:00:12. > :00:16.Shareholders' revolt at Barclays in a protest against executive pay.
:00:16. > :00:21.Over a quarter send a powerful message to the boss as they vote
:00:21. > :00:25.against big bonuses. I think it is exorbitant, what Bob
:00:25. > :00:29.Diamond is getting. Too much bonuses, not enough going to be
:00:29. > :00:33.shareholders. We look at what impact it will have
:00:33. > :00:37.on the vexed question of Bankers peer might pay.
:00:37. > :00:40.Also, a massive manhunt under way in the north-east of England for
:00:40. > :00:46.James Allen, a suspected double murderer.
:00:46. > :00:50.People should take precautions, safety-first. Lock the doors and
:00:50. > :00:56.windows and a cheque who is knocking on your door.
:00:56. > :01:00.Did the officer found dead lock himself in a holdall? Officers --
:01:00. > :01:04.experts try to lock themselves into a similar holdall and fail.
:01:04. > :01:08.A Chinese dissident escapes from house arrest, is he under American
:01:08. > :01:11.protection? She visited after the tragedy that
:01:11. > :01:18.sold -- that stole a generation of children, today, the Queen keeps
:01:18. > :01:23.her promise to return. And coming up in Sportsday, Stephen
:01:23. > :01:33.Hendry rolls back the years at the Crucible, leading up John Higgins
:01:33. > :01:44.
:01:44. > :01:49.Good evening. Angry shareholders of Barclays Bank
:01:49. > :01:53.have staged a protest against executive pay at the annual general
:01:53. > :01:58.meeting. Nearly 27% of investors voted against the pay deals, in
:01:58. > :02:01.particular the pay package of the chief executive, Bob Diamond. The
:02:01. > :02:05.chairman apologised to shareholders for not sufficiently taking on
:02:05. > :02:11.board their views but said that paying zero bonuses is not an
:02:12. > :02:17.option. Berkeley's, profits and share price
:02:17. > :02:25.much lower than they were before the crash, the boss, Bob Diamond,
:02:25. > :02:29.paid �6.3 million last year and some of his colleagues even more.
:02:29. > :02:36.At the annual meeting, Berkeley's owners, some of them, were not
:02:36. > :02:43.happy. -- Barclays Bank's owners. They should give the shareholders
:02:43. > :02:48.more than 3p a share in dividends. It is exorbitant, what Bob Diamond
:02:48. > :02:53.is getting for the amount of dividend that we get. The man at
:02:53. > :03:01.the top is very important. If we were to lose him, we would all
:03:01. > :03:06.regret it. At its annual meeting, they make banking history. They
:03:06. > :03:10.suffered the biggest ever protest vote against the re-election of a
:03:10. > :03:17.director and it suffered the biggest ever protest vote against a
:03:17. > :03:20.banker's renumeration policy, what it pays its senior executives. Here
:03:20. > :03:28.is the big reason shareholders are not happy. For last year, they
:03:28. > :03:32.received dividends worth �728 million. A fraction of the �2.6
:03:32. > :03:38.billion they paid the bankers in bonuses and other incentives. The
:03:38. > :03:42.owners feel they are being short- changed by the managers. There is a
:03:42. > :03:49.reward here for effectively no performance whatsoever. The
:03:49. > :03:53.performance has gone backwards, it is a reward for failure. Another
:03:53. > :03:57.adviser to big shareholders warns it must listen to the protests.
:03:58. > :04:03.they did not, I would expect to see changes at the top table by this
:04:03. > :04:09.time next year. This movement against Bankers' pay is going
:04:09. > :04:13.global. Shareholders registering big votes against records in
:04:13. > :04:19.America and Switzerland. The government wants to give
:04:19. > :04:23.shareholders the formal power to block excessive deals. You are
:04:23. > :04:27.getting a real movement of people St, we want to take control of the
:04:27. > :04:32.companies we alone and stop excessive executive pay. They want
:04:32. > :04:36.to see good businesses properly rewarded, absolutely right, but
:04:36. > :04:42.where pay is excessive and unreasonable, shareholders have got
:04:42. > :04:47.to take responsibility and act. Diamond, at a charity fundraiser
:04:47. > :04:51.last night. His current pay will not be affected by the vote,
:04:51. > :04:55.although Barclays says it is paying attention to what shareholders want
:04:55. > :05:01.and hopes they will also have something to toast, bigger
:05:01. > :05:05.dividends, in years to come. A major manhunt is under way in
:05:05. > :05:11.north-east England tonight following the murders of two people.
:05:11. > :05:17.More than 100 officers are in it -- are involved in the search for
:05:17. > :05:19.James Allen. Been known drug-user with convictions for violence.
:05:19. > :05:24.Police patrolled empty streets. Tonight in Middlesbrough, people
:05:24. > :05:30.have been told to stay inside, close their windows and lock their
:05:30. > :05:34.doors. All because of this man, James Allen. Two people have been
:05:34. > :05:39.murdered and detectives say he is dangerous and violent. We are
:05:39. > :05:46.putting everything into finding him, tracking him down and bringing him
:05:46. > :05:51.to justice. Again, I appeal to people, if you see him, call 999,
:05:51. > :05:55.do not confront him. This is an investigation that covers most of
:05:55. > :06:01.the north-east of England. On Monday, Colin Dunford was found
:06:01. > :06:08.dead in his house. On Wednesday, 30 miles away, Julie Davison's body
:06:08. > :06:14.was discovered by her sister. Today, the police said James Avenue Colin
:06:14. > :06:18.Dunford. 12 months ago, he lived next door to him. Detectives still
:06:18. > :06:22.do not know why Colin Dunford was killed. They do not know if he had
:06:22. > :06:28.a problem with James alone. Or if anything has been taken from his
:06:28. > :06:33.house. It was here at his local working men's club where Colin
:06:33. > :06:40.Dunford would meet his friends. It was the same friends who called
:06:40. > :06:45.police when he stopped coming in. Until he is caught, you have got to
:06:45. > :06:51.be very wary, and the sooner he is caught, the better. Armed police
:06:51. > :06:56.have joined the search. They had it will end Comley and quickly. --
:06:56. > :06:59.they hope it will end calmly. The inquest into the death of an
:06:59. > :07:04.MI6 officer has heard it would have been almost impossible for him to
:07:04. > :07:12.lock himself inside a sport back. Gareth Williams's body was found in
:07:12. > :07:17.a holdall in his bath in second August years ago.
:07:17. > :07:21.Gareth Williams, the officer found in a back. The inquest has been
:07:21. > :07:27.tracing his final movements. A central question, did he get inside
:07:27. > :07:32.himself or was he put there? Today, evidence, including this video,
:07:32. > :07:42.from experts. One shows how hard it is to climb into a holdall in a
:07:42. > :07:43.
:07:44. > :07:50.The experts looked at whether it could be locked from the inside.
:07:50. > :07:55.One witness said he tried 100 times, another, 300 times. Neither managed.
:07:55. > :08:00.One said it might be theoretically possible, the other said even
:08:00. > :08:04.Houdini would struggle. The inquest heard the score from Gareth's
:08:04. > :08:09.employers, after he failed to turn up to work for a week. I wanted to
:08:09. > :08:15.report one of our members of staff as missing. When police entered his
:08:15. > :08:19.flat in Pimlico, they found a red sports bike. Gareth Williams's body
:08:19. > :08:24.was found curled up inside in a foetal position, with no sign of
:08:24. > :08:27.him having struggled to get out. Inside and underneath, a set of
:08:27. > :08:33.keys for a padlocked. It was padlocked on the outside in a way
:08:33. > :08:37.that experts found impossible to recreate from inside. The police
:08:37. > :08:43.have said that from early on, they thought someone else was involved
:08:43. > :08:48.in the death here at his flat. The evidence does seem to point to that,
:08:48. > :08:51.but it is still not clear who it might have been. When police
:08:51. > :08:55.examined phones and computers found in the flat, they found a large
:08:55. > :08:59.amount of material on women's designer clothing as well as traces
:08:59. > :09:03.of a small number of visits to websites looking at bondage and
:09:03. > :09:09.people tied up. The inquest is expected to finish hearing evidence
:09:09. > :09:14.next week. One of China's most prominent human
:09:14. > :09:19.rights activists has made a remarkable escape from house arrest.
:09:19. > :09:24.He had been confined to his home after years in prison for exposing
:09:24. > :09:28.forced abortions and sterilisations are. The BBC has been told his
:09:28. > :09:35.escape led to a car chase which ended at the American embassy in
:09:35. > :09:40.Beijing. Blind since he was two, Chung won
:09:40. > :09:43.Chong has become an icon in China. On the internet, hundreds copied
:09:43. > :09:47.his image, appalled that a sightless man had been locked up
:09:47. > :09:56.for the past seven years for exposing it uses light forced
:09:56. > :10:00.abortions. -- exposing abuses. He was under illegal house arrest. Up
:10:00. > :10:05.to 100 guards watching his every move. He smuggled out this video
:10:05. > :10:13.last year, so they beat his family savagely. Western nations had
:10:14. > :10:21.called for his release. Today, out of the blue, this. I have escaped,
:10:21. > :10:25.he announced, on the internet. He demanded that those who had
:10:25. > :10:29.imprisoned and assaulted his family, denied them food and medical
:10:29. > :10:34.treatment, be punished. He said he feared his wife and child left
:10:34. > :10:39.behind could face court retribution. When the BBC tried to visit him a
:10:39. > :10:45.few months ago, we could not get near, so how did a blind man escape
:10:45. > :10:52.all of these watches? We have been given this photograph of him
:10:52. > :10:57.meeting another activist in Beijing. He spoke to us tonight. First, he
:10:57. > :11:03.said, he tried to dig a tunnel, it failed. When a court was not
:11:03. > :11:07.looking at, he scaled the series of falls. He called a supporter, and
:11:07. > :11:12.was driven hundreds of miles to Beijing. The authorities giving
:11:12. > :11:16.chase to the American embassy. From American officials, no comment.
:11:17. > :11:21.Hillary Clinton is due here next week to meet with China's leaders.
:11:21. > :11:25.They are mired in their infighting and scandals ahead of a major --
:11:25. > :11:30.major league if it changed. This estate is a new embarrassment for
:11:30. > :11:37.them. He may be safe, but there are reports his relatives and those who
:11:37. > :11:40.might have helped him are being rounded up.
:11:40. > :11:44.The Liberal Democrat leader has defended the coalition government,
:11:44. > :11:49.which he says is doing very controversial and in some cases
:11:49. > :11:54.downright unpopular things. He has also insisted his party remains
:11:54. > :11:57.distinct from the Conservatives, despite being in coalition. He was
:11:57. > :12:00.speaking at two Nick Robinson in the third of his interviews with
:12:00. > :12:03.the main Westminster party leaders ahead of the English local
:12:03. > :12:09.elections. Getting in touch, it is what any
:12:09. > :12:13.political leader has to do. Not least when people feel Westminster
:12:13. > :12:19.is a million miles away from the world they live in. He learned a
:12:19. > :12:25.lot more than how to make bread on a visit to the Bradford HQ of the
:12:25. > :12:30.supermarket Morrisons. It is quite grim, it is not unusual for me to
:12:30. > :12:34.cry at the end of a focus group. The Deputy Prime Minister heard
:12:34. > :12:39.about the sacrifices some customers are making it just to be able to
:12:39. > :12:44.afford their weekly shopping. have had 20% of mothers telling us
:12:44. > :12:49.they are missing in meal a day in order to provide for the children.
:12:49. > :12:56.That stock fact was preying on his mind when he travelled to his next
:12:56. > :13:03.election stop. I spoke to him at Cardiff City's football ground. We
:13:03. > :13:07.Ewshot? Of course, you would have to be made of stone, not to be
:13:07. > :13:14.shocked about the pressures some families are under, it has a one of
:13:14. > :13:19.the reasons I have been so focal for making the tax system fairer,
:13:19. > :13:29.taking people out of income tax, giving it over 20 million basic
:13:29. > :13:29.
:13:29. > :13:34.rate taxpayers several hundred But direct she -- the rich are
:13:34. > :13:37.getting a tax cut? Let's not repeat some kind of fiction. We actually
:13:37. > :13:41.raising five times more money from the rich than they are getting back
:13:41. > :13:46.in any change of the upper rate of income tax. You know people, I
:13:46. > :13:52.certainly do, who will be thousands of pounds better off. I wonder why,
:13:52. > :13:56.in moral terms, you didn't say, no, I can't do this? I think it is very
:13:56. > :14:01.obvious to people that my priority has been there many, not the few.
:14:01. > :14:05.That is what we have delivered in his book -- budget. I don't believe
:14:05. > :14:09.that would have happened without the Liberal Democrats in government.
:14:09. > :14:12.Being in coalition means that the Lib Dems have to back the Blues, an
:14:12. > :14:15.uncomfortable position for Nick Clegg when the Tory Culture
:14:15. > :14:20.Secretary is facing allegations that he got much too close to the
:14:20. > :14:22.Murdoch family. Unless anyone has a better idea, I think having a judge
:14:23. > :14:26.where a Cabinet minister needs to give evidence under oath is about
:14:26. > :14:31.the best context to get down and find out what happened or did not
:14:31. > :14:37.happen. Is this a sleazy government? I don't believe it is.
:14:37. > :14:41.You know why people ask, though? course I accept that when you get
:14:41. > :14:44.controversy in politics you get a lot of people attaching labels to
:14:44. > :14:48.governments. I'm very proud of the fact that, unlike other parties,
:14:48. > :14:52.big parties in British politics, the Liberal Democrats have never
:14:52. > :14:56.and will never be in anybody's pockets. Are you not in the Tories'
:14:56. > :15:04.pockets, is that not why you're doing so badly in the polls? People
:15:04. > :15:07.need to make up their mind. People need to decide whether we are too
:15:07. > :15:09.conservative or not conservative enough, the dastardly Liberal
:15:09. > :15:12.Democrat are holding the Conservatives back. I'll tell you
:15:12. > :15:18.exactly what it is, we are a coalition government, exactly what
:15:18. > :15:22.it says on the tin. That is the Lib Dem dilemma. How to demonstrate
:15:22. > :15:26.that all of the coalition are aiming for the same goal, while, at
:15:26. > :15:35.the same time, convincing the electorate that the blues and
:15:35. > :15:38.The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt says he will hand over to the
:15:39. > :15:42.Leveson Inquiry the text messages and e-mails that he sent his
:15:42. > :15:47.special adviser, who resigned over his conduct during News
:15:47. > :15:51.Corporation's bid for BSkyB. Mr Hunt insists he acted with total
:15:51. > :15:54.integrity. In a development tonight, Lord Leveson is refusing his
:15:54. > :16:00.request to bring forward the date he is due to appear before the
:16:00. > :16:03.inquiry. Let's go to Westminster and Iain Watson. This delay may be
:16:03. > :16:07.uncomfortable for the Culture Secretary. How difficult is it for
:16:07. > :16:12.the Prime Minister? Potentially bad news for the prime minister, for
:16:12. > :16:17.two reasons. First, there have been calls by Labour and buy some Lib
:16:17. > :16:22.Dems for a separate inquiry into whether Jeremy Hunt broke the
:16:22. > :16:26.ministerial code. Downing Street say, no need for that, let's wait
:16:26. > :16:30.for the Leveson Inquiry. Any delay will make those unwelcome calls for
:16:30. > :16:34.a second inquiry grow louder. More bad news, Lord Justice Leveson is
:16:34. > :16:38.making it clear he will not be the arbiter of Jeremy Hunt's political
:16:38. > :16:42.future. He says that is a job for the Government. He is handing that
:16:42. > :16:52.political hot potato back to them, because he does not want to be seen
:16:52. > :16:54.
:16:54. > :17:04.Coming up: House space travel could change from this, to this. The
:17:04. > :17:04.
:17:04. > :17:08.space plane, which can take off Almost a quarter of Spanish workers
:17:08. > :17:11.are now unemployed, the highest rate for nearly 20 years. It is the
:17:11. > :17:15.highest in the eurozone. The country's credit rating has also
:17:15. > :17:19.been downgraded. The Spanish foreign minister says that the
:17:19. > :17:24.country is facing a crisis of huge proportions. Gavin Stewart is with
:17:24. > :17:29.me now. This is very serious for Spain, isn't it? Well, the Spanish
:17:29. > :17:32.economy is in deep trouble. The Government is trying to slash the
:17:32. > :17:37.deficit with the country in recession. The markets doubt it can
:17:37. > :17:40.be done and have forced up the country's borrowing costs, raising
:17:40. > :17:45.fears that Spain could be heading for a bail out.
:17:45. > :17:51.More bad news today. The unemployment queues are getting
:17:51. > :17:56.longer. Unemployment reached 24.4%. Youth unemployment is at 51%. The
:17:56. > :18:01.Government expects the figures to go higher. TRANSLATION: I keep
:18:01. > :18:05.looking and looking, but there is hardly anything. I am living day to
:18:05. > :18:09.day. I am single, I have a daughter that is studying and I am almost on
:18:09. > :18:14.the streets. The economy has been devastated by the bursting of the
:18:14. > :18:18.property bubble. The banks are nursing billions in bad loans. The
:18:18. > :18:24.economy is expected to shrink by 1.7% this year, while the
:18:24. > :18:28.Government is having to cut its budget. TRANSLATION: At this time,
:18:28. > :18:33.we are living in one of the worst moments for the Spanish economy.
:18:33. > :18:37.Spain needs bailing out, it will be no easy task. Its economy is twice
:18:37. > :18:44.the size of the combined economies of those countries already bailed
:18:44. > :18:49.out. And Spain would severely test the EU's rescue fund. The risk is
:18:49. > :18:52.that the crisis could then spread to Italy. Across Europe, a
:18:52. > :18:56.political backlash against austerity has started. It led to
:18:56. > :19:00.the collapse of the Dutch government. Francois Hollande, the
:19:00. > :19:07.favourite to win the French election, says he will make wrote
:19:07. > :19:10.his priority, not austerity. After months of protests in Greece, it is
:19:10. > :19:17.anti austerity parties that looks set to do well in the forthcoming
:19:17. > :19:23.elections. There is a new focus on money to try to generate growth. A
:19:23. > :19:25.lot of the problems, not just for Spain but for others European Area
:19:25. > :19:31.countries, are that governments are trying to cut deficits at a time
:19:31. > :19:37.when economies are in recession. The debate is gathering pace in
:19:37. > :19:41.Europe as to whether countries... Are cutting too fast at a time when
:19:41. > :19:49.there was almost no growth, with the risk that countries like Spain
:19:49. > :19:52.are being trapped in a spiral of A British soldier has died in
:19:53. > :19:57.southern Afghanistan. The soldier, from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards,
:19:58. > :20:02.were shot and killed while on patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district
:20:02. > :20:05.of Helmand province. His family had been informed.
:20:06. > :20:09.A large part of central London wash it down today at Braemar and
:20:09. > :20:14.threatened to blow himself up. Armed police sealed off roads,
:20:14. > :20:17.evacuated buildings and closed tube stations for several hours. The
:20:17. > :20:22.security scare comes just three months before London plays host to
:20:22. > :20:28.the Olympics. Central London in broad daylight.
:20:28. > :20:31.Armed police rushed towards a reported hostage situation. From
:20:31. > :20:35.the 5th floor of this building, computers and office equipment,
:20:35. > :20:39.thrown onto the street below. It started at lunchtime when a man
:20:39. > :20:44.entered the offices of a company that offers courses for would-be
:20:44. > :20:49.HGV drivers. An employee there said he was a previous client, with a
:20:50. > :20:55.grievance. He appeared to have explosives strapped to him. He just
:20:56. > :20:59.turned up, strapped up in gasoline, gasoline cylinders, basically he
:20:59. > :21:05.threatened to blow up the office. He doesn't care about his life, he
:21:05. > :21:08.doesn't care about anything. As a large part of Tottenham Court Road
:21:08. > :21:12.was cordoned off, workers in neighbouring offices fled to safety.
:21:12. > :21:17.Then, suddenly, it was over. A man was led out of the building in
:21:17. > :21:21.handcuffs. So, a few hours after it began, this incident has been
:21:21. > :21:25.brought to a successful conclusion. But with the Olympics just three
:21:25. > :21:29.months away, the last thing the organisers will have wanted to see
:21:30. > :21:35.is a huge security alert in the central London. Tonight, police are
:21:35. > :21:40.still questioning the man arrested at the scene.
:21:40. > :21:47.It is known as the Skylon and it could one day revolutionise space
:21:47. > :21:51.travel. It is a space plane, which scientists believe could take off
:21:51. > :22:01.from a runway into orbit. Developed in Oxfordshire, it is now being put
:22:01. > :22:05.Main engines, start. We have main engine starter. For 16 years there
:22:05. > :22:10.has only been one way to reach space, on a rocket blasting
:22:10. > :22:16.straight up. And it is always expensive. Imagine taking off from
:22:16. > :22:21.a runway and flying in to orbit. Meet Skylon, a British design for a
:22:21. > :22:27.space plane. It has not yet been built, but the project has reached
:22:27. > :22:31.a crucial stage. The key is a completely new type of motor, an
:22:31. > :22:35.ingenious concept for a jet engine and rocket rolled into one. The
:22:35. > :22:40.engineers go through the tracks. This has to work if the space plane
:22:40. > :22:43.has a chance of flying. Because of a high pressures involved in this
:22:44. > :22:48.revolutionary jet engine, everybody has to wear protection. It is
:22:48. > :22:52.designed to go five times the speed of sound. When it is going that
:22:52. > :22:57.quickly, the flow of air becomes so intense it reaches 1000 degrees
:22:57. > :23:05.Celsius, which would normally melt everything inside. But this unique
:23:05. > :23:13.device called the heir to well below zero. -- court the air. It
:23:13. > :23:19.should make space travel easier. The tests are now under way. This
:23:19. > :23:26.is one of a series of experiments to check if the idea is viable.
:23:26. > :23:32.This small band of engineers has worked with very little funding. So
:23:32. > :23:36.far, so good. The designers are thinking big. It's like going to
:23:36. > :23:40.New York. You go to an airport, get on an aeroplane. It's all pretty
:23:40. > :23:45.invisible. Getting into space will be like that with this type of
:23:45. > :23:48.technology. The Skylon is a long way from wanting. But the European
:23:48. > :23:51.Space Agency checked it over and found nothing wrong. It might be
:23:51. > :23:58.something for the future, but looking at the technology today,
:23:58. > :24:02.this should work. So it could fly? It could fly, yes. But billions of
:24:02. > :24:12.pounds are needed. Clad Engineering is not enough to make this British
:24:12. > :24:21.
:24:21. > :24:26.space dream a reality. -- clever The Queen has visited Aberfan. Many
:24:26. > :24:30.children were killed there, when a slag heap collapsed on to their
:24:30. > :24:34.school. Many memories will be rekindled in
:24:34. > :24:39.this jubilee year. He will have the tragic resonance of this village in
:24:39. > :24:43.the valleys of South Wales. This was Aberfan on the morning of the
:24:43. > :24:48.21st October, 1956. A colliery waste tip had collapsed on to the
:24:48. > :24:52.village. A junior school was engulfed. Local people, many of
:24:52. > :24:58.them miners from local pits, dug frantically to try to rescue their
:24:58. > :25:04.children. But it was too late. 116 children and 28 adults had died.
:25:04. > :25:09.Britain was stunned. Initially, the Queen's response was hesitant.
:25:09. > :25:13.Aides urged her to visit, but it was nine days before she did so.
:25:13. > :25:18.She has been back several times since. Today, she spoke to some of
:25:18. > :25:23.those who, nearly 50 years ago, lost their sons and daughters. The
:25:23. > :25:28.Queen opened a new primary school, a place for today's children and a
:25:28. > :25:31.reminder of the generation which was lost. The Queen has never
:25:31. > :25:37.forgotten about fan. Mindful, perhaps, of that initial, slight
:25:37. > :25:40.hesitation, she particularly wanted her Diamond Jubilee tour to include
:25:41. > :25:46.the village. Geoff Edwards gave the Queen a book about the disaster. In
:25:46. > :25:51.1966, he was the last child to be rescued from the debris. It brings
:25:51. > :25:56.back poignant memories of what happened to me on that day. But it
:25:56. > :26:03.also, with the support of the Queen, it has helped us get through very