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Steadfast and united - the coalition Government's verdict on | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
how well it's doing at the halfway point of their pact. The Prime | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Minister and his Deputy prepare to set out shared priorities on | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
childcare, infrastructure and care for the elderly. Now I think the | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
coalition is actually maturing and people can see that we have two | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
parties which sometimes don't agree on things, which sometimes disagree | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
in public, but that are agreed on the big fundamental things about | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
the economy and schools and welfare. The broadcaster Stuart Hall appears | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
in court charged with indecent assault on three girls in the '70s | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
and '80s. More violence in Northern Ireland - | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
the police there say children as young as ten have taken part. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
The seven-year-old killed for failing to learn passages from the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
Koran - his mother is jailed for life. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
And, the Big Bash that almost lived up to its name. The Australian | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
Shane Warne is banned and fined for misconduct. On BBC London: A 13- | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
year-old girl is killed after a police car chase in south London. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
And how illegal stun guns 20 times more powerful than those of the | :01:15. | :01:24. | |
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police are being used in attacks Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
BBC news at One. David Cameron and Nick Clegg will set out their | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
priorities for the coalition Government for the rest of the | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Parliament, in just over an hour. In what they call their mid-term | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
review, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders will | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
insist they are steadfast and united and that their shared | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
purpose has grown. Labour has dismissed the review as another | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
relaunch. Our political correspondent Louise Stewart | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
reports. Since this historic moment at Downing Street back in 2010, the | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
coalition's had its ups and downs but David Cameron and Nick Clegg | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
are seizing the new term at Westminster as an opportunity to | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
reinvigorate their partnership, presenting the coalition's mid-term | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
review their message is the Government's making progress, but | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
there's Mogg to do. Now -- more to do. Now I think the coalition is | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
maturing and people can see we have two parties that sometimes don't | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
agree on things, sometimes disagree in public, but that are agreed on | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
the big fundamental things about the economy and schools and welfare | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
and are still capable of working together while retaining our | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
separate party identities. The mid- term report is light on detail but | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
highlights some of what the coalition see as their achievements, | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
including a 25% cut in the deficit, and education reforms in England as | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
well as the creation of private sector jobs. Critics say the | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
coalition hasn't delivered on House of Lords reform, has put services | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
at risk by introducing top-down NHS reforms and failed to tackle weak | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
economic growth. We really need from the Government is a strategy | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
for jobs and growth to get the economy moving again, but we are | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
not seeing that in the mid-term review, we haven't seen it in the | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
last two-and-a-half years and that's why our economy is on its | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
knees and families are having to pay the price. Gathering for the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
first cabinet meeting of the new year, ministers were signing off on | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
a new wave of Government plans. Over the next few months, they'll | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
flesh out pledges to help parents pay for the rise in cost of child | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
care, cap care costs for the elderly, as well as increasing | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
infrastructure investment. David Cameron and Nick Clegg want this | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
review, the coalition agreement mark II, if you like, to | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
demonstrate unity and show the Government still has plenty of | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
ideas. But while those at the top of the parties are working well | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
together, some Conservative backbenchers have dismissed this | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
review as little more than a PR exercise and say the coalition | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
can't last. This is just a sort of refresh, get the coalition going | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
again but really I don't think that two parties that fundamentally | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
disagree on so many things with push through new initiatives. | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
maintain the coalition at mid-term remains steadfast and united but in | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
the longer term it will be up to the voters to assess whether the | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
coalition has actually delivered on its promises. | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Let's speak to our political correspondent Norman Smith at | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Westminster. This is the first Government to have something | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
officially called a mid-term review, what do they want out of it? | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
sense is this is meant to be the sort of political equivalent of | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
Popeye's spinach, it's meant to give them get up and go, a bit of | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
drive, by sketching out bold initiatives to show the Government | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
hasn't run out of steam. It's the traditional problem of all | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
governments that they sink into mid-term blues and sort of drift | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
listlessly towards the next general election. The other part of this | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
review to be a long list of the things that the Government has | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
achieved, to say look, all these things we have managed to do in two | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
and a half years. The difficulty with that side, let's be honest, is | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
because it's a sort of self- appraisal form and when we get our | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
own annual appraisal forms we all jot down the sorts of things we | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
have done and think we have done well. We are always generous to | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
ourselves. We have to be cautious about how much we read into the | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
list of achievements. OK, but what will voters be expecting to see? | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
sense is what voters really want is delivery, delivery, it's all fine | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
coming up with reviews and reports, and future plans and | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
recommendations. The real business of Government is making things | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
happen on the ground, changing things for the better in people's | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
lives. There, there was a warning for Mr Cameron today from the head | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
of the National Association of Voluntary Os who said Mr -- | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
organisations who said Mr Cameron's idea of the big society was dead | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
because the pace of reform was slow and that's the real challenge | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
facing Mr Cameron, how can he make reform happen on the ground? | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
All this comes on the day that the leader of the Lords has announced | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
his resignation. Do you know why he is going? Else's - he's been in | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
frontline politics for 25 years now. He's been involved in the brutal | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
business of House of Lords reform which has involved marching troops | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
up to the top of the hill and down again. I think, frankly, he is just | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
tired. He himself says he wants a new chapter and wants to do | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
something different. It will be a big loss to the Government because | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
he is the sort of man who knows his way around the House of Lords, who | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
can cut the deals needed there. Thank you. You can see the press | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
conference with David Cameron and Nick Clegg on the BBC News channel | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
at 2.Topm -- 2.30pm this afternoon. One of the coalition Government's | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
policies which has come under criticism has been its decision to | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
take child benefit from more than a million families from today. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Ministers say the change affects only the top 15% of earners. Our | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
correspondent Simon Gompertz has the details. | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
These babies at a group for stimulates the senses were born | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
into a world where all could collect child benefit. What's | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
getting their parents going is that they'll now be means tested for it. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
In Dorking, several are waving bye to the money. It's going to | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
obviously mean we are going to have less disposable income. We do use | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
it all for him. It's just going to mean we are going to be slightly | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
more broke. It's a loss, but many, including baby Georgia's parents, | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
accept that they're an obvious target. If it's still given to | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
people that really need it, with lower salaries, then that's not too | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
bad. What do you think?! Education, health, everyone is having to take | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
a cut somewhere. I think if some people can afford more than others, | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
then sad as it is for those of us affected, it might be necessary. | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
Child benefit is �20.30 a week for the first child and �13.40 for the | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
others. 320,000 families are losing some of it because one partner | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
earns �50,000 or more. 820,000 with a partner on over �60,000 won't | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
qualify for any benefit. It is a complex change because the child | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
benefit is withdrawn gradually between incomes of �50,000 and | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
�60,000 a year. If you are on more than 60 a year you lose it all. | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
Until now these children received a universal benefit, with everyone | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
getting it to make sure that no one missed out. But now they're going | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
to be divided with the wealthiest children getting nothing. Thousands | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
of parents, like this one, have simply opted out of child benefit. | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
She's got the confirmation to avoid having to fill in a tax return and | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
then pay the money back. Only 15% of claimants are the | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
higher earnings having their child benefit eaten into. So most will | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
carry on receiving their money as before. | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
The broadcaster Stuart Hall has appeared in court charged with | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
three counts of indecent assault, involving three girls, aged between | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
nine and 17. The offences are alleged to have been committed in | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
the '70s and '80s. Mr Hall denies all charges. Our correspondent | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Judith Moritz is at Preston Magistrates' Court. | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
What happened in in in -- in court today? Well, this was the first | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
appearance at court for Stuart Hall since the charges were brought | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
against him in December. We have some pictures of him arriving this | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
morning. There is flash photography in them. He came here for the | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
hearing which was only a short hearing, less than quarter of an | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
hour. He was charged under his full name of James Stuart Hall and the | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
broadcaster, who is 83, sat in the courtroom and listened intently | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
throughout the proceedings. He confirmed his full name and his | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
address and then he pleaded not guilty to the three charges of | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
indecent assault which have been brought against him. The detail of | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
the charges is that in 1974 it's said that he touched | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
inappropriately a girl who was then 16 or 17, that happened in | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
Blackpool. In 1983, in Cheshire, that he touched a nine-year-old | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
girl, and at the following year, 1984, also in Cheshire, that he | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
kissed a girl who was then 13. He pleaded not guilty. But the | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
district judge here said he agreed with the prosecution's assessment | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
this case cannot be dealt with by magistrates, it must go to trial, | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
he said it must go to Crown Court. Stuart Hall was released on bail | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
from here and told to appear next at Preston Crown Court and that | :11:12. | :11:20. | |
will be on April 16th. Thank you. | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
The Chief Constable of Northern Ireland has accused members of the | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force of being | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
involved in the recent violent demonstrations in Belfast. Mark | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Baggott said 52 of his officers had been injured in the protests which | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
erupted after the City Council voted to restrict the flying of the | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
Union flag. Our Ireland Correspondent Mark Simpson reports. | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
A new year in Northern Ireland, but the same old story. Police on the | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
streets of East Belfast trying to keep the peace. For five weeks | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
loyalists have been protesting at the decision by Belfast City | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
Council to stop flying the Union flag every day. In this part of the | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
city there's been violence four nights in a row. I have seen over | :12:02. | :12:11. | |
the weekend youngsters, ten, 11, 14, 15-year-olds, in large numbers | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
without parental control, without any direction, and I am deeply | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
saddened by that. I think we all are. Police say some senior members | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
of the UVF in East Belfast have been orchestrating the trouble. The | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
MP for the area says violence will not bring back the Union flag. | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
is not some kind of people's revolution. People have the right | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
to go to the ballot box if they don't like what they get when they | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
elect leaders and they have the right to change that. But this is | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
not the way to bring about change in a democracy. Belfast City | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
Council meets tonight for the first time since the flag decision was | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
made. There's little prospect of the flag policy here changing. But | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
there's no sign of the protests ending. Politicians are trying to | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
find a solution, and police hope they find it quickly. | :12:59. | :13:07. | |
Further protests are planned in the city this evening. | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
The body has been recovered of a British man, who died after falling | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
from a waterfall near Sydney. The 20-year-old was with a group of | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
other tourists when he apparently lost his footing and fell around | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
300 feet at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains. | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
Morrisons says its sales over Christmas were disappointing in the | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
six weeks to the 30th December, like-for-like sales were 2.5% lower | :13:30. | :13:38. | |
than the same period in the previous year. | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
There've been chaotic scenes inside a court in Delhi where five men | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
have appeared charged with the gang rape and murder of a medical | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
student on a bus in the city last month. The case has caused outrage | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
across India. Two of the defendants have agreed to testify against the | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
other suspects in an attempt to avoid the death penalty. Our | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
correspondent Mike Wooldridge reports. | :13:58. | :14:06. | |
On their way to court from the Dellly jail where -- Delhi jail | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
where they're being held. Five accused over the death of the | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
student. This was a preliminary hearing taking place in the highly | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
charged atmosphere the case has provoked in India. Security had | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
been stepped up for the men's appearance in court and outside | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
demonstraters had gathered once again. | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
Inside the building there was such a scrum with dozens of lawyers and | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
journalists and onlookers that the magistrate ordered the hearing take | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
place behind closed doors. The protesters outside say say they | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
will not allow any lawyer to defend the accused. This lawyer, though, | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
says they do have the right to be defended, hang them by all means, | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
he says, if they're proved guilty, but they should at least be given a | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
fair chance. The student was attacked on this | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
bus on December 16th. She died later from massive internal | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
injuries she suffered during her ordeal. | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
The eruption of public anger over the case and over the treatment of | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
women led to clashes during this protest in the heart of Delhi. | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
Today's events at the court show that the sense of outrage and the | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
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profile of the case have hardly Over now to Andrew North in Delhi. | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
Huge outcry and we have been hearing about another suspected | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
rape and murder. What can you tell us about that? That's right. As | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
Mike was saying there in his report, questions about the judicial | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
process there is getting under way in the first test of what the | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
Government is promising will be a new fast-track process to deal with | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
this and others. However, over the weekend I've been talking to the | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
father of the victim of the latest suspected gang rape to have | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
happened in Delhi, and this man told me that when he initially | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
tried to report his daughter had gone missing, the police showed no | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
interest. They simply said they thought she had probably gone off | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
with someone. If this is happening in Delhi it shows you that there's | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
still a long way to go before the authorities really change their | :16:27. | :16:35. | |
attitude towards this crime. Thank you. | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
Our top story - David Cameron and Nick Clegg are preparing to set out | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
the priorities for the second half of the coalition's term. They'll | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
insist their steadfast and united and coming up - a big boost for UK | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
car industry as sales hit a four year high. Could the capital's road | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
become safer? We look at new plans for London's superhighways. For the | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
first time in more than 25 years, two British women enter the top 50 | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
world tennis ranking, including Wimbledon's Laura Robson. A senior | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
police officer has gone on trial, accused of offering information to | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
the News of the World in return for money more than two years ago. | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, who's 53, denies one | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
charge of misconduct in public office. Our Home Affairs | :17:24. | :17:33. | |
Correspondent, June Kelly, reports. She is the first person to go on | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
trial in the fallout from the phone hacking affair. Detective Chief | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
Inspector April Casburn stands accused of offering to supply | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
information to the News of the World for money. She is pleading | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
not guilty. Today, the senior Scotland Yard officer went into the | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
dock as the prosecution outlined the case against her. The jury | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
heard that in September 2010 the focus was back on alleged phone | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
hacking at the News of the World. This followed the publication of an | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
article in the New York Times claiming it was more widespread | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
than had previously been acknowledged. Detective Chief | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
Inspector April Casburn phoned the News of the World news desk and is | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
said to have offered the paper information for money about the | :18:14. | :18:24. | |
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resumed police investigation. The The police investigation was being | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
overseen by John Yates, who also had responsibility for counter- | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
terrorism. Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn was in | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
charge of a team investigating the financial side of terrorism. Her | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
call to the newspaper followed a decision to move resources from her | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
team to phone hacking. Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
admits calling the paper, but denies she asked for money. When | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
she called the newspaper she left her number with the news desk and | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
it was through this she was traced and arrested. She denies the | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
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offence of misconduct in public office. It's the latest phase of | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
the Government-backed change4life campaign. They hope the light- | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
hearted animated advert will help raise awareness of obesity and diet | :19:21. | :19:31. | |
:19:31. | :19:31. | ||
related illness. Critics say it doesn't go far enough. Behind the | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
scenes at a world-famous animation studios. These tiny figures aren't | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
the star of the new movie. This is all about making us think about | :19:40. | :19:50. | |
:19:50. | :19:50. | ||
what we eat. A big nudge is the new year, so check the ingredients of | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
our meals. This is the amount of fat in that whole pizza. Many | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
people don't know what's in processed foods. It's telling the | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
viewers about the hidden nasties about everyday junk food pizzas and | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
fizzy drinks and fries and chips. Kind of just showing them that | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
there's just that amount of fat and oil and sugar that actually in | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
these things. The Department of Health says it's struck a voluntary | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
deal with supermarkets, with special offers on some products to | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
help families eat better. But food campaigners say the Government is | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
too close to industry, that while sales of fresh fruit and vegetables | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
have fallen, less healthy foods are escaping regulation. One of the | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
things that the Department of Health says it's doing is showing | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
up the hidden nasties. Well, frankly, why are they hidden and if | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
they're nasty what are they doing in the food? Many sign up for | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
healthier living in the new year. The real test will be the official | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
statistics measuring the weight of the nation. A mother who beat her | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
seven-year-old son when he failed to memorise passages from the Koran | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
has been given a life sentence for his murder. Sara Ege killed Yaseen | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
Ali Ege in July 2010 and then set fire to his body. Our reporter is | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
at Cardiff Crown Court for us now. Sara Ege collapsed to the ground as | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
she was being led away from the dock to begin her life prison | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
sentence. The judge had told her that she had abused the special | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
precious relationship between a parent and the son, having | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
subjected her son to cruelty for several months. The judge said he | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
was satisfied that it was his failure to memorise passages of the | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
Koran that led to the fatal beating. The seven-year-old boy, deafless | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
against his mother's rage. Yaseen Ali Ege's body was discovered by | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
fire crews called to the family's home in Cardiff in July 2010. The | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
local community mourned what seemed to be a tragic, accidental death. | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
But the postmortem revealed he had been beaten before his body was set | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
alight. Sara Ege's trial lasted five weeks. The jury heard she had | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
admitted beating her son with a stick like a dog. She claimed to be | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
driven by voices in her head. The attacks became worse when he failed | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
to memorise large sections of the Koran, learning chapters of the | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
text at a Madras sa like this one is part of norm A instruction for | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
thousands of children, but Sara Ege had pushed her son to an extreme | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
level. It is tragic that the pressure that the mother has put on | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
the son, which has taken his life to be honest, you know, is really | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
sad. It's not a reflection on the community or the children and | :22:50. | :22:58. | |
parents and all the other mothers. Yousuf Ege was cleared by the jury | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
of allowing his son's death. They decided unanimously that Sara Ege | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
was solely responsible for his murder. As he passed the sentence, | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
the judge said he accepted that Sara Ege had been a devoted mother | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
who had done many good things to raise her son and also been the | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
victim of domestic abuse, but he reiterated this had been a dreadful | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
crime and she would have to serve a minimum of 17 years in jail. Thank | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
you. More than two million new cars were | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
bought in Britain last year - an increase of 5.3% and the highest | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
number since 2008. Ford's Fiesta and Focus and Vauxhall's Corsa and | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
Astra were the four best-selling models. More details from our | :23:37. | :23:47. | |
:23:47. | :23:48. | ||
industry correspondent, John Moylan. 2012 was a good jeer for Jaguar | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
Land Rover. Sales jumpped 25%, boosted by the success of the new | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
mode el, but across the industry the picture was more subdued. In | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
past 20 years, new car sales topped two million. That's up 5.3% on last | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
year, but it's a world away from the 2.5 million sales which the | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
industry enjoyed in the last decade. Why are sales up when the economy | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
has been flat? The industry says those who used to change their car | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
regularly before the downturn are now coming back into showrooms. | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
They are running five, six, seven- year-old cars and seeing the | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
maintenance cost of the vehicles begin to increase and very clearly | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
the fuel economy of a new car is up to 15% to 25% better, so from a | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
day-to-day running cost view, a new car starts to look like sound, | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
economic and financial sense. this is what we're buying - the | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
Ford fest that was the best-selling car in 2012. Ford has had the top | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
spot for the past four decades. The Vauxhall Corsa was in second and | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
then the Ford Focus in third. They say what drives sales here is new | :25:02. | :25:10. | |
products like this B mf Max with no -- B-Max, with no central pillar | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
and the fuel hch efficient vehicles, but having the right finance | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
available is also crucial. But if sales are up, is it at the cost of | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
profits? The last few months has shown an upturn in UK sales, which | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
is encouraging. The question is how that's achieved? There has been a | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
lot of discounting, especially from the manufacturers with European | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
plants who have no hope of selling their cars in southern Europe, so | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
they're shifting them over and discounting heavily. 2012 was a | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
better year, but it follows 2011, what was the worst since the mid- | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
90s. If the car sales of a barometer for the wider economy, | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
the figures suggest there could be tough times ahead. Now, it's not a | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
sight you often see on a cricket pitch, but Australian cricketer | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
Shane Warne and the West Indian Marlon Samuels almost came to blows | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
during a Twenty20 competition. During the incident the pair were | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
seen hurling bats and balls at each other and tugging on shirts. Our | :26:03. | :26:12. | |
sports correspondent, Alex South, has more. Cricket is supposed to be | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
a civilised game. No temper tan rums allowed, but that was ignored | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
as the big tournaments in Melbourne took itself a little too literally. | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
One of Australia's most celebrated cricketers, Shane Warne, in a | :26:26. | :26:34. | |
moment he would like to forget. conscious of the image of the game. | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
I'm disappointed in some of my actions last night, but also I'm | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
pretty disappointed with the severity of the penalties. I | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
thought it was harsh. Coming to his defence was his famous girlfriend, | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
the actress and model Elizabeth Hurley. She hit out saying he had | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
been harshly treated. That's debatable, as their actions have | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
damaged the sport which prides itself on an image as a gentleman's | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
game. Australian police are continuing to search burned-out | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
vehicles and homes in towns hit by bushfires, which have swept across | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
the island state of Tasmania. There are still about 100 people who | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
haven't been accounted for. Our correspondent, Nick Bryant, sent | :27:17. | :27:27. | |
:27:27. | :27:28. | ||
this report. The fires are still burning in Tasmania, though the | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
winds and record-breaking temperatures have dropped. The fire | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
fronts are no longer posing such an extreme threat to communities. | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
Still, they are causing chaos, with roads closed and the peninsula | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
still only reachable by boat and air. In the worst-affected | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
community, Dunalley, where over 60 homes and businesses were destroyed, | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
police have been going from one property to the next. Investigating | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
whether anyone lost their lives. Across Tasmania, 100 people are | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
still unaccounted for, but that's thought to be mainly because of the | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
confused situation. So far, after going through over 250 properties, | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
no fatalities have been confirmed. Today, the Prime Minister, Julia | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
Gillard, surveyed the worst fire damage seen in Australia since the | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
Black Saturday disaster in 2009. Even the local school burnt to the | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
ground. For a number of people they know their home has been destroyed, | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
but as yet, forivity reasons, they haven't been able to return to | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
their home to see the damage themselves, so a really stressing | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
position to be in. Knowing that you have lost so much, but not being | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
able to see it for yourself. With much of Australia in the grip of a | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
heatwave, with temperatures in the 40s, attention over the next few | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
days is expected to shift to the mainland. The New South Wales | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
authorities are warning of perhaps the worst fire day they've ever | :28:59. | :29:06. | |
faced. Now the weather. Alex joins faced. Now the weather. Alex joins | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
us. Some gradual changes with the weather this week. It is slowly | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
going to turn a little colder, but for today it's more of the same. | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
Mild out there and it is grey. There are some big contrasts with | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
the rainfall. This is the radar. It shows it's quite soggy across | :29:23. | :29:29. | |
Northern Ireland and a good part of Scotland. For England and Wales | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
it's dry. There may be some brightness and sunny spells in | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
Devon and east Wales and parts of north-east England. The far north- | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
east of Scotland seize some sunshine. -- sees some sunshine. | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
But for the rest of the country it's dull and soggy for the rest of | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
the day. Similar story for Northern Ireland too. It's damp, but mild. | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
Some of the rain across northern England and North Wales, but for | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
most of England and Wales it's fine. A hint of brightness here and there. | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
Gloomy across East Anglia and the south-east. A little drizzle | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
possible here and there. Some sunny spells continuing across parts of | :30:03. | :30:10. | |
Devon and Cornwall. It's going to stay mild overnight, because it | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
stays cloudy. The rain may ease, but another pulse of rain pushes | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
into Northern Ireland and southern and western Scotland. That rain | :30:17. | :30:24. | |
trickles into Wales too. But for many areas a dry night. It is still | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
mild. 8 to 10 degrees. It's mild and grey on Tuesday morning, but | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
changes tomorrow. We'll see sunshine developing in Northern | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
Ireland and after a wet start, it will brighten up in Scotland. This | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
area of rain will push across England and Wales, but the south- | :30:39. | :30:44. | |
east and East Anglia will stay dry until late on. It is mild again. | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
Actually, despite sun, temperatures are dropping across Scotland and | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
Northern Ireland. That's because this line of rain is from a cold | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
front. That cold front will continue to push the rain across | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
England and Wales during Tuesday night. Behind it, as the name | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
suggest, we have some colder air, so we'll see a big contrast in | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
temperatures compared with tonight. 9 or 10, but tomorrow night in the | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
north much closer to freezing. Maybe closer to what you might | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
imagine in January. A cold day, except maybe in the south-east. | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
Here, we'll have the residue of the weather front, so grey. Elsewhere, | :31:19. | :31:25. | |
a big change. Much colder, but brighter. We'll finally get some | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
sun returning. Colder and brighter is the theme for the week, with the | :31:28. | :31:36. |