:00:09. > :00:15.New powers to access emails, texts and phone calls - under legislation
:00:15. > :00:21.being drawn up by ministers. But the plans to help track terror
:00:21. > :00:24.suspects are labelled a "snooper's charter" by critics.
:00:24. > :00:29.Wild celebrations in Burma after the Nobel peace prize winner Aung
:00:29. > :00:32.San Suu Kyi wins a seat in the country's parliament.
:00:32. > :00:36.More tax on your plane ticket - airlines complain about sky high
:00:36. > :00:46.passenger duty. And is King Kenny's crown slipping,
:00:46. > :00:59.
:00:59. > :01:03.as Dalglish's Liverpool lose yet Good evening. The monitoring of
:01:03. > :01:06.phone calls, texts and e-mails of everyone in the UK will be extended
:01:06. > :01:11.under legislation being drawn up by the Government. Ministers say they
:01:11. > :01:15.need the new powers to catch up with technological advances and
:01:15. > :01:18.tackle terrorism and crime. Some accuse the Government of extending
:01:18. > :01:19.its ability to snoop on ordinary people and say the move is entirely
:01:19. > :01:26.unnecessary. Our Political Correspondent Iain
:01:26. > :01:29.Watson reports. When the coalition Government came to power, they said
:01:29. > :01:34.they'd cut Big Brother down to size and introduce a Freedom Bill to
:01:34. > :01:37.reverse what they saw as Labour's attacks on civil liberties. But
:01:37. > :01:41.they're now planning legislation which even some of their own
:01:41. > :01:46.supporters say amounts to mass surveillance. They don't need this
:01:46. > :01:51.law to protect us. This is an unnecessary extension of the
:01:51. > :01:54.ability of the state to snoop on ordinary, innocent people, in vast
:01:54. > :01:58.numbers. Frankly, they shouldn't have that power. The Government
:01:58. > :02:03.plans to give the intelligence services access to e-mail exchanges
:02:04. > :02:06.and records of telephone calls and texts on demand. Currently
:02:06. > :02:10.communications companies must keep records of phone calls and e-mails
:02:10. > :02:14.for up to a year. The Government plans to extend this to cover
:02:14. > :02:17.social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Some experts say it
:02:17. > :02:21.would be costly and complicated. It's a difficult job to keep track
:02:22. > :02:25.of so many different forms of data, each time we communicate with a
:02:25. > :02:29.company we use different protocols, different means of sending that.
:02:29. > :02:39.That's constantly changing and must be kept up with. In a statement,
:02:39. > :02:49.
:02:49. > :02:54.be kept up with. In a statement, This is the headquarters of MI5,
:02:54. > :02:59.but the Government are at pains to say they're not trying to introduce
:02:59. > :03:07.a new snooper's charter for the nation's Spooks, though it would be
:03:07. > :03:09.possible to find out who is telephoning or e. Mailing whom, the
:03:09. > :03:13.content of those communications in most circumstances would remain
:03:13. > :03:17.private. Even this isn't enough to satisfy some of the Government's
:03:17. > :03:23.sceptics. The Lib Dems say they can support the plans in principle, but
:03:23. > :03:27.want further reashurpbss. We need to be certain that when unpacking
:03:27. > :03:31.information that all they're capturing is the person who is
:03:31. > :03:35.making the call or the electronic communication, that they're not
:03:35. > :03:38.capturing the content. We can do that. I think that can be
:03:38. > :03:42.guaranteed, but it may require some fundamental software changes to
:03:42. > :03:46.ensure that it happens. Despite doubts amongst some of their own
:03:46. > :03:49.supporters, the Government say they'll ge ahead with their plans
:03:49. > :03:53.at the earliest opportunity. And Iain is with me now. It's quite
:03:53. > :03:58.a surprising move from parties that railed against the surveillance
:03:58. > :04:03.state so much when they were in opposition. They say they're just
:04:03. > :04:06.updating old laws dating to the year 2000. I'm told their plans
:04:06. > :04:09.will be in the Queen's speech in May when the Government sets out
:04:09. > :04:13.the legislation for the year ahead. They're saying they're not doing
:04:13. > :04:16.what the last Labour Government proposed, to have a central
:04:17. > :04:20.communications database. Simply the authorities go to individual
:04:20. > :04:24.companies, IT companies and phone companies and access records for
:04:24. > :04:27.very serious investigations. I'm also told that the Government is
:04:27. > :04:30.considering compensating those companies for the cost of holding
:04:30. > :04:34.that accessing that level of information. So there are concerns
:04:34. > :04:40.amongst coalition backbenchers about the overall cost of this and
:04:40. > :04:41.also, as we heard from David Davis, there are much more fundamental
:04:41. > :04:48.objections. Even amongst Conservative MPs the Government
:04:48. > :04:51.will have a challenge to get this through unscathed. Thank you.
:04:51. > :04:55.Burma's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has won a
:04:56. > :05:00.Parliamentary seat in historic by- elections. The polls are seen as a
:05:00. > :05:03.crucial test of the Burmese military's government's commitment
:05:03. > :05:05.to political reform, which could convince Western governments to end
:05:06. > :05:11.sanctions against the country. From Rangoon, our Special Correspondent
:05:11. > :05:20.Fergal Keane sent this report. A typical morning of the late dry
:05:20. > :05:23.season, but one when freedom edged forward in Burma. This 85-year-old
:05:23. > :05:30.was born under British rule. She's seen world war, dictatorship and
:05:30. > :05:39.now democracy. One of thousands who've made their way to the polls
:05:39. > :05:43.across the country today. "I voted for Aung San Suu Kyi. She's for
:05:43. > :05:50.democracy. That's why I love her." The pro-democracy leader was south
:05:50. > :05:55.of Rangoon in her constituency. Queues had been forming since dawn.
:05:55. > :06:04.By the day's end Aung San Suu Kyi's seat would be won, despite her
:06:04. > :06:08.misgivings about electoral fraud elsewhere. At this Rangoon polling
:06:08. > :06:11.station, the civil servant in charge displayed an empty ballot
:06:11. > :06:17.box, nothing suspicious here, he said. For some voters it's hard to
:06:17. > :06:27.trust the state. You don't believe the government? I never believe.
:06:27. > :06:33.
:06:33. > :06:38.Why? They are not freedom. We are always suffering from their control.
:06:38. > :06:46.But all day they kept coming, seeking their names on the voters'
:06:47. > :06:51.lists. For many the crack downs and jailings that defined political
:06:51. > :06:58.life in this country seem part of history now. Even for ex-political
:06:58. > :07:02.prisoners. You spent ten years in prison to get to this day. That's
:07:02. > :07:09.right. How you happy with how things are going so far? Coming out
:07:09. > :07:12.of the prison is, I'm happy. Then this is a moment, practising
:07:13. > :07:16.democracy, because election, so I'm more happy. Last election, you know
:07:16. > :07:23.the political parties are many restriction. The people are
:07:24. > :07:30.intimidated. They are afraid of. But not now, this time. At the pro-
:07:30. > :07:38.democracy headquarters this evening, unofficial results were announced.
:07:38. > :07:41.Many constituencies showed their candidates winning. There was joy,
:07:41. > :07:46.though Parliament will, for now, still be controlled by the military.
:07:46. > :07:49.In all of this, it's vital to remember the gulf between the
:07:49. > :07:54.ambitions of the Democrats and the government which sees the by-
:07:54. > :07:57.elections as a way of ending international isolation. Aung San
:07:57. > :08:04.Suu Kyi wants this to be a stepping stone to a national poll that will
:08:05. > :08:09.bring her party to power. Higher taxes on air passengers have
:08:09. > :08:11.come into force today. Airlines, including British Airways and
:08:11. > :08:17.virgin, say it will damage bills and could stop tourists travelling
:08:17. > :08:19.to the UK. For long-haul flights of more tan 4,000 miles, it's up to
:08:19. > :08:26.�92 per person. Our Business Correspondent Joe Lynam has more
:08:26. > :08:30.details. Planning a big trip abroad this year? Well pack a few extra
:08:30. > :08:32.quid as well as the tooth brush, because the tax that the Government
:08:32. > :08:38.charges on every passenger leaving Britain is going up again from
:08:38. > :08:42.today. The airlines are so cross that they've set aside their normal
:08:42. > :08:48.bickering to unify against the Air Passenger Duty increase. It's got
:08:48. > :08:51.to a stage now where the sums are so great, such a great percentage
:08:51. > :08:58.of the ticket that it really is deterring people from coming in the
:08:58. > :09:02.UK. Tax is all very well when it's not actually costing the country
:09:02. > :09:05.money. I think it's getting to a stage where it's going to cost the
:09:05. > :09:10.country money. From today, if you're flying short haul to Europe
:09:10. > :09:16.you must now pay �13 per person per flight f. You're flying to the US
:09:16. > :09:21.or Australia, it will be �65 and �92 respectively. A family of four
:09:22. > :09:24.will be paying �260 for a holiday to Florida in duty alone.
:09:24. > :09:29.definitely makes a difference when you're looking for flights. You
:09:29. > :09:33.look for the cheaper option any way. To find the cheap option and have
:09:33. > :09:37.�90 on top of that is, yeah, it would discourage me from going.
:09:38. > :09:41.Government has to raise additional revenue because there's a strain on
:09:41. > :09:45.resources in relation to health and education and welfare, which I
:09:45. > :09:49.believe have to be priorities. the Government said that airlines
:09:49. > :09:54.don't pay any VAT on fuel or domestic flights and they benefit
:09:54. > :09:58.from the recent cut in corporation tax. The reality is that today's
:09:58. > :10:03.news means that most passengers pay only a pound more on their flights
:10:03. > :10:06.because of the rise. The fact is also that we have made aviation tax
:10:06. > :10:11.fairer by bringing private business jets in for the first time by this
:10:11. > :10:16.move. All in all, we were able to take action to freeze APD last year
:10:16. > :10:21.and we have been able to be clear about what would happen to it this
:10:21. > :10:29.year. By making flights to far flung destinations more expensive,
:10:29. > :10:32.some pay may decide to take their vacations at home. Local hotels and
:10:32. > :10:37.the Treasury will be very glad of it indeed.
:10:37. > :10:40.Up to 3,000 jobs could be saved at the struggling computer games
:10:41. > :10:43.retailer Game after a deal to buy more than half the company's stores
:10:43. > :10:50.was reached. It's expected around 300 branches in the UK and Ireland
:10:50. > :10:53.can be saved after the deal with the investment group Opcapita.
:10:53. > :10:56.Saudi Arabia, another kun -- and other countries in the gulf are
:10:56. > :11:00.setting up a fund to help opposition forces in seer ya. The
:11:00. > :11:04.money will pay salaries to members of the Free Syrian Army and to
:11:04. > :11:07.soldiers who defect from the regime. The announcement was made in
:11:07. > :11:12.Istanbul at a major conference on the future of the opposition
:11:12. > :11:19.movement. From there, Jonathan Head sent this report. Months of
:11:19. > :11:22.feverish diplomacy on Syria and what's changed? In a week when the
:11:22. > :11:29.Assad government once again promised to comply with a peace
:11:29. > :11:30.plan, opposition strong holds were pounded as fiercely as ever. The
:11:31. > :11:36.countries supporting political change there represent almost half
:11:36. > :11:41.of the United Nationss. They wanted this conference to demonstrate how
:11:41. > :11:44.isolated President Assad is and how little they trust him. Rather than
:11:44. > :11:50.allowing access for humanitarian aid, they have tightened their
:11:50. > :11:56.siege and rather than beginning a political transition, the regime
:11:56. > :12:02.has crushed dozens of peaceful protests. We can only conclude that
:12:03. > :12:07.Assad has decided to add to his long list of broken promises.
:12:07. > :12:10.Strong words, though, could not disguise the lack of new action. No
:12:10. > :12:14.internationally policed safe zones, no weapons supplies to the
:12:14. > :12:22.insurgents. But there was a promise to fund more non-lethal aid for the
:12:22. > :12:29.Free Syrian Army. That was our request. We stated to pay all the
:12:29. > :12:33.defected members of the Army. We asked several countries for
:12:33. > :12:38.supporting such a fund financially. The opposition hopes that more
:12:38. > :12:43.money will turn the rag tag rebldz and defectors into a more united
:12:43. > :12:48.and more effective fighting force. No breakthroughs at the conference,
:12:48. > :12:51.but then none was expected. The decision to fund the insurgents of
:12:51. > :12:55.the Free Syrian Army is significant, recognition of the central role the
:12:56. > :12:59.armed wing of the opposition is now playing in the campaign to oust
:12:59. > :13:07.President Assad and it's a warning to those countries still backing
:13:07. > :13:11.the Syrian President of how far this conflict could still escalate.
:13:11. > :13:15.A rescue operation is under way in the Pacific Ocean after three
:13:15. > :13:17.British sailors and an Australianatesman were injured
:13:17. > :13:21.while competing in the Round the World Yacht Race. It's believed a
:13:21. > :13:26.large wave washed over the yacht, seen here at the start of the race,
:13:26. > :13:30.some time yesterday, sweeping away equipment. A US Coast Guard boat
:13:31. > :13:34.and helicopter are expected to reach them in the next few hours.
:13:34. > :13:38.Rescuers in Russia have saved over 600 people who were stranded on an
:13:38. > :13:42.ice floe. The alarm was raised this morning after the ice broke off
:13:43. > :13:45.from the mainland in Russia's Far East. Boats and helicopters were
:13:45. > :13:49.scrambled to bring the group, including fishermen and their
:13:49. > :13:56.families, safely ashore. Now let's get the sports news from
:13:56. > :14:01.Olly Foster at the BBC Sports Centre. Hello. Tottenham Hotspur
:14:01. > :14:05.have their first win in six Premier League matches. They beat Swansea
:14:05. > :14:08.3-1. They're level on points in the table with third placed Arsenal.
:14:08. > :14:15.Earlier Newcastle kept themselves in contention for a place in Europe,
:14:15. > :14:20.after winning 2-0 against Liverpool, who finished with ten men.
:14:20. > :14:23.From Tyneside hero to pantomime villain, Andy Carol back at
:14:23. > :14:29.Newcastle for the first time since joining Liverpool, he was booed and
:14:29. > :14:33.promptly booked for diving. The replays didn't look great.
:14:33. > :14:37.Liverpool stumbled from bad to worse. Yes they might have had a
:14:37. > :14:41.penalty, when Danny Simpson seemed to use his arm, but Newcastle
:14:41. > :14:45.showed why they're challenging the top four. Papiss Cisse scoring once
:14:45. > :14:55.before the break and once after it. Liverpool lost for the sixth time
:14:55. > :14:56.
:14:57. > :15:04.in seven league games. O'Carroll was substituted to the fondest of
:15:04. > :15:06.farewells. And Reina got a red card for violent conduct. A grim day for
:15:06. > :15:10.Kenny Dalglish. It's not been an easy time for
:15:10. > :15:14.Harry Redknapp either. His Tottenham side have stuttered
:15:14. > :15:18.recently. Not that he'd have guess today though as Rafael Van der
:15:18. > :15:22.Vaart put them into the lead. Swansea have claimed a few scalps
:15:22. > :15:30.this season. After the break they showed why.
:15:30. > :15:40.A deserved equaliser. Spurs kept on pressing and their
:15:40. > :15:40.
:15:40. > :15:45.persistence paid off. Adebayor proved his prowess. In valuable
:15:45. > :15:49.victory for Spurs, back to winning ways in the nick of time.
:15:49. > :15:54.Just one more point will do it for Celtic, that's all they need to win
:15:54. > :15:57.the Scottish Premier League title. They beat St Johnstone 2-0 today.
:15:57. > :16:01.Georgos Samaras with the first. Because Rangers won yesterday, the
:16:01. > :16:06.title party is on hold for another week. Celtic will win the title if
:16:06. > :16:11.they get at least a draw at Kilmarnock next weekend. No matter
:16:11. > :16:17.what Rangers do. Elsewhere Hibs beat Inverness 3-2.
:16:17. > :16:20.Andy Murray's on court at the Miami Masters where he's facing Novak
:16:20. > :16:24.Djokovic in the final. He got a walk over in the semi-final because
:16:24. > :16:28.of an injury to Rafael Nadal. They're into the first set,
:16:28. > :16:31.Djokavic already a break up leading 3-1.
:16:31. > :16:35.Gavin henson has apologised for behaving inappropriately on board a
:16:35. > :16:38.flight at 7am yesterday. He was part of the side that lost at
:16:38. > :16:45.Glasgow warriors and he admitted going out drinking following the
:16:45. > :16:48.match and carrying on on the plane, taking the team back to Cardiff. He
:16:48. > :16:51.says he's truly embarrassed by the incident. He's been suspended by