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This is BBC World News Today. Can Britain avoid recession? | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
The Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a gloomy speech, with the | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
state of the economy, while vowing to continue his austerity measures. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
We will do whatever it takes to protect Britain from this debt | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
storm, while doing all we can, all we can to build the foundations of | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
future growth. Protestors storm the British Embassy in Tehran, angry at | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
the latest sanctions imposed by the west over the Iranian nuclear | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
programme. Britain has responded angrily. Clearly there will be | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
other, further and serious consequences. Psychiatrists in | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Norway have concluded that Anders Behring Breivik was insane when he | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
killed 77 people in July. Also coming up in the programme, is | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
there a viable alternative leadership for Syria. We meet some | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
of the exiles fighting to topple the Assad regime, facing | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
accusations that they aren't united enough to succeed. We will speak to | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
one man who thinks he has managed to replicate the world's most | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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Welcome, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
chose a good metaphor when he talked about steering Britain | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
through a debt storm. If the British economy is a ship, there | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
are plenty of dangers on the horizon, with UK growth forecasts | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
down to less than 1%. Mr Osbourne has redirected some money towards | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
infrastructure project, but he told parliament today he's not diverting | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
from his course of cutting the debt. Much of Europe now appears to be | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
heading into a recession, caused by a chronic lack of confidence in the | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
ability of countries to deal with their debt. We will do whatever it | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
takes to protect Britain from this debt storm, while doing all we can, | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
all we can, to build the foundations of future growth. | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
George Osborne's opposite number on the Labour benches, Ed Balls, was | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
unconvinced, saying spending cuts are bringing the British economy to | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
a stand still. Growth flat lining, down this year, next year and the | :02:28. | :02:38. | |
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year after. Unemployment rising, well over �100 billion more | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
borrowing than the Chancellor planned a year ago. More borrowing | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
than the plan which the Chancellor inherited at the last general | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
election, Mr Speaker. And as a result, his economic and fiscal | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
strategy is in tatters. In a moment we will hear an assessment from the | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
political editor of the Financial Times, George Parker, first our | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
chief economics correspondent looks at why George Osborne's original | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
forecasts for the economy have been knocked off course. | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
It is the statement George Osborne hoped he wouldn't have to make. It | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
is a much bleaker picture than he set out in the budget back in March. | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
That seems like a long time ago now. There was little the Chancellor | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
could do to soften the blow. So what's gone wrong? Some of the | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
key predictions were way off the mark. The growth forecast next year | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
has been slashed by two-thirds, to 0.7%. That means borrowing will be | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
�120 billion, nearly �20 billion higher than forecast. Usually after | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
a recession the economy bounces back quickly, tax revenues from | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
companies, including those here in the City of London come flooding | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
back into the Government's coffers, and that allows borrowing to be | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
reduced bu. With growth faltering, that hasn't happened this time. The | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
next question is, who is to blame for the Government's problems? The | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
Chancellor points to instability in the eurozone, with protests over | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
spending cuts and fears of a recession, which could hit UK trade. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
He also blames pressures on consumers beyond his control. | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
Global cost increases have hit food and energy bills. So Mr Osbourne | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
wants to stick to his course on cutting borrowing. He should stick | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
to his plans, he's made some cuts, which are allowing the UK to have | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
very low borrowing costs. We would sacrifice that if he were to change | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
tack now. But there are a few in the City who think he should change | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
tack, because his cuts are hitting growth and making things worse. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
the Chancellor continues to cut spending into an economic downturn. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
The risk is the Government may end up with more Government debt at the | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
end of it. If we go into a recession, benefits will have to go | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
up and tax revenues will go down. Everything hinges on economic | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
growth, so when will it improve? The independent watchdog, in charge | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
of forecasting, had this verdict. We expect the underlying momentum | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
of the economy to weaken further during the final quarter of this | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
year, but then to pick up, gradually, through next year, | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
assuming that the euro area struggles through its current | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
difficulties. But that's a big assumption. The Chancellor himself | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
warned that if the eurozone fell back into recession, the UK could | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
go the same way. If that happened the borrowing figures could get | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
revised up again, making Mr Osbourne's task of trying to | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
balance the books even harder. Graham Parker is the political | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
editor for the -- George Parker is the political editor for the | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Financial Times, and he said there is a gloomy outlook. George Osborne | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
had a strategy where he would administer tough medicine to the UK | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
economy, and try to sort out the huge debts, then you would have go | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
or three years of recovery, so by the time the 2015 general election | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
came round, the economy would be growing again, and the next | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
election would be all about tax cuts. What we heard today was | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
something different, which is austerity, already hitting families | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
very hard in the UK, will be extended well beyond the next | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
election in 2015 and into the next parliament. But despite these | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
gloomy forecasts, Mr Osbourne said he was determined to press ahead | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
with cutting Britain's debt, regardless. His opposition | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
counterpart, Ed Balls, has accused him of stalling growth, of being so | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
obsessed by cutting the debt, he's actually shrinking the UK economy. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
Has he got a point? This is the big argument at the heart of British | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
politic, it will rage through to the next election. George Osborne's | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
argument is the tough decision he has taken to drive down the debt is | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
helping Britain at the moment. The borrowing costs are lower than | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
those of Germany at the moment, eventhough the UK's national debt | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
is much bigger. Ed Balls, the Shadow Chancellor, is saying we | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
need a keysian-style economy, we need more money in the economy to | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
give it a boost now. George Osborne says that is a quack cure being | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
peddled by a dodgy doctor. That is the nature of the very fiery debate | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
in the Commons today. George Osborne currently recognises that | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
is a problem, he's injecting large sums of cash into infrastructure | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
projects, helping families buy their own social housing. He | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
recognises that there is a bit of a problem there. Particularly with | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
the current credit squeeze? There is a huge problem, the economy is | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
not growing. In fact, it could be even worse, as the Chancellor | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
acknowledged today, if the eurozone were to break up, things would be | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
much, much worse for the UK economy. The important thing to say is | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
George Osborne is sticking strictly to his fiscal plan, plan A, if you | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
like. What you were just mentioning there, the investment in | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
infrastructure, in youth employment schemes and so on. That is being | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
done within the existing fiscal envelopes, they are jigling around | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
with the figures. Taking money Somerville parts of the economy | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
where you think that is strange. They are taking a billion away from | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
low income families with children to help pay for the infrastructure | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
spending. He has been creative, some would say harsh on some of the | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
poor working families suffering a lot under the austerity programme. | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
As you say, all of this depends on what happens to Europe, doesn't it. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
They are our biggest trading partners? 40% of the UK's exports | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
go to the eurozone, what happens just the other side of the English | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
Channel is absolutely vital to the British economy. George Osborne is | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
encouraging members of the single currency to follow what he calls | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
the remorseless logic of monetary union, that is to push for a full | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
fiscal union. The issue of eurozone bond d issuing eurobonds to spread | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
German discipline across the eurozone. There is a pessimistic | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
view in British Government circles about whether the eurozone | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
countries will get a grip on the crisis. That is the big shadow over | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
the whole UK economy at the moment. Iranian students took control of | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
the British Embassy in Tehran for several hours today. Smashing | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
windows, ransacking offices and burning the Union Flag. Embassy | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
workers were taken hostage for a short time, before they were freed | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
by police. Relations between Britain and Iran have been | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
difficult for some time now. This was sparked by the British | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Government last week imposing sanctions on Iranian banks, | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
accusing them of facilitating the country's nuclear programme. On | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
Sunday Iran's parliament voted to downgrade diplomatic relations with | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
the UK. The British demoren secretary, William Hague, warned | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
there would be serious and more consequences. The UK takes this | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
irresponsible action extremely seriously. It amounts to a grave | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
breach of the Vienna Convention, which amounts to protection of | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
diplomatic premises and diplomats in all circumstances. We hold the | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
Iranian Government responsible for the failure to take adequate | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
measures to protect the embassy as it is required to do. I spoke to | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
the Iranian Foreign Minister this afternoon, to protest in the | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
strongest terms about these events, and demand immediate steps to | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
ensure the safety of our staff and both embassy compounds. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
I'm joined in the studio now by our Tehran correspondent. Why was | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Britain targeted in particular, because it is not the only western | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
power to impose sanctions? It was the one western power which imposed | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
these restrictions last week which went beyond other restrictions, the | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
cutting off of ties with all Iranian banks. In the iconography | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
of the establishment, Britain is seen as the evil mastermind behind | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
a lot of Iran's problems. There are only two countries that come close, | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
America and Israel, neither has diplomatic relations with Iran. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
Iranian Foreign Ministry have expressed regrets over today's | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
events, how sincere is that, considering they have been behind | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
these kinds of things before? shows the different sides to Iran's | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
Government and establishment. It makes life more difficult for the | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Foreign Ministry to engage with the rest of the world. Foreign | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
ministries have their tasks to be engagment of the rest of the world. | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
The Revolutionary Guard, the more conservative elements, who see the | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
conflict with Britain as a way to re-establish conservative | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
credentials. William Hague saying there will be further consequences, | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
what more can be done? Speaking to various people, Britain doesn't | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
want to act alone, but as part of a team. That team is the European | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Union. We know William Hague will speak to the British Commons, we | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
know that EU foreign ministers will meet on Thursday, once before there | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
was a decision by EU foreign ministers to withdraw all of their | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
heads of mission, all of their ambassadors, years ago in Tehran | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
for one problem. Possibly we might have a step like that or more | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
sanctions. Eurozone finance ministers are | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
meeting today under intense international pressure to beef up | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
their bailout fund, to avert a catastrophic debt default and save | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
the single currency. As they gathered in Brussels, Italian | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
borrowing costs surged to record levels, raising the prospect that | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
it may be next in line for a rescue. Officials say they have agreed an | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
eight pill I don't know euro bailout for Greece, to prevent it | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
defaulting before Christmas. A former News of the World tabloid | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
journalists has been having his say at the Leveson Inquiry into media | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
ethics today. He didn't mince his words in blaming the former bosses | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
of the defunct paper for phone hacking. Earlier in the week the | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
report heard from the best selling author, JK Rowling, and the actress, | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
Senneff miller. One of the world's biggest airlines, American Airlines, | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
has been filing for bankruptcy, it says the move will make it more | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
competitive. Flights will continue to operate as normal. Shares will | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
be plunging this month. The only daughter of the former | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin, has died at 85 in the United States. | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
Svetlana Stalina had a privileged upbringing, but witnessed the | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
horrors of her father's rule, they defected from the Soviet Union in | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
the 1960s and denounced her father and communism. On the 22nd of July, | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
Anders Behring Breivik set off a car bomb outside the Government | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
buildings in Norway, killing eight people. After that he went to an | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
island near the capital, disguised as a police officer, there he | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
killed another 69 people, most of them teenagers. Since his arrest, | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
the Norwegian authorities have been considering Anders Behring | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
Breivik's state of mind, and today, psychiatrists, concluded he was | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
insane when he committed the crime. The face that haunts a country. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Since the killings last July, Anders Behring Breivik has shown no | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
remorse, there has been intense debate in Norway about whether or | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
not he's criminally responsible for his actions. Psychiatrists have | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
interviewed Breivik for 36 hours already, they have poured through | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
his diaries, their 240-page report has a clear conclusion. | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
TRANSLATION: Conclusions of the forensic experts is that Anders | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
Behring Breivik was insane. Breivik set out his beliefs in his | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
manifesto. He saw himself as the head of a Norwegian resistance | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
movement, fighting multiculturalism. The experts said these long-held | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
deillusions, mean he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
TRANSLATION: The experts examined more closely what they term Anders | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
Behring Breivik's grandiose delusions, where he believes he's | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
chosen to determine who is to live and who is to die. He, as the | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
perfect Knight, is chosen to save, what he always, his people. | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
It is hard to judge if today's report will make any difference to | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
the suffering of bereaved families. Anders Behring Breivik will still | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
go to court, but assuming the judge agrees with the experts, there will | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
be no prison sentence. Instead he will be given compulsory mental | :15:04. | :15:14. | |
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health treatment, for as long as he's deemed a threat to society. | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, has been sentenced to four | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
years in prison. He was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
at a trial earlier this month after a six-week process. The judge said | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
Dr Conrad Murray had continually lied and was caught in a cycle of | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
medicine madness, that violated his obligations as a doctor. Our | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
correspondent is at the court in Los Angeles. What's been the | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
reaction to this? This is the sentence, the decision that Michael | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
Jackson fan fans, who gathered outside the court wanted. It is the | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
decision many of the singer's family wanted. Although in the | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
early stages of the legal process, the family, or certain members of | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
the family had expressed doubts about the charge of involuntary | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
manslaughter, they believed a charge of murder might be more | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
appropriate. This was the maximum sentence, four years, and the | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
family wanted justice done, and they will be happy with this. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
wasn't a surprise, were they expecting four years? It wasn't | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
really a surprise. It is clear from what the judge said, it was quite a | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
damming summing up of the behaviour of Dr Conrad Murray, by the judge, | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
that he clearly agreed with the prosecution points that Dr Mur was | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
grossly neglect -- Dr Murray was grossly negligent in his care of | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
Michael Jackson and appeared to show no remorse. That was in | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
reference to television interviews he made, broadcast on American | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
television and around the world. Conrad Murray seemed to blame | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
everyone but himself for the death of Michael Jackson, the judge said | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
that was a big part in his reasoning why he shouldn't be given | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
probation and he had to go to jail. Did Dr Murray look surprised? | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
didn't. He looked, he didn't really show any sign of what he was | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
thinking. He looked straight ahead as the decision came in. It was | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
really an expression that we have seen before from Dr Murray, when | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
his guilty verdict came in a few weeks ago as well it's a man that | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
doesn't necessarily show his emotions, at least in the courtroom. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Although I mentioned that television interview, he was very | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
emotional in that. It is not the end of the matter. Dr Conrad Murray, | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
through his lawyers, have already said they will appeal this decision. | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
But for now, he has been led off to jail. We saw him disappearing | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
outside the courtroom in handcuffs and he will start his four-year | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
sentence. The Arab League, may be looking | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
more united on Syria, it is a different story at the UN. There | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
are deep divisions within the Security Council. The US wants | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
decisive action on the bloodshed in Syria, Russia is sticking to the | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
view that political dialogue is needed. The key question is who and | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
what might replace the Assad regime, the Syrian National Council is the | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
most prominent candidate. It is based in Paris, where we have been | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
meeting some key figures. It is the kind of VIP security | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
commonly reserved for high-ranking diplomats and politicians. Hurtling | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
to meetings under 24-hour police protection is a diplomat or a | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
politician. But as part of the Syrian opposition, she and her co- | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
conspirators are high-value targets, in their attempts to bring down the | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
Assad regime. We have different working habits and come from | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
different professional horizons, we are physically not able to meet. | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
Skype is our strategic tool, both to connect with the inside as well | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
as to connect among each other. Then setting the mechanisms for | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
working is quite a challenge. They belong to the Syrian National | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
Council. A growing coalition of regime opponents. The SNC is | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
quickly building its grass roots support. Not just in France, but | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
across the towns and cities in Syria, where people are dying in | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
their hundreds. Through Skype, they send regular news and coded | :19:22. | :19:31. | |
:19:32. | :19:47. | ||
information, to men like Ahmed, an But world leaders are beginning to | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
pay attention. Recently the SNC travelled to Russia, Britain, China | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
and Turkey, in its bid to win international approval, the | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
fledgling opposition is moving quickly, to give the appearance of | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
a transitional Government in waiting. | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
There are lessons to be learned from other groups and countries | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
that form part of the Arab Spring. But there are intellectuals who | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
believe the western powers are putting too much onus on the SNC, | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
and at the same time, playing into the hands of the Assad regime. | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
are asking it to prove that it is viable, that it is united, that it | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
is coherent. That it is a valid alternative to the regime. And of | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
course, it is not. Because no regime survives for that long by | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
making sure, by allowing such an alternative to survive. You but for | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
the French Foreign Minister, who has met twice with SNC leader, | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Burhan Ghalyoun, there is a complication. The involvement of a | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
Free Syrian Army, the defectors who are turning their guns on the | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
regime. A non-reaction could provoke civil war inside Syria, and | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
it could be the worst situation for the country. The Free Syrian Army | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
is still very young. Not very well organised, it has a strong image, | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
has a patriotic army that refuse to obey orders for repression, but we | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
do not need an armed group that acts for the council, because we | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
have never made the choice of moving into armed struggle, so we | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
support their role as defending peaceful demonstrators. | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
As the threat of civil war looms, so the shuttle diplomacy gathers | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
pace. Next month, Bassma Kodman will oversee the election of a 200- | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
strong general assembly, with permanent staff in Paris and Cairo. | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
The group aims to bring together as many of the disparate factions it | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
can, and the greater its success, the more isolated President Assad | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
will become. A young Russian woman, alleged to | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
have been spying for Moscow, has won her appeal against deportation | :22:05. | :22:13. | |
from Britain. 26-year-old has told an appeals commission that she | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
hasn't passing on secrets from Britain while having an affair with | :22:17. | :22:27. | |
:22:27. | :22:28. | ||
her boss. A Russian spy in Westminster, was she sent to steal | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
secrets. That is what MI 5 claimed about her. But today she heard a | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
judge reject that claim and throw out an attempt to deport her to | :22:36. | :22:46. | |
:22:46. | :22:51. | ||
Russia, on grounds of national security. I was Distressed, I lost | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
a year of my life. People saying I was a spy because the British | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
Government said so. Mike Hancock was her boss, then a member of the | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
select committee. Suspicions were raised with him and a NATO official. | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
When it fist came up and she was first detained, she said what | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
should I do, shall I go home. I asked had she done anything wrong, | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
she said no, I said in that case, in Britain we fight those things, | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
we don't give in we fight it. Catching Russian spies used to be | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
the bread and butter work of the Security Service, MI5, in this case | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
they certainly had their suspicions, baseded on Miss Zatuliveter's work | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
in parliament. The problem was, they had very little evidence. | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
MI5's decision today was defended by the Home Office, who said there | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
had been grounds for suspicion, something Zatuliveter denies. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
scariest part of the investigation was that I have seen the people | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
were unprofessional and paranoid. Everything they see in Russian | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
people is a spy, if you are Russian in this country you are a spy. They | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
couldn't understand how a Russian in London can speak the English | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
language. Katia Zatuliveter had her private life dragged into public | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
view, but today it will be MI5 feeling embarrassed, at their | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
failure to convince a judge she was a spy. | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
Ecuador's volcano is still spewing rock and ash two days after it | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
started. Scientists say the silent eruptions took them by surprise. It | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
is a towering 5,000ms, and some 135kms south of the capital. It has | :24:36. | :24:45. | |
been capital for the last 12 years. Once the popstar el visit Costello | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
released an album called Get Happy. His latest release, he says he | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
doesn't like the songs but it cost too much. The box set, called The | :24:58. | :25:06. | |
Return Of The Spinning Song Book, will set you back $300. The singer | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
says if fans hang on they will be able to buy it at a cheaper price | :25:10. | :25:20. | |
:25:20. | :25:20. | ||
in a few weeks time. That is good news. Classical music, is it ever | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
possible to replicate a Stradivarius, they are the world's | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
most expensive stringed instruments, there are less than seven violins | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
still in place. Antonio Stradivari's instruments have | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
always been prized for their unique sound and quality. A unique team of | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
American scientists and violinists have claimed to be able to | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
replicate the sound using X-rays and scanners. Let's listen to the | :25:49. | :25:59. | |
:25:59. | :26:20. | ||
sound of the original ones? (vi lin The beautiful sound that many say | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
cannot be replicated by a piece of engineering. I think that debate | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
will rage and rage. Now a reminder of the main news stories. The | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has been setting out his | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
plans for tackling what he calls the debt storm facing the British | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
economy. Mr Osbourne told parliament he had spent more on | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
infrastructure policies and sticking to spending cuts. Mr Balls | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
said Mr Osbourne was cutting too fast and too deep. That is all from | :26:52. | :27:02. | |
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Through the day today we had flooding across Scotland and | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
Northern Ireland. Torrential rain combined with strong winds. | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
Tomorrow it does stay windy and we have a few showers around, | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
especially for northern and western areas. We lose one weather front as | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
we go through Tuesday night. The showers follow on behind, yet | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
another low set to bring us more wet and windy weather on Wednesday | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
night. Wednesday morning starts off with clear spells around. The | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
showers soon get going, especially out towards the north and west. | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
Wintry showers at times. Leeds temperatures at 10 degrees. Showers | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
to the east of the Pennines. Much of East Anglia through the south- | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
east corner should stay dry. It will be windy and temperatures | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
reaching 12. A scattering of hours across Devon, Cornwall and west | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
Walesing during the afternoon the winds will strengthen through the | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
Irish Sea with the risk of gales. A few showers across North West | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
England, likely to be heavy, hail and thunder mixed in there as well. | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
It will be wet across parts of Northern Ireland, as we go through | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
Wednesday afternoon. As we head up towards Scotland, the north-east | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
corner staying mostly dry and bright. Most of the showers out | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
towards the west through the day. We will start to see things turning | :28:11. | :28:15. |