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Tonight at ten: Another surge in unemployment adds | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
to the pressure on the coalition. It's the biggest rise in two years | :00:06. | :00:15. | |
and takes the jobless total to more than 2.5 million. I have been | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
looking for a job for a year and-a- half and I have applied to about | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
100 shops and nobody has had the decency to it replied. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
questions about the Government's economic strategyas Labour says | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
it's time to change. He's just like all the others, for him | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
unemployment is a price worth paying. The truth is, Mr Speaker, | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
it was the last government that robbed young people of their future | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
by piling up the debt. And all this as the unions announce | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
a day of industrial action over pension reform. We'll be asking how | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
likely it is that ministers will change tack. Also tonight: | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Dire warnings as European leaders try to save Greece from defaulting | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
on its debts. One of the men who claimed he was | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
held at a travellers' site in Bedfordshire tells us about his | :01:01. | :01:10. | |
experience. It is not your life, it is not your life at all, it is | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
almost like you are incarcerated. In Pakistan, a warning that this | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
year's floods are even worse than last year's. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
And a 300th birthday gift to St Paul's Cathedral - we report on a | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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And on sport, tonight's Champions League matches and it looks like | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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The Good evening. The coalition's economic strategy | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
has been tested by another surge in unemployment and the prospect of | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
extensive industrial action later this year. The number of jobless is | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
now more than 2.5 million. Ministers said it was disappointing | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
news. They were also disappointed with the unions' plans for a | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
national day of action on November 30th over reform of public sector | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
pensions. More on that in a moment, but first Hugh Pym reports on the | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
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For the Chancellor and Number 11 Downing Street, another economic | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
problem has arrived at his front door. And 80,000 increase in the | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
number out of work, the biggest rise since the recession in 2009. | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Young people are bearing a heavy burden. Unemployment among 16 to 24 | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
year-olds has jumped again. These youngsters in Bristol told us of | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
their struggle to find jobs. I have applied -- applied to about 100 | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
shops and nobody has replied. has been hard to find one. Every | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
weekend going out and getting turned away and applying for jobs | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
that are available and not getting them. Female unemployment is now | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
the highest in 20 years. This training centre in Nottingham helps | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
women in their search for work. Cheryl was a retail executive but | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
was made redundant and so far she hasn't found anything. At first as | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
a manager, I was looking for a manager position. But now, just | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
because I don't want to be on benefits, I am willing to do a | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
cleaning job or work in a bar or waitress. I am that determined. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
UK workforce story until now has been public sector job cuts with | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
private sector job creation more than compensated for that, leaving | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
total employment increasing and ministers have been quick to point | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
that out. The latest figures over a three-month period paint a | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
three-month period paint a different picture. Between April | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
and June private-sector employment rose by 41,000, but that was | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
rose by 41,000, but that was outweighed by a plunge of 111,000 | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
in the public sector total over the same period. The last six months, | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
the job market has stalled. Six months ago, we saw the financial | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
services sector hiring like nobody's business. Over the summer, | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
there has been this dramatic downturn. The latest jobless | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
figures provoked some furious exchanges across the floor of the | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
House of Commons. For every two jobs being cut from the public | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
sector, less than one group is being created in the private sector. | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
Isn't that the clearest sign yet that his policy just isn't working? | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
This government is reducing the welfare bill and his reforming | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
public sector pensions. If we weren't taking those steps, you | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
would have to make deeper cuts in terms of the rest of the public | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
sector, he would be having even more unemployment in the public | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
sector. Unemployment in Scotland has fallen, the First Minister said | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
this was partly down to a higher spending on big projects like | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
motorways. Jobs going up in Scotland and down and the rest of | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
the UK, we have more capital investment. Trying to spread | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
economic security and confidence as opposed insecurity. That is the | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
Plan B George Osborne should take. But nowhere in the UK are there any | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
signs of a rapid improvement. Indeed, some experts say | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
unemployment could yet reach two point 75 million. | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
As we've heard, millions of public sector workers from as many as 20 | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
unions are to be balloted on a national day of industrial action | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
on changes to their pensions. The action is set to take place on | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
November 30th, the day after the Chancellor unveils his autumn | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
statement on the economy. Civil servants, fire-fighters and some | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
teachers could be among those taking part. Our industry | :05:40. | :05:49. | |
correspondent Jon Moylan has the Individually, they are some of the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
most powerful unions in Britain, but now they are united in a | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
dispute that could bring more than 2 million workers out on strike. | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
I'd give formal notice to 9,000 employers that we are now balloting | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
for industrial action. G M B is proud to support not just this | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
conference, but then moved straight away to industrial action ballots. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
We are giving notice of our intention to ballot for industrial | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
action. This will be the biggest trade union mobilisation for a | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
generation. It means that on 30th November, council workers could | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
down tools, bins may not be collected, schools could close and | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
essential services could be hit. This level of co-ordination among | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
some main trade unions is relatively rare and it does | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
underline the strength of feeling there is over this pension issue. | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
The row is over plans to cut the cost of public sector pensions by | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
�2.8 billion a year. Unions claim it will mean employees will pay | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
more in contributions and work considerably longer. Only to end up | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
with a smaller payout in the end. It is a toxic combination that Lisa | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
says she can't afford. A teacher, she took part in a strike in June | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
and she says she is prepared to walk out again. People don't go on | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
strike just because they feel that it, this is a huge difference to | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
our family. �200 worse off a month. For the government, it is another | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
major headache and it led the Chancellor to criticise union | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
leaders. I think the union bosses are behaving in a deeply | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
irresponsible way. Deeply irresponsible because talks are | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
still going on, deeply irresponsible because at a time | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
when the whole world, including Britain, faces a real economic | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
challenge, this will only damage jobs and prosperity for the whole | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
country. The strikes that are coming will be on a different scale | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
to the accents in the summer and it could lead to the public facing | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
some of the most widespread disruption the UK has seen in years. | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
During the day, Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, added his | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
voice to the debate on the economy and called for a new approach by | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
the Chancellor. Our political editor Nick Robinson is in | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
Edinburgh tonight. After today's events, how do you | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
gauge the pressure on the Chancellor for some kind of change | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
of tack? The pressure is huge, but there is pressure he expected from | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Labour and the nationalists and the trade unions for a change of course. | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
They were always ready in Westminster for that. What they are | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
now facing his pressure that is a very nasty surprise indeed. A much | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
chiller economic wind coming across to the UK. In addition to that, | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
worse employment figures than they expected and the expectation of | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
much lower growth, too. That is the real problem, that is why the First | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Minister in Scotland has said our a unemployment figures in Scotland | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
are better than in the rest of the UK so why not follow our example, | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
speed up capital spending on projects like roads, try to | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
reassure public servants so they have the confidence to spend money, | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
to which the answer from London is clear. We will do no Plan B that | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
involves spending extra money because that would be, they argue, | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
a plan for bankruptcy. But now the government faces not just a deficit | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
problem, but potentially a gross crisis. That means for all the | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
robust talk in public, behind the scenes in private, a desperate | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
search is going on to find ways to stimulate the economy in a way that | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
won't split the markets. Thank you. The debt crisis is the biggest | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
challenge facing Europe in a generation according to the | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso. He | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
told the European Parliament that the problem could be addressed only | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
by the EU becoming more integrated. The leaders of Germany, France and | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
Greece have held talks this evening to discuss ways of helping Greece | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
to honour its debt repayments. Our Europe editor Gavin Hewitt has the | :10:06. | :10:16. | |
President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel set out today to calm | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
markets spooked by fears that Greece might default. They held a | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
25 minute conference call with the Greek leader George Papandreou. We | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
understand that the Greek prime minister said his country was | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
determined to meet its obligations and so qualify for fresh funding. | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
For their part, the leaders of French-owned -- France and Germany | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
said they were convinced Greece belonged in the eurozone but it had | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
to stick to its spending targets. But he is the problem. Every day, | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
Greek workers are protesting, resisting cuts and savings, even | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
tax collectors were on strike this week. So the doubts will remain | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
whether the Greek government can deliver on its promises. So at the | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
European Parliament today there were a stark warnings that Europe | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
could be destroyed by the eurozone crisis. The mood was gloomy. One | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
minister said the European Union would not survive a break-up of the | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
eurozone. We are confronted with the most serious challenge of a | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
generation. It is a fight for what Europe represents in the world. | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
This is a fight for European integration itself. President | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Carrasso said the answer to the great crisis was more integration. | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Meanwhile, international pressure is mounting. The US Treasury | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
Secretary weighed in, saying Europe needed to do more. They are | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
absolutely committed and they have the financial capacity and the | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
economic capacity to do what it takes to hold this thing together. | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
They recognise they will have today -- do more, they recognise they | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
have been behind the curve, they recognise it will take more force | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
behind their commitments. If there was a do fault, who holds great | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
public debt? Immediate losses would public debt? Immediate losses would | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
hit Greek banks holding 49 billion euros of group debt. Germany's | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
banks hold 10 billion euros. France is next with an exposure of 9 | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
billion. The risk to British banks billion. The risk to British banks | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
is much smaller at 2.2 billion euros. Greece today was given a | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
chance to prove itself, but one of Chancellor Merkel's chart -- | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
closest allies insisted a default was still possible. What we have to | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
do is try to avoid it, we have to try to avoid it at least, and when | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
and if it comes it has to be done in a controlled manner. So Europe's | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
two most powerful leaders assured Greece it was still an integral | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
part of the eurozone, but it now has to deliver austerity cuts and | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
reforms. With me now is the BBC's economics | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
editor Stephanie Flanders. Is there any sign at all of some emerging | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
solution to this crisis? In the last few weeks, we have felt we are | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
moving closer to a crunch point in the crisis forced up whether it | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
ever feels like solution is much less clear. On the back of this | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
statement from the Greek government today, the markets in the US rose, | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
they took some cheer from it, even though it did didn't say anything | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
we hadn't heard before. That is because people are thinking the | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
politicians since the urgency and they are focusing on some of the | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
short-term issues which they can resolve even if these long term | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
questions like what it really will look like in the future, whether it | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
has collected debt, or whether it has a more co-ordinated policy, | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
those policies can't be resolved. The more pressing issues are will | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
Greeks default. There is a sense the politicians won't let this | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
happen. And will those holes in the bank balance sheets which have been | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
there over the last three years, and the Americans have been | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
concerned about, will they be field's there is a sense the | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
politicians will do what it takes to fix the short-term problems even | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
if the long-term problems are hanging over the eurozone. Whether | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
investors are right to have that confidence I think as far from | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
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Two men who claimed they were in effect kept as slaves on a | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
travellers' site in Bedfordshire have been describing their ordeal. | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
The men had spent months at the green acres side but escaped before | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
police raided it at the weekend. They alleged others had been | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
trapped there for years. Alongside the hustle and bustle of | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
tourists and shoppers, people living rough on the streets can | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
often be invisible. According to one man who says he became a | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
virtual slave at the Bedfordshire a travellers' site, here it was all | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
too easy for an alcoholic like him to be picked up. He says he is | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
still too frightened to be identified. If someone offers you | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
�50 a day and as much booze as you want to drink, just for a bit of | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
work, that is happy days. I mean, that is why it is so easy for them | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
to grab you and put you in the van. Once you are in there, they have | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
caught you. That was 2008, before the current investigation. He | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
claims once at the green acres site there was no money, his head was | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
shaved, there was little food and he lived crammed into a horsebox. | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
As I was on the bottom bunk, I usually got kicked in the face to | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
wake up. You get up about 3 o'clock, hustled to get in the van, everyone | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
gets in the van, and we drove for I would say an hour and a half, an | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
hour and 45 minutes, to the site where we were working at. What was | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
the work like? Hard. It was all block paving. Breaking up driveways. | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
He eventually managed to escape and went straight to the police. But he | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
says he was there for eight months. I think people stayed because of | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
fear. Because you saw what was going on right in front of your | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
eyes. You saw that if someone tried to leave, you are going to get | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
beaten up. The police put him on a train back to his brother. He was | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
shocked by what he saw. He had physically been beaten, clearly, | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
numerous times. I mean, his bones and his ribs were all visible, from | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
where he had not eaten properly, hadn't had a diet. His teeth were | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
black, because he has had no nutrition. These are the shirts we | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
were kept in -- the sheds. It is a deeply shocking story that Adam | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
knows only too well. In 2004, he says he, too, was held at green | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
acres. He was promised good pay and instead he found squalor, in what | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
he views now as slavery. I got moved out of the caravan, into a | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
shed, that was sometimes... Sometimes locked, sometimes not, | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
overnight. It was ritually, you were released for work in the | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
morning -- literally. It is not your life at all. It is like you | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
are incarcerated. Both men have since turned their lives around, | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
but say they are still haunted by their experiences at the side. | :17:25. | :17:34. | |
Coming up. Ryan Giggs, wow! We have the main action from the Champions | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
League with both Manchester teams Just over a year after Pakistan's | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
devastating floods which affected a quarter of the population, the | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
authorities in Sindh province are warning that floods this year are | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
even worse. The southern region has been hit by the heaviest monsoon | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
rains in a century. More than 5 million people have already been | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
affected in Sindh. A full 20 ft below these waters | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
were shops and homes. But villages as far as the eye can see, and | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
across southern Pakistan, have totally disappeared. The | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
authorities even at this province say these floods are even worse | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
than last year's massive disaster. We find this family stranded on a | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
bit of high ground. Their homes, gone, most of their livestock, | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
drowned, but they did manage to save a couple of chickens. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
TRANSLATION: Everyone was in the village, but suddenly the rains | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
came. They all fled during the night and left us. They have now | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
been saved by the army. It says it has rescued 13,000 people buy a | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
boat so far, but fears others are still cut off. The catastrophe is | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
huge, because of last year's flood, we were coping with that. Within | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
the year, we were coping with that kind of damage, and the next floods, | :19:08. | :19:17. | |
they took us. The damage is twofold. In scenes so reminiscent of last | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
year, once people are rested, they are brought to camps like this, but | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
how they are treated then, after having lost their belongings, their | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
homes and in some cases, members of their family, very much depends on | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
luck. At this camp, they have run out of tents and many people are | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
having to sleep in the open, and more rain is still coming. This is | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
where the family ended up, sheltering anywhere they can, and | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
fearing for what the future holds. The former Conservative peer, Lord | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
Hanningfield, has been arrested by detectives investigating expenses | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
claims, when he was leader of Essex County Council. Lord Hanningfield | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
was released from prison just a few days ago after serving a term for | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
fraudulent expense claims at the House of Lords. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
A Libyan man who claims that British intelligence officers | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
helped send him home to be tortured by Gaddafi's regime, says he wants | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
to give evidence in to the inquiry into Britain's role of the alleged | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
mistreatment of terror suspects. A former member of an Islamist | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
opposition group alleges he was a bit to a secret rendition back in | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
2004. He has been speaking to Andrew Hardie in Tripoli. | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
He spent six years here, in one of Colonel Gaddafi's notorious prisons. | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
An Islamist leader, who says Britain betrayed him, and helped to | :20:43. | :20:53. | |
send him home to be tortured. Today, it still frail, he says he was | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
never a terraced, but while training in Afghanistan to | :20:57. | :21:05. | |
overthrow the Libyan regime, he met some interesting people. I know | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
Osama Bin Laden, I met him the last one -- met him many times. The last | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
one was before 9/11. I discussed with him, that if you want to do | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
something to a European country or American country and that it is not | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
approved. Now, CIA documents discovered here in Tripoli appear | :21:29. | :21:39. | |
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to show how British intelligence helped arrange for Sami al-Saadi to | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
be spirited back to Libya. When I arrived at the aircraft door, they | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
handcuffed me and my life -- my wife. He said he was tortured for | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
information about Al-Qaeda, information the rest -- the West | :21:56. | :22:06. | |
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was keen to hear. A British team came to see me. Did you tell them | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
you were being tortured question were it couldn't, because I would | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
be tortured again. I can't say what I want. Britain's Foreign Office | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
says it can't comment on intelligence matters, but it takes | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
such claims very seriously, and an inquiry has been set up. The murky | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
relationship that developed between Colonel Gaddafi in Britain -- and | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Britain seems unlikely to slip quietly into the history books. | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
Sami al- Saadi Says he plans to take legal action and give evidence | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
in person at the legal inquiry. I feel injustice. | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
And no forgiveness? Maybe later, when we see what they will do. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
Today, Colonel Gaddafi's jails are empty. The truth about what | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
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happened here and why is starting Both Manchester clubs have been | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
playing in the group stage of the Champions League tonight. | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Manchester City marked their return to the competition after a long | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
absence with a draw against Napoli. Manchester United were held 1-1 at | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
Benfica. For Manchester City, there are | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
untold riches have at last bought them entry to an exclusive club, it | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
had been 43 years since they had dined at European football's top | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
table. Their opponents, Napoli, had been outplayed in the first half. | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
In the second, they broke at full tilt. Kolarov, who had his own | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
break in the first half, levelled. The Napoli wall was perhaps one | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
short of a brick. Manchester United, by most accounts, have much the | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
easier group. But they appeared toothless early on to Benfica. The | :24:03. | :24:11. | |
delightful goal was deserved. But the Premier League look youth -- | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
perennially youthful Ryan Giggs scored, aged 38. Anders Linda Guard | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
proved just as important, helping his team preserve the draw. A | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
measured start for the Manchester teams, but it is eight months until | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
To mark its 300th anniversary, St Paul's Cathedral has installed an | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
optical installation, which transforms the view of Sir | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
Christopher Wren's Geometric Staircase. The inspiration -- | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
installation called Perspectives is designed by a John Pawson as part | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
of the London Design Festival. The dome of St Paul's Cathedral, a | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
site recognise the world over. It is the crowning glory of Sir | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
Christopher Wren's architectural masterpiece. The grandeur of the | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
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For centuries, artists have been commissioned to produce works for | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
the cathedral. In 1983, Henry Moore made his mother and child sculpture | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
specifically for this I'll location. Recently, St Paul's has started to | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
commission contemporary artists and designers. Antony Gormley installed | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
this piece last year. And here is their latest commission. In the | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
middle of this stainless-steel top is this massive crystal loans, | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
which when you look into it, reflects back Sir Christopher | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
Wren's wonderful Geometric Staircase. The visual effect is | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
heightened by mirror placed in the ceiling. This is a modest, | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
thoughtful work. It is not saying, look at me, it is saying, just look | :26:00. | :26:10. | |
at the space. For me, everything I do as a practical function. This | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
seemed to be oh way of looking at the helix. The way this they're | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
just spirals up. I never tire of it, it is so magical, this stairway. | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
Paul's has been bitten by the contemporary art bug. But why? To | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
appear trendy? To attract more visitors? I don't want a church | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
that is in aspic. We believe in creativity, we believe in | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
conversation with artists. But when we look at the art that comes into | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
the cathedral, we are looking for resonance more than relevance. | :26:46. | :26:50. |