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Turmoil in the Church of England as it votes against allowing women | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
bishops. After decades of campaigning and debate, tears and | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
anger as the Church's governing body narrowly blocks the historic | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
move. I think it's a sadness for the Church. When I came out and | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
felt the rain, I thought showers of blessing, but no, tears from God. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
It could be years before another vote - the outgoing Archbishop of | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
Canterbury says it's a missed opportunity. I hoped this would be | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
at another stage before I left. It's a personal sadness that it's | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
not the case. We'll be asking where the decision leaves women in the | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
Church of England. Also tonight - Israel intensifies its airstrikes | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
on the Gaza Strip despite reports that a ceasefire could be imminent. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
Jail for the UBS City trader who gambled away almost �1.5 billion in | :00:59. | :01:08. | |
Britain's biggest-ever banking fraud. He looked the part and was | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
articulate and seemingly had an answer for everything. But behind | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
this facade lay a trader who was running completely out of control. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks are charged in connection with payments | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
to police and public officials. And, three goals from Juventus put | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Chelsea on the brink of elimination from the Champions League Good | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
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evening. We'll have news on Beckham on the move. He's leaving LA Galaxy | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
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for one last challenge in the game. Good evening. The Church of England | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
is in turmoil tonight after the General Synod voted narrowly | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
against allowing women to become bishops. The outgoing Archbishop of | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who'd pushed for a "yes" vote, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
spoke of his deep personal sadness. Campaigners who'd been arguing for | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
women bishops for decades described the defeat as a devastating blow to | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
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the Church. Emily Buchanan reports. The report contains some flash | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
photography. It was carried in the House. It was lost in the House of | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
Laity. It was down to a handful of votes among lay members of the | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Church. Then hugs and tears. Those who had hoped women could become | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
bishops were stunned. I'm actually in a state of shock and I feel the | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
House of Laity has betrayed the whole country's trust in the Church. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
Women should not be barred. It's ridiculous. In today's society, we | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
shouldn't have a boys' club of men who make decisions on behalf of the | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
Church. It does not make sense. votes are didn't think the proposal | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
gave traditionalists enough protection. It's not to do with | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
main can winners or losers. The measure we had before us wasn't | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
going to allow us to go forward. It's been a day of high emotions. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Those in favour are devastated, knowing it will be years before | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
this issue is debated again. Traditionalists are trying not to | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
be too triumphalist, but a small, vocal minority has prevailed. Well | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
over 100 speakers took part in the debate. It would be a devastating | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
blow to the morale of many, not least our female clergy. The Code | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
of Practice cannot enshrine theological conviction. If the | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
ledgelation is not clear then what legislation is not clear, then what | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
hope can there be? It's been 20 years since women were first | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
allowed to become priests in the Church of England, but after today, | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
the ceiling is firmly in place. It's a big blow to the leaderboard. | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
-- leadership. I can well understand the feeling of rejection | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
and deep perhaps disillusion that many women will be feeling. But | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
it's still your church and your voice matters and your voice will | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
be heard. The Archbishop of Canterbury will soon leave a bitter | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
and divided church to his successor, healing the wounds and bridging | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
deep differences will take a long time. Justin Welby will need all | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
his famous negotiating skills to navigate a way forward. And Emily | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Buchanan is outside the General Synod. How much of a setback is | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
this for the next Archbishop of Canterbury? This will be an enom us | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
setback. Etold everyone he would -- enormous setback. He told everyone | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
he would vote in favour of women, and those in the church were very | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
pleased. I think it's a deep blow for him, before he even take over | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
the leadership of the church and ease going to have to navigate his | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
way forward between two opposing views, two very deeply held views | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
and how he's going to square that circle is very, very difficult to | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
predict and for the moment of course, what the Church will have | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
to handle is the PPR backlash. It will be easy to predict what the | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
headlines in tomorrow's newspapers are going to be. It's going to make | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
the Church look out of touch, especially as the majority of | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
church members are in favour of women bishops, but the vocal | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
minority have today had their way. Emily, thank you very much. Israel | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
has intensified its attacks on the Gaza Strip tonight despite reports | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas could be imminent. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, flew into Israel tonight | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
to try to help bring an end to a week of fighting. From Gaza, here's | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
our Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen. The report contains some | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
graphic images. The twin-track strategy looked like this tonight. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
More raids while the diplomats talked. Hamas were shooting too. | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
All day civilians were running for cover. Either side of the border. | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
This was Gaza after another Israeli strike. While this was going on, | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
Hamas and Israel claimed to be ready for a truce, as long as it | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
was the kind they could both present as a victory. In Israel, | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
when the alert sounds in the battered front-line towns they have | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
as little as 15 seconds to get to the shelters before an impact. The | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
residents are sceptical about cease fires, because they've seen so many | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
that haven't worked. Not far away, Israel's ground forces were | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
shelling Gaza. The operation has been supported by the allies so far, | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
but they want a ceasefire now, not the bloodshed of another invasion. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki- Moon shuttling into Jerusalem from | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
Cairo, also told Israel's Prime Minister not to send in troops. | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
Israel must exercise maximum restraint. I strongly caution | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
against a ground operation. It will opbt result in further tragedy. | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
only result in further tragedy. Two brothers were among the dead of the | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
last 24 hours in Gaza. Their father was killed with them. The boys' | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
home was flattened, their mother badly wounded. Now, I can't find | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
much anger or sadness or even surprise about what has happened. | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
That's partly because around here they've seen a lot of violent death, | :08:20. | :08:28. | |
but also because in Gaza there is a strong culture of master Dom. -- | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
martyrdom. Civilians, or fighters who die in the rubble of Israeli | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
raids, become national heroes. Those considered traiters have a | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
different kind of death. Six men accused of spying for Israel were | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
executed in the street by men thought to be from Hamas. By late | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
afternoon, more rockets were fired at the Israelis. Leaflets were | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
telling Palestinians to leave the border areas. The Israeli defence | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
army does not target you or any other member of your family. | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
Civilians fled as instructed into Gaza City, using routes Israel said | :09:08. | :09:16. | |
would not be attacked. The villagers -- villages and camps | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
they left behind were shelled. A day of rumours ended with more fear | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
and no more hope. There's more information on the conflict in Gaza | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
and Israel, including a detailed question and answer page on the | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
background to the conflict, on the BBC News website at bbc.co.uk/news. | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
A City trader has been sentenced to seven years in jail for running up | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
huge losses at the bank UBS, in what detectives have called | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
Britain's biggest-ever banking fraud. 32-year-old Kweku Adeboli | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
gambled away almost �1.5 billion at the Swiss bank and then tried to | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
hide his tracks. Adeboli was found guilty of two charges of fraud, but | :09:54. | :10:04. | |
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cleared of false accounting, as Emma Simpson reports. Kweku Abeboli, | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
the prosecution said he was just a gamble or two away from destroying | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Switzerland's largest bank. Already note torious, but today he became a | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
convicted criminal as well. This was the UK's biggest fraud, | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
committed by one of the most sophisticated fraudsters in the | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
City of London Police's history. worked here at the London office of | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
UBS. Well liked, trusted, but Kweku Abeboli broke all the rules. Last | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
summer, he was placing huge one-way bets on investments, well in excess | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
of risk limits. He booked fake trades too, to make it look as if | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
the risks he was taking were covered. At one stage, more than �7 | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
billion of the bank's money was exposed. By July, he had the chance | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
to get out with minimal losses, about -- but he kept going, losing | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
more than �1 billion in the space of a month and the back office was | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
catching up. Listen to the financial controller demanding to | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
know who his trades were with. will confirm which parties are | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
involved and the quantum of the exposure. OK, will do. He never did. | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
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Instead he sent a bombshell remail He later said he had been trying to | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
protect his colleagues. He claimed they knew what he was doing and | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
that UBS turned a blind eye as long as profits were made, but the jury | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
decided he did abuse his position.. The judge, Mr Justice Keith, told | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
Kweku Abeboli there is a strong, streak of the cam gambler in you. | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
You were arrogant enough to think the bank's rules for traders didn't | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
apply to you. This case has been very damaging for UBS too. They're | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
risk controls and management supervision don't look smart with | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
the benefit of hindsight and financial institutions have to ask | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
themselves whether they devote quite enough resources to the | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
supervision and management of these often quite young individuals, who | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
are managing huge apts of risk capital. As -- amounts of risk | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
capital. As Kweku Abeboli left pour prison, UBS said they were glad | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
that proceedings are over, but there are still investigations with | :12:34. | :12:44. | |
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potentially big fines for the bank Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
have been charged with conspiracy to make corrupt payments to | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
officials. Andy Coulson is accused of paying for information which | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
included contact details for the Royal Family. The allegations | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
against Rebekah Brooks involve payments to a Ministry of Defence | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
employee. Andy Coulson used to exit through | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
the door of 10 Downing Street. This afternoon, not for the first time, | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
he departed from Lewisham police station in south London, where he | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
was formally charged. While he was once a senior aide to the Prime | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Minister, his ex-colleague Rebekah Brooks counted him as a friend. | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Another charge for her today and another question to David Cameron | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
about his judgment. I have made it clear, I regret this issue. I have | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
also said that we should allow the police and prosecuting authorities | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
to follow the evidence wherever it Leeds. Today's charges link Andy | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
Coulson with Clive Goodman, the royal editor of the News of the | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
World, who has already served time for hacking. It is said that they | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
paid officials for information, including what is called the Green | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
Book, containing numbers for the Royal Family and those close to | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
them. The allegations against Rebekah Brooks, who has always | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
denied wrongdoing, go back to her time editing the Sun. Together with | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
John Kay, she is accused of making payments to a Ministry of Defence | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
employee, Bettina Jordan Barber. Today, Andy Coulson denied the | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
allegations and said he would fight them in court. For a man that was | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
once at the heart of government, the charges against him go right to | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
the top of the British establishment. | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Both Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks are already due to stand | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
trial accused of conspiring to pack Milly Dowler's phone. Rebekah | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
Brooks is also accused of conspiracy to pervert the course of | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
justice. Andy Coulson is facing a perjury charge in Scotland. We | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
asked a senior lawyer had this could play out in court. | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
current charges allege paying people in public office for a story. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
The previous allegations entailed getting a story illegally by | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
hacking into people's funds. So, same ends and different and legal | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
means. Conceptually, that could be tried by the same jury. Rebekah | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
Brooks's closeness to David Cameron became apparent at the Leveson | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
Inquiry, due to report soon. Today, just one of what could be a number | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
of difficult days for Number Ten. After days of clashes with | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
government troops, rebels have taken control of the city of Goma | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
and the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite the presence of a | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
large UN peacekeeping force. Tens of thousands of people have fled | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
the city near the border with Rwanda Macro after the rebel group | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
advanced. There are now fears of further unrest. Gabrielle Gatehouse | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
was in Goma when the rebels attacked. His report contains some | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
graphic scenes. The rebels opened fire as they | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
entered Goma from the north, chasing away the last remaining | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
Congolese army positions. With loyalist forces gone, rebel forces | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
walked in for virtually unopposed. Only a few residents were willing | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
to show their faces on the streets of the city of 1 million people. UN | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
peacekeepers, with their mandate to protect the civilian population, | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
could only stand by and watch as the rebels marched past their | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
armoured vehicles towards the border with Rwanda Macro. The army | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
was defeated. Goma had fallen. This rebellion started as a mutiny | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
within the Congolese army back in the spring. A UN report accuses | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
Rwanda of backing the rebels with money, equipment and even troops. | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
The Rwandan government denies the allegations. For nearly two decades, | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
the Democratic Republic of Congo has been at the centre of almost | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
permanent conflict involving other regional countries, at the cost of | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
more than 5 million lives. The United Nations mission here is the | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
largest peacekeeping force anywhere in the world. Their commanders are | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
convinced that a few hundred niche in years could not have taken the | :16:59. | :17:08. | |
capital of this vast province without inside help. -- a few | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
hundred people meeting -- committing mutiny. I have no | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
evidence to support it, but it surprises me that in four to six | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
months, how they build up its capacity. These rebel soldiers, | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
having marched into town, are now marching back out again in the | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
direction of the front line, where the Congolese army appears to have | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
fled. This battle, they are telling me, is not over yet. Unless the | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
Government wants to negotiate, the rebels say they are willing to | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
fight on. Left unchecked, the conflict threatens once more to | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
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draw in other nations into a wider Coming up: A goal for Celtic, but | :17:59. | :18:07. | |
was it enough to send them through One of Britain's leading | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
entrepreneurs is embroiled in a furious row tonight with Hewlett | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
Packard, the technology giant. The American company bought Mike | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
Lynch's software firm, Autonomy, last year in a multi- billion | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
pounds deal. Now, Hewlett Packard has accused him and other bosses of | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
accounting improprieties and claims it paid �3 billion too much. | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
He is one of the UK's leading entrepreneurs. Now, Mike Lynch and | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
his former colleagues at their business, Autonomy, are facing | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
serious allegations of misrepresenting the financial state | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
of the company when it was sold. Mike Lynch co-founded Autonomy on a | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
Cambridge Science Park in 1996. It grew into a world rated software | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
business. Praised by ministers and appearance here with Prince Andrew, | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
he was dubbed Britain's answer to Bill Gates. US giant Hewlett | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
Packard paid �7 billion for Autonomy last year, Mr Lynch | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
getting �500 million for his stake. Now, they say they are having to | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
write off billions because the company's true financial situation | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
was not disclosed. A senior Autonomy executive, a member of | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Mike Lynch's team, came forward to inform us about certain things he | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
was very worried about in terms of accounting improprieties, | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations. We launched an | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
investigation, a forensic examination, and uncovered a whole | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
host of very concerning accounting improprieties and | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
misrepresentations. HPVs say they have referred their findings to the | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
US authorities and the Serious Fraud Office here and they are | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
planning civil action against former Autonomy bosses. Tonight, | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
Mike Lynch, in an exclusive broadcast interview, gave me his | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
reaction to the allegations. Pretty shocked. The first thing we heard | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
when this press release came out, we have been pretty much ambushed | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
today. But we reject this. There is no truth in this. We hope that when | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
people actually show what they are saying we will be able to point | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
that out. Why do you think they are making these accusations? I think H | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
P paid a very large amount of money for Autonomy. It's a company that | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
has been managed very badly by them. It lost about half of the staff | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
before I left, the whole of the management team. The value of the | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
company has fallen and there have been forced to write it off. | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
Lynch, also a BBC non-executive director, claims that Hewlett | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
Packard are trying to distract attention from poor results. The | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
gloves are off in a high-stakes battle. | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
Energy companies will be forced by the Government to offer a smaller | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
number of Paris for gas and electricity to make the system less | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
confusing. But consumer groups are warning that some people could end | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
up paying more. Labour has accused the Prime Minister of breaking his | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
promise to get everybody onto the cheapest energy tariff. | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
The British government is to formally recognise a new alliance | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
of Syrian rebel groups and provide it with more support. William Hague | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
said that the coalition was now the sole legitimate representative of | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
the Syrian people. He said Britain would offer it political and | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
humanitarian assistance. There are growing fears that | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
Spain's economic crisis could lead to its break-up. The northern | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
region of Catalonia has its own language and a population of more | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
than 7 million. The Spanish government's austerity measures are | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
already deeply unpopular there and now an election this weekend could | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
eventually lead to a vote on the region breaking away altogether, | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
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Barcelona, a worldwide football brand, with global stars. Barcelona | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
football club is also a symbol of Catalan identity. 17 minutes 14 | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
seconds into a game, remembering a date in history they associate with | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
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independence, the fans call out for it. On Sunday, Catalans will vote | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
in an election that could lead to Catalonia breaking away from Spain. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
What is happening in Scotland, it seems that it is probably the | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
process that we would like to have here. We would like to have a very | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
democratic process. We are asking just for a referendum. The vote | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
this week is for a new parliament. But parties in favour of | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
independence are looking for a mandate to hold a referendum. So, | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
what is fuelling this desire for independence now? Partly the colony, | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
partly austerity, partly the eurozone crisis. Many people here | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
feel that too much of their money is going to central government in | :22:55. | :23:04. | |
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Madrid. Artur Mas, the leader of the regional government, is now | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
openly talking about Catalonia becoming an independent state. | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
are sick and tired of our level of dependence from the Spanish state. | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
If there was a vote today, do you think the majority of people in | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
Catalonia would vote for independence? Right now, I think | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
that the majority would vote for independence. So, suddenly, the 4th | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
largest economy in the eurozone is facing the question of whether it | :23:34. | :23:42. | |
will stay together as a single state. It is a prospect that | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
disturbs parts of the business community. This company distributes | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
equipment for hotels and restaurants throughout Spain. It | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
fears that if Catalonia breaks away, it will damage the business. | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
Catalonia is independent, we would not be able to sell our products to | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
the rest of the Spanish territory. Catalonia has a distinct culture, | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
its own language. But austerity, debt and Europe's financial crisis | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
is pushing this region to consider going it alone. It is sparking | :24:15. | :24:23. | |
Football, and all three British sides lost in tonight's Champions' | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
League matches. Defending champions Chelsea are on the brink of | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
elimination after being beaten 3-0 by Juventus. Celtic have one more | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
game to try to qualify for the last 16, after losing to Benfica. | :24:37. | :24:46. | |
Manchester United, already through, A man under pressure. Roberto Di | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
Matteo guided Chelsea to Champions' League glory in May. No winners | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
have been knocked out in the group stages and the following season. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
Petr Cech kept them at bay early on, but he was caught out by a | :25:01. | :25:10. | |
deflection eight minutes before half-time. It was Quagliarella he | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
got the final touch. Another deflection put tremendous two ahead. | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
Chelsea could claim they were unlucky with those goals, but there | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
was a third as well. Even victory in their final group match might | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
not be enough to see the Londoners through. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
Celtic had begun the evening a far better place. A win against Benfica | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
would have taken them into the knockout stages, but they were | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
behind after less than seven minutes. They did equalise. The | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
home side's keeper made a mess of a corner. Georgios Samaras did not. | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
This was a goal that condemned Celtic to defeat. We will have to | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
wait until the final round of matches to find out if Celtic or | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
Benfica join Barcelona in qualifying from their group. | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
No such worries for Manchester United. They had already qualified. | :26:02. | :26:06. |