:00:00. > :00:00.The row over welfare cuts ? now, the Government says it has no plans
:00:07. > :00:10.to make new cuts to welfare benefits AT ALL.
:00:11. > :00:13.The Prime Minister moves to defuse the row over disability payments
:00:14. > :00:27.We will continue with this approach because we are a modern,
:00:28. > :00:29.compassionate, one-nation Conservative government.
:00:30. > :00:32.We report from the most deprived town in Britain on how welfare
:00:33. > :00:36.And we'll be looking at exactly what the Government means
:00:37. > :00:38.by its sudden pledge of no new cuts to welfare benefits.
:00:39. > :00:44.20 years for the teenage killer who ran down
:00:45. > :00:46.PC Dave Phillips in a stolen car last October.
:00:47. > :00:48.Scotland Yard closes down its controversial investigation
:00:49. > :00:50.into historical allegations of a paedophile ring
:00:51. > :00:54.The man who rescued a baby from a sinking car in which five
:00:55. > :01:07.people drowned says its father sacrificed himself to save it.
:01:08. > :01:10.And America's man in Havana - Barack Obama meets Cuba's leader
:01:11. > :01:19.in the first visit by a US president since the Cuban revolution.
:01:20. > :01:24.Coming up in Sportsday, England's women look for a second
:01:25. > :01:54.win in the World Twenty20 tournament.
:01:55. > :01:57.In an attempt to defuse the row over welfare spending, the Government has
:01:58. > :02:00.announced it has no plans to make any new cuts to welfare
:02:01. > :02:04.That is on top of ditching the ?4 billion of cuts to benefits
:02:05. > :02:09.The Government has been under fire from its own backbenchers
:02:10. > :02:13.and charities since the Work and Pensions Secretary,
:02:14. > :02:15.Iain Duncan Smith, resigned over a planned reduction in some payments
:02:16. > :02:19.Here is our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg.
:02:20. > :02:22.Cleaning up the mess sounds simple, but this is more
:02:23. > :02:26.In the last 48 hours, Numbers 10 and 11 have been accused
:02:27. > :02:28.of putting the rich before the poor.
:02:29. > :02:33.Letting down the most vulnerable for votes.
:02:34. > :02:36.Brutal arguments over welfare spilled out into public and lead
:02:37. > :02:39.Iain Duncan Smith to quit. David Cameron has never been
:02:40. > :02:52.under pressure like this. But the new man he has put in charge
:02:53. > :02:56.of welfare confirmed the changes to some disability benefits, which
:02:57. > :03:01.caused so much trouble, have been ditched. We will not be going ahead
:03:02. > :03:08.with the changes which had been put forward. I am absolutely clear, Mr
:03:09. > :03:09.Speaker, that a compassionate and fair welfare system should not just
:03:10. > :03:15.be about numbers. Behind every statistic, there is a
:03:16. > :03:21.human being. And perhaps sometimes in government we forget that. But
:03:22. > :03:28.there was more. Stephen Crabb suggested the welfare budget will
:03:29. > :03:31.not be revisited. After discussions over the weekend with my right
:03:32. > :03:36.honourable friends the Prime Minister and the Chancellor, we have
:03:37. > :03:39.no further plans to make welfare savings beyond the substantial plans
:03:40. > :03:43.legislated for by Parliament two weeks ago. In other words, no
:03:44. > :03:47.further plans for benefit cuts. There was no sign of Iain Duncan
:03:48. > :03:50.Smith to hear the announcement he might have longed to make. Despite
:03:51. > :03:56.their bust up, David Cameron praised him. My right honourable friend
:03:57. > :04:00.contributed an enormous amount to this government and he can be proud
:04:01. > :04:03.of what he G8. But he rejected Iain Duncan Smith's most stinging attack,
:04:04. > :04:05.that the Government is running out of compassion. We will go on without
:04:06. > :04:12.plans to rebuild sink estates, to help those
:04:13. > :04:15.with mental health conditions, to extend the family programme, to
:04:16. > :04:19.reform the prisons and to tackle discrimination for those whose life
:04:20. > :04:20.chances suffer because the colour of their skin. None
:04:21. > :04:24.of this would be possible if it was not for the actions of this
:04:25. > :04:27.government and the work of my right honourable friend the Chancellor in
:04:28. > :04:34.turning our economy around. with a flourish, and a familiar
:04:35. > :04:36.promise. We are a modern, compassionate, one-nation
:04:37. > :04:46.Conservative government. thing a mess. The budget has a big
:04:47. > :04:47.hole in it. It is up to the Prime Minister to persuade
:04:48. > :04:50.his great friend the Chancellor either to come here to explain how
:04:51. > :04:51.he is going to fill that hole, or perhaps he should
:04:52. > :04:56.consider his position. A handful of Conservative backbenchers
:04:57. > :04:58.were willing to keep the pressure up, praising
:04:59. > :05:02.the departing cabinet minister. May I warmly welcome my right
:05:03. > :05:09.honourable generous comments about my right
:05:10. > :05:14.honourable friend the member for Chingford, who is so widely
:05:15. > :05:14.respected on these benches. The British people
:05:15. > :05:17.will not take kindly the idea that we must cut
:05:18. > :05:19.benefits to vulnerable people in order to
:05:20. > :05:25.revolt against the Prime Minister, but do not
:05:26. > :05:28.that for overwhelming support. The spring budget leaves the
:05:29. > :05:35.And the U-turn leaves them with a ?4 billion hole in the plans.
:05:36. > :05:40.set of numbers which is meant to shape how government
:05:41. > :05:44.spends and saves. But as David Cameron has failed to his cost, not
:05:45. > :05:48.is in his control. Fiona, after this huge
:05:49. > :05:52.spending, it sounds like there was a big political promise from the
:05:53. > :05:54.Government today, this promise of no promise but with two practical
:05:55. > :06:03.caveats. One, the commitment was to no new
:06:04. > :06:06.planned cuts. That is not exactly the same as
:06:07. > :06:09.ruling them out for ever. And of course, as many people around
:06:10. > :06:17.the country been very significant cuts. So it is
:06:18. > :06:20.not as if this is not something the Government has already done. But on
:06:21. > :06:24.all of this, all roads lead back to George Osborne.
:06:25. > :06:25.Tomorrow it is his turn in the House of Commons
:06:26. > :06:28.after a couple of days of private and public
:06:29. > :06:31.questioning of his ability and judgment by his colleagues and by
:06:32. > :06:33.the opposition. Tomorrow, in the House of Commons,
:06:34. > :06:38.he will have to front it up. One of the key criticisms
:06:39. > :06:51.of George Osborne's budget Two big issues rolled up
:06:52. > :06:54.to George Osborne's front door today - the major allegation
:06:55. > :07:02.from Iain Duncan Smith that his Budget of last
:07:03. > :07:04.week simply wasn't fair. And that the delay to disability
:07:05. > :07:07.payment savings could leave a large black hole in the Chancellor's
:07:08. > :07:08.Budget calculations. Let's consider that
:07:09. > :07:10.fairness issue first. If we look at how people
:07:11. > :07:13.are affected by the tax changes last week, this graph shows
:07:14. > :07:15.the difference between the richest The poorest 10% are no better off,
:07:16. > :07:19.according to the Institute They will see their household income
:07:20. > :07:30.increase by around ?268 a year. And don't forget pensioner incomes
:07:31. > :07:33.are also protected. Critics may say that is unfair,
:07:34. > :07:35.but the change should be seen in the context
:07:36. > :07:48.of the broader economy. This budget did very little for the
:07:49. > :07:52.distribution of income. It gave away a little bit of money to income tax
:07:53. > :07:57.payers, essentially. Over the longer period, we have seen significant
:07:58. > :08:01.takeaways from people of working age on benefits, as promised by the
:08:02. > :08:04.Conservative manifesto, and very significant take aways from the
:08:05. > :08:06.people right at the top of the income distribution. People in the
:08:07. > :08:07.middle, remarkably unaffected. The Treasury looks at the issue
:08:08. > :08:09.of fairness differently. In 2010, the richest fifth
:08:10. > :08:19.of all households paid Whereas the poorest fifth paid
:08:20. > :08:23.around 6% of all taxes. By 2020, the proportion of tax paid
:08:24. > :08:26.by the richest fifth will have It has stayed the same -
:08:27. > :08:37.at around 6%. The Treasury says that shows
:08:38. > :08:39.the cuts have been handled fairly. Finally, let's look at that issue
:08:40. > :08:42.of the dreaded "fiscal black hole" Abandoning the personal independence
:08:43. > :08:48.payment reforms for disabled people could cost the Government around
:08:49. > :08:53.?1.3 billion by 2020. But consider - by then,
:08:54. > :09:02.the Government will be spending ?810 billion a year
:09:03. > :09:06.on public services. So ?1.3 billion is
:09:07. > :09:10.relatively small change. It could easily be paid
:09:11. > :09:13.for by better economic growth And we won't know about that
:09:14. > :09:18.until the Autumn Statement towards the end of this year,
:09:19. > :09:21.when my Treasury sources tell me any new areas for cuts -
:09:22. > :09:29.if needed - will be made clear. So as we've heard,
:09:30. > :09:31.the Government announced today there would be no further
:09:32. > :09:39.planned cuts to welfare. Our home editor, Mark Easton,
:09:40. > :09:41.has been to Oldham, the most deprived town in England,
:09:42. > :09:45.to find out how the welfare system is working there and
:09:46. > :09:53.what the challenges are. test-bed for the government 's's
:09:54. > :10:00.welfare reform programme. Some 3000 people in this highly
:10:01. > :10:04.deprived town have been moved onto Universal Credit, Iain Duncan
:10:05. > :10:09.Smith's single benefit replacement which rolls the others into one. For
:10:10. > :10:10.Iain Duncan Smith, welfare reform was not just about solving
:10:11. > :10:14.mileage of you saw it as a tool for changing behaviour, far from
:10:15. > :10:20.increasing hardship, reducing poverty, he was sure,
:10:21. > :10:27.encouraging people off benefits and into work. So what has happened here
:10:28. > :10:31.in Oldham? If the aim was to get people jobs, then the Government can
:10:32. > :10:32.claim success. Before the introduction of Universal Credit,
:10:33. > :10:39.unemployment in the town was 8300. Now, it is almost half that. But low
:10:40. > :10:45.wages and in-work benefit cuts mean a job is no longer a
:10:46. > :10:46.direct route out of poverty. At the local
:10:47. > :10:53.Jobcentre they are proud to have piloted reforms they believe can be
:10:54. > :10:55.tailored to individual circumstances. For people who might
:10:56. > :10:59.have been out of work for a long time, maybe on
:11:00. > :11:04.sickness benefit, maybe raising children, they might not be ready to
:11:05. > :11:07.step big bang into the world of full-time employment. We now have
:11:08. > :11:08.the opportunity to support them with some small
:11:09. > :11:12.steps, moving into any job, then a better job and finally, a
:11:13. > :11:16.career. Designing a system sensitive enough for vulnerable individuals to
:11:17. > :11:17.navigate the changes is the great challenge of
:11:18. > :11:27.welfare reform. Anne-Marie and Ryan are both
:11:28. > :11:30.disabled. He has kidney problems and receives employment support
:11:31. > :11:33.alliance. She has a twisted spine and is on Universal Credit.
:11:34. > :11:39.Universal Credit is supposed to be everything rolled into one to make
:11:40. > :11:41.your life easier - it doesn't. Have you experienced real hardship as a
:11:42. > :11:46.result of this? Because of the automatic
:11:47. > :11:48.payment system, it has left us without food and things.
:11:49. > :11:54.We have had to resort to the food bank couple of times. This is where
:11:55. > :11:55.they came, one of the busiest food banks in England. Many of those
:11:56. > :12:04.stories of a welfare system they say has left them without enough money
:12:05. > :12:09.to live on. For a lot of them, it is actually a good system. But for the
:12:10. > :12:15.ones it goes wrong for, it is very difficult to sort out. What would
:12:16. > :12:16.you say to the new Secretary of State who is in charge of the
:12:17. > :12:21.welfare system now? Just sort it out, because it is a
:12:22. > :12:22.good idea to have the benefits all rolled into one.
:12:23. > :12:28.It should make it easier for a lot of people. So, if they try and sort
:12:29. > :12:35.that out, it would make it easier for
:12:36. > :12:40.everybody else. Welfare reform is not easy at the best of times, but
:12:41. > :12:45.the benefits budget must lose billions. No further planned cuts,
:12:46. > :12:49.maybe, but the immediate challenge for the new Welfare Secretary is
:12:50. > :12:52.continuing his predecessor's radical change programme without damaging
:12:53. > :12:59.the life chances of the most private.
:13:00. > :13:01.A teenager who killed a police officer in Merseyside
:13:02. > :13:04.after knocking him down in a stolen car has been sentenced to 20 years .
:13:05. > :13:07.Clayton Williams, who is 19, was found guilty of manslaughter
:13:08. > :13:10.after his car hit PC Dave Phillips in Wallasey last October.
:13:11. > :13:12.The police officer's widow told his killer he had
:13:13. > :13:36.The final moments of PC Dave Phillips's life. A chaotic chase,
:13:37. > :13:42.recorded on a police camera. Through red lights, the stolen red truck
:13:43. > :13:49.reaches, and. And then voice of PC Dave Phillips... You can see the
:13:50. > :13:59.officer crouching down with a stinger. Seconds later, the truck
:14:00. > :14:01.veers right, then left. Dave Phillips, the court heard, had no
:14:02. > :14:13.chance to survive. He was 34 years old, married with
:14:14. > :14:17.two children. Sat next to him, held his hand, quietly asking him to
:14:18. > :14:22.fight. Saying, go on, Dave, do this for me, don't leave me. Today, his
:14:23. > :14:24.widow and sister wanted everyone to know just what has been lost.
:14:25. > :14:34.He is not just a man in a uniform. He is a father, a brother, a
:14:35. > :14:38.husband, a son, just doing a job, as simple as that. My daddy does the
:14:39. > :14:43.best kisses and cuddles. Abigail has her moments. She is scared of
:14:44. > :14:48.monsters. She puts her worries in her teddy. Most of her worries is
:14:49. > :14:55.that she is going to lose me. It was Clayton Williams who so cruelly took
:14:56. > :14:59.Dave Phillips's life. A cannabis addict with 33 previous convictions,
:15:00. > :15:04.he had only been out of jail for three weeks. Clayton Williams said
:15:05. > :15:09.it was pitch black, he said he never saw PC Phillips until the final
:15:10. > :15:14.moment. But by then, it was too late. After his arrest, while a
:15:15. > :15:19.family grieved, he grinned. Today, he cried in court. The judge said
:15:20. > :15:23.his remorse was false. He had the opportunity to stand up on the dock
:15:24. > :15:27.and address us and tell us how sorry he is. The only times he cried in
:15:28. > :15:28.the trial was when he wanted a cuddle.
:15:29. > :15:32.What about Abigail and Sophie? Who do they get to
:15:33. > :15:44.For PC Phillips's funeral, thousands came. A parade of black, support
:15:45. > :15:50.which means as much today as it did then. We are in hell at the moment.
:15:51. > :15:53.But having the amount of support and the cards and gifts, it is just
:15:54. > :16:03.overwhelming and it is lovely. For taking a life, Clayton Williams
:16:04. > :16:08.was given 20 years detention. In court, Clayton Williams's wife said
:16:09. > :16:10.she had never hated anyone - until now.
:16:11. > :16:11.Scotland Yard says it has closed a controversial inquiry
:16:12. > :16:13.into historical claims about a Westminster paedophile ring.
:16:14. > :16:15.The investigation, costing nearly ?2 million, examined allegations
:16:16. > :16:18.boys were abused by a group of powerful men from politics,
:16:19. > :16:21.the military and law enforcement agencies.
:16:22. > :16:24.But this afternoon the Metropolitan Police said it doesn't have enough
:16:25. > :16:30.Here's our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds.
:16:31. > :16:41.Last year, when Harvey Proctor was named as an abuser and murderer
:16:42. > :16:48.I am completely innocent of all these allegations.
:16:49. > :17:01.His accuser, Nick, in his 40s, told police three boys were murdered
:17:02. > :17:04.and others abused at locations including the Dolphin Square
:17:05. > :17:08.apartments, the Carlton Club and even this abandoned village used
:17:09. > :17:14.Nick named the former Prime Minister, Sir Edward Heath,
:17:15. > :17:17.the former Home Secretary, Lord Brittain and Labour peer,
:17:18. > :17:22.This was the reaction from Scotland Yard detectives.
:17:23. > :17:26.They and I believe what Nick is saying to be credible
:17:27. > :17:32.There was insufficient evidence to allow prosecutors even
:17:33. > :17:38.The Met can't apologise for investigating serious
:17:39. > :17:42.It is right that we do that, it is right that we follow
:17:43. > :17:44.the evidence, without fear or favour, and reach a conclusion
:17:45. > :17:49.I do regret if anyone has been distressed by this investigation,
:17:50. > :17:52.that it was right that the investigation took place.
:17:53. > :17:55.Harvey Proctor today called for the resignations
:17:56. > :17:58.of the Met Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe,
:17:59. > :18:01.and other senior officers, for a public inquiry and for Nick
:18:02. > :18:06.The only other person Nick accused, who is still alive,
:18:07. > :18:08.was Field Marshal Lord Bramall, one of Britain's
:18:09. > :18:15.Today, he told the BBC the police inquiry should have focussed not
:18:16. > :18:21.I have never complained about being investigated.
:18:22. > :18:26.It was only the heavy-handed and the very unintelligent way
:18:27. > :18:32.I mean, they could have said, look...
:18:33. > :18:35.If they had taken any trouble to put their effort
:18:36. > :18:39.on to questioning the so-called victim, I think they would have
:18:40. > :18:46.What is necessary is to look at the way that the police carried
:18:47. > :18:53.out this inquiry and to see that they don't go about these sort
:18:54. > :19:01.Today, the police insisted they had found no evidence Nick misled them.
:19:02. > :19:03.But there are things he's not been able to explain.
:19:04. > :19:07.How could such prominent men, their lives carefully controlled,
:19:08. > :19:11.How could a boy suffer so badly with no-one,
:19:12. > :19:15.not least his mother, raising the alarm?
:19:16. > :19:18.And if it went on for so long, involved so many, then
:19:19. > :19:23.There is one outstanding line of enquiry.
:19:24. > :19:27.One of the boys Nick said was murdered resembled Martin Allen,
:19:28. > :19:31.missing since 1979, and so now a new inquiry will begin.
:19:32. > :19:36.Its task, to explain Martin's unsolved disappearance.
:19:37. > :19:42.A four-month-old baby is the only survivor of a tragic accident
:19:43. > :19:46.in which a car slid into the sea at County Donegal in Ireland.
:19:47. > :19:48.Five people - including three other children -
:19:49. > :19:51.died in front of horrified onlookers.
:19:52. > :19:54.The man who managed to save the baby from the sinking car said
:19:55. > :19:57.the infant's father chose to stay with his other children rather
:19:58. > :20:04.Here's our Ireland correspondent, Chris Buckler.
:20:05. > :20:07.At the edge of the ocean, families have been remembering
:20:08. > :20:12.and mourning those who died in the water here.
:20:13. > :20:15.Among those who came to Buncrana today were relatives of the five
:20:16. > :20:21.people who died when their car slipped into the sea.
:20:22. > :20:24.A four-month-old baby was the only survivor,
:20:25. > :20:27.passed out of a car window by her father, to a man who jumped
:20:28. > :20:35.He just said, "Save my baby" and then I just took the baby,
:20:36. > :20:40.I held it above my head and I swam back to shore.
:20:41. > :20:42.The father looked at me, and he had to make a decision.
:20:43. > :20:44.He could have saved himself because he was out of the car
:20:45. > :20:50.but he went back to his family and I couldn't do nothing else,
:20:51. > :20:54.the car went down instantly and the whole lot of them went down
:20:55. > :21:00.and then it was so fast and I took the baby infant back to shore.
:21:01. > :21:03.They were trying to turn their car here on the slipway just
:21:04. > :21:07.beside the pier, but they went too far down and because of all
:21:08. > :21:11.the algae that is here at the bottom of the slipway,
:21:12. > :21:16.A helicopter was deployed, coastguard boats arrived,
:21:17. > :21:24.Ruth Daniels died along with her teenage daughter Jodie Lee.
:21:25. > :21:27.They were on a family day out with her other daughter's husband,
:21:28. > :21:34.He and his sons, 12-year-old Mark and 8-year-old Evan, also drowned.
:21:35. > :21:38.He lived for them two kids, you know, lived for his wife,
:21:39. > :21:46.Parents have been bringing their children to the pier today
:21:47. > :21:51.Their thoughts with another family, who say they have
:21:52. > :21:59.Chris Buckler, BBC News, Buncrana.
:22:00. > :22:02.President Barack Obama has held talks with his Cuban counterpart,
:22:03. > :22:04.Raul Castrol, on the second day of his visit to the
:22:05. > :22:09.Mr Obama is the first US President to set foot on the island
:22:10. > :22:14.since the Cuban Revolution in 1959, which began decades of hostility.
:22:15. > :22:20.Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, is in Cuba.
:22:21. > :22:28.An historic meeting between the two men. But there were big differences
:22:29. > :22:33.between them? Yes, there are some real difficult issues, on both
:22:34. > :22:38.sides. There is also undeniable, a change in that relationship that is
:22:39. > :22:41.pretty profound, as you indicated. It's also been a day of
:22:42. > :22:44.extraordinary firsts. It is the first time that President Raul
:22:45. > :22:48.Castro has answered unscripted questions at a news conference.
:22:49. > :22:53.Tomorrow, Obama will deliver his keynote speech which is being
:22:54. > :22:55.broadcast live on Cuban television. No wonder Barack Obama described it
:22:56. > :22:57.as a new day. Somewhere under this canopy
:22:58. > :23:00.of umbrellas is the President of the United States, the First Lady
:23:01. > :23:03.and their two daughters. This was meant to be
:23:04. > :23:05.a walkabout to meet the people, A glimpse of them was caught
:23:06. > :23:09.as they entered Then he spoke to
:23:10. > :23:13.an American network. Obviously, our intention has always
:23:14. > :23:20.been to get a ball rolling, knowing that change wasn't
:23:21. > :23:23.going to happen overnight. But what we have already seen
:23:24. > :23:28.is the re-opening of the Embassy and although we still have
:23:29. > :23:32.significant differences around human rights and individual
:23:33. > :23:36.liberties inside of Cuba, we felt that coming now
:23:37. > :23:42.would maximise our ability But it's going to be
:23:43. > :23:48.anything but plain sailing. It may only be 90 miles
:23:49. > :23:51.from here to the US coast, but there is still a gulf
:23:52. > :23:54.on a range of issues. Not that they were on show
:23:55. > :24:00.as the two Presidents stood to attention, while a Cuban military
:24:01. > :24:04.band played the US National Anthem But thorny issues remain,
:24:05. > :24:13.on human rights and The Cubans demanding the trade
:24:14. > :24:19.embargo be lifted in full. At their news conference,
:24:20. > :24:20.there was no glossing TRANSLATION: There are profound
:24:21. > :24:27.differences between our countries But I believe it will end
:24:28. > :24:43.and the path that we are on will Large crowds have gathered
:24:44. > :24:50.here in Old Havana to see the presidential motorcade go past
:24:51. > :24:54.after his joint news It was an historic occasion,
:24:55. > :24:59.where not only did they show the progress that's been made,
:25:00. > :25:02.they also showed the profound differences that still remain
:25:03. > :25:09.between Cuba and the United States. But this trip is also
:25:10. > :25:13.about President Obama's legacy. With the Middle East in turmoil,
:25:14. > :25:16.the normalisation of relations with Cuba, he will claim
:25:17. > :25:19.as a foreign policy success. And that is why these images
:25:20. > :25:23.will be for the scrapbook. A brief look at some
:25:24. > :25:31.of the day's other news stories: New footage has emerged
:25:32. > :25:36.of the moment a key suspect in last year's Paris terrorist attacks,
:25:37. > :25:38.Salah Abdeslam, was captured and shot during an attempted escape
:25:39. > :25:41.from a Brussels apartment The 26-year-old was hit in the leg
:25:42. > :25:46.and is now being The ringleader of the ?14 million
:25:47. > :25:52.Hatton Garden heist in London has Briar Reader, who is 77
:25:53. > :25:57.and from Dartford in Kent, was the oldest member of the gang
:25:58. > :26:00.who stole jewellery after drilling into the safety deposit
:26:01. > :26:05.box last Easter. Male tennis players should earn more
:26:06. > :26:07.money than their female counterparts, so says the world
:26:08. > :26:10.number one Novak Djokovic. His comments followed claims
:26:11. > :26:17.by a tournament organiser that the women's game rides
:26:18. > :26:20."on the coat-tails of the men". Here's our sports
:26:21. > :26:24.correspondent, Andy Swiss. When Novak Djokovic
:26:25. > :26:29.and Serena Williams won Wimbledon last year, they both took home
:26:30. > :26:34.a cool ?1.9 million. But suddenly that equality
:26:35. > :26:37.is being questioned. As Williams lost to Victoria
:26:38. > :26:40.Azarenka at the weekend, the tournament's organiser described
:26:41. > :26:43.the women's game in less They ride on the coat-tails
:26:44. > :26:48.of the men, they don't make any decision and they are lucky,
:26:49. > :26:51.they are very, very lucky. If I was a lady player,
:26:52. > :26:54.I would go down every night on my knees and thank God that
:26:55. > :26:59.Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were born because they have
:27:00. > :27:04.carried the sport. From that spark, the
:27:05. > :27:07.controversy ignited. Novak Djokovic said
:27:08. > :27:09.women players had fought Our men's tennis world should fight
:27:10. > :27:17.for more because the stats are showing that we have much more
:27:18. > :27:21.spectators on the men's Men's tennis does generally
:27:22. > :27:26.attract more TV viewers. In Britain last year,
:27:27. > :27:29.9.2 million watched the men's final at Wimbledon, compared to 4.3
:27:30. > :27:33.million for the women's final. But the WTA says women's tennis
:27:34. > :27:38.attracts 395 million viewers It's produced some of the biggest
:27:39. > :27:45.stars in women's sport. And the biggest of all has hit back
:27:46. > :27:49.at Raymond Moore's comments. I think those remarks are very much
:27:50. > :27:56.mistaken and very, And experts believe that
:27:57. > :28:02.financially, the women's game has There's been more investment
:28:03. > :28:08.into women's sport, more interest in women's sport in the last year,
:28:09. > :28:13.two years, than there ever has been. But for now, this traditionally
:28:14. > :28:17.gentile sport is looking The question of equality
:28:18. > :28:23.is proving one of controversy. 100 years ago this month military
:28:24. > :28:29.conscription became all-but The First World War was going badly
:28:30. > :28:32.- and it hadn't even Our special correspondent,
:28:33. > :28:39.Allan Little, has this report on the fate of the
:28:40. > :28:44.conscientious objectors. At the height of the conflict
:28:45. > :28:46.opposing war was Here a group of pacifists
:28:47. > :28:51.are meeting in a London church. But the prevailing public sentiment
:28:52. > :28:54.is patriotic and they are set The Military Service Act brought
:28:55. > :29:00.conscription to the country British society
:29:01. > :29:05.mobilised for total war. And it created a new and
:29:06. > :29:08.defiant category of man, 16,000 were to claim exemption
:29:09. > :29:14.from war service on moral, In the Imperial War Museum
:29:15. > :29:21.in London, there's a rare glimpse of the popular opprobrium
:29:22. > :29:24.that those men faced. The white feather carried
:29:25. > :29:29.the stigma of cowardice. The animosity, the sheer contempt
:29:30. > :29:32.that was directed at conscientious objectors conveys itself
:29:33. > :29:35.right down the decades. There is one letter here
:29:36. > :29:39.that was written to a Mr EA Brookes. It says, "Seeing that you cannot be
:29:40. > :29:43.a man not to join the Army, we offer you an invitation
:29:44. > :29:47.to join our Girls' Scouts as washer-up," and it's signed
:29:48. > :29:49.the Scout Mistress There could be moral convictions,
:29:50. > :29:55.political convictions, particularly those from
:29:56. > :29:58.an association with the independent Labour Party, or
:29:59. > :30:01.left-wing politically. Also religious convictions as well,
:30:02. > :30:04.particularly those from various Christian denominations,
:30:05. > :30:07.Quakers, for example, who felt a natural
:30:08. > :30:12.aversion to taking life. One of those Quakers
:30:13. > :30:17.was Howard Martin, a 29-year-old He was refused exemption and was one
:30:18. > :30:22.of dozens of men taken to France That was later commuted
:30:23. > :30:28.to ten years hard labour. NEWSREEL: All the time
:30:29. > :30:31.we were being threatened - I think you found that -
:30:32. > :30:33.by various officials and officers that if you persist in this
:30:34. > :30:38.attitude, you are going to be shot. We were much more concerned
:30:39. > :30:46.that it was an attitude that we must take, that consequences
:30:47. > :30:51.didn't enter into it. It was a line that we felt
:30:52. > :30:55.was prescribed for us by our innermost conviction
:30:56. > :30:59.and we got to keep... Friends House in Central London
:31:00. > :31:07.is the home of British Quakerism. Its archive has an unpublished
:31:08. > :31:12.memoir that Howard wrote in 1918. I think he was a very
:31:13. > :31:18.courageous man. Also, probably quite
:31:19. > :31:22.an obstinate man as well. You have to be, I think, to hold,
:31:23. > :31:27.to be tenacious and hold to your belief through all that
:31:28. > :31:34.physical and psychological abuse. The conscientious objectors
:31:35. > :31:38.were a tiny minority of the millions One of their number wrote
:31:39. > :31:43.at the time, "Never mind if you look like a fool,
:31:44. > :31:47.those living in 2016 will be the best judges of whether you did
:31:48. > :31:50.right or wrong at this time." Newsnight's about to begin over
:31:51. > :32:00.on BBC2 in a few moments. Here on BBC1 it's time
:32:01. > :32:02.for the news where you are.