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Tory MPs tell the Prime Minister that Britain should be able to veto | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
EU legislation. We want a different relationship with Europe that allows | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
democracy. That is about the right to make and change your own laws. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Thousands of Israelis pay their respects to Ariel Sharon - ahead of | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
the former Prime Minister's funeral tomorrow. After struggling in the | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
recession Jaguar Land Rover turns the corner - announcing record | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
sales. And dogged determination - the battle with flooding continues | :00:43. | :00:43. | |
as more rain is forecast. Good afternoon. Nearly a hundred | :00:44. | :01:07. | |
Conservative MPs have written to David Cameron urging him to change | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
the law to give Britain more powers to reject European Union | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
legislation. The Prime Minister has pledged to reform Britain's | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
relationship with Europe and put it to a referendum in 2017 if he wins | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
the next election. But many of his MPs appear to want to go further, | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
sooner. The letter emerged as the Work and Pensions Secretary said he | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
was working with other countries in Europe to try and extend the ban on | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
migrants' access to some benefits. Here's our Political Correspondent | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
Vicki Young. With European elections on the horizon, David Cameron's | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
under pressure and promised to renegotiate Britain's relationship | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
with the ept EU. But -- with the EU. But many want details now. There | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
have been some changes. When Romanians and Bulgarians got access | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
to the UK, ministers tightened the rules on benefits. Now the | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
Government is working with others in the EU to go further. There is a | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
ground swell of opinion that says people may be able to move to get a | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
job, but to live off the state is not acceptable. Some argue it is a | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
phoney debate, because migrants contribute to the economy. I'm | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
puzzled that we have this debate. Immigrants have been more likely to | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
be in employment and they're well educated and paid in 34% more into | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
the system in terms of taxes, than what they took out in terms of | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
transfers and benefits. Ministers say Britain's not alone in wanting | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
reform of the EU. They say Germany and the Netherlands are on side too. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
The problem for David Cameron is that tinkering with the rules on | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
benefits simply won't satisfy a Sigg captain part -- significant part of | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
his own party. They want the power of Brussels reduced and this place | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
given a bigger say. More than 90 Tory MPs have written to David | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
Cameron urging him to give Parliament a national veto over EU | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
laws. We want a different relationship with the EU that allows | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
democracy. That is about the right to make and change your own laws. | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
And that is what we are asking Parliament to take back. But senior | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
Conservatives say the idea is unrealistic. If national Parliaments | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
around the European Union were regularly and unilateral erally able | :03:41. | :03:53. | |
to decide which laws they would use the market wouldn't work. The Deputy | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
Prime Minister accused the Tories of jeopardising British jobs. It is | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
essential that we remain an outward facing, open trading nation. Not | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
pull up the draw bridge and cower behind the cliffs of Dover, but to | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
have that British bull dog spirit. David Cameron isn't the first | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Conservative leader to find himself trying to unite a party with | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
different views on Europe. Thousands of Israelis have paid their respects | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
to their former prime minister Ariel Sharon - as his coffin lay in state | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
outside the Knesset in Jerusalem. His death yesterday at the age of 85 | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
came eight years after the stroke which left him in a coma. Quentin | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
Sommerville is in Jerusalem for us now. The crowds were not huge today. | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
But they were steady. Perhaps a reflection on the fact that Ariel | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
Sharon has been absent from Israeli life for eight years. He has been in | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
a coma. For many of those who attended today, his presence is | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
still very much alive. With a moment's silence, Israel's president | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
was the first to pay his respects. As Ariel Sharon lay in state. Today, | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
it was the people's turn to pray and to say goodbye. Rabbis from Israel's | :05:17. | :05:28. | |
armed services recited from the book of psalms. This man served under | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
Ariel Sharon in battle and travelled hours to be here. He remembers a | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
charismatic warrior. This is the minimum act that I can do when he is | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
going to be... Buried very soon. And it's kind of a commitment that I had | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
to do. I think that everybody should do that. He was hailed a hero for | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
crossing the Suez canal in the war of 73. For many, he personally won | :06:04. | :06:14. | |
the conflict and saved Israel. TRANSLATION: He was tied to the land | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
and understood above all else our independence relies on our ability | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
to defend ourselves by ourselves. His enemies and there were many, | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
didn't attend today. The Palestinians had no reconciliation. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
They see him as a butcher and a criminal. Ariel Sharon's legacy | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
remains controversial. But already his place as someone who shaped | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
Israeli history is secure. The memorial service for Ariel Sharon | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
will start tomorrow morning here in Jerusalem. There will be an address | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
from the US vice president and Tony Blair and a military convoy will | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
take its coffin to his final resting place by his farm in the south of | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
Israel. Thank you. Valerie Trierweiler, the partner of French | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
President Francois Hollande, has been hospitalised just days after | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
the President was accused by a magazine of having an affair. Aides | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
say she has been admitted for exhaustion and to undergo tests. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Closer magazine claimed on Friday that Mr Hollande has been having an | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
affair with an actress - Julie Gayet. Nd with police officers. The | :07:25. | :07:39. | |
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, is to | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
be created a Cardinal by Pope Francis. Archbishop Nichols will be | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
among 19 new cardinals appointed from across the world to be formally | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
installed at a ceremony in the Vatican next month. He says he's | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
deeply moved by the honour. Jaguar Land Rover has announced record | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
sales for last year - selling more than 400,000 vehicles. The figures | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
were boosted by a 40% leap in overseas sales of Jaguars - with the | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
cars proving popular in America, Germany and India. Our Business | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Correspondent Joe Lyman reports. It's the vehicle of choice for | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
future kings, as well as current Prime Ministers and increasingly so | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
for thousands of drivers around the world. Jaguar and Land Rover have | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
never sold as many of their luxury cars as they did last year, with | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
America, India and Germany seeing the biggest growth. In all, Jaguar | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
Land Rover sold 425,000 of its luxury vehicles around the world. Up | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
nearly a fifth. The Land Rover brand, which includes Range Rover | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
accounted for 350,000 of those sales. Up 15%. Nearly 80,000 Jaguar | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
cars were sold, up 42% on the previous year and the customer | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
widens and gets younger. Historically Jaguar has always | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
attracted a person of a certain age profile. Over the last four year, | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
the demographic of our customers has changed dramatically and we see | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
customers of all ages come to the show room now. And more sales means | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
more manufacturing. JLR is hiring more than 2,000 additional people at | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
its plants in the West Midlands and Merseyside, bringing to 26,000 the | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
number of UK-based staff. The turn around of Jaguar Land Rover has been | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
phenomenal. Five years ago as the recession started, the demand for | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
cars fell off a cliff and JLR even stopped making them for a while. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
They went cap in hand for a financial bailout to the UK | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
Government. But what they didn't do was stop focussing on quality. They | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
aimed at the new emerging markets of China, India and Brazil and they got | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
them. It's certainly the case that without China they wouldn't be | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
nearly as exciting and they have got a long way to go still in China in | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
growth. There is still further growth there. What is promising is | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
we have seen growth in India and Germany and the United States. It is | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
a broad-based growth. And it is not just Jaguar Land Rover doing well. | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
Last week it was confirmed that car sales in Britain are at their | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
highest since 2007, thanks to a recovering economy and cheap finance | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
packages. After nearly a month of fighting, Government forces in South | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
Sudan are attempting to recapture the last key town still in the hands | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
of rebel fighters - as peace talks in neighbouring Ethopia stall. | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Troops are mobilising to retake Bor - where thousands of civilians are | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
trying to escape the violence. Andrew Harding is just outside the | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
town. The first boats arrive at dawn. Desperate families fleeing | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
heavy fighting on far side of the River Nile. It's not a free trip. | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
The grandmother has had to borrow money to pay for the crossing. How | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
many times in your life have you had to run because of war? She goes | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
through the list. This is the tenth, she says. The children wait near by, | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
while today's wounded are brought ashore. There is a Government | :10:58. | :11:10. | |
soldier. A grandfather. But Peter's younger brother didn't make it. Shot | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
beside him, he says, by the rebels. The bullet leave the mouth and then | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
the bullet stay in. The bullet not come out again from the head. So he | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
died? Yes. Nobody will play with me again. The survivors gather for | :11:25. | :11:34. | |
Sunday worship, praying for an end to a bewildering conflict. A power | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
struggling that is now dividing the country on ethnic lines. Suddenly a | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
muffled roar - air strikes out of sight across the river. We head | :11:44. | :11:54. | |
deeper into the countryside. We are trying to find a group of families | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
that we have heard may be taking refuge. The concern is because this | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
is a such a vast country and access is so difficult there maybe | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
thousands of people in the same situation. We find a family | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
sheltering from the sun. They got here yesterday. Five in their group | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
were killed on the journey. They say thousands more are still trapped on | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
the far side of the river. But there is a new arrival, this baby was born | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
last week as his mother hid in the bushes, waiting for a boat to | :12:29. | :12:37. | |
safety. England's dismal tour of Australia has continued with defeat | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
in the first one day international in Melbourne earlier this morning. | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
England made 269 for seven after deciding to bat first but that total | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
never proved challenging enough. Aaron Finch scored a century for | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
Australia and they reached their target with six wickets and 26 balls | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
to spare. Football and Liverpool's match against Stoke at the Brittania | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
stadium is in the final few minutes, and it's currently 2-2. Now it is | :13:03. | :13:12. | |
4-2 to Liverpool. Earlier Manchester City returned to the top of the | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
Premier league following a 2-0 win at Newcastle. Edin Dzeko with their | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
opening goal. But the match will be remembered for referee Mike Jones' | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
decision to disallow Newcastle an equaliser. Their manager Alan Pardew | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
making his feelings clear at half time. And there was one match in the | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
Scottish Premiership where Inverness and Dundee United shared the points. | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
Keith Watson heading United's equaliser shortly after Inverness | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
had taken the lead. Now if you're wondering when the flood threat will | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
recede - the answer is not yet. With further rain forecast, the | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
Environment Agency is warning of more flooding particularly in the | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
South East of England and along parts of the River Thames. There are | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
still more than 60 flood warnings in place in England and Wales. Keith | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Doyle reports now from Old Windsor in Berkshire. Taking the dog for a | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
daily walk is not straight forward here. A boat is needed to take them | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
to dry land. And this has been the case for more than a week op this | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
stretch of the Thames near Windsor. Physically and mentally it has been | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
affecting us badly. You know, you just, it has just been going on and | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
on and it is like a slow water torture. This area has been flooded | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
for days. The Thames swollen by prolonged heavy rain upstream. Homes | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
that have riv views are now in the river. Water at waist level at some | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
people's' front doors. Businesses have been affected. They're used to | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
some minor flooding here, but nothing like this. It is a losing | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
battle for many. We have moved all the stock off the floor. We have | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
cleared as much as we can off the floor to make the office safe. That | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
is all we can do. We put barricades in place. But water will always find | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
its way. The water's starting to recede slightly, but with more rain | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
forecast for the next few days and a few days after that they expect the | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
water levels to rise and rise again. Flood alerts are likely to be in | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
place for the next week. For now, this will remain the daily routine. | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel, we are | :15:26. | :15:26. |