02/07/2014 BBC News at Six

The Prime Minister calls for urgent action to tackle the growing threat

of resistance to antibiotics. There are calls for

Thousands already die every year in the UK because of untreatable

bacteria. We are in danger

of going back to the dark ages of medicine to see infections that

were treatable not be treatable. We'll be looking at what can be done

to encourage drug companies to invest more money in antibiotics.

Also tonight: A 17-year-old Palestinian is

murdered near Jerusalem in what's thought to be

a revenge attack for the deaths of three Israeli teenagers.

The lost dossier, former home secretary Leon Brittan says he told

officials about alleged paedophile activity at Westminster in 1983.

He's out, the reigning champion, Andy Murray is defeated in straight

sets by Grigor Dimitrov. I need to go away and make a lot

of improvements in my game. I've lost a couple of matches in

the last few slams, where I've lost in straight sets and played poorly.

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BBC News at Six. The Prime Minister has warned that

the world could soon be cast back into the dark ages

of medicine unless action is taken to combat the growing threat

of resistance to antibiotics. It's estimated that

around 25,000 people die in Europe every year from infections

which are resistant to antibiotics. 5,000 of those deaths are in the

UK Worryingly, no new class of antibiotics has been

discovered since 1987. But drug companies say

there is little financial incentive to produce them.

Our Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh reports.

This is a war that the superbugs are winning. Bacteria have become immune

to many drugs that were once life-savers. Kelly had a simple

urinary infection, but ended up in intensive care. Six different

antibiotics failed and her family were called to her bedside and told

she might not survive. I was scared. Really scared. I felt,

obviously, lucky. But it made me worried, every night, was I going to

make it? I had really bad hallucinations, which I think was

the drugs. From David Cameron, an apocalyptic warning. A grim future

awaits is unless the world takes action. We are in danger of going

back to the dark ages of medicine, to see infections that were

treatable not be treatable. The pharmaceutical industry has not been

developing new classes of antibiotics. We need to create some

incentives. That is why he has asked an economist to review the problem.

But the pharmaceutical industry will take some persuading to develop

drugs which will be so precious that they will barely be used. If you

think we have spent something like $1 billion over the last ten or 12

years on antibiotic research, trying to make new medicines, if, at the

other end, the answer is, thank you very much, we're not going to use

them, that is not a great incentive. Antibiotics were a British

discovery, but it is proving so hard to find new drugs, scientists have

been forced to search in unusual places. Among the approaches being

tried searching deep oceans for compounds that might yield new and

have a optics, exploring how viruses can be used to kill microbes and

finding ways to weaken bacteria so that they can be more easily

destroyed. The approach being tried here, at University College London.

One of the things we do is to try to disarm the bacteria, modify them in

such a way that they are no longer able to cause infection. This

strategy does work, we have shown this in a model of infection. The

issue of superbugs may be discussed at a G-7 summit next year. Microbes

respect no borders, so the battle against bacteria will require global

action. Fergus Walsh is with me now. A lot

of this seems to boil down to money, or incentives for full

pharmaceutical companies to come up with drugs? Yes, it is not just

governments that come up with drugs? Yes, it is not just governments

that, but antibiotics, it is the pharmaceutical industry. They have

lost billions because it is so difficult to create antibiotics.

They need powerful incentives, pricing agreements, less bureaucracy

in clinical trials if they are to put the money in. This is partly a

battle against evolution. Bacteria are very good in evolving resistance

to drugs, partly because they are overused. This will require global

action if the world is to stay ahead and antibiotics are to remain

effective. Hundreds of Palestinians have

clashed with Israeli police in east Jerusalem after a Palestinian

teenager was found dead in a forest. It's the thought

the 17-year-old was kidnapped this morning and murdered in

a revenge attack for the deaths of three Israeli teenagers last month.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the Palestinian

teenager's death "despicable" and called for calm.

Christian Fraser reports from East Jerusalem.

Jerusalem Forest, where is really police recovered this morning the

remains of a body. A young man who had been eaten and set alight. A

17-year-old Palestinian schoolboy, who neighbours say was kidnapped by

Israeli settlers. His homers in East Jerusalem and it now marks a

makeshift front line in running battles with Israeli soldiers.

Inside the house, the grieving relatives. Amongst them, Mohammed's

mother, who had the grim task of identifying her son in a police

morgue. TRANSLATION: They told me some body was kidnapped on the way

to the mosque. I called his phone. I kept calling and calling. It was

switched off. My son was not answering. The confrontations with

soldiers are treated as an everyday occurrence in Palestinian

territories. But there is nothing normal in this. Young men, risking

lives, throwing stones in the direction of snipers. Our situation

is very bad. It's very bad. All of these guys, they are relatives. And

they are boiling. The patience wears thin on all sides. Suddenly, the

house becomes the focus of a sustained Israeli assault. Flash

bangs, rubber bullets and pandemonium. There's not even time

to breathe. This situation can quickly get out of control. The

feeling on the Palestinians is that their lives are considered to be

worth less, so it's important for the Israeli authorities to pursue

the perpetrators of that crime as if it were an Israeli child. Of course,

earlier it was, three of them, and ducted and murdered, say Israel, by

Hamas. The Palestinian leader told me he leaves this to be just as a

borrowed. It shames our country, he says, and if it is Israelis

responsible, I consider it a terrorist attack. There is rising

tension in the West Bank, in East Jerusalem and mortars are being

fired from Gaza. The Middle East's rhombus grinning conflict is

simmering again. East Jerusalem.

Andy Murray's reign at Wimbledon is over

after he was beaten in straight sets by the 11th seed Grigor Dimitrov.

After the triumph of last year when he made history

by becoming the first British champion in 77 years, it was

a disappointing way to go out. Joe Wilson was watching.

Andy Murray refused to blame his defeat on any injury, which perhaps

makes it even harder to fathom. Basically, he unravelled. In truth,

his great defence became a 3-set anticlimax.

Joe Wilson was watching. What filled the hill was hope.

After all, Andy Murray had reached the quarterfinal barely putting

a foot wrong. In amongst it,

a Bulgarian minority who knew what they were chanting about.

Dimitrov! Dimitrov!

Grigor Dimitrov and Andy Murray, almost like family,

are good pals off the court. On it,

they were supposed to be close. Instead,

Dimitrov left Murray standing. Were they watching their champion?

Dimitrov, seeded 11, needed just 25 minutes to win

the first set, 6-1 it finished with an almost apologetic air.

Even for the woman who coaches Murray, this was a mystery.

For the man himself, for the first time this year,

he was dealing with adversity. For the first time,

visibly battling himself. The second set went to a tie-break.

If The second set went to a tie-break.

error, it was doomed to failure. And that was two sets gone.

In the third set, there were moments of real quality and signs that, just

maybe, Murray and get back on top. But so much of Murray's

pain was self-inflicted. A double fault gave

Dimitrov another break. In just over two hours,

it was all over. Game, set and match, Dimitrov.

To sum up a mood from the Royal box, an expression of deflation.

I just wish I had played a little better and made it

a bit tougher for him at times. I had been in that situation

before and I know what it was like. I was trying to get deep

into slams for the first time and, mentally, it's not easy.

I wish I could have pushed him a bit more.

It's sad, he won last year. To go out at this point is

just unbelievable, really. Defending his title,

it was a different game, wasn't it? A different player.

So, the beginning of the end for Murray?

Well, here is some perspective from a man who won eight grand slam

titles and never gave up. He's not ready to give in.

Come on, he comes through, he won Wimbledon last year,

he won the Olympics. The success that he has had has been

spectacular over the last couple of years.

To write him off would be a terrible thing to do.

So, not the end of the world. It just might feel like it.

And it's not the end of Wimbledon. Novak Djokovic is through to the

semifinals. It looks like Roger Federer is going through as well,

against Stan Wawrinka. So, there is every chance that we will get an

interesting men's champion this year. Of course, it just won't be a

British one. It just might feel like it.

The Home Office says copies of a dossier that it received 30 years

ago alleging there were paedophiles at Westminster have been lost.

Lord Brittan who was Home Secretary at the time says he handed it to

his civil servants to investigate. The Conservative peer has come

under pressure to reveal what he knew about the claims.

Today he said he'd handled the matter appropriately.

Our Home Affairs Correspondent Matt Prodger reports.

Lord Brittan, being asked knew of allegations of paedophiles

at Westminster 30 years ago. There is going to be a statement at

lunchtime. In the mid-80s, he was Home Secretary, when given at least

one dossier of claims about prominent child sex abusers. They

were provided by a fellow Conservative MP, Geoffrey Dickens,

now dead. The documents have since vanished. Lord Brittan today said a

substantial bundle of papers had been examined by his officials. He

said he recently discovered that appropriate action was taken at the

time and some details passed to prosecutors and the police. Do you

want a man to represent you or eight party robot? The dossiers are of

interest to those that believe that the late MP Cyril Smith was not the

only powerful political figure to have abused children with impunity

in the 70s and 80s. Of the dossier has been destroyed, people will

think that names are trying to be protected and that is the last thing

we want. We want to get to the bottom of this historic child sex

abuse. That means the Home Office coming clean with the information

they have. Back in 1983, Geoffrey Dickens threatens to stand up in

Parliament and name eight prominent public

Parliament and name eight prominent figures who he said had abused

children. But he never did. The Home Office says it can find no trace of

the dossier it was given, except for a letter saying it was acted upon.

What little the Home Office claims to know has been passed to police

investigating, amongst other allegations, but a former

guesthouse, here in London, was somewhere that the famous and

powerful once abused children. Meanwhile, further arrests are

expected in connection with a former children's home, Knowl View in

Rochdale, where Cyril Smith abused the vulnerable. Today is a reminder

that the historical sex abuse scandal is not just about

celebrities, but the corridors of power as well.

Our top story this evening: A call for new antibiotics to tackle

the growing threat of drug resistant infections.

And still to come: Hollywood star Peter Fonda on Easy Rider

and his difficult relationship with Dennis Hopper

On BBC London: Anger from residents living near this massive amount of

rubbish after the latest legal challenge to have it removed is

thrown out. And work begins to preserve the chimneys on one of

London's most famous landmarks. If you're an entrepreneur

and you need backing for your idea or you need to raise

some cash, who do you go to? New figures from the Bank of England

this week show that for small businesses it can still be

a struggle getting money Last month, net lending fell

by nearly 3% on the year. Which is why many are turning to

what's called ?crowd funding?, asking people to invest money

in businesses or projects, like the forthcoming West End

musical ?Wind in the Willows? More than nine million investments

and donations were made last year Our business correspondent

has been finding out more. We are offering 40%

of our company for this. We sell different types of yarn

for different crafts. What do these businesses

and projects have in common? They bypass the banks and put these

video pictures on the internet to It is not easy getting the cash

flowing for any new business. Here they make dairy

and gluten-free chocolate. The trouble was they could not

raise the ?60,000 to buy more We went backwards and forwards to

many banks, spent months, Within 24 hours

of going to crowd funding we had all Louis from the band One Direction is

trying to raise ?2 million If one person invests ?100

for instance that is not going to go very far, but if 1000 people do

the same they start to generate What do you get back

for that investment? You could get a reward like

a T-shirt or tickets to a match. Or if you are lending to

an established business you could earn interest plus get

your original investment back. Or it could be like the TV show

Dragons Den where you might get People can invest as little

as ?5 but It is not a niche proposition any

more not when you have nine million This small chain is also serving up

what it calls It's DIY finance but what

about the risks? We have tried to get a balance,

to enable what is a new source of funding and an innovative source of

funding to grow in the market, but at the same time when you invest

money into a company that you The projects are multiplying

by the day. Traditional funding

is being shaken up. A teenager, believed to be one of

three men from Cardiff who've become jihadists in Syria, has told the BBC

he's prepared to die for the cause. Aseel Muthana, who's 17,

left Britain in February to join A quiet, shy teenager. A few months

ago Aseel Muthana was living in Cardiff studying for his A-levels.

His brother left home for Syria in November. This video shows him

appealing for others to join him. His brother did so in February. A

man we believe is Aseel Muthana has spoken to BBC Wales.

This man is a close friend of the family. He cannot believe the casual

way he talks about killing people. I was shocked that a 17-year-old was

saying about executing and removing heads from bodies. It is crazy. Is

that the teenager you know? Not at all. Billings in Cardiff remained

tense. An 18-year-old man has been arrested as police investigate

links. What many in Cardiff are still struggling to understand is

how these young men came to be radicalised. Could more have been

done to stop them from leaving home to fight abroad? The advisory board

of mosques called for tight checks on who is allowed to lead sermons.

Some feel those controls have been missing in Cardiff. We need to be

careful about to be give platforms to, whether it be in a place of

worship or events that we organise. The police have to do that as a

community. The Home Secretary has suggested greater surveillance

powers may follow but officers say them -- they cannot keep hold of

everyone. And viewers in Wales can watch

a full report on Islamic extremism It will also be available to

everyone on the BBC iPlayer. A father who shoot his newborn baby

has gone on trial for manslaughter after the boy died 12 years later.

Alan Young shook his five-month-old in 1988, leaving him severely

disabled. A year later he admitted causing grievous bodily harm, but

when Michael died he was charged with manslaughter, which he denies.

Adult social care services could soon be ?unsustainable? if pressures

That's the warning from the association that

represents directors of adult social services in England.

It claims financial constraints, coupled with a growing demand

from an ageing population, means many people may not get

This is about the care that keeps older people and those with

disabilities in their homes, helping them with things like washing and

dressing or supports them when they need residential care. Council

bosses are warning that growing demand and financial pressures are

making it harder to keep people safe. Sheila relies on the support

she gets on her sheltered flat to see is independent of possible. The

council pays for an alarm which means she can call for help. These

can be used 24 hours a day. The council says -- is under financial

pressure and she is worried the alarm will be taken away. It would

be disastrous. It is our lifeline. The association that represents

directors of adult social services there is the pressures they these

are unsustainable. In the last four years that has been a 14% rise in

demand for help for an ageing population and spending has reduced

by 12%. This year councils have set care budgets of ?13.6 billion. ?266

million less than the year before. At the centre they have increased

the charges people pay. The forest is as it is coping but tough

decisions are being made. People are losing out on some of the early

support services. That is a risk. It may be financial risk because it

means there can mark needs grow. This is an issue that is not going

to go away. The demand for help in old age will continue to grow. The

government has says it has put money into social care. The key to meeting

that demand will be the better integration of health and social

services. Keeping people healthy longer takes time, so in the last

year the government says it has put an extra ?1 billion into social care

and councils are responsible for how the money is spent.

Dennis Hopper was best known as a Hollywood actor and director

But the star, who died last year, was also a talented photographer,

capturing both the counter culture and the famous faces of the Sixties.

His Easy Rider co-star Peter Fonda is in London, where Hopper's

photographs and films are being celebrated this summer at the

Royal Academy and the British Film Institute, and he has been talking

to our Arts Editor about their difficult relationship.

Peter Fonda produced Easy Rider. Dennis Hopper directed the movie.

The film's two stars could never agree who should take the credit for

writing it. Let me put it this way, we got the money to make the movie

on my telling of the story, which I had probably told ET Thames. The

movie UC today is the story I told in 1968 when we got the money. Terry

gave us the title. Terry and Dennis put in script form. My story. Dennis

said when we were shooting the titles for the movie in 1969 that he

wanted my name off the writing credits. Why? He had decided in his

mind that he and he alone had written the movie. He was a bit of a

megalomaniac. Did you ever patted up? I was not allowed to go to his

funeral, though he did not patch it up with me. He was upset that I

hired him and he did not hire me. Easy Rider could be framed as a

journey where you and Dennis try to discover America. How do you see

America in 2014? A really wonderful country that has totally abandoned

its citizens. Abandoned them to money. That is how Peter Fonda sees

America today. This is how Dennis Hopper saw it in the 60s. I loved

his creativity. He would say, I will never top to you again. As for

Dennis Hopper's point of view, it is on show at the Royal Academy.

We had lovely sunshine today. Much of southern England had beautiful

sunshine and temperatures have reflected this. Highs of 70s have in

Fahrenheit. -- 70s of. A disappointing 17 degrees for western

Scotland. This weather front continues to push south and east. It

is not going to bring any substantial rain for the gardens. It

is dying off. The south-east starts glorious with lovely sunshine.

Disappointing underneath the clouds and into the far north and west we

could see some showers into the afternoon. For Northern Ireland, 17

or 18 degrees. For the far north of England, lightening up. --

brightening. Through Somerset and east of that we could see more

sunshine and maybe even the warmest day of the year. For Wimbledon,

perfect weather conditions, I suspect you will need sunscreen. On

Friday we have more of a significant front which will bring wet and windy

weather. We hold onto sunshine in the south-west corner and the

warmth, but that is the exception. It will be cool where the rain will

linger. Highs of 25-26. You are not going to like the weekend.

A call for new antibiotics to tackle the growing threat

That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me and on

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