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Welcome to Europe in need, please put your hands in your pockets to

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help pay off the eurozone's debts. The subject discussed by David

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Cameron and Angela Merkel today. But is there, at last, any glimmer

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of a common solution to the problem which could sink us all? My German

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isn't that good, I think bazooka is a superwafer, no, someone is

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shaking their head. We will discuss what it means with Conservative MP,

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Daniel Hannan, German banker, Schmieding, and the journalist,

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Bronwen Maddox. Sepp Blatter says sorry for suggesting racism could

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be settled with a handshake. The former England player, Sol Campbell

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is here to discuss, racism, bigotry and the football leadership. Two

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British nationals killed in Pakistan, by an American drone

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strike. How many British volunteers are fighting for Al-Qaeda?

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Good evening, eurozone leaders aren't as cuddly as Pudsey, but

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they are looking for every euroor - - Uri owe pound you can spare.

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Someone will have to stump up. The leader of the biggest economy

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inside the eurozone, Germany, and the biggest economy outside the

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eurozone, Britain, met today to try to figure out, what short of an

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appeal for worldwide loose change, could solve our problems. They were

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more fluent in decribing the problems than fixing them.

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OK, you're British, you're in Germany for a crucial meeting, what

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is the subject you want to avoid? My German isn't that good, bazooka

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is a superwafer, no, someone is shake their head. The German for

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bazooka is "tank terror", which is possibly not where you want to go

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in a vital press conference. But, unfortunately, Europe's financial

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Baz Zach ka, and its fail -- bazooka, and its failure to fire,

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is the subject between Britain and Germany. TRANSLATION: As to the

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question of what choifs weapons are used to deal with financial markets,

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I believe credibility is gained by using the force and strength you

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have. The British say we have to use all the force available, I

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think that is right. But one should not pretend to be more powerful

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than one actually is. At Brussels, in October, Mrs Measuring mrbg on

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agreement on the booze zook -- Mrs Merkel won agreed on the bazooka, a

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one trillion bailout from the EFSF fired from Germany. It went wrong

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at Cannes, no-one would lend the money. Mr Cameron began pushing for

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the European Central Bank to lend the money, firing its own bazooka,

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but it won't. In the meantime, the Governments of Italy and Greece

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fell. And today, the boss of the European Central Bank said that he

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would not be firing the bazooka any time soon. We are four weeks after

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the summit that agreed on the leverageing of resources by factor

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of up to four or five, that declared the EFSF would be fully

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operational and all the tools would be used in an effective way to

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ensure financial stability in the euro area. Where is the

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implementation of these long- standing decisions? Which

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translates as, you fire your own bazooka! Germany knows saving the

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euro is vital to its own survival as a manufacturing and export giant.

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But its workers believe prosperity and stability come from low

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inflation and a credible Central Bank. So using the ECB to save the

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euro, is, for Mrs Merkel, politically impossible. I think if

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Merkel agrees to involve the ECB, which is against the EU treaty, by

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the way, she will go through a vote of confidence and she will lose it,

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and the Government will break down. Instead, the Germans are

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concentrating on a long-term plan. The German position was outlined in

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a document from the German Foreign Office, leaked to the Telegraph. It

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calls for political union, a stability commissioner with power

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to intervene in national budgets, and the power to impose orderly

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default and exit on eurozone members. The problem s that needs a

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treaty change, and as the Mercedes deposited Mr Cameron in Berlin, it

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is clear the Germans are determined to do it with or without us.

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German position is, we would like to keep the British in, we would

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rather do the new treaty with all 27, it is simple letter and easier,

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however, if the British are going to be -- simpler and easier,

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however if the British are going to be demanding on powers coming back,

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then we will go along with a eurozone treaty with a few hours

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who want to join the eurozone. There is diverge begins between

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Paris and Berlin I I have -- deverence between Paris and Berlin.

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But I have no doubt if the British block the treaty, the Germans will

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go ahead with something that doesn't include the British. It is

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not whether Britain is in or out of the group that writes the treaty,

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the problem is time, the Germans are determined to find a strategic

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solution, the markets need an immediate solution. In the end, it

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comes down a clash between two implacable forces, the bond market,

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and the German electorate. That has left David Cameron struggling to

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contain his frustration, and even some German commentators are

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prepared to accept there is a timing issue. She said today in

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Berlin, "step by step", while the British Prime Minister is talking

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about a bazooka, it is a crisis, as you say, markets move in seconds.

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You have to take the decisions now, you can't wait. In this sense,

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calling Mrs Merkel Madame Dithering is quite the right term. It is not

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changed, she is getting a bit more quick in her decision, she's still

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very slow. Having that in mind, Germany is the decisive and crucial

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player in this game, you could call it a bit scary, yeah.

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It was Mr Cameron who wanted this meeting, diplomatically he came

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away with a smile and a handshake, for all his talk of a bazooka, it

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is Germany that le l decide if and when it gets fired -- will decide

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if and when it gets fired. Have German relations improved, with us

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is Holger Schmieding from the Berenberg Bank, and Bronwen Maddox

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and Daniel Hannan, the Conservative Are Britain and Germany any closer

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tonight as a result of the meetings? At least to what we have

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heard about the meetings, they probably have not moved much closer,

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no. They are far apart on major issues. The German conclusion from

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the eurozone crisis that we need more Europe, the British conclusion

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seems to be we need to move a bit further apart from the eurozone. So

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that is a significant clash, and as to technical details, financial

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markets, transaction tax, they don't seem to agree. Do you accept

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that analysis, that in other words, there are the smaller things like

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the financial transaction tax, sometimes called the Tobin tax, but

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on the big picture they are miles apart? I think that is right. I

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thought it was a fabulously disingenious speech by David

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Cameron. He rightly said Europe's problems could be sorted by

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pledging enormous amounts of money, and he doesn't want Britain to do

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that, he wants the Germans to do it. And the Germans are threatening

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saying if you don't join if we might come at the City of London

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with transaction tax. Why do you think the British and Germans are

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so far apart on this, where as on some big picture matters like

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competitiveness and fiscal discipline, you know, not rewarding

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bad behaviour, moral hazarz, philosophically, they should be a

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lot closer, shouldn't they? If it weren't for the wretched EU we

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would be getting on famously, they are the country with whom we have

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most in common in continental Europe. It is not for us to decide

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how the eurozone settles its problems. If they were to ask my

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advice, I would say allow countries to leave, allow each country to

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suit its monetary policy to its own need, allow the Mediterranean

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states to price their way back into the market. I'm not a Greek, German

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or Austrian or Finnish legislator, if they have made the decision to

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keep the euro together, at whatever cost, that is matter for them. What

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I kind extraordinary is Britain is not only investing political

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capital in proposing this idea, but actual capital. We are on the hook

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so far for �12.5 billion in the Irish, Greek and Portuguese

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bailouts, that is before you get to Italy. Is that a problem for

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Germany, to go back to the start of what Hannan was suggesting there,

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that actually, on many issues fissofically, should be much closer

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to Britain, and if it wasn't, -- philosophically, should be much

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closer to Britain, and if it wasn't for the EU, links with Greece and

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Italy, there wouldn't be the problems? The problem is Britain

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has refused to actually join in. The Germans would love the British

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in, more involved in Europe, ideally within the eurozone, at

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least that was the original German idea, so that within the European

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institutions the kind of philosophical similarities between

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Britain and Germany, more competitiveness, would gain the

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upper hand. But Britain has decided to stay some what aloof. Could I

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suggest you are as likely to get as -- that as likely as Hannan is to

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get the renegotiation of the treaties? The treaties are to be

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renegotiated, and there is a solution to the German and British

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difficulty, namely that Britain agrees to pass an amendment to the

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EU treaties that allows Germany and France and the other 15 countries

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to move closer together, and in return Germany and France will

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allow Britain to have a few more opt-outs. Would that be good enough

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for you, what do you want on that? Ultimately it shouldn't be for me

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to decide, or for you to decide, or even Angela Merkel and David

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Cameron to decide, it should be more the electorate as a whole to

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decide. Ultimately whatever renegotiation comes out will need

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be put to the country with a "no" vote treated as a vote to leave the

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EU. That is the only guarantee. Something I would like is something

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along the lines of the Swiss, you are in the free market but you have

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opted out of the political structures that go with it. You are

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affected by it, because it is so big, we would be affected by it, we

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wouldn't have a voice in it, like the Swiss? Well, they seem to be

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scraping by some kind of miserable half existence out there, ditto the

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Norwegians. Of course we would lose influence over the internal affairs

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of the countries in the tighter union. That is unquestionably the

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case, just as we have no internal influence over the affairs of Japan,

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Singapore, or the Congo. That is the price you pay. But as long as

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you are in a free market, within the EFTA terms and the WTO terms,

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that is what most people in the country would vote for, that is

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what we thought we were voting for in 1975. This is fascinating, we

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have these two countries, we have accepted there is a degree of

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philosophical agreement, these two questions are completely totally

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poles apart? They are completely different. I think there is a

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philosophical difference between Germany and Britain on views of

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Europe. Then there is the very sharp difference that we began this

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discussion with about who will pay for this, that is really the first

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one. At heart I think this is rather a brutal clash about money.

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But then the philosophy comes after. That it is dangerous game for

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Germany and France to push Britain to the point where Cameron's

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yooptics begin to say let's take Britain right out. -- Euro-sceptics

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begin to say let as take Britain out. In Germany do you feel you

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have to be anchored into it, and you can't do what the European

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Central Bank does. Mario Draghi, not just the British, is suggestk a

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real lack of leadership and you have -- suggesting a real lack of

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leadership and you have to get your act together, you meaning Germany?

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Going back to the debt crisis, the big difference between the eurozone

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and Britain is Britain has a Central Bank which helps the

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Government pay its debts, massively, where as the European Central Bank

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is refusing that. If the European Central Bank were to behave like

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the Bank of England, the eurozone debt crisis would probably be over

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in a second. So, indeed, there is a philosophical difference in how you

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treat your Central Bank, and how your Central Bank is viewed.

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there, for the other part of that, which we heard in Paul Mason's

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report, is there something about the German character, or the

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political system, which means Angela Merkel cannot be as decisive

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as people want her to be on this? She has to take a significant part

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of her voters with her, on all the major things. That indeed means she

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can't move very far. She cannot, for instance, just endorse the ECB

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buying loads of Government bonds, without having some backing, some

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where else in the country. My view remains, if worst comes to worst,

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and we may be there within a few weeks, the European Central Bank

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will intervene massively. Angela Merkel will probably back them, but,

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then we will have a little uproar in Germany, still the thing will be

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settled. Do you share that view, that is the likeliest thing that

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will happen, in other words, we will muddle through and there will

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be a lot of mudling, and not much through? I think it is the

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likeliest thing, I don't think it is the right thing to do. I'm not

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fan of quanative easing in this country, inflation is a way of

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punishing people who have done the right thing, and I wouldn't wish it

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to allies in the continent. I think it is not right to impoverish

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people which the project means, it is better if the countries were

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able to suit their economies to their needs, and very soon the

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problems would be over. But the elites of Europe are sacrificing

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the prosperity of their people for this European dream. Do you think

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David Cameron's voice in Europe is any stronger than it was this

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morning, or the opposite? I think it is stronger than it seems. There

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is all this talk of Britain on the side lines, but Germany and France

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do want Britain to play a part in this. That is what today's press

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conference and the jokes were about. Trying to make sure that Britain

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helps out. With money as well as anything else. The likelihood of

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that, the implication of everything we have been discussing is it is

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not going to happen, in which case. It won't happen unless we get much

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closer to a crisis. On that narrow point about David Cameron's

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influence, or the UK's influence, now and in the future? The British

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influence on events in the continent is extremely small, to

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put it mildly. I don't think it is the eurozone asking Britain for

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money, what the eurozone is simply asking, dear Britain, we in the

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eurozone want to forge a closer European, for that we have to

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change the EU treaty, and please, dear Britain, ratify the new EU

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treaties which will help us in the eurozone to integrate in the way we

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want. Which is saying, Britain please don't get in the way. But,

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do you think Britain speaks absolutely with one voice on this,

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Nick Clegg, a coalition, he has a slightly different view and

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attitude and has been commenting on this today? But that's the case in

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every country. You have different opinions, in Britain you have

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interesting clashes between Euro- sceptics and some remaining sort of

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Europhiles, but that is normal politics. This was making it sound

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as if we have months and months to sort this out, to redraw the

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constitution. There is a crisis between where we are now, and the

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kind of constitutional redrawing that you are decribing. In that

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crisis it seems to me they do need Britain. The two points is the

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immediate crisis is ultimately for the European Central Bank to solve.

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The long-term issues are then for the new EU, rewritten EU treaties.

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Thank you very much all of you. The European Union is not the only

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international organisation having difficulties, FIFA President, Sepp

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Blatter, seems to have moved seemlessly into the role recently

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vacated by Silvio Berlusconi, managing to say some of the

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stupidist things on world stage. He seems to have been suggesting that

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racism issues can be solved by handshake on the pitch. Is it going

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way? A man who used to be President of

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the Society of Friends of Suspenders, might not adapt to 21st

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century customs, after advising female players to wear tighter

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shorts to get more attention. And telling gay fans going to Qatar, to

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avoid having sex, the latest Blatter blunder was offensive in a

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different way. There is no racism, there is maybe one of the players

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to another, he has a word or gesture, which is not the correct

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one. Also the one who is affected by that, he should say it is a game,

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we are in the game, and at the end of the game we shake hands, this

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can happen. Blatter's comments followed allegations by the

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Manchester United player, Patrice Evra, that he had been racially

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abused by Liverpool's Luis Suarez. The Uraguayan has been charged by

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the FA. With similar claims against John Terry still are under

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investigation. The timing could be more sensitive. Today there was an

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attempt to calm the storm. sorry, I regret that my statements

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earlier this week have resulted in an unfortunate situation, very much.

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Assuming Mr Blatter does not return to the presidency of Friends of

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Suspenders, he might be sticking to his script a little more in future.

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Here to react to all of that is the former England, Arsenal and Spurs

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footballer. It was a pretty groveling apology, it looked

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prepared, is that enough? For me it doesn't wash. For the head of FIFA

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to come out with something like that, for me it is shocking. It is

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astonishing. I'm astonished he's still in the job. In any other

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industry, if the head of the company comes up with those kind of

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comments, he's sacked, he's gone in a few days time. For me it really

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shows FIFA, how they are as a body. The comments he came out with, the

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ramifications of what he said, you know, it filters down into grass

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roots football. Little kids playing football, Sunday league, you can

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say whatever you want, be racist to another opponent and then after the

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game shake the hand and it is all over. That is not right. Just to be

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clear, you think he should resign, and if he shouldn't resign he

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should be kicked out? I think he should step down and do the

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honourable thing. When things happen on the pitch, sometimes

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people do stupid things in the heat of the moment, is that any excuse,

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if that happens on the pitch between players? Yeah, every single

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time something happens, the heat of the moment, you keep on, are you

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allowed to racially abuse someone in the heat of the moment? No. If

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that is the first thing that comes into your mind, not at all, no.

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do you get round that, there is different types of racial abuse,

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when you move from Tottenham to Arsenal, you suffered quite a lot

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of chanting, and abuse. Is it different when it comes from the

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fans or when it comes on the pitch from another person doing the same?

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I think from another player is definitely even more hurtful, it is

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sickening, it is disgusting. So for him to say you can just wash it off

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with the shake of a hand, for me it is unbelievable. I can't believe

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no-one has really picked this up, Government wise, sponsors-wise, how

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can you have the head of the body of football of the world, saying

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those comments. If he has said those comments, people are saying

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it is OK, he has said sorry, for me that is unbelievable. Are we in

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Britain, and the English game in particular, are we a bit different

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from the rest of the world. You know the reputation of Russia and

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Eastern Europe, sometimes in these matters it is not entirely pure, is

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it? Some of those countries have big problems it's the head, he

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should know better. He has compromised FIFA, big time. For me,

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the longer he actually stays at FIFA, I honestly think FIFA will

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become weaker. Does it have an effect, you suggested before, does

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it really have an effect on the grass roots of the game, 10, 11-

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year-olds? Yeah, I think kids are listening, Sunday league football,

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people like that. If you realise what he says,'s the head, all that

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seeps down, and you know, all these other games aren't policed properly

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you can get away with a lot of things in and around those kind of

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levels. If you hear the top guy saying, you can do whatever you

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want, be racist to player, it is a part of the game, as long as you

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say sorry afterwards, it is OK. Where are we going in football? For

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me he has flung football 40 years back. All the hard work, all the

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campaigners, Kick It Out, Show the Red Card, all their work for

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nothing. We don't know exactly what happened in the John Terry incident

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or the Suarez incident, we know they are being investigated. Do you

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think things have changed a lot in the game in this country at los?

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Most certainly. Are things a lot better? Yeah. Since the early 190s?

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I watched football before that, and heard all the comments and the past

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players talking about their experiences through the 1960s and

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1970s. Yeah it has definitely moved on. It is only because there is

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some people doing fantastic things up and down the country and

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campaigning to kick this out. It is only because of the hard work and

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the PFA, and the Football Association, and players, and the

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wider public, the English public have come together to nulify T it

:23:33.:23:37.

is not completely depon, but it is -- it has not completely gone, but

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it is better than the 70s for sure. We know the view of most people in

:23:41.:23:44.

England about what has happened over the World Cup and allegations

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of corruption and so on. Nobody seems to care what the British

:23:49.:23:57.

think? Do they in this? The trouble is, England across the water

:23:57.:24:02.

haven't the best reputation when it comes to talking to the other

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nations when it comes to football. I don't know why, I think they have

:24:09.:24:14.

to get the right man, FA side, to start talking to them and bring

:24:14.:24:18.

them closer. Thank you very much. We have long known that British

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nationals are fighting for the Taliban, and Al-Qaeda, in

:24:23.:24:27.

Afghanistan and Pakistan. There were persistent rumours of fighters

:24:27.:24:35.

with Birmingham accents and a copes was found with an Aston Villa tatoo.

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Today was revealed two British men were killed in drone strikes. One

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left Britain subject to a control order in 2007. What more do you

:24:44.:24:53.

know about this? Interesting, the first man, Ibrahim Adam, 24 years

:24:53.:24:57.

old from East London. He was on a control order, as you say, along

:24:57.:25:00.

with his brother, they both absconded on control orders. That

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is two brothers in that family. A third brother, their older brother,

:25:07.:25:12.

was called Anthony Garcia, he changed his name, this third

:25:12.:25:17.

brother was convicted of terrorism offences in 2007, connected to the

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operation about the crevice fertiliser bomb plot. We have three

:25:22.:25:25.

brothers closely linked to terrorist activities there. The

:25:25.:25:34.

second man named and killed in a drone attack, is Mohammed Azmer

:25:34.:25:40.

Khan, originally from Sheffield and then in London. He's said to be a

:25:40.:25:49.

brother of a man, Azmeil Abjar, killed last year in a drone attack

:25:49.:25:53.

in Pakistan. Do we have any more idea about how many similar case

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there is might be? There is a steady flow of young radicalised

:25:58.:26:01.

Muslim recruits from Great Britain into the north frontier province,

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the tribal areas, over a number of years. We have just late last year

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spoken to a family from Manchester, whose son, Umar Arshad, left the

:26:12.:26:17.

country, again, on the control order, they were deeply worried

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about him. We can hear from them now. He didn't seem well or himself.

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This happened very suddenly. It wasn't a space of you know a year

:26:25.:26:31.

or two years, it occurred within a month. His mind was being changed,

:26:31.:26:34.

because of the way he was being ruled by these individuals, or the

:26:34.:26:38.

gang. If they told him to sit down, he would sit down. If they stold

:26:38.:26:46.

told him to stand up, he would stand up. We could see how worried

:26:46.:26:49.

the brother and the father were there. I have spoken to the family

:26:49.:26:53.

today, there is no news where their relative is in Pakistan it's widely

:26:53.:26:57.

believed to have disappeared into Pakistan to be recruited by Jihadi

:26:57.:27:01.

groups, possibly linked to Al-Qaeda. I think this demonstrates that some

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families in Britain phrasing this awful prospect of lose -- facing

:27:07.:27:11.

this awful prospect of losing their young ones to Islamic Jihadists.

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young ones to Islamic Jihadists. The front pages now.

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The Times has 50% off council houses and also the story of the

:27:19.:27:26.

Natalie Wood case, waking the dead, LA police reopen the case. The FT

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has financial stories, the Northern Rock funds deal. The ECB hitting

:27:30.:27:34.

back over intervention calls and a picture of Angela Merkel and David

:27:34.:27:39.

Cameron translating each other's thoughts, I suspect. The Mirror has

:27:39.:27:49.
:27:49.:27:51.

ITV Daybreak dream team sacked, Adrian Chidldes and his pardon --

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That's all from Newsnight tonight, Mark Kermode will present the

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review show in a minute. We will leave you with the news that one

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half of the Cosgrove Hall duo has died. The list of his cartoons goes

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on for a very long time. Here is a # He's the greatest

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# He's fantastic # Wherever there is danger

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