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He would step down, but he'd also create an ability to reach out and | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
start a new phase of Syrian political life. We'll be asking if | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
King Abdullah's unprecedented intervention marks a turning point. | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
Also tonight: The Leveson Inquiry into press | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
standards reveals 28 News International staff were involved | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
in phone hacking. David Cameron's most outspoken remarks yet about | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
the shape of the European Union and how he wants to see it changed. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
should look skeptically at grand plans and utopian visions. We have | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
a right to ask what the European Union should and shouldn't do and | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
change it accordingly. Two men appear in court charged | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
with murdering Stephen Lawrence. The judge says there will be new | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
scientific evidence. Beijing had them. Now Britain may | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
deploy ground-to-air missiles to protect London during the Olympic | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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Good evening. King Abdullah of Jordan has become the first Arab | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
leader openly to call for President Assad of Syria to step down. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
Speaking exclusively to the BBC the King said Mr Assad should go in the | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
interests of his country. The unprecedented intervention marks a | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
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further isolation of Syria by its neighbours. Over the weekend it was | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
suspended from the Arab League - a move condemned as dangerous by the | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
country's foreign minister. Activists say more than 40 people | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
have been killed today in the crackdown against anti-government | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
protestors. Here's our middle east editor Jeremy Bowen. It was another | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
hard and bloody day in Homs which has become the centre of the | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
uprising in Syria. Most foreign journalists are banned from the | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
country, so we're relying again on pictures taken by opponents of the | :02:37. | :02:47. | |
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regime and sent out on the internet. The Assad regime says it's fighting | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
an armed plot incited by foreigners to destroy the country, but | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
evidence has piled up of security forces killing Syrian protesters, | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
many or most unarmed and with broken promises to take armour off | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
the streets, the Syrian President is now under intense political | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
pressure to go, the latest coming from the King of Jordan in a BBC | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
interview. If he has the interests of his country, he would step down, | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
but he'd also create an ability to reach out and start a new phase of | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
Syrian political life. But the answer to the pressure has been | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
defiance. At the weekend, pro-Assad demonstration were held in Damascus | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
and elsewhere. His regime still has loyalists, but the opposition has | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
also alleged that students and others were forced to take part and | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
threatened or even shot if they refused. In Damascus this morning, | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
the Foreign Minister said a decision by the Arab League to | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
suspend Syria's membership was malicious and part of a Western | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
conspiracy. "It's dangerous step for the | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
future," he said. Syria's at the troubled centre of | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
the Middle East, already overloaded with conflict and instability. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
Syria's neighbours are getting very nervous about violence, perhaps a | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
civil war spilling into their countries. They think when you look | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
at the makeup of Syria, where you have Jews, Kurds, Sunnis, | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Christians, Muslims, it's a far more complicated fabric, and as a | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
result, this is why I think all of us in the international community | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
are concerned because if it starts to unravel, it's not going to be a | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
sort of straight-forward Libyan scenario. It will be an even more | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
complicated Iraqi scenario, if that makes any sense to you. In Damascus, | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
crowds attacked the embassies of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, who | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
have led the condemnation of what's happening in Syria. The Arab League | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
has a plan to send observers, allowing them in and letting them | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
work will be another test for the regime. Assad's men are still | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
powerful, but they haven't been able to stop the demonstrations. | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
It's become a stalemate. Foreign pressure, now stronger than | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
at any time since uprising started, could change the balance. | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
And Jeremy joins me now. To what extent do King Abdullah's comments | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
make a turning point, do you think? I think we're into a new phase now. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
I think the stage is set for greater international pressure, | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
first, sanctions. There have already been more EU sanctions, | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
nothing so far at the UN, because Russia has been blocking them. If | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
they haven't called for sanctions, could Russia continue to block | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
that? Probably not. Why are the Arab League doing these things? | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Don't forget, this is the first year of people power in the Middle | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
East. It's not possible anymore for Arab leaders to condome the killing | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
of civilians by another Arab leader in the way that once they could, | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
and as well as that the Arab spring has now got very mixed up with | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
existing conflicts. Syria is a big friend of Iran. The Saudis, leading | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
some of the criticism, consider themselves enemys of Iran. Their | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
thought pattern is what's bad for Assad is good for us. Don't forget, | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
though, the Arab League was decisive in Libya, calling for a | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
no-fly zone. That was - everything that followed came from that, but | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
last thing to remember for tonight, anyway is no credible talk yet of | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
foreign military intervention, and the reason for that, I think is no- | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
one can really think of a way of doing it that doesn't make matters | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
a lot worse. Thank you. Thanks. Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
press standards got underway today and it's already revealed that | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
twenty eight staff at News International were involved in | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
phone hacking. It's emerged that there were thousands of victims. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
The inquiry will be looking at whether the press can be left to | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
set its own standards. As Lord Justice Leveson put it today, "Who | :06:41. | :06:50. | |
will guard the guardians"? Nick Higham was at the inquiry. It was | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
the scandal that began with the News of the World, Britain's | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
biggest selling newspaper and one of its brashest, the revelation | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
that the paper had hacked into the murdered schoolgirl, Milly Dowler's | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
voicemails prompted outrage, the paper's closure and the Leveson | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
Inquiry. The parents of Madeleine McCann, politicians like Lord | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
Justice Leveson and -- Lord press con and Tessa Jowell along with | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
celebrities like JK Rowling, Hugh Grant and Sienna Miller were among | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
those who gave evidence to the inquiry. Today in the measured | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
tones of an Appeal Court judge, Lord Justice Leveson issued a | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
warning to newspapers. Those who speak out might be targeted by the | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
press as a result. I have absolutely no wish to stifle | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
freedom of speech and expression. If it appears that those concerns | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
are made out without objective justification, it might be | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
appropriate to draw the conclusion that these vital rights are being | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
abused. Today, the inquiry heard just how much phone hacking had | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
been done by this man, Private Detective Glenn Mulcaire, | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
originally said to have been working for a single rogue reporter. | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
In his notebooks, police found the names of staff not just at the News | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
of the World but at its sister paper the Sun and even the Daily | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
Mail, -- Mirror, though they denied involvement. 28 were involved. One | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
News of the World journalist alone had made over 1,400 requests for | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
information. The inquiry was told it would hear evidence from | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
celebrities and ordinary people alike. Common themes are complaints | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
of systematic breachs of privacy, of conduct amounting to harassment | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
and of unfair, sensationalist and inaccurate reporting. His inquiry | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
is actually in two parts. The first is look at the general culture of | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
the press, its relations between the police and politicians and | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
whether the present system of newspaper regulation is broken, and | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
if so, how it should be fixed. The second is into the illegal activity | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
by newspapers which started all of this in the first place. But that | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
can't begin until the police have finished their investigations, | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
which won't be for many months. The inquiry admitted today it's putting | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
the cart before the horse. In court for the start of the inquiry today | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
was Milly Dowler's Fowler, Bob, victims of press intrusion like him | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
will start giving evidence next John Yeates, the former Assistant | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
Commissioner at the Metropolitan Police, has been cleared of | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
misconduct over allegations that he secured a Scotland Yard job for the | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
daughter of the former News of the World executive Neil Wallis. The | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
police watchdog - the IPCC - said it could find no grounds for taking | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
disciplinary action against Mr Yates over passing on the CV of Mr | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
Wallis' daughter. Europe faces its biggest challenge | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
since the Second World War. That's the alarming assessment of the | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who's at the centre of attempts to | :09:53. | :10:01. | |
hold the eurozone together. Here there's a growing argument over | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
whether the debt crisis in the Eurozone is affecting our recovery, | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
as the Government suggests, or whether Labour is right when it | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
says ministers are pursuing the wrong policies. Here is our | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
economics editor Stephanie Flanders. The crisis in the eurozone is | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
having a chilling effect. Instability in the euro is having a | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
huge impact. The eurozone is having a very chilling effect on our | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
economy. Well, we know who the Government blames for Britain's | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
faltering economic recovery. That was also the Governor of the Bank | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
of England's line last month in Liverpool. We were on track, but | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
the problems in the euro area and the marked slowing in the world | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
economy have lengthened the period over which a return to normality is | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
likely. You would certainly expect our exports to be affected by the | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
crisis on the continent. 40% of them go to countries in the | :10:54. | :11:03. | |
eurozone, as the Chancellor's fond of reminding us - Britain sells | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
more to them than Russia, India and China combineded. The British | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
economic recovery was choked off well before the instability of the | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
last few months in the eurozone, and our unemployment has been | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
rising when most European countries in the EU have seen that | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
unemployment falling it's not true to say that it was the Euro crisis | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
which has caused the problems in Britain. You can blame the crisis | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
for the weakening state of major eurozone economies over the past | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
few months. When the latest GDP figures come out tomorrow they're | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
expected to show little or no growth in the single currency area, | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
but the countries closest to the action will have still grown by | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
1.4% in the last year. That compares with just half a per cent | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
in the UK. Our exports to eurozone countries did fall by 0.2% last | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
month, but up until then, they have been a source of strength, up by | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
more than 17% over the last year. Pound for pound, most economists | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
would expect the Chancellor's tax rises and spending cuts to have had | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
a bigger direct impact on growth this year than the eurozone, but | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
without his tough approach, Mr Osborne would say we might now be | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
facing a crisis like Italy. We have to press on with the deficit | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
reduction package, and yes, that can be painful, but the | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
consequences of it would be even worse in the absence of the package, | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
and we've really got to focus on the eurozone. All eyes today were | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
on Mario Monti, the new technocrat Prime Minister of Italy, who is | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
supposed to help them turn a corner, but the financial markets don't | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
seem to believe the dangers of past. In fact, today, the worries move to | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
Spain. The blame game in Westminster will continue, but | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
everyone can agree this crisis of confidence on our doorstep could | :12:55. | :13:04. | |
As the debt crisis looks set to re- shape relations between members of | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
the European Union, David Cameron has made his most outspoken remarks | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
yet about the role Britain should play in that process. Speaking at | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
the Lord Mayor's banquet at the Guildhall tonight, he said he | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
yearned for fundamental reform with powers ebbing back not flowing away. | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
For years, people who suggested doing less at the European level | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
have been accused of not being committed to a successful European | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
Union, but we sceptics have a vital point. We should look skeptically | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
at grand plans and utopian visions. We have a right to ask what the | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
European Union should and shouldn't do and change it accordingly. As I | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
have said, change brings opportunities, an opportunity to | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
begin to refashion the EU so it better serves this nation's | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
interests and the interests of its other 26 nations too. Well, let's | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
talk to our political editor Nick Robinson who is at the Guildhall | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
for us tonight. It strikes me the Prime Minister has gone further | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
than ever before on Europe. Why? Just listen to the words to back | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
that up - a source of alarm and crisis is how he described the EU, | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
an organisation in peril, out of touch, immune from developments in | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
the real world. Lords, ladies and gentlemen here at the Guildhall, | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
that's how a Prime Minister now describes the EU and above all uses | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
that phrase "we sceptics", guaranteeed to reassure many in his | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
own party, guaranteeed to get the headlines in Euro-sceptic papers | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
tomorrow, and yet listen carefully, George, because this is a speech | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
about positioning not just at home, but in Europe too. Madam and | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
monsieur, he also wanted to tell you in the Chancellories of Europe | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
that Britain had an opportunity. He didn't want Britain to get out. He | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
didn't regard Britain as an outsider. Indeed, he thought the | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
plight of Norway, affected by rules you couldn't in fact change and | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
govern, was one that he didn't want for this country, so in the end a | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
man who told his party not to obsess about Europe before he | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
became Prime Minister, tonight really accepted he has no choice | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
but to obsess about it, but he didn't tonight, despite that new | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
positioning. Not only did he not answer the questions about the | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
future of you know, he didn't even Nick, thank you. | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
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Coming up: 4, 3, 2, 1... Lift off. | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
It was designed in the 1960s, now it is the only way to get | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
astronauts to space. Russia resumes its manned space flights. | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
The Government is considering to deploy ground-to-air missiles to | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
protect London from attack during the Paralympic Games next year. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Philip Hammond said that the missiles would be deployed if | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
deemed operationally necessary. Here is David Bond. | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
The Olympic Games, a sporting festival, but also a massive | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
security challenge. Last time in Beijing, the Chinese | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
made no secret of their plans to tackle the terror threat, deploying | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
surface-to-air missiles. Today the Defence Secretary said we would do | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
the same. All necessary measures to ensure | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
the security and the safety of the London Olympic Games will be taken | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
including if the advice of the military is that it is required, | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
including appropriate ground-to-air defences. | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
Philip Hammond says that the Government will take whatever | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
measures are necessary to ensure that the Olympic Games pass | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
peacefully. That's why officials here at the Home Office are | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
overseeing a review of security in and around the venues next summer. | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
After the London Organising Committee got their numbers badly | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
wrong. The London Organising Committee for | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
the Gamesest maithed that they would need 10,000 private security | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
staff to secure the venues, but the review is expected to conclude that | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
the numbers required are more than double that. Jumping to around it | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
2,000. London 2012 have been allocated | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
�282 million of public money for the venue security, but the bill | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
will be much higher than that. Test events across London like this | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
basketball tournament in the summer were one of the reasons for review. | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
The security officials say that the plans are now on track. | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
We are working closely with a number of bodies, the event | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
organisers and the police services up and down the country to ensure | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
these are a safe and secure Games. I am satisfied that while we are | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
not complacent and recognise there is a lot to do, we are still in a | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
gad place. For the London organisers, the 7/7 | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
bombings that happened the day after the City won the 2012 bid are | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
a reminder of the threat. Some countries like America will bring | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
their own security, something that some thing is rite. | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
The athletes, if they are concerned about the security measures it | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
would be encome bent upon the US to employ a level of security to the | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
athletes to get in there and have the performances that they want. | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
For all of the impressive progress made, security has always been the | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
big unknown for London 2012, the Government is trying to limit that | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
uncertainty, but as past Games have shown, there is only so much you | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
can plan for. Two men, Gary Dobson and David | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
Norris have appeared in court, charged with the murder of Stephen | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
Lawrence, 18 years after the teenagers rer's death. The student | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
was stabbed twice by white youths in south London on the 22nd of | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
April, 1993. The Old Bailey was told that new evidence would be | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
central to the proceedings. Stephen Lawrence was 18 when he | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
died. He was stabbed while waiting for a bus late one night in south | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
London. For his mother, Doreen Lawrence, it was a loss made so | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
much worse by the fact that no-one has been convicted of the killing. | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
His father, Neville, also came to see the trial begin. The two | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
accused men, David Norris on the left is 35 Gary Dobson is 36, both | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
deny murder. This is a case with a difficult history. Stephen died on | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
the 22nd of April, 1993. There were court hearing in the mid-90s, and | :19:47. | :19:55. | |
an inquest in 1997. A full public inquiry was held in 1988 chaired by | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
Lord mac fersson. The judge, Mr Justice Treacy, said that the case | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
aroused strong feelings, but it was told in the court that what | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
happened in the past was irrelevant. That this case had to start with a | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
clean slate. The judge said: A reinvestigation | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
of the case had led to new scientific evidence. There would be | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
an examination of its reliability. The two accused men questioned the | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
handling of that evidence. The jurors will consider who killed | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
learns Lawrence Lawrence have been told to expect the trial to stretch | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
into next year. The FDA trade union which | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
represents thousands of high- ranking civil servants, including | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
tax inspectors, diplomats and government special advisors has | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
voted by 4-1 to strike over changes to pensions. It is expected that | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
thousands including teachers and health service workers will be | :20:54. | :21:04. | |
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involved in the day of action. Anders Braevi eq has made his first | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
public appearance in court. He tried to explain his actions to | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
survivors and victims. In July, the 32-year-old carried out a bomb | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
attack in Oslo and went on a shooting rampage on the island of | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
vitora. The Home Secretary, who has accused | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
the UK Border Agency has gone further tonight, evealing the | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
extent of the problem there. Labour has said they have obtained | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
e-mails about the lack of checks on passengers on private flights. | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
Carole Walker is at Westminster for us. What have we learned? Well, | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
Theresa May said she did authorise pilots to reduce the level of | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
checks on some passengers from Europe, but that border staff | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
disobeyed her, went further and reduced the level of the security | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
for passengers from outside of Europe as well. She's been under | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
pressure to say how wide spread this practise was, tonight she's | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
revealed that it took place at 28 ports and airports, including | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
Heathrow Airport, Glasgow, Manchester and Calais. Now, | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
tomorrow, the man who has lost his job over this, the head of the UK | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Border Force, as it was, borrowed borrowed, he is giving evidence | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
tomorrow. He made it clear he disputes the Home Secretary's | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
events, and to add to the pressure, tonight Labour say that they are | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
obtained leaked e-mails about security for private flights. These | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
appear to be from worried border staff to say that they are not | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
allowed to check the passports of the passengers on the private | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
flights and in some cases are not able to verify if the right number | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
of people are coming off the planes. We have had a brief statement from | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
the UK Border Agency saying it is not true that the passports are not | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
checked. That they have not been able to oirptly verify the e-mails, | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
but Labour say that the e-mails speak for themselves. Clearly, they | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
will have to provide answers on this. | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
Russia has resumed its manned space flights with a launch of a Soyuz | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
rocket with two Russians and an American on board. The flight had | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
been postponed for two months after a similar rocket carrying cargo | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
crashed after take-off. With the retirement of the South American | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
shuttle fleet, this is the only way to get astronauts into the space | :23:46. | :23:55. | |
station. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... Generating vast | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
thrusts from the four booster engines, a Soyuz rocket blasting | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
off from a snowy Baikonur cosmodrome this morning. On board | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut, heading for the | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
International Space Station, on what is currently the only route | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
into orbit. The launch had been delayed for two months because of | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
safety fears, but they said they were not concerned. | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
A lot of very, very difficult and diligent work was done to verify | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
that rocket, that it is good. I'm not nervous about it. | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
This was why he might have been worried, an almost identical rocket | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
carrying cargo in August that crashed back to Earth, that led to | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
all manned launchs to be put on hold. | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
Having fired the imagination of a generation, a ship like no other, | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
its place in history is secured, the space shuttle pulls into the | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
port for the last time. The trouble is that since the space | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
shuttle's retired in July, there was no other way of getting people | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
into space, but NASA insists that the Russian-built and op rated | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
Soyuz was not rushed back into operation -- Russian-built and | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
operated Soyuz. In this case, I think that we | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
really worked with the Russians. We had confidence that they had | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
resolved this problem. Amazingly, the rocket on which | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
everyone is relying, the Soyuz, dates back to the 1960s, the | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Americans don't expect their next manned vehicle launch to be ready | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
for five years. When Russia put the first man into orbit 50 years ago | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
it led the world in space flight, now, almost by accident it finds | :25:45. | :25:49. |