:00:10. > :00:13.Tonight at 10 o'clock: The Prime Minister says it is full steam
:00:13. > :00:17.ahead for the coalition right up until the next election. Presenting
:00:17. > :00:21.the Government's mid-term review, he and Nick Clegg say that the
:00:21. > :00:31.partnership can last despite their differences. This list to several
:00:31. > :00:32.
:00:32. > :00:37.policy areas including care of the elderly with a new action being
:00:37. > :00:42.prepared. It is the Ronseal deal. You could call it the unvarnished
:00:42. > :00:50.truth! Labour say that the deal it lacks any substance.
:00:50. > :00:53.Also tonight: Violence in Belfast over the continuing row about
:00:53. > :00:58.flying the union flag. The seven-year-old boy murdered by
:00:58. > :01:06.his mother for failing to learn passengers from the Koran.
:01:06. > :01:10.Republicans are infuriated by appointments buyer Barack Obama and
:01:10. > :01:14.say they will block them. And the oldest man aged 104 has
:01:14. > :01:17.died. Everton aim to avoid an upset in
:01:17. > :01:27.the FA Cup as they take on Cheltenham in the final tier of the
:01:27. > :01:38.
:01:38. > :01:42.third round. Good evening. David Cameron and
:01:42. > :01:45.Nick Clegg say they will keep the coalition together until the next
:01:45. > :01:50.election in 2015. At a joint news conference in Downing Street, they
:01:50. > :01:56.unveiled the mid-term review and outlined policy areas, including
:01:56. > :02:02.care of the elderly, when you action is being planned. Labour
:02:02. > :02:06.said that the review like any detail or substance. -- new action.
:02:06. > :02:09.After all the rows and disappointment, the leaders of the
:02:09. > :02:14.coalition want you to know they are not even thinking about divorce and
:02:14. > :02:17.that is official. We are married. Not to each other. We are both
:02:17. > :02:22.happily married and this is a Government and not a relationship.
:02:22. > :02:26.To me it is not a marriage, it is a Ronseal deal. It does what it says
:02:26. > :02:30.on the tin. We said we would come together, former Government, tackle
:02:30. > :02:35.the big problems, and get on with it in a mature and sensible way and
:02:35. > :02:38.that is what we have done. Their partnership, whatever you call it,
:02:38. > :02:43.maybe 2.5 years old, but David Cameron and Nick Clegg are still
:02:43. > :02:49.laughing at each other's jokes. could call it the unvarnished truth.
:02:49. > :02:51.Anyway... I thought it was all right! Today the two men came
:02:51. > :02:57.together to publish his glossy brochure assessing what they have
:02:57. > :03:04.done and what they plan to do. But more importantly to insist that
:03:04. > :03:08.they are sticking together until election Duff Park. -- until
:03:08. > :03:12.election part them. Are you saying that there will be no break-up and
:03:12. > :03:17.you will be in this room working together until that election?
:03:17. > :03:21.more evidence do you need that we are committed to doing what we have
:03:21. > :03:25.said, doing what it says on the tin? Providing stable Government
:03:25. > :03:28.for this country for five years. Coalition is still in the national
:03:28. > :03:33.interest, they claim, but the document did not give any marks out
:03:33. > :03:37.of 10 for promises broken. Like balancing the books before the next
:03:37. > :03:42.election. But it said that the whole series of new promises with
:03:42. > :03:46.no detail or costings. Existing childcare subsidies will be
:03:46. > :03:50.repackaged, probably as tax breaks. There will be a new cap on social
:03:50. > :03:54.care costs, higher than that recommended by an independent
:03:54. > :04:01.inquiry. There will be help with mortgages and there will be more
:04:01. > :04:05.road tolls are designed to raise funds for an investment in roads.
:04:05. > :04:08.And a new minimum pension with winners as well as losers. And
:04:08. > :04:15.surprisingly Labour says that that ignores this, the build a country
:04:15. > :04:21.is paying for the coalition's failure. -- the bill the country is
:04:21. > :04:25.paying. If you living standards are being squeezed, you are a business
:04:25. > :04:31.looking for money, at the relaunch proves nothing. What people need in
:04:32. > :04:35.tough times is a Government fighting their corner, not a
:04:35. > :04:40.Government that makes things worse and not better. What you see is not
:04:40. > :04:45.always what you get. Today they glossed over their many differences.
:04:45. > :04:51.Thank you for coming and back to work. Their message, we can and do
:04:52. > :04:55.work together even though there is plenty that we disagree about.
:04:55. > :04:58.At Downing Street, Nick Robinson is there for us. Those Tories that do
:04:58. > :05:02.not like the coalition will not have been thrilled with the events
:05:02. > :05:05.today. The one thing they may have liked is the reassurance from David
:05:05. > :05:09.Cameron that the coalition is not like a marriage, a relationship.
:05:09. > :05:14.They will not have liked his insistence that even though it is
:05:14. > :05:17.guaranteed to end in divorce at the next election in 2015, we should
:05:17. > :05:22.not judge the health of that relationship by the disagreements
:05:22. > :05:25.that the two parties and the two leaders have got. Last year it was
:05:25. > :05:32.the House of Lords reform and reaction to the Levesen Report.
:05:32. > :05:37.This year there will be arguments about boundary changes and what to
:05:37. > :05:41.do about Britain's future in Europe. David Cameron and Nick Clegg are
:05:42. > :05:46.saying we can have those arguments and still get the job done. It is
:05:46. > :05:49.striking that if you compare the disagreements around this Cabinet
:05:49. > :05:55.table, over the central economic purpose of this Government for
:05:55. > :06:00.instance, they are much less than they were under Harold Wilson Ted
:06:00. > :06:03.Heath, Margaret Thatcher or John Major.
:06:03. > :06:09.Tomorrow the two parties will try to put Labour into a political
:06:09. > :06:13.corner over welfare cuts and cuts to tax credits as well. Is all well
:06:13. > :06:16.in the coalition rose garden? Of course not. Because the economic
:06:16. > :06:23.news looks like being grown this year again and more cuts will be
:06:23. > :06:27.felt. We will not be distracted by the Olympics or the Jubilee.
:06:27. > :06:31.Another crucial reason. However well the leaders get on, those
:06:31. > :06:36.underneath them, the activists, the extended family in the marriage,
:06:36. > :06:40.their shareholders in the business Partnership, increasingly detest
:06:40. > :06:46.the sight of each other. The closer they get to a general election, the
:06:46. > :06:51.more they will want you and me to know that. Thank you.
:06:51. > :06:53.There has been more violence on the streets of Belfast tonight where
:06:53. > :06:57.hundreds of loyalists have been protesting against the decision of
:06:57. > :07:03.the city council to limit the number of days that the union flag
:07:03. > :07:12.can fly from the building. They began their demonstration outside
:07:12. > :07:19.City Hall. The flag decision was made a month ago.
:07:19. > :07:23.The main road through East Belfast looks more like a battleground.
:07:23. > :07:29.Violence has broken out for a 5th consecutive night. Writers have
:07:29. > :07:35.used petrol bombs, bricks, bottles and stones and even laser pens to
:07:35. > :07:39.attack the police. -- rioters. The protests started five weeks ago but
:07:39. > :07:43.there is no end in sight. The police have not been able to stop
:07:43. > :07:46.the violence but they are well aware of the damage it is doing.
:07:46. > :07:52.is seriously damaging the economy and the image of our city. We have
:07:52. > :07:58.been renowned across the world for the peace process and the efforts
:07:58. > :08:02.made to get to this stage of sanity and now it has all been wrecked.
:08:02. > :08:07.Tonight's demonstrations started at Belfast City Hall. The place where
:08:07. > :08:12.the flag controversy began. Riot police guarded every door into the
:08:12. > :08:16.council. It was the first council meeting since the decision to stop
:08:16. > :08:20.flying the union flag every day. These loyalists have been
:08:20. > :08:24.protesting ever since. They regard it as a sign that Northern Ireland
:08:24. > :08:28.is becoming less British. Even though politicians have called for
:08:28. > :08:33.the protest to end, these people have ignored them. We want our flag
:08:33. > :08:37.back up. That means more to us than just a symbol. Our people have
:08:37. > :08:41.fought and died for it. I think it is time that the political leaders
:08:41. > :08:45.that are getting a good wage is Stormont got off their backsides
:08:45. > :08:49.and started talking to the people on the ground that put them where
:08:49. > :08:55.they are. The City Hall process was peaceful but others were not.
:08:55. > :09:00.cost of policing this is more than �2 million and tonight that bill
:09:00. > :09:06.has just gone up. There are 20 police fear caused here, dozens of
:09:06. > :09:13.riot police officers, and this is just one part of the city. -- of
:09:13. > :09:16.police vehicles. There are allegations that the UVF have
:09:16. > :09:22.orchestrated the violence and encouraged young people to join in.
:09:22. > :09:29.I have seen over the weekend young people, 10 or 11, 14 or 15, in
:09:29. > :09:33.large numbers without parental control, without any direction and
:09:33. > :09:38.I am deeply saddened by that and I think we all are. Since the
:09:38. > :09:47.protests started, almost 100 people have been arrested and more than 60
:09:47. > :09:50.police officers have been injured. Tonight those totals are rising.
:09:50. > :09:56.A woman from Cardiff who beat her son to death for failing to learn
:09:56. > :10:00.passages from the Koran has been jailed for a minimum of 17 years.
:10:00. > :10:06.Sara Ege killed her son Yaseen in July, 2010, and then set fire to
:10:06. > :10:11.his body. A seven-year-old child, defenceless
:10:11. > :10:15.against his mother's rage. Yaseen is remembered as an intelligent boy
:10:15. > :10:25.who did everything to try and please his parents. But nothing
:10:25. > :10:31.could satisfy Sara's obsession with him memorising the Koran. In court
:10:31. > :10:34.she sobbed and bowed her head. She collapsed to the floor as the
:10:34. > :10:38.letter from the dock. The judge said that on the day of his death,
:10:38. > :10:42.Yaseen was kept home from school to dedicate himself to his studies of
:10:43. > :10:45.the Koran. He added that on that day, Yaseen must have failed in
:10:45. > :10:51.some way because I am satisfied that it was that failure that was
:10:51. > :10:56.the trigger for the beating. His body was discovered by fire crews
:10:56. > :10:59.called to the family's home. His death had seemed to be a tragic
:10:59. > :11:05.accident warned by friends and neighbours. But his body had been
:11:05. > :11:10.set alight by his mother. She tried to hide his injuries. From the
:11:10. > :11:14.outside, Sara Ege appeared to be a devoted mother. Yaseen, according
:11:14. > :11:18.to his teacher, seemed to be a happy and obedient son. Behind
:11:18. > :11:28.closed doors, he endured months of physical violence. The attacks
:11:28. > :11:33.became worse when Yaseen failed to memorise long sections of the Koran,
:11:33. > :11:36.but learning sections of the text is part of religious instruction.
:11:36. > :11:45.Yaseen was forced to go much further. It is tragic the pressure
:11:45. > :11:53.at the mother has put on the Sun and taken his life. It is not a
:11:53. > :11:57.reflection on the community, the children, the parents at the
:11:57. > :12:02.Madrasa or the mosque. A serious case review has found that there
:12:02. > :12:07.were reports of domestic abuse in the family but Yaseen's death could
:12:07. > :12:11.not have been prevented. Sara Ege was driven from court to serve a
:12:11. > :12:18.minimum of 17 years in jail. The judge said she had been a devoted
:12:18. > :12:22.mother who had abused the pressures relationship with her son. --
:12:22. > :12:25.precious relationship. A senior police officer has gone on
:12:25. > :12:30.trial offering to sell information to the News of the World about the
:12:30. > :12:40.phone hacking inquiry at Scotland Yard. A poor cows lamb is the first
:12:40. > :12:46.
:12:46. > :12:56.person to go on trial April -- able cows lamb.
:12:56. > :13:02.Five men have gone on trial in India following the gang rape that
:13:02. > :13:07.has shaken the country. It is the crime that has shaken
:13:07. > :13:14.India. Today the five accused came to court for the first time in a
:13:14. > :13:18.test of the authority's response. Delhi police were out in force with
:13:18. > :13:22.anger still simmering over the rape of the 23 year-old who later died
:13:22. > :13:28.of her injuries. Their actions are also under the spotlight as never
:13:28. > :13:33.before. The Government is promising a quick trial in you, fast-track
:13:33. > :13:37.courts, trying to ride out the growing media storm. But there are
:13:37. > :13:41.doubts over the New Court after a chaotic start. The magistrate has
:13:41. > :13:46.ordered a closed session for the accused to hear the charges against
:13:46. > :13:50.them of rape and murder. Still recovering from his injuries, the
:13:50. > :14:00.friend with the woman the night of the attack has told the BBC how she
:14:00. > :14:01.
:14:01. > :14:05.Even when she was struggling for life in hospital, she wanted to
:14:05. > :14:10.live. I want to make sure this never happens to anyone else.
:14:10. > :14:15.had been weeks of protest after the savage attack of the woman, whose
:14:15. > :14:18.name is still being withheld, but the government look out of touch
:14:18. > :14:23.with the fast changing nation. They couldn't be a more poignant place
:14:23. > :14:27.for this to be happening - just across from the cinema where the
:14:27. > :14:33.woman and her friend went to see a movie on that fateful night before
:14:33. > :14:38.riding home. More than three weeks later, after the outcry this has
:14:38. > :14:44.provoked, it is India itself that now finds itself on trial. In a
:14:44. > :14:47.suburb, signs of house low change maybe. The authorities and their
:14:47. > :14:51.attitudes are being challenged after another woman in her 20s was
:14:51. > :14:55.found dead in what is also suspected gang rape. She was on her
:14:56. > :15:03.way home from her job at the clothes factory, but when her
:15:03. > :15:07.father first reported she was missing, police didn't listen.
:15:07. > :15:13.TRANSLATION: They were rude and said she had probably gone off with
:15:13. > :15:17.a man. Don't worry, they said, she will probably come back. Another
:15:17. > :15:22.family grieving now, and many are asking if anything will really
:15:22. > :15:24.change when the anger dies down. Coming up on tonight's programme:
:15:24. > :15:34.The veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall denies charges of sexually
:15:34. > :15:36.
:15:36. > :15:39.assaulting girls in the 1970s and President Obama has infuriated his
:15:39. > :15:42.political opponents in his choice of a new defence secretary. A
:15:42. > :15:44.number of prominent Republicans say they will oppose the appointment of
:15:44. > :15:51.Chuck Hagel, a decorated Vietnam veteran and former Republican
:15:51. > :15:55.senator, because of his views on Israel and Iran. There's also
:15:55. > :16:04.controversy about the nomination of a new head of the CIA, as Mark
:16:04. > :16:07.Mardell reports. This is the man President Obama wants to lead the
:16:07. > :16:14.largest military force the world has ever known, a former soldier
:16:14. > :16:18.who knows the cost of war. He knows what is not an abstraction. He
:16:18. > :16:23.understands that Sandy young Americans to fight and lead in the
:16:23. > :16:30.dirt and mud, that is something we only do when it is absolutely
:16:30. > :16:35.necessary. He used to be a Republican senator but he is a
:16:35. > :16:41.provocative pick. I will always do my best, I will do my best for our
:16:41. > :16:46.country, for those I represent at the Pentagon and, and for our
:16:46. > :16:51.citizens. Mr President, I will always give you my honest and
:16:51. > :16:55.informed Council. If he served in Vietnam, twice wounded, twice
:16:55. > :17:01.decorated. He says he speaks for those who saw their friends get
:17:01. > :17:05.their heads blown off. He criticised the handling of the Iraq
:17:05. > :17:10.war, calling it the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this
:17:10. > :17:14.country since Vietnam. He visited the Middle East with President
:17:14. > :17:20.Obama, they worked well together. The TV campaign started against him
:17:20. > :17:25.when his nomination was just a rumour. Chuck Hagel is not a
:17:25. > :17:29.responsible option. His history has raised the barrage of questions.
:17:29. > :17:33.His opponents claim he is anti- Semitic, quoting him saying the
:17:33. > :17:38.Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people in Congress. He once opposed
:17:38. > :17:47.the appointment of an ambassador, criticising him for being openly
:17:47. > :17:51.aggressively gay. He said military action against Iran was not
:17:51. > :17:58.responsible option. Senators have to vote before he gets the job and
:17:58. > :18:03.it is by no means automatic. I like Chuck Hagel, two purple hearts, but
:18:03. > :18:09.quite frankly he is out of the mainstream of thinking on most
:18:09. > :18:14.issues. President Obama has chosen the man he once regardless of what
:18:14. > :18:16.the Republicans think, lining up yet another conflict with Congress.
:18:16. > :18:19.The broadcaster Stuart Hall has appeared in court charged with
:18:19. > :18:26.indecent assault involving three girls in the 1970s and 1980s. Mr
:18:26. > :18:32.Hall, who's 83, denies all the charges. Our correspondent Judith
:18:32. > :18:35.Moritz reports from Preston Magistrate's Court. This is the
:18:35. > :18:40.first time that Stuart Hall has appeared in court to face the
:18:40. > :18:44.charges that were brought against him in December. The 83 year-old
:18:44. > :18:48.broadcaster came to Preston magistrates court, where he
:18:48. > :18:53.appeared under his full name of James Stuart Hall. During the
:18:53. > :19:03.hearing, which lasted for less than 15 minutes, he listened intently as
:19:03. > :19:04.
:19:04. > :19:11.the charges against him were read out. He pleaded not guilty. It is
:19:11. > :19:16.alleged that Stuart Hall indecently assaulted three girls aged nine, 13,
:19:16. > :19:21.and 16 or 17 at the time. He is accused of touching two of the
:19:21. > :19:28.girls and kissing one of them. Stuart Hall made his name
:19:28. > :19:32.presenting the game show It's A Knockout in the 1970s and 1980s. He
:19:32. > :19:36.also presented other news and entertainment programmes, and most
:19:36. > :19:41.recently has been a football reporter for Radio 5 Live. He is
:19:41. > :19:46.not working for the BBC whilst legal action against him is ongoing.
:19:46. > :19:52.His case was passed from the magistrates to the Crown Court in
:19:52. > :19:56.Preston. He was released on bail, and told to appear there on 16th
:19:56. > :19:59.April. Lord Strathclyde is standing down
:19:59. > :20:02.as the leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords. He was
:20:02. > :20:04.one of David Cameron's most experienced Cabinet members whose
:20:04. > :20:07.first ministerial post was in Margaret Thatcher's government.
:20:07. > :20:12.Lord Strathclyde says he wants to pursue a career in business, and
:20:12. > :20:14.will be replaced by Lord Hill. Hundreds of people have held a
:20:14. > :20:18.rally calling for press freedom outside a newspaper office in
:20:18. > :20:22.southern China. Journalists there are on strike in a rare protest
:20:22. > :20:27.against government censorship. The row was sparked when the paper's
:20:27. > :20:30.New Year message calling for reform was changed by propaganda officials.
:20:30. > :20:40.The protest is now being seen as an early test of China's new
:20:40. > :20:46.leadership. From Beijing, Martin Patience reports. They laid flowers
:20:46. > :20:51.are outside the newspaper's office, and sang in support of the striking
:20:51. > :20:56.journalists. It is the first walkout by staff from a major
:20:56. > :21:00.Chinese newspaper in more than 20 years, but a new generation is
:21:00. > :21:08.challenging the old way of doing things. Many want greater freedom
:21:08. > :21:12.of expression. This woman says the demonstrators share a common cause
:21:12. > :21:18.with the journalists. If we don't support them, then no one will
:21:18. > :21:22.speak up for us when something goes wrong, she says. All Chinese media
:21:22. > :21:27.is censored. The Southern Weekend however has a reputation for
:21:27. > :21:31.pushing the boundaries, making it China's most respected newspaper.
:21:31. > :21:36.But when propaganda officials last week changed an editorial calling
:21:36. > :21:40.for political reform to one praising the Communist Party,
:21:40. > :21:47.journalists said it was the final straw. In an open letter they said
:21:47. > :21:52.more than 1000 stories were sense of last year, making for an endless
:21:52. > :21:56.routine of on justifiable censorship. The unrest at the
:21:56. > :22:06.newspaper is an early test for China's new leader, Xi Jinping, who
:22:06. > :22:11.was facing calls for change just two months into the job.
:22:11. > :22:20.administration is interested in liberalising certain things but we
:22:20. > :22:26.have not seen any intention of liberalising the media.
:22:26. > :22:31.decision is likely to give the clearest sign yet of how China's
:22:31. > :22:34.new leaders will run this country. The Barcelona and Argentina forward
:22:34. > :22:38.Lionel Messi has won a record fourth Ballon d'Or award, given to
:22:38. > :22:40.the world's best player. The 25- year-old scored 91 goals last
:22:40. > :22:50.season, an all-time record, and took the honour ahead of Real
:22:50. > :22:53.Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona team mate Andres Iniesta.
:22:53. > :22:56.Britain's oldest man has died at the age of 110 years and 63 days.
:22:56. > :23:02.Reg Dean, a former church minister and army chaplain, lived through
:23:02. > :23:05.two world wars and experienced life under 24 British prime ministers.
:23:05. > :23:15.As Robert Hall reports, Mr Dean enjoyed writing and singing, and
:23:15. > :23:19.
:23:20. > :23:24.even took up painting at the age of # Lazy bones... Birthday tribute to
:23:24. > :23:28.the man who claimed the secret of a long and happy life was laziness.
:23:28. > :23:36.In the case of Reg Dean you might think there was little time to be
:23:36. > :23:41.idle. He was born on fourth November, 1902. Britain had just
:23:41. > :23:47.witnessed the end of the Victorian age. Young men were still fighting
:23:48. > :23:53.and dying in the second of the Boer Wars, and one man's extravagant
:23:53. > :23:59.beard was familiar to sports fans as WG Grace sealed his reputation
:23:59. > :24:03.at the crease. Reg Dean soared 24 prime ministers come and go in a
:24:03. > :24:08.world of constant change. He feared he would not survive his service as
:24:08. > :24:11.a military chaplain in Burma but told friends he attributed his long
:24:11. > :24:19.life to a mysterious brown medicine given to him by an Indian doctor
:24:20. > :24:26.who told him it would enable him to live forever. He certainly had
:24:26. > :24:36.staying power. In his 80s, he founded the Dalesman male voice
:24:36. > :24:37.
:24:37. > :24:46.choir, the guest of honour at his 190 birthday. I will be here next
:24:46. > :24:51.year, maybe, and the year after, and the year after. You never know.
:24:51. > :24:55.The Reverend Reg Dean was not able to attend his 110th Party so it
:24:55. > :25:02.came to him too. Perhaps that magical Alexia had finally lost its
:25:02. > :25:06.power, but his family said he never lost his sense of humour or his
:25:06. > :25:10.concern for others. He was a good man to the core and he had a strong
:25:10. > :25:13.belief you should always look for the best in people. He always
:25:13. > :25:21.believed that if you did good things for other people, you should
:25:21. > :25:27.do it not for a reward, but just to help. Reg Dean was certainly never
:25:27. > :25:32.lazy. A link with our past whose abiding hope was that he had left
:25:32. > :25:35.the world are slightly better place than when he arrived.