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We are asking what the day's developments mean for us. | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
Also: Dozens of civilians killed as Syrian tanks turn the city of Hama | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
into a war zone. Famine in Somalia. We have pictures of the un folding | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
disaster in Islamist-controlled areas. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
And the smartphone revolution, how more and more of us are becoming | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
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Good evening. The FTSE took a battering losing | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
�50 billion in value as traders across the world reacted to fears | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
of contagion in the eurozone and fears over the US economy. In a | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
stark warning the EU commissioned President expressed concern over | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
the risk of the debt crisis spreading to Italy and Spain. The | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
eurozone's third and fourth bickest economies. The route on the | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
European markets continued on the US. The Dow Jones closing more than | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
4% down. The biggest one-day drop in almost three years. Here is our | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders. Two weeks ago today at | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
their umteenth merge summit, the eurozone leaders said that they had | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
finally taken tough decisions, that the future of the eurozone was safe, | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
but someone forgot to tell the financial markets. | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
This is an ABC News special report. The closing bell is ringing now at | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
the New York Stock Exchange where the stocks have plunged... Today, | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
tens of billions of pounds were wiped off British and American | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
stock prices as fears of the Euro fed into worries in America about | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
the strength of their recovery. US stock prices are back to where they | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
were at the end of last year. A couple of weeks ago, the markets | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
anticipated that the ECB and the rest of the European players had | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
found a solution to the problem, but digging into the detail lying | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
behind the statement it is clear there is not a lot of money on the | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
table. No political will to sort out the problems. | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
Once again it is Italy and Spain paying a price for the investors' | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
doubts. A year ago, the Spanish Government paying 4 .4% from the | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
borrowing markets. Much less than Greece, but a few weeks ago it had | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
gone up to 6 .3% and it is back close to that level. Italy is | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
paying nearly as much. The higher the interest rate that they pay, | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
the more difficult it is for the countries to get on top of their | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
debts. That is the fear that is concentrating on the minds in | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Brussels, but they are running out of ways to respond. The European | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
President sent a stern letter to Euro gfts talking of a growing | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
market scepticism of their capacity to deal with the crisis which he | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
said had extended well beyond the periphery of the eurozone. Saying | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
that they should push ahead with what was agreed and ordered a | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
reassessment of what could be done. The European Central Bank did take | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
action, announcing it would step in to support the governments under | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
pressure by buying their bonds. But the bank's President also had | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
stern words for the national politicians. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
The key for everything is government ahead of the curve in | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
both of the fiscal policies and the structure of reforms. The structure | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
of the reforms are of the essence. I know that they are here and there | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
difficult, they might be politically difficult in our | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
democracies, but they are paying off. | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
The UK did get ahead of the curve in kurting its deficit, the | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
opposition would say too far ahead, but our banks and fragile recovery | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
could be thrown off course by a crisis across the Channel and a | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
stumbling US recovery. Today's fall, the biggest drop in the main US | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
stock index than a year ago, the details have changed but the mood | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
in the market is familiar. Well, as we have been hearing the | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
markets across the globe have shown dramatic losses. In the last hour | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
the Dow Jones was down 4 .3%. Earlier, Germany's DAX index was | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
down 3 .4% points. Here, the FTSE 100 in London also closed 3 .4% | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
down. Well, our Business Editor Robert | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Peston is with me now. Robert, what is your take on what has been | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
happening? It's been a dramatic day. It is a truly global phenomena. The | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
Brazilian markets fell more than the German and the US and the UK | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
markets. The recovery in the rich West, especially in America has | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
been running out of steam. We have seen the amounts that Italy, the | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
Italian government, the Spanish governments have to pay to borrow | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
to such levels. What happened that really shocked the investors was | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
the omission by Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, the EU commission | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
President that the solution, that the eurozone thought it had in | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
place is both too complex and incomplete. That really rattled the | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
investors and those who lent to banks. | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
I bet there are many people out there saying that we are facing | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
another credit crunch? It is a fear. There is a link between the | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
confidence in the credit-worthiness of governments and confidence in | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
their banks. So, as the fears have accumulated that Spain and Italy | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
could not repay debts, so it is harder for their banks to borrow. | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
The fear is that the great money men in America in particular who | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
lend to European banks will not discriminate that a whole range of | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
banks, including our own, will find difficult to borrow. That is why | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
Lloyds' shares fell 10%. Barclays shares falling 8%. All of this is | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
built on the fear that we are approaching another credit crunch, | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
when the banks cannot borrow, they cannot lend. You are tipped back | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
into recession. That is why senior members of the Government and | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
bankers are saying that the eurozone has to get a grip of this | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
and soon or we coiled be facing the conditions that we saw in 2008 once | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
again. Robert Peston, thank you very much. | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
The latest reports from Syria say that as many as 45 civilians have | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
been killed as the government launched a tank-led assault on the | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
city of Hama. Human Rights Act visits have sent | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
pictures of the latest stage of the crackdown. Most of them are too | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
shocking to show. These in the report are also disturbing. | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
Syrian military vehicles heading towards Hama today. All of this | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
video is hard to verify, but a troubling picture is emerging. | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
Yesterday it seems that tanks and troops swept into the city centre, | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
part of what seems to be a concerted effort to crush the | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
uprising in Hama. One resident who has since fled the city told us | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
what he witnessed. TRANSLATION: They were using anti- | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
aircraft to shoot the buildings, the cars and the people as well. | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
They were trying to find anyone and kill, you know. | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
The generators are not working anymore. | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
So the hospital is shut down. You know it is completely shut down. | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
There is no electricity, food. People are terrified. It is like a | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
battle scene. Exactly like a battle scene. Like villages in Iraq, that | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
the US army have invaded, that is what it looks like. | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
Evidence from these pictures of what activists say are injured | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
civilians being targeted. And what we are now about to show | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
may be distressing, possible evidence of horrific casualties. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
The blanket covers what is too awful to show, most of this man's | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
head was blown off by a tank, we are told. | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
The picture in Hama is sketchy, but it seems after weeks of encircling | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
the city tanks and troops began to move in on Sunday. Activists | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
reported that residential areas were targeted along with a hospital. | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
We have seen many pictures too upsetting to show. A second man | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
with his head blown off, a young girl allegedly crushed by a tank. A | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
small boy with gunshot wounds visible on his body and this | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
distressing story of a woman who lost her husband in the first | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
massacre. Now she has also lost her son in this attack. | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
But latest pictures suggest that the rebellion in Hama is far from | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
over. This was apparently last night in the city. Crowds openly | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
defiant. It is not own here that President Bashar al-Assad faces | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
opposition it is hard to know where the crisis is going to end. | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Human rights groups and lawyers say that they will boycott the | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
independent inquiry into what the British security services knew | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
about the alleged torture and mistreatment of terror suspects. | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
They fear it could become a whitewash. David Cameron announced | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
the inquiry, saying it was important to clear up questions of | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
wrongdoing and restore Britain's moral standing. | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
We have this report. How much did British intelligence | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
know about the alleged mistreatment of those detained abroad in the | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
fight against terrorism? Last year the Prime Minister made clear that | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
he wanted to draw a line under the ongoing controversy. | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
The longer that the questions are unanswered, the bigger the stain on | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
our reputation... He went on to announce an inquiry, but human | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
rights groups and lawyers for those detained have said that they will | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
not participate. One former detainee picked up in Pakistan and | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
held in Guantanamo Bay, explains why. | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
There is information that we think is vital for us to see as former | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
prisoners that will be kept in secret, we will not be able to see | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
it. In a sense, it is just a repeat of history because our detention in | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
Guantanamo Bay was justified through the use of secret tribunals. | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
Supporters of the inquiry into the intelligence service claim it will | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
be as open as it is possible to be, given the nature of that material. | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
This will be a more open inquiry than any before has ever been, but | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
there is still a limit. There will be items of material which are so | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
sensitive it would be against this country's interest to publish them. | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
A series of court cases was making life difficult here at MI5 and for | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
other intelligence agencies. The Government hoped it could limit the | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
damage by agreeing a deal in which the former detainees would end | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
their legal action in return for compensation, believed to amount to | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
millions of pounds as well as an agreement to hold an independent | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
inquiry. A key issue for the inquiry is what | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
guidance was given to intelligence officers interrogating detainees | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
held by other countries? There is no allegations of torture by | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
Britons. Intelligence chiefs denied come police ity in mistreatment of | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
other nations. Although a police investigation is joing ongoing. A | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
spokesperson for the inquiry today said that it would move forward | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
with or without those representing the detainees, the question will be | :13:11. | :13:19. | |
A court in France ruled the new head of the International Monetary | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
Fund, Christine Lagarde should be investigated over accusations sha | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
she abused her her position when she was the French Finance Minister. | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
Christine Lagarde denies a payment in favour of a business tycoon in | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
2008. More than 11 11 million people have | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
been affected by the worst drought in the Horn of Africa. In Mogadishu | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
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there are battles between the alsha bad and African Union peacekeepers. | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
Andrew Harding reports. There are distressing images in this report. | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
The first glimpse into the hidden heart of Somalia's famine. | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
Outsiders are not welcome here, we asked a local cameraman to film for | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
us in territory controlled by the militant Islamist group, alsha bad. | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
Families have gathered in huge numbers hoping to find food. Some, | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
are being helped, a frail old man is examined by a local medic. A | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
mother brings her starving child to this mobile clinic. Staffed by | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
local students. But is this just propaganda? The | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
militants claims there is no famine here and now it wants to show the | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
outside world it has things under control. Why else would the sign be | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
in English? In public the militant leaders are maintaining their tough | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
anti-western stance. Trance god is testing us with this | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
drought because of our sense. We pray for relief. We ask Muslims to | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
assist us so that we don't have to depend on help. | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
Some foreign food supplies are being allowed in. Somalia is a land | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
of chaos and sometimes pragmatism. Here in Mogadishu, humanitarian and | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
military officials insist that the militants are blocking desperately | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
needed outside aid and putting tens, if not hundreds of thousands at | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
risk. African Union soldiers are still | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
fighting the militants in the ruins of Mogadishu. This is a dangerous | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
place. But should western aid agencies not be doing a lot more to | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
help the civilian population here? They are not doing enough because | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
the famine came not by surprise, we expected this. We expect this | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
problem. We should have prepared early and we should be good to go. | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
Instead, this woman has buried the fourth of her five children. The | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
city has been declared an official famine zone. Many local | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
organisations battling to reach the hungry say they are not getting | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
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Coming up: Are you addicted to your | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
smartphone? We tap into some of the more surprising facts about modern | :16:38. | :16:48. | |
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Barack Obama turned 50 today, but as we've been hearing, if he was | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
hoping for a birthday gift from the US economy, he'll be sorely | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
disappointed. The Federal debt crisis may be dealt with, at least | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
for the moment, but a whole series of economic figures suggest that | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
America's recovery is stalling. Tomorrow's unemployment figures are | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
unlikely to lift the gloomy mood as our North America Editor, Mark | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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# Happy birthday # Many worry when they hit the big 50. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
His birthday speech accepted there was a lot of work to do on the | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
economy. It doesn't matter how tough a week | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
I have in Washington because I know you've got me, you've got my back | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
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when I come to Chicago, I know we... Opponents jumped on the President | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
for kaumg last month's bad figures a bump in the road. I'm an American, | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
not a bump in the road. You are only as old as you the feel, but | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
the greying of the witness bears witness to the pressures in the job. | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
Many of the president's plans to share America's cake more evenly | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
depend on growth, but there is nothing to celebrate in the latest | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
round of statistics, there were more job cuts in July than in the | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
previous 16 months. The latest manufacturing figures show the | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
sector hardly grew at all and consumer confidence is low, | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
spending dropped in June for the first time in nearly two years. | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
Unemployment figures out tomorrow are expected to be more bad news. | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
After a terrible two years, this building company based in Maryland | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
has won some new business, but the the boss isn't hiring as many | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
people he would like, the legacy of the recession makes him pessimistic. | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
It made borrowing money so much more difficult right now that there | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
is such a state of unknown and that state of unknown is what's keeping | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
people from moving forward with projects. | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
Frederick is a relaxed sort of place with a prosperous feel, but | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
even here there is gloom. In high streets up and down America, it is | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
felt for a while as though the economy is bumping along the bottom. | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Now a few economists say the figures point to another recession. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
They are in a minority, but could things be getting worse? In the | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
shops, there are new worries. Sales are deaf are definitely | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
douchblet my husband is un-- down. My husband is unemployed right now. | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
I'm the only income my family is. We are barely scraping. We can pay | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
our rent and bills, but that's about it. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
It is down right now. I thought it was coming back. In the summer we | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
had a couple of good months and then this political problem in | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
Washington and the higher gas prices wiped it out. A waxy Obama | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
enjoys his party, but as the Dow plunges, the real President has | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
little room for manoeuvre or room to celebrate. | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
The judge leading the inquiry into the phone hacking inquiry said he | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
will examine wider press ethics. He will look at how newspapers use | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
private investigators. The BBC has learned that a controversial firm | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
of private detectives, Southern Investigations, was employed by the | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror on over 200 occasions from 1997 to | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
1999. Here is Robert Peston again. The Mirror, no surprise that it | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
published endless stories on the likes of George Michael, Kirsty | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
Young, Peter Mandelson and Will Carling, the Mirror employed a firm | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
of detectives to get get these stories and others. A former Mirror | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
journalist convicted in 2005 for insider trading trains. | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
There are a few journalists competing for the the same stories, | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
if you are competing against The Sun or the News of the World for | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
the same stories or even other newspapers in your group like the | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
Sunday People, you have got to do everything you can to get the story | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
and if the opposition are using those methods, like the News of the | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
World was, then you know, you have to use those same techniques | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
otherwise you won't get the stories and you will lose sales. | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
A BBC investigation discovered that are between October 1997 and | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
September 1999, Southern Investigations was employed on 230 | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
occasions by the Daily and Sunday Mirror and billed �67,000 for its | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
services. Many media organisations, including the BBC, have employed | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
private detectives, but on average Southern was doing two pieces of | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
work each week for the Mirror. This is some of what the Mirror bought | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
from Southern Investigations. An invoice dated October 1998 is for | :22:02. | :22:12. | |
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following the former news anchor, Kirsty Young. It says, "To our | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
motorcycle operative." The bill was for �262. Hiring a private | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
detective isn't illegal. The Mirror paid for financial information on | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Peter Mandelson, the size of his mortgage, at Britannia Building | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
Society, the monthly payments and the amount outstanding and how much | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
he had in his current and savings accounts at at Coutts. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Many journalists would say there was a powerful public interest in | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
obtaining information about Lord Mandelson's personal finances given | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
that he received a secret loan from a fellow member of the Government | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
which supposedly created a financial tie between the two that | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
should have been disclosed. I want British journalism to return | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
to its vocation, to bring the the truth to light, but with courage, | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
honesty and decency. The Mirror Group told the BBC it | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
last used Southern Investigations in 1999 and its journalists worked | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
within the criminal law and the PCC code of conduct. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
Another invoice was for a mobile phone number and PIN. This could | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
have been used to hack into the voicemail of a mobile phone, but | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
there is no evidence it was used that way. The Prime Minister asked | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
Lord Justice Leveson to exam the ethics of the press following | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
behaviour at the the News of the World. Lord Justice he have letter | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
son will look at how detectives The Scottish Government denied that | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
exams are getting easier as pupils in Scotland achieved record pass | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
rates. Almost 130,000 pupils got their results today, but an | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
investigation has begun after thousands received theirs yesterday | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
by mistake. Is the smartphone threatening to | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
take over our lives? The latest survey from Ofcom, the media | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
regulator, found a third of adults and a majority of teenagers | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
describe themselves as highly addicted. They use them at meal | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
times, in the bathroom and take them to bed! | :24:23. | :24:33. | |
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Meet the Ramsdens, a a smartphone family. Olly never stops texting | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
whilst mum Natasha likes to stay online. This technology has changed | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
the way they live. They are just really addictive. I | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
can sit there playing games which I've never done before. I can sit | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
there looking at Google and Facebook, things you would have to | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
go to a computer for, but now it is by my hand so it is easy to pick up | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
and use. And where this 14-year-old goes, | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
his smartphone goes too, even in here! But Olly isn't alone. Nearly | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
half of all 12 to 15-year-olds who have a smartphone use it in the | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
bathroom. So do more than a fifth of adults. Olly, how much do you | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
use your smartphone in in there? when the shower is warming up. When | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
I'm brurk my teeth m maybe when I'm on the toilet. | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
You're kidding me! And these devices aren't easy to | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
put down. Today's survey showed that 23% of adults with smartphones | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
use them at meal times, but at what cost to our manners? This pocket- | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
sized computer appears to be changing the rules. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
Technology is starting to drive the way we behave in social situations | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
it seems. The question is how good a thing is it? More than a third of | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
adults think they are highly addicted to their smartphones | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
according to the study and the figure is higher for teenagers. | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
Young people are heavy users of social network sites and media such | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
as text messages. There is no evidence as such that it is | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
detracting from their off-line life, but there is no evidence that it is | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
enhancing it. That maybe, but the smartphone is | :26:27. | :26:36. |