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Good afternoon. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
said he would be very happy for the Government to consider publishing | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
the personal tax returns of senior ministers in the interest of | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
greater transparency. However, the proposal has been | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
criticised by backbench MPs in his own constituency who say it would | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
be a distraction from serious debate and policies. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
George Osborne once famously said, we are all in this together, but in | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
these tough economic times, do the public believe politicians are in | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
the same boat as them? The Chancellor has gone out of his way | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
to stress he wouldn't benefit personally from his cut in the top | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
rate of income tax. But now, he's suggesting that in future, some | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
senior Cabinet Ministers might be forced to disclose their tax | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
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affairs. In an interview with In London's Mayoral election, the | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
tax affairs of the main candidates have in recent days been subject of | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
heated exchanges between Conservative Boris Johnson and | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
Labour's Ken Livingstone. Whatever is necessary to publish, I'll | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
publish it, yes. You will publish yours? Was that a yes or no, I'm | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
happy to publish details of everything I've earned in the last | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
four years, are you going to do the same? Of course I will. Good. | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
the sort of thing they are used to in the US. Presidential hopeful | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
Mitt Romney faced criticism over his tax affairs, but here, some are | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
worried. I don't think it would enrich the British elect raling | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
experience if every run-of-the-mill councillor and MP had to reveal | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
years and years of back tax records and the whole election, instead of | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
being about what you are going to do for the people and institution, | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
is about whether he avoided too much tax because his pension | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
contribution was too big. The tax system is full of loopholes. At a | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
time when there are cries about tax avoidance, there will be a pressure | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
for the MPs to publish their own affairs. Since the expenses scandal, | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Parliament's been seeking to restore trust in politics. The | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
Chancellor isn't saying they'll definitely disclose the tax details, | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
but by floating the possibility, it opens a debate which could change | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
the style of British politics. You can see a full list of | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
candidates in London's Mayoral elections on the BBC News website. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
One of the main teaching unions as voted to escalate industrial action | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
in their dispute with the Government over pay, pensions and | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
working conditions. The vote by members of the NASUWT | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
at their conference in Birmingham raises the prospect of strikes | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
closing schools in the autumn. From Birmingham, our education | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
correspondent, Reeta Chakrabarti reports. | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Teachers in Birmingham today agreed to escalate industrial action after | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
a motion which accused the Government of a vicious assault on | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
teachers. Conference now endorses the work of National Executive in | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
setting out the next phase of the union's industrial action campaign | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
which will include the escalation of action short of strike action | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
and strike action. I move. The vote was carried and could now | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
mean more strikes are on the way. Their grievances are two fold: | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
They're angry about their pensions into which they pay more and may | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
have to work longer for and they are opposed to the spread of | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
academies publicly funded independent schools which they say | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
will break up state education. Downhills School in London has | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
become a flash point. This is a poorly pe forming school which the | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Government is forcing to become an academy. It's one of the reasons | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
fuelling the strike vote. This vote brings strikes in schools this | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
autumn one step closer. But Government sources have been | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
bulkish, depending their reforms to school and telling teachers that | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
they have pensions those in the private keck for can only dream of. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
An avalanche has struck a Pakistani military base in the Himalayas, | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
burying more than 100 soldiers. The man are trapped in a batallion | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
headquarters in the Siachen glacier in Kashmir. Orla Gearin is in | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
Pakistan with the latest. What are you hearing? | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
It's hard to imagine a worse place in which to try and mount a rescue | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
operation. This is some of the most remote, most inhospitable terrain | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
on earth. This rescue operation has is a race not only against time but | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
subzero temperatures. The Army says there is a frantic search for life | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
going on now, high in the Himalayas, involving helicopters, hundreds of | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
troops, medical teams and rescue dogs. A spokesman stressed that | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
this was an avalanche on a massive scale. It struck this morning just | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
before six local time, engulfed the entire base, burying 117 soldiers | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
alive, probably as many of them were still sleeping. The Army say | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
they expect the rescue mission to last for days but locals warn that | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
the hopes of findingping many people alive must be quite slim and | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
there are already reports of difficulties in getting heavy | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
lifting equipment to the area because it is so remote and there | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
simply are no roads. England's cricketers have beaten | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the second and final test in Colombo. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
The result levels the series and means England retain their position | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
at the top of the world rankings. Alex South reports. In cricketing | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
terms, it's been a winter of it is content for England, four straight | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
defeats for Strauss's side have hardly made team talks easy. Not | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
today. Just give Swann the ball and he'll do the rest. As soon as the | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
man of the series, Jayawardene was gone, the rest followed. An | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
inspiring performance by the flying Swann. The winning target was just | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
94. It should have been easy peacey, but this is England. Strauss gave | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
fans the sinking feeling again -- easy peasy. Alastair Cook was | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
determined to see his side home but he needed help. Trott normally so | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
solid couldn't oblige, undone by spin and ultimately the review | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
system. As the temperature rose, the | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
coolest man in Colombo calmed everyone down. Pietersen picked upd | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
where he left off, dominating the Sri Lankan bowlers and there was | :07:06. | :07:12. |