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The new head of the Met promises a "war on crime" in his first TV | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
interviews since taking over. And a key figure behind London's multi | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
billion pound super-sewer says there might be a cheaper | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 194 seconds | :01:43. | :04:58. | |
unfortunately. Rescue teams are working tonight, | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
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driven by the hope that they will find the men alive. | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
What are the latest developments? What they hope to do is to pump out | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
enough water so they can send down a diver. Hopefully, that person can | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
work through the water and find out what has happened underneath. We | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
are told that the four are experienced, so they should know | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
what to do in an emergency. You should, as a miner, go through | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
drills to know what happens if there is a collapse. It is | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
understood there are air pockets and possibly oxygen supplies | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
available to them. However, nobody knows if they are in the right | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
location to get to that supply, or whether they may be in another part | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
of the mine, in another area at just a few miles down the road, the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
families are gathered together. We understand they are been giving | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
information first, and constant support by police and security | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
workers. Everyone here is very hopeful and crossing their fingers | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
that this will be resolved successfully and that some time | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
overnight contact will be made. Thank you. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
David Cameron and President Sarkozy have become the first Western | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
leaders to visit Libya since they Gaddafi regime was swept from power | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
last month. Mr Cameron said the NATO mission would continue until | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Gaddafi's remaining fighters had been defeated. President Sarkozy | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
insisted Gaddafi was still the danger and that there was, in his | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
words, a job to finish. From Tripoli, Andrew Harding reports. | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
It is not quite mission accomplished, but the French and | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
British leaders arrived here in Libya today inclined to celebrate. | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
It is a very good day for us. We are very proud to be here. Britain | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
played a role, which I am proud of, but in the end this was what the | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Libyans did themselves. I want to congratulate them and work out how | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
we can help next as they rebuild the country. The helicopter went | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
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into the heart of Tripoli. But listen to the adulation at this | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
hospital. It is genuine. Without NATO air support, they know they're | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
unlikely revolution would have stumbled. Some of the injured will | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
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now come to British hospitals. It is part of a much bigger plan. On | :07:44. | :07:53. | |
the streets of Tripoli, they are still keen for outside help. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
need support from the world. Not England and France, but all of the | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
world. They helped us from the beginning for our revolution and I | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
hope they will continue helping us, until we get to normal. It is seven | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
years since Tony Blair first came here to try to bring Colonel | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
Gaddafi in from the cold. Today, David Cameron is visiting what | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
feels in many ways like a completely different country. There | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
is still serious fighting here and plenty of political instability. | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
But in many ways, this is a country that is stabilising every day. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
I have seen is impressive. This is people who want to take the lead to | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
sort out their country. It is very important that we help them, rather | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
than try and lecture them. Swapping gifts with the Libyan team trying | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
to fill the political vacuum. There were hints today that Britain and | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
France might be rewarded with oil contract by a grid formation. Mr | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
Sarkozy insisted there was no hidden agenda. And Mr Cameron | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
stressed that Libya's war is not over. This work is not finished yet. | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
There are still parts of Libya under Gaddafi control. And the | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
message, I think, to Gaddafi and all those still holding arms on his | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
behalf is, it is over, give up. The mercenaries should go home. No sign | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
of that, there will. Fighting today intensifying around Gaddafi's home | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
town. His loyalists could still destabilise Libya. And yet been | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
Benghazi this afternoon, it felt mocha victory parade. Colonel | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Gaddafi said he would hunt you down like rats, but you showed the | :09:46. | :09:56. | |
courage of Lyons, and we salute your courage. | :09:56. | :10:05. | |
A triumphant moment in Libya's messy endgame. | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
Five of the world's leading central banks, including the US Federal | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
Reserve and the Bank of England are taking co-ordinated action to halt | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
the financial system. They will provide commercial banks with new | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
loans to help ease funding pressures. The head of the | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said the world | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
was in a dangerous new phase which needed bold leadership, and she | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
went on to accuse politicians of being indecisive. Gavin Hewitt has | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
more details. On a day of gloomy forecasts, a | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
concerted move by the world's most powerful central banks. Short-term | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
loans are going to be made available to commercial banks. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
There had been growing concerns that banks were stopping lending to | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
each other because of fears they might face losses in the eurozone. | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
In Greece, more protests against the austerity demanded by Europe's | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
leaders in exchange for a further bail-out. This, on a day when the | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
eurozone was told that growth was expected to come to a virtual | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
standstill by the end of the year. There was also a warning that a | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
combination of weak growth and high debt was leading to a dangerous | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
loss of confidence. This vicious cycle is gaining momentum, and | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
frankly it has been exacerbated by policy uncertainty and political | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
lack of resolve. Greece remains at the heart of the crisis. So far, a | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
bail-out and austerity measures have not worked. Greece's debts | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
have soared to 350 billion euros, and the economy is expected to | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
shrink by 5% this year. The country needs a further 8 billion euros by | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
mid-October to survive, with no growth it is hard to see how the | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
country can avoid defaulting sooner or later. Italy is the other big | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
concern. This was central Rome yesterday, after austerity cuts | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
were adopted there. The problem with Italy is that its debts are so | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
big it can't be rescued. This weekend the Americans will suggest | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
to the Europeans that they should borrow against their main bail-out | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
fund to give them greater resources, if Italy needs help. We are having | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
plenty of noise and reassurance from politicians but the feeling is | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
there is not enough action, not enough plans being put in place. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Greece, they were cleaning up their vandalised central bank. Elsewhere, | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
the world's Central Banks signalled they were prepared to work together | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
to help struggling banks, and the markets judged that a positive step. | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
With me, our economics editor Stephanie Flanders. Last night we | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
were talking about the search for some kind of solution. Have the | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
central banks come up with something? They have a short-term | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
solution to a key part of the crisis which, as Gavin said, is the | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
pressure that has been building on important European banks. You have | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
big French and German banks that did learned a lot of money to | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
countries like Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain, and as those | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
governments have come under pressure people have wondered | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
whether the banks will get their money back. The shares have | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
collapsed and bangs have been finding it harder and harder to | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
raise money in the financial markets. We know from 2008 that | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
when some banks are finding it harder to raise money that can make | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
it hard for all banks, British banks, to raise money. If they | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
cannot borrow, they cannot lend to businesses and consumers, so | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
central bank governors thought this was an important problem and they | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
said today that they will not let it happen and will make unlimited | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
amounts of liquidity available to these banks to see them through to | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
the end of the year. That, as Gavin said, has build confidence. But it | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
is only the short-term problems facing the banks that it resolves. | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
You still have a long-term debt issues of the governments in the | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
eurozone which have not been resolved because central bank | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
governors alone cannot deal with those. It has to be a question for | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
policy makers, and that is something the finance ministers | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
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gather in Poland tonight very A British soldier serving with the | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
1st Battalion the rivals has been killed in Afghanistan. The Ministry | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
of Defence said he was shot while on patrol in Helmand Province -- | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
the 1st Battalion the rifles. A soldier has died during a | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
training exercise in Kent. Fusilier Dean Griffiths, who was 21 and from | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Market Drayton in Shropshire, was shot at the Ministry of Defence | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
training based on Romney Marsh yesterday afternoon. Kent Police | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
have started an inquiry into the death. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Police in London have arrested a 31-year-old man in connection with | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
allegations of unauthorised trading which has cost the Swiss banking | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
group UBS an estimated �1.3 billion. He was detained early this morning | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
and remains in custody. UBS shares fell sharply after it announced it | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
was investigating rogue trades, but insisted no customer accounts were | :15:10. | :15:20. | |
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The London-based trader of the giant bank UBS is alleged to have | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
racked up unauthorised losses of �1.3 billion. Hours after eye- | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
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After at 3:30am, detectives from our force arrested a 31-year-old | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
man on suspicion of fraud by abuse of position. The here at UBS's | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
sprawling network of offices in the heart of the City of London is | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
where the alleged road tray the work. | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
His colossal losses -- rogue trader work. His colossal losses are | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
likely to tip this huge bank back into last. It is not the money but | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
the embarrassment that is likely to prove most painful. This is a bank | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
that after the crash of 2008 claimed it was taking much less | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
risk. UBS was among the banks were spurred by the last banking crisis, | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
incurring losses of �35 billion -- worst hurt. It changed its | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
management and the way it does business, so what went wrong? | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
can put in these technological systems that limit how much people | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
can trade, but in the end, the problem is, if you are employing | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
intelligent people and they want to get around the systems, there is a | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
chance they will find a way. That is why what is needed is a moral | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
compass from the top of the organisation. If it turns out that | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
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Kweku Adoboli is a big time rogue After the French rogue trader was | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
arrested, there was pressure on British banks to tighten up their | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
scrutiny of traders. If that has not worked, what might? Unless you | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
separate out the Wild West casino operation from the world of banking | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
inhabited by ordinary men and women on the High Street, and ordinary | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
businesses, we are in real trouble. That is what Sir John Vickers' | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Banking Commission proposed and why we have to get on with implementing | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
that proposal as quickly as possible. This is how UPS like to | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
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see itself, a virtuoso in the Coming up, a warning that a | :18:00. | :18:10. | |
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shortage of midwives is putting Preparations have started to evict | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
hundreds of travellers living illegally at Dale Farm in Essex. | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
The local council has issued an open letter asking them to co- | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
operate and leave the site peacefully. The eviction is due on | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
Monday, following a ten-year legal battle. In their campaign against | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
being removed, the travellers won the support of un Committee and | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
activists from around Britain and Europe backlash of a UN committee. | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
After weeks in which this claustrophobic and has become the | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
unlikely object of international scrutiny, some are now leaving. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
Among the majority, there is no desire for physical confrontation. | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
But there is also a sense that the travellers have already achieved | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
unprecedented attention for their cause, something unimaginable just | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
a generation ago. This was the Irish traveller world of all. Off | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
roadside camps and constant movement. Of people who kept to | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
themselves and were feared and resented by the settled community. | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
In the 60s and 70s, Irish travellers began to emerge from the | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
shadows and organise. Candy Sheridan, with Irish roots but | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
raised in England, is a symbol of change. The first in her family to | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
get a formal education, she entered politics and was elected as a | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
Liberal Democrat counsellor. It is the women in the traveller | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
community, she says, who are the agents of change. They don't want | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
the poverty, the roadside living, they want their children to stay | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
and have an education. It has politicised the parents and the | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
mothers, they know they can go to meetings now and hold their own. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
is a world in a state of flux between the old ways and the new. | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
The symbols of modern prosperity for some, alongside icons of an | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
older religious devotion. The desire to educate the next | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
generation, set against the pool -- the pull of the nomadic lifestyle. | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
What would it mean to give up the travelling lifestyle? I would not | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
give up being a traveller. We are very close, tight community. Travel | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
up the leafy lanes near Dale Farm and the concerns of local residents | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
are the same you will often hear from settled communities in Ireland. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
There is anger over or what is seen as flouting of planning laws and | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
anti-social behaviour. We had the rubbish and three-piece suites | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
dumped in the lane. Len Gridley said he has received death threats | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
from his opposition to the camp. They want everything and asked to | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
give everything. Unfortunately, we are not going to know more. We have | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
As preparations are made for eviction, feelings on both sides | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
are running high. Shame on you! Whatever success they have had in | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
lobbying internationally, the fact remains that the travellers' cause | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
is profoundly unpopular in Britain. Scenes like this are certain to be | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
repeated, as other councils move against other illegal sites. | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
The Royal College of Midwives is warning that the safety of mothers | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
and babies is being put at risk in some parts of England by a shortage | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
of staff. His says rising birth weights and increasing numbers of | :21:27. | :21:37. | |
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complicated deliveries -- it said He is three days old and getting | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
ready to go home for the first time. His mother has stayed in hospital | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
to make sure she gets the hang of breast feeding. She is lucky to be | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
able to. Wansbeck Hospital is in Northumberland, one of the areas | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
with the highest rates of midwife care, but a rising birthright -- | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
birth rate and more complicated deliveries are putting pressure on | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
services across the country. Mothers who are happy with the | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
level of care that they get but it is different in other parts of the | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
country -- mothers here are happy. They are significant variations in | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
the level of care depending on where you live. It says the | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
shortage bridges across England but it is graced tizz in the east of | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
England -- greatest in the east of England. Pressures are much less in | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
the rest of the UK, because of different priorities in the health | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
services of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Susanne Remic | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
knows how bad it can be when midwives are overstretched. When | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
she had her son, she was left hours without being checked, and | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
eventually had an emergency Caesarean section after his heart | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
stopped beating. I felt like I was just on a production line. They | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
just wanted me to come in, have the baby and go home. There was no care. | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
The RCM once nearly 5,000 extra midwives in our -- the RCM wants | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
nearly 5,000 extra midwives in England. Safety goes if you don't | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
have one to one care in labour. Something might be missed. Once we | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
get to a really critical point, our maternity services won't be safe. | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
The Department of Health says all women should be able to expect | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
excellent maternity care, and record numbers of midwives are | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
being trained. But training doesn't guarantee work. Individual health | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
trusts decide on staff numbers, and as Leanne Petherbridge knows, many | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
are not recruiting. She has just qualified but cannot find a | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
midwifery job even an hour from home. Only two of her fellow | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
students have worked for. It is soul-destroying, the fact that we | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
are willing to fulfil those vacancies but because of the powers | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
that be, they won't release jobs for us to apply full. The health | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
service is being squeezed as never before, leaving many midwives | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
asking whether pressures are about to get worse. | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
The National Grid is considering building thousands of new | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
electricity pylons to connect a new generation of power stations and | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
wind farms to the National Grid. Conservationists are already | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
battling to oppose the plans, insisting that the visual impact on | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
the countryside will be a disaster. They say the cables should be | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
buried underground. Our rural affairs correspondent reports. | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
They stand as icons of an industrial age, pylon spring power | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
from where it is generated in to the National Grid. -- pylon sprint | :24:41. | :24:49. | |
power. They keep the lights on -- pylon us bring power. There are new | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
state of the art designs, but for many, the pylon will always remain | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
essential but unloved. A pylon is still a pylon. The ideal solution | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
would be to bury power cables in the ground. That way, any intrusion | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
into our most cherished landscapes is kept to a minimum. They have | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
always been controversial. How about this for a bit of direct | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
action? 1940s style. By the 1950s, the network was almost complete, | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
even if health and safety still needed some work. All a long way | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
from the hard hats and high visibility of the day. The one | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
constant is that moving 440,000 volts of electricity across the | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
countryside is hard work. What is the alternative? Conservationists | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
insist more cables should be put underground, like here in the Wye | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
Valley. Burying cable may sound easy, but in reality it looks like | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
this, a 65 metres wave cut through the countryside. On each side of | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
this temporary road, there will be two trenches dug to take the cables | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
themselves. All of it, comes at an immense cost. Indeed, the National | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
Grid says the price tag for burying cables is �22 million per kilometre, | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
some 10 times the cost of pylons. The cost of underground cables are | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
very high, and they go through to consumers in their bills. It is a | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
question of how much we want to pay for electricity against the visual | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
impact over line -- overground power lines have. Conservationists | :26:26. | :26:30. |