:02:55. > :02:58.The Parliament was told it had to pass another austerity package
:02:58. > :03:02.containing 3.3 billion euros of cuts in public sector jobs,
:03:02. > :03:09.pensions and the minimum wage. Greece needs money the 4th 20 much
:03:09. > :03:14.to meet debt repayments of up 14 billion euros. Greece is already
:03:14. > :03:21.deep in recession with little hope of recovery. Frustration is quickly
:03:21. > :03:27.boiling over. Once again, the Greek Parliament it is under siege. This
:03:27. > :03:32.is what it takes to get unpopular laws passed in an age of austerity.
:03:32. > :03:36.Every time this happens, it feels like this country is being pushed a
:03:36. > :03:42.little closer to the edge. The social fabric is collapsing under
:03:42. > :03:47.the weight of economic pain, and the eurozone a strategy for its own
:03:47. > :03:55.economic survival is feeling the full force of public anger.
:03:55. > :03:59.We can speak to Chris Morris in Athens now. What are the next
:03:59. > :04:03.steps? The eurozone still wants written assurances from party
:04:03. > :04:11.leaders no one will change their mind on this deal after elections
:04:11. > :04:16.take place. Then in three days in Brussels, those ministers should
:04:16. > :04:20.sign this bail-out agreement. Then there is what happens here. As we
:04:20. > :04:25.have seen, passing laws is not necessarily the same as
:04:25. > :04:30.implementing them. There will be a big debate on how severely the
:04:30. > :04:34.viewer's own monitors what happens in Greece. Even though there has
:04:34. > :04:41.been this extraordinary attention on this very small country, that
:04:41. > :04:45.will continue. Things have improved, there's less panic across the
:04:45. > :04:50.eurozone, no one can be quite sure if Greece goes down it won't pull
:04:50. > :04:53.other countries down with it. Arab League has issued a statement
:04:53. > :04:55.in Cairo, agreeing, for the first time, to begin contact with Syria's
:04:55. > :04:59.opposition movement. The organisation has also suggested the
:04:59. > :05:02.setting up of a joint peace keeping mission with the UN Security
:05:02. > :05:12.Council to try to stop the ongoing bloodshed in Syria. Our Middle East
:05:12. > :05:17.
:05:17. > :05:21.editor Jeremy Bowen sent this For the in Homs, the shelling
:05:21. > :05:25.continues. The regime says what it is doing is
:05:25. > :05:29.a legitimate operation against terrorists who want to destroy the
:05:29. > :05:33.country. Many countries have condemned the killing, and the Arab
:05:33. > :05:43.League says it holds the Syrian government responsible for what
:05:43. > :05:48.could be crimes against civilians. In Cairo, the Saudi foreign
:05:48. > :05:53.minister asked how long they would have to look at these pictures. His
:05:53. > :05:58.fellow of Arab foreign ministers said they would ask the United
:05:58. > :06:07.Nations to organise a peace keeping force, and deepen its ties with the
:06:07. > :06:10.opposition. Representatives of the disunited Syrian opposition also
:06:10. > :06:16.here in Cairo claimed the regime out would lead still strong is
:06:16. > :06:23.collapsing within. First of all, the past three weeks, there were so
:06:23. > :06:29.many arrests. The people, they were released after 24 hours. It means a
:06:29. > :06:37.lot of the security apparatus is not with the regime 100%. In Syria,
:06:37. > :06:43.the regime is showing of captured weapons, it may be relieved by the
:06:43. > :06:47.public declaration of support by Al-Qaeda. This is the toughest
:06:47. > :06:51.language used so far by the Arab League about the regime in Damascus.
:06:51. > :06:55.There is a question about how much will turn into concrete action,
:06:55. > :07:01.which depends on the Security Council. Everything that has
:07:01. > :07:05.happened today is a sign of how isolated and increasingly
:07:05. > :07:08.beleaguered President Bashar al- Assad has become.
:07:08. > :07:18.America's leading music stars have been paying tribute to the singer
:07:18. > :07:29.
:07:29. > :07:33.Whitney Houston who died last night at a Los Angeles hotel. She was 48.
:07:33. > :07:42.It was a voice which inspired a generation of stars, that made a
:07:42. > :07:46.one of the world's best selling artists. But a career with 170
:07:47. > :07:50.million records, and countless awards choirs unravelled by her
:07:50. > :07:55.addiction to drugs and alcohol. Today, a small tribute was left in
:07:55. > :07:58.her memory outside their hotel in Beverly Hills where she died.
:07:58. > :08:03.Paramedics were there within minutes of the alarm being raised
:08:03. > :08:06.but could not revive her. It is not known what caused her death, some
:08:06. > :08:12.speculate she was found in the bath. As yet there have been no details
:08:12. > :08:22.from the coroner or her family. It was midnight when her body was
:08:22. > :08:27.taken from the hotel. A last image of her -- of another icon, Michael
:08:27. > :08:34.Jackson. She had been due to attend a party here last night, hosted by
:08:34. > :08:41.Clive Davis, the man who made her name. By now, sadly, you have
:08:42. > :08:45.learned of the tragic news of our beloved Whitney Houston's passing.
:08:45. > :08:51.Whitney Houston was last seen leaving a nightclub on the night
:08:51. > :08:56.she died. Recently it had become obvious how her drug addiction was
:08:56. > :09:06.affecting her, even destroying her voice. She admitted she was her own
:09:06. > :09:16.
:09:16. > :09:21.enemy. Alcohol? Is it cocaine? Is it pills? It has been, at times.
:09:21. > :09:31.the Grammys were getting under way, the programme was being changed, to
:09:31. > :09:42.
:09:42. > :09:45.pay tribute to an icon of a The Prime Minister has backed the
:09:45. > :09:48.Health Secretary Andrew Lansley over his controversial plans to
:09:48. > :09:51.reform the National Health Service in England. David Cameron said he
:09:51. > :09:55.was "at one" with Mr Lansley over the government's Health and Social
:09:55. > :09:59.Care Bill. However, a senior Liberal Democrat has said it would
:09:59. > :10:07.be better if Mr Lansley was moved on from his post. Our political
:10:07. > :10:11.correspondent Carole Walker has the details.
:10:11. > :10:14.The Prime Minister is making it plain there is no question of him
:10:14. > :10:16.walking away from his beleaguered Health Secretary, after the grass
:10:16. > :10:19.roots Conservative Home website claimed three Cabinet ministers had
:10:19. > :10:23.raised concerns about the controversial changes to the NHS.
:10:23. > :10:33.Far from washing his hands of it all, David Cameron told the Sunday
:10:33. > :10:34.
:10:34. > :10:37.Other ministers voiced their support too.
:10:37. > :10:42.I am not aware of any Cabinet minister that has expressed
:10:42. > :10:45.reservations. You just said the Cabinet is united, that is not what
:10:45. > :10:48.Conservative Home says. I am not aware of the workings of
:10:48. > :10:55.Conservative Home, but I am aware of discussions around the Cabinet
:10:55. > :10:59.table which have been very supportive of Andrew. Mr Lansley
:10:59. > :11:02.was heckled in Scotland last week. Some Conservatives say he has
:11:02. > :11:10.failed to explain his plans, and a senior Liberal Democrat said he
:11:10. > :11:14.should be moved from his post. political judgment is, in the
:11:14. > :11:20.second half of Parliament, it would be better to move on from the
:11:20. > :11:23.battles over the bill. Have a different Health Secretary? Plans
:11:23. > :11:26.to introduce more competition into the NHS and give GPs more control
:11:26. > :11:36.over health care are opposed by many health bodies. The opposition
:11:36. > :11:39.says the legislation should be dropped altogether.
:11:39. > :11:42.overwhelming consensus of opinion among doctors, nurses, NHS staff,
:11:42. > :11:45.also the sensible members of Mr Cameron's Cabinet, is it is better
:11:45. > :11:48.for the NHS now to abandon this reorganisation and work back
:11:48. > :11:53.through the existing structures of the NHS. The government faces
:11:53. > :11:56.further battles to get its bills through the House of Lords. But
:11:56. > :12:00.Downing Street say the Prime Minster is ready to take on his
:12:00. > :12:02.critics, and challenged them to say how they would secure the future of
:12:02. > :12:05.the NHS. Now, with all the sport's news,
:12:06. > :12:08.here's Celina Hinchcliffe. The Liverpool footballer Luis
:12:08. > :12:11.Suarez has apologised for not shaking hands yesterday with
:12:11. > :12:15.Patrice Evra, the Manchester United player he was banned for racially
:12:15. > :12:17.abusing. He said he realised that he had "got things wrong", but
:12:17. > :12:19.under pressure from the American owners, Liverpool's managing
:12:19. > :12:29.director said the club were "extremely disappointed" with his
:12:29. > :12:32.
:12:32. > :12:37.actions, as Andy Swiss reports. It was supposed to be the moment of
:12:37. > :12:41.reconciliation, it was anything but. Luis Suarez's snub of Patrice Evra
:12:41. > :12:51.prompted shock, anger and, 24 hours later, an apology. In a statement,
:12:51. > :12:55.
:12:55. > :13:00.Just as significant is a statement from Liverpool: The club have
:13:00. > :13:04.always defended Suarez. But today, they said they were extremely
:13:04. > :13:07.disappointed with him, that he had misled them by saying beforehand he
:13:07. > :13:10.would shake hands. He has not only let himself down, they say, but
:13:10. > :13:14.Kenny Dalglish, his team-mates and the club. His behaviour was not
:13:14. > :13:21.acceptable. Dalglish himself also apologised for his post match
:13:21. > :13:24.interview. You are bang out of order to blame Luis Suarez for
:13:25. > :13:27.anything that happened to you today. A new spirit of contrition at
:13:27. > :13:32.Anfield, and by Suarez in particular, was welcomed by the
:13:32. > :13:38.fans. It is fair that he now apologised to the club, Liverpool,
:13:38. > :13:42.and all the fans. I think it shouldn't have happened in the
:13:42. > :13:46.first place. He should have shaken hands, end of story. Liverpool's
:13:46. > :13:52.image has been dented. After four months of acrimony, the sport hopes
:13:52. > :13:55.lessons have been learned. This isn't just Liverpool. We have to
:13:55. > :14:01.make sure all senior people, players, at clubs, owners, really
:14:01. > :14:05.buy into what we are trying to do. Manchester United said they
:14:05. > :14:11.accepted the apology, and now wanted to move on. So will football,
:14:11. > :14:16.after one of the sports ugliest sagas.
:14:16. > :14:20.Manchester City are back at the top of the Premier League this evening.
:14:20. > :14:23.A goal from Joleon Lescott was enough to give them a 1-0 victory
:14:23. > :14:27.away at Aston Villa. They now lead their rivals Manchester United by
:14:27. > :14:31.two points. In the day's only other game, West Brom thrashed Wolves 5-1.
:14:31. > :14:33.In the past hour, Zambia have won the Africa Cup of Nations beating
:14:33. > :14:43.Ivory Coast on penalties. Zambia were considered outsiders before
:14:43. > :14:45.
:14:45. > :14:48.the tournament began. It comes 19 years after a plane crash killed 18
:14:48. > :14:52.players in the same city. Wales's Six Nations campaign remains on
:14:52. > :14:56.track, after they beat Scotland 27- 13 at the Millenium Stadium in
:14:56. > :15:01.Cardiff. It was just 3-3 at the break. But the Welsh took the game
:15:01. > :15:04.with three tries in 14 minutes early in the second half. Leigh
:15:04. > :15:07.Halfpenny scoring two of them, and getting 22 points in all. Alex
:15:07. > :15:16.Cuthbert scored the other try. Wales join England at the top of
:15:16. > :15:19.the Six Nations, both with two wins. The silent film The Artist has won
:15:19. > :15:23.seven awards at tonight's BAFTAS, including best film, best director
:15:23. > :15:28.and best actor. Meryl Streep was named best actress for her role as
:15:28. > :15:32.Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. And Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was
:15:32. > :15:42.named as outstanding British film. This report by our arts editor Will
:15:42. > :15:47.
:15:47. > :15:50.Gompertz contains some flash photography. End of as evening
:15:50. > :15:53.falls, the stars come out. Brightening up London's chilly
:15:53. > :15:59.Covent Garden. The British film industry is all dressed up for its
:15:59. > :16:06.big night out. Do for there is a timelessness to
:16:06. > :16:11.the glamour of the red carpet. A host of movies is taking eggs
:16:11. > :16:19.nostalgic look back at the past. Last year it was the kings speech.
:16:19. > :16:29.This year, a French film with no speech. The BAFTA for best film
:16:29. > :16:29.
:16:29. > :16:39.goes to The Artist. The BAFTA goes to The Artist. Thank you again. I
:16:39. > :16:39.
:16:39. > :16:48.am so proud. The BAFTA goes to Dujardin.
:16:48. > :16:53.As Buster Keaton would say... even won Best screenplay. I am very
:16:53. > :17:00.surprised. So many people thought there was no script because there
:17:00. > :17:08.was no dialogue! So, English people are very clever! Congratulations to
:17:08. > :17:13.you. When it came to the Battle of the blondes, Michelle Williams lost
:17:13. > :17:22.out to Meryl Streep. And then lost her shoe. Colin Firth was a Prince
:17:22. > :17:28.charming. Half of meat is Meryl Streep, the other half is will
:17:28. > :17:35.concern from Lincolnshire. I can't believe this, that you so much I am
:17:35. > :17:39.very grateful. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 1
:17:39. > :17:47.outstanding British film. John Hurt who starred in the movie was
:17:47. > :17:53.honoured for his outstanding contribution to cinema. Martin
:17:53. > :17:58.Scorsese took his fellowship. We now move on to the grand finale and