22/11/2011 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten: Hopes of a political breakthrough

in Egypt after four days of demonstrations. More violent

clashes between protesters and security forces as the regime

prepares to give ground. TRANSLATION: As Egypt's and...

As Egypt's military leader promises early presidential elections, his

troops are in action on the streets. They thought they had beaten the

old regime in February, now they think they have to fight it again.

This crisis has been brewing for months. We'll have the latest from

Cairo, where thousands of people are still protesting. Also tonight:

Actor Steve Coogan is the latest celebrity to attack the tabloid

press at the Leveson Inquiry. needs to be a privacy law so that

genuine public interest journalism is not besmirched by this tawdry

muck-raking. The travel firm Thomas Cook under

pressure as it seeks more help from the banks.

The search for justice for the many victims of Cambodia's brutal Khmer

Rouge. And it's been a bad night for

Manchester City in the Champions In sport, Andy Murray pulls out of

the ATP World Tour finals in London. He doesn't want to risk his groin

Good evening. Egypt's military council has

responded to the mass uprising of the past four days by promising a

faster transition to democratic rule. Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi

promised that presidential elections would be held by the end

of June next year. But protesters tonight in central Cairo and

elsewhere say they won't move until all their demands have been met.

Our Middle East editor, Jeremy They used to drum on the fences

during the revolution as an alarm when Mubarak's men were drumming --

coming and now they are doing it again because the protesters here

believe the old regime lives on. Killing people for protesting. The

funeral of one of the dead came through the square this morning.

The young men fighting the riot police want to finish the job this

time. Many Egyptians don't like the street violence. But they don't

always like the military and the police trampling over human rights

either. And the man the protesters hate most is the head of them

ruling military council. Field Marshal Tantawi, get out. Today or

tomorrow, go. In a few days he will go. Field Marshal Tantawi appeared

on the Egyptian TV defending the military and talking elections.

TRANSLATION: I am committed to holding parliamentary elections in

time to elect the President of the state by the end of 20th June 12.

Before he spoke, they had hanged his effigy from the traffic lights.

Breivik -- bringing Presidential elections for the year will satisfy

some elections, but it didn't seem to change many minds in the square.

And among the families of the dead. See, he says, film, there are

people in all the fridges. My son is dead here. And for everyone in

Tahrir Square, a fair breeze euphoria was gone by the summer.

They are more interested in finishing the revolution, not in

military promises they no longer trust. It is the Mubarak regime

again, nothing has changed. We don't want to go a lectin, in these

elections, it is a sham, nothing will change. I this man is a

candidate. There is no appetite to talk to people about elections when

people are being and a few hundred yards away, riots went on,

casualties rushed away. They believe they won their rights as

citizens on the streets and that this is the place to defend them.

They want the military to hand over power now and they are furious

about a country that can't give They thought they had beaten the

old regime in February, now they think they have to fight it again.

This crisis has been brewing for months. The cs gas tears at the

skin and the eyes and makes it hard to breathe. The demonstrators

always come back for more, though. When it got dark there was no let

up. Egypt's Revolution in February inspired uprisings in Libya, Syria,

Bahrain and Yemen. Now the Egyptians are leading the way again,

showing how hard this new Middle East is going to be.

Jeremy is in central Cairo tonight. In your view, to what extent will

these concessions today start to satisfy people? I think quite a lot

of Egyptians will be glad to hear what Field Marshal Tantawi had to

offer. Those are the Egyptians not here in Tahrir Square. If I look

around, even though it is gone midnight, there are still tens of

thousands of people camped in the Square saying they will not leave

until the military don't just make concessions, until the military

stepped down and hand over to some kind of interim civilian leadership.

Also behind me, the whole time I've been standing here, there have been

lines of ambulances going back and forth. They are still clashing down

towards the Interior Ministry. So the trouble continues here, Egypt

continues to be in deep crisis and once again the eyes of this entire

region are Ron Tahrir Square, wondering whether the will of the

people will prevail or whether the military will get this place back

under control. Hard to see how they will do it if the people don't

budge. Thank you. Tabloid newspapers have been

accused of acting like the Mafia and of bulling victims into silence.

That was part of the evidence presented today by the actor and

comedian Steve Coogan at the Leveson Inquiry, which is

investigating newspaper standards. Our correspondent Nicholas Witchell

He is the public performer who says he is not interested in fame. His

best-known creation was a bumbling member of the media. It is for 30

5:00am, you are listening to... Today's Steve Coogan played himself

to condemn media excesses. He said he had lost count of the kiss-and-

tell stories and tabloid stings. One of them he said have involved

Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World, who later

became an adviser to the Prime Minister. There was a girl in Andy

Coulson's office who was going to speak to me on the phone and the

phone call would be recorded. She would try to entice me into talking

about intimate details of her and my life. Mr Coogan said it was time

for Britain to have privacy laws. In the interests of protecting

genuine public interest journalism, for that reason, there needs to be

a privacy law so that genuine public interest journalism is not

besmirched by this tawdry muck- raking. Mary Ellen field was of --

an innocent victim. She was a business adviser to Elle Macpherson

but when stories about her appeared in the papers, the supermodel

accused her of leaking them. said you have done 11 things. I

said tell me what they are. She would not. I said you can't tell me

I've done something and not tell me what I have done. She said I am not

allowed to tell you. Later it emerged that the News of the World

Phone Hackett Glen Mulcaire had been targeting Elle Macpherson, but

by then Mary-Ellen Field had been set for psychiatric treatment and

made redundant. And then there was the tragic story of Jim and

Margaret Watson. 20 years ago their daughter Diane was stabbed to death

by a pupil at her school. But newspaper reports so traduced Diana

and the family that their son committed suicide. We need

protection, just because a person has died their reputation should

not die with them. They should not be besmirched at the will of some

sick journalist. That is what they are, sick. Her one other thing that

is exercising the inquiry, the outspoken response from the Mail on

Sunday to claims yesterday from the actor Hugh Grant. Lord Justice

Leveson said the press needed to be careful about attacking witnesses

who had given evidence in good faith.

Shares in the travel firm Thomas Cook fell sharply today, losing

three-quarters of their value, after the news that the firm was

trying to borrow more money from the banks. Thomas Cook said it had

seen a deterioration of trading due in part to the eurozone crisis and

political unrest in Egypt and Tunisia. But it insisted that

customer bookings were fully protected. Our business editor

Thinking of Thomas Cook I an G macro it, taking a break? As a cold

front spreads over the economy and many of us put off decisions on

whether to spend big money on holidays and other things, cracks

are appearing in Thomas Cook's finances. The famous provider of

package holidays shocked investors and customers by saying the

business has got a lot worse in the last few days as Brits were Reeve

whether the eurozone crisis could take us back into recession and

French and Russians decided turmoil in Egypt is a good reason not a

holiday there or Tunisia. Given the speed with which your finances have

worsened, why should customers should feel it is safe to book a

holiday with you? Thomas Cook is a holiday company that has been

around for over 100 years. They have sent millions of customers

overseas. We have excellent customer relations. I am confident

that from next year we will send millions of British holidaymakers

overseas. Thomas Cook is the world's second-biggest holiday

business, providing 19 million holidays every year. But it has

hefty debts, just over �900 million in the spring. Over the past 19

months a staggering �2.3 million has been wiped off Thomas Cook's

value and after its warning today, its share price plummeted a further

75%. I asked the company's boss whether there would be even more

pain for the owners. I think investors should have confidence,

we are negotiating with the banks, they have always been very

supportive. I am very confident that they will give us this extra

cushion we need. We dream about it. Thomas Cook's dream is that a

troupe of 17 banks will lend it another �100 million to tide it

over. Will they oblige? I am certain the banks will extend

credit. The damage would be too great to them, especially to them,

because there are so many businesses linked to Thomas Cook.

But Thomas Cook be killed off by Winters economic Frost? That seems

unlikely for a business with such a strong band -- brand, but could

there be further frostbite for lenders and investors? That can't

be ruled out. Two babies have died from an E-coli

infection in Swansea. One infant was infected in the community, the

other was a very premature baby who died after contracting the

infection at the city's Singleton Hospital. Doctors say the cases

were linked. One of the babies was just five days old when she died at

the hospital on 4th November. The post of chief coroner will no

longer be abolished following opposition from groups including

the Royal British Legion. The Government had chosen to scrap the

position, which was created in 2009 but has never been filled. The

Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, said he had listened and reflected on

the concerns. The Legion told him a chief coroner was needed to improve

the handling of inquiries into Two mental health trusts have been

criticised for failing so that led to the deaths of an elderly couple

in Swindon. To me the Cup bludgeoned his parents to death in

2007. A report found that the incident could have been avoided if

appropriate care had been delivered. The authorities knew that Timothy

Cook was dangerous, but his delusional and violent behaviour

made him a risk to other people. But when he moved in with his

parents, Bob and Elsie Crook, they were not told. He battered them to

death and dumped their bodies with the household rubbish. They did not

know what his diagnosis was, the fact that he had been violent, the

fact that police and medical staff were all concerned about their own

safety. No one told my parents. four years after the fatal attack

and a couple's bungalow in Swindon, a report has concluded that their

deaths could have been avoided if the NHS had given their son the

care he needed. This 300 page report lists what it calls the

persistent failures of the NHS to treat him if the crook, not just in

Wiltshire, where he killed his parents, but also in Lincolnshire,

where he lived -- Timothy Cook. It says there was poor communication

between the two areas and no overall strategy to help him. The

report acknowledges that Timothy Crook was a difficult patient who

tried to avoid a medical help. But it says he was allowed to slip

through the safety net. Tonight, both trusts apologised to the

family. We accept entirely the report and the criticism of our

organisation, and have been working hard since then to make reparation

and improve the quality of services we provide in Swindon. The Avon and

Wiltshire Trust was criticised in another report today. Carl James

was stabbed and killed by a schizophrenic friend, also in

Swindon in 2007. But campaigners say that rather than blaming

patients, the system should be improved to help them. Murders by

people with mental health problems are rare. We do hear about them in

the media, but people should bear in mind that they are rare. But not

rare enough for Janice Lawrence. She feels today's report into her

parents' deaths should have gone further to prevent similar

tragedies for other families in the future.

Coming up on tonight's programme: It as an own goal!

An early scare for Manchester United against Benfica in the

Champions' League. It's taken over 30 years to

prosecute some of the leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the brutal regime

which ruled Cambodia in the 1970s. Under the Marxist leader Pol Pot,

the regime enforced policies which led to huge loss of life. Pol Pot's

deputy, Nuon Chea, is now being tried by a court which is backed by

the United Nations. He denies charges including genocide, and

insists that the Khmer Rouge was serving the interests of the people.

Our correspondent reports from Phnom Penh.

From a cross Cambodia, memory converges on the capital. On a

motorbike taxi, a mother who lost four children and her husband.

TRANSLATION: I feel pain and anger, but it is up to the court now to

decide what happens. In this public bus, survivors and

former Khmer Rouge travel together. Here a victim. All hope their

journey to cord might help reconciliation. Including this man,

who ordered the deaths of a couple who fell in love without a party's

permission. Sitting around them, those who knew nothing of the past

and those who can never forget it. One of the things you are accused

of doing is ordering the killing of two people because they fell in

love without the party's permission. Why did you do that?

TRANSLATION: It was the wrong thing to do, but the decision was made by

those above me. He says had he disobeyed, he would

have been killed. These are images of some of the lives destroyed.

Even children could be declared enemies of the people. This was

Nuon Chea, the number two in the Khmer Rouge hierarchy. Now he is a

frail old man listening to a prosecutor's denunciation. They

murdered, tortured and terrorised their own people. They even banned

love between human beings, that one noble quality that comes to the

human heart more naturally than any other. But today, the court heard

the voice of the man once called Brother Number Two, and it was

defiant. What the prosecution has said is untrue, he declared. He had

served the people and wanted to build a society that was clean and

independent. This trial is controversial among some survivors

because there are only three defendants. This woman's parents

were killed after being herded to this temple. 3 is not enough. Three

men for the lives of 2 million Cambodians, including my parents,

is not enough. There is no magical number, but three is not enough.

Going back to Nuremberg, no war crimes trial has ever achieved

absolute justice. The number of victims, the scale of the crimes,

is simply too great. And in Cambodia, there will not be any

ground accounting. Perhaps the best that can be achieved here is to

write into the memory of this nation the facts of what happened,

so that they might act as a warning from history.

There should be a cap of �10,000 on individual donations to political

parties. That is one of the recommendations of the Committee

for Standards in Public Life, which also wants taxpayers to pay more to

finance parties. The committee's inquiry was set up in response to

the controversy about political funding. Our deputy political

editor James Landale is at Westminster.

Does it all mean that they are happy to accept these

recommendations? There has been concern about the way parties are

funded for many years, whether by rich individuals or which trade

unions, the suspicion being that they may be getting something in

return. The Standards Committee thinks it has come up with a

possible solution. Their rules would be that nobody would be able

to donate more than �10,000 a year. Trade union members would have to

choose to give to a party rather than it being automatic. That would

lead to a substantial loss of income for the parties, so the

committee says the taxpayer should give the parties around �23 million

a year, which comes out at about 50 pence per elector. That is the plan.

The three largest political parties in the government are not happy

with it. The Conservatives think the cap on donations is to hide.

Labour do not support the Union forms -- reforms, and none think

now is the time to ask the public to give politicians more money. So

the chances of it happening are slim, but that does not mean the

problem will go away. Sir Christopher Kelly believes it will

take another scandal to force the politicians to act on this.

A British soldier killed in Afghanistan on Sunday has been

named as Private Thomas Lake from the 1st Battalion The Princess of

Wales's Royal Regiment. The 29- year-old from Watford was on foot

patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj area of Helmand when an improvised

explosive device detonated. Today his mother said "he died doing

something he loved and believed in". President Obama has warned that the

average American family will pay $1,000 more in tax each year unless

Congress backs his budget plans. This follows Congress's latest

failed attempt to tackle America's growing debt problem. A special

committee set up to find a way ahead announced last night that it

could not reach agreement. The debt problem is now set to dominate the

presidential election. Americans are hungry for their

politicians to do something, so on the menu today, an awkward meeting

in a diner for one President, one ordinary family and scores of press.

His matches - he is on the side of the people, the politicians in

Washington are blocking progress. You guys work hard. You play by the

rules. You are meeting your responsibilities. And if you are

working hard and meeting your responsibilities, at the very least

you should expect Congress to do the same. It is a monumental

failure. Congress can't agree how to cut into America's 15 trillion

dollars debt. Underneath the famous dome, a train between the capital

and the Senate is running smoothly, but the plan designed to find a

compromise has been derailed. The Republicans will not put taxes up,

Democrats will not do a deal based on spending cuts. The Republicans

believe that with spending being much higher than it has story

keeping, we need to restrain spending. The problem is a huge

ideological divide in our nation, a value system divide. People need to

resolve that over the next months so that a small group of people,

extreme in their view, cannot hold American hostage any longer.

Failure by Congress to agree to a planning means automatic cuts of

more than one trillion dollars to programmes do to each party

including a cut of nearly 8% to education, public health and

housing and a 10% cut to the military budget, which the Defence

Secretary says would tear a scene in national defences. It is a ship

without sailors. It is a Brigade without bullets. It is an air wing

without enough trained pilots. It is a paper tiger. But even this did

not keep them on track. The dire warnings are meant to make sure the

politicians are travelling in the same direction. The trouble is,

they are more divided between left and right than ever, and they are

trapped in a system that demands compromise or grinds to a halt. As

the market's worry that this failure suggests was ahead. Going

forward, we worry that we are going to hit a crisis moment where we

need to deal with this, but we have a group of politicians who have

said time and time again that they do not have the will to do it.

Super heroes may stop runaway trains, but the Super committee has

hit the buffers of America -- and America's debt goes on rising.

In football, it has been a bad night for Manchester United and

Manchester City in Champions League. City went down 2-0 against Napoli,

while United were held to a 2-2 draw by Benfica.

The English league leaders walked out into one of European football's

most intimidating arenas, Napoli's cauldron of rage. Halfway through

the first half, City made their hosts feel even more at home, the

head are squeezing through some slapdash defending. But Napoli's

defence provided their own gracious hospitality. But City's prospects

of progress are now receding faster than their manager's had climbed --

hairline. For Manchester United, Phil Jones first scored in his own

net. Tonight Dimitar Berbatov barely figured until he wandered on

to the end of Nani's crust to make it 1-1. In the second half, Darren

Ferguson profited from another cracking cross. 2-1 T United, with

them and did themselves with more defensive doziness. For United, an

awkward last fixture awaits. There is more on the BBC News

Channel including a first look at tomorrow's front pages.