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Tonight at Ten: David Cameron arrives in Washington at the start | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
of a three-day visit. It is his second visit to the USA as Prime | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
Minister. The agenda is likely to be dominated by Afghanistan. The | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
leaders are expected to agree that British forces should pull back | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
from their front line role earlier than planned. I am confident we can | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
continue the work of meeting our objectives, protecting our country | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
and responsibly bring in this war to a close. We will have the latest | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
from Washington on the prospects for the visit. Also tonight: | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Rebekah Brooks and her husband are among six arrested by police | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
investigating phone hacking. The inquiry into Stephen Lawrence's | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
murder should now be re-opened, according to his mother. It is not | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
just racism. There has to be a corruption somewhere. Why Britain's | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
biggest life insurer is threatening to move to Asia. And, a mix of joy | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
and sadness, at the opening of this year's Cheltenham Festival. Later | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
with the sport on the News Channel, Liverpool looked to revive their | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
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Good evening. David Cameron has started a three-day visit to the | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
USA. Tonight, he's in Ohio with President Obama, watching | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
basketball. But the official talks in the coming days are likely to | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
focus on Afghanistan with British troops pulling back from their lead | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
combat role by the middle of next year earlier than planned. Nick | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
Robinson is travelling with the Prime Minister. Off to watch the | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
game. That is where millions of Americans are headed tonight. Not | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
everyone gets to go to the basketball with the President of | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
the United States. This, a symbol of a relationship with Britain and | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
America which Barack Obama and David Cameron of say is essential | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
and a partnership of the heart. Where is the war effort headed? It | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
is a partnership which now its own people increasingly believe is | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
fighting an unwinnable war. Today there were protests in Afghanistan | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
after the murder of innocents by a rogue American soldier. Before | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
setting off from London, the Prime Minister spoke to American TV about | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
the sacrifices both countries have already made. We have been in the | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
toughest part of the country - in Helmand province - and we have been | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
there for many years. That is why I set the deadline. In 2014 there | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
will not be anything like the number of troops there are now. And | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
they will not be in a combat role. They will try to go beyond the | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
headline promise that all combat troops will be out by 2014. The | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
Americans recently surprised the British by the care in the Afghan | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
Army would lead all security operations from mid-to-late 2013. | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
It could be an opportunity for of UK and US troops to start | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
withdrawing in significant numbers next year. Today I will meet with | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
Prime Minister Cameron, who is part of the broad coalition, serving in | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
Afghanistan. We will consult about the way forward as we prepare for | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
the NATO summit in Chicago later this spring. Make no mistake, we | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
have a strategy that will allow us to responsibly wind down this war. | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
At the White House tomorrow, hundreds of guests will crowd on to | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
the lawn to welcome Mr and Mrs Cameron. There will even be a 19 | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
gun salute. What will really matter is not the latest pictures in the | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
album marked special relationship Macro, but the decisions these two | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
leaders take. How to avoid a new wall with Iran over its nuclear | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
programme. For the latest on the visit and the prospects for the day | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
ahead, let's talk to Nick Robinson. A pretty lavish attempt to see how | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
close these two men are. You ain't seen nothing yet, as they say in | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
America. Tomorrow will be an extraordinary display of affection | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
for Britain and support for David Cameron as well. Who would have | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
thought the leader of the British Right Thing praised in the way he | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
is by the pin up of the global left? -- being praised. They are | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
watching the basketball in Ohio. Mr Cameron happens to not be meeting a | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
single one of the potential Republican rivals to Barack Obama. | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
The two men to like each other. On the plane over here, Mr Cameron | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
told reporters he regarded the President as deeply rational and | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
reasonable and very strong. He won need to be, given the challenge is | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
not just in Afghanistan but the desire to as President Assad. The | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Prime Minister told me on the plain that he was kicking the tyres in | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
frustration as he tried to find new ways of dealing with that problem. | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
They face the prospect of war in Iraq if Israel decides that is the | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
right course. Nothing really you might think could go wrong, said | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
one thing, the Prime Minister has been told tonight, do not for | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
goodness sake, touched a basket full and do not please try to shoot | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
a hoop. -- basketball. Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
of News International, has been arrested for a second time by | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
police investigating phone hacking. She was released on bail this | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
evening, along with her husband, the racehorse trainer, Charlie | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
Brooks, who was also among the six detained this morning on suspicion | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Our home affairs | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
correspondent has the latest. For years, Rebekah Brooks was the most | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
powerful woman in British newspapers. She went for a tabloid | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
editor to the top of the Murdoch empire. Today she was arrested for | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
the second time - this time with her husband, Charlie Brooks. They | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
have been questioned all day about a possible criminal cover-up. The | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
couple here with James Murdoch were married in 2009 with Labour and | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
Tory leaders on the guest-list. Two months ago, through a surrogate | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
mother, they had their first child, a daughter. It was the explosion in | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the phone hacking scandal last summer which brought Rebekah Brooks | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
centre stage. On July 15th, she resigned as chief executive of News | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
International. Two days later she was arrested for the first time on | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
suspicion of phone hacking and corruption. Today she has been | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
Today his arrest shows that this story is nowhere near over and who | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
knows where it will end up? The original criminality they were | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
investigating - phone hacking - is nowhere near as serious as what | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
they are now investigating, which is conspiracy to pervert the course | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
of justice. Rebekah Brooks and Charlie Brooks were arrested at | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
their home in Oxfordshire after an early-morning knock from the police. | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
David Cameron is a neighbour and friend of both of them. He was at | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
Eton with Charlie Brooks. The Prime Minister recently admitted he did | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
ride a horse loaned to the couple by Scotland Yard. Before the | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
election, yes, I did go riding with him. He has a number of different | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
courses. One was a former police force. I did write it. Tonight, | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
Rebekah Brooks was released after hours of questioning. Like her | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
husband, she has been bailed until next month. Of all the possible | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
crimes, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice is the most | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
serious. People who had been found guilty had been jailed for up to 10 | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
years. She has not been charged with any offence, as the | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
investigation he continues. -- here continues. The mother of Stephen | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
Lawrence has told the BBC she wants the Government to re-open the | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
formal inquiry into her son's murder. She says there are concerns | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
that the initial investigation 19 years ago was hampered by police | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
corruption. Her call follows allegations in court last year that | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
a detective on the case had links to the father of one of Stephen's | :09:03. | :09:13. | |
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killers. It took 18 years to find the man who killed Stephen Lawrence | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
met a London bus stop - or at least two of them. Gary Dobson and David | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
Norris were jailed in January. The police were watching them but did | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
not make arrests for two weeks. Time for enough evidence to be | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
destroyed. Why? Amid angry scenes, the Macpherson Inquiry questioned | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
witnesses, including these - the suspects. Its conclusion, racism | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
was to blame. Now Doreen Lawrence believes a new inquiry needs to | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
examine evidence of corruption. There are so many things that we | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
can question as to why. Then you come up with the answer, could it | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
be corruption? It is not just racism. You firmly believe that? | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
Yes, definitely. The allegations centre on John Davidson, a former | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
detective who worked on the murder squad. It was claimed he was in the | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
pay of Clifford Norris. Then involved in criminal activity and | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
the father of David Norris, the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Neil | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Putnam insists he warned the Met several times about their | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
relationship. The police watchdog, the IPCC, investigated. It | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
concluded there was no evidence a corrupt relationship affected the | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
original investigation. Last year Neil Putnam repeated those claims | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
Again, in court, under oath. Describing a discussion about the | :10:49. | :10:59. | |
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Dr Richard Stone was an adviser to the Macpherson inquiry. He poses | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
the question, where police failures due to racism or corruption? They | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
could have been both. New evidence seems to be coming out - | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
uncertainty seems to be coming out to justify their should be an | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
inquiry of some kind or another. And so the Stephen Lawrence case | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
continues to stalk the police. Both the Met and the IPCC say it if | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
there is new evidence, it will be investigated. The car maker, Jaguar | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
Land Rover, is to create 1,000 jobs at its factory in Halewood in | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Merseyside. The plant is moving to 24 hour production to meet demand | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
for two of its models. The number of workers employed at the Halewood | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
plant has trebled in the past three years. The Home Secretary, Theresa | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
May, has approved the extradition to the United States of a student | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
accused of breaking copyright laws. Authorities in the US claim that | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
23-year old Richard O'Dwyer's website, TVShack, hosted links to | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
pirated films and television shows. If convicted, he could face up to | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
The Prudential, Britain's biggest life insurer, says it is seriously | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
considering moving its headquarters to Asia. It is blaming new European | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
rules on the amount of capital it's required to hold. Prudential was | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
founded in London in the mid-19th century. Its pre-tax profits rose | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
by a third in the past year and much of that growth came from its | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
Asian business. The Prudential, a pillar of the | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
City of London for 160 years. Now huge in Asia, the biggest | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
contributor today to the Pru's profits, and as the Pru's chief | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
executive told me, it is doing very nicely in general. | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
Why it against that backdrop would you think of relocating this | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
venerable British institution abroad? It is a problem we wish we | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
did not have because we are very happy in London, the company was | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
created in London. We are looking at offers, we cannot deny that, | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
because we have to. For our shareholders. This whole process | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
has been too volatile. Prudential says new rules coming | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
from Brussels, that go by the unappetising name of solvency II, | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
will make it but to be deplete -- will make it prohibitively | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
expensive for the company to stay in London. So why do members of the | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
European Parliament want this new law? We had a financial crisis. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
People want to make sure we do not have the systemic threat that we | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
had in the recent past, and an insurance law at European level | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
makes sense. Everybody agrees with it. They may argue about the finer | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
points but let's be realistic, this makes sense and a much safer | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
financial world for us. Why hasn't the British Government made | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
stronger of representations on your behalf? They have been very vocal | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
to be fair to them but the UK is one country among 27. The Pru is | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
not the biggest issue at stake. I know a lot of the attention is | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
focused on us but my concerns for the UK economy are much more | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
significant about what may happen to the Prudential. This is about | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
job creation and the long-term economy. If approved to move to | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
Asia, its shareholders would be protected, but there would be less | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
money provided by insurers to invest in Britain's economic future, | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
which is why the Pru still hopes that Brussels will back down. | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
Coming up on tonight's programme: More evidence of the health dangers | :14:55. | :15:04. | |
of eating red meat, especially the processed kind. | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
NATO is warning of an increase in Somali piracy off the Gulf of Aden. | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
Ten ships have been attacked or boarded in the past six weeks but | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
despite the higher risk, pirates' attacks are becoming less and less | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
successful, with better patrols and merchant ships arming themselves. | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
Our security correspondent Frank Gardner joined a merchant vessel, | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
sailing from the port of Muscat through the Gulf of Aden towards | :15:27. | :15:37. | |
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It is a voyage made by thousands of ships a year, passing through the | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
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Gulf of Aden. It is also home to They have spotted suspected pirates | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
up ahead. The ship have activated its water cannons to make boarding | :15:56. | :16:04. | |
more difficult. The foghorn is to tell them they have been spotted. | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
Code yellow. Kogelo. Security alert. Now the on-board security is | :16:10. | :16:20. | |
summoned. We have a couple of skiffs dead ahead. For much Royal | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
Marine commandos, they have a well practised drill. Opening fire is a | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
last resort. The two boats you can see are suspected pirate mother | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
ships and the skiff, one of the fast attack boats, and we have had | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
them the lead because both the ship in front and this ship are pretty | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
convinced that they are pirate scoping us out -- we have had an | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
alert. It could be an innocent fisherman but they have showed | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
their weapons in the air so that whoever is in the boat will know | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
this is a hard target to seize. The vessels move off, reportedly | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
threatening another ship afterwards. The seas are full of such craft. | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
Pirates use them to sneak up on ships as big as these, take them | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
over and demand multi-million dollar ransoms. One of our crew was | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
on another ship without guards when it came under attack. Four times | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
they fired rapid propelled grenade, so really, really scary. But now we | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
feel relieved because of these armed guards that we have. Naval | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
warships like this one from China to escort convoys alongside Yemen. | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
The pirates have simply expanded their operations elsewhere in the | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
Indian Ocean. So it is down to ships to take their own precautions, | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
putting up passive defences like this, which is not always enough. | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
Increasingly shipping companies are turning to more robust measures. | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
Putting armed teams like these on ships is controversial but their | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
leader says Somalia's pirates are well armed and determined. Once we | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
have gone through the other escalation methods and we have | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
deemed that weapons of the final choice, we will fire several | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
warning shots need to be skiffs, not endangering them at all, and | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
the use of lethal force is an extreme and last resort. This | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
ship's company policy is to always put on two teams on this route and | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
so far no on the vessel has ever been hijacked, but until Somalia | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
finds peace, maritime piracy will continue, leaving ships like this | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
to run the gauntlet of some of the world's most dangerous water ways. | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
The Syrian president has announced parliamentary elections for May, | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
the first time the voters will go to the polls under the new | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
constitution, but the announcement was condemned by the United States. | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
They said that would be ridiculous while the country is in the grip of | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
so much violence. There is more evidence, this time | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
from an American study, that eating too much red meat increases the | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
risk of dying from heart disease and cancer. The research, carried | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
out at Harvard University, concludes that processed red meat | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
in particular increases the likelihood of premature death, as | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
our health correspondent reports. It is a staple part of what many | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
people eat but red or processed meat, like bacon and sausage, can | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
be bad for our health. It raises the risk of cancer, heart disease | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
and stroke and it is now clear just how much a meat rich diet can be | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
life shortening. This report is another step in our knowledge of | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
the kind of things that increase the risk of cancer, and it shows | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
that eating lots of processed and red meat will increase your risk. | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
The research found that having a portion of processed meat every day | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
increased the risk of premature death by 20%. A portion of ordinary | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
red meat to Dame -- a day increased it by 13%. The government says we | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
should eat no more than 70 grams a day, equivalent to a small stake | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
and three slices of ham, but this services if you eat even less, 42 | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
grams a day, be significantly reduce your risk of dying early. -- | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
you significantly reduced. It may be that a high fat content as well | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
as the preservatives in processed meat is what raises your risk of | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
cancer, stroke and heart disease, but that is not to say that all | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
meat is bad. Meat is a useful source of many nutrients, it is a | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
useful way to get protein, vitamin B12 and iron, but you do not need | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
huge amount of it. Eating it several times a day is likely to do | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
more harm than good. Much better it is replacing red meat with chicken, | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
fish and grains, as well as eating a balanced mixture of fruit and | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
vegetables. All that can reduce the risk of dying early by a | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
significant amount. The organisation which represents the | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
meat industry has rejected the findings. It said red meat was an | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
important source of nutrients. It is also something a lot of people | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
enjoyed and whatever the health warnings, changing their daily | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
eating habits may not be easy. More than 50,000 people attended | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival, where the Champion Hurdle | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
was won by the unfancied Rock On Ruby, trained by Paul Nicholls and | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
ridden by Noel Fehily. The favourite, Hurricane Fly, finished | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
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Cheltenham expects to well, almost a quarter of a million spectators | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
this week. The crowds are up. The most traditional of sporting | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
festivals seems to have grown in appeal, and here is one of the | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
reasons why. Noel Fehily overturn the odds to win the big race of the | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
day, the Champion Hurdle, riding Rock On Ruby. The kind of dream | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
finish that Cheltenham revels in. The capacity to enthrall and | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
surprise remains horse racing's Can you explain the feelings in | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
those final few yards? I can't explain! Try it! It is very hard. | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
It is a dream, you dream about winning it but it -- but you never | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
think it will happen. But with a reward is a risk. Three horses died | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
in Tuesday's Chris Sims. Fatalities are not unexpected but any death is | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
bad and three in one day is troubling. The first day of the | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
festival has reminded us that there is a balance of protecting the | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
welfare of the animals and providing thrilling racing, and | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
maintaining that balance is a real challenge. | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
A 26-year-old businessman from Aberdeenshire is set to become the | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
latest internet millionaire. Pete Cashmore started the technology | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
website Mashable when he was a teenager. An American media firm is | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
said to be negotiating to buy it for more than �100 million. But | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
what makes this website and others like it attract such hefty price- | :23:16. | :23:26. | |
tags? Rory Cellan-Jones explains. It is a website started just seven | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
years ago by a 19-year-old in his bedroom. Pete Cashmore's Mashable | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
serves up a diet of gadgets and social media news and it could be | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
about to make him very rich indeed. He is already an internet celebrity. | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
We are going to the hotel because we have an event. Flitting between | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
California and New York to promote his fast-growing business, but it | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
all started a long way from here. Here is where Mashable was born, at | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
his childhood home in Aberdeenshire, and it was at Banchory Academy that | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
he first got acquainted with computers. Peter did computer | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
studies at school. At home he would be someone who would see business | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
sense and be able to use the internet in a way to make money. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
Now it seems that the cable TV giant CNN is looking at buying | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
Mashable. The price-tag is talked of �100 million. Mashable is not | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
the only young website to have attracted the attentions of the | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
media giant. A technology website was snapped up for �60 million. | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
Last FM, the London-based music side, was bought by CBS for 100 | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
NATO -- �180 million, and MySpace was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
Corp the �380 million. But they did not all end well. MySpace ran out | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
of steam and was sold on by Rupert Murdoch at a big loss. Stuart Miles, | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
another British technology expert, says it is clear what giant media | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
firms hope to get when made by the likes of Mashable. They have a | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
really big audience. They are interested in the internet, they | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
know how it works, they are sharing stuff. There is still a way to go | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
before any deal to sell Mashable is agreed but right now, Pete Cashmore | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
looks like the most successful Web tycoon that Scotland has produced. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
Newsnight is starting on BBC Two in a moment. They will be focusing on | :25:42. | :25:46. |