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:00:07. > :00:13.Demands for a referendum on Europe as Tory backbenchers seize their

:00:13. > :00:21.opportunity ahead of tomorrow's EU summit. David Cameron is called on

:00:21. > :00:27.to win back powers from Brussels in any agreement about a new EU treaty.

:00:27. > :00:31.This EU summit is a defining moment. Will the Prime Minister do Britain

:00:31. > :00:37.proud on Friday and show some bulldog spirit in Brussels? I want

:00:37. > :00:40.to make sure we have more power and control here in the UK to determine

:00:40. > :00:43.these things. We'll be looking at whether the Prime Minister will be

:00:43. > :00:46.able to resist the intense pressure coming from his own backbenches.

:00:46. > :00:55.Also tonight: Syria's president denies issuing any command to kill

:00:55. > :01:00.protestors, despite the deaths of thousands of people. No Government

:01:00. > :01:02.in the world kill its people unless it's led by crazy person.

:01:02. > :01:06.An investigation is ordered into claims that examiners are giving

:01:06. > :01:09.teachers secret advice on how to improve results.

:01:09. > :01:15.How over 40% of cancers could be prevented by lifestyle changes like

:01:15. > :01:24.stopping smoking and losing weight. And, a disastrous night for both

:01:24. > :01:28.Manchester sides in the Champion's league. I will be here with

:01:28. > :01:31.Sportsday later on the news channel. We will look at all tonight's

:01:31. > :01:41.Champions League matches and the latest from the UK championship

:01:41. > :01:52.

:01:52. > :01:55.Good evening. David Cameron has come under intense pressure from

:01:55. > :02:00.his own backbenchers over Europe, on the eve of a crucial summit that

:02:00. > :02:02.is likely to fundamentally change the way the EU works. With France

:02:02. > :02:05.and Germany agreeing a proposal to impose greater economic discipline

:02:05. > :02:08.within the EU, the Prime Minister's own MPs and supporters are asking

:02:08. > :02:16.him to grant a referendum on any treaty changes and use the

:02:16. > :02:22.opportunity to claw back greater powers for Britain. Our political

:02:22. > :02:25.editor Nick Robinson reports. Under pressure, the man who once told his

:02:25. > :02:30.party to stop obsessing about Europe. Now David Cameron's having

:02:30. > :02:34.to do just that. The EU summit which starts tomorrow could

:02:34. > :02:40.determine not just the fate of the British economy, but of a coalition

:02:40. > :02:45.deeply divided on this issue. the Prime Minister do Britain proud

:02:45. > :02:48.on Friday and show some bulldog spirit in Brussels? Today, one MP

:02:48. > :02:53.after another leapt to their feet to ask the Prime Minister what he

:02:53. > :03:00.would do to see off what they see as the threat of further EU

:03:00. > :03:02.interrogation. This EU summit is a defining moment. A once in a

:03:02. > :03:05.lifetime opportunity. Will the Prime Minister seize the moment?

:03:05. > :03:11.The Prime Minister says he won't sign a treaty that doesn't

:03:11. > :03:14.safeguard the City of London from new euro rules. But... The British

:03:14. > :03:19.national interest absolutely means we need to help resolve this crisis

:03:19. > :03:23.in the eurozone. It is freezing the British economy, just as it is

:03:23. > :03:27.freezing economies across Europe. Note carefully what he didn't say.

:03:27. > :03:31.Ed Miliband certainly did. David Cameron wasn't listing the specific

:03:31. > :03:37.powers that he wanted back from Europe. At the European summit what

:03:37. > :03:43.powers will he be arguing to repatriate? Well as I have just

:03:43. > :03:47.explained, at the summit, let me explain... They had all noticed the

:03:47. > :03:52.Prime Minister had not really answered the question. Six weeks

:03:52. > :03:55.ago he was promising his back pwfrpblgers a handbaging for Europe,

:03:55. > :04:01.now he is reduced to hand-ringing, that's the reality of this Prime

:04:01. > :04:05.Minister. Aides say David Cameron wants to protect his negotiating

:04:05. > :04:09.hand. There was one hint of what he might do at the summit. The more

:04:09. > :04:13.that countries in the eurozone ask for, the more we will ask for in

:04:13. > :04:16.return. But we will judge that on the basis of what matters most to

:04:16. > :04:20.Britain. Adding to the pressure on David

:04:20. > :04:24.Cameron are those demanding a referendum on Europe, including

:04:24. > :04:31.that man again, the Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. If there is

:04:31. > :04:36.a new EU treaty that creates a kind of fiscal union within the 27

:04:36. > :04:40.countries, or within the eurozone, then we would have absolutely no

:04:40. > :04:43.choice, either to veto it, but certainly to put it to a referendum.

:04:43. > :04:47.Another Tory thinking out loud about how Britain should react to

:04:47. > :04:57.more European integration is the Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen

:04:57. > :04:57.

:04:57. > :05:01.Paterson. He told the Spectator David Cameron and Nick Clegg may

:05:01. > :05:05.have very different views of the future of Europe, but when it comes

:05:05. > :05:09.to a referendum, or not having one, they speak as one.

:05:09. > :05:12.Of course there should be a referendum if we as a country were

:05:12. > :05:16.to surrender new powers to the European Union. But there's no

:05:16. > :05:19.question of us doing that now because the new powers that will be

:05:19. > :05:23.surrendered by anyone will be within the eurozone and we are not

:05:23. > :05:27.a member of the eurozone. So the question simply doesn't arise.

:05:27. > :05:32.What's made Britain's eurosceptics so twitchy is the proposals of the

:05:32. > :05:35.couple known as Merkozy, Germany's chancellor Merkel and Franz's

:05:35. > :05:39.President -- France's President Sarkozy. Today they wrote a letter

:05:39. > :05:44.on ways to halt the euro crisis, proposing that at least those in

:05:44. > :05:49.the eurozone should now agree a euro tax on financial transactions,

:05:49. > :05:54.a common approach to company taxes, and common employment rules, too.

:05:54. > :05:57.Precisely the sort of agenda loathed by British Conservatives.

:05:57. > :06:01.As if all that euro pressure weren't enough, David Cameron has

:06:01. > :06:10.to put whatever is agreed at this summit to a Commons vote, the last

:06:10. > :06:13.volt on Europe produced the biggest rebellion seen in years.

:06:13. > :06:16.In a moment we'll be talking to our political editor Nick Robinson, but

:06:16. > :06:19.first our Europe editor Gavin Hewitt in Brussels. We've been here

:06:19. > :06:22.several times before with EU summits that have failed to result

:06:22. > :06:26.in a definitive solution. Is it going to be different this time?

:06:26. > :06:29.Well, the mood this time is very different. The message is no half-

:06:29. > :06:34.baked solutions. The French say they'll stay here at the table

:06:34. > :06:37.until they have an agreement. The Germans tonight are trying to lower

:06:37. > :06:41.expectations, they say it may take until Christmas to reach an

:06:41. > :06:45.agreement, but if it takes that long, they'll be there. Now the

:06:45. > :06:49.mood amongst the French and Germans is to play it tough and certainly

:06:49. > :06:53.if David Cameron comes here and plays the British bulldog and is

:06:53. > :06:57.insistent on safeguarding British interests, in exchange for

:06:57. > :07:01.supporting a treaty change, he may find himself in a very difficult

:07:01. > :07:07.conversation. And in any event, if he pushes too hard, then the 17

:07:07. > :07:11.members of the eurozone could go it alone and set up their own euro

:07:11. > :07:15.treaty, marginalising British influence and that's why I think

:07:15. > :07:20.tomorrow and on Friday it will be a very difficult situation for him.

:07:20. > :07:24.Just to say how will this summit be judged, it will be judged if by

:07:24. > :07:30.insisting on greater budgetary control, the European Central Bank

:07:30. > :07:34.is freed up to spwe convenient more aggress tkr aggress -- intervene

:07:34. > :07:37.more aggressively and help troubled countries. Nick Robinson, David

:07:37. > :07:40.Cameron under intense pressure as we saw tonight from his own back

:07:40. > :07:44.benches, he has a difficult balancing act. Hugely difficult,

:07:44. > :07:48.because today the pressure was all from eurosceptics who want to say

:07:48. > :07:53.at the moment we told you so, we always thought this euro project

:07:53. > :07:58.would fail. We now want Britain, either to get out altogether, or at

:07:58. > :08:02.least to pull aside from the future of that tighter euro group and in

:08:02. > :08:06.the end demand a referendum on Europe because they don't trust

:08:06. > :08:10.what is said in Brussels, they don't trust what's said in

:08:10. > :08:14.Whitehall, they they don't even trust their own Prime Minister here,

:08:14. > :08:19.not to do what the Europeans want. Yet tomorrow he will come under

:08:19. > :08:22.opposite pressure, from European leaders who say we have to boost

:08:22. > :08:26.confidence in the euro, in the global economy, and we have to do

:08:26. > :08:31.it now. So, don't stand in our way. I think the compromise he will seek

:08:31. > :08:35.for is to do enough to help the euro without doing so much that the

:08:35. > :08:40.new eurozone can dictate new rules on all sorts of things for Britain.

:08:40. > :08:43.So there's no real problem at all for him, he merely has to sort the

:08:43. > :08:47.euro crisis, without provoking a referendum, convince the

:08:47. > :08:57.eurosceptics without upsetting the pro-European Liberal Democrats.

:08:57. > :08:59.Easy really! Thank you both. The Syrian

:08:59. > :09:01.president, Bashar al-Assad, insists he hasn't ordered the killing of

:09:01. > :09:04.any protestors during his government's brutal crackdown. The

:09:04. > :09:07.United Nations estimates that more than 4,000 people have lost their

:09:07. > :09:09.lives during the nine-month pro- democracy uprising. In a rare

:09:09. > :09:13.interview for the America's ABC News, President Assad said any

:09:13. > :09:21.leader who killed his own people would be crazy. Our Middle East

:09:21. > :09:26.correspondent Paul Wood has sent this report from Beirut.

:09:26. > :09:32.Day after day, unarmed Syrian protesters have come out to face

:09:32. > :09:40.machine guns, snipers, and armoured vehicles.

:09:40. > :09:44.GUNFIRE. The costs so far is 4,000 dead. But

:09:44. > :09:50.in his ABC interview, President Assad denied killing his own

:09:50. > :09:55.citizens. We don't kill our people, nobody kill, no Government in the

:09:55. > :10:01.world kill its people unless it's led by crazy person. For me as

:10:01. > :10:06.President, I became President because of the public support. It's

:10:06. > :10:11.impossible for anyone this state to be order to kill. We saw a

:10:11. > :10:20.different picture in a week of travelling inside Syria. In the

:10:20. > :10:25.city of Homs, this woman catalogues her losses. Her son was shot dead

:10:25. > :10:33.at a protest she explains. Then her grandson was killed by a sniper

:10:33. > :10:38.while out getting bread. A few days after speaking to us, she too was

:10:38. > :10:43.shot dead in the street. There are military forces belong to the

:10:43. > :10:48.Government. I don't own them, I am President. You have to give the

:10:48. > :10:52.order? No, no. Not by your command? No, no. The crackdown was without

:10:52. > :10:55.your permission? No, there's difference between having policy to

:10:55. > :11:04.crackdown and between having some mistakes committed by some

:11:04. > :11:09.officials. There's big difference. That's just ludicrous, says the US

:11:09. > :11:14.state department. The demonstraters would no doubt agree. After ten

:11:14. > :11:21.months of this, there is an absolute determination not to give

:11:21. > :11:28.up. People have suffered too much. The men of this family are in

:11:28. > :11:34.hiding from the security forces. One was held for six weeks. He says

:11:34. > :11:41.he was beaten continually, stripped naked, threatened with castration,

:11:41. > :11:45.doused in boiling water, but still he would not confess.

:11:45. > :11:53.The officer said this dog is not afraid of dying, he recalls, so

:11:53. > :11:59.hang him by his hands. They did so, for five days. A UN report says

:11:59. > :12:03.torture is common in Syria. Send us the documents, as long as we don't

:12:03. > :12:06.see the documents and the evidences, we can not say yes that's normal.

:12:06. > :12:10.We can not just say the United Nations - who said the United

:12:10. > :12:14.Nations is a credible institution? You do in the think the United

:12:14. > :12:23.Nations is credible? No. You have an ambassador to the United Nations.

:12:23. > :12:28.Yeah, it's a game you play. Where is all this going? Some have

:12:28. > :12:33.responded to the Government crackdown by taking up arms. The

:12:33. > :12:38.international community is deeply worried that Syria's heading into a

:12:38. > :12:41.fully-fledged civil war. President Assad's interview paints a picture

:12:41. > :12:45.of Syria which is completely at odds with what's being experienced

:12:45. > :12:50.by the demonstraters who are still being shot down in the streets

:12:50. > :12:55.almost every single day. At the beginning, their demand was simply

:12:55. > :13:04.for reform. Now after months of unfulfilled promises, they want

:13:04. > :13:06.President Assad to go. The Education Secretary, Michael

:13:06. > :13:09.Gove, has ordered an investigation this evening after claims that

:13:09. > :13:12.examiners have been giving teachers secret advice on how to improve

:13:12. > :13:15.their GCSE and A-level grades. The Daily Telegraph claims that some

:13:15. > :13:20.teachers have paid �200 a day for advice on upcoming exam questions,

:13:20. > :13:24.to help boost their students' grades. Our education correspondent

:13:24. > :13:28.Reeta Chakrabarti is with me here. What more can you tell us? This

:13:28. > :13:31.came about because the Daily Telegraph sent undercover reporters

:13:31. > :13:35.to meetings that had been organised by the exam boards for teachers in

:13:35. > :13:38.England. These meetings are perfectly above board, because they

:13:38. > :13:42.are there to give support and advice to teachers and that is

:13:42. > :13:46.within the board's code of practice, but the Telegraph's reporters found

:13:46. > :13:50.that examiners were telling teachers what questions their

:13:50. > :13:53.pupils could expect, telling them how the pupils could best answer

:13:53. > :13:56.those questions, and in one case, the examiner actually admitted that

:13:57. > :14:00.he was cheating by telling them all this. Now there's been quite a

:14:00. > :14:04.response to this as you can imagine, the exam board say they stand by

:14:04. > :14:06.the integrity of their systems but if one or two individuals have

:14:06. > :14:09.broken rules rules they'll investigate but the Education

:14:09. > :14:13.Secretary has ordered his own investigation, he has asked the

:14:13. > :14:23.regulator to take a look at this and to report back in two weeks.

:14:23. > :14:25.

:14:25. > :14:30.Cancer Research UK has found that smoking, diet, alcohol and obesity

:14:30. > :14:34.all play a significant part. Smoking is by far the highest risk

:14:34. > :14:39.factor. For men, it is followed by a lack of fruit and vegetables,

:14:39. > :14:45.while for women, being overweight plays a significant role.

:14:45. > :14:48.These are magnified cancer cells, under attack from antibodies and

:14:48. > :14:53.multiplying at frightening speed. For decades, scientists have been

:14:53. > :14:56.searching for the causes of cancer. Today's report adds to our

:14:56. > :15:00.understanding of how much the condition is linked to preventable

:15:00. > :15:04.factors. That is something Elaine wishes she had known earlier. Two

:15:04. > :15:08.years ago, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had major surgery.

:15:08. > :15:12.She had no idea being overweight could have been putting her at risk.

:15:12. > :15:17.Since then, she has transformed her life style. It was a real shock to

:15:17. > :15:20.me. Within a year or 18 months, I had lost four stone put up I had

:15:20. > :15:25.managed to do that through diet and lifestyle changes. I stopped

:15:25. > :15:29.drinking, took more exercise, changed my portion sizes and the

:15:29. > :15:34.types of food I was eating. Weight is one of the four major lifestyle

:15:34. > :15:38.risks when it comes to cancer. By far the biggest danger is smoking,

:15:38. > :15:43.causing 19% of all cancers, particularly lung cancer but also

:15:43. > :15:48.liver and kidney. For men, the second biggest risk is a poor diet,

:15:48. > :15:53.linked to 12% of cancers, including stomach, lull and oral cancers. For

:15:53. > :15:59.women, it is worse being overweight. Responsible for 7% of cancers,

:15:59. > :16:03.among them breast, uterus and bowel cancers. Alcohol is the other key

:16:03. > :16:08.risk. Heavy drinking results in 4% of all cancers including mouth,

:16:08. > :16:13.throat and bowel cancers. Over half of all cancers cannot be prevented.

:16:13. > :16:18.They are caused by age or family history. That means however healthy

:16:18. > :16:22.you are, you cannot eliminate your risk. This study does not say that

:16:22. > :16:25.if you control all of these factors, you will guarantee to never get

:16:25. > :16:31.cancer. What it does say is that you can stack the odds in your

:16:31. > :16:38.favour, and reduce the risk, very considerably. Maybe we should get

:16:38. > :16:46.together with arcades and Eid better. Spending on public -- with

:16:46. > :16:48.arcades and Eid better. Spending on public campaigns has been reduced.

:16:48. > :16:55.The government encourages people to take responsibility for their own

:16:55. > :16:59.health. We can contribute by talking to our friends, families,

:16:59. > :17:04.encouraging healthy lifestyles. Small changes can make a real

:17:04. > :17:09.difference in terms of the number of cancers. Because we are living

:17:09. > :17:18.longer, more of us are getting cancer. It is now clear we can have

:17:18. > :17:22.some control over our risks. Coming up, misery for Manchester in

:17:22. > :17:31.the Champions League. How both the City's teams had a night to forget

:17:31. > :17:36.The by the end of this month, the last US military forces are

:17:36. > :17:39.scheduled to have left Iraq, bring to an end a campaign that has

:17:39. > :17:44.lasted eight and a half years. The war has been fought at immense cost

:17:44. > :17:49.to those involved on both sides. Almost 4,500 American servicemen

:17:49. > :17:53.and women have lost their lives, with another 32,000 wounded. What

:17:53. > :17:57.has this huge investment in lives lost and damaged achieved, in the

:17:57. > :18:02.minds of the troops and their families? Our Washington

:18:02. > :18:07.correspondent has been to meet some of those who served.

:18:07. > :18:11.A think we should have two flags and a pinwheel. This is where the

:18:11. > :18:19.war in Iraq began and it is ending. Families across America have been

:18:19. > :18:23.the backbone of a long campaign. Jacquie Byrd's husband, banned --

:18:23. > :18:26.Alan, has been aware for most of the last two years and now he is

:18:26. > :18:30.coming home. He was my best friend and he was not there. He could get

:18:30. > :18:34.in touch with us, and he did. But when we needed him, it was not

:18:34. > :18:39.always easy for us to get hold of him. That was probably the hardest

:18:40. > :18:43.part of the whole year. Few here questioned the value of a mission

:18:43. > :18:48.that was America's war of choice, based on the threat of weapons of

:18:48. > :18:58.mass destruction that did not exist. But today it is about something far

:18:58. > :19:05.

:19:05. > :19:10.Within a few weeks, all the troops would have left Iraq, and most will

:19:10. > :19:14.be home for Christmas. For every one of the 300 also a man and women

:19:15. > :19:19.who returns today, there are many more who never came back -- 300 or

:19:19. > :19:23.so. The memorial at Fort Hood is a pretty sombre reminder of the

:19:23. > :19:27.sacrifice of the last eight years. Nearly 4,500 US troops and tens of

:19:27. > :19:31.thousands of Iraqis have lost their lives in a conflict that still is

:19:31. > :19:36.not over. For many of those who have made it home, their battle,

:19:36. > :19:41.their struggle, in many ways, is still going on. Bernie Teich lost

:19:41. > :19:44.his leg in a roadside bomb. Four years later, the pain in his other

:19:44. > :19:48.leg is so bad that it will also have to be amputated. His marriage

:19:48. > :19:53.has failed and he is raising three children on his own. Plenty of

:19:53. > :19:59.reasons, you might think, to be bitter about the Iraq war. They

:19:59. > :20:03.have to ask whether you think it is worth it. Yes, I do. I really feel

:20:03. > :20:07.like we helped the Iraqi people. I think there will be turbulent times

:20:07. > :20:10.for a little bit, but I think what we did was the right thing to do.

:20:10. > :20:14.President Obama may have wanted to give some of these soldiers on in

:20:14. > :20:18.Iraq, but the war had become increasingly unpopular, damaging

:20:18. > :20:27.America's standing in the world. He can still claim credit for ending a

:20:27. > :20:32.deeply flawed campaign, and finally bringing the troops home.

:20:32. > :20:36.A vulnerable man, who died after suffering 30 years of torment by

:20:36. > :20:40.feral youths on a south Manchester council estate, was unlawfully

:20:40. > :20:44.killed, a coroner has killed -- has ruled, though no one has been

:20:44. > :20:47.charged in relation to his death. David Askew had learning

:20:47. > :20:51.difficulties and a mental age of 10. The inquest heard how he and his

:20:51. > :20:54.family had called the police 88 times in the three years before his

:20:54. > :20:57.death about the constant harassment. Detectives investigating

:20:57. > :21:00.allegations of phone hacking by newspapers have arrested the

:21:01. > :21:05.private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire. He was jailed almost five

:21:05. > :21:08.years ago for intercepting voice messages while working for the News

:21:08. > :21:11.of the World. The BBC has learnt that the Metropolitan Police is

:21:11. > :21:15.investigating allegations that the News of the World may have

:21:15. > :21:19.illegally obtained details of medical records.

:21:19. > :21:23.Glenn Mulcaire, one of the original guilty men in the phone hacking

:21:23. > :21:28.affair. Five years on from his first arrest, to date came and

:21:28. > :21:31.early-morning knock from the police. This time, he was taken in for

:21:31. > :21:36.questioning on suspicion of packing and perverting the course of

:21:36. > :21:39.justice. He is the 16th person to be arrested as part of the

:21:39. > :21:42.Operation Weeting investigation into phone hacking. He is following

:21:42. > :21:47.in the path of high-profile figures like Rebekah Brooks and Andy

:21:47. > :21:52.Coulson. Both, former senior figures in the Murdoch empire.

:21:52. > :21:58.Scotland Yard is working its way through 300 million e-mails from

:21:58. > :22:06.News International. So far, please have identified over 5795 potential

:22:06. > :22:11.packing victims. -- hacking victims. The hacking inquiry has spawned two

:22:11. > :22:15.other investigations. One into computer hacking, and another into

:22:15. > :22:19.alleged police corruption. One of the people arrested in that is

:22:19. > :22:23.Clive Goodman, the journalist who has already served time for hacking.

:22:23. > :22:27.Tonight there is a development on yet another front. Officers from

:22:27. > :22:30.here are investigating allegations that the News of the World

:22:30. > :22:34.illegally obtained details from the medical records of an unnamed

:22:35. > :22:39.celebrity. News International says it is co-operating fully with the

:22:39. > :22:44.police. Some victims, already in contact with Scotland Yard over

:22:44. > :22:48.hacking, have already given ever since to the lead as an inquiry --

:22:48. > :22:52.given evidence to the Leveson inquiry. The fall-out could cost

:22:52. > :22:56.millions and go on for years. Today, detectives were back where it began,

:22:56. > :23:00.gathering evidence at the home of the private investigator, Glenn

:23:00. > :23:04.Mulcaire, jailed all those years ago. Tonight, he was released on

:23:04. > :23:09.bail until March. A former editor of the News of the

:23:09. > :23:13.World, Andy Coulson, is suing his ex-employer over its refusal to pay

:23:13. > :23:17.the legal fees he has incurred as a result of defending himself in the

:23:17. > :23:20.phone hacking scandal. Mr Coulson is arguing that News Group

:23:20. > :23:23.Newspapers is liable under the terms of the details -- the terms

:23:23. > :23:28.of the deal when he resigned, but the company says the arrangement

:23:28. > :23:33.did not cover criminal allegations. It has been a terrible light for

:23:33. > :23:42.Manchester, both United and City have gone out of the Champions

:23:42. > :23:45.Yes, they might be leading the way in the Premier League, but

:23:45. > :23:50.Manchester clubs it won't be winning the Champions League this

:23:51. > :23:57.season. Manchester City are out, despite beating Bayern Munich 2-0.

:23:57. > :24:01.Far more surprisingly, Manchester United, expected to qualify but

:24:01. > :24:05.beaten by Basel. For Manchester United, the equation was simple,

:24:05. > :24:09.the reality anything but. They needed just a draw against

:24:09. > :24:14.unglamorous Basel, but within 10 minutes, calamity. David DeGale

:24:14. > :24:20.flaps, Marco Streller pounced and United were thinking the

:24:21. > :24:25.unthinkable. They had to score and before the break, failed a spectre

:24:25. > :24:31.at -- spectacular lead to do so, especially Wayne Rooney. -- failed

:24:31. > :24:36.spectacularly to do so. United swarmed forward. Basel nearly

:24:36. > :24:40.gifted them an equaliser. When Alexander Frei put them 2-0 up,

:24:40. > :24:45.United seemed as good as finished. Not quite. With time running out,

:24:45. > :24:49.Phil Jones scrambled one back, but to no avail. For the first time in

:24:49. > :24:53.six years, Manchester United, out before the knockout stages. The

:24:53. > :24:57.shock will reverberate for some time. As for Manchester City, they

:24:57. > :25:03.faced a truly daunting task. They had to beat Bayern Munich and hope

:25:03. > :25:09.Napoli could not beat Villarreal. An unlikely combination, but City

:25:09. > :25:14.boost belief. Just before the break, they were ahead, a delightful

:25:14. > :25:19.finish from David Silva. Yaya Toure made it 2-0 with the calmest of

:25:19. > :25:25.finishes and at at point, City were going through. But two Napoli goals

:25:25. > :25:27.shattered the celebrations. This was a valiant effort but

:25:27. > :25:34.disappointment for them, on a deeply disappointing night for

:25:34. > :25:38.Manchester. It leaves Arsenal and Chelsea as the only British clubs

:25:38. > :25:41.left in the Champions League. Arsenal and Manchester City go