:00:12. > :00:16.Tonight at ten, America voices concern about Britain weakening its
:00:16. > :00:21.relationship with the European Union. The warning comes as David
:00:21. > :00:25.Cameron prepares to deliver a major speech on Europe, and hints today
:00:25. > :00:28.at a new settlement. But cost of the changes taking place in the
:00:28. > :00:33.Eurozone, which is driving change in the European Union, there is
:00:33. > :00:36.every opportunity to achieve that settlement and seek consent for it.
:00:36. > :00:40.But the Americans warn that referendums have often turned
:00:40. > :00:44.countries inwards. All Sir tonight, measuring the
:00:44. > :00:49.coalition's performance so far - a new document that shows targets met
:00:49. > :00:51.and targets missed. The camera chain Jessops goes into
:00:51. > :00:55.administration, with 2000 jobs at risk.
:00:55. > :01:01.They are still fighting the wildfires in parts of Australia as
:01:01. > :01:06.one family describe their remarkable escape.
:01:06. > :01:11.I am the president of the United States, clothed immense power!
:01:11. > :01:14.leading the way in the BAFTAs, Spielberg's Lincoln, the epic with
:01:14. > :01:19.10 nominations. Coming up in Sportsday, we will
:01:19. > :01:22.have all the action from the League Cup as Swansea target an upset
:01:22. > :01:32.against European champions Chelsea in the first leg of their semi-
:01:32. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:47.Good evening. The Obama administration has expressed
:01:48. > :01:51.concern about Britain weakening its relationship with the European
:01:51. > :01:55.Union. David Cameron is due to deliver a major speech on Europe
:01:55. > :02:00.later this month, and he has already suggested that a referendum
:02:00. > :02:04.might be needed if radical changes proposed. But the Americans warn
:02:04. > :02:09.that referendums have often turned countries inwards. This report
:02:09. > :02:12.contains flash photography. He when Britain's leading ally
:02:12. > :02:16.warns about the consequences of a speech the Prime Minister has yet
:02:17. > :02:21.to deliver on the vexed subject of Europe, it pays to listen. Philip
:02:21. > :02:27.Gordon may not be a household name in Washington DC, let alone here,
:02:27. > :02:31.but he is the top American official dealing with Europe as deputy
:02:31. > :02:41.secretary for European affairs are in the US State Department. Today
:02:41. > :02:47.
:02:47. > :02:52.Those words come less than two weeks before the prime minister has
:02:52. > :02:56.uttered a word of his speech on Europe, a speech in which he is
:02:56. > :02:59.expected to call for a renegotiation of the UK's
:02:59. > :03:03.relationship with the EU, followed by a referendum, something he
:03:03. > :03:07.hinted at in Prime Minister's Questions today. There are changes
:03:07. > :03:11.we would like in our relationship that would be good for Britain and
:03:11. > :03:14.good for Europe. Because of the changes taking place in the
:03:14. > :03:19.Eurozone which are driving change in the European Union, there is
:03:19. > :03:22.every opportunity to achieve that. Those urging him on say that
:03:22. > :03:27.finally settling our relationship with Europe is not just in
:03:27. > :03:32.Britain's interest, it is in America's, too. This is about
:03:32. > :03:36.rhetoric. It is about a serious attempt to reconcile the differing
:03:36. > :03:39.interests of the European Union in a way that helps the part of the
:03:39. > :03:44.world we happen to be geographically and culturally part
:03:44. > :03:48.of. The American diplomats have been responding to a warning by
:03:48. > :03:52.British business leaders in the Financial Times. Sir Richard
:03:52. > :03:56.Branson and the president of the employers' organisation the CBI
:03:56. > :03:59.warned that uncertainty would be caused by attempting a wholesale
:03:59. > :04:03.renegotiation of our EU membership, which they said would be rejected.
:04:03. > :04:07.David Cameron is allowing the country to sleepwalk towards the
:04:07. > :04:12.exit of the European Union, because he seems more focused on party
:04:12. > :04:15.unity than the national interest. Herman van Rompuy, the president of
:04:15. > :04:19.the European Council, has warned that Britain cannot cherry-pick
:04:19. > :04:25.which powers it gets back from Brussels. Today he met the man who
:04:25. > :04:29.will help run Europe for the next six months, Ireland's Taoiseach,
:04:29. > :04:34.who is a change was not on the agenda now, but added: a win would
:04:34. > :04:38.see it as being disastrous, were a country like Britain to leave the
:04:38. > :04:44.union. Is it any wonder that the prime minister has agonised for so
:04:44. > :04:49.long about whether to make a speech and what to say in it on a subject
:04:49. > :04:54.senior Conservatives call a timebomb ticking under his party?
:04:54. > :04:57.Nick Robinson, you could call it advice or a warning, but how likely
:04:58. > :05:01.is it too upset David Cameron? Are I don't know that it will upset him.
:05:01. > :05:07.There is no surprise here that the American administration don't want
:05:07. > :05:10.a strong Europe, they want a strong British voice in Europe, and they
:05:10. > :05:14.want that for selfish American reasons. They believe in free trade
:05:14. > :05:19.and a strong defence and they believe Britain's role is to argue
:05:19. > :05:23.that case on behalf of Britain and on behalf of America as well. But
:05:23. > :05:26.it will surprise Downing Street that this individual from the Obama
:05:27. > :05:30.administration wanted it so publicly to say that a referendum
:05:30. > :05:34.had dangers. He was responding to a question about the warning from
:05:34. > :05:37.those business leaders in the Financial Times today that a
:05:37. > :05:41.referendum, particularly one promised for some years ahead,
:05:41. > :05:45.because the Prime Minister will be talking about a referendum in the
:05:45. > :05:50.next Parliament if he is elected prime minister again, that that
:05:51. > :05:54.could freeze business investment, the business leaders said. Today
:05:54. > :06:00.the Obama administration said it might also force Britain and Europe
:06:00. > :06:07.to look inwardly. On the other hand, it will help him to counteract the
:06:07. > :06:10.Euro-sceptics, who say there is no risk of leaving Europe at all. But
:06:10. > :06:14.they worry that David Cameron listens too much to the Americans
:06:14. > :06:18.or business leaders or other pro- European voices, he might lose his
:06:18. > :06:23.leverage. They think he can only win what is right for Britain by
:06:23. > :06:26.threatening to leave Europe. Downing Street has published a
:06:26. > :06:31.progress report on the coalition's successes and failures since coming
:06:31. > :06:34.to power in 2010. More than 70 pledges have not been met,
:06:34. > :06:38.including some on pensions, road- building and criminal justice, but
:06:38. > :06:43.David Cameron said the majority of pledges have been honoured. Downing
:06:43. > :06:49.Street denies that it held back the publication to avoid damaging media
:06:49. > :06:53.coverage. Downing Street on Monday, and all
:06:53. > :06:57.smiles at the launch of a mid-term review of the coalition's
:06:57. > :07:01.achievements. But what was missing was a detailed assessment of
:07:02. > :07:08.promises kept and broken, an assessment that had been expected,
:07:08. > :07:12.but it is now clear that Downing Street considered not publishing it.
:07:12. > :07:14.One of David Cameron's senior advisers was photographed yesterday
:07:14. > :07:17.with vague document oche of problematic areas in the review
:07:17. > :07:21.that could produce and helpful stories about broken pledges. The
:07:21. > :07:26.Prime Minister's official said they had always intended to publish an
:07:26. > :07:30.were checking facts. In the Commons, it was too good for Labour to
:07:30. > :07:34.ignore. Can the Prime Minister tell us why on Monday, when he published
:07:34. > :07:39.his mid-term review, he failed to publish his audit of coalition
:07:39. > :07:47.broken promises? We will be publishing every audit of what
:07:47. > :07:52.every promise, all 399 pledges set out in the mid-term review. Unlike
:07:52. > :07:57.the party opposite, this will be full, frank and unpunished.
:07:57. > :08:04.after all that, the coalition's report was finally published. More
:08:04. > :08:08.than 100 pages of achievements such as helping children through the
:08:08. > :08:11.pupil premium, keeping pensioner benefits and establishing fixed-
:08:11. > :08:16.term five-year Parliament. But there were also promises that had
:08:16. > :08:19.not been achieved, like reforms to the House of Commons that were
:08:19. > :08:23.blocked, air passenger taxes that were left unchanged and a
:08:23. > :08:27.commitment to avoid big NHS reforms was ignored. Downing Street says
:08:27. > :08:32.this document shows that they are making progress on the majority of
:08:32. > :08:37.their commitments, but there are gaps. For example, it says nothing
:08:37. > :08:41.about the government's big economic Dec -- target of cutting debt
:08:41. > :08:44.before the next election. That is a target they are on course to miss.
:08:45. > :08:49.David Cameron and Nick Clegg may publish as many documents about
:08:49. > :08:56.their achievements as they want, but the smiles will only return for
:08:56. > :08:58.good when they fix the economy. And that really is a work in progress.
:08:58. > :09:03.The high street camera retailer Jessops has become the latest chain
:09:03. > :09:07.to be put into administration. It employs 2000 members of staff in
:09:07. > :09:11.nearly 200 shops. The company said its future was still to be decided,
:09:11. > :09:15.but that some store closures were inevitable. It is just the latest
:09:15. > :09:23.high street name to face difficulties.
:09:23. > :09:29.It is the first retail casualty of 2013. For a household name with 192
:09:29. > :09:34.stores across the UK. But today, this decades-old chain collapsed
:09:34. > :09:40.and the administrators were called in. In this increasingly cut-throat
:09:40. > :09:43.business, Jessops struggled to compete in the new digital age.
:09:43. > :09:46.market collapsed because people who once bought cameras found that they
:09:46. > :09:50.had these on their smartphones and use those instead. And the
:09:50. > :09:55.professionals found they could use online specialists that were
:09:55. > :10:01.cheaper and had more extensive ranges. In other words, our habits
:10:01. > :10:07.are changing. I don't shop there. I don't buy their stuff. That is why
:10:07. > :10:16.it is going under. I use my iPhone. I don't need to go into a camera
:10:16. > :10:20.shop. It is a shame so many stores are closing. Last month, Comet, now
:10:20. > :10:24.Jessops. This is the only large specialist camera chain left on the
:10:24. > :10:28.high street, but it has been struggling for some time, a
:10:28. > :10:33.retailer that simply was not making enough money to service its debts.
:10:33. > :10:38.It has been a troubling year for the high street. More than 50
:10:38. > :10:43.retailers went under in 2012, like Clinton Cards, although it have re-
:10:43. > :10:47.emerged with new owners and fewer stores. Others, like JJB Sports,
:10:47. > :10:52.were bought by rivals. And then commit, one of the biggest
:10:52. > :10:57.casualties of them all. This latest one will not be the last. Christmas
:10:57. > :11:01.is over. Lower sales to come. Stakeholders will be deciding who
:11:01. > :11:07.to support and will be pulling the plug on the most weak retailers in
:11:07. > :11:12.the run-up to the next quarter day at the end of March. For Jessops,
:11:12. > :11:15.store closures are inevitable. That process could begin as early as
:11:15. > :11:21.tomorrow, unless administrators win some breathing space to find a
:11:21. > :11:24.potential buyer. A British soldier who was shot dead
:11:24. > :11:27.in an attack in southern Afghanistan on Monday has been in
:11:27. > :11:33.tonight by the Ministry of Defence as Sapper Richard Walker from 28
:11:33. > :11:37.Engineer Regiment. He was 23. In a tribute to him, sapper Walker's
:11:37. > :11:44.family said he helped two things close to his heart, his daughter
:11:44. > :11:49.and his colleagues. He was the first British serviceman to die in
:11:49. > :11:52.Helmand this year. Record temperatures in parts of
:11:52. > :11:56.Australia have now cooled, reducing the threat from wildfires which
:11:56. > :12:00.have caused extensive damage in some regions. But forecasters are
:12:00. > :12:10.warning that more hot weather is on the weight and the emergency
:12:10. > :12:14.
:12:14. > :12:20.services in some areas are still Forest land burning out of control
:12:20. > :12:24.after a fire front scorched its way through. These were the overnight
:12:24. > :12:30.conditions outside the small New South Wales Hamlet of Yass. There
:12:30. > :12:35.used to be thick bring bush here. But within minutes, it was
:12:35. > :12:39.transformed into a blackened wasteland, an eerie, end-of-world
:12:39. > :12:46.feel. These images were taken by an astroNational Audit Office on board
:12:46. > :12:50.the International Space Station. -- an astronaut. Even miles above
:12:50. > :12:55.earth, the smoke plumes can be easily seen.
:12:55. > :13:00.130 bushfires are raging stl across New South Wales. Given the ferocity
:13:00. > :13:06.of the fires, it's amazing that as yet no-one has lost their life. The
:13:06. > :13:10.stories keep on emerging, though of extraordinary escapes. Especially
:13:11. > :13:13.in Tasmania, the fist state to be hit. Tim Holmes was baby sitting
:13:13. > :13:17.his daughter's young children when they were caught up in the
:13:17. > :13:22.firestorm. The children and their grandparents were forced to seek
:13:22. > :13:28.shelter in the sea, as flames engulfed the shoreline. It came
:13:28. > :13:32.from both directions. It came at us and then from the side. We saw
:13:32. > :13:37.tornadoes of fire just coming across towards us. And the next
:13:37. > :13:42.thing we knew everything was on fire, everywhere, all around us.
:13:42. > :13:47.For three horrifying hours they hid under the jetty, neck-deep in water.
:13:47. > :13:51.All were eventually rescued. ! Thank God you are all safe and
:13:51. > :13:56.well. At least a cool change in the
:13:56. > :14:00.weather has brought some relief to the fire crews. Here they were
:14:00. > :14:04.containing a blaze, literally fighting fire with fire. This gives
:14:04. > :14:09.you an indication of how conditions have changed in the past 24 hours.
:14:09. > :14:14.Yesterday the flames were in the tree tops, fanned by the ferocious
:14:14. > :14:17.winds. Today, this fire front is very small and it's moving very
:14:17. > :14:25.slowly. If only the other fires were so
:14:25. > :14:29.easy to put out. Coming up on tonight's programme:
:14:29. > :14:38.The latest on the search for the wartime Spitfires thought to be
:14:38. > :14:42.buried in Burma. Private companies and charities
:14:42. > :14:45.could be allowed to supervise low- risk offenders on proBiggs in
:14:45. > :14:48.England and Wales, under plans announced by the Government. --
:14:48. > :14:53.probation. They would be paid by results. There would be no change
:14:53. > :14:56.in the way high-risk offend remembers monitored. Critics say
:14:56. > :15:02.the fans could compromise public protection.
:15:02. > :15:06.More than half of all prisoners released from jail end up back in
:15:06. > :15:10.the Criminal Justice System. That's simple fact which has convinced the
:15:10. > :15:13.Government to strip the state-run Probation Service of most of its
:15:13. > :15:20.responsibilities and hand over services to private and voluntary
:15:20. > :15:24.sector contractors on a payment-by- results basis. I think it's calmed
:15:24. > :15:30.down. You do seem calm. Peterborough Prison is pioneering
:15:30. > :15:33.the approach. While inside a repeat offender like Matt works with a
:15:33. > :15:37.probation mentor, when he gets released his worker will be at the
:15:38. > :15:41.prison gate to meet him. Now out and trying to stay on the straight
:15:41. > :15:45.and narrow, Matt says the supervision and support are key it
:15:45. > :15:49.keeping him out of prison. Before, I would normally just go straight
:15:49. > :15:54.back to alcohol and drugs and violence, my old life, really. This
:15:54. > :15:58.time I've got things to look up to, like I have a lot of support from
:15:58. > :16:02.the service. I'm going to be on a course. The Government says the
:16:02. > :16:06.changes will transform the Probation Service. Around 200,000
:16:06. > :16:11.low and medium risk offenders will be supervised by private companies
:16:11. > :16:15.like G4S and Serco, with not-for- profit groups providing some
:16:15. > :16:20.interventions. Thael also managed 46,000 short-term prisoners who
:16:20. > :16:24.currently get little or no support when they leave jail. The 50,000
:16:24. > :16:26.most dangerous offenders in the community will remain within the
:16:26. > :16:31.state-run service. The Justice Secretary, Chris
:16:31. > :16:34.Grayling, today met former prisoners, who now volunteer to
:16:34. > :16:39.help other offenders stay out of trouble. But he's convinced the
:16:39. > :16:42.private sector is the way ahead for probation, despite contractors like
:16:42. > :16:45.G4S running into trouble at the Olympics. The Justice Secretary
:16:45. > :16:49.wants to reduce reoffending and save money at the same time. His
:16:49. > :16:54.solution is effectively to privatise most probation operations
:16:54. > :16:56.in England and Wales. The hope is that the profit motive will produce
:16:56. > :16:59.a cheaper, and more effective service.
:16:59. > :17:04.No more money, greater be responsibility and businessmen
:17:04. > :17:09.looking to make a profit out of it all. Is this really the right way
:17:09. > :17:14.to run probation? I want to capture the best of the private, public
:17:14. > :17:19.andville trisector. Each bring strengths to this. -- voluntary.
:17:19. > :17:23.Critics say splitting the service will create a fragmented service
:17:24. > :17:30.which won't be able to cope if a low-risk owe fern suddenly becomes
:17:30. > :17:35.more of a danger to the public. that changes, it means change of
:17:35. > :17:40.provider. Information will get lost and it is unclear accountability of
:17:40. > :17:45.who is responsible and that's when things can go wrong. The Government
:17:45. > :17:50.says such problems can be resolved by the way the contract is drafted.
:17:51. > :17:55.It's hoped the system will help those like Matt live a productive
:17:55. > :18:02.life. Marks & Spencer has reported a drop in sales after releasing its
:18:02. > :18:05.statements 12 hours early following a media leak. The sales fell 1.8%
:18:05. > :18:09.compared to the previous year, on stores open more than a year.
:18:09. > :18:14.A Syrian refugee, who says he is the only man to survive from a
:18:14. > :18:19.group who faced a firing squad neither city of Aleppo has been
:18:19. > :18:26.talking about what happened. Mom Ali says he has -- Muhhammad Ali
:18:26. > :18:32.says he was abducted for no reason and held without food and water.
:18:32. > :18:36.Mohammed alwill he works at a petrol station in southern Turkey.
:18:37. > :18:40.-- Muhhammad Ali. Customers barely notice him. But the man selling
:18:40. > :18:44.crisps, has one of the most astonishing stories of the Syrian
:18:44. > :18:50.conflict. He tells me that he was stopped at a pro-government
:18:50. > :18:57.checkpoint in the Syrian city of Aleppo in August. The militiamen
:18:57. > :19:00.mistrusted his village, they took him away. Transtran After three
:19:00. > :19:03.days with no -- TRANSLATION: After three days with no food and water
:19:03. > :19:07.they told me and the other prisoners that they were taking us
:19:07. > :19:13.to another station. They put us in a car and then stopped at a
:19:13. > :19:20.deserted area. This was Aleppo at the time. Rebels,
:19:20. > :19:24.filmed here by the BBC, go after suspected pro-government militiamen
:19:24. > :19:29.known as Shabihas. They are accused of carrying out mass killings. A
:19:29. > :19:37.single refugee has little way of proving his account. Words and
:19:37. > :19:43.scars have to do. TRANSLATION: put us all on our knees, all 21 of
:19:43. > :19:47.us. They began firing. I fainted when they shot at us. I woke up
:19:47. > :19:52.after 15-20 minutes and saw the gunman's car leaving and I saw that
:19:52. > :20:00.everybody around me was dead. I was hit by five bullets. One in my
:20:00. > :20:03.shoulder, one of them is in my ear. Two in my leg and one in my hip.
:20:03. > :20:09.Government and rebel forces still fight for control of Syria's
:20:09. > :20:13.biggest city. Aleppo produces no winners.
:20:13. > :20:17.Only refugees. Some people might say that it was a
:20:17. > :20:22.miracle that you were the only survivor. TRANSLATION: I don't know.
:20:22. > :20:27.I don't know. Perhaps it's because I was able to withstand the gunfire.
:20:27. > :20:33.In Islam we believe that no-one dies before their time. Perhaps
:20:33. > :20:37.this wasn't my time to die. From his small bedroom at the
:20:37. > :20:41.petrol station, Mohammed reflects on what to do with his second life.
:20:41. > :20:48.He trained as a tailor and may go back into the business, but not
:20:48. > :20:51.back home. A British team searching for a
:20:51. > :20:54.collection of Spitfire planes believed to have been buried in
:20:54. > :20:58.Burma at the end of the Second World War say they may have found
:20:58. > :21:03.what they are looking for. Robert Hall explains.
:21:03. > :21:08.Amid the excited chatter of a press conference, these indistinct images,
:21:08. > :21:12.blurred by muddy water, were the focus of attention and speculation.
:21:12. > :21:17.Could they be the confirmation that a 17-year quest was nearing its
:21:17. > :21:23.goal? The aviation enthusiast, who is
:21:24. > :21:28.leading that search, felt it was a hopeful sign. Images I have seen on
:21:28. > :21:32.camera are not conclusive at all. But it's very encouraging that
:21:32. > :21:37.we've found a wooden crate in the same area where the Americans
:21:37. > :21:41.buried the Spitfires. Mr Cundel says he has eye-witness evidence
:21:41. > :21:43.that the planes were buried in the months after the Second World War,
:21:43. > :21:50.disposed of, rather than shipped home.
:21:50. > :21:57.Out of 20,000 Spitfires built, less than 40 are still flying. Each one
:21:57. > :22:03.worth more than �1 million. David Cundel's dream is to see at least
:22:03. > :22:07.more than 100 back in the air. He says he has identified three
:22:07. > :22:12.possible burial sites across Burma. Today's images are from an area in
:22:12. > :22:19.the north where 18 are thought to have survived. A much smaller site
:22:19. > :22:24.in central Burma Maicon tain six aircraft but the biggest -- may
:22:24. > :22:29.contain six. But the biggest price could be in another area where it
:22:29. > :22:33.is thought 36 lie close to roon goon airport. But these are sites
:22:33. > :22:38.largely forgotten and overgrown and at risk of monsoon flooding. Some
:22:38. > :22:41.experts think the recovery would be a miracle. The notion that these
:22:41. > :22:45.aeroplanes in their boxes, that they were buried in pristine
:22:45. > :22:50.condition, I don't know, I would love to is he it happen, it has
:22:50. > :22:53.never been seen before and nothing like it has been found before.
:22:54. > :22:58.David Cundel's conviction has never waivered. Tomorrow he'll watch a
:22:58. > :23:02.dig which will be watched by Rangoon's air travellers. One way
:23:02. > :23:05.or another, the mystery of Burma's disappearing Spitfires could soon
:23:05. > :23:09.be involved. The BBC presenter Andrew Marr is
:23:09. > :23:13.recovering in hospital after suffering a stroke. The 53-year-old,
:23:13. > :23:17.who presents the Andrew Marr Show and Start the Week was taken ill
:23:17. > :23:21.yesterday. Doctors say he is responding to treatment.
:23:21. > :23:25.The former BBC Director-General, Alasdair Milne has died at the age
:23:25. > :23:30.of 82. Mr Milne was in charge of the corporation during a turbulent
:23:30. > :23:34.period during the 1980s. He resigned in January 1987.
:23:34. > :23:39.The most successful movie in British cinema history has not been
:23:39. > :23:49.nominated as Best Film in this year's bf at that awards, but the
:23:49. > :23:53.
:23:53. > :23:58.Bond film gets eight nominations. - - -- BAFTA awards.
:23:58. > :24:01.Until we cure ourselves of slavery, this amendment is that sure. Daniel
:24:01. > :24:06.Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, the American President that campaigned
:24:06. > :24:09.against slavery, in a performance that has earned him a place on the
:24:09. > :24:15.leading actor shortlist. It is a self-evident truth that things
:24:15. > :24:19.which are equal it the same thing are equal to each other.
:24:19. > :24:22.One of ten BAFTA nomination force Steven Spielberg's Lincoln.
:24:22. > :24:25.Although Spielberg himself is a surprise omission from the Best
:24:25. > :24:31.Director category. Two other movies shortlisted for
:24:31. > :24:39.Best Film are based on true stories about American covert operations in
:24:39. > :24:44.the Middle East. Argo and Katherine Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty.
:24:44. > :24:48.I want you to know you are wrong. This is it. Hollywood loves history