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Tonight: Fabio Capello quits as England manager. His shock

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resignation follows his criticism of the FA decision to strip John

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Terry of the captaincy. With the John Terry issue, Capello obviously

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wants to make a stand. The FA wanted to make their stand and

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obviously they couldn't agree. Spurs manager Harry Redknapp is

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cleared of tax evasion, speculation that he could be the next man for

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the job. With just four months until the

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European championships, we will be looking at where this leaves the FA

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and the England team. Also tonight: After the heaviest

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day of bombardment yet, we report from inside the Syrian city of Homs.

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It is not clear air what exactly the Syrian army is targeting. But

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certainly civilians are bearing the brunt. And most of them up I inside,

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just as we are. The head of RBS tells the BBC how he nearly

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resigned during the furore over his bonus.

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And we talk to their mysterious guerrilla artist lighting up the

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streets of Moscow. Coming at Ben Sportsday: Following

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Fabio Capello's resignation, we take a look at the new names in the

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Good evening. The England football manager Fabio Capello has

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unexpectedly resigned tonight after four years in the job and just four

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months before England competes in the European Championship. He had

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publicly criticised the FA for stripping John Terry of the England

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captaincy over racism allegations. There is already speculation about

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who will replace him. One contender is Spurs manager Harry Redknapp,

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who today was cleared of tax evasion. More on that in a moment.

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First, David Bond has more one of the developing story. There is

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flash photography. Determined, his face betraying no

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emotion, Fabio Capello is driven away from Wembley after shocking

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football by resigning as England manager. Four years earlier, his

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arrival felt very different. He was supposed to be the no-nonsense

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Italian who would sort out the country's underperforming stars.

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Instead, he leaves having become the latest big name to fail in

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football's impossible job. Here is why, an exchange between Anton

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Ferdinand and John Terry which has left the former England captain

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facing criminal allegations of racial abuse. The trial has been

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adjourned until July. But the FA chairman David Bernstein decided to

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strip him of the captaincy now. This decision has been taken due to

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the high-profile nature of the England captaincy on and off the

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pitch. Additional demands and requirements expected of the

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captain, leading into and during a tournament. Capello wasted little

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time in expressing his views on that decision. He told Italian

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television... TRANSLATION: I did not agree a tour with the decision.

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Civil justice, not sports justice will rule whether John Terry

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committed a crime he is accused of. I think it is right, and I still

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think it is right, that John Terry should keep the captain's armband.

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Today, following an hour-long meeting at Wembley, David Bernstein

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issued the following statement on It was dignified and, in the end,

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there was a handshake. Fabio moves on, and so do the FA. The FA have

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to move on quite quickly. They had a game in three weeks, so they have

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to have someone in charge for that. Early optimism for England at the

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World Cup quickly evaporated, with tensions running high as problems

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mounted in South Africa. In the end, it was the same old story. Defeat

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against Germany in the second round prompting calls for him to resign

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them. He stayed, but only because the FA could not afford to pay him

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off. After four turbulent years in charge, English football has made

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little progress under Fabio Capello. Yet, during that time he has been

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paid almost �24 million. A staggering amount which will lead

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to fresh questions about the way the Football Association has been

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run. With the John Terry issue, Capello obviously wanted to make a

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stand. The FA wanted to make their stand. In the end, they could not

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agree. Capello has decided to resign. I suppose, a few months

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short of the championship, the FA is going to have to make a decision

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on who is next. Fabio Capello has a reputation as a man who enjoys the

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finer things in life, with an appreciation of higher culture. He

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is not the first manager to fall foul of the culture of the English

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Well, Spurs manager Harry Redknapp is one of the names in the frame

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now for the England job. He was cleared to day of tax evasion,

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along with former Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric sh. The

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trial marked a disastrous end to an �8 million investigation by the

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Inland Revenue which failed to yield a single conviction. Mr

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Redknapp said the five year-long inquiry had been a nightmare and

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that the case should never have come to court. There is flash

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photography in this report. Congratulations from waiting

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supporters as Harry Redknapp left the court, having finally cleared

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his name. It really has been a nightmare. I've got to be honest,

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it's been five years and this is a case that should never have come to

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court. It is unbelievable, really. Relief for Milan Mandaric, who had

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been Redknapp's boss when he was the owner of Portsmouth. I always

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believed in the truth and also believe in the British justice

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system. The case centred around the transfer in 2002 of Peter Crouch.

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Harry Redknapp had believed he was entitled to 10% of the profit from

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the sale. He was unhappy when he only received a payment of 5%. He

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asked his chairman to sort it out. The allegation was that Milan

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Mandaric had eventually given in to Harry Redknapp's demands and agreed

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to pay him an extra �100,000. The prosecution claimed that the money

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was not going to go to the club's accounts in Portsmouth, it was to

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come directly from Milan Mandaric's personal account in Monaco. Nobody

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disputed that Redknapp set up an account in Monaco, named Rosie 47

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after one of his dogs. The two men repeatedly explained that the money

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was an investment, not a bonus, so no tax needed to be paid. Former

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News of the World report of Rob Beasley was a crown key witness. He

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had recorded a phone call in which Redknapp had said that it was a

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Police questions soon followed. Redknapp said he had lied to the

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reporter to get him off the phone. The payment was an investment, not

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a bonus, and it was his accountant The �8 million investigation had

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been criticised since the day when police first arrived at Redknapp's

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house to arrest him. Some photographers had been tipped off

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and were alongside them. A front page story pointed to a leak at the

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heart of an inquiry that was today defended by those who had run it.

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We accept the verdict of the jury. I would like to remind those that

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are evading tax by using offshore tax havens that it always makes

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sense to come to talk to was before we come to talk to you. Harry

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Redknapp had begun the day facing the possibility of jail. Now here's

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a man in demand, not just from those crowding around him as he

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left court, but quite possibly from those beginning a search for the

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David Bond is with me. An extraordinary day for football.

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Where does Capello's resignation leave the FA and the England team?

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Not for the first time, in complete disarray. Everybody expected Fabio

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Capello to go after Euro 2012. I don't think the FA started today

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expecting him to leave by the end of it. Capello, not a man to back

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down, he went into this meeting with David Bernstein, clearly still

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insisting that John Terry should be captain. At that point, clearly the

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FA had problems. Interesting player reaction coming in. Wayne Rooney

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has tweeted in the last few minutes that he is gutted that Capello has

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quit, he is a good guy and top coach. Interestingly, it says it

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has to be English to replace him. Harry Redknapp, for him. In the

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short term, I think they will have to get a manager in to try and run

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the England team for this friendly against Holland on 29th February.

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Sources at telling me they will probably look internally. Stuart

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Pearce or perhaps Trevor Brooking, director of football development.

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Longer term, you have to think that Harry Redknapp is now the favourite.

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Is that a realistic possibility? think it is. With today's acquittal,

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all legal and ethical obligations about him taking over have been

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removed. There is still the matter of two years on his contract at

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Tottenham. Tonight, you have to look at the way this extraordinary

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day has gone and say he must be favourite to take over.

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People living in the besieged city of Homs said they endured the

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heaviest bombardment yet by Syrian forces, just 24 hours after the

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country's President promised to end the violence. 50 people are

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reported to have died in the last 24 hours. Paul Wood has been one of

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the few Western journalists inside the city, where government

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artillery has been targeting areas which oppose the Government. This

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report contains some distressing material.

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It began at dawn. And, for a 5th day, Homs was under bombardment.

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Some said it was the worst day of shelling. Allah hu Akbar! Syrian

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armour roamed menacingly at the edges of the areas still holding

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out. People here are afraid the regime and hence a final push to

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crush the uprising. The casualties are mounting. Undoubtedly, most are

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civilians. They had put their hopes in a UN resolution. But it was

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vetoed by Russia and China. They This is a little child. He is, what,

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about two years old? He got hit with this mortar bomb in his house.

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Is this what the UN is waiting for? Until there are not any more

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children laughed? Until they kill or of the children and the women? -

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- any more children left. Homs is shattered and terrified after many

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punishing days of this. Hundreds of shells and mortar bombs have been

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fired at this place. Amid the grief and the panic, the one thing you

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here over and over again from people is that they feel abandoned

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They have not been out to play since the uprising began. Their

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mother is in despair. The outside world will not help us, she says.

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But God's vengeance will come down on the Syrian President. The

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Kalashnikovs of the Free Syria Army can do little against tanks. They

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hope the regime forces will crumble The Syrian Army's morale has

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collapsed, says an officer who defected just a week ago. They know

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they are killing civilians and they want this blood bath to stop.

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The prevailing mood here is one of despair. People feel trapped and,

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they believe, no-one is coming to help.

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More high-profile figures have settled their claims for damages in

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the News of the World phone hacking scandal. The High Court in London

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heard that the comedian, Steve Coogan, the former footballer, Paul

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Gascoigne, and Tony Blair's communications director at Downing

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Street, Alistair Campbell, are among the latest people to accept

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compensation worth tens of thousands of pounds.

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David Cameron was forced to defend the Government's controversial

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health reforms in the Commons today, insisting he cares passionately

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about the NHS. But just hours later the reforms came up against fresh

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opposition in the Lords. And another group of health

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professionals added their voice to concerns over what would be the

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biggest shake-up in the NHS in England for more than 60 years.

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Iain Watson reports from Westminster. Before the election,

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David Cameron said the NHS would be his priority, but now he's fighting

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to keep his health reforms alive. The Government wants to give more

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power to GPs and to improve standards through greater

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competition. But they are having to make more than 100 changes to try

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to gain vital support. The Prime Minister looked uncomfortable as

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the Labour leader tried to get under his skin. This is a matter of

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trust in the Prime Minister. Can he honestly look people in the health

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service in the eye and say he's kept his promise of no more topdown

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reorganisation? What we are doing is cutting the bureaucracy in the

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NHS. We are taking out �4.5 billion of bureaucracy will be ploughed

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into patient care... But as a weary Health Secretary looked on, Ed

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Miliband seized on remarks allegedly made by someone inside

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Downing Street. He knows in his heart of hearts this is a complete

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disaster, this Bill. That's why his aides are saying his healthy

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secretary should be taken out and shot. His career prospects are

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better than his. Outside a hardy band of protesters were braving the

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cold. The Government won't be too worried that Labour are calling for

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the health reforms to be killed off. Far more unsettling is a growing

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level of opposition outside Parliament, not just from

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campaigners and demonstrators but some of the key medical bodies in

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the NHS. The health reforms in England have already been denounced

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by some prominent professional bodies. And joining them today the

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Faculty of Public Health. We want the Government to drop the Bill

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because we think lit lead to increased inequalities in health

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and increasedy. But some health professionals believe the reforms

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will free them up to provide better care for their patients. We have

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the ability to transform and change local services for our local people

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if we are allowed to do it. tonight in the House of Lords the

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Government suffered a narrow defeat as opponents backed yet another

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change. The health bill can't survive entirely unscathed but the

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Government are determined it won't be killed off.

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Coming up on tonight's programme: Banksy - or should it be Bankski?

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The mysterious Russian bringing art The chief executive of the Royal

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Bank of Scotland, Stephen Hester, has told the BBC he thought about

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resigning during the uproar over his bonus. Mr Hester said he was

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not a robot and there had been some deeply depressing moments. He was

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speaking in his first broadcast interview since he turned down a

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bonus of almost �1 million. Here's our business editor, Robert Peston.

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Stephen Hester, the face, the symbol of the allegedly overpaid

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banker. Today Royal Bank of Scotland's boss admitted on the BBC

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that he had paid a big personal price for accepting and then

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rejecting a �1 million bonus. certainly not a robot and there've

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been some deeply depressing moments, by the way not just now but over

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the last three years. I guess in the end, in the intensity of it, I

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came to the conclusion that I thought it would be actually

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indulgent for me to resign and that what I ought to do was to draw, if

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you like, on the reserves of strength that I have and try to

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make RBS a success. Stephen Hester says he is worth it because he is

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sorting what he called the biggest time bomb in banking history. Now,

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we as taxpayers invested �45 billion into Royal Bank of Scotland

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to rescue it. Shockingly, Mr Hester said that money lost. What he meant

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was that the costs of fixing the bank, of writing off bad loans,

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making Royal Bank of Scotland more efficient and selling poor

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businesses, have so far been �38 billion. It won't be long until

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those cost os exceed building 45 billion. But so long as RBS can be

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nursed back to profits, one day taxpayers may get their money back.

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It is going to take years. How can banks and bankers be rehabilitated

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in the man credited with fixing the London insurance market Lloyds has

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some advice. The bankers need to see themselves as being a service

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to the public, and not to be self- serving. They should be providing

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the finance, working for the companies they deal with, and not

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just all the time trying to make huge bonuses for themselves. As I

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say, take them on, pay them well and expect them to do the job as

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everybody else does. As it happens, investment banks haven't been

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spewing out big proof nits the past few months, so it is not a bumper

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bonus year for all. The City is facing tens of thousands of

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redundancies, some have happened, some are due to happen. This is

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going to drive down pay because you are going to have an oversupply of

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pale, as in the rest of the economy. Stephen Hester's bonus widely

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condemned in part because RBS is semi-nationalised. Since Barclays

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isn't owned by taxpayers, can Bob Diamond receive huge pay and not be

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pilloried? We'll know soon enough. Getting 1 million long-term

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unemployed people back into work at a time when the economy appears to

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be stalling is one of the Government's biggest challenges. It

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is flagship work programme has been running for seven months and it

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uses private companies to help the jobless find employment. But is it

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working? Liverpool, a city where today there

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are seven times as many job seekers as job vacancies. 21-year-old

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Cheryl's been looking for work for a year now, having left schooling

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at 16, the economic downturn left her stranded on welfare. She prays

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the Government's work programme can rescue her. What do you hope the

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work programme will do for you? Hopefully get me into a stable job

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and keep me there. I'm willing to take anything on really. I will do

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anything. It is Cheryl's first day on the programme. Run here in

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Liverpool by A4e. The company's contract with the Government means

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they only make a profit if they find permanent job's for the city's

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long-term unemployed. It is early days but after seven months just

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one in seven of their clients have found any kind of work. One of the

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main things that Jacob's are looking for... Dave has been on the

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scheme since last summer. Out of work for two years he's been given

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basic advice on improving his chances of a job in a local biscuit

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factory. Clean hands, clean nails, clone clothes. How worried are you,

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it is going to be impossible for you at the moment to get a job?

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do worry. There's that many people now looking, and you look at the

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jobless and it seems to be going up. It is a buyer's market and factory

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bosss will need to be persuaded to recruit someone who hasn't worked

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for years rather than someone fresh from another job. Jaib on's has

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been employing people in Liverpool for almost a century. A4e right has

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dozens of people they hope might get a job here. But just because

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the work programme is a Government- backed initiative doesn't mean it

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gets treated differently from other employment agencies when it trice

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find work in the biscuit factory. There's only so many jobs out there

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and you are in competition with other agencies. What's the point of

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the work programme? It is always going to be a competitive

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marketplace to get people into work, and what we have to do is work with

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our people to secure those positions over other companies.

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That's the nature of... But that doesn't get the job figures up it?

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It just means one of your people rather than somebody else's?

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don't control the labour market. I don't control job creation. They

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can't create jobs but they can create job-ready workers, which

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might then attract or expand businesses in the city. Cheryl has

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been sent out with a pile of CVs to deliver to hotels and shops,

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restaurants and store managers say they can get hundreds of

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unsolicited application as every months. Hi, can I hand my CV in

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please. Fine. Thank you. Improving the work readiness of Liverpool's

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long-term unemployed may boost the city's prospects but as A4e

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candidly admit, the work programme cannot create work. What

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Liverpool's unemployed need most is not more schemes. It is more jobs.

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He's a mysterious Russian street artist, compared to Britain's

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Banksy, whose graffiti stencils can sell for thousands of pounds, the

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Russian guerrilla artworks... He refuses to reveal his true identity

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but the man who calls himself Pavel 183 did agree to meet our Moscow

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correspondent, Daniel Sandford. Aggressive, defiant, surprising and

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invariably witty, the work of the Moscow street artist Pavel 183.

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Occasionally political, his work is part graffiti, part installation,

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and he is starting to be compared with the millionaire British street

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artist Banksy. Like Banksy he chooses to remain anonymous but

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agreed to take us to one of his illegal outdoor galleries. This is

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a time of protest and discontent in Russia, something his art seems to

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capture. I asked if he saw his work as political. TRANSLATION: My work

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often addresses politics but for me society is more important. All the

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same, politics is a burning issue. I don't like a lot of things in

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Russian politics. In the politics of puetin. -- Putin. One of his

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latest works, White Stitches, painted on the road, addressed

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directly last December's elections which many in Moscow felt were

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blatantly stitched up. He often works with what he finds, filming

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himself as he goes, in this case using abandoned concrete slabs to

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create giant versions of one of Russia's favourite chocolate bars.

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Pavel 183's art is very simple, very accessible, but when you start

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to think about it, it is really very beautiful. And it has its own

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