25/07/2011 BBC News at Ten

Norway's self-confessed mass killer spells out his motives for carrying

out the weekend massacre. On his way to court, Anders Behring

Breivik tells the judge he wanted to save Norway from a Muslim

takeover. How was your client in court today? Calm.

A nation united and defiant, hundreds of thousands of Norwegians

hold vigils tonight. The people of Norway are in deep grief, they are

still shocked, but we also see a Norway which is really unified and

where people are standing together. We will be examining the killer's

claims of links with the far right here in Britain.

Also tonight: Famine in Somalia, we report from the country as the UN

prepares its first airlift of food for the victims.

The energy industry is accused of using Del Boy as sales men. MPs

wants compensation for customers to get a raw deal.

A record attendance at Lord's as England take the first Test against

India, the world's topside. Later in Sportsday, we will have

news from the world aquatics championships in Shanghai, plus the

latest action from the SPL as Dunfermline returned to the top

Good evening. Hundreds of thousands of Norwegians have taken to the

streets this evening in a show of national unity after the weekend

massacre. In his court appearance, held behind closed doors, Anders

Behring Breivik admitted carrying out the double attack but pleaded

not guilty to murder. He said that he wanted to send a sharp signal

about what he calls the Muslim takeover of Norway and Europe. He

claimed to have links with two other underground cells. First

tonight, Europe editor Gavin Hewitt reports from Oslo.

This was the moment when a man accused of Norway's mass killings

headed to court. Anders Behring Breivik, wearing a dark red top,

sat next to police officers. Outside the court house, crowds had

gathered, most of them fiercely opposed to Breivik being able to

use his court appearance as a platform for his views, as he

himself had wanted. Do not give him attention, keep the doors closed.

It should not be an open hearing, this is what he wants, and I do not

see why we should let him have his way. Breivik had actually asked

police if he could wear a black uniform to court, but they said no.

Lines formed to go inside the courtroom, but the police opposed

an open hearing, fearful that Breivik might use it to send

signals to others, and the judge agreed that it should be a closed

session. In court, Breivik was told he would be held in solitary

confinement for four weeks, no visitors, no letters, no newspapers.

His next court appearance will be in eight weeks' time. Later, the

judge revealed what Breivik himself had told the court. He said the

goal of his attack was to send a strong signal to the people. Also,

he said, he wanted to save Western Europe from a Muslim takeover, and

he wanted to prevent future recruitment to the Labour Party,

which he said had betrayed the country.

As to his mood in a court, this is what his lawyer told me.

How was your client in court today? Calm. Calm?

As he was driven away from the court, Breivik left the police that

a major you are on investigation. - - with a major you are or of

investigation. He claimed to belong to an organisation with two active

cells. The police say they cannot rule out others being involved.

It has emerged that Breivik's name was in the intelligence services'

files. TRANSLATION: Was not on a list of right-wing extremists, but

we have looked into archives, where we have an enormous amount of

information, and we found his name was. They have records of them by

chemicals in Poland, but they have not followed the information are.

Close to the time of the court appearance, Norway held a minute's

Across the country, people stood quietly. Out on the lake, they are

still searching for the missing, although they have revised

downwards the number of those killed two 76. In the chaos, some

of the bodies were counted twice. But the Faces of some of the

missing still peer out from the newspapers, all of them young

people attending a summer camp. People on the streets today spoke

of innocence lost, of a shadow falling across the country.

people of Norway are in deep grief. They are still shocked. But we also

see a Norway which is very unified and where people are standing

Tonight, rescue workers walked through the capital. People lined

the streets and applauded them. Even as Oslo remembered these days

of tragedy, the police said that the man who has admitted the

killings was reported to be unaffected by events, clinging to

his distorted believe that he needed to shake up his country.

-- belief. The father of Anders Behring

Breivik has spoken for the first time since the attacks. He said it

would have been better if his son had killed and stopped. One by one,

his victims are being named. The first was a student from the city

of Lurgan. Tora Eikeland was 21. James Robbins reports from his home

In the shadow of mountains and rain cloud, it seems most of the people

of Birkenau have come out to share intense emotions. The glass but

also defies. Norway's second city is morning several of its children.

-- deeper loss but also defines. The only one named so far was 21

years old. Tora Eikeland was a high-flyer, a youth leader in this

region of the governing Labour party. For one of his former

teachers, the death is hard to bear. If he died anyway close to the way

he lived, he would not be the first to run unless, you know, I think he

would have been one of those trying to make a difference. It is only

later that the teacher tells me he expects more by the news to come.

have got two of my pupils that are still missing. At their head of the

procession, government ministers were flown up from Oslo, the local

Labour leader grieving for the loss of so many of the party's next

generation. We will live, and we will be strong again, but right now

it feels like a huge loss to miss so many young people and so many

young leaders. Norwegians tells me that torchlight processions have a

special significance for them in winter, fighting against the almost

continuous darkness. Now they feel as if they are fighting a different

sort of darkness, one over which they say they will definitely

prevail. But no way's agony is far from over. Most victims have still

not been named. More dark days lie ahead.

Let's get a late is now from Gavin in Oslo. I can see the show of

unity going on behind you, but presumably at some point people are

going to start asking questions about how this happened. Absolutely,

George, and it has been another day of mourning, and there are still

thousands on the streets tonight holding vigil. It has also been the

day that Breivik appeared in court, but there are longer term, more

serious questions that have to be asked, although I do not think now

is the time to ask them. The mood is not quite right. But why, for

instance, did it take police so long to arrive on the island,

giving the gunman 90 minutes to continue his shooting spree? And

also, perhaps the most serious question that has to be asked,

where it is hatred that drove his gunmen, where did it spring from in

a society that is so prosperous? And how many other people may be

tempted to hold similar views? These will be questions that down

the road this society, so traumatised at the moment, will

have to try and answer. George. Gavin, thank you. Here it has

emerged that Anders Breivik may have had contact with British far

right groups. He says he met extremists here nine years ago and

claims to have had links with the English Defence League. Home

affairs correspondent Tom Symonds In the hours before the killing, it

is believed Anders Breivik posted this video on the internet. It

illustrates his apparent anger at Europe's multiculturalism, but did

he act alone, or did others help form and his hatred? This is the

written manifesto that Breivik left in his wake. For some reason, he

gave himself an English pen name and a London byline. The English

Defence League, which opposes Islamic extremism, but has

condemned the Norway attacks, is repeatedly mentioned. At one point,

Although he also claimed he had ideological differences with that

organisation, tonight anti-fascist campaigners say they are preparing

to publish evidence of his involvement. He had direct contact

with people in the EDL. We should take these links seriously, because

what inspired him to do what he did in Norway is inspiring the EDL

supporters in the UK. The Prime Minister said the Norwegian

atrocities raised many questions. We are doing everything we possibly

can to understand who these people are, what the threat Levellers.

There is already an effective unit in the Metropolitan Police, but we

have come to build this up and do even more to make sure we keep

ourselves safe from these fanatics. Breivik's manifesto also suggests

he was a member of a more mysterious far-right group inspired

by the Knights Templar, 12th century Crusaders. In his own words,

it formed at a 2002 meeting in Britain at which those he calls

cell commanders were trained to take part in a cultural

conservative anti-jihad movement, a long-term struggle that would last

for generations with an attack every five to 12 years. It is

possible that meeting in this country nine years ago was where

the seeds of his atrocity were sown. Other news now, and a postmortem

carried out on the body of Amy Winehouse, who was found dead at

her home on Saturday, has failed to establish a cause of death. Further

toxicology tests are now being carried out. Earlier today, the

singer's parents visited her flat in north London. Her father told

people there that their presence had helped the family deal with

their loss. By Amy was about one thing, and that was love,

throughout her whole life, she was devoted to her family and her

friends and to you guys as well, so we are devastated and speechless.

Amy Winehouse's father there. The within hours, the World Food

Programme is to begin airlifting supplies to parts of the Horn of

Africa affected by a devastating drought. The United Nations has

described it as the worst there for 60 years. Here the Disasters

Emergency Committee has said the British public has committed �30

million in the last three weeks to its appeal for parts of Kenya,

Ethiopia and Somalia. There is a long-running conflict in Somalia

between pro-government forces and the Islamist rebels, Al-Shabab.

Africa correspondent Andrew Harding Clouds over Somalia but no rain. We

are heading to a region close to Gunmen on the grounds, but these

men work for Somalia's government, backed by the West. They control a

small pocket of territory here which has become a magnet for

families desperate for food and First, we see some makeshift camps

in the wilderness, then the latest arrivals. The Nour family got here

a few hours ago escaping from a town controlled by the militant

Islamist group Al-Shabab. They're exhausted but count themselves

lucky. TRANSLATION: They're killing people

at home. Al-Shabab are preventing aid from reaching our area. That's

why we had to flee. Those left behind will die. There is food here.

Foreign aid is starting to arrive inside Somalia itself. So what have

you been given here? Some sugar and sourgum. How long will that feed

your family? She says ten days. It's progress, but it's patchy. The

battle now is to stop more people fleeing their homes by getting aid

directly into the heart of Somalia's famine zone. That's not

impossible, but because of Al- Shabab, it's slow, complicated and

very dangerous. It's also imperative, with the

famine set to spread and the refugee camps overloaded. Western

aid officials are exploring every option. This idea that Al-Shabab

areas are no-go zones - it's not true? Categorically not true. We

already have evidence of organisations that have never left

Somalia that they're able to expand their operations, and I am

confident that as long as we rely on experienced organisations and on

the way the chiefs are determined to help their communities, we can

help many people inside Somalia. a race has begun here to reach

those unable to escape the famine, And coming up on tonight's

programme: The New York hotel maid who's

accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape speaks out. I want him to go

to jail. I want him to know, you cannot use your power when you do

something like this. With just a week to go before the

US Government hits its official debt ceiling, efforts to resolve

the crisis remain deadlocked. Tonight the Republican leadership

in Congress tabled its plan for spending cuts. President Obama says

spending cuts alone are not the way to reduce the deficit and he is to

make a television address to the nation later tonight. Our economics

editor Stephanie Flanders is here. People always say these things will

be all right on the night, but how serious has this standoff been?

People have been saying because it's so serious, because the

consequences could be so severe of the US reaching its debt limit

without a deal, we have always assumed they would do a deal, and

maybe that's still a safe-ish assumption, but we're well into

extra time, and the two sides are still far apart. In fact, you had

to have a bill put into Congress by the end of today to have it

legislated for next week in time for that debt limit. You do have

the Senate republicans - or the House Republicans have put a deal

on the table. They say they're going to vote on it Wednesday, but

it has two crucial features the President always said he'd oppose.

It doesn't include any new revenues from taxes, only spending cuts, and

it doesn't raise enough to get him into the election next year. They'd

have to do all of this again, which is something the Democrats don't

want to do. At the very least we're looking at a bumpy few days. I

think it's safe to say there are going to be enough tax revenues

coming in, even next week, for the Government to reach its debt. It's

not as if there will be a formal default, but I think there is

really important signal being sent about America's ability to get on

top of its massive deficit. That could be that even if there is a

deal, it could mean that the most important economy in the world and

the bedrock of the financial system uses its top credit rating as a

result of all of this. All right, Stephanie. Thank you.

Thank you. Energy companies should compensate

customers who have been mis-sold gas and electricity deals on the

doorstep, an committee of MPs has said. According to a report by the

Energy Committee, four out of every ten people who switch companies are

no better off. Here's our business correspondent, John Moylan. Just

under a third of consumers that switch suppliers do so on the

doorstep, but do they get a good deal? Not often enough, say MPs.

Whaley Wai-Lee Ho switched at the start of the year but he ended up

worse all. He says he was pressured into sign up. He got out direct

debit forms and started filling them in before I accepted anything.

I asked them if I could take them away, do some research, then

contact them if I did want to change. He told me no.

committee heard of those who switched suppliers on the doorstep,

up to 40% do not end up on a better deal. Vulnerable customers, in

particular, appeared to be targeted in this way. Scottish Power said

73% of its new pre-payment customers had been won on the

doorstep. Four of the big six energy firms are currently being

investigated by the industry regulator over mis-selling. One of

them, Scottish and Southern Energy, has recently suspended all doorstep

activity following a recent prosecution. It's little wonder

that consumer groups say enough is enough. What we want to see is a

change in the way in which energy companies try and engage with

consumers, an tend to cold calling. No just turning up on the toor step,

knocking on the door trying to make a sale. Plan it. Book it. Give

people the information they need. As for the suppliers, they say the

rules around doorstep selling are tighter than ever and that doorstep

sales can provide a useful way to find a new deal. But the committee

chairman says the industry should ditch the Del Boy sales tricks and

pay out compensation to those who have been wrongly persuaded to

switch. Strathclyde Police have begun a

murder investigation after an eight-year-old girl and her older

brother died in a house fire yesterday. Bridget and Thomas

Sharkey were at home in Helensburgh when the fire started. Their

parents suffered serious burns and are in a critical condition in

hospital. The Vatican has recalled its envoy

to Ireland after a damning report condemned the Catholic Church's

handling of child abuse cases in County Cork. The decision to recall

Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza to Rome follows fierce criticism from the

Irish Prime Minister. Enda Kenny said the Church's inability to deal

with sex abuse cases demonstrated a culture of "dysfunction,

disconnection, elitism and narcissism" at the Vatican.

The maid who's accused the former IMF chief of attempting to rape her

in his New York hotel suite has given her first interview.

Nafissatou Diallo said she wanted Dominique Strauss Kahn to know,

"There are some places you cannot use your power or your money." Our

New York correspondent Laura Trevelyan reports.

Nafissatou Diallo wants the world to hear her story. The West African

hotel maid at the centre of this extraordinary tale is waiving her

right to anonymity, insisting to ABC news she's telling the truth.

The former IMF boss did try to sexually assault her. I was like,

"I'm so sorry." I turned my head. He come to me and cupped my breasts,

"No. You don't have to be sorry." I said, "Stop. I don't want to lose

my job." This is the Manhattan hotel where the alleged rape took

place. DNA evidence shows there was a sexual encounter of some kind.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's lawyers have hinted it was consensual. He

has been forced to resign as head of the IMF and seen his French

presidential ambitions recreed. But the former IMF boss was boosted

when the prosecution questioned the maid's credibility. The strength of

the case has been affected by the substantial credibility issues

relating to the complainant witness. Nafissatou Diallo changed her

account of what happened immediately after the attack and

didn't tell the truth on her asylum application and tax return. She

admits making mistakes, but is sticking to her story. I want

justice. I want him to go to jail. I want him to know you cannot use

your power when you do something like this. Mr Strauss-Kahn's

lawyers have dismissed the interview as an unseemly circus.

Now the prosecution must decide whether to drop the charges against

Mr Strauss-Kahn or continue their investigation.

Nafissatou Diallo has this plea: God is my witness. I'm telling the

truth, from my heart. By going public with her version of what

happened here, Nafissatou Diallo is trying to win public sympathy and

put pressure on the prosecution not to drop the charges against

Dominique Strauss-Kahn. But it's a high-risk strategy. The next court

Cricket now, and England have won the first Test against India after

taking nine wickets in an exciting final day at Lords. The match was

watched by a sell-out crowd, some of whom had queued overnight for

tickets. Our sports correspondent James Pearce reports.

Not a bad way to start the school holidays - free entry for under 16s.

Come on! Old and young had been queuing around Lords since early

morning. Yes, it had been a long wait, but what a day's cricket they

had in store. England needed an early breakthrough. And that's

exactly what they got. Dravdi out for 26. Two more wickets were to

follow before lunch, Gautam Gambhir, LBW.

So not for the first time, Indian hopes rested with Sachin Tendulkar,

dropped by the captain. How costly could that be? But two balls later,

English despair turned to joy. There was to be no-one00th

international century today, and India's chances of saboteuring a

draw were fast disappearing. England's bowling was accurate and

unstoppable. The question now wasn't if they'd win, but when. The

answer: shortly before 5.30pm. The umpire's finger signalled an

English victory that's taken them a giant stride closer to becoming the

world's top Test nation. performance of the guys today was

outstanding especially five down at tee. We had to work very hard to

open the one end up,ed a then when we did that, we finished it off

very clinically, so I'm very proud of what the guys did. So the

momentum England gained from series wins against Australia and Sri

Lanka has continued through to here. If they are to replace India at the