:00:08. > :00:17.chemical weapons by the Syrian government, if proven, will not be
:00:17. > :00:20.tolerated. If the allegations are verified of the use of a nerve agent
:00:20. > :00:30.sarin, both President Obama and David Cameron say action will
:00:30. > :00:30.
:00:30. > :00:34.follow. We cannot stand by and permit the systematic use of weapons
:00:34. > :00:39.like chemical weapons on civilian populations. What I see does look
:00:39. > :00:42.very much like a war crime is being committed in our world at this time
:00:43. > :00:46.by the Syrian government. We'll be looking at what form any action
:00:46. > :00:49.against Syria could take. Also tonight: The publicist Max
:00:49. > :00:58.Clifford is charged with 11 counts of indecent assault over a period of
:00:58. > :01:01.20 years. He insists he's innocent. Since last December, I have been
:01:01. > :01:04.living a nightmare. A black cloud has been placed above me.
:01:04. > :01:10.Three British Muslims are imprisoned for plotting a terror attack on
:01:10. > :01:15.Birmingham. They had boasted it would be their 9/11.
:01:15. > :01:21.And Harry Potter and the Full Blood Prince. William and Kate enjoy the
:01:21. > :01:26.magic at the opening of the Harry Potter studios.
:01:26. > :01:36.No appeal from Luis Suarez about his writing than as the FA says such
:01:36. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:52.Good evening. President Obama has promised a vigorous investigation
:01:52. > :02:00.into claims that Syria has used chemical weapons against rebel
:02:00. > :02:03.forces - claims Syria vehemently allegations turn out of be true,
:02:03. > :02:09.America could not stand by and permit the use of such weapons on
:02:09. > :02:12.civilian populations. David Cameron said their use would be a war crime
:02:12. > :02:19.but both leaders insisted more needs to be done to verify the claims
:02:19. > :02:26.before any action could be considered. This report contains
:02:26. > :02:32.graphic images. Disturbing footage from a hospital.
:02:32. > :02:38.Is this evidence that chemical weapons are being used? The Syrian
:02:38. > :02:42.opposition claim it is, including a doctor who was present. These media
:02:42. > :02:49.pictures show exactly the symptoms and the signs referred to by the use
:02:49. > :02:54.of chemical gases. Other unverified footage, some too
:02:54. > :02:59.graphic to broadcast, apparently shows people foaming from the mouth
:02:59. > :03:02.and switching bodies, but the Syrian government today denied it had used
:03:02. > :03:09.chemical weapons like sarin gas. If it had, the implications are
:03:09. > :03:14.serious. I choose my words carefully but what I see does look very much
:03:14. > :03:17.like a war crime is being committed at this time by the Syrian
:03:17. > :03:22.government. In Washington, the president was meeting the King of
:03:22. > :03:29.Jordan. What everyone wanted to know was whether he thought one of his
:03:29. > :03:38.red lines had been crossed. He was still cautious. What we have right
:03:38. > :03:42.now is an intelligent assessment. I said, noting that potentially
:03:42. > :03:49.chemical weapons have been used inside Syria does not tell us when
:03:49. > :03:56.they were used and how they were used. We need confirmation and
:03:56. > :04:00.strong evidence. Britain and others have been trying to collect evidence
:04:00. > :04:06.from inside Syria. Tests have been carried out at the Porton Down
:04:06. > :04:10.laboratory which have indicated that sarin gas has been used, but that
:04:10. > :04:15.still leaves many questions, including when it was used and by
:04:16. > :04:20.whom, and whether it was ordered from the top. The violence in Syria
:04:21. > :04:25.means samples have not so far been collect did under the kind of
:04:25. > :04:29.independent scientific conditions that would normally be needed for
:04:30. > :04:38.proof. A United Nations team is still waiting to go in and do this.
:04:38. > :04:45.Ideally what you would want is a blood, urine sample, but in the
:04:45. > :04:49.absence of that you would look at the symptoms. Chemical weapons have
:04:49. > :04:55.rarely been used. Sarin gas was used on an attack on
:04:55. > :05:00.the Tokyo underground in 1995 and set down her same -- Saddam Hussein
:05:00. > :05:10.dropped chemical weapons on the village of Halabja in Iraq, but it
:05:10. > :05:11.
:05:11. > :05:16.is the memories of Iraq more recently that is one reason for
:05:16. > :05:21.hesitance this time. The next question will be, if evidence does
:05:21. > :05:24.emerge, what shall be done about it? With me now is our diplomatic
:05:24. > :05:29.correspondent Bridget Kendall. Both Britain and the US talking of action
:05:29. > :05:36.if these allegations are proven. But what are the options?
:05:36. > :05:42.It is difficult. David Cameron has said he thinks he would like to be
:05:42. > :05:48.able to arm the moderate opposition and end the conflict that way, but
:05:48. > :05:51.President Obama tonight repeated his warning that if President Assad had
:05:51. > :05:56.used chemical weapons on the civilian population that would be a
:05:56. > :06:01.game changer, and we cannot stand by and watch that happen. How will it
:06:01. > :06:08.change the game? Various options have been mentioned, from arming the
:06:08. > :06:13.rebels, authorising air strikes, a no-fly zone, setting up safe stones
:06:13. > :06:17.or even sending in special troops to try to secure sites where chemical
:06:17. > :06:22.weapons are thought to be, but all these options are not easy and will
:06:22. > :06:26.probably increase in stability and tension inside Syria, and of course
:06:26. > :06:30.would mean outside government would get sucked into the conflict, so
:06:30. > :06:34.that is another reason why the signals we are getting from London
:06:34. > :06:39.and Washington is that this will be taken step by step very slowly, and
:06:39. > :06:45.I think much more likely the first step we will see is more of a push
:06:45. > :06:50.to get UN weapons inspectors inside Syria. Syria initially invited to
:06:50. > :06:52.dash them in but only to one specific area and yesterday the
:06:53. > :06:59.secretary general sent another letter to President Assad asking
:06:59. > :07:03.them to be allowed in. The other pressure would be to present
:07:03. > :07:07.evidence to the Russians and the Chinese at the UN Security Council
:07:07. > :07:10.saying, how can you go on protecting the Syrian regime with this
:07:10. > :07:18.evidence? Judging by the response from the Russian foreign ministry
:07:18. > :07:20.this evening, it is not looking very hopeful.
:07:20. > :07:23.The publicist Max Clifford has tonight vowed to clear his name
:07:23. > :07:28.after being charged with 11 counts of indecent assault against women
:07:28. > :07:33.and girls. The charges cover two decades from the 1960s to the 1980s
:07:33. > :07:36.and have been brought as part of the Operation Yewtree investigation.
:07:36. > :07:39.Speaking outside his house this evening, Mr Clifford said the
:07:39. > :07:48.allegations were false and claimed he had been living a nightmare.
:07:48. > :07:55.Danny Shaw reports. Max Clifford, Britain's most famous
:07:55. > :08:01.PR man, publicist for pop stars and celebrities and media expert. Now he
:08:01. > :08:07.faces a challenge unlike any he has faced before. The allegations in
:08:07. > :08:11.respect of which I have been charged completely force, very upsetting,
:08:11. > :08:14.distressing but completely falls. I have never in decently assaulted
:08:14. > :08:20.anyone in my life and this will become clear Jim and the course of
:08:20. > :08:26.the proceedings. Scotland Yard investigation has lasted more than
:08:26. > :08:31.five months at night police announced he had been charged. Max
:08:31. > :08:37.Clifford is accused of 11 offences. The 11 charges relate to allegations
:08:37. > :08:43.of indecent assault. There are seven alleged victims. The youngest was
:08:44. > :08:49.14, the eldest 19 at the time. They cover a period between 1966 and
:08:49. > :08:56.1985. Max Clifford is being investigated as part of the enquiry
:08:56. > :09:00.stepped up after the Jimmy Savile scandal, Operation Yewtree. 12
:09:00. > :09:04.people have been arrested. Max Clifford is the second person to be
:09:04. > :09:10.charged but the allegations are not related to Jimmy Savile. Hopefully
:09:10. > :09:15.we will be able to show soon what this has been about. Max Clifford
:09:15. > :09:18.said he was living a nightmare with a dark cloud over his life.
:09:18. > :09:22.He will appear in court next month. Three British men who plotted a
:09:22. > :09:27.suicide bomb attack in Birmingham have been jailed - one of them for
:09:27. > :09:35.life. They had planned to set off up to eight rucksack bombs and possibly
:09:35. > :09:37.other timed devices, boasting it would rival 9/11.
:09:37. > :09:45.Late night in Birmingham and the climax of the biggest
:09:45. > :09:55.counterterrorism of prostate -- operation in recent years. The
:09:55. > :10:05.
:10:05. > :10:15.moment that three would-be suicide bombers were taken off the streets.
:10:15. > :10:17.
:10:17. > :10:21.Irfan Khalid was Irfan Naseer's right-hand man. Ashik Ali was at the
:10:21. > :10:26.epicentre of the fundraising effort and sentenced to 15 years. For
:10:26. > :10:31.months, the men had been watched by MI5 and the police. Bugs were
:10:31. > :10:35.planted in their cars. They were heard planning to detonate up to
:10:35. > :10:39.eight rucksack bombs. They talked about turning parts of Birmingham
:10:39. > :10:47.into a war zone. Irfan Khalid turned -- describe them as suicide
:10:47. > :10:51.bombers. They were very critical of the 7/7 bombers in terms of not
:10:51. > :10:57.killing enough people. They wanted to kill a lot of people and wanted
:10:57. > :11:02.to go down in history for doing that. This photos shows the
:11:02. > :11:08.ringleader Irfan Naseer and Irfan Khalid returning from training camp
:11:08. > :11:12.in Pakistan. Irfan Naseer had become an expert in bomb-making. They
:11:12. > :11:17.pretended to be collecting money for charity, taking in thousands of
:11:17. > :11:22.pounds from their own community, but they cheated the charity, Muslim
:11:22. > :11:29.Aid, out of the cash. They have been disowned by those among whom they
:11:29. > :11:33.used to live. Of course we are angry and absolutely appalled that any
:11:33. > :11:37.individuals, irrespective of their heritage, faith, background,
:11:37. > :11:42.culture, would be willing to embark upon such environment campaign
:11:42. > :11:46.within the city. Inside the home of one of the men,
:11:46. > :11:54.they had started experimenting with making equipment. Irfan Khalid
:11:54. > :11:57.boasted this would you like another 9/11. They recruited eight other men
:11:57. > :12:03.for smaller roles. Four of them went to Pakistan for training but they
:12:03. > :12:05.left when there furious families discovered what they were up to. Mr
:12:06. > :12:11.Justice Henriques told the ringleader is the only barrier
:12:11. > :12:17.between them and mass murder was the intervention of the authorities. No
:12:17. > :12:20.lack of will, manpower or assets would have stopped them.
:12:20. > :12:23.One person died and 20 were injured, seven critically, when a minibus
:12:23. > :12:28.carrying women on a hen party collided with a lorry on the M62
:12:28. > :12:38.today. The emergency services said the crash in West Yorkshire was the
:12:38. > :12:38.
:12:38. > :12:42.worst they had seen in years. Lying on its side, smashed after a
:12:42. > :12:47.collision. The bus carrying the hen party from Yorkshire to Liverpool
:12:47. > :12:53.had to be cut apart Wi-Fi fighters. Other drivers stopped to help in the
:12:53. > :13:02.immediate aftermath of the crash but it was a long operation to get to
:13:02. > :13:06.all the injured and the dying. there has been one fatality, a lady
:13:06. > :13:11.who has unfortunately died. We have other casualties that are being
:13:11. > :13:15.treated at numerous local hospitals. Air ambulances from all over
:13:15. > :13:23.northern England were called to the scene. Six of them were on their way
:13:23. > :13:29.at one point. As emergency workers diss -- descended on the motorway
:13:29. > :13:33.junction, some were confronted with their most distressing job in years.
:13:33. > :13:36.Some of them said it was the worst scene they had seen in a number of
:13:36. > :13:43.years, and some very experienced fire officers were attending the
:13:43. > :13:47.incident. At ten o'clock, the us picked up the first passengers from
:13:48. > :13:53.this village in Yorkshire. Soon the hen party were on board.
:13:53. > :13:58.But within 90 minutes, there weekend away had gone disastrously wrong.
:13:58. > :14:03.The exact cause of the crash is still being investigated but it did
:14:03. > :14:06.involve a lorry, the driver of which was later arrested. Tonight several
:14:06. > :14:16.of the hen party are still being treated in various different
:14:16. > :14:17.
:14:18. > :14:20.hospitals across the North of coalition's policy of subsidising
:14:20. > :14:25.mortgages for first-time buyers while cutting housing benefit for
:14:25. > :14:32.some. The Prime Minister was in Lancashire promoting the
:14:32. > :14:39.Government's Help To Buy Scheme. In the second of his series, Nick
:14:39. > :14:43.Robinson has spent the day with the Prime Minister.
:14:43. > :14:47.If he ever has to give up the day job, could there be a future for him
:14:47. > :14:51.as a bricky? Today, the Prime Minister took to a rooftop in
:14:51. > :14:56.Chorley because the housing market hasn't been getting there. Are we
:14:56. > :15:04.done? A new Government scheme will subsidise those struggling to get
:15:04. > :15:08.the money together to buy a new home. The housing market caused some
:15:08. > :15:13.of Britain's economic problems. Isn't there a bit of you saying,
:15:13. > :15:17."No, the Government shouldn't be anywhere near this." ? Right now,
:15:17. > :15:20.you have a situation where two hard-working people, both bringing
:15:20. > :15:25.in a good wage, should be able to buy a home of their own and they
:15:25. > :15:29.can't. That needs to change. That is why this scheme is so important.
:15:29. > :15:36.Here on Main Street, meet the Hudsons. They bought four-fifths of
:15:36. > :15:43.their home. The taxpayer helped to underwrite the rest. Hopefully,
:15:43. > :15:48.there will be many more... Supporting the house market is vital
:15:48. > :15:54.for supporting the economy. Do you understand why people might see the
:15:54. > :15:58.sight of a Government subsidy to purchase a house up to �600,000
:15:58. > :16:02.sticks in the throat at a time when people, who are struggling to afford
:16:02. > :16:07.to stay in their home, are seeing their housing benefit cut? Everyone
:16:07. > :16:10.will welcome the fact we are trying to get the housing market moving. In
:16:10. > :16:13.an economy to function properly, you need people to be able to buy a
:16:13. > :16:18.home, you need to get the first foot on the housing ladder. These are
:16:18. > :16:22.changes that need to take place. That will benefit everybody.
:16:22. > :16:27.Government said yesterday the economy is healing. Debt is up.
:16:27. > :16:31.Borrowing is stalled. Here in the North, unemployment is up since the
:16:31. > :16:35.general election. The economy hasn't grown for months. How is that
:16:35. > :16:40.healing? What is healing is the fact that people were, many people were
:16:40. > :16:42.expecting the economy to stall or shrink and it grew in the first
:16:42. > :16:46.quarter of this year. What is healing is the fact that compared
:16:46. > :16:49.with the general election, there are 1.25 million more people in private
:16:49. > :16:54.sector jobs. That is a major advance. What is healing is the fact
:16:54. > :17:04.we have seen a rate of new business creation that's one of the fastest
:17:04. > :17:08.in our history. Those are welcome... Borrowing stalled? It's a difficult
:17:08. > :17:13.year. We are surrounded by countries in the eurozone who are deep in
:17:13. > :17:17.recession, some of them going deeper still. The Prime Minister knows that
:17:17. > :17:23.he and his party may face grim results in local elections next
:17:23. > :17:27.week. His message, here to workers, is that the Government is still
:17:27. > :17:31.trying to sort out the mess it inherited. Like the immigration
:17:32. > :17:37.system, it is a mess. We haven't solved the problem. Net migration is
:17:37. > :17:41.down by a third. The imminent arrival of unknown numbers of
:17:41. > :17:46.Romanians and Bulgarians is unnerving many voters. We need to
:17:46. > :17:51.look after our own people to start with. We have got a big problem now
:17:51. > :17:55.with getting our own people into work. We shouldn't be taking on the
:17:55. > :18:01.poor from other countries. David Cameron used to dismiss UKIP and
:18:01. > :18:05.loonies. Now, he's trying to woo people who might vote for them.
:18:05. > :18:08.will control immigration. I will get those levels down. You will see
:18:08. > :18:14.measures coming forward where we start to change the way things work
:18:14. > :18:20.in this country. If you are an immigrant, your status isn't checked
:18:20. > :18:24.right now. It isn't checked properly when you are using our Health
:18:24. > :18:28.Service. That will change in legislation very soon. The Prime
:18:28. > :18:35.Minister could be more than half-way through his time in Number Ten. On
:18:35. > :18:42.the eve of his third anniversary, he is looking at what can stop him from
:18:42. > :18:46.losing power. China's President has said there
:18:46. > :18:52.should be no mercy for terrorists after an outbreak of violence this
:18:52. > :18:56.week which left more than 20 people dead. The violence in Xinjiang
:18:56. > :19:00.province has highlighted simmering tensions there between the
:19:00. > :19:04.indigenous Muslim people and the central government. It follows
:19:04. > :19:10.widespread rioting in 2009 which killed nearly 200 people. Our
:19:10. > :19:15.Beijing correspondent has been to the scene of the latest violence in
:19:15. > :19:19.Selibuya. Xinjiang, it means new frontier, the
:19:20. > :19:26.very edge of China. Closer to Afghanistan than Beijing and rich in
:19:26. > :19:32.energy and minerals. China is developing this land fast. That is
:19:32. > :19:35.causing tensions. We slip past the checkpoints, the authorities don't
:19:35. > :19:39.want reporters here. The government's version is a group of
:19:39. > :19:43.terrorists inside a house plotting attacks were discovered. Three
:19:43. > :19:48.officials were taken hostage and stabbed to death. Another 12 were
:19:48. > :19:54.burnt inside a room before armed police killed some of the men. The
:19:54. > :19:56.scene is cordoned off. We soon heard a different story. Locals said it
:19:56. > :20:04.was a long-standing dispute. Government officials trying to force
:20:04. > :20:10.the men in a religious family to shave their beards, and the women to
:20:10. > :20:12.take off their veils. We have hidden identities to protect people from
:20:12. > :20:16.government reprisals. TRANSLATION: I saw one injured man.
:20:16. > :20:20.He had a machete. He chased the police into the government compound.
:20:20. > :20:25.He was shot in the leg and fell down. Many police surrounded him.
:20:26. > :20:31.They stabbed him to death. Three other men had axes and knives and
:20:31. > :20:36.the police shot them, too. police spotted us and told us to
:20:36. > :20:45.leave town. He says this is the enemy's war zone, what if someone
:20:45. > :20:54.chops your head off? Go. Xinjiang's Muslims are no longer the majority
:20:54. > :20:58.here. From outside China's some preach holy war. Speaking Chinese,
:20:58. > :21:02.he warns they want a country of their own. There is no conclusive
:21:02. > :21:07.evidence these groups have mounted attacks and America says China's
:21:07. > :21:12.priority should be reducing tensions in Xinjiang, to Beijing's annoyance.
:21:13. > :21:19.TRANSLATION: China ensures the rights of people from all ethnic
:21:19. > :21:23.groups. Not only does the US not condemn violent acts of terror, they
:21:23. > :21:29.also make irresponsible claims against China's ethnic policy.
:21:29. > :21:33.Selibuya, we found these policies aren't popular. He says the
:21:33. > :21:39.government only allows men to grow beards if they are over 40 years
:21:39. > :21:48.old. He has to do what they say. Forced to leave, we can't be sure
:21:48. > :21:52.what caused the 21 deaths here. What we do know is the violence in
:21:52. > :21:55.Xinjiang keeps flaring. Staff at some of the big accountancy firms
:21:55. > :21:59.are using insider knowledge gained while working for the Government to
:21:59. > :22:06.help wealthy clients and businesses avoid paying tax. The Commons Public
:22:06. > :22:09.Accounts Committee wants to stop "a ridiculous conflict of interest".
:22:09. > :22:14.Everyone is supposed to pay their fair share of tax, yet billions of
:22:14. > :22:17.pounds a year is lost to tax avoidance. MPs are putting part of
:22:17. > :22:23.the blame on the big four accountancy firms for showing
:22:23. > :22:27.companies how they can get away without paying. The worst thing that
:22:27. > :22:33.we uncovered was this practice that I call "poacher turned gamekeeper
:22:33. > :22:38.turned poacher". What that means is the big four accountancy firms put
:22:38. > :22:43.their experts into Treasury and HMRC, help write the rules that
:22:43. > :22:48.become new laws, and armed with that insider knowledge, they go back to
:22:48. > :22:53.their companies and use that knowledge to devise new schemes for
:22:53. > :22:58.tax avoidance. A piece of evidence highlighted by the Public Accounts
:22:58. > :23:03.Committee was a brochure put out by one of the firms. It showed how to
:23:03. > :23:07.take advantage of a tax break for companies which choose the UK to
:23:07. > :23:10.exploit patents on inventions, trumpeting the fact that their tax
:23:10. > :23:15.expert had been seconded to the Treasury while the tax break was
:23:15. > :23:21.being designed. Ministers say it's beneficial to ask for outside
:23:21. > :23:25.advice. Should we not engage with taxpayers and their advisers? That
:23:25. > :23:30.would be an absurd suggestion. We want to get the tax law right. That
:23:30. > :23:35.means talking to those who have an interest in this area. The Committee
:23:35. > :23:39.wants a new Code of Conduct to stop accountants using insider knowledge,
:23:39. > :23:43.also a ban on the firms working for the Government if they sell tax
:23:43. > :23:48.avoidance schemes, and to force them to be more open about companies
:23:48. > :23:51.transferring their profits offshore to pay less tax. The horrendous
:23:51. > :23:57.complexity of the tax system is part of the problem. These are some of
:23:57. > :24:00.the rules and they are added to each year in the Finance Act. More
:24:00. > :24:04.complications which means more opportunities to try to get round
:24:04. > :24:11.tax. The accountants say there is nothing wrong with what they do with
:24:11. > :24:15.the rules as they stand. We believe we give tax advice responsibly, in
:24:15. > :24:17.accordance with the law, in the attentions of Parliament generally.
:24:17. > :24:24.We advise companies when they are considering what they are doing to
:24:24. > :24:29.take account of the wider impacts. The Treasury's allocated extra funds
:24:29. > :24:36.to fight tax avoidance. With so much to be gained, accountancy firms will
:24:36. > :24:44.always be one step ahead. The face of Sir Winston Churchill
:24:44. > :24:53.will appear on the back of the new �5 note together with some of his
:24:53. > :24:57.most famous words. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
:24:57. > :25:02.and Prince Harry, battled with wands as they toured the studios where the
:25:02. > :25:10.Harry Potter films were made. The two princes had some fun with the
:25:10. > :25:17.props from the Batman films. There is something about wands. Take
:25:17. > :25:22.hold of one of them and you end up doing strange things. Regardless of
:25:22. > :25:27.who you are! These of course are Harry Potter wands and William and
:25:27. > :25:32.Kate, and Harry, on a visit to the largest new studio complex built in
:25:32. > :25:37.Britain for many decades were shown the sets, the costumes and the
:25:37. > :25:43.special effects which helped make the Harry Potter films a worldwide
:25:43. > :25:49.phenomenon. How do they do that? For the three young royals, it was a
:25:49. > :25:54.chance to realise some dreams, mostly boyish ones, it must be said,
:25:54. > :25:58.to William and Harry's delight and they found some of the Batman props.
:25:58. > :26:03.This is Batman's motorbike, which was too much for William, a keen
:26:03. > :26:07.biker himself, to resist. So much for royal dignity, then! Kate seemed
:26:07. > :26:13.to think he looked the part. Harry seemed to think he would look better
:26:13. > :26:17.if he had some Batman ears. Back in Harry Potter land, the threesome who
:26:17. > :26:22.were the stars of this saga, the thoughtful leader, the sensible
:26:22. > :26:27.girl, and the red-head, were continuing to have fun, doing things
:26:27. > :26:31.with that unaffected style which has become their hallmark. This is the
:26:31. > :26:37.make believe world of Harry Potter. In the real world, though, there is
:26:37. > :26:41.no doubt that these three are becoming the principal supporting
:26:41. > :26:46.stars in the enduring family epic that is the Windsors. The British
:26:46. > :26:50.monarchy has shown what a powerful spell it is capable of casting and