24/08/2012 BBC News at Ten

Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in Norway, is declared sane

by a judge and sentenced to 21 years in prison. Breivik smirked as

the verdict was handed down, and later made a chilling statement.

TRANSLATION: I wish to apologise to all militant nationalists in Norway

and you wrote that I was not able to kill more people. -- Norway and

Europe. The right-wing extremist is led

from court to start a jail term, which may be extended and from

which he may never be released. The survivors of the shooting at a

youth camp on Utoeya Island say they are relieved the trial is now

over. It was kind of empowering and strengthening to be there and

experience the fact that he had no power over me any more.

Also tonight: New figures show Britain is still in recession. The

economy is continuing to shrink but by less than first thought.

The controversy over Prince Harry gathers pace. Now 850 complaints

over the Sun's decision to publish the naked photos.

A man in Jersey who killed six people, including his wife and

children, is found guilty of manslaughter.

And the US anti-doping agency says it is stripping Lance Armstrong of

his seven Tour de France titles and banning him for life.

Coming up: Sunderland complete the signing of Adam Johnson from

Manchester City for an undisclosed Good evening. Anders Behring

Breivik, the man who killed 77 people in Norway last summer, has

been declared sane by a judge in Oslo and sentenced to the maximum

jail term of 21 years, although it is understood he may never be

released. The right-wing extremist carried out a bomb attack in the

capital before travelling to a youth camp on the island of Utoeya,

where he shot dozens of people. Breivik smirked as the sentence was

handed down and tried to deliver a statement to his supporters,

apologising for not killing more. From Oslo, here is James Robbins.

Anders Breivik says he killed to destroy a liberal, multicultural

Norway. Today and Norwegian court demonstrated his failure to achieve

that. A unanimous verdict of the five judges: Guilty of mass murder

and terrorism, and same, not insane. TRANSLATION: Anders Behring Breivik,

born 13th February 1979, is sentenced to 21 years and a minimum

period of ten years. That 20 one- year sentence may be extended in

practice as long as Breivik is judged to be dangerous. So why was

he smiling? Because for him, being judged sane was the priority. He

believes it legitimises what he calls a crusade against Muslims in

Europe. His killing started in Oslo, with a bomb explosion outside the

Prime Minister's office. The emergency services raced to defend

the capital city but Breivik was already heading to Utoeya. There,

in a fake police uniform, he calmly shot dead young people at the

annual camp organised by Norway's governing Labour Party. Legitimate

targets, he called them, being trained to promote a multicultural

Europe. A few weeks later he was taken back to the island to talk

through his actions. You can see their tether the police used to

ensure he did not escape. This evening, when Breivik was allowed

his moment to speak in court, he apologised to other extremists for

not killing more people before the judge cut him off mid-sentence. It

didn't stop Breivik throwing a last Nazi salute before he was

handcuffed to begin his sentence. Young survivors of the massacre

found the trial helpful, even therapeutic. It was kind of

empowering a strengthening to be there and experience the fact that

he had no power over me, he could not hurt me. So what of Norway and

its people? Political parties of right and left now say they will

tone down their language over immigration, but not shirk the

debate. When the Prime Minister says, let's meet terror with more

human rights and tolerance, he speaks on behalf of the majority of

us but not all of us, and we have to get that debate come. We have to

be able to heal as a nation and to discuss my neck problems openly.

Anders Breivik is now beginning his sentence at Ila prison in Oslo.

Most Norwegians believe conditions will never be right for him to be

released. Some worry he will be able to exploit access to a

computer to write more of the fanatical manifesto he hoped would

launch a revolution. Breivik will be in solitary confinement, to

protect other prisoners but also to protect Norway's most notorious

criminal from have them up. We have heard how relieve the

survivors are but how is the rest of Norway reacting?

The people of Norway are breathing a sigh of relief collectively,

partly because Breivik was found to to be sane. They are pleased

because they didn't want him to hide behind the excuse of insanity.

They are also pleased because that means there will be no appeal, he

said he will not appeal against the finding that he was not insane, and

that means it will not have to come to the court again and there will

not be further trauma about hearing the evidence and the poison that so

often comes from his mouth. There is relief about that. Paradoxically,

in a stigma that respect, he absolutely failed because the

political parties both Right and Left say they will try to tone down

language that was sometimes strident over immigration. The last

thing to say is they are relieved they feel Breivik will be in prison

for at least 21 years, possibly for the rest of his life, and most

Norwegians I have been speaking to, including the bereaved, do not want

to see him any more. They don't even want to see his picture any

more or hear from him any more. New figures have suggested that the

economy shrank by less than first thought in the second three months

of this year. The Office for National Statistics originally

calculated that the economy contracted by 0.7%, but now

believes that the drop wasn't as big as that. Hugh Pym looks now at

the reasons behind the revision. Digging down into the data, the

statisticians have come up with their latest snapshot of the

economy and they say it has not been quite as bad as they

thoughtful stop they had said output fell by 0 points at the cent

between April and June. Now they think it was 0.5%. Why? Companies

like this provides diggers and excavating equipment. It says trade

has been difficult but not as bad as the data implies. I was quite

surprised by the degree of contraction that was suggested by

official figures. We have seen some softening but not the degree of the

figures. Here is what he meant. It was estimated that industrial

production had fallen 1.3%. Now it is 0.9%. The Construction, 5.2%,

that has been revised to 3.9%. What about the consumer side of the

economy? Figures show that household spending fell again, with

budgets being squeezed because cost-of-living increases were

running well ahead of average pay rises, but with inflation predicted

to fall further, the pressure can be easing. So it is possible that

consumer spending will help the economy to turn around but

returning to sustained growth will be a big challenge. Some major

economies are on the up. The USA saw growth of 0.4% between April

and June and German output was up 0.3%, but the UK contracted by 0.5%

and it to lead contracted by 0.7%. Canada, the US and Germany have

surpassed the peaks before the crisis. The UK is more than 4%

dance on that level and the worry is there is no obvious momentum to

get the UK catching up and closing the gap. The mood music in the

eurozone is important for the UK's prospects. Today the Greek Prime

Minister continued his attempts to soften the austerity targets. The

German Chancellor gave no commitments but struck a

sympathetic note. Greece is part of the eurozone and I want it to

remain part of the eurozone. That in the UK, the economy is not

sparking normally and the political debate about where growth is going

to come from is likely to intensify. The Press Complaints Commission

says it has received more than 850 complaints from the public over The

Sun newspaper's decision to publish photographs of Prince Harry, naked

in a hotel room in Las Vegas. The paper says they were freely

available on the internet and had already been viewed by millions of

people. Nicholas Witchell looks at the conflict between personal

privacy and public interest. Self-restraint lasted less than 40

yet hours. This frustration felt in tabloid newsrooms became too much

for the Sun, and there on the front page was the photo of Prince Harry

in Las Vegas. For the Sun, the freedom of the press had out with

the privacy of this particular individual -- had outweighed.

ludicrous, the picture can be seen by hundreds of millions of people

on the internet but cannot be seen in the nation's favourite to paper.

But the rival Daily Mirror disagreed, and so did the editor of

the Independent. The Prince was in a private hotel room with people he

had invited into the room. Private party. Somebody betrayed his trust

and to those pictures. There is no public interest in those pictures

at all. The former deputy prime minister, Lord Prescott, once a

notable victim of the tabloid himself, said it was all about

profit. Somebody gets a photograph, somebody makes money, and the

others make money again. It is nothing to do with public interest,

it is profit, profit, profit. is happening in the shadows of Lord

Justice Leveson's inquiries into the press. He will be considering

self-regulation, which editors favour, a new strength and

regulator, possibly underpinned by regulation and legislation, or

full-scale privacy laws, the editors least favourite options.

That is all for the future. Right now, Prince Harry and his advisers

must decide whether they will make a formal complaint to their Press

Complaints Commission. That is being considered. As I understand

it, no decision has been taken. Have read meanwhile has been

advised by his family to keep a low profile -- Prince Harry meanwhile.

More photographs of his exploits in Las Vegas are now said to be

circulating. Prince Harry's dream holiday as well and truly turned

into a nightmare. Police investigating the rape of a

teenage boy in Manchester city centre have arrested two men. The

men, aged 55 and 41, remain in police custody. The boy was

approached in early June near the Arndale Centre and taken to the

toilets of the nearby Debenhams store, where the attack took place.

A man has been found guilty of carrying out a knife attack on his

wife, two young children, his father-in-law and two friends.

Damian Rzeszowski, from Jersey, admitted manslaughter on the

grounds of diminished responsibility. He claimed he had

been suffering from depression after his marriage came under

Described in court as a hardworking, fun-loving man, a man who one

summer afternoon killed all those closest to him. When emergency

services answered frantic calls to the ground floor flat in Saint

Hellier, they were faced with a horrific scene. Armed with two

kitchen knives he attacked his father-in-law as he watched TV.

Two-year-old Caspar had been at the dining room table. His picture he'd

painted still in front of him. Kinga was nearby amongst her toys.

Her friend, Julia, also five, in the hall of the flat. Julia's

mother Marta had managed to meet the street but was critically

injured. Isabella had been unable to escape the flat. She went out

the front door as neighbours tried to intervene. Today a police

liaison officer spoke of the tragedy. This tragedy is even more

painful as we have lost our children and grandchildren knowing

that we will never be able to play with Kinga and Julia again or

cuddle little Caspar, and we can never talk to Isabella, Marta or

Merrick again makes the pain unbearable.

The first police officers to arrive here found him inside the flat with

what were clearly self-inflicted stab wounds. The prosecution at his

trial rejected the claims he could remember little of what happened

and that he'd suffered some form of mental breakdown. They said he was

a man whose anger and revenge at his wife's affair had exploded into

violence but expert witnesses argued his depression over the

marriage breakup had made him mentally unstable, and in the end

the court agreed with that view. The man who has twice tried to take

his own life is now facing those terrible minutes on a summer

afternoon. Coming up on tonight's programme -

Countdown to the Paralympics: as the first ceremonial cauldron is

lit in Trafalger Square, we look back at the origins of the Games.

The United States Anti-Doping Agency says it's stripping the

cyclist Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and

banning him from the sport, for life. Earlier, Armstrong said he'd

grown weary of fighting the constant allegations which have

blighted his career. Our sports editor David Bond looks at the

cyclist's extraordinary fall from grace. Just a warning - his report

does contain some flash photography. Lance Armstrong's life story is one

of the most dramatic sport has ever known. He won the Tour de France

seven times in a row, elevating cycling to new levels and his own

profile to the American A-list, and it was all the more extraordinary

because he did it after overcoming life-threatening cancer. It feels

good. But his career and reputation have been dogged by persistent

allegations that his achievements were fuelled by banned performance-

enhancing drugs, claims he has always denied. I try not to let it

bother me and just keep rolling right along. I know that - I know

what I know, and I know what I do, and I know what I did, and that's

not going to change. Today, it did change. Faced with a

raft of charges from the Anti- Doping Agency backed up by as many

as ten former team-mate, Armstrong, uncharacteristically threw in the

towel. In a statement, he said: "There comes a point in every man's

life when he has to say enough is enough. For me that time is now."

Armstrong says this is not an admission of guilt, but the US

Anti-Doping Agency has banned him for life and stripped him of his

titles. Those sanctions must still be confirmed by World Cycling, but

the man leading the fight against drugs says the implications for arm

strong are clear. His failure to rebut and those very serious

charges means he's effectively acknowledging they had substance

and under the rules he always subjected himself to to impose

sanctions. Cycling has by now become accustomed to dealing with

major doping scandals but the Lance Armstrong case may be the biggest

blow yet to its credibility. The sport says it has cleaned up its

act. In this country, at least, that's crucial because it's

enjoying an unprecedented surge in success and popularity. One of

Armstrong's former team-mates says cycling has changed. Just watch the

Tour de France. It's a completely different style of racing to ten

years ago. I think that's the biggest vindication that cycling is

getting cleaner as the years go on. For many Lance Armstrong will

always be sued as one of sport's biggest heroes, and while today's

developments leave a lot of questions unanswered, his

reputation has been damaged perhaps beyond repair.

Rush hour commuters in New York were caught up in crossfire today

as a gunman, thought be a disgruntled worker fired from his

job, shot and killed a colleague in a street near the Empire State

Building. The murder in downtown Manhattan happened this morning.

The man was killed by police. Nine other people were injured. From New

York, here's Michele Fluerie. Mayhem surrounded one of the

world's best-known landmarks, the Empire State Building today after

the third mass shooting in the US this summer. A construction worker

who witnessed the incident described the chaos. We could see

right down - we saw everything. We saw all the bodies laid out. We saw

all the cops coming. We saw all the bullets on the floor, everything.

Others were relieved just to be alive. I heard multiple gunshots

and one single gunshot, and it was pretty surreal because there was no

screaming. It was just slow motion. I saw the girl running next to me

go down, and that could have been me. She was hit in the leg. A

Dressed in a business suit, 53- year-old Jeffrey Johnson shot dead

a former colleague before being killed by police in a shoot-out in

which nine others were injured. pulled his 45-calibre semiautomatic

pistol from his bag and fired on the officers who returned fire

killing him. The former accessories designer was laid out about a year

ago from Hasan Imports, whose offices are located in the shadow

of the famous skyscraper. On a typical day, 10-20,000 visitors

pass through the doors of the Empire State Building, but this

wasn't a typical day. Tourists and office workers on this street

corner ran for cover as gunfire rang out. The scourge of gun

control has been at the forefront after shootings this summer at a

temple in Wisconsin and a cinema in Colorado. This morning, midtown

Manhattan had a dramatic firsthand Buckingham Palace has announced the

Duke of Edinburgh will not attend next week's opening ceremony of the

Paralympic games while he recovers from a recent infection. The

announcement came as preparations for the Games continue. Today the

ceremonial caldron was lit, and others will follow in Belfast,

Edinburgh and Cardiff. Paralysed from the chest down, it

took Claire Lomas 16 days to complete this year's marathon.

Today it was a shorter journey to bring the Paralympic flame to the

host city. How do you put that into words? Very proud, and I feel very

privileged to be asked to be involved in an event today for the

Paralympics, got a lot of respect for them all out there next week

and the week after bringing back the medals for Team GB again.

the UK is still suffering Olympic withdrawal symptoms, the

Paralympics could be the antidote. We had a few days of the blues

after the Olympic Game, but people soon quickly snapped out of it and

recognised we were only halfway through just an extraordinary

summer of sport, and Paralympic sport is just mind-blowing when you

watch it. With the flame now in the heart of the capital, the countdown

for the Paralympics is truly under way, a Paralympics that organisers

hope will be the most high-profile ever staged.

The hope is that the performance of elite athletes such as Ellie

Simmons could even help improve attitudes towards disabled people

generally. As with the Olympics, the flame is

seen as an important part of engaging the public's interest. Its

journey today included a trip to the Houses of Parliament. But this

is just one of four Paralympic flames. The other three are being

displayed in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. They'll come together at

Stoke Mandeville on Tuesday And tonight, it's been revealed

that the wheelchair tennis veteran Peter Norfolk will be the

flagbearer at the opening ceremony. He has been chosen by his fellow

British Paralympians. Well, as we heard, the four

national flames will eventually come together at Stoke Mandeville

Hospital on Tuesday, where the Paralympics began, 64 years ago.

The Games were the idea of a doctor who started a spinal unit for

servicemen injured during the war. Ludwig Guttman was an exiled Jew

from Germany who realised that sport could help the men rebuild

their lives, as Nick Higham reports. Modern Paralympians in training at

Stoke Mandeville stadium, members of a global sports movement which

started here at a makeshift wartime hospital thanks to the energy and

vision of one man. Ludwig Guttman bullied, cajoled and inspired his

paralysed patients, many originally ex-servicemen, using sport to

transform their lives. We started with these soldiers in the war with

simple games first - darts, playing in the ward, then we had a billiard

and snooker, and then we started skittles, and then I saw, of course,

how these men we act not only physically, but psychologically.

On the opening day of the London Olympics in 1948, he organised the

first Stoke Mandeville Games. By the 1960s, disabled sports had been

accepted into the Olympic movement as the Paralympics. Phillip Lewis

played table tennis as a Paralympian. He was treated by

Ludwig Guttman, known to his patients as "Popa." He was quite a

severe man with his staff and with the paraplegics, but behind it all,

there was that sort of tremendous kindness. He made you realise that

he wanted to do the best for you, but you got to pull your weight.

Haven't much hope? No. Look here. Cut that out, will you? Here at

stoke Mandeville, they have treated many Paralympians and many others

who in the days before Ludwig Guttman would have been written off

as incurable and left to die. The spinal injury unit here is one part

of Ludwig Guttman's legacy. Another part is a commitment to helping

disabled people fulfil their potential whether it's as athletes,

individuals or members of society. One of Britain's greatest modern

Paralympians says disabled people owe him a huge debt. He believed

that disabled people should be living normal lives, and it was

sort of his persistence I think that at a time when lots of people

probably thought he was slightly mad for thinking that disabled

people could contribute, he just stood up to everyone. Ludwig

Guttman is now commemorated by a statue at stoke Mandeville, a man

with a passion to restore not just people's fitness, but their self-