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Tonight at ten: The rapid change in the population of England and Wales | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
over the past decade. The number of residents born overseas has risen | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
by 63% in ten years, prompting a new debate about levels of | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
migration. If we want people to integrate, we have got to slow it | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
down, we have got to manage better than numbers coming in. Quite a lot | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
of immigrants have contributed hugely to Britain's growth | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
strawberry, particularly skilled were close. -- growth story. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
London has become the first region of England and Wales where white | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
British people have become a minority. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
We'll also be looking at significant change in people's | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
attitude to religion. Also tonight: New plans for same- | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
sex marriage but the Church of England and the Church in Wales are | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
excluded from the legislation. been a blanket ban on C of E is a | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
shame because I am sure there are diocese that we do it if they had | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
the option. -- would do it. HSBC pays a record �1.2 billion | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
fine to US authorities after allegations of money laundering. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
In Belfast, more tension after nights of violence and death | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
threats against two Unionist politicians. | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
And I am in Cairo, where supporters and opponents of the embattled | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Egyptian president of staging their biggest rallies for weeks. The Army | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
calls for a national dialogue. Thousands of anti-government | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
protesters breached a 12 cert security walk and move closer to | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
the presidential palace. Divided Damascus. A special report from | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
inside Syria's capital, and the battle that has left parts of it | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
destroyed. Coming up: 1-0 up against Arsenal | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
but could be underdogs Bradford hold onto their lead in the League | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
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Good evening. The latest figures from last year's census in England | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
and Wales show how quickly the population has been changing over | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
the past decade. The number of residents born overseas has risen | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
sharply. The census also records a big change in people's attitude to | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
religion. Mark Easton has the details. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
The noughties in numbers, a decade of significant social change | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
revealed by the censors and in particular the impact of waves of | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
immigration from the Commonwealth and eastern Europe. The proportion | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
of people in England and Wales describing themselves as white | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
British has fallen from 87% down to 80% in ten years, still the | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
majority in every locality except one. In London only 45% of people | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
call themselves British and wait. In the borough of Newham in east | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
London, just one person in six describes themselves as white | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
British. London is an international city these days with more than a | :03:14. | :03:23. | |
third of the population having been The population born overseas across | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
England and Wales has risen by 2.9 million in ten years. Poland is now | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
the country with the second largest number, almost 580,000, a rise of | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
half-a-million in a decade. The figures will reignite debate as to | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
whether immigration is putting too much pressure on resources and | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
The most important thing is the speed with which immigration has | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
been taking place. If we want people to integrate, we have got to | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
slow it down and manage better the number has coming in. Immigration | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
is an important component of UK economic growth. Quite a lot of | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
immigrants have contributed hugely to Britain's growth, particularly | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
skilled workers who are part of the global market for talent and these | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
are the kind of people we need to attract in order to grow business | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
is in the future. The Lincolnshire town of Boston has seen dramatic | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
cultural change. It now has the highest proportion of Polish | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
residents outside of London. Almost one in 20 come from eastern Europe | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
here. Boston has changed big time in the last five years. Eastern | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
Europeans are coming more and more. Everybody wants better life. That | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
is why they are coming to hear. Despite the arrival of largely | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Catholic eastern Europeans, the proportion of people describing | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
themselves as Christian has fallen The proportion reporting no | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
religion has risen to 25%. Not rich maybe home to a bishop but it has | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
won a reputation of the most godless place in England -- not | :05:11. | :05:21. | |
rich. 43% of people here think they It goes with the territory of what | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
is going on in the world. Not a lot of people believe. A shopping or | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
football is the next big religion, isn't it. At the cathedral though, | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
they are agnostic about the census findings on religion. In this | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
cathedral we are seen literally hundreds of people through the | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
doors every day this month for the Christmas carol services, so if it | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
is the case we are the most godless city, I dread to think... | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
censors has identified significant cultural change. Home-ownership has | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
fallen for the first time in 60 years, more adults now have a | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
degree than have no qualifications, but it is increasing diversity that | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
history will perhaps remember that the defining feature of Britain in | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
And you can see more details on the 2011 census and the key changes in | :06:16. | :06:26. | |
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your area of England or Wales by The government is to legislate to | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
allow gay couples to marry in churches, synagogues, mosques, | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
temples and in civil ceremonies in England and Wales. But in an | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
unexpected move, the Church of England and the Church in Wales | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
would not be included in the plans. Other churches would be allowed to | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
opt in if they wished. Today the prospect of gay marriage | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
in England and Wales moved a step closer. There will be a bill next | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
year, it could be law by 2014 and religious organisations who want to | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
of the same-sex ceremonies will be able to. Well, most of the M. | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
legislation will explicitly state that it would be illegal for the | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
churches of England and Wales to marry same-sex couples. If there is | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
any church, synagogue or any mosque that does not want to conduct a | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
same-sex marriage, it absolutely must not be forced to hold it. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
there will be safeguards. It will be illegal for the Church of | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
England and Church of Wales to marry same-sex couples. Other | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
religions will only be able to do so if the governing body and | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
religious Minister give their consent. They were also get | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
protection on legal claims against grounds of discrimination. That did | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
not pacified the critics. These proposals are a disgrace and | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
constitutional outrage. It is better to leave religious | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
institutions to manage their discipline. This proposal commands | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
widespread support in the country. No, it doesn't! In the House of | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
Lords the Church of England appeared surprised by the exemption | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
and no less opposed. Marriage is the union of one man and woman, a | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
social institution that predates both church and state and has been | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
the glue that has bound countless successive societies together. | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
other clerics were less worried. good number of members of the | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
Church of England and warmly welcome the government's decision | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
and privately, a fair number of bishops also support it but are not | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
able to say so public league. risk for the government is that by | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
making same-sex marriage legal, it muddies the waters. It might not go | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
far enough to satisfy concerns of bishops and Conservatives and it | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
might raise doubts from others about how committed the government | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
is to equality. The government is giving backwards, they had said any | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
church that wanted to would be able to celebrate same-sex marriage and | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
now they seem to be roaring up the Church of England. A one couple | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
said they felt let down. Having a blanket ban on other C of E is a | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
shame because I am sure certain diocese would do it if they have | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
the option. However we are glad we do at least have the option to do | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
something at places that can do it. The government hopes supporting gay | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
marriage would win him votes by appearing modern but tonight they | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
are being accused of mixed messages -- would win them votes. | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
Thousands of Egyptians are on the streets of Cairo again tonight | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
staging demonstrations for and against President Morsi. Many in | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
the crowd are protesting against a proposed new constitution, which | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
they claim would give the president too much power. For the latest, | :09:46. | :09:55. | |
let's join George Alagiah. Thank you. Yes. Good evening. | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Thousands of the government opponents have converged on the | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
presidential palace behind me. Earlier today the protesters | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
managed to breach a concrete wall and move closer to the Palace. | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
Across the city, there have been rival demonstrations staged by the | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
President's supporters, with tensions rising ahead of a | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
controversial referendum on Saturday. The head of the military | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
has called for national dialogue. For perhaps the first time in weeks, | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
those opposed to President Morsi and his reforms came together in a | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
united front. Thousands marched on the presidential palace. A huge | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
imposing wall designed to keep them at bay, no obstacle, as they | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
flooded the square. Battered and beleaguered, Morsi is accused by | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
many Egyptians of trying to force through a constitution that limits | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
free speech and ignores the country's religious and social | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
minorities. It is not democratic by any means, he is becoming a | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
dictator and the Muslim Brotherhood are just hitting everybody who | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
opposes them, so it is the same thing over again. This is so far a | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
huge but relatively peaceful protest. There are hundreds if not | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
thousands of riot police and soldiers here, predicting the | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
Palace. The army has been given the full power of detention and arrest | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
but an institution which has thus far remained neutral will be | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
reluctant to get involved on behalf of the government against the | :11:36. | :11:45. | |
People's. -- the people. Early in the day, on the other side of Cairo, | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
President Morsi's own supporters also out in force. They handed back | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
copies of the controversial constitution, which they say is a | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
document that is fair to all Egyptians. All freedoms of | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
religions offer be protected and all rights are protected by | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
minorities, no discrimination whatsoever. It is very clear and | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
concise. Major trouble was averted tonight because the two groups were | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
kept apart by an army that has not taken sides. But in this divided | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
country, a referendum on the constitution is still due to take | :12:21. | :12:29. | |
place on Saturday. In Egypt, the key to the success of | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
the uprising two years ago with the refusal of the military to turn its | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
guns on the military and even today that the presidential guard have | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
not used any force. By contrast in Syria, the army has been fighting | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
on the side of the government and the result is a civil war that is | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
still raging. Jeremy Bowen reports from Damascus on the battle for an | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
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increasingly divided city. This Damascus is now at the heart of the | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
bloodiest Arab uprising. The regime keeps the city centre under tight | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
security, squeezing the traffic down the main roads. The capital | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
still functions. But the battle for Damascus is under way. It is | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
happening in the suburbs. This is Duma after months of shelling and | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
air strikes. It is controlled by the rebels, who claim they hold | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
around a third of greater Damascus. The regime says the rebels only | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
have pockets of ground. These were blocks of flats. The laws of war | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
say all sides should distinguish between civilians and fighters. | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
Almost every building in Duma is damaged, which suggests it is all | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
being treated as a military target. They said they saw the bomb, a | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
barrel of explosive, dropped in this neck from a helicopter. The | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
regime's blitz is breaking the city, and breaking lives. It is not | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
breaking the will of President Assad's enemies. The rebels have | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
shown that they have the stomach for a fight. They have shown that | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
they can endure pain, and they have the conviction that if they do not | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
fight on, they will be killed. The question for them is what more they | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
will have to do to get the victory that they insist is coming. A | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
fighters in Duma, from a group called Lewar al-Islam, short of | :14:40. | :14:50. | |
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More than 200 recruits were being trained at an army base they said | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
they had captured a month ago. The officers, defectors from the Syrian | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
army, have the trappings of Islamist fighters, but deny the | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
charge from the regime that they are jihadis, influenced by Al-Qaeda. | :15:11. | :15:19. | |
What do you think will happen to Assad? Killed. How important is it | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
for you to win the battle in Damascus? It is very important. It | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
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is the capital city, and we will catch the capital city from Assad. | :15:38. | :15:47. | |
In a few weeks. Not if they cannot treat their wounded. They say the | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
regime bombs the hospital, so this is all they have. Nobody here | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
wanted their faces shown. The patient, a civilian, had both his | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
feet blown off by a rocket. The man treating him was a dentist. He said, | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
we will only have peace if this brutal regime, and its leader, | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
Bashar al-Assad, are removed. You can see the rebel-held suburbs, and | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
the bombing, from the windows of the regime's main military hospital. | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
The Syrian army no longer gives out casualty figures. One doctor here | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
said they averaged about 40 new admissions each day. One of the | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
regime's dead was this man, Fadi Hamoud, who served in the Fiat Air | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
force Intelligence Service. He left two small children and a widow. The | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
family are Alawites, from the same sector as the President, and they | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
believe they have no future if he does. | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
TRANSLATION: For the country, for us to live, for the children to | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
grow up, he had to sacrifice himself, and other men should | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
sacrifice themselves for the sake of the country. The Presidential | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
Palace looms over Damascus. Syria has two futures - a political deal | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
between all sides to build a new country, or a long civil war, which | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
is the most likely option right now. Now, the opposition here may have | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
put thousands on to the streets tonight, but it still has the key | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
decision to make - whether or not to take part in Saturday's | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
controversial referendum. To keep up-to-date on that, and to follow | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
our coverage of the Arab uprisings two years on, go to our website. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
That's all from us, on a day that has shown just how entrenched the | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
political divide has become in Egypt. Back to you. | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
Coming up tonight - English football tries to clamp down on | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
discrimination in the game. Foreign players could face lessons in | :18:06. | :18:16. | |
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Britain's biggest international bank, HSBC, is to pay a record �1.2 | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
billion to the US authorities, following allegations of money- | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
laundering. The bank was found guilty of stunning oversight. The | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
chairman of HSBC at the time is now a business minister in the | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
coalition government. His office said he shared the regret expressed | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
by HSBC for what had gone wrong. Hugh Pym has more details. | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
Britain's largest bank has owned up to major failings over money- | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
laundering controls. Billions of dollars from Mexican drug cartels | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
were washed through HSBC. Payments involving Iran were covered up. It | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
has resulted in a final �1.2 billion, the biggest in US banking | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
history. American authorities talked of staggering amounts being | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
deposited in boxes made to fit through windows at the cash tills, | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
as they made out the case against the bank. The systemic failure to | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
guard against the corruption of our financial system, by drug | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
traffickers and other criminals, and for evading US sanctions law... | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
The investigation found that more than �4 billion was transferred | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
between the bank's Mexico operation between the bank's Mexico operation | :19:29. | :19:39. | |
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The in a statement, HSBC said it was sorry for past mistakes, and it | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
said the bank today was a fundamentally different | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
organisation from the one which made the mistakes. The chief | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
executive during that time was Lord Green, since made a Trade Minister | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
by David Cameron. The allegations first emerged in July, in the US a | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
Senate report, which mentions Lord Green, along with other senior | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
managers. At the time, he had this to say. It is acknowledged that | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
there were some failures of implementation. I share the regret | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
about that. But I have been proud to work for this company, because | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
it has always sought to do the right thing. But at Westminster | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
today, there were demands for Lord Green to offer a more full | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
explanation. I want to hear what he has got to say about his role. He | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
has had more than five months to come to the House of Lords and | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
explain what he knew when he was chief executive and chairman at | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
HSBC. HSBC is not the only British bank to have had a run-in with the | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
US authorities. Just yesterday, Standard Chartered agreed to pay a | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
heavy fine after accusations of sanctions violations. Barclays, | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
Lloyds and other European banks have also reached settlements in | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
recent years following money- laundering allegations. Three | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
arrests have been made today as part of the investigation into the | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
LIBOR scandal. It is just another reminder of the troubled past of | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
the banking industry and the challenges it faces in trying to | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
wipe the slate clean. Customers of the state-owned | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
Northern Rock bank are to receive compensation from the taxpayer, | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
totaling more than �250,000. More than 150,000 people will receive an | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
average payout of �1,700 each, after the bank failed to give them | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
the right information when they took out personal loans. | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
The loyalists involved in the past eight nights of violence in | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
northern island have brought shame on the Union flag, according to the | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
Northern Ireland Secretary, Theresa Villiers. Tonight, the First | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
Minister, Peter Robinson, said that two senior members of his party, | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
the DUP, had received death threats. Protesters were back on the streets | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
tonight. There was no violence, but some main roads in Belfast were | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
blocked. Loyalists are angry at the decision by Belfast City council to | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
stop flying the Union flag every day. That decision was taken more | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
than a week ago. There has been trouble ever since. There is now a | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
daily clean up in parts of the city, and the police are being stretched. | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
We have seen social media playing a very powerful part in this. | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Organisations are doing things via the social media, which make it | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
very difficult to control. tension has risen here this week, | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
so has the number of death threats against politicians - from hardline | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
loyalists and dissident republicans. The latest to be targeted, two | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
senior members of the main unionist Party, the DUP. Police have met | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
with two senior members of my party, to indicate that their lives and | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
the lives of their families are in danger. There is nothing remotely | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
British about what they are doing. They are dishonouring and shaming | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
the flag of our country with their enormous and violent activities. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Historically, most Protestants in northern island have wanted to | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
remain within the UK, while most Catholics prefer reunited Ireland. | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
The latest census, published today, indicates the changing picture. The | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
Protestant population is down to 48%. The Catholic population is up | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
to 45%. Whatever the numbers and whatever the future, the priority | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
now in Northern Ireland is piece on the streets. This is close to where | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
a female police officer was attacked with a petrol bomb last | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
night. Once again, the police are out in numbers. It is the 9th night | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
in a row they have been here. So far, they have not been needed, but | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
the night is not over yet. South African government officials | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
have revealed that none from Mandela is being treated for the | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
recurrence of a lung infection. -- that Nelson Mandela. He is said to | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
be responding well to the treatment. Foreign football players could be | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
asked to attend cultural lessons when the join English clubs, as | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
part of a drive to tackle race- related offences. The governing | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
bodies of English football have included that proposal in a 93- | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
point plan. But one anti-racism campaigner, Lord Ouseley, has | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
claimed there is a "moral vacuum" in the fight against discrimination. | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
Our sports editor, David Bond, has this report. It is the toxic issue | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
which will not go away. Time and again over the last year, players | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
and fans have been involved in racist incidents, damaging the | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
image of the national game. Tonight, things got worse. Lord Ouseley said | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
his position on the FA council had become untenable because of what he | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
claimed was a moral vacuum, and lack of leadership in the sport. | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
One of the FA's directors told me she shared some of his views, and | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
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said his departure would be a blow. We need diversity. He has been one | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
of the first members of the FA council. He has brought that | :25:27. | :25:36. | |
experience with him. So, that would be a loss, if he goes. The Premier | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
League attracts top global talent, but it also attracts plenty of | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
controversy, and that has led to renewed scrutiny for those who run | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
the game. English football hoped it had left behind the bad old days of | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
the 1970s and 1980s, when racism on the terraces was quite commonplace. | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
But the recent spate of high- profile controversies, on and off | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
the pitch, have highlighted the need for tougher action. The BBC | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
has learnt that the FA has drawn up a new anti-racism strategy, which | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
includes a plan to tighten the contracts of players and managers, | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
to include clauses dealing with discriminatory behaviour, new | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
discriminatory behaviour, new measures to encourage the reporting | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
of races incidence, and perhaps most controversially, mandatory | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
English cultural lessons for new foreign players. The idea is a | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
direct result of the case of Luis Suarez, banned by the FA for racist | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
abuse. He said the term he used with Patrice Evra was not offensive | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
in his home country. So, what is in his home country. So, what is | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
the idea work? I would say, no. When I finished | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
training, the only thing is to go home, sleep, see my family and | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
friends, am not going to go and sit in the classroom, no. But if | :27:00. | :27:04. |