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signal about Britain. The Syrian peace talks focus on aid | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
for the people of Homs and securing the release of prisoners. | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
And an upset in the Australian Open as Stanislas Wawrinka beats an | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
injured Raphael Nadal to take the men's title in Melbourne. | :00:34. | :00:52. | |
Good afternoon. The Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, has insisted | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
that Labour is pro-business after criticism of his party's plans to | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
increase the top rate of income tax to 50 pence in the pound. Some | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
business leaders have suggested that the policy could jeopardise the | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
economic recovery. This morning, Mr Balls ruled out any further increase | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
under Labour to a 60 pence top rate. Our political correspondent, Louise | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
Stewart, reports. Ed Balls' announcement of the return | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
of the 50p tax rate has proved devices, with even the former City | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
minister criticising it. At the Shadow Chancellor defended the move | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
this morning. We are a pro-business party. This is not an anti-business | :01:41. | :01:49. | |
agenda. But, Andrew, it is an anti-business as usual agenda. Some | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
business leaders have warned that increasing the rate could put the | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
recovery at risk. Fiscal policy sends a powerful message and has a | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
powerful impact on investment decisions. Yes, personal income tax | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
but also corporate income tax as a significant bearing on those | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
decisions. Arguments over the top rate of tax are not new. In 2009, | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
Alistair Darling announced that the top rate for tax for those earning | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
over ?150,000 per year would increase to 50p in time for the | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
general election. Three years on, the Conservative Chancellor brought | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
it down from 50p to 45p, allowing Labour to accuse him of cat -- | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
cutting tax for the rich. The Foreign Secretary says the proposal | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
sent out the wrong message on Britain's economy. Ed Balls | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
descending the signal that with the Labour government, we go back to | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
high tax, high borrowing, high spending. That is an anti-business, | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
anti-job creation agenda. At balls didn't say how much the tax rate | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
would generate but said it was fair way to get the deficit down. -- Ed | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
Balls. Louise is here. Despite the | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
criticism some evidence today the public like Labour's 50p policy? | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
The majority of the public who vote don't pay it because it is only for | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
the very highest earners, those earning over ?150,000 per year. A | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
survey today suggests that when asked, the sample, six out of ten | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
said they would support an increase in the top rate of tax. There does | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
seem to be support from some voters. Does it suggest the idea of whether | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
you are pro or anti business could be one of the battle grounds in the | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
run-up to the election? I think it will be. The former Labour | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Chancellor who increased the rate in the first place, Alistair Darling, | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
has been on today to defend it as well. He has been saying that it | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
should be brought in for the next Parliament and that would help to | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
share the burden on those with the broadest shoulders, who could afford | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
it, and would reduce the deficit. They have both said it should be a | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
temporary measure. The question is, will it be enough to win over medics | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
like business leaders, who are warning it could be detrimental to | :04:01. | :04:11. | |
the recovery? The government is to outlaw the sale | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
of electronic cigarettes to people under the age of 18 in England. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Ministers are also going to make it illegal for adults to buy real | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
cigarettes for children. Daniel Boettcher reports. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Electronic syrups are growing in popularity will subvert designed to | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
stop people -- electronic cigarettes are growing in popularity. They are | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
designed to stop people being reliant on tobacco cigarettes. Some | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
people argue there hasn't been enough research into the potential | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
long-term effects of the electronic products. Many health professionals | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
have welcomed new laws to be introduced in England that will not | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
stop the sale of e-cigarettes to under 18s. Tobacco products are | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
already banned from sale to under 18s. E-cigarettes should be | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
considered in the same legislation. Manufacturers of e-cigarettes have | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
also welcomed the changes, saying they have always been clear that | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
their products are not for those under 18. There are to be changes in | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
the law on the sale of normal cigarettes, too, banning adults from | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
buying them for children. 41% of 15-year-olds who smoke usually by | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
the cigarettes from others rather than trying to get them in shops. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
95% of 11-15 -year-olds who smoke have got somebody off to buy them at | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
least once in the past year. -- somebody else. We know that this is | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
a major source of supply to younger smokers. It would be a good idea to | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
do something about that. In principle, we support the | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
government's move. You have to make sure it is enforced. The changes | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
will bring the law into line with that for alcohol. A teenager | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
arrested 's vision of murder after the discovery of a girl's body had | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
been sectioned under the mental health act. The 16 yard will be | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
transferred to a secure hospital while he remains on police bail. -- | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
the 16-year-old. The body was discovered in Surrey on Friday | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
afternoon. Opposition groups in Ukraine have | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
vowed to continue their protests in support of their demand for new | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
elections despite being offered senior jobs in the government. There | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
were more clashes between protestors and police in the capital Kiev | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
overnight, from where Steve Rosenberg reports. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
What is happening today? This afternoon, the protest support for a | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
service of remembrance for one of the protesters, who was killed in | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Kiev last week. Also, in a building just to the left of me, or they | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
people have been streaming into a building that was captured by a | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
group of protesters last night. There was a dramatic hassle outside | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
an exhibition centre. -- dramatic battle. There were 200 police | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
inside. They attacked the building with fireworks, with rocks, and | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
managed to force their way in. The police later retreated. It is one of | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
several buildings which anti-government protesters have now | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
captured in the Ukrainian capital. Thank you very much. | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
Representatives from the Syrian government and opposition groups are | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
meeting for a second day of face-to-face talks at the UN in | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
Geneva. Discussions are expected to cover the issues of prisoners and | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
humanitarian aid. The Chief Inspector of Schools in | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
England has accused staff at the Department for Education of briefing | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
against his organisation. Sir Michael Wilshaw spoke after a | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
newspaper said two right-leaning think tanks were to criticise | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
Ofsted, and one would call for it to be scrapped. He's told the Sunday | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
Times he was spitting blood and blamed Michael Gove's department. A | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
source close to Mr Gove said no-one close had encouraged the attacks. | :08:09. | :08:19. | |
England's miserable tour of Australia continues. They threw away | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
a winning position to lose the fifth One Day International by five runs. | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
After their bowlers restricted Australia to 217 they appeared on | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
course for victory in Adelaide, but lost their last seven wickets for 59 | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
runs and were bowled out for 212. It was captain Alastair Cook's last | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
match of the tour. He'll fly back before the Twenty20 series starts. | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka has won his first major title at the | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Australian Open, beating an injured Rafael Nadal in four sets in a | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
dramatic final. Wawrinka is the first man to beat Novak Djokovic and | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Nadal at the same Grand Slam. Alex South reports from Melbourne. | :09:00. | :09:11. | |
Rafael Nadal's 14th Grand Slam wing was supposed to be a formality. His | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
opponent, Stanislas Wawrinka, had never beaten him or even one set. | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
What with the Swiss star's shots as reliable as his | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
What with the Swiss star's shots as reliable as country's clocks, he | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
shocked everybody by breaking his duck. For fans of the Spaniard, it | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
was painful to watch and then painful for him to play. The medical | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
time-out and go down well with the crowd, or Wawrinka. But it was soon | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
clear he was in trouble. Limp serve followed limp serve and the contest | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
looked over. Brides seem to keep him going, or was it the power of | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
painkillers? Somehow he took the third set to launch an unlikely | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
comeback. Now Wawrinka was gripped by anxiety. If Nadal was physically | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
at 50%, Wawrinka was about the same mentally. But the mind unscramble | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
just enough to take a decisive break and finally put the gutsy Nadal out | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
of his misery. An extraordinary first Grand Slam for Wawrinka in one | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
of the strangest finals you have ever seen. A good day for Roger | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
Federer! Not even the best player in Switzerland any more. | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel. The | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
next news on BBC One is at 5.25. Bye for now. | :10:32. | :10:46. | |
It has been a very wet and windy entered the week. It looks like next | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
week could end on a similar note as well. In between, something a little | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
bit different. For the week ahead it will start to feel a bit colder for | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
all of us. There will soon be some heavy showers but they will turn | :11:03. | :11:04. |