:00:13. > :00:17.Saving the eurozone, Germany's plan to change existing treaties and
:00:18. > :00:22.impose new controls over tax and spending. Chancellor Merkel also
:00:22. > :00:26.wants sanctions for countries that fail to stick within their budgets.
:00:26. > :00:31.The Prime Minister meets his French counterpart to discuss their
:00:31. > :00:35.preferred solutions. The bottom line for me is what is in the
:00:35. > :00:37.interests of the UK and how can I promote and defend that? Will be
:00:37. > :00:43.looking at the challenges for Europe's leaders ahead of next
:00:43. > :00:46.week's summit. Inside the ransack British Embassy
:00:46. > :00:51.in Iran. The ambassador describes when protesters broke into the
:00:51. > :00:54.building. It was the fire and smoke coming up to the third floor which
:00:54. > :01:00.forced us out. Boozing Britain, how young people
:01:00. > :01:04.are on course for an epidemic of alcoholic liver disease.
:01:04. > :01:09.Relief for England in the Euro 2012 draw, but they will have to face
:01:09. > :01:12.France. And a new warning on the impact of
:01:12. > :01:17.climate change from the nation's best-loved natural history
:01:17. > :01:22.broadcaster. We know these changes are happening, the evidence is
:01:23. > :01:27.incontrovertible. As far as we can see ahead, if they go one, it will
:01:27. > :01:32.have catastrophic effects. In sport, we will have more
:01:32. > :01:42.reaction to that draw and what it means for England as well as the
:01:42. > :01:56.
:01:56. > :02:00.Good evening. Europe needs to change its current treaties or
:02:00. > :02:04.create new ones have to solve the debt crisis, according to the
:02:04. > :02:07.German consul or -- Chancellor. She said there's needs to be tougher
:02:07. > :02:10.controls over tax and spending across the eurozone to force
:02:10. > :02:13.countries to stick within their budgets and they should be
:02:13. > :02:17.sanctions for those that don't. It is part of the attempt to find a
:02:17. > :02:20.lasting solution to the debt crisis and will be discussed at an EU
:02:20. > :02:23.summit next week. Today the Prime Minister went to Paris to hold
:02:23. > :02:33.talks with the French President and promised to protect British
:02:33. > :02:35.
:02:35. > :02:39.At this critical time, here is the European Central Bank celebrating
:02:39. > :02:49.the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the euro bank note.
:02:49. > :02:49.
:02:49. > :02:54.In the German parliament today, Angela Merkel was looking for a
:02:54. > :02:58.plan that would save the single currency. Her ambitious idea is the
:02:59. > :03:05.eurozone countries to be bound more closely together with tough rules
:03:05. > :03:09.to prevent government overspending. TRANSLATION: Anybody who just a few
:03:09. > :03:13.months ago would have said we were introducing very serious steps for
:03:13. > :03:17.a European stability Union, a fiscal union, would have been
:03:17. > :03:23.considered crazy. But she said that fixing the crisis was a process
:03:23. > :03:27.that would take years. At the heart of the latest plan devised by
:03:27. > :03:31.Angela Merkel is turning the eurozone into what is called a
:03:31. > :03:35.fiscal union with tighter control over tax and spending. There would
:03:35. > :03:39.be enforceable sanctions against those who broke the rules, with
:03:39. > :03:43.defender countries possibly being taken to the European Court of
:03:43. > :03:47.Justice. National budgets could even be vetoed. Of course this is
:03:47. > :03:51.difficult to swallow for any politician and any sovereign
:03:51. > :03:55.country, but the situation at the moment is such that countries can't
:03:55. > :03:58.really bargain for very much, they need to agree with whatever is on
:03:58. > :04:01.the table in order for this crisis to be resolved because otherwise
:04:01. > :04:04.to be resolved because otherwise the consequences will be dire.
:04:04. > :04:08.Angela Merkel's view, these plans Angela Merkel's view, these plans
:04:08. > :04:13.will require changes to the EU treaties. But that is controversial.
:04:13. > :04:18.In the past, haggling over treaties such as Lisbon took years and
:04:18. > :04:21.involved some countries holding referenda. What is not clear is
:04:21. > :04:30.whether these latest proposals to alter the treaties will be limited
:04:30. > :04:33.or substantial. Treaty changes pose a big dilemma for Britain. Today
:04:33. > :04:38.the Prime Minister was in Paris visiting President Sarkozy, who is
:04:38. > :04:42.also backing treaty change. David Cameron neither wants nor does he
:04:42. > :04:47.see the need to change the treaties. The British position is to wait
:04:47. > :04:52.until it is clear what the final proposal will be. If there is
:04:52. > :04:56.treated change, I will make sure we further protect and enhance
:04:56. > :05:00.Britain's interests. We will see what happens next Friday, but the
:05:00. > :05:04.bottom line for me is what is in the interests of the UK.
:05:04. > :05:08.dilemma is that a major treaty change would require British
:05:08. > :05:14.support and many of his backbenchers would see that as an
:05:14. > :05:18.opportunity to get back powers from Brussels. We have to say, you have
:05:18. > :05:25.proposed the renegotiation of the European treaties, we are not going
:05:25. > :05:29.to accept those on your terms. report builds bridges. So the
:05:29. > :05:33.European Central Bank may be celebrating 10 years of euro notes
:05:33. > :05:39.and coins. What the financial markets will want to know is how
:05:39. > :05:43.long it will take for these latest plans to have impact.
:05:43. > :05:47.A fairly gloomy warning from Chancellor Merkel that it could
:05:47. > :05:53.take years to resolve this, but the markets today responded very
:05:53. > :05:57.encouragingly. And absolutely. I think what the markets of doing his
:05:57. > :06:01.spying what they are calling a grand bargain. In the long term,
:06:01. > :06:05.they now begin to see that there will be a controller the spending
:06:05. > :06:11.and if countries break the rules, there probably will be sanctions
:06:11. > :06:15.against them. What they are hoping is that this will encourage the
:06:15. > :06:19.European Central Bank in the short term to act more boldly, more
:06:19. > :06:23.aggressively, to move into the markets and so low that borrowing
:06:23. > :06:27.costs for those countries in trouble. But I have to tell you, a
:06:27. > :06:34.lot of these plans, like substance and detail, and they will be a lot
:06:34. > :06:37.of bargaining over the weekend. The British ambassador to Iran have
:06:37. > :06:40.spoken for the first time about the moment when the embassy compounds
:06:40. > :06:45.in Tehran were overrun by protesters. Dominic Chilcot said he
:06:45. > :06:49.had to lock himself in a safe room and had no idea how it would end.
:06:49. > :06:59.The attacks on Tuesday caused diplomatic out rage with Britain
:06:59. > :07:02.
:07:02. > :07:07.closing the embassy and expelling On Tuesday afternoon, protesters
:07:07. > :07:12.stormed into the British Embassy. The ambassador and his core staff
:07:12. > :07:15.had to lock themselves into a safe for him. And now, pictures from the
:07:15. > :07:20.ambassador's own camera show how much damage they did and just how
:07:20. > :07:24.close they came to him and his staff. You could hear them trying
:07:24. > :07:28.to smash down the doors and windows, but they could not get into our
:07:28. > :07:34.part of the building, except at one point when they got into one of the
:07:34. > :07:38.consular offices and started a fire. In the end it was the smoke coming
:07:38. > :07:42.on to the third floor which forced us out. They were unhurt, but to
:07:42. > :07:47.the ambassadors horror he faced a much bigger problem. He had sent
:07:47. > :07:51.his non-essential staff to a separate residential compound to be
:07:51. > :07:55.safe. But protesters went after them as well. One colleague had
:07:55. > :07:58.locked himself in his keep, he had pressed the heavy safe begins the
:07:58. > :08:02.iron door, he had pressed her bed begins the safe and had braced
:08:03. > :08:07.himself against the bed. They came for him because they knew he was
:08:07. > :08:11.there. You can imagine what it is like a, they are breaking the
:08:11. > :08:14.windows, they are trying to break the door. He kept them out for 45
:08:14. > :08:19.minutes, but in the end the door was broken around him and there was
:08:19. > :08:22.nothing he could do for top eventually he got out. Protesters
:08:22. > :08:27.looted and stole hard drives. The ambassadors photos show they also
:08:27. > :08:33.went to work on a few British symbols. Queen Victoria's portrait
:08:33. > :08:37.barely survives. Edward the Seventh is defaced. The next morning, all
:08:37. > :08:44.British diplomats left Teheran with a firm belief as to who was
:08:44. > :08:48.responsible. Iran is not the sort of country where spontaneous
:08:48. > :08:52.demonstrations congregate and then attack a foreign embassy. That sort
:08:52. > :08:57.of activity is only done with the acquiescence and support of the
:08:57. > :09:02.state. That is why Britain has expelled Iran's diplomats from the
:09:02. > :09:07.UK. This morning, they packed up. Iran's diplomats are leaving in a
:09:07. > :09:10.hurry. Iran's government has called the decision to close the embassy a
:09:10. > :09:16.hasty one and Tay ran's Nadir has promised that when the diplomats
:09:16. > :09:19.get back home, they will be treated as heroes. And they are already on
:09:19. > :09:24.their way. This afternoon, the diplomats and their families left
:09:24. > :09:29.Heathrow. Now, disagreements over nuclear activities and sanctions
:09:30. > :09:34.will have to be addressed at the UN. Iran and the UK's talked for
:09:34. > :09:38.decades, but still they barely understand one another. Now the
:09:38. > :09:44.last flight has left and those misunderstandings are likely to get
:09:44. > :09:49.deeper. The Independent Police Complaints
:09:49. > :09:52.Commission has launched an investigation into the collapse of
:09:52. > :09:56.a police eight police officers were cleared of perverting the course of
:09:56. > :10:02.justice in relation to the murder 23 years ago of Lynette White from
:10:02. > :10:05.Cardiff. The IPCC will investigate how files vital to the case came to
:10:05. > :10:09.be destroyed. Police in Essex are treating as
:10:09. > :10:14.attempted murder two incidents where concrete blocks were dropped
:10:14. > :10:17.on to cars on the A12. A woman was badly injured when a lump of
:10:17. > :10:21.concrete the size of a bucket smashed through her windscreen as
:10:21. > :10:25.she travelled under a bridge on Thursday night. The driver or so it
:10:25. > :10:29.suffered cuts. Britain is facing an epidemic of
:10:29. > :10:33.lizard -- liver disease caused by binge drinking according to some of
:10:33. > :10:36.the country's top consultants. In the north-east of England, there's
:10:36. > :10:40.been a 400% increase in the number of people in their early 30s
:10:41. > :10:44.admitted to hospital with alcoholic liver disease. The consultants have
:10:44. > :10:49.called for alcoholic advertising to be kept to protect young people.
:10:49. > :10:52.Fergus Walsh is here. It sounds worrying.
:10:52. > :10:55.It is. Liver specialists say it used to be rare for them to treat
:10:55. > :10:59.people under the age of 50 with people under the age of 50 with
:10:59. > :11:02.alcoholic liver so roses, but that has changed. If we compare the
:11:02. > :11:07.number of people in their late twenties admitted to hospital in
:11:07. > :11:12.England with alcoholic liver disease in 2002 with last year, it
:11:12. > :11:17.has increased by 70%. Now if you look at people in their early 30s,
:11:17. > :11:21.there's a similar worrying upward trend, the increase is 60% in a
:11:21. > :11:30.decade. In north-east England, the increase among this age group is
:11:30. > :11:35.increase among this age group is Joanne Paterson needs dozens of
:11:35. > :11:38.tablets a week to stay alive. The result of years of alcohol abuse.
:11:38. > :11:43.The 41-year-old from Sunderland used to drink at least three
:11:43. > :11:48.bottles of wine a day. Her liver is so damaged that she may need a
:11:49. > :11:55.transplant. I do think it was because I started drinking too
:11:55. > :11:59.young. You get a taste for it. What can you do? You take yourself to
:11:59. > :12:05.the next level. Adults in Britain drink double the amount of alcohol
:12:05. > :12:10.they did in the 1950s, but in recent years, overall alcohol
:12:10. > :12:14.consumption has been falling. A group of liver specialists in the
:12:14. > :12:21.north-east is concerned with binge drinking among the young and has
:12:21. > :12:24.called for restrictions on alcohol advertising. We have seen this
:12:24. > :12:28.epidemic of alcoholic liver disease and hospital admissions of the
:12:28. > :12:33.result in very young people, in their thirties and twenties. This
:12:33. > :12:38.is all because alcohol is far too cheap, far too available, and far
:12:38. > :12:42.too heavily promoted. The drinks industry says there are already
:12:42. > :12:47.strict controls on advertising and it is a minority who abuse alcohol,
:12:47. > :12:51.but when they do it increases the risk of not just liver disease, but
:12:51. > :12:55.cancer, stroke, a range of conditions. There are estimated to
:12:55. > :13:02.be about 2.5 million higher risk drinkers in England alone and this
:13:02. > :13:04.costs the NHS at least �2.7 billion costs the NHS at least �2.7 billion
:13:04. > :13:08.a year. There's been a rising trend in deaths from alcohol in Britain
:13:08. > :13:12.since the early 90s. You will see that there was a slight fall
:13:12. > :13:16.recently, which might be due to falling consumption, but today's
:13:16. > :13:26.figures are worrying signs of what may happen to the next generation
:13:26. > :13:27.
:13:27. > :13:31.The Government has won an important ruling on the way that pensions are
:13:31. > :13:40.calculated for public sector workers. Unions were arguing about
:13:41. > :13:45.the measure of inflation being used, describing it as unlawful. This
:13:45. > :13:51.week, between 1 million and 2 million public-sector workers went
:13:51. > :13:56.on strike over changes to their pensions. Today, unions lost a key
:13:56. > :14:00.legal battle over how pensions will be increased for years to come.
:14:00. > :14:08.Pensions are uprated annually to take account of the rising price of
:14:08. > :14:12.a basket of goods. Traditionally, RPI has been used. In April, the
:14:12. > :14:21.Government switched to see PRI - the consumer prices index - which
:14:21. > :14:25.it says is a more accurate measure of inflation. -- at CPI. Phil
:14:25. > :14:31.Campbell and many other private sector employees now face a cut in
:14:31. > :14:37.what they receive. The CPI measure it is a percentage point on average
:14:37. > :14:44.lower than RPI. I probably will not notice it next year but it is the
:14:44. > :14:50.same amount it will be eroded by each year. Take a teacher who
:14:50. > :14:57.retires on 10 bars and pounds a year, over 20 years, she will now
:14:57. > :15:05.receive �40,000 less. -- �10,000. That is an enormous saving for
:15:05. > :15:10.government and taxpayers. I am told there were some sighs of relief at
:15:10. > :15:16.the Treasury when the result of the case finally came. The Government
:15:16. > :15:20.was or was confident it would win. It said it welcomes the High Court
:15:20. > :15:25.acceptance to use the consumer prices index for inflation proofing
:15:25. > :15:30.certain pensions and benefits. Unions insist the legal fight is
:15:30. > :15:36.not over. We intend to appeal and we want that to be heard as quickly
:15:36. > :15:41.as possible. It is too important for us to leave it there.
:15:41. > :15:47.Government says its reforms will make pensions sustainable longer
:15:47. > :15:55.term. The switch to CPI it is a key part in that. This case has the
:15:55. > :15:59.potential to upset those plans. Coming up: Now, warming
:15:59. > :16:06.temperatures have meant less sea ice. A new warning on the impact of
:16:06. > :16:12.climate change on the polar ice Football, and the draw for Euro
:16:12. > :16:14.2012 has been made. England are in a group with France, Sweden and the
:16:14. > :16:18.joint hosts, Ukraine. England's coach, Fabio Capello, says he is
:16:18. > :16:28.content with England's balanced Group D draw. From Kiev, here is
:16:28. > :16:30.
:16:30. > :16:33.As he arrived at the Palace of Arts, Fabio Capello was looking for some
:16:34. > :16:38.love. Despite the festivities, dangers were lurking in the
:16:38. > :16:43.Ukrainian capital as England prepared to learn their 2012 fate.
:16:43. > :16:48.For a moment it looked as though they could come up against Spain.
:16:48. > :16:56.England were last to be drawn. They knew they would be facing less
:16:56. > :17:04.intimidating opponents. England, the last one. The draw had been
:17:04. > :17:14.kind. Fabio Capello seemed content. The best group was Group A. We are
:17:14. > :17:15.
:17:15. > :17:21.happy with the group - Group D. It is a tough group. Having based
:17:21. > :17:31.themselves in Krakow, all three of England'is quick gains will be
:17:31. > :17:44.
:17:44. > :17:49.played in Ukraine. The first in the next. -- Donetsk. Of arduous 12 per
:17:49. > :17:55.Jenny's a weight on the trains. The team could suffer as well. -- 12
:17:55. > :18:01.our journeys. It will be a couple of hours in and out for every match.
:18:01. > :18:05.You are having to acclimatise in your hotel and it is destructive.
:18:05. > :18:12.After a shambolic campaign in the World Cup last year, England have
:18:12. > :18:15.an opportunity for redemption. This is the large -- the last major
:18:16. > :18:20.tournament for Fabio Capello in charge. England will leave here
:18:20. > :18:26.knowing that things could be much worse. Most of the big guns have
:18:26. > :18:28.been avoided. The challenge is not so much who they play but where.
:18:28. > :18:30.The organisation which monitors standards at care homes in England
:18:31. > :18:33.has been accused of several failures, including not carrying
:18:33. > :18:35.out enough inspections. The National Audit Office says the Care
:18:35. > :18:37.Quality Commission is facing serious and considerable
:18:37. > :18:40.difficulties. The commission's chief executive, Cynthia Bower,
:18:40. > :18:47.admitted the commission had faced a challenging period but said it is
:18:47. > :18:50.now on track and making rapid progress. The son of a pensioner,
:18:50. > :18:55.murdered as he tried to stop his car being stolen, says his father's
:18:55. > :18:58.death has left his mother feeling she no longer wants to live. James
:18:58. > :19:02.Simpson, who was 76, was run over outside his home in Larkhall in
:19:02. > :19:10.South Lanarkshire. His son today appealed for anyone with
:19:10. > :19:13.information about his father's He came to power promising to root
:19:13. > :19:16.out corruption but Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party has been
:19:17. > :19:19.branded a bunch of crooks and thieves by the country's opposition.
:19:19. > :19:23.Public anger about state corruption, and the numbers of civil servants
:19:23. > :19:28.buying luxury homes and cars, has become a big issue in the run-up to
:19:28. > :19:38.parliamentary elections this weekend. Daniel Sandford, has been
:19:38. > :19:40.
:19:40. > :19:45.investigating. In a Moscow graveyard, the tomb of a young
:19:45. > :19:51.corporate lawyer, Serguei Magnitsky, who died in prison after a severe
:19:51. > :19:56.beating amounts of medical neglect. He had been investigating a tax
:19:57. > :20:01.fraud of over �100 million. Tax officials and police when he
:20:02. > :20:07.accused turned the tables on him and had him arrested. Within a year
:20:07. > :20:11.he was dead. The Government tax inspector signed of the huge rebate
:20:11. > :20:17.at the heart of the case and her family became multi-millionaires
:20:17. > :20:23.soon afterwards. Her mother in law it is the registered owner of this
:20:23. > :20:27.ultra-modern luxury house, worth over �10 million. She claims the
:20:27. > :20:35.money came from her husband's business but their tax returns show
:20:35. > :20:40.at the joint income of only �20,000. -- ate joint income. It is terrible.
:20:40. > :20:46.I do not know how these people live with themselves. They have no
:20:46. > :20:52.conscience. I find it difficult to come to terms with that. For many,
:20:52. > :20:56.the death of Serguei Magnitsky epitomises many of Russia's
:20:56. > :21:02.problems. People enriching themselves with no one to bring
:21:02. > :21:06.them to account. Outside Moscow, behind huge fences, dozens of
:21:06. > :21:11.secretive luxury estates have sprouted up. Opponents have
:21:11. > :21:16.nicknamed the ruling party which most officials belong to, the party
:21:16. > :21:24.of crooks and thieves. These �10 million houses should be out of the
:21:24. > :21:33.reach of any public servants but they are not. From 40 to 60% of the
:21:33. > :21:37.buyers of top housing in Russia are Russian government employees.
:21:37. > :21:46.ferry the new elite around, thousands of luxury cars have been
:21:46. > :21:51.bought with taxpayers' money. Top of the range Mercedes, Audis and
:21:51. > :21:56.BMWs. This was discovered by the former KGB officer and one of the
:21:56. > :22:03.few voices in Parliament against the corruption. Our bureaucrats did
:22:03. > :22:07.not save any money. They spent a lot on their luxuries - for their
:22:07. > :22:12.pleasure. The correction is spiralling because the parliament
:22:12. > :22:17.has become a toothless tiger. During this session on fraud, it
:22:17. > :22:24.was half-empty and no one was listening. The deputies themselves
:22:24. > :22:31.were cheating. They raise growing anger in Russia. A biased electoral
:22:31. > :22:34.system means the poll on Sunday will not bring much change. He is
:22:34. > :22:38.the face and voice of natural history broadcasting in Britain.
:22:38. > :22:41.And his extraordinary career spans almost 60 years. As his latest
:22:41. > :22:44.Frozen Planet series reaches a climax, Sir David Attenborough has
:22:44. > :22:47.spoken to the BBC about the dangers of climate change. He has warned
:22:47. > :22:49.that the speed of change in the Polar Regions has implications for
:22:49. > :22:59.us all, as our environment correspondent, David Shukman,
:22:59. > :23:01.
:23:01. > :23:06.reports. The Antarctic continent is smothered by the world's greatest
:23:06. > :23:12.ice sheet. It has been a journey of breathtaking beauty to the remotest
:23:12. > :23:15.polar regions with audiences in their millions guided by the giant
:23:15. > :23:22.of Natural History broadcasting, David Attenborough. The last of the
:23:22. > :23:29.series next week is a highly personal view. This penguin is the
:23:29. > :23:37.most southerly nesting of all penguins. Like the polar bear, up
:23:37. > :23:43.in the north, there lies a dependent on the sea ice. His big
:23:43. > :23:48.concern is the effect of rising temperatures. A huge iceberg breaks
:23:48. > :23:54.away from being -- Greenland. The melting could accelerate if the
:23:54. > :23:58.Arctic and part of Antarctica continue to warm up. I met David
:23:58. > :24:04.Attenborough for an interview and he explained it was the speed of
:24:04. > :24:11.change that was most striking and worrying. This change is extremely
:24:11. > :24:17.swift. It is happening in our lifetime. We have seen it happening.
:24:17. > :24:22.In geological, biological and ecological terms, it is hugely
:24:23. > :24:30.sweat. You can adapt to slow change but sweet -- swift change is much
:24:30. > :24:36.more difficult. The Wilkins Ice Shelf is seen breaking up. The
:24:36. > :24:44.Frozen Planet crew failed huge fissures are running through it.
:24:44. > :24:51.is not beyond possibility that warming will cause sea level rises
:24:51. > :24:56.and that could threaten the centre of London. Is there a risk of
:24:56. > :25:02.sounding too alarmist about this? try not to. We know these changes
:25:02. > :25:07.are happening. The evidence is incontrovertible. As far as we can
:25:07. > :25:12.see ahead, if they go on, they will have catastrophic effects on the
:25:12. > :25:19.human race. Behind this concern is the lifelong passion for which he
:25:19. > :25:28.is best known - wildlife. His favourite polar creature is quite
:25:28. > :25:35.surprising. I think a caterpillar. A caterpillar that lives for 14
:25:35. > :25:41.years and is a frozen solid - frozen solid to its core 14 times -
:25:41. > :25:51.which takes 14 years to accumulate enough food to allow it to grow
:25:51. > :25:51.
:25:51. > :25:57.into Amos. That is amazing! -- a moth. What about the future?
:25:57. > :26:03.Scientists cannot be sure about the rate of melting. Distant regions