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200,000 parents opt out of receiving child benefit ahead of | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
major changes to the system. Those who haven't, an estimated one | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
million high earners, will continue to receive the money but have to | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
pay it back later in tax. Labour says confusion over the reforms | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
render them a shambles. More unrest in Northern Ireland | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
with police coming under sustained attack. One man's arrested on | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
suspicion of attempted murder after reports of shots fired at officers. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Thousands are forced to flee their homes in Australia as bushfires | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
sweep through the south-east of the country. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
And, dramatic day in the FA Cup third round, including this last- | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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minute goal by Manchester United's Good evening. The deadline for high | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
earning parents to opt out of the child benefit system will come into | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
force on Monday but new figures show fewer than a fifth of them | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
have registered to stop payments. It means around a million people | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
will continue to receive the benefits but then face having to | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
pay money back in tax. Ministers deny the new system is overly | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
complicated but Labour has accused them of presiding over a shambles. | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
Our political correspondent Chris Mason reports. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
For years it's been a benefit for all families, regardless of wealth. | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
Now more than a million higher earning families will find at least | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
some of their child benefit payments disappearing. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
The changes will affect any family which has at least one parent | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
earning over �50,000 a year. There will and sliding scale for those | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
with one income between �50,000 and �60,000, meaning those families | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
will lose just some of the payments. But those with a salary over | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
�60,000 will lose all of their child benefit. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
For this family from Chingford on the outskirts of London, there will | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
soon be more pressure on their budget because the dad earns more | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
than �60,000. They will lose all of their child benefit, even though | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
mum doesn't work. It should be household income and not looking at | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
one partner, one salary. Whereas there are couples who earn just a | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
touch under �50,000 each and will continue to get the full child | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
benefit. Ministers say it would be too | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
complex to use total household income to calculate the changes. | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
And are defending their plan. a tough decision, we don't make any | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
bones about this. This is going to have an impact on people's living | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
standards. But at a time when we are making difficult decisions on | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
the welfare bill, where we are borrowing more money than we can | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
reasonably do, it is right that we take those difficult decisions. | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
The Government is in a race to save money and be seen to do so fairly | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
but critics say the practicalities of these changes are complicated. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
Those affected must either give up their child benefit now, or have it | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
clawed back through the tax system. It's also drawing a lot of people | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
into the very complicated self- assessment tax return process. It's | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
possibly one of the greatest administrative shambles that we are | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
going to be seeing from the Treasury. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
The changes were originally announced in the Budget by the | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
Chancellor. They'll save the Treasury up to �2 billion a year. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
But ministers insisted then and now only the better off would be hit. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
85% of families will remain completely unaffected. | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
Chris is in Westminster now. How is this going to play out ahead of | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
what will be a challenging week for Government over benefits policy? | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
The political calculation the coalition has made here is that | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
these changes to child benefit are actually quite hard to oppose. | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
George Osborne has written a piece in tomorrow's Mail on Sunday in | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
which he says yes, tpeups with an earner making more than �50,000 | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
won't necessarily think of themselves as rich, won't think of | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
themselves as having money to spare. But there's a crucial political | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
challenge here, it's a challenge to be seen to be economically credible | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
and fair. Remember that soundbite - we are all in this together. Those | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
in Government say this is an illustration of that. On Tuesday is | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
sa broader debate about benefits and the suggestion from the | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Government that there should be a 1% rise in working age benefits | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
such as jobseeker's allowance, effectively a real terms cut. The | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
Government says that's fair because in the past benefits have been | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
rising faster than wages. Labour say no, look plenty of these | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
benefits go to working-age people. The debate is going to get noisy T | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
will get noisy because it matters. It matters, because being seen to | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
be economically credible and fair is so, so important. Thank you. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
There've been more clashes between police and loyalist protestors in | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Belfast tonight, with reports of shots being fired and one man | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Cars have been set on fire | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
and stones and fireworks thrown at police. The demonstrations are the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
latest against a decision to limit the number of days the Union flag | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
is flown over the City Hall. From Belfast, Andy Martin reports. | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
As the dispute enters a second month, nights like these gradually | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
create new, deeper tensions and grievances, not necessarily | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
connected to what flag flies over Belfast's City Hall. | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
The trouble started this afternoon. The police moved early to clear | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
rioters from the streets. They've been dealing with flag protests and | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
road blocks for a month now and patience is wearing thin. They were | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
hit with bricks, stones and smoke cannisters as one group of | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
loyalists made their way home from a protest at City Hall which has | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
been taking place every Saturday since councillors voted to limit | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
the number of days on which the Union flag can be flown above the | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
building. Loyalists claim that the trouble started when they were | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
attacked by nationalists en route and the police moved to contain the | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
reaction. Skwraus few streets away a car is burning on the Newtownards | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
Road, the the scene now of three nights of trouble. Loyalists say | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
the police have been heavy-manneded -- heavy-manneded in their approach. | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Instead of the police going to the aggressors, they went the easy | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
route and towards the protesters. Instead of trying to push the | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
Republicans back to the Short Strand they wept for the unionist - | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
- went for the unionist community. Dozens of police officers have been | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
injured during the trouble and the police are investigating reports | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
that shots were fired. A man has been arrested on suspicion of | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
attempted mur. -- murder. Loyalists say they will | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
continue protests until the flag is over the city hall every day of the | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
year. In the meantime, relations between loyalists and nationalists | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
and loyalists and the police are being soarly tested. | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
-- sorely tested. A Nepalese army officer has | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
appeared in court in London charged with torture. Colonel Kumar Lama, | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
who's 46 and lives in Hastings, in East Sussex, was remanded in | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
custody by Westminster magistrates. The alleged offences took place in | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
2005, during Nepal's civil war. The Girl Guides are considering | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
dropping their oath to God and the Queen. The organisation has | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
launched a consultation looking at the promise new Guides make when | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
they join. Girlguiding UK said it was because an increasing number of | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
girls and volunteers don't identify with the century old pledge to | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
"love my God" and "serve the Queen and country". | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
There are calls for tougher restrictions on the food industry | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
to try to curb obesity. The Labour Party's urging the Government to | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
consider introducing legal limits on sugar, fat and salt content. But | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
the Department of Health in England says there are already voluntary | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
agreements in place with manufacturers to produce healthier | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
foods. Richard Slee reports. This is an argument about how best | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
to reduce levels of fat, sugar and salt in our food through regulation | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
or collaboration. While in Government, Labour preferred a | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
voluntary approach. But with Britain now having the second | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
highest obesity rates in the world it says it's time for legal limits | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
for food like cereals aimed at children. Three in ten children | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
leave primary school in Britain either overweight or obese. It | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
isn't working. We need to do something different. I don't think | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
any parent is comfortable with the idea of their child sitting down to | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
a meal that's 40% sugar. Government says it has made | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
progress in reducing sugar, fat and salt in many foods and legislation | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
would only be considered after the failure of a voluntary agreement | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
with the food industry. If we had started by saying that we are going | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
to legislate when we came to power two years ago, that legislation | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
takes time to have impact. Also, the facts change, the situations | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
change. What we have been able to deliver is much faster results by | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
going for voluntary agreements. the past six years, the amount of | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
salt in convenience foods has been reduced by 9%. With many sugary | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
cereals also containing important fibre, vitamins and minerals, | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
nutritionists say it's eating habits that need to change. People | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
who are overweight tend to have overweight children and overweight | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
children tend to become overweight teenagers and the sighle goes -- | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
cycle goes on. The Royal College of Physicians | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
says it supports legislation when backed by evidence. And says legal | :09:58. | :10:08. | |
limits are already effective in some other European countries. | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Thousands of people have fled their homes in south-east Australia as a | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
heatwave, accompanied by high winds and drought, triggered a number of | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
bushfires. Tasmania's the worst hit, with up to 40 fires sweeping across | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
the island forcing many people to take refuge on beaches and await | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
rescue by boat. Nick Bryant reports from Sydney. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
It's on Australia's island state of Tasmania that the bushfires have | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
been at their fiercest. The heatwave affecting much of the | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
south-east of the country, produced temperatures of 40 degrees, and the | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
hottest day since the late 19th century. | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
By daylight parts of this small community Dunalley had become | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
virtually unrecognisable. At least 65 properties have been razed to | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
the ground, including the local school. Did you think you were | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
going to die? Yeah, maybe. Small rural businesses that have | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
taken generations to build were reduced to rubble and cinders in a | :11:05. | :11:14. | |
matter of minutes. Yeah, two nephews. They've lost both their | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
houses, my brother lost the mill up there. Millions of dollars. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Some residents fought to save their homes, others simply fled. The | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
advice now is to get out early because the fires can rapidly close | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
off the means of escape. With roads cut off by fast advancing | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
firefronts, thousands of people have been stranded on the Tasman | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
peninsula. So a massive sea operation has been launched to | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
ferry them to the safety of the state capital, Hobart. It was very | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
unpleasant because it was really hot. Then the smoke came over very | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
thickly. Four big fires are still burning out of control, though the | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
temperatures and high winds have now eased. These are the worst fire | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
conditions since the Black Saturday disaster in 2009. People seem to be | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
applying a key lesson from that day - to have a detailed escape plan, | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
and to execute it early. In Japan, a record-breaking million | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
pounds has been paid at a Tokyo auction for a fish. The winning bid | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
for the 200 kilogram bluefin tuna was more than three times the | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
previous record. Overfishing has pushed up prices but the million | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
pound figure has more to do with publicity for the sushi chain of | :12:34. | :12:44. | |
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the winning bidder. Sport now. Thank you very much. | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
Good evening. It's been a dramatic day of FA Cup 3rd round action, no | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
real giant killings but plenty of upsets and great escapes. Newcastle | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
were knocked out by the Championship side Brighton while | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
Manchester United scraped a 2-2 draw against West Ham with an | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
injury time equalizer. Patrick Gearey reports. | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
Like the traditional pre-match Upton Park bubble s Manchester | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
United are often pretty but fragile N attack they soar, floating past | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
West Ham skilfully and cleverly. Tom Cleverley's composure | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
appreciated by the Beckhams. They had barely sat down before the lead | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
was gone. United's delicate defence couldn't handle James Collins. A | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
goal that owed much to the cross by Joe Cole, returning to the club | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
where it all started. He clearly enjoyed the familiar | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
surroundings so in the second half he tried the same trick again. | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
Collins popped up just where he left him. They didn't settle on | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
that. The Hammers kept control. They just needed that third goal. | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
Cole couldn't get it and with Manchester United that's dangerous. | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
They brought on Ryan Giggs and Robin van Persie. One found the | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
other. And the favourites stay in the Cup. | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
In Sussex, a riddle, when is an upset not an upset? Brighton are a | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
league below Newcastle yet were fancied to beat them. They didn't | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
disappoint. Orlandi executed them into a lead they would never lose. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
Newcastle didn't seem keen on staying in the Cup. Amoebi didn't | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
even last the game. Before the end, Brighton got a second goal. Well | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
taken by Hoskins. He will fancy a trip to the South Downs in the next | :14:27. | :14:37. | |
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Southampton were the only other Premier League side knocked out | :14:37. | :14:47. | |
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Wolves defeat to Luton was enough to prompt the sacking of their | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
manager. A horse owned by a trio of top | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
rugby players won the Welsh National today. The 10-1 outsider | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
Monbeg Dude is co-owned by Mike Tindall, James Simpson-Daniel and | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
Nicky Robinson. And it showed it has plenty of class, coming from | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
the back of the field to beat off the favourite Teaforthree in | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
Chepstow's big race. The BDO World Darts Championship started today | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
with Richie George making history by becoming the first son of a | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
former finalist to compete in the tournament. His father Bobby was | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
twice runner-up. George junior is the 15th seed and beat Dave Prins | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
by 3 sets to 2 to make it into the second round. Toby Flood could miss | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
the start of England's Six Nations campaign next month. The Leicester | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
fly-half has been cited for a dangerous tackle during their | :15:45. | :15:53. |