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Tonight: Britain signs a new treaty with Jordan - the latest step in | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
the battle to deport Abu Qatada. The radical cleric can still launch | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
new appeals but the Home Secretary says the Government is doing all it | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
can to remove him. After signing the new agreement, ministers | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
insisted it would guarantee Qatada a fair trial in his native Jordan. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
It is absurd for the deportation of a suspected foreign terrorist to | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
take so many years and cost the taxpayer so much money. And the | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Home Secretary suggested that to get its way the UK might even | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. Also | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
tonight: In Bangladesh, at least 80 people have died and many more | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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trapped after an 8-storey building collapsed. The Co-Op pulls out of a | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
deal to buy more than 60O0 Lloyds branches - a blow to ministers who | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
wanted more high street competition. Some surgical cosmetic procedures | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
are a crisis waiting to happen say experts, as tighter rules are | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
promised. And, a 10-match ban for Luis Suarez - Liverpool say they're | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
shocked and disappointed by the punishment. | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
Coming up: We will have all tonight's Champions League action, | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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Good evening. Britain has signed a new treaty with Jordan which | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
ministers hope will allow the extradition of the terror suspect | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
Abu Qatada. But the Home Secretary, Theresa May, told MPs that the | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
legal process could still take many months. The treaty is meant to | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
satisfy concerns that Abu Qatada would not receive a fair trial in | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Jordan. Our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds has the | :02:03. | :02:12. | |
details. He's been arrested, released, arrested again, but not | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
deported. Because Abu Qatada's lawyers have persuaded a succession | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
of courts that in his native Jordan he would face charges based on | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
evidence obtained through torture. This official picture marks the | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
moment the Home Secretary signed a treaty she hopes will break the | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
deadlock, by guaranteeing him and others a fair trial in Jordan based | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
on legitimate evidence. I believe these guarantees will provide the | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
courts with the assurance that Abu Qatada will not face evidence that | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
might have been obtained by torture in a retrial in Jordan. In the past, | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
the Home Secretary has overstated evidence, overstated her legal | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
position and overstated her legal strategy which has not worked. None | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
of us want that to happen again. are they celebrating here at the | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Home Office? Well, not yet. Firstly, this treaty has to be put in front | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
of Britain's parliament and ratified by Jordan's. Then, the | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
legal battle will just start all over again. This time, though, | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
officials here say the rules have changed, in their favour. Why? Well, | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
the treaty specifically bans the use of evidence obtained through | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
torture. Ministers believe what's changed is that an assurance from | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
Jordan it wouldn't be used has now become law. However, Abu Qatada can | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
still appeal through the courts against his new deportation order, | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
arguing that the treaty doesn't guarantee his human rights. The | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
legal wrangling could go on for months. Ultimately, our courts have | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
to make an assessment of how robust and reliable the Jordanian | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
prosecutor, the Jordanian court system is, and whether this kind of | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
treaty fundamentally changes the game or not. But what if they | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
decide it doesn't? What if they decide again that Abu Qatada can | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
only be protected under the European Convention on Human Rights | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
by remaining on British streets? It will, Theresa May, admitted put a | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
strain on our relationship with the convention. It's my clear view that | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
we need to fix that relationship and that we should have all options, | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
including leaving the convention altogether, on the table. The Prime | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
Minister is looking at all options and that is only sensible to do. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
But, she's in a coalition Government and this was the | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
reaction from the Liberal Democrats. You can't take a convention on a | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
pick and mix basis. If you pull out for one reason, the next time | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
there's a case which you think strains your commitment to the | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
convention, are you going to walk away again? Downing Street stresses | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
it's only an option, also being considered streamlining the appeals | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
process, and deporting Abu Qatada first, and letting him appeal later. | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
And our political editor Nick Robinson joins me now from the Home | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Office. How convinced are Ministers that this deal they've signed will | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
eventually at some stage lead to deportation? Well, that's what | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
they're told, they're told it by Home Office lawyers, but they're | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
not convinced. This has been going on for a decade. A year ago, of | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
course, we know that the Home Secretary was told that - and said | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
it in public, that Abu Qatada could be on a plane within days. It's | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
precisely why you are now seeing Conservative Ministers consider | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
their options if this latest strategy simply does not work. What | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
we were told they were considering was the temporary suspension of | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Britain's membership of the European Convention on Human Rights, | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
that was reported in a number of newspapers this morning. I am told | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
that in a meeting the Prime Minister chaired yesterday with | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
senior Ministers this was simply not even mentioned. There's a good | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
reason for that, the Liberal Democrats would simply say no. So | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
too would some Tory Ministers, the attorney General he would say so, | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Ken Clarke, former Justice Secretary, he would say no. Another | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
reason, which is the legal advice suggests that even if Britain could | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
politically and legally leave, it would not maybe do the job as far | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
as Abu Qatada's concerned. What is clear, though, is that David | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
Cameron's told his Ministers he is up for a a fight on this, up for an | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
electoral fight, he may even be willing to say to the electorate, I | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
am willing to get out of the European Convention on Human Rights, | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
are my coalition partners in the Liberal Democrats? This is going to | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
carry on being the longest, most expensive and probably least | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
popular show in London. Thank you. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
At least 80 people were killed and hundreds injured when an 8-storey | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
building collapsed on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
The building contained several shops and a factory that supplies | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
clothes to Primark in the UK. As Andrew North reports, it's the | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
latest in a series of incidents in Bangladesh, raising questions about | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
safety standards in the country's thriving clothing business. | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
It looked like the aftermath of a massive earthquake. The 8-storey | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
building collapsing in an instant. As many as 2000 people were inside | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
at the time. Local volunteers joined in the | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
desperate hunt for survivors. wife was working there and I came | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
here as soon as I could. I have looked everywhere, but I can't find | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
any trace of her. Scores of people were buried in what's become a | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
coffin of concrete and metal. My husband is inside there, this | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
woman cries, not knowing where to look. The building housed several | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
clothing factories, including one supplying the UK's Primark. Cloth | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
had become rescue chutes. In a statement, Primark said it was | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
shocked and deeply saddened by what had happened. Workers had | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
complained the building was unsafe after cracks appeared, but they say | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
local managers ordered them back in an hour before the collapse. | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Disaster has struck Bangladeshi's clothing industry before. More than | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
100 workers died when fire swept through this factory last year. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Managers accused of ignoring safety to feed the West's demand for cut- | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
price clothes. We went to the ruined factory last week, | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
investigating the industry's record. There's a security security guard. | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
No one's allowed inside. It's now a crime scene. But no one's been | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
arrested. Keeping wages low, Bangladesh has become a mass tailor | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
to the world. A British retailers are among the biggest buyers from | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
these factories. But in the drive to keep costs down, | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
critics say the price of cheap clothes has become too high. Rescue | :09:12. | :09:21. | |
efforts have continued into the night. I am alive, she tells her | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
family. This disaster is already the worst industrial accident in | :09:25. | :09:35. | |
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Bangladesh's history and the casualties are still rising. | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
Lloyds Banking Group says it's disappointed that the Co-operative | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Bank has cancelled a deal to buy more than 600 branches. The Co-op | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
blamed the latest outlook for economic growth and tougher banking | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
regulation. The branches will now be offered for sale on the stock | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
market, under the TSB brand. It's a setback for ministers who want to | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
introduce more competition into high street banking, as our | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
business editor Robert Peston reports. | :09:57. | :10:07. | |
Lloyds bank, Britain's largest bank serving individuals and smaller | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
businesses was supposed to be selling off hundreds of branches to | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
be renamed TSB to the Co-op but the Co-op today said it didn't want | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
those branches. Why? Tripling our size in this economic climate would | :10:14. | :10:22. | |
have been the wrong thing to do. Unfortunately, and it is | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
unfortunate, we can't take this opportunity. But two years ago, as | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
I said, you know, the world looked a different place. It was the | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
European Commission which forced throeudz sell -- Lloyds to sell the | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
branches which were supposed to be merged with the Co-op's 340 | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
branches. And the Co-op was also supposed to be gaining �25 billion | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
of deposits or savings. The Government had been a supporter of | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
the deal because it wants to see smaller banks like the Co-op taking | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
on the big boys. The news made it to the Business Secretary, Vince | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
Cable, in Brazil. It's very disappointing. I was really hoping | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
this would happen because we do need more competition and we need | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
more diversity in business lending and having the Co-op, a mutual, a | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
new player in the small business lending would have been a step | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
forward. It's the Co-op's reasoning for pulling out of the takeover of | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
Lloyds branches that will alarm many, including the Government. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
Because the Co-op is blaming, in part, the burden of regulation, | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
which means that there's a-- tension between the Government's | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
aim of keeping banks safe through regulation, and its desire to | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
create increased competition by the creation of big new challenger | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
banks. The point of the competition was to force banks to offer us | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
better deals, so are customers disappointed? You don't know where | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
it's all going to end. Who's going to come out the better out of the | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
deals, I don't think it will be the public. A lot of this is big | :12:01. | :12:09. | |
business and we see the aftereffects. We will wait and see. | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
Lloyds will still rename more than 600 branches as TSB and hive them | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
off as new stock market company. smaller than it would have been as | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
part of the Co-op and to that extent, much less frightening to | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
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The coalition government has announced plans to extend the | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
funding for lending programme for banks, which involves providing | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
credit to smaller companies. Tougher rules on cosmetic | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
procedures in England are being promised by the Government, after | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
an independent review criticised the lack of regulation. Experts | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
insists that treatments known as dermal fillers should be available | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
only on prescription. They have described them as a crisis waiting | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
to happen. Fergus Walsh explains. This is how more and more people | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
are trying to hold back the years. Karen Rowing, a 45-year-old from | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
Essex, has spent �600 to have no way, to pump up the skin and to | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
smooth out wrinkles. Everybody where I live want to look good, | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
even people as young as 21 and 22 are having treatment done. | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
Personally, I tell them to wait until you get to my age.. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
injections were done by a doctor who explained the possible side- | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
effects. But the expert review team were shocked by the lack of | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
controls elsewhere. Dermal fillers are a disaster waiting to happen. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
The level of regulation is equivalent to that of a toothbrush | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
or a ballpoint pen. Secondly, almost more worryingly, dermal | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
fillers can be injected by anybody, in to anybody. This lady had dermal | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
fillers several times before this happened... She was left in agony | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
when the treatment went wrong. batch that was injected into me | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
which eventually caused me 3.5 years of misery, pain and | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
disfigurement, was contaminated. You could be playing Russian | :14:33. | :14:41. | |
roulette with your looks and even your life. The review was set up | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
after the PIP implant scandal, which affected nearly 50,000 women | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
in Britain. But surgery accounts for just one in 10 cosmetic | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
procedures. Most patients opt for treatment they can having their | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
lunch hour. This industry is undergoing explosive growth, | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
increasing in value fivefold in just a decade. By 2015, it is | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
forecast to be worth �3.6 billion a year. The review team says all | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
those performing cosmetic procedures must be registered and | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
trained. It wants an insurance scheme to protect patients and a | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
tracking system of implants so that faulty products can be traced. Some | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
changes will require legislation, but the Government says it will do | :15:27. | :15:35. | |
whatever is needed to protect Violent crime is becoming less | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
frequent, as the United Kingdom becomes a significantly more | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
peaceful country, according to new research. Since 2003, the murder | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
rate has halved, and violent crime has fallen by 21%. Crime involving | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
weapons is down by 34%. The least peaceful place in the UK, | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
apparently, is Lewisham in south- east London. The most peaceful area | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
is Broadland in Norfolk. The UK is becoming substantially and | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
significantly more peaceful. So says new, international research | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
which identifies this as the most peaceful spot of all, parts of the | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
Norfolk Broads, where the most aggressive act on display this week | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
was a duck beating a fish. If you are looking for a location to set | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
your TV detective series, choosing Broadland might not be wise. With | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
six murders in the past decade and only eight violent crimes in the | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
whole of last year, the local constable has few mysteries to | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
investigate. When was the last time you had a really serious crime to | :16:50. | :16:59. | |
solve? On a day-to-day basis, we are the front line of policing. | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
Broadland, when was the last time you had a crime to solve, violent | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
crime? We do have pubs, people drink alcohol in them...! | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
contrast, the least peaceful place in the UK is said to be Lewisham in | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
south London, an area blighted by gang violence. Although Lewisham is | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
apparently slightly less peaceful than it was a few years ago, that | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
is not the story across the capital. In a London is more peaceful, and | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
the city as a whole has seen some of the biggest falls in murder and | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
weapons crime. The Mayor of London welcomes the reduction in violence | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
in the capital. The murder rate is down to levels we have not seen | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
since the 1960s. The comparison was with cities such as New York are | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
extremely encouraging. Happy, smiley people everywhere. How did | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
that Sonko? You are not going to sing, are you? The decline in | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
violence is a phenomenon which is repeated across the developed world, | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
in countries with very difficult approaches -- different approaches | :18:11. | :18:20. | |
to criminal justice. The facts speak for themselves, particularly | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
when you double check the facts. So, the UK is getting a lot more | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
peaceful. There are many theories as to why. Some think it could be | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
down to intelligence led policing. Others think the Internet has a | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
civilising effect. Whatever the cause, we appear to be coming -- we | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
appear to be becoming a society more at peace with itself. The | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has warned that a substantial | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
number of British citizens are fighting alongside militant Islamic | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
groups in Syria, and could pose a terrorist threat to the UK when | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
they return. But to the Syrian government, the presence of British | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
fighters is seen as further proof of an alleged alliance between Al- | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
Qaeda and the West. Jeremy Bowen reports from Damascus. Throughout | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
two bloody years, the Syrian regime has insisted it is facing jihadist | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
fighters directed by foreigners. So, it is not surprising that President | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
Assad has seized on the recent statement by the leader of the most | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
effective opposition fighting group, declaring allegiance to Al-Qaeda. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
When I met the deputy Foreign Minister, he repeated the claim | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
that Britain, France and the United States have an alliance with Al- | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
Qaeda against Syria. Their hatred and their conviction that such a | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
government which has independent policies should not rule Syria has | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
led them to follow ways which are against the charter of the United | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
Nations, which offered direct support to armed elements and which | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
directly or indirectly are linked to Al-Qaeda. This was very clear to | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
us from the first day. The other day, President Assad was on the TV | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
talking about the prominence of Al- Qaeda supporters in the opposition | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
movement - is it not the case, though, that the harsh crackdown of | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
the Syrian government has created the conditions for jihadist to | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
flourish in? These jihadist software there inside Syria. We | :20:27. | :20:36. | |
were fighting against them. They co-operated together in Syria, in | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
Lebanon, in Jordan and in Turkey. If you get to a situation where | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
Britain, France and the United States are providing perhaps | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
military supplies or training, which is a possibility, it might | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
happen, surely, you do not have a chance of keeping going? | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
President Assad, this is not an issue. For us, it is not to | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
surrender our sovereignty and independence. We shall defend our | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
sovereignty and independence to the last drop. Syrians are dying in | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
horrifying numbers. The opposition is more organised, but President | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
Assad still has men prepared to give their lives for his vision of | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
Syria, as well as reliable allies in Iran and Russia. This war has a | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
Labour has accused the general secretary of the Unite union, Len | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
McCluskey, of being disloyal to the party. Mr McCluskey said in an | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
interview that the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, would be cast into the | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
dustbin of history if he listened to those shadow ministers with | :21:47. | :21:56. | |
The leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, is predicting | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
a strong performance in next week's local elections in England. UKIP is | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
fielding more than 1,700 candidates. It is hoping to transform its poll | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
ratings in to real votes. Nigel Farage is campaigning for what he | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
calls a revolution in British politics, and he is doing it | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
largely down the pub. This is where we discuss the world... He says | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
every pub is a parliament, and he is clearly a member. He knows that | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
many voters are unhappy with the larger parties, and he is | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
travelling the country, trying to persuade them to back UKIP as never | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
before. He has got more than 1,000 more candidates than last time, and | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
here's hoping they can turn strong polling figures in to real votes. | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
do not yet know whether we will make a big dent, or whether it will | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
be an explosion. But I am confident that on 3rd May, people will be | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
very surprised at how well we have done. The party claims that they | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
are taking votes not just from the Conservatives but from Labour and | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
the Lib Dems as well. That could mean many councils changing hands. | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
These elections matter because they choose councillors who deliver | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
important services. But also, they will show how voters are feeling in | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
important battlegrounds for the next general election. So, as the | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
results come in, the key question will be whether, in their panic, | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
MPs think their futures are in doubt. One other party in the mix | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
is the Greens, with a new leader, and more than 900 candidates, | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
promising to protect the green belt but also to a prose privatised | :23:44. | :23:52. | |
services and spend more on buses. - - to oppose. We are standing in 94% | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
of councils were there are elections. We are going to get on | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
to new councils, and show people that Green Party councillors really | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
make a difference. But to win voters, you need to excite, and the | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
traffic jam at this public meeting in Sussex this week showed that | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
this was something UKIP was doing. Few politicians can fill a hall | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
like this one on a warm evening in spring, but this man can. Many | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
people here said they would vote for him. The Liverpool player Luis | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
Suarez has been banned for 10 matches by the Football Association | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
for biting an opponent during a match last Sunday. He had admitted | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
a charge of violent conduct. The club said it was shocked and | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
disappointed by the severity of the punishment, which means he will | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
miss the first six games of next season. Luis Suarez arrived for | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
training this morning knowing he could be confined to the practice | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
ground for some time. Three days after he sent his jaws in to | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
Branislav Ivanovic, it was the turn of the FA to show their teeth. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Suarez has wanted -- had wanted a three-match ban, but instead, he | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
got 10. His reputation goes before him, that's the thing with swallows. | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
10 games is too much. I think he deserves it myself. If you bite | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
somebody, it is stupid. In a brief statement, Liverpool said they were | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
shocked and disappointed at the severity of the punishment. They | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
emphasised that Luis Suarez had issued an unreserved apology, but | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
he will now be unable to play until the autumn. Suarez has done this | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
before, earning him a seven-match ban while he was playing for Ajax. | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
This latest incident has received an even sterner punishment, and | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
some feel it is wrong. 10 games is more than a quarter of the season. | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
I have seen some horrendous challenges go for far less. I just | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
think the inconsistency of the whole thing, the punishments by the | :26:07. | :26:16. |