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:00:13. > :00:16.China's premier pledges a huge boost in trade with the UK.

:00:16. > :00:18.During Wen Jiabao's visit to Britain, deals worth over �1

:00:18. > :00:23.billion are expected to be announced.

:00:23. > :00:27.He tells the BBC that British firms will be given much greater access

:00:27. > :00:30.to the Chinese market. We'll analyse how much extra trade

:00:30. > :00:35.this trip could deliver. Also tonight:

:00:35. > :00:39.The Government warns teachers not to go on strike, saying walking out

:00:39. > :00:42.would damage their reputation. Let's not have this militancy that

:00:42. > :00:47.will disturb family life for hundreds of thousands of people

:00:47. > :00:55.across the country and also I think will mark a retro grade step for

:00:55. > :01:00.the profession. From fixing fridges to missile launchers, we meet the

:01:00. > :01:04.tradesmen helping the rebels. Yeah, yes! Better than anything you

:01:04. > :01:14.could imagine! He's done it yet again. Sebastien Vettel wins his

:01:14. > :01:24.

:01:24. > :01:28.sixth Grand Prix of the season in Good Evening. The Chinese premier,

:01:28. > :01:32.Wen Jiabao, has promised a huge trade boost with the UK, with deals

:01:32. > :01:35.worth over �1 billion expected to be announced during his visit here.

:01:35. > :01:39.The Chinese Prime Minister began his trip by going to the MG car

:01:39. > :01:42.plant at Longbridge near Birmingham, which is owned by a Chinese company.

:01:42. > :01:46.Tomorrow, he'll meet the Prime Minister, David Cameron, for a

:01:46. > :01:50.summit on trade and business. He gaif an exclusive television

:01:50. > :01:54.interview to our Business Editor, Robert Peston -- gave.

:01:54. > :02:00.One of the most powerful men on the planet, China's premier, Wen Jiabao,

:02:00. > :02:04.in Longbridge, Birmingham. To unveil a new MG, created under

:02:04. > :02:07.Chinese ownership, prior to talking to the British Prime Minister about

:02:07. > :02:11.the fragile health of the global economy.

:02:11. > :02:14.To deal with the factors that led to the great crisis of 2008, how

:02:14. > :02:17.much more work is there to do in your view?

:02:17. > :02:20.TRANSLATION: At home, we are going to further stimulate domestic

:02:20. > :02:25.consumption and we are going to reduce our foreign trade surplus

:02:25. > :02:28.and our reliance on exports. We will welcome more British

:02:28. > :02:34.products into the Chinese market and we will create conditions to

:02:34. > :02:38.make it happen. About time too, some British

:02:38. > :02:42.companies will say. Because the Chinese sell �17 billion more goods

:02:42. > :02:46.and services to Britain than British businesses sell to China.

:02:46. > :02:52.And, Mr Jiabao wants Chinese businesss to invest a good deal

:02:52. > :02:56.more outside China in places like the UK along the lines of Shanghai

:02:56. > :02:58.Automotive's commitment to MG. Six years ago, this vast plant at

:02:58. > :03:02.Longbridge in Birmingham was a symbol of Britain's industrial

:03:02. > :03:07.humiliation with the collapse of Rover. Today, it's producing 2,000

:03:07. > :03:12.cars a year, which will rise to 4,000 next year, but that's still a

:03:12. > :03:15.fraction of the 40,000 or sor this plant is capable of producing.

:03:15. > :03:19.There's another thing. Although the cars are designed in Britain,

:03:19. > :03:24.although they're put together in Britain, most of the parts are made

:03:24. > :03:29.in China and it's in China where most of the jobs are.

:03:29. > :03:33.For China, the world's trading power house, Europe is an enormous,

:03:33. > :03:35.important market, so China as a great deal to lose from the

:03:35. > :03:40.financial crisis in Greece and the eurozone.

:03:40. > :03:44.Do you have any plans to lend to any of the Governments that are

:03:44. > :03:47.having tremendous difficulties borrowing at the moment?

:03:47. > :03:51.TRANSLATION: We have done this for Hungary and will do the same thing

:03:51. > :03:59.for other European countries. So, as we often say, a friend in need

:03:59. > :04:02.is a friend indeed. A hint that China and its awe-

:04:02. > :04:06.inspiring $3 trillion of reserves might make a financial gesture to

:04:06. > :04:12.restore confidence in the battered European economy.

:04:12. > :04:14.Across the road from the MG plant, Mr Wen couldn't have paid for more

:04:14. > :04:19.enthusiastic support. It would have been less ennam moured of this

:04:19. > :04:22.quieter group protesting China's record on human rights, a possible

:04:22. > :04:27.reminder for British business and Government that there may be a

:04:27. > :04:31.price we shouldn't pay for access to China's 1.3 billion consumers.

:04:31. > :04:34.Robert joins me now. British businesses long complained about

:04:34. > :04:37.getting access to the huge Chinese market. Is that really going to

:04:37. > :04:40.change? Certainly one shouldn't underestimate the scale of the

:04:40. > :04:45.challenge. We sell less as a country to China, the world's

:04:45. > :04:51.second biggest economy, than we do to the tiny economy down the road

:04:51. > :04:55.of Ireland. Our deficit with China is the biggest trade deficit vis-a-

:04:55. > :04:57.vis any other country in the world. As you say, British businesses, the

:04:57. > :05:01.British Government, has been complaining for years that access

:05:01. > :05:04.to the market is too difficult. There's good reason, however, on

:05:04. > :05:09.this occasion to believe that when the chie fees premier says that is

:05:10. > :05:13.going to change, that that may well happen -- Chinese. He believes this

:05:13. > :05:19.massive Chinese surplus that it generates year after year

:05:19. > :05:24.contributed to the financial crisis of 2007-2008. He wants to get it

:05:24. > :05:28.down because that surplus is the deficits of countries like the UK

:05:28. > :05:32.and the US. To stable tiez economy, his surplus has to be reduced, he

:05:32. > :05:39.wants to do that by stimulating consumer spending by the Chinese

:05:39. > :05:41.and the prospect of more spending by 1.5 million Chinese people is a

:05:41. > :05:47.tremendously exciting opportunity for British businesss if they can

:05:47. > :05:49.provide the goods and services that the Chinese actually want.

:05:49. > :05:53.Thanks very much. The Education Secretary, Michael

:05:53. > :05:57.Gove, has warned teachers in England and Wales that going on

:05:57. > :06:00.strike next Thursday will harm the reputation of their profession.

:06:00. > :06:04.Thousands of teachers are expected to walk out over changes to their

:06:04. > :06:08.pensions. Mr Gove said the planned action was a mistake and would

:06:08. > :06:11.increase public support for tougher union laws. Our Political

:06:11. > :06:14.Correspondent, Robin Brandt, has this report.

:06:14. > :06:17.They don't look like they're angry and planning for the ultimate

:06:17. > :06:23.action. But some of the teachers that the gathering in Surrey know

:06:23. > :06:27.they're on the brink of a mass walkout.

:06:27. > :06:32.They're among 750,000 workers who believe the march against the cuts

:06:32. > :06:35.wasn't enough. Now they're planning industrial action on Thursday.

:06:35. > :06:38.It could shut down the school's system. It's something the

:06:38. > :06:42.Education Secretary believes parents will find hard to forgive.

:06:42. > :06:44.Let's stick to the talks and not have the militancy that will

:06:44. > :06:51.disturb family life for hundreds of thousands of people across the

:06:51. > :06:54.country and also I think will mark aretrograde step for the profession

:06:54. > :06:57.at the moment when people should realise how many great teachers we

:06:57. > :07:00.have in the classroom. Government believes population

:07:00. > :07:04.changes make the current arrangement force pensions

:07:04. > :07:07.unsustainable and a new deal on public sector pensions is crucial,

:07:07. > :07:10.especially if the coalition's numbers are to add up on reducing

:07:10. > :07:14.the deficit. The teaching unions claim the

:07:15. > :07:17.proposals mean paying more in and maybe getting less out when

:07:17. > :07:20.retirement comes. One has accused the Government of

:07:20. > :07:25.stealing. If the Government gets away with doing a Robert Maxwell on

:07:25. > :07:27.our pensions, which is what he's trying to do, there will be no

:07:27. > :07:31.honourable teaching profession. Good teachers won't want to two

:07:31. > :07:35.into the profession because it won't be worth their while to do so.

:07:35. > :07:39.Union negotiators are due here tomorrow to meet with the b Cabinet

:07:39. > :07:41.Office minister, Francis Maude, for the Association of Teachers and

:07:41. > :07:44.Lecturers, this is the first time in over a hundred years its members

:07:44. > :07:48.have gone on a national strike. But the Government has very little room

:07:48. > :07:56.to manoeuvre on this issue, rewriting the pension sums, it says,

:07:56. > :07:59.is a key part of its deficit reduction plan. A senior

:07:59. > :08:02.Conservative in David Cameron's constituency has been found dead at

:08:02. > :08:05.the Glastonbury Festival. Christopher Shale was the chairman

:08:05. > :08:09.of west Oxfordshire Conservative Association. In a statement today,

:08:09. > :08:14.Mr Cameron said he was devastated. Our Political Correspondent, Ross

:08:14. > :08:19.Hawkins, has this report. The man David Cameron called a rock

:08:19. > :08:23.in his life. The Prime Minister's right hand man in his Oxfordshire

:08:23. > :08:27.constituency. Christopher Shale was found dead here during a family

:08:27. > :08:30.visit to the Glastonbury Festival, as those close to him learned the

:08:30. > :08:35.news the police were investigating and while inspector Chris Morgan

:08:35. > :08:37.from the Avon and Somerset force had few details... I would say it's

:08:37. > :08:40.unexplained at this time and we are working on establishing the cause

:08:40. > :08:44.of death. After a postmortem this evening, the police said they were

:08:44. > :08:48.not treating the death as suspicious.

:08:48. > :08:53.In a statement, David Cameron described Christopher Shale as one

:08:53. > :08:59.of the most truly generous people he'd ever met, a big and wonderful

:08:59. > :09:03.man, a close and valued friend. This has been a terrible shock for

:09:03. > :09:08.everybody who knew Christopher all over the place, in west Oxfordshire

:09:08. > :09:12.and nationally and particularly for our party members who knew him so

:09:12. > :09:16.well and had got to know him more recently as our association

:09:16. > :09:20.chairman where he had great things in mind for our party going forward.

:09:20. > :09:24.A man with a low public profile, Christopher Shale featured in one

:09:24. > :09:27.newspaper today, a leaked document written by him said there were no

:09:27. > :09:32.reasons to join his local constituency association and lots

:09:32. > :09:34.of reasons not to. We are not, he said, always an appealing

:09:35. > :09:39.proposition. Political sources say Christopher

:09:39. > :09:42.Shale had taken news that story would break in his stride, the

:09:42. > :09:49.thought tonight of those in Witney are not with the newspapers but

:09:50. > :09:52.with the loss of a father and of a friend to the Prime Minister.

:09:52. > :09:57.Six mountaineers have been found dead after an apparent avalanche of

:09:57. > :10:00.snow and rocks in the French alps. The bodies of the climbers whose

:10:00. > :10:02.nationalities have not been confirmed were found by a British

:10:03. > :10:06.hiker earlier today. Mountain rescue police say they were

:10:06. > :10:09.discovered in an altitude of more than 2,500 metres. It's thought

:10:09. > :10:14.they attempted the climb yesterday. French Police have opened an

:10:14. > :10:19.investigation into the accident. A prominent Libyan rebel's told the

:10:19. > :10:23.BBC that he expects Colonel Gaddafi to be out of power by August. The

:10:23. > :10:27.opposition's defence chief says defectors from Gaddafi's forces

:10:27. > :10:30.have told him the Colonel's inner circle is getting smaller by the

:10:30. > :10:34.day. Our Diplomatic Correspondent, Bridget Kendall reports, from the

:10:34. > :10:40.rebel side of the frontline near Brega.

:10:40. > :10:44.For the poorly supplied rebels in the eastern Libya, this conflict is

:10:44. > :10:49.about improvisation. This workshop normally welds car exhausts. These

:10:49. > :10:53.days, they fix weapons for rebel fighters, like this refrigirator

:10:53. > :10:57.engineer who's built himself a home-made rocket launcher.

:10:57. > :11:01.They're all heading for the Brega frontline, the scene of chaotic

:11:01. > :11:05.battles this spring and now weeks of stalemate.

:11:05. > :11:12.All waiting for the order to advance on Gaddafi's troops and

:11:12. > :11:16.pave the way to Tripoli. They're waiting, they're hungering

:11:16. > :11:21.to move forward until, as you know, the last target, which is Tripoli.

:11:21. > :11:25.When you talk to rebel leaders in Benghazi, their vision can sound

:11:25. > :11:28.grand but quite coherent. Here on the frontline, it's rather

:11:28. > :11:36.different, rather disorganised and not that much of it.

:11:36. > :11:42.To be fair, this is the rear. Any better weaponry is further forward.

:11:42. > :11:47.But the absence of proper kit or organisation is shocking. And

:11:47. > :11:50.there's another problem. Mixed feelings among the fighters about

:11:50. > :11:56.causing bloodshed. Even those seasoned veterans, professional

:11:56. > :12:00.soldier who is switch sides to join the rebels, are reluctant.

:12:00. > :12:06.TRANSLATION: We don't want to kill Gaddafi's troops, they're our

:12:06. > :12:12.Libyan brothers, we are all from the same country.

:12:12. > :12:15.Everyone here appreciates that many on Gaddafi's side may not be there

:12:15. > :12:19.voluntarily. This commercial airline pilot fled the Libyan

:12:19. > :12:26.capital ten days ago. People there, he says, are increasingly desperate.

:12:26. > :12:28.We are like, you know, the last days of Hitler in the Second World

:12:29. > :12:33.War. Everybody's suspicious, everybody may die any minute,

:12:33. > :12:40.everybody may be taken to jail. The rebel's defence chief told me

:12:40. > :12:44.that a stream of high ranking defectors were reporting that the

:12:44. > :12:48.new noose around Gaddafi was steadly loosening.

:12:48. > :12:52.He said it could be over by August. TRANSLATION: What we are learning

:12:52. > :12:56.from defectors is that Gaddafi's supporters are getting fewer.

:12:56. > :13:01.People close to him are abandoning him and his inner circle is getting

:13:01. > :13:05.smaller by the day. That's denyed in Tripoli. It seems the rebels

:13:05. > :13:09.hope the impact of NATO airstrikes and the defections might force the

:13:09. > :13:13.Gaddafi regime into peace talks. Their only condition is that

:13:13. > :13:21.Gaddafi and his circle must leave power. Everything else is on the

:13:21. > :13:26.table. Now, with a round-up of the day's

:13:26. > :13:31.sport, here is Amanda Davies. Lewis Hamilton has conceded the race for

:13:31. > :13:33.the Formula One world title is almost over after Red Bull's

:13:33. > :13:37.Sebastian Vettel took victory at the European Grand Prix. The

:13:37. > :13:42.defending champion's now won six of the first eight races of the season

:13:42. > :13:46.and is well clear of the chasing pack, as Nick Parrot reports. He's

:13:46. > :13:51.led the season from the start and he'll surely be leading at the

:13:51. > :13:55.finish. It was the usual story for Sebastien Vettel, from poll

:13:55. > :13:59.position, he zoomed away and the rest was soon docked in his wing

:13:59. > :14:02.mirror. Among them, Lewis Hamilton, recently criticised for his

:14:02. > :14:06.aggressive style, he began tentatively, passed by both

:14:06. > :14:10.Ferraris on his way to fourth place. After the drenching and drama of

:14:10. > :14:15.the last race in Canada where he was overtaken on the final lap,

:14:16. > :14:20.this was a sun-soaked stroll for Vettel. The real contest was for

:14:20. > :14:24.second, as Alonso swooped past Webber, much to the delight of his

:14:24. > :14:29.home crowd. He was never going to catch the

:14:29. > :14:33.world champion though. 11 seconds clear and in a class of his own.

:14:33. > :14:37.COMMENTATOR: Utterly dominant performance yet again from

:14:37. > :14:42.Sebastian Vettel. Better than anything you could imagine. Such a

:14:42. > :14:45.nice race! Vettel now lieds the Championship by a whopping 77

:14:45. > :14:49.points -- leads the Championship. We are not half way through the

:14:49. > :14:53.season, but it looks unlikely he'll give up his title.

:14:53. > :14:57.There was more Derby disappointment for the Queen today after failing

:14:57. > :15:01.to claim victory at Epsom two weeks ago, Her Majesty's horse Carlton

:15:01. > :15:05.House could only finish fourth in the Irish version at the Curragh.

:15:05. > :15:11.It was Treasure Beach that won by three quarters of a length, heading

:15:11. > :15:15.up with one, two, three finish for trainer Aidan O'Brien, with Seville

:15:15. > :15:18.second and Memphis Tennessee in third.

:15:18. > :15:22.Penal who applyed in the second round of tickets for next year's

:15:22. > :15:26.Olympic Games have been fieth finding out whether or not they

:15:26. > :15:31.were successful. Organisers say they've processed around 150,000

:15:31. > :15:36.applications so far and whilst the majority have now got those sought

:15:36. > :15:40.after tickets, many have once again been left disappointed. Andy Swiss

:15:40. > :15:46.reports. So, did you manage to grab a ticket

:15:46. > :15:50.second time around? The answer yet again is mixed. Pete was one of the

:15:51. > :15:55.thousands up at 6am on Friday, he was told he'd applied successfully

:15:55. > :16:00.for athletics ticket, but today he found out he hadn't got them after

:16:00. > :16:04.all. The phrase, first come first served was used repeatedly, first

:16:04. > :16:07.come first served, you were unlucky in the ballot, fair enough, but now

:16:07. > :16:11.it was first come first served but it wasn't because I must have been

:16:11. > :16:15.one of the first people to apply for the tickets and get them in the

:16:15. > :16:20.basket, yet I've not been served. Where have the tickets gone. Plenty

:16:20. > :16:25.of others will be equally frustrated. Since Friday morning,

:16:25. > :16:29.150,000 people applied for tickets, but 15,000 of them, around 10%,

:16:29. > :16:34.didn't actually get any. Why? Because the system couldn't keep up.

:16:34. > :16:39.Ten sports sold out in the first two hours. But in some cases, you

:16:39. > :16:43.could still book tickets when there were actually none left.

:16:43. > :16:48.It meant many who thought they'd potentially see Usain Bolt in the

:16:48. > :16:52.heats had been left disappointed. But the sheer appetite for Olympic

:16:52. > :16:56.tickets continues to amaze. I can't think in my lifetime of another

:16:56. > :16:59.event, domestically, internationally, certainly not

:16:59. > :17:02.another Olympic Games, that's had such a massive demand. I guess

:17:02. > :17:07.that's why we went to Singapore, to bring the Games back here, knowing

:17:07. > :17:11.that people really wanted to be a part of them. Over a million more

:17:11. > :17:16.seats will be available next year. At the moment, only football,

:17:16. > :17:20.volley ball and wrestling are still for sale, although grappling with

:17:20. > :17:25.the ticket system is proving just as tricky.

:17:25. > :17:32.And, after the traditional day off today, play resumes at Wimbledon

:17:32. > :17:34.tomorrow when Andy mur lay takes on the world number 30 from France --

:17:35. > :17:38.Murray. That is for a place in the quarter-finals. Thank you.

:17:38. > :17:41.Fingers crossed. Thank you very much. A reminder of tonight's main