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Up in Washington, it is countdown to shutdown - without a budget deal by | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
of the US Government will stop. shutdown - without a budget deal by | :00:15. | :00:24. | |
of the US Government will stop. The House as two responsibilities, a | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
budget and to pay the bills. Inside Syria, the BBC has been back to | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
budget and to pay the bills. Inside scene of an horrific chemical attack | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Also coming up, autopilot is one thing, but how would you feel if you | :00:34. | :00:46. | |
in the cockpit? And bangers, beer thing, but how would you feel if you | :00:46. | :01:25. | |
in the cockpit? And bangers, beer midnight East Coast time, the US | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Government faces a shut down, and it would be the first in nearly two | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
decades. And many government workers will stop getting paid. So what | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
decades. And many government workers will happen? This is how we are | :01:36. | :01:36. | |
explaining it on the BBC website. might and might not close down, | :01:36. | :02:52. | |
clearly a lot at stake for American citizens, and in the past hour | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
president of album-macro has said he Republicans can work together to | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
I have said before that we have Republicans can work together to | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
responsibilities, a budget and to pay the bills. And I am not only | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
negotiations around a long-term budget that make sure that we are | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
investing in middle-class families, helping the economy grow, giving | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
people who are working hard a leg stability, and deals with some of | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
the long-term challenges in terms of stability, and deals with some of | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
security and stability. But the stability, and deals with some of | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
way to do that is for everybody stability, and deals with some of | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
meaningful negotiations under the government shutdown, and certainly | :03:44. | :04:04. | |
meaningful negotiations under the economics and trade correspondent | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
with the Financial Times. Thank economics and trade correspondent | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
James. Thanks for having me. We economics and trade correspondent | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
heard President Obama talking about economics and trade correspondent | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
good faith, but there is not a lot economics and trade correspondent | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
deal. The last time we came close to stroke of midnight tonight. And | :04:23. | :04:42. | |
deal. The last time we came close to turning again? -- and if government | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
shuts down. It is very interesting, a lot of government agencies have | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
already spent tonnes of money and a lot of effort preparing for a shut | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
down, not knowing whether it would or would not happen, and so once you | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
shut it down, I imagine it would be very difficult to get things going | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
again. As you said, of course, the workers there are really hoping | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
again. As you said, of course, the not only is the shutdown avoided, | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
but that if it happens, it will not only is the shutdown avoided, | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
as little as possible, because they Meanwhile, you have this fight going | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
on on Capitol Hill between the White Congress, but give us an idea of | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
what is driving those Republicans who say, better to have a shut down | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
and stick to our principles, there arguments. There is a lot of anger | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
at President Obama and in particular the 20 day health care reform law, | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
described by some as Obamacare. the 20 day health care reform law, | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
2010. This year they see that as a huge government intrusion in the | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
economy, and they are trying to delay it, and they are using these | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
budget negotiations to essentially cram one of the president's main | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
domestic accomplishments. Why are they so powerful? This is not the | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
vast majority of congressmen and women, why is the tea party movement | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
still so powerful? They have a lot of power because first of all they | :06:12. | :06:20. | |
control one of the Chambers, the house of representatives, so that | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
gives them the power to propose house of representatives, so that | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
approve legislation, but also the structure of American politics is | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
conservative Republicans are safe in their own districts, they are not | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
worried about challenges from the far right, and they are looking | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
worried about challenges from the their shoulder. You have this huge | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
Dens Park drama where you are and on Wall Street and markets well beyond | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
political agreement over this. that. People must be wringing their | :06:53. | :07:02. | |
political agreement over this. Absolutely. Goldman Sachs back in | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
2011 estimated that a government shutdown would cost about $8 billion | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
US economy. And not only would a per week, a significant hit to the | :07:08. | :07:19. | |
US economy. And not only would a they are facing a new deadline in | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
three weeks, by which the US needs ceiling. If they don't do that, | :07:21. | :07:29. | |
three weeks, by which the US needs US risks default, which has the | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
market even more nervous. James Politi, thank you for throwing some | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
market even more nervous. James Now, chemical weapons inspectors are | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
ports tonight does come from inside Turkey and Iraq are calling for | :07:40. | :08:06. | |
ports tonight does come from inside from a school dealing with the | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
aftermath of a chemical attack. from a school dealing with the | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
report contains images you might This is the camp in northern Syria | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
gates are closed, and the people here cannot travel the final few | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
doctors, 2000 miles from home. No water, apparently. They are here | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
because they want to bring relief to some of the nearly 5 million people | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
in Syria who have lost their homes in the brutal conflict that rages | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
here. The doctors are working with Hand in Hand for Syria, a UK charity | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
that helps set up the camp. Every tent holds a tragic story. Ahmed's | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
six-year-old daughter was killed, his home destroyed by government | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Travelling around Syria has never been more dangerous. Both foreign | :08:52. | :09:12. | |
journalists and aid workers have been targeted, some killed. Rival | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
other, as well as the government, and more and more foreign extremists | :09:18. | :09:30. | |
This is a group representing the they are affiliated with Al-Qaeda, | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
increasing numbers of jihadis have come here, they are setting up | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
checkpoints, so it means foreigners in particular travelling around | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
checkpoints, so it means foreigners country run the gauntlet of these | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
checkpoints every few miles also. The worst thing about driving around | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
is you are never sure what lies behind the next corner. Last month, | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
we were filming the doctors working at this hospital when victims of an | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
incendiary bomb attack on a school playground started pouring in. Their | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
Burns suggested the bomb was filmed with a napalm like substance. It is | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
just absolute chaos and carnage here. We have had a massive influx | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
of what looked like serious burns, scenes like it must be some sort of | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
chemical weapon, I'm not really Today was like something out of | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
flipping Armageddon. Out of all most haunting images was of a boy we | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
out of all the war zones. One of the most haunting images was of a boy we | :10:32. | :10:42. | |
Described as a hard-working boy most haunting images was of a boy we | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
a smiley face, he is 40% burns to say it will take weeks before he is | :10:44. | :11:14. | |
victims of a war that shows no sign also struggling to recover. They are | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
victims of a war that shows no sign of ending, unable to forgive or | :11:18. | :11:18. | |
Now, we have talked already about the looming US budget crunch, but | :11:18. | :11:31. | |
this is another reason for market nerves right now. Investors are | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
this is another reason for market fretting about the fragile state of | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
Italy's government. Enrico Letta's coalition is hanging in the balance | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
after Silvio Berlusconi ordered ministers from his centre-right | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
party to resign. We have this report A man looking for a solution as | :11:46. | :11:55. | |
party to resign. We have this report government falls apart, this appeal | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
from Prime Minister Enrico Letta came at a meeting on peace and | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
dialogue. TRANSLATION: Let me tell you, if you say prayers for Italy in | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
the next few days, it will certainly eurozone's third-largest economy is | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
without a functioning government. Enrico Letta's uneasy coalition | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
without a functioning government. elections in February. It was always | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
fragile, but now relations between Berlusconi's centre-right party | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
fragile, but now relations between reached rock bottom. Tensions had | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
been rising for weeks following moves to expel Silvio Berlusconi | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
from Parliament after his conviction for tax fraud. Then, on Friday, | :12:36. | :12:44. | |
ministers failed to agree on a vital package of budget measures. -- | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
Cabinet unity. That provoked Mr administration, effectively bringing | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
down the government. A confidence vote will be held in Parliament | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
down the government. A confidence Wednesday. Enrico Letta says he | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
down the government. A confidence resign if he does not win the vote, | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
majority in the lower house, and if you can gain support from opposition | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
groupings, or a few dozen senators in Berlusconi's party, he could | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
groupings, or a few dozen senators a new government. The political | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
pressure has been relentless and it has hindered efforts to enact the | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
economic reforms which are badly problems, recession and high youth | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
Staying in Italy, the retrial has problems, recession and high youth | :13:28. | :13:36. | |
Staying in Italy, the retrial has begun of Amanda Knox and her former | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
boyfriend for the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher. | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
The pair were jailed for the killing Supreme Court ordered the retrial, | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
saying the acquittals were flawed. Supreme Court ordered the retrial, | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
contain some flash photography. in court today. We have a report | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
contain some flash photography. The emotion showed on Amanda Knox's | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
appear. In a recent interview, she The emotion showed on Amanda Knox's | :14:02. | :14:27. | |
appear. In a recent interview, she with Amanda Knox in Perugia in | :14:27. | :14:27. | |
that at the time of the killing with Amanda Knox in Perugia in | :14:27. | :14:36. | |
was with Raffaele Sollecito, her today, the lawyer for the Meredith | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
Kercher family says she is certain the pair are guilty. TRANSLATION: We | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
are convinced because we know the trial very well. We have always | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
maintained they were guilty and trial very well. We have always | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
they were present at the crime scene. The retrial was ordered by | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
the highest court in Italy, blaming what it called deficiencies and | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
contradictions in the decision to acquit. If Amanda Knox is found | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
guilty for a second time, Italy Now a look at some of the day's | :15:05. | :15:19. | |
In Iraq, about 50 people have been killed and more than 130 injured in | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
a wave of car bombings, most of which have targeted Shia areas of | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
the capital, Baghdad. Police said the explosions hit outdoor markets | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
and car parks during the morning rush hour. The deadliest attack | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
and car parks during the morning said to have been when a car bomb | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
exploded in a crowded vegetable market in the eastern neighbourhood | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
of Sadr City, killing seven people investigation into the attack on the | :15:39. | :15:51. | |
Members of the defence committee are visiting the Westgate centre to | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
Members of the defence committee are for themselves the aftermath of | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
Members of the defence committee are interrogate security chiefs about | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
failures. The MPs will also consider the government's overall handling of | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
the four-day siege, which ended the government's overall handling of | :16:01. | :16:17. | |
the deaths of at least 67 people. north-eastern Nigeria are under | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
targets by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram. Just this weekend | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
50 students at an agricultural college in Yogi State were killed | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
during their sleep. The Nigerian authorities have admitted there | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
during their sleep. The Nigerian no extra security at the college in | :16:37. | :16:48. | |
brought to this hospital, after identify their loved ones after | :16:48. | :17:04. | |
brought to this hospital, after Some survived, but only just. The | :17:04. | :17:17. | |
more action. We are seeing lots written in the newspapers, but no | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
was no security at the school. The written in the newspapers, but no | :17:20. | :18:03. | |
was no security at the school. The In fact, Boko Haram's campaign of | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
violence has threatened the security of the entire region. Although a | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
spokesman for the president said progress is being made even though | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
the task is very difficult in terms of security. These are Nigerians, | :18:16. | :18:24. | |
they are not foreigners. They are not easy to discern, it is difficult | :18:24. | :18:38. | |
to know who is in Boko Haram. The Government has indeed deployed extra | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
trips to confront Boko Haram, but this has not brought an end to the | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
killings. For many, their fear is not if there will be more violence, | :18:45. | :18:58. | |
The Transport Committee of the European Parliament has rejected new | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
proposals to set limits on how long pilots can fly for without a rest. | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
The European Commission had wanted to tighten and standardise flight | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
time limits, which currently differ welcomed the Committee's rejection. | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
It argued the new regulations would increase the risk of plane crashes | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
by making pilots more liable to fatigue - claims dismissed by EU | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
officials. There will now be a vote in the full European Parliament | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
officials. There will now be a vote With me is Jim McAuslan who's the | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
General Secretary for the British Airline Pilots' Association, BALPA. | :19:25. | :19:34. | |
For a lame man, it is a little confusing, but basically you were | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
not happy with this plan. You didn't think it did the job of making our | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
flight experience safer. No it didn't. You talk about tightening | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
and standardising rules across Europe. It certainly standardised | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
them, but it would not tighten them. What the UK would experience was a | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
relaxation of its rules, which is Parliament and commission to yes, | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
get standardised rules, but at a higher level of safety than was | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
British rules tend to be tighter being proposed. Is this because | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
British rules tend to be tighter than in other parts of the European | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
Union? Yes, that is the case, but even the UK rules at present I | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
causing fatigue. The UK has a pretty good record of standards. Standards | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
which are used in other parts of the world. But they were going to be | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
which are used in other parts of the torn up to achieve UK harmonisation | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
at a lower standard than what was previously the UK standards. In | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
recent days and weeks we have heard cockpit being asleep at the same | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
pilots were reported to be a sleep there are more instances like that? | :20:48. | :21:06. | |
pilots were reported to be a sleep crossing the Atlantic coming from | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
Miami to London. The regulator in the UK said that was exceptional. | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
The following day we were completing a survey independently run by a | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
pilots admitted to having fallen those said that they woke up to | :21:17. | :21:26. | |
pilots admitted to having fallen the other pilot asleep. So it is | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
certainly not exceptional, the way in which our regulator portrayed it. | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
Over this weekend we have gathered a dossier of other examples of both | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
pilots falling asleep that we are ready to present to the European | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Parliament to say this is a serious issue. The proposals that have come | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
from the commission are going to make matters worse. Do you find | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
from the commission are going to certain groups come up again and | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
again? Are the particular pressure points for pilots? Coming from the | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
east coast across to the UK has points for pilots? Coming from the | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
a problem, but also the number of early starts, pilots waking at three | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
o'clock in the morning to set off at five o'clock that morning. And at | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
present UK rules would limit that to three, but under EU rules that would | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
increase to seven. Scientists say that flying at night should be ten | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
hours maximum, but these rules were brought in something over 11 or | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
hours maximum, but these rules were hours in certain circumstances. | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
hours maximum, but these rules were is accommodation of fruits, types of | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
schedule, types of roster that pilots are on. -- a combination | :22:30. | :22:45. | |
schedule, types of roster that How British is Britain? New analysis | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
of the latest census here reveals that the older generation who lived | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
through the Second World War and watched the sun set on the British | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
Empire are least likely to tick watched the sun set on the British | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
box marked "British" to describe their national identity. It was | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
box marked "British" to describe much more attractive description to | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
the young, and to the UK's ethnic minorities. Our Home Editor Mark | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
Easton has more on an intriguing This is the most English place in | :23:03. | :23:14. | |
England. In the last census, for them first time, people were asked | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
Canvey Island, eight out of ten people chose England, the highest | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
proportion anywhere. Why England and not Britain? Because I am English. I | :23:25. | :23:37. | |
more, Britain is three or four different countries. There is so | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
minorities? The census invited much patriotism. Would you get the | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
minorities? The census invited example English or Welsh. Do you see | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
yourself as British or a mixture? of ten people say simply English, in | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
The results show in England six of ten people say simply English, in | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
Does that mean that Britishness of ten people say simply English, in | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
dying? Intriguingly, older people are less likely to say they are | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
on the Empire at the least likely of generation that watched the sunset | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
their grandparents? The answer may all to say they are Brits. Is said | :24:20. | :24:39. | |
their grandparents? The answer may be found in the most British place | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
their grandparents? The answer may in Britain, Harrow, but it is far | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
less -- nothing to do with Winston explanation is diversity. Only | :24:44. | :24:57. | |
less -- nothing to do with Winston British, were -- the most British of | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
all, the Asians. 56% would pick British as their sole identity. | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
Would you ever say you were English? Never, I still trust myself as | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
tend to classify that as white ethnic majority, whereas Britain | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
multicultural. Scottish bagpipes at an Indian wedding in north London. | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
What could be more British than cosmopolitan society it seems that | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
the British identity finds itself A reminder of our main news, a US | :25:34. | :25:42. | |
Government shutdown is looming. A reminder of our main news, a US | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
first since the days of President Clinton. Democrat and Republican | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
lawmakers remain unable to strike a deal on a new plan to continue | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
funding Government operations. These Senate, and if Republicans and | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
agreement by the night as seems likely, the US Government will be | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
forced to close all nonessential staff could be sent home on unpaid | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
leave, with no guarantee of back pay once the deadlock is over. Many | :26:15. | :26:26. | |
leave, with no guarantee of back pay question of whether there will be a | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
shutdown, they are speculating how long shutdown could go on for. We | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
have been covering the politics long shutdown could go on for. We | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
also the possible economic impact from what is happening right now in | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
Washington. The U.S. Senate, we from what is happening right now in | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
hearing, has just rejected the latest draft bill, so a shutdown is | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
looking likely. You are watching World News Today, thank you for | :26:47. | :26:48. |