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In court: The man charged with the murders of the two police officers | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
killed this week. Dale Cregan was taken to court amid high-security | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
in a convoy of police vehicles. As he stood in the dock, armed | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
officers stood guard both inside and outside the building. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
There have been more tributes to PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes as | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
the investigation at the scene goes on. Dale Cregan is also charged | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
with two other murders and four attempted murders. We will bring | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
you the latest. Also tonight: The Government | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Minister forced to apologise. Andrew Mitchell is accused of | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
calling a police officer "a pleb". What he did was not appropriate. It | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
was wrong and it is right that he has apologised. He's apologised to | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
me and, much more importantly, thoroughly to the police. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Violence across Pakistan as thousands protest against an anti- | :00:57. | :01:06. | |
Islam film made in America. And it's been home to some of the | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
world's biggest performers - now EMI is set to be taken over. | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
Coming up in Sportsday: Laura Robson makes history as Britain's | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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first player through to the final Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
News at Six. The man charged with the murder of two police officers | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
in Greater Manchester has appeared in court amid a huge security | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
operation. Dale Cregan was taken to Manchester City Magistrates in a | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
convoy of police vehicles. As well as the murders of PCs Fiona Bone | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
and Nicola Hughes, he has been charged with the murders of father | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
and son, David and Mark Short, who were killed earlier this year, and | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
with four attempted murders. Let's get more from Danny Savage. | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
You really only have to come here to realise the profound effect the | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
week's events have had here. There are more than 1,000 bouquets of | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
flowers here. This is happening on the same day that the man accused | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
of being responsible for what happened here appeared in court. | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
It was just before 8.00am when a police convoy carrying Dale Cregan | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
swept through the streets of Manchester. This was a high- | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
security operation involving many armed officers, rarely seen on the | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
streets of Britain. Once the convoy was in the underground car park of | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
the Magistrates' Court, they stood guard outside. The pedestrian | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
entrance to the court was watched by armed response vehicles. The | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
family and friends of some of those Cregan is accused of killing even | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
had a police escort to the door. At 10.00am, Dale Cregan, who only has | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
one eye and has grown a beard, was brought into Court 16. He was | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
flanked by policemen who kept their hands tucked into the top of their | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
body armour. As armed officers in the courtroom looked on, the | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
charges were read out. Cregan is accused of murdering four people. | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
In May, Mark Short was found dead at a pub called the Cotton Tree. | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
Three months later, he is also accused of killing David Short who | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
died in a gun and grenade attack. Cregan is charged with killing PCs | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes earlier this week. They both died | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
of gunshot wounds. Additionally, Dale Cregan faces four counts of | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
attempted murder. As the court hearing took place, forensics work | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
continued at the scene of Tuesday's killings. The Prime Minister was in | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
Manchester today for a private meeting with the policewomen's | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
families and talked about what had happened here. It is right that we | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
praise the work that they did and remember all that they have done. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
It is also important that the Government makes sure that it is | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
doing everything it can to help the Greater Manchester Police Force | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
tackle organised crime and gang- related violence. The Prime | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
Minister also said the whole country has been shocked by the | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
deaths of the two officers. Tens of thousands of people have left | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
tributes to them online where friends and familys have also | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
posted photos. After today's brief court appearance, the man accused | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
of killing them was taken away. The armed convoy taking Dale Cregan, | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
who was remanded in custody, back to Strangeways Prison. Let's join | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Danny Savage now. A second court appearance by Dale Cregan is | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
expected on Monday? Yes, Dale Cregan will stay in prison for the | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
foreseeable future whilst this legal process takes place. His next | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
court appearance is on Monday morning at Manchester Crown Court. | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
There will be a repeat of the security operation of today when | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
that takes place. A 28-year-old man, who was arrested earlier this week | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, has been in custody for a | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
couple of days - police have released him without charge this | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
evening. Thank you. | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
The Government's Chief Whip has apologised for insulting a police | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
officer in Downing Street. Reports say Andrew Mitchell called a | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Constable "a pleb" when he was stopped from cycling out through | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
the main gate. Mr Mitchell denies that. Carole Walker joins us from | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
the Downing Street gates now. This is very bad timing and Mr Mitchell | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
has only just been promoted? Yes, that's right. Andrew Mitchell has | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
admitted he did not treat the police with the respect they | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
deserve, although he disputes some of the accounts of what has | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
happened here. Labour say his behaviour was disgraceful and are | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
demanding a full explanation. Andrew Mitchell is used to wheeling | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
his way around Westminster and the man newly-promoted to take charge | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
of party discipline did not take kindly when told to toe the line by | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
police in Downing Street. On Wednesday night his attempt to take | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
his bicycle out through the main vehicle was thwarted when police | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
insisted he use a smaller, pedestrian gate alongside it. What | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
happened next is disputed. The Sun has described an outburst at one of | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
the policemen. The BBC understands the officer from Scotland Yard's | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Diplomatic Protection Group has told the Police Federation the | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
Sun's account is accurate. The Prime Minister did not hide his | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
anger. What Andrew Mitchell said and what he did was not appropriate. | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
It was wrong. It is right that he's apologised. He's apologised to me. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
But he's apologised to the police and that needs to be done. As the | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
former Minister for International Development, he did much to shed | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
his old image. The millionaire former investment banker, educated | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
in Cambridge, had a tough reputation. But police | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
representatives say he has shown a particular lack of sensitivity in | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
the week two policewomen were killed. Mr Mitchell should resign | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
from office. It is clear to me, from the reports we have seen in | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
the Sun newspaper today, and from speaking to officers that I | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
represent, that his comments were totally inappropriate. Today Mr | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
Mitchell was nowhere to be seen in his constituency. Local people were | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
not impressed. You can't swear at people like that. They were only | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
doing their job. He has a lot of influence over people. He shouldn't | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
be acting that way at all. should have known better. I think | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
it will put a lot of people off him. Andrew Mitchell has apologised | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
profusely to the police officer concerned and to the Prime Minister. | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
But even some in his own party are questioning whether he can survive. | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Some Conservative MPs think that the whole thing is really very | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
damaging indeed for the party. I understand that Boris Johnson, the | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Mayor of London, who in the past has said that anyone who swears at | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
a police officer should be arrested, is deeply unimpressed by what he's | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
heard. But for now, the Prime Minister has accepted Andrew | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
Mitchell's apology and Mr Mitchell remains in his job. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
At least 15 people have been killed in Pakistan as violence has erupted | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
in parts of the country during protests against an anti-Islamic | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
amateur film made in America. Thousands of people have taken to | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
the streets and buildings have been burnt down in Peshawar, including | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
an Anglican church. There were protests in Bangladesh, Indonesia, | :09:03. | :09:12. | |
Lebanon and Iraq. Venting their fury on a cinema in | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Peshawar. The government billed this as a day of love for the | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
Prophet Mohammed. It quickly became a day of rage. Pakistan's | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
commercial capital, Karachi, was closed for business, like the rest | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
of the country. Here too the protests turned violent. Police | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
cars set alight on the road to the American Consulate. | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
TRANSLATION: We want to show the world that all Muslims are united | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
about this. We are ready to die for the Prophet Mohammed. President | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
Obama had hoped to avoid all this with an ad broadcast on Pakistani | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
TV condemning the video and emphasising America's commitment to | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
religious tolerance. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
beliefs of others. But on the streets of Islamabad, this was the | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
response. "American dogs" they chanted. Then they tried to push | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
forward towards the high-security diplomatic quarter. Trouble has | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
broken out here within the last few minutes. Police have opened fire in | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
this direction towards protesters who managed to come through the | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
barricade. For the second day running, they have attempted to | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
reach the US Embassy, which is just up the road. For hours, a battle | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
raged. For many here, the amateurish video that insulted | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
their Prophet Mohammed is an intolerable personal affront. They | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
were ready to risk life and limb to make their protest. Up ahead, | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
keeping watch, we found Pakistan de facto Interior Minister. He | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
defended the Government's decision to make today a public holiday. | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
Imagine, if school were opened, shops were open, the transport was | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
on the road, who could have handled it? At least the police has got | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
only one confrontation to handle all these protesters. But many may | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
say that decision backfired badly. By evening, riot police were | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
stoning the protesters and still holding them back from the US | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
Embassy. Now it's been home to some of | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Britain's biggest music acts, including The Beatles, Queen, Kylie | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Minogue. They have all come under the EMI umbrella. Now the company | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
is set to be taken over by Universal Music. There were fears | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
the merged group would be too dominant but the takeover has been | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
given the go-ahead by European and US regulators, but on the condition | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
that some of the biggest bands are not included in the deal. | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
It's one of the world's biggest record companies. Kylie Minogue is | :12:15. | :12:25. | |
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an EMI artist. The Sex Pistols were on EMI - it didn't work out. And so | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
were The Beatles. It is that near priceless back catalogue that most | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
attracted Universal. The most exciting aspect of this deal will | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
be that they now own The Beatles, The Beach Boys and the Rolling | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
Stones' catalogue. EMI's a company with a long history. It was founded | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
in 1897. Its famous recording studios opened in 1931. This is | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
where The Beatles made their records in the 1960s and '70s. In | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
an age when sales of recorded music from a company's back catalogue are | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
overtaking sales of new music, that heritage, that history is one of | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
EMI's greatest assets. The fans still gather outside the studios | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
and on the pedestrian crossing made famous by the cover of The Beatles | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
Abbey Road album. They are buying fewer CDs. The ones they are buying | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
tend to be old recordings. The deal comes at a price. The stake in Mute | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
Records must be sold, so too Chrysalis Records and Parlophone. | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
These have to go because otherwise the merged company would be too | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
powerful. Universal is already the biggest music company in the world. | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
It was created by a emergencyer like this in the 1990s. Yet, it | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
will now be more dominant -- by a merger like this in the 1990s. Yet, | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
it will now be more dominant. It will be impossible for Spotify to | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
launch without having Universal on board. The question now - will this | :14:13. | :14:23. | |
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merged music giant go on investing in new artists? | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
The leader of the UK Independence Party has been setting out his | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
terms for a possible deal with the Conservatives. Nigel Farage said an | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
agreement could be reached in return for a guarantee written in | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
blood, that there would be a referendum on Britain's membership | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
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Europe is in crisis. And because of it, Nigel Farage believes UK's | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
fortunes are bulging. They want to be seen as Britain's 4th political | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
party, but a member of Parliament hasn't happened. I have not | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
persuaded you? No, you won't, I am afraid. They have been labelled | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
extremist and racist in the past. They believe they are in the | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
ascendancy. An alternative for those who hanker after a stronger | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
view on Europe. Conservatives in particular. Now there is talk of a | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
deal with the Tories at the next election to spur David Cameron from | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
the UKIP threat. -- despair David Cameron. But the price will be high. | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
The only way we would consider it at all, is if they promise was made | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
to give this country a full, free and fair referendum, so we could | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
decide whether we remain members of the EU. That it would have to be on | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
the table before we consider that any proposal. He went further, he | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
said he wants any promise written in blood before there is the chance | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
of formal talks. He knows in the Midlands heartlands, their numbers | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
may be small, but it is big enough to scupper the chances of the | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
Conservatives winning the next General Election out right. Europe | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
is moving closer to a political union but has ruled out a | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
referendum on Britain leaving the EU completely. I don't believe | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
leaving the EU would be best for Britain. But nor do I believe | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
keeping the status code would be good either. But UKIP hoped to fuel | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
a political earthquake in the next Euro elections in two years. People | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
vote differently at a European elections than they do at a general | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
elections. We could see UKIP become the largest party in 2014. The | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
Conservatives are doing worse in the polls. UKIP has been dismissed | :17:01. | :17:10. | |
has a one-man band and a one-trick pony. But UKIP's answer is an in, | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
out a referendum. Our top story tonight: Dale Cregan - the man | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
charged with the murders of two police officers has appeared in | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
court. Coming up: Britain's borrowing bill is up by �14 billion | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
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last month - so when will the China's Communist Party is | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
preparing to install a new generation of leaders to run the | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
country for the next decade. One of the most difficult questions | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
they'll face is whether to end the country's one child policy - | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
originally introduced to curb population growth. Latest figures | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
show that the Chinese birth rate is now well below the level necessary | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
to keep the population stable. Our correspondent, Damian Grammaticas, | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
travelled to China's Anhui Province for this special report, beginning | :18:12. | :18:22. | |
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his journey in the city of Shanghai. She is just four days old. In her | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
mother's eyes, a little angel. But she will have no brother or sister, | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
she is the one child this family can have. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
TRANSLATION: One child is too few, we should be allowed at least two. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
They should change the rules. Pressure for change is growing. | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
China may have the world's biggest population, but it needs more | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
babies. Its birth rate has collapsed. Not according to phase | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
out the one-child policy would be one of the long lasting legacies, a | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
negative one for the leadership. They have missed the opportunity, | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
drag their feet and dropped the ball on this. The rules are complex, | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
many couples are exempt, but if you live in the city, you can have one | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
child only, unless both parents are single children, then you can have | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
two. In the countryside, one child if it is a boy, but if the first is | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
a girl, then you can have another. Enforcement of the policy can be | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
brutal. At an unmarked grave he dug yourself, a father mourns his baby, | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
murdered, he says by officials. This lady and her husband already | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
have a child and she is allowed a second under exemptions. When she | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
was six months pregnant, officials dragged her to hospital and | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
injected her to force an abortion. The next day, she delivered her | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
baby boy, who died soon after. Many in China wants this policy to end. | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
This is another reason to scrap it. A backstreet ultrasound -- | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
ultrasound Clinic, we screamed C grille. | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
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"can you see the sex of my baby"? The reply was, "I think it is a | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
girl". She is almost certainly to be aborted. | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
In malachite challenge, it is at its worst. This is Two Rivers | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
Primary School, and a boarding huge numbers of baby girls is storing up | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
problems for the future, which China's incoming generation of | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
leaders are going to have to face. The first year is the worst, 10 | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
boys and just two goals. In the school, boys outnumber the goals by | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
50%. Multiply that by millions across China, and who will the boy | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
is married? China's communist rulers are reluctant to relax their | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
controls, fearing a new population explosions. But, they will have to | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
choose, take a risk or soldier on with a policy that is increasingly | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
unpopular and problematic. And there's more on how China's | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
population is changing on our website, with the projections for | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
the decades ahead and what it all could mean for China and the wider | :21:30. | :21:39. | |
world. The address is on your The Government borrowed more money | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
in August than it did at the same time last year - according to new | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
figures released today. It'll add to the pressure on the Chancellor, | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
George Osborne, over his target to bring the Government's debt down | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
within three years. Our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, | :21:50. | :21:58. | |
has more details. It is the latest snapshot of the | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
nation's finances, at the bill that comes in every month showing what | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
the Government has run up on its credit card and it shows nearly | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
�14.5 billion was borrowed in August. It sounds a lot of money, | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
but the Treasury was arguing the figure could have been worse. | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
better than the markets were expecting. It is always dangerous | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
reading too much into these monthly figures, they do move around. | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
the statement underlines the impact of the recession. Corporation tax | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
is down 98%. Although other tax receipts are holding up. Spending | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
on benefits is up by 6.5%, on the same time last year. Labour says | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
George Osborne is to blame, by pursuing policies which have | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
prevented the economy from recovering so adding to the | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
borrowing problem. The figures are very bleak, it shows the deficit is | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
rising because of the Government's economic plan failing, and it is | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
the worst figures for August on record. This is not what the | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
Chancellor promised. One of the Treasury's target is reducing debt | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
by the financial year it into 1015. It has peaked at 76.3% of national | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
income and then falling in 2015. But achieving that is looking | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
harder. You may have thought dropping their debt target may have | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
gone down well in the city. But the Bank of England has given its | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
blessing to the idea. The Governor said it would be acceptable for the | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
Chancellor to push back on the target if growth does not | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
materialise as expected, because of factors beyond his control. The | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
City view is veering towards giving Mr Osborne the benefit of the doubt | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
if the plans are changed. There is an inevitability, the markets | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
understand that. They will give the Chancellor some leeway, but if the | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
fiscal position does not improve over next couple of years, | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
investors will be running out of patience. So the Chancellor has to | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
tread carefully as he works out how much she can afford on the nation's | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
credit card, and how quickly he needs to bring down the debt. | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
Birmingham Airport has re-opened after flights were suspended for a | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
time this afternoon, when a plane skidded onto the grass. It's | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
thought the Monarch flight taxied off the tarmac on the way to the | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
terminal. Passengers are being warned that there will be some | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
delays this evening. Now, they only took up the sport 12 | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
years ago, some learning how to play in refugee camps. Today the | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
Afghan cricket team took on England - who were defending their World | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
Twenty20 title. England came away with a convincing victory with Luke | :24:33. | :24:43. | |
Wright scoring 99 not out. From Sri Lanka, Joe Wilson reports. | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
And in the hotel, we found that travelling Afghanistan fan club. | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
Small in number, big in belief and the team is competing against the | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
best in the world. A decade ago cricket was barely played in the | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
country. The cricketers you see other country's only full-time | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
cricketers. So they have made a huge in person, according to the | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
man who has overseen this. They are bringing peace in the country as | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
well. It has done a lot of good for the youngsters. I'm happy to see | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
youngsters in a Kabul street playing cricket. The sport has | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
taken the guns out of the kids and put bats in their hands. | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
Afghanistan came into this with one overriding ambition - to cause an | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
upset the world would notice. In short, to beat a really big team. | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
So, charging in to bowl at England, what an opportunity. One wicket | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
down, zero on the board. That is what they had come to seek a stock | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
the idea of Twenty20 is getting the ball to the boundary, frequently. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
Look right is an expert. Alex sales is a newcomer. He started | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
connecting and made 31. But Luke Wright was heading into another | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
dimension. This kind of thing is simply no fun when you are a bowler. | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
On the ball is flying you need your field as sharp. Afghanistan are not | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
used to playing under floodlights, but can you forgive this? When they | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
batted, they tried the big shops from the start. It is a learning | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
curve at being outclassed by England and it was an unpleasant | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
part of their cricket education. Let's take a look at the weekend | :26:28. | :26:38. | |
You don't often get a guarantee from a weatherman, but you will get | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
some sunshine tomorrow. But it does start going downhill during Sunday. | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
Heavy rain moving in and that could cause some problems Sunday night | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
and into Monday. Across eastern parts and the Midlands, rain will | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
clear away. One or two showers lingering on. Temperatures drop, | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
into single figures in towns and cities. In more rural spots there | :27:05. | :27:12. | |
will be a frost in the Midlands, Wales. We have a lovely bright | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
start to Saturday, crisp and blue skies every work. It will be chilly | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
across Scotland. Temperatures around 11, 12 degrees in most | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
places. The winds are lighter. The sun is relatively still strong. | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
Across Northern Ireland, Northern England into the Midlands and Wales, | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
I think you will keep bright, blue skies into the afternoon. Patchy | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
cloud across eastern areas and more of a breeze across the south-west. | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
That will be noticeable in Devon and Cornwall. The cloud will | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
thicken ahead of Sunday's rain. We have been talking about this low | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
pressure, and a degree of uncertainty on how far north it | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
will come across the UK. There is still an element of uncertainty, | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
but there is a risk of heavy rain across southern parts of England | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
particularly on Sunday. But it could work its way to East Anglia | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
as the day goes on. That marks the start of an unsettled spell of | :28:18. | :28:26. | |
weather into the early part of next A reminder of tonight's main news: | :28:26. | :28:29. |