11/08/2013 BBC Weekend News

of the sharpest falls across the European Union, according to new

figures. Real pay, taking into account the

impact of inflation, has dropped 5. 5% since 2010. Labour says it shows

life is getting harder for families. But the Government says the economy

is on the mend. Also tonight: Tension in Cairo as riot police

prepare to move against supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed

Morsi. Police are increasingly concerned

about 13-year-old, Erika Cacicova, who has been missing since last

Monday. COMMENTATOR: Bolt is going to take

the gold. Triumph in the rain for Usain Bolt. He storms to gold in the

Good evening. New figures suggest that the value of workers' wages in

the UK has suffered one of the sharpest falls of any country across

the European Union. According to statistics from the House of

Commons' library, real wages, which include the impact of inflation,

have fallen by 5. .5% since the middle 2010. The Treasury says the

Government has taken action to help, such as increasing the amount people

can earn before they pay tax. That the be pounds in our wallets

buy less and less every month won't come as a shock in many households.

Since 2010 wages have been stagnant while inflation has been well above

target, which means real wages have gone down. Wages in the UK fell by

5. 5%, while comparably large European economies, such as frns and

injury any, saw their rise by 7. 4 and 20. 4%. Such as France and

Germany. Portugese real wages fell by 8% while in another eurozone

bailout country, Greece, they fell by over 11%. The present government

are out of touch. They are trying to suggest everything is fine in the

economy when we know and working people themselves know they have

taken a hit, their incomes have been squeezed. They are seeing prices

rising faster than wages and they know from the money that's coming

into their pockets and the bills they have to pay, that things are

getting tough. A Treasury spokes beperson said the Government had

taken continued action to help with the cost of living. --

spokespersonment including plans to raise the tax-pree personal

allowance to �10,000 and freezing fuel duty and council tax.

This research was requested by the Labour Party and carried out by the

House of Commons Library. It's choice of starting point just as the

coalition came to power s very deliberate. Doubtless the Government

would have chosen a more flattering start date. There is no doubt though

that the hits being taken by many households over the last few years

has been very pronounced. With the Bank of England signalling that it

doesn't expect inflation to come down towardsed its target level

before the end of next year -- towards, the recovering UK economy

may not benefit households for a while yet.

With me is our Political Correspondent Ben Wright. Why are

Labour attacking on this front so eagerly? I think the living

standards argument is politically potent. There are a couple of

classic election campaigns that parties tend to fight on. One, if

you are a governing party where you say you have rescued the economy

pulled it back from the brink, and ask voters not to risk it by letting

the other lot back in. And the strategy deployed by opposition

where they ask voters whether they feel better off now than they did

last time around. We will see both of those battles played out come the

general election. It's been a tricky moment this, for Labour. There are

complaints within its ranks that it lacks policy. Another Labour MP

spoke out today. There is clearly an economic recovery under way. It is

working out how to respond, which is why it jumped on the figures to show

that since the coalition came to power, wages have been falling and

it wants to pin the blame on the coalition. The coalition, of course,

understand the risks of a recovery that doesn't make people feel

better. It' try hard to put the blaming on the economic crisis that

happened on Labour's watch. The whole argument about how to repair

the economy after the recession is beginning to shift to one on, what

sort of recovery this is and how it affects people's pockets.

The police in Egypt are expected to start taking action early tomorrow

against thousands of supporters of the oust ousted President, Mohamed

Morsi. They've gathered in shake shift camps in the capital, Cairo

where, there have been violent confrontations in the past few

weeks. Live now to Cairo to Caroline Wyatt.

Wyatt. A tense few House ahead? -- few

hours. Absolutely. The BBC and other media outlets here have been told by

a normally reliable source within the Egyptian Interior Ministry that

an operation to clear the camps is expected to begin at 5.00am, in

around six hours' time. It'll begin in an orderly and gradual fashion.

They'll surround the camps stopping access and any more people coming N

we saw many more people joining the camps when they thought the riot

police might be about to go in. They say that operation will proceed. The

stage has been set for this political confrontation, this

possibly violent confrontation for some time. The Muslim Brotherhood

already say they have put out a message of a state of alert to their

followers, asking them to disperse and to start setting up new camps in

the city. The fear, of course, is that many women and children

deliberately staying in those camps, that there could be more bloodshed

unless the riot police are incredibly careful and that any more

bloodshed could further deepen the current political divides, which are

very deep, within Egyptian society here.

The police here say they are becoming increasingly concerned

about a 13-year-old girl from Sheffield who's been missing for six

days. Following appeals earlier today, they say they are

investigating sightings of Erika Cacicova. A man of 22 from Bradford,

who was arrested on suspicion of child abduction on Friday, has been

released on bail. 13-year-old Erika Cacicova missing

for almost a week. Now detectives have plead pleaded directly to the

schoolgirl to get in touch. Erika was last seen leaving her home in

the Darnall area of Sheffield last Monday. Do you recognise her?

Officers have been carrying out inquiries in the area where she

lived and stress that time is now of the essence.

Erika is not in trouble. There's nothing that she's done wrong. We

really do just want her to come home and make sure that she's safe.

22-year-old man from Bradford, arrested on suspicion of child

abduction, was released today on bail. Officers say that he had a

friendship with the girl, and continues to help the inquiry.

The search for Erika has now widened out to other parts of Yorkshire, the

focus now switching to here, Bradford, where police believe she

may be staying with friends. Officers from South Yorkshire

travelled here and are working with West Yorkshire Police. Everything

that we know to date or what we've had so far, would lead us to believe

she is with people she knows. Tonight police released a new

photograph of Erika Cacicova, with the hope it it might jog people's

memories. More than 50 officers are helping with the search and urge

anyone with information to contact them.

A controversial republican parade in Northern Ireland has passed off

peacefully. Several hundred bandsmen and their supporters turned out to

remember dead republicans, including two IRA men killed when their own

bomb exploded. The parade has angered unionists and the familiar

families of IRA fibbing Timms who staged a counter protest. -- IRA

victims. There were concerns after protests against a republican parade

in Belfast on Friday left 56 police officers injured.

The Israeli Government has approved the building of another 1,200 new

homes in occupied Palestinian areas. A seen area Palestinian politician

said it was a deliberate attempt to scupper peace negotiations due to

take place in Jerusalem in five days' time. That has been dismissed

by Israel. Israel continues to build and plans

to build more on the lands it captured in the war of 1967. Most

countries see this sort of construction as illegal under

international law, but Israel doesn't. The settlement issue is one

of the most difficult in the whole peace process.

Fresh from a announcing one set of controversial housing projects,

Israel's Construction Minister paid a visit to another.

His party is flatly opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state. But

when we asked if his announcement had been timed to scupper this

week's peace talks, he was dismissive.

TRANSLATION: I wish it had been announced before. And there will be

more to come in the future. After months of American pressure, Israel

and the Palestinians are expected to sit down for peace talks in

Jerusalem and Jericho in the coming week. But on the Palestinian side,

there is anger now, rather than there is anger now, rather than

hope. Why? Who does these things? Are they determined to undermine the

peace negotiation? Are they determined to force people like us

to leave the negotiating table Israel is prepared to release a

small number of Palestinian prisoners at the start of the peace

talks. This settlement announcement may be timed to reassure

right-wingers who don't like that concession. The Palestinians, just

on the other side of that fence, say that Israeli development is choking

off any scope for them to build a future state here. The prospects for

next week's peace talks were never very bright. But by putting the

settlement issue back in the headlines, Israel's Construction

Minister has made them a little darker.

An Italian judge, who spent years trying to bring to justice a Mafia

boss arrested in brain, has told the BBC he is one of the crime

organisation's top bosses. -- in Britain. Domenico Rancadore is

wanted in Italy to serve a seven-year jail term. He is awaiting

Outwardly, this is the quaint provincial fishing village. Only

beyond the walls do you sense the watchful eyes of the MAFFia. For

years these streets were ruled by Domenico Rancadore. In public, he

was the PE teacher, married to the daughter of an Italian diplomat.

Though most knew, as she knew, the truth behind the cover. You don't

remember it? You don't know? code of violence. But the judge who

has persued him did agree to talk. He invited us to a secret mountain

location. Though only a hour before the meeting were we finally given

the address. The judge knows Rancadore personally. They were

childhood friends. One destined to become the Mafia gangster, the

other, the anti-Mafia prosecutor. TRANSLATION: I'm convinced he has

information. He was one of the top bosses. So I say to the boy I knew

as Memo, come home, come back to Italy, give dignity to your

children. They lost track of Domenico Rancadore until 2009. That

year his father a former boss himself, fell gravely ill. They

suspected his son would try to contact the familiar lane a wire tap

confirmed their suspicions. -- the family. He was living in Uxbridge on

a state pension he earned as a teacher and the money the Mafia was

sending. Rancadore ran ran his district in the bloodiest period of

the Mafia's history. The low point was the murder of two judges. Today

their memory survives on the walls of the main court house. There is no

evidence that Rancadore has their blood on his hands but those that

oppose the Mafia's extortion said the bosses knew everything. Even if

they never ordered a murder, anyway -- even if Rancadore never ordered a

murder, he could give permission to kill someone in his territory any

time. Palermo's Flying Squad has taken big scalps, the biggest of

them all was the Godfather. In the Mafia, a boss never loses his

importance to the family, so the past always links with the present.

Rancadore now faces seven years in one of the hardest Mafia jails. The

prosecution say it is important that Scotland Yard assisted while

suggesting he might not be the only boss currently hiding in Britain.

Time for the big sports news of the day.

Thank you very much. Ed evening. There were lightning

golds on and off the track at the World Athletics Championships

tonight as u and bolt continued his global sprint domination. -- Usain

Bolt. The Jamaican ignored the wet, storm quli to run a season -- stormy

weather to run a season's best. Usain Bolt is often portrayed as the

saviour of athletics. If that is slightly overstating it, there is no

question his speed and sense of humour are the sport's biggest draw.

Usain Bolt up to familiar antics. a final weakened by drug busts and

injury, this race was always about one man, the only question was -

whether the weather might slow him down.

COMMENTATOR: They get away. Gatlin leading at the moment but here comes

Bolt. He is going to get there. Bolt is going to take the gold medal

again. 9.78. Not a chance. As ever, he was

slow out of the blocks but once in full stride he was too good for

American Justin Gatlin. But was it good enough for him? After the

semifinal I wasn't feeling good. My legs felt sore. I don't know what

happened. I knew it wasn't going to be a world record. I came out just

to win. In final was missing some of the world's fastest men but the

biggest name in athletics was here and Usain Bolt showed again while he

is still untouchable. Bolt's status as a track Reg legend was confirmed

long ago -- track legend. Track and field most hope his reign will go on

for years to come. England are back in control of the Fourth Ashes Test

against Australia. Ian Bell's third century of the Series gave the home

side the edge as they closed on 234-5 a lead of 202. Joe Wilson

reports on Day 3. In this part of the world there is a

sculpture that was built to be seen T took 200 tonnes of steel and 7

months to construct the Angel of the skart north. Down the road in

Durham, collapsing batsmen. Chris Rodgers was in a different hotspot.

A thermal image of the ball brushing his glove and an impressive image of

the ball ending up in Matt Prior's. Out, after a review. England were

soon batting, 23 behind. Joe Root - well sometimes you just get a good

ball. Ryan Harriser to through the top order. Cooke fell. England were

49 Poff 3 when Trott take another wicket.

Ian Bell's touch and control, safe hands. Again, perfect timing to

match the situation. Bell's batting in adversity is the difference

between the two sides all summer. There was noticeable support from

Pietersen but another century from Bell. In a class of his own I felt

in pretty good touch. It is a nice place to be. Trying to keep the game

simple, watching it and playing it, no matter if they are 100-1 or 20-3.

England are 202 ahead a sizeable lead and Ian Bell, in the most of

northern traditions, looking immovable.

David Moyes has won his first trophy as manager of Manchester United.

Robin van Persie scored both goals as they beat Wigan Athletic 2-0 in

the Communtiy Shield today. Afterwards Moyes dedicated the

victory to his predecessor Alex Ferguson. The match was also a first

for goalline technology available to the referee at Wembley for the first

time in English football history. Sportscene follow this programme in

Scotland. If you don't want to know the results from today's Premiership

matches, this is your chance to leave the room.

Aberdeen moved up to second with a 3-1 away victory over Motherwell.