:00:11. > :00:16.Tonight at 10pm: High stakes in Brussels as leaders try to agree a
:00:16. > :00:19.new European budget. One by one the leaders arrive,
:00:19. > :00:26.ready to debate a real terms increase in spending, but some
:00:27. > :00:30.disagree. It is time for a busy day!
:00:30. > :00:33.In a hectic round of talks David Cameron says no rise can be
:00:33. > :00:38.justified at a time of austerity. At a time when we are making
:00:38. > :00:42.difficult decisions at home over public spending, it is quite wrong
:00:42. > :00:45.for there to be proposals about increased extra spending in the EU.
:00:45. > :00:50.We'll have the latest from Brussels, where leaders are now considering a
:00:50. > :00:53.new budget proposal. Also tonight: The BBC's new
:00:53. > :00:59.Director General is Tony Hall who used to be the corporation's head
:00:59. > :01:02.of news. It has been a really tough few weeks for this organisation. I
:01:02. > :01:07.know we can get through it by listening patiently, by thinking
:01:07. > :01:09.carefully about what to do next. Dozens of flood warnings in place
:01:09. > :01:11.across parts of Britain, as heavy rain and strong winds cause
:01:11. > :01:14.disruption. Israeli troops withdraw from the
:01:14. > :01:17.Gaza border as the ceasefire seems to hold.
:01:17. > :01:27.And the referee accused of racism by Chelsea will not be charged. The
:01:27. > :01:27.
:01:27. > :01:37.FA says there is no case to answer. Coming up: Rafah Benitez has met
:01:37. > :01:52.
:01:52. > :01:55.his players and the press for the Good evening. European leaders are
:01:55. > :02:00.meeting in Brussels tonight to try to agree the future size of the EU
:02:00. > :02:04.budget. David Cameron is opposing plans for an increase. He says that
:02:04. > :02:08.wouldn't acceptable at a time of austerity. But he is also opposing
:02:08. > :02:15.any plan to reduce Britain's budget rebate. The search for a compromise
:02:15. > :02:20.has been going on all day, as our Europe editor reports.
:02:20. > :02:25.As the leaders swept into Brussels, the question was: Had they come to
:02:25. > :02:29.argue or had they come to agree on a new seven-year budget for the EU?
:02:29. > :02:35.All eyes were on David Cameron, regarded as the potential spoiler,
:02:35. > :02:39.the leader who insists on a budget freeze or cut. We will be
:02:39. > :02:46.negotiating hard for a good deal for Britain's taxpayers and to keep
:02:46. > :02:49.the British rebate. The Prime Minister was first in to
:02:49. > :02:54.see the key European officials to make his case. A scheduled 15
:02:54. > :02:58.minute meeting became 35 and the prediction afterwards, there was a
:02:58. > :03:04.long way to go. Outside other leaders were writing and their
:03:04. > :03:08.message to Britain? Be ready to compromise. We all have some
:03:08. > :03:13.preconditions and we all must be ready for compromises, otherwise we
:03:13. > :03:17.don't have a compromise. David Cameron did have allies, like the
:03:17. > :03:23.Swedish leader. We are like minded in the view that we one the overall
:03:24. > :03:27.spending levels to come down. -- we want. The it has been a day of
:03:27. > :03:33.trying to build alliances, but even the Dutch Prime Minister warned
:03:33. > :03:37.against using a veto. Keep your loaded gun in your pocket, he said.
:03:37. > :03:42.There is a fundamental divide. On one side are those who pay in more
:03:42. > :03:48.than they get out. Germany ends up spending 11 billion euros, the UK
:03:48. > :03:55.is next with over 7 billion. But others get more out than they put
:03:55. > :04:00.in. Poland receives nearly 11 billion euros, Greece over four.
:04:00. > :04:05.Those countries which receive big EU grants have joined forces to
:04:05. > :04:11.oppose any cuts. The original proposal envisaged a budget of over
:04:11. > :04:16.one trillion euros. A later plan reduce that by 80 billion, and does
:04:16. > :04:19.involve a slight cut. The British say that this latest proposal is a
:04:19. > :04:23.step in the right direction but does not go far enough and they are
:04:23. > :04:28.having to resist calls to reduce the British rebate as part of any
:04:28. > :04:33.potential deal. The problem is that the closer you look macro officials
:04:33. > :04:37.get to the British position, the more it alienates others -- the
:04:37. > :04:42.closer Europe officials get to the British position. Already, farmers
:04:42. > :04:46.are protesting, fearing reduced farming subsidies, and they got the
:04:46. > :04:51.backing today from the French president. Sometime this evening, a
:04:51. > :04:55.new budget proposal will emerge and will be passed to the leaders. That
:04:55. > :05:03.document may well determine whether agreement can be reached here or
:05:03. > :05:09.with that there will be deadlock. Let's get the latest from Nick
:05:09. > :05:13.Robinson, who is following the events at the summit. Two aims for
:05:13. > :05:17.Mr Cameron. He does not want a rise in the Budget and he does not what
:05:17. > :05:21.a cut in the British rebate. Is he making any progress?
:05:21. > :05:24.He is waiting to find out because although the Prime Minister has
:05:24. > :05:28.been in this building since but this time, all of the leaders of
:05:28. > :05:32.the EU have not yet sat down together. In fact they are
:05:32. > :05:36.gathering as we speak to sit down for talks, and all of them are
:05:36. > :05:42.waiting to find out what a man who is chairing this summit, Herman van
:05:42. > :05:45.Rompuy, thinks might be a way through. On -- one diplomatic
:05:45. > :05:49.source has just told me he thinks he has made very little progress
:05:50. > :05:55.indeed. In other words, trying to get all of those interests around
:05:55. > :05:58.the table and to find a compromise is proving difficult. The current
:05:58. > :06:03.plan that the Prime Minister has been talking about does allow him
:06:03. > :06:07.to say that planned spending in the EU will be cut. Planned spending is
:06:07. > :06:12.an important phrase because it is like a credit card limit for their
:06:12. > :06:16.EU, it is not the actual amount that this place Benz, which could
:06:16. > :06:21.rise. On the rebate, the current proposal is that Britain should
:06:21. > :06:25.lose some of its rebate by David Cameron says no, he will not agree
:06:25. > :06:29.to that. But the countries around the table are not waiting for a big
:06:29. > :06:34.total figure for the Budget, they have all got interests. Farmers,
:06:34. > :06:39.infrastructure, subsidies for regions and their own rebates. That
:06:39. > :06:45.is what they will be haggling in the hours to come. Mr Cameron is
:06:45. > :06:48.perhaps unique, not just for having to negotiate with 26 other
:06:48. > :06:53.countries with the two President of Europe, but also knowing, in his
:06:53. > :06:57.head, that he is negotiating with the coalition of the Labour Party
:06:57. > :07:03.and Tory Euro-sceptic rebels who defeated him in the Commons,
:07:03. > :07:07.calling for a budget cut just a couple of weeks ago.
:07:07. > :07:10.The BBC has a new Director General. Tony Hall is currently chief
:07:11. > :07:15.executive of the Royal Opera House and a former director of news at
:07:15. > :07:18.the BBC. Lord Hall succeeds George Entwistle, who resigned earlier
:07:18. > :07:22.this month following allegations of child abuse made by Newsnight,
:07:22. > :07:25.which wrongly implicated Lord McAlpine. Tony Hall will take
:07:25. > :07:31.control in March and he said today he was confident the BBC would get
:07:31. > :07:37.over its difficulties and rebuild its reputation.
:07:37. > :07:40.The new man brought in to run the BBC is an outsider who was once an
:07:41. > :07:45.insider. Tony Hall has run the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden
:07:45. > :07:49.for 11 years but he started at the BBC as a young news trainee, who
:07:49. > :07:54.rose to become head of news and current affairs, and since he has
:07:54. > :07:58.kept abreast of broadcasting as a director of Channel 4. Today he was
:07:58. > :08:03.already sounding like an insider again. The reason I am standing
:08:04. > :08:08.before you today is because I care passionately about the BBC, about
:08:08. > :08:13.what it can do, its programme makers and the impact we have in
:08:13. > :08:16.all sorts of different ways. It is one of those extraordinary
:08:16. > :08:22.organisations which is an absolutely essential part of the UK,
:08:22. > :08:25.of Britain, of who we are. appointment was widely welcomed but
:08:25. > :08:30.there were questions about the way it was made. He was the only
:08:30. > :08:34.candidate, approached just a few days ago. I don't think that given
:08:34. > :08:39.what has happened to the BBC in the last couple of months, it would
:08:39. > :08:43.have made any sense to have spent another four months going through a
:08:43. > :08:48.similar process to the one we went through before. If we had spent the
:08:48. > :08:55.next four months on this, you would have all been telling us we were
:08:55. > :08:59.off our trolley! The BBC Trust is also facing criticism for the last
:08:59. > :09:04.Director General's pay-offs. George Entwistle left after 54 days with a
:09:04. > :09:10.year's salary. Today it emerged he was also given a year's private
:09:10. > :09:15.health cover, �25,000 for legal fees and �10,000 and handling the
:09:15. > :09:17.press. MPs on the Public Accounts Committee were horrified.
:09:17. > :09:22.demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of how this is viewed
:09:22. > :09:26.in the public domain, given that it is licence-fee payers money.
:09:26. > :09:32.BBC is still reeling from the Jimmy Savile affair, now the subject of
:09:32. > :09:36.inquiries. And from the recent Newsnight programme that wrongly
:09:36. > :09:42.implicated Lord McAlpine in child abuse and led to George Entwistle's
:09:42. > :09:46.departure. Tony Hall's top priority: Restoring public
:09:47. > :09:50.confidence. This is the same BBC that when it came out of the
:09:50. > :09:54.Olympics everybody said how wonderful it was, so Tony only
:09:54. > :09:59.needs to conjure up a few sensible and come steps to move forward for
:09:59. > :10:04.people to wonder what the last few months have all been about. Tony
:10:04. > :10:09.Hall has a good record for sorting out troubled institutions. At
:10:09. > :10:14.Covent Garden, they had had 3G executives in three years before he
:10:14. > :10:18.arrived to put it back on an even keel. The BBC approached him about
:10:18. > :10:23.the top job last year. He turned it down saying he thought they needed
:10:23. > :10:28.someone younger. Now they need his experience. This afternoon he was
:10:28. > :10:37.to ring the BBC's headquarters, meeting newsroom staff -- he was
:10:37. > :10:44.touring. The BBC's reputation has taking a knock, and they hope that
:10:44. > :10:49.Tony Hall is the man to rebuild it. Severe weather has caused flooding
:10:49. > :10:51.in many parts of Britain with hundreds of homes evacuated. The
:10:51. > :10:55.areas worst affected include south- west England, the Midlands, north
:10:55. > :11:03.and west Wales, Cumbria, and parts of Scotland. More heavy rain and
:11:03. > :11:09.strong winds are forecast tonight. The force of nature. Puns of water
:11:09. > :11:13.on the move, impossible to control. The roads of Llanberis in North
:11:13. > :11:18.Wales suddenly transformed into a raging torrent. The damage is done
:11:18. > :11:22.in minutes, assessing the cost to this community, drying out,
:11:22. > :11:28.clearing out. It will take much longer. I have lived here for 44
:11:28. > :11:33.years and I have never seen it like this. Now I am in my 60s and I have
:11:33. > :11:38.never seen the village in this condition. It was terrible when it
:11:38. > :11:43.came in. It didn't give us any chance to get hold of anything.
:11:43. > :11:53.Rain at like this always means travel chaos, plenty of that today.
:11:53. > :11:53.
:11:53. > :11:59.The A55, is soaking, Sutton car- park. Frustrating. -- sodden. But
:11:59. > :12:03.for the patients at this hospice in Cumbria, things were more serious
:12:03. > :12:09.or stop water cascading meant seven patients were evacuated as the
:12:09. > :12:14.deluge continued. As of tonight, it is not clear when they can return.
:12:14. > :12:19.We are used to flooding but we have never seen anything like it. We had
:12:19. > :12:22.to have a mountain rescue come to help us. We had to get our
:12:22. > :12:26.colleagues at a neighbouring hospice in Lancaster to take
:12:26. > :12:31.impatience for us. Across south- west England, the wind has been a
:12:31. > :12:35.striking feature of the weather. Many bridges have been closed but
:12:35. > :12:39.far more significant perhaps is the heavy rain arriving tonight. The
:12:39. > :12:44.problem is not just all the rain that has fallen in the past 24
:12:44. > :12:49.hours, but more rain is predicted in the coming days. It is the fact
:12:49. > :12:55.that water is also falling onto countryside that is already sodden.
:12:55. > :13:02.This water has no where to go. The Grand Western Canal at Holbeton
:13:02. > :13:05.gave way. The sheer weight of water that has wall in the past 40 hours
:13:05. > :13:11.was simply too much for the structure to cope with -- that has
:13:11. > :13:17.fallen in the past 48 hours. All day they have been trying to stop
:13:17. > :13:21.the big problems are becoming a local disaster. The problem is the
:13:21. > :13:25.water is coming into the canal and we are trying to bring in
:13:25. > :13:30.additional things to try to regulate the levels where we can.
:13:30. > :13:36.Tonight, the rain has arrived as promised across much of the country.
:13:36. > :13:38.Water levels and anxiety levels The Israeli government has warned
:13:38. > :13:41.that it's prepared to resume military operations against
:13:41. > :13:44.Palestinian militants in Gaza if the ceasefire which came into force
:13:44. > :13:47.last night doesn't hold. The Israeli army has started to
:13:47. > :13:50.withdraw vehicles from the Gaza border, while Hamas declared a
:13:50. > :14:00.public holiday to mark what it said was a victory over the Israelis.
:14:00. > :14:02.
:14:02. > :14:05.Our Middle East editor, Jeremy Israel is pulling its troops and
:14:05. > :14:09.tanks back from the Gaza border, for the invasion is off and the
:14:09. > :14:14.ceasefire is on. Opinion polls suggested a majority of Israelis
:14:14. > :14:18.are against it because long-term they don't feel any safer.
:14:18. > :14:23.really want to believe in the ceasefire, but it didn't prove
:14:23. > :14:27.itself last time so we are sceptical and scared. Bringing home
:14:27. > :14:31.the troops without using them at worries many Israelis. To reassure
:14:31. > :14:35.them and the government is emphasising that it will knock
:14:35. > :14:40.tolerate ceasefire violations. I don't want to give an exact
:14:40. > :14:45.recipe, but they need to keep the border entirely quiet. I don't want
:14:45. > :14:51.to give them a licence to do up to a certain level. Nothing should
:14:51. > :14:58.cross the border against us in the form of rockets or mortars. Nothing.
:14:58. > :15:03.In Gaza, streets that were empty were packed. Hamas put on a victory
:15:03. > :15:09.rally, the people celebrated survival. Hamas feels bolstered by
:15:09. > :15:13.stronger support than ever from allies like Turkey and Qatar. At
:15:13. > :15:21.the barber's, this man said the balance of power was changing in
:15:21. > :15:27.favour of Palestinians. TRANSLATION: Thank God for the
:15:27. > :15:32.ceasefire and all the Palestinians who witnessed the war agree with me.
:15:32. > :15:36.He with funerals still going on in Gaza, two of the ceasefire deals
:15:36. > :15:40.understandings already look like potential flashpoints. Hamas, whose
:15:40. > :15:45.men were moving round again, is supposed to stop all fired into
:15:45. > :15:50.Israel, but resistance, as it calls it, is where Hamas draws its
:15:50. > :15:54.strength. And with smuggling tunnels into Egypt reopening,
:15:54. > :15:58.Israel is supposed to discuss easing the blockade of Gaza. It is
:15:58. > :16:02.hard to imagine the Israelis doing much to dilute what they call her a
:16:02. > :16:06.vital security measure. The Palestinians and the Israelis have
:16:06. > :16:09.a breathing space, turning it into something better than that might
:16:09. > :16:13.take more than either side is prepared to give at the moment. The
:16:13. > :16:19.sad fact is that the conditions that her intention into violence
:16:19. > :16:24.are still there. Gaza and Israel had a peaceful day at last, a
:16:24. > :16:34.chance to relax. But it won't stay like that until they can settle a
:16:34. > :16:35.
:16:35. > :16:38.century of conflict. A man accused of stabbing a
:16:38. > :16:41.teenager to death in central London on Boxing Day last year has been
:16:41. > :16:44.found not guilty of murder and manslaughter. The Old Bailey heard
:16:44. > :16:46.that Jermaine Joseph was acting in self-defence after being chased
:16:46. > :16:49.into a shop by 18-year-old Seydou Diarrassouba. The men were gang
:16:49. > :16:59.rivals and the case highlights a growing threat, as our
:16:59. > :16:59.
:16:59. > :17:04.When two former gang rivals met by chance on Oxford Street last Boxing
:17:04. > :17:10.Day, this was the bloody result. A teenager dying in front of shoppers
:17:10. > :17:14.with a fatal knife wound. Seydou Diarrassouba was a big name in the
:17:14. > :17:19.south London street gang and no stranger to knife and gun crime.
:17:19. > :17:23.The man who started in this store, Jermaine Joseph, was cleared today
:17:23. > :17:26.because he had been trying to get away from his gang past, but had
:17:26. > :17:30.been forced to defend himself. Young people in London have been
:17:30. > :17:33.telling us how the gang culture takes over their lives before
:17:33. > :17:37.they've even grown-up. If I'd been walking through he had night, what
:17:37. > :17:42.would have happened? For you probably would have got marked.
:17:42. > :17:46.This man is 16 so we are hiding his identity and voice. He was
:17:46. > :17:52.convicted after another boy was stabbed. I went up to him, punched
:17:52. > :17:57.him out, kicked his face. Gang life got him young and crucially, his
:17:58. > :18:02.friends became as important as his parents. I felt protected. If I
:18:02. > :18:05.wanted something, I would ask them and I would get it rather than
:18:05. > :18:09.asking my mum when I knew I wouldn't get it. When you start
:18:09. > :18:14.doing stuff, everyone is on your case and has respect for you.
:18:14. > :18:18.Staff he means crime and in gangs, respect is where there were real
:18:18. > :18:23.trouble starts as members get older and try to maintain their position
:18:23. > :18:27.by hitting back when attacked. That is what Russell Ahmed's friends
:18:27. > :18:32.wanted him to do when he was attacked with a machete. They said
:18:32. > :18:36.they would sort them out for me. Not retaliating was not an option.
:18:36. > :18:46.You don't think about not retaliating, you think about how to
:18:46. > :18:54.retaliate. It is an eye for a knife. You literally do it, in my case. I
:18:54. > :18:58.have a fake eye. A glass eye? But he never did retaliate. The Met
:18:58. > :19:02.Police has one key strategy, they don't go after the whole gang, they
:19:02. > :19:07.go off to individuals, the most dangerous ones within the gang. A
:19:07. > :19:14.raid on alleged gang members in Croydon. 2000 have been arrested
:19:15. > :19:18.since the Met's command Trident to con Danns. But as well as law
:19:18. > :19:22.enforcement, there's now a network of project working with young
:19:22. > :19:27.people offering mentors and mediators. More of this, they say,
:19:27. > :19:30.is what is needed. Ministers are said to have
:19:30. > :19:34.abandoned plans to set a new target for reducing the amount of fossil
:19:34. > :19:37.fuel used in generating electricity. But following lengthy negotiations
:19:37. > :19:40.between the Conservatives and Lib Dems, the Government's new Energy
:19:40. > :19:44.Bill will commit up to �7 billion a year to renewable energy projects.
:19:44. > :19:49.Our deputy political editor, James Landale, is at Westminster. What
:19:49. > :19:52.have you learned? For the last few months, there's been a battle royal
:19:52. > :19:58.between the Conservatives and Lib Dems over energy policy. They have
:19:58. > :20:05.a deal, but it is a compromise. The government has agreed to spend more
:20:05. > :20:09.than �7 billion a year, subsidising renewable energy. The aim is to try
:20:09. > :20:12.to create certainty in the energy markets, kick-start a few
:20:12. > :20:16.infrastructure project and boost the economy. That will be claimed
:20:16. > :20:20.as a big victory by the Lib Dem energy secretary. But the
:20:20. > :20:24.government has also decided to abandon plans for a big new green
:20:24. > :20:28.energy could target that would take out a most fossil fuels from the
:20:28. > :20:33.electricity market by 2030. That will be claimed as a big victory by
:20:33. > :20:37.George Osborne. He wants to keep investing in gas. Bottom Line, the
:20:37. > :20:41.government will spend more money on renewables. That money doesn't grow
:20:41. > :20:45.on trees so you and I will be spending more on our energy bills
:20:45. > :20:48.to pay for it very soon. The once-in-a-generation change of
:20:48. > :20:51.national leadership in China, which took place last week, has been
:20:51. > :20:54.closely scrutinised in Hong Kong. The former British colony was
:20:54. > :20:56.transferred to Chinese rule 15 years ago. As our world affairs
:20:56. > :21:06.editor, John Simpson, reports, there's growing concern there about
:21:06. > :21:07.
:21:07. > :21:13.the scope and reach of China's 15 years after it was handed back
:21:13. > :21:17.to China, Hong Kong still seems as British as ever. It is not just
:21:17. > :21:22.something to reassure the expats, it gives the people of Hong Kong
:21:22. > :21:29.themselves the feeling of being different, special. And they still
:21:29. > :21:33.fire off a Noonday Gun. I was here for the handover of Hong Kong in
:21:33. > :21:38.1997, the last ceremony took place at the Convention Centre over there
:21:38. > :21:42.and I must admit I assumed, like a lot of people, that Hong Kong would
:21:42. > :21:46.simply become submerged in the Greater China. But it hasn't worked
:21:46. > :21:52.out like that at all and in fact, in recent months, something
:21:52. > :21:55.extraordinary has been happening here. Demonstrators brandished the
:21:55. > :22:00.old colonial flag, Union Jack and all, when the Chinese President
:22:00. > :22:05.came to visit. People here are increasingly worried that China is
:22:05. > :22:10.trying to remake the place in its own image. And the people behind
:22:10. > :22:14.the flag protest, like Danny Chan, far from being old colonial types,
:22:15. > :22:23.went even in their teens when the handover took place. Climb from
:22:23. > :22:29.Hong Kong, I'm not British or Chinese. Hong Kong is my home. I
:22:29. > :22:33.need to protect it. If we don't have any freedom -- freedom, Hong
:22:33. > :22:38.Kong will die. When China tried to force Hong Kong schools to teach
:22:38. > :22:42.the Chinese version of history, so many people protested that the
:22:42. > :22:47.local government had to back down and withdraw the scheme. A top
:22:47. > :22:56.academic here says China is putting the wrong emphasis on the basic
:22:56. > :23:00.principle of the handover, one country, two systems. It seems that
:23:00. > :23:04.Beijing is the only legitimate interpreter or before to does.
:23:04. > :23:11.Beijing, in recent years, tens to have more and more emphasis about
:23:11. > :23:15.the priority and importance of one country. An opinion poll the other
:23:15. > :23:19.day showed that almost two-thirds of people think of themselves as
:23:19. > :23:25.Hong Kongers more than Chinese. There's real pressure for more
:23:25. > :23:30.democracy, with elections for a chief executive perhaps in 2017.
:23:30. > :23:35.But will China like that? The Speaker of Hong Kong's parliament,
:23:35. > :23:41.who used to lead the main pro-China party, is anxious. It is getting to
:23:41. > :23:47.be a colossal task. How to transfer democracy and also get it approved
:23:47. > :23:50.by the central government. It is very difficult and we need all the
:23:50. > :24:00.pack to make -- pragmatism of the Hong Kong people and the Chinese
:24:00. > :24:00.
:24:00. > :24:05.government. Mutual trust is now lacking on both sides. The 3:30pm
:24:05. > :24:09.at Sha Tin, racing and it -- is another British legacy, one of the
:24:09. > :24:12.things that characterises this place. So it is clean government.
:24:12. > :24:17.When Britain handed over Hong Kong it had the best and most
:24:17. > :24:23.transparent economy on earth. 15 years on, the sincere of freedom
:24:23. > :24:25.and being different is stronger than ever. -- the sense here.
:24:25. > :24:27.The football referee Mark Clattenburg won't face any
:24:27. > :24:30.disciplinary action after claims that he'd racially abused a Chelsea
:24:30. > :24:37.player during a Premier League match last month. The Football
:24:37. > :24:41.Association said there was "no case to answer". This report contains
:24:41. > :24:45.flash photography full for the last three weeks he's been in the
:24:45. > :24:50.spotlight, accused by a Chelsea of being a racist.
:24:50. > :24:54.But today Mark Clattenburg was told he had no case to answer. Following
:24:54. > :24:58.an investigation, the FA said there was no evidence to back up the
:24:58. > :25:03.claim he had called Jon Obi Mikel among key during Chelsea's game
:25:03. > :25:08.because Manchester United. -- A Monkey. Mikel never even heard the
:25:08. > :25:18.remark and the club based their case on a Brazilian team-mate. In a
:25:18. > :25:28.
:25:28. > :25:32.They haven't apologised for the damage done to mark's reputation.
:25:32. > :25:35.There's no scintilla of an apology, there's no recognition of the
:25:35. > :25:41.damage they cause, no indication that they are prepared to pay any
:25:41. > :25:45.compensation. To compound Chelsea's embarrassment tonight, the FA have
:25:45. > :25:49.charged Jon Obi Mikel for allegedly entering the match officials room
:25:49. > :25:52.and using threatening behaviour. The decision to drop the Mark
:25:52. > :25:57.Clattenburg case is another damaging blow to a club whose
:25:57. > :26:03.reputation was already on the line. And it comes in a whirlwind week
:26:03. > :26:07.when one short-term manager was replaced by another one. Tonight,
:26:07. > :26:12.Rafa Benitez became the latest to take his chances at Stamford Bridge.
:26:12. > :26:16.Does he think the team are out of control? I was talking with the
:26:16. > :26:22.players, everything was fine, they were training really well,
:26:22. > :26:28.intensity was there. Talking with them about ideas, tactics. I didn't
:26:28. > :26:31.see any problems. Hopefully it will be the same from now on. Chelsea
:26:31. > :26:35.want to move on from the Clattenburg controversy, but this
:26:35. > :26:41.case has once again highlighted football's sensitivities around