14/09/2011 BBC News at Six

The dole queue gets longer. The biggest jump in the jobless total

for nearly two years. Unemployment in the UK hits 2.5 million, the

young are among those finding it hardest to get work. For about a

year and a half I have been looking for a job and have applied to about

maybe 100 shops, and no one's even replied.

Angry exchanges in the Commons. Labour says David Cameron is no

different to previous Conservative leaders. He is just like all the

others. For him, unemployment is a price worth paying. The truth is it

was the last Government that robbed young people of their future by

piling up the debt. Also tonight: November 30th, unions

name the date for action on pensions. They threaten the biggest

walkout for decades. A dire United we stand, now is the

time to strike together, millions to make the point and tell the

Government no. A dire warning from the EU

Commission. The eurozone debt crisis is a fight for the future of

Europe. Treated like a slave in 21st

century Britain. We talk to a man who had been held on a travellers'

site. I think people stayed because of fear, because you saw you what

was going on in front of your eyes, you saw if someone tried to leave

you are going to get beaten up. world of the dinosaur as you have

never seen it before. How computer graphics put flesh on old bones.

I will be here with Sportsday later on the BBC News channel, including

team news ahead of tonight's Champions League matches. United

are in Portugal. Manchester City Good evening, welcome to the BBC

News at Six. The number of people unemployed in the UK is now more

than 2.5 million. The latest figures show that the young and

women are the worst hit as they struggle to find jobs. The sharp

rise in unemployment is just one of many challenges the coalition

Government faces. Tonight, a furious row in the commons over the

figures. And there's more trouble as the unions threaten a massive

walkout over pension cuts, that's in a moment, but first our chief

economic correspondent Hugh Pym on the biggest jump in the

unemployment total for nearly two years.

Unemployment, it's a growing problem for those caught up in the

misery of joblessness and it tells us something about the fragile

state of the economy. With more than 2.5 million now out of work.

Not far short of a million of those are aged between 16 and 24. Youth

unemployment has jumped again. These young people in Bristol told

us of their struggle to find work. I have applied to about, and I am

not joking, maybe about 100 shops and no one's even had the decency

to reply. They could have the courtesy to actually say I haven't

got the job. I have been looking for a job since I was 16, every

weekend getting turned away. Female unemployment is now the highest in

more than 20 years. This job club in Nottingham helps women with a

search for jobs. Cheryl was a retail executive, but was made

redundant and so far she hasn't found anything. At first as a

manager I was looking for a position in a manager position, but

now just because I don't want to be on benefits I am willing to do

cleaning jobs or work in a bar or waitress, I am that determined not

to go on benefits. The UK workforce story until now

has been public sector job cuts with private sector job creation

more than compensating for that leaving total employment increasing.

And Ministers have been quick to point that out. But the latest

figures over a three-month period paint a different picture. Between

April and June private sector employment rose by 41,000 but that

was outweighed by a plunge of 111,000 in the public sector total,

over the same period. And looking ahead there are predictions of more

bad news to come on the jobs front. The chances are that there will be

a peak somewhere in the order of two and three quarter million, but

if the economy performs even less well than expected the situation

could turn out to be even worse than that. Unemployment in Scotland

has fallen in recent months, but nobody there or elsewhere in the UK

is assuming there's any rapid improvement on the horizon.

Those unemployment figures were at the heart of bruising exchange at

Prime Minister's Questions. The labour leader accused the

Conservatives of not caring about those who ended up on the dole. Mr

Cameron admitted the rise in unemployment was disappointing but

he said the coalition was doing all it could to get people back to work.

Here's our deputy political editor James Landale.

The pressure behind this door is growing, pressure to do more to

create jobs and help the economy grow at home, pressure to shield

Britain from the growing financial turmoil abroad. So when the man

next door headed for the Commons he knew he would be pressed for

answers. For every two jobs being cut in the public sector, less than

one is being created in the private sector. Isn't that the clearest

sign yet that his policy isn't working? This Government is

reducing the welfare bill and is cutting - and reforming public

sector pensions, if we weren't taking those steps you would have

to make deeper cuts in terms of the rest of the public sector, he would

be having more unemployment in the public sector, that is the truth.

In Scotland today unemployment actually fell which the First

Minister said was down to more spending, not less, on big

Government projects like new motorways. I am urging the

Chancellor is to look at the Scottish experience and to see

within that experience some of the ingredients of how to get through

this recession, I am urging if you like, not just a plan B B.

Cameron said you can't spend your way out of a debt crisis. Mr

Miliband accused him of complacency. Youth unemployment is at its

highest level for 19 years. Women's unemployment is at its highest

level for 23 years. The highest level since the last time there was

a Tory Government. It turns out he is just like all the others. For

him, unemployment is a price worth paying. It is this Government

that's cutting corporation tax, that's frozen council tax, that cut

the petrol duty, that started the regional growth fund, that ended

Labour's jobs tax, that has the biggest apprenticeship programme in

decades, and that's increased capital spending compared with what

Labour left. The truth is, Mr Speaker, it was the last Government

that robbed young people of their future by piling up the debt.

the Government says it's sticking to its plan A, it cannot afford to

increase spending but it's under growing pressure to find growth

from somewhere. And the guys in there haven't found it yet.

The Government came under attack from another front today, trade

union leaders have called for a day of action on November 30th to

protest against changes to public sector pensions. The biggest unions

in the country have decided to ballot their members over a

campaign of walk-outs right through the winter. The Chancellor, George

Osborne, said strikes would be deeply irresponsible and damage

prospects for jobs. John Moylan reports.

Individually they're some of the most powerful unions in Britain.

But now their united in a dispute that could bring more than two

million workers out on strike. give formal notice to 9,000

employers that we are now balloting for industrial action. GMB's proud

to support not just this, but the move straightaway to industrial

action ballots. We are giving notice of our intention to ballot

for industrial action. This level of co-ordination amongst the main

trade unions is relatively rare and it does underline the strength of

feeling there is over this pension issue. But having spent years

trying to shed its 1970s one out, all out image, the trade union

movement does look set to embark on some of the most sustained

industrial action that Britain has seen in decades.

The row is over plans to cut billions from the cost of pensions.

Unions claim staff are being asked to pay more into the pot in

contributions, and work considerably longer only to

eventually end up with a smaller payout. It's a toxic combination

which Lisa Turner says she can't afford. A teacher, she took part in

a strike in June and she says she's prepared to walk out again. People

don't go on strike because they feel like it over tiny things, this

is a huge difference. This will make a difference to our family of

getting about �200 worse off a month we will be. It's more bad

news for the Government, and it led the Chancellor to criticise union

leaders. I think the union bosses are behaving in a deeply

irresponsible way. Deeply irresponsible, because talks are

still going on, deeply irresponsible because at a time

when the whole world, including Britain, faces a real economic

challenge, this is only going to damage jobs and prosperity for the

whole country. The strikes that are coming will be on a different scale

to the action seen this summer. And it could leave the public facing

some of the most widespread disruption to services that the UK

has seen in years. Our political editor Nick Robinson

joins us now from Edinburgh. Scotland's First Minister calling

for an alternative economic approach, we have those

unemployment figures, we have the strike calls over pensions. There's

a lot of pressure mounting up on the Westminster Government. Huge

pressure, yes. The global economy is in a much worse state than

ministers expected a few weeks ago. The unemployment figures are much

worse than they hoped. The projections for growth will be

worse too and have to be revised soon. Now yet the Government in

London always always expected a day like this to come. A day when they

come under pressure, not just from the Labour opposition, not just

from a massive protest planned by the trade unions, but from

Scotland's First Minister as well, calling for an alternative economic

approach saying that they could keep the confidence in the markets

by building more roads, building more bridges, more capital

expenditure, in other words, but without radically changing their

spending plans overall. In Downing Street they call that plan B for

bankruptcy, but actually privately behind the scenes they are

desperately searching around for ways to get the economy moving

without radically rewriting the spending plans.

Thank you. The Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales, Nick

Hardwick, has warned that new gangs are forming in jails. He said this

was because of the influx of people charged over last month's riots and

that gang activity was growing as more young people were joining for

their own protection. Two men who claim they were kept as

virtual slaves on a travellers' site in Bedfordshire, have been

speaking about their ordeal for the first time. The men spent months at

the Greenacres site, but they had escaped before police raided it

over the weekend. They claim others had been trapped there for years.

Yesterday four men appeared in court charged with enslaving a

number of people. Alongside the hustle and bustle of

tourists and shoppers people living rough on the streets can an be

invisible and according to one man who says he became a virtual slave

here it was all too easy for an alcoholic like him to be picked up.

He says he is still too frightened to be identified. If someone offers

you �50 a day and as much booze you a you -- as you want, that's happy

days. That's why it's just so easy for them to grab you and put you in

the van. Once you are in there, they've got you. That was 2008

before the current investigation. He claims once the Greenacres site

there was no money and hardly anything to eat. He lived crammed

into a horsebox and worked horrendous hours. As I was on the

bottom bunk I usually got kicked in the face to wake up. You get up

about 3.00am, hustle to get in the van, everyone gets in the van and

we drove, or I would say -- for I would say an hour and a half to the

site where we were working at. was the work like? Hard. It was all

block paving. Breaking up driveways. He eventually managed to escape and

went to the police but he says he was there for eight months. I think

people stayed because of fear, because you saw what was going on

in front of your eyes. You saw if someone tried to leave you are

going to get beaten up. The police put him on a train back to his

brother. He was shocked by what he saw. He had physically been beaten,

clearly numerous times. I mean, his bones and his ribs were all visible

from where he hadn't eaten properly and hadn't had a diet. His teeth

were black because he had no nutrition. These are the sheds we

were kept in... It's a deeply shocking story that Adam knows only

too well. Four years before this he says he too was held at --

greenacres. He was promised pay, instead he found skauler and what

he views as slavery. I got moved out of a caravan into a shed that

was sometimes - sometimes locked, sometimes not. It was literally,

you were released for work in the morning. Both men have since turned

their lives around, but say they are still haunted by their

experiences at the site. Just over a year after Pakistan's

devastating floods which affected a quarter of the population

authorities in Sindh province are warning that floods this year are

even worse. The southern region has been hit by the heaviest monsoon

rains in a century. Over five million people have already been

A full 20 ft below these waters used to the shops and homes.

Villages as far as the eye can see and across southern Pakistan have

totally disappeared. The authorities in this province say

that these clubs are worse than the massive disaster last year. We find

this family stranded on a piece of a high ground. Their home has gone

and most of their livestock drowned but they managed to save a couple

of chickens. Everyone was in the Village but suddenly the rains came

says this woman. They fled during the night and left us. But they

have been saved by the army which says it has rescued affecting 1000

people by boat but fears that others are still cut off.

catastrophe is a huge because people are still coping with the

Flat last year. We were coping with that kind of damage and now the

next flood has come. The damages to fault. It seems reminiscent of last

year. People are rescued and brought to camps like this but then

how they are treated after having lost all their belongings and their

homes depends very much on its luck. In this camp they have run out of

tents so many are having to sleep out in the open. This is where this

woman and her family ended up. Shall drink any way they can and

fearing for what the future holds. -- sheltering.

Our top story tonight. The biggest jump in the jobless

total for nearly two years as unemployment hits 2 and half

million. Coming up: Who decides what gets

built in your neighbourhood? The planning minister insists local

communities will be empowered by the new rules.

The leaders of Germany, France and Greece are holding emergency talks

amid growing market fears that Greece could soon default on its

debts. The president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel

Barroso, warned today that the debt crisis is the biggest challenge

facing Europe in a generation. Our Europe Editor, Gavin Hewitt,

has more. President Sarkozy of France and Angela Merkel of Germany

moved today to try to fix the crisis of Greeks -- of grease and

its debts. They are seeking guarantees that in exchange for aid,

Greece would live by its commitments and cut its deficit.

The fear that Greece is headed for bankruptcy has savaged the Markets

and the banking sector. Two French banks Salk their ratings downgraded

today because of their exposure to the Greek debt. And there were

warnings at the European Parliament today that Europe could be

destroyed by the euro-zone crisis. One minister declared that Europe

was in danger, another said that the European Union itself could not

survive a break-up of the euro-zone. We are confronted with the most

serious challenge of a generation. It is a fight for what Europe

represents in the world and for European integration itself.

President boroscope said the answer to the Greek crisis was more

integration but doubts were expressed that Greece could be

saved. The European people to not believe in what you're saying and I

do not think even viewed now believe it. We all know that Greece

is going to default. There are increasing doubts over whether

Greece can escape bankruptcy in the long term. A German minister said

it would not be the end of the world if Greece was eventually

forced out of the euro-zone. And the Dutch government has begun

exploring the cost to its banks if Greece runs out of money. So full

holds Greek debt? The Greek banks hold 49 billion euros in Greek debt.

Germany holds a 10 million euros. France is next with an exposure of

9 billion but the risk to British banks is much smaller at 2.2

billion euros. If Germany does not bailed Greece out then we need a

back-up plan for when it goes horribly wrong. I do not get a

sense at all that we have any back- up plan so if the default happens

it will be very messy. President Sarkozy and Chancellor

Angela Merkel today it reaffirmed their determined to save Greece, if

they can. The inquest into the death of Raoul

Moat has heard police fired twice at him with taser guns before he

shot himself. Raoul Moat blinded a policeman while On The Run last

year and killed his former girlfriend. The coroner has heard

from police far arms officers who said no one at the scene had used

the new type of a taser shot guns before. Was there any explanation

as to why these police officers had not use these weapons before and

yet use them on Raoul Moat? We had always known that tasered fans had

been used but the question was, until fired first? Today we heard

from West Yorkshire police officers who were deployed that night. But

they had never seen those weapons before and had certainly not used

them before. Their team leader that might said that he had raised the

issue that he and the other officers were not trained but the

reply from their inspector was, you are trained. The aim was to try to

take Raoul Moat a life. After the officers were deployed they said

negotiations took a turn for the worse. Raoul Moat was saying things

like, it is going to end tonight in this field. They -- he then raised

the gun to the sight of his head and one of the Serb then decided to

fire at the taser gun. Another officer said that Raoul Moat bent

let out a yell as if he had been hit by someone. A second shot was

fired which missed Raoul Moat completely and then he shot himself

in the head. They were asked why they had taken that action and one

officer said, it was either do something or do nothing and watch

him commit suicide. Who decides what gets built in your

neighbourhood? The planning minister Greg Clark has told the

BBC that the new guidelines will lead to more development. But he

insists that local communities rather than property developers

will be empowered by the new rules. Here's our local government

correspondent, Mike Sergeant. sum it is a battle to save England

from the forces of development. Two others, much needed reform of a

broken system. The government plan led to hulls of process from

countryside groups. Why the fuss? It is a simplification of an often

impenetrable system. At the moment local authorities have over 1000

pages of planning guidance which is now to be replaced by 152 page

booklet. The minister who wrote it says he will not water down the

document but the final version may put more emphasis on the

environment when it comes out next month. There are concerns that some

of the environmental aspects may not be as strongly expressed as was

our intention. But we are clear that our intention is to insure

those safeguards will continue for the environment and we will do

whatever is necessary to make that clear. The argument from the

government has not changed much. Ministers think the current system

strangles the economy at a time when thousands of new homes are

needed. Local people have been encouraged to get involved with

planning and help shape development. The framework puts the onus on the

community to gather evidence about local housing needs. Those arguing

against the proposals are not conceding much either. They want

building on brownfield sites previously used for something else.

Campaigners fear the new system will make it easier and cheaper to

bulldoze green fields. That line of hills across there is the place we

are keen to protect. Some are worried that local forces could be

drowned out by influential property developers. Everything will relate

to what the developer can offer and the local community and their long-

term needs will not be properly considered. The government says the

new framework will protect the country and result in more

development. The question is, where? And other local people feel

that they have a say. -- whether local people.

Scientists have discovered the remains of a dinosaur that not only

preserves the animal's skeleton, but also its footprints where it

dropped dead in its tracks. The 80 million year-old fossil had been

stored in a cupboard in a Polish museum for half a century before

experts realised its significance. The discovery comes as two big

budget programmes on dinosaurs get ready to launch. Daniel Boettcher

reports on the prehistoric creatures that are still capturing

imaginations today. Dinosaurs of every kind and size

seen in a new light. Their stories told in the series based on the

latest research. Details beamed from fossils from sophisticated

scans, among stamp this giant killer, larger than the T Rex.

While a programme but this will always be an interpretation of what

is known, scientific understanding of dinosaurs has been growing

rapidly. There has been an explosion in what we know about

dinosaurs in the past 10 or 15 years. Every year we find around 14

new types. The discoveries keep coming. A paper published today

shows the skeleton of a dinosaur preserved together with its own

footprint. Some scientists talk about a golden age of dinosaur

research. New finds in area -- areas previously unexplored. The

techniques used to bring their stories to life are also changing.

Animation methods usually seen in feature films put together in close

collaboration with any intelligence. You want to present research that

is more palatable, up more interesting to fire up people's

imaginations. But it also has a truth behind it. Add it seems there

is a public appetite for dinosaurs weather in factual form or in

fiction. Steven Spielberg is about to make dinosaurs small screen

stars as well in what is said to be the most expensive television

series ever. Let's take a look at the weather

Let's take a look at the weather now with Alex Deakin.

If you did not see the September sunshine today, the chances are

that you will see it tomorrow. But temperatures have been falling

overnight all week and tonight is no exception. It will be feeling

pretty fresh first thing tomorrow morning. The wind is finally easing

across Scotland. It will turn misty in places in parts of the south-

west. But that should clear away leaving a bright day for most of us.

Feeling a lot warmer over parts of Scotland. Much brighter conditions

for example in Manchester. Sunny spells in parts of the South East.

Early on in a day across the south- west there will be some mist and

fog which will take a couple of hours to disappear. A bit more

cloud across North Wales and at times cloudy in Northern Ireland.

But feeling quite warm by the afternoon. We hang on to define

whether a cross parts of the East on Friday. Elsewhere there is wet

weather moving into Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland. And

that is the sight of things to come. The breeze picks up over the

weekend and there are blustery weekend and there are blustery