:00:21. > :00:25.Good afternoon. A tax benefit for married couples which was promised
:00:26. > :00:35.by the Conservatives at the last election is due to take effect in
:00:35. > :00:39.April 2015. The benefit is expected be worth up to £200 a year - and
:00:39. > :00:41.will apply to four million couples. Labour and the Liberal Democrats
:00:41. > :00:44.have criticised the proposal; but the Lib Dems say they'll accept it
:00:44. > :00:53.under the coalition agreement. This report from Ross Hawkins.
:00:53. > :00:58.Couples made tie the knot for richer or poorer, but David Cameron has
:00:58. > :01:05.long said that he wants to make them better off. Today he explained when
:01:05. > :01:08.and how. Marriage is a great institution and builds a strong
:01:09. > :01:13.society so I think it is right to back marriage properly in the income
:01:13. > :01:17.tax system. Most other industrialised countries do it and I
:01:17. > :01:24.am proud to be delivering on a promise I made in the manifesto. How
:01:24. > :01:29.will it work? The Tories say 4 million couples who pay the basic
:01:29. > :01:36.rate of tax will benefit from 2016, saving £200 on their tax bill. One
:01:36. > :01:41.spouse earning less than £20,000 will transfer their tax allowance to
:01:41. > :01:47.their partners. It will all cost around £700 million a year. The
:01:47. > :01:51.Conservatives insist that it will not change the personal decisions
:01:51. > :01:57.people make about their own lives or bribe people into getting married.
:01:57. > :02:02.Nick Clegg has described the idea as patronising but while his party will
:02:02. > :02:09.not support the policy, they intend for the Tories to spend the money at
:02:09. > :02:14.their conference. Labour point out the tax break will not save any
:02:14. > :02:19.money for two thirds of married couples. Campaigners, including this
:02:19. > :02:26.Labour member, are explaining who will miss out. It will discriminate
:02:26. > :02:32.against single parents, cohabiting parents, widows and others. It is a
:02:32. > :02:39.signal and it is a signal that will cost a lot of money. This will come
:02:39. > :02:44.as happy news for many conservatives.
:02:44. > :02:47.Police investigating a fire in Leicester, which killed a woman and
:02:47. > :02:49.her three children, have charged four more people, including a
:02:49. > :02:52.16-year-old, with murder. Shehnila Taufiq, her daughter, Zainab, and
:02:52. > :02:56.sons, Bilal and Jamil, died in the fire at their home two weeks ago. A
:02:56. > :02:58.16-year-old and three men are due at Leicester Magistrates' Court later
:02:58. > :03:11.today. An eighteen-year-old man has already been charged with murder.
:03:11. > :03:14.The Prime Minister of Greece already been charged with murder.
:03:14. > :03:17.ruled out snap elections following the arrest of the leader of the
:03:17. > :03:19.far-right Golden Dawn party on charges of forming a criminal
:03:19. > :03:22.organisation. Three other MPs belonging to the neo-fascist party
:03:22. > :03:24.were detained along with party activists. The arrests come after
:03:24. > :03:28.the killing of a left-wing activist and rapper by an alleged Golden Dawn
:03:28. > :03:31.member ten days ago. It is the first time since 1974 that sitting members
:03:31. > :03:42.of the Greek Parliament have been arrested. A scheme that allows
:03:42. > :03:45.cancer patients to access expensive but potentially life-saving drugs,
:03:45. > :03:48.is to continue for another two years. The Cancer Drugs Fund, worth
:03:48. > :03:50.£200 million a year, offers patients medicines which have not been
:03:50. > :03:53.introduced across the NHS. It was due to expire next year. Our health
:03:53. > :04:05.correspondent Branwen Jeffreys has the details.
:04:05. > :04:10.A busy mum of three children, Lisa is also a cancer patient. She had
:04:10. > :04:13.surgery to remove cancer in her bowel but it had also spread
:04:13. > :04:18.surgery to remove cancer in her liver so she was put on a drug paid
:04:18. > :04:23.for out of the Cancer Drugs Fund, and is now instead of 11 tumours,
:04:23. > :04:28.she has just two. It means she can go on having other treatment. It was
:04:28. > :04:32.huge. I had gone from thinking I was going to have cancer for ever to
:04:32. > :04:39.thinking that maybe there is some hope that I might eat it. One drug
:04:39. > :04:47.took me from 11 tumours to two tumours. -- beat it. The Cancer
:04:47. > :04:52.Drugs Fund pays for medicines that would otherwise be proving to be too
:04:52. > :04:57.expensive. Around 34,000 patients have had drugs funded. £450 million
:04:57. > :05:03.has been put into it since 2010 but have had drugs funded. £450 million
:05:04. > :05:09.only 320 million has been spent. It enables an increased response rate
:05:09. > :05:16.and some patients who respond particularly well, it has allowed
:05:16. > :05:22.them to have other surgery. It has made a big difference. Cancer
:05:22. > :05:26.research charities has said that Cancer Drugs Fund has enabled people
:05:26. > :05:30.to get faster access to new drugs but it is too soon to say what
:05:30. > :05:33.difference that will make to survival rates in England. Labour
:05:33. > :05:40.says the government has let cancer patients down, reorganised services
:05:40. > :05:48.and stepping back on measures that might help cancer patients. The
:05:48. > :05:54.Conservatives vice-chairman for business has been arrested for an
:05:54. > :06:02.historic allegation of rape. He is a multimillionaire owner of the
:06:02. > :06:04.Crombie clothing chain. The head of Kenya's National Intelligence
:06:04. > :06:07.Service will be questioned by lawmakers on Monday amid growing
:06:07. > :06:09.public concern that the country was inadequately prepared for an attack.
:06:10. > :06:13.It comes amid reports that the Kenyan government was warned by
:06:13. > :06:16.Israel of a high risk of an attack before the siege at a Nairobi mall
:06:16. > :06:28.last week. Andrew Harding reports from Nairobi.
:06:28. > :06:32.New footage from the attack he in Nairobi. This was filmed by the
:06:32. > :06:40.Kenyan Red Cross as they struggled to help civilians caught up in the
:06:40. > :06:44.bloodshed at the shopping mall. Today there were claims that the
:06:44. > :06:47.Kenyan authorities overlooked warnings about the attack. It is not
:06:47. > :06:53.clear how specific the warnings were. A third of the shopping mall
:06:53. > :06:56.lies in ruins. Rubble is being cleared away but there is no news
:06:56. > :07:03.lies in ruins. Rubble is being about dozens of civilians that are
:07:03. > :07:11.missing. This man helped save many people, including this young girl.
:07:11. > :07:17.We got that little girl out and we told her to run. She started
:07:17. > :07:21.running. I thought that was very brave of the little girl, just
:07:21. > :07:27.running towards strangers holding guns. I thought that was brave, I
:07:27. > :07:31.thought she was brave. Outside, comfort for the survivors of an
:07:31. > :07:37.ordeal that remains shrouded on the street. Exactly one week after the
:07:37. > :07:41.killings started there is still confusion and uncertainty. The
:07:41. > :07:49.government in Kenya insists that their security and intelligence
:07:49. > :07:51.forces did their best they could in chaotic circumstances but many
:07:51. > :07:57.people are starting to question that. A remote area of south-west
:07:57. > :08:04.Pakistan has been hit by a second earthquake just days after an
:08:04. > :08:09.earthquake left hundreds of people dead. It has killed at least four
:08:09. > :08:16.people and left hundreds other under rubble. Efforts to help people after
:08:16. > :08:18.the first earthquake have struggled