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MPs in line for an inflation beating 11% pay rise. The three main party | :00:08. | :00:15. | |
leaders have condemned the increase but some MPs are supporting it. | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
Millions of South Africans remember Nelson Mandela as the nation holds a | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
day of prayer and reflection in his honour. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Three people in custody after NEW allegations that incidents in | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
football matches have been fixed. And tempers flare in Australia as | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
England head for a second Test defeat. | :00:43. | :01:02. | |
Good evening. MPs look set to get a pay increase of 11% - that's five | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
times the rate of inflation. The move has been opposed by the three | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
main party leaders. The proposal, by the independent body that sets MPs' | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
salaries, would take effect after the next General election. Two | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
Cabinet ministers have said they won't take it because it sends the | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
wrong signal in a time of economic austerity but others have argued | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
that will help attract a better range of candidates to politics. | :01:28. | :01:36. | |
They do not normally agree on much but one thing that unites the | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
leaders of the three main parties is their complete opposition to a | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
?7,000 pay rise for MPs after the next election. The Liberal Democrats | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
at the Treasury, who has been tightening the purse string for | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
public sector workers, thinks it is a mistake. I think it would be | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
wholly inappropriate for MPs to get such a large pay rise when every | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
other public sector worker is seeing wages capped. Currently MPs earn | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
just under ?66,500. That should rise to ?74,000 after the next election, | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
a jump of 11%. While politicians might be embarrassed, there is not | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
much they can do. Parliament gave away the right to set MPs paid | :02:27. | :02:39. | |
before the last election. This pay rise will not actually cost the | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
taxpayer extra. MPs will have to contribute more to their pensions. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Some believe the pay rise is justified. We are trying to make | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
sure that people who have been successful do not have to make to | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
match the sacrifice if they are elected. Church services have been | :02:58. | :03:08. | |
held across South Africa to remember and honour the life of Nelson | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
Mandela. The former president died on Thursday at the age of 95. Clive | :03:12. | :03:32. | |
Myrie is in Soweto. Here, thousands of people throughout the day have | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
been on this -- the street celebrating the life of Nelson | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Mandela. Millions of people across the country have chosen quiet prayer | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
and contemplation to reflect on the achievement and legacy on the man | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
they call the father of the nation. It has been a day. And prayers all | :03:53. | :04:13. | |
over South Africa. -- a day for songs and prayers. The long life of | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
Nelson Mandela has been commemorated in churches and hilltops. It is very | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
difficult to find someone like Nelson Mandela. He was loved by | :04:25. | :04:36. | |
everyone. It is very difficult. Nelson Mandela himself was raised in | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
the Methodist Church. Giving this service in Johannesburg a particular | :04:45. | :04:56. | |
resonance today. Sitting a few miles away today, the ex-wife of Nelson | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
Mandela, Winnie. She is still very much in the public eye. He believed | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
in forgiving and he forgave Dash even those who kept him in jail for | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
27 years. Today was about all sorts of things Dash not least political. | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
An AMC events, Mandela backed the party till the end. It has been in | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
power for 20 years and it has just lost its most iconic asset. We are | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
teaching our grandchildren to be loyal to this party. With or without | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
Nelson Mandela. On the street outside, and abrupt change of mood. | :05:47. | :05:58. | |
The this may be a country in morning but only to a point. There is no | :05:59. | :06:07. | |
shortage of exceed rents here. -- exuberance. No time to be sad. We | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
must celebrate for what he did for us. And that is the mood here now. | :06:16. | :06:26. | |
More gratitude than tears in a young democracy shaped by extraordinary | :06:27. | :06:35. | |
life. -- shaped by one extraordinary life. Nelson Mandela is a global | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
icon, admired and revered around the world. In London, the Archbishop of | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
Canterbury, Justin Welby, has led a service of remembrance at St Martin | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
in the Fields in London. He praised the humanity of Nelson Mandela. The | :06:51. | :07:00. | |
service was described as a tribute, but also a lament and press the | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
South Africa, deprived of Nelson Mandela. He was that rarest of | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
leaders. The Archbishop of Canterbury preached about his | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
extraordinary capacity to forgive. He said Mr Mandela had rescued a | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
country on the brink of civil war. I remember clearly the forecasts of | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dead. When you see his | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
capacity to turn that around, that says something about an inner force | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
based in a vision of what humanity should be. He said Nelson Mandela | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
had melted courage into the goodness -- into forgiveness. He had been | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
motivated in part by Christian ideals. Saint Martin in the fields | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
campaigned against apartheid. For some, today's service brought a | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
sense of closure. Others wondered who would replace Mr Mandela. South | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
Africa is of course in the middle of ten days of so many marking the | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
death of Nelson Mandela. On Tuesday, there will be a memorial service and | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
many heads of state have already indicated, including President Obama | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
and the Queen, that they will be in attendance. One week from today, one | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
of the world 's most revered statesman will be buried in his home | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
village in the Eastern Cape. Three people are in custody in connection | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
with new allegations that incidents in football matches have been fixed. | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
The National Crime Agency confirmed it was examining claims passed to it | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
by the Sun on Sunday. The newspaper reports allegations that former | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
Portsmouth player Sam Sodje received large sums of money for getting | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
himself sent off. Can you do it again this time this | :08:56. | :09:16. | |
is the moment it is claimed money passed hands. The paper claims it | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
was arranged with Sam Sodje, a former Portsmouth player, for an | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
unknown footballer to receive a yellow card. Sam Sodje explains to | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
the reporter he deliberately punched an opponent in the league one game | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
between Portsmouth and Oldham in February of this year in order to be | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
sent off. He claims he received ?70,000 in return. His manager | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
remembers the moment. Sam came racing over will stop I did not see | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
the incident. In the cold light of day, you cannot fathom out why he | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
has done it. In a statement, his former club said, if these serious | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
allegations are true, we are extremely shocked and saddened by | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
them. This goes against our heart and integrity of the game. In a | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
separate video, the paper also alleges that he fixes for another | :10:19. | :10:28. | |
player to get a yellow card. The ball league says it treats these | :10:29. | :10:39. | |
claims of criminal activity with utmost seriousness. The football | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
Association says it is cooperating with the police over this enquiry. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
In a separate investigation, four men were charged in connection with | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
match fixing, it is believed in non-league football. These claims | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
will be of grave concern to the football Association and those | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
authorities tasks with keeping the integrity of football intact. Three | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
men, believed to be victims of slavery, have been rescued following | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
a series of raids in south Gloucestershire and Bristol. Avon | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
and Somerset Police said the raids followed an investigation into | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
forced labour and human trafficking and a 'substantial quantity' of cash | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
had been found at one address. Two people have been arrested. We are | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
supporting three people at the moment that we found on the site we | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
visited. We visited three traveller sites today. A commercial building | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
and three residential properties. We now are looking after those victims | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
and taking them to a place of safety and giving them the medical | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
attention and support that they need. Six million people in the UK | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
are classed as living in poverty even though they are in work, | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. A report by the social | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
policy charity says more working households are in poverty than | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
non-working ones, with low pay and part-time work contributing to an | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
unprecedented fall in living standards. | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
Working hard is meant to pay. Today's report suggests, just | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
because you have a job does not protect you from poverty. An annual | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
study has found of the 30 million people living below the poverty | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
line, for the first time, more than half are actually employed. People | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
on low incomes are working and want to work longer but they are unable | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
to find the work. Of course, as a result of this week in labour | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
markets, pay rates are low and employers are still not needing to | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
compete for workers. These two things together mean people are | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
stuck in low paid work, short hours. In the last year, reports suggest a | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
surge in the number of people relying on food banks. People are | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
counted as being in poverty if the household income is below 60% of the | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
median. Today's report says average incomes have fallen by 8% in the | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
last five years and working adults with no children are now the most | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
likely group to be living in poverty. Ministers insist that | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
employment remains the best route out of poverty and say their welfare | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
reforms will encourage people to get a job. It has been a month since | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines killing around 6,000 people. Those | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
who survived, many of them still without shelter, are trying to clear | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
away the devastation that lines many streets before they can then turn to | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
rebuilding their lives. The BBC's Jon Donnison is in one of the worst | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
hit areas, the city of Tacloban, on the island of Leyte. One month has | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
gone but the full force of Typhoon Diane is far from forgotten in | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Tacloban, tens of thousands of people are living without shelter. | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
If you have anything that resembles a house, you are lucky. This woman | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
lives here with her one-year-old son. Everything is destroyed. Our | :14:06. | :14:17. | |
home. We lost everything. It is very hard. But the city is slowly | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
cleaning up. Thousands have signed up for cash for work programmes, aid | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
agencies trying to put money into people 's pockets paying them | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
everyday to shift the debris. Today the main market is busy although | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
prices are twice as high as before the Typhoon. We can survive this. We | :14:42. | :14:51. | |
can fight for our businesses. One month on, Tacloban is slowly getting | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
back on its feet. Hundreds of millions have now been pledged in | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
foreign aid. The scale of what is needed means rebuilding is going to | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
take years and not months. Tacloban is remembering the dead. But also | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
offering prayers for the living. One months on, this city still has a | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
long, long way to go. Sport now. And, in the cricket, | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
England's last four batsmen must survive the entire final day of the | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
second Ashes Test to snatch an improbable draw. | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
Everyone knew the news on Sunday in Adelaide. The match was gone, the | :15:44. | :15:52. | |
Ashes were gone. With the wind? Of all the ways to get out, hoisting | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
the ball to the man on the boundary is one of the least distinguished. | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
The fielder was still waiting in the deep when Michael Carberry whacked | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
the ball to him. Then something new. Australia had to wait for a | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
wicket. A 100 partnership between Joe Root and Kevin Peterson, who got | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
close to his full swagger. It could not last, could it? And misjudgement | :16:18. | :16:28. | |
and another wicket. He is far better than that and he knows it. Joe route | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
fought on 287. 170 145. Route was mortified. Ben Stokes stuck it out | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
for two hours and was engaged in plenty of chat. The umpire had to | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
intervene. The day ended with Matt prior and Stuart Broad at the | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
crease. Players were locked in aggravation. Is this really what | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
makes Ashes cricket? It has certainly become part of this | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
series. Australia will have the entire day to take formal English | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
wickets unless we have some of the rain that has been forecast. It | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
would take a mighty deluge to cool down these teams. There is more | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. | :17:19. | :17:20. |