09/04/2012

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:00:23. > :00:27.Good evening. Eyewitnesses say Syrian troops have

:00:27. > :00:30.opened fire on refugees fleeing the country into neighbouring Turkey.

:00:30. > :00:33.Two people were killed trying to cross the border while a number of

:00:33. > :00:37.others were injured in a refugee camp on the Turkish side. The

:00:37. > :00:41.violence comes amid scores of deaths in other parts of Syria and

:00:41. > :00:45.fears that a UN-backed peace plan brokered by the former UN

:00:45. > :00:50.Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, is unraveling. Our correspondent,

:00:50. > :00:55.Jonathan Head, sent this report. The violence building up just

:00:55. > :01:00.inside Syria spilled over the border today. Refugees who thought

:01:00. > :01:10.they'd reached safety in Turkey either fired on or caught in

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:01:15. > :01:17.They are killing us, just come and see all the dead. You, the world,

:01:17. > :01:27.come and watch. They are slaughtering them with knives,

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:01:28. > :01:33.bombing the houses. You people help There were 20 injured being treated

:01:33. > :01:36.in this hospital and for the first time, some had been shot on the

:01:36. > :01:40.Turkish side. The failure of international

:01:40. > :01:44.diplomacy to stop the fighting has been a crushing blow for refugees

:01:44. > :01:48.who've been waiting many months to go home. Even more so for those

:01:48. > :01:55.who've been driven here just in the past week when the Annan peace plan

:01:55. > :02:01.was supposed to be gaining momentum. TRANSLATION: The helicopter gunship

:02:01. > :02:05.swooped down on the village. This man arrived three days ago from a

:02:05. > :02:09.destroyed village. Bullets hit two of his sons who're now in Turkish

:02:09. > :02:12.hospitals. The Kofi Annan peace plan, far from being Syria's last

:02:12. > :02:16.great hope, has for the people who've recently arrived at this

:02:16. > :02:21.camp brought only increased suffering. Sort of a diplomatic

:02:21. > :02:25.miracle here in the next 24 hours, they believe they'll just have to

:02:25. > :02:29.fight for their freedom. Their Turkish hosts are now inclined to

:02:29. > :02:33.agree. The Annan peace plan is the only one endorsed by the Security

:02:33. > :02:36.Council, including China and Russia. It calls for the Government to

:02:36. > :02:39.begin withdrawing its forces and stop using heavy weapons in

:02:39. > :02:43.population centres. For the opposition to commit to stop

:02:43. > :02:46.fighting. And calls for all parties to ensure

:02:46. > :02:51.humanitarian assistance reaches all areas affected by the fighting and

:02:51. > :02:56.to implement a daily two-hour humanitarian pause.

:02:56. > :03:01.Ahead of tomorrow's deadline, the Syrian Government has escalated its

:03:01. > :03:05.attacks on opposition-held areas and now it's attaching impossible

:03:05. > :03:08.conditions to its promise withdrawal.

:03:08. > :03:13.This is the village of Latamneh today. They've been pulling people

:03:13. > :03:16.out of what is left of their homes after another bombardment. 35

:03:16. > :03:22.people are believed to have died here, including women and children.

:03:22. > :03:26.A peace plan is unraveling. But if it fails, what then? There's

:03:26. > :03:34.no alternative plan at the UN and little likelihood of enough

:03:35. > :03:38.agreement there to end Syria's agony.

:03:38. > :03:42.Options for a new type of private pension to replace final salary

:03:42. > :03:45.schemes are being considered by ministers. One idea could involve a

:03:45. > :03:48.company guaranteeing a fixed pension pot on retirement. The

:03:48. > :03:52.Government says while many businesses want to offer decent

:03:52. > :03:55.pensions, final salary schemes are just too expensive. Our business

:03:55. > :04:00.correspondent, Emma Simpson, reports.

:04:00. > :04:03.Building up the pension pot. It's not as easy as it once was.

:04:03. > :04:08.Generous final salary pension schemes are increasingly scarce.

:04:08. > :04:12.Today, new workers usually have to shoulder all the risk without a

:04:12. > :04:16.guaranteed return. But the Pensions Minister says

:04:16. > :04:20.there could be a third way - a new type of pension that would see

:04:20. > :04:24.employers and their workers sharing some of those investment risks.

:04:24. > :04:28.What we are trying to make sure is that firms who still want to offer

:04:28. > :04:31.a decent pensions deal are helped to to so. Maybe it won't be the

:04:31. > :04:39.gold-plated guaranteed pensions of the past but maybe an element of

:04:39. > :04:43.guarantee, maybe the work take some uncertainty and the firm -- worker.

:04:43. > :04:47.Morrisons is already taking this new path, as well as its existing

:04:47. > :04:51.schemes it's also going to offer its workers a guaranteed pension

:04:51. > :04:55.fund on retirement. But workers would then have to decide what to

:04:55. > :05:00.do with that money. These days, only one in three

:05:00. > :05:05.private sector workers are reckoned to be in any occupational pension

:05:05. > :05:11.plan, and with final salary schemes disappearing fast, the challenge of

:05:11. > :05:13.how to secure enough income for a decent retirement has never been so

:05:13. > :05:20.important. If investment returns don't work

:05:20. > :05:24.out, if inflation turns out to be very high, if costs work out to be

:05:24. > :05:28.very expensive or if everyone starts living much, much longer,

:05:28. > :05:34.the old way of thinking about pensions will have to change.

:05:34. > :05:37.But some in the industry say the Government's missing the point.

:05:37. > :05:43.underlying problem with them, the thing that needs to be addressed if

:05:43. > :05:46.we are to fix the crisis is that people aren't paying enough in.

:05:46. > :05:49.Until we increase the rate, we won't fix the problem. Getting it

:05:49. > :05:52.full is the challenge. Many companies though may be sceptical

:05:52. > :05:59.about giving any more future pension guarantees. It's early days,

:05:59. > :06:03.but the debate has now begun. A soldier who died in hospital in

:06:03. > :06:08.Birmingham more than two months after being injured in an explosion

:06:08. > :06:13.in Afghanistan has tonight been named as Corporal Jack Stanley from

:06:13. > :06:20.the Queen's Royal hussards. He was seriously injured by a roadside

:06:20. > :06:24.bomb while on patrol east of Lashkar Gah. The NUT has voted to

:06:24. > :06:28.ballot its members on strike action if the Government scraps national

:06:28. > :06:31.pay rates. The review body, which deals with pay and conditions, has

:06:31. > :06:35.been asked to investigate bringing wages in line with local pay rates

:06:35. > :06:39.across England and Wales. It's one of the world's most

:06:39. > :06:43.reclusive and repressive regimes and this week, North Korea will

:06:43. > :06:47.stage the biggest celebration in its history to commemorate its

:06:47. > :06:53.founding father. The 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il

:06:53. > :06:57.Sung will be marked by the launch of a rocket and ceremonies across

:06:57. > :07:06.the land. Damien Grammaticas is the only British broadcaster inside the

:07:06. > :07:13.country and sent this report from the capital, Pyongyang. Every

:07:13. > :07:19.single one in the crowd, perhaps 100,000 strong with a week of

:07:19. > :07:24.celebrations. And emotion almost sounds

:07:24. > :07:29.exaggerated. North Korea's two dead dictators, the Kims, father and son,

:07:29. > :07:32.are worshipped like Gods and its people are urged to give thanks for

:07:32. > :07:36.the way their nation they're told has been turned into a powerful

:07:36. > :07:41.prosperous land. Today, few outsiders would

:07:41. > :07:45.recognise North Korea as powerful or prosperous, but what sustains it

:07:45. > :07:48.is a personality cult built around the Kim dynasty and the system of

:07:48. > :07:55.totalitarian control. As the crowds dispersed, we were

:07:55. > :08:01.told that we could not talk to any of them. Instead, we were brought

:08:01. > :08:05.to this model silk spinning factory. It's never fired a single worker, I

:08:05. > :08:12.was told. They are all so good. Apparently, it's all down to the

:08:13. > :08:17.generous guidance of the two Kims. Kim ill sun always grinning in

:08:17. > :08:23.every image and Kim Jong-Il, less Smiley. Under their watch, the

:08:23. > :08:26.workers get interactive instruction in mathematics, physics and English.

:08:26. > :08:30.This birthday celebration for Kim Il Sung, she says, is the biggest

:08:30. > :08:33.national event in our country. I'm going to celebrate by working even

:08:33. > :08:38.harder. Outside, there are glimpses of a different North Korea that

:08:38. > :08:44.flash past which we'd like to stop and see but we can't.

:08:44. > :08:48.They are hints of a less perfect world. The grey monotony of the

:08:48. > :08:53.city, long, patient queues for the morning tram, the uniformity of it

:08:53. > :09:00.all, reflections that suggest the land of the Kims isn't quite a

:09:00. > :09:07.socialist paradise. Almost a century after the Titanic

:09:07. > :09:13.set off on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, memorial

:09:13. > :09:19.cruise is retracing her route. HMS Balmoral has arrived in Cobh this

:09:19. > :09:22.evening, the last port of call visited before sinking. Jon Kay

:09:22. > :09:27.sent this report. This was always going to be an unusual cruise, and

:09:27. > :09:34.so it's proving to be. After rough seas and gale force

:09:34. > :09:41.winds, a welcoming sight for passengers on the memorial voyage.

:09:41. > :09:44.When Titanic made her final stop here 100 years ago, this port was

:09:44. > :09:48.called Queenstown, it's it's changed to Cobh, but the welcome

:09:48. > :09:53.remains the same. 100 years on, isn't it. It's good to remember it

:09:53. > :09:59.I think. It's part of our history, of course. We are hopefully making

:09:59. > :10:03.a few Bob out of it now, we need it badly! For the ship's passengers

:10:03. > :10:07.who were tracing Titanic's exact route, it was a final chance to be

:10:07. > :10:12.on dry land before crossing the Atlantic. To be here and be part of

:10:13. > :10:17.this, it's a once in a lifetime experience. It's very touching.

:10:17. > :10:21.just brings you right back to the Titanic.

:10:21. > :10:26.123 Irish passengers boarded here a century ago. Most of them drowned