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companies accused of massively over-charging the taxpayer for | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
tagging criminals - G4S and Serco are said to have over-charged the | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
government by "tens of millions of pounds". | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Ministers allege they were billed for tagging people who were already | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
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in jail, abroad, or even dead. will not tolerate unacceptable | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
activity of any kind, no matter who is responsible. I am determined to | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
put it right. We'll be asking what this could mean for the Government's | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
policy of using more private sector firms in the criminal justice | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
process. Also tonight. Party leaders at Westminster say | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
they're against plans to give MPs an 11% pay rise. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
On the eve of his funeral, a regimental escort for Fusilier Lee | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
Rigby - the soldier murdered on a street in south London. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
The NHS in England could face a funding gap of �30 billion a year by | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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the end of the decade. And in the Ashes at Trent Bridge, | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
the Australian bowler who showed the batsmen how it's done. And coming | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
up, 19-year-old debutant Ashton Agar makes the highest score by a number | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
11 in test cricket as Australia fight back on the second day of the | :01:30. | :01:39. | |
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Good evening. Two major security companies - G4S and Serco - are | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
accused of massively over-charging the taxpayer for tagging criminals. | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
The Serious Fraud Office is considering a criminal investigation | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
in the case of G4S. Ministers say the government was billed for | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
tagging people who were already in prison and in some cases even after | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
they'd died. Our correspondent, June Kelly, has the story. | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
G4S describes itself as the UK's leading security group. It has made | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
millions providing services for the public sector but now it is one of | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
the companies accused of overcharging millions as well. | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
Details of a recent audit came from the Justice Secretary. It included | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
charges for people back in prison, who hadn't had their tax removed, | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
people who had left the country, those who had never been tagged in | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
the first place but had returned to court. There are a small number of | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
cases where charging continued for a period where the subject was known | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
to have died. Serco is the second company under investigation. Tagging | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
is a key part of the way criminals are monitored in the community. This | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
lawyers has first-hand experience of the system not working. We have had | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
clients who have been remanded in custody, yet Serco have still gone | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
to the last known address to try to place a tag on them and restore the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
equipment at the address, even though they are in custody. It was | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
under the Labour government that private contracts the tagging were | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
first brought in. When it comes to these G4S and Serco contracts, they | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
were awarded in 2005. Last year they were worth a total of �107 million | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
for the two companies. It is estimated that in England and | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
Wales, 15,000 people are wearing a tag. G4S said they had delivered | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
their service in an open and transparent way. They said that in | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
the past, it had been described as good value for money. Serco said, we | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
are deeply concerned if we fall short of the standards accepted of | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
all of us, and the company said that if any poor practice was found, it | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
would be put right. Kirsten is about the privatisation of such services. | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
-- there were questions tonight. the moment are austerity government | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
is looking to do it cheaply. Like anything, if you do it to become EU | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
compromise on collar to. G4S made headlines in the case of a man who | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
was being deported, who died after being restrained by some of their | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
security guards. An inquest jury decided he was unlawfully killed. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Last year there were questions over the competence of G4S at the | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Olympics. The company failed to recruit enough security staff and | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
the army had to be called in at the 11th hour. G4S claimed they had | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
raised concerns about charging issues for tagging in 2009. The | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
Ministry of Justice refused to comment. | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
Let's go live to Westminster. Does this kind of thing less in the | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
appetite of ministers for farming services out to the private sector? | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
Big of and says not. Justice Secretary Chris Grayling made clear | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
that the views and actions of G4S and Serco should not taint the | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
reputation of other companies who do this kind of outsourcing. He made | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
clear he will crack on with his plans to outsource much of the | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
probation service to the private sector. Industry sources have told | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
me that these companies have become increasingly reluctant to get | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
involved in public contracts, simply because of the reputational risks | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
that they involve. Equally, ministers are where they have got to | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
get better at managing and fixing these contracts. Mr Grayling said it | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
was wholly inadequate. Law and order will be one of the prime themes of | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
the next election. We have had some important light shed on the economic | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
debate. One of the big debates of the election campaign will be what | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
mix of spending cuts and tax rises the parties offer to the | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
electorate. George Osborne has given a clear indication of where his | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
priorities lie. He said he felt he would be able to sort out the public | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
finances, get rid of the deficit in the next parliament, with spending | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
cuts alone. He said, I am clear that tax increases are not required to | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
achieve this. Essentially he is calculating that the public are more | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
willing to take spending cuts than tax rises. This is a huge battle | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
line for the parties because labour and Lib Dems have not ruled out such | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
tax rises. The election might be more than 18 months ago but | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
campaigning has already begun. The leaders of the three biggest | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
parties in Westminster have strongly condemned proposals to give MPs and | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
11% pay rise after the next election. They say the plan is | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
inappropriate and out of touch with the rest of the public sector. The | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
independent audit which sets the MPs pay, IPSA, has recommended a salary | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
increase by 2015 but pensions and allowances would be cut. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
Thinking of a career change? Come to Westminster. You will work long | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
hours but get long holidays and a pretty decent salary. Unlike most | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
people's, it could be about to increase and lawful lot, to �74,000 | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
a year, it 11% higher than now. Don't shout at your elected | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
representatives. It is not their fault. The idea has come from this | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
man, the chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
The question many people will ask is a really simple one. Why pay MPs | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
more and why think about doing it now? Why do it now? There is never a | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
good time. That is the reason why it has never been done and why we are | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
in the mess we are in. It is getting it right for a generation, crafting | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
the nettle and we say that pay, pension, remuneration, resettlement | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
and so on, taken together, needs to be addressed, and addressed now. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
idea is open for public consultation, so here goes. I have a | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
job offer for you. What is it?Yes, I would like it. This is an | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
independent report. It is absolutely wrong. I can't agree with that. How | :08:24. | :08:33. | |
on earth can they tell me that I must take... For them it is all | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
right. They have a big responsibility. They should get the | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
money. It is an extraordinary pay rise given current times. I will get | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
1% I am guessing at best. When people learned what member 's | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
parliament were claiming in expenses, there was fury. The result | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
was that MPs would no longer decide their pay, expenses and pensions and | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
today is what has resulted. The new package is not just a salary | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
increase but it involves an end to generous final salary pensions, no | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
more free evening meals, a cut in taxis home except after 11 o'clock | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
PM and a big cut in golden goodbyes. So are the political | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
leaders lining up to agree with the independent regulator they voted to | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
create? Not exactly. I don't think MPs should get a 10% pay rise when | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
nurses, teachers are facing pay freezes or low increases. MPs are | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
inquiry well paid already. -- incredibly well paid. It is a | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
privilege to be an MP will stop IPSA is a bit of a silly organisation and | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
they can stick the pay rise. Members of the public, I would urge them to | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
make their views known in the consultation. My own view is well | :10:00. | :10:08. | |
known, I don't Inc it is justifiable. -- don't think. The | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
reply is to point out that the current rate is lower than that for | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
chief police superintendents and headteachers and have been slipping | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
back. If the public say no, if political leaders say no, will you | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
listen? Of course we will listen but what we will do, having listened, is | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
for us. Very few MPs want to be seen publicly that they think they | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
deserve the pay rise, but some will. If a member of Parliament is not | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
worth the money, is it better to change the person or lower the pay? | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
On the whole, think you want to have proper pay for the proper people. | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
Some, including the Labour and Lib Dem leaders, say they will not take | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
the increase. Just one problem. The independent regulator says they will | :10:54. | :11:02. | |
pay every MP the same, whether they like it or not. | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
Former Labour MP Dennis McShane is to be charged with false accounting | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
in connection with claims he made for his Parliamentary expenses. He | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
served as Europe minister under Tony Blair and is alleged to have faked | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
receipts for research and services worth nearly �13,000. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
A vigil has been held in Greater Manchester ahead of tomorrow's | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
funeral for the murdered soldier, Lee Rigby. Fusilier Rigby was killed | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
as he returned to Woolwich Barracks in London in May. Asked men have | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
been charged with his murder and will stand trial later this year -- | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
two men have been charged with his murder. | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
To the sound of drums and applause, Fusilier Rigby's regimental | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
colleagues led the way. Not just friends but soldiers he fought with. | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
And into Bury Parish Church, they were followed by Lee Rigby's family. | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
His two-year-old son, Jack, wearing the colours of Manchester United, | :12:01. | :12:11. | |
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his father's team. For them, people in Bury came here to remember a | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
young soldier and one of their own. His final moments in Woolwich were | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
seen by many. For those who know what it means to serve, his death is | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
hard to accept. We were absolutely horrified to hear about his death, | :12:25. | :12:34. | |
especially the manner of his dying. It does emphasise being here today. | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
The Fusiliers are a family and that is why we are here, to say farewell | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
to a family friend. This was a private vigil service for the family | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
and friends of Lyrica. The message to them, from the hundreds who came | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
here, was a simple one -- family and friends of Lee Rigby. In these | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
moments, they are not alone. In the Fusiliers's hometown of Middleton, | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
flags fly at this unofficial Morrill. Here, Lyrica we has not | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
been forgotten -- unofficial memorial. Here, Lee Rigby has not | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
been forgotten. It is very important to pay tribute to him and after | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
tomorrow, we are still there for him. Tomorrow, hundreds will line | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
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the streets for Lyrica's funeral, -- for Lee Rigby's funeral. Mark | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Thompson has agreed to appear before a parliamentary committee to answer | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
questions about payoffs to executives during his time at the | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
BBC. He says he wants to clear up some inaccuracies following | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
yesterday 's hearing, which look that payments to senior staff | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
amounting to millions of pounds. The Court of Appeal is to review the | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
sentence given to the former broadcaster Stuart Hall. He was | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
jailed for 15 months in May after pleading guilty to 14 counts of | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
indecent assault. The Attorney General said he requested the review | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
after receiving complaints that the sentence was too lenient. | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
Without radical reform, the NHS could face an unsustainable funding | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
gap threatening the future of hospital services by the end of the | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
decade according to Sir David Nicholson, the head of the NHS in | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
England. The health service needs to find efficiencies of �20 billion by | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
2015. NHS England says a further shortfall will arise by 2020 unless | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
some bold changes are made. Political correspondent Vicki Young | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
has the details. When it comes to local hospitals, | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
loyalties run deep, changes to services are often met with howls of | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
protest. But if the NHS is to live within its means, scenes like this | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
could be repeated across England. Campaigners here have lost their | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
fight to keep the A&E department at Trafford hospital and they say | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
patients will suffer. If people have further to travel and longer to | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
wait, lives are going to be at risk, that is the simple story. | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
average, the emergency unit at Trafford treats just two patience | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
and hour between midnight and 8am. Ministers insisted today that the | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
case for scaling back was clear. primary objective as a government | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
must be for the NHS to provide the best service for patients. Sometimes | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
that means taking difficult decisions. And the head of NHS | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
England says in future services will have to be concentrated in fewer | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
hospitals because the system is under so much pressure. There is an | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
ageing population suffering from more complex conditions, new | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
treatments are often costly, and the NHS budget is forecast to go up by | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
just 0.01%. Getting to a place where you are reducing the numbers of | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
staff on every ward, that is not acceptable to us in the NHS, and so | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
it is a stark choice. Do we go for service change in the way we deliver | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
for patients, or do we sleepwalk into a position where we reduce | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
quality? This is a blunt warning, and if the NHS is to carry on | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
providing free treatment without a drop in quality, then things have to | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
change. That could mean services like A&E and maternity wards are not | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
on everyone's doorstep, and in the past politicians and the public have | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
been reluctant to sign up to that. It is always tempting for | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
politicians to go along with public opinion. In opposition, David | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
Cameron promised to protect hospitals, like this one in north | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
London, but once in power he approved the closure of emergency | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
care year. Health experts say it is time for all the parties to tackle | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
the problem head on. This is the biggest challenge the NHS as based | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
on its entire history. Politicians will have to be very brave and | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
supporting doctors and managers in engaging with the public to explain | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
why the changes must take place to deliver better care within the | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
available resources. The message from NHS leaders could not be | :17:02. | :17:11. | |
clearer - the time for tinkering Veterans of the Korean War have | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
taken part in a service at Westminster Abbey to mark the 60th | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
anniversary of the end of the conflict. British forces served as | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
part of a UN coalition of the Communist North Korea invaded the | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
South. 100,000 British troops were involved in the war, which ended | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
three years later with the cease-fire. More than 1000 of them | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
lost their lives, and 1000 were taken prisoner by North Korean | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
forces or went missing. Robert Hall reports on what became known as the | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
Parading under brilliant blue skies, the men who remember their service | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
in a conflict so often overshadowed by the Second World War. As young | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
conscripts, they sailed for Korea to fight in extreme temperatures, | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
across hostile terrain, and often hugely outnumbered. In the dusty | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
yard of a Korean school, they assembled to salute the men who held | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
the line... Some are survivors of a battle where the Gloucestershire | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
Regiment lost two thirds of its strength to the Chinese for | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
surrounding its positions. Chinese were absolutely surrounding | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
us, they really gave us a pasting because they were so many of them. | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
In actual fact, the crossfire was probably killing their own men, | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
because they were all around us, you see? | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
Under the vaulted roof of the Abbey, veterans shared their memories with | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
representatives from South Korea and the 22 nations which fought under | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
the United Nations flag. Memories of three years during which nearly 2 | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
million lives were lost and long-term peace was never achieved, | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
memories of savage fighting and brutal captivity. They used | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
telephone cable which they put around the fingers, then they took | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
it around your neck, up to a beam, pulled it down, stringing one foot | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
and winding it around the other. In fact, they told me, should my leg | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
give way, I had not been murdered, I had committed suicide. Korea is | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
still a divided country, but the South has never forgotten the men | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
who came from around the world and held the line. I believe it was | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
freedom, for democracy, and it was for prosperity. The sacrifices by | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
the British soldiers and generals have not been wasted in vain if you | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
look at what Korea is today. For the old man on Parade, some for the last | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
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time, that is reason enough to hold Labour leader Ed Miliband has | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
received another warning from the unions about the financial impact of | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
his planned changes to the links between Labour and the union | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
movement. Len McCluskey of Unite has spelt out his concerns in a letter | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
to some of his colleagues. Industry correspondent John Moylan is with | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
me, what is he saying? Ed Miliband has said that he wants to change the | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
relationship between the trade unions and Labour, and he did not | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
want members to be automatically affiliated to Labour and | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
automatically pay. He wanted them to make an active choice. In a letter | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
to the executive Council of Unite, Len McCluskey has indicated there | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
will be consequences of this. Unite currently pays �3 million per year | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
to Labour. Len McCluskey says he thinks that could reduce by �3 | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
million, a massive reduction, but it echoes what we heard from the third | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
biggest union, the GMB, which said that it thinks its affiliation fees | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
of �2 million could reduce to just a few hundred thousand pounds. A | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
senior Labour source has said, we know there will be a cost, but if it | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
is a choice between money and doing the right thing, Ed Miliband wants | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
to do the right thing. I think what we are hearing from some of the big | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
unions is that these big, historic change could be very expensive for | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
Labour. A court in Moscow has convicted a | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
Russian lawyer of tax fraud four years after he died in police | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
custody. Sergei Magnitsky was found guilty along side his former | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
employer, the London-based financier. Opponents of Vladimir | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
Putin Sadie Case exposes the depths of corruption within Russian | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
establishment. -- say the case exposes. | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
He has been dead nearly four years, but that has not stopped Russia | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
putting Sergei Magnitsky on trial. Today the dog was empty again, like | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
it has been every day of this bizarre court case, the defendant | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
unable to defend themselves. His family and lawyers have boycotted | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
the trial, claiming it was illegal, so the state had appointed a defence | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
team. Here they are. When the verdict came, they did not seem too | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
interested or at all surprised. The judge ruled that Mr Magnitsky was | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
guilty of tax fraud. What has just happened in this courtroom is | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
unprecedented in Russia. A man who died four years ago has just been | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
convicted of economic crimes. Sergei Magnitsky's supporters say the case | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
is like a dance on a dead man's grave. Sergei Magnitsky was a lawyer | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
turned whistleblower who claimed he had uncovered a web of corruption. | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
He alleged that police and tax officials had been stealing | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
millions. But when he went public, he was the one arrested, and he died | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
here, on remand. The Kremlin's own human rights Council says there is | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
evidence he had been beaten to death. To critics of the Kremlin, | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
his fate has become a symbol of the absence of the rule of law in | :23:16. | :23:24. | |
Russia. The authorities reject that. Last year, Vladimir Putin said that | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
Sergei Magnitsky was no human rights activist, he had simply been a | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
lawyer working for a British hedge fund manager who was under suspicion | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
for economic crimes. That manager was William Browder. The Moscow | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
court convicted him of fraud as well, but right now he is in | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
America, and he has no intention of serving the nine-year prison | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
sentence he received today. This is effectively a criminal ageing. You | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
have a young man who uncovered an enormous corruption scandal, the | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
theft of $230 million. He exposed it, and instead of going after the | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
people involved, they arrested him, tortured him and killed and then | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
prosecuted. The court says that justice has been done, but putting a | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
dead man in the dock and declaring him guilty, it is hard to argue that | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
is a fair trial. Six Greenpeace activists have scaled | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
the Shard building in central London and have been arrested on suspicion | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
of aggravated trespass. The women said they wanted to send a message | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
to the oil company Shell, which has offices nearby, to stop drilling in | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
the Arctic. The public viewing platform was closed to visitors | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
during the protest. Cricket, and a day of mixed fortunes | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
for England in the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge. They started well | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
enough, taking a handful of wickets, but a 19-year-old, Australia's last | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
man standing, stole the show, as Joe Wilson tells us. | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
If you have never heard of Ashton Agar, don't feel bad, he was not | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
even mentioned in the official programme. It was a debut that few | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
foresaw and no-one will forget. It was going well for England, five | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
wickets for James Anderson, and when Swann got hot and Senate, they were | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
117-9, way behind England's first innings score. There was only a car, | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
a 19-year-old number 11, only walloping Graeme Swann 46. This | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
stature grew by the minute, the kind of swagger that lists a whole nation | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
and grinds the England captain towards despair. No number 11 had | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
ever scored more, two shots short of a century, he only needed one more | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
hit. There it went, caught neatly by Graeme Swann. Watch 's mother in the | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
green, he has done it, no, he has blown it. He helped Australia to 280 | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
all out, one over the England fans. I was surprised by the support I was | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
getting from the whole crowd, really. They were very supportive, | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
and yeah, there was a little bit of simply from them, it was nice to get | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
98. England were soon two down, Jonathan Trott bemused to be given | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
not out and then find the decision overruled. Not all bereaved plays | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
were available, and Trott was adamant he had hit the ball. -- not | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
all the TV replays. Pietersen and cook saw out the day, England 15 | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
runs ahead, but no doubt about the start, it is the price of fame that | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
you can no longer slip away from the ground unnoticed. Ashton Agar has | :26:37. | :26:41. |