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There's been significant progress and the peace talks on Syria. It's | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
been agreed some in the battered city of Homs, will be allowed to | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
leave tomorrow. Women and children in the besieged area in the old city | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
are welcome to leave immediately. Opposition groups are yet to respond | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
to the offer. The other main stories, Ed Balls defends Labour's | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
plans to increase the top rate of tax to 50p The Shadow Chancellor | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
denies the move is anti-business, following accusations it will deter | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
investment in Britain. Pro-business, pro-investment, but | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
pro-fairness. Let's get the deficit down in a fairer way. It is great | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
politics but lousy economics because it does not work. In Ukraine, | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
thousands of people pay tribute to a man killed during clashes with | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
police,as protests build around the country And did Chelsea do enough to | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
progress to the next round of the FA Cup? Oscar shoots! He finds the | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
corner. What a stunning goal. At the Syria peace talks in Geneva, | :01:05. | :01:35. | |
there's been significant progress on the humanitarian situation in the | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
country. In the last hour, the United Nations Special Envoy | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
announced the Assad regime has agreed women and children can leave | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
the war torn city of Homs immediately. Our Diplomatic | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
Correspondent Bridget Kendall has the latest from Geneva. | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
War-torn ruins in Homs today in this amateur video. Hundreds are trapped | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
in rebel held enclaves in the city am a besieged by government forces. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
Desperately hoping that peace talks might secure safe passage for a UN | :02:05. | :02:13. | |
aid convoy. TRANSLATION: We want to Geneva to break the siege and make | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
us safe roads to get out of here. You need an operation on my leg. -- | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
I need and operation. We fill our stomachs with stones. We do not want | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
food or water any more. We are worried about the wounded people. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
The opposition say that their fighters would observe a cease-fire | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
and at the end of the two of the Geneva talks, what sounds like | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
encouraging news. Women and children in the besieged area in the old city | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
are welcome to leave immediately. And the other civilians are also | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
welcome to leave but the government needs a list of their names first. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
Also on the agenda today, the thousands of people in Syria in | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
prisons, kidnapped or missing. The government delegation has asked the | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
opposition for a list of those they are holding. The opposition asks the | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
same thing. We will see today, with the help of the United Nations, if | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
we can release the prisoners in the jails of President Assad, tens and | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
thousands of them being tortured systematically, many of them are | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
women and children, dying under torture. An imposing venue for | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
talks, which once housed the league of Nations. It is too early for | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
these talks to make history. There have been peace negotiations | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
in this building for decades but this time it is unclear whether the | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
two sides have got past the first hurdle and are really prepared to | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
engage in dialogue. So far, even when they are in the same room, they | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
are trading accusations and talking past each other. | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
Despite today's hopeful sign from Homs, it is unclear what will happen | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
when the rival delegations meet tomorrow to discuss the contents is | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
question of transferring power in Syria. A subject on which they have | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
very different views. The Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
insisted that Labour is pro-business, after criticism of his | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
party's plans to increase the top rate of income tax to 50p in the | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
pound. Some industry leaders have suggested the policy could | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
jeopardise the economic recovery. And today a former Labour Trade | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
minister dismissed the plan as "lousy economics." Our Political | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
Correspondent, Ross Hawkins, is at Westminster. | :04:40. | :04:49. | |
A 50p top rate of tax, a way to make dealing with the deficit fairer. Or, | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
as one former Labour minister says, lousy economics. It might play to | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
socialism and tribalism and if you are in a zero hours contract on the | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
men and wage, it is going to be very attractive indeed. -- the minimum | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
wage. But the economics are that it does not actually raise the money | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
that people hope. Ed Balls does not accept that. Digby Jones was never a | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Labour member. The party says it is not going into battle with business. | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
It is not anti-business. It is anti business as usual. When we have such | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
a big deficit and such a problem with the cost of living. What impact | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
would be 50p rate have on the deficit? When the rate was cut from | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
50p, it meant ?100 million less money for the Chancellor, according | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
to an estimate that the independent office for budget responsibility | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
says was reasonable. But they also say that there were uncertainties | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
about the sums because there is no way of knowing how taxpayers will | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
react. When Labour said they would bring in the 50p rate, people | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
arrange to have an estimated 16 billion pounds of income paid early | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
to avoid paying the tax. Labour think that a 50p rate now might | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
raise more than expected because top ratepayers paid more than was first | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
thought when it was in place. And the Chancellor who put the tax up | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
last time says that doing it again make sense. Ed Balls is right. This | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
is the last full year before the election. It is right to lay out a | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
proposal immolation to deficit reduction. One poll suggests that | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
voters like be 50p idea but in Leeds, mixed views. I'd pay 40% tax | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
and I am just a welder. Why should they not get higher tax on higher | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
earnings? I agree that it is right that people who make more pay more. | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
In France, they tend to move abroad so they pay no revenue. I don't | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
know. In the 90s, Labour would the city. Not any more, says the | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
Tories. Ed Balls is sending the signal that if this was a Labour | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
government, we would go back to high spending and high borrowing. That is | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
an anti-business, anti-job creation agenda. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Those are the opening shots of a fight over a 50p rate that is | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
starting now and will not finish any time before the general election. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
And a key question tonight, our labour worried about the business | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
critics? Rachel Reeves has told five live this evening that some of those | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
critics are not representative of the business community. Labour will | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
live with this but the question is, will that concern voters or impress | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
them? In Ukraine, thousands of people in | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
the capital Kiev have been holding prayers for a 25-year-old man, | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
killed during the on-going violence between police and anti-government | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
protesters. In other parts of the country,it's being reported | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
thousands of people have besieged government buildings and clashed | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
with the security forces.Our correspondent in Kiev, Steve | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
Rosenberg, has the latest. This report contains flash photography. | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
In Kiev, they paused their protest. To honour the dead. The dead man was | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
one of two protesters who died on Wednesday from gunshot woodlands. As | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
his coffin passed through Independence Square, the crowds | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
shouted, revenge. Ukrainians are praying that there will be no more | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
victims. But there has been more violence. During the night, | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
protesters the siege and exhibition centre near Independence Square. | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
They had received information that 200 police officers were stationed | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
inside. They used fireworks and rocks to break-in. The police | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
retreated. Later, citizens streamed into the captured building. The only | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
exhibition on today was a display of people power. TRANSLATION: We wanted | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
a new government. One that will care about the people. President | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
Yanukovych has offered concessions to his opponents. He has offered to | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
make one of the leaders of the opposition Prime Minister. But these | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
protesters do not trust him and they are continuing to take power into | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
their own hands. Earlier this week, men in masks | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
occupied the agriculture ministry. And briefly, the Ministry for | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
energy. The minister there told me that the intruders were terrorists. | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
TRANSLATION: I'll meeting orders from the President, not from the | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
street. -- I only take orders. And the armrest is spreading with town | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
halls and governors offices being attacked and seized in many parts of | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
Ukraine. One of the biggest countries in Europe is in a state of | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
siege. Some customers of the Lloyds Halifax | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
and TSB banks have been unable to use their debit card this afternoon. | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
Our business correspondent Joe Lynam is here. Joe, what do we know? We | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
remember the technical glitches that affected NatWest last year. Now it | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
seems that many thousands can use -- cannot use their debit cards. The | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
company says they can use online services, and the Chief Executive | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
has tweeted this evening saying that he is apologising to TSB customers. | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
He says he is working hard with his team right now and he's coming into | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
the office to do exactly that. Selling electronic cigarettes to | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
anyone under 18 is to be outlawed in England. | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
Ministers are also going to make it illegal for adults to buy cigarettes | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
to pass on to children. Daniel Boettcher reports. | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
Alec Tronic cigarettes are growing in a polarity, designed to help | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
people stop smoking traditional cigarettes. -- electronic | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
cigarettes. But most contain nicotine, although not Tobacco. | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
Health professionals argued that there has not yet been enough | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
research into the long-term effects on the government is now changing | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
the law so that in England they cannot be sold to underrate teens. | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
The change has been broadly welcomed. Tobacco products are | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
already banned from sale to those under 18. E-cigarette is should be | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
considered in the same legislation. -- e-cigarettes. The electronic | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
cigarette industry welcomes the change, saying that manufacturers | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
have been clearer that the products are not for underrate teens. Jodie | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
and her friend are over 18 and buying their first e-cigarettes in | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
Leeds. He thinks that the iconic devices should be available to young | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
people trying to wean themselves off tobacco. If you are already smoking | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
at a young age, then it would be better to be weaned off at a young | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
age. But if you do not smoke and you are buying one, it is pointless. At | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
the same time, tighter restrictions are being brought in to ban adults | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
from buying conventional cigarettes for children. At the moment, shops | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
selling cigarettes to anyone under 18 can be prosecuted but adults | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
buying one on behalf of a child cannot. It has long been argued that | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
the rules for tobacco sales should be brought in line with those for | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
alcohol. But campaigners say that while they support the receptions, | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
they may be difficult to apply. We know that adults buying cigarettes | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
to give to children is a major source of supply to underage | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
smokers. It would be a good idea to do something about that and we | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
support the move in principle but the problem is that you need to make | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
sure that it is enforced. Similar restrictions are already in place in | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
Scotland where the law was changed in 2011. | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
Now, with all the sport, here's Olly Foster at the BBC Sport Centre. | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
Many thanks, Clive. The Fourth Round of the FA Cup has passed without any | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
major surprises this weekend. Chelsea beat Stoke 1-nil at Stamford | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
Bridge to reach the last sixteen. League One Sheffield United are | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
still in the Cup after they forced a replay against Fulham. Emily Croydon | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
reports. Sheffield United already had one | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
Premier League scalp to their name after beating Aston Villa in the | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
last round. Plenty for the Premier League strugglers, Fulham, to fear | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
in the awful conditions. United looked confident and took a | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
first-half lead. Chris Porter got the finish. But they made things | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
harder for themselves when the captain was dismissed for this off | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
the ball challenge. The ten men resisted well but could not hold | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
out. Hugo Roddy Eger salvaged a replay for Fulham. -- Rodillega. | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
There was a birthday gift for Stoke. Oscar made this stunning free | :14:18. | :14:27. | |
kick, showing why Juan Mata was allowed to leave the club. But a | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
second goal just would not come for the home side. It did not spoil Jose | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
Mourinho's day. A place in the fifth round was his perfect present. | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
The draw for the fifth round has just been made. Chelsea will be at | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
Manchester City. Arsenal have been drawn at home to Liverpool. Full | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
details on the BBC sport website. Celtic have stretched their lead to | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
15 points in the Scottish Premiership after beating Hibernian | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
4-0 at Easter Road. Kris Commons scored twice but Virgil | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
van Dirk's brilliant free kick was the pick of the goals. That's | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
Celtic's 11th straight league win. It's been a bad day for England's | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
cricketers in Australia. They have lost the one-day series 4-1, beaten | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
by five runs. They restricted Australia to 217 49. They appeared | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
on course to victory but collapsed and were all out for 212. Alistair | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
Cooke's one-day future is also in doubt as he revealed he will sit out | :15:25. | :15:34. | |
next month, at the West Indies tour. Stanislas Wawrinka is the new | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
Australian open Champion. He beat Rafael Nadal in four sets to | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
claim his first major title, although Nadal, the World Number one | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
,was hampered by a back problem. Alex South reports from Melbourne. | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
Rafa Nadal's Australian open win was supposed to be a formality. But with | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
the Swiss star as reliable as his country's clocks, he shocked | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
everyone. For fans of the Spaniard, it was painful to watch and then | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
painful for Nadal to play. Medical time-outs to not go down well with | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
the crowd or the brink. It was soon clear that he was in trouble. -- | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
Wawrinka. Pride seems to keep Nadal going, or was it the power of | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
painkillers? Somehow, he launched an unlikely comeback. If Nadal was | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
physically at 50%, Stanislav Dyfrig Owen was about the same mentally. | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
But the mind unscrambled enough to make a decisive break and put Nadal | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
out of his misery. That is not the way want to win the match but it is | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
the final. At the end, eye one in four sets and I think I've finished | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
to get the win, and that is amazing. -- I want in four sets. An | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
extraordinary win for Wawrinka in one of the strangest matches you | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
have ever seen. And that is all the | :17:07. | :17:07. |