02/10/2013 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at 10:00pm: Young people could lose some benefits under a

future Conservative government. David Cameron tells the Conservative

Conference that the under 25s need to be earning or learning, not

relying on benefits. Today it is still possible to leave school, to

sign on, find a flat, start claiming housing benefit and opt for a live

on benefits. Isn't it time for bold action here? The Prime Minister also

appealed to voters to allow the Conservatives to finish the job

they've started in coalition. Also tonight: A mentally ill man has

been detained indefinitely for stabbing a schoolgirl to death on a

bus. Humiliated by his own party - Silvio

Berlusconi is forced to abandon a bid to topple the Italian

government. One of the world's best-selling

authors - the American writer Tom Clancy - has died at the age of 66.

And a rather mixed night for the Manchester clubs in the Champions

League. And coming up in Sportsday on BBC

News, all tonight's Champions League results. Plus good and bad news for

Chelsea's Fernando Torres - he escapes Punishment for scratching an

opponent but is out injured for three weeks.

Good evening. Young people could lose the right to some benefits

under a future Conservative government. David Cameron,

addressing his party conference, said the under 25s should "earn or

learn" and not live a life on the dole. And looking ahead to the next

election, he asked voters to allow the Conservatives to "finish the

job" they've started in coalition. Our political editor Nick Robinson's

report from Manchester contains flash photography.

It was a long, long wait for this party to get back into government.

Today they queued to hear their leader try to convince them that

after three years of cuts and compromises, they are not heading

back to opposition. David Cameron's speech was short of rhetorical fizz

but long on sober warnings, that the job he had set out to do was only

half done. This past year 's have been a real struggle. But what

people want to know is this, was the struggle worth it. Here is the

honest answer, the struggle will only be worth it if we as a country

finish the job we have started. Finish the job, a phrase he used no

fewer than 15 times. Anyone who thought the problems were over was,

he said, living in a fantasyland. After three years of cuts, we still

have one of the biggest budget deficits anywhere in the world. We

are still spending more than we earn. We still need to earn more,

and yes, our government still needs to spend less. What has really

stirred the Tories is not so much talk of what they are doing but

tributes to what Margaret Thatcher once did, and attacks on Labour, who

they believe have reverted to the policies they once argued for when

she was Prime Minister. Taxes on banks they want to spend ten times

over and an energy promise they admitted 24 hours later they might

not be able to keep. It is sticking plasters and quick fixes cobbled

together for the TV cameras, read Ed plasters and quick fixes cobbled

and his Blue Peter economy. Ed Balls used to taunt him every week, he

said, by claiming the economy was flat-lining. He joked that he had a

gesture of his own for the Shadow Chancellor. Don't worry, it is not a

rude one. Jobs are up, construction is up, manufacturing is up, inward

investment, retail sales, home building, consumer confidence, all

of these things are up. The oceans can rise, empires can fall but one

thing will never change. It is labour that wrecks our economy and

we Conservatives clear it up. Profit and wealth creation were not dirty

words, he insisted. Recalling his pride on the day his wife, Samantha,

set up her first business. This was a speech billed in advance as having

no new policies but there was a glimpse of one, and a pretty

dramatic one, designed to deal with the 1 million young people now not

in education or employment or training. Today it is still possible

to leave school, sign on, find a flat, start claiming housing benefit

and opt for a life on benefits. Isn't it time for bold action here?

Or to school, go to college, do an apprenticeship, get a job but just

choose the dole? We have got to offer them something better than

that. What that means, we are now told, is the next Tory manifesto

will include a promise to end automatic entitlement to housing

benefit for the under 25s, and it may curb Jobseeker's Allowance, too.

Reforming welfare and education would, the prime minister claimed,

let all those who put the effort in have a chance to make it. It is this

party that is for the many, not the few. The land of despair was Labour

but the land of hope is Tory. This was not a pitch for another

coalition. Nick Clegg was never mentioned, the coalition just once.

It was, instead, a Tory rallying cry. Together, we have made it this

far. Together we will finish the job we have started and together we will

build that land of opportunity. What will stay in the memory from this

conference is the Tories' laser-like focus on the threat from Ed

Miliband, which they once laughed off. This was part a plea and part a

warning. A plea for the country not to shove the government out of power

before it has finished its job, a warning that he says Labour would

take the country back to 1970s socialism. He will have the chance

to make just one more conference speech before you get to decide

whether they can stay at number ten. As we heard, the Prime Minister

wants the under 25s to "earn or learn", as he put it, rather than

opting for a life on benefits. There are currently 1 million young people

who are not in education, employment or training - so-called NEETs - in

the UK. Our home editor, Mark Easton, is here to look at the

potential impact. The proportion of the UK's young

people who are NEETS has long been a significant cause for concern. The

number currently stands at just over 1 million young people - 15% of our

under 25-year-olds - much worse than many of our European neighbours.

It is a familiar story, a young person leaves school with few if any

qualifications, then finds that jobs are almost impossible to get, ends

up on welfare and cannot escape. I have been asking, can I have an

apprentice ship to start my tattooed job and people say not yet, not yet.

I kept -- that is all I kept getting cold. Academics calculate that

today's crop of NEETs will cost the state £22 billion to £100 billion.

There is a review looking at expanding training and

apprenticeships. One in five young workers is currently unemployed. But

he more controversial idea is to stop many young people's benefits,

as they do with some youngsters in the Netherlands. Conservative

sources say they propose ending automatic entitlement to housing

benefit, currently page to 400,000 under 25-year-olds. -- currently

paid. After school you should be taking advantages of the

opportunities we are providing for apprenticeships and traineeships, it

is just right that we extend this to the next election because youth

unemployment is an evil. There are concerns that stopping benefits may

make some people even less likely to get a job. I think it sends out a

very poor message at a time when we need to say to young people, you

will be supported to take risks in the early stage of your career. It

sends a poor message that the housing safety net could be

withdrawn. Nothing is going to happen straightaway. There's a

review, then a Conservative manifesto and then an election of

course. A government official and Treasury minister have told the BBC

course. A government official and that Jobseeker's Allowance may

become a payment for training the under 25s. What is clear is that the

Tories have got Britain's NEETs in their sights.

Our political editor, Nick Robinson, is in Manchester. We have heard a

series of speeches from party leaders in recent weeks, how do you

see things tonight? The sense I have had in the past couple of weeks in

particular is almost a back to the future. At the Conservative

conference they have stressed their desire for a smaller state, for

government to do less, a tougher welfare system, much more

traditional standards in education. That followed a week on from a

Labour conference with a labour leader who dared to talk about

socialism and presented himself as tough enough to stand up to

business, rather learn to simply cosy up to business. -- rather than.

David Cameron and Ed Miliband, I have a sense they are nostalgic for

the certainties of the Thatcher. The rhetoric is one thing but the policy

detail is another -- certainties of the Thatcher era. There are a lot of

questions about how the latest welfare crackdown woodwork, who

would lose, which benefits, at what level and when? That would all have

to be clarified. Questions about how Labour's policy of an energy freeze

would work in practice. Perhaps these two men now feel they have had

a chance to tell the country what they really, deep down sink. And

perhaps the country has a sense -- what they really, deep down, think

for the perhaps the country has a sense that not all politicians are

the same. A 23-year-old man has been detained

indefinitely under the Mental Health Act after admitting the manslaughter

of a teenager in Birmingham. Christina Edkins was stabbed to

death on a bus as she travelled to school. Her family say questions

need to be asked about whether Philip Simelane had been properly

supervised on his release from prison at the end of 2012. Our

correspondent, Sian Lloyd, reports from Birmingham.

Christina Edkins was a daughter, a sister and a promising pupil. Two

weeks after her 16th birthday, she was killed by a stranger on a way to

school. Phillip Simelane stabbed the teenager in the chest with a kitchen

knife. This is the moment he boarded the bus, two hours before Christina

got on. He had been homeless after being released from prison three

months earlier. The 23-year-old was diagnosed with paranoid

schizophrenia. The judge said it was difficult to understand how anyone

with his condition could be released without supervision. Christina's

family were in court, wearing purple, her favourite colour. They

believe she would be alive today if Phillip Simelane had been

supervised. It was clearly identified that this guy had a

severe problem. He had threatened his mother with a knife only a

matter of months before. It was clear he was a danger. Police had

been called to Phillip Simelane's family home 21 times. In July 2012

he was jailed for threatening his mother with a knife. In prison,

mental health experts placed warning markers on his file. He was released

without supervision in December 2012. Phillip Simelane has been

detained at a secure clinic in Birmingham. The sentence passed

today means he cannot you released without an order from the secretary

of state. -- cannot be released. Mental health experts believe he

will need lifelong treatment but questions are being asked about how

a man with such severe mental illness could be released from

prison without supervision. The agencies involved in his case,

including two health trusts, are investigating. Mental health experts

who dealt with him recommended he received supervision, it seems he

fell through the cracks and was not picked up on the outside. March the

7th began as an ordinary day for Christine and her family, a girl who

was looking forward to the prom was on her way to school. She died

because she sat down near a man whose untreated illness led him to

kill. President Obama has called a meeting of all congressional

leaders, it's due to start in the next half-hour, to try to break the

budget deadlock which has caused the partial shutdown of the US

Government. There are fears that a prolonged stalemate will lead to

something of an economic crisis. Our correspondent is monitoring events.

Any sign at all that Democrats and Republicans are going to find some

common ground? There's always hope. At the moment, this feels more like

the theatre of negotiation and any meaningful attempt to reach a

compromise. Neither side wants to be seen to be dragging their heels, and

so they come up with plans, meetings and proposals. But there is very

little middle ground for them to even discuss. We heard today from

the banks, they came to the White House. They said how worried they

were about the damage this was doing the American economy. And we heard

from the heads of national intelligence agencies, who said how

worried they were about the damage this was doing to national security.

Amongst the problems is that this isn't just a battle between

Republicans and Democrats, this is a battle within the Republican party,

which in Congress is fairly sharply divided between and moderates. The

Italian government has survived a vote of confidence despite a threat

by the former Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, to bring it down. Mr

Berlusconi was forced into an abrupt change of plan after some of his own

party colleagues rejected his demands and supported the

government. The episode has raised questions about Mr Berlusconi's

future in Italian politics. A day of high Roman drama. Silvio Berlusconi

arrived at the Senate, having pledged to bring down the

government. Inside, the Prime Minister appealed for a vote of

confidence, saying Italians could not take any more scenes of what he

called political bloodshed. The government 's problems, he said,

must be separated from the legal problems of Silvio Berlusconi, and

that the government's collapse would be fatal for Italy. While he was

speaking, Silvio Berlusconi sauntered into the chamber, weary

from a night of trying to get his party to back him. There were

gestures of respect but dozens of his MPs were preparing to defy him.

So he announced an extraordinary U-turn.

TRANSLATION: Italy needs a government that can deliver reforms.

We have decided to support the government. The Prime Minister had

survived and gave this response to Mr Berlusconi's climb-down. When he

left the Senate, he faced boos and shouts from some of the crowd

outside. Some of his allies spoke bitterly of traitors in the party,

others tried to defend their leader. No, more than ever he has shown he

is a statesman. He took the decision is only considering the interests of

the country. Why this drama? Instability in Italy could have

shaken the eurozone. After all the days of political intrigue, there is

one unanswered question. Is Italy any more stable now than it was? Is

it any more capable of carrying out much-needed reforms in the midst of

the longest recession since World War II? This crisis has shown Silvio

Berlusconi's influence slipping away. There was a moment today when

the man who has dominated Italian politics for 20 years appeared

weak, and he knew it. A teenager accused of plotting terrorist

attacks and targeting lost brothers gone on trial at the Old Bailey.

Prosecutors say the boy, who was 16 at the time, made a plan based on a

mass shooting at Columbine, a high school back in America back in 19

99. He has admitted possessing pipe bombs but has denied other charges

under the terrorism act. The town of Loughborough. Was this the intended

target for a 16-year-old Boyd's alleged campaign of terror? A court

was told today the teenager planned a series of lethal ataxia, including

one at his former school. The boy, who can't be identified for legal

reasons, has Asperger's, a form of autism. So a court appointed

intermediary sat with him in the dock. He listened as the prosecution

intermediary sat with him in the described how a police search of his

home revealed The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook and weapons. Nine petrol

bombs, several pipe bombs along with guns and ammunition. And a notebook

containing his alleged plans for the school. He wrote about entering each

classroom, taking out the teachers. Use explosives to eliminate most of

the students. Although the teenager denies any connection with

terrorism, he has admitted to charges of possessing explosives.

The members of the jury have been told they have to decide whether he

is just a social mitzvot or something much more sinister.

Tomorrow the court will hear more details of his alleged plans to

Tomorrow the court will hear more attack the residents of his

hometown. In Greece, the political chaos of the past few years has been

intensified by the growth of the extreme right wing party called

Golden Dawn. Its leader, Nikolaos Michaloliakos, has been in court

this evening charged with organising a criminal group. He and five MPs

have been arrested and also charged with assault, money-laundering and

charges linked to the murder of a singer and left-wing activist,

Pavlos Fyssas. He was stabbed to death by a Golden Dawn supporter.

The investigation has prompted new allegations of violence amongst

party members. This report does contain some flash photography. A

party leader or a criminal boss? Nikolaos Michaloliakos is the head

of Golden Dawn, led to court a night charged with running an organised

crime gang. Accounts are murder, assault and money-laundering. Golden

Dawn has soared with Greece's economic collapse coming out of

nowhere to get 18 MPs are the third most popular party. It is an

intensely secretive organisation, but we had very rare insight from an

ex-supporter. TRANSLATION: I saw clubs and seats.

They talked of eating up gay and dark skinned people. Then a party

member came to visit me. He said he could break someone's arm and leg

for 300 euros. Burn a car for 1000. At the guy in hospital for 1500.

for 300 euros. Burn a car for 1000. Later, he came back and told us not

to say a word or he would burn us alive. It was after a left-wing

musician, Pavlos Fyssas, was killed by an alleged Golden Dawn member,

that the police clamp-down began. Huge protests demanded that the

party be reined in. But footage from one appeared to back claims of

police collusion. These men are alongside police fighting back

police collusion. These men are protesters. At least one of them is

now identified as belonging to Golden Dawn. That, says this

migrant, is why the party got away with it. He was almost killed a year

ago, he says by suspected Golden Dawn supporters, but nothing was

done. TRANSLATION: They asked me where I

was far from. I said Pakistan and TRANSLATION: They asked me where I

they stopped me. The police did nothing. They never talked to me

again. Because I'm a foreigner. If I was Greek then they would act. Now

I'm terrified to go outside. I want to leave Greece for England, where

it's safe. Nazi paraphernalia at the home of one of the Golden Dawn MPs

charged. The views of the party and violent reputation were known, but

authorities say they could only act when they have approved. Outside the

court a value from those fighting back. The Golden Dawn faithful

remained defiant. They say they are simply proud nationalists, victims

of a political witchhunt. The party has a huge hit in the past

fortnight, but it still has a has a huge hit in the past

significant support base. Three of the MPs have been freed on bail. The

significant support base. Three of response from one was unrepentant.

The government believes it can now response from one was unrepentant.

crush Golden Dawn by destroying its ideology will be far harder. -- but

destroying its ideology will be far harder. It's been a mixed night for

Manchester's clubs tonight. City suffered a 3-1 defeat at home to

Bayern Munich. United left Ukraine with a point after a 1-1 draw

against Shakhtar Donetsk. But David Moyes a handshake and a headache.

How to revive Manchester United's stumbling start to the season? The

answer, like this. Danny Welbeck, in four Wayne Rooney, prodding them

ahead and prompting a roar of relief. Back came Shakhtar Donetsk

with 15 minutes left, Tyson blasted them level but United have clung on

for a gutsy draw. As for Manchester City, they had a night to forget

against Bayern Munich. It began with a goalkeeping glitch. Ribeiro read

giving Bayern Munich the lead with a hefty helping hand from Joe Hart.

His night and city's didn't improve. Bayern Munich blew them away after

the break. It was 2-0 before their misery was completed in some sap

cashbacks and style. At least Negredo gave them something to

cheer. But a 3-1 defeat will be little consolation. One of the

world's bestselling authors, Tom Clancy, has died at the age of 66.

He was made famous by books including The Hunt For Red October

and Patriot Games. He was amongst the first wave of popular writers to

and Patriot Games. He was amongst translate that success to other

formats, including Hollywood blockbusters and video games. The

film adaptation of Tom Clancy's 1982 debut novel, The Hunt For Red

October. Described by the then-President Ronald Reagan as, my

kind of yarn will stop the Cold War thriller launched the author's Korea

and that of his fictional protagonist, Jack Ryan. A CIA

operative who would appear in protagonist, Jack Ryan. A CIA

subsequent novels, several of which would also be turned into Hollywood

blockbusters. Clancy gave his adrenaline inducing stories added

potency by meticulously researching factual details. I pay attention to

potency by meticulously researching the real world. I find the people in

that business and I say, is that possible? In the mid-90s he wrote

debt of honour, a book some consider prophetic, for featuring a passenger

plane crashing into Washington's Capitol building. I discussed it

with an air force officer. He goes, Mr Clancy, to the best of my

knowledge, if we had a plane to do this it would be secret, I wouldn't

be able to talk to you about it. But to the best of my knowledge we have

never looked at this possibility before. He was fascinated by naval

history from an early age, but Poor eyesight prevented him from pursuing

a career in it. Before long, he was one of the world 's wealthiest and

best-known novelist. In 1986, the New York Times described his writing

as a verbal equivalent of a high-tech video game, an area of

entertainment the enterprising author was successfully to enter

into. Writing, Tom Clancy said, was like playing golf. You kept going

until you got it right, which, his millions of fans would agree, he

did.