:00:04. > :00:12.After three days of talks a plan is agreed to remove and destroy Syria's
:00:12. > :00:15.chemical weapons. The US and Russia tell Damascus to allow UN inspectors
:00:15. > :00:23.access - with warnings of consequences if they don't.
:00:23. > :00:26.The surgeon whose wife and children were killed in a house fire in
:00:26. > :00:34.Leicester speaks of his grief as police arrest five. I deeply miss my
:00:34. > :00:38.beautiful wife and three beautiful children.
:00:38. > :00:39.And in the cricket - Joss Buttler secures England victory against
:00:39. > :01:04.Australia. Good evening. The United States and
:01:04. > :01:07.Russia have agreed a plan to remove and destroy Syria's chemical weapons
:01:07. > :01:10.by the middle of next year. To avoid military intervention, Syria must
:01:10. > :01:13.submit a comprehensive list of its banned weapons within a week and
:01:13. > :01:16.allow unfettered access to inspectors. President Obama said if
:01:16. > :01:27.diplomacy failed, America remained prepared to act. Our diplomatic
:01:27. > :01:31.editor James Robbins reports. The Russians clearly feel this is
:01:31. > :01:35.their moment, Russia's Foreign Minister upstaged the Americans by
:01:35. > :01:38.chatting to journalists ahead of a joint news conference to announce
:01:38. > :01:43.agreement. America's Secretary of State was kept waiting until they
:01:43. > :01:46.finally set out together what they call extraordinary procedures for
:01:46. > :01:49.the destruction of the of the Syrian chemical weapons programme. Made
:01:49. > :01:55.necessary, in their words, by the prior use of these weapons in Syria
:01:55. > :02:00.and the volatility of the civil war. The world will now expect the Assad
:02:00. > :02:05.regime to live up to its public commitments and as I said at the
:02:05. > :02:11.outset of these negotiations, there can be no games, no room for
:02:11. > :02:17.avoidance, or anything less than full compliance by the Assad regime.
:02:17. > :02:21.But Russia's Foreign Minister stressed the deal doesn't include
:02:21. > :02:28.any automatic use of force if Syria fails to comply.
:02:28. > :02:32.TRANSLATION: In the event these requirements are not implemented or
:02:32. > :02:36.the event anyone uses chemical weapons the Security Council will
:02:36. > :02:41.take measures under Article VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
:02:41. > :02:43.Of course, this does not mean that every violation that is reported to
:02:43. > :02:47.Of course, this does not mean that the Security Council will be taken
:02:48. > :02:52.at face value. We will investigate every case. Immediately this does
:02:53. > :02:55.feel like a major breakthrough, both Ministers have made very clear
:02:55. > :03:02.actions will be more important than words and the road ahead remains
:03:02. > :03:05.difficult and hard. The US-Russia agreement allows President Assad
:03:06. > :03:09.seven days to declare a complete list of Syria's entire chemical
:03:09. > :03:13.weapons stockpile. International inspectors are to be on the ground
:03:14. > :03:17.in Syria by November. All stockpiles are to be removed or destroyed by
:03:17. > :03:21.mid-2014. And there will be a new UN
:03:21. > :03:28.resolution to enforce all of this. Although the two sides differ about
:03:28. > :03:31.what that could mean in practise. With American missiles at the ready,
:03:31. > :03:36.President Obama is still reserving his right to use force. But the new
:03:36. > :03:42.reality is that American-led military strikes are now only a
:03:42. > :03:45.remote possibility. Many of the weapons inspectors who collected
:03:45. > :03:51.evidence after last month's attacks will return to Syria with some form
:03:51. > :03:55.of protection force. But will any of this relieve the suffering of
:03:55. > :03:59.Syria's people? The Americans and Russians hope it will. Now they want
:03:59. > :04:03.to attempt something even more difficult - by trying to open peace
:04:03. > :04:11.talks with all parties in the civil war next month.
:04:11. > :04:19.Our correspondent David Willis is in Washington. How strong is the threat
:04:19. > :04:23.now of a military strike? Well, little mention of the threat of
:04:23. > :04:28.military action in this agreement. No doubt at the insistence of the
:04:28. > :04:33.Russians. President Obama remains deeply sceptical of the ability and
:04:33. > :04:37.willingness of the Assad regime to give up its chemical weapons
:04:37. > :04:41.stockpile, particularly within this rather ambitious timetable. It also
:04:41. > :04:46.makes the point that it has got to this place by using the threat of
:04:46. > :04:50.military action to force the regime to the negotiating table, if you
:04:50. > :04:53.like. So, the White House tonight welcoming this agreement, but also
:04:53. > :04:59.making the point that it reserves the right to take unilateral
:04:59. > :05:03.military action if necessary and that would unravel this agreement
:05:03. > :05:07.quickly indeed because Russia continues to insist that it was the
:05:07. > :05:13.rebels and not the Government that used chemical weapons in Syria. As
:05:13. > :05:21.John Kerry himself said, a long, hard road lies ahead. Thank you.
:05:21. > :05:25.Police in Leicester have arrested five people in connection with the
:05:25. > :05:28.deaths of a woman and her three children in a house fire in
:05:28. > :05:32.Leicester. It comes as the husband and father - Dr Muhammad Taufiq Al
:05:32. > :05:36.Sattar - spoke for the first time of his grief, saying how much he missed
:05:36. > :05:47.his family. From Leicester, Jo Black sent this report.
:05:47. > :05:53.Surrounded by friends, Dr Taufiq had been working away from home. I
:05:53. > :05:58.deeply miss my beautiful wife and three beautiful children. What has
:05:58. > :06:07.happened has happened, and nothing can be reversed. But I hope justice
:06:07. > :06:15.prevail. What was once a family home is now a murder scene. Shehnila, her
:06:15. > :06:19.19-year-old daughter and two sons all died. This evening the police
:06:19. > :06:23.have confirmed that five people have been arrested in connection with the
:06:23. > :06:28.fire. Three women and two men are now in custody.
:06:28. > :06:33.Half a mile away another murder scene. Hours before the blaze a man
:06:33. > :06:39.in his 20s was attacked here. He died later in hospital. He's been
:06:39. > :06:41.named locally as Antoin Akpom as a local football coach. Police are
:06:42. > :06:46.thought to be investigating the possibility that the family who died
:06:46. > :06:50.in the fire were mistakenly targeted in a revenge attack.
:06:50. > :06:56.I understand there's a lot of speculation, quite rightly, quite to
:06:56. > :07:00.be expected over what's happened and who's been involved. It is fair to
:07:00. > :07:06.say there is an ongoing line of inquiry to establish exactly whether
:07:06. > :07:14.or not the incidents are linked and if so, how. Today at MrAkpom's club
:07:14. > :07:24.a minute's silence. He was happy, he was always on a positive vibe. And
:07:24. > :07:31.ambitious and loving and he had this laugh. He lit up the room and I know
:07:31. > :07:35.that sounds cliched, but it's true. Three people have been arrested on
:07:35. > :07:46.suspicion of the murder. Tonight, MrBelieve the answers could lie in
:07:46. > :07:50.the community. From 2015 there will be a 5p charge
:07:50. > :07:53.on plastic bags in supermarkets and large stores for shoppers in
:07:53. > :07:56.England. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, announced the change at
:07:56. > :07:59.the Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow. Charges are already imposed
:07:59. > :08:02.in Wales and Northern Ireland and will be introduced in Scotland next
:08:02. > :08:08.year. Here's our deputy political editor James Landale.
:08:08. > :08:12.Nick Clegg came to a nature reserve today outside Glasgow on the first
:08:12. > :08:16.day of his party conference. His focus, not the economy or the cost
:08:16. > :08:22.of living, but plastic bags. On average, each of us use 200 every
:08:22. > :08:27.year and he said that had to stop. This is absolutely not about seeking
:08:27. > :08:32.to somehow raise costs for shoppers. Quite the reverse. It's to encourage
:08:32. > :08:37.all of us to use those plastic bags yes less and to reuse reusable
:08:37. > :08:41.plastic bags more. Although there is a charge in Wales and Northern
:08:41. > :08:46.Ireland, and soon to be one here in Scotland, an astonishing 8 billion
:08:46. > :08:54.are still used across the UK each year. So, from 2015 there will be a
:08:54. > :08:57.5p charge for bags in England, in supermarkets, and large stores with
:08:57. > :09:00.more than 250 staff with the Government encouraging but not
:09:00. > :09:04.forcing shops to give any cash raised to green charities. With the
:09:04. > :09:08.cost of living rising, shd the Government be adding to shopping
:09:08. > :09:11.bills? They should be free if you are buying a produce or goods from a
:09:11. > :09:16.shop. I live in France where we have to pay for plastic carrier bags and
:09:16. > :09:19.it works and there is less rubbish. People wouldn't buy things and
:09:19. > :09:24.expect to pay for the packaging. The Lib Dems are not just trying to
:09:24. > :09:29.burnish their green credentials, they're also trying to show they can
:09:29. > :09:32.make a difference in Government. They say they had to work hard to
:09:32. > :09:34.get the Tories to support a charge because of fear it is could hit
:09:34. > :09:38.business. Nick Clegg doesn't want to spend the week attacking the Tories.
:09:38. > :09:44.He wants to highlight the success of the coalition. But not everyone's
:09:44. > :09:49.got the message. David Cameron, call me soft, but am I the only Liberal
:09:49. > :09:55.Democrat who just wants him to be a bit better? If he wants to be a
:09:55. > :09:59.statesman, a bit of consistency would be absolutely brilliant. So a
:09:59. > :10:01.bit of policy and a bit of politics on this first day of conference.
:10:01. > :10:08.bit of policy and a bit of politics Plenty more to come.
:10:08. > :10:12.James joins us from Glasgow now. What are the main aims for the Lib
:10:12. > :10:17.Dems this week, what do they want to achieve? Well, it's straightforward,
:10:17. > :10:19.they want to get across to voters what they think they've achieved in
:10:20. > :10:22.Government. They think they've a good story to tell about the
:10:22. > :10:26.coalition. It's just that the problem is people they think don't
:10:26. > :10:31.know enough about it. We are going to hear them try to claim credit for
:10:31. > :10:34.the growing economic recovery tonight, at a rally they were
:10:34. > :10:39.emphasising how many private sector jobs had been created. They were
:10:39. > :10:43.going to tell us what they think they've persuaded the Conservatives
:10:43. > :10:48.to do, but also what they've persuaded the Conservatives not to
:10:48. > :10:54.do. But there are one or two storm clouds on the horizon. Two surveys
:10:54. > :10:57.out tonight that suggest that Liberal Democrat councillors and
:10:57. > :10:59.members pretty much overwhelmingly would rather have a coalition with
:10:59. > :11:08.Labour after the next general election. There are also signs... I
:11:08. > :11:15.apologise, we lost James there from Glasgow.
:11:15. > :11:18.A leading tax adviser to the British Government has resigned after being
:11:18. > :11:22.secretly filmed giving tips at a conference on how to pay less tax
:11:22. > :11:25.and in his words, "keep money out of the Chancellor's grubby mits". An
:11:25. > :11:28.investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme and Private Eye filmed
:11:28. > :11:31.David Heaton before he joined the Government as an advisor on how to
:11:31. > :11:41.clamp down on aggressive tax avoidance. Richard Bilton reports.
:11:41. > :11:45.The conference was called 101 tips for personal tax and David Heaton
:11:45. > :11:46.was one of the star speakers. He delivered a series of tax ideas and
:11:46. > :11:59.spelled out the advantages of one. As part of his speech he advised on
:11:59. > :12:02.how to use the rules on maternity pay to cut tax bills, he called it
:12:03. > :12:21.his bump plan. The scheme he recommended would
:12:21. > :12:30.effectively reduce the tax on a bonus from about 42%, to around 8.
:12:30. > :12:33.5%. When we described the scheme to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
:12:33. > :12:37.they told tips would be an abuse and -- they told us it would be an
:12:37. > :12:40.abuse. The problem is Mr Heaton has been working for them. Two months
:12:40. > :12:47.after that conference he joined a panel advising HMRC and the courts
:12:47. > :12:50.on what is acceptable tax avoidance. The chairwoman of the parliamentary
:12:50. > :12:53.on what is acceptable tax avoidance. spending watchdog says it shows
:12:53. > :13:00.flaws in the system. I am shocked by what you have told me. This is an
:13:00. > :13:07.absolutely classic example of where Government passes a law with a
:13:07. > :13:14.particular intent and the tax advisers then abuse that. I told the
:13:14. > :13:21.tax Minister about MrHeaton's comments. The advisory panel there
:13:22. > :13:25.is to identify the aggressive artificial behaviour, we wouldn't
:13:25. > :13:29.expect them to be coming forward with proposals that were very
:13:29. > :13:34.aggressive and artificial. MrHeaton says he doesn't sell abusive schemes
:13:34. > :13:37.and he hasn't done anything wrong. But his resignation was announced
:13:37. > :13:42.last night and welcomed by the Treasury.
:13:42. > :13:46.You can see the full Panorama programme on Monday.
:13:47. > :14:08.Now a look at all the sport. Today we had the first Premier
:14:08. > :14:20.League matches since the transfer window closed. Plenty of new
:14:20. > :14:29.signings. There were wins for Newcastle, Everton and Manchester
:14:29. > :14:31.United and Spurs. Scottish Champions Celtic beat
:14:31. > :14:34.bottom side Hearts 3-1 at Tynecastle. Anthony Stokes was man
:14:34. > :14:37.of the match, scoring one goal and setting up the others, including
:14:38. > :14:43.this one for Teemu Pukki on his debut for the club. Inverness still
:14:43. > :14:52.lead the Scottish Premiership after their win. Every away team won
:14:52. > :14:56.today. The world's most expensive player
:14:56. > :14:59.Gareth Bale has scored on his debut for Real Madrid. Despite only
:14:59. > :15:02.joining up with his new team three days ago after his £85 million
:15:02. > :15:06.tranfer from Tottenham, he was given a start against Villareal and scored
:15:06. > :15:15.in the first half. They are still playing there. It's now 2-2 and Bale
:15:15. > :15:17.has been substituted. England's cricketer's have levelled
:15:17. > :15:20.the one-day series against Australia. It all went down to the
:15:20. > :15:23.final over in Cardiff. Patrick Gearey reports.
:15:23. > :15:26.Having lost the only game to finish England ran in with a point to
:15:26. > :15:31.prove. Finch was trapped second ball. Three of his colleagues
:15:31. > :15:34.followed inside 15 overs. England were closing in. George Bailey's
:15:34. > :15:36.answer was to go over the top of them. For a time the sky was the
:15:36. > :15:41.answer was to go over the top of limit for Australia. But Bailey's 87
:15:41. > :15:45.stood apart. Five Aussie wickets fell for 18 runs. Where had that
:15:45. > :15:53.momentum gone? MacKay found it in the ball. The first delivery of his
:15:53. > :15:58.second over he got Kevin Pietersen. Later Jonathan Trott was tempted.
:15:59. > :16:04.Then a hat trick. England's recovery from 8-3 was less spectacular but
:16:04. > :16:09.more significant. Carberry made a first international 50. Still it
:16:09. > :16:13.went to the last over. Butler batted away the tension. Victory for
:16:13. > :16:23.England in the sunshine. The cricketer summer is not over yet.
:16:23. > :16:25.Great Britain has two new World Champions tonight. In Canoeing and
:16:25. > :16:28.Triathlon Non Stanford won the Women's Grand Final in Hyde Park
:16:28. > :16:31.this morning. Despite having a 15-second penalty, the 23-year-old
:16:31. > :16:34.from Wales still won by a distance to become World Triathlon Champion.
:16:34. > :16:38.David Florence, who won Olympic silver last Summer in the two-man
:16:38. > :16:43.canoe, has won gold at the World Championships in Prague by himself.
:16:43. > :16:46.It's two wins in two days for Andy Murray as Great Britain lead Croatia
:16:46. > :16:49.2-1 in their Davis Cup play-off. Murray played in the doubles today
:16:49. > :16:55.with Colin Fleming and they came through in four sets. If Murray wins
:16:56. > :16:59.his singles rubber tomorrow, Great Britain will return to the elite
:16:59. > :17:00.World Group for the first time in five years.
:17:00. > :17:07.That's all the sport. You can see more on all of today's
:17:07. > :17:10.stories on the BBC news channel. But that's all from me. Bye.