:00:11. > :00:16.Tonight at 10: Taliban fighters bring chaos to Kabul, raising new
:00:16. > :00:21.questions about security. The gun battle is still going on after
:00:22. > :00:25.militants target the US embassy and NATO headquarters. The
:00:25. > :00:32.international force hits back and NATO says the plans to handle the
:00:32. > :00:36.security will not be disrupted. Taliban tried to test transition,
:00:36. > :00:41.but are they can't stop it. Transition is on track and it will
:00:41. > :00:46.continue. We will have the latest from Kabul, where at least seven
:00:46. > :00:50.people have died in the violence. On the eve of another strike ballot
:00:50. > :00:55.on pensions, union members reject the advice of the Labour leader.
:00:55. > :01:00.do believe it was a mistake for strikes to happen last summer, and
:01:00. > :01:04.I continue to believe that. months after the tsunami and
:01:04. > :01:07.nuclear crisis, we go back to one of the worst affected Japanese
:01:08. > :01:11.towns. I will be reporting from the
:01:11. > :01:14.nuclear ghost town of Japan. Radiation levels are surprisingly
:01:14. > :01:22.low but when will it be saved to return?
:01:22. > :01:27.The British man who gave the world papa it has died.
:01:27. > :01:30.I will be here with Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, including the
:01:30. > :01:40.best of the action in the Champions' League with Chelsea and
:01:40. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :01:53.Good evening. There's renewed concern about the stability of
:01:53. > :01:56.Afghanistan following a wave of attacks by Taliban fighters in the
:01:56. > :02:01.centre of Kabul. The targets include NATO headquarters and the
:02:01. > :02:04.US embassy. The attacks have raised new questions about the ability of
:02:04. > :02:09.the Afghan security forces to take over the country's security, but
:02:09. > :02:12.NATO says the strategy will not be disrupted. Our correspondent
:02:12. > :02:22.Quentin Sommerville was in the centre of Kabul when the attacks
:02:22. > :02:25.
:02:25. > :02:30.started and he sent this report. Running for cover. Running from the
:02:30. > :02:38.Taliban were sold in the heart of Kabul's embassy district. The
:02:38. > :02:45.police opened fire on the attackers above them. The Taliban brought an
:02:45. > :02:50.arsenal of weapons with them, here in one of the busy streets in the
:02:50. > :02:57.city a rocket lands. There was gunfire or around the area. This is
:02:57. > :03:01.the US embassy over here, and ISAF headquarters. It seems like a
:03:02. > :03:10.significant attack. Gunfire broke out across the neighbourhood, we
:03:10. > :03:16.headed for cover. The target was the US embassy. Guards took up
:03:16. > :03:23.positions on the roof, Inside staff scrambled for cover. NATO soldiers
:03:23. > :03:26.joined the Afghan police. This residential area became a war-zone.
:03:26. > :03:32.Afghan and international soldiers side-by-side, taking aim at the
:03:32. > :03:36.Taliban hiding inside the building. The gunfire was heavy and sustained.
:03:36. > :03:41.Attack helicopters were called in to fire on the insurgents. This
:03:42. > :03:48.attack started with a suicide bomber at the Abdul Haq roundabout.
:03:48. > :03:52.Militants then fired on the US embassy and the ISAF headquarters.
:03:52. > :03:58.They fired from a building which was still under construction.
:03:58. > :04:02.Across the city, a police station and the airport were also attacked.
:04:03. > :04:06.The Taliban fought on. 10 hours later, at least one fighter is
:04:06. > :04:13.still a live in the building. Afghan security forces needed
:04:13. > :04:19.foreign help. They reacted quickly, they brought helicopters in, which
:04:19. > :04:23.is the first time Afghan security forces used their own helicopters
:04:24. > :04:28.for an operation like this. They responded well. ISAF helped them
:04:28. > :04:33.and it seems as if the situation is under control. The attack would
:04:33. > :04:40.have likely lasted longer without that assistance. ISAF says it has
:04:40. > :04:44.the Taliban on its back but, but in Kabul people feel that assessment
:04:44. > :04:46.seems optimistic. The assault is the latest in a
:04:46. > :04:49.series of attacks that have undermined the fragile sense of
:04:49. > :04:51.security in Kabul. In August militants killed eight people at
:04:51. > :04:54.the headquarters of the British Council, and in June suicide
:04:54. > :04:57.bombers managed to get inside the Intercontinental Hotel. This latest
:04:57. > :05:04.assault will prompt questions about how a handful of Taliban fighters
:05:04. > :05:10.managed to launch such a prolonged attack. Here's our security
:05:10. > :05:13.correspondent, Frank Gardner. It has become a familiar sight, a
:05:13. > :05:20.truck bomb exploding last weekend at a NATO base in northern
:05:20. > :05:27.Afghanistan, killing five. This was, until recently, a largely safe area.
:05:27. > :05:31.No longer. Taliban have crept ever closer to the capital, Kabul. They
:05:31. > :05:39.can't capture it but they are doing their best to make the transition
:05:39. > :05:44.from NATO to Afghan control look doomed. We are witnessing that the
:05:44. > :05:50.Taliban are trying to test transition, but they can't stop it.
:05:50. > :05:54.Transition is on track, and it will continue. That is because political
:05:54. > :05:58.decisions have been taken to speed up the training of Afghan troops
:05:58. > :06:06.and handover security to them. NATO says it can't troops performed well
:06:06. > :06:10.today. Afghan troops and their NATO allies were also -- always going to
:06:10. > :06:16.beat back this attack, but this was not about taking territory. The
:06:16. > :06:20.insurgents wanted to prove they could puncture ISAF defences.
:06:20. > :06:25.Coalition casualties have been rising steadily until this year.
:06:25. > :06:30.Neither side can win outright so what are the Taliban trying to
:06:30. > :06:34.achieve with these attacks? I think what they tried to do is
:06:34. > :06:38.demonstrate internally in Afghanistan and externally in the
:06:38. > :06:45.United States and elsewhere that they still have sufficient
:06:45. > :06:49.capability to maintain not only a presence, but a real threat to the
:06:49. > :06:55.government in Afghanistan. Which is why peace talks with the Taliban
:06:55. > :07:01.are inevitable. 10 years ago they were beaten, now they are to be
:07:01. > :07:05.given an office for negotiations. The chairman of News International
:07:05. > :07:10.James Murdoch has agreed to return to Westminster to answer further
:07:10. > :07:13.questions about phone hacking. He has been recalled by MPs on the
:07:13. > :07:17.Culture, Media and Sport Committee. It follows his appearance with his
:07:18. > :07:21.father in July when he insisted he was not aware of widespread
:07:21. > :07:24.problems at the News Of The World until earlier this year.
:07:24. > :07:28.The Boundary Commission for England has published proposals for the
:07:28. > :07:35.biggest redrawing of the electoral map in a generation. The number of
:07:35. > :07:42.MPs at Westminster will be cut to 600. England will lose 31 seats,
:07:42. > :07:47.and Northern Ireland two seats. All seats will now be roughly the same
:07:47. > :07:52.size, with around 76,000 voters in each one.
:07:52. > :07:56.Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, has angered some trade union members by
:07:56. > :08:01.criticising the strikes held in June about pension reform. He was
:08:01. > :08:07.heckled in London when he warned unions they have to change or risk
:08:07. > :08:11.being sidelined. Three unions are expected to announce tomorrow they
:08:11. > :08:16.will be asking members to undertake further strikes in November.
:08:16. > :08:20.He had not seen nothing yet, that is the message from public sector
:08:21. > :08:28.unions to the government. Tomorrow, Britain's biggest unions look set
:08:28. > :08:38.to announce they are balloting their members for more strikes. The
:08:38. > :08:39.
:08:39. > :08:43.cause - cuts d'etre pensions. -- to their pensions. Ed Miliband came to
:08:43. > :08:48.give his first speech as Labour leader to the TUC conference. He
:08:48. > :08:52.was determined to prove he was his own man. They understand why
:08:52. > :08:55.millions of decent public sector workers are angry, but while
:08:55. > :09:00.negotiations were going on I do believe it was a mistake for
:09:00. > :09:05.strikes to happen last summer. And I continue to believe that. They
:09:05. > :09:12.didn't like that one bit. Negotiations with the government
:09:12. > :09:18.over pensions, they say, are effectively over. No, they are not!
:09:18. > :09:22.There was more to come. There are cuts the Tories will impose which
:09:22. > :09:28.we can't reverse in government, and it is straighter for me to say that
:09:28. > :09:33.to you now. I am very angry that Ed Miliband, who after all is part of
:09:33. > :09:37.the Labour Party, the leader of the Labour Party which is a child of
:09:37. > :09:42.the trade unions, will not defend a or right to strike. Labour leaders
:09:42. > :09:49.are not normally heckled here, but Ed Miliband will not mind that. If
:09:49. > :09:53.it conveys the message he wants to get over, that he understands
:09:53. > :09:57.workers' anger but he also knows the public don't want to see their
:09:57. > :10:01.lives disrupted by strike action. Tomorrow this conference will
:10:01. > :10:05.debate pensions. Union leaders whose members have not taken strike
:10:05. > :10:13.action until now are preparing to announce that they do now plan to
:10:13. > :10:17.ballot their members. It is the biggest ballot that will have ever
:10:17. > :10:22.been undertaken in this country for industrial action but we have no
:10:22. > :10:27.choice. I wasn't expecting him to be on the picket line next time we
:10:27. > :10:31.take strike action. He said don't strike while there are negotiations.
:10:31. > :10:36.And it will be interesting what his position will be after the
:10:36. > :10:40.negotiations. It strikes follow, there could be more days for Ed
:10:40. > :10:46.Miliband which will be much more uncomfortable than today. How did
:10:46. > :10:51.it feel to be heckled by the TUC? came here with some positive
:10:51. > :10:57.messages and tough messages, and frankly that is my job. I tell
:10:57. > :11:00.things as I see them. Tonight in north London, strike has protested
:11:00. > :11:06.against the sell-off of council services and the threat to their
:11:06. > :11:15.pensions. They think the public is on their side. The question is, is
:11:15. > :11:19.Ed Miliband? Let's look ahead and consider what
:11:19. > :11:24.those big unions might be saying tomorrow. Our industry
:11:24. > :11:27.correspondent is that the TUC. What can we expect? It does look
:11:27. > :11:31.increasingly likely tonight that some of those big unions will
:11:31. > :11:35.announce plans to ballot members on strike action tomorrow. The news
:11:35. > :11:44.could come on the big debate in pensions in the morning, or later
:11:44. > :11:48.in the day in a key meeting. By close of play tomorrow, it is
:11:48. > :11:51.likely we will have had this decision. The significance of this
:11:51. > :11:55.moment is it changes the dispute from one that involved hundreds of
:11:55. > :11:59.thousands of workers to one that could involve over a million
:11:59. > :12:04.workers. Plans for a strike in November are pretty advanced at the
:12:04. > :12:08.moment but a senior union leader has told the BBC there could be
:12:08. > :12:12.several one-day strikes in the future. That raises the prospect of
:12:12. > :12:22.some more serious and widespread industrial action that have seen in
:12:22. > :12:22.
:12:22. > :12:30.Britain for years. Coming up: why giving children what
:12:30. > :12:34.they want may not be the best way to make them happy.
:12:34. > :12:40.Higher energy bills and the rising cost of clothing have helped to
:12:40. > :12:44.push up inflation once again. Government's preferred measure, the
:12:44. > :12:48.consumer prices index, increased to 4% last month. Experts are
:12:48. > :12:58.predicting the figure will rise further because of higher gas and
:12:58. > :13:01.Half slowdown? What slowdown? You could not see much consumer boom in
:13:02. > :13:05.East London this morning, when Europe's biggest urban shopping
:13:05. > :13:09.centre opened for business. In a sense, we are spending more, which
:13:09. > :13:14.is not getting -- we are just not getting much more in return. The
:13:14. > :13:20.main measure of inflation rose to 4.5% last month, the highest in
:13:20. > :13:25.nearly three years. The broader RPI measure also rose to 5.2%. The
:13:25. > :13:29.price of clothing has helped push up the figures, up by a record 5.2%
:13:29. > :13:35.in the past year. Almost the only thing that is cheaper now than it
:13:35. > :13:39.was then is Your TV. Prices in the electronics category are down by
:13:39. > :13:44.11.5%. The squeeze on consumers has been good for business at discount
:13:44. > :13:49.stores like this one, but with rising prices, Poundland does not
:13:49. > :13:54.want to become �1.50 land. A good example would be 1.5 kilos of sugar,
:13:54. > :13:57.which we sold for �1. The prize went so high that we could not do
:13:57. > :14:03.that and maintain the value. And we were not prepared to offer a
:14:03. > :14:06.product that was not amazing value, so that has been delisted. There
:14:06. > :14:11.was a lone voice for higher interest rates on the Bank of
:14:11. > :14:14.England's Monetary Policy Committee. He has not changed his mind.
:14:15. > :14:18.Consumers cannot move forward in their spending or increase the
:14:18. > :14:23.amount of things they want to buy in an environment of higher
:14:23. > :14:27.inflation. That is one of the ways in which inflation can be bad for
:14:27. > :14:32.growth in the shorter term. When we look at the weakness of growth in
:14:32. > :14:37.the economy, we need to recognise that the rise in inflation and the
:14:37. > :14:42.relatively high rate of inflation is contributing to that. Andrew was
:14:42. > :14:47.inside the bank. He said they were underestimating the risk of high
:14:47. > :14:51.and rising inflation. On that, he has turned out to be right. But
:14:51. > :14:56.others said the true risk was of slow growth. Unfortunately, they
:14:56. > :14:59.have turned out to be right as well. The economy is pretty weak. We are
:14:59. > :15:03.not in a recession, but we are risking at least one quarter of
:15:04. > :15:09.falling output. We think economic growth this year will be only 1%.
:15:09. > :15:15.We do not want to see it any worse. Rising gas and electricity prices
:15:15. > :15:18.are likely to push inflation up to 5% by the end of the year. But it
:15:18. > :15:23.is too late for the Bank of England to do anything about that. The
:15:23. > :15:26.debate now is whether it should do more to support the recovery.
:15:26. > :15:29.British children are among the least happy in the developed world,
:15:29. > :15:33.and the reason, according to the charity UNICEF UK, is a lack of
:15:33. > :15:36.contact with parents and too much emphasis on material gain. UNICEF
:15:36. > :15:46.published its first findings four years ago, and has now investigated
:15:46. > :15:48.
:15:48. > :15:52.the prime cause of children's unhappiness.
:15:52. > :15:56.Mariana is 7 1/4. Like most little girls of her age, her world is
:15:56. > :16:01.filled with pink plastic. Our culture of materialism ships the
:16:01. > :16:04.play and the lives of our children. But according to the United Nations
:16:05. > :16:11.children's fund UNICEF, in Britain, it distorts the relationship
:16:11. > :16:18.parents have with their kids. Obviously for her, a trip to
:16:18. > :16:21.toyshops is a big thing. She will say, I want that. I want that one.
:16:21. > :16:25.The UNICEF research suggests that British parents want to be good
:16:26. > :16:29.parents, but they are not sure how. They find they are often too busy
:16:29. > :16:38.or too exhausted to engage with their children, so they compensate
:16:38. > :16:42.by buying them toys and gadgets and cloves. -- clothes.
:16:42. > :16:45.A Norwich took part in the UNICEF project, which painted a picture of
:16:45. > :16:49.British life in which parents trade quality time with their children
:16:49. > :16:53.for the money to buy cupboards full of expensive toys. Although she has
:16:53. > :16:58.always strived to make time to play with her daughter, the project made
:16:58. > :17:03.her re-evaluate her own priorities. The were times when I was chatting
:17:03. > :17:07.to friends or my mother and saying I feel so guilty that I do not have
:17:07. > :17:13.the time to spend with my daughter. That was one big issue for me. I
:17:13. > :17:16.felt awful. I do not feel so bad now. The research team compared
:17:16. > :17:21.British parents with their counterparts in Sweden and Spain,
:17:21. > :17:25.and found, in their words, a stark contrast. In other European
:17:25. > :17:31.countries, family time is given greater importance. We need to
:17:31. > :17:34.support families, who are under so much pressure. In Sweden, for
:17:34. > :17:38.example, they try to protect families against commercial
:17:38. > :17:42.pressures by having a ban on advertising aimed at children under
:17:43. > :17:46.12 years old. We could consider that. Four years ago, UNICEF
:17:46. > :17:49.sparked national soul-searching with analysis showing child well-
:17:50. > :17:53.being in the UK at the bottom of a league of developed nations. This
:17:53. > :17:57.year, they recruited 14-year-old Vanessa to an international panel
:17:57. > :18:04.of young people, in the hope of understanding why British
:18:04. > :18:10.children's happiness lags behind. It is great if you spend more time
:18:10. > :18:17.with them. You have got to make a child emotionally happy as well as
:18:17. > :18:19.physically happy, if that makes sense. For this family, happiness
:18:19. > :18:24.is playing together with toys they have made themselves from old
:18:24. > :18:28.cardboard boxes. But today's report says that for many parents, such
:18:28. > :18:31.simple pleasures prove too difficult. Our children want our
:18:31. > :18:34.time, but instead we buy them things.
:18:34. > :18:36.Six months ago, emergency workers in Japan were launching their
:18:36. > :18:39.desperate fight to control the nuclear power station at Fukushima.
:18:39. > :18:41.Three of the reactors were overheating and a vast cloud of
:18:41. > :18:46.radioactivity had escaped, following the powerful earthquake
:18:46. > :18:51.and tsunami. More than 100,000 people living within 12 miles of
:18:51. > :18:54.the plant were ordered to leave their homes. Our science
:18:54. > :19:04.correspondent is one of the few journalists to have ventured back
:19:04. > :19:06.
:19:06. > :19:11.to the deserted town of Tomioka. The nuclear ghost town of Tomioka.
:19:11. > :19:16.We have arrived in a long street of shops, and there is no one here. We
:19:16. > :19:19.are a few miles inside the exclusion zone. A radioactive cloud
:19:19. > :19:25.blew over here six months ago, but experts have assured us that
:19:25. > :19:30.radiation levels have now fallen. A local farmer has slipped us past
:19:30. > :19:35.security. This is the main street? It is completely empty. He wants us
:19:35. > :19:40.to see how his community has suffered. We find that it was hit
:19:40. > :19:46.by the earthquake and the tsunami, and then by the leap from the
:19:46. > :19:52.Fukushima power station. This used to be a town of 16,000. This is the
:19:52. > :19:58.main street. But as you can see, it is completely deserted. Motorbikes
:19:58. > :20:03.abandoned, shops completely empty. No traffic at all. Weeds growing up
:20:03. > :20:08.in this forecourt. A shop wrecked in the earthquake still completely
:20:08. > :20:12.untouched. And all the time that we have been here, the radiation level
:20:12. > :20:17.has been surprisingly low. The problem is this. If you get down to
:20:17. > :20:22.ground level, it shoots up. No problem for us on a very quick
:20:22. > :20:26.visit. But what scientists are wrestling with is have dangerous
:20:26. > :20:30.this contamination is and will continue to be in the long term. It
:20:30. > :20:35.was back in March that explosions at the nuclear power plant released
:20:35. > :20:39.radioactive material. The leaks contaminated some areas more
:20:39. > :20:46.severely than others, but everyone within 12 miles of this devastation
:20:46. > :20:50.was ordered out. This man decided to stay on. He does not bother with
:20:50. > :20:55.protective clothing. In the ruins of a farm, spiders have taken over.
:20:55. > :21:00.Their webs stretch of everything, but he clears a path for us. He
:21:00. > :21:05.wants to show us something. This is a distressing sight. It is a cattle
:21:05. > :21:10.shed. The owners left in such a hurry that they were not able to
:21:10. > :21:18.release their animals. Here are two that have died. In each of these
:21:18. > :21:22.pens, there are two more, making a total of 60. Some animals broke
:21:22. > :21:29.free and are roaming wild. The farmer tries to care for a new
:21:29. > :21:32.generation born in the nuclear zone. He wants to keep his community
:21:32. > :21:37.going. TRANSLATION: There is no
:21:37. > :21:42.electricity, gas or water. But all the people still want to
:21:42. > :21:46.come back. Even my mother and father. Their wish is to die here.
:21:46. > :21:53.After three hours here, we check our radiation dose. It is roughly
:21:53. > :21:57.half what you get from a chest X- ray. The farmer refuses to think
:21:57. > :22:03.about radiation. He is determined to stay on. But he lives by
:22:03. > :22:10.candlelight. Most of his food is tinned. A dog is his only companion.
:22:10. > :22:12.He wants his town to return to normal, but it will be a long wait.
:22:13. > :22:15.A team of British detectives has arrived in Kenya to help
:22:15. > :22:19.investigate the murder of the British tourist David Tebbutt and
:22:19. > :22:22.the kidnap of his wife. The Foreign Office says it's concerned for the
:22:22. > :22:26.safety of Judith Tebbutt, who was taken by armed men reportedly
:22:26. > :22:35.heading towards Somalia. Her husband, a publishing executive
:22:35. > :22:39.from Hertfordshire, was shot dead by the gang.
:22:39. > :22:44.In football, the group stage of the Champions League got under way
:22:44. > :22:49.tonight, with both Chelsea and Arsenal taking on German opposition.
:22:49. > :22:53.In Germany, Arsene Wenger was seething silently. Banned from
:22:53. > :22:58.communicating with his Arsenal team. Robin Van Persie operated on
:22:58. > :23:03.instinct, having won the ball, he ran forward to receive it. It
:23:03. > :23:08.worked nicely. Hopefully, under UEFA rules, Wenger is still allowed
:23:08. > :23:15.to applaud. 87 minutes gone, Arsenal still winning their fragile
:23:15. > :23:20.confidence rebuilding. Then this, an unstoppable way for Dortmund
:23:20. > :23:24.Borussia to draw the game. Chelsea's �15 million failure is
:23:24. > :23:28.the description Fernando Torres is trying to avoid. He is trying too
:23:28. > :23:32.hard against Bayer Leverkusen. Boyish and their Villas-Boas is the
:23:32. > :23:37.latest manager to try to meet Roman Abramovich's European expectations.
:23:37. > :23:41.After a goalless hour, he was thankful for the defending of David
:23:41. > :23:51.Lewis. The perfect ending might have been a Torres goal. He did all
:23:51. > :23:54.
:23:54. > :23:56.the hard work for the new signing. And the win is what really matters.
:23:56. > :24:00.Richard Hamilton, one of the most influential British artists of the
:24:00. > :24:02.past century, has died at the age of 89. He is widely regarded as the
:24:02. > :24:11.inventor of pop art. Hamilton produced paintings, prints and
:24:11. > :24:15.sculptures, but will be best remembered as the master of collage.
:24:15. > :24:19.The art work that made Richard Hamilton's name. It is a collage he
:24:19. > :24:22.produced in 1956, with cuttings from magazines featuring glamourous
:24:22. > :24:28.images from modern life. The idea was to blur the line between high
:24:28. > :24:32.and low culture. Pop art had arrived. Richard Hamilton might
:24:32. > :24:36.have referenced consumerism in his work, but he was not a frivolous
:24:36. > :24:40.man. He was an intellectual, deeply concerned with the world in which
:24:40. > :24:44.he lived. He was one of the most influential artists of the post-war
:24:44. > :24:49.period, admired by the likes of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. But
:24:49. > :24:58.he was always modest when talking about his own career. When I look
:24:58. > :25:03.back on it now, it has got its ups and downs. But when I look at a
:25:03. > :25:07.retrospective exhibition, I think I did pretty well on the whole.
:25:07. > :25:12.work was to become one of the defining images of the 1960s. It is
:25:12. > :25:15.of what Robert Fraser, Hamilton's art dealer, and the singer Mick
:25:15. > :25:19.Jagger, handcuffed and shielding their faces from the paparazzi,
:25:19. > :25:23.having been arrested on drugs charges. Like much of his art, it
:25:23. > :25:26.is an entertaining image that packs a powerful political punch. His
:25:26. > :25:32.work has been exhibited internationally and has had a
:25:32. > :25:37.significant impact. contribution was enormous. He has
:25:37. > :25:41.made critical art works, but he has also set an example for how artists
:25:42. > :25:45.go about questioning the world around them. Richard Hamilton, who
:25:45. > :25:50.was working on a new exhibition when he died, will be greatly
:25:50. > :25:55.missed, particularly by the many artists around the world who he