:00:05. > :00:10.Tonight at 10:00pm: Young people could lose some benefits under a
:00:10. > :00:13.future Conservative government. David Cameron tells the Conservative
:00:13. > :00:23.Conference that the under 25s need to be earning or learning, not
:00:23. > :00:28.relying on benefits. Today it is still possible to leave school, to
:00:28. > :00:33.sign on, find a flat, start claiming housing benefit and opt for a live
:00:33. > :00:37.on benefits. Isn't it time for bold action here? The Prime Minister also
:00:37. > :00:40.appealed to voters to allow the Conservatives to finish the job
:00:40. > :00:43.they've started in coalition. Also tonight: A mentally ill man has
:00:43. > :00:47.been detained indefinitely for stabbing a schoolgirl to death on a
:00:47. > :00:50.bus. Humiliated by his own party - Silvio
:00:50. > :00:54.Berlusconi is forced to abandon a bid to topple the Italian
:00:54. > :00:57.government. One of the world's best-selling
:00:57. > :01:05.authors - the American writer Tom Clancy - has died at the age of 66.
:01:05. > :01:07.And a rather mixed night for the Manchester clubs in the Champions
:01:07. > :01:14.League. And coming up in Sportsday on BBC
:01:14. > :01:17.News, all tonight's Champions League results. Plus good and bad news for
:01:17. > :01:20.Chelsea's Fernando Torres - he escapes Punishment for scratching an
:01:20. > :01:40.opponent but is out injured for three weeks.
:01:40. > :01:44.Good evening. Young people could lose the right to some benefits
:01:45. > :01:47.under a future Conservative government. David Cameron,
:01:47. > :01:51.addressing his party conference, said the under 25s should "earn or
:01:51. > :01:56.learn" and not live a life on the dole. And looking ahead to the next
:01:56. > :02:00.election, he asked voters to allow the Conservatives to "finish the
:02:00. > :02:03.job" they've started in coalition. Our political editor Nick Robinson's
:02:03. > :02:11.report from Manchester contains flash photography.
:02:11. > :02:18.It was a long, long wait for this party to get back into government.
:02:18. > :02:21.Today they queued to hear their leader try to convince them that
:02:21. > :02:28.after three years of cuts and compromises, they are not heading
:02:28. > :02:32.back to opposition. David Cameron's speech was short of rhetorical fizz
:02:32. > :02:39.but long on sober warnings, that the job he had set out to do was only
:02:39. > :02:45.half done. This past year 's have been a real struggle. But what
:02:45. > :02:52.people want to know is this, was the struggle worth it. Here is the
:02:52. > :02:57.honest answer, the struggle will only be worth it if we as a country
:02:57. > :03:02.finish the job we have started. Finish the job, a phrase he used no
:03:02. > :03:08.fewer than 15 times. Anyone who thought the problems were over was,
:03:08. > :03:11.he said, living in a fantasyland. After three years of cuts, we still
:03:11. > :03:15.have one of the biggest budget deficits anywhere in the world. We
:03:15. > :03:19.are still spending more than we earn. We still need to earn more,
:03:19. > :03:24.and yes, our government still needs to spend less. What has really
:03:24. > :03:28.stirred the Tories is not so much talk of what they are doing but
:03:28. > :03:33.tributes to what Margaret Thatcher once did, and attacks on Labour, who
:03:33. > :03:39.they believe have reverted to the policies they once argued for when
:03:39. > :03:44.she was Prime Minister. Taxes on banks they want to spend ten times
:03:44. > :03:47.over and an energy promise they admitted 24 hours later they might
:03:47. > :03:50.not be able to keep. It is sticking plasters and quick fixes cobbled
:03:51. > :03:56.together for the TV cameras, read Ed plasters and quick fixes cobbled
:03:56. > :04:01.and his Blue Peter economy. Ed Balls used to taunt him every week, he
:04:01. > :04:04.said, by claiming the economy was flat-lining. He joked that he had a
:04:04. > :04:11.gesture of his own for the Shadow Chancellor. Don't worry, it is not a
:04:11. > :04:19.rude one. Jobs are up, construction is up, manufacturing is up, inward
:04:19. > :04:23.investment, retail sales, home building, consumer confidence, all
:04:23. > :04:27.of these things are up. The oceans can rise, empires can fall but one
:04:27. > :04:34.thing will never change. It is labour that wrecks our economy and
:04:34. > :04:38.we Conservatives clear it up. Profit and wealth creation were not dirty
:04:38. > :04:45.words, he insisted. Recalling his pride on the day his wife, Samantha,
:04:45. > :04:49.set up her first business. This was a speech billed in advance as having
:04:49. > :04:54.no new policies but there was a glimpse of one, and a pretty
:04:54. > :04:56.dramatic one, designed to deal with the 1 million young people now not
:04:56. > :05:03.in education or employment or training. Today it is still possible
:05:03. > :05:08.to leave school, sign on, find a flat, start claiming housing benefit
:05:09. > :05:14.and opt for a life on benefits. Isn't it time for bold action here?
:05:14. > :05:18.Or to school, go to college, do an apprenticeship, get a job but just
:05:19. > :05:23.choose the dole? We have got to offer them something better than
:05:23. > :05:28.that. What that means, we are now told, is the next Tory manifesto
:05:28. > :05:31.will include a promise to end automatic entitlement to housing
:05:31. > :05:37.benefit for the under 25s, and it may curb Jobseeker's Allowance, too.
:05:37. > :05:41.Reforming welfare and education would, the prime minister claimed,
:05:41. > :05:46.let all those who put the effort in have a chance to make it. It is this
:05:46. > :05:52.party that is for the many, not the few. The land of despair was Labour
:05:52. > :05:56.but the land of hope is Tory. This was not a pitch for another
:05:56. > :06:01.coalition. Nick Clegg was never mentioned, the coalition just once.
:06:01. > :06:07.It was, instead, a Tory rallying cry. Together, we have made it this
:06:08. > :06:12.far. Together we will finish the job we have started and together we will
:06:13. > :06:18.build that land of opportunity. What will stay in the memory from this
:06:18. > :06:22.conference is the Tories' laser-like focus on the threat from Ed
:06:22. > :06:27.Miliband, which they once laughed off. This was part a plea and part a
:06:27. > :06:31.warning. A plea for the country not to shove the government out of power
:06:31. > :06:35.before it has finished its job, a warning that he says Labour would
:06:35. > :06:39.take the country back to 1970s socialism. He will have the chance
:06:40. > :06:46.to make just one more conference speech before you get to decide
:06:46. > :06:49.whether they can stay at number ten. As we heard, the Prime Minister
:06:49. > :06:52.wants the under 25s to "earn or learn", as he put it, rather than
:06:52. > :06:55.opting for a life on benefits. There are currently 1 million young people
:06:55. > :07:00.who are not in education, employment or training - so-called NEETs - in
:07:00. > :07:06.the UK. Our home editor, Mark Easton, is here to look at the
:07:06. > :07:10.potential impact. The proportion of the UK's young
:07:10. > :07:12.people who are NEETS has long been a significant cause for concern. The
:07:12. > :07:16.number currently stands at just over 1 million young people - 15% of our
:07:16. > :07:25.under 25-year-olds - much worse than many of our European neighbours.
:07:25. > :07:32.It is a familiar story, a young person leaves school with few if any
:07:32. > :07:38.qualifications, then finds that jobs are almost impossible to get, ends
:07:38. > :07:41.up on welfare and cannot escape. I have been asking, can I have an
:07:41. > :07:48.apprentice ship to start my tattooed job and people say not yet, not yet.
:07:48. > :07:59.I kept -- that is all I kept getting cold. Academics calculate that
:07:59. > :08:06.today's crop of NEETs will cost the state £22 billion to £100 billion.
:08:06. > :08:09.There is a review looking at expanding training and
:08:09. > :08:14.apprenticeships. One in five young workers is currently unemployed. But
:08:14. > :08:19.he more controversial idea is to stop many young people's benefits,
:08:19. > :08:23.as they do with some youngsters in the Netherlands. Conservative
:08:23. > :08:32.sources say they propose ending automatic entitlement to housing
:08:32. > :08:38.benefit, currently page to 400,000 under 25-year-olds. -- currently
:08:38. > :08:44.paid. After school you should be taking advantages of the
:08:44. > :08:49.opportunities we are providing for apprenticeships and traineeships, it
:08:49. > :08:53.is just right that we extend this to the next election because youth
:08:53. > :08:57.unemployment is an evil. There are concerns that stopping benefits may
:08:57. > :09:01.make some people even less likely to get a job. I think it sends out a
:09:01. > :09:04.very poor message at a time when we need to say to young people, you
:09:04. > :09:08.will be supported to take risks in the early stage of your career. It
:09:08. > :09:11.sends a poor message that the housing safety net could be
:09:11. > :09:16.withdrawn. Nothing is going to happen straightaway. There's a
:09:16. > :09:21.review, then a Conservative manifesto and then an election of
:09:21. > :09:23.course. A government official and Treasury minister have told the BBC
:09:23. > :09:25.course. A government official and that Jobseeker's Allowance may
:09:25. > :09:31.become a payment for training the under 25s. What is clear is that the
:09:31. > :09:35.Tories have got Britain's NEETs in their sights.
:09:35. > :09:41.Our political editor, Nick Robinson, is in Manchester. We have heard a
:09:41. > :09:47.series of speeches from party leaders in recent weeks, how do you
:09:47. > :09:51.see things tonight? The sense I have had in the past couple of weeks in
:09:51. > :09:56.particular is almost a back to the future. At the Conservative
:09:56. > :10:01.conference they have stressed their desire for a smaller state, for
:10:01. > :10:05.government to do less, a tougher welfare system, much more
:10:05. > :10:09.traditional standards in education. That followed a week on from a
:10:09. > :10:12.Labour conference with a labour leader who dared to talk about
:10:12. > :10:16.socialism and presented himself as tough enough to stand up to
:10:16. > :10:25.business, rather learn to simply cosy up to business. -- rather than.
:10:25. > :10:28.David Cameron and Ed Miliband, I have a sense they are nostalgic for
:10:28. > :10:34.the certainties of the Thatcher. The rhetoric is one thing but the policy
:10:34. > :10:40.detail is another -- certainties of the Thatcher era. There are a lot of
:10:40. > :10:44.questions about how the latest welfare crackdown woodwork, who
:10:44. > :10:50.would lose, which benefits, at what level and when? That would all have
:10:50. > :10:53.to be clarified. Questions about how Labour's policy of an energy freeze
:10:53. > :10:58.would work in practice. Perhaps these two men now feel they have had
:10:58. > :11:03.a chance to tell the country what they really, deep down sink. And
:11:03. > :11:07.perhaps the country has a sense -- what they really, deep down, think
:11:07. > :11:14.for the perhaps the country has a sense that not all politicians are
:11:14. > :11:16.the same. A 23-year-old man has been detained
:11:16. > :11:19.indefinitely under the Mental Health Act after admitting the manslaughter
:11:19. > :11:22.of a teenager in Birmingham. Christina Edkins was stabbed to
:11:22. > :11:25.death on a bus as she travelled to school. Her family say questions
:11:25. > :11:27.need to be asked about whether Philip Simelane had been properly
:11:27. > :11:30.supervised on his release from prison at the end of 2012. Our
:11:30. > :11:37.correspondent, Sian Lloyd, reports from Birmingham.
:11:37. > :11:43.Christina Edkins was a daughter, a sister and a promising pupil. Two
:11:43. > :11:47.weeks after her 16th birthday, she was killed by a stranger on a way to
:11:47. > :11:52.school. Phillip Simelane stabbed the teenager in the chest with a kitchen
:11:52. > :11:58.knife. This is the moment he boarded the bus, two hours before Christina
:11:58. > :12:01.got on. He had been homeless after being released from prison three
:12:01. > :12:08.months earlier. The 23-year-old was diagnosed with paranoid
:12:08. > :12:11.schizophrenia. The judge said it was difficult to understand how anyone
:12:11. > :12:19.with his condition could be released without supervision. Christina's
:12:19. > :12:24.family were in court, wearing purple, her favourite colour. They
:12:24. > :12:28.believe she would be alive today if Phillip Simelane had been
:12:28. > :12:32.supervised. It was clearly identified that this guy had a
:12:32. > :12:39.severe problem. He had threatened his mother with a knife only a
:12:39. > :12:44.matter of months before. It was clear he was a danger. Police had
:12:44. > :12:49.been called to Phillip Simelane's family home 21 times. In July 2012
:12:50. > :12:55.he was jailed for threatening his mother with a knife. In prison,
:12:55. > :12:58.mental health experts placed warning markers on his file. He was released
:12:58. > :13:03.without supervision in December 2012. Phillip Simelane has been
:13:03. > :13:09.detained at a secure clinic in Birmingham. The sentence passed
:13:09. > :13:14.today means he cannot you released without an order from the secretary
:13:14. > :13:17.of state. -- cannot be released. Mental health experts believe he
:13:17. > :13:21.will need lifelong treatment but questions are being asked about how
:13:21. > :13:25.a man with such severe mental illness could be released from
:13:26. > :13:29.prison without supervision. The agencies involved in his case,
:13:29. > :13:35.including two health trusts, are investigating. Mental health experts
:13:35. > :13:38.who dealt with him recommended he received supervision, it seems he
:13:38. > :13:43.fell through the cracks and was not picked up on the outside. March the
:13:43. > :13:47.7th began as an ordinary day for Christine and her family, a girl who
:13:47. > :13:52.was looking forward to the prom was on her way to school. She died
:13:52. > :14:01.because she sat down near a man whose untreated illness led him to
:14:01. > :14:03.kill. President Obama has called a meeting of all congressional
:14:03. > :14:07.leaders, it's due to start in the next half-hour, to try to break the
:14:07. > :14:11.budget deadlock which has caused the partial shutdown of the US
:14:11. > :14:15.Government. There are fears that a prolonged stalemate will lead to
:14:15. > :14:19.something of an economic crisis. Our correspondent is monitoring events.
:14:19. > :14:26.Any sign at all that Democrats and Republicans are going to find some
:14:26. > :14:30.common ground? There's always hope. At the moment, this feels more like
:14:30. > :14:33.the theatre of negotiation and any meaningful attempt to reach a
:14:33. > :14:37.compromise. Neither side wants to be seen to be dragging their heels, and
:14:37. > :14:41.so they come up with plans, meetings and proposals. But there is very
:14:41. > :14:45.little middle ground for them to even discuss. We heard today from
:14:45. > :14:49.the banks, they came to the White House. They said how worried they
:14:49. > :14:53.were about the damage this was doing the American economy. And we heard
:14:53. > :14:56.from the heads of national intelligence agencies, who said how
:14:56. > :15:00.worried they were about the damage this was doing to national security.
:15:00. > :15:03.Amongst the problems is that this isn't just a battle between
:15:03. > :15:07.Republicans and Democrats, this is a battle within the Republican party,
:15:07. > :15:16.which in Congress is fairly sharply divided between and moderates. The
:15:16. > :15:19.Italian government has survived a vote of confidence despite a threat
:15:19. > :15:24.by the former Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, to bring it down. Mr
:15:24. > :15:27.Berlusconi was forced into an abrupt change of plan after some of his own
:15:27. > :15:30.party colleagues rejected his demands and supported the
:15:30. > :15:38.government. The episode has raised questions about Mr Berlusconi's
:15:38. > :15:45.future in Italian politics. A day of high Roman drama. Silvio Berlusconi
:15:45. > :15:52.arrived at the Senate, having pledged to bring down the
:15:52. > :15:55.government. Inside, the Prime Minister appealed for a vote of
:15:55. > :16:01.confidence, saying Italians could not take any more scenes of what he
:16:01. > :16:05.called political bloodshed. The government 's problems, he said,
:16:05. > :16:10.must be separated from the legal problems of Silvio Berlusconi, and
:16:10. > :16:14.that the government's collapse would be fatal for Italy. While he was
:16:14. > :16:18.speaking, Silvio Berlusconi sauntered into the chamber, weary
:16:18. > :16:21.from a night of trying to get his party to back him. There were
:16:21. > :16:25.gestures of respect but dozens of his MPs were preparing to defy him.
:16:26. > :16:32.So he announced an extraordinary U-turn.
:16:32. > :16:35.TRANSLATION: Italy needs a government that can deliver reforms.
:16:35. > :16:41.We have decided to support the government. The Prime Minister had
:16:41. > :16:50.survived and gave this response to Mr Berlusconi's climb-down. When he
:16:50. > :16:58.left the Senate, he faced boos and shouts from some of the crowd
:16:58. > :17:02.outside. Some of his allies spoke bitterly of traitors in the party,
:17:02. > :17:13.others tried to defend their leader. No, more than ever he has shown he
:17:13. > :17:20.is a statesman. He took the decision is only considering the interests of
:17:20. > :17:24.the country. Why this drama? Instability in Italy could have
:17:24. > :17:28.shaken the eurozone. After all the days of political intrigue, there is
:17:28. > :17:32.one unanswered question. Is Italy any more stable now than it was? Is
:17:32. > :17:36.it any more capable of carrying out much-needed reforms in the midst of
:17:36. > :17:42.the longest recession since World War II? This crisis has shown Silvio
:17:42. > :17:46.Berlusconi's influence slipping away. There was a moment today when
:17:46. > :17:55.the man who has dominated Italian politics for 20 years appeared
:17:55. > :18:00.weak, and he knew it. A teenager accused of plotting terrorist
:18:00. > :18:04.attacks and targeting lost brothers gone on trial at the Old Bailey.
:18:04. > :18:08.Prosecutors say the boy, who was 16 at the time, made a plan based on a
:18:08. > :18:14.mass shooting at Columbine, a high school back in America back in 19
:18:14. > :18:19.99. He has admitted possessing pipe bombs but has denied other charges
:18:19. > :18:25.under the terrorism act. The town of Loughborough. Was this the intended
:18:25. > :18:29.target for a 16-year-old Boyd's alleged campaign of terror? A court
:18:29. > :18:34.was told today the teenager planned a series of lethal ataxia, including
:18:34. > :18:39.one at his former school. The boy, who can't be identified for legal
:18:39. > :18:44.reasons, has Asperger's, a form of autism. So a court appointed
:18:44. > :18:46.intermediary sat with him in the dock. He listened as the prosecution
:18:46. > :18:52.intermediary sat with him in the described how a police search of his
:18:52. > :18:56.home revealed The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook and weapons. Nine petrol
:18:56. > :19:01.bombs, several pipe bombs along with guns and ammunition. And a notebook
:19:01. > :19:07.containing his alleged plans for the school. He wrote about entering each
:19:07. > :19:12.classroom, taking out the teachers. Use explosives to eliminate most of
:19:12. > :19:16.the students. Although the teenager denies any connection with
:19:16. > :19:19.terrorism, he has admitted to charges of possessing explosives.
:19:19. > :19:22.The members of the jury have been told they have to decide whether he
:19:22. > :19:28.is just a social mitzvot or something much more sinister.
:19:28. > :19:30.Tomorrow the court will hear more details of his alleged plans to
:19:30. > :19:36.Tomorrow the court will hear more attack the residents of his
:19:36. > :19:41.hometown. In Greece, the political chaos of the past few years has been
:19:41. > :19:45.intensified by the growth of the extreme right wing party called
:19:45. > :19:49.Golden Dawn. Its leader, Nikolaos Michaloliakos, has been in court
:19:49. > :19:53.this evening charged with organising a criminal group. He and five MPs
:19:53. > :19:57.have been arrested and also charged with assault, money-laundering and
:19:57. > :20:03.charges linked to the murder of a singer and left-wing activist,
:20:03. > :20:07.Pavlos Fyssas. He was stabbed to death by a Golden Dawn supporter.
:20:07. > :20:10.The investigation has prompted new allegations of violence amongst
:20:10. > :20:15.party members. This report does contain some flash photography. A
:20:15. > :20:20.party leader or a criminal boss? Nikolaos Michaloliakos is the head
:20:20. > :20:27.of Golden Dawn, led to court a night charged with running an organised
:20:27. > :20:30.crime gang. Accounts are murder, assault and money-laundering. Golden
:20:30. > :20:34.Dawn has soared with Greece's economic collapse coming out of
:20:34. > :20:38.nowhere to get 18 MPs are the third most popular party. It is an
:20:38. > :20:43.intensely secretive organisation, but we had very rare insight from an
:20:43. > :20:49.ex-supporter. TRANSLATION: I saw clubs and seats.
:20:49. > :20:53.They talked of eating up gay and dark skinned people. Then a party
:20:53. > :20:58.member came to visit me. He said he could break someone's arm and leg
:20:58. > :21:01.for 300 euros. Burn a car for 1000. At the guy in hospital for 1500.
:21:01. > :21:05.for 300 euros. Burn a car for 1000. Later, he came back and told us not
:21:05. > :21:09.to say a word or he would burn us alive. It was after a left-wing
:21:10. > :21:15.musician, Pavlos Fyssas, was killed by an alleged Golden Dawn member,
:21:15. > :21:19.that the police clamp-down began. Huge protests demanded that the
:21:19. > :21:24.party be reined in. But footage from one appeared to back claims of
:21:24. > :21:25.police collusion. These men are alongside police fighting back
:21:25. > :21:28.police collusion. These men are protesters. At least one of them is
:21:28. > :21:32.now identified as belonging to Golden Dawn. That, says this
:21:32. > :21:37.migrant, is why the party got away with it. He was almost killed a year
:21:37. > :21:40.ago, he says by suspected Golden Dawn supporters, but nothing was
:21:40. > :21:43.done. TRANSLATION: They asked me where I
:21:43. > :21:47.was far from. I said Pakistan and TRANSLATION: They asked me where I
:21:47. > :21:52.they stopped me. The police did nothing. They never talked to me
:21:52. > :21:57.again. Because I'm a foreigner. If I was Greek then they would act. Now
:21:57. > :22:01.I'm terrified to go outside. I want to leave Greece for England, where
:22:02. > :22:06.it's safe. Nazi paraphernalia at the home of one of the Golden Dawn MPs
:22:06. > :22:10.charged. The views of the party and violent reputation were known, but
:22:10. > :22:14.authorities say they could only act when they have approved. Outside the
:22:14. > :22:19.court a value from those fighting back. The Golden Dawn faithful
:22:19. > :22:31.remained defiant. They say they are simply proud nationalists, victims
:22:31. > :22:32.of a political witchhunt. The party has a huge hit in the past
:22:32. > :22:34.fortnight, but it still has a has a huge hit in the past
:22:34. > :22:36.significant support base. Three of the MPs have been freed on bail. The
:22:36. > :22:37.significant support base. Three of response from one was unrepentant.
:22:37. > :22:39.The government believes it can now response from one was unrepentant.
:22:39. > :22:44.crush Golden Dawn by destroying its ideology will be far harder. -- but
:22:44. > :22:50.destroying its ideology will be far harder. It's been a mixed night for
:22:50. > :22:54.Manchester's clubs tonight. City suffered a 3-1 defeat at home to
:22:54. > :23:01.Bayern Munich. United left Ukraine with a point after a 1-1 draw
:23:01. > :23:05.against Shakhtar Donetsk. But David Moyes a handshake and a headache.
:23:05. > :23:11.How to revive Manchester United's stumbling start to the season? The
:23:11. > :23:15.answer, like this. Danny Welbeck, in four Wayne Rooney, prodding them
:23:15. > :23:23.ahead and prompting a roar of relief. Back came Shakhtar Donetsk
:23:23. > :23:28.with 15 minutes left, Tyson blasted them level but United have clung on
:23:28. > :23:32.for a gutsy draw. As for Manchester City, they had a night to forget
:23:32. > :23:36.against Bayern Munich. It began with a goalkeeping glitch. Ribeiro read
:23:37. > :23:43.giving Bayern Munich the lead with a hefty helping hand from Joe Hart.
:23:43. > :23:49.His night and city's didn't improve. Bayern Munich blew them away after
:23:49. > :23:54.the break. It was 2-0 before their misery was completed in some sap
:23:54. > :23:58.cashbacks and style. At least Negredo gave them something to
:23:58. > :24:04.cheer. But a 3-1 defeat will be little consolation. One of the
:24:04. > :24:10.world's bestselling authors, Tom Clancy, has died at the age of 66.
:24:10. > :24:13.He was made famous by books including The Hunt For Red October
:24:14. > :24:16.and Patriot Games. He was amongst the first wave of popular writers to
:24:16. > :24:18.and Patriot Games. He was amongst translate that success to other
:24:18. > :24:26.formats, including Hollywood blockbusters and video games. The
:24:26. > :24:32.film adaptation of Tom Clancy's 1982 debut novel, The Hunt For Red
:24:32. > :24:38.October. Described by the then-President Ronald Reagan as, my
:24:38. > :24:41.kind of yarn will stop the Cold War thriller launched the author's Korea
:24:41. > :24:44.and that of his fictional protagonist, Jack Ryan. A CIA
:24:44. > :24:46.operative who would appear in protagonist, Jack Ryan. A CIA
:24:47. > :24:50.subsequent novels, several of which would also be turned into Hollywood
:24:50. > :24:56.blockbusters. Clancy gave his adrenaline inducing stories added
:24:56. > :24:58.potency by meticulously researching factual details. I pay attention to
:24:58. > :25:04.potency by meticulously researching the real world. I find the people in
:25:04. > :25:11.that business and I say, is that possible? In the mid-90s he wrote
:25:11. > :25:17.debt of honour, a book some consider prophetic, for featuring a passenger
:25:17. > :25:21.plane crashing into Washington's Capitol building. I discussed it
:25:21. > :25:25.with an air force officer. He goes, Mr Clancy, to the best of my
:25:25. > :25:29.knowledge, if we had a plane to do this it would be secret, I wouldn't
:25:29. > :25:33.be able to talk to you about it. But to the best of my knowledge we have
:25:33. > :25:38.never looked at this possibility before. He was fascinated by naval
:25:38. > :25:45.history from an early age, but Poor eyesight prevented him from pursuing
:25:45. > :25:50.a career in it. Before long, he was one of the world 's wealthiest and
:25:50. > :25:54.best-known novelist. In 1986, the New York Times described his writing
:25:54. > :25:57.as a verbal equivalent of a high-tech video game, an area of
:25:57. > :26:02.entertainment the enterprising author was successfully to enter
:26:02. > :26:06.into. Writing, Tom Clancy said, was like playing golf. You kept going
:26:06. > :26:07.until you got it right, which, his millions of fans would agree, he
:26:08. > :26:09.did.