:00:12. > :00:18.Tonight at Ten: President Obama announces the biggest change in US
:00:18. > :00:22.military strategy in a generation. After a decade and more of war in
:00:22. > :00:26.Iraq and Afghanistan, there will be budget cuts and thousands of job
:00:26. > :00:32.losses, but the President, flanked by military leaders, also signal as
:00:32. > :00:37.change of American focus to Asia. The question that this strategy
:00:37. > :00:42.answers is what kind of military will we need long after the wars of
:00:42. > :00:47.the last decade are over? We are asking what this mean force
:00:47. > :00:49.America's principle allies, including Britain. Also: A new
:00:49. > :00:55.arrest at the Stockport hospital where the police are investigating
:00:55. > :01:00.the poisoning of patients. The Labour MP, Diane Abbott,
:01:00. > :01:04.accused of making a racist remark on Twitter apologises for any
:01:04. > :01:08.offence caused. A controversial report for people
:01:08. > :01:11.with advanced terminal illness to be allowed medical help to end
:01:11. > :01:15.their life. Who owns their life? Who owns their
:01:15. > :01:21.body? Surely they do. Why does the Government think think they have
:01:21. > :01:26.control over what they do? And the future for Katherine as she defines
:01:26. > :01:31.her role in the years ahead. Coming up on Sportsday, the
:01:31. > :01:34.Football Association comes under fire from the QPR manager, Neil
:01:34. > :01:44.Warnock, who describes the disciplinary process as Scotland
:01:44. > :01:54.
:01:54. > :01:58.-- as scandalous. Good evening. After a decade of war
:01:58. > :02:01.in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Americans are embarking on the
:02:02. > :02:08.biggest change in military strategy for decades. President Obama
:02:08. > :02:14.announced a defence review, involving cuts of half a trillion
:02:14. > :02:20.dollars, a clear shift also to Asia. As we report here, the changes will
:02:20. > :02:24.have thousands of changes for US allies, including Britain.
:02:24. > :02:28.Since the Cold War, America has fought with overwhelming power
:02:28. > :02:36.backed by enormous budgets. In Afghanistan and Iraq over the last
:02:36. > :02:41.decade, the US fielded huge armies. Military might projecting hard
:02:41. > :02:48.power across the globe. Now this vast machine faces its greatest
:02:48. > :02:54.challenge, economics. Three years ago... President Obama
:02:54. > :03:00.says that huge Government deficits are a chance to reprioritise. Still,
:03:00. > :03:05.he admits that defence cuts of up to $450 billion over ten years, and
:03:05. > :03:09.possibly up to a trillion, will hurt.
:03:09. > :03:14.Yes, the situation will make us leern, but the world must know that
:03:14. > :03:17.we have to go forward with armed forces that aragile, flexible and
:03:18. > :03:22.ready for the full range of contingencies and threats.
:03:22. > :03:25.The army and the Marines are to bare the brunt of the cuts with
:03:25. > :03:31.large reductions in numbers. The rise in China mean as shift of
:03:31. > :03:35.focus from the European security to the Asia-Pacific region. There will
:03:35. > :03:39.be continued investment in high- tech weapons, like the drones used
:03:39. > :03:44.in Afghanistan. America's military future is being watched closely in
:03:44. > :03:49.places like Annapolis, Maryland, a town with a history of training new
:03:49. > :03:52.recruits. In this diner we found most of the regulars were worried.
:03:52. > :03:56.A smaller military means bigger risks.
:03:56. > :03:59.We are more likely to have terrorist activity for one thing.
:04:00. > :04:04.If there are no consequences for their actions. We can't do this,
:04:04. > :04:08.not at all. Why not? Why not?! Because of what
:04:08. > :04:13.China is doing. They want to conquer the world.
:04:13. > :04:19.I don't think we should be spending trillions on war, especially, why
:04:19. > :04:25.do we have to be the world leaders? So you welcome the cuts? Definitely.
:04:25. > :04:29.When the world's dominant power and the biggest military spender
:04:29. > :04:34.announces considerable budget cuts, it is not just towns here that take
:04:34. > :04:38.notice, there are also consequences for America as allies. What does it
:04:38. > :04:44.mean for NATO for? It relied on US ships here off the coast of Libya
:04:44. > :04:46.recently. It is a question I put to the US Defence Secretary here in
:04:46. > :04:53.Washington overseeing big defence cuts.
:04:53. > :04:57.Not all NATO members have an equal level of enthusiasm to engage, even
:04:57. > :05:03.though in theory we have access to large numbers of deployable troops.
:05:03. > :05:08.It is about translating the near et call capability into actual
:05:08. > :05:11.deployable frontline capability. Some of our allies could do more in
:05:11. > :05:18.that department. Even after the cuts, America's military will be
:05:18. > :05:20.the biggest and best-funded on earth, but wars like the one just
:05:20. > :05:24.ended in Iraq may become a thing of the past.
:05:24. > :05:32.So what does this tell us about America's own view of its place in
:05:32. > :05:37.tomorrow's world? Our North America Editor is no Washington. Mark
:05:37. > :05:42.Mardell, how do you see it? This is important. It is about abandoning
:05:42. > :05:47.the long ambition of America, to be able to invite to land wars at the
:05:47. > :05:52.same time. Now they will go down to fight one war and cause a nuisance
:05:52. > :05:56.elsewhere, the critics say that they want to diminish America's
:05:56. > :06:01.presence on the world, they will seize on this.
:06:01. > :06:07.But let's face it, the experience of fighting two wars was not happy.
:06:07. > :06:11.It is unlikely that America will want to do that in the future.
:06:11. > :06:13.President Obama is smart, projecting American power in the
:06:13. > :06:17.Pacific, where many allies are worried about the rise of China. It
:06:17. > :06:21.is America saying that they are there, there for us. You have to
:06:21. > :06:27.put it in the context that America spends, even after the cuts will
:06:27. > :06:32.spend eight times as much on its mairl as its nearest rival which
:06:32. > :06:37.just -- on its military as its nearest rival with happens to be
:06:37. > :06:41.China. A male nurse's been arrested and accused of tampering with med
:06:41. > :06:44.kol records at Stepping Hill Hospital. There is a separate
:06:44. > :06:50.police investigation into the deaths of a number of patients.
:06:50. > :06:52.There were three deaths there last summer. It emerged today that a
:06:52. > :06:55.fourth death that happened on New Year's Eve is now being
:06:56. > :06:59.investigated. A nurse who was meant to care for
:06:59. > :07:04.patients here is now accused of trying to harm them. The 46-year-
:07:04. > :07:09.old man was arrested on suspicion of tampering with medical records.
:07:09. > :07:12.But today, the police said that this latest arrest is not yet being
:07:12. > :07:17.linked to the suspicious deaths at Stepping Hill Hospital.
:07:17. > :07:24.This is a search for the truth into the set of circumstances reported
:07:24. > :07:27.on the 3rd of January, specifically. Over the coming hours and days, we
:07:27. > :07:30.will complete those inquiries firstly before looking at any
:07:30. > :07:37.possibly links with the wider investigation.
:07:37. > :07:40.That wider investigation began with the deaths of these patients, Derek
:07:40. > :07:45.Weaver, Arnold Lancaster and ard ar ard and continues with Bill Dickson
:07:45. > :07:49.who died on New Year's Eve. All four received saline solution,
:07:49. > :07:52.contaminated about insulin. It has left some who work at Stepping Hill
:07:52. > :07:57.Hospital suspicious of the people that they call colleagues.
:07:57. > :08:01.What is the atmosphere a the staff like? I would say very tense and
:08:01. > :08:08.suspicious, you know. You like to trust the staff you
:08:08. > :08:11.work with, but you never know, do you.? This is the second arrest at
:08:11. > :08:15.Stepping Hill Hospital, nurse Rebecca Leighton spent six weeks in
:08:15. > :08:20.jail before all charges against her were dropped. Tonight she is said
:08:20. > :08:22.to be watching the developments closely. In the middle of what is
:08:22. > :08:27.happening at Stepping Hill Hospital are the patients.
:08:27. > :08:30.Are you worried about what is going on inside there? Of course we are
:08:30. > :08:35.worried. I think that everything in Stockport is worried in case we
:08:35. > :08:38.have to come in here. I will be glad when my mum is home.
:08:38. > :08:41.The police say that they understand the frustration of the patients
:08:41. > :08:45.here at Stepping Hill, but they also say that this is a complex
:08:45. > :08:53.investigation that could take some time. That they have not ruled out
:08:53. > :08:58.making more arrests. The Labour frontbencher, Diane
:08:58. > :09:02.Abbott, accused of making a racist comment on Twitter has apologised
:09:03. > :09:06.for any offence she has caused. Diane Abbott, the first black woman
:09:06. > :09:08.to be elected to Parliament said that "White people love playing
:09:08. > :09:12.divide and rule.". She was responding to comments on the
:09:12. > :09:17.Stephen Lawrence trial. She said that the remarks were taken out of
:09:17. > :09:21.context. She is one of the country's most
:09:21. > :09:28.well-known black MPs, but today, Diane Abbott found herself at the
:09:28. > :09:34.centre of a race row on Twitter. In 1987 she became the first black
:09:34. > :09:39.woman elected to the Commons. For decades she's campaigned for racial
:09:40. > :09:43.equality and finally became a Shadow Minister last year. Now a
:09:43. > :09:46.Twitter conversation has gotten her into trouble. Responding to a
:09:46. > :09:55.suggestion that some black commentators did not understand the
:09:55. > :10:00.communities that they talked about, I think that what Diane Abbott has
:10:00. > :10:03.said was just a stupid and crass generalisation. She should explain
:10:03. > :10:08.and apoll guise for what she has said.
:10:08. > :10:14.Some Tories went further, calling her comments racist. She tried to
:10:14. > :10:20.explain herself. Tweets taken out of context refers to a nature of
:10:20. > :10:25.19th century European colonialism, a bit much to get into 140
:10:25. > :10:30.characters. Later inside, Diane Abbott received a severe dressing
:10:30. > :10:36.down from Ed Miliband. I am told she kept her job because inspite of
:10:36. > :10:40.what she wrote, she insisted that she does not believe in making
:10:40. > :10:45.sweeping generalisations about white people. Diane Abbott has
:10:46. > :10:49.apologised for any offence kauzed. Her actions speak Lauder than words.
:10:49. > :10:54.This is somebody who has campaigned strongly for equality.
:10:54. > :11:00.The editor of the newspaper here says that the row is distracting
:11:00. > :11:06.from more important issues. I think it really has taken away a
:11:06. > :11:11.lot of the important issues that happened two days ago regarding the
:11:11. > :11:15.result in the Stephen Lawrence case. But it's not the first time as
:11:15. > :11:19.Diane Abbott has caused controversy. Here, her description of David
:11:19. > :11:23.Cameron and Nick Clegg. Two posh white boys from the Home
:11:23. > :11:28.Counties. In Hackney in East London, voters
:11:28. > :11:32.had advice for their MP. I tonight think she should resign,
:11:32. > :11:35.I think she should keep her mouth shut a bit. Sometimes you say
:11:36. > :11:38.things without thinking. She should know what is right and what is
:11:38. > :11:42.wrong. Some Conservatives that I Diane
:11:42. > :11:48.Abbott has overstepped the mark and Ed Miliband is weak for not sacking
:11:48. > :11:56.her. It is not the start to the New Year that the Labour leader wanted.
:11:56. > :12:00.A jury's been told that a 15-year- old boy was beaten, tortured and
:12:00. > :12:04.drowned on Christmas Day, 2010 by his sister and her boyfriend
:12:04. > :12:09.because they believed he was a witch. The prosecution have
:12:09. > :12:12.described the killing of Kristy Bamu as an attack of unspeakable
:12:12. > :12:14.savagery. The couping both from the Democratic Republic of Congo deny
:12:14. > :12:17.murder. William Hague is making the first
:12:17. > :12:23.visit by a British Foreign Secretary to Burma in more than
:12:23. > :12:26.half a century. He said he believes that the civilian-led government
:12:26. > :12:30.installed last year is insincere about reform. William Hague held
:12:30. > :12:34.talks with the President and with the opposition leader, Aung Sang
:12:34. > :12:40.Suu Kyi. We have been following the visit. This report does contain
:12:40. > :12:44.some flash photography. These are brighter Burmese days.
:12:44. > :12:48.A country so long isolated, now opening up to the world.
:12:48. > :12:53.And today, the first visit in half a century by a British Foreign
:12:53. > :12:56.Secretary. He pressed the reforming President,
:12:57. > :13:01.Prime Minister Thein Sein to free for political prisoners.
:13:01. > :13:03.The President did not speak publicly, but privately promised
:13:03. > :13:07.reform. The President said in those words
:13:07. > :13:14.that the progress of democracy is irversible. The words are there,
:13:14. > :13:18.but we also need to see the further action to release other political
:13:18. > :13:26.prisoners to see free and fair elections, then the world will
:13:26. > :13:30.believe it. It is a long way from all of this...
:13:30. > :13:40.Brutal crackdowns, shootings and disappearances.
:13:40. > :13:40.
:13:40. > :13:44.It is quite extraordinary to come back here and work openly as a
:13:44. > :13:47.journalist in Burma. The most profound change that I sense is
:13:47. > :13:55.that the essential dynamic which drove Burmese life for so long,
:13:55. > :14:01.Fiat, is fading away. -- fear. Changed his Uchida run by regional
:14:01. > :14:07.realities. The Burmese have -- is hugely run by its regional
:14:07. > :14:12.realities. The Burmese have long depended on China but an opening to
:14:12. > :14:16.the West has been prompted. Burma needs the prosperity only political
:14:16. > :14:20.stability can bring. The opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, whom I
:14:20. > :14:28.first met nearly 20 years ago, now talks warmly of the country's
:14:28. > :14:32.president. Words unthinkable in the old days. The most important thing
:14:32. > :14:36.is that the President is an honest man, that is how he struck me. He
:14:36. > :14:41.is an honest man, he doesn't make big promises that he would be
:14:41. > :14:43.incapable of keeping. It is 17 years since I sat in this room,
:14:43. > :14:48.listening to speak of hope. There have been many false dawns since
:14:48. > :14:52.then, can we really believe what is happening in Burma now is going to
:14:52. > :14:56.end in real democracy? I have always said that hope should be
:14:56. > :15:00.joined to endeavour. You can only hope that you work very hard to
:15:00. > :15:06.realise your hopes and we have been working very hard over the last 23
:15:06. > :15:10.years, and I think this is why we have the right to hope. What happen
:15:10. > :15:14.in your lifetime, that we will see a full democratic election? -- will
:15:14. > :15:18.it happen in your lifetime? I think it will be in my lifetime, but I
:15:18. > :15:25.don't know how long I am going to live. If I live a normal lifespan,
:15:25. > :15:29.yes. Tonight, the opposition leader met the Foreign Secretary. On all
:15:29. > :15:39.sides now, there seems to be the sober political the calculation
:15:39. > :15:43.
:15:43. > :15:47.that the days of isolation must be Still to come, the future for Kate.
:15:47. > :15:56.We report on the good causes that she has chosen to back in the years
:15:56. > :16:00.There is the strong case for changing the law in England and
:16:00. > :16:04.Wales to give some people help to end their lives, according to a
:16:04. > :16:07.report by a panel of legal and medical experts. They say people
:16:07. > :16:11.suffering from advanced terminal illness should be allowed to seek
:16:11. > :16:15.medical help to die. The report was funded by people who support a
:16:15. > :16:22.change in the law. Critics say the panel was clearly biased. Branwen
:16:22. > :16:26.Jeffreys is here with more details. The panel included a former Justice
:16:26. > :16:30.Secretary and senior policemen, and some doctors. It was set up and
:16:30. > :16:33.funded by people who want change, to make it legal, to help a
:16:33. > :16:37.terminally ill people -- person to take their own life. How did they
:16:37. > :16:41.say it might work? It would only include people expected to live
:16:41. > :16:45.less than 12 months. Two doctors would be needed to assess the
:16:45. > :16:50.patient, to check they have the mental capacity to make the
:16:50. > :16:54.decision. And they would need to self administer the lethal dose.
:16:54. > :16:58.The author, Sir Terry Pratchett, wants change. His books have sold
:16:58. > :17:07.millions of copies, but he now has Alzheimer's. He part funded the
:17:07. > :17:11.research behind this report. Supposing a man or a woman had been
:17:11. > :17:18.beset by a debilitating disease. Which is ultimately going to kill
:17:18. > :17:28.them. If a friendly physician would like to help them, as it were, over
:17:28. > :17:33.the style, with certain safeguards, obviously, then I don't think it is
:17:33. > :17:41.really very much the business of the government. I would like to be
:17:41. > :17:51.out on a deck chair in the garden, with Thomas Tallis on the head said,
:17:51. > :17:52.
:17:52. > :17:55.a brandy in my hand -- the head And a friendly position standing by.
:17:55. > :17:59.Terry Pratchett would not have the option of assisted dying under
:17:59. > :18:04.these proposals. The report says it shouldn't be offered to people with
:18:04. > :18:07.dementia or any mental illness. There is strong opposition to
:18:07. > :18:11.changing did in the doctors' union, the BMA. Jane Campbell is also
:18:11. > :18:18.against. Baroness Campbell has spinal muscular atrophy and she is
:18:18. > :18:24.one of the founders of not dead yet, a campaign against assisted suicide.
:18:24. > :18:31.I have a very full life. I go to the Lords, I amend legislation. We
:18:31. > :18:37.have fun, but I have pain, I have a horrible things happen to me, like
:18:37. > :18:41.choking. In my position, I am feeling very threatened, and now we
:18:41. > :18:46.have this landing on our doorstep, it makes us feel even more afraid,
:18:46. > :18:51.because we feel we may have a choice to accept death, rather than
:18:51. > :18:57.living. In helping one or two people, we are in danger of opening
:18:57. > :19:03.the door to something that will put hundreds of other people in danger,
:19:03. > :19:07.and it sends out hopelessness, not hope. Assisted dying is an emotive
:19:07. > :19:12.and contentious issue. The law could only be changed by Parliament.
:19:12. > :19:17.The last time it was debated, it was defeated. This report is the
:19:17. > :19:22.latest salvo in a long debate. It is far from over, but the law isn't
:19:22. > :19:26.likely to change soon. Thank you very much.
:19:26. > :19:30.The Prime Minister says his new resolution -- new year's resolution
:19:30. > :19:35.is to get the economy moving. At his first public event of punted
:19:35. > :19:39.off, he has promised to help small businesses by reducing bureaucracy
:19:39. > :19:43.and so-called red tape -- his first public event of 2012. He admitted
:19:43. > :19:46.on a visit to Maidenhead at one of the measures he promoted last year
:19:46. > :19:50.had not worked out. First day back on the road and it
:19:50. > :19:54.is time to persuade business that the economy is the government's top
:19:54. > :19:57.priority. That is what he was doing with supermarket workers and what
:19:57. > :20:01.his deputy was doing, with young people looking for work. Their
:20:01. > :20:05.message, we are going for growth. It will be a tough year but the
:20:05. > :20:09.government is going to roll up its sleeves... He promised small
:20:09. > :20:12.businessmen and women he would scrap health and safety red tape
:20:12. > :20:16.faster and cut personal injury claims by capping a lawyer's fees.
:20:16. > :20:20.But he admitted his National Insurance tax breaks to support
:20:20. > :20:25.start-up firms had not worked. was not as successful as we had
:20:25. > :20:30.hoped. I think it was perhaps too complicated, too targeted at
:20:30. > :20:33.specific businesses in specific areas of the country.
:20:33. > :20:36.businesswoman challenged the Prime Minister, telling him the
:20:36. > :20:42.government's decision to cut subsidies for green electricity
:20:42. > :20:46.from solar panels had forced her to lay off 30 workers before Christmas.
:20:46. > :20:50.I am funding a �100,000 pay roll a month, not being able to sell
:20:50. > :20:53.anything because of your incompetence. You accept that the
:20:53. > :20:57.cut needs to be made, it has been put in made. The sooner we can put
:20:57. > :21:01.in place the new tariff, the sooner you will have the certainty and it
:21:01. > :21:05.can still be a successful industry. I asked she was happy with what he
:21:05. > :21:08.said. Absolutely not, I don't think the answer the question and I don't
:21:08. > :21:12.think he knows the first thing about running a business.
:21:12. > :21:16.Maidenhead, another business has been forced to cut staff and shops
:21:16. > :21:21.and move to smaller premises. For 160 years, they have photographed
:21:21. > :21:25.generations of schoolboys at Eton College, including David Cameron.
:21:25. > :21:29.Some person you may recognise here, Harry, standing by the wall. In
:21:29. > :21:34.this one, you have got William in the library. I asked, is the
:21:34. > :21:40.governor doing enough for him? feel the government could help us a
:21:40. > :21:44.lot by helping with the finances from the banks. Banks are not very
:21:44. > :21:48.understanding of small business. They take that umbrella from you
:21:48. > :21:51.when it rains, really. Maidenhead is pretty prosperous and packed
:21:51. > :21:55.full of small businesses, but even here, people are finding it hard
:21:55. > :22:00.going. David Cameron knows he has to get business is expanding and
:22:00. > :22:03.employing again, if he is to find the growth in 2012 that the economy
:22:03. > :22:07.desperately needs. The government have to take responsibility for
:22:07. > :22:10.their own actions on growth. We have seen from the Prime Minister,
:22:10. > :22:14.a big concession that his National Insurance holiday, his flagship
:22:14. > :22:20.policy for small businesses has not worked. One thing is clear,
:22:20. > :22:24.rebuilding the economy is going to take quite a lot of heavy lifting.
:22:24. > :22:28.Parts of Britain have taken another battering from the weather with
:22:28. > :22:31.strong winds causing damage and disruption. Gusts of more than 100
:22:31. > :22:36.mph were recorded and thousands of homes and businesses are still
:22:36. > :22:40.without electricity. On the Isle of Bute, some residents spent their
:22:40. > :22:44.third day coping with that disrupted supplies. There are
:22:44. > :22:48.queues for food at the shops that remain open. On the border between
:22:48. > :22:52.England and North Wales, the River Dee was flooded. In the Midlands, a
:22:52. > :22:57.load of rubbish was blown onto the motorway, partially closing it
:22:57. > :23:00.while it was clear. The public duties to be undertaken
:23:00. > :23:04.by the Duchess of Cambridge in the coming years have been more clearly
:23:04. > :23:08.defined, with the new she is to become a patron of several
:23:08. > :23:13.organisations. -- the news. Catherine will be sporting
:23:13. > :23:15.charities ranging from a group that helps people with behavioural
:23:15. > :23:20.difficulties to the National Portrait Gallery -- Catherine will
:23:20. > :23:24.be supporting. At the time of her engagement to
:23:24. > :23:29.Prince William, the then Catherine Middleton says she was willing to
:23:30. > :23:34.learn quickly and work hard. really hope I can make a difference,
:23:34. > :23:42.even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to have been as
:23:42. > :23:49.much as I can. In the months since -- looking for two hopping as much
:23:50. > :23:52.She has taken her time deciding which organisations to support.
:23:52. > :24:02.which organisations to support. Originally she is to be patron of
:24:02. > :24:04.
:24:04. > :24:08.The Queen has more than 600 patronage is, the Duke of Edinburgh
:24:08. > :24:13.has more than 800, so the Duchess has a long way to go. But for a
:24:13. > :24:20.charity like the art room, which uses art to help children, the
:24:20. > :24:23.Duchess's interest is a huge opportunity. She's a complete
:24:23. > :24:26.natural, she has a complete interest in the art and the
:24:26. > :24:32.therapeutic world. The combination of what we do here is something
:24:32. > :24:35.that seemed to really attract her. The Duchess is also joining the
:24:35. > :24:40.Scouts as an occasional adult volunteer, working principally with
:24:40. > :24:46.a group in North Wales. It may rekindle memories as her own time
:24:46. > :24:51.as memories of -- off her own time as member of the Brownies. She is
:24:51. > :24:54.going to be with the young people, she will be doing the arts and
:24:54. > :25:00.crafts with them, the astrology, the heighting, and she will be
:25:00. > :25:08.there on the first night away from home at the cubs slipover. -- the
:25:08. > :25:13.Have heard charity choices been a little over-cautious? -- have her
:25:13. > :25:18.charity choices? Princess Diana adopted choices like landmines,
:25:18. > :25:27.leprosy and HIV. The Duchess has played very safe. She could have
:25:27. > :25:31.made such a statement if she had gone for unpopular causes and they
:25:31. > :25:38.are great causes, but I think it is a missed opportunity. She says she
:25:38. > :25:42.has chosen charities with which she feels comfortable and can make a
:25:42. > :25:45.contribution. She wants to start small with organisations like the