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Good afternoon. The Government has confirmed that an improved offer on | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
public sector pensions could be withdrawn if an agreement with | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
unions can't be reached. More than two million workers are preparing | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
to strike on Wednesday and the leader of one of the biggest unions | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
involved accused the Government of misinformation. Our Political | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
correspondent, Robin Brant has more details. Trade union members have | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
taken to the streets already this year. If Wednesday's walkout goes | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
ahead, it will be the biggest protest in a generation, two | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
million could stay at home. But as that day approaches, the talk from | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
the top of Government's got noticeably tougher and ministers | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
have repeated the warning that they could withdraw their improved offer. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
These days of action are very damaging to the economy. They cost | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
money. We don't want this thing going into 2012. We need to get an | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
agreement reached. We're very close to agreement with the trade unions | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
on the basis of what is a generous offer. That's why we've said it's | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
conditional. It's clear that two distinct views of what comes next | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
are now emerging, an the leader of one of the country's biggest unions | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
says they're not close to a deal. The misinformation that is coming | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
from the Government is absolutely criminal. When you look at what is | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
actually happening to public service workers and the impression | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
that being given that in some way this improved offer is so good that | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
it should be taken by everybody, but where is the improved offer? | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
Thousands of National Health Service non-emergency operations | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
could be postponed. At Heathrow, they're preparing for delays of up | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
to 12 hours. In Northern Ireland, the entire public transport network | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
will shut down. Widespread disruption, but there's some | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
support. I'm willing to take the pain of a day without a few of the | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
services for them to support what they need in future. They need to | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
stand up for what they think is right. I can see how it's justified. | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
I think perhaps it could have been a bit more negotiation going on | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
when the last offer went on the table and then to think about what | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
to do. People are living longer and the Government believes taxpayers | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
can't afford to fund the current deal. But the unions see the | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
proposals as a kind of retrospective robbery. Wednesday's | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
strike will show the scale of their anger. One union negotiator has | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
told the BBC, let's get Wednesday out of the way, then hope to get | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
something done by the end of the year. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
There's been a furious response from Pakistan after NATO | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts on | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Pakistani territory. At least 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
the incident, near the border with Afghanistan. Islamabad has | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
retaliated by shutting down vital NATO supply routes. From there, | :03:06. | :03:15. | |
Orla Guerin sent this report. It was in this remote terrain that | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
NATO struck. This is Mohmand in Pakistan's tribal belt. The army | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
says the area has been cleared of insurgents and there was no | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
militant activity when NATO struck. No excuse for mistaken identity. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Pakistan says NATO helicopters and fighter aircraft opened fire on two | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
check posts. NATO knew the location of the check posts, according to a | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
senior Pakistani official. "We gave them the grid references," he said. | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
NATO commanders have offered condolences and promised to | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
investigate. We have to look into this case as it happened in a very | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
rugged part of the country, a very deserted part of the country and in | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
the middle of the night, where it was pitch dark. We have to look | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
into the incident in detail, come to the conclusion and then talk to | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
the Pakistani side. Pakistan's Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
says his country's independence and sovereignty have been attacked. | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
Within hours Pakistan hit back, sealing its border to NATO traffic. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
Convoys crossed Pakistan with crucial supplies, making their way | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
to the Afghan capital, Kabul. And to Kandahar, the second largest | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
city. Now the trucks are blocked and NATO has lost a lifeline. The | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Pakistan army says all options are on the table and it reserves the | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
right to retaliate. Pakistan says this was an unprovoked attack. | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Afghan and NATO sources have told the BBC the helicopters were on an | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
operation when they came under fire from the Pakistani side. Either way, | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
this episode has created a new crisis in Pakistan's relations with | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
the West. A series of bomb attacks in Iraq | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
has killed at least 15 people. The first explosions happened west of | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
Baghdad in a mainly Sunni area, where labourerers wait for work. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Later, three more bombs went off in the city centre. It's the second | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
wave of attacks in Iraq this week. There have been more clashes | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
between pro-democracy protesters and security forces in Egypt. Riot | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
police have been firing volleys of tear gas and demonstrators are | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
throwing stones and petrol bombs. The latest violence comes ahead of | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
elections due to be held on Monday. Northern Ireland's First Minister, | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
Peter Robinson, says he wants to see an end to segregation between | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Catholics and Protestants. Speaking at the annual conference in Belfast, | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
he called for a shared education system and the end of the "them and | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
us" society. Mark Simpson has this report, which does contain some | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
flash photography. A Protestant party for Protestant people, that's | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
how many viewed the DUP, but in recent years it's been reaching out. | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
And now Ian Paisley's successor, Peter Robinson, is trying to go | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
further. He says he wants to end the segregation between prop stants | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
and Catholics in Northern Ireland schools. And in society here in | :06:22. | :06:31. | |
general. Conflict of this last 40 years created terrible divisions. | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
It became a case of them and us. That attitude deepened divisions | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
even further. If we want a better society, it can't be them and us. | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
It can only be all of us. APPLAUSE | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
Peter Robinson knows that talking about change in Northern Ireland is | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
easy. Delivering it will be much more difficult. The divisions still | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
run deep, especially in parts of Belfast. The city has 49 walls | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
which keep Catholics and Protestants apart. The education | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
system is divided too, with only around 5% of schools fully | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
integrated. There are even two different transfer tests from | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
primary to secondary school, one taken mainly by Protestant kids, | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
the other mainly by Catholics. Do people believe that more | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
integration would actually work? think it's a really good idea. It's | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
definitely possible. No, never. Definitely not. People just need to | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
realise how similar we actually are and that when we do work as a team, | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
magical things can happen. It will take a decade, maybe, but the main | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
thing is to get it started now. Some believe it will take much | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
longer than that, maybe generations. But at least the political debate | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
has begun. An elderly widow has died after | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
trying to stop a mugger stealing her handbag, in which she kept her | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
husband's ashes for 17 years. Nellie Gerraghty, who was 79, was | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
found unconscious with head injuries in an alleyway in Oldham. | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
Two boys, aged 14 and 17, have been arrested. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
The travel company Thomas Cook has made a deal with banks to ease its | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
financial problems. The company has been hit by a fall in the number of | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
customers for holidays in the Middle East. It's reached agreement | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
to double its overdraft to �200 million. | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
An unmanned rocket, carrying the Curiosity probe heading for Mars | :08:41. | :08:49. |