:00:12. > :00:16.Shares in the high street giant Tesco take a battering after
:00:16. > :00:20.disappointing Christmas sales. Britain's biggest retailer issues a
:00:20. > :00:24.profit warning. Managers admit they got it wrong. There was a lot of
:00:24. > :00:29.promotional noise around Christmas. Our message didn't cut through.
:00:29. > :00:37.Also on tonight's programme: A heart-rending appeal from the
:00:37. > :00:41.family of the Birmingham couple found dead in their home. Catch the
:00:41. > :00:49.person who has taken the two most special people away from us.
:00:49. > :00:55.Please. The pictures that have shocked
:00:55. > :01:01.Afghans and shamed US forces. The Marines appear to be urinating on
:01:01. > :01:06.dead fighters. RBS axes 4,500 jobs. Unions say it is a disgrace to cut
:01:06. > :01:12.staff, but dish out the bonuses. And the bowler who would rather
:01:12. > :01:20.take cash than wickets. The first English cricketer found guilty of
:01:20. > :01:27.spot-fixing. Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News channel, Monty
:01:27. > :01:37.Panasar claims a place as he takes five wickets in England's latest
:01:37. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:50.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC's News at Six. Tesco, the giant of
:01:50. > :01:54.the high street has seen shares plunge after its most disappointing
:01:54. > :01:58.Christmas in years. Sales in the core British supermarkets during
:01:58. > :02:03.the festive period were lower than the previous year, prompting the
:02:03. > :02:08.company to issue a profit warning. It has been a tough time for many
:02:08. > :02:14.stores N a rare admission Tesco's boss has told Robert Peston that he
:02:14. > :02:19.got the sales strategy wrong. On the high street, among famous
:02:19. > :02:24.brands probably the most feared is Tesco. Flat sales and a warning of
:02:24. > :02:28.stagnating profits ahead caused its share price to plummet 16%, wiping
:02:28. > :02:34.almost �5 billion off the company's value. Tesco, Britain's biggest
:02:34. > :02:39.retailer, seemed almost immune to what was going on in the wider
:02:39. > :02:43.economy. Since the recession, sales kept growing and profits kept
:02:43. > :02:49.growing. Not any longer. Philip Clarke, who became chief executive
:02:49. > :02:52.in March, said part of what went wrong says the group failed to get
:02:52. > :02:59.shoppers in with money off vouchers in December, when many rivals were
:02:59. > :03:04.doing that. It warned that Tesco had invested too little in its
:03:04. > :03:09.British supermarkets. You took over in March, are the problems in the
:03:09. > :03:14.stores worse than you expected? we got under the covers, we've
:03:14. > :03:18.realised what we need to do to be leading. Tkhatha is what customers
:03:18. > :03:24.expect from tes -- that is what customers expect from Tesco. Every
:03:24. > :03:30.business needs to reinvent. This is the start of that process. Recent
:03:30. > :03:36.sales at Sainsbury's its rival, rose 2.1% in like-for-like terms.
:03:36. > :03:40.Tesco's fell 1.3%. Albeit for a different period. Over the last ten
:03:40. > :03:46.years, Tesco has raised everyone's game. Everyone has had to improve
:03:46. > :03:51.their offer and the way they run things to compete with Tesco. Now
:03:51. > :03:56.they are on a roll as it were. Tescos is faltering. It's not the
:03:56. > :04:00.first time Tesco has had to mend itself in difficult economic
:04:00. > :04:05.circumstances, Mr Clarke says. we look back to the big, decisive
:04:05. > :04:09.steps we took, it is when things were getting tough for the economy,
:04:09. > :04:13.when things were getting tough for customers, we invested. When the
:04:13. > :04:18.economy improved we came out stronger. The boss says it is vital
:04:18. > :04:23.that the British supermarkets again become the engine of this global
:04:23. > :04:28.company's growth. It's a big moment for a 90-year-old business. A test
:04:28. > :04:33.of whether it can remake itself to avoid long-term decline. And Robert
:04:34. > :04:38.is with me now. People are bound to say, if Tesco has suffered it must
:04:39. > :04:47.have been a rough, old Christmas? Well, George, living standards for
:04:47. > :04:52.British shoppers are being squeezed more sharply than at any time since
:04:52. > :04:56.serious records were being gathered in the 1950s. It is tough out there.
:04:56. > :05:00.Today we heard from Argos that its sales have fallen very sharply.
:05:00. > :05:05.There has been a squeeze at Thorntons, there has been a squeeze
:05:05. > :05:08.at Mothercare. However, actually, the overall data shows that sales
:05:08. > :05:13.across the retail sector in December really was not as bad as
:05:13. > :05:18.people feared it might be. What is particularly embarrassing for Tesco
:05:18. > :05:22.is that its closest rivals, Waitrose, Sainsbury, Morrison, for
:05:22. > :05:27.example, they have all performed quite a lot better. So, as Philip
:05:27. > :05:31.Clarke admitted to me, much of Tesco's problem is of its own
:05:31. > :05:35.making, that it got its sales strategy wrong recently and over
:05:35. > :05:41.the longer term it has not invested enough in these stores. It is a
:05:41. > :05:46.global giant. Outside the UK, Tesco is still doing pretty well. If
:05:46. > :05:50.Tesco cannot fix its British business it has a problem. Those
:05:50. > :05:54.British supermarkets are the heart of Tesco. Thank you.
:05:54. > :05:58.A family of the Birmingham couple found dead at their home yesterday
:05:58. > :06:02.have made an emotional appeal in help for finding who ever was
:06:02. > :06:06.responsible. The bodies of Avtar and Carole Kolar were discovered by
:06:06. > :06:16.one of their sons, a serving officer with the West Midlands
:06:16. > :06:19.A few hours ago members of the Kolar family came to speak about
:06:19. > :06:23.what had happened to their parents. They begged anyone who may know
:06:23. > :06:26.anything about the killers to come forward. They were extremely upset.
:06:26. > :06:32.They found it very difficult to talk about what has happened to
:06:32. > :06:35.their family. They are grieving and the place
:06:35. > :06:44.they lay flowers is the roadside in front of the home where their
:06:44. > :06:48.relatives were murdered. A brother mourning his sister. Avtar and
:06:48. > :06:51.Carole Kolar had been married 40 years. They had four children. One
:06:51. > :06:55.a serving officer with West Midlands Police, who found their
:06:55. > :06:58.bodies. This afternoon, one of their other sons and one of their
:06:59. > :07:05.daughters spoke in public for the first time.
:07:05. > :07:09.Yesterday, the light was switched out in our heart and our hearts
:07:09. > :07:14.have been broken forever. Mum and dad were the sweetest people I have
:07:14. > :07:18.ever met. We are reaching out to anybody out there, to please,
:07:18. > :07:23.please help. No matter how little, how much they can, somebody out
:07:23. > :07:27.there knows who did this. Alongside forensic teams and
:07:27. > :07:34.uniformed officers there are more than 60 detectives working on the
:07:34. > :07:41.case. The search for clues has gone on for a second full day. House-to-
:07:41. > :07:45.house enquiries are on-going. CCTV viewing is on-going. We've had
:07:45. > :07:50.numerous calls overnight from members of the community, which
:07:50. > :07:53.have given us some significant lines of enquiry. This crime is
:07:53. > :07:58.felt deeply in this police force, the killing of the parents of one
:07:58. > :08:02.of their own. It has disturbed the community. The community was
:08:02. > :08:05.initially shocked and scared, but a lot of that emotion is turning
:08:05. > :08:09.towards anger. There's a lot of frustration. There are a lot of
:08:09. > :08:13.questions being asked, why it happened? How it could take place
:08:13. > :08:18.in such a quiet area? The messages tell the tale. The family says a
:08:18. > :08:22.light has been switched out of their lives and hearts.
:08:22. > :08:25.Now, it is still not clear exactly how the husband and wife were
:08:25. > :08:29.killed. Their bodies have been taken from their home and a
:08:29. > :08:34.postmortem is being carried out. According to police results of this
:08:34. > :08:39.should be known tomorrow. Thank you. There's been a shock response
:08:39. > :08:43.around the world after video footage appearing to show US
:08:43. > :08:48.Marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters was posted on the internet.
:08:48. > :08:50.The American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, says it was
:08:50. > :08:54.deplorable behaviour. As our Washington correspondent reports,
:08:54. > :08:59.there are now fears that the incident could lead to a backlash
:08:59. > :09:03.against troops in Afghanistan. It is simply too distasteful to
:09:03. > :09:07.show. But what appears to be happening in this video is that a
:09:07. > :09:12.small group of US Marines are urinating on the bodies of three
:09:12. > :09:16.dead Afghans. We don't know where the video has come from, or whether
:09:16. > :09:21.it's autenic. All indications are that it probably is and the
:09:21. > :09:24.condemnation it has provoked has been universal. It is absolutely
:09:24. > :09:29.inconsistent with American values, with the standards of behaviour
:09:29. > :09:34.that we expect from our military personnel and that the vast, vast
:09:34. > :09:38.majority of our military personnel, particularly our Marines, hold
:09:38. > :09:43.themselves to. This is not the first time US troops have been
:09:43. > :09:47.accused of breaching the rules of law. In the past it has acted
:09:47. > :09:51.quickly to punish those responsible. Containing the damage to its
:09:51. > :09:56.reputation is harder. This man said US troops have
:09:56. > :10:00.committed a crime and should now leave the country. Their President
:10:00. > :10:04.has demanded an investigation. The biggest fear is this would damage
:10:04. > :10:08.the prospect of peace talks with insurgents. The Taliban says the
:10:08. > :10:11.political process is separate and still stands.
:10:11. > :10:17.It's more than ten years since American troops invaded. The
:10:17. > :10:20.mission has been longer and harder than many expected and increasingly
:10:20. > :10:28.unpopular amongst Afghans who want to know that the latest allegations
:10:28. > :10:32.will be taken seriously. A A United States criminal investigation has
:10:32. > :10:35.been launched. It will be thorough. Any individual whose involvement is
:10:35. > :10:40.confirmed will be held fully accountable and punished
:10:40. > :10:45.accordingly. Whatever the facts of this case it will harm America's
:10:45. > :10:50.reputation overseas. It is unlikely to have an impact in the way that
:10:50. > :10:53.past scandals have. US troops have pulled out of Iraq and reduced
:10:53. > :11:02.numbers in Afghanistan. Expect all sides to try and limit the damage
:11:02. > :11:06.from this, but don't expect any Britain's biggest energy supplier,
:11:07. > :11:11.British Gas, has announced it is cutting its electricity prices by
:11:11. > :11:17.5%. The company says it will knock around �24 off the average bill. It
:11:18. > :11:21.comes a day after one of its competitors, EDF, cut gas prices.
:11:21. > :11:25.The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, has been charged by a court in
:11:26. > :11:30.Turkey with invading the privacy of five children after secretly
:11:30. > :11:35.filming in orphanages there for a TV documentary. She was charged in
:11:35. > :11:40.her absence and faces a maximum term of 22 years in prison if
:11:40. > :11:44.convicted. She made an undercover trip to Turkey in 2008 for an ITV
:11:44. > :11:49.programme. Nearly 4,500 jobs are to go at the Royal Bank of Scotland.
:11:49. > :11:54.Most jobs will be shed from the investment banking division at RBS.
:11:54. > :12:03.Nearly 1,000 others will go from its Ulster Bank subsidiary. Unite
:12:03. > :12:07.says it is a disgrace while some staff are being sacked while others
:12:07. > :12:12.get big bonuses. The Royal Bank of Scotland saga has had many twists
:12:12. > :12:17.and turns over the past few years. It's all change for the British
:12:17. > :12:23.banking system and the taxpayer foots the massive bill. Sir Fred
:12:23. > :12:27.will receive �650,000 per year for life. On the brink of collapse
:12:27. > :12:32.under the boss the bank was rescued with taxpayers' money. Just over
:12:32. > :12:38.three years on, it is adjusting to a new reality, with another round
:12:38. > :12:43.of cutbacks. RBS has not specified where the job losses will be. It
:12:43. > :12:47.seems likely the vast majority will be here, in the heart of the City,
:12:47. > :12:52.at RBS's investment banking operations. The main reason is that
:12:52. > :12:56.RBS will pull out of some of its riskier financial trading. It wants
:12:56. > :13:02.to focus more on traditional high street and business banking. Nearly
:13:02. > :13:06.1,000 jobs will be at the Ulster Bank subsidiary. One-third in
:13:06. > :13:11.Northern Ireland, the rest in the republic. When the announcement was
:13:11. > :13:16.made the bank did not give much detail. There is anger. Staff who
:13:16. > :13:22.have made a contribution to this bank feel let down. Nearly 4,500
:13:22. > :13:27.job cuts have been announced today across the RBS group. That means a
:13:27. > :13:33.total reduction of 34,000 since the bail out in 2008. Soon RBS will
:13:33. > :13:36.have to decide the latest payouts. Last year bonuses totalled �950
:13:36. > :13:41.million. There is strong political pressure for something much lower
:13:41. > :13:47.this time. Since we bailed out RBS and own it, it would be outrageous
:13:47. > :13:52.if it awarded itself huge, lavish bonuses. It would be
:13:52. > :13:57.incomprehensible. RBS has indicated bonuses will be quite a lot lower
:13:57. > :14:01.than last year, in common with most other banks. Some analysts point
:14:01. > :14:06.out the bonuses will be on merit. They have low basic salaries and
:14:06. > :14:10.then get the commission. I think it's not just a sum of money handed
:14:10. > :14:14.over for nothing at all. If you have done the work, if you have
:14:14. > :14:19.made the money for your company, then you get a share for it.
:14:19. > :14:22.keep the bank turning over and generating rising profits RBS is
:14:22. > :14:26.downsizing and trying to get down to banking basics. The process will
:14:27. > :14:31.not be easy. A former county cricketer has
:14:31. > :14:35.become the first English player to be convicted of spot-fixing during
:14:35. > :14:39.a match in 2009. Mervyn Westfield pleaded guilty to accepting a
:14:39. > :14:43.corrupt payment in return for playing badly during a match
:14:43. > :14:52.between Essex and Durham. From the Old Bailey our sports correspondent
:14:52. > :14:55.reports. He was a largely unknown cricketer
:14:55. > :14:59.until this. Mervyn Westfield's opening over in a county game for
:14:59. > :15:06.Essex. He bowls poorly, but only now do we
:15:06. > :15:11.know why. He had received �6,000 for agreeing to bowl so badly he
:15:11. > :15:15.conceded 12 runs. Information invaluable to an unscrupulous
:15:15. > :15:20.gambler who could money on it, a practise known as spot fixing.
:15:20. > :15:24.Westfield did not keep his promise, conceding only ten runs, but he
:15:24. > :15:29.arrived at the Old Bailey today charged with corruption. In a brief
:15:29. > :15:34.appearance he pleaded guilty. The first such case and a wake-up call
:15:34. > :15:38.for English cricket. We must be ever vigilant. To use a metafore, I
:15:38. > :15:43.think we need to make sure, as a sport, that our windows are closed
:15:43. > :15:49.and our burglar alarm is on, so if somebody is tempted to find a way
:15:49. > :15:52.of manipulating the betting market, they look somewhere else for their
:15:53. > :15:56.ill-gotten gains. Spot fixing is casting a shadow over the sport.
:15:56. > :16:01.Last year three Pakistan players were jailed in an international
:16:01. > :16:05.scandal. So once again, cricketing corruption has been exposed here in
:16:05. > :16:12.a criminal court. What this case shows is it that a problem at every
:16:12. > :16:16.level of the game. County cricket is traditionally low
:16:16. > :16:19.key. The match under scrutiny was televised in Asia, the largest
:16:19. > :16:25.betting market. One former cricketer told me other county
:16:25. > :16:31.players could be tempted. The top players, the international players,
:16:31. > :16:35.players that have contracts and are on �500,000 plus. Some of the
:16:35. > :16:40.county players, not regular are on �40,000. They may be tempted to
:16:40. > :16:46.take an easy pay day with this kind of thing, spot-fixing. Mervyn
:16:46. > :16:56.Westfield was warned he could face jail, as English cricket faces a
:16:56. > :16:57.
:16:57. > :17:04.Our top story: a big fall in Tesco share prices after disappointing
:17:04. > :17:10.Christmas sales. Coming up: tackling the two-footed tackle
:17:10. > :17:13.after this challenge leads to a post-match row.
:17:13. > :17:19.Later on the BBC News Channel, RBS shares rise as the Bank announces
:17:19. > :17:29.plans to cut more than 3000 jobs. And some good news from the
:17:29. > :17:30.
:17:30. > :17:34.Eurozone as the cost of borrowing Britain's spies have been in the
:17:34. > :17:38.spotlight today. Police are to investigate claims that
:17:38. > :17:42.intelligence officers were involved in the transfer of two Libyans to
:17:42. > :17:46.Colonel Gaddafi's regime, who say they were then tortured. In a
:17:46. > :17:50.separate case, the Director of Public Prosecutions has said that
:17:50. > :17:55.no MI5 officer will be charged over the alleged torture of the British
:17:55. > :17:59.resident Binyam Mohamed in Afghanistan.
:17:59. > :18:03.For nearly three years, police have been investigating whether British
:18:03. > :18:07.intelligence officers were criminally involved in the
:18:07. > :18:11.mistreatment of Binyam Mohamed. Today, the Crown Prosecution
:18:11. > :18:16.Service said there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone. On his
:18:16. > :18:21.return to Britain, been an admirer claimed MI5 officers had questioned
:18:21. > :18:25.him in Pakistan after he had been mistreated by others. Today's
:18:25. > :18:30.decision not to press charges will be met with relief at the domestic
:18:30. > :18:36.security service MI5. But down the river at MI6 headquarters, the news
:18:36. > :18:40.is not so good. One case has been closed, but today police opened two
:18:40. > :18:47.new high-profile investigations. Both of those cases referred to
:18:47. > :18:52.Libya, one to this man. The BBC was first to report that intelligence
:18:52. > :18:57.files found after the fall of Tripoli last year revealed that MI6
:18:57. > :19:03.played a role in the transfer of the man and his pregnant wife from
:19:03. > :19:08.Asia to Libya, where he says he was mistreated.
:19:08. > :19:12.TRANSLATION: What happened to me is illegal, and deserves an apology,
:19:12. > :19:16.especially from people who claim to work with human rights. The Crown
:19:16. > :19:19.Prosecution Service today said the allegations in this and the other
:19:19. > :19:23.Libyan case were so serious that it was in the public interest for them
:19:23. > :19:28.to be investigated by the police rather than as part of an upcoming
:19:28. > :19:31.inquiry. By Oath of the Libyan cases are important, firstly
:19:31. > :19:36.because of the fact that both of these men were kidnapped with their
:19:36. > :19:40.wives. In one case, there were four children involved. And they were
:19:40. > :19:44.taken to Gaddafi so that he could torture them for seven years. We do
:19:44. > :19:49.not just have the smoking gun, we have the smoking missiles in these
:19:49. > :19:53.cases. The British were deeply involved. Speaking just over a year
:19:53. > :19:58.ago, the chief of MI6 said torture was not part of his organisation's
:19:58. > :20:03.business. Torture is illegal and abhorrent under any circumstances,
:20:03. > :20:07.and we have nothing to do with it. If we know or believe action by us
:20:07. > :20:10.will lead to torture taking place, we are required by UK and
:20:10. > :20:15.international law to avoid that action. But Britain's involvement
:20:15. > :20:20.in what occurred in these Libyan prisons is now under investigation.
:20:20. > :20:26.The government had hoped a planned inquiry would draw a line under the
:20:26. > :20:29.issue, but that now looks increasingly uncertain.
:20:29. > :20:34.Richard Desmond, the newspaper baron who owns the Daily Express
:20:34. > :20:38.and Daily Star, has told the inquiry into media ethics that the
:20:38. > :20:42.Express's treatment of Madeleine McCann's family was no worse than
:20:42. > :20:47.any other newspaper. The Express had to pay damages to the McCann's
:20:47. > :20:53.after publishing a series of defamatory articles.
:20:53. > :20:58.He owns the Daily Express and the Daily Star, Channel 5, OK! Magazine
:20:58. > :21:01.and a couple of TV porn channels. He is an advertising man who admits
:21:01. > :21:06.he does not have an editorial background. Today he came to the
:21:06. > :21:11.Leveson inquiry to answer questions about newspaper regulation and his
:21:11. > :21:14.paper's coverage of Kate and Gerry McCann. His sometimes rambling
:21:14. > :21:19.evidence was the most outspoken yet from a newspaper boss. He was asked
:21:19. > :21:23.if he got involved in ethical questions or left that to editors.
:21:23. > :21:27.I do not quite know what the word means. Perhaps he would explain
:21:27. > :21:32.what our means, ethical. explained why he expressed no
:21:32. > :21:40.longer belongs to the voluntary Press Complaints Commission. I felt
:21:40. > :21:44.it was a useless organisation run by people on tea and biscuits, and
:21:44. > :21:51.run by people who hated our guts. He showed just how much he hated
:21:51. > :22:01.the rival Daily Mail. He called it negative and disgusting. A bit
:22:01. > :22:06.
:22:06. > :22:09.awkward, then, when this happened. Express Newspapers paid out more
:22:09. > :22:12.than half a million pounds in libel damages to the accounts. Today
:22:13. > :22:20.Richard Desmond apologised, but suggested that they had been happy
:22:20. > :22:23.with the coverage because it kept their daughter on front pages.
:22:23. > :22:26.is a grotesque characterisation. Your paper was accusing the
:22:26. > :22:30.McCann's on occasion of having killed their daughter. Are you
:22:30. > :22:35.seriously saying that they were sitting there, quite happy, rather
:22:35. > :22:39.than anguished by your paper's behaviour? Please think about the
:22:39. > :22:43.question before you answer. Richard Desmond's evidence gave a rare
:22:43. > :22:47.insight into the thinking of normally publicity-shy media mogul.
:22:47. > :22:52.It came at the end of two days in which executives from both the Mail
:22:52. > :22:55.and Express groups faced tough questioning about exaggerated
:22:55. > :22:59.headlines, intrusions into privacy and their use of private
:22:59. > :23:05.investigators, questioning so tough that the former editor of the Daily
:23:05. > :23:09.Express today said it was like being put on trial.
:23:09. > :23:13.The businessman Asil Nadir has pleaded not guilty to 13 counts of
:23:13. > :23:18.theft from Polly Peck International, the British-based company he built
:23:18. > :23:22.up in the 1980s. It is alleged that he stole �33 million and property
:23:22. > :23:25.worth more than �1.5 million from his company over a three-year
:23:25. > :23:28.period. David Cameron is facing opposition
:23:28. > :23:34.to the government's plans for a high-speed rail link to Birmingham
:23:34. > :23:36.from his own father-in-law. Lord Astor, a Conservative peer and
:23:36. > :23:41.stepfather to Samantha Cameron, claimed the plan would ruin the
:23:41. > :23:46.lives of thousands. He said it was backed largely by northern Labour
:23:46. > :23:50.MPs who relished the idea of the Chilterns being destroyed.
:23:50. > :23:52.Liverpool's Steven Gerrard is one of the most respected players in
:23:52. > :23:56.the Premier League, so what happened in the time after last
:23:56. > :24:00.night's Carling Cup game against Manchester City will come as a
:24:00. > :24:04.surprise. BBC radio listeners were treated to a rare insight into what
:24:04. > :24:11.goes on behind the scenes in a row between Gerard and Manchester City
:24:11. > :24:15.manager Roberto Mancini. It was the moment that led to the
:24:15. > :24:20.Carling Cup semi-final ended in acrimony. Glen Johnson's two-footed
:24:20. > :24:23.tackle on Joleon Lescott went unpunished, and raging Manchester
:24:23. > :24:27.City manager Roberto Mancini, who made his feelings clear to the
:24:27. > :24:31.officials. The Italian was furious because just three days earlier, he
:24:31. > :24:35.had seen his captain sent off for a similar tackle in the club's defeat
:24:35. > :24:39.to Manchester United, with Wayne Rooney leading the on-field clamour
:24:39. > :24:42.to see Vincent Kompany dismissed. Last night, Liverpool's captain
:24:42. > :24:51.Steven Gerrard seemed calm after the game, but it soon became clear
:24:51. > :24:54.that he felt City's manager was guilty of hypocrisy. Wayne Rooney
:24:54. > :24:59.was trying to get his players sent off, and now he is trying to get
:24:59. > :25:06.one of our players into trouble. But Gerrard then told Mancini what
:25:06. > :25:11.he thought of him, interrupting a radio interview in the tunnel.
:25:11. > :25:15.say to the press that Wayne Rooney tried to get Kompany sent off. And
:25:15. > :25:19.you and try and get Johnson sent off. It is the middle of an
:25:19. > :25:23.interview. The inner sanctum of the player's pommel at the top clubs
:25:23. > :25:27.usually remains private, but occasionally the lid is lifted on
:25:27. > :25:33.what goes on between players, managers and officials when
:25:33. > :25:36.tensions run high behind the scenes. In 2003, Turkish TV cameras
:25:36. > :25:41.captured England players brawling with their opponents at half-time
:25:41. > :25:45.in Istanbul. Two years later came Roy Keane's infamous confrontation
:25:45. > :25:49.with Patrick Vieira as Arsenal prepared to face Manchester United.
:25:49. > :25:55.Clubs do not want microphones and TV cameras in those areas because
:25:55. > :25:59.they know it is a very volatile and sensitive situation. City have
:25:59. > :26:03.expressed their disappointment that Gerrard, who also scored the winner
:26:03. > :26:09.last night, confronted man see me in such a fashion rather than
:26:09. > :26:12.speaking to him privately. The second leg is set up nicely.
:26:12. > :26:16.The male giant panda recently brought to Edinburgh Zoo has been
:26:16. > :26:20.removed from public show after suffering from colic. Yang Guang
:26:20. > :26:24.will only appear occasionally over the next few weeks while he
:26:24. > :26:34.recovers. Tian Tian and Yang Guang, the first giant pandas to live in
:26:34. > :26:35.
:26:35. > :26:39.the UK for 17 years, arrived at Are we about to see a change in the
:26:39. > :26:43.weather? We certainly are. At long last, the weather is in tune with
:26:43. > :26:52.the calendar. We have something colder with us now for the next few
:26:52. > :26:57.days, much more typical of January. We could say a lot of sunshine. --
:26:57. > :27:01.we could see a lot of sunshine. Showers in Scotland fading and
:27:01. > :27:06.under clear skies, we will see a widespread frost develop into
:27:06. > :27:13.Friday morning. Temperatures in towns and cities are at around
:27:13. > :27:20.freezing. Watch out for ice across the North first thing, following
:27:20. > :27:26.today's showers. In Northern Ireland, it is frosty in central
:27:26. > :27:30.and eastern parts. There will be more cloud in the south of England.
:27:30. > :27:34.Much of England and Wales will be breaking up to a crisp and clear
:27:34. > :27:38.morning. Those clear skies will remain for many all day long. It
:27:38. > :27:44.will be a sunny day for the majority. Still some lingering
:27:44. > :27:50.cloud across parts of the Midlands, drifting westwards. Later, Northern
:27:50. > :27:53.Ireland and north-west Scotland will turn cloudier Raza well.
:27:53. > :27:57.Temperatures are far closer to what they should be for this time of
:27:57. > :28:02.year. On Friday night, another frosty night. The coldest
:28:02. > :28:07.conditions will be across central and eastern parts, where the winds
:28:07. > :28:13.will be lightest. The frost to the west and north is a bit more patchy,
:28:13. > :28:16.because more cloud will develop, pushing in from the south and west.
:28:16. > :28:23.At the weekend, there will be varying amounts of cloud across the
:28:23. > :28:28.country. But for just about all, it stays dry and chilly for.
:28:28. > :28:33.A reminder of tonight's main news: a big fall into scare's share price