the latest. Some felt that he may be heading for | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
retirement, but at the last minute, on the transfer window deadline day, | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
there has been one last twist in a fairytale Carrie. Now, it is a | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
treasure trove of gold, and silver, a collection of almost 500 items | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
dating from the 16, 17th and 18th century which is worth several | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
million pounds. It has been donated to Oxford's Ashmolean Museum. Our | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
arts correspondent has been to take a look. Goodness. What is this? | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
This is a rens sans treasure chamber. Your treasure chamber. | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
cabinet of woner, this is a small part of the bequest of Michael | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
Wellby that we are about to put on display. This, Davis, is a naught | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
lus shell from the Indian Ocean. Can I pick up this one, here? | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
Another monster? The monster is a coconut drinking cup. This is a | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
real eagle's foot. Topped bay gold double eagle's head. This was made | :27:11. | :27:21. | |
for the Medicis in Italy On it goes. Massive collection. I have to ask | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
the question, how much is it worth? We are very very delicate on such | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
subjects, but a good number of millions of pounds. 20 Million? | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
There are individual pieces that are worth in the million, and while | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
most of them are not worth that, there are 480 objects, so I will | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
leave you to do your own sums! However Michael Wellby began | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
collecting in the '40s, an era Blighed by objects looted or | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
extorted from Jewish families. we know where it all came from? | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
Michael was never terribly forthcoming about where things had | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
come from, so there is a lot of research to be done. It is | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
perfectly true that these are the kinds of objects which Jewish | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
collectors had in quantity. It is not impossible one or two objects | :28:15. | :28:24. | |
prove to have come from collections which were the subject of | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
confiscation during the Nazi period. The museum is fully signed up. | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
is an extraordinary gift. These objects were made to amaze. The | :28:36. | :28:44. | |
Ashmolean has a new room of wonders. That is worth a visit. Time for the | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
That is worth a visit. Time for the weather now. Another windy day | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
across the UK, but for many there is sunshine to come as well. | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
However we have got showers working through too. We have seen some in | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
the south-east, but think they will fizzle out. There will be sharper | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
ones running into the north-west of England. It is to the north we have | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
our major area of concern with persis tent wind. To the west of | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
the Pennines, perhaps the odd sharper shower, maybe the odd | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
rumble of thunder O the east sunny spells to come and it's a fine | :29:17. | :29:24. | |
blustery yaver moon in prospect. -- afternoon in prospect. Again, it is | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
set to stay dry, windy, but it is relatively mild. Temperatures in | :29:29. | :29:36. | |
double figure, the wind will temper that a little. In Wales the odd | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
light shower. For Northern Ireland, some sunshine on the way. We have | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
got showers but they will tend to clear in the next couple of hours | :29:42. | :29:48. | |
it is this area of rain t tail end of the weather system that brought | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
the wet weather that we are struck with for today. We have seen plenty | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
already. There is more to come and we could have some problems with | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
localised flooding. The situation improves as that swings further | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
north but it will take wintry weather across northern Scotland. | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
By the end of the night you will have to drag your eye further south | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
where we have this area of blue surging across the map. The risk of | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
local flooding, particularly for the south-west and south Wales. | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
Maybe a bit of snow on Friday, but that low does pull away eastwards | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
quickly, it will be windy, as it does so by the afternoon, much of | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
England and Wales seeing a return of some sunshine, potentially | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
sharper showers again for north Wales in the north-west later on in | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
the afternoon, maybe something wintry across the hill, but a fine | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
afternoon for Northern Ireland and a drier day for Scotland. For | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
Saturday, a fine day for the majority, a lot of sunshine round, | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
but it will feel chilly. Sunday we are back with the cloud and | :30:44. | :30:51. | |
outbreaks of rain. A glimpse towards the weekend. Some wintry | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
flurries, but I think it is the way Saturday feels that we will be | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
talking about. It will feel cold. We are back with a lot of cloud and | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
outbreaks of rain, so a mixture for this weekend. You can though, get | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
more details and a longer term outlook if you look on the website. | :31:08. | :31:12. |