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Vincent Tabak begins a life sentence for the murder of his

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neighbour, Joanna Yeates. After the verdict, police reveal how Tabak

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lived a lie to try to cover his tracks. Joanna's family say they

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never doubted she had been murdered. The police say her killer was

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clever and cunning. Vincent Tabak is an intelligent and manipulative

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man, a man who killed Jo and then had the presence of mind to dispose

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of the body and evidence linking him to her flat. We'll be looking

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at how the police built their case against Vincent Tabak.

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Also tonight: Royal succession moving with the times. Commonwealth

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leaders say daughters should get the same rights to the throne as

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sons. Put simply, if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were to have a

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little girl, that girl would one day the Queen.

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The boardroom bonanza: How company directors' pay jumped by almost 50%

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last year, despite the downturn. And the painstaking and expensive

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task of restoring Moscow's Bolshoi Coming up, Chelsea pay for their

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misconduct last weekend while the John Terry continues. And Chelsea

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are fined for failing to control Good evening. A Dutch engineer,

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Vincent Tabak, is beginning a life sentence tonight after a jury found

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him guilty of murdering his neighbour, Joanna Yeates, in her

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flat in Bristol. Her body was found on Christmas Day last year. Today,

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police revealed how DNA found on her helped convict him. Detectives

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called Tabak cunning and manipulative and said it took

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months of painstaking police work to bring him to justice. Joanna

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Yeates's family said they regretted that he wouldn't face the death

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penalty. Jon Kay is in Bristol tonight.

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From the moment Jo Yeates was reported missing from her flat last

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Christmas, this became one of the most closely followed and high-

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profile criminal investigations in recent years. The police received

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more than 3,000 phone calls from members of the public, and took

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more than 1,000 potential witness statements, but tonight, one man,

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Vincent Tabak, is in prison beginning a life sentence and we

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can finally give you more information that the jury wasn't

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told about his life. Standing in the shadows, the quiet

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neighbour nobody suspected. And when Vincent Tabak returned from

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his Christmas holiday abroad, he thought he had got away with murder.

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Two weeks earlier, he had used his car to dump the body of July they

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Yates after killing her in the Victorian mansion block where they

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lived -- to dump the body of Jo Yeates. He rented the flat on the

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left with his girlfriend, Tanja Morson. Jo Yeates leave to in the

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flat on the right with her boyfriend, Greg Reardon. On 17th

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December, they were both home alone. Jo's parents chose not to be in

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court for the verdict but they now know that their daughter was

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murdered by her next-door neighbour, strangled by a man who had viewed

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internet pornography featuring violence towards women. We so miss

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hearing her happy voice. family's statement was read by a

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police officer. We saw no emotion or remorse or regret for what he

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did to Jo. We felt that all emotion expressed by him was false. All we

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heard were words of self pity. For us, it is with regret that capital

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punishment is not a possible option for his sentence. The best we can

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hope for him is that he spent the rest of his life incarcerated,

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where his life is a living hell. Yeates had been out for drinks

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after work and then walked home, stopping on the way to buy pizza.

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Only Vincent Tabak knows what happened then but within minutes of

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her getting home, he was in her flat and she was dead. He told the

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court he had misread the signals, that he had gone to kiss Miss

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Yeates and when she screamed, he had held her neck to stop the noise,

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but the jury decided he had killed her intentionally, that it was a

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sexually motivated murder. As he sentenced Tabak to life

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imprisonment, the judge described him as very dangerous. Vincent

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Tabak is an intelligent and manipulative man. A man who killed

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Jo and then had the presence of mind to dispose of the body and

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evidence linking him to her flat. Even Tabak's own legal team

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described his behaviour after the killing as disgusting. He put her

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body in the boot of his car and went shopping for beer and crisps.

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The prosecution said that was a deliberate attempt by a calculating

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man to create an alibi. While her parents and boyfriend made

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desperate appeals, her murderer went on holiday. Vincent Tabak

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headed back to Holland to spend New Year with his family, but secretly

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he was constantly checking the internet to see if his victim's

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body had been found, working out how he might evade justice. It was

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the discovery of Jo Yeates's body at a snowy roadside on Christmas

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morning that gave the investigation even greater resonance. And at the

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scene, detectives found DNA material, which led to the arrest

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of Vincent Tabak. His arrest was met with a shot in the small Dutch

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town where Vincent Tabak was remembered as a shy, academic --

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met with shock. I said, Vincent?! He isn't able to do that, no, no. I

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couldn't believe it. But the Dutchman, who received a PhD in

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human behaviour, had a secret double life. On his computer,

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detectives found internet images of men with their hands around women's

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next, of women tied up in car boots. -- Women's necks. His phone had

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been used to court escort agencies during work trips away from home.

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None of that evidence was put to the jury in this case. The judge

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says it was inadmissible because it was not directly linked to this

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question of murder, but we know from the police denied that they do

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intend to question Vincent Tabak about some of the material they

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have found. -- we know from the police tonight.

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Centuries of royal tradition are to be overturned after agreement at

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the Commonwealth leaders summit that the rules on girls succeeding

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to the throne should change. It means any first-born daughter of

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Prince William would become Queen, even if she later had a younger

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brother. The ban on the monarch and their heirs marrying Roman

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Catholics will also be lifted. From Perth, Nicholas Witchell reports.

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She is a monarch who has probably never been more respected and is

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very nearly 60 years into one of the most successful reigns in

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British history. And yet the coronation in 1953 of Elizabeth II

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would never have happened if she'd had a younger brother, because for

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more than a thousand years, the daughters of monarchs have always

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had to give way to sons, regardless of age. But now that is to change,

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and for once, the Queen revealed what she thought about equality for

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women at the opening of the Commonwealth Leaders' Summit.

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theme this year is women as agents of change. It reminds us of the

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potential in our societies that is yet to be fully unlocked, and it

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encourages us to find ways to allow girls and women to play their full

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part. This is why the politicians are finally changing the laws of

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succession. The marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton and

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the prospect of them having children, but changes such as these

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require the agreement of 15 other countries, the realms where the

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British monarch is also head of state. There, Prime Ministers met

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and came to a decision. I'm very pleased to say that we've reached a

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unanimous agreement on two changes to the rules of succession. First,

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we will end the male primogenital rule so that in future the order of

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succession should be determined simply by the order of birth.

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other proposed change would affect people in the line of succession

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like Prince Harry. They'd no longer be barred from marrying Roman

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Catholics, but it's the potential impact on Prince William and his

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wife David Cameron highlighted. simply, if the Duke and Duchess of

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Cambridge were to have a little girl, that girl would one day be

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our Queen. One important thing to note: The changes wouldn't be

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retrospective, so Princess Anne won't move up the line of

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succession, but it is historic. It has to be said the changes are

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complicated. In Britain alone, the centuries old Bill of Rights and

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Settlement will have to be amended, but potentially, they will change

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the future face of the monarchy. At the Commonwealth Summit, David

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Cameron also turned his attention to the economic problems across

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Europe saying he felt a little more optimistic following yesterday's

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deal to tackle the debt crisis. But he warned the City of London was

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coming under constant attack from directives from Brussels. He's been

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speaking to our Political Editor, Nick Robinson.

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The Right Honourable David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United

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Kingdom. An X-Factor entrance for the Prime

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Minister at the Commonwealth Summit and every other leader.... Prime

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minister of Tonga,... President of Nigeria... Prime Minister of Canada.

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There are 54 countries in this organisation, covering six

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continents and a third of the world's population, but it has just

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one real star. Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, head of the

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The Queen calls the Commonwealth she heads "the first worldwide web".

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It brings together wealthy liberal Democracies with countries that are

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much less wealthy and much less liberal and democratic too. They're

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here to see if they can agree on some things that do bind them

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together - other, that is, than history and Her Majesty. The

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Queen's visit to Australia is big news here. But the Commonwealth

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Summit certainly didn't -- isn't. As thousands of miles away, Europe,

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and the crisis which all the leaders at this summit no could

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still damage their economies. After a meeting with his Australian host,

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the Prime Minister told me he was feeling a little more optimistic

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about the economy than he had been. The eurozone situation is a little

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better than it was. That was clearly having a chilling effect on

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Britain, so the more progress they make, the better for us. This is

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all about confidence. People may now say it is time for the British

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Government to take British measures to get the economy growing again.

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Oh, I accept we have to have the most active growth programme we

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possibly could. That is in addition to dealing with our debts and our

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deficit, which absolutely has to be done. David Cameron came here from

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Brussels. He's worried that when the 17 eurozone countries pull

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together, they may act against Britain's interests. The City of

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London is, he says, under constant attack from EU directives. Look,

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all countries in Europe pursue their national interests. Would the

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French and the Germans like a larger share of financial services

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in Paris and Frankfurt? Of course. I want to make sure we keep them in

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London. That's why we fight very, very hard for our national

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interests, for jobs, for businesses, for investment. That is what we do

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in the European Union. The Prime Minister will be in Australia for

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less than 40 hours. Less time than it takes to fly here and fly back.

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Next week there is another summit of the G20 in France. Its agenda?

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Colonel Gaddafi's son has had in direct contact with the

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International Criminal Court about his possible surrender, according

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to its prosecutors. Saif Al-Islam, who is on the run following his

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father's death, is wanted for crimes against humanity. The ICC

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chief prosecutor said he would get a fair trial if he surrenders.

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A man employed by the Roman Catholic Church in Plymouth to

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safeguard children has been jailed for 12 months for making,

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possessing and distributing images of child sexual abuse. Christopher

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Jarvis, 49, had more than 4000 images, some on a church supplied

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laptop. A slap in the face for millions of

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British workers on ordinary incomes. That is how the Deputy Prime

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Minister reacted to new figures showing that the directors of top

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companies enjoyed a 49% increase in their total pay packages over the

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last year. The study found that FTSE 100 bosses took home an

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average of �2.7 million. Today, they defended their pay. Hugh Pym

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has been looking at the figures. For many workers there is the

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biggest squeeze on spending power in decades, with low pay rises and

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higher inflation. Demonstrators have come to the heart of the City

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of London to protest against the financial system, and now we learn

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that directors of big companies have seen a pay boost of 49%,

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including share awards over the last year. Government and

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opposition were quick to condemn. think it will strike most people as

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a slap in the face for millions of ordinary British men and women who

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are struggling to make ends meet. When people are struggling, when

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the middle is being squeezed, people seeing living standards fall,

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people will think it is just not fair for those at the top to be

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seeing on a wave rewards not related to the wealth they have

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created. In the first year of the new millennium, the median pay

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package for the leading detectives of top 100 companies was just under

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�900,000. Median earnings for full- time workers were just under 19,000.

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By this year, the figure for bosses had soared to 2.7 million, up more

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than 200%. While the figure for workers, around 26.5, had gone up

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around 40%. And the index of 100 leading shares is lower than 11

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years ago, although there have been ups and downs in between. So how do

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British boardroom chiefs defend their pay deals? The man who runs

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the advertising giant WPP took a 17% increase last year. He says in

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previous years, when things did not go well, his pay fell. You have to

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look at fixed pay, and have to look at incentives, short-term and long-

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term, and the Investment I continued to making the company and

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have done for 26 years. Go back to 2009, there was a substantial

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reduction. Companies are owned by shareholders and many of them are

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in the City of London, the big financial institutions. In the past,

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they have been criticised for not intervening over the issue of

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directors' pay, but the Government cannot force them to act, or go

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into battle against boardrooms. Ministers have launched a review

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with the aim of linking pay more closely to performance. But

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criticism of big companies over the salaries for bosses, and their

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bonuses, is nothing new. They have shrugged it off before and this

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time it may be no different. Coming up:

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The Bolshoi back in business - a gala performance at its grand

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reopening in Moscow. India gets a taste of the world's

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most expensive sport this weekend when it hosts its first ever

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Formula One Grand Prix. Promoters hope that the event will banish

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memories of the corruption that marred last year's, north games.

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The new racetrack and stadium cost �250 million to build. It might not

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seem much, given that India is now the world's 9th largest economy,

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but with more than a third of its population living in poverty, some

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fear that the Grand Prix is just another sign of the gulf between

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rich and poor. The spin machine is in overdrive.

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Formula One cars racing through the centre of Delhi. Promoting it as

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the new sport for a rise in India and its burgeoning middle classes.

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There is a brand new track and stadium, built on time and on

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budget. The organisers hope it will erase memories of last year's

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chaotic Commonwealth Games here. The seats have been selling fast,

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but even the cheapest are way beyond the pockets of most Indians.

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India is in the fast lane - that is the message here, ready to host the

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world's most expensive sport. But is it a sign that India is pulling

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ahead, or just its wealthy elite? Just the other side of the track,

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it is a world away from the high- octane glamour and speed of Formula

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One. Some have done well, getting compensation from the racetrack for

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their farm land. They have gone on a spending spree on new cars and

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houses. Can everyone who has received compensation for the track

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put up their hands? But it is a lottery. Those with land do really

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well, those without get nothing. With the land gone, this farm

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labour now has no worker. He cannot afford to send his children to

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school. He says he wishes Formula One had never come to India. But

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preparations for the multi-million- dollar race are now in top gear,

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with the owner of India's Grand Prix team saying the country is now

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in the big league. I don't know why the international media keeps

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focusing on the poor part of India. Sure, we have poverty, but why

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don't you focus on what in the actually house? A large middle

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class, perhaps this but perhaps the size of Europe. A growing per

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capita income. An aspirational population, very successful. And

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the market is large enough. country is roaring ahead in many

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ways. The danger is that it is becoming more and more two Indias,

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with one being left ever further behind.

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Ireland's former culture minister is on course to win the Irish

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presidential election. Michael D Higgins, Labour Party veteran and

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poet, has won more than 40% of the vote, according to the first

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official count. Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness came third.

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The Brown -- the Crown Prosecution Service has asked for more evidence

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over allegations that the Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, tried to

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avoid a speeding ticket. Prosecutors have been examining

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claims that he asked his ex-wife to accept that all the points on his

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behalf. He has strongly denied the allegations. -- to accept penalty

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points. Investors in Britain are still

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digesting the latest deal saved the euro. Many eyes are turning towards

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China to see whether it will support the EU bail out fund. Today

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the head of that fund was in Beijing, hoping to persuade

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investors. If you are looking for money, this

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is where you find it, Beijing. The economy is booming, cash to spend.

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So is seeking investment capital, it is to communist China that

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Europe is turning in its hour of need. The head of Europe's bail out

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fund is here to persuade China to invest in Europe. In my experience,

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talking to the Chinese authorities, they are interested in finding

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attractive, solid, safe investment opportunities. Vast export

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industries selling to the world drive the Chinese economy. Some say

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the policy of fixing its exchange rate to keep products cheap is

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unfair. But it earns China huge amounts of cash. A surplus of $540

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million every day in the first half of this year, making China's pile

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of foreign exchange a gigantic 3.2 trillion dollars, about half of

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which, 1.6 trillion, is invested in America. And about a quarter, $800

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billion, is thought to be held in euros. This man's bank invested $30

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billion last year, much in Africa. Europe is not China's only option,

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he says. China has many other choices. We have to weigh each of

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these choices. Europe is one of those choices. Today, China's

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leaders were hinting that they will want concessions if they loan money

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to Europe. There should be less old prejudice, said China's vice

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Foreign Minister. That may mean opening European markets more to

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China, or not criticising it for having a cheap currency. Other

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demands might be that Europe stops criticising China on human rights,

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or that it lifts the arms embargo in place since the Tiananmen

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massacre. Certainly, China feels in a powerful position. Europe needs

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capital for its government and to return to growth. China has plenty

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of money. After six years of painstaking

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restoration, the red curtain went up for the first time since 2005

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tonight at Russia's world famous Bolshoi Theatre. But returning it

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to its 19th century imperial splendour has come up quite a price.

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Daniel Sandford was there for the Bolshoi's grand reopening.

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It was the Moscow must have ticket of the year, a gala concert to mark

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the reopening of the city's famous old theatre, where there has been

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no performance since July 2005. Tonight's concert is the end of a

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six-year battle to bring the Bolshoi Theatre back to its glory

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from the time of the tsars. The renovation has cost over half a

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billion pounds. Moscow's elite was there, among them, former President

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Mikhail Gorbachev, and the outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev. Many of

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the Bolshoi's ballet stars were on display, including a principal

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dancer Maria Alexandra Burke. Between final rehearsals, she gave

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me a tour of the painstakingly renovated building.

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TRANSLATION: We all know we have to keep the history and traditions of

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this place, so this is a very happy moment for us. I have even got

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tears in my eyes. I am so happy. During the renovation, all of the

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Soviet emblems, like the hammer and sickle, were removed. And, as ever

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in modern Russia, the eye-watering cost of the building work brought

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allegations of corruption. But there was traditional craftsmanship,

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too. The gold leaf was polished using vodka and squirrels tales.

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This colour lithograph, made in 1856, shows the theatre in the

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years are Alexander II was crowned. -- in the year that Tsar Alexander

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II was Crown. Since then, it has seen Communist Party rallies and

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survive the Second World War but has managed to keep its reputation

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as the home of world-class ballet. Some dancers have complained that

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the restoration has taken the soul out of the theatre, but the

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resurgent Russian state is hoping it will stand alongside the other

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great ballet and opera houses in New York, Paris, London and Milan.

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