:00:00. > :00:00.The Liberal Democrats distance themselves from a key coalition
:00:07. > :00:11.policy in England, calling for changes to free schools.
:00:12. > :00:13.After saying free schools should use only qualified teachers and follow
:00:14. > :00:16.the National Curriculum, Nick Clegg's now at odds with the
:00:17. > :00:18.Education Secretary, Michael Gove Britain's nuclear future - the
:00:19. > :00:21.Government is set to give the go ahead to for a new plant in
:00:22. > :00:23.Somerset. In Syria, government troops are
:00:24. > :00:26.targeted in a suicide attack as the Arab League prepares for an
:00:27. > :00:31.international conference to try to end the conflict.
:00:32. > :00:35.A state of emergency in the Australian state of New South Wales
:00:36. > :00:47.as it battles its worst bush fires for a decade.
:00:48. > :00:49.And after dazzling for England, Andros Townsend's on target again as
:00:50. > :00:56.Tottenham beat Aston Villa. -- Andros Townsend is on target
:00:57. > :01:13.again for Tottenham. Good evening. The Deputy Prime
:01:14. > :01:15.Minister Nick Clegg has accused his Conservative coalition partners of
:01:16. > :01:19.failing to enforce basic standards of education in free schools in
:01:20. > :01:23.England. He wants the schools to employ qualified teachers and follow
:01:24. > :01:26.the National Curriculum. Downing Street's expressed surprise at the
:01:27. > :01:36.comments. Here's our political correspondent, Iain Watson.
:01:37. > :01:40.A lesson from political history is that education policy is often
:01:41. > :01:45.controversial, but now some Cabinet ministers appear to be throwing the
:01:46. > :01:48.book at each other. The Lib Dem leader says the Conservative
:01:49. > :01:52.Education Secretary, Michael Gove, could do better with the free
:01:53. > :01:57.schools policy. Nick Clegg says these schools need to be, well, a
:01:58. > :02:02.bit less free. The first of a new generation of schools in England
:02:03. > :02:11.opened in 2011, state funded but free from council control. Following
:02:12. > :02:13.a week of bad publicity when a school in Derby was found inadequate
:02:14. > :02:18.and two unqualified headteachers resigned from free schools, the
:02:19. > :02:24.deputy PM is calling for changes. Yes, give schools more freedom and
:02:25. > :02:27.time, good bit -- but with parents the reassurance that their school,
:02:28. > :02:31.whether it be a free school, an academy or another school, that the
:02:32. > :02:34.children are taught by qualified teachers to the same standards as in
:02:35. > :02:39.the rest of the country. In practice, that would mean free
:02:40. > :02:43.schools teaching the National Curriculum, employing only qualified
:02:44. > :02:45.teachers or those close to qualification and meeting certain
:02:46. > :02:50.nutritional standards for school meals. This teacher is braving the
:02:51. > :02:54.weather to tell parents and children about how she wants to change the
:02:55. > :02:57.climate in English education. She is setting up a free school in Wembley
:02:58. > :03:02.and says Nick Clegg should give state schools the same freedom as
:03:03. > :03:06.the private school he attended - including employing experts without
:03:07. > :03:11.formal teaching qualifications. When I talk about a private school ethos,
:03:12. > :03:17.Nick Clegg speaks five languages, partly because of the school he went
:03:18. > :03:21.to. We want to provide the same for inner-city children. The
:03:22. > :03:25.Conservatives claimed that most of the 174 free schools in England are
:03:26. > :03:29.successful and there is no chance of the changes being introduced before
:03:30. > :03:33.the next election. Academies and free schools are one of the great
:03:34. > :03:37.successes of this government, a success proving itself on the
:03:38. > :03:41.ground, incredibly popular with parents and students. The Lib Dems
:03:42. > :03:44.say they promised to make changes to free schools in the next manifesto,
:03:45. > :03:49.and in the run-up to the next election, expect the coalition
:03:50. > :03:50.parties to mark out further differences in order to appeal to
:03:51. > :03:56.their own voters. And Iain is with me now. You said
:03:57. > :04:01.there would be divisions, how much of an issue will free schools be?
:04:02. > :04:05.Nick Clegg is saying that he wants a grown-up debate about education. I'd
:04:06. > :04:12.frankly, talking to Conservatives and Lib Dems, they are more less
:04:13. > :04:17.saying boo sucks to reach the behind-the-scenes! Downing Street
:04:18. > :04:22.say they were caught by surprise by his comments. Those around the
:04:23. > :04:25.Education Secretary are saying clearly that they don't think that
:04:26. > :04:30.Nick Clegg understands the policy, because only a few days ago the Lib
:04:31. > :04:35.Dem Education Minister, David Laws, defended free schools to the hilt in
:04:36. > :04:38.the Commons, including the right to employ teachers without proper
:04:39. > :04:44.qualifications. Nick Clegg is saying, I have to reassure teachers
:04:45. > :04:48.that free schools will match certain minimum standards, this is very
:04:49. > :04:52.important politically. He denies he is moving closer to Labour but I
:04:53. > :04:56.think it is the beginning of a process when the coalition parties
:04:57. > :05:04.begin to divert John education and other issues in the run-up to the
:05:05. > :05:07.election. In Syria, at least 30 people have
:05:08. > :05:10.been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the city of Hama. The explosion
:05:11. > :05:13.happened at a checkpoint and it's thought most of those killed were
:05:14. > :05:16.government troops. The Arab League says an international conference
:05:17. > :05:19.will be held next month to discuss ways of ending the two and a half
:05:20. > :05:24.year civil war. The fiery aftermath of a huge
:05:25. > :05:28.suicide truck bomb on the outskirts of Hama. At least a tonne of
:05:29. > :05:34.explosives laid waste to a government checkpoint. It is thought
:05:35. > :05:38.a petrol tanker may have exploded, adding to the chaos. Hama has been
:05:39. > :05:42.under strict government control since security forces stormed the
:05:43. > :05:46.city two years ago, ending months of resistance. It is thought this
:05:47. > :05:50.attack was the work of militants linked to Al-Qaeda.
:05:51. > :05:54.Continued efforts for some kind of peace process to get off the ground.
:05:55. > :06:00.The head of the Arab league in Cairo said that talks will take place in
:06:01. > :06:03.Geneva on November 23. The UN special for Syria sounded a note of
:06:04. > :06:08.caution. TRANSLATION: Of course, the
:06:09. > :06:12.conference cannot take place without the presence of an opposition which
:06:13. > :06:17.represents a considerable part of the Syrian people who oppose the
:06:18. > :06:22.regime. Whether Tehran will be there is another big question. After last
:06:23. > :06:28.week's positive nuclear talks in Geneva, diplomats are consciously
:06:29. > :06:32.optimistic. Iran supports the Assad regime and rejected the last round
:06:33. > :06:38.of talks in Geneva in 2012. It could play an important role. Foreign
:06:39. > :06:43.Secretary William Hague hosts a meeting of the so-called Friends Of
:06:44. > :06:46.Syria at Lancaster house during the week.
:06:47. > :06:49.Members of the moderate Syrian opposition will be there. They are
:06:50. > :06:53.divided on the wisdom of sitting down with the Assad regime. The
:06:54. > :06:58.message she will be that this is not an opportunity to miss. But the
:06:59. > :07:01.suicide bombers have a different agenda, hostile to the Assad regime
:07:02. > :07:07.and opposed to negotiated settlements as well.
:07:08. > :07:10.The American investment bank JP Morgan Chase is expected to pay a
:07:11. > :07:13.record $13 billion - around ?8 billion - to settle claims over the
:07:14. > :07:16.selling of financial products that helped bring about the financial
:07:17. > :07:29.crisis. Some of the money could be set aside for homeowners who lost
:07:30. > :07:31.their homes during the crisis. The brother of a British man killed
:07:32. > :07:34.along with his wife, his mother-in-law and a passing cyclist
:07:35. > :07:37.in the French Alps last year has denied arranging their murder.
:07:38. > :07:39.Zaid-al-Hilli, who's on bail after being arrested on suspicion of
:07:40. > :07:41.conspiracy to murder, has been speaking to the BBC's Panorama
:07:42. > :07:46.programme. He also rejected claims of a feud with his brother Saad.
:07:47. > :07:50.Jane Corbin reports. A father, mother and grandmother
:07:51. > :07:53.shot at point-blank range in my car by what is thought to be a
:07:54. > :08:01.professional hit man. A French cyclist is also killed. The
:08:02. > :08:09.daughters of Saad al-Hilli and his wife are the only survivors. The
:08:10. > :08:13.four year-old hid under her dead mother's scourge. Seven year-old
:08:14. > :08:17.Zainab, shot and left for dead, can only remember one bad man.
:08:18. > :08:22.Investigators in France have worked on a number of theories involving
:08:23. > :08:26.the al-Hilli family. Was it a disputed inheritance, or something
:08:27. > :08:33.involving their background in Iraq? Or could it be espionage because of
:08:34. > :08:36.Saad's work as a satellite engineer? Over one year later and nobody has
:08:37. > :08:41.been charged with the murder. Only one suspect has been arrested, older
:08:42. > :08:48.brother Zaid al-Hilli, who remains on bail under suspicion of
:08:49. > :08:52.conspiracy to murder. He spoke to Panorama about the allegations in
:08:53. > :08:57.his first-ever television interview. Did you kill your brother? Of course
:08:58. > :09:02.not. Did you arrange for anyone else to kill your brother and relatives?
:09:03. > :09:08.No, the people who killed my brother the French. Weights-macro Zaid says
:09:09. > :09:11.French police shut down their investigation into Sylvain Mollier,
:09:12. > :09:20.the murdered cyclist, too soon. They are covering up for someone in
:09:21. > :09:27.France, in that region, and they know it. Sylvain Mollier was
:09:28. > :09:32.involved in family disputes and he was an outsider to this rich family.
:09:33. > :09:40.There is something more to it, locally. Most crime has local roots.
:09:41. > :09:43.The French prosecutor says he is sure the cyclist was there by
:09:44. > :09:46.accident and is convinced there was a feud between the al-Hilli
:09:47. > :09:50.brothers. TRANSLATION: Zaid tried to steal
:09:51. > :09:56.from his father, one way or another, and there was a very serious feud
:09:57. > :10:01.between the two brothers. So serious that Saad was afraid of his brother
:10:02. > :10:05.Zaid. As you know, you change the locks on the house and fitted a new
:10:06. > :10:09.alarm. Zaid denies there was a feud, but
:10:10. > :10:13.French investigators think he had a motive for the murder. They are
:10:14. > :10:20.mid-they have no evidence as to who the hit man and his accomplices
:10:21. > :10:23.were. Despite involving more than a dozen international forces in the
:10:24. > :10:27.investigation, police don't seem any closer to finding who is responsible
:10:28. > :10:29.for the killings. And you can see that Panorama
:10:30. > :10:40.investigation in full tomorrow night at 9pm, here on BBC One.
:10:41. > :10:44.The government is set to give the go-ahead tomorrow for Britain's
:10:45. > :10:48.first new nuclear power plant for a generation at Hinkley Point in
:10:49. > :10:53.Somerset. French owned energy giant EDF is leading the consortium
:10:54. > :10:58.building the plant with the help of significant financial investment
:10:59. > :11:01.from China. Joe Lynam reports. The expansion of this nuclear power
:11:02. > :11:05.plant in Somerset is already under way, and the focus for one of the
:11:06. > :11:08.Government pits biggest ever investment in energy. Hinkley Point
:11:09. > :11:16.currently produces one present of British energy need, but soon it
:11:17. > :11:20.could account for 7%. That would allow very reliable and low carbon
:11:21. > :11:24.energy until the second half of the century, but at a price. The
:11:25. > :11:31.Government could be about to promise to pay EDF a fixed fee of between
:11:32. > :11:35.?90 and ?93 per megawatt per hour, almost twice the current wholesale
:11:36. > :11:41.market price for electricity at around ?50. The government will pay
:11:42. > :11:43.that for 30 to 40 years, irrespective of whether market
:11:44. > :11:47.prices soar or collapse. Negotiations were a delicate
:11:48. > :11:51.balancing act. If the government paid too much they would be
:11:52. > :11:55.subsidising EDF for four decades, too little and EDF could not afford
:11:56. > :12:00.to build it. Who is the money going to? The French owned EDF leads a
:12:01. > :12:06.consortium including two Chinese energy companies, some of whom will
:12:07. > :12:11.be wooed by the Chancellor that -- were wooed by the Chancellor last
:12:12. > :12:17.week. Of the big six suppliers here, only two suppliers are British.
:12:18. > :12:22.Non-wish to invest in the next generation of nuclear energy. All
:12:23. > :12:30.the British firms have pulled out. One by one x one, largely be worth
:12:31. > :12:35.of the horrendous cost of nuclear energy and the very real concerns
:12:36. > :12:40.about construction costs. -- largely because of the horrendous cost.
:12:41. > :12:44.These deals may mean little to ordinary households, who are about
:12:45. > :12:49.to see their bills rise by up to 10%. SSE and British Gas have put up
:12:50. > :12:52.prices and the remaining four big players are expected to follow suit,
:12:53. > :12:58.possibly as soon as the end of this week. The deal has been haggled over
:12:59. > :13:03.for the past two years. Much of the detail will be announced tomorrow by
:13:04. > :13:08.Energy Secretary Ed Davey, but the reality for householders they will
:13:09. > :13:14.be sharing in some of this ?14 billion nuclear deal in future
:13:15. > :13:16.energy bills. A state of emergency has been
:13:17. > :13:19.declared in the Australian state of New South Wales, where firefighters
:13:20. > :13:22.are battling the worst bushfires for decades. The most severely affected
:13:23. > :13:26.area is in the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney. Rising temperatures
:13:27. > :13:33.and strong winds are now set to make things worse. From Sydney, Jon
:13:34. > :13:39.Donnison reports. New South Wales is still burning.
:13:40. > :13:43.One of the most devastating bushfires in a decade could be about
:13:44. > :13:48.to get worse. The cooler weather of the last few days has come to an
:13:49. > :13:54.end. The forecast for this week is hot, windy and with little prospect
:13:55. > :13:59.for rain. It has led the authorities to declare a state of emergency,
:14:00. > :14:02.giving them new powers. These include the right to order the
:14:03. > :14:06.public to leave all to enter an area, the right to shore up or
:14:07. > :14:15.demolish a building and, of course, it prevents people from disobeying
:14:16. > :14:20.an order given under these powers. The biggest fires raging in the Blue
:14:21. > :14:26.Mountains, to the west of Sydney. Firefighters are battling on the
:14:27. > :14:30.ground, and also from the air. Hundreds of people have lost their
:14:31. > :14:35.homes already. Today, many more have been told to flee, taking with them
:14:36. > :14:40.what they can. There are even reports of people looting some of
:14:41. > :14:45.the empty homes. How can people do this, when we are going through
:14:46. > :14:51.enough without that? They are just a waste of oxygen, they really are. In
:14:52. > :14:54.the Blue Mountains, these sorts of small spot fires are flaring up all
:14:55. > :15:01.the time. After months with little rain, the Bush is tender dry --
:15:02. > :15:07.tinder dry. Most of the communities around here have evacuated. The
:15:08. > :15:11.fires have come unusually early in the season and follow Australia's
:15:12. > :15:14.hottest year on record. As for this week, as one senior firefighters
:15:15. > :15:20.said today, even the best case scenario is bad.
:15:21. > :15:23.A clear-up is under way after a mini-tornado hit Hayling Island in
:15:24. > :15:27.Hampshire. Dozens of homes were damaged by high winds that uprooted
:15:28. > :15:31.trees and ripped tiles off roofs. Vehicles, power lines and beach huts
:15:32. > :15:42.have also been damaged. Police say there are no reports of injuries.
:15:43. > :15:45.And now had time for the sports news with Olly Foster.
:15:46. > :15:48.It's been quite a week for Andros Townsend. After helping England
:15:49. > :15:51.qualify for the World Cup next year, he was back on duty for Tottenham
:15:52. > :15:59.today. He scored in their 2-0 wind at Aston Villa. Tim Hague reports.
:16:00. > :16:03.If you didn't know who Andros Townsend was a week ago, you
:16:04. > :16:09.probably do now. A star for England before a purely joke overshadowed
:16:10. > :16:12.it. Playing today for Tottenham, guess who scored the opener against
:16:13. > :16:17.Aston Villa? Is cross evaded everyone. He would have cared more
:16:18. > :16:21.about the shocking sight that followed as a fan launched a flyer
:16:22. > :16:26.from the away section, straight up the linesman. He was OK, thankfully.
:16:27. > :16:32.The game continued, so did its theme, as Townsend was part of the
:16:33. > :16:38.action again. While the goalkeeper foil bat, his save from Paulinho was
:16:39. > :16:42.perhaps even better. But he was to be beaten again, Roberto Soldado has
:16:43. > :16:44.made a seamless transition into Premier League football and ended
:16:45. > :16:50.any hopes of an Aston Villa comeback. Spurs and their man of the
:16:51. > :16:56.moment on form and back within sight of the top four.
:16:57. > :17:00.The England manager Roy Hodgson was angered this week after it was
:17:01. > :17:05.reported that is half-time Wembley joke involving Andros Townsend had
:17:06. > :17:07.racially offended some players. Today he and Rio Ferdinand
:17:08. > :17:11.Manchester United have joined the FA commission set up by chairman Greg
:17:12. > :17:14.Dyke to find a way of delivering long-term success for the England
:17:15. > :17:17.team. Dyke had been criticized for the all-male, all-white composition
:17:18. > :17:19.of the commission so far. Of Ferdinand, Dyke says, as a current
:17:20. > :17:23.player with forthright views and opinions on the game, we can look
:17:24. > :17:28.forward to Rio providing significant insight and experience.
:17:29. > :17:30.second-placed Inverness lost ground on the leaders Celtic after their
:17:31. > :17:36.first home defeat of this season, Partick Thistle the 2-1 winners at
:17:37. > :17:39.the Caledonian Stadium. Kris Doohlan scored twice for the visitors, the
:17:40. > :17:42.the Caledonian Stadium. Kris Doohlan time thanks to a fumble from
:17:43. > :17:45.Inverness keeper Dean Brill. There were four more games in Rugby
:17:46. > :17:47.Inverness keeper Dean Brill. Union's Heineken Cup today,
:17:48. > :17:51.including an important fixture at Franklin,s Gardens. -- Franklins
:17:52. > :17:54.Gardens. Northampton Saints and Ospreys had lost their opening pool
:17:55. > :17:56.matches, so both sides were desperate for the win. Saints
:17:57. > :18:00.outscored the Welsh side by three tries to one, Christian Day with
:18:01. > :18:03.their second in the 27-16 win. The worry for Ospreys, no side has lost
:18:04. > :18:06.their opening two matches and managed to qualify for the
:18:07. > :18:14.quarterfinals. Elsewhere, Glasgow beat Exeter, but there were defeats
:18:15. > :18:19.for Harlequins and Edinburgh. That's all the sport.
:18:20. > :18:21.That's it from us, more through the evening on BBC News. We are back
:18:22. > :18:27.with the late News At Ten evening on BBC News. We are back
:18:28. > :18:29.back with a late news at 10pm. Time for the news wherever you are.