:00:22. > :00:29.Good afternoon. Labour's leader Ed Miliband has said
:00:29. > :00:33.his party will strengthen the minimum wage, improve access to
:00:33. > :00:38.childcare and abolish the so-called bedroom tax if it wins the next
:00:38. > :00:40.election. He was speaking in Brighton, where he was meeting
:00:40. > :00:49.delegates at members of the public ahead of his party conference.
:00:49. > :00:53.He is a leader looking for a lift from this year's party conference.
:00:53. > :01:08.Ed Miliband and family arrived in Brighton this morning. With Labour
:01:09. > :01:12.not leading in opinion polls, few in village rectory next summer. There
:01:12. > :01:15.were calls for Ed Miliband in the summer to grab initiative and
:01:15. > :01:21.produce policies. You do not just need a leader to fight for working
:01:21. > :01:25.people, you need a party for working people. He kicked off the cobwebs by
:01:25. > :01:32.standing on a box, explaining his vision to passing shoppers. We have
:01:32. > :01:37.to think of the forgotten wealth creators, the people who put in the
:01:37. > :01:40.eyes, who do the work, who do two jobs, who do the shifts. They are
:01:40. > :01:47.the people we should be supporting in this country, friends. It was,
:01:47. > :01:50.said Labour, a first, and attempt to connect the party to voters
:01:50. > :01:54.concerned about living standards. And as the conference starts, Labour
:01:54. > :01:57.has produced some policies. It says it will scrap the bedroom tax, the
:01:58. > :02:08.housing benefit cuts for people in it will scrap the bedroom tax, the
:02:08. > :02:10.social housing with spare bedrooms. Labour says people earning up to
:02:10. > :02:13.£60,000 a year do not feel particularly rich, and the party
:02:13. > :02:15.says it has no plans to raise taxes for people to that amount. Labour
:02:15. > :02:20.has also said it will guarantee parents of primary school children
:02:20. > :02:25.access to childcare from 8am to 6pm. This morning he said they would try
:02:25. > :02:28.and raise the minimum wage. We will strengthen the national minimum
:02:28. > :02:32.wage. We will make work pay for the workers of Britain. That is what I
:02:32. > :02:37.mean by a government that fights for you. High it would do that is not
:02:37. > :02:41.clear. The review will be carried out and Labour says it will work
:02:41. > :02:44.with business to try and increase salaries for the lowest paid, but
:02:44. > :02:49.apart from the housing benefit policies, these policies are not
:02:49. > :02:53.fully costed. And that will surely be the coalition's criticism of Ed
:02:53. > :02:58.Miliband's plans? They have already said Labour's promise to reverse the
:02:58. > :03:02.housing benefit cut proves Labour is a party of welfare. In Brighton, Ed
:03:02. > :03:07.Miliband is under pressure to prove he has policies for people beyond
:03:08. > :03:12.the party's core support. The phone maker Blackberry is to cut
:03:12. > :03:17.more than 4000 jobs worldwide, about 40% of its workforce, as it
:03:17. > :03:20.struggles to reduce huge losses. It is not clear how many staff will be
:03:20. > :03:24.affected at its British headquarters is not clear how many staff will be
:03:24. > :03:28.in Slough. Once a market leader, the comedy is expected to announce
:03:28. > :03:31.losses of more than £600 million next week. -- the company is
:03:31. > :03:37.expected. It used to beat the must have device
:03:38. > :03:41.for the trendy and famous. Even the world's most powerful man insisted
:03:41. > :03:48.on keeping his Blackberry when he became US president in 2008.
:03:48. > :03:52.Blackberry is now struggling. Demand for the phones has fallen off a
:03:52. > :04:00.cliff and so has the company's share price, down 96% since the launch of
:04:00. > :04:05.the Apple iPhone. Blackberry had hoped to reboot sales with its new
:04:06. > :04:10.phone, but they have been less than half the expected number. Now
:04:10. > :04:15.Blackberry says it is cutting its workforce by 40%, 4500 jobs
:04:15. > :04:20.worldwide, some of whom will almost certainly be at the European
:04:20. > :04:25.headquarters in Slough. The company warned of current losses of over
:04:25. > :04:28.£600 million in the quarter, or $1 billion. On the reason for its
:04:28. > :04:35.decline? They underestimated the power of swipe, the way the industry
:04:35. > :04:42.was transformed by touch-screen smartphones. Blackberry for people
:04:42. > :04:47.wanted the comfort of a touch keyboard and were dismissive of the
:04:47. > :04:52.smart phone when it arrived. They said, the iPhone poses a challenge
:04:52. > :04:57.to its users. Try typing a web key on a touch-screen, it is a
:04:57. > :05:01.challenge, they said. Blackberry still has great handset and
:05:02. > :05:06.technology but it's best hope might be getting bought out by someone
:05:06. > :05:11.else. That needs to happen quickly, while the brand is worth something.
:05:11. > :05:15.Conmen have opened fire and throwing grenades on an attack in an upmarket
:05:15. > :05:21.shopping centre in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. There is reported
:05:21. > :05:24.to be a gun battle between police and the attackers. There are reports
:05:24. > :05:27.of injured people being brought out and the attackers. There are reports
:05:27. > :05:31.on stretchers. Four men arrested in connection with
:05:31. > :05:35.a theft of £1.3 million from Barclays bank are due to appear in
:05:35. > :05:40.court later today. The men were arrested yesterday and accused of
:05:40. > :05:45.installing a device on a computer in a north London branch of the bank
:05:45. > :05:47.that allowed them to transfer money. Searches have been carried
:05:47. > :05:50.that allowed them to transfer out across London and cash,
:05:50. > :05:57.jewellery, drugs and credit cards have been saved.
:05:57. > :06:01.-- ceased. Police in Birmingham have begun a murder investigation after
:06:01. > :06:05.an 18-year-old man was stabbed to death in Selly Oak last night. West
:06:05. > :06:09.Midlands Police has said the motive for the attack is unclear. Angela
:06:09. > :06:14.Merkel, Germany's Chancellor, has appeared to the -- appealed to the
:06:14. > :06:18.voters for another four-year term in office on the final day of
:06:18. > :06:21.campaigning ahead of the German parliamentary elections tomorrow.
:06:21. > :06:25.She is widely expected to win a third term at her party, the
:06:25. > :06:31.Christian Democratic Union. A poll has shown opposition parties gaining
:06:31. > :06:36.support. Our correspondent is brilliant. Adi Christian Democrats
:06:36. > :06:39.certain to retain power's -- aren't the Christian Democrats?
:06:39. > :06:44.certain to retain power's -- aren't Surgeon in some form. All
:06:44. > :06:48.indications are that she will be Chancellor. The question is, with
:06:48. > :06:54.whom will she make coalition government? It will either go on as
:06:54. > :06:57.currently a centre-right government with the existing coalition
:06:57. > :07:07.partners, but their support may be collapsing, in which case it will be
:07:07. > :07:11.a coalition across the divide with the SPD, but with her in charge. To
:07:11. > :07:19.sum up, they make her favourite to be Chancellor, but the composition
:07:19. > :07:19.of the government is still unclear. The next news on BBC