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America warns that Al-Qaeda, although weakened, still poses a | :00:03. | :00:10. | |
significant terrorist threat around the world. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Ahead of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, New York steps up its | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
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security as it faces a credible threat of a new attack. It is a | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
continuing reminder of the stakes in our struggle against violent | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
extremism, no matter who propagates it, no matter where it comes from, | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
no matter who its targets might be. As Americans reeled from the most | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
deadly assault on their nation, we hear from the man who had to tell | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
the President. I whispered into his right beer, a second plane hit the | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
second tower. America is under attack. -- his beer. | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
This is the scene at Ground Zero tonight. We'll be assessing the | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
impact a decade on and how much of a threat still remains. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Also tonight: The IMF tells the world's | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
struggling economies to act boldy and act now, as leaders meet to | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
decide next steps. In an exclusive interview, David | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Cameron criticises some state schools for coasting and says he | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
wants Eton to set up a new one. Anti-Gaddafi forces in Libya are | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
closing in on the regime's last strongholds. We'll have the latest. | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
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And fireworks kick off the Rugby Later on Sportsday, Britain's | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
number one tennis player, Andy Murray has beaten the number 28 C | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
de John Isner at the US Open quarter-finals, but it was tough | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
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Good evening. Ten years on from the attacks of September 11th, America | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
has warned that Al-Qaeda still poses a real and significant threat. | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has said the terrorist | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
organisation is behind what officials are calling a credible | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
but unconfirmed threat of an attack in New York or Washington to | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
coincide with the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Police in both cities have | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
stepped up security in response to the warning. Laura Trevelyan | :02:26. | :02:36. | |
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reports from New York. At Ground Zero, America prepares to | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
mourn its dead. In the footprints of the World Trade Centre's Twin | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Towers sits the memorial to the nearly 3000 people who perished on | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
9/11. The city's reflective mood is now tense. Police are searching | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
vans for bombs in response to what officials call a credible but | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
unconfirmed threat. The administration may have weakened | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
Al-Qaeda's leadership but its ability to inspire others, | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
regionally and internationally, remains. Al-Qaeda or, again, is | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
seeking to harm Americans and in particular to target New York and | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
Washington. This should not surprise any of us. It is a | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
continuing reminder of the stakes in our struggle against a violent | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
extremism. Sunday's 10th anniversary of the attacks which | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
altered America and launched two wars is an emotional time for the | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
relatives of the dead. Charles Wolfe lost his British wife, | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
Catherine, in the north tower of the World Trade Center. I miss my | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
best friend. But after 10 years you continually move on. I say that | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
they may have gotten my wife but they are not getting the rest of my | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
life. I said that shortly after 9/11. I refuse to let these | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
terrorists take over my life in a negative way. Security light today | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
is part of the rhythm of New York life. Although the fear of another | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
catastrophic attack has receded slightly, it is still very real. | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
John remembers seeing the firefighters going to the twin | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
towers on that day and never return. He believes the nature of the | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
threat from Al-Qaeda has changed. Franchised and fractured his the | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
way I think it would be viewed in Washington. But mind you, 10 years | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
later, we have another threat that is causing the United States to | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
react. As the City readies itself for Sunday's ritual of remembrance, | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
New Yorkers are hoping this latest alert comes to nothing. But once | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
the 10th anniversary of 9/11 has come and gone, Al-Qaeda's lurking | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
threat will remain. Amid the scenes of terror on that | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
day ten years ago, White House officials struggled to comprehend | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
the magnitude of what was happening. The President, George Bush, was | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
visiting a school in Florida when he was given the news by an aide | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
whispering in his ear. Mark Mardell has been to the school to talk to | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
those who were there about the terrible events of 9/11. | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
This looks like some sort of a concerted effort to attack the | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
World Trade Centre., my God, another plane has just hit. We have | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
a terrorist act of proportions we cannot imagine. The day when a | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
murderous assault killed 2753 people, a day when history pivoted | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
and aid President looked at the world through a different lens. | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
George W Bush was at a Florida school, listening to seven-year- | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
olds reading, when his chief of staff told him what had happened. | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
It could not have been an accident, so I made a decision to pass on two | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
facts and make one relatively obvious editorial comment. I walked | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
up to the President and leaned over and whispered, a second plane hit | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
the second tower, America is under attack. Bush stayed put, a range of | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
emotions passing across his face. Some said that it was odd that he | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
did not leave at once. I thought it was right. Number one, he did | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
nothing to introduce fear to those very young students. They were | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
second graders. He did nothing to demonstrate fear to the media that | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
would have translated to the satisfaction of the terrorists | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
around the world. This is the school where President Bush was | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
when he heard the news that changed his presidency and changed America. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
It also shaped the lives of those seven-year old's he was visiting on | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
that day. One of them is now 17. remember looking up and seeing the | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
President's face, his expression changed completely. It was almost a | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
downtrodden. It was a look of dismay. His sport is wrestling, and | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
9/11 did not make him want to take revenge, but to study an | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
international cause to understand America's enemies. It caused me to | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
become open-minded. It did not change me immediately but over time, | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
as I began to understand why they attacked us, I gained a new | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
perspective about the world and all of the points of views. One of the | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
teachers who was there should mean a corner of the school devoted to | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
that day. These kids now have a loss of innocence. We were under | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
attack. We took on a war mode. I did not have to grow up with that. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
Why should they have to grow up with that? The President left the | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
classroom and spoke to the head of the FBI on the phone. His team | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
boarded Air Force One without knowing their destination. He | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
wanted to head back to Washington. His chief of staff and others told | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
him it was too dangerous. After an uncomfortable argument, he gave in. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
He phoned world leaders, even telling President Putin that he was | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
not blaming Russia and it was not a target. The day gave Sheikh Tway | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
presidency with a new purpose. was going to be about how he | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
responded to an attack on our homeland. It was a significant day. | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
It changed my life, America's life, the President's life, and frankly | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
the world. The President was seized by a new sense of mission that | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
allow for a few doubts. The lead America, more patriotic and more | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
fearful, into two foreign wars, still unfinished business today. | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
We can talk to mark in New York. 10 years on, what is your assessment | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
of how the attacks have changed America? Well, here at the sight of | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
those attacks, the fountain of remembrance has only just recently | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
been turned on. It has taken a long time to turn this scarred into a | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
memorial. I think equally, America is still absorbing the impact of | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
what it meant and how he reacted. The sense of unity that welled up | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
in the country after the attacks, I think, has long dissipated. The | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
sense of vulnerability is still there. We have been hearing about | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
the security worries. This is a society that is very much more, | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
understandably, worried about security. It has really changed in | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
that wave. The sense of patriotism, a new reverence for the military, | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
is still there. But whether people feel the wars in Afghanistan and | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
Iraq were right or wrong, I think people want the troops brought home | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
and there is no enthusiasm now for reshaping the whole of the world. | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
And some people are beginning to reflect that whether or not all of | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
the things that were done had to be done, it has cost America, diverted | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
America from nation-building at home, as some are putting it. | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
Financial leaders of the G7 industrialised nations are meeting | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
in Marseilles tonight to try to reach agreement about how to tackle | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
the global debt crisis. It comes after the head of the International | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
Monetary Fund called for world leaders to "act now, act boldly and | :10:00. | :10:08. | |
act together". Here's Stephanie Flanders. | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
We keep being told the global economy is in trouble. The last | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
time we heard that, this lot came to London to fix it. Today, the | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
head of the International Monetary Fund came to say it was time for | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
leaders to act again. Given the economic circumstances that we are | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
facing, countries, and policy makers in those countries around | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
the world, must act now, must act boldly, and must act together. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
was sharing a stage with her friend, the Chancellor, who thinks his | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
budget cuts are bold enough. So does his boss. These are difficult | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
times. The Government is focused on taking the right long-term | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
decisions so we emerge from this with a strong economy and jobs for | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
our people. So what exactly is the IMF's plan to save the world? In | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
the UK, she says the Chancellor should let borrowing go up | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
naturally as a result of slower growth, but she is not yet calling | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
for a plan B. She does think the Bank of England could inject more | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
cash into the economy. In Europe, the central bank there may also | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
need to act, but the key, she said, is for Europe's politicians to | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
resolve the problems with the euro and to shore up their banks. And | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
America? There, the head of the IMF said President Obama was right to | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
want to spend money now to create jobs, but America needed to cut | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
spending long term. It will provide a jolt to an economy that has | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
stalled. It will give companies confidence that if they invest and | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
higher, there will be customers for their products and services. You | :11:43. | :11:52. | |
should pass this jobs plan right away. The President's $450 billion | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
stimulus plan seemed to go down well last night. But the markets | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
fell again today, on fears that the Republicans would never actually | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
pass it. The value of the euro also fell sharply on the news that a key | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
figure at the European Central Bank had resigned. All of which gives | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
the G7 finance ministers plenty to talk about in Marseilles tonight. | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
The last time everyone was worried about the global economy, policy | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
makers pulled out all the stops to save it. Now, they all have much | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
less room for manoeuvre. As well as warning about the state | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
of the economy, the Prime Minister has accused a number of state | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
schools in England of "coasting". To drive up results, he revealed | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
that he wants Eton, where he was a pupil, and other top public schools | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
to set up their own new academies and free schools. Nick Robinson | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
spent the day with the Prime Minister and sent this report from | :12:48. | :12:56. | |
A visit r for six-year-old John who is settling into his new school. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
This isn't just his new school though, it is a brand-new free | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
School of The sort David Cameron wants to spread around the country. | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
Choice and competition, can, he says, increase standards in all | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
20,000 English schools even though there are only 24 free schools. And | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
that's needed in the prosperous suburbs just as much as the poor | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
inner cities. The truth is this - it is not just | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
failing schools we need to tackle, it is coasting schools too. The | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
ones whose results have either flat lined or they haven't improved as | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
much as they could have done. David Cameron sees himself as | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
battling an educational establishment which has accepted | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
poor results. His critics accuse him of pitting one school against | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
another. If you can get 70% of children to | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
get five good GCSEs including English and maths in parts of inner | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
London we should be asking why aren't we doing that everywhere in | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
parts of the country that are wealthier like Oxfordshire where I | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
represent? REPORTER: Are you saying that your | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
own constituents are sometimes getting a worse education, more | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
complacent schools than the academies the Government is setting | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
up? The figures speak for themselves. We raise the bar and | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
increase competition and make sure that schools that aren't doing as | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
well as they should are turned around. | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
Are you saying that the school system can operate like a | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
supermarket? In this sense that if yours is rubbish and the other one | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
is good, it is going to improve standards, is that your view? | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
Schools are not supermarkets, schools are places of learning, but | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
I do believe that choice and competition shouldn't be dirty | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
words in education, they can help drive up standards. | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
I can reveal that yesterday representatives of some of | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Britain's most exclusive, and best known public schools came to | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
Downing Street to hear the Prime Minister urge them to set-up new | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
State schools. I have had the excellent, the best | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
headteachers of State schools into Number Ten. I have had the private | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
schools into Number Ten. I have had the universities into Number Ten to | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
talk about university technical colleges. The truth is the problem | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
in our country has been not enough good school places so anyone who | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
can play a role in that private schools included is welcome through | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
my door to talk about how we drive up standards for all. | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
Eton College was amongst the schools represented in Downing | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
Street yesterday. Had has links with -- it has links with local | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
State schools, but the Prime Minister wants his old school to go | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
further. Do you want that school with all | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
its history and privileges to actually set-up a State school? | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
I think I would like all private schools to engage in this agenda. | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
To me all private schools have always had a charitable foundation | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
and it is a great way to help deliver that. | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
David Cameron says he is planning a revolution in British education and | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
today it became clear just how radical he wants to be. Ending what | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
some have called the Berlin Wall between private schools and the | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
State sector. David Cameron knows he will be accused of helping the | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
few at the expense of the many. His reply is that the many have been | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
Coming up on tonight's programme: Could it be an end to ambulance | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
chasing? A ban on selling crash victims' details to personal injury | :16:24. | :16:32. | |
lawyers. In Libya, there's growing concern | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
about the disappearance of thousands of highly sophisticated | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
missiles and others weapons, that are still being looted from | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
unguarded compounds in Tripoli. Western nations fear they could | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
fuel an Iraq-style conflict inside Libya or fall into the hands of | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
terrorists abroad. Andrew Harding has been to one of the compounds. | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
In a Tripoli warehouse, an alarming discovery. There is no security at | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
all here. We just walked in. We have come to see one of Colonel | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
Gaddafi's secret weapons stores, but the looters have got here first. | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
This is a very dangerous weapon and it has gone. | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
This is the surface-to-air missile that Al-Qaeda used in Mombasa to | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
shoot down an Israeli airline. This exact model. | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
In the past few days thousands of highly sophisticated weapons have | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
been stolen from this warehouse. No one knows who has got them or where | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
they will end up being used. You have to wonder three weeks after | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
Tripoli fell why no one has taken the trouble to secure weapons like | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
this. Some of those weapons have been | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
taken by Libya's rebels, the war isn't over here yet, but there are | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
reports that others have been offered for sale abroad.. | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
It is a serious problem. The key thing is to try and track them. Try | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
and bring them under control and to assess as you say the scale of the | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
problem. Mass prayers in Tripoli today and | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
growing stability here, but what if things turn sour, the new | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
authorities are raising to -- racing to find the looted weapons | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
before they fuel a new insurgency. It is a huge task. They need help. | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
They need to co-ordinate amongst the factions to stop the spread of | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
these weapons. Another warehouse, another cache of | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
weapons, a single guard offering little protection. | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
Not safe. Never safe. Inside, 100,000 land mines up for | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
There are reports tonight that anti-Gaddafi forces are making a | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
push on two of the former Libyan leaders' last strongholds. They're | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
fighting near Gaddafi's home town of Sirte and have entered the town | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
of Bani Walid where they are battling to take control. The | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
National Transitional Council had given the pro-Gaddafi forces there | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
until tomorrow to surrender. Andrew Harding has just arrived near to | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
the town of Bani Walid. Andrew, what more can you tell us about | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
what's happening there? The battle for the town has begun | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
within the past few hours. At this stage it seems like skirmishing on | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
the outskirts rather than a full- scale assault. Everyone is saying | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
there is no going back. Tomorrow is likely to be interesting, perhaps | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
decisive. So far not many casualties. There could be up to | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
700 Gaddafi die hard supporters fighting on inside Bani Walid even | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
when the town falls, the big question is will that have a | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
domino-effect on the towns under Gaddafi control? The key factor | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
there maybe the fate of the Colonel himself. Highly he is at large, | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
while he hasn't been killed or captured he will be a rallying | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
point and resistance will continue and this long end game will drag on. | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
Thank you. The leader of the Green Party | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
accused the Government of launching a repressive crackdown on hes | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
responsible for last month's rioting in England. In shef shield | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
Caroline Lucas blamed unrestrained capitalism and a failure to address | :20:29. | :20:39. | |
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unemployment and inequality. The people who took part in the | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
riots are from our society. They are our neighbours and work | :20:42. | :20:52. | |
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colleagues. We sit next to them on the bus bus. The divisions in | :20:53. | :21:03. | |
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society are of them making. The UK Independence Party claims | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Conservative voters have been let down on issues like immigration and | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
cuts to the armed forces. Speaking at UKIP's annual conference, party | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
leader Nigel Farage also criticised the Prime Minister for not holding | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union. | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
Ieuan Wyn Jones has given his last speech as leader of Plaid Cymru at | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
the party's annual conference. His party fell to third place in May's | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
election. He told delegates in Llandudno that the Welsh | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
nationalists could get a better deal for Wales than the Labour | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
Government. Labour will try to take us down | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
some sidings, but they'll hit the buffers. Plaid Plaid has to lead to | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
get Wales back on track. It won't always be an easy easy journey. At | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
times it will be a bumpy ride. We will have to stop sometimes as for | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
now for refuelling, but getting back into the driver's seat, we | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
must. Insurance companies in England and | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Wales are to be banned from selling their customers' personal details | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
to so-called "ambulance chasing" lawyers. It's thought the practice | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
has helped push up motor insurance premiums by more than 30% in the | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
last year alone. The question for drivers now is will premiums come | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
down as a result? Our UK Affairs Correspondent, Chris Buckler, has | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
Many firms have discovered there is cash in claims. Some solicitors pay | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
hundreds of pounds for information about accident victims with | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
insurance companies among those trading trading details. Some say | :22:25. | :22:32. | |
it is leading to a compensation culture and higher premiums. | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
I did pay �2,000. Now I pay �2800. It is annoying. | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
It is It is double. I never had a a claim in years and it has gone up a | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
lot. Insurance premiums have gone up 87% | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
in England and Wales over the last three years. There are a range of | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
issues that affect how much people pay, but the average premium in | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
England and Wales is now about �920. However, in Scotland with a law on | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
referral on fees tiger fees tighter, it is lower. When you have had an | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
accident you contact your insurance company and maybe a car hire firm. | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
They sell your details to personal injury for a fee. Those lawyers | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
then contact you encouraging you to claim compensation. | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Phil Riley was in a minor accident. After he contacted his insurance | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
company, he was bombarded with texts and calls. | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
I hadn't been injured. They wanted me to say I had been injured so I | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
would make a claim. It was going to be worth around about �3500. | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
When you have an accident and it is not your fault... There are many | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
companies helping people to make claims, but among accident | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
management firms you will find people who believe the insurance | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
industry needs to address the issue of referralals. | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
You can't have it both ways. They want to cut out referralal fees and | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
at the same time they are the ones who are selling that information | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
for vast amounts of money. A ban on selling details won't be | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
in place until next year at the earliest, but the Government | :24:08. | :24:17. | |
insists in the long-term it is Tennis and Andy Murray has battled | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
through to the semi-finals of the US Open tonight with a four set | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
victory over the American John Isner. Murray will face either | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
defending champion Rafael Nadal or Andy Roddick for a place in | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
Monday's final. The Rugby World Cup has kicked off | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
in New Zealand with an opening ceremony celebrating the country's | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
Maori heritage. The hosts faced Tonga in the opening match with | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Scotland the first of the home nations due to play in the early | :24:42. | :24:52. | |
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hours of the morning. Tim Franks Few countries approach their rugby | :24:52. | :25:01. | |
quite so passionately, but New Zealand's is unrequited for 24 | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
years. Expectation is climbing sky ward. | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
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After the anthems, the har the the harka. Then The All Black tide. The | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
new boys in the New Zealanders slicing open the Tongans for one, | :25:28. | :25:36. | |
two and three. The second half proved harder work. New Zealand ran | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
out 41-10 winners, convincing, but not overwhelming. The All Blacks | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
are the top rated team. The home nations fill rankings five to eight. | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
But for one veteran, what they lack in style, they make up in grit. | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
Overall in a World Cup competition when all bets are off, it is not | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
about scoring four tries and throwing the ball about, it is | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
about winning games of rugby. When it is World Cup time, it is | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
attritional and that's when the Northern Hemisphere teams come into | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
their own. Scotland and England have their | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
opening games tomorrow. It has been a predictable start, but history | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
predicts this tournament doesn't follow such an obvious course. | :26:19. | :26:22. |