13/10/2012 BBC Weekend News

A new inquiry in the Jimmy Savile scandal, over the decision to give

him a senior role at Broadmoor Hospital in the 1980s. Former

patients say Savile abused them after he was given keys to the

institution. Protests against poverty. The IMF urges world

leaders to take bold steps to stimulate growth. Andy Murray

smashes his way to the final of the Shanghai Masters beating Roger

Federer in straight-sets. A sedate pace for space Shuttle Endeavour's

final journey as it heads for Good evening. The Department of

Health is to investigate its decision to appoint Jimmy Savile as

head of a taskforce overseeing Broadmoor Hospital in the late

1980s. Former patients say they were assaulted by the presenter

after he was given the keys to the institution. The police say they

are now following more than 300 lines of inquiry into allegations

of sexual abuse by the television presenter over several decades.

Jimmy Savile was a volunteer at Broadmoor for years, starting

probably in the late 1960s. In a television documentary he spoke of

the work he did with the hospital's patients, including some of

Britain's most notorious criminals. I found I had great rapport with

the patients down there. We found an instinctive friendship,

regardless of what they'd done, because there comes a time when you

have to forget what somebody's done and get on with the job of trying

to fix them back up, or repairing the damage to their minds that

caused them to do these dreadful things in the first place. In 1988,

when the hospital's management team was suspended, Savile was asked to

head up a taskforce to run the place for a time. Today the

Department of Health announced an investigation. In a statement it

Savile's reputation as a charity fundraiser protected him from

scrutiny. One former Broadmoor patient claims to have been

molested by him on one of his wards. He put his hands up my night dress

and sexually assaulted me. There was nothing I could because of

where I was twofplt other patients witnessed. It we could do nothing.

If we stood up and said, you know, look what he's doing, they would

have punished us and not believed us. Many of the institutions with

which Jimmy Savile was connected, including the BBC, could now face

legal claims for compensation from his victims despite the years that

have elapsed. There have been plenty of cases in recent years,

cases against the Catholic Church, against schools and children's

homes. What the compensation would be for would be for their

psychiatric injury. One newspaper today claims ChildLine founder

Esther Rantzen was alerted to his activities. She says she has no

memory of that, though there were rumours. I think Fleet Street knew

about it. I'm told the NHS knew about it. I think the music

industry knew about it. When I say "knew", they heard rumours. Real

knowledge is based on disclosure by a child or by a witness who had

seen something. At Broadmoor, where ITV once filmed Jimmy Savile in his

office, it seems the rumours went unregarded by those responsible.

The Ministry of Defence is veging claims tonight that senior retired

military officials, including the former commander of the Navy,

offered to influence MPs and civil servants on behalf of arms

companies. Offers that were apparently in some cases in breach

of Whitehall rules. Chris mason is here. Tell us more? This is an

investigation the Sunday Times is publishing tomorrow on the basis of

a number of videos they have recorded undercover of a number of

former senior Ministry of Defence officials. In those videos, we

haven't seen them all, they push these former senior heads of the

Army and Navy and other parts of the military, to see if they would

be of use to this lobbying company to be hired to see if their access

would be something that was for hire. I have seen one of the videos

in which the former Commander-in- Chief of the Royal Navy is filmed.

He says "I know all of the ministers. I have some restrictions.

Two years after leaving I am not meant to lobby ministers, but I can

see them. ." He the context of this is that former members of the

Ministry of Defence on standing down have to wait for two years.

There is a two year period before they are able to work in the

private sector. What is the Ministry of Defence saying about it

now? We are a statement from the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond.

They will look into this. Philip Hammond in the statement said says

that equipment is procured in the interests of the armed forces.

Former ministers have no influence over what MoD contracts are awarded.

The context is an ongoing concern at Westminster about lobbying. Two

years ago David Cameron said he feared lobbying would be the next

big scandal to come to Westminster. A big issue for the previous

governments, former Labour ministers were involved in a

similar sting a couple of months ago. The problem for the political

classes, regardless of whether rules are broken, this just doesn't

look good. Thank you. The head of the International Monetary Fund has

urged world leaders to take immediate bold action to stimulate

growth. Christine Lagarde warned that the global economy was

decelerating and said both Europe and the United States were taking

too long to come up with solutions to their debt problems. The call

came on the final day of the meeting of the International

Monetary Fund Android finance ministers in Tokyo. Even the anti-

globalisation protesters seemed to be suffering from the world

economic downturn. The handful that turned out today seemed lacking in

energy. A bit like the world economy. As she closed the annual

IMF meeting today, Christine Lagarde asked for governments to

act now to create jobs. You have to know that, as part of my job, I

have to understand what we need to do and I have to have some views

and make recommendations as to what the members can do in order to

improve the overall economic situations, consolidate recovery

and create jobs. Lag laling lag said the economic recovery is under

threat from three directions. The eurozone, reforms are being held up

by opposition from the street and the complexity of getting 17

countries to act together. Secondly, from America. The election means

Washington is distracted and is doing nothing to deal with

America's huge public debt. That is creating uncertainty. Finally, from

countries like China and Brazil, until this year their economies

were still the engine of world growth, now they too are slowing.

The top Chinese officials didn't even both tore turn up. There have

been no new big ideas. There is a real sense of urgent si from here

that governments around the world need to do more. Christine Lagarde

is so worried about the stauling world recovery she thinks

governments should slow down on austerity if it's killing jobs and

growth. George Osborne and the German Finance Minister disagree.

They say sticking to austerity and tough reforms is the only way. The

The senior Labour backbench MP Sir Stuart Bell has died. He was 74 and

had been suffering from pancreatic cancer. He was elected to represent

Middlesborough in 193 and went on to hold the seat through seven

general elections. He was knighted in 2004 for his services to

Parliament. Church leaders are launching a campaign which they

hope will inspire a million more black voters to go to the polls in

the next general election. Churches with majority black Kong agree

gaitions are growing in size and influence. Leaders say they are

confident of meeting the target in time to affect the outcome in

manymargina constituencies by 2015. Inner city Birmingham is blighted

by unemployment, poverty and child but New Testament Church of God is

crowded and buzzing with energy. New Testament Church of God leaders

say they can translate the power of faith into political influence.

your rights or use your privilege, that means vote. Some four in ten

black people are not even registered to vote. For many who

are, voting seems pointless. Always seems nothing changes, no matter

who you vote for. I don't see the point in it. Politicians and

community leaders have struggled to get black people to use their vote.

Now they believe they have found a way of making the black vote count.

Political activists claim that black and ethnic minority vote

could swing the vote in 100 of the most marginal constituencies. Some

people doubt that black voters could make that difference? Most of

the constituencies which are marginal between two parties are

mostly constituencies with very small black populations. That said,

there are some places in London where it could make a difference.

One non-party campaign group claims discrimination against black people

in housing, jobs and education is built into the economic and social

system. He says black Britons need to learn from the way Martin Luther

King empowered black Americans. are doing the same here with the

faith groups, with the street pastors and the community groups to

demand justice, demand opportunity. We want to play our role. In black

communities wrestling with deprivation churches have been a

success story. They insist their energy can bring black people to

the ballot box and change their lives. Now, the sport. It's been

another positive weekend for British tennis. It could get even

better. Starting with the men's game. Andy Murray will face Novak

Djokovic in the final of the Shanghai Masters tomorrow. Murray

beat the world number one Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 in today's semi-

final. The smallest of margins can be the difference between winning

and losing at this level, just ask Andy Murray, often mystified by

Roger Federer in the past. That appears to be changing. A break in

the first game fuelled his confidence. When Federer hit three

double faults in a row, to gift wrap the first set, everyone

started to believe. Murray has clearly got under the world number

one's skin. Constantly under pressure, Federer had no answer to

his power and precision. Two rain delays didn't affect Murray, he

closed out the match. In this form a third Shanghai Masters title in

succession almost looked inevitable. Murray must not want this year to

end. Heather Watson is through to her first WTA Final at the Japan

Open. She is also in the doubles final. Theo Walcott will miss

England's World Cup qualifying match against Poland on Tuesday. He

injured his chest in a collision with San Marino's goalkeeper during

last night's 5-0 win. England are currently top of their group after

three games. The Heineken Cup kicked off this weekend weekend.

Saracens thrashed Edinburgh 45-0 and Connaught beat Zebrey19-10. The

scores were level at half time, Quinns restored their energy levels

over the break. They ran three tries to secure a bonus point.

Things were far closer in Paris. The hosts were given hospitality by

the visitors, Munster. Add in French footballing skills and the

Irish side were behind. The Munster men went slipping and sliding

through late on to score a decisive try. How important might that be

for Munsters chances. Scarlet's trip wasn't any more productive.

John stand sction tonne was needed to rescue his team. Exeter had a

chance at a point. A last-minute 48 meter penalty would have been some

story line. Heineken Cup reality is a different matter. Audley

Harrison's professional boxing career looks to be over after he

was knocked out in the first round of his British and Commonwealth

heavyweight title fight with fellow Britton David Price. Harman said if

he lost tonight he would consider retiring. Endeavour has made its

final journey, being driven through the streets of Los Angeles on the

back of a 160-wheel lorry to a museum where it will go on display.

Boldly or cautiously it has never gone here before. Squeezing through

the streets of Los Angeles, it's one final mission after 299 days in

space was a more down-to-earth trip to retirement at ical forn why's

Science Museum. What a reaction? Amazing. Imagine this in the sky.

Now, I have it in my neighbourhood. It's beautiful. It's amazing. It is

giving everybody a chance to see something they would never see.

Fantastic. It's history in the making. I'm glad that my kids are

part of this history. Endeavour arrived in Los Angeles last month

with a final fly-past. Most of the shuttle was built in California, so

this really is a homecoming. They had to cut down 400 trees to clear

the route, to lift power lines and lower traffic lights. It's an

impressive way to bow out, the end of a generation of man space travel.

The immediate future for American aust row noughts is commercial

space taxis or hitching a ride on a Russian rocket. There is promise of

deep space missions maybe to Mars, but money is short. It's not a

priority. It's take an year to plan this move, it's a great excuse for

people to celebrate such an important piece of American space

history. The main news. The Department of Health is to

investigate it is decision to appoint Jimmy Savile as head of a

taskforce overseeing Broadmoor Hospital in the late 1980s

following allegations there of sexual abuse. You can see more on

all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel. From me and the team

Tomorrow could be the dryer of the weekend for many of you, fewer

showers are in the forecast. It could be a chilly start to the day,

especially in gales -- England and Wales. We will keep showers most of

the coasts through the night. For Northern Ireland some longer spells

of rain. Thicker cloud to Scotland should keep temperatures up. For

the clearer skies for England and Wales not only will the fog become

a problem, there will be a frost as well. A crisp start for many on

Sunday morning. There will be sunshine overhead for some. Western

parts of Wales overnight showers will continue into the morning.

Thick fog to eastern parts of Wales, Midlands and into northern England.

A grey start to some in the south- east. A damp start too in Northern

Ireland, the rain will be easing off. Scotland, after some cloudy

days, it is looking brighter. The best of the sunshine to the west.

We will see showers in the east, brightness in between. The eastern