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Tonight at Ten: The UN warns of tensions between Syria and Turkey | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
and the threat of a regional conflict. Turkish troops patrol the | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
border as the country authorises military raids into Syria for the | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
first time. Several Turkish civilians are injured. Five were | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
killed by Syrian shelling last night. There is international | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
condemnation. The most important thing of all, is | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
that the Syrian government makes sure that there is no repetition, | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
whatever, of any incident of this kind. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
We are assessing the threat to regional security. Also tonight: | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Police say that the search for five-year-old April Jones is now | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
one of the biggest in recent history. | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
What we have to hold on to, really, is that we continue the search and | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
the good news is that everybody is determined to follow through this. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
The Metropolitan Police takes charge of assessing sex abuse | :01:03. | :01:12. | |
allegations against the late Sir Jimmy Savile. | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
And in their first TV debate, they clashed over the economy and it was | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
Mitt Romney that came out on top. On Sportsday on the BBC News | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
Channel: Spurs draw in Athens. All of the goals from the Europa League | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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Good evening. The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki- | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
Moon is alarged by escalating tensions between Turkey and Syria | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
is warching that the region flal conflict is growing. It comes after | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
bombing of Turkish and the retaliation that followed. The | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Parliament in Ankara has given the Turkish military the authority to | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
enter Syria. More on the regional implications in a moment. First, | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
here is James Reynold in Akcakale, the town hit by Syrian shelling. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
This was not Turkey' war, but the deaths of one family next to the | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
Syrian border, have changed the way that this country sees its | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
neighbour's conflict. The government has called the strike | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
from Syria a final straw. This is what is left of the family | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
home in the border town of Akcakale. The family's mother, and her three | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
children were sitting in the garden when the shell hit. | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
TRANSLATION: We were eating. Then we heard the sound of a bomb. The | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
shrapnel fell, hit the wall and the ground. We could have been killed. | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
Syria has apologised for the families' deaths, but those here | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
fear another accidental strike. TRANSLATION: We are scared to death. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
We don't know when another mortar is going to be fired. We are | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
targets. We are really frightened by what is happening. | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
This afternoon, Turkey's Prime Minister won approval from | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Parliament for military operations inside Syria. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
TRANSLATION: We want peace and security in our region. This is | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
what we care about. We have no intention to go to war. | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
But Turkey is strong enough to protect its citizens and its | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
borders and no-one should test that. To reinforce the point, the Turkish | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
military is stationened next to the border. | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
-- stationened next to the border. Some in this country are worried | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
about by where this will lead. Tonight, a crowd draeted against | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
war. The protestors had little appetite for an open-ended fight | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
with a neighbour in chaos. But in Akcakale, the conflict has | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
already arrived. At night we found deserted streets, | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
many here have fled their homes. Turkey already play as key role in | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Syria's conflicts. This region is a staging ground for Syrian | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
opposition rebels, but the shelling of this house has now led Turkey | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
itself into the fighting. If that continues, it will change the | :04:29. | :04:38. | |
nature of Syria's war. Well, the violence between the two | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
countries was the most serious since the uprising against the | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Syrian regime began. The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, called on | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
Damascus to ensure there was no repetition in the coming day. | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
Washington also condemned the Syrian attacks. Our Middle East | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Editor, Jeremy Bowen has assessed the threat to regional security and | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
the diplomatic response. The border between Syria and Turkey is long, | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
porous and tense. A flimsy barrier to a war on a stage set for | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
miscalculation and escalation. This is the crossing at Akcakale, the | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
Turkish town where the Syrian shells killed five civilians. On | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
the Syrian side the rebels control the border posts. At the UN | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
Security Council in New York, the paralysis caused by France, Britain | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
and Europe to remove the regime and Russia's support of it, meant that | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
they struggle to come to an agreement. | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
This is a major concern. This sort of cross-border military | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
activity is very destabilising and it must be stopped. | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
Syria takes seriously the vote in Turkey and NATO member, authorising | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
military action. In cases of border incidents, | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
incidents that have been between two neighbouring countries, states | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
and governments, they should act wisely, rashally and | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
responsibleably. But on Syrian state TV's daily | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
English language bulletin, the incident with Turkey was not | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
mentioned. It called for UN condemnation rebel attacks in | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
Aleppo. Russia's Foreign Minister who does not want sudden reel | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
change is watching Bashar al- Assad's back, vital for the Syrian | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
regime's sure vile. TRANSLATION: This has taken on a | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
cross-border demention a long time ago. It seeped out. It is fuelled | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
from the outside. All of Syria's neighbours are being | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
drawn into the conflict whether they like it or not. The region has | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
been divided between Bashar al- Assad's supporters and those who | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
stand behind the rebels. Iran denies not all that convincingly, | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
that it supplies Bashar al-Assad's forces with arms, training, money | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
and troops. Turkey shelters the rebels, they may be helping to | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
train and to arm them. It allows men and guns to cross the border. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
Foreign intervention is happening in the conflict with no sign of a | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
ceasefire, there is likely to be more of it. | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
The incident is a reminder that the longer that the conflick goes on in | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Syria, the greater the danger to international peace and security. | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
In Jordan, more and more Syrian Roy Hodgsons are arriving. Reinforcing | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
the sinking feeling that the crisis is spreading. Diplomacy has not | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
stopped the war, now it is struggling even to contain it. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Police in Mid Wales say that the search for the missing five-year- | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
old girl, April Jones, is now one of the biggest of its kind in | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
recent history. April Jones disappeared on Monday evening after | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
being seen getting into a vehicle near her home. The detectives have | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
been given more time to question a local man, Mark Bridger. We have | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
this report. Every effort is being made to find | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
April Jones. Special research, Mountain Rescue and coastguard | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
teams helping to support one of the biggest police operations of its | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
kind. Hundreds of officers are involved in looking in the | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
undergrowth, checking any place where a child could be, but it is | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
information that is important in targeting the search for April. We | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
have received over 2,500 calls from the public. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Over 2,500 calls, but they have to be answered. That is being done by | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
all 44 forces, Police Forces throughout the country. | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
Today the man arrested on suspicion much ip -- April Jones's abduction | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
was taken to court. They will have more time to question him. They | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
have until tomorrow afternoon to release or charge him. They can ask | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
for extension. The house he has been living in has been under | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
research. And local residents are doing all | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
that they can to aid the search for a missing five-year-old. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
We know she is still out there. We are going to find her. No matter | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
what. Farmlands stretching for miles | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
across this part of Mid Wales. There is dense woodland all around | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
and rivers disecting the area. Many living here that -- believe that | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
local knowledge is vital to the search. | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
April Jones went missing outside of my house. She is friends with my | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
little daughter. After a time when the search | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
focused on the town and the immediate areas it spread out to | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
more than a dozen villages and all of the land and the rivers | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
inbetween. The difficulties cannot be overestimated. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
Hopefully the police can find leads to take us in a different direction | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
from where we are looking here. April Jones's mother asked for | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
people to wear the pink ribbons today. It is her daughter's | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
favourite colour. The support could not be more obvious. | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
My heart goes out to April's family. This is every family's nightmare. | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
Clearly having this happen to you, the fact that she suffering from | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
cerebral palsy, I know a little bit about it from my own children. It | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
only makes this worse. As darkness swells, the search | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
teams head out again. Each hour is crucial as April Jones's parents | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
face a fourth night without their daughter. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
The Metropolitan Police is to coordinate the assessment of | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
allegations made against Sir Jimmy Savile. It follows an ITV | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
documentary last night in which a number of women re-counted being | :10:55. | :11:03. | |
abused by him on BBC premises in the 1970s. The BBC producers denied | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
dropping an investigation into the allegations of the radio and TV | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
star. Welcome to January the 1st, 1964. | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
A DJ, a charity fundraiser, but the stories of five women paints a more | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
disturbing picture. One told the ITV documentary how when she was 14, | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Sir Jimmy Savile organised a visit to the BBC TV Centre, and what he | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
expected in return. We knew what was expected of us. We | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
had to pay. He had an alcove with a curtain over it. He would take you | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
behind the curtain. There you are... The allegations are mounting. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
Northampton Police say that two women have come forward also, the | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
fourth to be involved. The Metropolitan Police announced that | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
it would lead the process of looking at the allegations, adding | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
that the priority is to ensure a consistent policing response, | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
putting the victims at the heart of their eninquiries. Meanwhile, Sir | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
Jimmy Savile was a BBC star for more than 40 years. Today saw the | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
first interview by the Corporation on the subject. It said that it was | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
horrified, but added it could not act simply on rumours. However, | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
statements from a number of women were made to Newsnight. These | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
interviews were never broadcast as it said there was no evidence of | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
institutional failure. The BBC had a number of stories | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
told to Newsnight. They decided it was not the story that they wished | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
to pursue. They did not recognise was a story? | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
You have to ask the editor of Newsnight. He took a decision to | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
consider whether or not an investigation with a difficult | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
investigation, that could be going on. These are decisions that | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
editors make all the time. An MP has asked the Leveson inquiry | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
to look at the issue. Why have the claims taken 40 years to come out? | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
The BBC said it investigated records and found nothing. The | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
police have looked into claims more than once, but not brought charges. | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
Newspapers tried and failed to print stories about Sir Jimmy | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
Savile. The BBC said it did not supply pressure to suppress | :13:12. | :13:22. | |
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anything, but the claims are coming The Chief Constable of West | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
Yorkshire Police, Sir Norman Bettison, is to retire. Sir Norman, | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
whose role in the Hillsborough tragedy is being investigated by | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
the Independent Police Complaints Commission, will step down next | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
March. He's always denied any wrong-doing in the subsequent | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
police investigation into the disaster. The Bank of England has | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
announced that it's left the interest rate at a record low of | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
0.5%. They've remained at that level since March 2009. The new | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
boss of Barclays has told the BBC the bank has a "significant job to | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
rebuild trust", and must provide a "socially useful" service to | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
customers. Antony Jenkins, who announced a new | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
initiative to help exporters, was giving his first broadcast | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
interview since taking the job. Our chief economics correspondent, Hugh | :14:00. | :14:09. | |
Pym, reports. Barclays and other banks are battling to restore | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
reputations dented by the financial crisis, the mis-selling of | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
insurance on consumer loans and then the issue which saw former | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
boss, Bob Diamond quit, the fixing of the LIBOR interest rate. Now | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
Barclays' new Chief Executive is trying it make a fresh start. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
Antony Jenkins, who has been in the job five weeks, today advicated | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
glass manufacturer. He was launching a new scheme to help | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
customers sell more goods abroad. We are trying to encourage more | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
businesses, like yours, to export and... Mr Jenkins, who was promoted | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
internally told me about the challenges of being in the top job. | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
You were part of the senior management team during a period | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
when you had the LIBOR scandal, problems with Payment Protection | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
Insurance, do you not take some responsibility? Well as an | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
executive of Barclays, of course there is some responsibility but I | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
would say, more importantly, having somebody who understands the | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
organisation from the inside out, is able to address these problems | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
more quick lane more effectively than somebody coming in from the | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
outside -- more quickly and effectively. There are big | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
questions over what Barclays and the bigger banks will look like in | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
a few years' time. The Government wants them to ringfence their high | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
street operation and keep them separate from riskier investment | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
banking. The industry has been accused of trying to water down | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
some plans. Labour says if it wins power it wants it split up the | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
banks. For Barclays new chief, managing the two sides of the bank | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
will be far from straightforward. On the one hand they have the | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
retail bank. It should be possible to improve the culture to make it | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
more customer-focused, but on the other hand they also have a world | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
sized investment bank. The culture there is set out of New York, it is | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
very much banker first, client second. That will be very hard to | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
change. For now the new Barclays' boss says he twoobts focus on | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
helping business customers like this and restoring the bank's image. | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
-- he says he wants to focus. think Barclays has a significant | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
job to rebuild trust. I'm confident we can. It goes back to what we do. | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
If we serve customers and clients day-in and day-out in the way that | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
people perceive as socially useful, we will rebuild that trust. I'm | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
also not naive about how long it'll take, it'll take time. Socially | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
useful banking. He may have to work hard to show what he means by, that | :16:30. | :16:39. | |
at a time when the industry is far from popular. Coming up: | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
# Love, love me do # You know I love you... # How the | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
Beatles launched a musical revolution, 50 years since their | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
In the US, President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger for | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
the White House, Mitt Romney, have gone head-to-head in the first TV | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
debate of the election campaign. The two men clashed over the | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
economy and afterwards most analysts thought Mr Romney had come | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
out on top. Our North America editor, Mark Mardell, was watching. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
In a country fraught with bitter political divisions there is a rare | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
moment of agreement. Mit ROM outshiens President Obama in their | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
first debate. Consensus of the American media, Mitt was a hit. | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
Warm hand-shakes ahead of 90demerve-wrecking minutes, watched | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
by 58 million Americans -- 89 nerve-wrecking minutes. President | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
didn't want to let go. He started with a campaign line, his opponents | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
would cut taxes for the wealthy and hurt the middle classes. That | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
topdown economics where folks at the top are doing well, so the | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
average person making $3 million is getting a $250,000 tax break, while | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
middle class families are burdened further, that's knotted what I | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
believe is a recipe for economic growth. Mitt Romney has having none | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
of Tha'ir. Under the President's approximately sis middle and income | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
Americans are being buried, their income is crushed. Their income has | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I will call it | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
the economy tax. It's been crushing. Mitt Romney so, often stiff and | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
wooden, seemed a different mab. Look at the gleam in his eyes as he | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
talks directly to his opponent. The President spoke to camera, measured | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
but hardly fired up. They clashed on jobs, health care and why the | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
President hadn't picked up a plan to cut the country's huge debt. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
President should have grabbed it, take it, go to Congress, fight for | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
it. That's what we have done. Made adjustments and we are putting it | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
forward before Congress right now. You have been President four years. | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
You said you would cut it in ha. It is four years later we still have a | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
triallian dollar deficit. If you are re-elected we will get to a | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
trillion dollar debt. President Obama rarely interrupted again, | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
afterwards his teams admit Romney might win an Oscar for a vigorous | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
performance but claimed it was untethered from the truth. The | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
President echoed the complaint. met this very spirited fellow who | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
claimed to be Mitt Romney it. Couldn't have been Mitt Romney, | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
because the real Mitt Romney has been running around the country for | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
the last year promising five trillion dollars in tax cuts that | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
favour the wealthy. The fellow on stage last night said he didn't | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
know anything about that. Leaving Denver, Mitt Romney can afford to | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
look pleased with himself but there is another nervous wait. Of course | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
the theatre of one debate doesn't change the way most people intend | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
to vote. But it does mean the next string of opinion polls are really | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
important. If they narrow, it suggests Romney is back in the game. | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
It's a big boost for his campaign. But if they don't, even after an | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
acclaimed victory, then he really is in a hole. | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
Hundreds of police officers and many more members of the public | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
have attended the funeral of PC Fiona Bone, who was murdered in a | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
gun and grenade attack in Greater Manchester last month. | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
She was killed with her colleague, Nicola Hughes, whose funeral took | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
place yesterday. For the second time in 24 hours, | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Manchester stood still to pay its respects. Police and public side- | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
by-side, lining the ruelt of PC Fiona Bone's funeral cortege. -- | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
lining the route. The service of Manchester cathedral | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
was for 1,000 friends, relatives and workmates. Outside, many more | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
listened as it was relaid on speakers. | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
Fiona, for me, was a perfect police officer. The reason for that was | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
who she was as a person. She was everybody's friend, a good listener, | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
and a steady influence in the most difficult of circumstances. God | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
bless you,. If i. PC Fiona Bone was on shift a | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
fortnight ago when she was called out to respond to a reported | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
burglary. When she got there with her colleague, PC Nicola Hughes, | :21:10. | :21:20. | |
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the two women were shot dead. # Ava Maria... # | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
Very few of the people here knew Fiona Bone personally. But, as they | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
did yesterday for Nicola Hughes, they've come here in their hundreds. | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
Public and police officers standing to the in grief, and solidarity. | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
! I didn't note individuals. It is part of the police family. I felt I | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
had to be here to pay my respects. After the service, thester's body | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
was taken away for a priet burial. -- officer's body. One colleague | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
said that PC Bonne represented the best that humanity had to offer. | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
The President of the European Central Bank has praised Spain for | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
what he called remarkable progress in addressing its huge debt. But | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
Mario Draghi warned that the country still faced significant | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
challenges. Stephanie Flanders is here. What exactly is Mario Draghi | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
trying to say? Well you will remember, George, a month ago the | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
European central bnk confirmed it was willing to stand behind | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
countries like Spain in the financial markets if they were | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
unpressure, having it pay very high interest rates because of a fear | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
they might leave the euro. When he said that, there was a great new | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
mood of optimism in the financial markets, a sense of relief and | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
easing of the pressure on countries like Spain from the financial | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
markets. But as they pointed out today, there were always conditions | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
attached to that promise. Spain had to get its act together, had to get | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
the right policies in place to get its economy and budget in shape | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
over the long-term and it had to apply formally for a support | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
programme from its European partners. Now, as he mentioned, we | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
have seen some of the first of those, we have seen some difficult | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
budget decisions from Spain in the last few weeks but it has yet to | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
formally apply for this support programme and more generally there | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
is a feeling that an air of complacency has crept in amongst | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
European leaders as regards the crisis because of this promise from | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
the ECB I think he was saying - we are still here, doing our bits but | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
governments have to move ahead. England's women have won their | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
semi-final in the world Twenty20 cricket tournament in Sri Lanka. | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
They beat New Zealand by seven wickets in Colombo. England will | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
play either West Indies or the defending champions, Australia, in | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
Sunday's final. Now, it was October 1962 and a new | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
band from Liverpool released their first record. It was called Love Me | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
Do and they were called The Beatles. Nobody knew that exactly half a | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
century later they'd still be revered as a musical powerhouse. | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
Here's our Arts Editor, Will Gompertz, on three words, a Fab | :23:51. | :24:01. | |
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Four and 50 years. It was a simple song, with massive reverberations. | :24:03. | :24:11. | |
# Love, love me do # You know I love you... # Love Me | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
Do launched the tpwhand put the swing intop six tis -- launched the | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
band. Andlet led a pop revolution that spanned the globe. It might | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
never have happened if it wasn't for this music production, George | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
Martin from EPI's Parlophone records. He, unlike others, gave | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
the young men from Merseyside a chance. They came here to Abbey | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
Road in London for their audition, walked over the now legendary | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
crossing and to the studios over there, where they played George | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
Martin a collection of their songs. None of which impressed him very | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
much but he decided to take a bit of a punt and give them a contract | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
anyway. So, what was it about the individuals who you met that you | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
thought -, this probably is worth persevering with, a bit? It's funny | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
you say that because, of course one has to like the music and I didn't. | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
But the answer was their charisma. They were such engaging people. | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
They were - they made me laugh. they were smart enough to listen to | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
his advice. We thought about what you said about doubling the speed, | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
and would you like to hear it now? Then they played me, Please Please | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
Me. I actually said to them, after the end of the session, "You know | :25:27. | :25:36. | |
you have your first number one." It was fresh, energetic and modern. | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
The Beatles had arrived, and how. A form of mass hysteria spread | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
worldwide. Diagnosed by the media as Beatlemania. They started making | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
films. Then, only eight years after the | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
release of Love Me Do, it was all over. The band split up. But their | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
music has stuck around. Who knows what the future holds for music? | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
But it always borrows from the past. Everybody in music really is a | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
beggar and a thief but I think everybody has begged and thieved | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
from the Beatles more than they probably even though. And to think | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
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