:00:10. > :00:13.The Government delays a decision on Britain's second high-speed rail
:00:13. > :00:19.line. A new half-a-billion-pound tunnel is now being considered
:00:19. > :00:22.after concerns about the environment. Request
:00:22. > :00:29.Jacques Delors, one of the architects of the euro, admits
:00:29. > :00:31.there were fundamental faults in the way the currency was introduced.
:00:31. > :00:37.Republican candidate Herman Cain suspends his run for the American
:00:37. > :00:46.presidency after allegations of sexual misconduct. Becoming
:00:46. > :00:50.President was plan A. And before you get discouraged, today I want
:00:50. > :00:56.to describe plan B. Thousands of Leeds fans pay their
:00:56. > :00:57.respects to Gary Speed. His wife and sons are there to watch the
:00:57. > :01:01.tributes. And in rugby, Shane Williams scores
:01:01. > :01:11.a try in his last appearance for Wales, but it's not enough to beat
:01:11. > :01:20.
:01:20. > :01:22.Good evening. Plans for Britain's second high-speed rail link between
:01:22. > :01:27.London and Birmingham are to be reviewed because of concerns it
:01:27. > :01:29.could damage an area of outstanding natural beauty. The Government is
:01:29. > :01:33.looking into whether to build an extra tunnel through countryside
:01:33. > :01:36.north of London, costing around half a billion pounds. The study
:01:36. > :01:45.means a final decision on whether the whole project should go ahead
:01:45. > :01:49.will be delayed. Our political correspondent Ben Geoghegan reports.
:01:49. > :01:55.This is what getting from London to Birmingham could be like in the
:01:55. > :01:59.future - a train travelling at up to 250mph, the journey time cut to
:02:00. > :02:03.less than 50 minutes. But the plans for the high-speed link are
:02:03. > :02:06.controversial because the route passes through some prime
:02:06. > :02:11.countryside. Some people are opposed because of the cost -
:02:11. > :02:14.likely to be around �33 billion. So the Government is thinking of
:02:14. > :02:18.changing part of the route in order to win over the critics.
:02:18. > :02:22.The fact that the Government is now tinkering with the line shows a
:02:22. > :02:24.clear commitment to the project. High-speed rail is going to support
:02:24. > :02:28.the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the north and
:02:28. > :02:34.in the Midlands. It's going to help to rebalance our economies and is
:02:34. > :02:38.going to provide the UK with the rail capacity it so badly needs.
:02:38. > :02:41.it's built, the new route will be a hundred miles long. The reported
:02:41. > :02:46.changes will affect the area outside Amersham in Buckinghamshire.
:02:46. > :02:50.At the moment, the plan is for part of the track to pass through two
:02:50. > :02:54.tunnels. The Government is now considering adding an extra stretch
:02:54. > :02:58.of tunnel to join them together. That would mean this part of the
:02:58. > :03:02.track in the Chilterns would be underground. The proposed route
:03:02. > :03:06.would cut through some pretty spectacular sceneries, including
:03:06. > :03:11.this part of the Chiltern hills in Buckinghamshire. It will also go
:03:12. > :03:18.through the constituencies of several MPs, so by building an
:03:18. > :03:22.extra bit of tunnel, the Government will be hoping it can bury part of
:03:22. > :03:25.the problem. It would cost money which would be saved through other
:03:25. > :03:27.engineering changes on the track, but one Conservative councillor
:03:27. > :03:32.doesn't think these latest proposals will weaken the
:03:32. > :03:36.opposition to the line. Weee really need to know where this �500
:03:36. > :03:43.million is going to come from and who is going to suffer potentially
:03:43. > :03:47.as a result of it. There are much better alternatives to the 33
:03:47. > :03:53.billion that they're proposing to spend on this. The Government is
:03:53. > :03:57.delaying its planned announcement on the high-speed link until the
:03:57. > :04:01.beginning ofest in year. If it decides to go ahead with the
:04:01. > :04:04.proposals, the new route is unlikely to go ahead for another
:04:04. > :04:07.125 years. The former European Commission
:04:07. > :04:10.president Jacques Delors, one of the architects of the euro, has
:04:10. > :04:13.said the current crisis stems from a fault in the way the single
:04:13. > :04:16.currency was introduced. Ahead of a crucial Euro summit next week, he
:04:16. > :04:18.told The Daily Telegraph that not enough attention was paid to the
:04:18. > :04:21.economic weaknesses of some member states. He also accused current
:04:21. > :04:28.leaders of doing too little too late. Here's our Europe
:04:28. > :04:33.correspondent Chris Morris. A powerful President of the European
:04:33. > :04:39.Commission for a decade, famous for his fights with Margaret Thatcher,
:04:39. > :04:42.Jacques Delors was also one of the architects of the single currency.
:04:42. > :04:52.Now in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, he says his carefully-
:04:52. > :05:00.
:05:00. > :05:03.laid plans weren't followed by the Jacques Delors denice he got it all
:05:03. > :05:07.wrong and still believes the euro will survive. Others are
:05:07. > :05:10.predictably far less certain. he is saying is actually the
:05:10. > :05:13.British Euro-sceptics were right because we said from the beginning
:05:13. > :05:16.you couldn't operate a single currency without Central Bank with
:05:16. > :05:19.real powers and effectively without it being a single European state.
:05:20. > :05:24.Jacques Delors also says today's European leaders have done too
:05:24. > :05:27.little too late. He talks of the stubbornness of the German idea of
:05:27. > :05:32.monetary control and no clear vision from other countries.
:05:32. > :05:35.The last response that we need from Jacques Delors or anyone else
:05:35. > :05:40.involved with us at the European level is once again to sort of
:05:40. > :05:43.redraw the architecture of Europe. What we should be dealing with is
:05:43. > :05:48.the hard but necessary economic decisions to enable our economies
:05:48. > :05:54.to recover together. Plenty to ponder for Angela Merkel
:05:54. > :05:57.and Nicolas Sarkozy due to meet again Monday to outline proposals
:05:57. > :06:01.for closer fiscal union in the eurozone. Their plan is that the
:06:01. > :06:05.promise of radical change will be enough to restore confidence and
:06:05. > :06:09.calm the storm surrounding sovereign debt in Europe.
:06:09. > :06:14.Jacques Delors was a blast from the past, but what matters now is the
:06:14. > :06:19.immediate future. Over the coming week, can Europe's politicians do
:06:19. > :06:23.enough to persuade the financial markets to trust them again? If not,
:06:23. > :06:27.things could get ugly. Lloyds Bank has begun legal moves
:06:27. > :06:29.to claw back part of a bonus of �1.4 billion paid to its former
:06:29. > :06:32.chief executive Eric Daniels. The decision by the part-nationalised
:06:32. > :06:40.bank is believed to be linked to the costs associated with the mis-
:06:40. > :06:42.selling of payment protection insurance to some customers.
:06:42. > :06:47.Nearly 3,000 so-called "honour attacks" were recorded by police
:06:47. > :06:50.last year. It's the first national estimate of the extent of this kind
:06:50. > :06:53.of violence in the UK - which includes abduction, acid attacks
:06:53. > :06:58.and murder against women who are deemed to have brought shame on
:06:58. > :07:04.their family. Sarah Campbell reports.
:07:04. > :07:10.A young girl enjoying a family wedding, but a year after these
:07:10. > :07:15.pictures were taken, the 14-year- old was dead, killed by her father,
:07:15. > :07:23.who believed her choice of boyfriend shamed the family. More
:07:23. > :07:29.victims - Jasvinder Singh was disowned by her family. Her sister
:07:29. > :07:35.committed suicide suffering an abusive marriage. My sister set
:07:35. > :07:39.herself on fire, suffering over 80% burns and died. In whose honour? In
:07:40. > :07:43.my family and in other families, it is better to commit suicide than to
:07:43. > :07:48.divorce your husbands, in terms of that being the honourable thing.
:07:48. > :07:53.According to responses from 39 of the UK's 52 police forces, more
:07:53. > :07:56.than 2,800 acts of so-called honour-based violence were carried
:07:56. > :08:03.out last year. Almost 500 of these were in London. That's almost
:08:03. > :08:07.double the number recorded in 2009. Diana Nami founded a charity to
:08:07. > :08:12.help victims and says more than 500 women contacted them last year
:08:12. > :08:16.alone. They have been imprisoned. They have been beaten up by their
:08:16. > :08:21.family. They were at risk of an "honour killing" or other form of
:08:21. > :08:23.violence. They need great help and support. A national strategy
:08:23. > :08:28.covering police forces in England and Wales and Northern Ireland,
:08:28. > :08:33.though not Scotland, has improved training and awareness of the issue
:08:33. > :08:38.according to Police Chiefs. As long as the lives of women and girls
:08:38. > :08:41.like this are seen as less important than family honour,
:08:41. > :08:44.campaigners say more must be done to help them.
:08:44. > :08:47.The Church of England has issued its clergy with new guidance ahead
:08:47. > :08:50.of a change in the law next week which allows civil partnership
:08:50. > :08:53.ceremonies to be conducted in places of worship. It says that no
:08:53. > :08:55.Church of England building can be an ''approved premises'' for civil
:08:55. > :08:58.partnerships without a formal decision by the General Synod. It's
:08:58. > :09:01.being seen as a bar on gay couples having ceremonies in Anglican
:09:01. > :09:04.churches. Police have released pictures
:09:04. > :09:08.showing the full impact of a concrete block which was thrown off
:09:08. > :09:11.a bridge over the A12 in Essex. A woman was seriously injured after
:09:11. > :09:17.it hit the car she was a passenger in. The incident is being treated
:09:17. > :09:19.as attempted murder. A leading contender for the
:09:19. > :09:22.Republican nomination to challenge President Obama in next year's
:09:22. > :09:24.elections has effectively withdrawn from the race. Herman Cain, a
:09:24. > :09:26.former businessman from Georgia, said he was suspending his campaign
:09:26. > :09:36.because of allegations about his private life. From Washington,
:09:36. > :09:43.
:09:43. > :09:48.From man who once led the race, this was a long and defiant goodbye.
:09:49. > :09:53.With his wife of 43 years beside him, Herman Cain first denied the
:09:53. > :10:00.allegations of sexual misconduct. am at peace with my wife.
:10:00. > :10:06.APPLAUSE And she is at peace with me.
:10:06. > :10:14.APPLAUSE But he said the claims had put an
:10:14. > :10:23.unbearable strain on his family. am suspending my Presidential
:10:23. > :10:30.campaign because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt
:10:30. > :10:35.caused on me and my family. former pizza executive had proved a
:10:35. > :10:39.consummate campaigner, a career salesman, marketing himself as a
:10:39. > :10:44.plain-speaking outsider, but then came the allegations of sexual
:10:44. > :10:52.harassment and infidelity. And he put his hand on my leg, under my
:10:52. > :10:57.skirt and reached for my genitals. I was single. I was not married. Mr
:10:57. > :11:02.Cain has been married. And there were other weaknesses, notably a
:11:02. > :11:06.hazyness on Foreign Affairs. OK - Libya. Of the candidates still
:11:06. > :11:12.standing, Mitt Romney has the deepest pockets and the slickest
:11:13. > :11:19.campaign. But for many, he's not conservative enough. And with Mr
:11:19. > :11:23.Cain out, the alternative appears to be neutrino, who -- Newt
:11:24. > :11:29.Gingrich. It's hard to look at the recent polls and think, the odds
:11:29. > :11:37.are high. This remains an unpredictable contest, which begins
:11:37. > :11:39.in Iowa one month from today. Now with all the day's sport,
:11:39. > :11:42.here's Amanda. Hi. Good evening.
:11:42. > :11:45.Thousands of Leeds United fans have paid tribute to former captain Gary
:11:45. > :11:49.Speed today. Their match at Elland Road against Millwall was their
:11:49. > :11:53.first home game since his death last weekend. His wife Louise, and
:11:53. > :11:58.two sons were there. Nick Ravenscroft reports.
:11:58. > :12:06.There had been a flood of tributes all week, but for Leeds fans this
:12:06. > :12:11.was the first chance to gather as one and applaud Gary Speed. Step
:12:11. > :12:15.forward Gary McAllister, Gordon Strachan and David Batty. They'd
:12:15. > :12:21.played alongside him in Leeds' triumphant 1992 season. Watching
:12:21. > :12:24.the tributes from the stands, his widow Louise and their two sons.
:12:24. > :12:28.Today's fixture here was always going to be a highly charged
:12:28. > :12:32.occasion. Leeds was the club where Gary Speed signed as a trainee, and
:12:32. > :12:39.it's also the club he helped take to the very top of English football
:12:39. > :12:44.nearly 20 years ago. I was in tears watching the minutes at the
:12:44. > :12:48.beginning, watching the wreaths being laid on the pitch. It was a
:12:48. > :12:52.very emotional moment. My stomach was in knots, you know, and I was
:12:52. > :12:57.just thinking about the legend that he was. I was just thinking it was
:12:57. > :13:02.a fantastic, fitting tribute to a wonderful, wonderful man. The crowd
:13:02. > :13:06.showing their appreciation for Gary Speed. With nearly 300 appearances
:13:06. > :13:10.for Newcastle, Gary Speed was also a legend at St James' park. Before
:13:10. > :13:15.kickoff, thousands of fans clapped at his name. The assistant manager,
:13:15. > :13:19.who knew Speed well, was clearly moved. At Cardiff's Millennium
:13:19. > :13:23.Stadium, there were tributes too from lovers of a different sport,
:13:23. > :13:28.rugby. Speed, a great Welshman as well as a great footballer. And in
:13:28. > :13:34.his days here at Elland Road, he was number 11. Today this shirt
:13:34. > :13:44.said it all. Rest in peace, Gary Speed.
:13:44. > :13:48.
:13:48. > :13:52.Tributes were paid to Gary Speed across the Premier League today.
:13:52. > :13:56.Before I bring you up to date with all the scores - I've got to remind
:13:56. > :13:59.you that Match of the Day follows the news here on BBC One, so now's
:13:59. > :14:04.the time to close your eyes and ears if you don't want to ruin the
:14:04. > :14:06.surprise. Didier Drogba opened the scoring for Chelsea in a 3-0 win
:14:06. > :14:09.over Newcastle to see them climb into fourth.
:14:09. > :14:12.Yakubu was the hero for Blackburn Rovers, scoring all four goals as
:14:12. > :14:14.they recorded just their second league win of the season. They beat
:14:14. > :14:24.league win of the season. They beat Swansea 4-2 and move off the bottom
:14:24. > :14:25.
:14:25. > :14:28.of the table to ease some of the Phil Jones scored the first goal of
:14:28. > :14:30.his career as Manchester United beat Aston Villa 1-0. But United
:14:30. > :14:33.stay five points behind leaders Manchester City who produced a 5-1
:14:34. > :14:36.drubbing of Norwich. Queens Park Rangers drew one all with West Brom
:14:36. > :14:39.at Loftus Road. Tottenham produced their sixth straight league win -
:14:39. > :14:44.beating Bolton 3-0. And Wigan prop up the rest at the bottom after
:14:44. > :14:47.losing 4-0 to Arsenal. Martin O'Neill says his driving
:14:47. > :14:51.ambition is to help Sunderland to a period of success after being
:14:51. > :14:54.confirmed as their new manager. The 59-year-old former Leicester, Aston
:14:54. > :15:01.Villa and Celtic boss takes over from Steve Bruce, having signed a
:15:01. > :15:06.three-year contact. Sunderland are currently 16th in the league and
:15:06. > :15:10.play Wolves tomorrow. Rangers have moved seven points
:15:10. > :15:12.clear at the top of the Scottish Premier League after a hard fought
:15:12. > :15:15.victory over Dunfermline. They won 2-1. St Johnstone continued their
:15:15. > :15:21.impressive form under new manager Steve Lomas with victory over
:15:21. > :15:23.Hearts. Gary Harkins and James Dayton were on target to secure
:15:23. > :15:33.victory for Kilmarnock against Aberdeen, while Inverness Cally
:15:33. > :15:38.
:15:38. > :15:40.Thistle moved off the bottom thanks Former world Player of the Year
:15:40. > :15:43.Shane Williams said farewell to international rugby at the
:15:43. > :15:46.Millennium Stadium today. The Wales winger signed off with a try - but
:15:46. > :15:48.couldn't quite inspire victory against Australia. His side were
:15:48. > :15:50.beaten 24-18, as Tim Franks reports. Friendlies can be meaningless, but
:15:50. > :15:58.try telling Shane Williams that his final international game didn't
:15:58. > :16:02.matter. The first half was flaccid, notable most for a Shane Williams
:16:02. > :16:07.tackle which just prevented an Australian try. But come the second
:16:07. > :16:12.half, Lee Halfpenny could only stop the Australians illegally, yellow
:16:12. > :16:17.card, and for ten minutes, Wales would be a man down, during which
:16:17. > :16:21.time Australia would score three tries. Their small man touched down
:16:22. > :16:26.first. The pressure didn't relent, Turner scoring on the left. With
:16:26. > :16:32.seconds of the sin bin to go, Barnes gave them the match-winning
:16:32. > :16:36.lead. Back at 15 minute, Wales played to one of their strengths -
:16:36. > :16:43.Priestland rolling in for Wales' first try. First, because Shane
:16:43. > :16:48.Williams would have the last word with the final move of the game.
:16:48. > :16:58.He's going to go on to the finish, last game, last try! It has been a
:16:58. > :17:00.
:17:00. > :17:05.It's all been a great journey for me. I have enjoyed every second of
:17:05. > :17:12.it, the ups and the downs, and I just want to say thank you.
:17:12. > :17:16.complement international rugby can only return.
:17:16. > :17:20.Great scenes. Back to you. Thank you very much, Amanda. That's
:17:20. > :17:29.it. You can, of course, see more of the day's stories on the BBC News
:17:29. > :17:33.Channel. From us here, a very good Good evening. There was a distinct
:17:33. > :17:37.whiff of winter in the air today. That is only going to intensify
:17:37. > :17:41.over the next couple of days. There is some snow in this forecast.
:17:41. > :17:45.Tomorrow, well, predominantly the showers will be of rain, but there
:17:45. > :17:51.will still be a chilly breeze blowing. It was blowing through the
:17:51. > :17:56.day today. It will only slowly ease overnight. The showers continue to
:17:56. > :18:00.feed into Western Scotland, north- west England and Wales. A colder
:18:00. > :18:04.night than last night. It may turn icy, not quite so coldation, cross
:18:04. > :18:09.the far south-west. Sunny spells around Sunday morning, but for most
:18:09. > :18:12.places, expect a much cloudier day compared to today, certainly
:18:12. > :18:16.turning increasingly grey across many southern areas, and by
:18:16. > :18:18.afternoon there will be showery outbreaks of rain, of course,
:18:18. > :18:23.southern counties of England and Wales. This will be showers across
:18:23. > :18:26.the Midlands and some parts of East Anglia - another fairly cloudy day
:18:26. > :18:29.across north-west England - frequent showers here and for North
:18:29. > :18:32.Wales. To the east of the Pennines, here, sunshine, but temperatures
:18:32. > :18:36.only 5-6 Celsius. The same goes for Eastern Scotland. Sunshine and
:18:36. > :18:40.showers for Northern Ireland. The showers turning increasingly wintry,
:18:40. > :18:44.initially over the higher parts of Scotland, but during Sunday night,