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The clearest signal yet that a new high-speed rail link between London | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
and Birmingham will be approved. The government-commissioned report | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
says alternatives to the scheme would not deal with long-term | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
overcrowding. Ed Miliband hits back at critics of | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
his leadership of the Labour Party, insisting he is a man of Steel. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
And police are investigating an Oldham footballer's claims that he | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
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was verbally abused during last Good afternoon. A high-speed rail | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
link between London and Birmingham look set to be given the go-ahead | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
after a report concluded that alternatives to the multi-billion- | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
pound project would fail to deal with long-term overcrowding on | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
trains. The Government commission studying to what is known as HS2 is | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
seen as the clearest indication so far that ministers will approve the | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
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The proposal to build a brand new railway line across some of | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
Britain's most beautiful scenery has always been controversial. The | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
�17 billion scheme would Link Birmingham to London with a fleet | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
of 200 mph trains. But opposition groups claim it is a waste of money | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
and we should improve the existing network instead. They propose | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
longer platforms, more carriages, extra trains at peak times. But the | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
report from Network Rail says it is a short-term fix that will not cope | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
with overcrowding in the future. They say it will create long delays | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
for years and will not allow for more freight. Part of the booed | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
cuts through the Chiltern Hills. To several Conservative MPs and some | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
of the strongest opposition. It looks peaceful, but this has been | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
one of the main battlegrounds in the debate over high-speed rail. | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
Dozens of local protesters have joined forces. TV celebrities, | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
politicians and community groups, all of them angry and determined to | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
fight on. At a time of national austerity, where we are seeing cuts | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
across the board, we should be investing in infrastructure in this | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
country. But not in a railway that will save 20 minutes to Birmingham. | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
We should be investing in road and rail infrastructure across the | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
entire country. The Government is expected to make a final decision | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
as early as Tuesday. It now seems almost certain to give HS2 the | :02:44. | :02:53. | |
The Labour leader Ed Miliband has hit back at critics of his | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
leadership, describing himself as someone of real steel and grit. In | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
a newspaper interview committee said he had a clear plant and | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
relished the fight of been in opposition. | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
If Ed Miliband, in his own words. He is, he says, a man of real steel | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
and grit. A man who tells the Guardian today that he has taken a | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
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His words come after a week in which that fight wasn't made any | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
easier, first by this sometime adviser, Lord Glassman, who said | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
that he seemed to have no strategy and little energy. Then by the | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
shadow minister Diane Abbott, who apologised after saying on Twitter | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
that white people love playing divide and rule. Finally, by it a | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
typo in his own could recount, accidentally saying that Bob | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
Holness was the host of Blackbusters. If you look at our | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
performance, you're looking at a party that has put on over 60,000 | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
members, has won five by-elections and has also gained 800 more | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
counsellors. Today, Labour is trying to move the debate on to | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
policy, to curb excess earnings. They want companies to put staff | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
representatives of pay committees, publish ratios showing how average | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
salaries compare to executive earnings and to make top pay | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
packages simpler. All of that, with the Government about to announce | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
its own Pele plot -- pay plans and its MPs arguing that they have | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
dealt best with the issue. David Cameron has been talking about the | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
subject for a long time, whilst Ed Miliband was in the Cabinet that | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
signed off Fred Goodwin's pension. It is an important area. I hope it | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
is one that the Government makes progress on. I think we need to | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
make sure that the system works for everybody, not just those that do | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
not put in. As MPs return to Parliament for the first session of | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
Prime Minister's Questions of the year, they know that ultimately it | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
is the policies that will matter. Labour's more difficult moments of | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
the last few days will still not go unnoticed. | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
Thousands of workers at the consumer goods giant Unilever will | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
strike this month because of what they describe as an unjustified | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
attack on their pensions by the company. The three trade unions | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
which represents staff in Britain say the production at the firm will | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
be disrupted for between 10 and 12 days in January. | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
The Foreign Office has said terrorists could be in the final | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
stages of planning an attack in Kenya. It has urged British | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
nationals travelling there to be vigilant and cautious. Kenyan | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
authorities have warned that Nairobi could be targeted. Frank | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
Gardner is that the Foreign Office with the latest. What more do we | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
know? Well, in the last few minutes people inside the Foreign Office | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
here have said to me that their assessment of the terrorist threat | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
level for Kenya has been raised to critical and the last 24 hours, | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
meaning that they think an attack could be imminent. It is based on | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
information given to them largely by the Kenyan authorities. They | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
have been investigating for the past month what they sought was a | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
disrupted plot. They made a number of arrests. A British national was | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
arrested. They are also seeking a number of other suspects, including | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
a British national. They think the usual high-profile targets are | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
being sought by a militant group. Cafes, bars, beach clubs, | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
restaurants, places like that. This is because they think people have | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
come across the border from Somalia, linked to Al-Shabab, looking to | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
carry out attacks against both Kenyan targets and Western targets, | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
An investigation is under way after a hot-air balloon crashed in New | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Zealand, killing all 11 people on board. Eyewitnesses said flames 30 | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
metres high shot out of the balloon. The accident, in the town of | :06:56. | :07:06. | |
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Carterton, happened in bright, clear conditions with little wind. | :07:07. | :07:07. | |
CCTV footage following allegations that an Oldham player was verbally | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
abused during last night's FA Cup match. Defender Tom Adeyemi | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
appeared to be visibly upset after the incident at Anfield. Liverpool | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
say they are working with the police to establish exactly what | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
happened. In the dying minutes of last | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
night's match at Anfield, the game was interrupted. Tom Adeyemi, who | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
it was getting involved. He is now having to be calmed down by Dirk | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
Kuyt. Oldham defender Tom Adeyemi had to be comforted by team-mates | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
and Liverpool players, including Steven Gerrard, after Tia Rigg | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
abuse directed at him. The player was so upset that play was briefly | :07:46. | :07:55. | |
suspended. It was not nice. We are very close, as a team, and when you | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
see one of your boys like that you will feel it. Police are | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
investigating whether the abuse was racist. The suggestion of racism at | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Anfield compounds an already difficult time here at the club. It | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
comes in the wake of the Luis Suarez affair, the Liverpool | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
striker now serving an eight-match ban for directing racist abuse at | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Manchester United's Patrice Evra. The club's handling of that | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
situation has been heavily criticised. The squad has | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
previously shown its support for Suarez. Now Liverpool has said it | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
is doing all it can to investigate what happened. It is the last thing | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
they needed after the controversy. I just hope that anyone who was sat | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
close to this moron has gone to the police and says, that is the fellow | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
do after, and then a candidate in the bud. There is no place for it. | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
At Anfield, fans said they were concerned for the club's reputation. | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
I'm disgusted. I supported Suarez, you cannot prove that he is | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
innocent or guilty. But if it is a racist outburst, the club need to | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
take a stand and prove we are not a racist organisation. I am ashamed | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
today to be a Liverpool fan. In 30 years of supporting them, they have | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
never been a racist club. Sometimes you get a group of supporters, it | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
is like any club, they come to make trouble. Just the odd few, really. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
Neither Tom Adeyemi or Oldham Athletic have made any formal | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
complaint to the police. But officers are reviewing footage of | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
the game and CCTV to establish exactly what was said to the | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
defender and who said it. Today's action from the FA Cup, and | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
the shock result was at Swindon. They knocked out Wigan of the | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
Premier League, 2-1. Earlier today, Birmingham City keeper Colin Doyle | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
ensured that his side will play Wolves again, after blocking two | :09:50. | :09:55. |