22/11/2013 BBC News at Ten

New details emerge about the three women believed held as modern day

slaves in London for 30 years. The police say they are

investigating a "complicated and disturbing picture of emotional

control over many years". The investigation we are conducting is

about abuse, physical, psychological and mental abuse, over a period of

time. We are talking about 30 years. The police reveal that the couple

detained on suspicion of keeping the women as slaves had been arrested

back in the 1970s. The former chairman of the Co-op

Bank is arrested and the Chancellor orders an investigation into what

went wrong at the Co-op. Five Britons arrested in Russia

after a Greenpeace protest are released on bail. The sixth is

expected to be freed soon. And America remembers 50 years since

the assassination that shocked the world, the death of JFK.

In Sportsday, Carl Froch and George Groves get ready for a British

boxing grudge match. Good evening.

More details have been revealed about the conditions in which three

women are believed to have been kept as slaves in a house in south London

for 30 years. The police said they may have appeared to outsiders as a

normal family and had probably been in contact with public services, but

that a complicated and disturbing picture of emotional control was

emerging. And the couple detained by police on suspicion of keeping the

women as slaves had been arrested many years before. Tom Symonds

reports. On an unremarkable S. London St,

still unidentified, three women subjected to modern-day slavery for

three decades. That is the allegation. The lease are trying to

work out how and why it could have happened. -- police. The officer in

charge says they were beaten but also restrained by what he called

invisible handcuffs. People feel they are controlled, have to do what

they are told, and yet to the naked eye there is no control whatsoever.

It is all psychological, it might be through fear. That is what we are

looking at and why we have specialist help my professionals

advising us, and we are taking the investigation very slowly. So they

are refusing to answer many questions about the investigation

but they did say the victims might have appeared to be a normal family

and probably would have come into contact with public services. They

revealed the 67-year-old suspects had been arrested in the 1970s but

would not say why. They had been questioned on suspicion of slavery,

assault and immigration offences. The investigation began with a 12

hour search of a house, during which 2500 items of intentional evidence

were removed. The entire 37 persons specialist slavery and trafficking

team is working on the case which is, as you can see, getting major

international media interest. It will take a long time to

investigate, they said, which is why both the suspects have been given

bail. This started with television news reports, not about slavery, but

forced the. The women saw interviews, including this one on

BBC News with campaigner Aneeta Prem. They managed to get hold of a

telephone and they called her charity's helpline. After discussing

their situation, a week later the police were brought in. It is

incredibly emotional speaking to them because they have gone through

such a harrowing experience. Trying to help them rebuild their lives is

going to be a long journey. The Metropolitan Police are doing two

raids each week on average in the fight against slavery and

trafficking in London, a hidden problem made more complex by the

psychological effect on victims. Slavery is violence. When you have

violence done to you can mess with your head, so it often requires some

outside person to come in and give them a renewed perspective and to

say, this is wrong, what has happened to you and here are the

options to get out of it. Police are working carefully with the women at

an undisclosed location, knowing that their evidence is likely to be

key to any future prosecution. Tom is with me now. The police are

being very careful what information they release, and it raises almost

as many questions as it answers about the life of these women over

the last 30 years. It really does. How did a Malaysia on, an Irish

woman and and up in the same house 30 years ago? The 30-year-old, was

she born in the house? Is she the child of somebody in the house? And

why were the suspects of interest to the police in the 1970s. It is

interesting that the police have briefed journalists about this case.

They clearly want to highlight the condition of slavery, but the

trouble is that there are a lot of grey areas when you are trying to

define slavery. So it is difficult for the police to say, we know what

is going on and here is what is going on, when they are still

investigating and this problem is so difficult to pin down because it is

so hidden in many of our cities. It is going to be a very long

investigation and I suspect we will not get much more detail than we got

today. The disgraced former chairman of the

Co-op Bank, Paul Flowers, has been released on police bail tonight

after being arrested as part of an investigation into the supply of

illegal drugs. And the Chancellor George Osborne has ordered an

independent investigation into what went wrong at the Co-op. Danny

Savage reports. This report contains flash photography.

It is not clear how Paul Flowers left the police station in Leeds

tonight but there did appear to be a person under a blanket in the back

of this car. Throughout the day, the former bank chairman's solicitor

faced many questions as he came and went. The police are entitled to

make investigations. Is he embarrassed? No comment. Do you

think he will be given bail? I hope so. He is a man of good character.

Paul Flowers is being questioned in connection with this video in which

it is alleged he handed over money to buy cocaine. West Yorkshire

Police have been saying for days that they have been looking into

allegations surrounding Paul Flowers, and in the last 24 hours,

they have acted. But it is the other revelations about his public life

that have helped to push this issue right to the top of British

politics. Both the government and Labour have faced questions about

Paul Flowers and the Co-op Bank. Tonight, the Chancellor confirmed

there will be an independent enquiry into events at the bank. In his home

city of Radford, Reverend Flowers stood down as a counsellor when

adult material was found on his laptop. -- Radford. Other

councillors were told he had left due to work pressures. They now want

an enquiry about who knew what. I have asked for an investigation and

for the results to be published so people can judge who did what and

what were their motives. Bradford Council tonight said it will

investigate that episode in Paul Flowers's life. Despite now being

suspended from the Methodist Church, Paul Flowers will be allowed to stay

in the house they provide for him. The 63-year-old was tonight granted

unconditional bail. He will have to report to police in the New Year.

Five Britons who were imprisoned in Russia have been released on bail.

The group were among 30 protesters and journalists seized on a

Greenpeace ship while protesting against oil drilling in the Arctic.

The five freed today were the freelance journalist Kieron Bryan,

Alexandra Harris, a Greenpeace campaigner from Exeter, Anthony

Perret, a campaigner from Newport in South Wales, Ian Rogers, a

Greenpeace activist from Devon, and Frank Hewetson from London. A sixth

Briton, Phillip Ball, was given bail but remains in custody for now. From

St Petersburg, Daniel Sandford reports.

After two months in a Russian prison, suddenly she was out. Alex

Harris, the Greenpeace press officer who found her jail time tough. Give

me an idea of how difficult the conditions were at times inside. You

know, the first week was really hard. It was nerve racking, not

knowing what was going on. I was in a cell on my own. It was scary. You

get used to it, but it is tough. You are on your own all the time. The

British activists emerged from three different Saint Petersburg cousins.

Being trapped in a cell for 23 hours a day is something I never want to

experience again. These are the fourth and fifth of the Britons

being detained here in Saint Petersburg to be released on bail.

Only one, Phil Ball, still remains behind bars. It was this protest at

Russia's only offshore oil-rich in the Arctic that led to their

detention. Special forces landed on their ship. It was a strong first

response. But looking up 30 activists from 18 countries led to a

fierce diplomatic row, and the Kremlin seems to have decided that

with the Winter Olympics in Russia are just around the corner, it was

best to end the imprisonment now. Although President Putin is still

very critical of Greenpeace's actions. Some of them climbed onto

the platform, others attacked our coastguard, they practically rammed

our boats coming he told a group of Russian writers. Tonight, relaxing

in his hotel, Frank Hewetson said Greenpeace would the wary of

targeting Russia again. The Arctic campaign will definitely not stop.

For us, it is a huge, iconic campaign. I can see myself probably

getting involved in it but I very much doubt that would be in Russia.

For now, the Greenpeace crew are stuck in Russia's second city. They

are out on bail but they could still be put on trial, on charges of

hooliganism. At least 49 people have been killed,

including three firefighters, after an enormous section of roof

collapsed at a supermarket in the Latvian capital, Riga. Rescue

efforts are continuing and police have launched a criminal

investigation. It's thought 30 more people could still be trapped under

the rubble. Richard Galpin reports. 5000 square feet of this roof

collapsed yesterday evening, crushing shoppers below at what was

a particularly busy time. There was an almighty crash, as the ceiling

started to collapse around us. We were immediately plunged into

darkness. Since then, rescue teams have been working around the clock,

searching for people trapped under the rubble. This garden being built

on top of the roof may have caused the disaster. Sand and other

building materials were loaded here in recent weeks, with rainwater

apparently adding to the weight. This evening, an anxious wait

continues for those whose loved ones are still missing.

Thousands of Americans stood in silence to remember resident John F

Kennedy today. There were ceremonies with readings and musical

performances across the US and President Obama ordered flags to be

flown at half-mast. JFK was shot in Dallas 50 years ago, an

assassination that shocked the world.

A President who offered optimism in an age of uncertainty was Mordtered

here. In the aftermath of the assassination, Dallas was calleded

the City of Hate. It is still struggling to make sense of what

happened. We want in awe of a dreamer who

challenged us to literally reach for the moon. Though he himself would

not live to see us achieve that goal.

America's youngest President, its first Catholic, seemed to offer a

fresh vision for a country that was changing fast. His youthful promise

and his wife's demur glamour had enchanted much of America. This tour

was intended to charm Texas, too. Just a moment, something has

happened in the motorcade. Standby, please. There has been a shooting.

The hospital has been advised to stand by for a severe gunshot wound.

The Presidential car coming up. I can see Mrs Kennedy's pink suit.

There is a Secret Service man spread eagled over the top of the car. Not

long after, the announcement they all dreaded. President Kennedy has

been assassinated. It is official. The President is dead. Daniel

Kendrick took me to the spot where he stood 50 years ago, a 15-year-old

schoolboy, hoping to shake Kennedy's hand. I saw the President coming. He

was like this, he was going like that, it sounded like he was

choking. All of a sudden, boom. I saw the look on Jackie Kennedy's

face as she turned towards him and as she turned away from that and

looked straight at me. And the look of horror on her face really freaked

me out. I had to go. I had to run. I had to get out of here.

When the shots came from a window in that building, and hit Kennedy there

in his motorcade, it was, for many Americans, as though hope itself had

died. His reputation is still high. Poll after poll indicates a majority

of Americans think he was better than any President who has followed

him. At this Dallas University they make a study of JFK's legend. These

students know about his womaniseing and the crippling illness he kept

secret, still they admire him. For me, Kennedy represents the best of

America. John F Kennedy's call for action in his "ask not" speech is

still as relevant today as it was in the early '60s. But Kennedy was

getting entangled in Veet snap. He was sluggish on civil rights. He

died before he could catch the icon of his appeal If he continued to

struggle into the future. It may well be than Kennedy will still have

this hold on the public's dreams and imagination. Today this city paused

to celebrate a President whose murder throws his promise and

transformed into him a blank canvass on which Americans can draw their

dreams. The US Secretary of State, John

Kerry is on his way to join talks in Geneva about a possible agreement

about Iran's nuclear programme. Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei

Lavrov, has already arrived. The presence of the two men has raised

expectation that is a deal can be reached in the coming days. Our

Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen joins us. We have been here before.

Are people feeling more optimistic this time? Well, Britain's Foreign

Secretary, William Hague, has said he is coming as well. It may be they

are closer to a deal. They have been talking about this subject - what to

do about Iran's nuclear programme, for getting on for ten years now. It

is a hard issue for them to solve. They made more progress in the last

six or eight weeks or so than they have in the previous decade. There

has been a government change in Iran and also I think changes in the

position offered by the Western countries particularly, going more

towards what Iran says it might be you able to accept. The stakes are

really very high. It is all going on in the hotel, the lights over my

shoulder are one of general ehave's big hotels. They are all there

talking into the night and into tomorrow as well. The stakes are

really very high. There has been a lot of talk about the chances of

this long smouldering crisis, leading to a Middle East war. Now,

if they can make a deal, the chances of that happening will be massively

reduced. If they don't make a deal, and they will try again after this

meeting if they don't succeed here, but if they can't, then this

particularly difficult, dangerous source of tension and violence in

the Middle East, will still be there. It is war and peace.

Thank you. A priest who played a major role in

brokering peace in Northern Ireland has died. Father Alec Reid was a

clandestine go-between between the republicans and the British and

Irish governments. Later he was a considered a pivotal figure in

persuading republicans to put their weapons beyond use. It comes as the

Director of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland has asked the

police to investigate claims in a Panorama programme that British

soldiers in a special unit killed unarmed civilians during the

Troubles. Chris Buckler reports. He was a priest caught among the

madness of violence. The image of Father Alec Reid giving the last

rites to a soldier, beaten and shot on the streets of Belfast, still has

the power to shock. A funeral was taking place for a

victim of a loyalist attack. Corporals David Howe and Derek Wood

drove into the cortege. Tensions were high and the Army

officers were dragged from their car and brutally killed. Father Reid

tried to save them. I felt even more that it was a tragedy that I had

tried to stop and didn't. I don't know there was anything more I could

have done. Father Reid was at the funeral to

deliver a letter from Sinn Fein to the SDLP leader, John Hume. The

original envelope ended up stained with blood, but the document was

eventually handed over. The peace process Father Reid helped build is

an unfinished business and crimes committed during years of violence

continue to cause hurt. Last night the BBC's Panorama

revealed details of a secret army unit and spoke to soldiers, who said

in the early '70s, they operated outside of the law. Today Northern

Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions, called for the police

to investigate claims that unarmed civilians were shot. The American

diplomat trying to broker a political agreement on how to deal

with the past knows that troubled legacy is ever-present. I think the

rection as this week and the developments this week show that

there is considerable support, both in the public and amongst the

political leadership, to make some progress here.

They have until Christmas it find an agreement. And that deadline is

starting to loom. Securing the work done by Alec Reid and others is seen

as vital in a place where old images are a harsh reminder of what used to

be. Cricket and England suffered a

humiliating batting collapse on the second day of the first Ashes Test.

Having bowled Australia out for 295, England made just 132. At the close,

Australia had added another 65 without losing a wicket - a lead of

224 runs. Our Sports Correspondent, Joe Wilson, is in Brisbane for us

now. Joe, where did it go wrong for England? Good question. Maybe we

will show you in a couple of minutes' time. One or two clouds in

the Brisbane sky today. Fiona, I know these things are all relative

but by the end of today, Australia really should be out of sight in

this Test Match. What changed yesterday? Well, remember this is an

Australian team people here feared had forgotten to win. Yesterday when

they ran through England, well, they looked Australian again. As you

enter the Gabba ground, there is a picture of Aussie cricketers as

working-class heroes, unwashed warriors ready for battle. It is all

marketing but suddenly Australia's cricket matches the image. There is

nothing fake about Ryan Harris. Charging in is what he does. Too

good for Alistair Cook, England one-down in reply to Australia's

295. Mitchell Johnson so mocked for inaccuracy, struck before lunch. A

faint touch from Trott. 55-2. Kevin Pietersen in his 100th Test, he made

18. Caught Bailey, bowled Harris. Michael carbury in his Second Test

match battled to 40, but Johnson got him and now England were gripped by

Gabba fear. No bell Bell to save them.

He made 5. Replays prove the ball was hit here.

Three wickets had fallen with the score on 87. Johnsoner to in like a

fast bowler reborn. Joe Root helped him. And when Graeme Swann was out,

England had lost six wickets for nine runs, in terms of batting

collapses, almost an all-time low and England were all out for 136

When it doesn't go to plan, there is always a slight feeling of

disappointment. We are a pretty confident bunch in our abilities and

how we bounce back from disappointing days. By the close,

Australia were past #r50 in their second win -- past 50 in their

second innings, no wickets down. In short, almost out of sight.

We know England capable of great comebacks. They have shown it here

three years ago. I guess they have to hope that the crowd boo louder

than ever and Stuart Broad bowls better than ever.

It's been half a century since the first Dr Who appeared on our

screens, followed by ten more. It's the world's longest running sci-fi

show and a global brand watched by millions. To celebrate the

milestone, a special 50th anniversary episode is being shown

on BBC1 tomorrow. Our Arts Editor, Will Gompertz, assesses the impact

of the programme from inside the Tardis.

50 years ago at 5.15pm on 23rd November 1963, a mysterious exile

from another world appeared on BBC One.

Get back to the ship. The tone for the show was set not by the writers

or producers but by the ingenious techies in the BBC Radiophonic

Workshop, who could make lo-fi sound hi-tech.

If a goody is going to be really good, he needs a baddie who is

really bad. And the programme has created some iconic foes from clone

warriors, to cybernetic armies. But it was the introduction, in only

the second story of the most heinous, demotic mutants that made

it, and then famous, the Daleks. Exterminate. Exterminate.

The Dr Has survived the Daleks, so far and as they say, what doesn't

kill you, makes you stronger. Dr Who had become a appointment to

view. TV must-see. But if you had to give one reason for the show's

lasting success. It would be this. DR WHO THEME MUSIC PLAYS

To make the Doctor capable of reincarnation was a brilliant idea T

allowed the show to stay fresh and the character to develop. Each new

doctor would have a different personality and tastes but some

characteristics of the Dr Have stayed the same. He is essentially

and upper middle class, English eccentric. The square of the otomus.

Audiences were falling and enthusiasm within the BBC was

waning, the show was closed but then in 2005 under the creative direction

of script writer, Russell T Davies, the Whoniverse was brought back to

life. The trip of a lifetime. Jeronimo.

Academics have discussed philosophical issues arising from

it. The programme has been the inspiration for books, films and

even electronic music. It is a children's programme that

became a cult hit, which turned into a global brand, and perhaps one of

the most culturally-significant programmes to have been made.

Will Gompertz. Somewhere in time and space.