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TRANSLATION: Europe is growing together. The path to overcoming | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
this remains long and will not be free from setbacks but at the end | :05:46. | :05:56. | |
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of it, Europe will emerge stronger And in Paris, the fireworks were | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
subdued but a New Year's Clio Champs over the Eiffel Tower. A | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
globe in the message from the President -- a New Year's low | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
weight over the Eiffel Tower. TRANSLATION: We have to be lucid. | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
2012 will be a year full of risks but also possibilities. Full of | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
hope if we now have to face the challenges, full of dangers if we | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
stand still for. There is a new year ritual in Germany. Everybody | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
watches a remake of an old British comedy about a duchess and her | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
partner. This year, there was a twist. A spoof with Chancellor | :06:38. | :06:48. | |
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Merkel and President Sarkozy. In real life, they are now linked | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
together to save the euro. They meet again in a few days' time to | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
try to agree on greater integration of eurozone Policies. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Even here in Germany, Europe's strongest economy, the forecasts | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
are for growth not much more than zero. To rub the rest of Europe, it | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
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may well be recession. -- Germans take to the icy water in | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
another new year ritual. Their government is not promising any | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
warmer economy, quite the contrary. And that is bad news for every | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
A soldier killed in an explosion in Afghanistan was named today as | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
Private John King from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
He was 19 and from Darlington and was killed in a blast in the Nahr-e | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Saraj district of Helmand province on Friday. | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
Council tenants who sub-let their homes for many of could face | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
prosecution and could be jailed under new government plans for | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
England and Wales. High earners may also be forced to pay the market | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
rate falling in their council property in proposals outlined | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
They are pocketing money at the attack -- taxpayers' expense, that | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
is what ministers think of council tenants to sub-let. Around 160,000 | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
tenants move out and take up to �1,000 of rent, the Government says | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
it is a form of fraud to profit from accommodation no longer needed | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
and they are promising to change the law to make it a criminal | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
offence. It is not fair and not right. Hard-working taxpayers pay | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
billions of pounds to build social housing, it should go to the people | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
who really needed, not people who do that kind of fraud and abuse. | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
Many local authorities already tell tenants not to sub-let but often a | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
worse than today faces losing the property. In future, they could go | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
to jail. The around 8 million people in England and Wales live in | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
a home owned either by the council or a housing association but there | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
are lengthy waiting lists, almost two million families hoping to be | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
housed. Ministers believe that making sub- | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
letting illegal is one way to try to provide council homes for those | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
who really need them. The Government is also considering | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
allowing councils to raise rents for high-earning tenants. Those | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
with an income over �100,000 may have to pay more although only | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
6,000 people are likely to be affected. | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
But Labour is saying these measures would do nothing to tackle a far | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
deeper problem. The reality is the housing crisis will only be sold by | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
building a new, affordable houses. Grant Shapps as Housing Minister | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
should stop renouncing things that will not make an immediate big | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
difference and get on with building new houses. The Government will | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
consult on its proposals soon but the housing charity, Shelter, has | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
called for bigger and bolder solutions, not more tweaks to | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
The Archbishop of Canterbury has said in his New Year message that | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
society is letting down young people. Dr Rowan Williams says the | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
suspicion and negativity shown towards young people is driving | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
them into unhappiness and anxiety. He said last August's riots in | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
England were part of a much bigger and more serious problem. | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
Iran has test fired a new medium range missile during naval | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
exercises close to the Strait of Hormuz, one of the busiest shipping | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
routes for transporting oil. The announcement of the firing was | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
followed by Tehran saying it successfully tested a nuclear fuel | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
rod made from uranium fpb riched from Iran for the first time. -- | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
enriched. Iran's naval forces show off their fire power. Manoeuvres at | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
sea that look like a repostto western diplomatic manoeuvres to | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
tighten sanctions on Iran over its suspected nuclear ambitions. | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
This naval commander says Iran is able to defend all its coastline | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
and hit any target at any time it chooses. In the midst of ten days | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
of exercises, it warned last week that it would shut the Strait of | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
Hormuz if its own oil exports were squeezed. It may have backed off | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
the comments later, but it's a reminder of the fear force the oil | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
market, fragile western economies and stability in the Gulf. Iran | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
straddles Hormuz, the mouth of the Gulf. The waterways strategic | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
significant stems from the fact it carries more than a third of all | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
oil shipped by sea, one reason the US Navy has its headquarters in | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Bahrain. Britain stations a small force of naval mine hunters there | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
too. The decision to test a missile is simply to engage in some sort of | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
brinkmanship to show that in the event of any attack they would have | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
retaliatory capability, but it's also a way of making audiences in | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
the West feel that they should stay back. Iranian TV also today | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
proclaimed a new mile stone, the production of its first nuclear | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
fuel rod. The images were meant to reinforce its position that the | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
nuclear plans with purely peaceful and it's hinted it may be ready to | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
resume negotiations on its nuclear programme. President Obama has just | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
signed a Bill that could tighten US sanctions on Iran, even as the West | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
ponders this mixture of new messages from Tehran. | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
The Duke of Edinburgh has joined the rest of the Royal Family for | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
New Year's Day service at Sandringham. He was greeted by | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
hundreds of well wishers as he walked to church a few days after | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
being released from hospital following surgery for a blocked | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
artery. Mark Worthington reports. After more than a week's rest, the | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Duke of Edinburgh's New Year message was that he's now firmly | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
back on his feet. Striding, as usual, at the Head of The Royal | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
party, he made the short walk to the morning Sandringham church | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
service to the sound of spontaneous applause. The hundreds of well | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
wishers who lined the route, far more than normal, and all visibly | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
pleased that just a few days after leaving Papworth Hospital, Prince | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Philip appeared to be in good health. As he came up, people were | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
clapping and genuinely pleased an excited saying "he's here", so | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
everyone was pleased. I would like to think I will look as good when | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
I'm 91. He looked good, yes. A very well looking Prince Philip, yes, | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
nice to see him out walking. After the service, the Duke of | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
Edinburgh emerged from the church to be greeted once more by applause. | :13:43. | :13:51. | |
It was a show of support he clearly appreciated. The Queen may have | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
made the journey to and from church by car, but by arriving and leaving | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
under his own steam, Prince Philip was sending a clear message that | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
his Christmas health scare is behind him. | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
And the whole Royal Family can now look ahead to the Queen's Diamond | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
Jubilee year. On to football: Manchester City | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
still lead the Premier League, but only on goal difference after | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
suffering a shock defeat against Sunderland. Joe Wilson watched the | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
action. For Mancini's Manchester City, | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Manchester United's defeat to Blackburn was a reminder of the | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
dangers that lurk throughout the league. Here, rejuvenated | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
Sunderland should have opened the scoring after two minutes, Bendtner | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
the skwanderer. City rested their star forwards, well, some of them - | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
- skwander. Stalemate Mancini added sparkle | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
from the substitutes, no change. City dominated possession but time | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
and time again, Sunderland kept them out with organisation, bravery | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
and a bit of good luck. A goalless draw seemed well earned until the | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
third minute of injury time and a young South Korean did this. | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
Possibly off side - no-one cared in Sunderland. Teams managed by Martin | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
O'Neill never give up, as Man City have just discovered. | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
Everton climbed into the top half of the Premier League table after a | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
1-0 win at West Brom. With just three minutes of the game left, | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
substitute Victor an an, playing his first game since August through | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
injury scored from close range -- Victor Anichebe. In rugby's Aviva | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
Premiership, struggling Bath beat London Irish by 33-3. The pick of | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
the tries was in the 58th minute. Michael Claasens finished off the | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
move by going over in the corner. Today marks the start of a big year | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
for Britain, it began with a spck tack lar fireworks display in | :16:13. | :16:23. | |
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London. The host city for the 2012 Games -- spectacular. It was 12,000 | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
fireworks and lasted 15 minutes. Luisa Baldini takes a look. | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
Big Ben chimed in the New Year in London, leading a magnificent | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
fireworks display for which thousands gathered along the banks | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
of the River Thames. The fireworks at Edinburgh Castle | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
saw the longest ever midnight display put on for the Hogmanay | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
celebrations. Across the pond in New York, Lady | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
Gaga was at the centre of proceedings in Times Square with | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
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the mayor Michael Bloomberg. The celebration in Moscow was more | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
muted, but Red Square lit up by fireworks was a breathtaking | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
spectacle as ever. It was cold there, but in Brazil, it was wet, | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
though the heavy rains didn't put off two million people from seeing | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
in the New Year on Copacabana beach in Rio. | :17:28. | :17:33. |