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New pension proposals for millions of public sector workers. They say | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
workers will work longer, pay more and get less. Ministers insist it | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
is a deal for a generation. This is a strong set of pension reforms | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
which will give you pensions better than anything available in the | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
private sector. There's no doubt there are very, very big barriers | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
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in the way to be able to reach an France and Germany give Greece a | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
stark choice - you're either in the eurozone or out. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Bill Gates gives me his message to world leaders - don't let the | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
economic crisis affect what we give the poor. I've still got what it | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
takes. David Beckham puts down his marker for a place in Britain's | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
Olympic team. We all dream about it. We all think about it. If it | :01:11. | :01:20. | |
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Welcome to the BBC's news at 6pm. The row shows little sign of | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
abating, that is despite a new deal from the Government. Workers will | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
be protected and new pensions will grow more quickly. Staff will have | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
to pay higher country buegs, and many will have to work -- | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
contributions and many will have to work longer. Unions are not | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
satisfied and say they plan to continue their ballot on wide- | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
spread industrial action, which could take place by the end of the | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
month. Today brought an important new | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
front in the battle over public sector pensions w the result of a | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
ballot on industrial action Dubai one union tomorrow. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
The Government has come out with a new offer, what it's calling a very | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
big move. David Cameron spelled out what he | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
believed was on the table. Low and middle income earners will see more | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
from their pensions. Everyone will keep what they have built up so far. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Anyone within ten years of retirement will see no change in | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
their pension arrangements. At the end of all this, people in the | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
public sector will still get far better pensions than people in the | :03:01. | :03:11. | |
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David Hambly is a social worker, as he's over 50 he would benefit from | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
the Government's new proposal. He's still ready to go on strike. We're | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
not militant. We are with an employer who is making an | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
unreasonable attack on our pensions. At the TUC, union leaders discussed | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
the new proposals and gave a measured reaction. We want to | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
resolve this by negotiation, without the need for further | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
industrial action. That has always been our position. There's no doubt | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
there are very, very big barriers still in the way of us being able | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
to reach an agreement. Union leaders acknowledge the Government | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
has made concessions. They say the detail will now need to be looked | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
at. And how it applies to different bits of the public sector like | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
health and education. At this stage, there's no suggestion that the day | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
of action and planned walkouts for the end of November will be called | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
off. Good afternoon.... Ministers warned the offer could be withdrawn | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
if there was no agreement. We have made a serious move and it's | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
obviously conditional on there being agreement with the unions | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
ultimately. The stress that this does need to | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
be a solution, a settlement that endures for the long term. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
And with more union ballots due soon, it's not clear how the public | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
will react to the threat of disrupted services and whether they | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
will sympathise with the union fight to protect their pensions. | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
Well, our political editor is in Downing Street. Nick, it is clearly | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
not really happening around the negotiating table. It looks like it | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
will end up a battle for public opinion? It may look that way. In | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
truth the negotiations will go on. Take that warning that Francis | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Maude, the Cabinet Office minister made a few seconds ago in that | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
report, saying they could withdraw this offer if the unions end | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
negotiations. I am told however that it will not be withdrawn if | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
the unions go ahead with their day of action and strikes on November | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
30th. Ministers accept that unions will find it very difficult to back | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
away from that. It would look like they are giving in. What is more, | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
if they had to re-ballot members for strikes at later dates that | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
could cost many millions of pounds. There'll be an argument in public | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
and a different one in private. What ministers are hoping is they | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
have sent a message tonight. They have sent a message to older | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
workers to say, this doesn't affect you, if you are about to retire in | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
the next ten years things will be as they are now. It sends a message | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
to low and middle-income workers. It says to them, yes, you will have | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
to work longer, as everybody else is. You'll have to pay more for | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
your pension. You may get as much as you are now or even more. Stuen | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
has to -- someone has to pick up the bill for that, it is higher | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
paid workers and taxpayers. The other part of the Government's | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
message is, there are millions of people who dream of having anything | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
like a public sector pension. They hope those people will put pressure | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
on public sector workers to accept that this is as good as it's going | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
to get. Thank you. | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, says Euro- zone plan is not | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
up for negotiation. Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
will hold a meeting with Andreous Papandreou tonight, ahead of the | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
G20 summit in Cannes. They are angry with him for calling for a | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
referendum on last week's bail out plan for Greece. | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
For the leaders of France and Germany, the shock of a Greek | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
referendum feels like betrayal. Both President Sarkozy and | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
President Merkel made huge efforts to deliver last week's Euro-deal. | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Tonight, they have summoned the Greek Prime Minister to Cannes, to | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
urge him to stick with it. This is the man who has plunged the | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
European Union back into crisis - Andreous Papandreou agreed last | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
week in Brussels to what was called "the ultimate rescue." Now it is | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
unravelling because he insists the Greek people must accept or reject | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
it first in a referendum. There's no disguising Chancellor Merkel's | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
anger today. TRANSLATION: We agreed a plan for | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
Greece last week. As far as the European Union is concerned, we | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
want to put this plan into practise. For this, we need clarity. The | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
meeting tonight should help with precisely this. | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
Five days ago, Europe was celebrating a measure to save the | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
euro. All agreed on an �86 billion loan to Athens and a 50% debt | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
write-off. Now the move to hold a referendum in the next 30 days has | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
thrown everything in doubt. You can hear the frustration from France's | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
Prime Minister in Parliament tonight. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
TRANSLATION: The Greeks must understand that Europe cannot spend | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
long weeks waiting for the response they will give at the referendum. | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
The Greeks must thus say quickly and unambiguously whether or not | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
they are choosing to keep their place in the eurozone. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
As the world's most powerful leaders arrive here in Cannes and | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
the Presidents of the United States and China will both be here among | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
the economic giants it is increasingly clear that patience | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
with Greece is rapidly running out, not just among eurozone Governments. | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
The whole of the world has a stake in this, the deepening Euro-crisis | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
is intensifying, raging instability which threatens economies right | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
around the globe. And protestors in Cannes are hoping | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
to have their voices heard too. Their complaint - that democracy in | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
Greece is being sacrificed. They mock President Sarkozy and insist | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
the world leaders need to join them, taking the plunge to protect | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
ordinary people, as well as promoting global growth. | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
Now, if the Greeks were to turn down the eurozone bail out deal in | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
a referendum and default on their debts, the shock waves could be | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
felt throughout the world economy. The eurozone's financial crisis, | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
started in Greece 19 months ago and is still in Greece, but has spread | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
to Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Belgium and perhaps most worryingly | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
of all Italy, with its huge Government debts. | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
So why does it matter that the Greece referendum could lead to | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
Greece reneguing on its debts or withdraw from the euro? It is not | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
just to distinguish this, you cannot get one country out and say | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
the rest does not have similar implications. This is one of the | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
crucial problems that other countries have similar, not as | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
massive problems as Greece, and as long as you have this threat, | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
invessors will think about it. point is that last week's painfully | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
negotiated package does not have the money to cope with the losses | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
and stresses which will be generated for countries or exit | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
from the euro and it is Italy that looks most vulnerable. Italy's | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
problem is its Government debt is huge. More than 120% of the value | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
what it produces. Now creditors have become nervous about whether | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
they will be re-paid, so they are charging Italy record amounts to | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
borrow. An interest rate of 5% for a one-year loan, massively more | :11:01. | :11:10. | |
than the 0.3% paid by Germany. Disaster for Italy which has to | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
borrow 300 billion euros. It is vital for Europe's bail out | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
fund to have enough money to fill that gap. Would one trillion be | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
enough? One trillion is probably not enough. We have seen the | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
spreading of the crisis to Italy and Spain and even before that | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
crisis spread to the countries we thought that two trillion was | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
probably mess. So one trillion not enough to stabilise the situation, | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
I am afraid. The Italian Prime Minister and his Cabinet under | :11:45. | :11:54. | |
pressure from Germany and other members to accelerate moves. We, as | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
the Government are doing everything that was agreed with Europe. As for | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
Greece, well the IMF is threatening to turn off its financial life- | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
support machine until after the referendum result is known. Will | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
such pressure persuade Greek people to stay a member of the eurozone | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
circle, or will it break the circle with who knows what painful | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
consequences for it and for us? Well, our Europe editor is in | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
Cannes where the G20 summit is taking place. The Greek Prime | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
Minister arrives there tonight, I think - what sort of message will | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
he get? Well, George, an EU official has | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
just told us that tonight, when Andreous Papandreou arrives here in | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
kapbls, there will be tough talking. -- Cannes, there will be tough | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
talking. He will be told don't expect renegotiation over what | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
happened last week. He will be told if there is to be a referendum, | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
make ed quick. We don't want this in the New Year, we want it in the | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
next couple of weeks. The French and German will frame the nature of | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
the question. They don't want it to be about austerity - do you want | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
further austerity? They want it to be about; do you want to be in the | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
eurozone or out of the eurozone? Whether they will be successful | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
with that pressure is hard to know. Why does all this matter? It | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
matters because of uncertainty. Europe's leaders and also the | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
President of the United States tonight talking about the effect | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
that this uncertainty is having on the global economy, not just the | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
global economy of course, but also it matters to Britain, George. | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
Thank you. The founder of the WikiLeaks | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
website, Julian Assange, has lost his High Court battle against | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
exfrom decision to Sweden. The -- ex-tradition to Sweden. He is | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
wanted to be questioned about sexual assault allegations. Mr | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
Assange denies the claims and says the case against him is | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
politically-motivated. His lawyers have 14 days to decide whether to | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
appeal to the Supreme Court or not. Five metd met police officers have | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
been disciplined after smashing a suspects Carwyn dough with baseball | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
bats. The Independent Police Complaints commission found they | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
used unreasonable force during the incident in North London three | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
years ago. A sixth officer was demoted for failing to supervise | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
them properly. David Beckham says he can still perform at the highest | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
level and he will know when it is time to quit football. Speaking to | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
the BBC, the Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder said his next goal would | :14:35. | :14:45. | |
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be to represent the 2012 Olympic For decades, people have been | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
making the pilgrimage to this city, seeking fame and fortune. When he | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
came to Los Angeles five years ago, David Beckham already had both. | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
This season it has been his form on the pitch which has got Tinseltown | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
talking, guiding his club, LA Galaxy, to within three games of | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
the American title. But with his contract up at the end of the month, | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
his time here could be coming to an end. So, has he helped football to | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
break America? When I first came here, I always said, it is not | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
going to be a huge success in a couple of years, it has to go on | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
longer than that. There was the buzz at the start, there has been | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
new stadiums getting built, new players coming to the country, but | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
there is still a long way to go. David Beckham's time in America may | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
not have completed delivered on all the ambitious targets he set | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
himself. But he remains one of world football's most valuable | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
brands. The question is, at the age of 36, how long he can continue | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
playing. There is still interested in signing him back in Europe, most | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
notably from Paris St Germain. That's why he insists he's not | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
ready to quit just yet. It is always difficult when you come | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
towards the end of your career, it is always difficult making that | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
decision about stopping. But I don't think I will have that | :16:14. | :16:23. | |
problem. I think I will know when I need to finish. But that's not yet. | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
As part of the London 2012 bid team, Beckham helped bring the Olympics | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
to his home city. Now, he's focused on playing a key role in the | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
British football team's push for gold. When it comes to leading my | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
country, or playing for my country, it is still a big thing. We all | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
dream about it, we all think about it. If it happens, then I would be | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
honoured. Some people will think, that's a bit of an indulgence, we | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
should be picking other players, we want the best, youngest team. | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
people will say that, but people have been saying there that about | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
me for the last 10-15 years. I have continued to represent my country. | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
David Beckham could have used his time in Los Angeles to gently wind | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
down after a long career in the spotlight. Instead, this American | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
adventure has left his footballing ambitions still burning. And you | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
can see the full interview with David Beckham on Football Focus on | :17:27. | :17:37. | |
Saturday here on BBC One. Our main headline - the unions to reject a | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
new government offer on pension reforms for millions of public | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
sector workers. Coming up, cake lends a helping hand on a visit to | :17:46. | :17:56. | |
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a UNICEF emergency supply centre. - The Archbishop of Canterbury has | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
defended the way the Church of England is dealing with the | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
protests outside St Paul's cathedral. Almost three weeks after | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
the demonstrators set up camp, Dr Rowan Williams says in an interview | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
with the BBC that it has been a real focus for people's feelings | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
about the banking industry, and he has backed the introduction of a | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
new introduction -- international tax on financial transactions. | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
Robert Piggott reports. Anglicans have watched a protest about banks | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
become a debate about whether their own church is standing up to | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Christian values. Today, its leader emerged to try to wrest back | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
control of the debate. Dr Williams said people were frustrated by | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
Bancos' irresponsible behaviour, and their soaring bonuses. It is | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
not changing fast enough, people still feel that the public is | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
bearing more of the cost than they ought to. So this has been a real | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
focus for people's feelings, even if they have not known exactly what | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
they're after. What would you say to criticism that you have been | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
slow in exercising your own leadership on this one. It is | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
always difficult judging these things, and I may not have got it | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
right, but anyway, this is what I have got to say now. For Dr | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
Williams, this all represents an opportunity as well as a danger. He | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
wants the Church to seize back the initiative and put Christian | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
concern for the Palace at the centre of the debate. So today he | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
has challenged the government to use the G20 to back controversial | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
proposals for a tax on financial transactions. The so-called Robin | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
Hood tax would place a tiny levy on the millions of share, bond and | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
currency transactions which take place each day. Dr Williams said | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
the tax could be one way of answering the campaign ofs' moral | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
agenda. When you have a scheme like this, backed by a lot of serious | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
economists, people who cannot just be written off as knee-jerk anti- | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
capitalists. It means there must be something to be said for it. | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
Protesters welcomed Dr Williams' intervention. Enormous institutions | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
and powerful individuals are starting to raise questions in the | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
media. Everyone here has got a renewed sense of zeal and | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
commitment. It is a nice answer to the critics who say it has all been | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
pointless. The Prime Minister said today that Dr Williams spoke for | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
everyone in doubting whether high earners were behaving | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
responsibility, but that Britain would back the tax only if it were | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
adopted worldwide. The Archbishop is not the only prominent figure | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
backing a new tax on financial deals. Today, bill Gates, the | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
former head of Microsoft, and one of the world's richest men, says he, | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
too, favours the tax, but he would like to spend some of the billions | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
raised on helping the world's poor. He told me today this was a message | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
he would be taking to the Cannes summit. Bill Gates is arguably the | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
businessman of his age, the big beast of the information era. It | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
made him one of the world's wealthiest men. But now, he has | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
turned his attention to the plight of the poor. Today he told me that | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
helping them was in our interest. Not caring about the instability of | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
these countries really would hurt our economic future quite | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
dramatically, whether it is on rest, disease... On the other hand, if | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
you bring these people into the world economy, then you get is very | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
positive cycle. So, all of these things need money, and you have now | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
come to support a tax on financial transactions, and interestingly, | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
the Archbishop of Canterbury has come out today in support of that. | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
But he's that really something that is going to fly, given the | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
opposition? I don't know. It is clearly a political question. When | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
we talk about the financial transaction tax, there's many | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
flavours of this. What I was looking at is, are other ways for | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
countries which are falling a bit short of their aid commitments, are | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
there ways that they could raise money to get to those commitment | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
levels? My expertise involves being able to say, if you apply it to | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
development aid, it will have a fantastic effect. Bill Gates | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
accepts that these are tough and volatile times for the global | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
economy, but he insists that the poor should not be sacrificed to | :22:59. | :23:09. | |
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save the rich. I think steps have to be taken to restore confidence | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
in the fact that governments will pay their debts. I do think we can | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
come out of this without taking that 1% which goes to the poorest | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
and using that as a way to solve the problem. This time tomorrow, | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
bill Gates will be at the summit in Cannes, and he is determined to | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
make sure that the voices of the poor are not forgotten when the | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
world's most powerful politicians sit round a table. An investigation | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
into two earth tremors on the Lancashire coast has found it is | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
highly probable that there were caused by the controversial gas | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
extraction method called fracking. Our correspondent is that the | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
drilling site in Lancashire. This is going to add to the fears and | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
arguments about this particular way of extracting gas... It is, because | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
fracking involves drilling 9,000ft below the surface, shattering the | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
rocks and releasing gas. There were exploratory tests on this site back | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
in the spring which was stopped after a few weeks because a couple | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
of earth tremors were felt measuring up to 2. Re-on the scale | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
of magnitude. Today, a report has been released which says it is | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
highly probable that those earth tremors were caused by the fracking. | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
But the report also says that should fracking be resumed here, | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
that further tremors are unlikely to happen. So, Cuadrilla, the | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
company operating this drill, wants to start up again, and is waiting | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
for the green light from government. Today alone on this site there have | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
been protesters who came in in the morning and were here all day, and | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
have just been removed. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are in | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
Denmark, where they visited an emergency supply centre run by the | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
children's charity UNICEF. They met workers sending aid to help and | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
billions of people in East Africa who are at risk of starvation. This | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
report from our royal correspondent, Peter Hunt, contains flash | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
photography from the start. William and Frederick with Kate and Mary. | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
Together, Britain and Denmark's future kings and queens getting | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
stuck in to remind the world of suffering on another continent. The | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
8 by royals is for the children still suffering from East Africa's | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
worst drought in 60 years. They are malnourished and need urgent | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
medical hype. The couple are well aware of the interest in their | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
lives. Here, they are trying to exploit that global fascination and | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
focus it on the needs of others. Aid agencies are appealing for more | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
money at a time of financial difficulties for many. Prince | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
William knows it will be a challenge. As tragic and disastrous | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
as everything is, financially, what's going on in Africa puts | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
everything into perspective. Kate says she wants to put the spotlight | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
back on this crisis. It is really just how shocking this situation | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
still is. It has been going on for 100 days or so. It is really still | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
ongoing. A huge amount still has to happen, with hundreds of children | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
still malnourished at the moment. In a warehouse the size of three | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
football pitches, the British and Danish royals learned about the | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
work done here. They have come for a day. The problems they have been | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
highlighting will last for many, many days. It is time for the | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
many days. It is time for the weather now. Yes, a lot more cloud | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
around tonight, and all of you are set to see some wet weather and at | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
times. The wind is coming from a south-easterly direction, which | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
will be crucial to temperatures overnight. The wet weather is | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
coming northwards and eastwards from the south. Some of it will be | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
heavy at times. But the wind coming from the south-east will keep | :27:15. | :27:23. | |
temperatures up. Tomorrow morning, the heaviest of the rain will have | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
pushed into Scotland, central and eastern areas in particular. A few | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
showers in Northern Ireland, but the early morning heavy rain across | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
northern England will be easing off. It will be leaving a good deal of | :27:39. | :27:49. | |
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standing water in its wake. We will see some more showers developing | :27:53. | :28:03. | |
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during the day. But there will also be some drier and brighter weather. | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
Tomorrow night is not vastly dissimilar to tonight. There will | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
be more heavy rain working its way northwards and eastwards. The winds | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
will be lighter on Friday. But there will be some heavy showers, | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
particularly in the morning, more especially across southern areas. | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
After a rather chilly night, Saturday brings this low pressure | :28:27. | :28:35. | |
system closer towards us. It could system closer towards us. It could | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
be a wet and windy day in southern and eastern areas. Our main | :28:38. | :28:42. |