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Nick Clegg warns the coalition may legislate to limit executive pay. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:03 | |
He pledges to tackle corporate excess so people feel everyone is | 0:00:03 | 0:00:11 | |
in the economic crisis together. These are tough times for everybody, | 0:00:11 | 0:00:15 | |
whether in the private or the public sector, whether you're a | 0:00:15 | 0:00:19 | |
nurse or a factory worker, whether you're a taxi driver or whether | 0:00:19 | 0:00:23 | |
you're a civil servant. I think we need to make sure people in the | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
public sector don't feel that they're doing all the heavy lifting. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
New proposals for the NHS to share patient records with private | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
companies, the Government says it'll drive innovation | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
The opposition protestors arrested in Russia as elections take place | 0:00:33 | 0:00:41 | |
amid accusations of vote rigging. And why bringing a little | 0:00:41 | 0:00:51 | |
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"Sunshine" to Edinburgh caused Good evening. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has pledged to "get tough" | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
on excessive boardroom pay, saying that "if necessary" the coalition | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
will legislate to limit salary increases. Mr Clegg said it was | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
important the private sector shared some of the economic pain, along | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
with public sector employees facing pay caps and increased pension | 0:01:16 | 0:01:23 | |
contributions. His comments came as the Labour peer Lord Hutton, who | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
reviewed public sector pensions for the coalition, said the | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
Government's proposals for the sector were "perfectly credible." | 0:01:27 | 0:01:34 | |
Our political correspondent Gary O'Donoghue reports. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:38 | |
Is this the moment when economic gloom starts to hit top earners | 0:01:38 | 0:01:45 | |
too? With company directors' pay at top firms rising by 49% last year, | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
Ministers are now stressing that pocketing bucket loads of cash for | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
failure in difficult times is no longer acceptable, so today the | 0:01:52 | 0:01:57 | |
Deputy First Minister signalled that the Government would consider | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
changing the law to improve transparency on top pay. These are | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
tough times for everybody, whether in the private or the public sector, | 0:02:03 | 0:02:08 | |
whether you're a nurse or a factory worker, whether you're a taxi | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
driver or whether you're a civil servant. I think we need to make | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
sure that people in the public sector don't feel that they're | 0:02:14 | 0:02:18 | |
doing all the heavy lifting. Ministers know they can't dictate | 0:02:18 | 0:02:26 | |
pay rates, but they do know they want to open up community | 0:02:26 | 0:02:30 | |
remuneration committees. Not everyone believes the | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
Government is serious. On the one hand, when it comes to public | 0:02:33 | 0:02:37 | |
sector pensions, they're willing to legislate. When it comes to public | 0:02:37 | 0:02:41 | |
sector pay, they're willing to impose draconian pay restraint on | 0:02:41 | 0:02:45 | |
people. When it comes to pay at theed on the end of the economy, | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
which is absolute greed gone mad, Government does nothing at all but | 0:02:49 | 0:02:54 | |
make a few statements of intent. The Government believes that | 0:02:54 | 0:02:58 | |
curbing executive pay will go some way to prove its they claim we're | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
all in this together and that, equally, reforming public sector | 0:03:01 | 0:03:06 | |
pensions is fair to everyone. Despite the disruption of last | 0:03:06 | 0:03:10 | |
Wednesday's strike, the Government knows they have to work hard to | 0:03:10 | 0:03:14 | |
persuade the public that the lowest paid aren't getting the biggest | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
bill for the economic situation, which is why they will welcome the | 0:03:18 | 0:03:23 | |
intervention of a former Labour Minister who authored a report on | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
pensions for the coalition. What the Government have tabled is a | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
perfectly credible offer. I think it gives significant protection to | 0:03:30 | 0:03:37 | |
those close to retirement and very generous accrual rate. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:43 | |
Government is to publish high pay next month and pension details by | 0:03:43 | 0:03:50 | |
the end of the year. Both are keen to ensure that everyone shares the | 0:03:50 | 0:03:52 | |
pain. Patient records and other NHS data | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
could be shared with private medical companies under plans being | 0:03:54 | 0:03:59 | |
considered by the Government. In a speech tomorrow, the Prime Minister | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
will say that in return for giving researchers such information, the | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
NHS would receive access to new cutting-edge treatments. Our | 0:04:04 | 0:04:09 | |
correspondent Helen Fawkes has been following the story. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:14 | |
Why would they be going down this route? The NHS has the most | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
comprehensive medical records in the world, so some of this | 0:04:17 | 0:04:21 | |
information would be shared so test results and scans - and it's very | 0:04:21 | 0:04:26 | |
important to stress that this information would be anonymous. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
It's expected that this proposal would apply to England only. Now, | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
the information would be used by companies involved in medical | 0:04:33 | 0:04:37 | |
research and drug development. This industry is already very big in | 0:04:37 | 0:04:42 | |
Britain. It's hoped this could lead to it becoming a world leader and | 0:04:42 | 0:04:47 | |
so boost the economy. Also, as part of the proposals it's hoped this | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
would increase the number of clinical trials that are held here, | 0:04:51 | 0:04:56 | |
held in some of the hospitals here, so that would lead, it's hoped to | 0:04:56 | 0:05:02 | |
the NHS having faster access to some innovative treatment. Also, | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
Cancer Research UK, one of the many health charities, say they welcome | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
this move. Patients themselves? There is concern about these very | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
private records - the possibility they could be made public. One | 0:05:12 | 0:05:17 | |
patient group called Patient Concern have said this spells the | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
end of patient confidentiality. Labour says it's not necessarily | 0:05:20 | 0:05:24 | |
opposed to this, but that the proper regulation should be in | 0:05:24 | 0:05:29 | |
place. The Government says that all necessary safeguards will be there | 0:05:29 | 0:05:35 | |
and the system will be regulated. Thank you very much. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
Police on Merseyside are appealing for man to come forward following | 0:05:38 | 0:05:48 | |
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the death of two women at a house in Southport. The bodies - one of a | 0:05:49 | 0:05:53 | |
woman in her 70s, the other in her 50s - were found yesterday | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
afternoon. Police are treating the deaths as suspicious. They want to | 0:05:55 | 0:05:59 | |
speak to a man who was lodging at the property. Barry Morrow is | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
thought to have travelled to France or Spain. First indication from | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
Russia's parliamentary elections suggest a win for Vladimir Putin's | 0:06:04 | 0:06:08 | |
party. It has been seen as a popularity test for Mr Putin, who | 0:06:08 | 0:06:13 | |
plans to run again next year. Today's results are pointing to a | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
reduced majority for his United Russia Party. This report contains | 0:06:17 | 0:06:21 | |
flash photography. Vladimir Putin, President for eight | 0:06:21 | 0:06:25 | |
years, then Prime Minister for four, and unquestionably the most | 0:06:26 | 0:06:31 | |
powerful politician in Russia. He was not up for re-election in this | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
parliamentary poll, but his popularity and that of the party he | 0:06:35 | 0:06:38 | |
created were on trial - just three months before he hopes to be | 0:06:38 | 0:06:43 | |
elected President again. On the streets around the Kremlin, | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
hundreds of troops parked up in giant trucks. It appeared to be a | 0:06:47 | 0:06:53 | |
show of force. Exit polls suggest the ruling party will win, but with | 0:06:53 | 0:06:57 | |
support dropping just below 50%. The country is unusually tense | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
today because there are signs of change in the air. The United | 0:07:00 | 0:07:07 | |
Russia Party has been in power for a decade, but for the first time, | 0:07:07 | 0:07:12 | |
its popularity is sliding significantly. Even though parts of | 0:07:12 | 0:07:16 | |
central Moscow had been sealed off, there were attempts at small | 0:07:16 | 0:07:21 | |
demonstrations, but they were short lived. As this protestor spoke to | 0:07:21 | 0:07:26 | |
the BBC, he was dragged away by police. Earlier, one of our | 0:07:26 | 0:07:31 | |
cameramen was detained for an hour. Opposition parties complain that | 0:07:31 | 0:07:35 | |
there has been widespread vote rigging today. The leaders of one | 0:07:35 | 0:07:39 | |
party excluded from the election chose to spoil their ballots. They | 0:07:39 | 0:07:43 | |
told me it was the only thing they could do. This is not an election. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:48 | |
This is a special operation. This is manipulation, falsification and | 0:07:48 | 0:07:53 | |
fraud. That's why of course we are against it. We came here not to | 0:07:53 | 0:07:59 | |
warn, but to protest. But the opposition have to accept that many | 0:07:59 | 0:08:09 | |
millions of people still support United Russia Party. This evening | 0:08:09 | 0:08:15 | |
pro-Kremlin youth groups held this in front of the old headquarters of | 0:08:15 | 0:08:25 | |
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A small bomb has blown up a minibus in a public car park outside the | 0:08:34 | 0:08:36 | |
British Embassy in Bahrain. Officials in the capital Manama | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
said no-one was injured and the embassy wasn't damaged. The blast | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
is being investigated. Two giant pandas, the first to live | 0:08:41 | 0:08:46 | |
in the UK for almost 20 years, have arrived in Scotland. Tian Tian and | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
Yang Guang - or Sunshine and Sweetie as they'll be known locally | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
- arrived at Edinburgh Airport on a specially chartered flight from | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
China. For the next ten years their home will be Edinburgh Zoo, and | 0:08:55 | 0:09:01 | |
Lorna Gordon is there. Lorna. It's good pandas like the cold and | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
the snow because that's the kind of conditions that have greeted them | 0:09:04 | 0:09:08 | |
here today as well as, it has to be said, hundreds of people who are | 0:09:08 | 0:09:12 | |
hoping for a glimpse of the prized animals. It's not quite been | 0:09:12 | 0:09:17 | |
pandemonium, but certainly a lot of excitement as Edinburgh has become | 0:09:17 | 0:09:22 | |
the 13th place outside of China to get pandas. A typically Scottish | 0:09:22 | 0:09:29 | |
greeting and a VIP reception for two very special guests - two giant | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
pandas, long anticipated, finally arriving in Edinburgh, their home | 0:09:34 | 0:09:40 | |
for the next ten years. The first to emerge, Tien Tien, or Sweetie. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:45 | |
Her crate slowly manoeuvred on to the ground - the aim to make the | 0:09:45 | 0:09:51 | |
final part of her journey as gentle as possible. Then came Yang Guang | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
or Sunshine, much more active after the non-stop flight from China. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
It's taken five years of negotiations to get Sweetie and | 0:09:58 | 0:10:03 | |
Sunshine here to Edinburgh. We have had a very warm welcome here | 0:10:03 | 0:10:12 | |
already, even if the weather has been snowy and bitterly cold. China | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
takes its panda diplomacy very seriously. These animals are the | 0:10:15 | 0:10:20 | |
first to be loaned to Britain in more than 17 years. The panda is a | 0:10:20 | 0:10:28 | |
national treasure, and the friendship, you know, brought by | 0:10:28 | 0:10:34 | |
pandas knows no border. The giant panda's habitat is shrinking. It's | 0:10:34 | 0:10:42 | |
thought there are less than 2,000 left in the wild. They hope the two | 0:10:42 | 0:10:46 | |
will breed in their special enclosure. They haven't bred | 0:10:46 | 0:10:50 | |
together, but they have bred separately that gives us a lot of | 0:10:50 | 0:10:56 | |
hope. They're eight years old, the perfect age for breeding. Pandas | 0:10:56 | 0:11:06 | |
aren't cheap. They're costing the zoo a lot. It was fun. It was | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
awesome. I was hoping we could see them, but they were just in big | 0:11:09 | 0:11:13 | |
trucks. For now the pandas will remain out of sight until they have | 0:11:13 | 0:11:18 | |
settled in and recovered from their journey. And they will be monitored | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
around the clock for the next few days, but the big question everyone | 0:11:22 | 0:11:27 | |
has is when will they be able to see them in their new home? The zoo | 0:11:27 | 0:11:31 | |
is hopeful they'll be open to the public in terms of the panda | 0:11:31 | 0:11:41 | |
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enclosure within a couple of weeks. Lorna Gordon at Edinburgh Zoo. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:46 | |
A giant World War Two bomb which lay unexploded in the waters of the | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
River Rhine for more than 60 years has been safely defused. Nearly | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
half the population of the German city of Koblenz - more than 45,000 | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
people - had to be evacuated ahead of the operation, as our | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
correspondent Stephen Evans reports. At the centre of a mile-wide circle | 0:11:57 | 0:12:02 | |
emptied of its usual residents, the two-tonne unexploded bomb which had | 0:12:02 | 0:12:06 | |
lane there for more than six decades. The task, simply to go up | 0:12:06 | 0:12:12 | |
to it and make it safe. The bomb disposal expert said it was a | 0:12:12 | 0:12:17 | |
British detonator which was submerged in water. The explosives, | 0:12:17 | 0:12:22 | |
he said, react with water over time, so it's a high risk when the | 0:12:22 | 0:12:27 | |
detonator is removed. The bomb was known as a Blockbuster, designed to | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
destroy buildings. It was dropped by the RAF during the Second World | 0:12:31 | 0:12:37 | |
War, but many failed to detonate and now remain hidden, but deadly. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:43 | |
For this one, the city of kob own was left deserted. 45,000 people | 0:12:43 | 0:12:47 | |
were evacuated, including the elderly, those in hospital and in | 0:12:47 | 0:12:51 | |
prison. People here live with the knowledge that there could be more | 0:12:51 | 0:12:56 | |
unexploded bombs. TRANSLATION: You know that the | 0:12:56 | 0:12:59 | |
River Rhine is full of bombs - at least I assume it is. With the | 0:12:59 | 0:13:04 | |
falling water levels, who knows how many bombs are still in there? | 0:13:04 | 0:13:08 | |
TRANSLATION: I'm a bit of an anxious person, so I'm glad when | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
it's over. You have to try and get through the day. Last year, three | 0:13:12 | 0:13:18 | |
bomb disposal experts died. It is a job for the brave, not for | 0:13:18 | 0:13:23 | |
trembling hands or faint hearts. As Koblenz gets back to normal, the | 0:13:23 | 0:13:28 | |
question is when and where will the next one be found? | 0:13:28 | 0:13:37 | |
Now to the day's sport with Celina Hinchcliffe. Thank you. Hello. Good | 0:13:37 | 0:13:42 | |
evening. Sitting in the stands, he was | 0:13:42 | 0:13:49 | |
enjoying his team's 1-0 lead, then Seb Larsen's penalty didn't go as | 0:13:50 | 0:13:56 | |
planned and Wolves equalised. They won 2-1, Steve Fletcher with both | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
Wolves' goals. And in the day's other Premier | 0:13:59 | 0:14:02 | |
League match, Stoke beat Everton 1- 0 at Goodison Park. Robert Huth | 0:14:02 | 0:14:06 | |
scored his first goal of the season. What were the chances of Manchester | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
City drawing Manchester United in the third round of the FA Cup? Well, | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
it's happened. Both came out of the hat together this afternoon. It's | 0:14:12 | 0:14:21 | |
the stand-out tie of the round, one Here are a pick of the others. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
Everton host non-league Tamworth. Arsenal are at home to Leeds, | 0:14:24 | 0:14:26 | |
Tottenham face Cheltenham. The winner of the Chelmsford | 0:14:26 | 0:14:28 | |
Macclesfield replay will be rewarded with a visit from Premier | 0:14:28 | 0:14:32 | |
League Bolton. The games will be played on the weekend of the 7th | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
and 8th, January. Celtic have trimmed Rangers' lead | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
at the top of the Scottish Premier League to four points once again | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
after a 1-0 win at Dundee United. An excellent solo effort from Gary | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
Hooper in the 12th minute was enough for Celtic to secure the | 0:14:44 | 0:14:45 | |
points. The flamboyant former captain of | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
the Brazil football team, Socrates, has died in hospital at the age of | 0:14:48 | 0:14:54 | |
57. He led Brazil at the 1982 World Cup and won 60 caps for his country. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
His laid-back attitude to life and effortless style of play endeared | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
him to millions of fans, not just in Brazil but around the world. Tim | 0:15:01 | 0:15:11 | |
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Even among Brazil's pantheon of footballing Gods, Socrates stood | 0:15:18 | 0:15:22 | |
out. He delayed his international career to finish qualifying as a | 0:15:22 | 0:15:27 | |
doctor. He scored this goal against Italy in 1982 as captain of one of | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
the world's greatest teams never to win the World Cup. He described | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
himself as an anti-ate leet, as much as anything for his heavy | 0:15:33 | 0:15:39 | |
drinking and smoking. Tell that to Russia's defence as | 0:15:39 | 0:15:44 | |
they follow his shoulders rather than his feet. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:49 | |
He had beautiful technique. He covered an immense amount of ground | 0:15:49 | 0:15:55 | |
at samba rhythm, and he had a pulverising right-footed shot. | 0:15:55 | 0:16:00 | |
his beard to his penalties, this in the 1986 World Cup - the key word | 0:16:00 | 0:16:05 | |
was cool. Football, he insisted, was an art. But it was also a | 0:16:05 | 0:16:13 | |
powerful political tool. At his Brazil club Corinthians he led | 0:16:13 | 0:16:17 | |
everyone in the club to have an equal vote. At a time of | 0:16:17 | 0:16:21 | |
dictatorship in the country, it was a brave move. Once retired from the | 0:16:21 | 0:16:25 | |
game, he practised medicine and explored the arts, directing a play, | 0:16:25 | 0:16:32 | |
writing a novel. There was also a bizarre interlude, aged 50, as a | 0:16:33 | 0:16:39 | |
substitute for Garforth in West Yorkshire. In the end, his alcohol- | 0:16:39 | 0:16:43 | |
fuel-led lifestyle caught up with him. He was hospitalised several | 0:16:43 | 0:16:49 | |
times this year. Footballer, intellectual, lecturer and Democrat. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:54 |