01/10/2012 BBC News at One

A radical shake-up in pensions starts today, the mass enrollment

of workers into retirement schemes. Staff will be automatically signed

up, with money deducted from their pay unless they opt out.

I do think it's a good idea. I remember from being a kid my dad

saying you should be in a pension and make sure you have got money

saved for your future, because no one else will pay for you.

Labour says hundreds of thousands of new homes could be built, with

proceeds from the sale of 4 G mobile phone licences.

A senior police officer appears in court, accused of leaking

information to the News of the world.

Fears that changes to flying rules for airline pilots could put

And one of the most remarkable fight backs in history of the Ryder

Cup. European golfers beat the Americans on home soil by one point.

Later on BBC London: 18 bridges across London will have to be

destroyed and rebuilt if the high- speed Rail Link goes ahead.

If and two teenagers appear in court charged with the murder of

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. Pensions are being

reformed today, in what is being described as the biggest shake-up

of the system in decades. Over the next two years, up to 11 million

people will be enrolled automatically into workplace

pensions and will start making contributions from their pay. Their

employer will also contribute. Simon Gompertz has the details.

It is the biggest change in pensions for decades. 11 million to

be signed up automatically for workplace pensions, an attempt to

reverse a dramatic decline. Most people know they need a pension but

it has been too complicated and too much hassle. This scheme will get

them into saving and get money from their firm and the government and

it is a vital first step to tackling the pensions timebomb.

shift will be most marked in towns like Redcar, the region with the

lowest number saving in company pensions and to many struggling on

just the state pension. Big employers like Morrisons here are

the first to get a green light to annul their staff. Once in, they

have a smaller wage packet to take home but the company will chip in

as well -- and roll their staff. do think it is a good idea. I

remember from being a kid, my dad said you should be in a pension and

make sure you have got money saved for your future, because no one

else will pay for you. It will be a struggle but I think it is one of

those things I have got to do. rules are if you are over 22, your

employer will have 20-year-old you in a pension as long as you are

earning more than �1,105 a year. If you do have the right to opt out

but only after you have been signed up -- earning more than �8,105 a

year. They have to communicate changes at and then we can

automatically involve people. than one in three people here are

contributing to a pension in the workplace. The question is, will

they stick with it? Some fear as many as half could opt out because

they cannot afford the payments. Minimum contributions start low but

rise to at least 4% out of your pay. I cannot afford to put money in a

pension at the minute. She does not work. At my age now I would have to

put too much into it to make it worth my while because I am 50 now.

At the store, it has been the norm to retire on nothing more than your

state pension. If staff do stay with the workplace scheme, it will

be difficult to have an extra income on top.

Simon Gompertz joins me now. Supermarkets are the first to join

the scheme. It is because they are the biggest employers. Morrisons

has 130,000, Tescos, Sainsbury's, others as well. In November,

another few thousand, the threshold goes down to companies which have

50,000 employees. Next year, there will be some months where 2 million

a year a month are being enrolled because it will be the medium-sized

companies where most people work. In five years' time, the smallest

companies will have to be included. And we get to that figure of 11

million new pension savers in five or six years' time. The question is,

how many of those will stick with it, as I was saying. It could be

that 2-5 million will opt out. We are not sure how popular it will be.

Thank you. Labour says 100,000 affordable

homes should be built, using money from the sale of 4G mobile phone

licences. The shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, has just told his party's

conference in Manchester, that the expected windfall of between three

and �4 billion could also pay for the stamp duty holiday for first-

time buyers. Our political correspondent Iain Watson joins us

from Manchester now. Ed Balls has just finished his speech. He was

addressing this particular problem. Labour is ahead in the opinion

polls but if you ask voters, who do you trust to run the economy, or

who to blame for the financial crisis, the answer is far less

positive for the Labour Party. Et also say we can do things different

from the Conservatives but he is also trying to convince us that he

would not spend money the country does not have.

Labour's slogan is rebuilding Britain. The Shadow Chancellor

appears to be taking this literally. He also has to rebuild public trust.

He has been careful to make sure spending commitments were fully

costed. He said if Labour were in power they would build 100,000 new

homes. This would be funded by selling of frequencies for the next

generation of mobile phones. Let's use money from the Ford G sale and

build 100,000 new affordable homes to rent and by creating thousands

of jobs. Let's get our construction industry moving again. That has

gone down well with delegates but it is important to read the small

print. They are not promising to spend any extra money on housing or

anything else if they win the next election in 2015. Hard times are

going to last longer than any of us hope and we cannot promise to put

everything right straight away. Which is why, however difficult

this is, when we don't know what we will inherit, we cannot make any

commitments now that the Labour government will be able to reverse

tax rises or spending cuts, because unlike Nick Clegg, we will not make

promises we cannot keep. That message was not designed to appeal

to the trade unions and it did not. Even before Ed Balls took to the

stage, the leader of one of the country's biggest unions got his

retaliation in first. I say to Ed Balls, asking the poorest for

further sacrifices for a crisis which they did not cause, is the

road to political ruin. Ed Balls and Ed Miliband were in power when

the banks needed to be bailed out and Labour lost its record for

economic competence. Winning it back is more important than keeping

their own supporters happy. What Ed Balls also said was if

Labour took power in 2015, during the first year in office, he would

carry out a root and branch review of public spending and cutting down

on government waste. The Conservatives are saying why does

he not come clean now and tell us what his spending plans would be?

Strangely enough, on this, the unions and the Conservatives agree.

The trade unions want to see far greater commitments this side of

the general election and others will tell me that his speech was

not ambitious enough and they want to see far greater policies which

address the interests of working people from the Labour leadership.

A senior Metropolitan police officer has appeared in court

accused of leaking information to the News of the World. Detective

Chief Inspector April Casburn is the first person to be charged

under Operation Elveden, the investigation into alleged corrupt

payments to public officials. Our home affairs correspondent June

Kelly is at Westminster Magistrates What happened today? We had a

number of people charged with phone hacking. This is the first person

to be charged by Operation Elveden which was a spin-off of the phone

hacking investigation. It is alleged that in September 2010,

April Casburn contacted the News of the World and offered to supply

information. The officer in the dock spoke only to confirm her name,

age and address. There was nobly taken. She is currently suspended

but when she was working she worked in Scotland Yard's specialist

operations director at which covers counter-terrorism. If she was a

former head of the National terrorism financial investigation

unit. She was remanded on bail and will be back in court next month.

Thank you. The mining giant, Xstrata, and the

commodities trading company, Glencore, say they have agreed the

terms of a multi-billion pound merger. It would create one of the

world's biggest natural resources conglomerates and if approved,

would be worth around $90 billion. A private company which carried out

DNA testing has been blamed for a mix up which resulted in an

innocent man being wrongly accused of rape and imprisoned for almost

two months. The forensic science regulator says Adam Scott was the

innocent victim of unavoidable contamination at a lab run by LGC

Forensics. A BBC investigation has found that

the security company G4S was sent warnings not to employ an armed

guard in Iraq just days before he shot dead two colleagues. Danny

Fitzsimons has been jailed for 20 years for the murders in August

2009. There are now calls for G4S to face charges of corporate

manslaughter. Samantha Polling reports.

Former marine, Wigan had been working as an armed contractor in

Baghdad -- Paul McGuigan. He and an Australian, Darren Hoare were shot

dead by fellow contracted Danny Fitzsimons. Danny Fitzsimons had a

record of PTSD diagnosis and was charged with an assault and

firearms offence. But the BBC has learnt the warnings about his

previous convictions and unstable behaviour were sent by a G4S

whistle blower to the company a week before they employed him.

Another email warned others would be put at risk if he was given a

weapon. He fired the bullets, but the gun was put in his hand by G4S

armour grip. They put the gun in that man's hand. I want G4S to be

charged with corporate manslaughter and be held accountable for what

they did. Danny Fitzsimons' parents were shocked to know that G4S may

have been warned about their son. would be so angry. I would be

distraught. Do you still have evidence for that? We have the

emails. They need taking four task -- taking to task for that. G4S say

they were aware of the email allegations but an investigation

showed no such emails were received by their HR department. They did

not say whether anyone else in the company had received them. And

viewers in Scotland can see more on this tonight, in Britain's Private

War on BBC Two Scotland at 9:00pm. Europe's golfers are celebrating

one of the most remarkable victories in the 85 year history of

the Ryder Cup. They beat the United States, on home soil, by one point,

after staging a stunning fightback on the final day, which saw them

win eight of the 12 singles matches. The Prime Minister has

congratulated the team, for what he described as their remarkable

comeback. It was the miracle of Nadina.

Germany's Martin Kaymer or sparking European euphoria. Unbelievably,

the Ryder Cup was theirs. Europe had begun the day 10-6 behind the

odds-on favourite. But early on Luke Donald set the tone beating

Bubba Watson. The first five matches all when you's way. In

Poulter with yet more heroics. -- in Europe's way. Justin Rose

produced one of the putts of the day. It was simply spellbinding.

The USA rallied, edging ahead once again, but Westwood and Garcia held

their nerve as brilliant as the US were brittle. After Martin Kaymer

ensured a draw and the Cup staying in Europe, Tiger Woods' miss meant

an outright win. Inspired by the late Seve Ballesteros, they

performed the ultimate tribute. They were down and out this morning

but they came back like absolute Lions. A to play so well out here

today, knowing Seve is looking down on us, it has just been one of the

most incredible days that I have ever had on the golf course. If you

invoked the spirit of Seve and clearly it was a big part of this

for you and your team, how much does this moment mean to you?

means everything. For him... A and for you? Yes. When I walked on the

outside, I knew, you have to make it. Just make it, don't think of

anything else, just make it. knew we were strong and we were

front loaded, but we were back loaded, we were middle loaded, we

had 12 guys who have played with heart and passion like I have never

seen before. It is incredible. the travelling fans, the tension

had given way to jubilation. It was a day which almost defied belief.

You come along and have a nice day out but what a result! Wow, what a

finish. Good job, Europeans. It is unbelievable. Fantastic. So, what a

champagne moment for Europe. They had looked down and out but somehow,

they have conjured one of the great sporting comebacks. The

celebrations had only just begun. For Europe, victory has rarely

A look at the top story: A radical shake-up in pensions

starts today. The mass enrolment of workers into retirement schemes.

Coming up: The first South Koreaian musician to make it to a UK number

one slot. The video by rapper Psy, has been seen 223 million times.

On BBC London: Mo Farah joins the fight to get more children in

London playing sport. And fancy being a star?

Open.auditions begin to find a now chorist line for a classic West End

musical. Fears have been expressed over

changes to flying rules for airline pilots in Europe. With a suggestion

that they could increase the risk of crashes. The European Aviation

Safety Agency is setting out final proposals for new regulations that

will cover every airline in the European Union. British pilots'

representatives have strongly criticised the planned changes.

Let's talk to Richard Westcott from Heathrow.

Well, British pilots are among the most tightly regulated in the world,

but that is not the case across some countries in Europe,

especially in the south and the east of Europe. What we have today

is a plan to come up a universal set of rules to govern pilot hours

across the whole of the EU. For British pilot it is could mean

longer shifts, they would be more tired. That could lead to accidents.

It is thought that tireness helps to cause around one in five plane

crashes around the world it was a factor in accident in buffalo, New

York, three years ago when more than 50 people died. The European

Aviation Safety Agency has come up with a plan to set a minimum

standard for flying hours across the EU.

But although it will improve things in some countries, British pilots

say they will be working longer shifts. That could cause accidents.

The UK aviation industry is impressively safe, but pilots are

well-placed to see the warning signs. A warning sign that we have

been repeatedly presenting is the risk of pilots falling asleep on

the flight deck. Under these proposals that risk

will increase substantially. Pilot fat eek is a big issue N a

recent survey, nearly half of UK pilots admitted falling asleep by

mistake. A third of them woke up to find the co pilot asleep as well.

These changes will not mean longer fliering hours across a year, but

they will mean longer shifts. Three early starts in a row could

become seven early starts in a row. Pilots could end up working longer

hours across a two-week period, up from 95 to 110. They may have to

fly an hour longer at night. The UK safety regulator, the CAA sports

the plan. Arguing that overall, passengers will be safer than

before. With the recommendations for the

first time, oprairts are going to be legally required to look into

the fatigue of their crews. This will bring safety benefits for the

travelling public. This is still just a final proposal.

It will be at least a year before any new law comes into force.

As I said there, not quite done yet. The European Parliament must

approve. This but this is key, the CAA, the UK regulator is happy with

it. That means that the Government is happy with it. It is almost

certain to become law fully implemented across the EU by

20156789 Thank you, Richard Westcott.

The man accused of supplying a gun to Mark Duggan, whose death after

he was shot by the police sparked the summer riot's last year has

been giving evidence. Kevin Hutchinson-Foster told the court he

had a gun wrapped in a sock a week before the shooting.

Ferry Lane in Tottenham. Mark Duggan lies on the ground

surrounded by paramedics. Moments earlier he had been shot twice by

the police. Also in the footage, filmed by a member of the public,

are the police firearms officers who had intercepted the minicab in

which he was travelling. The incident sparked the Tottenham

riots two days later that spread across London and to other English

cities. This man, Kevin Hutchinson- Foster, is on trial for allegely

supplying Mark Duggan with a gun found at the scene of the shooting.

Kevin Hutchinson-Foster told the court that he and Mark Duggan from

prends, that they would go partying together last year. He said a week

before Mark Duggan was shot, that Kevin Hutchinson-Foster was in

possession of an illegal handgun. He said he had borrowed it for a

day, after becoming involved in an argument with a barber in Hackney.

He said by the time he is accused of giving the handgun to Mark

Duggan he had returned it The police told the court that Mark

Duggan was holding a gun like this when they shot him dead. The gun

was found about ten feet from where he fell to the ground. Kevin

Hutchinson-Foster denies giving Mark Duggan the gun 15 minutes

before the fatal shooting. Unemployment has reached its

highest level in the eurozone for 13 years when the Euro was first

introduced. Nowhere is it higher than Spain. Figures out today

suggest that a quarter of people are out of work and more than half

of all young people are jobless it is one of the major factors behind

the unrest we have seen in recent days on the streets of Madrid.

This has become a noisy... Daily routine.

Every morning, people who work in Spain's public hospitals cut the

traffic on this main road in Madrid. Angry about government cuts, they

are marshaled by the police. This is an indication of how strong

people feel in Spain about the cuts to public health. The government is

cutting billions off the budget, but there is one section of society

that is especially affected by the austerity.

That group is the young. Students like Aida Gutierrez, who

is now studying to become a doctor. When she finally finishes, six

years of study, she will do four as a junior doctor. She knows things

will be harder with ever fewer jobs and resources in Spain's public

health system. I am worried about not finding

anything in my superballity. It is really difficult to study and

work for ten years, then to go into a hospital and not to find anything,

that will be hard. What if you don't find something in

your superballity? I am sure that I will not stay here until someone

calls me. I will go out.

I want to work as a doctor. You will go abroad? Yes.

Then, there are the junior doctors of today.

Dr Anna Romaguera is a psychiatrist, but she is on a temporary contract

with no guarantee of work beyond this month.

When I think I started my superballity. I thought then that I

would have an hour with established work, a permanent job in the public

health, so quite well paid, but I think this is a thing of the past.

The frustration of some of Spain's young spilled over last week. Many

of the governments measures have not even taken effect.

There is likely to be more of this to come.

You can find out more about unemployment across Europe on our

website. Here is the address: Www.bbc.co.uk/youngandjobless.

The historian and best-selling author, hob hob had been has died

in London at the age of 95. He had been suffering from pneumonia. The

historian of revolution from France to 1789 it the Arab Spring, Eric

Hobsbawm was an advocate of change, once describing himself as an

"unrepentant communist". A new National Police Air Service

begins work today with the aim of providing cheaper and more

coordinated helicopter cover across England and Wales. The aircraft

used by the police to track criminals and to monitor major

incidents. Seven bases are being closed. Some crew members claim it

will mean it will take them longer to respond to merges.

Helicopters provide the Police Forces with the ability to gather

suspects from air, to gather evidence and to help locate macing

people. Until now they've been controlled and run by individual

forces, but that is now changing. The dog's dying.

This is the Sussex Police helicopter on a call-out to a

suspected burglary. We have nobody suspicious in the

fields at this time... This is one of the last flights it took from

its own base near Brighton frfplt today the same aircraft will fly

from a different air support base and operated not by the Sussex

force, but the National Police Air Service. The changes will be phased

in over England and Wales, there will be fewer aircraft. They will

take off from fewer centres, but those behind the new service say it

will be more efficient, not hampered by the county or the

police area borders. We are still flying the same number

of hours but with fewer aircraft. So each individual aircraft flies

more hours. We have made changes to the bases, so that they are more

strategic, covering a greater area. With border last tasking, the

nearist aircraft will attend. The aircraft will be controlled

from a centre in West Yorkshire. The Association of chief police

officers says that the changes are expected to save �15 million a year.

It says that the National Police Air Service will be able to get a

helicopter to 98% of the population in 20 minutes. Thou a former police

officer questions whether that will be the case in some areas in the

early hours of the morning. There will be huge areas of the

country such as the north-east of England. The whole of Wales and the

south-west of England that after 3.00am, there will be no cover

available for those front line police officers and members of the

public. ACPO says that the plan will

provide every force in England and Wales with access to air support 24

hours ada. -- a day.

It has been given the thumbs up by the likes of Tom Cruise, Katy Perry

and Robbie Williams, now it has swept to the top of the UK singles

chart, becoming the most-liked view of all time. What is it? Well it is

called 'Gangnam Style'. It is by a rapper Psy from South Korea.

This report contains flash photography.

The ridiculousy catchy tune with its over the top video has become a

global phenomena. The song talks of little else but

what exactly is 'Gangnam Style'. It doesn't have any meaning,

actually. I am just saying 'Gangnam Style'. It does not have that much

meaning, it is about some ladies, some men, you know, dressing less

classy and dancing cheesey. The video pokes fun at the cliches

of many pop promisows has been viewed more than 300 million times

on YouTube and attracted the likes of more than in -- than any other

in history. The video drives this, the video is

funny. People have picked up on it. Huge celebrities like Tom Cruise,

Katy Perry and Robbie Williams. Psy got to teach Britney his

trademark horse dance on American And that kind of support may well

help him achieve the next huge step of landing a number one single on

both sides of the Atlantic. Well, we will all be doing it soon,

won't we?! Well, Nick is here with the weather. It has been raining

for most of us, but that picture for most of us, but that picture

looks optimistic? This is a scene from this time last year. Last year

we were in a heatwave at this time the year. It peaked on this day in

Gravesend in Kent. It was 29.9 Celsius, well above the

average for the time of year. This represents a new UK October record.

Jump forward, and has you hinted it is so different this time. This

year the temperatures are struggling. We have had a brisk

wind. We have had rain, showers, everything about this weather says

autumn. Here is why. Low pressure that will

be there for much of the week. Showers and longer spells of rain

coming. That is has it has been today. Damp in the south-east. The

showers in the west if you are lucky a bit of sunshine inbetween

the showers this afternoon. This is how it is looking at 4.00pm. The

showers heavy at times, moving quickly on the brisk winds through

south-west England and Wales. One or two showers in the north-west of

England. Brightening up over the next hour. In Northern Ireland a

lull, but there are more heavy showers pushing through from the

west as the afternoon goes on. Over western Scotland, showers merge to

give a longer spell of rain later. In the east of Scotland you are

avoiding the showers into the north-east of England too. Fewer

showers compared to elsewhere. A fewer filtering in the Midlands.

Brightness in East Anglia, possibly to London later in the day, but in

Sussex and Kent it is dull, damp and drab throughout. The rain not

clearing until we get into the evening. Elsewhere, there will be

further showers overnight. Especially in the north and the

west. Maybe with a rumble of thunder. It is breezy, there are

clearer spells in the south and the east. Temperatures dripping down

into single figures for some but not especially cold.

In the north-west, showers giving a longer spell of rain. Pushing away,

followed by more as the day goes on tomorrow, giving a longer spell of

rain to Northern Ireland, Wales, and western England, moving to the

east late in the afternoon and into the evening. In south-west of

England a drier day. Sunshine in northern Scotland. It will be

breezy and cool though. On Wednesday I have changed the day

but not the weather. Wet for a time in the far south-east. Windy too.

Showers in the north and the west and the temperatures struggling. No