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spending cuts, affecting benefit claimaints, public sector workers | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
and expat pensioners. The Chancellor unveils his spending plans for 2015, | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
against the backdrop of low growth and high debt. The new round of cuts | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
amounts to �11.5 billion, but England's schools, Health Service | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
and overseas aid are protected. While recovery from such a deep | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
recession can never be straightforward, Britain is moving | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
out of intensive care and from rescue to recovery. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
The scale of the extra cuts the Chancellor has announced today to | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
our police, defence and local services are the direct result of | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
his abject failure to get the economy to grow. We'll be asking if | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
all this changes the political prospects leading to the next | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
election. Also tonight: At the US Supreme | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Court a significant legal victory for American supporters of gay | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
rights. Three people are shot dead on the | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
Costa del Sol. At least one of them is thought to be British. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Julia Gillard, Australia's first female Prime Minister, is to leave | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
politics, defeated in a leadership contest by her predecessor, Kevin | :01:14. | :01:23. | |
Rudd. What I am absolutely confident of is it will be easier for the next | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
woman and the woman after that and the woman after that, and I'm proud | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
of that. And the fall of the favourites at | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
Wimbledon. Roger Federer is out, along with Maria Sharapova, who | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
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complains about the condition of the Good evening. The Chancellor has | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
outlined his spending plans for the financial year 2015-16, and they | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
include a range of spending cuts, amounting to �11. 5 billion but | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
there'll be extra spending on roads, railways and housing. Millions of | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
public sector workers will lose their automatic pay rises. There'll | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
be a cap on total welfare spending, and a new squeeze on the budgets of | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
most Whitehall departments. George Osborne claimed that Britain was | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
moving out of intensive care and from rest cue to recovery, as our | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
political editor, Nick Robinson, reports. | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
When the men at the Treasury wrote what became known as plan A, what | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
happened today was no part of it. They used to say they could cut | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
spending and cut the deficit by the time of the next election. But today | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
the Chancellor and his Liberal Democrat deputy were forced to | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
return to ask for more. More cuts for one more year, with the prospect | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
of yet more to follow. An age of austerity that now looks like | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
lasting well, an age. We have to deal with the world as it is, not as | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
we would wish it to be, so this country has to continue to make | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
savings. These are difficult decisions that will affect people in | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
our country. But there never was an easy way to bring spending under | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
control. George Osborne claimed the British economy was healing, but | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
without more cuts would go back into what he calls intensive care. The | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
result of cutting another 11. . 5 billion will, he predicted be, the | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
loss of another 140,000 public sector jobs. Though he says private | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
sector jobs are growing faster. It will mean a further squeeze on pay, | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
with Ministers trying to scrap automatic rises based on how long | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
people have worked. The biggest lairs once again, local councils, | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
with a 10% cut that won their Minister this praise. My right | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
honourable friend the Communities Secretary has set an example to all | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
his colleagues in reducing the size of his department by 60% and | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
abolishing 12 quangos. He is the model of lean government. | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
A few budgets are protected from the new punishing regime. Health | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
spending increases. Just. International aid continues to grow, | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
and the schools budget goes up too. Inside Whitehall departments civil | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
servants are calculating what their cuts will really mean. �400 million | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
from universities will lead to grants being frozen, so what about | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
�400 million from the courts and prisons? And millions more from the | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
police. The Chancellor claims that the bleak predictions never in fact | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
come to pass. Every difficult choice taken has been opposed think vested | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
interests and those who got Britain into this mess in the first place. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
We will not let-up. I will not let that happen. The reform will | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
continue. Those who fought the cuts hardest were dubbed the NUM, or | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
national union of Ministers. They secured increases on science, on the | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
intelligence services and a bit of protection for the Armed Forces. But | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
once again the Government chose welfare for its next political | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
battleground. A new overall limit on most welfare spend willing be | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
introduced. Oh, on the eve of on election. Winter fuel allowance will | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
be cut for ex-pats living in warmer climes, and job seekers will have to | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
wait seven days to sign on and they'll have to learn English. All | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
that was a recipe, the Chancellor said, for... It is an economy that | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
prospers, a state we can afforders, a deficit coming down and a Britain | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
on the rise. I commend this economic plan to the country. | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
We all know people don't like it when we say I told you so, but there | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
is little doubting that that is exactly what Ed Balls does think | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
promised to balance the books and that promise is in tatters. Failed | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
tests, broken promises. His friends call him George. The President calls | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
him Geoffrey. But to everyone else, he is just Bungle, Mr Speaker. | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
you are not in on the joke, Bungle used to be a character on children | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
's television. That though was where the Lafferty stopped. More cuts to | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
the police. More cuts to our defence budgets. More cuts to our local | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
services. This out of touch Chancellor has failed on living | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
standards, growth and the deficit, and families and businesses are | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
paying the price for his failure. Not on his list were cuts to the | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
budgets for Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. All squeezed by 2%, | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
all condemned by the nationalists. More cuts, deeper cuts, continuing | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
to 2018. He is taking consumption out of the economy, 8% of GDP. He is | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
still strangling growth. This was not the Spending Review this country | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
needed. Last night on the eve of announcing his take aways, George | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Osborne tweeted a picture of himself eating one, as he wrote today's | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
speech. Many who depend or who work in the public sector will now be | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
wondering how all that will affect them. One thing we all know is that | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
this is almost certainly not the end of the cuts. | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
So, how should today's overall plans be seen in the context of the | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
Government's dominant strategy of cutting the deficit? Stephanie | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
Flanders is with me. Today's review is happening because instead of | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
filling the hole in the budget in five years, as the Chancellor always | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
hoped, the state of the economy means he will have to do it over | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
seven or eight. And the Government's now looking to cut spending of | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
Whitehall departments by over 18% by 2018. That still accounts for half | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
of all Government spending but their Governments will have already shrunk | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
by 9% after inflation by the end of this inflation. Today's cuts for | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
2015-16 will give the Chancellor another 2. 8%. And that won't be the | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
end of it, at least on current plans. The Chancellor today | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
announced the planned cuts for 2015-16. There are two more years of | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
cuts planned after that general election. The Chancellor's pencilled | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
in plans for Whitehall departments to do the heavy lifting in those | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
years too, with a further cut after inflation after nearly 8%. But many | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
think the next Government will end up using tax rises to do some of the | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
work. After all, that's usually what happens after elections. I think | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
less growth, we could well see tax rises after the next election. | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
Perhaps of the order of �8 billion based ton plans the Chancellor's set | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
out. What we know for sure is that Mr Osborne's austerity programme has | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
already changed the shape of government, with the decision to | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
protect big departments like the NHS, and the schools budget, leaving | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
a smaller and smaller share for everything else. By the end of the | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
first year of the next Parliament spending on local government, | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
business, the Home Office and justice will all have fallen by more | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
than 30% since 2010. Over that period the NHS budget will have | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
risen slightly in real terms and spending on social security and tax | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
credits will have gone up by about 7% after inflation. And that is if | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
everything goes according to plan. The turbulence in world markets is a | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
reminder there are wildcards at the heart of Mr Osborne's plans. If | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
investor nervousness keeps pushing up Government borrowing costs he | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
could pay more in debt interest than he's saved in today's cuts. Bond | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
markets have start it to weaken by interest rates have started to rise. | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
If you borrow �100 billion a year, interest rates rising dramatically | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
will have a knock-on effect on the Government's finances. The other | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
wildcards are the economy and the Office for Budget Responsibility. If | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
the OBR changes its view of our long-term economic potential, like | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
it did a couple of years ago, a that would again change the hole in the | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
budget the Chancellor has to fill. It might turn out the next | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
Government has to squeeze even more than expected, or it could mean we | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
didn't need this latest round of austerity at all. | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
Stephanie, thank you. The latest package of cuts means | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
that local authorities will need to make more difficult choices between | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
those services which have been protected and those which are more | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
vulnerable. Danny Savage has been talking to people in Sheffield today | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
about the impact of today's announcement. Sheffield, a place | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
which took a ham hearing when manufacturing industry declined and | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
described today by the Prime Minister as a fantastic city. But | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
like many places, budget cuts have taken their toll. There was football | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
going on, the gym was full... this leisure centre, mothballed by | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
the council in the hope that community volunteers will make it | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
work. We are already having to stop things we want our children to do. | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
We are going to have more and more empty buildings with nothing for | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
people to do, in a day and age we are told we've got to keep fit, to | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
cut obesity, but we'll have nowhere to go. About 20% of Sheffield's | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
workforce is in the public sector. So many of them won't welcome | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
today's news that automatic pay increments are being axed. Such | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
increments have been frozen at the City Council for years. It has | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
brought real problems for many of our members. It has created more | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
morale in many areas. People were expecting to get pay rises because | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
of the work they've been doing, and that is no longer there. A few miles | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
out of the city greengrocer Andrew is hard at work. As a young lad I | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
used to dream about my own shop. feels that public workers still have | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
a good deal and the Government is going in the right direction. | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
they are doing is right, and especially with puck over. They have | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
got to -- with the public sector. They've got to tighten the belt, so | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
to speak, like us. When it comes to pension and holidays what do you | :12:29. | :12:37. | |
get? No pension. A week's holiday. And sick leave? No. Not at all.But | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
what about today's announcements that affect the wired population? | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
Like Government money to keep council tax frozen. I can't pay any | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
more basically, so the price being the same is good. I would rather pay | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
a bit more and keep the services. cap on welfare, what do you think? | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
Probably good overall, not knowing the full details of it, but there | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
has to be a limit. Most people here know these budget restrictions have | :13:03. | :13:13. | |
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to be faced. But hope the hard times will eventually bear fruit. | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
Nick Robinson is in Downing Street for us. Stephanie has been telling | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
us about the financial calculations. How do you see the political | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
calculations? What was striking is that today's announcements were all | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
timed for 2015. Of course, that's the timing of the latest round of | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
spending cuts, but it is the timing of something else as well - the | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
general election, of course. What I think George Osborne was trying to | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
do, in today, in a sense, was trying to snatch political Vic frit jaws of | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
economic defeat. -- victory from the jaws. In other words win the | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
argument with labour once and for all about carrying on to cut the | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
deficit even though he said he was announcing cuts that wouldn't be | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
needed because the deficit would, by now, he said, be under control. He | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
believes the debate is very firmly on his turf. That he is making cuts | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
dha were once politically unthinkable, let aLen actually do | :14:08. | :14:16. | |
aabout. -- making cuts that were. Balls sees it very differently. He | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
thinks, this is the moment the country will have concluded that the | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
cuts were are the Government's own fault, not the fault of external | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
economic circumstances. The election, of course, will be the | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
chance for people to settle that argument once and for all. The | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
politics, therefore, maybe fairly foreseeable. One thing that is not, | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
is the economics, which is why there are more cuts being made today and, | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
of course, it's also why, behind the scenes, all the political parties, | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
are thinking about the next round of cuts, and also the possibility of | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
tax rises, too. Thank you very much. | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
By the way, you can find out much more about today's Spending Review | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
and how it might affect people in different circumstances. Log on to | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
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different circumstances. Log on to overturned a law which denied | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
federal recognition of same-sex marriages. The Defence of Marriage | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
Act, which was passed back in 1996, meant than gay couples weren't | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
entitled to federal benefits and couldn't seek the same tax releafs | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
as heterosexual couples. -- relief. President Obama welcomed the | :15:31. | :15:40. | |
decision. A moment of joy, even ecstasy. | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
Rulings from the Supreme Court have redefined America. Today marks | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
another turning point. This time for gays and lesbians. The fight for | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
equality continues but we are a giant leap closer to it today. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
a proud day to be an American and understand that the highest court in | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
our land has validated our relationship. This is a huge day for | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
a significant proportion of the American population. But the court | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
has not legalised gay marriage. That's something that's organised at | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
state level here in America. Instead, it's ruled that the federal | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
federal government can no longer discriminate against gays and | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
lesbians when it comes to taxes and benefits. For Major Shannon | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
McLaughlin, it is a big deal. She can shop in the discounted | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
supermarket on the military base. But her wife, recognised under state | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
law, can't get any military benefits Right now she cannot get on base, at | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
all. It is as if she is a stranger to me. She has no affiliation, under | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
the eyes of the law, with being able to access any benefits. Shannon has | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
been married to Cassey for three years. They've had twins together | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
and they share, she says, the ideals of the average American. We work | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
hard. We stand up for what we believe in and we are bring bringing | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
forth good citizens. I don't know any other definition of marriage | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
than that. I don't know why, because we are the same gender, we should be | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
excluded. An increasing number of Americans agree. Up until the late | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
'80s, practically no-one supported gay marriage. That's changed with | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
astonishing speed. There's still resistance to the idea but overall, | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
opinion is pretty evenly split. President is on the line from Air | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
Force One. The court also rejected an attempt to enforce a ban on | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
same-sex marriage in California. The winners in that case got a call from | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
winners in that case got a call from President Obama, in the air. We are | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
proud of you guys. Things, the President told them, are heading the | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
right way. This remains a divisive issue. But a landmark judgment has | :18:00. | :18:08. | |
today changed America. In the past few minutes the South | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
African President, Jacob Zuma has announced he is cancelling a planned | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
visit to Mozambique tomorrow after visiting Nelson Mandela in hospital | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
today. Mr Mandela, who is 94 is being treated for a persistent lung | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
condition. He is still in a critical condition. Mr Zuma said doctors are | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
doing everything they can to ensure his comfort and well-being. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
The Foreign Office is liaising with police in Spain, after claims that | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
three family members have been found shot dead on the Costa del Sol. They | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
were discovered inside a property in the popular holiday resorted of | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
Mijas near Marbella. Media reports in Spain have reported the dead | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
people were a couple and their daughter who was in her tos. Sarah | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
Campbell is with me. What more do we know? We understand one member of | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
the family was British and they have been living in this apartment for a | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
few years. It is a very popular area. The alarm was raised by their | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
landlord. He had become worried because he hadn't seen them for a | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
few days. When heentered the apartment, acourting to reports, he | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
found a man dead in the sofa. He called the plains they found the | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
mother and daughter, who were dead in the bedroom. Neighbours are | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
reporting they heard gunshots three days ago. We now understand the | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
police ark looking at this as a potential murder/suicide. Some | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
reports from Spain have said the daughter had Down's syndrome. That | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
hadn't been officially confirmed. What we have had officially | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
confirmed is a statement by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
saying they are aware of the incident, they are liaising with | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
local police and will provide consular assistance. | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Julia Gillard, the Australian Prime Minister, says she's leaving | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
politics after being defeated in a leadership challenge by Kevin Rudd, | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
her great rival and the man she ousted three years ago. Miss | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
Gillard, the first female Prime Minister in the country's history, | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
said sexism had played a part in the outcome. Our report does contain | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
some flash photography. Julia Gillard broke through a | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
ceiling made of particularly resilient glass when she became | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Australia's first woman Prime Minister. Most Australians were | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
comfortable with the idea, but a significant minority were not. She | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
also had another problem. The man she ousted as leader. For years, | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
Kevin Rudd has been plotting his revenge and today his plan came to | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
fruition. With the polls pointing to a | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
landslide defeat for her government, there has been months of speculation | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
surrounding her leadership. She called a ballot, a gamble that | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
backfired. She believes her gender was a factor. It will be easier for | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
the next woman and the woman after that and the woman after that and | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
I'm proud of that. Kev Rudd is hated by many in his party but he is | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
popular with the people. -- Kevin Rudd. There's seldom been a comeback | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
like it. In 2007 the Australian people elected me to be their Prime | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
Minister. That is a task that I resume today with humility, with | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
honour and with an important sense of energy and purpose. This has been | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
an ugly faus in Australian politics -- ugly phase, with Julia Gillard | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
subjected to an unusually high level of personal vilification. She was | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
the subject of crude jokes about her body shape and was asked in a live | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
radio interview whether her partner was gay. It is absurd.You can | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
confirm he is not. Don't be ridiculous. Of course not. Are you | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
in a heterosexual relationship, that's all I'm asking nchtsd we have | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
just talked about that. Howard that's bordering - let me just bring | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
you back to earth. But at times she herself has put | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
gender at the centre of the debate. I was offended when the Leader of | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
the Opposition went outside in the front of Parliament and stood next | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
to a sign that said "ditch the witch" I was offended when the | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Leader of the Opposition stood next to a sign that described me as "a | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
man's bitch." This week she was attacked for a photo shoot, knitting | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
the royal baby a toy kangaroo. For one of Australian's leading men, | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
it's been an unedifying speck tack yenchts there has been a lack of | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
galantry, not just in politics but the way it is reported. The end of | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Julia Gillards with not primarily about her gender. It also speaks | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
about Australia's brute 58 political culture where leadership coups are | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
commonplace -- brutal political culture. It is like a soap opera, | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
but directed by Quentin tan teen yoe. | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
European leaders are meeting tomorrow to discuss the problems | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
posed by unemployment. There are 26 million people unemployed in the EU, | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
seen as a threat to the stability of the union. 5. 5 million of those | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
unemployed, around one-fifth, are under 25. Gavin Hewitt reports on | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
how tens of thousands of young Europeans are on the move in search | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
of work. It's Europe's new migration. Tens of | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
thousands leading their countries in search of work. Here in Portugal, | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
unemployment is at 18% and rising. Sophia lost her job this week and is | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
planning to move to Brazil. There are going to be those bad days when | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
I want some help from my family, for them to listen to. They will be far | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
away. Her friend, Nelson, has seen half his friends leave Portugal. So, | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
already, half your friends... of my friends. They have left?They | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
left. Because they were waiting for some new changes in Portugal but it | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
didn't happen until now. I don't think it'll change soon. 7.45am and | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
already over 100 people are lining up outside the consulate of Angola, | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
a former Portugese colony. Many are moving there for work and many of | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
them are Portugal's best and brightest. TRANSLATION: There are | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
all kinds here but perhaps more highly-qualified people. Company | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
directors. Some of whom will take people with them. It's not just a | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
case of young, unemployed people looking for work outside Europe. | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
Tens of thousands are on the move inside Europe itself and many of | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
them see Germany as their best hope of finding employment. | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
The new European migration shows that 45,000 Italians moved to | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
Germany last year. 37,000 Spaniards also left for Germany. And in | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
Greece, 120,000 professionals, including doctors and engineers, | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
have left the country since the crisis began. | :25:04. | :25:12. | |
Near Dusseldorf in Germany, mark is an engineer heading to work in a | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
chemical plant. He was born and grew up in Barcelona in Spain, but | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
recently, weary at the lack of were spects at home, he has put -- | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
prospects at home, he has put down his roots in western Germany. | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
are many people from Spain and southern Europe who live around me. | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
I see myself a couple of years in Germany at least. Definitely working | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
in Germany and living here, yes. concern in parts of southern Europe | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
is of a brain drain, depriving countries of their most qualified | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
workers. In Portugal, where great discoverers once left these shores, | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
the irony is that unemployment is driving many to seek work in far | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
away places they once colonised, with a new generation agonising over | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
departure. Some tennis now and Roger Federer, | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
the defending champion, is out of Wimbledon, beaten this evening by | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
Sergiy Stakhovsky, the world number 116 from Ukraine. It's Federer's | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
earliest defeat at Wimbledon for 13 years. The former women's champion, | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Maria Sharapova was also knocked out today and a record number of players | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
have pulled out of Wimbledon because of injury. | :26:23. | :26:32. | |
Wimbledon has seen plenty of shocks, but nothing as sighs Mick as this. | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
Roger Federer, champion, hero, for many the greatest ever, against | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
Stakhovsky starks the world number 116. -- Sergiy Stakhovsky. Surely | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
only one outcome and Federer duly took the first set. Business as | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
usual. But from there, the tennis world was turned upside down. As | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
Stakhovsky, unbelievably, came roaring back. The journeyman now | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
playing like a giant. He reeled off the next two sets. Centre Court | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
simply stunned. COMMENTATOR: Sensational. Surely it | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
couldn't happen? But after three hours of jaw-dropping tension, it | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
hours of jaw-dropping tension, it did. The ultimate underdog had | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
pulled off the ultimate upset. Federer's earliest Grand Slam defeat | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
in a decade. Like everyone else, he was struggling for answers. I had my | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
opportunities. I had a foot in the door. When I had the chance, I | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
couldn't do it, you know. It was very frustrating. Very | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
disappointing. I'm going to accept it and move forward from here. | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
fans streaming away from Wimbledon can scarcely believe what they've | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
seen. Roger Federer, the darling of Wimbledon, is out. An extraordinary | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
end to a day of drama and controversy. Earlier there has been | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
complaints about the grass. This court is dangeous - claimed Maria | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
Sharapova as she slipped to defeat. -- dangerous. | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
A recordp seven players pulled out through injury today, including | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
Victoria Azarenka after this fall on Monday. The organisers insist the | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
courts are in excellent condition, Azarenka wasn't so sure. The court | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
wasn't in a very good condition that day. My opponent fell twice. I fell | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
badly and there are some other people who fell after. I don't know | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
if it is the court or if it is the weather. I can't figure it out. | :28:31. | :28:38. |