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