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Hello. Good evening. The former Chief Executive of News | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
International, Rebekah Brooks, has been arrested on suspicion of | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
involvement in phone hacking and bribing police officers for | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
information. Mrs Brooks, who resigned on Friday, was arrested at | :00:34. | :00:43. | |
lunch time after going to a London police station by appointment. With | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
the latest, here's our business editor Robert Peston. His Rory | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
McIlroy roar. The most powerful woman in | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
newspapers, Rebekah Brooks, quit from Rupert Murdoch's News | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
International on Friday, today arrested on suspicion of phone | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
hacking and corruption. She started to face barrage of criticism eight | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
months ago when there were allegation the News of the World | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
had hacked the phone of Milly Dowler. Here's the lawyer for the | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
Dowler family. The arrest is so important. It's | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
the first time we have seen someone at a real management-directer level | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
that there are no holds barred. This is now going to be a full | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
investigation going to the very top of the company. Mrs Brooks is the | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
10th person to have been arrested in relation to allegations that the | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
News of the World instigated phone hacking and bribery of the police. | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
On July the 8th, Clive Goodman, the paper's former Royal editor, was | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
arrested on suspicion of making illegal payments to the police. The | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
same day, Andy Coulson, the former editor of News of the World and | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
until January David Cameron's Director of Communications at | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Number Ten Downing Street was arrested on suspicion of phone | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
hacking and corruption. Neil Wallis, who went on to be a PR advisor to | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
the police, was arrested, then today came the arrest of Rebekah | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
Brooks. She had a strikingly close relationship with Rupert Murdoch, | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
the chairman and owner of the media empire that owns News International. | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
He said protecting her was his priority. James McAvoy, Rupert | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Murdoch and Mrs Brooks are all supposed to give evidence to the | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Culture, Media and Sport Committee. Now that she has been arrested, she | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
may be constrained on what she can say. The concern is this is a | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
little bit veen. It might mean Rebekah Brooks and the Murdochs are | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
unable to avoid questioning Tuesday in committee. I don't think that'll | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
wash. I don't think it will work. Few in the media were as friendly | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
as Mrs Brooks - the most powerful in the land. They may be a bit | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
relieved if she can't give very public evidence to MPs Tuesday. As | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
for Rupert and James Murdoch, for them she was something of a human | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
shield. With her arrest and in spite of her claim she knew nothing | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
of the systematic alleged malpractices at the News of the | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
World, the pressure on them to explain precisely what they knew | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
and when will only intensify. There's growing pressure on the | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Metropolitan Police over its handling of the hacking inquiry. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Tomorrow the Home Secretary, Theresa May, will make a statement | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
about the relationship between the Met and a public relations company | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
run by a former News of the World journalist, Neil Wallis. He has | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
been arrested in connection with phone hacking. The pressure is on | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
the man at the top, Sir Paul Stevenson, more questions over his | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
judgment. It's his links to the criminal suspect Neil Wallis which | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
drew him into the scandal. This time last year, the former News of | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
the World executive was working for Sir Paul and the Met Police. Three | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
days ago they arrested him. The two men both have a link to Champneys | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
Health Spa. Neil Wallis has been doing PR for them. Earlier this | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
year Sir Paul stayed here for five weeks courtesy of the boss, who is | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
a family friend, while recuperating from surgery. The Met paid for his | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
physiotherapy. Scotland Yard says he did not know then about the | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
Wallis collection and has declared the stay. But concern now about how | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
the public is viewing all of this... I think when the public starts | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
losing faith in the police, it's altogether much more sear you, and | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
we really are in some trouble. That's why I think it's very | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
important that the Commissioner should answer the questions which | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
have been put to him. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has already | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
demanded a explanation as to Neil Wallis's role at the Meet. She's | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
said to still have some concerns. Tomorrow she'll make a statement in | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
the Commons. Let's get the thoughts now of our | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
business editor Robert Peston. Where on earth do today's | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
developments leave News International? I have been utterly | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
immersed in this story now for a fortnight. One of the things that | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
has been very, very clear to me has been how important it has been for | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
News International and also for Rupert Murdoch personally - the de | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
facto founder of this extraordinary media empie, News Corporation, that | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
owns News International, to protect Rebekah Brooks. The whole thrust of | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
their strategy has been to say that what went wrong at the News of the | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
World was confined to executives close to the News of the World and | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
to those working directly for the News of the World, but senior | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
people, like Mrs Brooks, much higher up the chain, the Chief | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Executive of News International - the whole thrust of what they have | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
been trying to do was prove that she was ignorant of all of that. | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
Now, today's arrest completely blows up that strategy. And it's | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
therefore terribly, terribly damaging both to News International | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
and to Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch because if her | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
defence of saying she knew nothing about it, nonetheless, led to her | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
arrest, there have got to be concerns that perhaps the Murdochs, | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
who themselves say they knew nothing about what was going on - | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
that there will be really difficult further questions for them to | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
answer. Robert, thank you for now, Robert Peston. | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
Now the rest of the news: The Defence Select Committee of MPs has | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
strongly criticised the British military deployment to Afghanistan | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
five years ago, saying that too few troops were sent and they didn't | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
have the right equipment. Their report came as political and | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
military leaders met in the central province of Bamiyan as it became | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
the first to be handed over to Afghan police by NATO troops. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Northern Ireland's dare thairs won the 140th Open Championship at | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Royal St Georges despite strong wind and rain. Clarke held on to | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
his overnight lead to win by three shots and lift the Claret Jug - | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Darren Clarke. Tim Franks reports from Sandwich. This was Darren | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
Clarke's 20th attempt to win the Open. Swirling around him on the | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
Kent coast was a surge of goodwill. A rescued par on first was followed | :07:19. | :07:29. | |
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two. But behind the big fellow from Northern Ireland was a bear from | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
America. Phil Mickelson was on the rampage - three birdies, and then | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
this for eagle on the seventh. Half an hour later, it was Darren | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
Clarke's turn. Same green, same result. The sun was shining on the | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
leader, if not on everyone else. As the chasing pack lost their teeth, | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
Darren Clarke's win was just like his figure, comfortable. | :07:59. | :08:07. |