21/02/2012 BBC News at Six

Nearly ten years of austerity - the price Greeks will pay for the

latest Eurozone bail out. 130 billion euros saves Greece from

bankruptcy. For families already struggling to pay the bills, there

could be worse to come. Greece has made its choice, and we now have to

focus on the next step, which is constructing a firewall that is

large enough to prevent contagion within the Eurozone. But for Greek

families already struggling to pay the bills, there could be worse to

come. I am afraid I don't have enough money for buying the basics

for my kids. We'll be asking where the deal

leaves the Eurozone crisis. Also tonight:

The men accused of plying women with drink and drugs before they

were sexually abused. Tesco battling accusation their

employment scheme is slave labour. The Duchess visits a children's

therapy session. On BBC London, Boris and Ken go

head to head for the first time in four years.

And the police investigate a Good evening. Welcome to the BBC

News at 6.00pm. Eurozone negotiators are breathing a sigh of

relief after reaching agreement on a new bail-out for Greece, but for

the country's people it marks the toughest of times. In return for a

rescue package worth a 130 billion euros, Greeks will see yet more

After months of argument the country has been granted the

biggest bail-out in history. The threat of bankruptcy has been

lifted and Europe breathed a sigh of relief.

Greece has made its choice. We now have to focus on the next step,

which is constructing a firewall which is large enough to prevent

contagion within the Eurozone. 12 hours Ministers and officials

argued over how to reduce Greece's debt mountain and how to prevent

the country defaulting and threatening the European economy,

but risks remain. There are downside risks. This is clear. It's

not an easy programme. It's a very ambitious one. The bail-out deal is

aimed at reducing Greece's debt. Private investors have agreed to

take big losses, 107 billion euros. Greece will get massive loan of 130

billion euros. The hope is by 2020, Greece's debt will be down to 120%

of GDP. The deal is intended to draw a line under months of violent

protest, a period when a Greek Prime Minister was forced to stand

down, a period of increased hostility towards Germany for

insisting on moral austerity, a period when Greece's economy

collapsed. On the streets of Athens today

further protests. There is particular anger that under the

deal the country will have to accept permanent monitors to ensure

it lives up to its promises. The mood, as in recent demonstrations,

was fearful and resentful. I am relieved we're still in the

Eurozone, but I think life will get much worse here. The people will be

even worse off than last year. These measures will deepen our

recession. Families know that more austerity is coming in exchange for

the new bail-out. This man is a bus driver. His wages

have already been cut by 500 euros a month. Now he's threatened with

losing his job. I am afraid if I don't have enough

money for buying the basics for my kids - for the family. The gamble

with this new bail-out is that Greece is being asked to embrace

further cuts whilst its economy is in freefall. It doesn't solve the

Greek problem because the burden on the Greek is very high, is very

intense, and I'm afraid that we'll meet again here in three or six

months from now to again discuss the Greek situation. What this

massive bail-out has done is to buy the Eurozone time to strengthen its

banks and to shore up the defences around other weaker Eurozone

countries. For the moment, Greece has avoided bankruptcy, but it

faces years of hardship. What this will latest deal mean for

Greeks, and will it help them out of the five-year recession that's

seen one in five out of work? Our chief economics correspondent is

here. Let's have some numbers. How big a hole is this country in?

Greek economy is in a very, very poor state as we were hearing in

Gavin's piece. This deal does nothing to improve that in the

short term. Remember, Greece has already had a bail-out from

Eurozone governments of �73 billion euros. That's already been paid.

Today's bail-out adds to that creating 200 billion of bail-out

money, which has to be repaid at some time. Since the first bail-out

a couple of years ago things have gotten worse for the economy. Let's

look at the unemployment figure. In 2009 it was pretty high, 9.5%, but

since then, it's nearly doubled to 19% of the workforce, and in terms

of growth, things have got a lot worse. There hasn't been any. Back

in 2009, the economy contracted by more than 3%. It fell again the

next year. Last year it was down by 5 pine 5 -- 5.5%. What it needs is

to bring in tax revenue to pay off the debt. If things are so bad, why

are people saying this is a good deal? I guess things could have

been worse. The markets are relieved that the catastrophe

didn't happen, which means Greece wouldn't have to pay off its

private sector debt due next month, and there could have been

disorderly default affecting the whole Eurozone and banks and so on.

That hasn't happened. A bit of time has been bought, but the key

questions remain, how will the Greek people put up with austerity?

Where will the country go from here?

Here, official figures show the biggest surplus in Britain's public

finances for four years, boosting the Government's hopes that it will

meet this year's borrowing forecast of �127 billion.

A court in Liverpool has heard how a group of 11 men plied girls as

young as 13 with drink and drugs so they could sexually abuse them. The

five girls were described as vulnerable and all from broken

homes. The court heard one girl, aged 13, told police her number was

passed around the Pakistani men in her area of Rochdale. All the men

deny the charges. Judith Moritz reports from Liverpool Crown Court.

These are some of the men accused of exploiting girls as young as 13,

giving them drink and drug for sex. It's said they passed the girls

around, sometimes offering them to other men. One girl said she had

sex with several men a day several times a week. In total 11 men from

Rochdale and Oldham are accused of conspiring to have sex with the

girls. Some of them face charges of rape and trafficking for sexual

exploitation. The prosecution said the girls' experiences were, at

best, saddening, and at worst, shocking. The prosecution said that

the men targeted particularly vulnerable teenaged girls here in

Rochdale, giving them alcohol, food and money in return for sex, and

sometimes subjecting them to violence as well. Some of the men

worked at take-away restaurants, including this one, which is now in

new ownership. The prosecution say some girls met the men here and at

this restaurant nearby which has also since changed hands. Here,

it's said, they were given alcohol and taken upstairs for sex. The

defendants are all of Asian heritage, and the court heard that

they knew each other socially and through work.

The men all deny the charges against them. Tomorrow, the court

is due to hear evidence from the first teenaged girl, who was 15 at

the time it's said she was raped. Police in Perthshire say they're

treating the death of an 80-year- old woman who was found dead at her

home as suspicious. A forensic examination is underway at the

property in the village of Forteeviot. Our Scotland

Correspondent James Cook is there now.

Yes, he was very well Yigtsdz3 irshe was 80 years old, she was an

active member of this community. Beneath the wooded hills of rural

Perthshire, a major police inquiry is under way. All day this quiet

country lane has bustled with activity. Inch by inch, officers

have been searching the cottage for clues about what happened to Jenny

Methden. At this time we're treating her death as suspicious.

The inquiry is at a very early stage right now. We're carrying out

door-to-door inquiries and painstaking inquiries. She was 80

years old, but friends say you wouldn't have known it. Every day

she would walk for miles with her dog. She cut days tinktive figure

in the farmland where she'd lived most of her life. Friends say she

was a kindly woman, a pillar of a night-knit community. Absolutely

devastating because everybody knew Jenny, so it's hard to get my head

around the fact that anything could have happened to her like that. We

only seen her on Saturday morning. She was out - you know, when we had

the blizzard, it was a white-out, and she was out walking the dog

because that was Jenny. As police continued their careful work, it

emerged that she had been found by her son. The details of her

injuries are not known, and police are not yet calling this a murder

inquiry, but already it looks like one.

That's probably because they're waiting for the results of a

postmortem examination which is due to be held tomorrow. I have just

been speaking to the detective who is leading this inquiry, and he

says that there is some new information that they now know that

the the last she was heard of was in a telephone call yesterday

morning at 10.30am. That's narrowing down the times, but they

want anyone who can tell them anymore about where she was

yesterday to get in touch. Thank you.

The former head of the International Monetary Fund,

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is being questioned by French police

investigating a hotel prostitution ring. Last year he was charged in

New York with the attempted rape of a hotel maid. -The case was later

dropped. Today he was detained at a police station in the French city

of Lille. He's said to have denied knowing that young women he met at

hotel parties were prostitutes. Thousands of people have protested

outside an American airbase in Afghanistan after copies of the

Koran were reportedly burned by foreign troops. The most senior

American commander there has since apologised, saying an investigation

was taking place into what he described as the improper disposal

of Islamic religious materials. The high street giant Tesco is to

offer paid work experience places after its involvement in a

government backed unpaid scheme led to accusations that it was using

slave labour. The move came just hours after the Deputy Prime

Minister Nick Clegg told the BBC the scheme should be celebrated,

and that suggestions it promoted slave labour were "ridiculous".

Here's our political editor Nick Robinson.

Every little helps - so Tesco's must have thought when they agreed

to take part in a Government scheme to offer unpaid work experience to

young people without a job. What do we want? Real jobs. When do we want

them? Now. But that was before this - a campaign against what

protesters dubbed slave labour. They demanded people should be paid

to work. Today Tesco offered to do just that but Ministers came out

fighting. It isn't slave labour. It is not compulsory. It is entirely

voluntary. What the scheme is - the work experience scheme is simple -

we say to employers, please take on these young people. The Government

will pay them through benefits, but could you please keep them on for a

few weeks because it increases their chance of them then finding

work. Iain Irving is exactly the sort of person Ministers had in

mind. He did unpaid work experience, but kept his benefit. He's now got

a job as trainee cabinet maker in Harrogate. It's really important

for people like me because it helps you get a job at the end of it, and

if that's not at all possible, getting a reference and some work

experience in a workplace environment. All well and good, say

some, but people shouldn't be expected to stack supermarket

shelves for nothing, and with the added threat that their benefits

could be cut if their placement goes wrong. Today Tesco's said they

agreed. We're offering - continuing the Government's scheme, but we're

also offering a four-week paid placement to get really

transferable skills. We're trying to break the vicious cycle. Our CEO

started stacking shelves. Tesco is the ultimate meritocracy. Ministers

complain they're being targeted by a tiny protest group. Today Right

to Work welcomed Tesco's decision but hinted it would target other

companies. The Government should accept young people struggling to

find work should be paid on these schemes. They should be paid the

national minimum wage. That means occupying other shops around the

country, so be it? Whatever it takes, really. We think people need

to be paid. We'll do whatever it takes to get it. If people say

you're destroying shops by occupation and these schemes?

think that would be ridiculous to say. Waterstone's are amongst other

big High Street names like Sainsbury and Matalan now not

taking part in the work experience scheme. The people I care about

more is not the companies. It's the young people, and the evidence

shows it helps young people because it means they learn the discipline

and get the self-confidence of actually going out and working

alongside other people. Tesco's have reacted to a campaign claiming

that a very profitable company was employing cheap labour, but what

worries Ministers here at Westminster is that more companies

may abandon a scheme which they say offers invaluable work experience

Our top story tonight: A �130 billion bail out saves

Greece from bankruptcy, but ten years of austerity lies ahead.

Coming up: A week after she swept the board at

the Grammys, Adele looks set for Later, I will be rounding up the

day's business news as markets around the world react to that

Greek bail out. And Britain's bosses give their view on whether

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has become a growing threat to

international shipping, costing the world economy more than �4 billion

a year. This week, presidents and senior figures from over 40

countries will discuss ways of tackling the problem at a

conference in London. Our security correspondent, Frank Gardner, has

become the first British journalist to be allowed on board an

Australian maritime patrol aircraft as it flew a mission from Dubai

over a high-risk area in the Somali Basin, where there were 25 pirate

The Royal Navy confronting pirates off the Somali coast last month. It

is an uneven match. Outgunned, the Pirates surrender. Royal Marines

come aboard and sees the Pirates and their weapons. But many other

attacks go unchallenged so how to patrol more than one million square

miles of ocean? I am just about to board this Australian plane. It

will take us felt over the ocean, the Indian Ocean, an area where

they think they are most likely to see pirate activity. Flying out of

an airbase in the Emirates, this Orion plane allows a combined anti-

piracy force of 25 Nations to look far out over there horizon, but

drawing down to the Horn of Africa. -- patrolling. That is the Strait

of Hormuz, straight ahead of us is the area of suspect pirate activity

that they will the cat. Flying at practically wave height, the

Australians a record every vessel in a designated search area. Taking

a lot of photographs. They are very good at hiding. They are trying to

hide. Sometimes it needs close flying to be able to get the final

details. Like these two fishing dhows we saw, filmed on the

electronic camera. Something about them made the Australians

suspicious. The pictures of beamed back to headquarters on land. If

pirates were confirmed on board, a warship would investigate. But what

really happens behind the scenes when a ship is first approached by

pirates? Are you safe? On land, for UK Maritime Trade Operations, the

first point of contact for merchant ships. Are they following year at

the moment? The ship e-mails this photograph of the Pirates

shuddering them, but they have got armed guards on boards and the

Pirates withdraw. Yet for a crew that does get captured, and attack

is terrifying. They will be in a massive panic, they will be running

around if they are getting shot at. Sometimes they lock themselves into

the ship. Pirates success rates are coming down, but they are now

attacking ever further afield. nothing else, the Pirates have

proved how flexible and determined they are. They are conforming to a

very lucrative business model. If I was a pirate, I would rather hope

for complacency on behalf of the international community because

successful attacks have reduced. Everyone agrees the solution is not

at sea, it is on land. But until that happens, Somalia's pirates

will continue to risk capture, drowning and death for this multi-

million-pound business. The International Red Cross has

called for a daily two-hour ceasefire in Syria so that it can

take emergency aid to people wounded in the fighting. Anti-

government activists say that more than 50 people have been killed

across the country today, including four children. 30 people are

reported to have died in the city of Homs, where troops stepped up

their bombardment of the rebel-held district of Baba Amr.

The Duchess of Cambridge has been visiting two schools in Oxford to

see how one of the charities she supports uses art to help children

with behaviour problems. The Art Room encourages painting and

drawing as a way of helping to build the confidence of vulnerable

and disadvantaged youngsters. From Oxford, here's our royal

This is the Duchess's third solo engagement in a fortnight, her

royal duties keeping her busy while Prince William is in the Falklands.

She came here because this school hosts a facility for one of her

charities, the Art Room, which offers art as therapy to children

and youngsters who are disengaged, disruptive or withdrawn. The

Duchess personally chose to support the Art Room and that could make a

big difference to this small charity. It is hoping that her

patronage will make it possible to open every one of their dedicated

art rooms five days a week and reach many more children. Once

inside, after tea and toast with the children, the Duchess set --

sat with them, discussing their art on the theme of Edward Lear's The

Owl And The Pussycat. Were they missing lessons, she asked on her

way out. Yes, but after the excitement, the children were as

soon due back in the classroom. hope you have a fun time. Goodbye.

And the Duchess was also off to another art room. This one hosted

at the spires Academy also in Oxford. The Duchess was given a

presentation by some of the children who benefit from the

therapy. We were all standing in a line and she said we were all

amazing and we were like artists. It really touched me. It made me

feel happy that she liked my work. Sales assistant... Justin, 18, told

the Dutch is how the Art Room helped him when he was a troubled

youngster. To me, it felt like she was showing a genuine interest in

the Art Room, in my story when I was speaking. She seemed so

interested. By getting stuck into her charity work, the Duchess is

establishing her role as a working member of the Royal Family.

Just a week after her spectacular success at the Grammys, British

singer Adele is a favourite for tonight's annual BRIT Awards in

London. She's been nominated for three awards, including Best

British Single. But there's competition from other artists -

singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is in the running for four awards. Our

entertainment correspondent, Lizo Mzimba, is at the 02 Arena in

Yes, this is the night when the British music industry gives itself

a massive pat on the back, but they have got a lot to be proud of this

year. The biggest music artist in the world is British singer-

songwriter Adele. So all eyes will be on her to see if she can repeat

her recent granny's success here at tonight's BRIT Awards.

Fresh from her success at the American Grammy Awards, tonight

Adele will hope to be just the celebrated, this time on home

Performing at last year's BRIT Awards, she couldn't have imagined

the success the following 12 months would bring. Her album 21 sold over

14 million copies worldwide. Now she is expected to add to that

success this evening. But how significant are Britain's most

high-profile music awards? It's a chance for new or fairly new

artists who haven't yet reached the wider public to be seen. From there,

it has also a good launch for them to have achieved success

internationally. Adele's nominations reflect her outstanding

chart success, but surgery on her throat last November did prompt

fears for her voice. There was a worry that it might take away her

voice. I have heard other singers that have had problems and have

never sounded the same. Luckily the American surgeon... She sounds

An assessment backed up by her first post operation performance

last week. She will be singing tonight, too, and appropriately,

money raised from the BRIT Awards goes towards the school where Adele

was a student, the Brit School in London. What set her apart was she

was always writing, always looking to perform. In her final show at

the school, she performed an original song and it was

overwhelming. Staff were talking about it afterwards as a real

stand-up performance. In that respect, her success is not

surprising. It has already been an astonishing week. Tonight could

mark another high point in what has also been an astonishing year.

This year, there will also be performances from Rihanna, Coldplay

and Le, who will receive an Outstanding Contribution to Music

award. -- there. But this year, most people's attention will be on

Adele, the singer-songwriter from north London on top of the music

north London on top of the music world. Time for a look at the

weather. A recipe to bring on the spring

buds because we have mild Atlantic winds that will bring rain and some

warmth to the shores. Tonight we have wet and windy weather. Wet

across parts of wet -- West Scotland already. It will turn wet

in Northern Ireland, north-west England and North West Wales.

Further south and east, it will stay dry. Winds lighter here, so

cooler conditions. It should be a largely dry start across many parts

of England and Wales, although parts of west Cornwall and West of

Wales will see rain to begin with. A bit of morning sunshine to the

south-east and East Anglia. In the far south-east, it will stay dry

until the evening. Patchy rain across north-east England, but to

the north-west of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, you will wake

up to rein. For some it will be particularly wet. In the Cumbrian

fells we could see 16-100 mm of rain. Some surface water flooding,

fast-flowing rivers as well and that is only part of the story. The

winds are strengthening with gales. The south-east corner should stay

dry until the evening rush-hour, but elsewhere outbreaks of rain.

Mitre across the North and the West later in the day for up -- brighter.

It might be a bit crawl across the Midlands and the south-east corner

in comparison. -- cool. A wet rush- hour, that rain clears and we get

into the mild air. With it comes a lot of cloud, very misty and damp

across western parts of the UK. It will stay grey and damp all day.

Some cloud breaks further east and we are going to lift temperatures.

Even where there's cloud, 11 or 12 possible. Further east in the

possible. Further east in the sunshine, maybe 17 degrees. We