15/01/2013 BBC News at One

More than 4,000 jobs at risk as HMV calls in the administrators. The

trouble music and DVD retailer has fallen victim to online competitors

and supermarkets. Banned from wearing a cross at work,

the European Court of Human Rights rules that British Airways did

discriminate against an employee's Christian beliefs.

It means that Christians can move around more freely in their

workplace. Depressing, the governor of the

Bank of England's verdict on the bankers trying to delay their

bonuses to save on tax. Cut by �4,000, the starting salary

for police officers is to be slashed as the Home Secretary

approves controversial reforms. Women with a family history of the

breast cancer could be driven drugs to prevent the disease.

And get to go grips with the wonder product that is stronger than steel

and diamonds. You could have a computer screen

that you could fold up like paper. No wonder people are talking about

it as a material that could revolutionise the way we make

The independent police watchdog considers a complaint against the

Mayor's deputy over a redevelopment scheme in Earl's Court.

And the inquest continues into a deadly tower block fire in

Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at one.

Over 4,000 jobs are at risk as HMV calls in the administrators. Like

two other big name high street chains, Jessops and Comet it has

fallen victim to supermarkets and online competitors. HMV vouchers

and gift cards have become worthless.

Here is our business correspondent, Emma Simpson.

It is the flagship store in London's West End. The doors opened

as usual this morning, but for how long?

The Christmas sale is still on. But for a long time now this much loved

retailer hasn't been able to keep up with the competition.

I think it is a real shame. I like to buy physical CDs. You can buy

them online, but I like to go to a place and buy the record.

No one goes into the music shop to buy buy CDs anymore.

I think it is really sad. It was a prestige company when I was a child.

Gracy Fields pressing her four millionth disc. HMV has come a long

way. Over the decades, it became one of the best known names on the

high street. It is the HMV sale.

A business once valued at over �1 billion, but HMV failed to adapt to

the digital revolution. It is easy to point the fingers at

Amazon or Play Doum, -- Play Dom, but it is consumer habit.

Christmas was make or break, but sales proved dispinting. --

disappointing, HMV bosses said they were hopeful that a solution could

be found. Will this household name go the same way as Comet and

Jessops and disappear from the high street? Administrators will try to

fin a buyer for all or at least part of the business, but even if a

rescue of sorts is possible, store closures seem inevitable. It is yet

another blow to our trucked high streets and shopping centres. With

239 stores, the demise of HMV will leave a big gap to fill.

This could be the final straw for many of the high streets. Meaning

that, landlords, local authorities, and other interested parties have

got to come together to work out what can be done with the high

streets. In the meantime, jobs are being

lost. Here in Warrington, former workers at Jessops have resorted to

sticking their pictures in the store window in a desperate bid to

A British Airways employee who was sent home without pay when she

refused to take off a cross at work has won her case at the European

Court of Human Rights. Nadia Eweida, says she jumped for joy when she

she heart the court's ruling, that BA had discriminated against her

because of her religion, but three other Christians lost their cases.

This was the cross that got Nadia Eweida suspended from her job as a

British Airways check-in clerk. Her victory confirmed that Christians

could see wearing a cross as a way of expressing they're beliefs.

Nadia Eweida was awarded 6,000 euros in compensation compensation

and lost pay. Christians can can move around more

freely in their workplace without discrimination.

A Christian nurse, lost her case. Her employers said the cross she

wore on the ward was unhygienic and Gary McFarland, a counsellor lost.

He was sacked when he refused to counsel gay couples about their

sexual relationships. And a register lost her case. Mr

McFarlane is trying to rebuild his career as an independent counsellor.

Today's judgement gives discretion to employers to override the

religious concerns of staff. The implications, really, I think,

a lot of Chrisians will remain hidden. Will remain unable to

exercise the minimum expressions of their faiths because of the

intimidation effect. Christian groups claim the courts

judgement undermines freedom of conscience, secularists say it was

sensible. We're delighted they they haven't

resulted in the creation of a hierarchy of religious rights with

gay people badly affected by that. Today's judgement sets a legal seat

on years in which Christians have gone to British courts and tried

unsuccessfully to defend their values against secular ones. It

confirms that although people are entitled to hold religious

religious beliefs, they won't be allowed to infringe the rights of

The governor of the Bank of England hit out at City Citibankers who

have considered deferg bonuses -- deferring bonuses to avoid the top

rate of a tax. . It would be a rather clumsy and

rather lacking in care and attention to how other people might

react and in the long run, financial institutions like all

large institutions do depend on goodwill from the rest of society.

Hugh Pym is here. Strong words from Sir Mervin today. It is banks like

Goldman Sachs he is pointing the finger at. Explain what has been

going on? Strong words, indeed. Those were note worthy, the

comments he made there. The background to this is the top rate

of tax is being cut from 50 pence in the pound pound to 45 pence in

the the pound in April. Gold Gold man Goldman Sachs is known to be be

deferring bonuses and that may save bankers a few thousand pounds.

Other banks are considering it. Some British banks decided not to

do it because of public opinion against this thing not least in the

wake of the Starbucks case and rows over corporation tax not being paid,

but Sir Mervin's words will make the bankers sit up and think again.

The starting salary for police officers is to be cut after the

Home Secretary approved a package of controversial changes today. The

starting pay for police constables will be reduced by �4,000 to

�19,000 a year. Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds joins me.

A controversial move, but is the devil in the detail? Well, it is

Sophie. Certainly and controversial which many it had to be considered

by a police arbitration panel and it is that panel's recommendation

that is the Home Secretary is today agreeing. As you say, cutting the

�23,000 or so police constable starting salary to �19,000, but

here is the detail - people who join the police who have some

experience, for example, being a special or a PCSO, so having

volunteered or worked on a lower salary to be a police officer can

get an increase. They can get back up to �23,000 once they start

working as a full police officer. And the other change which will

affect officers as they go through their career is that it will be

quicker for them to get to the higher basic salary of �36,000.

They are reducing the number of pay grades from 10 to seven. So that

will benefit some police officers, but this is controversial. The

Police Federation says it is disappointed, but it accepts that

there has been a full consideration of these proposals. I think the

reason this is possible is that actually police forces are not

recruiting in the numbers they used to and when they recruit they have

plenty of the specials and PCSOs to chose from and as as one chief

constable said they were overwhelm with recruits.

There were more disturbances in Belfast last night over the

decision to limit the number of times the Union flag with fly at

Belfast City Hall each year. A bus bus driver was injured when

protesters attempted to hijack two buses. One police officer was

injured. Women with a family history of

breast cancer could be offered preventive medication if approved,

the guidelines from the regulator Nice would apply to -- NICE would

apply to patients in England and Wales from this summer.

Breast cancer cells. What makes them grow in one person and not

another? Scientists are still trying to understand the many

factors, but they know up to 3% of women over 30 are at higher risk

and for the first time, those women maybe offered a drug to reduce

their chance of getting cancer. Emma has been blogging about her

experience. She found out she had a faulty gene that put her at high

risk of breast cancer. So high, she decided to have a double mastectomy

to cut that risk. Now she knows her daughter, who will have a similar

risk, may have the option of taking a tablet to reduce her chances of

cancer. I think today is a very exciting

day. I think there is a future we can see now where there will be

specific drugs which can be related to different risks and I think that

in the future, yes, women might not need to have the surgery that I had.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in thic. Around 50,000 women

are diagnosed each year along with 400 men. A strong family -- family

link, having many relatives who have had the cancer means there is

a higher risk. Tests or a family history can prevent that risk. For

the first time a drug could be given to healthy women at higher

risk to prevent them developing breast cancer. This is a really

exciting development. It is a historic step in the prevention of

breast cancer because it is the first time that drugs have been

recommended for use in this way in the UK. It is really important that

women with a family history of breast cancer have options.

Most women will just be offered standard screening once they are

over the age of 50. That is because it is not worth taking drugs if you

are not at higher risk. But women who are at higher risk could in

future have more choice about how to stay healthy.

A jury at the Old Bailey heard how nine men deliberately targeted

young girls in Oxford. The men deny charges including rape and

organising Prost at this time Tuesday -- prostitution.

Alison Holt is at the Old Bailey. Nine men are accused of sexually

exploiting six girls over seven years. One of the victims says she

was living in a nightmare which was almost impossible to escape from.

The jury has been told that the men targeted vulnerable girls using

threats and extreme violence to control them.

Oxford is best known for its dreaming spires and academic

achievement, but today's case centres on a brutal, hidden world,

where it is claimed girls as young as 11 were sexually exploited by a

group of men. It is alleged they targeted girls

whose lives were out of control, often focusing on children's homes.

The nine men were arrested last year after a major police operation.

They are accused of abusing six girls.

The men face a total of 51 charges including seven counts of raping a

child under 13. Five are for facilitating child prostitution and

five counts of trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation. It

is claimed in guest houses and private homes in Oxford, the girls

were abused by the men. It is alleged they had been groomed,

given gifts and attention and plied with alcohol and drugs. The nine

The court has also been told that other men came from as far afield

as Bradford, Leeds, London and Slough to abuse the girls by

appointment. It's also alleged that the girls were taken to other

cities in the UK for the same reason. The case is expected to

last for at least eight weeks. Thank you very much.

Our top story: More than 4,000 jobs at risk as HMV calls in the

administrators. The troubled music and DVD retailer, like other big

high street names, has fallen victim to online competitors and

supermarkets. Coming up: Gordon Strachan is unveiled as the new

Scotland manager, promising that a World Cup place is still within

reach. Later on BBC London: The

Metropolitan Police warns Londoners about street robberies as hundreds

of mobile phones are stolen in the city every day. And a yellow box

junction which has earned Hammersmith and Fulham council

The UN Security Council has given strong backing to France's military

intervention in the West African country of Mali - where the

government is fighting Islamist rebels. French officials say they

are planning to increase its forces from 750 to 2,500 troops. Britain

has sent transport aircraft to support the operation. Frank

Gardner reports. French warplanes have been in

action again over Mali carrying out air strikes on rebel positions

around a town seizeded from the Government yesterday. French

commanders say they're surprised by the strength of rebel resistance.

Some with with hreurpbgs to al- Qaeda. The -- links to al-Qaeda.

The air strikes look set to continue. TRANSLATION:

Last night we carried out more successful strikes and achieved our

objectives. We have full confidence in the operational speed with which

we will be able to hold the aggressors and the terrorists first

and foremost. France has rushed hundreds of troops to Mali with

thousands more on the way. The RAF has been helping them fly in

reinforcements. They're due to be joined by west African soldiers in

a bid to roll back the advances made by rebel Islamist forces that

have taken over much of the country. This whole French military

deployment has been very sudden. Why the urgency? Well, for sometime

now there's been a fear that northern Mali was becoming a save

haven for extremist militants who could eventually plan attacks

against Europe. Last week, with little warning, they started

advancing towards the capital, which risked giving them control

over the whole country. That's caused several French families to

evacuate. In this former French colony, there are 6,000 citizens

living in the capital alone. Al- Qaeda -linked rebels already hold

eight French hostages and their fate is uncertain. France has full

UN backing for this operation. Nobody wants a failed state awash

with weapons. But the question is how long can they stay? Protecting

the capital has been relatively easy but dislodging the rebels from

a territory the size of Spain could take months, maybe years.

Our correspondent Mark Doyle is one of the few international

journalists in Mali's capital, Bamako. What is the latest there?

The latest information I can confirm is that the French air

campaign has continued in at least two locations. The French President

has talked about a number of successful strikes, he says, but I

can confirm from my sources that they attacked at least two places

in the last 24 hours or so. The other major development is west

African military chiefs have been meeting here and have pledged to to

bring soldiers here to help with the French effort backing the

Government army. There are questions about when they'll arrive

and what equipment they'll have but the beginnings of an African

response to this crisis have now begun. Thank you very much. The

Supreme Court in Pakistan has ordered the arrest of the prime

minister on corruption charges, relating to his time as Minister

for Water and Power. The judges gave their ruling as thousands of

demonstrators gather in Islamabad to demand the government steps down.

Around 25,000 elephants were killed in 2011 - despite an international

ban on the trade in ivory that's been in place since 1990 and it's

thought the number killed last year will be even higher. Half of all

illegal ivory ends up in China, where growing prosperity is helping

to fuel a boom in the trade. Our correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse

reports from Kenya's Nairobi National Park.

The elephants' final moments are traced in blood. Blackened under

the scorching Kenyan sun. By the time we came upon their

rotting carcasses, the animals had been dead for several days. The

poachers had gunned them down with rifles. The rangers say they

haven't seen slaughter on this scale since the 1980s, nine

elephants here killed in one day. Indeed, across Africa the numbers

of elephants being poached are at their highest for two decades. The

kind of mass killing that we see here is the direct consequence of

an increase in the price and demand for ivory. On the other side of the

continent, on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, there is an indication of

what's fuelling this globalised business. The ever growing Chinese

presence. Campaigners say increasing demand in a prospering

China has helped turn Lagos into the largest retail centre for

illegal identify other -- ivory on the continent. It's moving from

Kenya, into Nigeria. They're exporting tusks to China. Tusks

coming in and going out. Ivory going in and out. Ivory being made.

At one of the main markets in Lagos we went to see for ourselves.

These are all ivories? Wearing a hidden camera, a colleague from the

BBC's Chinese service is immediately approached by a number

of ivory traders. I give you 100 kilos. One man

offers to supply him with tusks in carved ivory in bulk, to be

smuggled back to China. Back in Kenya, armed rangers risked

their lives trying to protect the elephants. It's a dangerous job, if

they encounter poachers, they say, it's a question of shoot or get

shot. A poacher, he just kill. It's only way to protect animals, to

kill poachers. The conservationists are warning in Kenya these majestic

animals could soon disappear from the wild altogether. In a country,

indeed a continent, where guns are plentiful and poverty widespread,

the rewards of poaching quite simply outweigh the risks.

Gordon Strachan has been confirmed as the new Scotland manager. He

takes over from Craig Levein, who left in November, following a

disastrous start to Scotland's World Cup qualifying campaign.

club you you go to there is always challenges, this is the first time

the challenge is on behalf of a nation. Also the rewards to that

are if you can be successful, you make a nation happy. And make a

nation proud. So, that is the factor for me, to be able to do

that and I have to try and do that. Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna

Gordon is at Hampden Park. There's a feeling he's been

overlooked in the past, so what's been the response from fans today?

I think fans will be very pleased at this appointment. He's long been

their choice, way back Scotland's game against Belgium in October of

last year, a group of fans held up a sign saying "SOS Strachan" and

that was before Craig Levein was out the door. He has a track record

here as player and manager, managing Celtic, and winning 50

caps for his country as a player. At a press conference here in the

last hour he said, this was a great day, he was very proud to become

Scotland manager. His aim was to progress with the squad, try and

win some games, find a system that works for the players he has. Most

people would think getting Scotland to progress to the finals of the

World Cup would be impossible, he said he will give it a go. The

first challenge a game against Estonia in February and I think he

will get a warm welcome from fans at that. Thank you.

British number one Andy Murray has begun his Australian Open campaign

with an impressive straight sets win. Murray dominated the Dutchman

Robin Haase, in his first major match since becoming US Open

champion. He'll be joined in the second round by Heather Watson and

Laura Robson, who both showed impressive form in Melbourne.

England have just lost the second one-day international in cricket,

against India. The hosts set a competitive target of 286. In reply,

England struggled throughout, making only 158 to lose by 127 runs

to tie the series at 1-1 with three matches remaining.

Now it's been dubbed a wonder product, it's the thinnest

substance ever created, and two scientists at Manchester University

won the Nobel prize for Physics for their work in isolating it. But

Graphene is not being developed as much in the UK as by rival

countries such as China, according to a new study. Our science editor,

David Shukman, reports. Can you make anything thinner than

one layer? A science fair in Manchester and excitement about the

revolutionary new material, graphene. Manchester has pioneered

research into graphene, a material so thin it has just a single layer

of atoms and a lot of potential uses. You can make a brand new

phone. And you can fold it and take it wherever you like, you can you

can throw it out the window and it won't smash. It's strange. It's

amazing. I can't believe it. Graphene is contained in the tiny

black flecks on this tape. It's been called a wonder material,

because it's destined to be incredibly useful. Now let's use

virtual reality to get a closer look at this because it's got

extraordinary properties. If you stretch graphene it turns out to be

stronger than steel or even diamond down at the same scale. Useful for

making all kinds of things more robust. It conducts electricity far

more effectively than copper, vital for future electronics. It's also

amazingly flexible. You can bend it any way you want. You could have a

computer screen that you could fold up like paper. No wonder people are

talking of graphene as a material that could revolutionise the way we

make things. This promotional video from Samsung shows one view of the

kind of gadgets that could emerge with graphene. Paper-thin, flexible,

3-D. This huge potential, according to the scientists who started the

research. Take any big name, IBM, Samsung, Intel, all those companies

are very excited about prospects, what can be done with this material.

What it can be used for. Graphene is seen as so valuable it's now

part of a global contest. This huge lab in Singapore is racing to

exploit it. So are China, America and South Korea. Britain was first

to investigate this strange new substance. But it's not clear who

will get most out of it. There's more from David on this

subject on our website. Heavy snow is falling in Norfolk.

More is forecast for eastern areas. Norfolk Police have reported five

multivehicle accidents and Norwich airport is closed until further

notice. In Suffolk, a gritting lorry crashed during a snow flurry,

49 schools have been forced to close across Norfolk and conditions

are said to be treacherous, particularly in north Nor folk. --

This is taken in Mansfield earlier in the day. Still sunny spells

around, but it's staying cold wherever you are spending the next

few days. The overnight snow came thanks to that cloud which is

disappearing. There are the showers rafting in towards north Norfolk.

The focus of the showers has drifted with time and there are

hefty ones we have seen, and heard thunder. It's not like that

everywhere. We have sunshine to speak of through Northern Ireland

and a good part of Scotland. Still one or two showers there. As we

come down through the western areas across the western side of the

Midlands and Pennines, a good part of Wales and the south-west, one or

two showers here through Pembrokeshire and west Devon but

it's towards the east where we have real problems at the moment and

cloud sitting low in the atmosphere and appalling visibility, as well.

The good news is for that region the showers will tend to fade with

time. New problems arise, because where that snow is lying we will

see significant freezing fog developing from East Anglia to

Lincolnshire and York overnight and what is going to be a bitterly cold

night. All the while we keep showers going into the eastern side

of Kent, through the day on Wednesday we could see around about

ten centimetres of snow there. We will bring a new area of cloud

and rain to the western side of Scotland and perhaps Northern

Ireland. Wednesday for the most part and Thursday relatively quiet

sort of days. We may still have one or two wintry showers and notice

again temperatures are down around about zero or plus one. A lot of

cold air at the moment. Waiting towards the west we always have had

mild air, as you would expect relatively speaking over the

Atlantic. Friday could be a hugely significant day. Detail, we are

chasing it at the moment but we expect that it will make a real

attempt to make an incursion to the western areas. Northern Ireland,

Wales, West Midlands, the south- west of England, if this comes to

pass that will be very significant snow indeed and we still have one

or two snow showers towards the east. Thank you very much.

Our top story: More than 4,000 jobs at risk as HMV calls in

administrators. The troubled music and DVD retailer, like some other