:00:04. > :00:08.Tonight at ten, lower growth and higher unemployment - the troubling
:00:08. > :00:17.state of the British economy. The Bank of England says hopes for good
:00:17. > :00:20.economic growth this year and next year fade away. The journey to a
:00:20. > :00:24.more balanced world economy will be long and arduous.
:00:24. > :00:32.Young people are among the hardest hit - more than a million are now
:00:32. > :00:38.out of work. You just get stuck in a rut. You sit in all day, doing
:00:38. > :00:40.nothing. It is depressing. It makes you feel low and bleak. We will be
:00:40. > :00:42.asking what this means for the government's economic strategy.
:00:42. > :00:44.Also tonight: The family of Milly Dowler and
:00:44. > :00:48.other victims of press intrusion explain their suffering at the
:00:48. > :00:53.Leveson inquiry. More turmoil in Syria amid reports
:00:53. > :00:56.that thousands of government troops are defecting.
:00:56. > :01:06.FIFA boss Sepp Blatter under attack for suggesting how racist incidents
:01:06. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:12.can be settled. The one who is affected by that, he should say it
:01:12. > :01:14.is a game. At the end of the game, we shake hands.
:01:14. > :01:24.And at Westminster Abbey, a celebration of 400 years of the
:01:24. > :01:26.
:01:26. > :01:28.King James Bible. And I will be here with Sportsday
:01:28. > :01:38.later on the BBC News Channel, including Johnson's parting shot -
:01:38. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :01:53.he reveals why he left the England Good evening. The Bank of England
:01:53. > :01:57.has revealed the depth of its concern about the state of the
:01:57. > :02:01.economy. Growth is now expected to be much weaker than predicted this
:02:01. > :02:05.year and next. The Governor, Mervyn King, said the debt crisis in the
:02:05. > :02:09.euro-zone remained the "single biggest risk" to the UK. He spoke
:02:09. > :02:19.as unemployment reached its highest level for 17 years. We will have
:02:19. > :02:23.
:02:23. > :02:26.more on that shortly. First, this Up anyone looking for good news
:02:26. > :02:35.about the economy from the Bank of England today would have been
:02:35. > :02:39.sorely disappointed. The difficult economic environment will be flat,
:02:40. > :02:43.long and arduous. The details of the bank's new forecast were even
:02:43. > :02:47.gloomier than the Governor. Three months ago, the Bank of England was
:02:47. > :02:52.expecting the economy to grow by more than 2% next year. In this new
:02:52. > :02:56.report, the forecast is for growth of just 1%. We are not expecting
:02:56. > :03:00.much growth at all over the next few months. The only good news in
:03:00. > :03:05.these bleak pages is that for once, they have lowered their inflation
:03:05. > :03:10.forecast as well. Inflation has climbed relentlessly over the last
:03:10. > :03:14.two years to more than 5%. But from now on, the bank expects it to drop
:03:14. > :03:18.like a stone to barely 2% by the end of next year. So there is light
:03:18. > :03:23.at the end of the tunnel, even if the tunnel is a lot longer than the
:03:23. > :03:28.Bank originally thought. We expect that next year, real take-home pay
:03:28. > :03:31.will start to recover slowly. It will be gradual, but the
:03:31. > :03:35.extraordinary squeeze on real take- home pay that we have seen over the
:03:35. > :03:38.past three years should begin to come to an end. A bank watchers
:03:38. > :03:44.drew a clear lesson - the Bank of England will be printing more money
:03:44. > :03:48.to support the economy, maybe a lot more. Even the bank's new forecasts
:03:48. > :03:52.depend on the crisis in the Eurozone being resolved. Italy saw
:03:52. > :03:56.its new technocrat Prime Minister sworn in today, but so far the
:03:56. > :04:01.financial markets seem unimpressed. France and Germany are at odds over
:04:01. > :04:04.what happens next. France thinks the European Central Bank should
:04:04. > :04:08.come to the single currency's rescue, but today the German
:04:08. > :04:13.Chancellor again said no. And in case you are wondering, Sir Mervyn
:04:13. > :04:17.King is on her side. Do they wished to make transfers within the euro
:04:18. > :04:21.area or not? That is not something which a central bank can decide for
:04:21. > :04:26.itself. That is something which only the governments of the euro
:04:26. > :04:32.area can come to a conclusion on. But someone who used to work at the
:04:32. > :04:36.ECB thinks all roads lead to the central bank. First we will see the
:04:36. > :04:43.government's trying to implement the rescue fund and see if this can
:04:43. > :04:48.solve the crisis. Only once this fails, which in our view is likely,
:04:48. > :04:52.the ECB will be the last resort and in the end will have to step in
:04:52. > :04:56.because if it does not, it will not even be able to save itself from
:04:56. > :05:00.the abyss. In the long run, the Governor likes to say we are
:05:00. > :05:04.masters of our fate. The bank and the Government have a plan for
:05:04. > :05:08.recovery, and eventually we will get there. But the long run is
:05:09. > :05:11.turning out to be much longer than anyone hoped or the Bank expected.
:05:11. > :05:14.As hopes for stronger growth were undermined, so were people's
:05:14. > :05:17.prospects of finding work. There has been a sharp rise in
:05:17. > :05:21.unemployment to 2.62 million, and the number of young people seeking
:05:21. > :05:31.work has passed the 1 million mark. The jobs market weakened in almost
:05:31. > :05:33.
:05:33. > :05:36.every part of the UK. There is not much light in the
:05:36. > :05:40.gloom of the jobs market. Unemployment has risen to its
:05:41. > :05:44.highest since 1994. There are variations. In the south-west,
:05:44. > :05:48.there was an increase in the jobless total, while in Northern
:05:48. > :05:50.Ireland there was a slight fall. But what stood out was the figure
:05:50. > :05:56.of nearly a million young unemployed, including students
:05:56. > :06:00.looking for work. Sam, 17, has just done a two week course at
:06:00. > :06:04.Gloucestershire College to help him in the hunt for a job. He wants to
:06:04. > :06:10.work in catering, but after several months, he has had no luck.
:06:10. > :06:15.just get stuck in a rut. You are sitting in all day, doing nothing,
:06:15. > :06:20.sitting around being bored. It makes me want to get a job, because
:06:20. > :06:26.if you have a job, you have income and you can live life a lot better.
:06:26. > :06:31.But Sam believes eventually he will find something. I believe I can
:06:32. > :06:36.work hard and I am a strong worker. What is your message to employers?
:06:36. > :06:41.Employ me! The worry is that with slow growth, the economy will not
:06:41. > :06:44.create enough jobs both to bring down unemployment and provide
:06:44. > :06:50.enough openings for young people leaving full-time education to join
:06:50. > :06:54.the workforce. The Labour leader, on a visit to a crane manufacturer,
:06:54. > :06:59.said it was time for ministers to act. Instead of blaming everybody
:06:59. > :07:03.else or making excuses, the Government should listen. It should
:07:03. > :07:08.change course and take action to get our economy moving. And most of
:07:08. > :07:11.all, to put our young people back to work. Meanwhile, the Business
:07:11. > :07:15.Secretary hosted an apprenticeship summit to highlight initiatives to
:07:15. > :07:20.help young people. There is no silver bullet. We are concentrating
:07:20. > :07:26.on this apprenticeship initiative, giving small companies an incentive
:07:26. > :07:30.to take on young people. Some older workers like Martin are finding
:07:30. > :07:34.life just as tough as their younger counterparts. He is learning
:07:35. > :07:39.plumbing. He left the RAF after 22 years believing he was well placed
:07:39. > :07:46.to find a new job, but his hopes have been dashed. There is no
:07:46. > :07:52.interest whatsoever in employ me. That was shocking. I thought there
:07:52. > :07:56.would be something out there. are job vacancies, for example at
:07:56. > :08:00.Royal Mail, the Christmas work. But it has had six applicants for every
:08:00. > :08:05.position. And with the industrial giant Rio Tinto announcing today
:08:05. > :08:08.that over 500 jobs could go in Northumberland and British Gas
:08:08. > :08:15.reporting that 850 posts would be cut, it is clear that the jobs
:08:15. > :08:18.market is not getting any easier. With that rising unemployment and
:08:18. > :08:23.falling growth, what is the pressure on the government's
:08:23. > :08:26.economic strategy? Let's talk to our political editor Nick Robinson.
:08:26. > :08:31.How do you see things going now in terms of that strategy for the
:08:31. > :08:36.months ahead? Government insiders say there are two scenarios for the
:08:36. > :08:41.economy in the next few months. One involves flat growth and rising
:08:41. > :08:48.unemployment. The bad news is that that is the good scenario. The bad
:08:48. > :08:52.scenario involves the Eurozone crisis getting worse, a country
:08:52. > :08:56.defaulting and basically disaster. So the Chancellor is now having to
:08:56. > :09:00.prepare a sort of mini Budget for a week on Tuesday, with measures
:09:00. > :09:05.which he knows cannot transform that, but he hopes will make it a
:09:05. > :09:08.bit better. Yes, there will be a programme to deal with that
:09:08. > :09:13.terrible problem of youth unemployment, but not the sort of
:09:13. > :09:16.tax subsidies that some businesses have been asking for in order to
:09:16. > :09:20.convince them there is an incentive to take on the young unemployed.
:09:20. > :09:24.There will be a programme to invest money in the infrastructure, but
:09:24. > :09:28.that will largely be about 20 use low long-term borrowing rates to
:09:28. > :09:35.get the private sector, not the Government, to spend the money,
:09:35. > :09:41.because they haven't got it. Finally, there will be what David
:09:41. > :09:45.Cameron called it a Tory housing revolution in his conference. They
:09:45. > :09:49.will underwrite mortgages, in effect saying to lenders who are
:09:49. > :09:53.frightened to lend money to people who cannot afford deposits, we will
:09:53. > :09:58.stand behind you. All those measures are designed to make it
:09:58. > :10:02.easier. But figures out my show the Government is already �100 billion
:10:02. > :10:08.off its own borrowing targets. Labour say that means we have had
:10:08. > :10:13.all the pain and none of the game. Imagine how much worse it would be
:10:13. > :10:16.if we were spending government money we did not have.
:10:16. > :10:19.All of the British tabloid press, not just the News Of The World, is
:10:19. > :10:22.in effect standing in the dock because of the phone hacking
:10:22. > :10:25.scandal. That was the message of a lawyer representing victims of
:10:25. > :10:27.press intrusion at the Leveson inquiry into press standards. David
:10:27. > :10:30.Sherborne spoke of "systematic, flagrant and deeply entrenched
:10:30. > :10:36.abuses", and said there has been a breakdown of trust between the
:10:36. > :10:45.press and the public. Nick Higham has been following events at the
:10:45. > :10:48.Royal Courts of Justice. Today's shocking and sobering
:10:48. > :10:51.litany of newspapers' failings started with the News Of The World.
:10:51. > :10:55.The paper's hacking of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler's voicemail
:10:55. > :10:59.was described as despicable, but her parentss' voicemails were
:10:59. > :11:03.apparently also hacked. They took part in arranged photo calls, but
:11:03. > :11:08.when they sought in private to retrace her last walk, the News Of
:11:08. > :11:13.The World's photographer had been alerted. First stolen voicemail
:11:13. > :11:17.messages. Why not then steal these precious moments, too? Epic you,
:11:17. > :11:21.what is the difference? But the inquiry was told the whole of the
:11:21. > :11:24.British press is in the dock. There were Kate and Gerry McCann, her
:11:24. > :11:28.private diary published after Portuguese police apparently leaked
:11:28. > :11:32.it. And there was Christopher Jefferies, wrongly suspected of
:11:32. > :11:36.murdering Joanne Yeates in Bristol. David Sherborne said there had been
:11:36. > :11:42.a frenzied campaign using smear, innuendo and fiction to blacken his
:11:42. > :11:47.name. Like clumsy thieves, drunk on the frenzy of an intoxicatingly
:11:47. > :11:51.good story, the press broke into his life and trashed everything.
:11:51. > :11:54.And the inquiry heard the newspaper abusers are still going on. Ten
:11:55. > :11:59.days ago, the People ran a story about Charlotte Church supposedly
:11:59. > :12:04.drunk in a karaoke club. It was fiction. She was not there. The
:12:04. > :12:08.story was not checked. Hugh Grant's former girlfriend and mother of his
:12:08. > :12:11.child was threatened after he spoke out about hacking in the tabloids.
:12:11. > :12:15.She received a barrage of phone calls from a withheld number from
:12:15. > :12:20.someone who managed to get it from somewhere. When she finally
:12:20. > :12:30.answered, she was threatened in the most menacing terms, which should
:12:30. > :12:34.for reverberate around this inquiry. "Tel Hugh Grant he must BLEEP". She
:12:34. > :12:37.was too stressed to call the police. David Sherborne launched a
:12:37. > :12:41.devastating critique not just of the News Of The World, but of the
:12:41. > :12:45.tabloid press generally. The onslaught will continue next week,
:12:45. > :12:53.when more than 20 victims of press intrusion will give evidence in
:12:53. > :12:57.At the Old Bailey, eyewitnesses who saw Stephen Lawrence being stabbed
:12:57. > :13:01.to death in south London 18 years ago have been giving accounts of
:13:01. > :13:04.the moments before and after the attack. One said a gang of youths
:13:04. > :13:07.took only 10 seconds to stab the teenager and then casually walked
:13:07. > :13:16.away. Gary Dobson and David Norris, who are both from south London,
:13:16. > :13:18.deny murder. The Ministry of Defence says a soldier from 2nd
:13:18. > :13:21.Battalion, The Rifles has been killed in southern Afghanistan. He
:13:21. > :13:27.died in an explosion while providing security in the Nahr-e
:13:27. > :13:30.Saraj district of Helmand province. His family has been told. In Syria,
:13:30. > :13:34.there are reports that a group of army defectors has attacked a
:13:34. > :13:37.military base near Damascus. If confirmed it would be most high-
:13:37. > :13:45.profile attack - by what's becoming known as the Free Syrian Army -
:13:45. > :13:48.since the anti-government protests began. The man leading the group
:13:48. > :13:58.has spoken to the BBC and claimed that 15,000 soldiers have switched
:13:58. > :13:58.
:13:58. > :14:01.sides so far. This report contains some strong images. This is an anti
:14:01. > :14:04.regime demonstration in the area where the attack happened on the
:14:04. > :14:09.edge of Damascus. Since most foreign journalists are barred from
:14:09. > :14:13.Syria, we are relying again on pictures and information emerging
:14:13. > :14:17.via the web. The regime has a strong presence in the area. The
:14:17. > :14:25.fact that such a prominent target was attacked was another sign that
:14:25. > :14:30.the opposition is becoming more militarised and more daring. It is
:14:30. > :14:35.claiming that least 15,000 defectors from Assad's military
:14:35. > :14:40.have joined the uprising with their weapons. He is saying, we will
:14:40. > :14:45.continue with the struggle and we will win all we all die. And in
:14:45. > :14:50.this video another man talks about attacks in and around Damascus. He
:14:50. > :14:54.warns what he calls the regime's thugs not to harm unarmed, peaceful
:14:54. > :15:00.protesters. He says they will keep on fighting until their enemies lay
:15:00. > :15:05.down their arms ever since the uprising started back in March,
:15:05. > :15:09.President Assad has said armed extremists are trying to destroy
:15:10. > :15:13.Syria. But the evidence was that the vast majority of the protests
:15:13. > :15:19.were peaceful, and that the Assad regime's forces have been killing
:15:19. > :15:22.unarmed people. Increasingly, President Assad's forces we are
:15:22. > :15:27.facing a tax. There are still peaceful protests, but now there
:15:27. > :15:32.are also predictions of civil war in Syria. We've been talking to the
:15:32. > :15:41.head of the so-called Free Syrian Army, made up of defectors from the
:15:41. > :15:45.regime's armed forces. The only language the tyrants like Mashaal
:15:45. > :15:49.acid and Gaddafi here is the language of violence, because they
:15:50. > :15:53.are tyrants and that is the only language they understand.
:15:53. > :15:58.Morocco, the Arab League has confirmed that Syria is being
:15:58. > :16:02.suspended, and it has given Damascus three days to allowing an
:16:02. > :16:05.observer mission. The Arab spring is now fixed up with the region's
:16:05. > :16:13.existing conflicts. Saudi Arabia believes that targeting Assad also
:16:13. > :16:18.targets Iran. The reason? Iran is Syria's alike. And also the Saudi's
:16:18. > :16:23.arch enemy in the Gulf. Back in Syria, state TV has been showing
:16:23. > :16:29.for pro-Asada demonstrations. Syria calls itself the beating heart of
:16:29. > :16:33.the Arab world, but it could face Arab economic sanctions. And a
:16:33. > :16:38.graphic video has emerged of the head of one municipality being
:16:38. > :16:44.tortured by regime the soldiers. We are going to show everyone what is
:16:44. > :16:50.happening to you, one soldier tells him. For God's sake, I've done
:16:50. > :16:53.nothing, he pleads. Someone says go easy on him. But he is kicked
:16:53. > :17:02.unconscious. Activists say they don't know what's happened to him
:17:02. > :17:08.A glimpse their of the continued violence in Syria and the
:17:08. > :17:18.predictions of civil war. Still to come... After the disappointment of
:17:18. > :17:18.
:17:18. > :17:22.the Rugby World Cup, Martin Johnson Sepp Blatter - president of FIFA,
:17:22. > :17:24.football's world governing body - has said the game does not have a
:17:24. > :17:30.problem with racism, and believes any racist incidents can be settled
:17:30. > :17:32.with a handshake at the end of the match. He made the comments on the
:17:32. > :17:34.day the FA charged Liverpool striker Luis Suarez over alleged
:17:34. > :17:44.racist remarks and the investigation into Chelsea's John
:17:44. > :17:45.
:17:45. > :17:49.Terry continues. It just gets worse and worse for Sepp Blatter. Already
:17:49. > :17:56.mired in a corruption crisis, to David gaffe-prone FIFA President
:17:56. > :18:01.created a new storm with his views on racism. In an interview with CNN,
:18:01. > :18:06.he appeared dismissive of the issue. There is no racism. There is maybe
:18:06. > :18:10.one of the players towards the other, he has a word or a gesture
:18:10. > :18:15.which is not the correct one. But also the one who is affected by
:18:15. > :18:20.that, he should say, it is a game. We are in the game and at the end
:18:20. > :18:24.of the game we shake hands. This can happen. After the interview he
:18:24. > :18:27.issued a clarification on the FIFA website, claiming he had been
:18:27. > :18:31.misunderstood and was in fact committed to that fight against
:18:31. > :18:35.racism in football. Sepp Blatter's latest gaffe comes at a time when
:18:35. > :18:38.FIFA's reputation has never been lower and he has never been more
:18:38. > :18:43.vulnerable. But it's also a sensitive time for English football,
:18:44. > :18:47.with officials here at the Football Association having to deal with two
:18:47. > :18:51.high profile racism cases. This afternoon, the FA charge Liverpool
:18:51. > :18:55.forward Luis Suarez with racially abusing Manchester United defender
:18:55. > :18:59.Patrice Evra. And the England captain, John Terry, is still
:18:59. > :19:05.waiting for the outcome of separate police an FA investigations into
:19:05. > :19:11.claims he racially abused QPR's Anton Ferdinand. With Sepp Blatter
:19:11. > :19:15.facing a major back row -- backlash, Ferdinand's brother, a real, wrote,
:19:15. > :19:21.your comments on racism are so condescending it's almost laughable.
:19:21. > :19:27.It advanced shout racist chants but shake our hands, is that OK? People
:19:27. > :19:32.are outraged and that is right and proper. The real thing will be what
:19:32. > :19:35.will be the solution, the action to this? What has been happening in
:19:35. > :19:39.terms of racism around the world and closer to home has been to
:19:39. > :19:43.ignore it, to sweep it under the carpet. Hopefully this will
:19:43. > :19:46.galvanise people to realise that we have a huge problem. For Sepp
:19:46. > :19:50.Blatter the problems keep on mounting. With the FIFA in
:19:50. > :19:53.desperate need of reform, today's controversy will pose fresh
:19:53. > :19:59.questions about whether he is the right man to clean up world
:19:59. > :20:02.Eviction notices have been attached to tents occupied by anti-
:20:02. > :20:06.capitalist protestors outside St Paul's Cathedral in London. The
:20:06. > :20:08.notices, drawn up by the City of London Corporation, say that if the
:20:08. > :20:15.tents are not removed by 6pm tomorrow proceedings will be issued
:20:15. > :20:18.in the High Court. The GMB has become the latest union to vote to
:20:18. > :20:21.join a national strike on November 30th over planned changes to public
:20:21. > :20:28.sector pensions. The GMB represents different groups of workers
:20:28. > :20:31.employed in local government, the NHS and the civil service. The
:20:31. > :20:41.TUC's day of action now has the support of 15 trade unions, with
:20:41. > :20:43.
:20:43. > :20:46.more still to declare their ballot results. The England Rugby coach
:20:46. > :20:48.Martin Johnson has resigned. His decision follows the team's poor
:20:48. > :20:51.performance in the World Cup in New Zealand, which also featured
:20:51. > :20:58.controversy off the field. This report by our sports correspondent
:20:58. > :21:02.contains some flash photography. Martin Johnson remains arguably the
:21:02. > :21:07.most successful player in English rugby history. The only man to lead
:21:07. > :21:12.his mission to World Cup glory in 2003, Johnson secured his place in
:21:12. > :21:17.sporting folklore. The hope was that is unique status would make up
:21:17. > :21:21.for a lack of managerial experience. And winning this year's Six Nations
:21:21. > :21:24.hinted at progress. But from the moment England crashed out of the
:21:24. > :21:28.World Cup quarter-finals at the hands of France last month, the
:21:28. > :21:32.manager's position was in peril. Today, he decided to bring the
:21:32. > :21:37.uncertainty over his job to an end. I didn't come to this decision
:21:37. > :21:41.lightly. I think it's the best interests of myself and the England
:21:41. > :21:47.team that I don't carry on into next year. From the moment a
:21:47. > :21:51.drinking session spiralled out of control, England's dismal World Cup
:21:51. > :21:55.campaign was blocked by off-field issues. Mike Tindall's behaviour
:21:55. > :21:59.during that night out in Queenstown just one of the series of
:21:59. > :22:03.controversies. The sense was that Johnson had been undermined by both
:22:03. > :22:07.the behaviour of the players and his employers, who remained silent.
:22:07. > :22:15.I would have liked to have seen him with a bit more backing from the
:22:15. > :22:20.RFU, a bit more support with the PR of the whole World Cup, giving him
:22:20. > :22:24.a bit more support them and used his strength. Johnson denied that
:22:24. > :22:31.unprecedented recent a people here at Twickenham had contributed to
:22:31. > :22:36.his departure. But many believe the RFU should take some of the blame.
:22:36. > :22:40.Surely you are accountable as well to some extent? Absolutely, in
:22:40. > :22:46.terms of the department and the structure of the professional game.
:22:46. > :22:52.That is the understanding of my role in this, which... So you won't
:22:52. > :22:56.go, you are not resigning? I'm not resigning. The RFU must now decide
:22:57. > :22:59.who should replace Johnson, with a first foreign coach, such as New
:22:59. > :23:03.Zealander Graham Henry, another World Cup winner, Sir Clive
:23:03. > :23:08.Woodward, and Jim Wallander, of Northampton Saints, all in
:23:08. > :23:12.contention. Whoever is chosen, Johnson has rarely tasted defeat
:23:12. > :23:18.like this. He remains one of rugby's icons, but playing great
:23:19. > :23:21.this did not translate into Four centuries ago, at Westminster
:23:21. > :23:25.Abbey, a group of scholars completed a new translation of the
:23:25. > :23:28.Bible. The Authorized Version, commonly known as the King James
:23:28. > :23:31.Bible, took seven years to produce. At a special anniversary service in
:23:31. > :23:33.the Abbey today their translation was described by the Archbishop of
:23:33. > :23:38.Canterbury as one of abiding importance for the Church of
:23:38. > :23:48.England and for the English language. Allan Little explores the
:23:48. > :23:53.
:23:53. > :23:57.power and influence of the King To Westminster Abbey the
:23:57. > :24:02.translator's came 400 years ago to agree the final text. The Queen
:24:02. > :24:05.came today, to venerate their remarkable literary achievement.
:24:05. > :24:09.The Archbishop of Canterbury said the key to the character of the
:24:09. > :24:15.King James Bible was that it was written not for the eye but for the
:24:15. > :24:20.year. It was meant to be read aloud. And that means it was rent -- meant
:24:20. > :24:27.to be part of an event, a shared experience. Gathered as a Christian
:24:27. > :24:31.community, a parish would listen. The translators have paid special
:24:31. > :24:36.heed to metre and cadence, that has shaped much of our literature. You
:24:36. > :24:40.can hear the rhythms of the King James Bible in TS Eliot and Ernest
:24:40. > :24:45.Hemingway. In America, its lofty, poetic style has entered the
:24:45. > :24:52.nation's discourse. Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing
:24:52. > :24:59.we have to fear is fear itself. belief that the rights of man come
:24:59. > :25:03.not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
:25:03. > :25:06.England of King James was God- fearing but fractures and
:25:06. > :25:11.dangerously divided. High Church Anglicans and low-church Protestant
:25:11. > :25:14.had their own separate versions of the Bible. James, a Scottish king
:25:14. > :25:20.on the English throne, wanted a single text that would unify his
:25:20. > :25:24.realm. This Bible was also a political project. They gathered
:25:24. > :25:29.the best minds in the country together in order to produce this
:25:29. > :25:33.new translation. It helped unify the people and help to unify the
:25:33. > :25:38.country, having won Bible to be used each and every Sunday in the
:25:38. > :25:42.services. The Church of England often uses more modern translations
:25:42. > :25:46.in the hope that they will be easier to understand. But their
:25:46. > :25:50.language is often prosaic, earthbound in comparison to the
:25:50. > :25:59.1611 text. 400 years on, the unique spell cast by the King James Bible