:00:09. > :00:13.Tonight: Fabio Capello quits as England manager. His shock
:00:13. > :00:17.resignation follows his criticism of the FA decision to strip John
:00:17. > :00:22.Terry of the captaincy. With the John Terry issue, Capello obviously
:00:22. > :00:26.wants to make a stand. The FA wanted to make their stand and
:00:26. > :00:29.obviously they couldn't agree. Spurs manager Harry Redknapp is
:00:29. > :00:33.cleared of tax evasion, speculation that he could be the next man for
:00:33. > :00:36.the job. With just four months until the
:00:36. > :00:41.European championships, we will be looking at where this leaves the FA
:00:41. > :00:45.and the England team. Also tonight: After the heaviest
:00:45. > :00:51.day of bombardment yet, we report from inside the Syrian city of Homs.
:00:51. > :00:56.It is not clear air what exactly the Syrian army is targeting. But
:00:56. > :01:01.certainly civilians are bearing the brunt. And most of them up I inside,
:01:01. > :01:05.just as we are. The head of RBS tells the BBC how he nearly
:01:06. > :01:08.resigned during the furore over his bonus.
:01:08. > :01:16.And we talk to their mysterious guerrilla artist lighting up the
:01:16. > :01:20.streets of Moscow. Coming at Ben Sportsday: Following
:01:20. > :01:30.Fabio Capello's resignation, we take a look at the new names in the
:01:30. > :01:44.
:01:44. > :01:48.Good evening. The England football manager Fabio Capello has
:01:48. > :01:53.unexpectedly resigned tonight after four years in the job and just four
:01:53. > :01:57.months before England competes in the European Championship. He had
:01:57. > :02:00.publicly criticised the FA for stripping John Terry of the England
:02:00. > :02:04.captaincy over racism allegations. There is already speculation about
:02:04. > :02:09.who will replace him. One contender is Spurs manager Harry Redknapp,
:02:09. > :02:13.who today was cleared of tax evasion. More on that in a moment.
:02:13. > :02:18.First, David Bond has more one of the developing story. There is
:02:18. > :02:22.flash photography. Determined, his face betraying no
:02:22. > :02:26.emotion, Fabio Capello is driven away from Wembley after shocking
:02:26. > :02:30.football by resigning as England manager. Four years earlier, his
:02:30. > :02:35.arrival felt very different. He was supposed to be the no-nonsense
:02:35. > :02:42.Italian who would sort out the country's underperforming stars.
:02:42. > :02:46.Instead, he leaves having become the latest big name to fail in
:02:46. > :02:50.football's impossible job. Here is why, an exchange between Anton
:02:50. > :02:53.Ferdinand and John Terry which has left the former England captain
:02:53. > :02:57.facing criminal allegations of racial abuse. The trial has been
:02:57. > :03:02.adjourned until July. But the FA chairman David Bernstein decided to
:03:02. > :03:05.strip him of the captaincy now. This decision has been taken due to
:03:05. > :03:09.the high-profile nature of the England captaincy on and off the
:03:09. > :03:14.pitch. Additional demands and requirements expected of the
:03:14. > :03:17.captain, leading into and during a tournament. Capello wasted little
:03:17. > :03:22.time in expressing his views on that decision. He told Italian
:03:22. > :03:26.television... TRANSLATION: I did not agree a tour with the decision.
:03:26. > :03:29.Civil justice, not sports justice will rule whether John Terry
:03:29. > :03:34.committed a crime he is accused of. I think it is right, and I still
:03:34. > :03:38.think it is right, that John Terry should keep the captain's armband.
:03:38. > :03:48.Today, following an hour-long meeting at Wembley, David Bernstein
:03:48. > :04:06.
:04:06. > :04:11.issued the following statement on It was dignified and, in the end,
:04:11. > :04:16.there was a handshake. Fabio moves on, and so do the FA. The FA have
:04:16. > :04:21.to move on quite quickly. They had a game in three weeks, so they have
:04:21. > :04:24.to have someone in charge for that. Early optimism for England at the
:04:24. > :04:30.World Cup quickly evaporated, with tensions running high as problems
:04:30. > :04:33.mounted in South Africa. In the end, it was the same old story. Defeat
:04:33. > :04:38.against Germany in the second round prompting calls for him to resign
:04:38. > :04:43.them. He stayed, but only because the FA could not afford to pay him
:04:43. > :04:47.off. After four turbulent years in charge, English football has made
:04:47. > :04:52.little progress under Fabio Capello. Yet, during that time he has been
:04:52. > :04:55.paid almost �24 million. A staggering amount which will lead
:04:55. > :05:00.to fresh questions about the way the Football Association has been
:05:00. > :05:04.run. With the John Terry issue, Capello obviously wanted to make a
:05:04. > :05:12.stand. The FA wanted to make their stand. In the end, they could not
:05:12. > :05:15.agree. Capello has decided to resign. I suppose, a few months
:05:15. > :05:20.short of the championship, the FA is going to have to make a decision
:05:20. > :05:24.on who is next. Fabio Capello has a reputation as a man who enjoys the
:05:24. > :05:28.finer things in life, with an appreciation of higher culture. He
:05:28. > :05:36.is not the first manager to fall foul of the culture of the English
:05:36. > :05:40.Well, Spurs manager Harry Redknapp is one of the names in the frame
:05:40. > :05:43.now for the England job. He was cleared to day of tax evasion,
:05:43. > :05:48.along with former Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric sh. The
:05:48. > :05:51.trial marked a disastrous end to an �8 million investigation by the
:05:51. > :05:55.Inland Revenue which failed to yield a single conviction. Mr
:05:55. > :05:59.Redknapp said the five year-long inquiry had been a nightmare and
:05:59. > :06:05.that the case should never have come to court. There is flash
:06:05. > :06:07.photography in this report. Congratulations from waiting
:06:07. > :06:11.supporters as Harry Redknapp left the court, having finally cleared
:06:11. > :06:15.his name. It really has been a nightmare. I've got to be honest,
:06:15. > :06:20.it's been five years and this is a case that should never have come to
:06:20. > :06:25.court. It is unbelievable, really. Relief for Milan Mandaric, who had
:06:25. > :06:29.been Redknapp's boss when he was the owner of Portsmouth. I always
:06:29. > :06:35.believed in the truth and also believe in the British justice
:06:35. > :06:39.system. The case centred around the transfer in 2002 of Peter Crouch.
:06:39. > :06:43.Harry Redknapp had believed he was entitled to 10% of the profit from
:06:43. > :06:48.the sale. He was unhappy when he only received a payment of 5%. He
:06:48. > :06:52.asked his chairman to sort it out. The allegation was that Milan
:06:52. > :06:57.Mandaric had eventually given in to Harry Redknapp's demands and agreed
:06:57. > :07:01.to pay him an extra �100,000. The prosecution claimed that the money
:07:01. > :07:06.was not going to go to the club's accounts in Portsmouth, it was to
:07:06. > :07:11.come directly from Milan Mandaric's personal account in Monaco. Nobody
:07:11. > :07:16.disputed that Redknapp set up an account in Monaco, named Rosie 47
:07:16. > :07:21.after one of his dogs. The two men repeatedly explained that the money
:07:21. > :07:25.was an investment, not a bonus, so no tax needed to be paid. Former
:07:25. > :07:28.News of the World report of Rob Beasley was a crown key witness. He
:07:28. > :07:38.had recorded a phone call in which Redknapp had said that it was a
:07:38. > :07:52.
:07:52. > :07:56.Police questions soon followed. Redknapp said he had lied to the
:07:56. > :08:06.reporter to get him off the phone. The payment was an investment, not
:08:06. > :08:10.
:08:10. > :08:15.a bonus, and it was his accountant The �8 million investigation had
:08:15. > :08:19.been criticised since the day when police first arrived at Redknapp's
:08:19. > :08:23.house to arrest him. Some photographers had been tipped off
:08:23. > :08:26.and were alongside them. A front page story pointed to a leak at the
:08:26. > :08:30.heart of an inquiry that was today defended by those who had run it.
:08:30. > :08:34.We accept the verdict of the jury. I would like to remind those that
:08:34. > :08:39.are evading tax by using offshore tax havens that it always makes
:08:39. > :08:43.sense to come to talk to was before we come to talk to you. Harry
:08:44. > :08:47.Redknapp had begun the day facing the possibility of jail. Now here's
:08:47. > :08:51.a man in demand, not just from those crowding around him as he
:08:51. > :09:01.left court, but quite possibly from those beginning a search for the
:09:01. > :09:05.David Bond is with me. An extraordinary day for football.
:09:05. > :09:10.Where does Capello's resignation leave the FA and the England team?
:09:10. > :09:14.Not for the first time, in complete disarray. Everybody expected Fabio
:09:14. > :09:19.Capello to go after Euro 2012. I don't think the FA started today
:09:19. > :09:23.expecting him to leave by the end of it. Capello, not a man to back
:09:23. > :09:27.down, he went into this meeting with David Bernstein, clearly still
:09:27. > :09:31.insisting that John Terry should be captain. At that point, clearly the
:09:32. > :09:35.FA had problems. Interesting player reaction coming in. Wayne Rooney
:09:35. > :09:40.has tweeted in the last few minutes that he is gutted that Capello has
:09:40. > :09:44.quit, he is a good guy and top coach. Interestingly, it says it
:09:44. > :09:48.has to be English to replace him. Harry Redknapp, for him. In the
:09:48. > :09:52.short term, I think they will have to get a manager in to try and run
:09:52. > :09:56.the England team for this friendly against Holland on 29th February.
:09:56. > :09:59.Sources at telling me they will probably look internally. Stuart
:09:59. > :10:04.Pearce or perhaps Trevor Brooking, director of football development.
:10:04. > :10:11.Longer term, you have to think that Harry Redknapp is now the favourite.
:10:11. > :10:14.Is that a realistic possibility? think it is. With today's acquittal,
:10:14. > :10:18.all legal and ethical obligations about him taking over have been
:10:18. > :10:22.removed. There is still the matter of two years on his contract at
:10:22. > :10:29.Tottenham. Tonight, you have to look at the way this extraordinary
:10:29. > :10:32.day has gone and say he must be favourite to take over.
:10:32. > :10:38.People living in the besieged city of Homs said they endured the
:10:38. > :10:41.heaviest bombardment yet by Syrian forces, just 24 hours after the
:10:41. > :10:45.country's President promised to end the violence. 50 people are
:10:45. > :10:50.reported to have died in the last 24 hours. Paul Wood has been one of
:10:50. > :10:55.the few Western journalists inside the city, where government
:10:55. > :11:00.artillery has been targeting areas which oppose the Government. This
:11:00. > :11:08.report contains some distressing material.
:11:08. > :11:18.It began at dawn. And, for a 5th day, Homs was under bombardment.
:11:18. > :11:21.Some said it was the worst day of shelling. Allah hu Akbar! Syrian
:11:21. > :11:28.armour roamed menacingly at the edges of the areas still holding
:11:28. > :11:36.out. People here are afraid the regime and hence a final push to
:11:36. > :11:43.crush the uprising. The casualties are mounting. Undoubtedly, most are
:11:43. > :11:53.civilians. They had put their hopes in a UN resolution. But it was
:11:53. > :11:57.
:11:57. > :12:00.vetoed by Russia and China. They This is a little child. He is, what,
:12:00. > :12:07.about two years old? He got hit with this mortar bomb in his house.
:12:07. > :12:11.Is this what the UN is waiting for? Until there are not any more
:12:11. > :12:17.children laughed? Until they kill or of the children and the women? -
:12:17. > :12:20.- any more children left. Homs is shattered and terrified after many
:12:20. > :12:27.punishing days of this. Hundreds of shells and mortar bombs have been
:12:27. > :12:30.fired at this place. Amid the grief and the panic, the one thing you
:12:30. > :12:40.here over and over again from people is that they feel abandoned
:12:40. > :12:50.
:12:50. > :12:58.They have not been out to play since the uprising began. Their
:12:58. > :13:04.mother is in despair. The outside world will not help us, she says.
:13:04. > :13:09.But God's vengeance will come down on the Syrian President. The
:13:09. > :13:19.Kalashnikovs of the Free Syria Army can do little against tanks. They
:13:19. > :13:25.
:13:25. > :13:29.hope the regime forces will crumble The Syrian Army's morale has
:13:29. > :13:35.collapsed, says an officer who defected just a week ago. They know
:13:35. > :13:43.they are killing civilians and they want this blood bath to stop.
:13:43. > :13:50.The prevailing mood here is one of despair. People feel trapped and,
:13:50. > :13:53.they believe, no-one is coming to help.
:13:53. > :13:56.More high-profile figures have settled their claims for damages in
:13:56. > :13:58.the News of the World phone hacking scandal. The High Court in London
:13:58. > :14:00.heard that the comedian, Steve Coogan, the former footballer, Paul
:14:00. > :14:03.Gascoigne, and Tony Blair's communications director at Downing
:14:03. > :14:09.Street, Alistair Campbell, are among the latest people to accept
:14:09. > :14:11.compensation worth tens of thousands of pounds.
:14:11. > :14:14.David Cameron was forced to defend the Government's controversial
:14:14. > :14:19.health reforms in the Commons today, insisting he cares passionately
:14:19. > :14:23.about the NHS. But just hours later the reforms came up against fresh
:14:23. > :14:25.opposition in the Lords. And another group of health
:14:25. > :14:28.professionals added their voice to concerns over what would be the
:14:28. > :14:38.biggest shake-up in the NHS in England for more than 60 years.
:14:38. > :14:38.
:14:39. > :14:42.Iain Watson reports from Westminster. Before the election,
:14:42. > :14:46.David Cameron said the NHS would be his priority, but now he's fighting
:14:46. > :14:49.to keep his health reforms alive. The Government wants to give more
:14:49. > :14:53.power to GPs and to improve standards through greater
:14:53. > :14:59.competition. But they are having to make more than 100 changes to try
:14:59. > :15:03.to gain vital support. The Prime Minister looked uncomfortable as
:15:03. > :15:07.the Labour leader tried to get under his skin. This is a matter of
:15:07. > :15:14.trust in the Prime Minister. Can he honestly look people in the health
:15:14. > :15:18.service in the eye and say he's kept his promise of no more topdown
:15:18. > :15:25.reorganisation? What we are doing is cutting the bureaucracy in the
:15:25. > :15:30.NHS. We are taking out �4.5 billion of bureaucracy will be ploughed
:15:30. > :15:34.into patient care... But as a weary Health Secretary looked on, Ed
:15:34. > :15:38.Miliband seized on remarks allegedly made by someone inside
:15:38. > :15:45.Downing Street. He knows in his heart of hearts this is a complete
:15:45. > :15:50.disaster, this Bill. That's why his aides are saying his healthy
:15:50. > :15:54.secretary should be taken out and shot. His career prospects are
:15:54. > :15:57.better than his. Outside a hardy band of protesters were braving the
:15:57. > :16:02.cold. The Government won't be too worried that Labour are calling for
:16:02. > :16:05.the health reforms to be killed off. Far more unsettling is a growing
:16:05. > :16:08.level of opposition outside Parliament, not just from
:16:09. > :16:13.campaigners and demonstrators but some of the key medical bodies in
:16:13. > :16:17.the NHS. The health reforms in England have already been denounced
:16:17. > :16:22.by some prominent professional bodies. And joining them today the
:16:23. > :16:29.Faculty of Public Health. We want the Government to drop the Bill
:16:29. > :16:32.because we think lit lead to increased inequalities in health
:16:32. > :16:38.and increasedy. But some health professionals believe the reforms
:16:38. > :16:41.will free them up to provide better care for their patients. We have
:16:41. > :16:45.the ability to transform and change local services for our local people
:16:45. > :16:48.if we are allowed to do it. tonight in the House of Lords the
:16:49. > :16:52.Government suffered a narrow defeat as opponents backed yet another
:16:52. > :16:57.change. The health bill can't survive entirely unscathed but the
:16:57. > :17:00.Government are determined it won't be killed off.
:17:00. > :17:10.Coming up on tonight's programme: Banksy - or should it be Bankski?
:17:10. > :17:10.
:17:10. > :17:13.The mysterious Russian bringing art The chief executive of the Royal
:17:13. > :17:16.Bank of Scotland, Stephen Hester, has told the BBC he thought about
:17:16. > :17:19.resigning during the uproar over his bonus. Mr Hester said he was
:17:19. > :17:22.not a robot and there had been some deeply depressing moments. He was
:17:22. > :17:32.speaking in his first broadcast interview since he turned down a
:17:32. > :17:33.
:17:33. > :17:38.bonus of almost �1 million. Here's our business editor, Robert Peston.
:17:38. > :17:41.Stephen Hester, the face, the symbol of the allegedly overpaid
:17:41. > :17:46.banker. Today Royal Bank of Scotland's boss admitted on the BBC
:17:46. > :17:52.that he had paid a big personal price for accepting and then
:17:52. > :17:56.rejecting a �1 million bonus. certainly not a robot and there've
:17:56. > :18:03.been some deeply depressing moments, by the way not just now but over
:18:03. > :18:08.the last three years. I guess in the end, in the intensity of it, I
:18:08. > :18:13.came to the conclusion that I thought it would be actually
:18:13. > :18:18.indulgent for me to resign and that what I ought to do was to draw, if
:18:18. > :18:21.you like, on the reserves of strength that I have and try to
:18:21. > :18:25.make RBS a success. Stephen Hester says he is worth it because he is
:18:25. > :18:31.sorting what he called the biggest time bomb in banking history. Now,
:18:31. > :18:36.we as taxpayers invested �45 billion into Royal Bank of Scotland
:18:36. > :18:42.to rescue it. Shockingly, Mr Hester said that money lost. What he meant
:18:42. > :18:45.was that the costs of fixing the bank, of writing off bad loans,
:18:45. > :18:50.making Royal Bank of Scotland more efficient and selling poor
:18:50. > :18:55.businesses, have so far been �38 billion. It won't be long until
:18:55. > :18:59.those cost os exceed building 45 billion. But so long as RBS can be
:18:59. > :19:05.nursed back to profits, one day taxpayers may get their money back.
:19:05. > :19:10.It is going to take years. How can banks and bankers be rehabilitated
:19:10. > :19:13.in the man credited with fixing the London insurance market Lloyds has
:19:13. > :19:18.some advice. The bankers need to see themselves as being a service
:19:18. > :19:22.to the public, and not to be self- serving. They should be providing
:19:22. > :19:26.the finance, working for the companies they deal with, and not
:19:26. > :19:31.just all the time trying to make huge bonuses for themselves. As I
:19:31. > :19:35.say, take them on, pay them well and expect them to do the job as
:19:35. > :19:39.everybody else does. As it happens, investment banks haven't been
:19:39. > :19:45.spewing out big proof nits the past few months, so it is not a bumper
:19:45. > :19:50.bonus year for all. The City is facing tens of thousands of
:19:50. > :19:53.redundancies, some have happened, some are due to happen. This is
:19:53. > :19:58.going to drive down pay because you are going to have an oversupply of
:19:58. > :20:03.pale, as in the rest of the economy. Stephen Hester's bonus widely
:20:03. > :20:09.condemned in part because RBS is semi-nationalised. Since Barclays
:20:09. > :20:16.isn't owned by taxpayers, can Bob Diamond receive huge pay and not be
:20:16. > :20:19.pilloried? We'll know soon enough. Getting 1 million long-term
:20:19. > :20:23.unemployed people back into work at a time when the economy appears to
:20:23. > :20:27.be stalling is one of the Government's biggest challenges. It
:20:27. > :20:31.is flagship work programme has been running for seven months and it
:20:31. > :20:37.uses private companies to help the jobless find employment. But is it
:20:37. > :20:42.working? Liverpool, a city where today there
:20:42. > :20:46.are seven times as many job seekers as job vacancies. 21-year-old
:20:46. > :20:52.Cheryl's been looking for work for a year now, having left schooling
:20:52. > :20:56.at 16, the economic downturn left her stranded on welfare. She prays
:20:56. > :21:01.the Government's work programme can rescue her. What do you hope the
:21:01. > :21:05.work programme will do for you? Hopefully get me into a stable job
:21:05. > :21:15.and keep me there. I'm willing to take anything on really. I will do
:21:15. > :21:18.anything. It is Cheryl's first day on the programme. Run here in
:21:18. > :21:25.Liverpool by A4e. The company's contract with the Government means
:21:25. > :21:28.they only make a profit if they find permanent job's for the city's
:21:28. > :21:34.long-term unemployed. It is early days but after seven months just
:21:34. > :21:40.one in seven of their clients have found any kind of work. One of the
:21:40. > :21:43.main things that Jacob's are looking for... Dave has been on the
:21:43. > :21:48.scheme since last summer. Out of work for two years he's been given
:21:48. > :21:54.basic advice on improving his chances of a job in a local biscuit
:21:54. > :22:00.factory. Clean hands, clean nails, clone clothes. How worried are you,
:22:00. > :22:05.it is going to be impossible for you at the moment to get a job?
:22:05. > :22:09.do worry. There's that many people now looking, and you look at the
:22:09. > :22:13.jobless and it seems to be going up. It is a buyer's market and factory
:22:13. > :22:19.bosss will need to be persuaded to recruit someone who hasn't worked
:22:19. > :22:24.for years rather than someone fresh from another job. Jaib on's has
:22:24. > :22:27.been employing people in Liverpool for almost a century. A4e right has
:22:27. > :22:31.dozens of people they hope might get a job here. But just because
:22:32. > :22:35.the work programme is a Government- backed initiative doesn't mean it
:22:35. > :22:39.gets treated differently from other employment agencies when it trice
:22:39. > :22:43.find work in the biscuit factory. There's only so many jobs out there
:22:43. > :22:46.and you are in competition with other agencies. What's the point of
:22:46. > :22:50.the work programme? It is always going to be a competitive
:22:50. > :22:55.marketplace to get people into work, and what we have to do is work with
:22:55. > :23:00.our people to secure those positions over other companies.
:23:00. > :23:05.That's the nature of... But that doesn't get the job figures up it?
:23:05. > :23:08.It just means one of your people rather than somebody else's?
:23:08. > :23:12.don't control the labour market. I don't control job creation. They
:23:12. > :23:16.can't create jobs but they can create job-ready workers, which
:23:16. > :23:21.might then attract or expand businesses in the city. Cheryl has
:23:21. > :23:26.been sent out with a pile of CVs to deliver to hotels and shops,
:23:26. > :23:31.restaurants and store managers say they can get hundreds of
:23:31. > :23:39.unsolicited application as every months. Hi, can I hand my CV in
:23:39. > :23:45.please. Fine. Thank you. Improving the work readiness of Liverpool's
:23:45. > :23:48.long-term unemployed may boost the city's prospects but as A4e
:23:48. > :23:57.candidly admit, the work programme cannot create work. What
:23:57. > :24:02.Liverpool's unemployed need most is not more schemes. It is more jobs.
:24:02. > :24:09.He's a mysterious Russian street artist, compared to Britain's
:24:09. > :24:16.Banksy, whose graffiti stencils can sell for thousands of pounds, the
:24:16. > :24:23.Russian guerrilla artworks... He refuses to reveal his true identity
:24:23. > :24:32.but the man who calls himself Pavel 183 did agree to meet our Moscow
:24:32. > :24:38.correspondent, Daniel Sandford. Aggressive, defiant, surprising and
:24:38. > :24:42.invariably witty, the work of the Moscow street artist Pavel 183.
:24:42. > :24:50.Occasionally political, his work is part graffiti, part installation,
:24:50. > :24:56.and he is starting to be compared with the millionaire British street
:24:56. > :25:01.artist Banksy. Like Banksy he chooses to remain anonymous but
:25:01. > :25:06.agreed to take us to one of his illegal outdoor galleries. This is
:25:06. > :25:16.a time of protest and discontent in Russia, something his art seems to
:25:16. > :25:19.capture. I asked if he saw his work as political. TRANSLATION: My work
:25:19. > :25:23.often addresses politics but for me society is more important. All the
:25:23. > :25:32.same, politics is a burning issue. I don't like a lot of things in
:25:32. > :25:35.Russian politics. In the politics of puetin. -- Putin. One of his
:25:35. > :25:40.latest works, White Stitches, painted on the road, addressed
:25:40. > :25:44.directly last December's elections which many in Moscow felt were
:25:44. > :25:49.blatantly stitched up. He often works with what he finds, filming
:25:49. > :25:55.himself as he goes, in this case using abandoned concrete slabs to
:25:55. > :25:59.create giant versions of one of Russia's favourite chocolate bars.
:25:59. > :26:05.Pavel 183's art is very simple, very accessible, but when you start
:26:05. > :26:13.to think about it, it is really very beautiful. And it has its own