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