05/10/2013 BBC Weekend News

No pay rise for over 1 million NHS staff. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt

warns that the Government cannot afford a planned 1% rise without

cutting jobs or endangering patient care.

New footage as the gunmen in the Kenyan shopping centre attack are

named. Police say they could have been as few as four.

And Prince Harry goes walkabout down under.

Hello there, good evening. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says the NHS

cannot afford to give staff a 1% pay rise which was due next year. He has

recommended to two independent pay rise which was due next year. He has

review bodies that health service staff do not receive their annual

pay increase, although many may still get a Riesling to their length

of service. Elf correspondent Dominic Hughes reports.

Staff pay is the single biggest cost for the NHS, accounting for about

two thirds of the spend. Every year the NHS pay review body decides what

sort of salary increase the 1.3 million staff in England should

receive. Long serving nurses like Mike Travis are counting on the pay

rise. I have been a paediatric nurse for 33 years now, and it would just

mean that I would not get a pay rise again this year. What's Jeremy Hunt

is doing is, he is taking a club to our pay scales, and he does not

understand the damage that he will inflict on ordinary working nurses

like me. Like other public sector workers, NHS staff had been

expecting a 1% increase next April, which would cost the health service

in England about £500 million. But the Government says this is on top

of annual increments, pay rises linked to length of service, which

ministers say will cost an additional £900 million that the NHS

cannot afford. Holding the pay rise for NHS staff has already sparked

outrage protests from both unions and the opposition, who accuse

outrage protests from both unions ministers of using bullying

tactics. It was a promise made to them, and I don't think it's

acceptable for the Secretary of State, as a result of his own

incompetence, to come along and say, you are not getting that after all,

it is a kick in the teeth. Who are given their all to keep the NHS

going in difficult times. But there is support for the Government from

the body that represents foundation trust hospitals, which have more

leeway when it comes to awarding pay rises. We face an increase, 4% per

year, in terms of demand for services and we do not have the

money to afford the increase. We need to improve the quality of

services and patient safety, and we need to provide services to patients

seven days a week. This is the Department of Health's opening

negotiating position. The pay review body will not report until early

next year. Kenya's military has named four men

it says were part of a group of up to six attackers who carried out the

terrorist attack in Nairobi last month. 67 people were killed in the

Westgate shopping more. Video has emerged of the heavily armed

attackers inside the complex. From Nairobi, Gabriel Gatehouse reports.

CCTV footage shows one of the men in what appears to be a storeroom. He

beckons to his associates, and three others follow him. They looked

relaxed as they searched the area. One man has been identified as a

Kenyan national. Little is known about a second man, named only as

Umayr. Two others have been named and are said to be from Sudan and

Somalia. Security experts say that at least some of the men were on the

security agency's radar. Two names, and very prominently, names that

have been known to the security forces for quite some time, so why

they were still in circulating is something that bothers us. The

release of these names is the first significant bit of information to

come out of the ongoing investigation into what happened at

Westgate, but even as Nairobi returns to some sort of normality,

Kenyon is still have many more questions than they have answers. --

canyons. Investigators are still working their way through CCTV

footage and forensic work is being carried out on some of the bodies

footage and forensic work is being taken from Westgate, information

that could help provide a more complete picture on how a small

number of attackers managed to cause so much carnage.

Today is the deadline for parents to register with the tax authorities if

they earn more than £50,000 and currently receive child benefit.

Officials say around 200,000 people have yet to register and face a

fine. It follows new rules introduced by the Government to

prevent high earners from receiving child benefit. Joe Lynam reports.

Ruth has two children, but her husband earns more than £50,000, but

she does not. She thinks the new charge on child benefit is unfair.

The Government should look at the total household income, and not just

the income of one parent who goes out to work while the other stays at

home. It is an attack on traditional family values. The high income child

benefit charge applies to households with children where one member earns

over £50,000. In that case, they would be liable for the new charge

at a rate of 1% for every £100 over 50,000, but if either parent earns

over £60,000, they are not entitled to any child benefit at all and must

voluntarily opt out or pay back the benefit. The message from a -- HMRC

is simple. If you are not sure whether it applies to you, you are

best of registering for self-assessment by tonight. If not,

you could face expensive penalties. They run the risk of paying a charge

as big as the child benefit they are paying back, and we just want to get

the system up and running, so it is important they register, even if

they do it late. Facing a budget deficit of over £100 billion, the

Treasury said it was only fair that the top 15% of households made a

contribution. People earning £30,000 per year should not be paying taxes

to fund benefits for those wealthier households.

Whether or not those affected think the new charge is fair, the vast

majority of the 1.1 million people who it applies to have already

registered to pay it through the tax system. The remaining 200,000 have

until midnight to do so. Protests have been taking place in

cities around the world over the detention of 30 Greenpeace activists

in Russia. They have been charged with piracy after a demonstration at

a Russian oil platform in the Arctic. Six are British, and Sarah

Campbell has been speaking to relatives and supporters who have

been holding a protest in London today.

A worrying time for the friends, families and supporters of the six

British nationals imprisoned in Northern Rock. The authorities have

allowed little contact. Geordie Harris has received just one e-mail

from her older sister. She is very upset. She cannot see her friends,

it is a very emotional time, and she's still trying to work out why

this is happening to them all. The campaigners were protesting against

drilling in the Arctic at a Russian platform. They were prevented from

boarding by armed platform. They were prevented from

charged with piracy, which carries a maximum jail term of 15 years.

Protests like this are happening in 40 different countries, and the idea

is to pile pressure on the Russian authorities as publicly as possible.

Helping to do that, high-profile supporters, Damon Albarn and Jude

law, both family friends of an activist. They get into these

situations, often expecting arrest, and that draws attention, which is a

positive, but the idea that there is a possibility of a 15 year prison

stretch is beyond reason. Kieran Brian's family travelled from Devon

to show their support. I just cannot stop thinking about it all the time,

it is every minute of every day. Hopefully, you know, things like

this and what Greenpeace are doing will just help get him home, we just

want him home. The UK Foreign Office says it will continue to raise the

issue with the Russian authorities. The families can do little but wait

and hope for a breakthrough. Prince Harry has been greeting

crowds in Australia in his first official visits to the country. He

inspected warships in Sydney Harbour, acting as the Queen's

representative at centenary submissions for the Australian navy.

representative at centenary Jon Donnison reports.

Prince Harry on duty down under. Few people take a weekend trip to

Australia, and after a 20 hour flight he spent much of the day at

sea aboard one of a flotilla of Australian warships in Sydney's

magnificent harbour. Prince Harry is here as guest of honour for the

Australian navy's international fleet review. After several hours at

sea and a quick change outfits, Prince Harry in amongst them as he

got back on dry land for a walkabout. Judging from the

reception he got, not too many Republicans on show, but plenty keen

to get to know the fourth in line to the throne. Hopefully he finds me

waiting for him, yes! I am a lovely Australian girl, I would make a

great wife, ready for the prince! Is very popular in Australia, because

he is down-to-earth, and he gets on with everybody, he is well liked

here. And at nightfall, a spectacular finale. Australians know

how to do fireworks. The Harbour transformed, the famous opera house

providing the canvas for a dazzling light show. If the prince managed to

fight off the jet lag, he will have witnessed what was billed as one of

the biggest firework displays the world has ever seen.

And that is it, we are back with the