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