23/11/2011 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten: Kate and Gerry McCann describe

their suffering at the hands of the tabloid press.

They tell the inquiry into newspaper standards that the search

for their missing daughter was hampered by press reporting.

Madeleine disappeared on a family holiday in Portugal over four years

ago - they accuse the tabloids of making matters worse. There was no

respect shown for me as a grieving mother or a human being, or for my

daughter. It made me feel very vulnerable and small.

We'll be reporting on the two hours of evidence they gave to the

Leveson Inquiry. Also tonight: In Cairo, thousands on the streets

again this evening despite the promise of early presidential

elections. The rioters have control of a good chunk of the city centre

and they have shown no desire to leave.

A report into home care for the elderly finds thousands of people

in England are being badly treated and neglected.

Manning the borders ahead of next week's public sector strike -

details emerge of the Government's contingency plans. Stoppage time,

it's in! And it's a bad night for Chelsea

against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League.

I'll be here with the sport late on BBC News, including the World Cup

blame game. A leaked RFU report blows the lid off their shambolic

Good evening. The parents of Madeleine McCann

have presented their evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, which is

investigating the standards of British newspapers. Kate and Gerry

McCann accused the tabloid press of hampering the search for their

daughter Madeleine, who went missing in Portugal four years ago.

They said those responsible should face penalties. This report by

Nicholas Witchell contains some They are the couple who stepped

from a family holiday enter a horror of almost unimaginable

proportions of their beloved eldest daughter Madeleine missing, their

own innocence questions and treated by content on a cynical media.

Gerry and Kate McCann said they had never given evidence before, they

had come to love that Leveson Inquiry for this reason. A system

have to be put in place to protect ordinary people from the damage the

media can cause. They were taken back to the events of 2007, to the

Portuguese holiday resort and the night Madeleine disappeared. At

first they said the media were sympathetic, then the Portuguese

police named them as aguido, meaning they could be questioned

with a lawyer present, the media portrayed them as suspect and the

worst coverage began. The clear message going out nationally and

internationally was that there was very strong evidence that our

daughter was dead and that we were somehow implicated in her

disappearance. These were desperate times. We were having to try to

find our daughter ourselves and needed all the help we could get.

We had headlines like corpse in the car. It gets repeated that often

that it becomes fact. We desperately wanted to shout out it

is not true, but when it is your voice begins the powerful media, it

holds little weight. We were desperately shouting out internally

please stop what you were doing. We are trying to find our daughter and

you are stopping us. Among the worst offenders were newspapers

owned by the Express group. The McCanns were shown some of the

stories. Their reaction... Nothing short of disgusting. This same

journalist also said we stored her body in a freezer. Then, more than

a year after Maplins disappearance, the News of the World got hold of a

copy of Kate McCann's private diary and published it without telling

her. I felt totally violated. I have written these words at the

most desperate time in my life. It was my only way of communicating

with Madeleine. There was absolutely no respect shown for me

as a grieving mother or a human being. And at their home in

Leicestershire, there were photographers following them, even

when they went out with Madeleine's younger brother and sister.

Photographers would come out from behind a hedge. Fragile, furious,

whatever the headline would be. There were several occasions when

they would bang on the windows with camera lenses. My daughter said to

me, I'm scared. For two hours the voices of Kate and Gerry McCann

joined those of others who are saying something about the British

media has to change. Powerful and at times heartbreaking evidence

from the McCanns. Sheryl Gascoigne, the former wife of Paul Gascoigne,

also gave evidence. She said she had been scared of the

repercussions but believed it was the right thing to do. And Mark

Lewis, the solicitor for many of the victims of phone hacking, said

he believed the News of the World was not the only paper involved in

phone hacking. In another development today, James

Murdoch, who's always denied knowledge of the extent of phone

hacking at the News of the World, has resigned as a director of the

companies that publish The Sun and The Times. Mr Murdoch remains

chairman of News International, but his resignations mean there is no

Murdoch family representative on the boards of News Corp's main

British newspapers. In Egypt, thousands of protestors

have spent another day in central Cairo calling for an immediate end

to military rule. There have been more violent clashes, -- with riot

police firing teargas and demonstrators throwing stones and

petrol bombs. The protests have continued despite the promise

yesterday by the military council to hold presidential elections by

the end of June next year. Our Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen,

Mohamed Mahmoud Street, running down from Tahrir Square, the front

line since Saturday. The fight has been led by ultras, organised

football fans who have long The Gas keeps them back from the

Interior Ministry, the symbol of the way the old regime lives on.

Life hasn't offered these young men many favours, this isn't about the

politics of next week's election for them. Their gas slows them but

it doesn't stop because a rage against the system they believe was

built to benefit others. We are half a mile from Tahrir Square, the

rioters have control of a good chunk of the city's centre. They

show no desire to leave. Short of the army set backing down, I can't

see a political deal that will get them out of it easily. He said

these were wounds from police shot guns. Everyone with an empty gas

canister points out they are made in America. Here on the streets,

some of the young, poor and angry increasingly see Egypt's Western

We were marched out. One man threatened, if anyone films on my

Just off Mohamed Mahmoud Street, a businessman was clearing his

warehouse. The disturbances mean more damage for an economy battered

by a revolutionary turmoil. Is it bad for business? Yes. They carried

out some of the stock through the teargas. Many Egyptians yearn for

quiet and certainty. They are just dreams these days. Then suddenly in

mid-afternoon, a truce. Timed to dampen down the gas and in Mohamed

Mahmoud Street, they were claiming victory. The ultras left their

frontline and move back towards Tahrir Square as conquering heroes.

They don't like being filmed. The ultras are filling a vacuum. The

political groups of the square are not united. The pause lasted until

dusk and in the clashes started again. Negotiating a way out of

this will be very hard. The demonstrators attacked a leader of

the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most popular party, when he came

here, for being too close to the military. In Tahrir Square, they

want the generals out of power. They don't want to go. The result:

deadlock, despair and more violence. Jeremy is in the square for us

tonight. This talk about the weekend cover which includes these

elections, what kind of impact might they have? First democratic

elections and supposed to be a big event, now overshadowed by what is

happening. Those elections will go ahead, the military command has

been on the TV talking about that. There are up to 12 planned and

there is a question over whether they will happen. The Muslim

Brotherhood don't want to do anything that might disrupt the

elections and they are not in this square. People down here in the

Square, who incidentally are not necessarily popular elsewhere in

Egypt because of all the destruction they are causing, are

losing faith in that electoral process. They say you can't trust

the military to hand over power so why do elections when they are

effectively in charge and might be able to manipulate results? But

that election will go ahead on Monday, it will be a benchmark of

which parties are doing better and which parties are not doing so well.

But if all this is still going on at the same time, it is really

going to overshadow things and if there's violence, that might result

in cancellations of further rounds. Thank you.

Basic care for the elderly at home is so bad in parts of England that

it breaches human rights. The home care review by the Equality and

Human Rights Commission has highlighted cases of physical abuse,

theft, neglect and disregard for privacy and dignity. It said on

many occasions support for tasks such as washing and dressing was

dehumanising. Our social affairs correspondent, Alison Holt, has

Many want to grow wild in their own home, but today's equality and

human rights report shows for a worrying number of elderly people,

that means relying on care that does little to respect their real

needs. Doreen is 74, she lives on her own with her dog. After a heart

attack she needed help at home. These days she finds her care

workers are in a rush and keep changing. It is upsetting. I don't

know the people who are coming, they don't know me. Initially, I

would have someone who knew me and they might sit and chat for a few

minutes. Sometimes someone would put a hand on you. I might not get

that from anyone. Luckily the dog does that! It is so important just

to touch. Today's Home Care report covers England, but for Hunt to --

the hundreds of e-mails we've received show there are similar

concerns across the UK. There is praise for some care workers. One

woman says of her grandmothers care, the service they provide for her is

brilliant. But many others have real worries. One daughter

describes how her dad fell out of bed several times, but the carers

were not allowed to help him. He was left on the floor. And a son

says carers but my mother to bed at 8pm, but don't attend again until

10am. Funding means people are squeezed, there are not enough care

workers and not enough time. But it is not just that, it is also the

attitude. We don't build human rights, we don't think about human

rights, but if we build human rights, it needn't cost any more.

Those who provide Homecare say poor care must be improved and better

training is needed. But with local- authority is under financial

pressure, care workers are often given little time for visits.

might for instance be asked to help somebody get out of bed, get washed

and get dressed in 15 minutes, you might even be asked to cook some

breakfast in that time. Bearing in mind that most people receiving

home care have some level of confusion, memory loss, may be

dementia, time is really important if you're going to offer dignified

care. Inspections of home care are being introduced, but this is the

latest report to raise uncomfortable questions about what

it is like to grow wild in the UK. A forensic scientist who examined

clothes belonging to Stephen Lawrence and the two men accused of

murdering him, has admitted she strongly labelled some of the

evidence. Yvonne Turner told the Old Bailey she wasn't concentrating

and the mistake may have made it difficult to find records relating

to the case. Gary Dobson and David Norris deny murder 18 years ago.

The trial continues. New proposals by the European Commission to

tackle the debt crisis in the eurozone have met with a very

unenthusiastic response from the German Government. Jose Manuel

Barroso wants the economic policies of the eurozone to be brought

closer together and also backed the idea of a eurobond to create more

stability. As we now report, the Germans take a very difficult view.

Euros and eurozone countries all struggling to grow some -- and some

facing crisis. At the heart of this is the rock of Germany, but is it

the stable core that is required? The Commission sent a message to

Germany today urging that Germany's financial strength should support

borrowing with the creation of new so-called euro bonds. The bonds are

exactly an example of that, an example of re-enforced governance,

of a strong will to live together in the area and good example of

discipline and convergance. But the German Chancellor won't have any of

it. She said it was wholly inappropriate that the Commission

was pushing the bonds and creating the impression that other

countries' debts could be shared with Germany. It wouldn't work, she

said. There are two related problems in the eurozone, which is

that overstretched governments and weak banks are finding it harder

and more expensive to borrow. One way of seeing this is that European

banks yesterday placed 231 billion euros on deposit at the European

Central Bank, rather than lend the cash to weaker banks. That raises

the spectre of a new credit crunch. In fact, we have started to see

that in some parts of the euro, in particular in Greece, Spain and

Portugal, where the borrowing costs have started rising and the

evidence of the credit crunch is coming to light. Also, the German

Government today wanted to borrow 6 billion euros, but investors were

only prepared to lend it 3.6 billion. That is quite shocking,

because Germany is the lynchpin of the eurozone. People might drop out

of German bond auctions in fear of Germany as the pay master of the

area having to bail out all of the other countries, so that might be

the first sign of people who are also losing confidence in Germany.

As the boss of RBS told MPs today, even our banks are paying a price

for the eurozone woes. RBS funders have nerves about the system and

therefore about us, as funders of all banks do. We have experienced

shorter maturities and closing of some parts of wholesale markets, so

all of us must regard the current situation in global markets with

utmost gravity. Good it matters to us, but day after day confidence is

seeping away and if Italy or Spain fail to pay the debts and then the

bank would collapse and the door would close on their economic

recovery and on ours. Coming up - a trial phase - the

plans to introduce super-fast 4G, mobile phone technology to Britain.

The authorities in Bahrain used excessive force during a crackdown

on protests earlier this year, according to an independent

commission. Presenting a long- awaited reports into the events,

the commission said a number of detained protesters had been

tortured. More than 40 people died in the unrest. It looked a little

like the king was receiving an award, but the words inside this

500-page tomorrow are explosive. Looking on the selective ministers

and Royal clan members are deeply uncomfortable and with good reason.

They stand accused of overseeing systematic human rights abuses. The

king himself put a brave face on it. TRANSLATION: If we take to heart

the findings of this report we can make this day one that will be

remembered in the history of this nation. Sitting right next to him

is his stony-faced uncle, Bahrain's Prime Minister for the last 41

years and the man many here blame for the abuses. Will he now go?

This report will be extremely uncomfortable reading for the king

and his Government. It finds the Government guilty of a string after

buses, including illegal arrests, a pattern of torture, forced

confessions, unfair trials and a failure of senior Government

officials to hold those responsible for abuses to account. Speaking to

me after, the man who led the investigation told me senior

figures must now be punished. in the ministry of Interior and the

national security agency, who were the agencies primarily involved in

the torture, there is no doubt that there have to be senior people

involved. There is just too much of it that has taken place for too

long a period of time, for senior persons to say, "I didn't know what

was going on." In February, the pearl monument in the centre of

Manama was the focus of the protests. Today, it is gone, but

the site remains ringed by wire and armoured vehicles. The regime is

still very nervous about the rebellious Shi'ite majority. This

woman is a Shi'ite teacher. She was tortured, forced to confess and

sentenced to three years in prison for a crime she says she didn't

commit. Now she is waiting for the king to give her justice.

hoping they drop the charges not just for me, but for me and all my

colleagues in the educational sectors, but I'm not optimistic. No.

When we read the things and see what is going on, I can't be

optimistic. The Royal elite can choose to accept today's report and

change. Or reject it, and face more conflict. In Yemen, President Ali

Abdullah Saleh has finally signed a deal to transfer power to his Vice

President. The agreement, signed in Saudi Arabia, ends his rule of more

than 30 years and follows nine months of protests against him. The

BBC has learned that Civil Servant from different parts of Whitehall

are likely to be asked to stand in for border staff during next week's

strikes. Thousands of agency workers are expected to walk out in

the changes to pensions. Lans Dale is in Downing Street. What -- James

land Landale is in Downing Street. What is happening there? There is

the fear of disruption and long queues as thousands of staff strike.

What I've been told is that the agency is asking for volunteers,

ordinary Civil Servants from Government departments up and down

Whitehall here, to come forward and help man the border controls on

Wednesday. They'll be at the front desks, checking passports and

monitoring E gates, where passengers walk through with their

biometric passports. The agency insists it's right for them to try

to minimise disruption and they insist they'll be properly trained,

but unions are worried about replacing skilled workers with

volunteers who have next to know training, in their own words. I

have also been told that the Government has made it clear to the

unions there will be no further concessions on the table as a

result of next week's strike. The fear ministers have is more

concessions will send the wrong signals and the Government would

not be serious about cutting the bill and by implication the deficit.

Thank you very much. In a taste of the future of mobile communications,

television programmes are downloading in minutes and video is

streamed without a hint of delay. The technology is 4G and is already

rolled out in many parts of the world. It won't be widely available

in the UK of 2013 by the earlier. Is Britain in danger of falling

behind? We report on the two big trials now under way. The future of

mobile phones is coming. It's called 4G and promises to make life

on the move much faster. In the UK the technology is still being

tested. If London, O2 has set up a trial network. There are no phones,

but you can plug in a donningle and put it through its paces. That is

going up 90megs, so downloading a TV programme takes no time at all.

That is at least ten times what you can get on a traditional 3G network

traditionally. To get hold of an episode of frozen planet took us

about a minute. On a typical home broadband connection that might be

at least ten minutes. With 3G on a modern smartphone, you could wait

80 minutes for the programme to download. Another trial in Cornwall

run by B2 and Everything Everywhere is looking at whether it could help

in rural areas, where there is is no good fixed-lined broadband. The

tests will be impressive, but it will be 2013 before it arrives in

the UK. Lots of people struggle even to get a 3G signal and other

countries are moving ahead much faster. In Sweden, for instance, 4G

is already up and running and other countries have auctioned the

airwaves needed for the new networks. In the UK, businesses are

worried, E-Bay, which gets a lot of kus Mears via mobile phones said

the -- customers via mobile phones says the UK will fall behind.

a faster coverage and that's what we hope it is all about. More than

one in four of us has a smartphone so it's imperative that we don't

fall any further behind than we already are. Here's another test -

we are using the 4G network in this London square to broadcast pictures

live back to Television Centre. It could change the way we do a lot of

things, but it will be a while before it arrives. Football and

English clubs have had mixed fortunes in the Champions League

this evening. Arsenal reached the knock-out stages after beeting

Borussia Dortmund 2-1. But Chelsea's hopes of progress rest on

their last group game, after a 2-1 defeat against Bayer Leverkusen.

The Chelsea manager's talked about his head being on the block and it

seems before the game as if the executioner had come early. The

goals came in the second half. The young Daniel Sturridge serving

Drogba, who decanted in the corner. Bayer Leverkusen exploited oceans

of blue space. The scorer the subs tuet -- substitute. Chelsea need a

point from their final match. Song tapdanced through the De Bortoli

Reserve Chardonnay defence before feeding van Persie. One is rarely

enough for Arsenal's part man, part goal machine, so this proved too

good to resist. Borussia Dortmund squeezed a goal back, but it is