:00:11. > :00:16.A war of words ahead of next week's planned public sector strike
:00:16. > :00:20.between the Government and the yiefpbs. With 2 million workers set
:00:20. > :00:24.to walk out on November the 30th, each side blames the other.
:00:24. > :00:29.I think it is irresponsible. I think it is wrong. People should
:00:29. > :00:32.know who to blame. I think it is silly for the Prime Minister to be
:00:32. > :00:36.demonising the union leaders in this simplistic way.
:00:36. > :00:40.We are looking at whether next week's strike is the start of
:00:40. > :00:45.things to come. Also: More celebrities speak out at
:00:45. > :00:48.the inquiry into press standards, the author, JK Rowling says that
:00:48. > :00:54.the journalists camped outside of her home.
:00:54. > :00:57.It was like being under siege. Sienna Miller tells how she became
:00:57. > :01:04.so paranoid she could not even trust her own family.
:01:04. > :01:10.Every areas of my life was under constant sure veilians. Egypt
:01:10. > :01:12.event's military rulers say that the elections will go ahead next
:01:12. > :01:19.week. How Britain's population has
:01:19. > :01:24.swelled by a quarter of a million migrants. After the disastrous
:01:24. > :01:30.World Cup, the rugby team admit that they have hit rock bottom.
:01:30. > :01:40.And coming up: Carlos Tevez, has he found a way out of Manchester City?
:01:40. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :01:53.The advisers are having talks with Good evening.
:01:53. > :01:58.An acrimonious row has broken out between the unions and the
:01:58. > :02:05.Government ahead of the planned public sector strike next week. The
:02:05. > :02:07.Government is accusing the unions of damaging the economy. The unions
:02:07. > :02:11.are threatening to continue industrial action into next year,
:02:11. > :02:17.saying that the Government is plucking figures from mid-air. 2
:02:17. > :02:21.million workers, including teachers, immigration workers and immigration
:02:21. > :02:27.staff and health workers are expected to walk out of their jobs
:02:27. > :02:31.next week. It is likely to be the biggest public sector strike in a
:02:31. > :02:36.generation. And a nationwide strike on
:02:36. > :02:39.Wednesday, the 30th of November now looks inevitably and the blame game
:02:39. > :02:42.has begun. The responsibility of that
:02:42. > :02:47.disruption lies squarely with the trade union leaders who have
:02:47. > :02:51.decided on a strike even while the negotiations are ongoing. I this it
:02:51. > :02:55.is irresponsible it is wrong, people should know who to blame.
:02:55. > :02:58.The comments did not go down well with the unions saying that the
:02:58. > :03:02.Government's plans mean that millions of people have to work
:03:02. > :03:07.longer and more to get less in retirement. With the accusations
:03:07. > :03:11.flying, the head of the TUC was unusually critical of the Prime
:03:11. > :03:16.Minister's intervention. I think it is silly for the Prime
:03:16. > :03:19.Minister to be demonising the union leaders in this very, very
:03:20. > :03:23.simplistic way. He must understand we've been working for months
:03:23. > :03:26.trying to engage his ministers in serious negotiations.
:03:26. > :03:32.Unfortunately, that's not been happening.
:03:32. > :03:36.The impact will be wide spread and will start at our borders. Civil
:03:36. > :03:41.serve ants across the Government have been vd to volunteer to check
:03:41. > :03:45.the passports and man border posts. For the first time in years the NHS
:03:45. > :03:50.is to be hit too. Next Wednesday is the first national strike in the
:03:50. > :03:54.health service since 1988. Emergency cover will be provided,
:03:54. > :03:58.the doctors and the vast vort of nurses will be at work, but
:03:58. > :04:02.hundreds of thousands of staff are expected to walk out, including
:04:02. > :04:05.healthcare assistants and the likes of porters and cleaners.
:04:05. > :04:10.The biggest day of industrial action in more than 3 years could
:04:10. > :04:15.see up to 2 million workers go on strike. Today the Treasury said in
:04:15. > :04:19.a worst-case scenario, it could cost the economy up to �500 million
:04:20. > :04:24.it estimates that almost two thirds of all schools will close so, many
:04:24. > :04:28.parents will not be able to work. This school in Cardiff is one of
:04:28. > :04:32.thousands that will shut. It is a lot of trouble. There are
:04:32. > :04:38.parents going to work without anyone to look after my younger
:04:38. > :04:43.brother. If my son has to suffer for a day in the future, it will be
:04:43. > :04:47.a better benefit all around. here in Norwich, the children are
:04:47. > :04:50.being told to turn up. It is drafting in volunteers to ensure
:04:50. > :04:56.staying open. This school was a failing school.
:04:56. > :04:59.It is now an academy, the stability of keeping learning open is more
:04:59. > :05:04.important here. There could be more disruption to
:05:04. > :05:09.come, today, it was indicated that November 30th could be the start.
:05:09. > :05:13.Without a resolution to the dispute, further national strikes could be
:05:13. > :05:17.inevitable in the New Year. The Prime Minister was handed rare good
:05:17. > :05:22.news today about the economy. He visited two factories in the East
:05:22. > :05:27.Midlands, creating hundreds of new jobs it comes ahead of the autumn
:05:27. > :05:31.statement on the health of the UK economy. Or Political Editor
:05:31. > :05:36.reports from Derbyshire. Stick to the plan, things will get
:05:36. > :05:41.better, so says David Cameron. This is what better looks like. Toyota
:05:41. > :05:44.are promising to create up to 10,000 new jobs at their plant near
:05:44. > :05:48.Derby. A welcome bit of good news for a Prime Minister who knows that
:05:48. > :05:51.next week, the Chancellor will have to tell the country the bad news,
:05:51. > :05:55.but how far the economy is off course.
:05:55. > :06:01.I want Britain to be a manufacturing success story in this
:06:01. > :06:05.century. Today's announcement is unqualified good news for
:06:05. > :06:10.Derbyshire, Toyota and Britain. Derby is a place where they boost
:06:10. > :06:16.this they make not just automobiles, but planes and trains too. David
:06:16. > :06:21.Cameron set thup city, Derby, as a test of the Government's entire
:06:21. > :06:24.economic strategy. A few months ago he brought the entire Cabinet here
:06:24. > :06:29.to Rolls-Royce, promising that the economy would focus again on
:06:29. > :06:34.manufacturing, on making things. But just weeks later they were
:06:34. > :06:40.marching in the streets where Bombardier, the only train maker
:06:40. > :06:47.left in Britain said it had to cut 1400 jobs when an order for new
:06:47. > :06:51.British trains was given to the German company, Siemens. Alan
:06:51. > :06:55.Huff's family metal-bashing business makes parts for trains.
:06:55. > :06:59.His firm had plans to expand, but not now.
:06:59. > :07:04.How many jobs may it have created? Two jobs over a period of five
:07:05. > :07:08.years. Just that? Just on making that? Yes.
:07:08. > :07:14.So, what does he want from the Chancellor? Confidence.
:07:14. > :07:17.We're in a position where we are in a status quo, where we don't have
:07:17. > :07:20.the confidence to do anything further than where we are at the
:07:20. > :07:26.moment. Unemployment here is up 13%. Today
:07:26. > :07:31.new national figures showed that more than one in five 18-24-year-
:07:31. > :07:35.olds are classified as not in education, employment or training.
:07:35. > :07:40.That is NEET for short. That is not how it feels.
:07:40. > :07:42.I've been to college for three years. I have qualifications but I
:07:42. > :07:46.can't get work because of the recession.
:07:46. > :07:50.With the unemployment rising and the growth stalling, Labour says
:07:50. > :07:54.that the autumn statement is the time to change course.
:07:54. > :07:57.This marks a crucial moment in the economic course of our country. It
:07:57. > :08:02.shows comprehensively that the biggest economic gamble for a
:08:02. > :08:09.generation has failed. The Chancellor's under irreal
:08:09. > :08:13.pressure to prove that he knows how to fire up a flagging economy.
:08:13. > :08:20.Well, Nick Robertson is back in Downing Street. Nick, anymore
:08:20. > :08:25.details about the Government's plans for the economy next week?
:08:25. > :08:30.am hearing something that the trough -- that the Treasury are
:08:30. > :08:34.refusing to confirm, an increase in Government spending on so-called
:08:34. > :08:37.capital project. Infrastructure, in other words, road, rail, energy
:08:37. > :08:41.projects and broadband. Things designed to show that the country
:08:41. > :08:46.is moving again, things designed to persuade others to invest in the UK.
:08:46. > :08:49.We have always known, for some weeks at least, that the Chancellor
:08:49. > :08:53.wanted to persuade the private sector to invest more in
:08:53. > :08:58.infrastructure, toll roads, for example. Getting them to see there
:08:58. > :09:00.is a return to take advantage of a long-term interest rate to invest
:09:00. > :09:04.that money. But what I'm told is that in
:09:04. > :09:09.addition to that, money is being searched for around Whitehall
:09:09. > :09:13.that's not been spent by Government departments and there will be an
:09:13. > :09:18.increase in Government capital spending. Quite an important move
:09:18. > :09:22.after quite an important argument. Some arguing that this would be to
:09:22. > :09:25.abandon plan A, but Liberal Democrats insisting in the
:09:25. > :09:28.coalition that this can be done and should be done and they claim will
:09:28. > :09:33.make a difference. Thank you very much.
:09:33. > :09:37.The author, JK Rowling has spoken of her anger the -- at the
:09:37. > :09:41.intrusion into her private life. Giving evidence to the Leveson
:09:41. > :09:45.Inquiry. She described how a reporter once tried to contact her
:09:45. > :09:49.by putting a note into her daughter ace school bag. Sienna Miller spoke
:09:49. > :09:53.how she was pat at by photographers and chased down the street.
:09:53. > :09:56.Nicholas Witchell listened to the exchanges.
:09:56. > :10:01.This report contains flash photography.
:10:01. > :10:07.She's written books that have captivated millions of children
:10:07. > :10:13.around the world. Yet for McEnroe rethere is one rule, her own are
:10:13. > :10:16.entitled to complete privacy. But she told the Leveson Inquiry
:10:16. > :10:22.what a battle itline to achieve that. On one occasion, a letter
:10:22. > :10:30.from a journalist slipped into her five-year-old daughter's school bag.
:10:30. > :10:37.I felt... Such a sense of invasion. That my daughter's bag... I
:10:37. > :10:42.really... It is very difficult to say how angry and how... How angry
:10:42. > :10:46.I felt that my five-year-old daughter's school was no longer a
:10:46. > :10:50.place of, you know, complete security for journalists.
:10:50. > :10:55.She said she was driven from one home by the media, but the problems
:10:55. > :11:00.did not stop. There were two bad periods.
:11:00. > :11:05.Time where it really was like being under siege or being a hostage.
:11:05. > :11:10.After the birth of each of my subconsequent children for a week
:11:10. > :11:12.it was impossible for me to leave the house without being
:11:12. > :11:16.photographed, unless I wanted to be photographed or the children
:11:16. > :11:21.photographed. Much of the media behaved properly
:11:21. > :11:26.and did great work, she said, but there was a section that did not.
:11:26. > :11:33.The attitude is utterly cavalier in difference. What does it matter?
:11:33. > :11:39.You are famous, you're asking for JK Rowling told the inquiry that if
:11:39. > :11:42.you fought back against some nurps, there could be retribution, she
:11:42. > :11:49.departed amid the usual scramble of photographers.
:11:49. > :11:53.In the case of the actress Sienna Miller, the risks she face could
:11:53. > :11:56.amount to fiscal danger. She told the inquiry how for a number of
:11:56. > :12:02.years she faced almost daily pursuit by the photographers, at
:12:02. > :12:06.times it was terrifying. I would often find myself, I was 21,
:12:06. > :12:10.at midnight running down a dark street on my own with ten big men
:12:10. > :12:14.chasing me. The fact that they had cameras in their hands meant it was
:12:14. > :12:20.legal, but without the cameras, what have you got? You have a pack
:12:20. > :12:24.of men chasing a woman. That is a very intimidated situation to be in.
:12:24. > :12:29.Photographers seemed to know her movements, the reporters he secrets.
:12:29. > :12:34.She could not understand it, so she accused her family.
:12:34. > :12:39.There was one piece of private information that four people knew
:12:39. > :12:42.about. I had been careful to only tell my mother, sister and two
:12:42. > :12:47.close friends. A journalist phoned up to say that they knew of this.
:12:47. > :12:51.So yes, I accused my family and people who would never dream of
:12:51. > :12:55.seeing nfgts on me. I accused them, someone in that room of selling my
:12:55. > :13:00.story. In fact her phone was being hacked.
:13:00. > :13:04.When she was shown the notes kept by Glenn Mulcaire, 9 News of the
:13:04. > :13:12.World investigator, this is what she found: Dates refering to
:13:12. > :13:16.personal things within my life. All of my telephone numbers that I
:13:16. > :13:21.changed in three months. Access numbers, PIN numbers, my e-mail
:13:21. > :13:24.that was used to later hack my e- mail in 2008.
:13:24. > :13:28.From celebrities and private citizens alike have come similar
:13:28. > :13:32.allegations of often brutish behaviour and bullying attitudes.
:13:32. > :13:35.After four days of evidence some themes are starting to emerge.
:13:35. > :13:39.First, that there is a section of the British media without
:13:39. > :13:44.consideration for the feelings and the rights of those they are
:13:44. > :13:50.dealing with. Second, that people are genuinely intimidated about
:13:50. > :13:53.standing up to some British Egypt's state media is reporting
:13:53. > :13:58.tonight that a former prime minister has provisionally agreed
:13:58. > :14:01.to head a new government. Kamal al- Ganzouri has been holding talks
:14:01. > :14:04.with the country's military rulers. A truce between the security forces
:14:04. > :14:06.and demonstrators was observed today in Cairo, and the military
:14:07. > :14:16.authorities confirmed that elections will go ahead next week.
:14:17. > :14:18.
:14:18. > :14:22.Jeremy Bowen sent this report. It is a tense and a wary truce. The
:14:22. > :14:27.security forces are strengthening the forces around the interior
:14:27. > :14:33.ministry. This man wants to know who is going to pay for his
:14:33. > :14:40.newspaper kiosk, burned, he says, by rioters. They are thugs and
:14:40. > :14:48.anarchists. They do not want the country to settle down.
:14:48. > :14:58.A passer-by interrupts to defend the demonstrators. She asks him,
:14:58. > :14:59.
:14:59. > :15:02.where is your dignity? You should fear God, he tells her.
:15:02. > :15:12.People in Cairo are feeling the pressure of a crisis that doesn't
:15:12. > :15:13.
:15:13. > :15:17.have an easy solution. The violence stopped for today, at least.
:15:17. > :15:21.Egypt's long and explosive list of challengers has not gone away. They
:15:21. > :15:24.are cleaning up the mess, but that does not clean up the fundamental
:15:24. > :15:28.political problems. There is no guarantee of security for the
:15:28. > :15:33.elections, and longer term there is the big question - who is going to
:15:33. > :15:40.run this country, civilians elected by the people, or the armed forces,
:15:40. > :15:45.who have been in charge since 1952? The security forces are everywhere
:15:45. > :15:50.at this end of Mohamed Mahmoud Street, but they are seen by many
:15:50. > :15:57.local residents as allies. At the cafe, they said not everyone in
:15:57. > :16:01.Tahrir Square was bad, but they condemned the violence.
:16:01. > :16:08.He says, we are with the military and the police because they are
:16:08. > :16:12.protecting Egypt. But near the cafe, behind the wire,
:16:12. > :16:19.the Interior Ministry, a notorious torture centre under the old regime
:16:19. > :16:23.and unchanged. According to this woman, a journalist who was held
:16:23. > :16:29.there on Wednesday night. She says she was sexually assaulted and both
:16:29. > :16:34.her arms were broken. This kind of brutality, terrorising civilians,
:16:34. > :16:37.was one of the catalysts for our revolution, it is why Egyptians
:16:37. > :16:42.rose up against Hosni Mubarak and why we will continue this
:16:42. > :16:46.revolution until the country is free of military dictatorship.
:16:46. > :16:51.Tahrir Square is still full of Egyptians who feel like her. Not
:16:51. > :16:55.here, Egypt's biggest political movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.
:16:55. > :16:58.It does not want to disrupt Monday's election and is backing
:16:59. > :17:04.the new Prime Minister designate, unlike most of the Tahrir Square
:17:04. > :17:07.protesters. The poll was supposed to start the New Era but it might
:17:07. > :17:10.make Egypt's divisions even more bitter.
:17:10. > :17:14.Coming up: After the disaster of the World Cup
:17:14. > :17:24.off the pitch as well as on, the boss of England's elite rugby says
:17:24. > :17:25.
:17:25. > :17:30.sorry. The World Cup has not been good. I apologise to everybody. I
:17:30. > :17:34.am saddened by what is going on at the moment.
:17:34. > :17:37.The UK's population was boosted by a quarter of a million migrants
:17:37. > :17:40.last year. It's a record high in the difference between the number
:17:40. > :17:43.of people entering the UK and the number leaving, known as net
:17:43. > :17:48.migration. Mark Easton is here. This goes against the Government's
:17:48. > :17:51.target to cut down on the number of people coming into the UK.
:17:51. > :17:54.Yes, the Government's promise to reduce net migration to Britain to
:17:55. > :17:59.the tens of thousands looks increasingly unlikely to be kept.
:17:59. > :18:02.Immigration has been broadly flat for the last few years. But
:18:02. > :18:07.emigration, the number of largely British people deciding to start a
:18:07. > :18:11.new life overseas, keeps falling. The result is that net migration is
:18:11. > :18:14.now around a quarter of a million a year, more than twice the
:18:14. > :18:24.Government's target of below 100,000 by 2015. The Immigration
:18:24. > :18:27.Minister was trying to sound upbeat today. You can see in these figures
:18:27. > :18:31.the first very small straws in the wind. I would not claim more than
:18:32. > :18:36.that, but you can see work visas and student visas in the most
:18:36. > :18:46.recent quarter lower than a year before. So you can see just the
:18:46. > :18:47.
:18:47. > :18:50.first glimmerings of an effect. The Government's problem is that
:18:50. > :18:53.using net migration as the measure of success, they are forced to
:18:53. > :19:03.consider measures that some fear will damage our economy or our way
:19:03. > :19:04.
:19:04. > :19:09.First group includes engineers the first group includes engineers,
:19:09. > :19:13.academics, footballers. The Government proposes limiting their
:19:13. > :19:16.state of five years unless they are homeowners. But economic advisers
:19:16. > :19:23.warn that this could hit economic growth. 50,000 fewer skilled
:19:23. > :19:28.migrants could cost every person in Britain �44 over five years.
:19:28. > :19:33.Foreign students make up the largest group of non-e u a rivals,
:19:33. > :19:36.a rapidly expanding sector worth an estimated �8.5 billion a year.
:19:36. > :19:40.There may be scope for reducing abuse, but cutting numbers could
:19:40. > :19:44.again damage economic growth. And the Government is also considering
:19:44. > :19:49.restricting the right of British people to bring a foreign wife or
:19:49. > :19:53.husband to the UK. One idea is that only people earning over �25,700 a
:19:53. > :19:58.year would be about -- allowed to settle in Britain with a foreign
:19:58. > :20:02.spouse. Today's figures mean that to reach the migration target the
:20:02. > :20:07.Government would need to cut net migration from outside Europe by
:20:07. > :20:12.over 150,000, about 70% of net migration from outside Europe. That
:20:12. > :20:15.is a big challenge that will be hard to achieve.
:20:15. > :20:18.The Government's challenges that using net migration has the measure
:20:18. > :20:22.of success, they are forced to consider measures that some fear
:20:22. > :20:25.will damage our economy or way of life.
:20:25. > :20:28.A senior forensic scientist has told the Stephen Lawrence murder
:20:28. > :20:35.trial of his concerns that key police forensic evidence, which is
:20:35. > :20:38.the basis of the prosecution's case, could have been contaminated.
:20:38. > :20:42.The teenager was stabbed to death in Eltham, south-east London, 18
:20:43. > :20:46.years ago. The Old Bailey heard that Adrian Wain was worried about
:20:47. > :20:49.seals on the bag containing evidence when he was asked in 2001
:20:49. > :20:54.to test a blue jumper belonging to the teenager that had not
:20:54. > :20:57.previously been tested. He told the court, I knew the packaging was
:20:57. > :21:02.deteriorating and that the seals were deteriorating. I had concerns
:21:02. > :21:06.about contamination. David Norris and Gary Dobson deny killing
:21:06. > :21:11.Stephen Lawrence. The prosecution maintains the risk of contamination
:21:11. > :21:14.is theoretical. The trial continues. The Arab League has given Syria 24
:21:14. > :21:17.hours to agree to allow observers into the country or face sanctions.
:21:17. > :21:20.There's mounting international pressure on Syria to stop their
:21:20. > :21:23.crackdown on protestors. The leader of the Free Syrian Army, made up of
:21:23. > :21:27.defectors, has told the BBC that President Assad's regime will fall
:21:27. > :21:37.soon. John Simpson travelled to the province of Hatay on the Turkish
:21:37. > :21:38.
:21:38. > :21:44.border with Syria to interview him. The border between Turkey, on this
:21:44. > :21:48.side, and Syria, a closed country on the brink of civil war. It looks
:21:48. > :21:53.quiet enough, but Refugees slip across all the time. Among them,
:21:53. > :21:56.soldiers who have rebelled against the Syrian government. But even
:21:56. > :22:03.though they are under Turkish protection, they are not
:22:03. > :22:08.necessarily safe. There are seven refugee camps in this area. Many of
:22:08. > :22:12.the people who now live in them have been here for several months.
:22:12. > :22:18.A senior Syrian officer who defected, Colonel Harmoush, lived
:22:18. > :22:23.here until late September. Then he went out, by bus, to do some
:22:24. > :22:29.shopping in the nearby town. Somewhere round here, Colonel
:22:29. > :22:34.Harmoush disappeared. The assumption is that agents of Syrian
:22:34. > :22:38.intelligence were waiting for him, grabbed him and perhaps took him
:22:38. > :22:44.back over the Syrian border. Most people round here think that he has
:22:44. > :22:50.been killed already. Syrian refugees still come here to shop,
:22:50. > :22:53.but they tend to be more wary now. Some do not want to show their
:22:53. > :22:58.faces on camera. They all seem to know about the disappearance of
:22:58. > :23:05.Colonel Harmoush. The Turkish police keep an eye on them,
:23:05. > :23:09.although in the end, they let us go on filming. And the Turkish army
:23:09. > :23:14.makes it really hard to contact the leader of the Syrian rebels,
:23:14. > :23:18.Colonel Riad Al Assad, who has come across the border. He and all the
:23:18. > :23:22.defecting soldiers are now held in this one camp. While we were
:23:22. > :23:29.filming these pictures of the Syrian soldiers, the Turkish army
:23:29. > :23:33.came and arrested us, and a judge had to get us free. So the only way
:23:33. > :23:39.we could interview the Colonel was via the internet. It was all done
:23:39. > :23:45.very much at the last minute and it was pretty bizarre. We set up in a
:23:45. > :23:51.nearby farmyard and the chief of the free Syrian Army duly appeared.
:23:51. > :23:56.We are sure everyone, he says, that the President of Syria is finished.
:23:56. > :24:01.The Syrian nation is determined to bring this dictator down.
:24:01. > :24:06.Will it happen? God willing, God willing very soon.
:24:06. > :24:12.The system is rotten to the call. It may look strong on the outside,
:24:12. > :24:18.but at the heart it is weak. Inside Syria, the Free Syrian Army
:24:18. > :24:22.will be more and more important, as the situation gets worse. It is not
:24:23. > :24:26.civil war yet, but it seems to be heading that way.
:24:26. > :24:30.Rob Andrew, England's Elite Rugby Director, has admitted that the RFU
:24:30. > :24:33.has hit rock bottom but he's refused to quit. Last week the team
:24:33. > :24:38.manager, Martin Johnson, resigned after the team's poor performance
:24:38. > :24:45.on and off the pitch in the World Cup. In an interview with the BBC,
:24:45. > :24:49.Rob Andrew apologised for recent events, as Dan Roan reports.
:24:49. > :24:52.They have all played and won at the highest level, but these are some
:24:52. > :24:55.of the men whose reputations have been tarnished by the crisis
:24:55. > :24:59.afflicting English rugby. As they left New Zealand last month having
:24:59. > :25:03.been knocked out of the World Cup quarter-finals, England's players
:25:03. > :25:08.may have thought it could not get worse, but they were wrong. Coach
:25:08. > :25:13.Martin Johnson finally went last week, and today the man who many
:25:14. > :25:17.feel should go the same way said sorry. I apologise to everybody. I
:25:17. > :25:22.am saddened by what is going on at the moment, saddened for English
:25:22. > :25:26.rugby, because it is not a fair reflection on everything in English
:25:26. > :25:32.rugby. England's dismal World Cup was overshadowed by controversy
:25:32. > :25:37.from the moment this drinking session battered Queenstown bar
:25:37. > :25:41.spiralled out of control. -- at a Queenstown bar. Mike Tindall's
:25:41. > :25:44.behaviour cost him his international career. The scandal
:25:44. > :25:49.culminated in the highly damaging leak of three confidential report
:25:49. > :25:53.into the failed campaign, revealing a divided squad, riven by distrust
:25:53. > :25:59.of the management. Today one of the men criticised, England attack
:25:59. > :26:05.coach Brian Smith, resigned. I am absolutely shattered by what is
:26:05. > :26:10.going on, both on and off the field, at the moment. This last 12 months
:26:10. > :26:18.has been the most extraordinary working environment that anybody
:26:18. > :26:23.could possibly be in. The RFU have to sort themselves out. This is
:26:23. > :26:26.rock bottom. Amid the chaos, it is easy to forget that England are Six
:26:26. > :26:32.Nations champions, but there is now just six weeks before they begin
:26:32. > :26:36.the defence of their title. After unprecedented upheaval, the sports
:26:36. > :26:40.minister, Hugh Robertson, is demanding an overhaul of the RFU