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in public for the first time since he was jailed for life in 1966.

The 75-year-old tells a mental health tribunal he's been

misdiagnosed as mentally ill and should be transferred to a normal

prison. We'll hear all the details from our

correspondent who's been at the tribunal. Also in lunch time.

Thousands of women are to be offered preventative breast cancer drugs in

a bid to almost half their risk of getting the disease.

Where is the American intelligence analyst Edward Snowden? Confusion

after Russia says he's not crossed their border after all.

Rescue teams in India make a final effort to reach thousands trapped

after heavy rain and devastating floods.

And I'm live at Wimbledon where all the that you can is still of Rafael

Nadal and what's the problem with British tennis?

On BBC London - why the mayor thinks a judge-led inquiry is not good

enough for the family of Stephen Lawrence and we speak to the man who

disrupted the boat race last year News at One.

For the first time since his trial in 1966, the moors murderer, Ian

Brady, has been speaking in public. He's been giving evidence at a

tribunal which is trying to determine whether he should be moved

from Ashworth High Security Hospital where he claims he's been force fed,

to a normal prison where he believes he could stop eating and end his

life. Brady, who murdered five children with Myra Hindley in the

1960s, claim he's been misdiagnosed as meantly ill. Our correspondent,

Judith Moritz, has been watching him at the tribunal in Manchester.

Judith. Yes. It has been compulsive viewing.

Speaking in a soft, Scottish drawl and giving long, rambling answers,

Ian Brady has been lifting the lid on half a century behind bars. His

tribunal is being held 40 miles from here at Ashworth High Security

Hospital on Merseyside where she's a patient, but it's being relayed I

have ya video link to this court building in Manchester where some of

the families of Brady's victims have been watching proceedings.

-- via video link. After nearly 50 years, this is the

first time that Ian Brady has spoken in public. Wearing his nasal feeding

tube, he described himself as the so soul pry-profile prisoner at

Ashworth High Security Hospital. He's been at Ashworth on Merseyside

since 19856 when he was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic. Today, he

told the court about conditions inside the hospital. On hunger

strike, he's fed by tube. He says he wants to be moved to a mainstream

prison so be allowed to die without the same feeding regime.

I'm not convinced in fact that he wants to take his life, because we

have already heard that he assists with his feeding and in fact he make

himself toast every morning. That's not the behaviour and actions of

somebody intent on taking their own lives.

This is the most he's spoken about. Little has been known about him

since he was jailed. Today, he was asked whether at hallucinates and

Together with his accomplice Myra Hindley, he murdered five children,

buried in shallow graves on Saddleworth moor. The remains of

Keith Bennett have never been found. His mother Winnie spent her life

trying to find the location of the grave. Roy Rainford worked on the

moors investigation for Greater Manchester Police. If he has got

that secret, that's his bargaining chip, he needs to play it and he

needs toe play it very, very soon. It doesn't help Winnie, but it will

help the rest of the family. Some of the families of Brady's victims were

at court watching the moors murderer give his evidence via video link,

the decision on when he may be transferred to a prison will be

taken at a later date. Brady said he had most enjoyed the cosmopolitan

atmosphere at www.bbc.co.uks prison. He said of Ashworth, the

psychiatrists are worse than the prisoners. He'll be cross-examined

on his evidence this afternoon -- Wormwood Scrubs. Women a family

history of breast cancer in England and Wales are to be offered drugs to

try to prevent them from getting the disease. Until now, the likes of

raloxifene and tamoxifen were only given to women who'd already been

diagnosed with cancer. Similar measures are being planned for women

in Scotland. Here is our Medical Correspondent, Fergus Walsh.

Tamoxifen has been used to treat breast cancer for decades. But now

for the first time, it's being officially recommended to prevent

it, where women have a strong family history of the disease.

Until now, the only option for women, like the actress Angelina

Jolie, who are healthy but at high risk, was to choose between a

mastectomy or regular screening. Ursula Van Mann's sister died from

breast cancer at just 33 and she also got the disease. She's

delighted that women at risk now have another option to protect

themselves. The fact that you can have a drug, admittedly it has side

effects, is a major step guard and it will give women that extra piece

of mind that we are doing something about trying to get their risk

reduced. Women have a one in eight lifetime

risk of getting breast cancer. The NICE guidance says healthy women

aged 35 and over, who have at least a one in six risk, should be offered

tamoxifen for five years. The drug can cut breast cancer risk by 40

bars and it's thought that benefit continues for at least a decade

after the treatment stops. The Christie in Manchester carried

out the world's first trial of tamoxifen in the late 1960s. Cancer

specialists there have welcomed the guidance which applies to England

and Wales but is likely to be adopted throughout the UK.

I think it offers women more choice. Not every woman wants to have

preventative surgery because it's quite involved as a procedure and so

this now offers them the opportunity to do something else instead of

having to go for surgery so it increases their choices which is why

it's important. Like all medicines, tamoxifen has

potential side effects. It increases the risk of blood clots and of

cancer of the womb lining, those those risks are usually outweighed

by the benefits in breast cancer reduction. It can trigger

menopause-like side effects such as hot flushes. Many women find these

so unpleasant, they stop taking the drug. Doctors say it will be a

person choice for #wi78 base odden their own circumstances as to

whether they take the drug. Members of Nelson Mandela's family

have been visiting the hospital in South Africa are the former

President's still in a critical condition. He was admitted earlier

this month with a lung infection. Our correspondent, Karren Allen is

outside the hospital in Pretoria where he's being treated.

No further details on Nelson Mandela's medical condition. He

still remains critical in hospital. What I can tell you is that

certainly over the past few hour, we have seen a significant increase in

the numbers of people who've come here to give their messages of

support to, we saw police recruits, several

dozen came streaming in, each bearing a flower and left a message

pinned on the wall behind, saying their prayers were very much, saying

they were very much in Nelson Mandela's mind. Two businessmen

released doves, saying it was a symbolic gesture to represent the

freedom that Nelson Mandela gave them after selling 27 years --

spending 27 years in jail and the sacrifices he made to allow them to

be able to lead the lives they now live in South Africa. There is a

great sense of gratitude being echoed in the messages you see

behind me here. Aside from that, we have seen visits from Nelson

Mandela's family, also visits from some of the great names in the ANC,

ministers who used to work alongside Nelson Mandela, also member of the

business community. Talks go on in his rural village to decision

sensitive matters, at this stage we don't know any details of what's

come from those. Thank you very much.

Still confusion surrounding the whereabouts of Edward Snowden, the

former CIA worker who leaked information about a secret American

surveillance programme. He was thought to have arrived in Moscow

yesterday but this morning, the Russian Foreign Minister said he had

not crossed the border into Russia. Our Security Correspondent, Frank

Gardner is with me. This story gets more intriguing bay the day? It's

straight out of the pages of a spy novel, but it's a very serious

business. This is a man who's had access to a lot of US intelligence

secrets. He's been first in Chinese territory and then essentially in

Russian territory. The Americans are desperate to get to him before he

spills any more secrets. Of course, the chase for where he is and

whether the Americans get their hands on him is rather colluded. The

bigger issues of whether it's right or wrong of what he's doing. The

last known whereabouts of him is that he was on the plane from Hong

Kong to Moscow on Sunday. People saw him on that plane. After that, he

disappeared. The Russian Foreign Minister said today he hasn't

entered Russian territory. That's a little bit disingenius because the

plane landed in Moscow, so he's in one of two places, either still in

transit and that's sovereign Russian territory. He hasn't got a passport

any more, he has refugee papers from Equitable coo boar, but the papers

have not been stamped. So he's either there or there is the

possibility, and this is a bit of a conspiracy theory but if I was the

Russians I would do this, take him to a safe house, find out everything

I could from him about what is the extent of America spying on Russia.

He's a gold mine for them, but there's no proof of that at all. He

could simply be wondering how to get to Ecuador which is where his asylum

request is launched. There are no direct flights from there, he'd have

to go through a third country and could possibly slip out by a land

order not being watched by the media.

Thank you very much. Three security guards have been killed in a gun and

bomb attack in the Afghan capital Kabul. It's thought the target was

the presidential palace and the nearby CIA headquarters. The attack

happened as diplomats tried to revive plans for peace talks with

the Taliban in the Gulf state of Qatar. Jonathan Beale reports.

The attack took place early this morning. A series of explosions and

then a plume of smoke rising from the direction of President Karzai's

palace. It was followed by long bursts of

intense gunfire. The battle continuing for about an hour.

TRANSLATION: I live in this area. It was around 6 o'clock when the

shootings started. Then there were explosions and people were running

away. People are saying that they were suicide bombers.

It was an alarming and extraordinary breach of security. Right in the

centre of Kabul's government district.

The presidential palace is close to the Defence Ministry and NATO's

headquarters, as well as the old Ariana Hotel, a building used by the

CIA, which was also targeted with rocket-propelled grenades.

Though the attack was eventually stopped by Afghan presidential guard

with the help of American fire power from the CIA station, the insurgents

still managed to penetrate Kabul's so called ring of steel with its

numerous checkpoints. It's believed the attackers were

wearing military uniform to avoid detection.

TRANSLATION: A Land Cruiser car using fake ID came to the gate.

While the guards were asking for ID, two or three people came out from

the car and the car exploded. The guards killed all the attackers.

least four insurgents were killed in the fighting, as well as three

Afghan security guards. This is the fourth high profile

attack in the city within the past month.

This is the closest so far also to the heart of government. The Taliban

say they were behind the attack, the same group that's recently said

wanes to talk peace. -- wants to talk peace. A rescue

operation is under way in India to help around 10,000 people surrounded

by days of flooding and landslides. At least 1,000 people have died as a

result of torrential rains which have devastated the area along the

Ganges river, as our correspondent in India, now reports.

It's the largest rescue operation ever mounted in India. An urgent

rush to evacuate thousands of people stranded in the mountains for over a

week. Exhausted, hungry and just about

clinging on. But bad weather's making it harder.

More rain over the past two days have triggered fresh landslides,

making it harder for the military to get through.

TRANSLATION: The government should take responsibility and ask the

public works department to send cranes and clean the roads and

resume traffic so that military vehicles can go into the flood-hit

areas and rescue the trapped people. However, now our vehicles are stuck

here on the road, how can we help rescue them?

At this airbase, helicopters line up, ready to take off. One of

hundreds of missions that are flown every day to get to the survivors.

We have had quite a bit of rain, but the skies have cleared. The first of

these Indian Air Force helicopters, A 17s, is taking off. There are many

there are many others to follow. Emergency supplies for people are on

their way to people stranded there. Along with food and medicine,

firewood is being sent in as well, there to be used toer mass

cremations for the hundreds who didn't survive.

There are still many who're unaccounted for.

Relatives have been gathering outside the airbase every day,

desperate for news of their loved ones. And with every passing hour,

has told a hearing into whether he should be moved from a secure

hospital to prison, that he's been misdiagnosed as mentally ill. And

the pride of Britain and Ireland. The Lions win their latest warm-up

match before the second test against Australia. Later, the rise and rise

of G20. How more and more of us are setting up home in the East End. And

taking a sideways look at life. Why people are climbing the walls in

two-time champion Rafa Nadal crashed out in straight sets in the first

round yesterday, the first time that has ever happened to him after Grand

Slam. Today, all eyes will be on Britain's number one, Laura Robson,

after the number two, Heather Watson, lost her match just a short

time ago. Andy Murray is through to the second round after beating

Benjamin Becker and is already the only British man left in the

tournament. But today the focus is on the favourite for the men's

title, Novak Djokovic. He begins his campaign and the defending ladies

champion, Serena Williams. quickly the landscape of a Grand

Slam can change. Only yesterday we were all salivating over the

prospect of a federal Nadal quarterfinal. But Nadal dumped out

in the first round yesterday by Steve Darcis, a man they call the

shark because apparently he has one tattooed on his shoulder. He also

proved yesterday he has the teeth to take on the top seeds. They called

his half of the competition the draw of death. Nadal, Federer and Murry

Mac Pro all vying for a place in the final. But Rafa's demise still

stunned Wimbledon. Whether it was poor preparation or his belief that

knees, the French Open champion was no match for a man ranked 135 in the

world, a little-known Belgian called Steve Darcis. By the time much point

was served up, the crowd knew they'd witnessed the biggest win of his

life. The only thing I can say today is congratulations to Steve Darcis.

He played a fantastic match. Everything that I will say today

about my knee isn't an excuse. I don't like to put any excuse when

I'm losing. Over on Centre Court, the result flashed up during Andy

Murray's match. I didn't speak to him about it. I said it was amazing

that Rafa lost. He acknowledged it and that was it. So is not getting

ahead of himself, perhaps that is my trip to the final made a bit easier?

I don't think so. Whoever Andy Murray should play in the semis is

going to be a tough match. You don't make that unless you are playing

extremely well. So Nadal is out and with him a bevy of Brits. Seven

played, only Andy Murray went through. Today, Heather Watson has

gone out, beaten by American debutant Madison Keys. When later,

Laura Robson takes on 10th seed Kirilenko. It's one of those years

at Wimbledon where reflecting rather negatively on the state of British

tennis. Joining me this former British number one, John Lloyd. It's

a pretty dire state of affairs. Eight have played and seven have

gone out. It's not good. We expected that with the rankings. Perhaps

Heather Watson, perhaps we would have hoped she'd have got through.

She's been unlucky with her illness. But it's not good, it has got to be

improved and we can't just keep relying on one player the whole

time. I have to ask you about Rafael Nadal. How do you go from being the

French Open champion just a couple of weeks ago to going out in the

first round of Wimbledon. He's done it two years in a row. His movement

didn't look good. I'm not sure whether he ever felt really

comfortable on the grass. His footwork is so important. We didn't

look like he was ever balanced on the court yesterday. It was a huge

shock. Last year it was a big shock but there were circumstances with

the roof. No one expected this. It is quite amazing that he is out of

the drawer in the first round. Djokovic place today, is he the

favourite? I think he's the slight favourite but I still fancy Andy

Murray to get to the final. Djokovic getting under way on centre court.

He is second, Serena Williams up first. Novak Djokovic never lost in

the first round here ever. Until yesterday, Rafael Nadal hadn't

either. The outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King,

has said there are signs of an economic recovery but they are still

weak. He was making his last appearance before MPs at the

Treasury select committee. He also said there's no sign of interest

rates going up any time soon. Guess, his final appearance. There

is a recovery, he said, but it's too weak to be a tall satisfactory.

Unemployment will stay high for longer than most people had

expected. Therefore no chance of an interest rate rise any time soon.

Not for a couple of years was his strong message. He had something to

say about banks as well. Commercial banks, he'd be no great fan. He

accused them of putting tremendous pressure on politicians over reforms

to the banking system, new moves to get them to put more money aside. He

has more or less accused them of trying to go behind the back of

regulators to politicians. He has something interesting to say about

banknotes as well. He announced that Sir Winston Churchill was going to

be the new face on the new �5 note. There was controversy after that

because it was replacing Elizabeth Fry. That would have left no female

public figure on a note, apart from the Queen. He said, actually, Jane

Austen was waiting in the wings, because there will be a new �10 note

in a few years time. Meanwhile, the Chancellor is putting the final

touches to his speech, outlining the government 's plans to cut �11.5

billion from its budget in 2015. George Osborne says the cuts are

needed to balance the books. Labour has admitted it will have two stick

to the Chancellor's spending plans if they win the next election. We've

been looking at where the axe might fall. We know there is going to be

pain, but not everyone is going to suffer at the hands of the Treasury.

So the NHS, the second biggest spending department, will be

safeguarded. Likewise schools and the aid budget. The benefits bill

will be protected, at least for now. The armed forces, there will be no

further job losses. And counter-terrorism, particularly in

the wake of Woolwich, will also be safeguarded. So where will the

painful? Big areas of spend like local government, law and order

spending, transport, where the Chancellor will have to go looking

for his big cuts. But I suspect what we will hear more about is how the

Chancellor has found a load of efficiencies. So what are the

politics of all of this pain? George Osborne will argue it's not just

about cuts, it's about growth. Hence he will also announce plans for big

capital spending projects stretching into the future. Labour will say

they accept these cuts to show they are serious about the deficit. But

they will say they could borrow more to spend on capital projects. And

the Liberal Democrats will argue only they stopped the Chancellor

from cutting welfare even deeper. are two years out from the general

election. This is a pivotal moment for each party to show it can run

the economy in a credible way, looking beyond a round of cuts which

ostensibly this is about, and mapping out a vision for Britain's

future as the economy starts to recover. And it is not over yet.

There may be more pain to come. Already, all three main parties have

warned that pension benefits, like the winter fuel allowance, may have

to go after the next election. And many analysts are warning there

could be an extra �23 billion worth of cuts in the two years after this

spending round. Austerity started after this government took office in

the summer of 2010. The government... Running right the way

through to March 2018. One could easily imagine scenarios where

austerity continues. If the economy continues to underperform, as it has

done for the last two years. harsh truth is it -- there may be

many more painful spending cut rounds to come. The interesting

thing about this Spending Review is it is a Spending Review the

Chancellor didn't have to have. This is a political spending review.

There's a lot of truth in that. If you listen closely, you cannot hear

the sound of howls of anguish from Whitehall spending departments this

lunchtime. That is because they've all signed up to these cuts, more

than three days ahead of deadline. It tells us though there will be

pain, and probably particular painful local government, it is not

on the scale of the last spending round. Cuts are just one year only.

It tells us two things. Tomorrow is largely going to be about paying

deferred, with up to �23 billion of spending cuts expected after the

election. But two is, although they'll be plenty of argy-bargy

between the parties, it's a bit of a phoney war because they are all

signed up to these cuts and they are all agreed they absolutely don't

want to talk about tax rises, which may also be unavoidable after the

election. The Chancellor will be outlining his spending plans

tomorrow. You can watch it live on the BBC News Channel and on BBC Two,

starting at 11:30am. If you want to find out more about how the

Chancellor is trying to make it all add up, we do have a special report

on the BBC News channel this afternoon. The British and Irish

Lions cruised to a comfortable five try victory in Australia this

morning, beating the Melbourne Rebels by 35 points to the row. The

game was the last of the second and third test against Australia. I was

Chief sports correspondent was at the game and is in Melbourne now.

The Lions have had some bad injury news this week. Talismanic lock Paul

O'Connell ruled out of the rest of the series. Rob Alex Corbisiero and

centre Jamie Roberts, both unlikely to play in the second test at the

weekend. Tonight was a really useful reminder to the management of the

strength and depth of this squad, as the second string ran out convincing

winners in front of a record crowd. In sport, tradition dictates the

should always take one game at a time. But for these Lions fans in

Melbourne, it was almost impossible not to get ahead of themselves, with

Saturday's potentially decisive second test match against Australia

looming. Having won the first test, the Lions stand on the brink of an

historic first series win for 16 years. First, they have one final

midweek match to navigate stop here, against the Melbourne Rebels. What

they want is a convincing win and no further injuries. Having lost their

last midweek game in Canberra, the Lions were in no mood for a repeat.

Conor Merry taking advantage after solid work by his forwards. With

places in the second West God does Max second test squad up for grabs,

the tourists continued to press. Sean Maitland finishing off a

flowing move. The Lions in control. Injuries meant that Dan Lydiate was

captain for the night, and the Welshman's deft pass then created a

try for Sean O'Brien. With Owen Farrell kicking well, this was an

encouraging evening for the Lions. The rebels offered little in attack.

When they did manage to cross the line, a consolation try was

disallowed. The hosts continued to struggle. Ben Youngs with a fine

solo score, the tourists fifth try of the night. 35-0 it finished. If

the first team can emulate this kind of result that the weekend, the

series will be theirs. In reality, the Wallabies represent a very

different proposition from this Melbourne Rebels side. No doubt

Australia, despite having injury problems of their own, will play

like men possessed. The series is on the line for them. They find

themselves 1-0 down. The Lions have a huge challenge at the weekend. A

win, and they will make history. The were just above freezing through the

early hours. There has been a little bit more cloud so far in parts of

Scotland and Northern Ireland. After a start of clear, blue skies for

England and Wales, again the cloud has been bubbling up. Misty and

murky conditions down across the far south-west. But for many, the rest

of today will have sunshine and it will feel warmer than yesterday. We

have got lighter winds. Sea Breeze perhaps performing around the coast

through the afternoon. A little bit of cloud across parts of West

Cornwall but overall some dry weather, sunny spells and

temperatures in the high teens. As the cloud continues to increase,

there is the small chance of it producing a light shower. Maybe one

or two showers for Northern Ireland, with some bright spells to come. A

similar story across southern Scotland. Northern Scotland is

looking more overcast. The cloud and patchy rain brushing past northern

Scotland through the night tonight. Elsewhere, tonight looks like being

dry with some clear spells. Not as cold as it was last night, our towns

and cities around 10-12. We will dip down into single figures in the

countryside. For many, another bright start to the day for all

tomorrow. The cloud will increase come the afternoon. A greater risk

tomorrow of some sharp showers developing across eastern Scotland

and eastern England. Further west it stays dry with some sunny spells.

Temperature is very similar to today. Those showers triggered

through the afternoon and evening, more likely to affect Wimbledon

after a couple of dry days. We could see some of those showers disrupting

play tomorrow. Overall, a pretty dire -- pretty dry day. Another fine

day on Thursday across England and Wales with some sunshine.

Temperatures reaching 20 degrees. Further north and west, more cloud

and rain moving in. That is steadily moving south. The weather fronts

look like sitting across us through the day on Friday, giving us a more

overcast day with some patchy, light rain around. A similar set-up for

the weekend. Plenty of events happening throughout Friday and into