25/06/2013 BBC News at Ten

Brady, speaks in public for the first time behinds sis conviction.

Brady is now 75. He tells a tribunal that he's not mentally ill and

should be transferred to a normal prison.

He spoke nearly half a century after murdering five children and experts

are now questioning his motives. This is to some degree an act and

it's one that he's been relersting for a very, very long time. It's

thought that if he's returned to jail he could try to starve himself

to death. Also, half a million women could be offered a daily pill to

help prevent breast cancer. New allegations of police conduct after

Stephen Lawrence's murder. In India, efforts to reach survivors trapped

by severe flooding are being hampered by continuing bad weather.

And an impressive start at Wimbledon for Britain's Laura Robson. She

beats the tenth seed in straight sets. In Sportsday, Alex Corbisiero

must be patient and he as Roberts are ruled unlikely to roar with the

told a tribunal that he's not mentally ill and should be moved

from a secure hospital to a prison. He believes that might give him the

freedom to sarve himself to death. He was -- starve himself to death.

He was speaking publicly for the first time since 1966. This is how

the public has seen Ian Brady for half a century, his black and white

mug shot image frozen in 1966. And this is how he looks today. Now, 75,

he's a grey-haired pensioner, attached to a nasal feeding tube.

His crimes are infamous. He and his girlfriend, Myra Hindley, tortured

and murder five children, taking most of them up to Saddleworth Moor

above Manchester and burying them Manchester Justice Centre since

1985, when he was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic. He says here

he's on hunger strike, though the court has heard he eats soup and

toast and he hints instead he wants to starve to death in prison. Of

really is what he wants you to believe he is like. He wants you to

believe that he's a rational person, reasonable person. However, this is

to some degree an act and it's one that he's been rehearsing for a

very, very long time. The 1960s murders are among Britain's most

notorious crimes. For the families of the child victims, the pain

continues. Today, they heard Brady or not, he will have thrived on

this, being bang, centre stage. He will still thrive on it, even though

he's got nothing out of it. evidence was shown on TV screens to

the public, press and victims' families, who were watching via

videolink. After a legal campaign that started in 2010, Brady's fBG

only the second -- become only the second psychiatric patient to be

granted such a tribunal. Today, he said he knew he would die behind

bars. This, then, could be the last we see of him. Judith is in

Manchester for us. You were at the hearing today. What were your

impressions? We were here in Manchester, where it is relayed via

videolink and given Brady's notoriety, it was always going to be

come pulsive viewing, which in the event, it was, but it was also in

part difficult to follow, though a large sections which were rambling

and his answers often made little sense and his lawyers asked him to

get to the point. We heard his views on all sorts of subjects and at the

end of the day, if his bid to move to a mainstream prison is success

successful then he'll move, but if it isn't and he stays at Ashworth,

well then he may consider today's court hearing some kind of personal

victory. His own legal team says he as a narcissistic personality

disorder and the families of the children who he killed have their

concerns that the public circus as they've described it, surrounding

today's hearing, may only have added fuel to his ego.

Thank you. Around 500,000 women in England and

Wales could soon be offered a daily pill to help prevent breast cancer.

New guidelines mean women over the age of 35 could be offered one of

two drugs, if they have a family - the aim, to protect healthy women

from ever developing breast cancer cells like these. The drug,

tamoxifen, used for decades to treat breast cancer can also prevent it.

It will be offered to those like Katie, whose mother had the disease.

Obviously, it's been a big issue for me and my family and two sisters in

particular, knowing that we are at higher risk. So, reading the news

that there could be a preventative measure that we could take is really

interesting to us. Women have a one in eight lifetime risk of getting

breast cancer. The NICE guidance says healthy women aged 35 and over

who have at least a one in six risk should be offered tamoxifen for five

years. The drug can cut risk by 40% and it's thought that benefit

continues for at least a decade after treatment stops. The

guidelines on tamoxifen will apply across Britain. Treatment costs just

50 pence a week, compared to thousands of pounds for a

preventative mastectomy. This now offers them the opportunity to do

something else instead of having to go for surgery. It increases their

choices really, which is why it's important. Some women will still opt

for breast removal, like the actress, Angelina Jolie. A faulty

gene meant her cancer risk was extremely high. Five members of

Helen's family have had breast cancer. She is due to have a

mastectomy in October, which will reduce her risk to almost zero.

got two young children and I really want to give myself the best

fighting chance I can of not developing breast cancer. And

statistically that is surgery, not taking tamoxifen. And, there are

down sides to drug treatment. Like all medicines, tamoxifen has

potential side effects. It increases the risk of blood clots and of

cancer of the womb lining, though these risks are usually outweighed

by the benefits in breast cancer reduction. You can also trigger

menopause-like side effects and many women find these so unpleasant they

stop taking the drug. Those potential side effects mean many

healthy women will face a dilemma over whether she should sign up for

five years of preventative treatment. The Chancellor, George

Osborne, has promised that schools' budgets in England will be protected

along with the NHS and overseas aid in the spending plans announced

tomorrow for 2015. You had is set to cut �11. 5 billion and Labour admits

it would have to stick to the plans if it won the next election.

This is the week when a blank political canvass starts to be

filled. The week when we get a picture of where the Treasury acts

on spend -- axe on spending falls next. The week when the parties road

test the slogans to fill the campaign posters at the next

election. Iain Duncan Smith's welfare budget is one of the few

that isn't being cut further, but tomorrow we'll learn which ministers

won and which lost the battle to protect their budgets. When George

Osborne unveils the results of the months of negotiation in his

Spending Review. Today, in the Commons, he and his Shadow squared

up for the fight to come The economy has flat lined for three years.

Isn't this economic failure the reason why the Chancellor will not

now balance the books and why tomorrow he is coming back to this

House to ask for more cuts to public services? Getting a lesson from the

Shadow Chancellor is like getting a lesson from Dracula on looking after

a blood bank. On Saturday, the Labour leader said Labour would rule

our borrowing more, but on Sunday the Shadow Chancellor said Labour

could bore remuch, yes, yes, of course. The Chancellor will come to

spell out cuts that won't be made for more than another two years.

Why? Partly because of politics. He wants voters to say to Labour, "We

know what that lot would cut, but what would you cut?". There are just

97 weeks to go until the general election but it's already clear what

the Tories' message will be - you still can't trust Labour. That was

our mock-up of what the campaign might say, but what about Labour's?

Ed Miliband and Ed Balls saw the Tories' trap coming, which is why in

the past few weeks they've given speeches saying that date to day

they'll spend exactly the same as the coalition. They would only

borrow more to invest in things like housing. Their election message is

equally clear. It's hurting because it's not been working. It is time

for a change. The Chancellor took up sponge painting today, as a way to

reassure you that the schools budget will be protected, along with the

NHS and overseas aid. All the cuts had of course to be agreed by the

Lib Dems, who showed their limb -- they're limbering up by a row by

releasing the letter left behind in the Treasury which said, "I'm afraid

there's no money." Why are they still cutting? We have this black

hole from the previous Labour Government and we still have one of

the largest deficits in Europe and if you don't fill it, all you end up

doing is asking our children and grandchildren to pay off this

generation's debts and that's not fair. At the last election you may

recall we were all told that spending cuts would be over by the

time we next chose a Government. We didn't quite -- it didn't quite work

didn't quite -- it didn't quite work out that way. Nick there with some

of the political calculations ahead of the Chancellor's statement

tomorrow. How much room for manoeuvre does he have and what is

the scope for major savings? Stephanie Flanders has been looking

at the figures. Back in 2010, George Osborne thought he could get rid of

the hole in the budget by the next election. It turned out he couldn't.

That's not because Whitehall departments have failed to deliver

cuts. Quite the opposite. It's all down to the poor performance of the

economy and the Office for Budget Responsibility's increasingly gloomy

view of how fast we can grow in the future. They've managed to get the

cuts so far to stick. They've overdelivered on that, but there is

still a lot more to do because of the lack of tax revenue. We have got

a virtual treasury court yard to go through some of the numbers we are

bill, the �314 billion that Whitehall departments get for

day-to-day spending on schools, transport and the police. This is

what their budget looks like for next year, the tax year that begins

in April 2014. You can see the big spenders are health and education,

ranging down to international development and the Home Office. We

know George Osborne is looking for savings of �11.5 billion. If those

were spread evenly across departments, every minister will be

facing an extra 2.3% cut after inflation. We know that won't happen

because the Government has again promised to ringfence or protect

spending on the NHS, on schools and on international aid. Now, he could

spread the cuts evenly over the other unprotected departments, but

if the Chancellor follows the same pattern as the last review, defence

will come off relatively lightly and there will be a squeeze for the Home

Office, transport and local government who would then have seen

their budgets cut by nearly a third after inflation since 2010. George

Osborne may say tomorrow's review will help frame a debate in the

lead-up to the election about the future shape of the state. It's

already changing quite dramatically without very much debate at all.

BBC News has been told that the Metropolitan Police secretly

recorded two meetings between Duwayne Brooks, a friend of the

murdered teenager, Stephen Lawrence, and his solicitors. Scotland Yard is

treating the matter "with huge seriousness".

This is Duwayne Brooks, the best friend of Stephen Lawrence, visiting

his lawyer's office a decade ago. He was the victim of the same ambush by

racists that murdered Stephen, but an undercover police officer has

alleged that in the '90s the Met tried to find information to

discredit him. Later, it was claimed today the police secretly recorded

Duwayne Brooks, even as the Macpherson Inquiry was branding the

force "racist and bungling". In 1999, this building housed the

offices of the law firm representing Duwayne Brooks. In that year, at

least two meetings were held here between Mr Brooks, his solicitors

and Met Police officers. The BBC's been told that those meetings were

secretly recorded by the police, with the permission of a senior

officer. Mr Brooks' lawyer says the purpose of the conversations was to

brief her client and his legal team on the police investigation into the

Lawrence murder. Today, she has written to the Commissioner of the

Met seeking confirmation that they were recorded without their

knowledge. Had the police wished to record it simply for their own

records, they could have asked us and we would have made a decision on

that, had they wanted to make notes. There is something very worrying

about the fact that it was covert, if indeed it really did happen.

Tonight, Scotland Yard passed the matter to its head of professional

standards. Recent claims that this former undercover police officer

were sent to spy on the Lawrence family and Duwayne Brooks have

called for a judge-led inquiry. open to the idea of a judge-led

inquiry. It is now 20 years since Stephen Lawrence was murdered, but

the case continues to resonate. President Putin has confirmed that

the American fugitive, Edward Snowden, is still in the transit

area of an airport in Moscow. Snowden, who is wanted for leaking

security information, arrived there on Sunday after travelling from Hong

Kong. Russia says he remains a free man.

The former South African President, Nelson Mandela, remains in a

critical but stable condition after his health deteriorated over the

weekend. He is suffering from a recurring lung infection and has

been in hospital for more than two weeks. More family members visited

the former President during the day. A man cleared of raping a pensioner

in her home 16 years ago has been found guilty after being tried for a

second time. Wendell Baker's first trial was stopped when the judge

ruled that his DNA had been improperly retained. His retrial and

conviction follows a BBC investigation into the case. Baker

will be sentenced on Friday. REPORTER: My name is Richard Bilton.

This is when Wendell Baker's past caught up with him.

REPORTER: We think justice wasn't served.

In 2009, the BBC investigated Baker's case. I asked him about

Hazel Blackwell, the woman he attacked and left for dead. Get out

my face! Hazel Blackwell was 66 when she was

beaten and raped in her own bedroom. Wendell Baker went to trial, but it

collapsed. DNA showed he was the attacker but it shouldn't have been

held by the police on a technicality. The double jeopardy

law meant he couldn't be tried again for the same crime. In 2005, the law

changed. Baker is one of only a handful of cases brought back for a

retrial. This case matters and is significant because it's one which

the public might feel that there had been a miscarriage of justice.

took an hour for the jury to return a unanimous verdict. 16 years after

the attack, Wendell Baker has at last faced justice. It is right that

we pursue justice now for Hazel Blackwell. It is right that we do

this so that the public, members of the public can see the Metropolitan

Police do not give up. This wasn't just about the police. BBC lawyers

spent months lifting an anonymity lawyer which gave Wendell Baker the

protection afforded to victims. Removing that meant he could be

exposed. Hazel died in 2002, but her family have at last seen her

attacker jailed. In northern India, a military

helicopter has crashed with the loss of eight lives as it was taking part

in efforts to rescue thousands of people stranded by floods. Heavy

rain and landslides have devastated much of the state of Uttarakhand

where bad weather is still hampering all the relief operations. More than

800 people have died in the floods. It's a disaster that has devastated

India on a scale that no-one was prepared for. Entire villages have

been washed-away. This used to be a highway, until landslides took away

a chunk of it. Tens of thousands left stranded, spending days out in

the open. The Indian air force has flown hundreds of missions to get

them out in difficult conditions. Because of the terrain and the fact

that most of the roads have been destroyed, the only way in-and-out

is by helicopter. On board, are a team of Special Forces hoping to

find survivors on the slopes, but the weather has not been very good

and we have been forced to turn back and wait for it to clear before we

can proceed. These swirling floodwaters have destroyed entire

communities. This woman can hardly believe she is alive. One of nearly

100,000 people who have been rescued so far. Many of them are children.

TRANSLATION: We ran up the mountain. My son was left behind.

More than a week after the tragedy, there are many still miss missing

and with every passing day, their families are losing hope. -- still

missing. The Education Minister for Wales,

Leighton Andrews, has resigned after he was criticised for campaigning to

keep a school open in his constituency. Mr Andrews, seen on

the left of the images, was seen holding a banner in support of

Pentre Primary School which faced closure because of the Minister's

own policy to tackle surplus school places.

Tennis and Laura Robson has joined Andy Murray in the second round at

Wimbledon. The defending champion, Serena Williams, needed less than an

hour to secure her place in the next round.

For the thousands of British fans, a bright day at Wimbledon and a

dazzling performance. Laura Robson was once the girl's champion here,

but against Maria Kirilenko she began the underdog. You would have

hardly guessed it! Lending poise and power, Robson roared to the first

set. The crowd roared its approval. COMMENTARY: That is the pick of the

crop! There was a brief wobble but she held her nerve in style.

I'm still so nervous. Even on the last point, u didn't know whether my

forehand was in or not. -- I didn't know whether my forehand was in or

not. That was a big one for me, playing in front of your home crowd.

Robson's win makes the Wimbledon draw slightly better reading for the

home fans. She joins Andy Murray in the second round, but there was more

British disappointment. There were defeats for Tara Moore

and Heather Watson, still recovering from glandular fever. She was

outmuscled by Madison Keys. There was no outmusling Serena Williams.

She began her defence in bruising style against Mandy Minella. She

will take some stopping. -- outmuscling.

Roald Dahl's children's classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,

has been entertaining generations of children since its publication in

1964. It's been turned into this year's blockbuster musical, directed

by Sam Mendes. It features a multi-million pound set, one of the

most sophisticated ever seen in London's West End. Some similar

productions have struggled to please the critics.

There's the factory, the chocolate, the Golden Ticket, Charlie, Willy

Wonka, all the ingredients you would expect as one of the most famous

children's books ever written takes to the stage in a brand-new

big-budget, all-singing, all-dancing musical. The expectations on its

director to deliver a blockbuster hit are high. I think any big show

is a big pressure. If you don't like that pressure, you shouldn't be

doing it. It is a pleasure for me, it is a privilege to do something on

this scale and to do a book that I have always loved since I was a kid.

I tried to get the rights on three other occasions to this and was

forbidden them. The producers seem to have done everything in their

power to ensure its success. There's spectacular sets, a well-drilled

cast and an Oscar-winning director. But there is no amount of money or

talent that can overcome the reality of putting an a new show in the West

End. It is a very risky business. There's many a musical that's

sounded good on paper but struggled on stage. Viva Forever failed to

live up to its name and closed. The sequel to Phantom of the Opera, Love

Never Dies, proves that it can and did! The latest revival of the

Chorus Line has just announced it is bringing the curtain down, too.

Now, here is a musical that's done well and is another Roald Dahl

story, Matilda. How do the duo who have written the lyrics and music

for Charlie feel about its success? You mentioned Matilda! I wouldn't

say we are looking forward to the constant comparisons that are being

made. There is nothing we can do about it. We would be compared to it

if this show had opened. The West End is big enough! It is not cheap

to take the family to the theatre and there are plenty of shows to

choose from. This production will have to pull out all the stops if it