[03:27.35]Military officials in Pakistan say at least 30 soldiers and almost 100 militants have been killed in several days of fierce fighting in the Tirah Valley in north-western Pakistan.
[03:38.32]The officials said the army had taken control of large parts of the region from the Pakistani Taliban and their allies since it began a ground offensive last Friday.
[03:47.70]For more now on our main news-- the death of Margaret Thatcher.
[03:52.64]With a look at the economic aspects of her legacy, here’s Andrew Walker.
[03:56.82]Baroness Thatcher’s time as prime minister marked a dramatic change in strategy.
[04:01.12]She wanted a central role for the private sector in the market economy and wanted to reduce the role of the state by cutting public spending.
[04:08.70]Her government began a programme of privatising state-owned businesses,
[04:12.43]selling them off sometimes to the stock market in an effort to promote wider share-ownership.
[04:17.51]There was legislation to reduce the power of trade unions and controlling inflation was given a central role.
[04:23.87]Under her leadership, restrictions on the financial sector were swept away, a reform known as Big Bang.
[04:29.73]In some respects, the economic legacy is controversial.
[04:33.38]The reduction in inflation arguably came at the cost of a period of high unemployment and critics say the liberalisation of finance sowed the seeds for the recent crisis.