:00:08. > :00:12.A sharp rise in the number of people who were born abroad now
:00:12. > :00:15.living in England and Wales - the latest census shows it's risen by
:00:15. > :00:18.63% in the past decade to 7.5 million - many from India, Poland
:00:18. > :00:21.and Pakistan. An eighth night of protests in
:00:21. > :00:26.Belfastafter a policewoman narrowly escapes from a petrol bombed car.
:00:26. > :00:29.The police say it was attempted murder.
:00:29. > :00:39.The Government sets out its plans to allow same-sex marriage, but it
:00:39. > :00:41.will still be illegal in the Church of England and Church in Wales. -
:00:41. > :00:44.$$NEWLINE It's revealed that Nelson Mandela is suffering from a lung
:00:44. > :00:47.infection, but he's said to be responding to treatment in hospital.
:00:47. > :00:52.The British bank HSBC agrees to pay the US authorities a record �1.2
:00:52. > :00:57.billion to settle money laundering claims.
:00:57. > :01:01.Later on BBC London, new figures suggest there are 4,000 fewer Met
:01:01. > :01:05.police officers now than two years ago. Protests at stations around
:01:05. > :01:15.the capital over the above- inflation fare rises planned for
:01:15. > :01:20.
:01:20. > :01:22.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The number of
:01:22. > :01:32.foreign-born residents in England and Wales has risen by almost four
:01:32. > :01:35.million in the past ten years. -- three million in the past ten years.
:01:35. > :01:38.13% of the current population - that's 7.5 million people - were
:01:38. > :01:41.born abroad, many in India, Poland and Pakistan. The figures from the
:01:41. > :01:44.latest census show the total number of people living in England and
:01:44. > :01:48.Wales is up 7% to just over 56 million and more than half that
:01:48. > :01:53.rise is due to migration. Mike Sergeant has been taking a look at
:01:53. > :01:57.the figures. The changing face of England and
:01:58. > :02:02.Wales as revealed by the most detailed and comprehensive of
:02:02. > :02:07.surveys - it's the story of the rapid social change of the past
:02:07. > :02:11.decade. The overall population numbers from the 2011 census were
:02:11. > :02:15.published earlier this year, but today they released much more
:02:15. > :02:20.detail, and it's a fascinating snapshot of increasing diversity in
:02:20. > :02:23.England and Wales. The census reveals that 7.5 million people
:02:23. > :02:28.were born abroad, with almost 3 million arriving in the past ten
:02:28. > :02:32.years and a fall in those describing their ethnic group as
:02:32. > :02:36.white-British. We have had a fall in the white-British, so 80% of the
:02:36. > :02:42.population declared themselves as white-British, so it's still the
:02:42. > :02:48.majority ethnic group, but that was a fall of seven percentage points
:02:48. > :02:52.since 2001. The impact of migration is clearly visible in the census.
:02:52. > :02:56.Boston and Lincolnshire has experienced one of the sharpest
:02:56. > :03:00.increases from people coming from Poland. In this Latvian shop they
:03:00. > :03:07.have seen some changes. Nine years ago it was maybe a couple of
:03:07. > :03:11.hundred. Now is more than I think 3,000 in this area, and the big
:03:11. > :03:15.changes in the last three, four years... The religious makeup of
:03:15. > :03:19.England and Wales is changing too. There were 33 million Christians in
:03:19. > :03:24.2011, a drop of four million in ten years. The Muslim population
:03:24. > :03:28.increased to 2.7 million. The number with no religion at all
:03:28. > :03:32.almost doubled to 14 million. Norwich had fewer worshippers than
:03:32. > :03:36.anywhere else. It just goes with the territory of what's going on in
:03:36. > :03:42.the world, isn't it? Not a lot of people believe these days. Some
:03:42. > :03:46.days and that are spent shopping, I suppose, nowaday, which is the next
:03:46. > :03:52.big religion or football, I suppose. You can have faith in a lot of
:03:52. > :03:55.other things apart from just one deity. But in Norwich Cathedral,
:03:55. > :03:59.they disputed the idea that this was the least religious place in
:03:59. > :04:03.England and Wales. It's really hard to square the results of the census
:04:03. > :04:06.with what we see here on the ground in Norwich. We've got a church
:04:06. > :04:11.around every corner, and most of them are doing very well. Many of
:04:11. > :04:14.them are growing. Here in this cathedral, we're seeing literally
:04:14. > :04:18.hundreds of people through the doors every day this month. Another
:04:18. > :04:22.eye catching statistic is that in London, white British people are
:04:22. > :04:26.now in the minority for the first time, more evidence of just how
:04:26. > :04:28.rapidly parts of England and Wales have been changing.
:04:29. > :04:34.Let's speak to our Home Editor, Mark Easton, who's at Newham in
:04:34. > :04:38.east London. Really, fascinating figures. Tell us more about what
:04:38. > :04:42.show about our society? I want to pick up on what Mike was saying at
:04:42. > :04:45.the end of his report. London, the capital of the United Kingdom, a
:04:45. > :04:49.majority of people now living in the capital do not describe
:04:49. > :04:54.themselves as white-British, and the reason I'm here in Newham is
:04:54. > :04:58.that only one person in six in this East London borough would describe
:04:58. > :05:02.themselves as white-British. Now, of course, it's a story that really
:05:02. > :05:06.is a London story in a way. It's very much an international city.
:05:06. > :05:09.Beyond London, there is still the same sort of trend. We're seeing a
:05:09. > :05:13.reduction in the number of people who say they're white-British, but
:05:13. > :05:18.it's not anywhere near the same extent. What we are seeing, though,
:05:18. > :05:22.is the impact of that decade of high levels of migration from the
:05:22. > :05:25.Indian subcontinent and from Poland - half a million Poles now living
:05:25. > :05:29.in England and Wales, but it's worth remembering that this is not
:05:29. > :05:33.just a sort of British story. This is happening in many countries
:05:33. > :05:38.across Western Europe. In fact, we've got fewer people born abroad
:05:38. > :05:42.as a proportion here than they have in countries like Sweden, and we're
:05:42. > :05:46.about the same level as countries like Germany and France and the
:05:46. > :05:50.Netherlands, so, yes, it's a fascinating decade of social change,
:05:50. > :05:53.but it's one that's not just happening in this country. It's
:05:53. > :05:55.happening right across Western Europe. Mark Easton, thank you very
:05:55. > :05:59.much. Police in Northern Ireland are
:05:59. > :06:02.hunting a gang who petrol bombed a car while an officer was sat inside.
:06:02. > :06:04.She managed to escape unharmed, but police are treating it as attempted
:06:04. > :06:07.murder. It's the latest incident in on-going protests against a
:06:08. > :06:16.decision not to fly the Union flag over Belfast City Hall, except on
:06:16. > :06:19.designated days. Here's our Ireland correspondent, Mark Simpson.
:06:19. > :06:25.There's no end in sight to the trouble in Belfast, and in some
:06:25. > :06:30.parts of the city, it's getting worse. In east Belfast last night,
:06:30. > :06:33.a female police officer was attacked in this car. A gang of
:06:33. > :06:39.hooded men threw a petrol bomb inside the vehicle while she was
:06:39. > :06:47.still inside. She somehow managed to escape. Police said it was
:06:47. > :06:51.attempted murder. This morning, the clearup began in the area. Local
:06:51. > :06:55.people were shocked about what happened here last night. Mortified,
:06:55. > :07:01.especially going on around here, like, you know, and all that
:07:01. > :07:06.trouble about the flag and all - just a nightmare. Hopefully it will
:07:06. > :07:10.fizzle out, and it's hard to know exactly what's going on behind the
:07:10. > :07:14.scenes, really. I don't want it to continue, and I don't approve of
:07:14. > :07:18.the police getting it either, but I think the Union flag should be put
:07:18. > :07:22.back up again. Belfast City Hall decided last week to stop flying
:07:22. > :07:26.the Union flag every day. Loyalists have been protesting ever since.
:07:26. > :07:32.Some of the demonstrations have been peaceful. Others haven't.
:07:32. > :07:35.Politicians from all of the parties at store month have called for the
:07:35. > :07:38.vile -- Stormont have called for the violence to stop. Those
:07:38. > :07:42.involved aren't listening. Now the issue has reached Westminster. This
:07:42. > :07:46.afternoon the Government will make a statement in the House of Commons.
:07:46. > :07:50.Those who seek to defend the Union flag do no service to their cause
:07:50. > :07:54.by engaging in riot, violence and disorder. I think it's disgraceful
:07:54. > :07:58.what's been happening. Historically, most Protestants in Northern
:07:59. > :08:03.Ireland have wanted to remain in the United Kingdom, while most
:08:03. > :08:08.Catholics prefer a united Ireland. The results of the latest census
:08:08. > :08:14.published today indicate a 5% decrease in the Protestant
:08:14. > :08:18.population here. 48% are Protestant. 45% are Catholic. Whatever the
:08:18. > :08:21.statistics, the most immediate concern of politicians is to try to
:08:21. > :08:26.bring peace to the streets. The trouble has now been going on for
:08:26. > :08:30.more than a week. Mark is in Belfast now. What's that
:08:30. > :08:34.latest, Mark? Well, I've just been handed the very latest statistics
:08:34. > :08:37.from the police, Sophie, and I have to say they make for very grim
:08:37. > :08:43.reading here in what's supposed to be the new Belfast. As we know,
:08:43. > :08:49.it's eight days since the trouble began. 29 police officers have now
:08:49. > :08:52.been injured. 38 people arrested, 26 people charged, including three
:08:52. > :08:56.13-year-old boys - three 13-year- old boys! I have to say, though,
:08:56. > :09:01.the police have managed to contain the violence, and let's be honest -
:09:01. > :09:04.it's nowhere near as bad as Belfast used to be, but - and it's a big
:09:04. > :09:07."but" - the longer this violence goes on, the more dangerous the
:09:07. > :09:10.situation here becomes. Mark, thank you very much.
:09:10. > :09:19.In the last hour, the Government has been giving more details of its
:09:19. > :09:23.plans to allow same-sex marriages in church. Religious organisations,
:09:23. > :09:27.like the Quakers, which want to conduct them, will be allowed to.
:09:27. > :09:30.But same-sex marriages will still be illegal in the Church of England
:09:30. > :09:32.and the Church in Wales. Let's speak to our political
:09:32. > :09:34.correspondent, Norman Smith. Tell us more about these proposals
:09:34. > :09:37.because no church is ever going to be forced to conduct a same-sex
:09:37. > :09:39.marriage, is it? The reality is although the Culture Secretary has
:09:39. > :09:43.stressed the Government's determination to press ahead with
:09:43. > :09:47.its plans for gay marriage, she's unveiled a series of legal
:09:47. > :09:52.concessions, the practical concessions of which will be to
:09:52. > :09:56.severely curtail the number of churches or religious
:09:56. > :09:59.establishments available to same- sex couples to get married in, and
:09:59. > :10:03.this was in response to criticism from many of our own backbenchs
:10:03. > :10:07.that some churches might face a legal challenge and be forced to
:10:07. > :10:12.hold same-sex ceremonies against their will. Now, the quadruple lock,
:10:12. > :10:18.as she called it, consists of a commitment by the Government to
:10:18. > :10:21.make it illegal for the Church of England and the Church in Wales to
:10:21. > :10:25.hold same-sex ceremonies on their premises. Secondly, she said it
:10:25. > :10:29.would not be possible for individual Ministers or individual
:10:29. > :10:34.priests to hold same-sex ceremonies on their church even if they were
:10:34. > :10:38.in favour of such ceremonies unless their church as a whole had
:10:38. > :10:43.explicitly agreed to that, and thirdly, she was going to amend the
:10:43. > :10:47.Equalities Act so that people could not take out discrimination cases
:10:47. > :10:51.against the church for not holding same-sex ceremonies and lastly on
:10:51. > :10:54.the face of the bill is going to be written a Declaration by the
:10:54. > :10:58.Government that no faith will be forced to hold such ceremony
:10:58. > :11:01.against their will. The upshot of that it seems to me is only a very,
:11:01. > :11:06.very small number of churches or establishments are likely to be
:11:06. > :11:11.available to same-sex couples for wedding ceremonies. Now, that is a
:11:11. > :11:16.series of concessions which will undoubtedly appease many of her
:11:16. > :11:19.critics, particularly on the backbenches. The danger is it will
:11:19. > :11:22.anger many supporters of same-sex marriage who will feel she's given
:11:22. > :11:24.far too much ground. Thank you very much.
:11:24. > :11:27.Britain's biggest international bank, HSBC, is being fined a record
:11:27. > :11:29.�1.2 billion to settle allegations of money laundering. Prosecutors in
:11:29. > :11:31.America say drug cartels, terrorists and countries under
:11:31. > :11:34.international sanctions like Iran and North Korea have laundered
:11:34. > :11:44.money through the bank. HSBC said it was profoundly sorry for what it
:11:44. > :11:47.
:11:47. > :11:50.called its "past mistakes". Simon Gompertz reports. HSBC's
:11:50. > :11:53.shame is to be faced with the biggest fine ever imposed in the
:11:53. > :11:58.United States for banking misconduct. In Mexico in the grip
:11:58. > :12:02.of drug gangs, its operation was a key target of investigations. HSBC
:12:02. > :12:08.had inadequate controls to prevent drug proceeds being syphoned out of
:12:08. > :12:16.the country. This man worked in HSBC's US compliance department
:12:16. > :12:22.between 2010 and 2011. My job was to find suspicious activity, report
:12:22. > :12:27.it, stop it and make sure the bank was complying with the Bank Secrecy
:12:27. > :12:32.Act and the other laws of the United States of America. And how
:12:32. > :12:37.much suspicious activity did you find? A lot. HSBC's failings
:12:37. > :12:43.included allowing �4.3 billion to be shipped from Mexico to the US
:12:43. > :12:47.without adequate checks, to have let customers complete thousands of
:12:47. > :12:50.transactions with Iran despite American restrictions and to have
:12:50. > :12:56.handled suspicious travellers' cheques, thought to have originated
:12:56. > :13:01.in Russia. In Washington hearings in July, a senior HSBC figure,
:13:01. > :13:07.David Bagley, resigned after admitting the bank had been lax.
:13:07. > :13:11.HSBC has fallen short of our own expectations... Today HSBC said it
:13:11. > :13:14.was profoundly sorry and was spending hundreds of millions of
:13:14. > :13:18.pounds overhauling its controls across the world. The shock is that
:13:18. > :13:23.one of Europe's biggest banks could have allowed itself to have become
:13:23. > :13:26.tainted by association with drug profits and money laundering. The
:13:26. > :13:30.US Senate Committee which investigated said that HSBC had
:13:30. > :13:36.laid itself open to becoming a conduit for drug kingpins and rogue
:13:36. > :13:40.nations. It's been an embarrassing week for
:13:40. > :13:45.UK-based international banks. Standard Chartered was fined
:13:45. > :13:48.heavily yesterday for violating US sanctions on Iran.
:13:48. > :13:52.Three men have been arrested in connection with the manipulation of
:13:52. > :13:57.a key interest rate that determines how much banks charge to lend money.
:13:57. > :14:01.The men from Surrey and Essex, who are aged between 33 and 47, are the
:14:01. > :14:03.first to be arrested following the Libor scandal. The men, who are all
:14:03. > :14:09.British nationals, have been taken to a police station in London for
:14:09. > :14:11.questioning. Around 150,000 Northern Rock asset
:14:12. > :14:16.management customers will receive hundreds of pounds each in
:14:16. > :14:21.compensation owing to mistakes made in paperwork. Bank staff failed to
:14:21. > :14:24.include key details on annual statements about loans. The �270
:14:24. > :14:29.million for the refunds will come from the taxpayer as this section
:14:29. > :14:34.of the bank has been owned by the Government since 2008.
:14:34. > :14:38.Doctors in South Africa say Nelson Mandela is suffering from a
:14:38. > :14:41.recurring lung infection, but they say he's responding well to
:14:41. > :14:45.treatment. The former South African president has been in hospital for
:14:45. > :14:48.four days. Our correspondent is in Johannesburg for us. So finally,
:14:48. > :14:57.some information about what he is suffering from. Do we know much
:14:57. > :15:02.Not a great deal more now but after these anxious days of having
:15:02. > :15:07.nothing to go on in terms of medical information, we do know two
:15:07. > :15:10.crucial things. The first is that he has a lung infection of some
:15:10. > :15:15.sort. We do not know if it is pneumonia or something less severe.
:15:15. > :15:20.We know this was something he had a couple of years ago. If he was
:15:20. > :15:24.brought to hospital in Johannesburg. He responded to treatment then,
:15:24. > :15:28.recovered and went home. We know he is responding to treatment so that
:15:28. > :15:33.is very encouraging news for the millions of people who have been
:15:33. > :15:37.waiting anxiously for news of Mr Mandela. He has been responding to
:15:37. > :15:41.treatment and now we will have to wait and find out what will happen
:15:42. > :15:47.next. How long will he stay in hospital, will he be able to return
:15:47. > :15:50.home to his home village, a big journey for a 94-year-old man to
:15:50. > :15:55.make. I have been out on the streets in Johannesburg this
:15:55. > :15:59.morning and people are following this news very carefully indeed. It
:15:59. > :16:04.is interesting when you talk to South Africans about Nelson Mandela,
:16:04. > :16:09.the one word which comes up every time his father. If people see him
:16:09. > :16:13.not just as the symbolic father of the nation, but almost in an
:16:13. > :16:17.intimate family way, they see him as a man who is closely bound up
:16:17. > :16:21.with their lives. There is a great deal of anxiety here but also a
:16:21. > :16:28.sense that he is 94, he is frail and people are realistic about the
:16:28. > :16:32.months, days, years to come. Thank you.
:16:32. > :16:36.Our top story this lunchtime: The number of foreign-born people in
:16:36. > :16:44.England and Wales has risen by nearly 3 million over the last
:16:44. > :16:47.decade to 7.5 million. I am at Wembley where English
:16:47. > :16:54.football authorities have come up with a new plan to tackle the
:16:54. > :16:58.recent spate of race related controversy Later on BBC London.
:16:58. > :17:00.How Londoners can help those sleeping on the streets this winter.
:17:00. > :17:10.$$NEWLINEAnd the once failing school that's turned itself around
:17:10. > :17:14.
:17:14. > :17:21.and helped inspire new teachers Armoured vehicles are proposing
:17:21. > :17:26.this -- patrolling streets of Cairo this lunchtime. Overnight, at least
:17:26. > :17:30.nine people were hurt when gunmen opened fire on opposition
:17:30. > :17:33.protesters camped out in Tahrir Square. In a moment, we will speak
:17:33. > :17:38.to our correspondent Jon Leyne who is with supporters of the President.
:17:38. > :17:42.First, we can go to George Alagiah who is outside the presidential
:17:42. > :17:47.palace in Cairo. I am outside the presidential
:17:47. > :17:52.palace, but you cannot see it because of this wall. It is about
:17:52. > :17:57.10 ft high. It was erected a few days ago when a previous protest
:17:58. > :18:02.turned nasty. Behind that, in theory the President is holed up
:18:02. > :18:07.trying to govern this country. Protesters are just beginning to
:18:07. > :18:14.arrive here for what promises to be a much of many thousands. The
:18:14. > :18:18.graffiti has already started. Some is unhelpful the written in English,
:18:18. > :18:24.this war will fall. Another one says, this wall will not protect
:18:25. > :18:34.you. The protesters here will be opponents of the government. They
:18:35. > :18:35.
:18:35. > :18:40.are the ones who want the President not to have this referendum... The
:18:40. > :18:44.draft constitution is not one which will take the country forward, but
:18:44. > :18:48.backwards. The people here will be opponents of the government. The
:18:48. > :18:55.supporters of the government a meeting elsewhere, preparing for
:18:55. > :18:59.their rival march. And my colleague Jon Leyne is with them.
:18:59. > :19:04.Yes, supporters of the President have been gathering here throughout
:19:04. > :19:09.the day and we are expecting bigger crowds in a couple of hours' time
:19:10. > :19:15.when people finish work. The posters here, one of them says vote
:19:15. > :19:19.Yes for the new constitution, for your son's' future. No mention of
:19:19. > :19:24.daughters. Another one says read the constitution, think about it
:19:24. > :19:28.and then vote yes. We found people selling copies of the constitution
:19:28. > :19:32.to cars and traffic jams. They are people who would usually be selling
:19:32. > :19:37.paper tissues and other knick- knacks. That is one side of how
:19:37. > :19:40.interesting people are in this. It is an interesting cross section of
:19:40. > :19:46.supporters. It is not only members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the
:19:46. > :19:50.president's own Islamist movement, there are members of hardline
:19:50. > :19:54.Islamist groups and that is an important won to note because that
:19:54. > :19:59.shows the pressure the President is under not to compromise with the
:19:59. > :20:04.Liberals. He is under pressure to maintain an even harder line, to
:20:04. > :20:10.rule this country from a more Islamist prospective. The
:20:10. > :20:16.supporters see this as a crucial show and test of the strength of
:20:16. > :20:20.their support. Thank you. I do not know if you can
:20:21. > :20:26.hear but there was a lot of banging going on. That is because there is
:20:26. > :20:30.a little gap between this concrete wall and the building there and the
:20:30. > :20:34.protesters are trying to get through to it. You can probably see
:20:34. > :20:39.those metal sheets being pulled apart that. The role of the
:20:39. > :20:43.military is going to be crucial today. Yesterday, the President
:20:43. > :20:48.gave the military power to arrest civilians. That was a controversial
:20:48. > :20:53.move. How they execute those powers could well decide how this day pans
:20:53. > :20:56.out. A crucial day for both sides for the government supporters and
:20:56. > :21:05.also for the opponents who will be here. Back to you.
:21:05. > :21:07.Thank you. An alliance of pupils, teaching unions and schools from
:21:07. > :21:12.England is mounting a legal challenge to last summer's GCSE
:21:12. > :21:16.English results. They argue that changing the grade boundaries for
:21:16. > :21:20.June's exams was unfair and left thousands of students with lower
:21:20. > :21:24.grades than they expected. One of the examining boards involved,
:21:24. > :21:29.Ofqual, said it would rigorously defend its decision.
:21:30. > :21:34.Never before have the results of a national exam ended up in court.
:21:34. > :21:38.George Green's School in London is one of a hundred and 50 schools in
:21:38. > :21:42.England challenging this summer's GCSE English results. The marks
:21:42. > :21:46.needed to get a good grade where race halfway through the year,
:21:47. > :21:51.meaning some pupils expecting a C grade got a D grade. Jack Coote was
:21:51. > :21:56.one of them. He almost lost his apprenticeship that his employer to
:21:56. > :22:00.come on on condition that he we sat the exam. It is really unfair. I
:22:00. > :22:05.have to retake an exam which I have already passed and it is not just
:22:05. > :22:09.me, it is everybody else all over the country. The principle says
:22:09. > :22:14.pupils were unfairly treated because Ofqual and two exam boards,
:22:14. > :22:20.a Q A and Edexcel were worried about grade inflation. I feel very
:22:20. > :22:23.angry on behalf of my students, parents and our community. I will
:22:23. > :22:26.not rest until the decisions that were made in August after
:22:26. > :22:32.everything was marked is reversed and the grading that should have
:22:32. > :22:37.happened happens. Tens of thousands of pupils Freesat their GCSE
:22:37. > :22:42.English last month, in the hope of getting a better grade. In Wales,
:22:42. > :22:48.papers have already been regraded on orders of the Welsh government.
:22:48. > :22:51.Ahead of Ofqual, Glenys Stacey, arrived at court this morning to
:22:52. > :22:56.fight the attempt to have the greats overturned. Ofqual says
:22:56. > :23:04.those pupils who were generously marriage -- mark in generate were
:23:04. > :23:10.lucky and the June boundaries were correct. The judge said there had
:23:10. > :23:14.been inconsistency in the marks between January and June. He said
:23:14. > :23:18.there was inconsistency about whether the exams had been unfairly
:23:18. > :23:23.graded or whether it had to be lived with.
:23:23. > :23:26.Plans to make internet service provider store details of all
:23:26. > :23:30.online communications in the UK have prompted more disagreements
:23:30. > :23:34.within the coalition. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, said
:23:34. > :23:39.the plants need a fundamental rethink. The Home Secretary,
:23:39. > :23:42.Theresa May, said the Bill should be reintroduced next year.
:23:42. > :23:46.Communications around the Cabinet table were likely to have been
:23:46. > :23:51.rather strained this morning. The Home Secretary wants a new law
:23:51. > :23:55.which sees says will help tackle terrorism. Critics say it is a
:23:55. > :23:58.snoopers' charter. The Deputy Prime Minister has said she needs to get
:23:58. > :24:03.back to the drawing board. What is causing the row? The government
:24:03. > :24:07.wants to give the police and intelligence services new powers to
:24:07. > :24:10.monitor communications. They would not be able to listen and to
:24:10. > :24:14.telephone communications without special permission, but they would
:24:14. > :24:19.be able to find out who is making and receiving calls. And the
:24:19. > :24:27.traffic would include new forms of communication such as social
:24:27. > :24:33.messaging, where male, and even on line gaming. The Lib Dems say this
:24:33. > :24:36.is potentially too intrusive and costly. They need a fundamental
:24:36. > :24:39.rethink and go back to the drawing board. This is about getting the
:24:39. > :24:43.balance right between protecting the public which is an essential
:24:43. > :24:46.duty for any government and doing it in a way which safeguards
:24:46. > :24:50.people's privacy and does not lead to billions and billions of pounds
:24:50. > :24:57.being spent. But the Home Office has not just face criticism from
:24:57. > :25:00.Nick Clegg. Today, eight committee said the proposed law would give
:25:00. > :25:05.the Home Secretary sweeping new powers to force communication
:25:05. > :25:08.companies to disclose limitless amounts of data. The Home Office
:25:08. > :25:14.ministers are saying they will look again at the scope of the proposals
:25:14. > :25:19.but a new law is necessary to tackle crime and terrorism. As we
:25:19. > :25:23.move from fixed-line phones, to mobile phones, now to the internet,
:25:23. > :25:28.the information that was previously available is not completely
:25:28. > :25:32.available now and that will grow into the future. We think there is
:25:32. > :25:36.a real need to act. Labour are critical as well. The real task for
:25:36. > :25:43.the government is to protect the country against terrorists wadding
:25:43. > :25:47.more to protect the privacy of everyone else. -- while doing more.
:25:47. > :25:53.Around �90 in year is being added to everyone's car insurance policy
:25:53. > :25:59.because of fraudulent claims for whiplash injuries. Here is our
:25:59. > :26:03.legal affairs correspondent. It is the neck injury which results
:26:03. > :26:09.from make sudden thrusting forwards and snapping back of a driver's
:26:09. > :26:12.unsupported head. It can be serious but also easily faked or
:26:12. > :26:17.exaggerated. The government believes the rise in the number of
:26:17. > :26:27.whiplash claims amounts to nothing short of a national epidemic. Last
:26:27. > :26:30.
:26:30. > :26:35.year in the UK, 5070 people claimed for one of these. Between 2006 and
:26:35. > :26:41.2012, claims for personal injury caused by road traffic accidents
:26:41. > :26:47.increased by 60 %. Over the same period, the number of reported road
:26:47. > :26:53.traffic accidents fell by 20 %. Insurers estimates that whiplash
:26:53. > :26:56.claims cost the average made to policy holder �90 a year. --
:26:56. > :27:01.average motor policy holder. The government has announced how it
:27:01. > :27:05.wants to tackle the rise in claims. The decisions about whiplash, the
:27:05. > :27:08.medical assessments need to be done independently. All too often they
:27:08. > :27:12.are done by the family doctor has a relationship with the claimant or
:27:12. > :27:16.by a doctor who has a relationship with the Clement's management
:27:16. > :27:22.company. We are changing that so it will be done by an independent
:27:22. > :27:27.doctor. Some lawyers are sceptical about the government's proposals.
:27:27. > :27:32.Research that we have done has shown 70 % of people would not take
:27:32. > :27:36.their case to the small-claims court without the assistance of a
:27:37. > :27:41.solicitor because they are frightened. The government wants
:27:41. > :27:48.motor insurance premiums to come down in hard-pressed economic times.
:27:48. > :27:50.It will be keen to push forward its reforms.
:27:50. > :27:55.Overseas football players should get lessons in British culture when
:27:55. > :28:00.they come to play here. The BBC has learnt the proposal is part of the
:28:00. > :28:04.FA's response to calls from David Cameron saying more should be done
:28:04. > :28:08.to combat racism in football. Our sports editor David Bond is at
:28:08. > :28:12.Wembley. What football's authorities have
:28:12. > :28:16.been looking at since February, when David Cameron challenged them
:28:16. > :28:20.to come up with a series of measures to deal with race related
:28:20. > :28:24.controversy is, is to try and find a way of dealing with that
:28:24. > :28:29.integration of foreign players coming to the Premier League and
:28:29. > :28:33.the Football League, not only to football but British life in
:28:33. > :28:37.general. 60 % of players playing in the Premier League are from
:28:37. > :28:41.overseas. The ideas being discussed which could come in early in the
:28:41. > :28:46.new year is to try and give foreign players lessons in British cultural
:28:46. > :28:51.life and background to try and help them integrate much better. This
:28:51. > :28:55.has all come out of the Luis Suarez case which was last year, which
:28:55. > :29:02.involved the Liverpool striker who was accused and eventually banned
:29:02. > :29:06.for racially abusing Patrice Evra. He said the term he had used to
:29:06. > :29:09.insult Patrice Evra was not racist in his home country. He was
:29:09. > :29:13.eventually banned for that but I think football authorities have
:29:13. > :29:17.taken a less than out of that and they want to try and improve that
:29:17. > :29:22.integration for foreign players. The question is whether people will
:29:22. > :29:32.see it as a bit patronising. Now a look at the weather. It is
:29:32. > :29:37.
:29:37. > :29:42.It is cold. We had a few spots down to-five and minus seven last night.
:29:42. > :29:47.We will have similar lows overnight tonight as well. The satellite
:29:47. > :29:53.picture shows most of us have sunny skies. Look at this area of
:29:53. > :30:00.ploughed a stretch and across the Midlands. Visibility is still down
:30:00. > :30:04.to 100 metres in some places. In Scotland, there will be quite a bit
:30:04. > :30:11.of sunshine today. The north-east will be prone to a few wintry
:30:11. > :30:17.showers. It is colder than it should be at this time of year. We
:30:17. > :30:24.have a few wintry showers clipping the Far East of Kent. That could
:30:24. > :30:30.leave icy surfaces and snow here. That will linger in Cambridgeshire,
:30:30. > :30:35.Bedfordshire, the Chilterns as well but Western England and Wales will
:30:35. > :30:39.be sunny. The fog in central areas will thicken up overnight.
:30:39. > :30:49.Difficult driving conditions, not just for this evening's rush hour
:30:49. > :30:50.
:30:50. > :30:55.work meet home but for tomorrow morning's rush-hour commuter. It is
:30:55. > :31:01.going to be a rather murky start across a swathe of the Midlands
:31:01. > :31:06.with fog and poor visibility. It will linger across the North
:31:06. > :31:09.Midlands into Wednesday. Where it sticks temperatures will be below
:31:09. > :31:13.freezing. A freshening southerly breeze will bring a change to
:31:14. > :31:23.Northern Ireland as it turns cloudy here with spots of rain arriving.
:31:24. > :31:26.
:31:26. > :31:30.For Thursday's weather, it will be another third -- Col day.
:31:30. > :31:38.Temperatures will struggle to get above freezing except in the south-
:31:38. > :31:43.west. It will be rather -- round above freezing in Newcastle. It is
:31:43. > :31:49.all change for Friday when we lose the cold air. We could see a risk