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Fresh clashes erupt in the Egyptian capital of Cairo as security forces | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
tried to get protesters off the streets. At least two people have | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
been killed as anger rises about the slow pace of reform. We did not | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
expect that we would return to the same place we were in January. We | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
are fighting against the same regime. Nothing changed. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
A more protests in Syria, but President Assad flowers to continue | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
the crackdown on opponents of his regime. -- swears to continue. | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
The Government warns that there concessions could be withdrawn if | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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the public sector strike continues. Good evening. Violent clashes have | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
been continuing in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, as the police and | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
army try to evict thousands of people from Tahrir Square. At least | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
two people were killed today as demonstrators protested at what | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
they see as the slow pace of change since the overthrow of President | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
Mubarak in February. Our correspondent has spent the day in | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
and around Tahrir Square and sense in this report. | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
They are already calling it the second revolution. These Egyptians | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
have lost patience with the military rulers that took over from | :01:44. | :01:53. | |
Hosni Mubarak. So it is back to a battle for the streets. Fora day | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
and a half, the police have been firing volley after volley of tear | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
gas, sending the protesters scurrying for cover. But time and | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
again the demonstrators regained their ground. This is the front | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
line. The police are over there protecting the Interior Ministry | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
and the protesters are battling it out. The air is thick with tear gas. | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
We thought we had seen an end of this. But this crowd is as angry as | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
I have seen them here in Egypt. From the front line, a fleet of | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
motorcycles rushed the injured straight into a makeshift field | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
hospital. Amidst the chaos, they are treating suffocation from tear | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
gas and gunshot wounds. The same doctors in the same space as they | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
used when they were fighting Hosni Mubarak's fighters. We were so | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
proud of our revolution. We did not expect we would return to the same | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
place we were in January. We are fighting against the same regime. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Nothing changed. All the time, the crowds were flooding back into | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
Tahrir Square. They are re- establishing the old regime and we | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
don't want the old regime. We don't want Hosni Mubarak. We did the | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
revolution and we are continuing it. Then late in the day, the army came | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
to reinforce the police. They moved back into Tahrir Square, taking | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
control, sometimes brutally. In one corner, protesters and knelt to | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
pray, gesture of defiance that the soldiers respected. By nightfall, | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
the square was almost empty. This is a dangerous moment for the army. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
In direct conflict, the revolution they vowed to protect. Many | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
Egyptians still support them, but certainly not the thousands still | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
fighting tonight for control of the centre of Cairo. How is it looking | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
now in Tahrir Square? The situation now is that the protesters have | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
taken control yet again of Tahrir Square, despite the best efforts of | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
the police and the army to move them out of here. This poses some | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
big problems for the military rulers. Firstly, can the elections | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
go ahead on November 28th as planned? Parliamentary elections. | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Both opposition rulers and the Muslim brother for a say they want | :04:20. | :04:29. | |
that to happen but can they allow that to happen? -- Muslim | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
Brotherhood. Most people support the army, but they have alienated | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
many members of society here, including the Muslim Brotherhood | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
and many liberal members. You have to wonder where this will end. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Thank you. In Syria, President al-Assad has | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
said that he will not bowed to international pressure to end the | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
crackdown against anti-government protesters there. The Arab League | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
has been trying to end the violence. They have refused to accept Syrian | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
changes to proposals to send in monitors. | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
Damascus yesterday. I unverified video, apparently showing anti- | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
Government protesters being shot by security forces. But military | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
action is justified, according to the Syrian President, because he | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
says they are fighting an armed rebellion. We are not talking about | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
peaceful demonstrations. They are militants. Whenever you have | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
militants, you have killing. The role of the Government is to fight | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
militants in order to restore the stability and to protect this to | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
billions. -- the civilians. There is an insurgency under way in Syria, | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
as demonstrated in this amateur video. It claims to show a military | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
vehicle being destroyed by rebel fighters in the city of Homs last | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
week. Soldiers running for their lives. Again, we cannot | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
independently verified this. Very few foreign journalists are allowed | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
into the country. With the situation deteriorating, Arab | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
leaders are still trying to persuade the Syrian Government to | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
pull its military forces out of the main towns and cities, and to allow | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
in foreign observers. But their latest deadline has again been | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
ignored by Damascus. TRANSLATION: The situation requires slow and | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
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steady discussion. Not over- reaction and Tahseen us. -- and | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
being hasty. As anti-government protesters take to the streets, | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
every day there is more violence. These demonstrators in Homs are | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
coming under a withering barrage of fire on Friday. Already, according | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
to the United Nations, at least 3500 people have been killed. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
The transitional Government in Libya says that Colonel Gaddafi's | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
son Saif Al-Islam has been taken to a secure place to begin the process | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
of interrogation. He was captured on Friday and is thought to be held | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
in Zintan. Our correspondent is there. What can you tell us? This | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
is a town in the western mountains. Militia men here captured Saif Al- | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
Islam. Nobody is saying where he is being held but we are told that he | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
is here in a private home, being carefully guarded. I have also been | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
told that Saif Al-Islam has asked for shaving foam so that he can | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
shave off the beard that he group while he was on the run for so long. | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
And he has asked for a mobile phone, which has not been granted. The | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
request for shaving foam has been. The commander of the brigade that | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
captured her and said that when Saif Al-Islam was taken, he acted | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
in a manner that implied he was in control. But he did show some fear. | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
He apparently asked the commander to shoot him dead. The commander | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
said that he refused. They are well aware here of how they will be | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
judged in their treatment of Saif Al-Islam Al Gaddafi and we are | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
hearing that prosecutors should start interrogating and questioning | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
him tonight. Thank you. The Cabinet Office | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
minister has suggested that the Government could withdraw its | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
latest engine offer if millions of public sector workers go on strike | :08:46. | :08:56. | |
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as planned on November 30th. -- latest pension offer. Unions say | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
that big Government is not negotiating properly and until that | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
changes, the strikes will go ahead. The country's biggest unions, with | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
millions of members, have voted to strike, and civil servants, | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
teachers and NHS workers are set to join the walk out at the end of the | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
month, in protest against plans to changes to public sector pensions. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
The Cabinet Office minister was asked if offers would be withdrawn | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
if the strike goes ahead. Absolutely. We have made that clear. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
This offer is not unconditional and we will have the ability to | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
withdraw it. We will protect lower- paid people and be fairer. | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
private the Government has accepted that this strike will go ahead. It | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
is further industrial action that could derail a deal. Government | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
sources stressed that a walk out on November 30th will not mean that | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
the latest engine offer will be taken off the table. Discussions | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
will continue but not indefinitely. Ministers want an agreement reached | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
by the end of the year. So what is the offer? A particular sticking | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
point is that public sector employees would have to pay more | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
for their pensions. The Government would also contribute more as well. | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Those under 50 would have to work longer before they received their | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
pension. Those within 10 years of retirement would receive the same | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
pension that they are currently two to get. It is this final part of | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
the deal that the Government may revise in the first -- in the event | :10:35. | :10:44. | |
of more strikes. I don't think it is helpful to ratchet up the | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
rhetoric and threaten to withdraw things. We need to sit down and | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
resolve the issues. The two side have been sitting down for a year | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
without a breakthrough. In 10 days' time we are likely to see the | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
biggest strike for regeneration. -- a generation. | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
A group of Church of England bishops has called on the | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Government to take another look at plans to cap welfare benefits at | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
�500 a week. In a letter to the Observer 18 Bishops, including the | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
Bishop of London, warned the reforms could drive more children | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
into poverty, particularly those in large families. The plans are due | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
to be debated in the House of Lords tomorrow. The Government says there | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
are no plans to alter the cap. Three police officers who were | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
stabbed in north-west London yesterday as they tried to arrest a | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
man have undergone surgery. The three constables, along with | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
another officer, were attacked by a man wielding a 12 inch knife | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
outside a butchers in Kingsbury. A 32-year-old man is being held on | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
suspicion of attempted murder. Voting's been taking place in Spain | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
today for national elections that are widely expected to result in | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
the ruling Socialist party being ousted. The vote comes after a week | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
that's seen Spain's borrowing costs reach record levels amid growing | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
concern about the state of its economy. Our Europe Editor Gavin | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
Hewitt is in Madrid for us this evening. How certain is this result | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
looking? Well, I am outside the People's Party headquarters. You | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
can probably hear the microphones being tested. Some people have | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
already gathered here. Within that centre-right party they expect to | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
emerge as the winners tonight. The party is led by Mariana rejoice. | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
They believe that this street will be full of people celebrating for a | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
party that promised during the election serious and profound | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
austerity cuts. Spain, in recent days, has become part of the centre | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
of the eurozone crisis with its borrowing costs nearing 7%. The | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
markets will be looking very closely at the result here tonight | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
and whether the new Government really has a convincing plan to | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
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bring down Spanish debt. Thank you. That takes us to the sport. | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
Mid-evening. We start with the latest news from the Barclays | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
Premier League. -- good evening. Liverpool have beaten Chelsea at | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
Stamford Bridge. Liverpool are now level on points with the Londoners. | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
Liverpool and Chelsea have lofty dreams and deep pockets, but | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
niggling seasons so far. Chelsea stumbled in the first half. John | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
Obi Mikel controlled the ball as though we had fallen out of bed. | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
Maxi Rodriguez finished, child's Play. Early in the second half, the | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
Liverpool defence were guilty of slumbering on the job. Florent | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
Malouda crossed to Daniel Sturridge, on as a substitute. He may have | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
been born in Birmingham, but he thinks he can samba. Liverpool | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
could have fallen behind one minute later if it had not been for the | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
brilliance of their goalkeeper, Pepe Reina. Then a former Chelsea | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
player, Glen Johnson, won the game. First Ashley Cole was not met. Then | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
the right back finished like a centre forward. John Terry was left | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
howling. For Chelsea, the unusual pain of back to black Premier | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
League defeats at home and Liverpool climb to six. -- back to | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
back. Roger Federer has won the opening | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
match of the ATP World Tour finals at the O2 Arena in London. The | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
defending champion is aiming for a record sixth win at the event, | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
which features the top eight players in the world. Today he beat | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
Jo Wilfreid Tsonga in three sets. Rafael Nadal plays Mardy Fish later | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
this evening, while Andy Murray is in action tomorrow. | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
Rugby union now and the Heineken Cup holders Leinster are top of | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
their group after an easy win against Glasgow Warriors. Leinster | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
had already ensured a bonus point win by half time and Isaac Boss | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
rounded off an impressive performance scoring in injury time. | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
38-13 the final score. They now face back-to-back games against | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
Bath in December. And those opponents Bath lie second | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
in the group after a 16 points to 13 win over Montpellier. David | :15:04. | :15:13. |