24/11/2011 BBC News at Ten

A war of words ahead of next week's planned public sector strike

between the Government and the yiefpbs. With 2 million workers set

to walk out on November the 30th, each side blames the other.

I think it is irresponsible. I think it is wrong. People should

know who to blame. I think it is silly for the Prime Minister to be

demonising the union leaders in this simplistic way.

We are looking at whether next week's strike is the start of

things to come. Also: More celebrities speak out at

the inquiry into press standards, the author, JK Rowling says that

the journalists camped outside of her home.

It was like being under siege. Sienna Miller tells how she became

so paranoid she could not even trust her own family.

Every areas of my life was under constant sure veilians. Egypt

event's military rulers say that the elections will go ahead next

week. How Britain's population has

swelled by a quarter of a million migrants. After the disastrous

World Cup, the rugby team admit that they have hit rock bottom.

And coming up: Carlos Tevez, has he found a way out of Manchester City?

The advisers are having talks with Good evening.

An acrimonious row has broken out between the unions and the

Government ahead of the planned public sector strike next week. The

Government is accusing the unions of damaging the economy. The unions

are threatening to continue industrial action into next year,

saying that the Government is plucking figures from mid-air. 2

million workers, including teachers, immigration workers and immigration

staff and health workers are expected to walk out of their jobs

next week. It is likely to be the biggest public sector strike in a

generation. And a nationwide strike on

Wednesday, the 30th of November now looks inevitably and the blame game

has begun. The responsibility of that

disruption lies squarely with the trade union leaders who have

decided on a strike even while the negotiations are ongoing. I this it

is irresponsible it is wrong, people should know who to blame.

The comments did not go down well with the unions saying that the

Government's plans mean that millions of people have to work

longer and more to get less in retirement. With the accusations

flying, the head of the TUC was unusually critical of the Prime

Minister's intervention. I think it is silly for the Prime

Minister to be demonising the union leaders in this very, very

simplistic way. He must understand we've been working for months

trying to engage his ministers in serious negotiations.

Unfortunately, that's not been happening.

The impact will be wide spread and will start at our borders. Civil

serve ants across the Government have been vd to volunteer to check

the passports and man border posts. For the first time in years the NHS

is to be hit too. Next Wednesday is the first national strike in the

health service since 1988. Emergency cover will be provided,

the doctors and the vast vort of nurses will be at work, but

hundreds of thousands of staff are expected to walk out, including

healthcare assistants and the likes of porters and cleaners.

The biggest day of industrial action in more than 3 years could

see up to 2 million workers go on strike. Today the Treasury said in

a worst-case scenario, it could cost the economy up to �500 million

it estimates that almost two thirds of all schools will close so, many

parents will not be able to work. This school in Cardiff is one of

thousands that will shut. It is a lot of trouble. There are

parents going to work without anyone to look after my younger

brother. If my son has to suffer for a day in the future, it will be

a better benefit all around. here in Norwich, the children are

being told to turn up. It is drafting in volunteers to ensure

staying open. This school was a failing school.

It is now an academy, the stability of keeping learning open is more

important here. There could be more disruption to

come, today, it was indicated that November 30th could be the start.

Without a resolution to the dispute, further national strikes could be

inevitable in the New Year. The Prime Minister was handed rare good

news today about the economy. He visited two factories in the East

Midlands, creating hundreds of new jobs it comes ahead of the autumn

statement on the health of the UK economy. Or Political Editor

reports from Derbyshire. Stick to the plan, things will get

better, so says David Cameron. This is what better looks like. Toyota

are promising to create up to 10,000 new jobs at their plant near

Derby. A welcome bit of good news for a Prime Minister who knows that

next week, the Chancellor will have to tell the country the bad news,

but how far the economy is off course.

I want Britain to be a manufacturing success story in this

century. Today's announcement is unqualified good news for

Derbyshire, Toyota and Britain. Derby is a place where they boost

this they make not just automobiles, but planes and trains too. David

Cameron set thup city, Derby, as a test of the Government's entire

economic strategy. A few months ago he brought the entire Cabinet here

to Rolls-Royce, promising that the economy would focus again on

manufacturing, on making things. But just weeks later they were

marching in the streets where Bombardier, the only train maker

left in Britain said it had to cut 1400 jobs when an order for new

British trains was given to the German company, Siemens. Alan

Huff's family metal-bashing business makes parts for trains.

His firm had plans to expand, but not now.

How many jobs may it have created? Two jobs over a period of five

years. Just that? Just on making that? Yes.

So, what does he want from the Chancellor? Confidence.

We're in a position where we are in a status quo, where we don't have

the confidence to do anything further than where we are at the

moment. Unemployment here is up 13%. Today

new national figures showed that more than one in five 18-24-year-

olds are classified as not in education, employment or training.

That is NEET for short. That is not how it feels.

I've been to college for three years. I have qualifications but I

can't get work because of the recession.

With the unemployment rising and the growth stalling, Labour says

that the autumn statement is the time to change course.

This marks a crucial moment in the economic course of our country. It

shows comprehensively that the biggest economic gamble for a

generation has failed. The Chancellor's under irreal

pressure to prove that he knows how to fire up a flagging economy.

Well, Nick Robertson is back in Downing Street. Nick, anymore

details about the Government's plans for the economy next week?

am hearing something that the trough -- that the Treasury are

refusing to confirm, an increase in Government spending on so-called

capital project. Infrastructure, in other words, road, rail, energy

projects and broadband. Things designed to show that the country

is moving again, things designed to persuade others to invest in the UK.

We have always known, for some weeks at least, that the Chancellor

wanted to persuade the private sector to invest more in

infrastructure, toll roads, for example. Getting them to see there

is a return to take advantage of a long-term interest rate to invest

that money. But what I'm told is that in

addition to that, money is being searched for around Whitehall

that's not been spent by Government departments and there will be an

increase in Government capital spending. Quite an important move

after quite an important argument. Some arguing that this would be to

abandon plan A, but Liberal Democrats insisting in the

coalition that this can be done and should be done and they claim will

make a difference. Thank you very much.

The author, JK Rowling has spoken of her anger the -- at the

intrusion into her private life. Giving evidence to the Leveson

Inquiry. She described how a reporter once tried to contact her

by putting a note into her daughter ace school bag. Sienna Miller spoke

how she was pat at by photographers and chased down the street.

Nicholas Witchell listened to the exchanges.

This report contains flash photography.

She's written books that have captivated millions of children

around the world. Yet for McEnroe rethere is one rule, her own are

entitled to complete privacy. But she told the Leveson Inquiry

what a battle itline to achieve that. On one occasion, a letter

from a journalist slipped into her five-year-old daughter's school bag.

I felt... Such a sense of invasion. That my daughter's bag... I

really... It is very difficult to say how angry and how... How angry

I felt that my five-year-old daughter's school was no longer a

place of, you know, complete security for journalists.

She said she was driven from one home by the media, but the problems

did not stop. There were two bad periods.

Time where it really was like being under siege or being a hostage.

After the birth of each of my subconsequent children for a week

it was impossible for me to leave the house without being

photographed, unless I wanted to be photographed or the children

photographed. Much of the media behaved properly

and did great work, she said, but there was a section that did not.

The attitude is utterly cavalier in difference. What does it matter?

You are famous, you're asking for JK Rowling told the inquiry that if

you fought back against some nurps, there could be retribution, she

departed amid the usual scramble of photographers.

In the case of the actress Sienna Miller, the risks she face could

amount to fiscal danger. She told the inquiry how for a number of

years she faced almost daily pursuit by the photographers, at

times it was terrifying. I would often find myself, I was 21,

at midnight running down a dark street on my own with ten big men

chasing me. The fact that they had cameras in their hands meant it was

legal, but without the cameras, what have you got? You have a pack

of men chasing a woman. That is a very intimidated situation to be in.

Photographers seemed to know her movements, the reporters he secrets.

She could not understand it, so she accused her family.

There was one piece of private information that four people knew

about. I had been careful to only tell my mother, sister and two

close friends. A journalist phoned up to say that they knew of this.

So yes, I accused my family and people who would never dream of

seeing nfgts on me. I accused them, someone in that room of selling my

story. In fact her phone was being hacked.

When she was shown the notes kept by Glenn Mulcaire, 9 News of the

World investigator, this is what she found: Dates refering to

personal things within my life. All of my telephone numbers that I

changed in three months. Access numbers, PIN numbers, my e-mail

that was used to later hack my e- mail in 2008.

From celebrities and private citizens alike have come similar

allegations of often brutish behaviour and bullying attitudes.

After four days of evidence some themes are starting to emerge.

First, that there is a section of the British media without

consideration for the feelings and the rights of those they are

dealing with. Second, that people are genuinely intimidated about

standing up to some British Egypt's state media is reporting

tonight that a former prime minister has provisionally agreed

to head a new government. Kamal al- Ganzouri has been holding talks

with the country's military rulers. A truce between the security forces

and demonstrators was observed today in Cairo, and the military

authorities confirmed that elections will go ahead next week.

Jeremy Bowen sent this report. It is a tense and a wary truce. The

security forces are strengthening the forces around the interior

ministry. This man wants to know who is going to pay for his

newspaper kiosk, burned, he says, by rioters. They are thugs and

anarchists. They do not want the country to settle down.

A passer-by interrupts to defend the demonstrators. She asks him,

where is your dignity? You should fear God, he tells her.

People in Cairo are feeling the pressure of a crisis that doesn't

have an easy solution. The violence stopped for today, at least.

Egypt's long and explosive list of challengers has not gone away. They

are cleaning up the mess, but that does not clean up the fundamental

political problems. There is no guarantee of security for the

elections, and longer term there is the big question - who is going to

run this country, civilians elected by the people, or the armed forces,

who have been in charge since 1952? The security forces are everywhere

at this end of Mohamed Mahmoud Street, but they are seen by many

local residents as allies. At the cafe, they said not everyone in

Tahrir Square was bad, but they condemned the violence.

He says, we are with the military and the police because they are

protecting Egypt. But near the cafe, behind the wire,

the Interior Ministry, a notorious torture centre under the old regime

and unchanged. According to this woman, a journalist who was held

there on Wednesday night. She says she was sexually assaulted and both

her arms were broken. This kind of brutality, terrorising civilians,

was one of the catalysts for our revolution, it is why Egyptians

rose up against Hosni Mubarak and why we will continue this

revolution until the country is free of military dictatorship.

Tahrir Square is still full of Egyptians who feel like her. Not

here, Egypt's biggest political movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.

It does not want to disrupt Monday's election and is backing

the new Prime Minister designate, unlike most of the Tahrir Square

protesters. The poll was supposed to start the New Era but it might

make Egypt's divisions even more bitter.

Coming up: After the disaster of the World Cup

off the pitch as well as on, the boss of England's elite rugby says

sorry. The World Cup has not been good. I apologise to everybody. I

am saddened by what is going on at the moment.

The UK's population was boosted by a quarter of a million migrants

last year. It's a record high in the difference between the number

of people entering the UK and the number leaving, known as net

migration. Mark Easton is here. This goes against the Government's

target to cut down on the number of people coming into the UK.

Yes, the Government's promise to reduce net migration to Britain to

the tens of thousands looks increasingly unlikely to be kept.

Immigration has been broadly flat for the last few years. But

emigration, the number of largely British people deciding to start a

new life overseas, keeps falling. The result is that net migration is

now around a quarter of a million a year, more than twice the

Government's target of below 100,000 by 2015. The Immigration

Minister was trying to sound upbeat today. You can see in these figures

the first very small straws in the wind. I would not claim more than

that, but you can see work visas and student visas in the most

recent quarter lower than a year before. So you can see just the

first glimmerings of an effect. The Government's problem is that

using net migration as the measure of success, they are forced to

consider measures that some fear will damage our economy or our way

First group includes engineers the first group includes engineers,

academics, footballers. The Government proposes limiting their

state of five years unless they are homeowners. But economic advisers

warn that this could hit economic growth. 50,000 fewer skilled

migrants could cost every person in Britain �44 over five years.

Foreign students make up the largest group of non-e u a rivals,

a rapidly expanding sector worth an estimated �8.5 billion a year.

There may be scope for reducing abuse, but cutting numbers could

again damage economic growth. And the Government is also considering

restricting the right of British people to bring a foreign wife or

husband to the UK. One idea is that only people earning over �25,700 a

year would be about -- allowed to settle in Britain with a foreign

spouse. Today's figures mean that to reach the migration target the

Government would need to cut net migration from outside Europe by

over 150,000, about 70% of net migration from outside Europe. That

is a big challenge that will be hard to achieve.

The Government's challenges that using net migration has the measure

of success, they are forced to consider measures that some fear

will damage our economy or way of life.

A senior forensic scientist has told the Stephen Lawrence murder

trial of his concerns that key police forensic evidence, which is

the basis of the prosecution's case, could have been contaminated.

The teenager was stabbed to death in Eltham, south-east London, 18

years ago. The Old Bailey heard that Adrian Wain was worried about

seals on the bag containing evidence when he was asked in 2001

to test a blue jumper belonging to the teenager that had not

previously been tested. He told the court, I knew the packaging was

deteriorating and that the seals were deteriorating. I had concerns

about contamination. David Norris and Gary Dobson deny killing

Stephen Lawrence. The prosecution maintains the risk of contamination

is theoretical. The trial continues. The Arab League has given Syria 24

hours to agree to allow observers into the country or face sanctions.

There's mounting international pressure on Syria to stop their

crackdown on protestors. The leader of the Free Syrian Army, made up of

defectors, has told the BBC that President Assad's regime will fall

soon. John Simpson travelled to the province of Hatay on the Turkish

border with Syria to interview him. The border between Turkey, on this

side, and Syria, a closed country on the brink of civil war. It looks

quiet enough, but Refugees slip across all the time. Among them,

soldiers who have rebelled against the Syrian government. But even

though they are under Turkish protection, they are not

necessarily safe. There are seven refugee camps in this area. Many of

the people who now live in them have been here for several months.

A senior Syrian officer who defected, Colonel Harmoush, lived

here until late September. Then he went out, by bus, to do some

shopping in the nearby town. Somewhere round here, Colonel

Harmoush disappeared. The assumption is that agents of Syrian

intelligence were waiting for him, grabbed him and perhaps took him

back over the Syrian border. Most people round here think that he has

been killed already. Syrian refugees still come here to shop,

but they tend to be more wary now. Some do not want to show their

faces on camera. They all seem to know about the disappearance of

Colonel Harmoush. The Turkish police keep an eye on them,

although in the end, they let us go on filming. And the Turkish army

makes it really hard to contact the leader of the Syrian rebels,

Colonel Riad Al Assad, who has come across the border. He and all the

defecting soldiers are now held in this one camp. While we were

filming these pictures of the Syrian soldiers, the Turkish army

came and arrested us, and a judge had to get us free. So the only way

we could interview the Colonel was via the internet. It was all done

very much at the last minute and it was pretty bizarre. We set up in a

nearby farmyard and the chief of the free Syrian Army duly appeared.

We are sure everyone, he says, that the President of Syria is finished.

The Syrian nation is determined to bring this dictator down.

Will it happen? God willing, God willing very soon.

The system is rotten to the call. It may look strong on the outside,

but at the heart it is weak. Inside Syria, the Free Syrian Army

will be more and more important, as the situation gets worse. It is not

civil war yet, but it seems to be heading that way.

Rob Andrew, England's Elite Rugby Director, has admitted that the RFU

has hit rock bottom but he's refused to quit. Last week the team

manager, Martin Johnson, resigned after the team's poor performance

on and off the pitch in the World Cup. In an interview with the BBC,

Rob Andrew apologised for recent events, as Dan Roan reports.

They have all played and won at the highest level, but these are some

of the men whose reputations have been tarnished by the crisis

afflicting English rugby. As they left New Zealand last month having

been knocked out of the World Cup quarter-finals, England's players

may have thought it could not get worse, but they were wrong. Coach

Martin Johnson finally went last week, and today the man who many

feel should go the same way said sorry. I apologise to everybody. I

am saddened by what is going on at the moment, saddened for English

rugby, because it is not a fair reflection on everything in English

rugby. England's dismal World Cup was overshadowed by controversy

from the moment this drinking session battered Queenstown bar

spiralled out of control. -- at a Queenstown bar. Mike Tindall's

behaviour cost him his international career. The scandal

culminated in the highly damaging leak of three confidential report

into the failed campaign, revealing a divided squad, riven by distrust

of the management. Today one of the men criticised, England attack

coach Brian Smith, resigned. I am absolutely shattered by what is

going on, both on and off the field, at the moment. This last 12 months

has been the most extraordinary working environment that anybody

could possibly be in. The RFU have to sort themselves out. This is

rock bottom. Amid the chaos, it is easy to forget that England are Six

Nations champions, but there is now just six weeks before they begin

the defence of their title. After unprecedented upheaval, the sports

minister, Hugh Robertson, is demanding an overhaul of the RFU