:00:11. > :00:13.Tonight at 10:00pm: an investigation into the banking
:00:13. > :00:21.scandal is finally agreed. The inquiry will be handled by
:00:21. > :00:27.Parliament after a heated debate among MPs. Which Labour ministers
:00:27. > :00:31.were involved? Answer that question. Where is the evidence? He should
:00:31. > :00:33.put up or shut up. We'll be asking if the cross-party inquiry can
:00:33. > :00:36.overcome the deep political divisions. Also tonight:
:00:36. > :00:46.Five infantry battalions abolished in the biggest Army reform for
:00:46. > :00:46.
:00:46. > :00:49.decades. We have come to some difficult decisions but they are
:00:49. > :00:52.fair decisions, based on clear criteria.
:00:52. > :00:54.In London, six people arrested as part of an investigation into a
:00:54. > :00:58.suspected terrorist plot. 40 years after the killings of
:00:58. > :01:01.Bloody Sunday, police will open a murder investigation.
:01:01. > :01:11.And after the wrong calls, goal- line technology is coming to
:01:11. > :01:13.
:01:13. > :01:18.And coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, it is Serena
:01:18. > :01:28.Williams at the double at Wimbledon. First another singles final and
:01:28. > :01:35.
:01:35. > :01:38.then the semi-finals in the doubles Good evening. The banking scandal
:01:38. > :01:42.will be investigated by a parliamentary committee, not by a
:01:42. > :01:50.judge. And any resulting changes in the law will be passed before the
:01:50. > :01:53.next election. That's the outcome of a heated debate among MPs today.
:01:53. > :01:56.Labour has agreed to take part, despite reservations about the
:01:56. > :02:01.scope of the inquiry and deep animosity between the front benches,
:02:01. > :02:07.as our political editor, Nick Robinson reports.
:02:07. > :02:10.It was a debate few will forget. It was meant to be about the banks, a
:02:10. > :02:16.debate in which the Chancellor and his shadow descended into a bitter
:02:16. > :02:21.personal row. He has impugned my integrity. And what I am saying to
:02:21. > :02:28.him is, if he has any integrity on this narrow point of his allegation,
:02:28. > :02:36.he should stand up now, withdraw the allegation and apologise.
:02:36. > :02:41.idea that I am going to take lessons in integrity from a man who
:02:41. > :02:46.smeared his way through 13 years of Labour government is another thing.
:02:46. > :02:51.There was personal venom, partisan fury, raw political calculation. At
:02:51. > :02:56.issue, George Osborne's decision to point the finger at Labour in an
:02:56. > :03:06.interview over who was to blame for the Libor scandal. He claimed
:03:06. > :03:09.
:03:09. > :03:13.Labour ministers were clearly That is Ed Balls, by the way. Where
:03:13. > :03:18.is the evidence, Ed Balls demanded to know. The sight of a Chancellor
:03:18. > :03:21.who says one thing to the press but can't defend himself in the
:03:21. > :03:27.parliament is embarrassing to his office. The right honourable
:03:27. > :03:32.gentleman was the City Minister, and the City Minister, during the
:03:32. > :03:38.Libor scandal. And I want to know the answer to the question, which
:03:38. > :03:43.Labour ministers were involved. should either put up or shut up.
:03:43. > :03:46.Present the evidence, apologise. Why so much anger? Because they
:03:46. > :03:51.know voters are furious about the banks and want you to blame the
:03:51. > :03:55.other lot for what went wrong. Hence another row about who should
:03:55. > :03:59.investigate that. Labour argued for a public inquiry led by a judge,
:03:59. > :04:03.going much wider than the recent rate fixing scandal. The government
:04:03. > :04:07.insisted that a committee of MPs and peers could investigate
:04:07. > :04:11.professional standards in banking and produce results much quicker.
:04:11. > :04:19.Normally, a cross-party inquiry would get cross-party support. But
:04:19. > :04:26.tonight, the Commons split. ayes to the right, 330, the noes to
:04:26. > :04:30.the left, 236. The government got its way, MPs and Lords, not lawyers,
:04:30. > :04:35.will quiz bankers. Labour, grudgingly, have said they will
:04:35. > :04:39.take part. We will try to get it to achieve as much as it can given the
:04:39. > :04:41.limitations it faces. As scandals continued to emerge and people
:04:41. > :04:45.continue to demand justice for themselves and their banking system
:04:45. > :04:50.they can trust, I will keep demanding and pressing for the
:04:50. > :04:54.judge led inquiry. After MPs voted, two men chatted in the middle of
:04:54. > :04:59.the Commons. The Tory chairman of the new inquiry, and Labour's Ed
:04:59. > :05:03.Balls, who was desperate to reassure. I have been chairing an
:05:03. > :05:07.all-party committee for two years. We have produced dozens of reports
:05:07. > :05:11.and they have all been unanimous. It is by working together that
:05:11. > :05:16.Parliament can show it can do the job. Working together? Now there is
:05:16. > :05:24.a thought. After today's bitterness, that might prove easier said than
:05:24. > :05:29.On that very point, can this genuinely be a cross-party inquiry,
:05:29. > :05:32.given the animosity we saw today? It is hard to imagine. If the House
:05:33. > :05:37.of Commons was a playground, the cry would have gone out, fight,
:05:37. > :05:41.fight. It felt like a playground. They are fighting not just because
:05:41. > :05:45.they loathe each other personally, but because they are fighting for
:05:46. > :05:49.their parties, good grief up to the next election. In other words, the
:05:49. > :05:53.Tories are desperate to remind voters, Labour's were in charge
:05:53. > :05:56.when the banks went bad. Labour are desperate to convince the
:05:56. > :06:01.electorate that the Tory are too close to the bankers and can't
:06:01. > :06:05.clean up the mess. The row between these two men even goes on tonight.
:06:05. > :06:09.George Osborne's advisers told me he had been misquoted and he never
:06:09. > :06:14.believed Ed Balls was personally involved in the Libor scandal, that
:06:14. > :06:18.he accepted the reassurances that had been given by Mr Balls. Labour
:06:18. > :06:21.responded by saying, why didn't he says it for himself and in the
:06:21. > :06:26.House of Commons, when he was in there for an hour and a half? The
:06:26. > :06:29.one hope that this inquiry can escape all that is that the rather
:06:29. > :06:33.low-key chairman of it insists he doesn't want to put anybody in the
:06:33. > :06:38.dock for what happened in the past, he wants to come up with ideas
:06:38. > :06:42.about how to make things better in the future. Rest assured, even if
:06:42. > :06:46.that row doesn't take place in this new committee, in the new inquiry,
:06:46. > :06:54.it will happen, because both main parties believe it is the key to
:06:54. > :06:57.who wins the next election. Thank you very much.
:06:57. > :06:59.The British Army is facing its biggest reform in decades. Five
:06:59. > :07:03.infantry battalions are being abolished as the size of the Army
:07:03. > :07:06.is reduced by 20% by the end of the decade. The number of regular
:07:06. > :07:09.soldiers will fall by 20,000, and there'll be a much heavier reliance
:07:09. > :07:11.on the Territorial Army to make up the shortfall. The Defence
:07:11. > :07:21.Secretary insists the Army will remain a "formidable fighting
:07:21. > :07:23.
:07:23. > :07:31.Over the past decade, the British Army has been able to fight wars on
:07:31. > :07:37.two fronts. In Afghanistan, as well as Iraq. Both long campaigns,
:07:37. > :07:42.committing large numbers of troops. It is something that the army of
:07:42. > :07:47.2020 will not be able to do. With less money, the Army is having to
:07:47. > :07:53.change. We need to restructure to face an increasingly uncertain
:07:53. > :07:57.world. Ready to intervene whenever and wherever, to protect our
:07:57. > :08:01.national interest. With an ability to project force and prevent
:08:01. > :08:05.conflict, through agile and adaptable armed forces.
:08:05. > :08:09.Controversially, it will mean cutting well-mannered English
:08:09. > :08:14.regiments and saving Scottish units that struggle to recruit. The
:08:14. > :08:18.bigger question will be, what will be left? This isn't just about a
:08:18. > :08:23.small army, many will believe it is also a less powerful army and a
:08:23. > :08:30.less influential nation. Today come armed forces, our country and
:08:30. > :08:37.families deserve better -- today it our aren't forces. The ministry
:08:37. > :08:42.announced it will be losing 17 of 136 units. The regular Army goes
:08:42. > :08:46.from 102,000, to 82,000 troops. It will mean that some famous names,
:08:46. > :08:50.like the Green Howards, who were involved in the first landings on
:08:50. > :08:57.D-Day, and with 18 Victoria crosses to their name, will be lost for
:08:57. > :09:00.ever. Are these political or military decisions? They are always
:09:00. > :09:03.political considerations in everything we do in the military. -
:09:03. > :09:13.- there are always. We have consulted with ministers and come
:09:13. > :09:14.
:09:14. > :09:18.to what I believe is a fair and The army of 2020 will have to rely
:09:18. > :09:23.more on reservists like these. During the day, bankers, builders
:09:23. > :09:29.and business owners. The TA is meant to double in size, to 30,000.
:09:29. > :09:37.And there will be greater demands. The formula by which you can reduce
:09:37. > :09:44.the regular Army by 20,000, and up the effective reserves by a similar
:09:44. > :09:49.number, it is a brave one. It will be quite a challenge. It is not the
:09:49. > :09:53.only challenge. How will the nation view these challenges? Just last
:09:53. > :09:58.weekend, the public showed support for those who serve. Pride in the
:09:58. > :10:02.military, but today, some of their families felt let down. They are
:10:02. > :10:05.out there losing lives at the moment, in our eyes for possibly
:10:05. > :10:11.the wrong people and the wrong reasons. To get that thrown in
:10:11. > :10:16.their face, I think it is a massive slapper in the face. An end to the
:10:16. > :10:20.war in Afghanistan is now inside, but no one knows what will come
:10:20. > :10:23.next or whether this Li Na army will be able to deal with that
:10:23. > :10:26.threat. The bodies of three British
:10:26. > :10:28.servicemen killed by an Afghan policeman have been brought home.
:10:28. > :10:31.Warrant Officer Leonard Thomas, from the Royal Corps of Signals,
:10:31. > :10:41.Guardsmen Craig Roderick and Apete Tuisovurua, from First Battalion,
:10:41. > :10:43.
:10:43. > :10:45.The Welsh Guards, died on Sunday in Friends and family gathered to pay
:10:45. > :10:53.their respects as the cortege passed through Carterton in
:10:53. > :10:56.Six people have been arrested in anti-terror raids in London and are
:10:56. > :11:00.being questioned about an alleged plot involving potential targets in
:11:00. > :11:03.the UK. Three of them were living just a mile from the Olympic Park
:11:03. > :11:08.in East London. In a separate operation, a coach was stopped on
:11:08. > :11:16.the M6 motorway by armed police, but it proved to be a false alarm.
:11:16. > :11:20.Our home affairs correspondent, June Kelly, reports.
:11:20. > :11:24.The arrests came at dawn, at this address, the police didn't just
:11:24. > :11:28.forced the door, they took it off its hinges. It was left lying in
:11:28. > :11:33.the front garden. In the early morning commotion, firearms
:11:33. > :11:36.officers used a tasered to arrest one of the suspects here. I saw one
:11:36. > :11:42.on the top of a ladder, going through the window at the side
:11:42. > :11:47.there. Another one shining a torch at the windows, and smoke coming
:11:47. > :11:51.out from around the door where they took the door off. There was a big
:11:51. > :11:56.bang. For a minute, I thought it was a bomb, really, that sort of
:11:56. > :12:00.nice. Those arrests came in Newham in east London, three brothers
:12:00. > :12:04.detained at the same house. One is a former police committee support
:12:04. > :12:09.officer. On the other side of the capital in Ealing in west London,
:12:09. > :12:14.three people were arrested, a man and a married couple. One of the
:12:14. > :12:18.interests is a Muslim convert, Richard Dart, said to have once
:12:18. > :12:22.worked as a BBC security guard. He featured last year in this BBC
:12:22. > :12:26.documentary, and is now known as Salahuddin al Britani. He and the
:12:26. > :12:32.others are in custody because of a possible plot against UK targets,
:12:32. > :12:36.allegedly involving Islamist extremists. The east London arrests
:12:37. > :12:41.came at a house less than a mile from the Olympic site, although
:12:41. > :12:44.today's operation is said not to be linked to the Games. The police
:12:44. > :12:51.intelligence services will act far earlier on in an active part,
:12:51. > :12:56.because the risk appetites are diminishing rapidly as we move
:12:56. > :13:01.closer to the Games. In an unrelated incident in Staffordshire,
:13:01. > :13:05.what began as a counter-terrorist operation became a false alarm, but
:13:05. > :13:11.only after it had caused major disruption on the M6. Passengers
:13:11. > :13:16.were taken off a coach after reports of vapour escaping from a
:13:16. > :13:21.back. It turned out to be a fake cigarette being used by someone to
:13:21. > :13:26.help give up smoking. From this road, you can see the Olympic site.
:13:26. > :13:36.While the rest CMA not be linked to the games, with just three weeks to
:13:36. > :13:37.
:13:37. > :13:40.go, the police know they are moving The Bank of England is to inject
:13:40. > :13:44.another �50 billion into the economy to counter the effects of
:13:44. > :13:48.the recession. It takes the total amount of quantitative easing so
:13:48. > :13:55.far to 300 and Sunday �5 billion. The bank has also decided to hold
:13:55. > :13:59.interest rates at 0.5%. When the Bank of England first
:14:00. > :14:05.talked about quantitative easing, it was a novelty. Not any more. It
:14:05. > :14:10.began in March 2009 with a plan to inject �75 billion into a sinking
:14:10. > :14:14.economy. That grew to 200 billion. Then last October, they decided
:14:15. > :14:20.more emergency action was needed. With another 50 billion announced
:14:20. > :14:23.today, the total has risen to �375 billion. If you spent it all at
:14:23. > :14:26.once, that is enough to buy a quarter of Britain's national
:14:27. > :14:31.output. That money is supposed to make it easier for businesses to
:14:31. > :14:35.borrow, but if so, this mail-order company in Buckinghamshire has not
:14:35. > :14:40.noticed. It will make no difference to my business almost of the other
:14:41. > :14:46.businesses in the UK. The banks need to retain the low capital from
:14:46. > :14:49.the Bank of England, and therefore will only lend on onerous terms and
:14:49. > :14:53.that higher interest rates. Here at the bank, they say things would
:14:53. > :14:58.have been worse if they had not created all that money and a
:14:58. > :15:02.quantitative easing and spent it in the City, buying government debt.
:15:02. > :15:05.But there is so much uncertainty hanging over households, banks and
:15:05. > :15:10.businesses that critics say the money is not getting out into the
:15:10. > :15:14.broader economy. The amount of cash sitting on bank balance sheets has
:15:14. > :15:17.risen by 58% since the Monetary Policy Committee restarted the
:15:17. > :15:24.policy last autumn. But lending to households and companies has barely
:15:24. > :15:27.risen at all, by just 0.2%. Because the Bank's view the riskiness of
:15:27. > :15:32.lending to companies and individuals as quite high, the
:15:32. > :15:36.money that has been injected has cooled in the financial system. And
:15:37. > :15:40.it is not likely to spread outside the financial system until
:15:41. > :15:46.prospects for the real economy begin to improve. That is just the
:15:46. > :15:50.moment when you will not need it. The European central bank cut its
:15:50. > :15:55.key interest rate today to another all-time low, and said it was not
:15:55. > :16:00.going to pay any interest at all to banks who part money at the Central
:16:00. > :16:04.Bank. China's central bank also cut rates for the second time in a
:16:04. > :16:08.month. In his Mansion House speech last month, the Bank of England
:16:08. > :16:12.governor, Sir Mervyn King, said the quantitative easing policy could
:16:12. > :16:15.still make a difference, but admitted it was not enough. He and
:16:16. > :16:19.the Chancellor announced several schemes to get credit flowing to
:16:19. > :16:23.companies directly. More details promised soon. But if the global
:16:23. > :16:32.economy continues to weaken, the Bank of England will not be the
:16:32. > :16:36.only one looking for bright ideas. Coming up: rising above London,
:16:36. > :16:44.Europe's tallest building, but will the Investment prove to be a wise
:16:44. > :16:48.one? The Police Service of Northern
:16:48. > :16:50.Ireland is to open a murder investigation into the events of
:16:50. > :16:55.bloody Sunday 40 years ago in Londonderry. 13 people were shot
:16:55. > :17:02.dead by soldiers during a civil rights demonstration. The
:17:02. > :17:07.investigation is expected to take four years to gather evidence.
:17:07. > :17:12.January 30th, 1972. A Catholic priest, Father Edward Daly, tries
:17:12. > :17:15.to get the dead and dying to safety, victims of soldiers of the
:17:15. > :17:20.Parachute Regiment who opened fire on protesters on the day. 13
:17:20. > :17:23.Catholics died, more than half of them teenagers, and 40 years on,
:17:24. > :17:27.the possibility that former British soldiers could be tried for murder
:17:27. > :17:32.has moved a step closer with the announcement of a police
:17:32. > :17:36.investigation. It will build on the Saville Inquiry, which called the
:17:36. > :17:41.deaths unjustifiable. Among Lord Saville's findings, the victims
:17:41. > :17:46.posed no threat. The report says some were clearly fleeing or going
:17:46. > :17:51.to help those injured or dying. The soldiers gave no warning before
:17:51. > :17:59.opening fire. And some of the soldiers lied to the enquiry or did
:17:59. > :18:04.not care what happened when they opened fire. Those findings two
:18:04. > :18:09.years ago delighted Derry's Catholic community. Tonight, the
:18:09. > :18:13.families' spokesman welcomed the investigation, but was unhappy that
:18:13. > :18:18.police say it could take up to four years. It is too long, because the
:18:18. > :18:24.evidence is already there. And Lord Saville has conducted this inquiry
:18:24. > :18:30.for 12 1/2 years. I can't see why it has to take four years to finish
:18:30. > :18:33.the job. But today's Police Service, part of a completely changed
:18:33. > :18:37.Northern Ireland, warns that 30 experienced detectives will be
:18:37. > :18:41.needed and no start date for their work has been set. Long-standing
:18:41. > :18:47.political enemies of Irish nationalism oppose an investigation,
:18:47. > :18:51.and insist that too many victims of IRA atrocities have been ignored.
:18:51. > :18:54.It takes natural justice beyond any recompense when you compare it with
:18:54. > :18:59.other atrocities carried out by the Provisional IRA and others, where
:18:59. > :19:04.there has been no attempt to get restitution or justice or
:19:04. > :19:07.prosecutions. But justice for the victims of bloody Sunday is also
:19:07. > :19:12.far from guaranteed. Well prosecutors be able to assemble
:19:12. > :19:16.sufficient evidence against individual soldiers, more than four
:19:16. > :19:20.decades on? World Football's governing body
:19:20. > :19:24.FIFA has approved the use of goal- line technology. It follows a
:19:24. > :19:32.series of high-profile mistakes by more referees including England's
:19:32. > :19:38.disallowed goal against Germany in the 2010 World Cup.
:19:38. > :19:42.Lampard! Brilliant! They are the goal line - that have finally
:19:42. > :19:46.forced football to move with the times. With the white line
:19:46. > :19:52.something of a grey area, high- profile injustices have blighted
:19:52. > :19:55.matches for years. But the game's lawmakers to date decided the time
:19:55. > :19:59.had come for technology to help match officials get it right, and
:19:59. > :20:03.the most powerful man in the sport tonight told me that football had
:20:03. > :20:13.taken a leap forward. How significant a day is this for
:20:13. > :20:13.
:20:13. > :20:17.football? I think we could say that 5th July 2012 was, and still is, a
:20:17. > :20:22.historical day of international football. It is difficult to score
:20:22. > :20:28.goals, so when we have the possibility to identify that a goal
:20:28. > :20:33.is scored, it is a help for the referee. Two different systems have
:20:33. > :20:38.been given the go-ahead. The German-Danish PIN uses sensors
:20:38. > :20:42.inside the ball and a magnetic -- magnetic field in the Gold to
:20:42. > :20:48.determine whether a gold has crossed the line. The English
:20:48. > :20:52.system uses a different method. An alternative has also been approved.
:20:52. > :20:56.But technology has been used effectively in other sports for
:20:56. > :20:59.years, and the Premier League could follow suit as soon as the new year.
:20:59. > :21:02.It would be potentially possible during the middle of the coming
:21:02. > :21:07.season. It is up to the need to decide whether they want to bring
:21:07. > :21:13.it in, and if they do, whether they want to do it during the course of
:21:13. > :21:17.a season. The decisions taken here at FIFA HQ today a share in a new
:21:17. > :21:21.era for the game. But the combination of opposition and cost
:21:21. > :21:25.means that technology will not be applied universally, and in the
:21:25. > :21:32.majority of matches, decisions as to whether a goal has or has not
:21:32. > :21:36.been scored will still be subject to human error. Disputed goals have
:21:36. > :21:39.been part of football for decades. Technology has been a line the
:21:39. > :21:43.government has been reluctant to cross, but with the stakes growing
:21:43. > :21:47.ever higher, the means are now at least available to make some of
:21:47. > :21:51.sport's biggest decisions more black and white.
:21:51. > :21:55.To Wimbledon, where Andy Murray has been making final preparations for
:21:55. > :21:59.tomorrow's semi-final. If he wins, he will become the first British
:21:59. > :22:06.man to reach the final since 1938. Today the line-up for the women's
:22:06. > :22:09.final was decided. A knock up like 1000 others, except
:22:09. > :22:15.it isn't. Tomorrow Andy Murray will be aiming to reach a Wimbledon
:22:15. > :22:21.final. The thwack of ball on racket a severe distraction from the
:22:21. > :22:25.Mermoz of "could he? Should he?" from those watching him. Most
:22:25. > :22:29.tennis fans around here will say they don't like to tempt fate, but
:22:29. > :22:34.the truth is that Andy Murray has his best chance yet to get a place
:22:34. > :22:39.in the Wimbledon finals. It is something no British man has done
:22:39. > :22:44.since 1938. Andy Murray is of course have
:22:44. > :22:48.refusing to look beyond the hulking frame of his opponent tomorrow, Jo-
:22:48. > :22:54.Wilfried Tsonga. Very tough matches. He has played very well this
:22:54. > :23:02.tournament. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga can be unplayable. He has also proved
:23:02. > :23:06.beatable. As Murray has done, the past four times they have met.
:23:06. > :23:10.Today on Centre Court, the first women's semi-final produced its own
:23:10. > :23:16.moment of history. Agnieszka Radwanska became the first Polish
:23:17. > :23:23.woman in the Grand Slam final in 75 years. She will meet Serena
:23:23. > :23:30.Williams, who thundered past the second seed, Victoria Azarenka.
:23:30. > :23:34.Memo to Murray - this is how good it feels.
:23:34. > :23:38.Europe's tallest building, the Shard, on London's South Bank, has
:23:38. > :23:45.been officially opened. But the 300 metre tower, paid for with money
:23:45. > :23:50.from Qatar, is certainly dividing opinion.
:23:50. > :23:55.The sharp rises as if it were a rocket bound for outer space.
:23:55. > :23:59.Dwarfing its surroundings like Gulliver in Lilliput. A 310 metre-
:23:59. > :24:04.high, 30 acre town in the sky. There is even a vertical
:24:04. > :24:09.Billionaire's Row at the top, each department reported to be costing
:24:09. > :24:15.up to �50 million a pop. I have just, been one of the Shard's 43
:24:15. > :24:19.lifts to the 69th floor to the public viewing gallery which will
:24:19. > :24:26.open in February next year. This is what you will see - London. You can
:24:26. > :24:31.see the Gherkin. To its right, the Tower of London. And in the middle
:24:31. > :24:35.distance on the right, Canary Wharf. Standing here at to and from 40
:24:35. > :24:42.metres in the air makes the whole place look a bit like Legoland, a
:24:42. > :24:47.jigsaw of a million pieces, and organised chaos that feels alive.
:24:47. > :24:55.The celebrated Italian architect Renzo Piano designed this tapering
:24:55. > :24:59.Tara of glass. He has high hopes for it. Somebody told me, watch the
:24:59. > :25:03.faces of people watching the building when you finish. So this
:25:03. > :25:08.is what I did in the street this morning. I went around, and I was
:25:08. > :25:13.stopping on the corner, watching people watching the building. There
:25:13. > :25:16.is a sense of surprise, a sense of stupor, a sense of amazement.
:25:16. > :25:20.majority of the Shard is owned by the state of Qatar, which invested
:25:20. > :25:24.heavily in the building. For some, it is a new icon for London and a
:25:24. > :25:29.demonstration of the city's energy and modernity. Two others, a blot
:25:29. > :25:33.on the landscape, ugly, arrogant and inappropriate. It would look
:25:33. > :25:37.wonderful in Dubai. It has little to do with the architecture or the
:25:37. > :25:43.language of London. It is an outrage. It has been implanted in a
:25:43. > :25:48.part of London that had no high buildings of that sort. It is a
:25:48. > :25:53.gesture, a statement, a virility symbol. The sharp took over a
:25:53. > :25:58.decade to get off the ground. The majority of the space has yet to be
:25:58. > :26:01.let. It is in many ways a hi-tech building, but not in all respects.
:26:01. > :26:09.It will still require a man with a sponge and a bucket of warm, soapy