:02:20. > :02:25.Resign, they chanted. Italy is the world's seventh biggest economy,
:02:25. > :02:30.and yet surveys suggest it's now easier to do business in Mongolia
:02:30. > :02:37.and Saddam bee ya. The MPs who dared to walk among the crowds were
:02:37. > :02:46.pushed and heckled. The opposition held responsible. It's over.
:02:46. > :02:49.some MPs, it's the end of a long wait. Tomorrow the President will
:02:49. > :02:57.give the position to someone else, he said, someone with a top
:02:57. > :03:01.international profile. His name is Mario Monti, a widely
:03:01. > :03:04.respected professor of economics, who will head a cross-party
:03:04. > :03:07.technocrat government. Judging from the rowdy scenes in Parliament
:03:07. > :03:11.today, where the Government's austerity bill was finally approved,
:03:11. > :03:14.it's hard to imagine the main centre right and centre left
:03:14. > :03:19.parties working together. Mr Berlusconi remains the leader of
:03:19. > :03:24.his party, a force behind the scenes. Today, in his first face to
:03:24. > :03:29.face meeting with Mr Monti was busy setting out his terms. No matter,
:03:29. > :03:34.by the end of the evening, the anger had turned to celebration, as
:03:34. > :03:38.news of Mr Berlusconi's resignation was officially announced. Does the
:03:38. > :03:42.new Prime Minister they welcome really have the power and charisma
:03:42. > :03:50.to unite the Parliament and the country behind the tough reforms
:03:50. > :03:54.demanded? Well Silvio Berlusconi has dominated Italian politics for
:03:54. > :03:58.two decades, despite the repeated gaffes, allegations of corruption
:03:58. > :04:08.and the scandal. How did he mesmerise the Italian public for so
:04:08. > :04:13.long? Christian Fraser is in Rome. Humphrey Hawksley looks back at his
:04:13. > :04:18.political career. Silvio Berlusconi has reshaped Italian politics over
:04:18. > :04:22.the past 20 years. He was born into a rich family and sang in a
:04:22. > :04:27.nightclub while studying law. He forged his road to power through
:04:27. > :04:35.his business iz, first property, then television and the media and
:04:35. > :04:45.used profits from that to buy his home town's foundering football
:04:45. > :04:48.
:04:48. > :04:55.club, which he turned into a top European winner. He used a football
:04:55. > :04:58.slogan "go Italy" to back a new movement. His attempt at austerity
:04:58. > :05:03.measures then sparked ugly scenes in Parliament. He lasted just seven
:05:03. > :05:07.months in office. But he kept bouncing back. In 2001
:05:07. > :05:14.and again in 2008 to become Italy's longest serving Prime Minister
:05:14. > :05:20.since the Second World War. He was constantly defending himself
:05:20. > :05:24.against corruption charges, investigations and all.
:05:24. > :05:29.He was accused of using his power to protect his wealth and anger
:05:29. > :05:33.turned to violence when a protester smashed a model of Milan cathedral
:05:33. > :05:39.into his face. International pressure on him
:05:39. > :05:43.increases too and his quips became embarrassing. "I have to bring you
:05:43. > :05:48.some greetings from a man, what is his name? Just A Minute, it was
:05:48. > :05:54.someone with a tan." With his sex life he brushed off criticism with
:05:54. > :06:02.a similar attempt at humour. TRANSLATION: If I sometimes see a
:06:02. > :06:07.beautiful girl, I say better to like girls than to be gay. Finally,
:06:07. > :06:13.holding a good party and working the crowd were not enough. His
:06:13. > :06:16.failure to revive Italy cost him his job.
:06:16. > :06:23.Christian, a day of high drama in Italian political life, where does
:06:23. > :06:31.the country go from here, do you think? There's an old saying in
:06:31. > :06:36.Italian politics "the first man named, is the first man burned."
:06:36. > :06:39.I'm not saying Mario Monti will be tied to the stake on the first day.
:06:39. > :06:43.But you cannot underestimate what he has to do. Silvio Berlusconi
:06:43. > :06:46.says he will support him as long as he has to, but he can and will pull
:06:46. > :06:50.the plug when he wants to. Though he's not the Prime Minister, he's
:06:50. > :06:53.still the leader of the biggest party here. Mario Monti knows he
:06:53. > :06:59.has an important thing through Parliament, the first austerity
:06:59. > :07:05.plan. He must go wider and deeper. He must do it as an unePresident-
:07:05. > :07:09.Elected -- unelected Prime Minister. Thank you. Syria has condemned the
:07:10. > :07:12.decision by the Arab League to suspend its membership because of
:07:12. > :07:16.ongoing violence against anti- government protesters. The League,
:07:16. > :07:21.which met in Cairo today, is also set to impose economic and
:07:21. > :07:26.political sanctions on the country. Jon Leyne reports from Cairo.
:07:26. > :07:31.Outside Arab League headquarters, intense pressure on Arab
:07:31. > :07:36.governments to punish Syria. These mostly Syrian protesters are
:07:36. > :07:41.demanding what was once a cosy club for Arab dictators and autocrats
:07:41. > :07:45.take action against one of their own. We want total toppling of the
:07:45. > :07:50.regime. We want everyone to be held accountable. On the street outside,
:07:50. > :07:57.they laid out imitation body bags to represent the more than 3,500
:07:57. > :08:02.people now believed to have died in Syria. You wouldn't have seen this
:08:02. > :08:07.priel President Mubarak was in power. It's putting huge pressure
:08:07. > :08:11.on the member states of the Arab League to take action. As the
:08:11. > :08:16.meeting began, word soon emerged that Syria was to be excluded. The
:08:16. > :08:23.League is threatening to take the issue to the United Nations as well.
:08:24. > :08:28.TRANSLATION: We call on all Arab human rights groups to take action.
:08:28. > :08:33.If it doesn't stop, we will contact the UN and other international
:08:33. > :08:37.human rights organisations. There's overwhelming evidence that security
:08:37. > :08:40.forces have continued attacks on protesters, even after agreeing to
:08:40. > :08:45.halt the violence a week ago. This decision by the Arab League could
:08:45. > :08:50.embolden protesters. Stepping up the confrontation
:08:50. > :08:56.further. President Assad has been sent a powerful message. Even his
:08:56. > :09:02.former friends believe his days are numbered.
:09:02. > :09:04.Here, union leaders have dismissed as daft a suggestion by a
:09:04. > :09:08.Government minister, that public sector workers in England and Wales,
:09:08. > :09:13.planning to strike over pension changes should walk out for just 15
:09:13. > :09:16.minutes. The Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, said the
:09:16. > :09:20.token industrial action would minimise disruption to the public
:09:20. > :09:23.and wouldn't cost workers a day's pay. Our Business correspondent Joe
:09:23. > :09:27.Lynam reports. Last June hundreds of thousands of public sector
:09:27. > :09:31.workers walked out over Government plans to water down their pensions.
:09:31. > :09:35.To prevent a repeat of that and last spring's TUC march, talks are
:09:35. > :09:38.under way between the unions and the Cabinet Office minister,
:09:38. > :09:42.Francis Maude, and the Treasury secretary, Danny Alexander. Unions
:09:42. > :09:46.have voted for the next strike action by public sector workers to
:09:46. > :09:51.take place November 30th. Instead of a full walk out that day, Mr
:09:51. > :09:55.Maud has offered unions a token 15- minute strike without losing any
:09:55. > :10:00.pay. They've jumped the gun. They've rushed to have battology --
:10:00. > :10:04.ballots on strike action, while the Government's just made a big,
:10:04. > :10:08.generous offer. The union dismiss the idea. Each part of the public
:10:08. > :10:12.sector has a different pension scheme. All of those need to be
:10:12. > :10:17.thoroughly examined. Now between 30th November isn't very long to
:10:17. > :10:20.sort out these deep problems. I hope that Francis Maude spends more
:10:20. > :10:23.time negotiating with us and less time coming up with daft ideas.
:10:24. > :10:28.order to cut the deficit, the Government wants public sector
:10:28. > :10:33.workers to retire later. Staff would have to pay more into their
:10:33. > :10:37.pension pots and from 2015, all new public sector staff would join what
:10:37. > :10:40.the unions say are less generous schemes. If the strike in three
:10:40. > :10:43.weeks' time goes ahead, then the Government has warned that it may
:10:43. > :10:47.be tempted to change the law surrounding strike action. That
:10:47. > :10:51.would mean that at least half of all union members would have to
:10:51. > :10:55.cast a ballot for a strike to have legal force. At the moment, only a
:10:55. > :11:04.quarter of union members in the public service have voted for the
:11:04. > :11:10.current industrial action. The manager of Tottenham Hotspur,
:11:10. > :11:15.Harry Redknapp, is to face trial over allegations of tax evasion. Mr
:11:15. > :11:18.Redknapp and the former chairman, Meelan Mandarich will appear at
:11:18. > :11:23.Southwark Crown Court on January 23 next year.
:11:23. > :11:25.The Ministry of Defence has dismissed claims in a leaked Army
:11:25. > :11:30.memo suggesting that injured soldiers could lose their jobs as a
:11:30. > :11:33.result of more cuts to personnel. The MoD said the memo, which was
:11:33. > :11:37.obtained by the Daily Telegraph was incorrect. It also rejected
:11:37. > :11:43.suggestion it's was planning more cuts than those already announced.
:11:43. > :11:46.Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale reports. It's the time of
:11:46. > :11:54.year that the entire nation remembers the sacrifice of those
:11:54. > :11:58.who've served in uniform. This morning politicians paid tribute to
:11:58. > :12:03.some, who've now left the service. Soon many more will be joining
:12:03. > :12:08.their ranks. The Ministry of Defence has already said that
:12:08. > :12:12.12,000 soldiers will be made redundant. A leaked confidential
:12:12. > :12:20.Army memo suggests the final figure could be significantly higher. But
:12:20. > :12:25.that's now prompted a strong denial. The so-called leaked document is a
:12:25. > :12:29.memo writen by a junior Army officer and is incecked. My
:12:29. > :12:34.predecessor announced the reductions in forced numbers that
:12:34. > :12:38.the Army will achieve to 2020. We have no plans to change those
:12:38. > :12:41.numbers. The MoD says the memo's author was an Army captain, though
:12:41. > :12:45.the document was still sent to commanders on the front line in
:12:45. > :12:49.Afghanistan. It comes as politicians and the military
:12:50. > :12:59.grapple with how to cut the size of the Army. It will involve difficult
:12:59. > :13:03.decisions. We have been set a task by the government to get the Army
:13:03. > :13:07.represent deuced. As the person responsible for that programme, you
:13:07. > :13:12.would not expect me to do anything other than actually look at all the
:13:12. > :13:19.possibilities. One of the most sensitive issues is what to do with
:13:19. > :13:23.those who've been wounded. Ben Parkinson suffered serious injures
:13:23. > :13:27.from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. The leaked memo suggest some of
:13:27. > :13:33.those injured might have to leave the Army, highlighting the fears of
:13:33. > :13:39.Ben's family. We know that perhaps the terms aren't as blunt as appear
:13:39. > :13:44.in the memo, but we know that long- term, the aim of the MoD is to off-
:13:44. > :13:47.load the wounded as quickly as possible. The Ministry of Defence
:13:47. > :13:52.insists no-one injured will be forced out of the Army while
:13:52. > :14:02.they're receiving medical treatment. Nevertheless, the next round of
:14:02. > :14:04.
:14:04. > :14:09.redundancies expected early next year, will not be an easy process.
:14:09. > :14:14.Now with today's sport, here's Matt Gooderick. England have beaten
:14:14. > :14:19.Spain 1-0 in a friendly at Wembley. Captain for the day, Frank Lampard,
:14:19. > :14:23.scored the only goal early in the second half. Andy Swiss now reports.
:14:23. > :14:28.It was a night for English pride. First, the much discussed poppies,
:14:28. > :14:34.on training tops and arm bands, as Wembley united in a spine tingling
:14:34. > :14:38.silence. Then the match, or mismatch, it
:14:38. > :14:44.seemed, as an experimental England team chased the best in the world.
:14:44. > :14:49.Spain looked crisper, classier. England clung on until the break.
:14:49. > :14:53.After it, the unthinkable. Captain Frank Lampard looked as surprised
:14:53. > :14:59.as anyone, out of nowhere, England were ahead and a wave of confidence
:14:59. > :15:06.suddenly surge add cross Wembley. Not for long though, first Villa
:15:06. > :15:09.rattled the wood work. Cesc Fabregas particularly culpable.
:15:09. > :15:13.England gutsed it out. It wasn't perhaps quite the night Fabio
:15:13. > :15:19.Capello had in mind. He missed his son's wedding for this. His stand-
:15:19. > :15:23.in skipper still gave him plenty to celebrate. This was the proudest
:15:23. > :15:26.moment by far of any England career against the world champions.
:15:26. > :15:30.Remembrance weekend, it became a very big game for me and the team.
:15:30. > :15:34.We've done it today. Yes, it was only a friendly. Yes, it was hardly
:15:34. > :15:41.convincing, but England have beaten the world champions and that is
:15:41. > :15:45.some achievement. There was also an impressive
:15:45. > :15:50.friendly win for Wales in Cardiff. Gary Speed's side recorded their
:15:50. > :15:57.third victory in a row beating Norway 4-1. Gareth Bale scored the
:15:57. > :16:02.first. Craig Bellamy scoring the pick of the goals.
:16:02. > :16:06.England will line up in the final of rugby league's Four Nations
:16:06. > :16:07.after beating defending champions New Zealand in Hull. They won 28-6
:16:07. > :16:13.and will now face Australia next Saturday.
:16:13. > :16:16.Sanjeev Shetty reports. Watching the Haka isn't everyone's favourite
:16:16. > :16:21.way to bounce back from defeat. After losing to Australia last week,
:16:21. > :16:29.such was England's lot. This was the tightest of matches and it took
:16:29. > :16:33.until the 28th minute for either side to register on the score sheet.
:16:33. > :16:37.The competitive nature of this encounter sometimes threatened to
:16:37. > :16:41.spill over. Rugby authorities may investigate Isaac Luke's challenge
:16:41. > :16:46.on Rangi Chase. Regardless Kevin Sinfield kicked another two points
:16:46. > :16:49.from the resulting penalty. The captain continued to impress after
:16:49. > :16:54.the interval. His high kick dropping to Ryan Hall, who
:16:54. > :16:58.stretched the home side's lead. New Zealand wouldn't lie down. With an
:16:58. > :17:03.hour gone, Jason Nightingale's try put them on the score board. But it
:17:03. > :17:09.was England's night. More kiwi indiscipline saw Kevin Sinfield
:17:09. > :17:13.slot home another penalty. They added two more tries before the end.