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Good evening. Conservative MPs have criticised David Cameron for ruling | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
out tax breaks for married couples in the Budget next month. There | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
were reports that the measure would be brought forward to placate | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
backbenchers opposed to the introduction of same-sex marriage | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
in England and Wales. That will be voted on next week. Political | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
correspondent Carole Walker has more. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
The Prime Minister believes marriage helps to bind families and | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
communities together, but his plan to extend it to gay couples is | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
proving hugely divisive for his party. Many opponents of the idea | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
of wanting to do more to support traditional marriages and are | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
disappointed that a commitment to introduce tax breaks for married | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
couples will not be delivered in the coming Budget. On Tuesday, when | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
the vote comes forward for the redefinition of marriage, I would | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
rather be voting for a tax measure to put extra money in the pockets | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
of those who need it most, rather than voting for something that was | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
not in the manifesto, which is a redefinition of marriage. It is not | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
the priority, the economy is the priority. Edmond Costello resigned | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
as chairman of Somerset and from Conservatives over the issue last | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
month and has warned that others will follow suit. What to me is | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
being proposed is something that the Conservative Party would never | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
have considered in years gone by. And indeed the feeling within the | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
party, its grass roots and amongst many MPs and officers, it has not | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
changed, I think. They are very, very upset. Some in his party | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
believed David Cameron is being swayed by another relationship, | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
with his coalition partner. Nick Clegg opposes the idea of tax | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
breaks for marriage, but sources say the Prime Minister will deliver | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
that pledge later in this Parliament and believes gay people | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
should have the same rights as others to get married. If we can | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
deliver a bill which allows people who love each other are the same | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
sex to get married whilst protecting the freedoms of | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
religious organisations, it is a good thing to do and there is room | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
in the timetable for it. When the legislation to allow gay couples to | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
marry comes before Parliament on Tuesday, David Cameron is likely to | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
win the day with the support of most Labour and Liberal Democrat | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
MPs, but dozens in his own party are poised to vote against the | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
proposals or abstain. It is a free vote, so technically it will not be | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
a rebellion, but it could further undermine his authority over his | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
party. The French President, Francois | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
Hollande, has received an enthusiastic welcome in Timbuktu. | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
French troops helped recapture the northern Mali town from Islamist | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
militants six days ago, but Mr Hollande warned it would be wrong | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
to assume that the conflict against the militants was over. Africa | :03:10. | :03:19. | |
correspondent Andrew Harding has Quite a convoy, for the French | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
president arriving here in Timbuktu this morning. First stop, the | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
ancient mosque. Local dignitaries lined up to thank the man whose | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
Army liberated their town from months of brutal occupation. Then | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
it is the public's turn. Hollande, they shout, President Francois | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
Hollande is our hero. Just one week ago, no dancing was allowed here, | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
no music. The Islamist militants forced women to clothe all but | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
their eyes in black. Look at them now. Aren't I beautiful? This woman | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
asks. Before, we had to do this. We are free, we are proud of France. | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
It has been an emotional day in his desert town. Mr Hollande plunged | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
into the crowds. The war has been good for his ratings back home, but | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
there are risks ahead here in Mali. The French campaign here has been | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
quick, successful and wildly popular, but for President Hollande | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
this could be as good as it gets. He now needs an exit strategy. A | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
penis handles that, Mali could be plunged back into chaos. -- if he | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
miss handles that. Today Mr Hollande tried to strike a | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
balance. He told his troops their job was not yet done, but he also | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
urged Mali and its neighbours to step up and take a much bigger role. | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
The Islamist militants have withdrawn for now, but this remains | :04:52. | :05:01. | |
a dangerously fragile nation. A postmortem examination on a 16- | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
year-old girl was murdered in Blackpool has found she died as a | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
result of significant stab wounds. Sasha Marsden was found in an | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
alleyway in the South Shore area on Thursday. Police are questioning a | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
22-year-old man, as Ben Ando reports. | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
The alarm was raised when flames were spotted in an alleyway behind | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
a row of hotels and guest houses just off Blackpool's well-known | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
seafront. When residents had put out the fire, they realised they | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
had found a body and call the police. The victim was identified | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
as 16-year-old Sasha Marsden, who was studying childcare at a local | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
college. A specialist crime scene investigators continue their work | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
at the scene, a postmortem examination has revealed that she | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
died as a result of serious stab wounds to her head and fees. Police | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
said today that attempts were made to set the body on fire and this | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
was after she died. The results have been shared with the family, | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
and specially trained officers are continuing to support them. Shortly | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
after the body was found, a man aged 22 and a woman of 20 were | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
arrested nearby. The woman has now been released without charge, while | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
detectives have been given more A quarter of a million Twitter | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
users have had their accounts hacked in the latest high-profile | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
internet security breach. The social networking site is warning | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
users that e-mail addresses and other information could have been | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
accessed. Those affected will be sent an e-mail telling them to | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
change their password. Now to sport, rugby union's Six | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Nations is under way with Wales losing at home to Ireland in a | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
hard-fought opening match, one at Twickenham there were plenty of | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
tries as England beat Scotland. Sports correspondent Joe Wilson is | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
there now. We know the Six Nations is about | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
commitment and passion, all those lovely traditional rivalries. It | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
does not always translate into thrilling rugby, but today we got | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
some great action. At Twickenham, England beat Scotland 38-18, but | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
even more so in Cardiff where Wales scored 22 points and lost. | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
From champions in 2012 to wear for Wales? The journey can be rapid | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
from hero to zero, and all it took four Ireland was to get the ball to | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Simon Zebo. Wales were 20 points down at half-time, and it got worse | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
for them. This may be the last Six Nations for Brian O'Driscoll. He | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
remains the king of being in the right place at the right time, his | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
46th Ireland try meant Wales needed something extraordinary. There was | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
a glimmer when Alex Scott put burst through, nothing for it but to | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
throw the dice. -- Alex Cuthbert. The touchdown was good, 30-15 was | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
the score. Then it was all Wales, short range lunch, try given. Wales | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
took some pride in the fight but and nothing in another defeat. And | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
so to Twickenham, where Scotland were trying to defy England and | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
history. Decades passed between Scottish wins here, and in the | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
current era Scottish reason they lost to Tonga, but there is a new | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
coach and new talent, like Sean Maitland. -- recently. England kept | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
their fluency. After 30 minutes, Ashton squeezed over, England ahead | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
by eight at half-time. And here came an England debutant, a man | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
named 12 trees, and no crashing to earth. England turned on the style, | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
a floating pass was perfection, victory and a flying start. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Well, England definitely enhance their reputation here, so are they | :08:50. | :08:53. |