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The plan to unlock �20 billion of lending to business. New details | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
emerge about how the Chancellor hopes to get credit flowing again. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
No sign of backing down as the Government and unions argue ahead | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
of Wednesday's planned strike. A furious response from Pakistan, | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
after NATO kills 24 of its troops in an attack on the Afghan border. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
And the 102-year-old pensioner from Kent leaving the UK to start a new | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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Good evening. More details have emerged tonight | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
of the Chancellor's plans to try to stop the economy slipping back into | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
recession. It's understood that George Osborne will announce on | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
Tuesday that the Government will underwrite bank loans to businesses. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
�20 billion could be made available. Our political correspondent Carole | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Walker is at Westminster with the latest. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Yes, when the Chancellor stands up in parliament on Tuesday to deliver | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
his autumn statement he will be under huge pressure to say what the | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Government is doing to boost some growth in the economy and tonight | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
we have learned that he is going to announce an ambitious plan that he | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
hopes could provide lending to small and medium-sized companies by | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
up to �20 billion. George Osborne is braced for a new | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
set of gloomy economic statistics to coincide with his autumn | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
statement. The eurozone crisis is adding to his woes and there's real | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
concern that lending from the banks could dry up. So to try to get cash | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
flowing to companies so they can invest and grow, he is setting up | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
ambitious lending programmes with the Government stepping in to give | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
businesses the chance to get loans at low interest rates. The idea is | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
known as credit easing. The Government will provide a guarantee | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
for banks to borrow on the financial markets, they'll then be | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
obliged to pass on the cheap lending rates to small and medium- | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
sized companies. The Government will also take a stake in | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
investment funds which provide credit or loans to medium-sized | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
companies. It's also planning an alternative to bank loans, by | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
allowing firms to sell company IOUs to the market. The Government is | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
also going to curve some rail fare increases. The Treasury says it | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
will mean that peak fares and season tickets which were due to | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
rise by 8% next year, will go up by 6%, instead. The Chancellor knows | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
that may not be cause for celebration, but he hopes it will | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
provide some relief for passengers. Labour have written to the | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
Chancellor tonight with a series of questions, asking exactly how this | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
credit easing plan is going to work and saying they don't think it's | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
going to be enough to get growth really going in the economy. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
The Treasury are saying interestingly enough that this plan | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
will not add to the country's deficit. They're sticking to that | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
deficit reduction plan. I think the Chancellor does still face a lot of | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
questions about how he is going to pay for things like those lower | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
than expected rail fares, that plan to tackle youth unemployment that | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
we heard about, we are told we are going to have to wait until Tuesday | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
but one thing's for sure, the Chancellor hasn't got any money to | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
give away. And tomorrow morning on BBC1 Andrew | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Marr will be speaking to the Chancellor, George Osborne, and | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls about this story. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
The planned walk-out, of more than two million public sector workers | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
on Wednesday, looks set to go ahead, as the Government and unions | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
continue to argue. Today, the Government confirmed that an | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
improved offer on pensions could be withdrawn, if the strike isn't | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
cancelled. But the unions responded, saying that no such offer has been | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
made officially. Our political correspondent Robin Brant has more | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
details. Union members have taken to the | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
streets already this year. If Wednesday's walkout does go ahead | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
it will be the biggest protest in a generation. Two million could stay | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
at home. As that day approaches, the talk from the top of Government | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
has got noticeably tougher. Ministers have repeated warnings | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
they could withdraw their improved offer. There's also talk of tougher | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
laws on future union strikes. days of action are very damaging to | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
the economy. They cost money. We don't want this thing going into | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
2012. We need to get an agreement reached and we are very close to an | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
agreement with the trade unions on the basis of what is a generous | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
offer and that's why we have said it's conditional on this agreement | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
being reached. No deal is close, though, says the leader of one of | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
the biggest unions. And it seems Wednesday's mass strike is now a | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
certainty. We have not had a single offer, not one offer, for our local | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
Government workers and they are in the biggest pension scheme in our | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
public services. So we can't say that we are moving to an agreement, | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
because I can't go to any of our members and say look, this is what | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
you have been offered, would you prefer to take this or take strike | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
action? Thousands of National Health Service non-emergency | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
operations could be postponed. At Heathrow, they're preparing for | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
delays of up to 12 hours. In Northern Ireland, the entire public | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
transport network will shut down. There's going to be widespread | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
disruption, something the Labour leader has come close to condemning | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
outright. Are you supporting the strikers? It's not the job of | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
politicians and we don't support strikes, that's - nobody wants to | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
see the strike happen, in fact. But both sides need to give ground to | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
stop the strike going ahead. Government believes taxpayers can't | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
afford to fund the current deal, people are living longer, it says. | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
But the unions see the proposals as a kind of retrospective robbery. | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
Wednesday's strike will show the scale of their anger. | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
Pakistan has ordered a review of all its operational arrangements | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
with the US and NATO after the alliance attacked two military | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
outposts on Pakistani territory. 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
the incident in Mohmand, near the country's border with Afghanistan. | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
Orla Guerin reports. It was in this harsh and remote | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
terrain that NATO struck. This is Mohmand, part of Pakistan's lawless | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
tribal belt. But the army says there was no militant activity here | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
at the time. No excuse for mistaken identity. Pakistan says NATO | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
helicopters and fighter aircraft opened fire on two border posts. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
Their location was well known, a senior official told us. NATO had | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
the grid references. NATO commanders have offered condolences, | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
and promised to investigate. have to look into this case as it | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
happened in a very rugged part of the country, a very deserted part | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
of the country and in the middle of the night where it was pitch dark. | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
So we have to look into the incident in detail, come to the | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
conclusion, and then talk to the Pakistani side. Pakistan's leaders | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
have reacted with fury. The Prime Minister, and military chiefs, | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
ordering a review of all links with NATO and the United States. Within | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
hours, Pakistan was drawing new battlelines on the map. Critical | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
NATO supplies are trucked across the country every day. One route | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
leads to the Afghan capital, Kabul. And another to the second largest | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
city, Kandahar. But the border has been closed to NATO traffic. The | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
trucks are at a standstill. And soon all co-operation could grind | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
to a halt, including intelligence- sharing. | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
Exactly what happened at the border is still unclear, but tonight | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
Afghan and NATO sources have provided a different version of | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
events. They say a special forces team was targeting a Taliban | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
training camp. They claim the team came under fire from inside | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
Pakistan. An elderly widow has died after | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
trying to stop a mugger stealing her handbag, in which she'd kept | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
her husband's ashes. 79-year-old Nellie Geraghty was found | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
unconscious with head injuries. Two teenagers have been arrested, as | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
John Andrew reports. Nellie Geraghty was still clutching the | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
strap from her handbag when she was found, suggesting she struggled to | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
hang on to it. The attack took place on Thursday and in broad | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
daylight in this alley near her home in Oldham. She was taken to | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
hospital with serious head injuries and died in the early hours of this | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
morning. Inside her handbag was a smaller bag containing the Ashes of | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
her late husband, Frank, who died 17 years ago. The police are | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
appealing to anyone with information to come forward. It's a | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
drawstring bag, it's got no owe other significant marks I am aware | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
of, that contains the Ashes and has real emotional family to the -- | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
value to the family. In a statement Nellie's family said they lost the | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
best mum in the world. Neighbours have also been paying tribute. | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
was very nice, she was a good neighbour. We helped each other. | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
Very, very nice. Very pleasant. Help anybody. Tonight, two boys | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
aged 14 and 17 are in police custody, held on suspicion of | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
murder and robbery. The former TV presenter and | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
comedian Michael Barrymore has been charged with possession of cocaine | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
and being drunk and disorderly following a car crash in Acton, | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
West London. Barrymore was arrested alongside another man in the early | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
hours of Tuesday morning and is is due to appear at Ealing | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Magistrates' Court on December 7th. Northern Ireland's First Minister, | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Peter Robinson, says he wants to see an end to segregation between | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Catholics and Protestants. Speaking at his party's annual conference in | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Belfast, the leader of the DUP called for a shared education | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
system and an end, to a "them and us" society. Mark Simpson's report | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
contains some flash photography. A Protestant party for Protestant | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
people, that's how many have viewed the DUP, but in recent years it's | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
been reaching out. And now Ian Paisley's successor, Peter Robinson, | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
is trying to go further. He says he wants to end the segregation | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland schools and in | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
society here, in general. conflict of this last 40 years | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
created terrible divisions. It became a case of "them" and "us". | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
And that attitude deepened divisions even further. If we want | :11:01. | :11:11. | |
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a better society, it can't be them and us, it can only be all of us. | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
Peter Robinson knows that talking about change in Northern Ireland is | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
easy, delivering it will be much more difficult. The divisions still | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
run deep, especially in parts of Belfast. The city has 49 walls | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
which keep Catholics and Protestants apart. The education | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
system is divided, too, with only around 5% of schools fully | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
integrated. There are even two different transfer tests from | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
primary to secondary school. One taken mainly by by Protestant kids, | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
the other mainly by Catholics. But do people believe that more | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
integration would actually work? think it's a really good idea. It's | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
definitely possible. No, never. Definitely not. People just need to | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
realise how similar we actually are and that when we do work as a team | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
magical things can happen. It will take a decade maybe, but the main | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
thing is to get it started now. Some believe it will take much | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
longer than that, maybe generations. But at least the political debate | :12:19. | :12:28. | |
has begun. An unmanned rocket carrying the | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
Curiosity robot heading for Mars, has blasted off from Cape Canaveral | :12:31. | :12:41. | |
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in Florida. And lift-off... It's scheduled to touch down on the red | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
planet in August next year and it'll search for signs of whether | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
Mars has ever been able to sustain life. | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
Now time for all the sport with Amanda Davies. | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
Good evening. It's been a controversial day in the Barclays | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
Premier League. Match of the Day follows the news so now's the time | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
to look away if you want to keep the surprise. Sir Alex Ferguson | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
aimed his frustration at the assistant referee at Old Trafford, | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
after Manchester United's 1-1 draw against Newcastle. Javier Hernandez | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
had given United the lead, before a controversial penalty gave the | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
visitors a share of the points. Chelsea returned to winning ways | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
with a comfortable victory over Wolves to ease the pressure on | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
under-fire manger Andre Villas-Boas. Captain John Terry opened the | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
scoring in a 3-0 win. Arsenal's Thomas Vermaelen scored at both | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
ends to produce a 1-1 draw with Fulham. | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Everton won 2-0 at Bolton. Grant Holt came off the bench to score | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
the winner for Norwich against Queens Park Rangers. Blackburn's | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
poor form continues. They were beaten 3-1 by Stoke, so now sit | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
bottom of the table after Wigan's late win over Sunderland. | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
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And Tottenham's impressive form continues, they beat West Brom 3-1. | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
In Scotland, a Gary Hooper hat- trick helped Celtic to a 5-0 | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
drubbing of St Mirren. So they're now four points behind leaders | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
Rangers who don't play until tomorrow. | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
Aberdeen fought back from 3-1 down to earn a draw against Dunfermline. | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
Hearts broke their recent goal drought with a 2-1 win over bottom | :14:12. | :14:20. | |
There was a goalless draw at Fir Park between Motherwell and Dundee | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
United. And Hibernian's new manager Pat Fenlon watched from the stands | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
as his side were beaten by St Johnstone. | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
It's been a tough week for the reputation of Rugby Union in | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
England, but despite that, 51,000 fans turned out at Twickenham to | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
see the Barbarians take on Australia. It ended up being a one- | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
sided victory for the Wallabies, who ran in eight tries en route to | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
a 60-11 win. Joe Wilson reports. Twickenham, home of investigations, | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
resignations and today, a league of nations. The barbarians, invented | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
to celebrate Rugby Union, a rather alien idea in England right now. | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
The other team, Australia, did the fixture the honour of taking it | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
very seriously. Australia led and never looked back. | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
But it was still an opportunity for Danny Cipriani, who made some | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
progress for the Barbarians, but Australia were releaptless. -- | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
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relentless. This ill-judged pass gave away one of the many tries. | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
Leaks in defence looked just as ugly as leaks in a newspaper. As | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
Australia got to 60, it all felt a bit pointless. In the final seconds | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
Cipriani saved the ball and Tom kins scored, just room for some | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
romance. It's the final race of the Formula | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
1 season this weekend, and world champion Sebastian Vettel has | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
managed to squeeze in another record-breaking achievement. The | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
24-year-old Red Bull driver took the front spot on the grid for the | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
Brazilian Grand Prix, and with it overtook Nigel Mansell's record of | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
14 pole positions in a season. Vettel became the youngest back-to- | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
back World Champion when he clinched this year's title in Japan | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
last month and goes into tomorrow's race ahead of team-mate Mark Webber | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
in second, with Jenson Button in third. That's it. Thank you. | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
Now, many people leave the UK to start a new life abroad, but not | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
usually at the age of 102. Pensioner Louise Sides has done | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
exactly that, deciding on the move when her nursing home shut down. | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
Alexandra MacKenzie has the story. Arriving in New Zealand, a big | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
adventure for Louise Sides, one reporter asked how many cases she | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
had brought? Only one. And a small one. It's half a world away from | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
her care home in Kent. She took the life-changing decision after being | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
told it was closing down due to budget cuts. Many Brits have been | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
lured to a new life in New Zealand, the surf, the weather, and the | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
scenery. Louise Sides daughter and son-in-law live there. She's been | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
to visit, now she's there to stay. On arrival in Auckland she seemed | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
unphased by all the attention and just requested one thing. I want to | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
just have a cup of tea. The family reunited again, her daughter, Sue, | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
is delighted. It's her birthday on Boxing Day, so it's going to be a | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
special one this year. And before that they're looking forward to | :17:31. | :17:37. |