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Talking to the Taliban - Afghanistan tries to kickstart | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
peace talks. After a decade of conflict, President Karzai's | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
government says it's ready to meet the insurgents. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
In Syria, reports of more than 60 dead in fresh clashes after the | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
withdrawal of Arab League monitors. Stephen Hester's Royal Bank of | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Scotland bonus - a minister says the Government couldn't be happier | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
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if he gave it up. And Novak's nocturnal victory - | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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Djokovic's Australian Open win sets Good Evening. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
The Afghan Government is planning talks with the Taliban in an effort | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
to move towards a formal peace agreement. The BBC understands the | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
meeting will take place in Saudi Arabia or Turkey. The news came | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
amid claims by former Taliban officials that insurgent | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
negotiators had met with American representatives in Qatar. Our | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
correspondent Quentin Somerville has the latest from Kabul for us | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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now. For years, the Taliban have ridiculed President Karzai's | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
Government saying it was a puppet regime. It was illegitimate. These | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
two sides have been fighting and killing each other. President | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
Karzai said he wouldn't meet the Taliban until they accepted the | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Afghan constitution. It now seems these two warring sides will sit | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
down and talk to each other. For ten years, the war against the | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
Taliban has ground on relentlessly. The fight becoming bloodier and | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
deadlyier as each side failed to find victory on the battlefield. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
But now, even as the kill goes on, there are the first hints that the | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
two sides may be ready to talk. The Taliban are far from ready to | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
put down their guns. But, for the first time, they are plaining to | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
speak to President Karzai's Government. They'll meet in either | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Saudia Arabia or Turkey. Previously the men who led these fighters said | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
they'd only speak to the Americans from the new office in the Gulf | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
state of Qatar. An MP says it is time talks happen Afghan to Afghan. | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
We have to start the negotiations and the national community and | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
Afghan Government have to start. Ham add Karzai met David Cameron | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
this weekend. They signed a long- term partnership. Peace may be a | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
long way off but the clock is ticking. There is pressure that | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
nobody wants to be left out. That counts for the Taliban side, the | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
Afghan Government side and the international side. There is a real | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
opportunity to move towards negotiations and a settlement. | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
is a war that will likely never be ended on the battlefield. These | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
British combat troops and the Americans leave here in three years | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
but the worry for Afghans is, are the Taliban serious about talks or | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
simply just buying time? The Taliban have set out their | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
conditions, people airl they want the Americans to return some | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Taliban leaders who are being held in Guantanamo Bay. They have not | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
indicated if they are will to give ground. Could they accept women's | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
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rights? Any peace deal is many There have been fierce clashes in | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
the South skirts of the Syrian capital Damascus. More than 60 | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
people have been killed today. Free Syrian arplty says its it's been | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
strengthened by fresh waves of defection from Government forces. | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
What's left of a military bus bombed by armed rebels close to | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
Damascus. It s attacks like this which have provoked the current he | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
is caplation according to the Government. Six soldiers died here. | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
Others were woundeded but survived to tell the tale. Suddenly the bus | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
seemed to take off and burst into flames he said. All the windows | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
shattered. They were thrown out on to the ground. They opened fire on | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
them as well. This is the Government's answer. A say can and | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
bombarding places like Homs which has been a hot-bed of defiance from | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
early on. Dozens of tanks and hundreds of troops are being thrown | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
into battle in residential areas. The raiplg Eyam is no longer just - | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
- regime is no longer just facing crowds of unarmed protesters. These | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
are the men the Government calls terrorists and the opposition calls | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
heroes who are defending civilians. The free Syrian army made up of | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
deserters seems to be growing by the day. With the Arab League of | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
standing down there are now outside witnesses. The focus is more | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
strongly on intensifying discussions at the UN Security | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
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Council, the only hope left of a way out of the carnage. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
Rough seas and strong winds that have hampered rescue and recovery | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
operations on the capsized Costa Concordia have caused the liner to | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
slip slightly. The news came as Italian divers continued their | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
search of the wreck before efforts to remove the ship's fuel begin. 16 | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
people remain unaccounted for after the discovery of another body | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
yesterday. Greece has rejected German | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
proposals for a senior EU official to take control of the Greek budget, | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
saying it would be impossible for it to hand over control of tax and | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
spending powers. The rejection comes ahead of an EU summit in | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Brussels tomorrow to discuss the Eurozone crisis. From Brussels | :06:18. | :06:27. | |
Chris Morris reports. Preparing for what could be the first of many EU | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
sum its in Brussels this year, the crisis rumbles on. This one's about | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
the new fiscal treaty with tough budget rules which Britain isn't | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
signing and about economic growth and job creation. But it wouldn't | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
be a proper summit these daus without talk of Greece. It's still | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
missing the fiscal targets set by international lenders which is why | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
Germany wants an EU commissioner to take control of Greek policy and | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
tax spending. I don't know if they want to make Greece an example for | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
the other countries of what is going to happen. But to have like | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
someone control everything, it is really a shame. It is like another | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
occupation. There is some good news for Athens. A deal may have been | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
done with the banks to write off a decent chunk of Greek debt. But the | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Greek Government says Germany's plan is an affront to national | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
sonchity. There's no need for such a measure. We've gone a long way | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
reducing the deficit. If you take into account we are in the fourth | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
year of recession. The fall of the deficit has been quite big. So I | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
think we are moving along on the right track. | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
If only Greece were the EU's only problem. Unemployment in Spain has | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
risen well above five million. More jobs will go after a Spanish | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
airline suddenly shut its operations down. The debt crisis | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
claiming more victims. So another summit taking place with the | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
eurozone still dogged by uncertainty and a lack of economic | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
confidence. Finding the right balance between imposing austerity | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
and encouraging growth is now one of the top priorities for EU | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
leaders. And many think they haven't yet got it right. | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said no-one would | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
be happier than the Government if the Royal Bank of Scotland Chief | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
Executive Stephen Hester foregoes his bonus. There's been pressure on | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Mr Hester to give up his bonus worth nearly a million pounds with | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
Labour saying it will force a Commons vote on the issue. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
The Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester may be out of sight | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
but very much in mind. His own chairman refused a bonus. Some | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
think Mr Hester may soon be in line for a much bigger pay day than | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
originally thought. Ministers such as Iain Duncan Smith are caught | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
between backing the Royal Bank of Scotland boss who they feel is | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
doing a good job and calling for pay restraint at the top. It is for | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
him individually to make a decision about that. I don't have a | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
collective opinion on that as a member of the Government of the but | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
the Government would be happen y if he took such decisions. But it is | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
up to him. Stephen Hester gets a stallry of �1.2 million. He is | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
entitled to share up to �4.2 million a year. He's on a long-term | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
incentive plan which could have reached lfpls �5 million. He's | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
unlikely to reach that now. The share price is below the 40p men | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
mum required. A survey from High Pay Centre says only 7% of people | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
think FTSE 100 bosses should e, ar more than �1 million a year. Two | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
thirds felt lower ranking employees should sit on committees to decide | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
bosses pay. That's normal practice in grpl any where executive pay is | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
less toxic and whose companies are global success stories. We need | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
workers on pay boards. They know what's going on inside a company. | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
They know what's reasonable. They won't object to people who are | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
really worth it getting paid what they need to be paid to retain them | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
and recruit them. I think it will really take a lot of the heat out | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
of this issue. The issue of executive pay here in the UK is set | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
to intensify in the coming weeks. Banks are set to publish their | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
bonus figures for their top people and the Government's set to | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
implement new rules on executive pay. Added to that, the economy is | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
stagnating and pay for many is flat line ing. The public and political | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
move against the status quo is growing. | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
United Nations inspectors have arrived in Iran to have the the | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
possible military actions of Iran's nuclear programme. The team hopes | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
to tour nuclear facilities over the next three days, look at documents | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
and assess the nature of Iran's activities. Western countries | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
recently imposed the tightest sanctions yet against Iran. At | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
Tehran's airport a handful of protesters took the place of a red | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
carpet. As IAE. Inspectors began a three-day tour of Iran. We hope | :11:20. | :11:29. | |
Iran will engage with us on our concerns regarding the possible | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
military announcements. We are looking forward to a start with a | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
dialogue. A dialogue that is overdue. Here's where they'll | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
expect to go. The inspectors will tour Iran's declared nuclear | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
facilities. They'll analyse documents. They'll ask scientists | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
why Iran is enriching so much uranium, more than it may need for | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
civilian purposes. Iran's Government says this inspection | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
will prove that its nuclear programme is peaceful. But previous | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
inspections never managed to resolve that question. This short | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
visit in itself is unlikely to provide a definitive answer. It is | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
only a three-day visit. It is probably unlikely too much can be | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
achieved within this time. But if they were to start negotiations on | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
the particularly military aspects to the programme that would be | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
highly significant. But Iran often prefers displays of power to | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
negotiations. It recently carried out naval exercises in the Gulf. | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
And it has even threatened to close the straight of home us. A vital | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
shipping channel in the region. In turn, the West sent its own warning | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
back to Iran. Keep the strait open and engage with the visiting | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
inspectors. Sport now. | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
Arsenal came back from two goals down to beat Aston Villa 3-2. It | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
was quite a turn around in a game which saw the home side booed off | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
at half tile. Earlier today, Sunderland drew 1-1 with | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
Middlesbrough at Stadium of Light in their fourth round tie. | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
The first half hour at the eplt rates may be have forgettable. The | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
rest wasn't. Villa scored two goals. Dunn thunderous. Bent, acute. 2-0 | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
to the visitors. In the second half, they repaid their hosts with | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
gracious penalty box activity. Richard Dunne harvested Ramsay. | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
Walcott should have been going nowhere but Villa insisted he score, | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
which he Z Darren Bent proved why he's a striker not a defender. Van | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
Persie scoring his 347th goal of the season or 25th anyway! Arsenal | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
face the winners of the replay of Sunderland and Middlesbrough. The | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
lower league visitors provided the class in the first half. Bryan | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
Robson's volley sublime. Robson's touch was anything but in the | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
second half. His back pass carving open his own defence. The ball | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
arriving in the path of a Sunderland man making his come back | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
after 17 months out with injuries, Fraizer Campbell. His delight | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
understand able. The draw for the fifth round has | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
been made. The stand-out ties include: League Two Crawley Town | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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Celtic will face Kilmarnock in the final of the Scottish League Cup | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
next month after they beat Falkirk 3-1 at Hampden. The First Division | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
side had been hoping to knock both old firm sides out of the | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
competition having already beaten Rangers. But Anthony Stokes scored | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
twice to secure the victory after Falkirk's Jay Fulton had earlier | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
cancelled out a Scott Brown penalty. final in history between two of the | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
sports greats. But after nearly six hours and at 1.37 in the morning | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
the result had a familiar ring. Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal in | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
a five-set thriller to win The Australian Open. It's his third | :15:22. | :15:32. | |
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consecutive grand slam title, all Look closely at Novak Djokovic's | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
trainers. He keeps a tally of the Grand Slam trophies he's won. In | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
the first set against Rafael Nadal it didn't like like he'd be holding | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
on to his title. It looked like he'd put his shoes on the wrong | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
feet. He gave up on his racket before the first set was out. The | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
change didn't stop his losing the first set. Things looked brighter | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
for the Serb when he won the second set 6 will have 4. | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
The third came even more easily. 6- 2. Djokovic of the on a role. But | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
Nadal can never be accused of 2308ing. No such thing as a lost | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
cause. He saved three break points. It took a tie-break to separate | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
them in the fourth. One of the great. The importance of such | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
moments in the match can be gauged by the number of Nadal fist pumps. | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
Into a fifth set and hour. Fatigue a possible factor as they passed | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
the mark for the longest match in Australian history. Djokovic found | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
himself serving for the match. COMMENTATOR: It's over. You have to | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
say the man deserves it. T-shirt was off again. The champion's every | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
sinew stretched to breaking to defend his trophy. A third | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
Australian Open title for Djokovic. What a way to start the year. | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
England's Robert Rock held off the challenge of former World Number | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
One Tiger Woods, and US Open Champion Rory McIlroy to take | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
golf's Abu Dhabi Championship. Rock went into the final day sharing the | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
lead with Woods, but birdied three of his first six holes to set up a | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
one-shot victory on 13 under. McIlroy finished second, while | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
Woods fell away to share third with Graeme McDowell and Thomas Bjorn. | :17:22. | :17:32. | |
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