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Tonight at company ten: David Cameron in the spotlight for five | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
hours at the Leveson Inquiry. I swear by Almighty God that the | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
evidence I shall give... He admits he worked hard to win over the | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
press, but he never traded policies in rurn for -- return for support. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
There was no overt deal for support, no covert deal, no nods and Wwnks. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
He is pressed to explain his friendship with Rebekah Brooks of | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
News International and accepts that the press and politicians got too | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
close. I think that the relationship has | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
not been right. I think it has been too close as I | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
explained in the, in my evidence. I think we need to try to get it on a | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
better footing. The Prime Minister defended his | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
decision to ask Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, to judge the bid | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
for BSkyB. Also: The Chancellor is still -- is to lend �80 billion to | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
the banks so that they can lend more to customers. | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
A lack of credit is damaging businesses and costing jobs. The | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Government and the Bank of England have been working together to | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
develop the right response. The Last Post... 30 years after the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
lin ration of the Falklands, a service of remembrance in Port | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Stanley. And what next for | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
#? After his abrupt departure today from Tottenham Hotspur. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
In BBC London News: The first of the Olympic lanes appears in Surrey. | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Motorists say it is causing confusion. 100 days of peace, a | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
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campaign by the parents of London's murdered teenagers. | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
Good evening. David Cameron spent five hours | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
today giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
standards. He said it was nonsense to suggest he had traded policies | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
in return for media backing, but he admitted that press and politicians | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
had become too close and he was repeatedly questioned about his | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
links with Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of News International. | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
Our Political Editor has the story. The press and the Prime Minister... | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
Forced to live together... Today, effectively on trial together. | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Today the nation's leader was invited to trade the comforts of | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
Downing Street for five hours of cross-examination in the Royal | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Courts of Justice, where plain Mr Cameron spoke on oath. | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
I swear by Almighty God, whereby the evidence I give is the truth, | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
the whole truth and nothing but the truth. | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
The truth in question, his relations with the Murdochs and | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
Rebekah Brooks. His version of it to condemn what he called | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
unjustified conspiracy theeris. There was no overt deal for support, | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
no covert deal, no nods and Wwnks, there was a Conservative politician, | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
me, trying to win over a newspaper s, trying to win over tradition, | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
prop pirators but not trading policies for that support. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
The Prime Minister looked comfortable when defending his | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
judgments, much, much less so when it came to the awkward details. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
Details like a text message sent by Rebekah Brooks to him on the eve of | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
his party conference speech. , "I am so rooting for you tomorrow, | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
not just as a personal friend but as professionally we are in this | :03:52. | :04:01. | |
together. Speech of your life, yes, he can." That from the head line of | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
a best-selling daily which switched from backing Labour to the Tories. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
Details of how he and his wife used to meet the newspaper boss who was | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
their friend and newspaper in the country. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
And he called Samantha Cameron 'Lady Prime Minister'. | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
When at your questions at weekends, did you see her every weekend or | :04:26. | :04:34. | |
most weekends in the period of 2008/2009? Not every weekend. | :04:34. | :04:42. | |
Most weekends? Hmm... The news soon travelled this that he had seen the | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
boss of the News of the World, the Times and the Sunday Times a lot, | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
but after lunch there was no information. | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
Mrs Cameron keeps a better weekend diary record than I do. She reckons | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
we did not see them more than on average once every six weeks, that | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
is a better answer than I was able to give you earlier. | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
Next, what check has he made before hiring Andy Coulson as the spin | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
doctor? How did he know that the former editor of the News of the | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
World didn't know about phone hacking that had happened at the | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
paper? I remember clearly seeking that assurance and getting it, but | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
as I say, there do seem to be some differences, but they may well be | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
compatible in the way that I have suggested. | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
Next, the decision to make the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt and | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
Murdoch cheerleader, responsible for their �8 billion bid for BSkyB. | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
It was put to the Prime Minister it was a decision taken at speed with | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
only hurried and incomplete legal advice. | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
It was not some rushed, botched political decision. If anyone had | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
told me that Jeremy Hunt couldn't do the job I wouldn't have given | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
him the job. But the Prime Minister insisted he | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
wanted to protect people like this, the family of the murdered teenager, | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
Graeme McDowell. They needed a new system for regulating the press. | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
We want to know that if an individual suffers press intrusion, | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
has an inaccurate article written about them, has their life turned | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
around in some way, all of these things that have happened, that it | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
really is worthwhile going to a regulator, however established and | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
that they will get a front-page apology and the newspaper properly | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
brought to book. That is what does not happen. | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
Agreeing how to do it has eluded pretty much every Government since | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
the war. Lord Justice Leveson is a man even | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
the Prime Minister stands up for. Nick, how satisfied would David | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Cameron be with the way that this turned out today? I was in court | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
today, as he left he looked tense, I have to say. He did say thank you | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
to the QC who asked him the questions, but he looked like he | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
wanted to be out of there. I have no doubt he thinks he has put to | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
bed the conspiracy theories and the decision to make Jeremy Hunt in | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
charge of the BSkyB was taken as a official thought it a good idea and | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
he had legal advice, but, it is a big but, he knows that the politics | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
is about impressions and the impressions of those of us who sat | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
in court for five hours was extraordinary vagueness. Asked to | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
recall meetings with newspaper executives, he could not recall | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
them again and again. Asked to explain the checks he made that | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Andy Coulson did not know about phone hacking, there was a dispute | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
between the two men about what the evidence was, that was vague. Asked | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
about the legal advice on Jeremy Hunt it was revealed it was a | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
single mobile phone call to a government lawyer on holiday at the | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
time. All of that may be forgotten but what not be though is this, a | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
text message from Rebekah Brooks that says, "We are all in it | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
together." That was a Conservative slogan, meant to say to the country, | :08:09. | :08:18. | |
we are all in the -- in it together, to help with the economic crisis. | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
Nick, thank you very much. The Bank of England has announce | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
twod ambitious schemes to try to boost levels of growth and activity | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
in the British economy. From next month �80 billion is made available | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
to banks on condition that they pass it on to customers in the | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
forms of business loans and mortgages. The other schemes | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
starting as early as tomorrow make it is easier and cheaper for banks | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
to borrow and ease their cash flow. The Chancellor gave details of the | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
policies this evening in mansion House. | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Robert Peston is there. Every now and then the Chancellor's | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
annual speech to bankers here at the majestic mansion House actually | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
matters. Tonight with the British economy so weak and theow ez -- | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
eurozone crisis becoming more acute, well, it is one of those occasions. | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
As it happens, the Chancellor and the Government of the Bank of | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
England probably appeared to be responding to the criticisms that | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
maybe they had not been doing enough to kick-start the economy. | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
Tonight they came up with two potentially important initiatives. | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
A grand City dinner in a time of recession again. The Chancellor and | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
the governor of the Bank of England, still apparently working together, | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
on their way to reassure the country's leading bankers and | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
businesses that they have a plan to revive our anaemic economy. | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
We are not powerless in the face of the eurozone debt storm. Together | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
we can deploy new firepower, to defend our economy from the crisis | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
on our doorstep. Funding for lending to the family, aspiring to | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
own their own home and the business that wants to expand. The bank and | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
the Treasury are working together on a funding for lending scheme. | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
It would provide funding to banks for an extended period of several | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
years at rates below the current matter rates and linked to the | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
performance of banks in sustaining or expanding their lending to the | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
UK non-financial sector during the present period of heightened | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
uncertainty. There will be two schemes to | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
provide cheaper loans to bank. One will involve the Bank of England | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
lending bank as minimum of �5 billion a month to aassure them | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
they will not run out of money even in the eurozone banking crisis gets | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
worse. The second scheme will provide loans to banks for three to | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
four years on the condition that the banks pass on the money in | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
loans to households and businesses. The Bank of England will see it as | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
a success if it leads to �80 billion of additional loans. | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
Over the British economy is the long shadow cast by the financially | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
stretched banks and the governments of the eurozone. For Spain the cost | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
of borrowing for ten years rose today to the unaffordable level of | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
7%. Days after it was promised a 100 billion Euro bail out. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
With the Greek election looming and fears that the result will prompt | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
Greece to leave the Euro, the Chancellor was clear that the time | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
for piecemeal solutions is over. One thing is for sure, if exit is | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
the chosen route, then the eurozone must have a very good plan in place | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
to prevent contagion. The worst case for everyone would be exit | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
without a sufficiently ambitious response, but carrying on with the | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
current uncertainty and instability is not much better. | :11:55. | :12:04. | |
A time for decisions has come. In Italy tempers rise as the | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
economy shrinks. Italy's borrowing costs rose too | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
today to dangerous levels and with the Italian economy, and Italian | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
banks so big and important if they get into serious difficulties, the | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Chancellor will need more than two new lending schemes to protect us | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
from the after shocks. Well, I have managed to grab one of | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
our leading bankers tonight to ask him whether the new initiatives | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
will encourage his bank to lend more. He says that the problem is | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
that businesses and households are so anxious that they don't want to | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
borrow. So the Bank of England may give him all of this cheap money, | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
but he is not persuaded that he will be able to get it out into the | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
marketplace. That is something with the economy so weak that should | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
trouble us. Back to you. | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Thank you very much, Robert Peston for us at the mansion House. | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
Well, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor has warned that her | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
country's financial clout should not be overestimated by those who | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
believe that German money can solve all problems. The German Government | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
seems to rule out guaranteeing the debts of other eurozone countries. | :13:13. | :13:22. | |
Stephanie Flanders has been finding Germans were willing to pay a high | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
price to reunify the country often 1989. Now the world is telling them | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
they must pay out again to prevent the eurozone from falling apart but | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
today the Chancellor warned us not to expect too much. Her speech was | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
to the German parliament but it was expressed to the outside world. | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
TRANSLATION: We are convinced Europe is our destiny and future | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
and if the euro fails, Europe fails, but we also know that Germany's | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
strength is limited. What the markets would like Angela Merkel to | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
say is that she and the other eurozone Government's stand behind | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
each other's debts. The common version of that, euro bonds, | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
Germany has ruled out but people were hoping that they were inching | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
towards a temporary compromise. Today I found out they were taking | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
that off the agenda as well. I spoke to Angela Merkel's deputy | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
finance minister after her speech. Debt is a national responsibility | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
question and I do not see any strategies where we socialise and | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
redistribute the negative political decision made by some, who... | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
the proposal by the German expert? It is a quiet outspoken | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
constitutional arrangement that we are not allowed to do so. That no | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
from Germany will be about as popular in many European capitals | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
as Germany winning Euro 2012, but for all the griping about Greece, | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
most Germans are still fans of the single European currency. People | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
here know that Europe's strongest economy does have to do its bit. | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
is the European Union. If you do not do that for the other countries, | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
it might fall back to you and then we have a much bigger problem in | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
Germany. I think the Germans, the really understand if they don't | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
help the country, it could be difficult for the whole of Europe. | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
The trouble is that Germany thinks it has already given a lot to | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
rescuing the euro. The minister says we should stop panic thing | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
about the markets and focus on that. It does not make any sense to | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
question what we have achieved on a weekly basis and develop new | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
concepts. What we need now is a calm political decision process. | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
Angela Merkel says we should stop looking for a quick fix to the | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
eurozone crisis. By now, I think people have but if Germany | :16:06. | :16:15. | |
continues to say no, there might not be a solution at all. | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
A British soldier from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards has been | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
killed in an explosion in Afghanistan. The Ministry of | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Defence said the soldier, who has not been named, was part of a | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
patrol to disrupt insurgent activity in the Helmand Province. | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
His family has been told. A service of remembrance has taken | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
place in Port Stanley to mark the 30th anniversary of the liberation | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
of the Falkland Islands from Argentine forces. As veterans | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
joined residents to remember those who lost their lives, the Argentine | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
president was telling the United Nations that her country would | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
never surrender its claim to sovereignty. From the Falklands, | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
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Caroline Wyatt sent this report. Today the violence gathered to | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
remember and give thanks. -- the islands. The Last Post was founded | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
at the memorial. Falkland islanders stood with the veterans who stood | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
by them when the islands were invaded by Argentina. All sorts | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
here but with the men, friends of the comrades who never came home. | :17:18. | :17:26. | |
The 255 British servicemen who gave their lives to insure the Falkland | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
islanders' freedom. Many remember this moment 30 years ago today, | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
when the British flag was raised after 74 days of occupation, but | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
victory came at a price. For veterans, like Barry Avery, Boer | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
War cast a long shadow. memories are always there. -- Boer | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
War. Different people deal with things differently. It was good and | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
bad. For the islanders, if sacrifices made will never be | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
forgotten. Trudi McPhee helped to resupply British forces during the | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
war regardless of the dangers but her gratitude is for the men who | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
risked their lives for her liberty. I think of all the families, their | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
loved ones have not returned... Yes. And for that we will always be | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
grateful. But Argentina is still far from giving up its claim to | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
these islands. Tonight the country's president, Cristina | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
Kirchner, went in person to the UN to make her case for possession of | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
what Argentina calls Las Malvinas. TRANSLATION: An issue that even | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
goes beyond the national issue of Argentine sovereignty. Indeed, it | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
goes beyond and becomes an affront to the world which we all dream of. | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
Falkland islanders were at the UN as well trip up that claim, sending | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
a firm message that they are determined to remain British -- to | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
refute that claim. The people of the eye lens remain profoundly | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
grateful to the men who came from 8,000 miles away to insure their | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
freedom, and even as the Argentine President States have claimed a | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
game to these islands, the people here remain proudly and defiantly | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
British. Coming up on tonight's programme: A | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
stand-off in Cairo. The political crisis deepens ahead of this | :19:27. | :19:37. | |
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weekend's presidential elections. The way child poverty is measured | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
in the UK is to be redefined by the government as part of a new | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
approach to addressing the problem. Ministers want to replace the | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
current measure, based on family income, with broader criteria | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
including parents' employment. Our home editor has the details. | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
Are these children Paul? What decides is not whether they have | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
enough to eat and a roof over their head but how their family's income | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
compares with middle earners, the concept of poverty that currently | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
underpins official measures. But for these children, it simply means | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
mum and dad relying on vouchers from Barnardo's. They provide us | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
with non-perishable food which is great, because you can guarantee | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
that you can make meals out of it. The current definition of child | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
poverty is based on children who live in a family with a weekly | :20:33. | :20:41. | |
income is less than 60% of the middle income in the UK. In 2010 | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
that was �259 a week. Last year it fell to �251 a week. Any child in a | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
household with an income between those two is technically no longer | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
poor, but of course they are not a penny richer. The result is that | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
300,000 people have been lifted out of poverty even the British incomes | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
are falling. Iain Duncan-Smith believes that is perverse and today | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
announced plans to redefine poverty. He will consult on how to widen the | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
criteria. This government is committed to eradicating child | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
poverty. We want to tackle it at its source, with it be welfare | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
addiction, debt, education favour you, or dysfunctional family | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
breakdown. -- education failure. The idea of relative poverty came | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
out of campaigns in the 1960s. take these up... It took decades | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
for the concept to win political acceptance across the spectrum. | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
Pete Townshend founded the Child Poverty Action Group, arguing that | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
income is lower than the average exclude people from wider society | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
and the charity is anxious that his legacy may be squandered. We have | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
been campaigning for decades for this and we finally got the Child | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
Poverty Act, with the support of the whole sector. This could be a | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
real moment to use things. There is the opportunity of a generation and | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
if we lose it, we will probably not get it back. Few would argue that | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
the relative poverty measure does have -- does not have witnesses, | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
but the fee is reigniting the debate about what being poor is | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
were fatally undermine Britain's statutory commitment to eradicate | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
poverty. There is more political turmoil in | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
Egypt on the eve of the country's presidential election. Egypt's | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
supreme constitutional court has ruled that the parliamentary | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
elections held last year were illegitimate and should be re-run. | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
The court also ruled that the former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
is eligible to stand in this weekend's presidential election. | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Cairo. | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
Found with the military, they shout. Revolution! The young | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
revolutionaries are back on Tahrir Square tonight, enraged by the | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
Supreme Court's decision to dissolve Egypt's first democratic | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
parliament. The end of the Egyptian revolution. Our dreams now become | :23:19. | :23:28. | |
dead. You can see the anger and the passion on the faces of the young | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
people here. These are the same people who fought to bring down the | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
Hosni Mubarak regime 18 months ago in this same square. Tonight they | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
believe that the military who supported him for so long are | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
trying to steal their revolution. Not all Egyptians are unhappy | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
though. Across town, an equally passionate crowd is suing barmaids | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
Rafique. One year ago, this alive was in disgrace -- Ahmed Shafik. | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
Now he could be on the verge of being proclaimed Egypt's president, | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
an extraordinary turnaround for the old regime. The last year has been | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
about creating a perception of instability that was somewhat | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
greater than the reality on the ground, creating a perception that | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
things were spinning out of control to drive them into the arms of the | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
stability candidate. The question is how well the Muslim Brotherhood | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
reactor. Until today, it controlled Egypt's parliament. Its | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
presidential candidate could still win but to do so, the Muslim | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
Brotherhood must translate anger on the streets today into support for | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
its candidate at the ballot box on Saturday. | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
Harry Redknapp says he enjoyed every minute of his three and a | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
half years as manager of Tottenham Hotspur. He was speaking after the | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
club confirmed his exit, despite Spurs finishing fourth in the | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
Premier League last season. Mr Redknapp had made it known that he | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
wanted to go into the new season on a new three-year deal, but the club | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
was not prepared to make that offer, as James Pearce reports. | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
For good times and bad, there has always been one constant for Harry | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
Redknapp. Happy to give an interview through a car window. | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
Good morning! Difficult 24 hours. What has | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
happened from your perspective. What has happened is obviously I | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
met with the chairman and the club decided to move in a different | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
direction with the manager and that is their decision. I have had four | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
fantastic years at Tottenham, I loved every minute of it. When | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
Harry Redknapp took over at Spurs, he turned a team that was then | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
bottom-of-the-table into a regular top-five finishes, but there were | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
distractions. In February he was found not guilty of tax evasion, | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
after a trial that he described as a nightmare, and there was some bad | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
luck. Last month, Chelsea's Champions' League victory cost | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
Tottenham a place in next season's competition but it was the FA | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
decision to overlook him for the England manager's job that heard | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
him the most. I was very sad. I texted him this afternoon but I do | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
not expect him to reply because I imagine he will be snowed under | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
with sympathetic messages. I am disappointed for him. It is a | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
spectacular reserves fall of fortune for a man who looked to be | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
on the brink of one job that he had always craved -- reversal of | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
fortune. As it turned out, the destruction caused by the England | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
speculation has probably caused a part of his downfall. Perhaps buzz | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
decided Harry Redknapp was not sufficiently committed to their | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
cause -- perhaps Spurs. A recent meeting to discuss a contract | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
extension ended in a contract termination. There seems to have | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
been a breakdown in communication and they cannot agree the terms and | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
it is pretty surprising that Harry is leaving the club on such a | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
position of having got such great success over four years. When Harry | :27:14. | :27:18. |