:00:04. > :00:10.The United States and Russia agree on a plan to destroy Syria's
:00:10. > :00:12.chemical weapons. After three days of talks, Damascus is told to give
:00:12. > :00:24.UN inspectors immediate access. of talks, Damascus is told to give
:00:24. > :00:27.The surgeon whose wife and children were killed in a house fire in
:00:27. > :00:31.Leicester has spoken of his grief. And a five pence charge for plastic
:00:31. > :00:46.bags in large stores is to be introduced in England.
:00:46. > :00:51.Good evening. The United States and Russia have agreed a plan to destroy
:00:52. > :00:57.Syria's chemical weapons by the middle of next year. The American
:00:57. > :00:59.Secretary of State, John Kerry, and his Russian counterpart, Sergei
:00:59. > :01:01.Lavrov, announced that President Assad's government would be given
:01:01. > :01:03.seven days to declare all its stocks, and must provide
:01:03. > :01:19."unfettered" access to international inspectors.
:01:19. > :01:23.The Russians clearly feel this is their moment. Russian's Foreign
:01:23. > :01:27.Minister upstaged the Americans by chatting to journalists ahead of a
:01:27. > :01:30.joint news conference to announce the agreement. The American
:01:30. > :01:35.Secretary of State was kept waiting until they finally set out together
:01:35. > :01:40.procedures for the destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons
:01:40. > :01:45.programme. It was made necessary, in their words, by the prior use of
:01:45. > :01:49.these weapons in Syria and the volatility of the civil war. The
:01:49. > :01:53.world will now expect the Assad regime to live up to its public
:01:53. > :01:56.commitments. As I said at the outset of these negotiations, there can be
:01:56. > :02:04.no games, no room for avoidance or of these negotiations, there can be
:02:04. > :02:08.anything less and full compliance. But Russia's Foreign Minister
:02:08. > :02:13.stressed that the deal does not include any automatic use of force
:02:13. > :02:19.if Syria fails to comply. TRANSLATION: In the event that these
:02:19. > :02:24.requirements are not implemented, or in the event that anyone uses
:02:24. > :02:28.chemical weapons, the Security Council will take measures under
:02:28. > :02:32.Article seven of the Charter of the United Nations. Of course, this does
:02:32. > :02:37.not mean that every violation that is reported to the Security Council
:02:37. > :02:43.will be taken at face value. We will investigate every case. This does
:02:43. > :02:46.feel like a breakthrough. Both ministers have made it clear that
:02:46. > :02:52.actions will be more important than words, and the road ahead remains
:02:52. > :02:57.difficult. The US- Russia agreement allows President Assad just seven
:02:57. > :03:00.days to declare a complete list of Syria's entire chemical weapons
:03:00. > :03:05.stockpile. International inspectors are to be on the ground in Syria by
:03:05. > :03:11.November. All stockpiles are to be removed or destroyed by mid-2014.
:03:11. > :03:14.And there will be a new UN resolution to enforce this. But the
:03:14. > :03:19.two sides differ about what that could mean in practice. But will any
:03:19. > :03:24.of this relieve the suffering of Syria's people? The Americans and
:03:24. > :03:28.Russians hope it will. Now, they want to attempt something even more
:03:28. > :03:35.difficult, I trying to open peace talks here in Geneva, with all the
:03:35. > :03:41.parties in the civil war next month. Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen
:03:41. > :03:50.is in Damascus. How realistic is this plan? Well, the Russians would
:03:50. > :03:55.not have gone ahead with this kind of timetable, had they not had some
:03:55. > :03:59.kind of promise of cooperation from the Assad regime. After all, the
:03:59. > :04:04.Russians sell them weapons, and they also watch their back dramatically
:04:04. > :04:08.at the UN, which means a lot of leverage. I think the Assad regime
:04:08. > :04:13.must regard giving up its chemical weapons as a fair price to pay for
:04:13. > :04:20.the effective cancellation of a regime threatening air strike from
:04:20. > :04:25.the Americans. That is why the opposition groups of the Free Syrian
:04:25. > :04:29.Army are so angry that this deal is going ahead. They have rejected it,
:04:29. > :04:34.because they wanted that strike to happen. As for the wider issue of
:04:34. > :04:38.whether this will springboard into solving the war, the war he has very
:04:38. > :04:42.deep roots, and making a deal to end it depends not just on the Russians
:04:42. > :04:46.and Americans, but it depends on the regime and the wide range of armed
:04:46. > :04:54.groups honour from the Free Syrian Army to the jihadists.
:04:54. > :04:57.A father whose wife and three children were killed in a house fire
:04:57. > :05:01.in Leicester has spoken of his grief. Dr Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar
:05:01. > :05:04.said he deeply missed his family and hoped justice would prevail. Police
:05:04. > :05:10.are investigating whether they were mistakenly targeted in a revenge
:05:10. > :05:20.attack. My entire family has passed away. I deeply miss my beautiful
:05:20. > :05:24.wife, and three beautiful children. What has happened has happened, and
:05:24. > :05:36.wife, and three beautiful children. nothing can be reversed. But I hope
:05:36. > :05:38.justice prevails. And in future, this should not happen to any
:05:38. > :05:41.family. Our correspondent is in Leicester.
:05:41. > :05:50.What are the latest developments in the investigation? As you can see,
:05:50. > :05:55.the police cordon has been lifted the investigation? As you can see,
:05:55. > :05:59.and we can see the damage this fire caused. On Thursday morning, this
:06:00. > :06:05.was just a regular family home, but now it is a murder scene. Half a
:06:05. > :06:11.mile away in that direction, another murder scene. A man in his early 20s
:06:11. > :06:21.was stabbed. He has been named locally today. He was a football
:06:21. > :06:25.coach. Today, players paid review to him with a minute's silence. Police
:06:25. > :06:31.said the family here had nothing to do with what happened to that man,
:06:31. > :06:35.but they are try to establish whether the two cases are linked.
:06:35. > :06:41.Meanwhile, the local community here feel that this family were targeted
:06:41. > :06:47.under a mistaken identity. There have been queried into the other
:06:47. > :06:51.man's death. Three people have been arrested. They are in police
:06:51. > :06:54.custody. Shoppers in England are to be
:06:54. > :06:57.charged five pence for plastic bags in supermarkets and large stores by
:06:57. > :07:00.the end of 2015. The Deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, announced the
:07:00. > :07:02.change at the Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow. Charges are
:07:02. > :07:12.already imposed in Wales and Northern Ireland and will be
:07:12. > :07:17.introduced in Scotland next year. Nick Clegg came to a nature reserve
:07:18. > :07:21.today outside Glasgow, on the first day of his party conference. His
:07:21. > :07:26.focus was not the economy or the cost of living, but plastic bags. On
:07:26. > :07:35.average, each of us uses 200 every year, and he said that had to stop.
:07:35. > :07:39.This is not about seeking to somehow raise costs for shoppers. It is
:07:39. > :07:45.about encouraging all of us to use plastic bags less and to reuse
:07:45. > :07:48.reusable plastic bags more. Although there is a charge for plastic bags
:07:48. > :07:53.in Wales and Northern Ireland and soon to be won in Scotland, an
:07:53. > :07:58.astonishing 8 billion are still used across the UK each year. So, from
:07:58. > :08:05.2015, there will also be a 5p charge for bags in England in supermarkets
:08:05. > :08:08.and large stores with more than 250 staff, with the government
:08:08. > :08:13.encouraging, but not forcing shops to give any cash raised to green
:08:13. > :08:18.charities. But with the cost of living rising, should the government
:08:18. > :08:23.be adding to shopping bills? They should be free. We have to play for
:08:23. > :08:28.plastic bags in France, and it works. People would not go out and
:08:28. > :08:31.buy things and expect to pay for the packaging. The Lib Dems are not just
:08:31. > :08:35.trying to burnish their green credentials, they are also trying to
:08:35. > :08:38.show they can make a difference in government. They said they had to
:08:38. > :08:41.work hard to get the Tories to support a plastic bag charge because
:08:41. > :08:45.of fears that it could hit business. But Nick Clegg does not want to
:08:45. > :08:59.spend a week attacking the Tories, he also wants to highlight the
:08:59. > :09:02.success of the coalition. But not everyone has got the message. David
:09:02. > :09:05.Cameron. Call me soft, but am I the only Liberal Democrat who just wants
:09:05. > :09:07.him to be a bit better? If he wants to be a statesman, a bit of
:09:08. > :09:10.consistency would be brilliant. So, a bit of policy and a bit of
:09:10. > :09:19.politics on this first day of conference. Plenty more to come.
:09:19. > :09:22.A leading government tax adviser has resigned after being secretly filmed
:09:22. > :09:25.giving advice on how to keep money, in his words, "out of the
:09:25. > :09:28.chancellor's grubby mitts". David Heaton, who went on to advise
:09:28. > :09:30.Revenue and Customs on tax avoidance, was filmed at a London
:09:30. > :09:39.conference during an investigation by BBC's Panorama and Private Eye.
:09:39. > :09:44.The conference was called 101 tips for personal tax, and David Heaton
:09:44. > :09:54.was one of the star speakers. He delivered a series of tax ideas, and
:09:54. > :09:57.spelled-out the advantages of one. As part of his speech, he advised on
:09:57. > :10:01.how to use the rules on maternity As part of his speech, he advised on
:10:02. > :10:19.pay to cut tax bills. He called it his bumper plan. -- bump plan. The
:10:19. > :10:27.scheme he recommended would effectively reduce the tax on a
:10:27. > :10:29.bonus from about 42% to around 8.5. When we described the scheme to Her
:10:29. > :10:34.Majesty's Revenue and Customs, they told us it would be an abuse, and
:10:34. > :10:38.they would challenge it. The problem is, Mr Heaton has been working for
:10:38. > :10:44.them. Two months after that conference, he joined a panel
:10:44. > :10:47.advising HMRC and the courts on what is acceptable tax avoidance. The
:10:47. > :10:52.chairwoman of the Parliamentary spending watchdog says it shows the
:10:52. > :10:59.flaws in the system. I am shocked by what you have told me. This is a
:10:59. > :11:08.classic example of where the government passes a law with a
:11:08. > :11:14.particular intent, and the tax advisers then abuse that. I told the
:11:14. > :11:22.tax minister about Mr Heaton's comments. The advisory panel is to
:11:23. > :11:26.identify the aggressive, artificial behaviour. We would not expect them
:11:26. > :11:30.to be coming forward with proposals that were aggressive and
:11:30. > :11:34.artificial. Mr Heaton sells he does not sell a schemes and has not done
:11:34. > :11:36.anything wrong, but his resignation was announced last night and
:11:36. > :11:44.anything wrong, but his resignation welcomed by the Treasury.