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The man known by his people as the Dear Leader - Kim Jong-il of North | :00:06. | :00:11. | |
Korea - is dead. The reclusive and brutal ruler is said to have had a | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
heart attack on a train. As his people weep openly in the streets, | :00:19. | :00:29. | |
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the international community reacts cautiously. We hope that they | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
needed at -- new leadership will recognise that engagement with the | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
international community represents the best prospect of improving the | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
lives of the people. We'll be assessing what the future | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
may now hold for the world's most secretive state. | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
Also tonight: Signs of a breakthrough in the | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
bitter public sector pensions dispute. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
Guilty of attempted murder - the man who buried his girlfriend alive | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
in a cardboard box. A policewoman describes the woman's trauma. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
still have nightmares that Marcin Kasprzak will come back to find me | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
and kill me. Mayer only hope is that he can accept that what he did | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
to me was very wrong. -- my only hope. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Redrawing the rules for Britain's banks, with reforms designed to | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
prevent another financial crash. The image that's heightened tension | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
in Egypt as the government accuses protestors of trying to bring down | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
Coming up in the sports news, the later on the future of Carlos Tevez. | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
AC Milan officials are flying into Manchester to try to finalise a | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
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Good evening. The reclusive leader of the world's most secretive state, | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
Kim Jong-il of North Korea, has died. He's reported to have | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
suffered a heart attack on a train. He led his country into | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
international isolation, economic collapse and a famine that left | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
millions dead. But news of his death was greeted with a national | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
outpouring of grief by a people either brainwashed or fearful of | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
the rigidly controlled communist state. North Korea's neighbours are | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
on high alert tonight amid fears of instability in the region, | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
heightened by reports that North Korea tested a short-range missile | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
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today. Our world affairs editor, John Simpson, reports. | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
This is the weird, reclusive figure who ran the world's most secretive | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
country, and did it as though it was his own private property. | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Looking on was his son, Kim Jong-un, who is around 28. No one knows for | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
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The old leader died on Saturday, but state television only announced | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
it today. The news unleashed a storm of emotion, genuine or | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
otherwise. In North Korea, you have to mourn that the leader as noisily | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
as possible, especially if the cameras are new. -- are on you. But | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
if you are a member of the political elite, you may well be | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
really sorry he is gone. No one knows what will happen to the | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
nation now. As a result, Kim Jong- il leaves behind a country which is | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
appallingly poor. This girl was filmed secretly while she was | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
collecting grass to eat. There was nothing else. In an orphanage in | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
the southern part of the country, children are being treated for | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
malnutrition. In the 1990s, 3 And this is where the money which | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
might have been spent on better living conditions actually goes. On | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
the world's 5th largest army, 1 million strong. With extraordinary | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
recklessness, the North Koreans have shelled south Korean territory. | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
Last year, they risked outright war by sinking a South Korean naval | :04:17. | :04:27. | |
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ship. And even more worryingly, North Korea has now developed long- | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
range missiles, capable of carrying nuclear warheads. So, will the | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
death of Kim Jong-il changed all this? We hope that it will be a | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
turning point for North Korea. We hope that their new leadership will | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
recognise that engagement with the National -- international community | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
recognises the best prospect of improving the lives for North | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
Korean people. For 17 years, Kim Jong-il was the leader of the last | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
and most extreme of the world's dictatorships. He was distinctly | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
odd, sometimes gentle, sometimes capable of frightening rages. He | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
seems to have been born in Russia and he was always destined to | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
succeed his father, Kim Il-sung. But when the Soviet Union collapsed, | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
Russia no longer propped up North Korea financially. The country's | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
income halved, but Kim Jong-il's lifestyle was unchanged. He became | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
the caricature of a dictator, someone with an iron rule, roofless, | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
responsible for the deaths of thousands, but with these personal | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
idiosyncrasies. A love for expensive cognac, beautiful women, | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
Hollywood movies, bouffant hairdos, big, over sized sunglasses. For now, | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
a pampered, wholly inexperienced 28-year-old controls the future of | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
North Korea. The fear is that Kim Jong-un's spectacular promotion | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
could end up in a nasty power struggle with the older military | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
elite, and this in a nuclear state which seems seriously out of | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
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control. And John Simpson joins me now. What | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
are the implications of Kim Jong- il's death for stability or | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
otherwise in the region? It is dangerous. If you get | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
different factions, military factions are inclined to say, I am | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
strongest, I can take on North Korea, and so on. It may be | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
controllable. China is the important power, it is the only | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
friend that North Korea has. China's interests are not at all | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
that North Korea should go crazy and start attacking South Korea or | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
anywhere else. Although the Chinese have a lot of problems controlling | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
North Korea, making it do exactly what they want, I think they will | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
pull out all the stops if they think there is going to be some | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
kind of nuclear exchange. I don't think that is conceivable for their | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
policy at all. They have to stop There are the first signs of a | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
breakthrough tonight in the bitter public sector pensions dispute. | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
Unions representing local government workers, health service | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
staff and some teachers appear to be edging towards an agreement. But | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
the two largest teaching unions haven't signed up to the | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
Government's proposals and the civil service union, the PCS, has | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
rejected the latest offer. Our political editor, Nick Robinson, | :07:32. | :07:42. | |
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What a difference a few weeks make. Public sector unions did strike | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
together to defend their pensions. But outside the TUC tonight, | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
protesters sent to they are now divided over whether to do a deal | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
with the government -- sense that they are. We will not compromise at | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
all. He might not want compromise, they might not, but many union | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
negotiators believe they won't get a better deal from leaders than the | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
one on offer. We have seen a new Abbas fear in negotiations and I | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
think the government have come into those talks in a much more | :08:16. | :08:25. | |
purposeful way. We have moved forward in some schemes. | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Negotiators across the public sector are sending a message to | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
their unions. We have got as far as we can, you must choose if there is | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
a deal or no deal. The outline of a deal was signed by all the major | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
unions in the National Health Service today, so too, the unions | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
representing local government workers. Some teaching unions have | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
reached agreement but the two biggest say they are not signed up, | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
but will still negotiate. In the Civil Service, two unions have | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
agreed, but no deal, says the PCS, the union which represents a | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
quarter of a million civil servants. Their general secretary insists | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
nothing has changed. He is hinting at further industrial action. | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
are very clear that our members went on strike because the | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
government was forcing them to work longer, pay more and get less. None | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
of that has changed whatsoever. The fact that the government wants to | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
force these pension cuts on our members is unacceptable to us. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
government are anxious not to be seen to be declaring victory, | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
tonight or when ministers brief MPs tomorrow. They know that even those | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
unions to have signed up have yet to convince their executives and | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
their membership. -- unions who have signed up. It's they can | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
scarcely silk -- conceal their delight that they have managed to | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
separate those unions he would never do a deal, from those who | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
would be prepared to strike a bargain -- unions who would never | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
do a deal. Dave Prentis was uncharacteristically silent tonight | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
when he left the TUC. He and others must convince them members they | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
have secured important concessions. Even if public sector pensions are | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
said to be nothing like they were in sunnier times. -- said to be | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
A man who buried his fiancee alive in a cardboard box has been found | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
guilty of attempted murder. Marcheen Kasparshak attacked | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Mikeleena Levandoska with a taser and then left her in a shallow | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
grave in a wood near Huddersfield. She used her engagement ring to | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
help free herself. Ed Thomas was in court for the verdict, and his | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
report contains some flash photography. | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
Michelina Lewandowska said their relationship was one of love and | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
trust. But that was before she was tasered and buried alive by the | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
father of her 3-year-old son. Marcin Kasprzak had become bored | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
with her, and wanted to start again, so he decided to place her in this | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
cardboard box, wrap it up in tape, and leave her for dead. Today, the | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
detective read out her reaction, after he was found guilty of | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
attempted murder. The thought of my son gave me the strength to fight | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
my way out of the box and save myself. For many years, I laughed - | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
- I love to Marcin Kasprzak very much but my feelings have turned to | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
hatred. I still have nightmares that Marcin Kasprzak will come back | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
to find me and kill me. That nightmare began at the family home. | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
Marcin Kasprzak fired two shots disease done his fiancee. His | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
friend, boss -- two shots to stun his fiancee. His friend, Patryk | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
Borys was also there, and they put them in the box. Both men dug a | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
hole in the ground, covered a cardboard box in soil and placed | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
the branch on top. This police photograph shows the exact spot | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
where she was buried. The jury was told she could hear what was | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
happening but was too scared to shout out. But once she was alone, | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
the court heard how she used her engagement ring to scratch away at | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
the tape around her legs. She then found a small hole, and with soil | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
falling on to her face, she managed to tear the books apart. She said, | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
trying to escape was exhausting -- the box apart. This is what saved | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
her life, the engagement ring she used to cut her way out of the box. | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
Marcin Kasprzak has shown himself to be an unpleasant, intimidating - | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
- intimidator of a vulnerable woman and I'm pleased he is behind bars, | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
where he belongs. Marcin Kasprzak will be sentenced next month. His | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
former fiancee says she hopes one day he will accept that what he did | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
was wrong. Shares in HMV fell by 25% today | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
after the entertainment retailer announced half year pre-tax losses | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
of �46 million. Competition from downloads, on-line retailers and | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
supermarkets have squeezed its sales of DVDs and CDs. The company | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
says it may have to sell off its live music division. | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
The car manufacturer, Honda, is to create 500 new jobs at its Swindon | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
factory. Recruitment begins in January. Workers at the plant have | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
just returned to full-time production. Output was disrupted in | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
September after flooding in Thailand caused a shortage of parts | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
required to build the cars. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
announced sweeping reforms to the banking system aimed at preventing | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
a repeat of the financial crash. Major banks would have to separate | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
retail operations from riskier investments, a move which was | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
recommended by the Vickers report. Meanwhile, Royal Bank of Scotland - | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
which was rescued by the taxpayer during the credit crunch - is to | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
cut back its investment activities and focus on its business with | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
British companies and individuals. Here's our business editor, Robert | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
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It is the most ambitious redesign of our big banks in the city for 25 | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
years, and it is needed because of a sharp recession caused in large | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
part by the 2008 banking crisis, and also because tax payers face | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
losses of more than �40 billion on the bail-outs of Lloyds and Royal | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
Bank of Scotland. We believe RBS's future is as a major UK bank with | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
the majority of its business in the UK, and in personal, SME and | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
corporate banking. Investment banking will continue to support | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
RBS's corporate lending business, but RBS will make further | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
significant reductions in the investment bank. George Osborne was | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
announcing big cuts to RBS' global investment bank and also new laws | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
intended to make all big banks safer. There are two big reforms. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
The parts of the big bank that look after the savings of individuals | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
and small business, and provide them with overdrafts, will be | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
protected by a ring fence, or firewall, to make it cheaper or | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
easier to protect money and keep vital services going in a crisis. A | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
separate initiative would cut the potential losses for taxpayers in | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
any future bank rescues, because more of those losses would fall on | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
investors and lenders. But the reforms will impose up to �8 | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
billion of new costs on banks' shareholders and customers, says | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
the Treasury. And the impacts of those costs would reduce annual GDP | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
by up to �1.8 billion. However, there are huge costs to the economy | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
of banking crisis, and the Treasury estimates that if reforms succeed | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
in replicating the impact of those crises, we will be �9.5 billion a | :15:42. | :15:51. | |
It is vital, Mr Speaker, that the Government implements the important | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
banking reforms without foot dragging, back sliding or watering | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
them down. And as Labour urged the Chancellor | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
to hurry up with the change, the Lib Dem, a part of coalition | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
accused the Tories of being reluctant reformers. | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
We have had to drag the Tories kicking and screaming but we now | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
have a safer plan for Britain. But the banking industry are glum | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
about it all. As we make changes that require in | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
some respects, the banks to absorb costs that otherwise they could use | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
to support lending, that is where you start to get an economic impact. | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
It will take four years it re-draw the City and three years more to | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
reinforce the banks against losses. Unfortunately, the crisis in the | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
eurozone, to which our banks are exposed by their loans to other | :16:43. | :16:52. | |
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banks is happening right now. Coming up: | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
After a year of austerity and anger, have the anticapitalist protests | :17:05. | :17:15. | |
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struck a chord with the public? Egypt's governing Military Council | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
has turned on pro-democracy demonstrators accusing them of | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
trying to bring down the state by provoking soldiers into | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
confrontations. 12 people have died and hundreds have been wounded | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
during four days of clashes with the security forces. A woman was | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
shown being badly beaten by the military. | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
We have interest report from Cairo, this report contains strong images | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
of the crackdown on the protesters. That is the shot that enraged | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
Egyptians, a fully veiled woman, being beaten and almost stripped by | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
a group of soldiers, but the video is worse. First they beat her | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
kicking her in the head and then pull off her hijab, exposing her | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
bare flesh and then a vicious kick to the chest. It is hard to watch, | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
even harder in this deeply con serve tiv Muslim country. As others | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
try to rescue her, the soldiers advance, this one firing his gun | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
directly into the crowd. Today, at the spot where the | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
beating took place, I met one of of the woman's friends, Zeinab. | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
TRANSLATION: We're here to demand justice, the army is supposed to | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
protect us, not kill and beat us. There was another funeral in Tahrir | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
Square, another young matter e cut down by a bullet on Sunday night. | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Back in the spring, many of these same people were hailing the | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
Egyptian military as heroes for helping to bring down the Hosni | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
Mubarak regime, but after the veils of the last few days, the mood has | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
changed and these people now loathe the Egyptian military and accuse it | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
of stealing the Egyptian revolution. Faced with the terrible pictures | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
from the weekend, the military junta tried to justify its | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
crackdown. The military being constantly restraining they say, | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
against the provocations of the protesters. T that it is the | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
military's job to protect public property from attack. Out on Tahrir | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Square, some fear that the military campaign is working and the | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
population is turning against the protests. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
They don't want anymore protests. They know that people will support | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
them. Especially those who, I don't want to say uneducated, but people | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
who listen to the Egyptian media, people without exposure to the | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
internet. People who are not young. They will believe them. This | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
evening, the fighting has started again. The hops of January replaced | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
by the bitterness of December. The United Nations has passed a | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
resolution condemning continued grave and systematic human rights | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
violations by the sir sir can government. Comes as they signed an | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
Arab league deal to have observers monitor the situation. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
More than 900 people are known to have been killed in the Philippines | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
where a tropical rain storm occurred over the weekend. The | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Foreign Office confirmed that a British man was amongst those | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
killed. His family have been informed. | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
The choral, George Osbourne, has told his European -- the Chancellor, | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
George Osbourne, has said that Britain will not contribute to a | :20:42. | :20:50. | |
�200 billion Euro plan designed to shore up their banks. This cannot | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
have gone down well in Europe? not a surprise Fiona. At the same | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
time Britain was joined by other EU Member States in its stance. So I | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
don't think that this is a repeat of the arguments we saw over the | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
treaty, this is not another repetition of 26 against one with | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
Britain isolated. That said, Britain's stance here in Brussels | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
this evening, plus that of the other EU Member States that joined | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
in it its thinking, does mean that the European Union has not been | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
able to raise some 200 billion Euros it wanted to raise in extra | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
funding to give to the International Monetary Fund. | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
Instead it has some three quarters of that. What was it to be used | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
for? Well, the IMF is to use it in a rather circulatory way to help to | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
bail out EU struggling eurozone nations. | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Clearly, the IMF is not going to get all of the money it was hoping | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
it would be raised in Brussels. It is another illustration of the | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
difficulties facing the eurozone. Another reminder as the head of the | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
European Central Bank was saying today, that 2011 has been a bad | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
year, but as he intimated 2012 could be even worse. | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
Thank you. Donald Neilson, the convicted | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
seriously killer known as the Black Panther has died in Norwich Prison | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
at the age of 75. Donald Neilson committed three murders at | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
robberies in Post Offices in the early 1970s and killed a student, | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
Lesley Whittle, in 1975. The City of London has today | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
started a High Court proceedings to remove tents pitched outside of the | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
St Paul's cathedral. The Corporation of London says that it | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
is the right to protect the rights and freedoms of others, not to | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
protect the banks. That has prompted a wider debate by equality | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
and consumerism. Around St Pauls in the City of | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
London, are the streets where the commercial rub shoulders with the | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
spiritual, but this Christmas, austerity, anxiety and anger have | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
infiltrated the crowds. Below, thick walls of Portland | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
Stone, flimsy shelters huddle, a scruffy challenge to the towers | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
orthodox near the City, the biting wind has not dented the commitment | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
of the protesters, but are Occupy London demands for equality and us | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
stainability, more than a temporary irritant to be swept aside? People | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
are dedicated. I have never seen anything like this in my life | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
REPORTER: Dedicated but can you really change the world? Of course, | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
people power, history will show, that people-led movements have | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
caused history to change. We believe as it is global, that is | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
what is happening with this movement. | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
In the shadyof the great cathedral, the Bishop of London works on a | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
ceremony with questions about values spilling in. | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
For many people, the hope is that we will go back to what they see as | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
business as normal and we will be able to forget about all of these | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
things. I myself think that with the tectonic plates shifting, we | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
have got to prepare for our place in a rather new world and that's | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
why I think that this is a moment of opportunity and serious need for | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
reset. The church has brokered contact | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
between demonstrators and some of the City fathers. There have been | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
promises made about financial regulation and ethics. The Lord | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
Mayor of London wants the tents gone from corporation land but says | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
he recognises that public anger at institutional corpulence and greed | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
requires a response. Where there is success, there will | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
always be to some extent the trappings of success, I think. You | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
will find fewer champagne bars and fewer City workers in them than | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
four years ago. REPORTER: Because they are aware of | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
the public mood? Because they are aware of the public mood. | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
Are we witnessing a new human illity settling on the City? Is | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
capitalism as we know it under threat? But at the one new shopping | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
centre, Christmas shoppers seem intent on pursuing a bargain, not a | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
revolution. I don't think there is is a change. | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
I think that people get on with things themselves. | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
Keep calm and Barry -- carry on? Basically. As long as people have X | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
Factor and cheap booze, I don't think there will be a change, not | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
in this country. I hope that people are revalue waiting their lives, | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
but I'm not sure that is happening. With warnings of cuts and austerity | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
for years to come, perhaps there is no way back to business as usual. | :25:59. | :26:07. | |
In the famous Mary Poppinss backs an old woman sells bird seeds on | :26:07. | :26:15. |