09/10/2012 BBC News at Ten

Tonight: Police are now pursuing more than 100 lines of inquiry

about Jimmy Savile. Officers say the allegations against him span

four decades and include rape. is quite clear from what women are

telling us that Savile was a predatory sex offender. The Savile

family say he will -- they will take down his headstone to reflect

public opinion. Anti-German protests on the streets

of Athens during a visit by the German leader calling for austerity.

Angela Merkel say she is here to show more support to the Greek

people. But on the streets there is huge frustration. The outlook for

Britain's economy, it downgraded by the IMF. The Prime Minister says he

is on the right track. You can't go on forever borrowing and borrowing.

People understand there are difficult decisions to take. Poor

harvests at home and abroad will lead to higher food prices this

winter. And what did William and Kate make

of England's new football academy? Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC

News Channel, a royal visit to England's new training centre and a

Good evening. Scotland Yard says that the late Sir Jimmy Savile was

a predatory sex offender who carried out to be so the four

decades. They say they are now pursuing 120 lines of inquiry,

involving up to 30 victims, many of them said to be girls aged between

13 and 16. The head so don't on his grave in Scarborough will be

removed tomorrow after his family It is a mark of just how serious

the allegations against Jimmy Savile have become that his family

today announced they were removing the former disc jockey's headstone

from a Scarborough grave yard. They said it wasn't for respect for

public opinion, others that were buried there and those who tend

craved. They look around and say, he is not what you think, you know.

The statement came moments after the police in London announced they

were conducting what they called an assessment into allegations that,

over a period of 40 years, Jimmy Savile assaulted under-age girls.

It is clear from what women are telling us that Savile was a

predatory sex offender. He has perpetrated four decades of abuse.

It is vital that those that have been victims of that actually get

the recognition, acknowledgement and support they deserve. Scotland

Yard has formally recorded eight allegations against Jimmy Savile,

two of rape and six of indecent assault. But calls to police

suggest there may have been as many as 30 victims, mostly girls aged

between 13 and 16, stretching back as far back as 1939. We are

offering support in terms of being bare forked victims of abuse.

Detectives will be investigating locations across the country, the

BBC, a children's home in Jersey, an approved school in Staines and,

we learned, Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Leeds General

Infirmary, where he was involved in charity work. Scotland Yard has

confirmed that the names of other celebrities, some still alive, have

been reported to them. If evidence of criminality and mergers, they

will be pursued. Detectives have declined to say if they intend to

talk to Freddie Starr after claims that, in the mid-70s, along with

Jimmy Savile, he groped a 14-year- old girl in a BBC dressing room. It

is an allegation he vehemently denies. I hope they come for me, I

hope they question me. I want to clear my name. I have got nothing

to hide. During his life, Jimmy Savile appears to have been almost

untouchable. Now, though, the police are following up 120 calls

about sexual abuse and say that if there are more victims, they should

come forward. Although the alleged perpetrator is dead, the

determination to expose what happened is very much alive.

I suppose one of The Big Questions tonight is where this expanding

police inquiry could take them? think it has the potential to

expand considerably. We have 10 officers involved in the Jimmy

Savile investigation. But one can imagine that, we have already heard

allegations involving other celebrities, I don't think the

police are going to be able to say they are not going to look into it

if there is any suggestion of criminality. One can imagine almost

the lid being lifted on the sexual conduct of the 60s, 70s and 80s.

Some would say it continues to this day. I do think there was something

specific about the 60s and 70s, where you had collusion between

sexual liberation, new sexual freedoms, colliding with a

traditional male-dominated power structure. You have powerful men

that took advantage of that situation. I think they damaged a

lot of young people at the time. Perhaps what we are going to see

happening now is that, for some of those, at least, society's judgment

might be about to catch up with In Greece, thousands of protesters

have taken to the streets during a visit to Athens by German

Chancellor Angela Merkel. Riot police used stun grenades and tear

gas to control the crowd, who blame Angela Merkel for the extra

austerity measures being adopted by the Greek government in return for

bail out funds. She said that Greece had made good progress, but

admitted that the country was on a No post-war German Chancellor has

had a reception quite like this. Groups on the streets of Athens,

comparing Angela Merkel to the Nazis for insisting on austerity.

Large parts of the capital was sealed off for her visit. 7000

police deployed, water cannon on standby. One man unfurled a banner

which read, no to the 4th right. TRANSLATION: We believe that Greece

is in the hands of the Germans, just like old times, although in a

different way. We challenged this woman as to how she could portray

Angela Merkel as Hitler. Because, she said, what is imposed on Greece

is like a Nazi scheme. The vast majority of protesters, however,

were not anti-German, but anti- austerity. Look at us in the

streets, look at us fighting, look at what those measures are doing to

our lives. Angela Merkel was given full military honours at the

airport. But, on her way into the city, the convoy was jeered. With

doctors and nurses from a local hospital, trying to block the

street. Angela Merkel says she is here to show support to the Greek

people. But here, on the streets, there is huge frustration. In just

five years, this economy has shrunk 23%. Just a short distance from

where Angela Merkel was meeting, protesters attacked the barricades.

For two hours, there were running battles with the police, with

volleys of tear gas being fired. The Greek Prime Minister believed

the visit marked the end of Greece's international isolation.

TRANSLATION: Everybody who batted on Greece collapsing and European

misfortune will lose their debt. The Greeks are a proud people and

today we will come a friend of our country. Angela Merkel wanted to

deliver support for Greece staying in the euro. TRANSLATION: Despite

the fact that this is a difficult path, I think it will prove

worthwhile for Greece. If you do not attempt to solve problems now,

they will reoccur later in a much more dramatic way. Difficult times

lie ahead. Greece has to make further savings to qualify for more

funding. Without it, they run out of money in November. The IMF had

this sober warning. Greece is likely to miss the target for

Well, the problems in Greece and other countries caught up in the

eurozone crisis are having a significant effect on global

economic performance. That is the latest warning from the

International Monetary Fund, which has downgraded its forecast for

global growth next year, one of the biggest downgrades applying to the

British economy. Stephanie Flanders is here with more details.

Well, the euros and crisis is one reason why the IMF says its should

take its new forecast with an extra large pinch of salt. The economic

outlook is weaker than a few months ago, especially in the UK. In July,

it still thought that international output would grow slightly in 2012,

by 0.2%. 1.4% growth was predicted next year. It now thinks the

economy will shrink by 0.4% this year, even if we come out of

recession. Growth of 1.1% is the new forecast for 2013. That is if

there are no more nasty surprises. There are worries about the ability

of European policy makers to control the crisis. There are

worries about the failure of US policy makers to a Greek on a

fiscal plan. We have gotten used to the IMF tearing up forecasts. What

is potentially more embarrassing for the coalition is that they now

think they have seriously underestimated the impact that

spending cuts and tax rises would have on the economy. It all comes

down to what is known as the multiply it. That says how much any

dose of government austerity might affect growth. Back in 2010, if the

fund and the Government thought that �1 and spending cuts or tax

rises would cut growth by about 50 pence. It now thinks it is more

like one for one. So, maybe we should not be surprised by what has

happened to the economy since 2010. Maybe, says the IMF, the Government

and some eurozone countries should think about cutting more slowly in

future. The Government believed that bigger spending cuts and tax

rises would be good for the economy. In fact, it has choked off recovery,

as the IMF now admits. That also means that if we were to now have

action to kick-start recovery, to get growth moving, that would have

a stronger impact on jobs and growth. Mr Osborne might say that

he understands very well that squeezing the budget is costly. But

when you are running a record deficit, that is not really the

point. If you delayed dealing with your debt and deficit, as the

opposition suggest, the problem will only get worse. You don't have

to take my word for it, listen to the IMF. It was only a few months

ago that their head of the IMF said she shivers to think what would

have happened if a new government had come into power and not brought

economic reality back into this country. Critics from all sides say

that Mr Osborne could have chosen his cuts more wisely. Nearly two-

thirds of borrowing has come from slashing public investment, which

even the Office For Budget Responsibility reckons has the

biggest effect on growth. A respected UK forecaster today

predicted that we would come out of recession with 0.8% growth this

month. It said the recovery was still very weak. Mr Osborne cannot

rewrite history. But if the global recovery continues to disappoint,

he is not the only one that might David Cameron insists that the

British economy is on the way to recovery, despite the latest IMF

outlook. He admitted it was a slow and difficult healing process. The

Prime Minister was speaking on the eve of his main speech to the

Conservative conference in Birmingham. Party workers gave the

mayor of London Boris Johnson a Make way for the leader some

Conservatives wish they had. A man who has to fight his way past the

cameras and the crowds. Whereas the leader that they actually have no

longer receives the pop star treatment, even on his birthday.

Today, the man they call just Boris insisted he had come to this

conference to offer his support. To the man he calls just Dave. I was

pleased to see that you have called me a blond-haired mop. If I am a

mop, you are a broom, cleaning up the mess that was left by a Labour

government. A mess he was talking about, of course, is borrowing. The

problem hanging over the conference is that it started to go up again.

Boris Johnson's can-do optimism is at odds with the official message

in Birmingham that the austerity and the cuts will go on. I think

people know that we have to be able to pay down our debts. We inherited

a deficit bigger and Greece's. You cannot go on forever, borrowing and

borrowing. People understand there are difficult decisions to take.

This year, is borrowing going up or down? We have to wait to see what

the figures show at the end of the year. The figures now? So far, they

have been disappointing, but they can move around a lot. In other

words, going up? They just adjusted the figures to say we borrowed �7

billion less last year than they thought. Five months in a row, they

have gone up, the deficit is going up, currently not going down. What

do you say to someone he says, surely, we are therefore on the

wrong course? We are on the right course because we cut the deficit

from 11% to 8%, a cut of a quarter. That means we are on the right

course. 1 million jobs in the private sector means we are on the

right course. Homeowners will get more protection if they confront

burglars... Tories are woke to the news that the old headlines about

hugging a hoodie have been replaced by new ones about battering a

burglar. Even if a householder, faced with that situation, uses

force that, in the cold light of day, might seem over-the-top,

unless the response is grossly disproportionate, the law will be

on their side. A message that was popular here and has been every

time very similar announcements have been made. Tomorrow, it is his

turn to stand on stage and deliver a big speech. After this week, some

are asking what kind of You used to say to your party, it

is time to understand, don't go on about Europe. And now used say,

bash the pergolas, let's talk about Europe... No, if there is a

boundary that people cross, you come down on them like a ton of

bricks but if they do need care, we must give that and that has not

changed. What do you think of the people who say that David Cameron

has lost his nerve and is on the ground, up right-wing ground?

has got the answers to making sure Britain competes and succeeds? That

is the question that was not answered by Labour and he's been

answered by us. What may also help David Cameron is a quiet birthday

night out, and a curry. Let's talk about all of the things

on the Prime Minister's mind. He is also trying to finalise a deal on

the referendum on Scottish independence.

He is thinking about a hugely significant meeting scheduled for

Monday in Edinburgh. A meeting between the Prime Minister of the

United Kingdom and the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond,

designed to finalise that deal about how the people of Scotland

will make a decision whether to stay in the UK or to become an

independent nation. Talks have been going on behind the scenes and I

understand there is the makings of that deal. The Scottish government

have effectively accepted that there will only be effectively one

question in a referendum, simply yes or No to independence. In

return, the Westminster government are preparing to concede that the

control of that referendum is very much given to the Scottish

authorities, and in particular have therefore, that people under the

age of 18, 16 and 17-year-olds, will for the first time get to vote.

No deal is final until the two men shake hands on Monday but the

people I am talking to believe we are about to see the first step

before a historic choice that will affect us all. The Coming up on

tonight's programme: The 14-year- old campaigner for girls' education

in Pakistan who has been shot by Food prices look certain to rise

this winter after poor harvests in Britain. The National Farmers'

Union has released figures tonight showing the wheat yield this year

is down by almost 15% and productivity is back to levels last

seen in the 1980s. Grain prices have already been rising because of

the worst drought in the United States in half a century.

The so-called summer, record rainfall, fields under water, no

sunshine. And the harvest again so many, a washout. On his farm in

Gloucestershire, James Cox is assessing the damage. The grain

harvest is down 15 to 20%, and that is only part of the story. It feels

thinner, and it is pale. difference between this year's

poor-quality wheat and last year's good stuff is striking. A on

average, the yield will be done nationally. On this farm we are

down 15% on we'd and 20% on Bali and a similar amount on the oil

seed rape. Quality issues as well. And quite simply, it is because we

have had a disastrous summer. The British weather has taken a

toll on the amount of food that has been produced, and its quality, and

around the world farmers have been facing huge challenges. In

America's grain belt, an unprecedented drought has brought

disaster. Many crops, lost completely. And in Russia, a

heatwave has centre yields crashing, adding ever-increasing fuel prices

to work the land and transport the produce, and it is bad news for all

of us. The global price of wheat is up nearly 30% compared with one

year ago. Whilst retailers are doing what they can to protect

customers from the full impact of that, some of that inevitably will

work through to the shop prices. means our weekly shop may cost more,

may even taste a bit different. are seeing carrots that are not

quite so sweet as they have been previously, available volumes down

25% across root vegetables and potatoes, and for fruit, we are

seeing smaller sizes coming through, the yield is down again. The poor

harvest is not just about region vegetables. Animal feed prices are

also going up and that brings inflationary pressure on meat, milk

and eggs. In Pakistan, he Taliban says it was

responsible for an attack on a 14- year-old schoolgirl who was shot in

the head and neck. Malala Yousafzai, who has campaigned for girls to be

educated and was nominated for an international peace prize, was on

her way home from school in the volatile north-west region when she

was fired on. Orla Guerin sent this report, which contains flash

photography. Rushed away for treatment, the

teenage girl who dared to defy the Taliban. Malala Yousafzai was shot

in the head. Doctors say the next few days will be critical. This was

Malala in her beloved classroom. In 2009, militants controlling the

Swat Valley decreed that girls' schools must close. Malala, then

just 11, started a blog for the BBC Urdu service, written under a pen

name. This was her entry. I was very scared getting ready for

school today because the Taliban announced that the girls should

stop going. Our headteacher told us at assembly that if we come, we

shouldn't wear school uniform and just come in normal clothes. Out 27

girls, only 11 attended class today. After the militants were driven out,

Malala with an outspoken campaigner for education for girls, winning

recognition at home and abroad. A family friend tells us she will

fight on if she recovers. She will continue to inspire others, the

type of determined family that they are. I don't think they are going

to chicken out. I don't think they will surrender.

But the Taliban have threatened to target her again. They said she is

western minded and will not be spared. Tonight Malala remains in

intensive care. Prickle Taliban attacks are nothing new here but

the shooting of a child has caused shock and revulsion. The militants

have said anyone else who speaks out against them, as Malala did,

will be silenced. There are growing doubts tonight about the planned

merger between the two defence companies, BAE Systems and EADS.

The British, French and German governments are holding talks that

will decide whether the deal can be finalised. France and Germany need

to agree to conditions laid down by the UK and by the two firms.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have opened the Football

Association's new national training facility in Staffordshire. St

George's Park has cost more than �100 million.

Today was all about holding a new era for the national sport. The

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge here to open and try out for themselves

a place designed to return England to the footballing elite.

George's Park and the concept that underpins it is something totally

new. It will be far more than just a world-class training facility for

our future world-beating national team. It has been almost half a

century since England were the best, of course, but the game has come a

long way since 1966 and this was an attempt to catch up with the

opposition. 11 years in the making, �105 million in the building, it

houses training, rehab and science facilities, all designed to be

England football's centre of excellence to match its rivals. St

George's Park has the royal seal of approval. It is all very impressive

but the big question is will it make England win?

Do you think this will prove the difference between England

qualifying for the quarter-finals and perhaps winning tournaments in

the future? I certainly hope so. We have got the best stadium in the

world and now we have got the best training facilities, so we are

taking away their excuses the play is good use in the future because

there is no better place to work. Ashley cull's ill-advised tweets

had threatened to spoil the party, but by the time he had met the

governing body's president, he was all smiles. I know how disappointed

he is with the situation. I am quite relieved as England manager

that the matter has been totally results between the FA and Ashley

himself. Ashley Cole may no longer be in hot water, but away from the

domestics it was all about England's footballing family and