18/11/2013 BBC News at Six

Two internet giants are to crack down on online searches for images

of child abuse. Microsoft and Google will automatically block 100,000

search terms. There is still more to be done. I will not be happy until

we have taken every child abuse image of the internet. Campaigners

call for greater action against paedophiles operating in more hidden

areas of the internet. A woman pleads guilty to murdering

three men and dumping their bodies in ditches.

Hoping for divine intervention as 65 powerful tornadoes sweep across

America's midwest. A former Labour minister pleads

guilty to ?13,000 worth of bogus expenses.

He has fought the Daleks for 50 years - celebrating a big birthday

for Doctor Who. In sport... Roy Hodgson has named

his team to face Germany tomorrow night. Final storage has recovered

from injury and will start. -- Daniel Sturridge.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six. Two internet companies

are to make it harder to access images of child sex abuse. Google

Microsoft say the measures mean more than 100,000 search terms will not

direct users to illegal content. The move has been welcomed by the Prime

Minister, who has been pushing for change. He agreed that more must be

done to stop paedophiles operating in more hidden areas of the

intranet. -- the intranet. In a nondescript

office near Cambridge, the Internet Watch Foundation carries out a vital

but distressing job, tracking down images of child abuse which are then

blocked. Those who have to look at horrific material every day have to

receive regular counselling. They do not want their identities to be

revealed. It can be disheartening to reveal how much is out there. I can

either be part of the solution to get rid of it or I can pretend it is

not out there, and I know it is. Microsoft and Google have acted to

try to prevent these images being found. Thousands of search terms

will trigger warnings on the results have been cleaned up, to make sure

they do not provide a pathway to illegal material. The Prime

Minister, who met the firms in Downing Street today, had pressed

them to take action. We were previously told it could not and

should not be done. It will be done, it is being done 100,000 times in

159 countries, not just in the UK. In a rare show of unity, Google and

Microsoft work together on today's measures. They insist they have

always taken it seriously. We have worked hard on this issue for many

years. We have always removed and reported to the authorities child

sex abuse content. There is more that can be done and this is a cross

industry effort. There is wide agreement that most of these images

cannot be found by simply searching the web. Google and other search

engines can trawl the expanses of the open internet. But they cannot

access is what is known as the dark web, hidden networks where illegal

material such as child sex abuse images can be stored and shared.

Users get access using specialist software which masks their

identity. One former senior police officer died Saturday's measures

will make much difference. Let's not think we have achieved something

which is going to make children safer. Paedophiles do not search out

images on Google or Bing or Yahoo!. A hard-core paedophile lives in the

deepest darkest recesses of the internet. The government says the

police and internet firms and GCHQ will work together to track down

those who share child abuse images on the dark web. Nobody thinks the

task will be simple. Our social affairs correspondent is

with me. What is your assessment of how significant this move is? There

will be plenty of parents who will feel relieved that it might protect

children or teenagers from stumbling into something that they don't mean

to stumble into. I have spoken to on internet safety expert who has spent

years talking to various internet companies who have been saying to

him not that they could not, but that they would not bring in this

level of control because they felt it was against the ethos and freedom

of the internet. He has quite frankly been delighted by today's

news and views it as a great step forward. We know it will not reach

the paedophiles who operate in the so-called dark net, those recesses,

and that is where they will be searched for by police and so on.

There is an argument that what has been available publicly has been

effectively fondling people towards the dark net. -- directing people

towards. At the moment, people can get access to milder images. They

are then directed to these hard-core, appalling images and the

dark net, and into the hands of those gangs. We do not know how

effective these controls are going to be and we do not know how many

children they are likely to protect. It is highly significant

that the internet giants have said that they will do this and

generally, it is a good start. A woman has pleaded guilty to

murdering three men and dumping their bodies in remote bitches in

Cambridgeshire. Joanna Dennehy, who is 30 and from Peterborough,

admitted the attempted murder of two other men. The bodies of the victims

were found in March and April and all three had been stabbed. This is

a very unusual case? Yes, it is unusual in that it is a

woman admitting to the murder of three men. It also seems that those

guilty pleas were not what the legal team in court expected to hear. Two

of the bodies were left in this rural, isolated spot a few miles

outside Peterborough. Today, Joanna Dennehy said she was responsible.

She appeared to take even her own lawyers by surprise. Joanna Dennehy,

with her distinctive tattoo under her eye, pleaded guilty to the

murder of three men. The body of one man was found here, near

Peterborough, last Easter weekend. It was 48-year-old Kevin Lee, a

local builder and property developer. His family described him

as a wonderful husband and father and his death is devastating. Just a

few days later, the bodies of two other men were found in a ditch just

outside the village of Thorney near Peterborough. They were Lukasz

Slaboszewski, who was 31, who died from multiple stab wounds. And

56-year-old John Chapman. He had also been stabbed to death. At the

Old Bailey today, Joanna Dennehy admitted killing the three men. On

hearing his client's guilty pleas, her barrister told the court...

Joanna Dennehy told the judge... The details of how the men were killed

and dumped in these old locations have not yet been discussed in

court. There will be a further hearing next week.

A series of powerful tornadoes and thunderstorms have cut a swathe

through America's midwest, killing eight people. Several states, from

Kentucky to Michigan, has seen houses flattened, trees uprooted and

cars hurled through the air. There were 65 tornadoes in total.

Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name... The comfort

of prayer as residents realised the power of the storm. It is huge.

Dozens of tornadoes thundered through the midwest states. This

thing is getting really wide. They ripped apart homes, and flooding

neighbourhoods in an instant. Worst hit was Washington, Illinois.

Residents spoke of seeing tonnes of debris spiralling through the air.

An eight-year-old victim was fined 100 yards from his home. My husband

came back and I said, I do not know what to do. We stood in the hallway

and held each other. It was that quick. That quick, and this

damaging. Here, 500 homes were damaged or completely destroyed.

November is supposed to be one of the quietest months on the Tornado

character. I went in the basement and ten seconds later I heard the

house shaking and waited for a moment. I came back up and saw what

you are seeing here. As well as tornadoes, the storm brought

torrential rain and hail stones the size of golf balls. Such was the

fear that high winds would hit Chicago that play was halted at this

American football match. The game will be temporarily suspended due to

the inclement weather. Now is the time to take shelter. The anchors on

the local television centre went from covering the storm to finding

themselves in its path. I think we need to take shelter ourselves. We

do. There is the fear that residents may be trapped under wreckage but

also a sense of relief that not more people were killed.

The British woman who died in a plane crash in Russia yesterday has

been named. 53 rolled Donna Bull, who was from Cambridge, had been at

the start of a 10-day marketing trip for her employers, Bellerbys, a

college for international students. 44 passengers and six crews were

killed when the Boeing 737 exploded on impact when trying to land at

Kazan Airport. 15-year-old boy is being treated in

hospital after he was shot in both legs at a house in County Durham and

-- County Londonderry. He was attacked by three masked men in the

early hours of this morning. Police have described shooting a child in

this way as madness and appealed for information.

The Co-operative Group says it has launched a thorough review of its

structure after serious and wide-ranging allegations about its

former chairman. Paul Flowers was filmed, allegedly buying illegal

trucks, and they Labour Party says it has suspended him from the

party. Our business editor is here. These allegations have sounded alarm

bells, to say the least? It is extraordinary that someone who was

chairman of an important bank only a few months ago was allegedly buying

hard drugs. I have not come across anything quite like it. There is

also something else rather extraordinary about the reverend

Paul Flowers, who was chairman of the Co-Op Bank between 2010 and June

this year. That is, he did not know very much about banking. He was a

local politician for Labour for many years. He was a Methodist minister.

But since working as a cashier after leaving school, he has never really

been anywhere near any senior position, finance or otherwise. Why

does this matter? Chairing a bag is a difficult job at any time, but

Co-Op Bank faced the most challenging time in its history. It

had recently merged with Britannia Bank, and that meant making sure

that IT systems were merged and loans did not go bad. On this man's

watch, Co-Op Bank up into difficulties. We learned that

shortly after he resigned, there was a ?1.5 billion hole in its balance

sheet and it is still in the process of being rescued.

The former Labour minister Denis MacShane has pleaded guilty to

making nearly ?30,000 of bogus expense claims. It has emerged to

use the money to pay for trips to Europe, including Paris to join a

literary connotation. He will be sentenced next month.

Once he was Labour's Minister for Europe, a leading pro-European who

strode the world stage. Now he is just another former MP in court,

where he has admitted that, yes, he did fiddle his expenses. He was

charged with submitting 19 false invoices to Parliament. They were

worth almost ?13,000. Supposedly, they were for research and

translation services for a company, but the company did not carry out

their work. Instead, he used the cash to fund trips to Europe,

including judging a literary competition in Paris. Standing in

the dock at the Old Bailey, he was asked how he pleaded. Guilty, my

lord, he said. His maximum penalty could be seven years in prison. The

judge said... The expenses scandal has cast a

shadow over Westminster. It is now four years since the first

allegations and since then, six Labour MPs have been convicted. If

the wheels of justice are grinding slowly, so is the process of

restoring trust in politics and politicians. It is too early to draw

a line under the expenses far ago -- farrago. MPs are still bitter about

the salary they receive. Until that is result we cannot put this issue

to bed. The allegations about Mr McShane first emerged in 2009.

Parliamentary rules meant that some evidence was not given to the police

until last year, after a Commons investigation and after he stood

down as the MP for Rotherham. His former constituents had little

sympathy today. He is guilty and needs to pay for what he has done.

Everybody is so shocked. It is robbing, basically. He is totally

wrong. Denis MacShane admits he made mistakes but claims he made no

personal gain from his bogus expenses. He left court on

unconditional bail and we beat -- will be sentenced in December.

Our top story this evening, two internet giants announce they are to

crack down on online searches for internet child abuse.

And still to come, aid arrives in remote parts of the Philippines

devastated by Typhoon Haiyan. Coming up on BBC News, good news for

England's cricketers. Matt Prior is going to be fit for the first Ashes

test. There is a stark warning today that

an independent Scotland would face tougher financial challenges than

the rest of the UK. The Institute for Fiscal Studies says that

Scotland's public spending bill is higher than the rest of the UK,

wrinkly offset by North Sea oil revenues. It said it predicted

falling revenues and an ageing population means that Scotland would

need spending cuts of up to 6% or an income tax rise as much as 9%. But

he did say that independence could bring an opportunity to radically

reorganise Scotland's taxation system.

If Edinburgh was the capital of an independent Scotland, what would

that country look like you the Institute for Fiscal Studies has

been trying to answer that. Taking on the mammoth task of looking at

spending for the next century. They say that balancing the books would

be tougher if Scotland was outside of the UK. The UK will face

significant challenges over the next 50 years through an ageing

population and a decline in oil revenue. The car collisions suggest

that that challenge would be more difficult for an independent

Scotland. So should Scotland not be independent? It is not that daft an

idea. It could thrive as an independent country but there would

be many challenges it would face, including deeper spending cuts than

the UK and tax rises. This assumes that the people of Scotland say yes

next temper, so will this report help them decide which way to vote?

When people are asked about independence, many say they want

more information before making a decision. This report attempts to

provide that and the contents are being scrutinised, line by line.

Much of that scrutiny is focused on oil. Opponents of independence say

that the IFS supports their argument that Scotland would be dangerously

reliant on the North Sea. The leader of the campaign for a no vote says

the case for independence is in tatters. This is the thing that the

Scotland population needs to know before it goes to the polls. We are

being told there is money to throw around under is nothing to worry

about at all the good things will come to Scotland. The IFS is

saying, under an internationally respected group of people, that the

figures do not add up. At the Scottish government says the report

misses the point. It insists that Scotland's economic foundations are

sound and says that independence would the chance to take a different

path. In the last five years, Scotland's public finances were

stronger than the UK to the tune of ?12.6 billion. This is an indication

of the financial strength of Scotland. What we want to do is have

access to the economic levers will enable us to build a stronger

performance for Scotland and that is what is offered by independence.

Either way, the report seems certain to be cited time and again as

Scotland prepares to vote on independence ten months today.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has now set out some of the challenges

which would face an independent Scotland and, of course, it will be

up to those arguing in favour of independence to answer them in more

detail. They say they will do so and government ministers will publish a

report tomorrow, looking at the prospects for economic growth and

productivity in an independent Scotland, and then next week, the

long-awaited prospectus for independence, the White Paper which

will no doubt, in turn, be subject to some intense scrutiny.

Another cyclist has been killed in London, the sixth in less than two

weeks. The cyclist is believed to be a man in his 60s and is understood

to have been involved in a collision with a lorry. 14 cyclists have now

died in the city this year. The Independent Police Complaints

Commission says that it has received a complaint about the role played by

the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bergen -- Sir

Bernard Hogan-Howe, on the day of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.

He was on duty for South Yorkshire police on the day at a centre where

relatives and friends were waiting for news. The IPCC says it was

investigating processes around the treatment of relatives.

More than a week after Typhoon Haiyan devastated -- devastated the

Philippines, aid is reaching some of the most remote areas. Some

survivors have complained that the pace of help has been too slow. Our

correspondent has travelled to the north of the island.

The runway is being cleared and the bridge is open. The aid planes are

rolling in. The next challenge, distribution. The fastest livery is

by helicopter. The Americans are doing their bit, but the Philippines

air force are taking on the heavy lifting. We are flying over this

region, struck again and again by the skill of the devastation. What

is absolutely clear is that this aid is desperately needed. -- the scale.

Hunger brings them streaming from their homes. The chopper crew,

urging them back for their own safety. No chance. The entire

village is desperate for food. They will not let go now. And with almost

every home destroyed, they need more outside help. Shelter! We have not

enough. We cannot rebuild our houses. No more materials. You are

getting food but you need shelter? Yes. Everybody agrees? Yes! At the

airport, it is a 20 47 operation. The incoming help, not just a, but

expertise. -- 24/7. At the Australian field hospital, British

medics are already saving lives. Seven of them, paramedics, surgeons,

and if the tests and nurses. A crack team, and a heavy workload. -- and

is the tests. We're seeing a legacy of open wounds sustained during the

typhoon. It can be life-threatening when these wounds become septic. The

president is here, playing a political blame game. But thankful

for help from abroad. Do you think the international community is going

to need to be here in the long-term? We would be grateful if they were

but we understand that these communities have different needs. As

a matter of action, we should be planning based on our own

resources. Those capabilities have been tested to the extreme. The

sense is that Filipinos are growing in their determination to bring help

to their own people. He has travelled through space and

time for almost 1000 years. Facing down enemy is human and alien. While

exploring new worlds in his TARDIS. And now Doctor Who has reached a

special milestone, half a century on our TV screens. The first ever

episode was broadcast on BBC One on November the 23rd, 1963. Since then,

audiences have met 11 doctors. To mark the 50th year, a special

reception was held at Buckingham Palace today. Ahead of a special

episodes to be broadcast on Saturday. This report contains flash

photography. For its anticipated golden

anniversary, one Time Lord was not enough to stop I am looking for the

doctor. So we have John Hurt and David Tennant returning. You have

certainly come to the right place. We have had a good time! It has been

quite funny. I have asked him lots of questions. You know when it

was... When we did the... What was that like when... ? It is a rare

experience. Playing this part, it is quite good to compare notes. The

queen of Engelland is but which turned I would have the Doctor's

head. This has all the makings of your lucky day! It features all the

elements that viewers have come to expect, and audience expectation for

this golden anniversary episode is understandably high. Of course,

because of the interest in this story, there is a difficult

balancing act. It has two entertain occasional viewers and at the same

time satisfy long-term fans. Fans, some of whom have followed since the

very first episode in 1963. It went on to quickly establish itself as

essential viewing, and despite being off a for much of the 1990s and 20th

century, -- early 21st century, it is more successful today than ever.

One doctor says it is down to the audience. The fans are like

pilgrims, really. They suffer for it and they travel and the Royal. I

think a lot of fans, in a way, is superior to ordinary human love. The

fans do not get tired. Fans who know include royalty. Today, the show was

honoured with a special reception at Buckingham Palace hosted by the

Countess of Wessex. Why are we altogether? Why are we all hear?

Recognition of a show highly regarded so much that some believe

it could continue for another half. You have regenerated? I don't like

it. -- redecorated. Time to look at the weather.

I think one of the Doctor's scarves could come in handy tomorrow

morning. The cold air is with us. Through tonight, frost developing

across the North and West. Watch out in the morning because it could be I

see here and there. The cold air has been slowly pushing across us

through the day. You can see the blue covers have not made it to the

south and east. That is because we have a weather front to clear first

of all. The skies clearing and the temperatures are plummeting. Quite a

breeze across western Scotland and Northern Ireland. Maybe in North

England and is, we will see some showers containing rain, sleet and

snow. For all, a cold night. It widespread frost will take us into

tomorrow morning and icy conditions, particularly in North and West

areas. If you're waking up in Northern Ireland and Wales, that

could be a dusting of snow. Through the day, the showers, rain, hail,

sleet, mainly on high ground. But really, for the vast majority, we

will swap grey skies for sunnier skies, but cold conditions. We have

not seen temperatures like this for some time. The cold air will replace

another weather front, and some significant snow on high ground in

Scotland and the far north of England for a short time. But it

will turn back to rain. The weather system bringing less cold conditions

but you are not going to notice that much because the isobars show that

we have a windy spell. Severe gale force winds across northern and

eastern areas possible. Brighter skies following, and then more

wintry showers. The cool conditions will last into the weekend.