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Tonight at Ten: David Cameron orders a parliamentary inquiry into | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Britain's banks. Prompted by the latest scandal at Barclays, the | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
inquiry will be able examine witnesses under oath but it's not | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
independent enough for Labour. will be able to start immediately. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
It will be accountable to this House. It will get to the truth | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
quickly so we can make sure this never happens again. However able | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
or distinguished politicians investigating bankers will not | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
command the consent of the British people. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
We'll be asking what the inquiry is meant to achieve. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
Also tonight: An Afghan policeman has shot dead three British | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
soldiers at a checkpoint in Helmand. The constable accused of the | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
manslaughter of a newspaper seller starts to give evidence at his | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
trial. Last month was the wettest June | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
since records began and there's no sign of a rapid improvement. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
And, the women's world number one and top seed, Maria Sharapova, is | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
out of Wimbledon. In Sportsday: Britain's Mark | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Cavendish sprints to victory in today's stage of the Tour de France. | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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It's the 21st stage win of his Good evening. David Cameron has | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
ordered a parliamentary inquiry into the banking industry. He said | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
he wanted to get to the truth of the unfolding banking scandal in | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
the UK. It's been prompted by the rigging of a key interest rate by | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Barclays. The inquiry will have the power to question witnesses under | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
oath but it won't amount to the public inquiry demanded by Labour. | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
Our business editor, Robert Peston, has the latest. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
After the cloud of scandal descended on the steut with the | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
interest rate rigging scandal it's the Government trying to lift it by | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
toughening relevant laws and forcing higher standards on banks. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
These will be based on reforms to be proposed by a new parliamentary | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
committee. This is the right approach because it will be able to | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
start immediately T will be accountable to this House. And it | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
will get to the truth quickly so we can make sure this never happens | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
again. The banking reform committee will consist of MPs and peers who | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
will take evidence under oath and report by January. It will | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
investigate the broken culture and declining standards of banks and it | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
will decide if there needs to be new and greater punishments for | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
criminal conduct. Labour wants a more independent inquiry along the | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
lines of Lord Justice Leveson's into media standards. We will | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
continue to argue for a full and open inquiry, independent of | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
bankers and independent of politicians. And in a BBC interview | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
the chairman of the committee said that its remit would be narrow, | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
much narrower than what Labour wants and narrower even than the | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Prime Minister implied. If I may use the phrase a ring fenced job, | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
not trying to work out how to reform the whole banking industry, | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
but looking specifically at this one question which is what does the | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
LIBOR scandal, what does this scandal in the markets where people | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
have made money by rigging a market say about standards and the | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
corporate culture of banks? bruised chairman of Royal Bank of | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
Scotland agrees reforms may be necessary. The public's anger at | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
some of the things that have happened in the industry is very | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
obvious. And I think some process and more formal process to address | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
that anger and address some of the evident failures in the industry is | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
very sensible. When people talk about the rotten culture of banking, | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
when they say that standards have declined they're not talking about | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
the tens of thousands of frontline staff who work in branches like | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
this one. They're talking about senior executives and highly paid | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
investment bankers. But it is the frontline staff who in most banks | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
have been losing their jobs and it's the frontline staff who have | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
to encounter the public's anger on a daily basis. In recent days that | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
anger has been directed most at Barclays and its chief executive, | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Bob Diamond, following the bank's admission it tried to rig important | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
interest rates but Barclays board doesn't want to lose Mr Diamond, so | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
the chairman, Marcus Agius, is taking responsibility by resigning. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Mr Agius said that last week's events have dealt a devastating | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
blow to Barclays reputation and he added that the buck stops with me | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
and I must acknowledge responsibility by standing aside. | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
Many say we are too soft on bankers who break the rules. In Singapore | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
they weren't soft on this rogue trader. As somebody who went to | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
prison, how big a deterrent do you think for people in banking the | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
prospect of serious punishment would be? Anybody working in a | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
financial institution expects to spend a day in prison, it's not | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
what it's about. For those people prepared to breach them and breach | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
them repeatedly, which appears to be what happened at Barclays over a | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
period, then I think there has to be a serious deterrent. As for Mr | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
Diamond, Barclays shareholders tell me his survival will depend on what | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
he says about the interest rate fixing scandal when interrogated by | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
MPs on Wednesday. At stake will be his reputation, Barclays reputation, | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
and arguably, confidence in the honesty and integrity of the City | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
of London. Robert is here, but first we go to | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
Nick Robinson at Westminster. Nick, just to talk first of all about the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
notion of this cross-party inquiry. How likely is that cross-party | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
going to be achieved? There's a lot of cross but not a lot of party | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
agreement. In other words, Labour and the Government agree there is a | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
scandal, they agree there should be an inquiry, they agree on pretty | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
much nothing else. They don't agree who should chair it, Labour says it | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
should be a judge. The coalition says it should be an MP who | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
currently chairs the Treasury Select Committee. They don't agree | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
on what it should be about. Labour talks of it being like a truth and | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
reconciliation committee, looking at the problem of banking for | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
several decades. The Government talks about it, the chairman of the | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
inquiry talk about it being as we heard, a ring fenced inquiry into | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
the lessons from the recent LIBOR scandal and then they don't agree | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
on the timetable either. Labour says says as long as it takes, the | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Government says as soon as possible. Now the reason this matters is that | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Labour are now determined to defeat the parliamentary motions that | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
would set up this inquiry. There will be a vote in the House of | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Lords tomorrow. There could be another vote in the Lords and a | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
vote in the Commons, too. Were they to take it to the full extent and | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
vote against the actual creation of this inquiry, as against merely | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
proposing a judicial inquiry instead, there is a chance that | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative MP who is meant to chair this would | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
refuse to do so. He's told friends that he is determined to lead a | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
non-part is son inquiry and simply couldn't do that if the House of | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Commons couldn't agree on the right way ahead. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Robert, important to underline that this isn't just the only inquiry | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
that we are talking about, there are other inquiries. What can they | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
achieve do you think at the end of the day? Yes, it's review day for | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
banks, because apart from the review that is causing so much | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
controversy in parliament, the the one Nick has been talking about. | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
There are two others, Barclays directors are launching an | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
independent review of where their bank went wrong, how its culture | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
became so rotten. Now they have launched that to show shareholders | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
that they're getting to grips with the problem and to protect Bob | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Diamond in his job as chief executive. However, if the | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
independent person who leads this review finds that Bob Diamond is | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
actually partly responsible for this allegedly rotten culture at | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Barclays, well then actually it may have the reverse effect of what | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
they want, he might be out on his ear. Then for me there is the most | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
interesting review of all, which has been set up by the Treasury, | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
led by an FSA official and that is into whether the LIBOR market and | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
other unregulated London markets should now be much more tightly | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
regulated. This is hugely significant to the City of London. | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
Billions and billions of transactions hinge on these markets. | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
In fact, trillions hinge on them. Huge profits are generated from | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
them by British banks and some say these markets are a wild west that | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
have allowed the banks to make too great profits. So here is the | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
interesting thing, actually maintaining or restoring the | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
credibility of the City of London by more tightly regulating these | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
markets could lead to a massive attack on the profits of some of | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
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our biggest institutions. Thank you. An Afghan policeman has shot dead | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
three British soldiers at a checkpoint in Helmand Province. It | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
brings to 26 the number of NATO troops who've been killed by their | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
Afghan colleagues this year. The latest attack happened at a | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
checkpoint in Nahr-e Saraj. Our defence correspondent Caroline | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
Wyatt is in Helmand and she sent this report from Lashkar Gar. | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
This was the scene just a few hours after the killings. The Afghan | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
police checkpoint where three British soldiers were shot dead on | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Sunday. For reasons that still aren't clear, | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
an Afghan policeman here turned his weapon on the two soldiers from the | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
Welsh Guards and one from the Royal corps of signals who were there to | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
help and advise his unit. One Afghan source said there had been | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
an argument just before the shooting. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
For those serving here there was shock and sadness today, but also a | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
determination to continue their task. The taskforce care deeply | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
about all our soldiers but we are determined to complete this mission. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
We believe in advising and we take all measures to protect our | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
soldiers. On Sunday, the soldiers were at a | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
local meeting, similar to one we filmed that same afternoon some 40 | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
kilometres away. It's clear how British forces are having to work | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
with Afghans and trust them, even though all are armed. | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
This is the latest in a long line of similar, so-called green on blue | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
attacks. Of the 28 British troops killed in Afghanistan this year, | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
seven have died at the hands of members of the Afghan security | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
forces. In all, 26 NATO military personnel | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
have been killed by Afghan soldiers or police this year alone. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
These latest deaths come despite the extra measures taken this year | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
to protect British forces from just such attacks. But those working | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
here say they still have to work side by side with their Afghan | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
colleagues to help and advise them as NATO begins its gradual | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
withdrawal. Commanders say such attacks can be | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
a deliberate Taliban strategy to undermine confidence in the Afghan | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
security forces and erode the trust that's central to NATO strategy. | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
They can't derail our strategy. Our strategy is to gradually hand over | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
full responsibility for the security to the Afghans and that | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
process will continue and be completed by the end of 2014. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Today, three more names will be added to the memorials here in | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
Helmand. British soldiers trust in the Afghans they're helping will | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
again have been shaken and there will be an impact on morale, but | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
above all, there is sadness at these three deaths, but little time | :12:01. | :12:10. | |
to mourn. A report by the Inspectorate of | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
Constabulary says there'll be around 6,000 fewer police officers | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
on the frontline in three years. The report also says that the | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
Metropolitan, Lincolnshire, and Devon and Cornwall forces may not | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
be able to provide an effective service in the future because of | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
budget cuts. A man is in a serious condition in | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
hospital after he was shot by a gunman who walked into a | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
solicitor's office. The incident happened in Devizes in Wiltshire. | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
Police say armed officers arrested a man and recovered a weapon. | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
David Cameron has rejected calls for a quick referendum on Britain's | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
membership of the European Union. The Prime Minister was reporting | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
back to MPs on last week's European summit in Brussels. But Mr Cameron | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
said he wasn't opposed to voters having a say in the future. The | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
former minister Liam Fox has argued that Britain should be prepared to | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
leave the EU if the terms of membership can't be renegotiated. | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
James Landale reports. Will he, won't he, what's he going to do? | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
David Cameron's opened the door to a possible referendum on Britain's | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
relationship with Europe but many in his party want him to go further | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
and faster. One of those is his former Defence | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Secretary, Liam Fox. He became the most senior Conservative to say | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
what he himself admitted he could never have said in Government, | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
Britain should try to bring powers home from Brussels, but if it fails | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
then the people should have a say on leaving the EU. For my own part, | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
life outside the EU holds no terrors. There are millions of our | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
fellow citizens who feel that their view is not listened to. That | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
changes have been made in our relationship with the European | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
Union that they've never given David Cameron believes that Britain | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
should stay a part of the EU club and he ruled out new laws to force | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
a referendum in the next Parliament. I tonight believe that leaving the | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
EU would be best for Britain, nor do I believe that voting to | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
preserve the status quo would be right either. Far from ruling out a | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
referendum for the future, as a fresh deal in Europe becomes clear, | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
we should consider how best to get the fresh consent of the British | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
people. Raib Labour is not ruling out a referendum, but the leader | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
mocked what it called the Government's yes-no-maybe policy. | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
A nudge-nudge, wink-wink policy is neither good for the country, nor | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
will it keep his party quiet. A veto that never was, a referendum | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
he cannot explain, a party talking to itself. | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
While the politicians hesitate, others are already making the case. | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
These campaigners for a referendum out this morning believe that the | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
pressure is mounting. And not just on the streets of | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Manchester. The British people are not stupid, | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
they understand the position. Give them renegotiation, give them a | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
referendum. In our referendum it is now inevitable in this country at | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
some stage, it will be his advantage to be ahead of that kerb | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
r curve, rather than being dragged into it later on. David Cameron is | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
walking a fine line worried about backbenchers and UK Independence | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
Party, the danger is that he is raising expectations he will | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
struggle to satisfy. Now the Prime Minister is asking | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
for patience before deciding on a referendum, the question is whether | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
his party will give him the time. A police constable accused of the | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
manslaughter of a newspaper seller during the G20 process in London in | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
2009, has told the jury that he never meant to push the man to the | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
ground. PC Simon Harwood said he never meant to push Ian Tomlinson | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
away. We report from Southwark Crown | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Court. For two weeks, the prosecution has been putting its | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
case against PC Simon Harwood. Today the police officer went into | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
the witness box at the start of the defence. He stands accused of | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
manslaughter, a charge he denies. This afternoon he relived events | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
three years ago during the G20 protests. It was in the City of | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
London he encountered Ian Tomlinson, who was not a protestor, he was | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
trying to get home. PC Simon Harwood said it appeared to him | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
that Ian Tomlinson was deliberately obstructing the police lines. He | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
struck him with the baton. From the side you can see the baton going in. | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
Then this... He told the jury he pushed him firmly. Ian Tomlinson | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
suffered internal bleed ngt fall. The officers' barrister, -- the | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
officer's barrister, asked him about this. He asked did you mean | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
to push Ian Tomlinson? He said no, he was asked why he did push him | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
away, he said it was to encourage him to move away. Ian Tomlinson was | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
helped to his feet, but collapsed a short distance up the road and died. | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
In the public gallery, listening to the evidence, Ian Tomlinson's widow | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
and his children. In this case a number of police officers have | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
testified for the prosecution, the jury was told that the defence was | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
planning to call other officers close to PC Simon Harwood when he | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
encountered Ian Tomlinson. PC Simon Harwood, who has served in the Met | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
Police and the Surrey force had due back in the witness box tomorrow as | :17:28. | :17:37. | |
the defence case continues. Coming up: | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
Andy Murray's bid to reach Wimbledon's quarter-finals were | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
brought it a halt by the weather. -- were brought to a bit of a halt | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
by the weather. Last month was the wettest June since records began in | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
1910, according to the Met Office with double the average rainfall. | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
This year saw the rainiest April on record. The period from April to | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
June was also the wettest recorded. June was dull with just 119 hours | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
of sunshine. The unsettled weather is looking set to continue. | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
It started with the Jubilee, the June weather showing scant respect | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
for royaltyy or the big occasion. -- royalty. The rain kept coming, | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
widespread floods from Wales to Sussex, while the Olympic torch | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
battled stay alight, the humour remained in tact. | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
When the end of the month it looked scary. This was not a hurricane, | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
this was Leicester, last week. Hard to believe that drought was the | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
worry a few months ago. Two dry winters, meant that water shortages | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
were here with hosepipe bans. Back in February, the Draycott | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
Reservoir in Warwickshire was only half full. Now k though, all of the | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
rain means that the water levels are getting back to normal. The | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
river that feeds the reservoir is back in full flow. You May not be | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
enjoying the summer wash-out, but for the water industry it is great | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
news. We are loving it. It is fantastic | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
all of this rain. We have had a council of years of very, very dry | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
weather that has created difficulties for us and the water | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
companies. Although there have been no customer restrictions, the | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
reservoirs have been very low. Now they are almost full. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Even for the professionals this is extraordinary weather. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Yes, we are breaking rainfall records in many places. We have had | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
a wet June a lot of wet weather before, all of the signs are that | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
the unsettled theme is set to continue for a few more weeks. | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
So why so wet? It is the jetstream that has slipped to the south, | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
dragging with it the rain, the lightening, even a tornado and | :19:53. | :20:02. | |
making this June officially the wettest on record. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
Unemployment in the eurozone has reached a new high of more than 11%. | :20:06. | :20:15. | |
The number of people without work rose above 17 .5 million in May. | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
The highest job lest rate was in Spain and Greece where one in four | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
people are out of work. The man who looks certain to lead Mexico over | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
the next five years say he is going to prioritise labour, and tax | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
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reforms. Enrique Pena Nieto is aneed -- ahead with almost all | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
voting. In Libya, four officials from the | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
International Criminal Court have been released after being held for | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
almost a month. Militia had accused them of spying after they visited | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the former leader, Colonel Muammar | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
Gaddafi. The news came as the BBC gathered first - hand evidence of | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
torture and illegal detention as tribes clashed in the region. | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
Something in the new Libya have a depressingly familiar feel. In the | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
western town of Zintan, tribal elders mourn the death of Abdul | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
Salam Aghuz. Tortured, not by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's henchmen, | :21:21. | :21:29. | |
but by a rival tribe. This man says to look, that the | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
autopsy says he was beaten. His hands and his feet were tied before | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
they killed him. In this deeply conservative society, some people | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
want revenge. Where tribal aLiegances are more | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
powerful than loyalty to the state, more than 100 people have been | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
killed in the recent fighting here. Some disputes date back over | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
generations, but negotiators say it will not undermine the stability. | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
Libyans are united. Libyans will be one government, they will be one | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
nation, they will be one people. Libya is due to hold its first | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
nationwide elections at the end of the week, but outside of the main | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
cities, it is pretty clear who is ruling the streets. This is the | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Wild West. Here in Zintan and across Libya, there is a real lack | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
of central government control. Real authority a-- appears to lie with | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
the armed militias, the men with guns. You could argue with the | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
removal of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, new divisions have emerged and old | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
rivalries have resumed. In the eastern city of Benghazi, | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
the interim government is battling on several fronts. There have been | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
attacks by Islamist extremists and there is a vocal campaign for | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
political autonomy. The election authorities' offices | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
were ransacked at the week by protestors demanding greater | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
representation for Benghazi. They want the vote postponed. Others say | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
that Libya is ready. A country that has not held | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
elections for 47 years and in a post conflict situation will not be | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
ready in a matter of months by some absolute standard, but there is | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
also a strong desire on the part of Libyan people to have this election. | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
In the big cities there is indeed a palpable sense of freedom and | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
openness. Libya has changed since Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's doubtful, | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
much. There is much uncertainty about the country's future, but no- | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
one here talks seriously of a return to the past. | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
The cost to the taxpayer of supporting the Royal Family rose by | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
0.6% in the past financial year. Buckingham Palace account show the | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
Queen's official expenditure rose by �200,000 to �33 .3 million and | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
that the Duke of York's travel costs amounted to �358,000 for | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
seven business trips. Spain has been welcoming home their | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
victorious Euro 2012 footballers with a very big party in Madrid | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
today. The city's residents poured on to | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
the streets to pay tributes to the heroes who have become the first | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
team in international footballing history to win three successful | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
major titles, two European Championships and a World Cup. It | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
follows the 4-0 victory in last night's Euro 2012 final. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Now the tennis and Maria Sharapova has been knocked out in straight | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
sets by the German player, Sabine Lisicki. A rain-stop play for Andy | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
Murray, who is hoping to win a place in the quarter-finals, but | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
better news for Novak Djokovic. July at Wimbledon, as the rain | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
swirled asmall tear in the social fabric, the Wimbledon crowd restive | :25:02. | :25:11. | |
at the delays, not -- not oohing but booing. Andy Murray conceded he | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
spent much of the last match drenched in nerves. Today against | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
Marin Cilic, there were flashes of confidence. | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
COMMENTATOR: God, love that! answer to the charge that he is | :25:24. | :25:32. | |
always on the defensive... He took the first set 7-5. He swiftly | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
gained a break in the second. The point made delicately but | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
emphatically. Andy Murray was on top as the rain | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
sent both players inside. Before Andy Murray on court number | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
one, the tournament's biggest upset since the Rafael Nadal exit, the | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
women's top seed and top grunter, Maria Sharapova, silenced. | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
Sabine Lisicki, last year's semi- finalist, through in two. | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
Were the rest of the tournament going so smoothly, around Wimbledon | :26:11. | :26:16. |