:00:07. > :00:13.Tonight at 10: At the Lib Dem conference, a dire warning on the
:00:13. > :00:16.health of the British economy. A glimmer of hope as new jobs come to
:00:16. > :00:26.Jaguar Landrover, but ministers warn the country is facing
:00:26. > :00:26.
:00:26. > :00:31.dangerous times. We now face the crisis that is the economic
:00:31. > :00:35.equivalent of war, and this is not a time for business as usual or
:00:35. > :00:38.politics as usual. Despite extra money being spent on
:00:38. > :00:44.infrastructure, the message is clear - people should be braced for
:00:44. > :00:47.even tougher times ahead. It will take a lot longer than
:00:47. > :00:50.people initially thought to put the pieces back together again and make
:00:50. > :00:53.sure we have a strong economy for the future.
:00:53. > :00:56.Also tonight: A last minute legal reprieve for the travellers at Dale
:00:56. > :01:03.Farm. They defy the bailiffs and win a court injunction against
:01:03. > :01:11.eviction. The families can stay put on the UK's largest travellers site,
:01:11. > :01:21.but it could be just a temporary victory.
:01:21. > :01:21.
:01:21. > :01:23.Very happy. At least we might have a good night's sleep now.
:01:23. > :01:25.Milly Dowler's family settles with News International over the hacking
:01:25. > :01:29.scandal - the deal could be worth millions.
:01:29. > :01:36.They were joined at the head, now the Sudanese twins start a new life
:01:36. > :01:39.apart. The to still too early to be sure but there are no signs that
:01:39. > :01:45.either has suffered any neurological damage as a result of
:01:45. > :01:48.the separation. I will have the sport in the next
:01:48. > :01:53.hour as Andy Murray is warning the biggest names in tennis could go on
:01:53. > :02:03.strike. They want to push through changes to the busy calendar of the
:02:03. > :02:16.
:02:16. > :02:21.Good evening from Birmingham, where any notion of an improvement in
:02:21. > :02:29.Britain's economic health has been dispelled today by Vince Cable. He
:02:29. > :02:34.said the country faced dangerous times the equal of - economic
:02:34. > :02:38.equivalent of being at war. Nick Clegg insisted there was still no
:02:38. > :02:43.alternative to the austerity measures.
:02:43. > :02:48.A bleak warning was issued in Birmingham today, a warning to the
:02:48. > :02:53.country that danger lies ahead. The enemy is not one we can see, not
:02:53. > :02:59.one they can protect us against. It is the threat that the economy may
:02:59. > :03:04.not recover. We now face a crisis which is the economic equivalent of
:03:04. > :03:09.war. A business Secretary told his fellow Lib Dems today that the
:03:09. > :03:15.public deserved and wanted to be told it like it is. The truth is
:03:15. > :03:18.there are difficult times ahead, that Britain's post-war pattern of
:03:18. > :03:23.ever-rising living standards has been broken by the financial
:03:23. > :03:28.collapse. So it is Centre Birmingham looks prosperous enough,
:03:28. > :03:32.but down the road the place that attracts most customers is the
:03:32. > :03:38.JobCentre. Unemployment in this constituency is the highest in the
:03:38. > :03:42.country and two is going up. situation in unemployment is dire.
:03:42. > :03:47.It feels that as you go into the JobCentre today? A you can feel it
:03:48. > :03:53.walking around. People are very unhappy. I have not worked in the
:03:53. > :03:57.past year, and people are really down. Ministers insist they are
:03:57. > :04:02.doing all they can to produce growth but Nick Clegg told me today
:04:02. > :04:08.there will be sticking to their plans to cut spending. If there was
:04:08. > :04:14.an alternative, if there was an easy alternative, I don't know, the
:04:14. > :04:19.big red button in Whitehall that says push here for growth, you
:04:19. > :04:27.would have thought the Labour Party would have come up with an
:04:27. > :04:31.alternative. I will tell you exactly what they say. Look at the
:04:31. > :04:36.small print of Labour's own deficit reduction plan. Pound-for-pound,
:04:36. > :04:42.they would cut almost exactly the same amount from public spending as
:04:42. > :04:47.we are. Ministers a' language is changing though, they are beginning
:04:47. > :04:50.to talk of the need for a stimulus to get the economy moving, to get
:04:51. > :04:58.more companies to follow a Jaguar Land Rover, who today announced
:04:58. > :05:02.they would be creating 750 jobs in Wolverhampton. You have spoken of a
:05:02. > :05:07.new deal style stimulus. Is he in favour of that? The government is
:05:07. > :05:12.in favour of growth. The world is in a very difficult set of
:05:12. > :05:18.conditions at the moment, in danger of demand weakening. The government
:05:18. > :05:22.has got to support the economy. is right to say we are balancing
:05:22. > :05:29.the books, but at the same time we can invest to build far better
:05:29. > :05:34.tomorrow. If they agree, what about the sound of disharmony coming from
:05:34. > :05:38.the ones happy relationship between the Lib Dems and the Conservatives?
:05:38. > :05:45.Some people say coalition is a political marriage. How would your
:05:45. > :05:50.wife feel if you described her as whit less, a nightmare, and said
:05:50. > :05:56.divorce was inevitable? Miriam would not be pleased and I would
:05:56. > :06:00.pay the consequences. People on the platform behind you have said it.
:06:00. > :06:04.Do I accept that Liberal Democrats will say stuff about the
:06:04. > :06:09.Conservatives? That is what happens in politics. The real message is
:06:09. > :06:16.that it is not the verbal political battles that count, it is what
:06:16. > :06:23.Vince Cable calls the war with frightening economic forces.
:06:23. > :06:27.Just a reminder, the party holding its conference last 600 council
:06:27. > :06:31.seats earlier this year, its poll ratings are consistently weak and
:06:31. > :06:35.there is a debate about its role in government. The Lib Dem president
:06:35. > :06:43.has openly raised the prospect of the Lib Dems abandoning the
:06:43. > :06:48.coalition before the next election. James Landale explains delegates
:06:48. > :06:53.are showing few signs of despair. The Lib Dems in Birmingham after an
:06:53. > :06:58.awful year. They have lost hundreds of councillors, lost a referendum
:06:58. > :07:04.on voting reform, and yet they have a spring in their step. They think
:07:04. > :07:09.it will turn good. If, at the end of a parliament, we have delivered
:07:09. > :07:13.good for our country at a time of crisis, informed by liberal
:07:13. > :07:17.principles of fairness, I have no doubt whatsoever that the public
:07:17. > :07:21.will give us the benefit for that. That is the gamble the party
:07:21. > :07:27.members seem to have accepted, so there is no rebellion here, no
:07:27. > :07:32.tough questions for the leader. Does anybody else want to ask a
:07:32. > :07:37.supplementary? Heavens, what docility! Like a North Korean
:07:37. > :07:43.conference meeting. Some Lib Dems are concerned about specific issues,
:07:43. > :07:47.but many appear content with their lot, almost as if they are getting
:07:47. > :07:53.used to the idea of be in power. As a party, they are also used to
:07:53. > :07:57.being unpopular. We have been there before. If you are as old as I am,
:07:57. > :08:03.you know we will survive whatever happens. We have various ministers
:08:03. > :08:08.in office. That makes a difference? Of course, it restrains the ghastly
:08:08. > :08:12.thing the Tories might otherwise do. The party's ministers are learning
:08:12. > :08:17.to be robust with the media. You are losing elections across the
:08:18. > :08:21.piece, at record lows in the opinion polls, and you seem to
:08:21. > :08:31.think in a few years that will change. Why it is that not wishful
:08:31. > :08:32.
:08:32. > :08:35.thinking? I have to say, James, you are a miserable sod really. I think
:08:35. > :08:40.you sometimes come to our conference and you are hoping we
:08:40. > :08:46.will be miserable, defeated and deflected, and you have found we
:08:46. > :08:50.are in good form here. Nick is on cracking form. That was me told.
:08:50. > :08:54.But some Lib Dems will never be exactly happy with the cost of
:08:54. > :08:59.coalition. There is a difference between happy and sanguine. The
:08:59. > :09:03.party is not happy with the current low position in the polls and not
:09:03. > :09:08.happy with the criticism we are getting, some of it clearly
:09:08. > :09:13.unjustified. But some of it justified. The Lib Dems are bound
:09:13. > :09:21.in coalition to tackle the stagnant economy, and that is there a lot
:09:21. > :09:25.for the next few years. It is a lot they seem willing to accept for now.
:09:25. > :09:29.Watching that with any is Nick Robinson. They say they are on
:09:29. > :09:33.cracking form, do they know something we don't? A Vince Cable
:09:33. > :09:38.compared the economy with a war, and I was reminded of the political
:09:38. > :09:42.spirit of the trenches. In the sense, the reason they feel better
:09:42. > :09:46.is because it is better than it was a few months ago. There are no
:09:46. > :09:50.longer student protests on the streets, they have moved on from
:09:50. > :09:55.the elections were they lost council seats, moved on from the
:09:55. > :10:00.referendum they lost, so it will feel better but the key thing is no
:10:00. > :10:05.one here at this conference is challenging the decision to go into
:10:05. > :10:09.coalition, to stay in coalition or the central economic judgment about
:10:10. > :10:13.how far spending is cut to deal with the deficit. In that context
:10:13. > :10:19.they have heard today a pretty stark assessment from Vince Cable
:10:19. > :10:24.which goes beyond the gloom we have had before. Vince Cable is the sort
:10:24. > :10:32.of man who can be gloomy even without opening his mouth. This was
:10:32. > :10:36.not acquire moment where he says we are all doomed, like the character
:10:36. > :10:41.from Dad's Army, but he says the reason we are in this unique
:10:42. > :10:47.coalition with the Conservatives is because it is like the war. What he
:10:47. > :10:51.wants to say to the electorate is we are not going to kid you, it is
:10:51. > :10:56.bad, it may get worse before it gets better. Behind the scenes he
:10:56. > :11:02.is trying to argue to speed up spending on infrastructure. Not
:11:02. > :11:05.schools and hospitals, they don't create economic growth. On
:11:05. > :11:09.broadband, on transport projects, he wants to make sure every
:11:09. > :11:16.available penny is spent on things that can help businesses create
:11:16. > :11:20.growth. But his old friend, Lord Hope shot, the man who used to be
:11:20. > :11:24.the Treasury spokesman, said tonight to the BBC, if we don't get
:11:24. > :11:32.the economy growing again in the next few years, our party will be
:11:32. > :11:37.slaughtered. Thank you. More from the Lib Dem conference
:11:37. > :11:41.tomorrow, and in the meantime it is back to you.
:11:41. > :11:46.The eviction of Dale Farm, the largest travellers' site in the UK,
:11:46. > :11:53.has been put on hold after residents won a last-minute legal
:11:53. > :11:57.reprieve. Bailiffs had already entered the camp when news of the
:11:57. > :12:07.injunction came through this afternoon. It is the latest Dep in
:12:07. > :12:09.
:12:09. > :12:12.a long battle that has already cost millions of pounds.
:12:12. > :12:16.Jubilation among Dale Farm's travellers' community this
:12:16. > :12:20.afternoon as this decade long saga took another twist, much to the
:12:20. > :12:24.exasperation of hundreds of bailiffs, security officers and
:12:24. > :12:32.police surrounding the site, the High Court has issued an injunction
:12:32. > :12:38.delaying action until at least Friday. Very happy. At least we
:12:38. > :12:43.might have a good night's sleep now. I ate and the council are extremely
:12:43. > :12:49.disappointed and frustrated by the decision of the High Court today
:12:49. > :12:55.but I am confident that when we put our side of the story, our case,
:12:55. > :13:00.the law will be upheld and the council will enforce the law.
:13:00. > :13:04.but no sympathy from the travellers on the day when the ruling of the
:13:04. > :13:08.courts was finally expected to trump the determination of the
:13:08. > :13:12.community. Mid-afternoon and a dozen or so bailiffs marched up to
:13:12. > :13:18.the entrance of the Dale Farm settlement, but the omens were not
:13:18. > :13:24.good. Battling against a noisy crowd, the warning was heard by no
:13:24. > :13:31.one inside the camp. I have some major health and safety concerns,
:13:31. > :13:36.namely that you have deliberately blocked and a obstructed the
:13:36. > :13:41.emergency access road. On the other side of the precariously
:13:41. > :13:51.constructed barricade, protesters had chained themselves to objects.
:13:51. > :13:51.
:13:51. > :13:56.One man had attached his arm to a The bailiffs retreated and the
:13:56. > :14:01.stage was set for what many thought could be the most hazardous process,
:14:01. > :14:06.returning to the green. REPORTER: Are you upset? Wouldn't
:14:06. > :14:13.you be upset if your home was being taken from you? The cost of this
:14:13. > :14:18.was put at some �18 million, the price worth paying to those who see
:14:18. > :14:24.this has a challenge to the lawless of the land. About but a challenge
:14:24. > :14:29.to those who see this as an attack on the mine or the culture.
:14:29. > :14:33.Here, they've been encouraged to buy the plot when government
:14:33. > :14:37.legislation ended the duty on local authorities to provide official
:14:37. > :14:41.scythes, the council gave permission to build homes on this
:14:41. > :14:46.half, but on the greenbelt land where the building is forbidden
:14:46. > :14:51.there are 51 traveller homes in defiance of planning law. The
:14:51. > :14:55.battle for Dale Farm has been cast as a struggle between the main
:14:55. > :14:59.stream and an alternative way of life. So there is an irony, and the
:14:59. > :15:04.courts are looking to look to see if the council has followed the
:15:04. > :15:08.letter of the law. The BBC understands that News
:15:08. > :15:13.International is close to agreeing a settlement worth millions for the
:15:13. > :15:16.family of the murdered schoolgirl, Milly Dowler. It follows
:15:16. > :15:22.allegations that an investigator working for the News of the World
:15:22. > :15:25.hacked into her voice messages after the teenager's disappearance.
:15:25. > :15:31.Our correspondent is at News International. June, the Milly
:15:31. > :15:34.Dowler case was merely the tipping point in this hacking scandal?
:15:34. > :15:37.That's right. It caused international consternation, the
:15:37. > :15:40.closure of the News of the World and raised questions about the
:15:40. > :15:44.failure of the original police investigation. When it comes to the
:15:44. > :15:49.details of the deal we understand that the plan is for �2 million to
:15:49. > :15:54.go to Milly Dowler's family and a further �1 million to be paid into
:15:55. > :16:00.charity. News International paid �100,000 to
:16:00. > :16:04.7/7 -- Sienna Miller. Gordon Taylor of the professional football's
:16:04. > :16:07.association got about half a million plus his costs N a
:16:07. > :16:11.statement that r today, News International said no final
:16:11. > :16:15.agreement had been reached but they hoped that a deal would be done as
:16:15. > :16:18.quickly as possible. Over the summer Rupert Murdoch met
:16:18. > :16:22.Milly Dowler's family and apologised personally. We
:16:22. > :16:26.understand that he is to personally write the cheque for �1 million to
:16:26. > :16:33.go to charity. June, thank you.
:16:33. > :16:36.Coming up: Four complex police stations to sprailt conjoined twin
:16:36. > :16:41.girls. -- to separate conjoined twin girls.
:16:41. > :16:47.This is a rare condition and a complex problem. There are so many
:16:47. > :16:51.things that you have to get right. Crisis talks between the Greek
:16:51. > :16:57.government and international officials aimed at releasing the
:16:57. > :17:00.latest trench of its bail-out ended the day without agreement. The
:17:01. > :17:04.government is under pressure to make deeper cuts, but many Greeks
:17:04. > :17:08.believe that the measures have gone too far.
:17:08. > :17:13.This report contains some flash photography. Everyone in Greece
:17:13. > :17:18.knows that new painful aust airity measures are on the way. Protests
:17:18. > :17:24.against the recent tax rises have begun. Today, the Greek government
:17:24. > :17:27.has been in negotiations with EU and erpbl IMF officials, this in a
:17:27. > :17:33.country where many people are already hurting from previous
:17:33. > :17:39.rounds of cuts. The Athens Bike Fair was a draw for
:17:39. > :17:44.many middle-class families. Among them was Joanna Karella, a public
:17:44. > :17:48.sector worker, she has seen her salary cut by 20%. She is scared.
:17:49. > :17:54.We are careful of what we buy now. Every time we go to the supermarket
:17:54. > :17:58.we go with a list. It's been getting shorter and shorter the
:17:58. > :18:01.list. We cannot buy anything for our children anymore.
:18:01. > :18:06.When school started in this autumn, this family found a shortage of
:18:06. > :18:13.books in the classroom. A week ago, the government announced a property
:18:13. > :18:16.tax. The aim is to raise 2 billion Euros, it would hit the flat owners
:18:16. > :18:21.like this woman. For the scale of this area, it
:18:21. > :18:28.works out about six or seven Euros per metre. That is about more than
:18:28. > :18:34.700 Euros for the flat for a year. That is in two instalments.
:18:34. > :18:37.How-do people feel about the one- Oftax? That is a lot of money?
:18:37. > :18:42.think that the middle-class owners an the property owners are getting
:18:42. > :18:46.outraged. The tax is to be collected by the
:18:46. > :18:53.electricity bills, the power unions say that they will sabotage it.
:18:53. > :18:57.Even the police have seen their salaries cut by between two and 600
:18:57. > :19:01.Euros a month. TRANSLATION: Due to the cuts, 50%
:19:01. > :19:05.of the police vehicles and bikes cannot be used.
:19:05. > :19:13.This is the man negotiating for Greece to receive further bail out
:19:13. > :19:19.funds and avoid defaulting. He is the Greek Finance Minister.
:19:19. > :19:23.TheemplIMF criticised Greece for -- the erpbl IMF criticised Greece for
:19:23. > :19:27.wasting time. -- International Monetary Fund.
:19:27. > :19:32.There There have been tax rises and pay cuts, but they have not done
:19:32. > :19:38.the jobs. The tax collection is a shambles, the economy is shipging,
:19:38. > :19:40.so, more cuts are on the way, but this time increasingly, the Greeks
:19:40. > :19:46.are resisting. There were reports tonight that
:19:46. > :19:50.Greece is close to a deal to continue to receive bail-out funds.
:19:50. > :19:54.There is wide spread speculation this thousands of public sector
:19:54. > :20:00.workers are to be sacked as part of the plan.
:20:00. > :20:05.President Obama has set out details of a plan to cut America's budget
:20:05. > :20:10.deficit, saying he was willing to reduce spending on social
:20:10. > :20:17.programmes as long as it was balanced on raising taxes by the
:20:17. > :20:21.rich, that the wealthy should pay their fair share, citing a comment
:20:21. > :20:28.from Warren Buffet, who said he would be willing to pay fairer
:20:28. > :20:33.taxes. There is no just kaigs --
:20:33. > :20:40.justification for this. It is wrong in the United States of America, a
:20:40. > :20:47.teacher or nurse or construction worker who earns $50,000, should
:20:47. > :20:53.pay higher tax rates than somebody who earns $50 million. What are the
:20:53. > :20:57.opponents saying about this? Well, the phrase on must Republicans lips
:20:57. > :21:01.is' is class war, but the President wants to paint the Republicans as
:21:01. > :21:06.more interested in defending corporate and wealthy America than
:21:06. > :21:11.looking after the interests of ordinary working men and women.
:21:11. > :21:18.Wanting to extend the tax breaks to middle and lower-income families,
:21:19. > :21:23.making sure that the wealthiest pay more than they do now. He feels
:21:23. > :21:28.that mentioning the name of Warren Buffet could bolster his case.
:21:28. > :21:32.He knows that they may have little or no chance of passing this
:21:32. > :21:37.through Congress, but he feels this is the time for the kind of bold,
:21:37. > :21:40.fiesty move that could galvanise his supporters and set the terms of
:21:40. > :21:43.the debate for next year's presidential election.
:21:43. > :21:47.Thank you, Paul. The Ministry of Defence has
:21:47. > :21:50.announced that a Royal Mail has been killed in -- that a Royal
:21:50. > :21:55.Marine has been killed in Afghanistan.
:21:55. > :22:01.The marine from 42 Commando has been shot dead in the Helmand
:22:01. > :22:06.province. In a counter-terrorism operation,
:22:06. > :22:10.men were detained in a series of raids in the city. A woman is being
:22:10. > :22:15.questioned on suspicion of with holding information.
:22:15. > :22:17.The operation to disrupt a suspected Al-Qaeda-inspired
:22:17. > :22:22.terrorist plot involved counter- terrorism police and the MI5. They
:22:22. > :22:26.say that the threat was not imminent, but it was real. They
:22:26. > :22:31.acted, they say, in the froms of public safety.
:22:31. > :22:36.There were pre-dawn raids on more than a dozen addresses across
:22:36. > :22:39.Birmingham. Officers were not armed when they made the arrests, an
:22:39. > :22:44.indication that they did not expect to find firearms or explosives.
:22:44. > :22:49.This was a large-skai pre-planned operation, running for a little
:22:49. > :22:55.time in the West counter-terrorism unit. Today, the forensic teams
:22:55. > :23:00.took care to protect evidence, wrapping this car in tarpaulins.
:23:00. > :23:04.Forensic teams in this house and in the spark Brookes area of the city
:23:04. > :23:09.are conducting a through search. They have been here all day it will
:23:09. > :23:13.take a long time to examine all that has been found.
:23:14. > :23:17.Imran grew ep with one of the men arrested.
:23:17. > :23:23.-- Imran grew up with one of the men arrested.
:23:23. > :23:29.He did not want to show his face. The aim was to foil the plot at the
:23:29. > :23:33.planning stage. The threat of terrorism is active.
:23:34. > :23:38.It is live. It has diversified. We are facing a number of different
:23:38. > :23:43.challenges from new groups on the emerging scene.
:23:43. > :23:47.The police now have 14 days to question the suspects under the
:23:47. > :23:53.terrorism act. Tributes are being paid to Ginger
:23:53. > :24:01.McCain, he has died from cancer at the age of 80. He will be linked to
:24:01. > :24:06.Red Rum, the horse that won the ga Grand National three times.
:24:06. > :24:11.An operation to separate twins joined at the head has been
:24:11. > :24:16.described as about as complex as it can get. Surgeons carried out four
:24:16. > :24:20.operations, totalling nearly 40 hours are hopeful for the girls'
:24:20. > :24:25.future. Rital and Ritag Gaboura were separated last month after
:24:25. > :24:29.being flown to the UK from Sudan. Our correspondent is the only TV
:24:30. > :24:34.journalist to have met them. Rital and Ritag Gaboura, sharing
:24:34. > :24:39.the same cot, but these twins have undergone an extraordinary journey
:24:39. > :24:43.to be physically separated. Born joined at the head, doctors say
:24:43. > :24:47.they would have died unless he underwent surgery. Their parents,
:24:47. > :24:51.both doctors from Sudan can each hold one daughter in their arms.
:24:51. > :24:57.For them it is a miracle. What was it like when the twins
:24:57. > :25:02.were able to look each other in the eye for the first time? It was very,
:25:02. > :25:10.it was really a great moment in our life. I will never forget it. I
:25:10. > :25:15.hope that they will get a normal life and treat -- be treated as
:25:15. > :25:19.normal human beings. To forget all of the suffering times.
:25:19. > :25:24.Looking at the twins now, it is remarkable to think that just a
:25:24. > :25:28.month ago they were joined at the head. It is too early to be sure,
:25:28. > :25:32.but there are no signs at this stage that either has suffered any
:25:32. > :25:37.neurological damage as a result of the separation.
:25:37. > :25:42.This was the huge surgical team at Great Ormond Street Hospital who
:25:42. > :25:48.carried out four complex operations spread over four months. First
:25:48. > :25:53.dividing the veins and arteries, then growing new skin to cover the
:25:53. > :25:59.skull, and finally this, the moment when the twins were separated.
:25:59. > :26:04.There are so many things that you have to get right in the right
:26:04. > :26:07.order, separating the blood vessels, making sure that the brain is safe,
:26:07. > :26:12.reconstructing the skin. It really has been a tribute to the team, I
:26:12. > :26:18.think, that we have been able to plan this in such detail and keep