:00:13. > :00:18.The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- Moon joins peace efforts in Cairo,
:00:19. > :00:27.calls on both sides in the Gaza conflict to stop the fighting.
:00:27. > :00:28.Immediate steps are needed by all to avoid further escalation,
:00:28. > :00:33.including a ground operation. Overnight, Israel has attack my
:00:33. > :00:41.Lord than 100 targets in Gaza, but Hamas's military leader has
:00:41. > :00:47.broadcast a defiant statement. Rebels in the Democratic Republic
:00:47. > :00:51.of Congo have entered the main city in the east of the country. Can
:00:51. > :00:56.Greece's debt mountain be made more managable? The EU and the IMF
:00:57. > :01:00.struggle to agree a way forward. And pressure on France after
:01:01. > :01:10.Moody's downgrades its triple-A cred it rating, saying France is
:01:11. > :01:19.
:01:19. > :01:24.heavily exposed to Europe's debt There are intense earths to reach
:01:24. > :01:27.agreement an ceasefire in Gaza, the UN Secretary-General moon is
:01:27. > :01:30.calling for an immediate ceasefire from both sides and the US
:01:30. > :01:33.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is on her way to the Middle East,
:01:33. > :01:39.to join the diplomatic efforts. Israel have threatened a ground
:01:39. > :01:43.offensive but that has been put on hold for now, while talks continue.
:01:44. > :01:48.Hamas's hill Friday commander has broadcast a defiant statement on
:01:48. > :01:58.Gaza television. After seven days, more than 100 Palestinians have
:01:58. > :01:58.
:01:58. > :02:03.been killed, including a children, as well as three Israelis. Israeli
:02:03. > :02:08.air strikes continued overnight into Tuesday. Round 100 targets in
:02:08. > :02:13.Gaza hit, according to the military. More buildings reduced to rubble,
:02:13. > :02:17.including this bank. And more children among the casualties now
:02:17. > :02:23.being treated in the overstretched hospitals. Palestinian officials
:02:24. > :02:29.say the number of injured since Israel's bombardment began last
:02:29. > :02:34.Wednesday is almost 900. The number of dead more than 110, many of them
:02:34. > :02:39.civilians. And all this as the United Nations Secretary-General
:02:39. > :02:45.Ban Ki-Moon arrived in the region, to try to persuade both sides to
:02:45. > :02:54.agree to a ceasefire, and negotiations taking place in Cairo.
:02:54. > :02:59.My message is clear. All sides must halt fire. Immediately. Further
:02:59. > :03:06.escalating the situation will put the entire region at risk.
:03:06. > :03:09.Israel is also still under attack. This, the aftermath of yet another
:03:09. > :03:17.rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip. One
:03:17. > :03:20.of dozens fired so far today. As long as this continues, then Israel
:03:20. > :03:25.will continue to threaten to send its troops into the Gaza Strip.
:03:25. > :03:32.They have been waiting on the border here, since last week. If
:03:32. > :03:35.they do go in, it would be a major escalation. For the moment, though,
:03:35. > :03:40.the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is waiting to see if the
:03:40. > :03:43.talks in Cairo about a ceasefire make progress. If not, then the
:03:43. > :03:52.Government may order a ground invasion before the end of this
:03:52. > :03:58.week. Our correspondent in Gaza has been looking at what life is like
:03:58. > :04:02.for the citizens there. This is Palestine square, the economic
:04:02. > :04:06.heartbeat of Gaza. It looks busy enough but only about 20% of the
:04:06. > :04:11.shops and stalls are open here, the fighting has had a real effect on
:04:11. > :04:14.the local economy. That is not say there are foot short tapbls.
:04:14. > :04:18.Traders are quick to point out plenty of food is getting through.
:04:18. > :04:21.The crossing between Israel and Gaza, all of this fruit has come
:04:21. > :04:26.from Israel, the vegetables are grown locally. It is important to
:04:26. > :04:30.point out, that prices haven't gone up because of the fighting. The
:04:30. > :04:36.bananas here are still about three shekels a kilo, that is about a
:04:36. > :04:40.dollar a kilo. A lot of people here in Gaza are hopeful, and positive,
:04:40. > :04:44.that the talks between Hamas and Israel taking place in Egypt can
:04:45. > :04:49.bring about some sort of ceasefire. There has been violence in Gaza
:04:49. > :04:52.overnight, several people were killed in overnight Israeli air
:04:52. > :04:57.strikes. It is important to point out that not much will change in
:04:57. > :05:01.Gaza if there is a ceasefire. The Hamas rockets will stop, and Israel
:05:01. > :05:08.is demanding that Hamas doesn't rearm. But what most Gazans want is
:05:08. > :05:13.an improvement in their daily lives. Israel says 120 trucks were ready
:05:13. > :05:18.to enter Gaza from Israel today, but they the crossing was closed
:05:18. > :05:22.after Palestinian militants fired rockets at it, only 24 trucks
:05:22. > :05:29.entered. Let us have a wider look at what is going on in the region.
:05:29. > :05:33.Joining me from our studios at new broadcast house is Faris Couri. If
:05:33. > :05:40.I can start with the statements coming in from the Hamas military
:05:40. > :05:45.leader, on a television statement. Very defiant, saying Israel will
:05:45. > :05:49.pay a heavy price if it launches a ground invasion, and that they
:05:49. > :05:52.almost hope Israel will launch a land invasion as it would never
:05:52. > :05:57.succeed. That is not what anyone wants to hear. Is there a tactical
:05:57. > :06:03.reason for that sort of statement? Yes I believe it is for tactical
:06:03. > :06:06.reasons. Why while he was talking on the television, there was a
:06:06. > :06:10.diplomatic effort under way. I think you can see Ban Ki-Moon is
:06:10. > :06:15.travelling from Cairo to Jerusalem to meet the Israeli leaders and
:06:16. > :06:21.also the Arab League and a number of ash Foreign Ministers and the
:06:21. > :06:27.Turkish Foreign Minister, to talk to Hamas people, there is efforts
:06:27. > :06:32.to have a ceasefire. Of course, the main broker is Egypt, through the
:06:32. > :06:37.discussions in Egypt, through the Egyptian intelligence. There is an
:06:37. > :06:42.effort to hold this operation now, and the Israelis already have put
:06:42. > :06:46.back their ground invasion, but of course, if the talks would not
:06:46. > :06:51.result in any agreement, from is a possibility of a ground invasion.
:06:51. > :06:55.From what our conds were saying that, the demands from both sides o
:06:55. > :06:59.correspondents, from both sides seem steep. Is there any chance of
:06:59. > :07:04.not, not only a short-term cessation but something that will
:07:04. > :07:10.lead to a long-term solution at this stage? This is not the first
:07:11. > :07:16.time we have a large-scale attacks, and rocket launching from Gaza, and
:07:16. > :07:21.even ground offensive. Remember 2008 and 2009, we had a wide scale
:07:21. > :07:27.Israeli operation into Gaza. That resulted in a ceasefire, and a kind
:07:27. > :07:33.of a truce, lasted until now. Of course, the ambition is to have a
:07:33. > :07:38.long lasting piece agreement, but this is difficult to achieve at the
:07:38. > :07:42.current stage, what the Egyptians are trying to do, is is to have a
:07:42. > :07:48.ceasefire that could last, be verified and look into the demand
:07:48. > :07:54.from both side, and how this could be met through discussion and
:07:54. > :07:58.dialogue. Many thanks indeed. Pakistan's high court has thrown
:07:58. > :08:04.out a blasphemy case against a 14- year-old girl Rimsha Massih. The
:08:04. > :08:09.court quashed the case and declared her innocent. She was arrested for
:08:09. > :08:13.allegedly desecrating pages of the holy Koran and spent three weeks in
:08:13. > :08:19.an adult jail. The cleric who made accusation has been accused of
:08:19. > :08:23.planting the evidence himself. Well the verdict in the case quashing
:08:23. > :08:26.the charges against Rimsha Massih has been w welcomed by her legal
:08:26. > :08:30.team and Human Rights activists who have protested her innocence, they
:08:30. > :08:37.say it doesn't mean the threat against her is lifted. So far we
:08:37. > :08:41.haven't had any word from Rimsha or her family. They remain under
:08:41. > :08:45.protection at an undisclosed location, the Interior Ministry has
:08:45. > :08:50.said it will remain in place. She was accused by some neighbour tons
:08:50. > :08:54.outskirts of Islamabad of burning pages of an Islamic test book,
:08:54. > :08:58.containing verses of the Koran. After that happened an angry mob
:08:58. > :09:03.surrounded her house, they threatened to set her alight. As
:09:03. > :09:07.she was arrested and detained she was held in a maximum security
:09:07. > :09:12.prison. There was concern among western governments and the Vatican
:09:12. > :09:16.and campaigners, at the detention of this schoolgirl. Now doctors
:09:16. > :09:21.established she was about 14, but said her mental age was less than
:09:21. > :09:25.that. Her family told us that she was as young as 11. She was
:09:25. > :09:29.released back in September after an extraordinary twist in the case,
:09:29. > :09:34.when a local Muslim cleric was accused himself of fabricating
:09:34. > :09:39.evidence against him. He is out on bail. Police say the case against
:09:39. > :09:43.him is proceeding. Even though the channels have been dropped, there
:09:43. > :09:47.are continuing concerns about her safety. Just being accused of
:09:47. > :09:50.blasphemy can amount to a death sentence. Christian campaigners
:09:50. > :09:55.here say in the past 20 years more than 30 people have been killed,
:09:55. > :10:02.out on the streets by mobs or vigilantes. They say the law, the
:10:02. > :10:06.blasphemy law is too open to abuse and is often used to settle scores
:10:06. > :10:10.and% kuelt minorities. But goib dares to call for reform of that
:10:10. > :10:15.law can pay with their lives. Two prominent politicians were killed
:10:15. > :10:21.last year for suggesting the claw law needed to be changed. Aaron is
:10:21. > :10:25.here. We are talking Greece. There is a huge potentially unsustainable
:10:25. > :10:29.debt, yet Germany does not want to be seen to bailing them out;
:10:29. > :10:33.because we they have Italy and Spain watching. Absolutely. Some
:10:33. > :10:36.will say poor old Greece, they are caught between a rock and hard
:10:36. > :10:41.place. Greece will say they have done everything they have been
:10:41. > :10:46.asked to do. They faszed a tough budget, only roughly this time last
:10:46. > :10:54.week, that was supposed to be the last sumling block to get this
:10:54. > :11:01.chunk of bail out money. It is about five-and-a-half months late.
:11:01. > :11:04.But, the problem and the the row is between the international lender.
:11:04. > :11:08.The IMF and Christine Lagarde, and Europe, the rest of the eurozone
:11:08. > :11:13.finance ministers in particular, Germany. The IMF, and you said it
:11:13. > :11:17.in a nutshell. It is saying look, we can't throw money into a black
:11:17. > :11:23.hole. Greece has so much debt it won't be able to achieve its
:11:23. > :11:28.targets, and, yeah, you can't keep throwing, good money after bad.
:11:28. > :11:32.Germany, with Angela Merkel has an election, she doesn't want to be
:11:32. > :11:38.seen being too soft. She doesn't want to see any development that
:11:38. > :11:44.looks like another bail out or a soft approach to, it's a tough
:11:44. > :11:51.problem. The IMF are meeting to thrash this out and answer the
:11:51. > :11:59.question, how to manage the Greek debt. All forecasts since the
:11:59. > :12:03.beginning of our bail out, all forecasts, they were suggesting we
:12:03. > :12:06.would be able to get back to the markets in 2011. This was not
:12:06. > :12:16.possible, then there was a situation that we would be able to
:12:16. > :12:17.
:12:17. > :12:25.have a sustainable debt of about 120%. That was also revised. It
:12:25. > :12:31.seems really, that all expectations don't square, so the IMF I believe
:12:31. > :12:36.has decided to set in its own state, which is pretty much the technical
:12:36. > :12:41.advice and expertise they have, and pretty much hold on to their guns
:12:41. > :12:46.in relation to what they know best, and that is to decide that this is
:12:46. > :12:50.not going to be viable, and we really cannot continue giving money
:12:50. > :12:56.to a black hole. That is how we perceive it. Let us move on and
:12:56. > :13:01.talk about another blow for the eurozone, because its second
:13:01. > :13:06.largest economy France has been downgraded. Moody's has downgraded
:13:06. > :13:10.France from its triple-A credit rating. The debt has been reduced
:13:10. > :13:15.to AA1 and Moody's kept its negative outlook. It means France
:13:15. > :13:22.could be downgraded further. In a statement, Moody's blame the risk
:13:22. > :13:25.of a Greek exist from the euro. They will have to cough up more
:13:25. > :13:30.money if another country needs bailing out. This downgrades
:13:30. > :13:35.highlights that France has serious problems, it needs to contend with.
:13:35. > :13:40.So far it has Maced to avoid being associated with the euro area
:13:40. > :13:44.periphery, even though many of the indicators, the size of its debt,
:13:44. > :13:49.the Government borrowing requirement, those are not too far
:13:49. > :13:54.from the problematic countries in the euro area, in addition France
:13:54. > :13:57.is going into recession, so the problems are building for 2013, if
:13:57. > :14:02.the economy is in recession it is more difficult to cut the deficit
:14:02. > :14:07.and the debt level continues to rise, so the fact that Moody's has
:14:07. > :14:12.put France on a negative outlook will be a warning signal and could
:14:12. > :14:16.mean in fact France does start to welcome associated with the euro
:14:16. > :14:21.area countries in the frifry. us get away from the eurozone.
:14:21. > :14:25.Would be the biggest a named in Silicon Valley Hewlett Packard
:14:25. > :14:33.reports fourth quarter numbers later on. They are expected to
:14:33. > :14:40.provide evidence the PC era is in decline. The market is focused on
:14:40. > :14:46.smartphones and tablets. PC sales are in trouble. Big trouble.
:14:46. > :14:53.Worldwide, shipments fell over 8%, to round 18 -- 87 million. The
:14:53. > :14:57.sharpest decline since 2001. And that is hurting HP. The company
:14:57. > :15:01.that has fought for so many years to win the title of the world's
:15:01. > :15:06.number one PC maker. Now it is stuck with a business that is in
:15:06. > :15:10.decline. The problem is that consumer habits have changed. When
:15:10. > :15:15.it comes to suffering the web, keeping up the wends and watching
:15:15. > :15:22.videos, more of us are using smart phones and the tablet computers.
:15:22. > :15:25.And weak results from Dell showed the economy isn't helping either.
:15:25. > :15:29.Business customers are frugal. They are only spending where they have
:15:29. > :15:34.to. It is strange because they have significant cash hoardes, they
:15:34. > :15:41.could spend, they could modernise, upgrade their equipment but they
:15:41. > :15:46.are not. The company is counting on its third CEO to be its saviour.
:15:46. > :15:51.She has axed thousands of jobs and shaken up HP's structures but
:15:52. > :15:56.writing this -- righting this ship is taking longer than investors
:15:56. > :16:03.would like. The share price has fallen over 40% since she took over.
:16:03. > :16:06.The decline in PC, decline in printing, those thing are out of
:16:06. > :16:11.her control. Unfortunately for shareholders those changes are
:16:11. > :16:21.probably going to continue to buffer HP's share price. For those
:16:21. > :16:24.
:16:24. > :16:32.hoping for an improvement, HP may News out not too long ago. A London
:16:32. > :16:37.trader who lost $2.6 billion of the Swiss bnk's UBS's money has been
:16:37. > :16:41.found guilty of one account of fraud. He denied the charges of
:16:41. > :16:45.fraud between October 2008 and October 2011. The prosecution told
:16:45. > :16:50.the court in London he was a gamble or two away from destroying
:16:50. > :16:54.Switzerland's largest bank. A couple of other business stories
:16:54. > :16:59.making headlines. The Japanese government will spend 1 trillion
:16:59. > :17:03.yen on a second round of fiscal stimulus. The chief cabinet
:17:03. > :17:10.secretary, Osamu Fujimura, said the Government will tap reserved funds
:17:10. > :17:16.from this year's budge toted pay for those measures. Ease -- budget
:17:16. > :17:21.to pay. EasyJet has posted a rise in profit all helped by late-summer
:17:22. > :17:27.demand and bucking trends elsewhere. Europe's second-biggest budget
:17:27. > :17:34.airline reported a profit of just over $500 million for the year
:17:34. > :17:40.until the end of September. We may be in recession.
:17:40. > :17:45.But we all want to get away. My husband still uses PCs.
:17:45. > :17:49.Still to come: the former editor of the Sun newspaper, Rebekah Brooks
:17:49. > :17:51.is among those charged with making illegal payments it public
:17:51. > :17:59.officials. And the European Commission turns
:17:59. > :18:04.up its nose at some of the ingredients used by perfume makers.
:18:04. > :18:08.Now, a man who strapped a fake bomb around the neck of a young girl in
:18:08. > :18:13.Australia, has been jailed for more than 13 years. The girl spent ten
:18:13. > :18:17.hours with the fake device attached to her last August.
:18:17. > :18:22.Madeleine Pulver in the red was joined by her whole family to hear
:18:22. > :18:27.sentence passed on the man at the centre of this bizarre collar bomb
:18:27. > :18:32.plot. REPORTER: How are you feeling? Slightly sad but happy it
:18:32. > :18:37.is nearly all over. Paul peeters went to Madeleine's home in Sydney
:18:38. > :18:43.and tied what he said was a bomb to her neck using a chain. He left a
:18:43. > :18:50.ransom note. It took ten hours for bomb squad officers to realise it
:18:50. > :18:56.was fake. Madeleine was freed, shaken but unharm. Peters fleed to
:18:56. > :19:01.America but was later arrested. Paul Peters never gave in evidence
:19:01. > :19:05.this so we may never know why he did it. The prosecutors said he got
:19:05. > :19:10.the wrong house. He should have gone to a neighbour who was a
:19:10. > :19:14.member of a trust fund from whom he could distort money. But the
:19:14. > :19:18.defence denied that. He said he was depressed because of financial
:19:18. > :19:23.losses and turned himself into one of the characters of a book he had
:19:23. > :19:28.written. The judge said Madeleine had gone through an unimaginable
:19:28. > :19:32.terror. She later spoke for the first time about her ordeal. To me
:19:32. > :19:36.it was not about the sentencing, but to know he would not reoffend.
:19:36. > :19:40.It was good to hear the judge acknowledge the trauma he put me
:19:40. > :19:44.and my family through. It is a surprise to mow that this year has
:19:44. > :19:49.been harder than last year. -- to me. I'm lucky to have a great
:19:49. > :19:54.familiar lane friends and we are making great progress. -- family
:19:54. > :19:58.and friends. The judge sentenced Peters to 13-and-a-half years in
:19:58. > :20:04.prison. She is soon off to university and says she never wants
:20:04. > :20:08.to be associated with Paul Peters again, having been left with no
:20:08. > :20:11.apology or no explanation as to why she was the target of this bizarre
:20:11. > :20:15.collar bomb plot. A large bushfire in Southern
:20:15. > :20:19.Australia is burning out of control, forcing some residents to evacuate.
:20:19. > :20:26.Five water bombers and 120 firefighters were battling the
:20:26. > :20:29.blaze, as strong winds pushed it towards the town of Port Lincoln.
:20:29. > :20:31.500 hectares of scrub and farmland have been burnt so far.
:20:31. > :20:41.Firefighters are hoping a weather change later today will help bring
:20:41. > :20:42.
:20:42. > :20:46.the fire under control. This is BBC World News. The
:20:46. > :20:50.headlines: the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, calls on both sides in
:20:50. > :20:53.the Gaza conflict to immediately stop the fighting.
:20:53. > :21:00.Rebels from the Democratic Republic of Congo say they've taken control
:21:00. > :21:05.of the main eastern city of Goma. British prosecutors have said today
:21:05. > :21:10.they will charge the Prime Minister David Cameron's former media chief,
:21:10. > :21:16.Andy Coulson and Rupert Murdoch's former newspaper boss, Rebekah
:21:16. > :21:20.Brooks, with making illegal payments to public officials.
:21:20. > :21:24.Prosecutors say that Brooks conspired with Jon Kay to funnel
:21:24. > :21:28.money to a Ministry of Defence employee in return for a stream of
:21:28. > :21:32.stories that were published in Murdoch's the Sun newspaper.
:21:32. > :21:38.Prosecutors allege that Coulson conspired with journalist Clive
:21:38. > :21:43.Goodman to pay officials for access to a royal phone directory known as
:21:43. > :21:46.the Green Book. Joining me ising Matt Prodger. We have had a
:21:46. > :21:48.statement in from Andy Coulson saying he is disappointed with the
:21:48. > :21:52.latest charges and denies the allegations and will fight the
:21:52. > :21:58.charges in court. Can you explain more about what the charges
:21:58. > :22:02.actually are? Well, this results from a police investigation known
:22:02. > :22:10.as Operation Elveden. This is investigating alleged payments to
:22:10. > :22:14.public officials by journalists. It is a spin-off from the original
:22:14. > :22:17.phone-hacking inquiry which caused the scandal last year which led to
:22:17. > :22:23.the Leveson Inquiry and much soul- searching within British public
:22:23. > :22:26.life and the British media about the techniques used to get stories.
:22:27. > :22:31.Now, Operation Elveden has resulted in a number of arrests. What we
:22:31. > :22:34.have heard today is that the crown prosecution, the body in the United
:22:34. > :22:40.Kingdom which brings prosecutions have made a decision to charge a
:22:40. > :22:44.number of people. One of them is Rebekah Brooks. Obviously a very
:22:44. > :22:48.high-profile figure over previous months. She is charged along with
:22:48. > :22:53.the former chief reporter of the Sun newspaper for 20 years a man
:22:53. > :22:58.called Jon Kay, with conspiring to bribe a public official. This is an
:22:58. > :23:06.official at the Ministry of Defence called Bettina Jordan Barber. They
:23:06. > :23:11.are accused of paying her �100,000 over a number of years from 2004-11
:23:11. > :23:17.for stories which were then printed in the Sun UN the other set of
:23:17. > :23:21.charges relate to sandy Coulson. -- Sun newspaper.
:23:21. > :23:24.He was David Cameron's press advisor. Before that he was working
:23:24. > :23:28.as editor of the News of the World. He is being prosecuted for a number
:23:28. > :23:32.of things at the moment. But the CPS has said he will now be charged
:23:32. > :23:36.with another offence, and this relates to something which he is
:23:36. > :23:39.alleged to have conspireding together with Clive Goodman, a
:23:39. > :23:44.former royal editor of the News of the World. What they are alleged to
:23:45. > :23:49.have done, is to conspire to bribe officials to get hold of a phone
:23:49. > :23:53.directly known as the Green Book. This contained a number of contact
:23:53. > :23:57.details, telephone numbers for members of the Royal Family. As you
:23:57. > :24:02.said, Andy Coulson has denied that charge. We have been told that all
:24:02. > :24:06.of these individuals will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court in
:24:06. > :24:10.London for a initial court appearance at a date yet to be set.
:24:10. > :24:17.Obviously this case incredibly complex. We have had the Leveson
:24:18. > :24:21.Inquiry, which is due to report. Does this - you know, will people
:24:21. > :24:25.be worried that this is still damaging, politically? Well there
:24:25. > :24:31.has been political fallout from this. In particular, David Cameron
:24:31. > :24:35.has received criticism for his decision to appoint Andy Coulson as
:24:35. > :24:40.his Director of Communications at Downing Street. There was also much
:24:40. > :24:42.controversy over the decision by Jeremy Hunt, who was then the
:24:43. > :24:47.Culture Secretary, over his communications with News
:24:47. > :24:51.International for a period of time. But this is a criminal process now
:24:51. > :24:55.happening now a judicial process. These trials are now continuing,
:24:55. > :24:59.they will progress. They will take some matter of months and time for
:24:59. > :25:03.them to reach any conclusions. What we have to wait and see is if there
:25:03. > :25:06.are any convictions and there have only been a very limited number of
:25:07. > :25:10.convictions with this so far and those very much historical, going
:25:10. > :25:13.back to 2006 and people who are more junior in the newspaper
:25:13. > :25:18.operations. OK, thank you very much. Rebekah
:25:18. > :25:25.Brooks not commenting at the moment on the elf den charges and
:25:25. > :25:30.obviously her solicitor will advice if that changes -- Eleveden..
:25:30. > :25:34.The Church of England is to vote on whether women can become bishops
:25:34. > :25:38.today. The issue has been debated for more than ten years and it is
:25:38. > :25:44.one of the most controversial for Anglicans, as John Maguire reports.
:25:44. > :25:47.At All Saints Church in Haggerston, east London, it's a normal Sunday
:25:47. > :25:51.morning service. The congregation is in good voice.
:25:52. > :25:58.The deby the about leadership in this and other diocese seems a
:25:58. > :26:01.remote concept. But, it's never far from the surface.
:26:01. > :26:05.Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin is the chaplain for the House of Commons
:26:05. > :26:12.as well as being the vicar here. She is a passionate advocate for
:26:12. > :26:17.women bishops. The Church looks silly. The Church look s out of
:26:17. > :26:21.touch and ridiculous. It's been 20 years since the General Synod, the
:26:22. > :26:26.Church's governing body voted to approve women priests and the first
:26:26. > :26:32.group were ordained here at Bristol Cathedral. But now, once more, the
:26:32. > :26:36.issue is causing divisions within the Church. There is a compromise
:26:36. > :26:40.proposal that parishes who don't want a female Bishop can opt to be
:26:40. > :26:45.led by a man but that has caused further rifts on both sides.
:26:45. > :26:49.Whatever happens today, the biggest challenge for the Church, will be
:26:49. > :26:54.to remain united, despite such a divisive issue.