:00:07. > :00:13.Tonight at Ten - a new system of random tests on meat is recommended
:00:13. > :00:16.by the European Commission. It is the latest response to the horse
:00:16. > :00:26.meat scandal now affecting much of the EU, as ministers act to restore
:00:26. > :00:29.
:00:29. > :00:34.confidence. The meeting today showed complete determination to
:00:34. > :00:38.reassure the consumer. When they go to buy a product, they will get
:00:38. > :00:47.what they want. The owner of one of the two British firms raided
:00:47. > :00:51.yesterday has denied any wrongdoing. I do not do kebabs, I do not do
:00:51. > :00:54.beefburgers. This is not a processing plant. We will have the
:00:54. > :00:56.latest from Brussels, where ministers have been holding talks
:00:56. > :00:59.this evening. Also tonight... A squeeze on household income for
:00:59. > :01:02.another two years at least, says the Governor of the Bank of England.
:01:02. > :01:12.A deadly new virus strain has affected a third patient in the UK,
:01:12. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:25.thought to be spread from person to A final public mass for Pope
:01:25. > :01:29.
:01:29. > :01:32.Benedict, as he prepares to stand down at the end of the month. And
:01:32. > :01:37.an early goal for Manchester United as they take on Real Madrid in the
:01:37. > :01:47.Champions League. Coming up in Sportsday, on the BBC News Channel,
:01:47. > :01:59.
:01:59. > :02:02.a will have the best of the action Good evening. The European
:02:02. > :02:07.Commission is recommending a new system of random testing of meat,
:02:07. > :02:11.starting on 1st March, in response to the horse meat scandal. It says
:02:11. > :02:14.products being sold as processed beef should be tested for horse DNA.
:02:14. > :02:20.The Prime Minister has warned that any British firms passing off horse
:02:20. > :02:29.meat as beef will face the "full intervention of the law". Our
:02:29. > :02:33.correspondent Hugh Pym has the latest. This scandal knows no
:02:33. > :02:38.national boundaries. Today, Germany, Switzerland and Norway all ordered
:02:38. > :02:41.withdrawals of some products, which were thought to be suspect. A
:02:41. > :02:46.meeting of European ministers in Brussels came up with proposals
:02:46. > :02:50.including testing processed beef for horse DNA across the European
:02:50. > :02:54.Union, and tougher law enforcement. They raised the possibility that
:02:54. > :02:58.there had been a criminal conspiracy. At this stage, we
:02:58. > :03:02.honestly do not know. But the meeting today showed complete
:03:02. > :03:06.determination to reassure the consumer. People should know that
:03:06. > :03:11.when they go and buy a processed beef product, they get beef, they
:03:11. > :03:14.do not get horse. Back in the UK, the focus was on this plant in west
:03:14. > :03:18.Wales, after officials from the Food Standards Agency entered with
:03:18. > :03:24.police yesterday. The owner denied that horse meat handled here was
:03:24. > :03:29.put into products for UK consumers. I get paid for doing the cutting up.
:03:29. > :03:33.There is no further processing. I do not to mince meet, kebabs or
:03:33. > :03:37.beefburgers. This is not a processing plant, it is purely
:03:37. > :03:42.production, meat cutting. This slaughter house in West Yorkshire
:03:42. > :03:46.is also at the centre of inquiries. It is said to have supplied the
:03:46. > :03:50.Welsh plant with horse meat. Shoppers at a local farmer's market
:03:50. > :03:54.today had varying opinions on the debate about ready meals. I do not
:03:54. > :03:59.trust it now, to be honest. Obviously, you do not know what
:03:59. > :04:02.you're getting in the packs. There is no health hazard with horse meat,
:04:02. > :04:07.it should not be in there, but there is no health hazard - the
:04:07. > :04:12.French eat it all of the time. officials say they are examining a
:04:12. > :04:16.paper trail, including documents seized during the raids on the two
:04:16. > :04:20.meat Plan C yesterday. The Chancellor, on a factory visit,
:04:20. > :04:24.said he had full confidence in British food, though he rejected
:04:24. > :04:30.requests to sample a birdie made spaghetti bolognese. The Prime
:04:30. > :04:37.Minister told MPs that any wrongdoing would be punished. -- a
:04:37. > :04:42.ready made spaghetti bolognese. have asked for meaningful tests
:04:42. > :04:45.from retailers and producers, and those will be published in full.
:04:45. > :04:50.Laboratories are now carrying out those tests, and the first results
:04:50. > :04:54.will be published on Friday. Criminal inquiries will continue,
:04:54. > :04:58.along with the scientific, as ministers hint there may be further
:04:58. > :05:05.raids on meat processing plants. As I mentioned, ministers have been
:05:05. > :05:09.hoarding those talks in Brussels this evening, and Christian Fraser
:05:09. > :05:13.is there for us. What progress are the authorities making? In recent
:05:13. > :05:16.weeks there has been a lot of finger-pointing and blame shifting
:05:16. > :05:19.between the member states. Today was an opportunity to come together
:05:20. > :05:24.and share intelligence. On the ground that is already happening.
:05:25. > :05:29.We have been told that vets from different countries are in other
:05:29. > :05:33.countries, under reciprocal deals. What they want to do is to collate
:05:33. > :05:37.all of the information. Tomorrow, Owen Paterson will go to The Hague
:05:37. > :05:41.to ask the European police agency to get involved, to pull all the
:05:41. > :05:44.strands of the investigation to go there. He wants the Food Standards
:05:44. > :05:48.Agency is within the member states to share data better than they have
:05:48. > :05:52.been doing. But they also need to know how widescale the problem is.
:05:53. > :05:57.To that end, they have introduced a new testing regime. From 1st March,
:05:57. > :06:03.for three months, if approved, there would be testing on two
:06:03. > :06:07.devils. Firstly, a test for equine DNA, and secondly for horse which
:06:07. > :06:14.is legitimately in the food chain, which will be tested for the banned
:06:14. > :06:17.chemical phenylbutazone. And so, by May, we should know how many of us
:06:17. > :06:21.have been a unknowingly eating horse, and whether those
:06:21. > :06:31.reassurances they have been giving us, namely that the horse meat is
:06:31. > :06:33.
:06:33. > :06:35.entirely safe, are in fact correct. growth and a squeeze on average
:06:35. > :06:39.incomes for at least another two years, according to the outgoing
:06:39. > :06:43.Governor of the Bank of England. Sir Mervyn King warned that the
:06:43. > :06:46.economy would remain weak until the time of the next election, while
:06:47. > :06:50.inflation will remain stubbornly high. But he insisted that recovery
:06:50. > :06:55.was within sight, as our economics editor, Stephanie Flanders,
:06:55. > :07:00.explains. The Bank of England was celebrating a birthday today, the
:07:00. > :07:04.20th anniversary of its inflation report. Sir Mervyn King has
:07:04. > :07:11.presented all 81 of the quarterly reports since 1993, and today, he
:07:11. > :07:14.tried, against the odds, to find some good news. The UK economy is
:07:14. > :07:18.therefore set for a recovery. That is not to say that the road ahead
:07:18. > :07:24.will be smoked. This has not been a normal recession, and it will not
:07:24. > :07:28.be a normal recovery. -- smooth. The new forecasts show the economy
:07:28. > :07:32.growing this year, but not quite as fast as they were hoping back in
:07:32. > :07:36.November. And once again, the forecast for inflation is quite a
:07:36. > :07:40.forecast for inflation is quite a lot higher. Inflation has been well
:07:40. > :07:44.above target for the best part of seven years. Back in November, the
:07:44. > :07:48.best guess of the Bank of England was that it would fall back to 2%
:07:48. > :07:52.by the beginning of next year. It now thinks it will rise again over
:07:52. > :07:58.the next few months, and still be around 3% in one year's time. There
:07:58. > :08:00.are different things pushing up inflation, but Governor said quite
:08:00. > :08:05.inflation, but Governor said quite a few, like the rising tuition fees,
:08:05. > :08:08.were the result of government policies. Whether it is education,
:08:08. > :08:12.green policies, what they have done is to push up prices, which clearly
:08:12. > :08:17.makes our job in the short run more difficult. Do you think that is
:08:17. > :08:21.something they should have borne in mind? I hope they did, but it is up
:08:21. > :08:25.to them to decide on those. We will have to deal with the consequences.
:08:25. > :08:29.They will have to look through some of those price increases. Looking
:08:29. > :08:32.through inflation means ignoring it. Any saver hoping for an early rise
:08:32. > :08:35.in interest rates will be disappointed, as will anyone who
:08:35. > :08:39.was hoping that the squeeze in living standards might finally be
:08:39. > :08:43.about to end. In real terms, average earnings are now back to
:08:44. > :08:47.where they were 10 years ago. If the Bank of England is right, real
:08:48. > :08:53.living standards could carry on falling even into 2015. There was
:08:53. > :08:57.more bad news from high street today, as the clothing chain
:08:57. > :09:00.Republic told its 2,500 staff it was going into administration. Sir
:09:00. > :09:04.Mervyn said the Government should be doing its best to boost growth
:09:04. > :09:07.over the long term, but he did not seem to see much scope for a short-
:09:07. > :09:12.term boost, either from the Chancellor or from the Bank of
:09:12. > :09:16.England. I think there is some frustration, the Bank of England
:09:16. > :09:19.have in many ways to run the kitchen sink at this problem, in
:09:19. > :09:22.terms of the monetary policy response, yet the real economy has
:09:23. > :09:26.been broadly flat for four years. So, something other than interest
:09:26. > :09:31.rate cuts or printing more money needs to be done to spare a
:09:31. > :09:35.recovery. The Bank of England will reach another milestone in July,
:09:35. > :09:40.when Mark Carney becomes governor. He may want to strike a different
:09:40. > :09:43.tone, but if these new forecasts are right, his first order of
:09:43. > :09:47.business will be rather familiar - explaining to the Chancellor when
:09:47. > :09:52.inflation has gone over 3% yet again.
:09:52. > :09:56.Live to Westminster now, and our deputy political editor, James
:09:56. > :10:02.Landale, joins us from there. What impact do you think this will have
:10:02. > :10:05.on the political battle had? A lot of economic debate is about
:10:05. > :10:09.forecasts and statistics, and frankly, a lot of it will be
:10:09. > :10:13.meaningless to many of us. But the cost of living is one thing that we
:10:13. > :10:16.all understand. That's why the Labour leader has seized on these
:10:16. > :10:20.figures, showing that the cost of living is rising, while average
:10:20. > :10:23.earnings are falling. That's why he pressed the Prime Minister on it in
:10:23. > :10:27.the House of Commons today. And that's why in The Guardian
:10:27. > :10:31.newspaper tonight, he is promising to fight what he calls a cost-of-
:10:31. > :10:35.living election. He is arguing that the cost of living is rising, which,
:10:35. > :10:39.he says, proves that the Government's economic policies are
:10:39. > :10:44.failing. It can be an effective political argument. A long time ago,
:10:44. > :10:48.Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter to become President of the United
:10:48. > :10:51.States in part because he asked voters, do you feel better off than
:10:51. > :10:55.you did four years ago? The Government says, it is tackling the
:10:55. > :10:59.cost of living, it has frozen fuel duty, cut council tax and reduced
:10:59. > :11:03.income tax for millions of low-paid workers. More pointedly, ministers
:11:03. > :11:07.say, all of this talk from Mr Miliband about the cost of living
:11:07. > :11:12.in their eyes covered up the fact that Labour have yet to put forward
:11:12. > :11:15.a coherent argument on economics which is owned alternative, which
:11:16. > :11:20.the voters can trust. That's the shifting battleground of politics
:11:20. > :11:29.and economics. And we're just a few weeks away from a pretty important
:11:29. > :11:33.budget. A third case of infection from a new strain of virus has been
:11:33. > :11:36.confirmed in the United Kingdom. A man who is in intensive care in
:11:36. > :11:40.Birmingham to fully thought to be the first confirmed example of the
:11:40. > :11:44.new coronavirus being passed from person to person. The Health
:11:44. > :11:48.Protection Agency is monitoring the case closely, as Fergus Walsh
:11:48. > :11:52.reports. This rare and new coronavirus has killed half the
:11:52. > :11:56.people it has infected. Now, for the first time, it has been
:11:56. > :12:00.transmitted in Britain. A man is in intensive care in this Birmingham
:12:00. > :12:03.hospital, having been infected by his father, who is also seriously
:12:03. > :12:07.ill, having brought back the virus from the Middle East last month.
:12:07. > :12:13.The virus emerged in Saudi Arabia last year, and there have been
:12:13. > :12:20.cases in Jordan and Qatar. Of the 11 people infected worldwide, five
:12:20. > :12:24.have died, and three men are in intensive care in the UK. The virus,
:12:24. > :12:29.which may have originally come from bats, attacks the lungs, causing
:12:29. > :12:35.pneumonia, and it can also damage other organs, like the kidneys. But
:12:35. > :12:38.fortunately, the virus does not pass easily between humans.
:12:38. > :12:43.consider that the risk to the UK population, whether within the
:12:43. > :12:47.country, or travelling abroad, remains very low indeed. Of course
:12:47. > :12:52.it is a concern to us that there is an infection which has caused
:12:52. > :12:55.severe illness, and which we know very little about, and indeed,
:12:55. > :13:00.where it has come from. But nevertheless, the number of cases
:13:01. > :13:03.worldwide remains very, very lo. This is as close as I can get to
:13:03. > :13:07.the coronavirus, which is being analysed in a high containment
:13:07. > :13:12.laboratory like this one. But what about people who may have
:13:12. > :13:18.unwittingly come into contact with the bug in the 17 days since the
:13:18. > :13:21.man flew back in from Saudi Arabia? Well, health officials have traced
:13:21. > :13:27.up to 100 contacts, including people who were sitting near him on
:13:27. > :13:32.the plane, and no-one, apart from his son, has fallen seriously ill.
:13:32. > :13:36.It is worth noting that the son has a weakened immune system, which may
:13:36. > :13:41.have made him more vulnerable. This is one of the most worrying new
:13:41. > :13:51.pathogens to emerge since SARS, which killed 800 people worldwide a
:13:51. > :13:56.
:13:56. > :13:59.decade ago. Thankfully, this virus Six journalists who worked at the
:13:59. > :14:01.News of the World have been arrested following a new
:14:01. > :14:04.investigation into phone hacking. Three men and three women,
:14:04. > :14:06.including two journalists currently working at The Sun, were questioned
:14:06. > :14:11.by Scotland Yard detectives about an alleged conspiracy to intercept
:14:11. > :14:12.phone calls. Five of them have been given bail until May. The European
:14:12. > :14:16.Union and the United States are to start negotiations on a free-trade
:14:16. > :14:19.agreement, which has the potential to be the largest in the world. The
:14:19. > :14:21.two sides say they want to get as close as possible to eliminating
:14:21. > :14:29.tariffs, or import taxes, for all industrial and agricultural goods.
:14:29. > :14:34.Trade between the EU and the USA is Day. Pope Benedict has celebrated
:14:34. > :14:38.his last public mass before he steps down at the end of the month.
:14:38. > :14:42.Thousands of worshippers filled St Peter's for the service, marking
:14:42. > :14:47.the start of elect. Earlier in the day, the Pope told pilgrims at his
:14:47. > :14:53.weekly audience, that he didn't have the physical or spiritual
:14:53. > :14:59.strength to continue in office. The meeting of cardinals to elect
:14:59. > :15:03.the new hope is expected to start in the middle of March.
:15:03. > :15:07.On Ash Wednesday, Catholics remember that the body is mortal,
:15:07. > :15:12.only the soul endures. Pope Benedict, in his encroaching
:15:12. > :15:15.frailty is, by his own acknowledgement, testimony to that.
:15:15. > :15:22.This is the last scheduled mass he'll celebrate as Pope.
:15:22. > :15:25.They had to move the service from a much smaller church in Rome to St
:15:25. > :15:29.Peter's itself, to accommodate all those who wanted to be here, a
:15:29. > :15:35.measure of how deeply his resignation has moved the faithful.
:15:35. > :15:40.These are the emotionally-charged last days of Benedict XVI.
:15:40. > :15:44.Whatever he says over the next two weeks will carry enormous symbolic
:15:44. > :15:48.significance, bus his remarks will have the character of carefully-
:15:48. > :15:52.chosen last words a kind of legacy- statement. Already the question is
:15:52. > :15:57.being raised here: will Pope Benedict's influence retire with
:15:57. > :16:01.him? Or will it go on? He will live in this former monastery inside the
:16:01. > :16:06.Vatican walls, a neighbour of the new Pope. Is there a danger that
:16:06. > :16:11.his presence will undermine the credibility or legitimacy of his
:16:11. > :16:15.successor? Will there be two Popes in the Vatican? This morning crowds
:16:15. > :16:18.gathered for his usual Wednesday audience. Among them a party of
:16:18. > :16:23.schoolchildren from Wiltshire. It's quite an honour, really,
:16:23. > :16:29.especially as it is one of his last gatherings. It is quite special to
:16:29. > :16:35.be here. It was once said that Pope Benedict
:16:35. > :16:40.lacked charisma. No-one says it now. The shock that greeted his
:16:40. > :16:43.resignation has given way to an open, boisterous affection for a
:16:43. > :16:50.visibly old man. He said again that his going was for the good of the
:16:50. > :16:54.church, that the modern world moved rapidly, shaking the life of faith.
:16:54. > :16:59.TRANSLATION: I'm well aware of the gravity of such an act but at the
:16:59. > :17:04.same time I'm aware of not being able it carry out my papal ministry
:17:04. > :17:10.with the papal and spiritual strength it requires. -- to carry
:17:10. > :17:17.out. In saying explicitly - I'm too old to carry on, is he also saying
:17:17. > :17:25.implicitly to the church's leaders - this place of me, choose someone
:17:25. > :17:30.young, someone vigorous. But that's for tomorrow. Today they came to
:17:31. > :17:38.see the Pope who today was doing something that to me, seems bold,
:17:38. > :17:43.selfless and brave. Still to come:
:17:43. > :17:49.The North-South housing divide. Are rich areas in the south of England
:17:49. > :17:52.benefiting at the expense of poorer regions SNP
:17:52. > :18:00.In his first State of the Union address of his second term,
:18:00. > :18:06.President Obama has urged Congress to back his plans to revive the
:18:06. > :18:11.sluggish US economy. He appealed on politicians on all sides to back
:18:12. > :18:14.gun law reforms. The response was decidedly mixed.
:18:14. > :18:19.This President doesn't stop campaigning just because the
:18:19. > :18:22.election is over. He visited this North Carolina factory to urge
:18:22. > :18:26.people to get behind the ambitious plans he announced in Congress.
:18:26. > :18:35.There he needs all the friends he can get. Republicans control the
:18:35. > :18:37.House and they are likely to stop into laws. The broad grin vanished
:18:37. > :18:43.as he lectured them. He said harsh cuts which will kick in next month
:18:43. > :18:49.had to be stopped. No more peering over the Fiscal Cliff. Lets set
:18:49. > :18:54.party interests aside and work to pass a budget which replaces cuts
:18:54. > :18:59.with savings. Let's do it without the brinkmanship that stresses
:18:59. > :19:02.consumers and scares off investors. The greatest nation on earth - the
:19:02. > :19:05.greatest nation on earth cannot keep conducting its business by
:19:05. > :19:08.drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next.
:19:08. > :19:13.We can't do it. He said he wanted to rebuild the
:19:13. > :19:18.economy for the middle class, raise it's minimum wage, fight climate
:19:18. > :19:22.change, help illegal immigrants and rein in American's gun culture for
:19:22. > :19:24.the sake of the families of victims, who were in the audience. They
:19:25. > :19:34.deserve a vote. APPLAUSE
:19:35. > :19:35.
:19:35. > :19:43.. They deserve a vote. They deserve a vote. The families of Newtown
:19:43. > :19:48.deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote and Tucson
:19:48. > :19:51.and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence.
:19:52. > :19:57.President's constrapbt refrain during the speech - just give us a
:19:57. > :20:02.vote - underlines his weakness. Without some Republican support all
:20:02. > :20:06.his plans will come to nought and most want to oppose him. The man
:20:06. > :20:10.had gave the Republican's reply is a rising star.
:20:10. > :20:15.He was uncompromising but clearly wants it change his party's image.
:20:15. > :20:19.I still live in the same working- class neighbourhood I grew up with.
:20:19. > :20:22.My neighbours aren't millionaires, they are retiree who is depend on
:20:22. > :20:27.Social Security and Medicare. They are workers who have to get up
:20:27. > :20:31.tomorrow morning to go to work to pay the bills. The President's
:20:32. > :20:34.returning to the White House hoping that some Republicans see
:20:34. > :20:39.compromise as an essential part of a new aim dge.
:20:39. > :20:44.A lur representing 31 people who alleged they were abused by Jimmy
:20:44. > :20:48.Savile has issued a writ against Savile's estate and the BBC. -- a
:20:48. > :20:52.lawyer. There are more than 90 people pursuing legal action in the
:20:52. > :20:56.wake of scandal. The cases are put on hold until the outcome of a
:20:56. > :20:59.series of inquiries. A billion pound Government scheme
:20:59. > :21:02.to encourage house building will benefit rich areas in the south of
:21:02. > :21:06.England at the expense of poorer councils in the north of England
:21:06. > :21:11.according to critics. Councils in a number of northern authorities say
:21:11. > :21:15.the new homes bonus moves millions from deprived neighbourhoods to of
:21:15. > :21:22.a fluent parts of the country. Ministers say the scheme fairly
:21:22. > :21:26.rewards those councils which need houses to be built. Is the
:21:26. > :21:31.Government's housing policy building a new North South twied
:21:31. > :21:36.across engstphrand councillors in places like Dewer -- across
:21:36. > :21:41.England? Councillors in Durham arguing that a scheme to build new
:21:41. > :21:45.homes is diverting money from deprived areas in the north to the
:21:45. > :21:47.south. The existing pot of money is given
:21:47. > :21:50.to English local authorities by the Government. Every council
:21:50. > :21:53.contributes the same proportion from their grant. The cash is
:21:53. > :21:57.redistributed to councils, according to the number of houses
:21:57. > :22:01.built in their area. The new homes bonus means poorer northern
:22:01. > :22:06.councils pay more money in, because their budgets are bigger, and get
:22:06. > :22:10.less money out, because rewards are based on the value of the new homes.
:22:10. > :22:14.And property prices here are much lower than they are in the south.
:22:14. > :22:18.So we're all losing from all the councils across the north. Councils
:22:18. > :22:22.in the north-east have been crunching the numbers to illustrate
:22:22. > :22:26.the policy's impact across England. Those areas where residents gain
:22:26. > :22:30.overall are marked in green. Those that lose in red. The money we are
:22:30. > :22:34.getting back is less than the amount we are losing, so this is
:22:34. > :22:38.increasing the amounts of cuts we're having to make here in the
:22:38. > :22:43.north-east, while elsewhere, it produces extra resource for
:22:43. > :22:50.councils in the of a fluent south. The latest map reveals how in
:22:50. > :22:54.Durham the net effect is the council loses �14.25 per person but
:22:54. > :22:58.in Windsor and Maidenhead the council gains �12.32. The more
:22:58. > :23:02.expensive the home, generally the more money you get, benefiting
:23:02. > :23:06.places like leafy Berkshire. But councillors here point out the new
:23:06. > :23:10.homes bonus is only part of the overall grant from Whitehall.
:23:10. > :23:13.Overall, if you look at the funding position, Windsor and Maidenhead
:23:13. > :23:18.get far lest per head or per dwelling than authorities in the
:23:18. > :23:22.north. I think any incentive for housing must be welcomed.
:23:22. > :23:25.Housing Minister stands by his policy. Arguing that it encourages
:23:25. > :23:29.councils to support building in place whereas desmand highest.
:23:29. > :23:33.you look at the situation say for the north-east, seven of the
:23:33. > :23:36.authorities there are getting above average in their lever all local
:23:36. > :23:40.government finance settlement. are not losing out. They are losing
:23:40. > :23:42.on the new homes bonus. Overall they are not losing out. Those
:23:42. > :23:46.councils who are building, and I can see several large green areas
:23:46. > :23:49.in the north, are actually benefiting. Conservatives
:23:49. > :23:52.complained during Labour years Government money moved north. Now
:23:52. > :23:58.Labour authorities say the Tories are rewarding their friends in the
:23:58. > :24:02.south. Some football news now. One of this
:24:02. > :24:04.season's most eagerly anticipated matches, the first leg of
:24:04. > :24:08.Manchester United's Champions' League tie against Real Madrid
:24:09. > :24:16.ended in a 1-1 draw. United took the lead but it was their former
:24:16. > :24:20.player, Ronaldo, who equalised for the home side.
:24:20. > :24:26.Real Madrid are the crats of European football. No other club
:24:26. > :24:30.has won the top troughy more times. They haven't done for more than a
:24:30. > :24:33.decade. A poor return for the worlds's richest club. Still for
:24:33. > :24:37.the current leaders of the English Premier League, the rare role of
:24:37. > :24:42.underdog. Within five minutes, Manchester United almost played
:24:42. > :24:47.their part. David De Gea just tomorrowed the ball on to the post.
:24:47. > :24:54.-- toppleed. Then, amid all the promise of Spanish poetry, a goal
:24:54. > :24:57.of English prose. Rooney's corner, Wellbeck's header, simple. Jose
:24:57. > :25:01.Mourinho's hand, whipping enthusiasm and spraying disgust.
:25:01. > :25:06.Which could have only one riposte, from the head of the ex-United
:25:06. > :25:12.player, Cristiano Ronaldo. Not so much jumping ASLEF Taiting.
:25:12. > :25:17.COMMENTATOR: A wonderful header. -- as levitating. The second half was
:25:17. > :25:23.a tale of three feet. One was David De Gea's used for a hung few chop
:25:23. > :25:28.strange but it worked. The other two belonged to Robin van Persie.
:25:28. > :25:32.First aer in-miss then a bemusing miss. 1-1. Plenty more to look
:25:32. > :25:36.forward to. Now Newsnight is starting on BBC