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Tonight, more pressure on the Murdoch empire as e-mails emerge | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
raising questions of a cover-up at News International. Rupert Murdoch | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
arrives in London for crisis talks and a display of solidarity with | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
cheap executive Rebekah Brooks. The e-mail chain suggests | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
executives knew about widespread phone hacking and payments to | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
police as far back as 2007. Bosses insist they knew nothing. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
There are caused by Labour for Rupert Murdoch to drop his bid to | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
take control of BSkyB. He should recognise that, with a cloud | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
hanging over his organisation, it is not possible for this bid to go | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
ahead at the current time. We will be asking if the takeover | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
will be blocked. Also, Washington withholds $800 | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
million in military aid to Pakistan as relations between the countries | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
worsen. William and Kate wow the Hollywood | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
A-list as they continued their US tour. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
And Fernando Alonso wins an action- packed British Grand Prix at | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
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Good evening. There of fresh questions tonight | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
about a major cover-up at News International over phone hacking. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
E-mails have emerged which show the company had information four years | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
ago indicating malpractices were more widespread that in acknowledge | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
at the time. Top executives insist they knew nothing. Rupert Murdoch | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
arrived in the UK today for crisis talks with News International chief | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
executive Rebekah Brooks. Ed Miliband has called on Mr Murdoch | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
to abandon his bid to buy back all of BSkyB. The deal now looks in | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
jeopardy. This report by Robert Peston contain some flash | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
photography. It is a media crisis like no other. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
So tonight there was no time to hang about for the quintessential | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his embattled News International cheap | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
executive Rebekah Brooks. The crisis deepened this afternoon when | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
the BBC learned that News International found e-mails as long | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
ago as 2007 that appeared to indicate that payments were being | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
made to the police by the News Of The World for information and that | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
hacking must -- hacking was more widespread than the company claimed | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
at the time. Four years ago News International gave the e-mails to a | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
firm of solicitors, Harbottle and Lewis, for review, which is what | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
this letter provided two of MPs confirms. Earlier this year, News | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
International retrieved the 300 odd e-mails and handed them over to the | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
Metropolitan Police inquiry into alleged hacking, so the big | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
question for News International tonight is why, if certain | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
executives all those years ago knew how widespread the malpractices at | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
the News Of The World were, some of its top bosses claim that they were | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
kept in the dark. Rupert Murdoch's San James Murdoch, chairman of News | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
International, said on Thursday that he did not have the complete | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
picture Until recently. They acted on the advice of executives and | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
lawyers with incomplete investigation by. Explaining why Mr | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Murdoch was not told of all of the abuses by the News Of The World is | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
the kind of story that tabloid might have investigated prior to | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
today's last edition. Whether Rebekah Brooks and James Murdoch | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
knew or not, they are still responsible for what goes on on | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
their watch, so it only adds to the misery for Rupert Murdoch for what | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
he has to deal with this week. the e-mails had been passed to this | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
metropolitan police officer, Asst Commissioner John Yates, a few | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
years ago, he might not have refused to reopen the hacking broke | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
in 2009, for which he apologised today. Had they known then what I | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
know now, he told the Sunday Telegraph, all bets are off. In | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
hindsight, there is a shed load of stuff I wish I had known. James | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Murdoch and his father tonight in central London. The other thing on | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
their minds is whether to press ahead for a bid for full control of | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
British Sky Broadcasting in the face of political pressure to | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
suspend the planned takeover. the public have seen the disgusting | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
revelations that we have seen this week, the idea that this | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
organisation which engaged in these terrible practices should be | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
allowed to take over BSkyB, to get 100% of the state, without the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
criminal investigation having been completed and on the basis of | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
assurances from that organisation, that will not wash with the | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
public's. Today, the News Of The World said "Thank you and goodbye" | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
to its loyal readers. There are a growing number of investors who | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
think it may be "Thank you and goodbye" to the Murdochs big | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
ambitions to own all of Britain's biggest broadcaster, Sky. | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
Robert Peston is with me. How much damage will these e-mails do? | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
It is a hugely interesting question for Rupert Murdoch, who has been in | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
the media industry for more than 50 years. I don't suppose he has had a | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
night quite like tonight. We now know that in 2007 News | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
International uncovered e-mails which show that extent of abuses, | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
malpractices, at the News Of The World went far wider than they were | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
probably -- they were publicly saying. We need to know why it is | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
that James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's son, says he was kept in | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
the dark and only got the full picture comparatively recently, and | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
then there is the question for Mr Murdoch of the growing political | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
criticism of his desire to own all of British Sky Broadcasting. It now | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
looks likely there is going to be a possibly majority in the House of | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
Commons in a vote to try to block the deal, or postponed until, until | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
after a police investigation is completed. It is not clear whether | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
that would be binding, but can Rupert Murdoch really ignore the | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
perceived will of Parliament? If he goes along with what Parliament | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
once, it would mean a delay in the takeover for at least two years, | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
and if you are going to delay a bid for two years, most investors would | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
say that is the end of it. So a big 24 hours of decisions for Rupert | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
Murdoch's. Thank you. | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
Gary O'Donoghue is at Westminster for us now. Rupert Murdoch under | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
intense scrutiny, how will it play out in Westminster? | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
If Rupert Murdoch thought closing the News Of The World would turn | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
down the heat on him, he was wrong. There is a lot of pressure on | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
ministers now. The Milly Dowler family will be meeting the Deputy | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Prime Minister tomorrow, questioning him about the inquiries. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
On Tuesday, John Yates of the Metropolitan Police will be | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
questioned by MPs in the House of Commons, and on Wednesday, as | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
Robert pointed out, there will be a debate, sponsored by Labour, | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
calling for a delay. I understand from sources in Whitehall that all | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
of the options are still on the table in terms of the BSkyB | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
takeover, a lot of consultation to be looked. It is still possible it | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
could be referred back to the Competition Commission, which is | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
what Ed Miliband has called for, and if that were to happen it would | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
be embarrassing for the government, but it may be better than Jeremy | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
Hunt, the Culture Secretary, having to make a decision in the early | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
autumn. Thank you. | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Washington has suspended $800 million of military aid to Pakistan | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
in a sign of worsening relations between the two countries. It | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
follows diplomatic tension over the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Navy SEALS in a Pakistani army garrison town and expulsion by | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
Islamabad of more than 100 US military trainers. Rajah smashing | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Darnah reports. This was the bloody aftermath of | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
the secret raid in May when the US killed Osama Bin Laden. But the | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
fact that this was in Pakistan brought murmurs of complicity from | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
the US and anger at America's presence there. As the fall-out | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
continues, Washington has announced it is withholding military aid from | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
its uncomfortable ally. relationship is difficult, but it | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
must be made to work overtime. But until we get through these | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
difficulties, we will hold back some of the money that the American | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
taxpayers have committed. Every year, the US gives around $2 | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
billion of military assistance to Pakistan. Now it says it is holding | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
back more than a third of that, $800 million. Some of the at sought | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
to be in the form of equipment and training by US personnel, the rest | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
payments for Pakistani troops deployed along the Afghan border. | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
America trains the troops at work here, but amid growing tension. | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Pakistan expelled some US military trainers recently and has | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
threatened to close CAB says. If America is using military aid to | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
encourage co-operation, will it work -- close c I a basis. By doing | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
this, Washington is going to be left without any influence with the | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Pakistan army and the people of Pakistan, because this will be seen | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
as a punitive action which is meant to punish Pakistan rather than | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
provide an incentive for corporation. Here, officials say | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
this is not a change in policy. It is a long-term relationship between | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
the countries which is important. Remember, America needs Pakistan to | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
help fight the Taliban. To do that, Pakistan needs America's money. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
Aid agencies in East Africa are being urged to take their work into | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Somalia as it suffers the worst drought in more than half a century. | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
The UN refugee agency says it wants charities to start work in the | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
south of the country where it is claimed militants are prevented | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
desperate families from leaving for aid camps. Mike Wooldridge is in | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
the Kobe camp near the town of Dolo Ado in Ethiopia, where around 10 | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
people are said to be dying every day. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
Somali refugees fleeing into Ethiopia all pass through here, a | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
transit camp close to the border. Cooked in great vats, there is a | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
meal here of meat, rice and potatoes for everyone for up to six | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
days. But the number of refugees has risen so rapidly that often now | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
they are here much longer. Those who are say they are going hungry. | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
It is a bottleneck, bad news for those who are weak and vulnerable | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
on reaching Ethiopia. Convoys of minibuses set off twice a day, | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
heading for the near-miss of the refugee camps. This one took | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
roughly 1,000 refugees to Cove Bay, already nearing its intended | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
capacity of 20,000 -- Kobe camp. That, it now emerges, is far from | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
being its only problem. These are the graves of children in a camp | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
that is so short of tents that many refugees are living among buckthorn | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
bushes. The mother of these four children had just died. The family | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
came to Ethiopia nearly three weeks ago. This family lost virtually all | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
of their livestock from drought in Somalia and came here because they | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
were told they would get relief aid. With many people here and too much | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
wind blowing, he says, it causes colds to get worse and stomach | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
upsets can mean a quick death. We estimate that around 10 children | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
die every day, he says, and aid officials agree. Does this mean | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
there is a disaster in the May King? I think the death rates and | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
mortality rates are extremely high and worry everyone -- is there | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
disaster in the making? If we do not respond quickly to this we will | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
have serious problems. For now, with each day that passes with more | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
refugees arriving, the challenge of staving off disaster here is | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
There was rioting in several towns in Northern Ireland last night. | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
Police say fire officers were injured in Ballyclare in County | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
Antrim when a hijacked bus was crashed into a police vehicle. | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Loyalists are being blamed for the violence. | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
A pleasure boat carrying more than 180 people has sunk in the Volga | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
river in central Russia. Authorities say 84 people were | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
rescued and one passenger is known to have died, but more than 90 | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
people are still unaccounted for, many of them children. The search | :12:57. | :13:07. | |
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is still continuing. It's not yet clear why the boat sank. | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have been visiting an | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
arts centre in a deprived area of Los Angeles and meeting army | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
veterans at the end of their tour of North America. Their itinerary | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
is in contrast to yesterday's events, when British royalty met | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
Hollywood glamour. Our royal correspondent is in Los Angeles. | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
That in the couple are here inside a vast film studio at a jobs fair | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
for American ex-service personnel seeking work. | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Prince William has just praised the men and women who choose of their | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
own free will to lay their life on the line for their country. Last | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
night, as you say, was the glitziest part of this tour, a | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
covering of Hollywood's great and good. | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
Just three months ago, she was Kate Middleton. Now, having married her | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
prince, she is a future Queen being welcomed in a country which does | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
not have a monarchy, but which does have a celebrity culture. | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
Representatives of that culture where there last night and were | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
being upstaged in their own backyard at a BAFTA reception | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
promoting young British talent by a couple from an institution which is | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
meant to be a permanent fixture. Prince William, who is developing | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
as a royal and as a public speaker, talked about the actor who played | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
his great grandfather, George VI in the Oscar-winning film The King's | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
Speech. Before I start, I would like to thank Colin Firth for my | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
perfect opening line. I have a voice. | :14:35. | :14:45. | |
I am glad you got there in the end. This morning, a very different | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
location, an arts project for inner-city children living in one | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
of the poorest areas of the century's known as Skid Row. | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
William and Kate, a former history of art students with access to a | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
palace stuffed with old masters, put that and - if Mac put what they | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
had once learned into practice. William appeared less confident and | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Kate. Neither needs to rely on these skills for future employment. | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
With their creative juices flowing, next stop, a pottery class. The | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
future king looks slightly out of his comfort zone. But such freshly | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
acquired skills may come in handy as and when they embrace family | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
life. They have not put on this rock soundtrack for me. In the | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
coming hours, the couple will leave at the end of an 11 date tour of | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
America and Canada which has reinforced the position of the | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
Duchess of Cambridge at the heart of the British monarchy. | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
Now the sport. Fernando Alonso has won an exciting | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
British Grand Prix. The championship leader Sebastian | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
Vettel finished second. It wasn't such a good day for some of the | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
British drivers. Jenson Button had to retire when a wheel fell off | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
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after a pit stop. So, Formula One is boring, is it? | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
The sport had its critics recently, but you would not have found them | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
at Silverstone. 120,000 watching fans, one watching Royal in special | :16:14. | :16:22. | |
guest Prince Harry. It began with Sebastian Vettel edging ahead of | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
Mark Webber, but the real action they behind. Lewis Hamilton's | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
aggression has got him into trouble this season. Today it got him from | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
tenth place up to third, with an inspired start. But the race | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
ultimately hinged on a pit stop, Fernando Alonso sweeping past the | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
dithering Vettel. As for Jenson Button, the wheels came off his | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
race in literal style. Q1 rather sheepish mechanic. There was no | :16:48. | :16:56. | |
stopping Alonso. But behind him, what drama. Webber was challenging | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
his team-mate of Vettel for second, but to his anger was told to back | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
off. Meanwhile, Hamilton, who had slipped to 4th, battled wheel to | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
wheel with Massa, Hamilton clinging on to the crowd's delight. No | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
British winner for the British fans, but they have enjoyed a thrilling | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
race, thanks to the brilliant Fernando Alonso and a resurgent | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
Lewis Hamilton. For all their efforts, though, Vettel is now 80 | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
points clear in the championship. If this was just a blip in his | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
title procession, it was a hugely entertaining one. | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
The race director of the Tour de France has described as a scandal | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
an accident involving a television vehicle during today's ninth stage, | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
which left a number of riders on the ground. The car, which was | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
filming the leading group, swerved across the road. The riders had no | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
chance to take evasive action. The worst affected was Johnny | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
Hoogerland, who you can see at the back being hurled into a barbed- | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
wire fence. Despite the blood which was pouring from his legs, | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
Hoogerland was bandaged up, got back on his bike and carried on. | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
England's Luke Donald has had the perfect warm-up for this week's | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
Open Championship at Sandwich. The world number-one shot the lowest | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
round of his European Tour career, a nine-under-par 63, to win the | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
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Scottish Open. All this week, we will be bringing | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
you special coverage on the Arab uprising. Here is George Alagiah in | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
Cairo. Protest, crackdown and armed conflict. Six months after the | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
first leader was toppled, we will be reporting from across the region, | :18:38. | :18:43. |