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