:00:06. > :00:16.The Prime Minister's former Head of Communications is released on bail
:00:16. > :00:16.
:00:16. > :00:20.after being arrested over phone hacking and corruption. There is an
:00:20. > :00:24.awful lot I would like to say but I can't. Andy Coulson, the former
:00:24. > :00:28.editor of the News of the World, spent nine hours in custody as
:00:28. > :00:33.David Cameron defends giving him a job. The decision to hire him was
:00:33. > :00:37.mine and mine alone, and I take full responsibility. We saw a prime
:00:37. > :00:41.minister today who still does not seem to get it, and he doesn't seem
:00:41. > :00:49.to be able to lead the change we need in the way the press works in
:00:49. > :00:52.this country. -- lead the way. As police search Andy Coulson's London
:00:52. > :00:54.home, another former News of the World journalist is arrested and
:00:54. > :00:57.bailed. News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks is still
:00:57. > :01:00.in a job but no longer in charge of the company's internal inquiry.
:01:00. > :01:03.As shares drop in BSkyB, we'll be exploring how the regulators now
:01:03. > :01:13.view Rupert Murdoch's takeover bid. Also tonight: Turning up the heat
:01:13. > :01:17.on its customers - British Gas will charge 18% more this year. We feel
:01:17. > :01:20.like we can't pay it all the time and the more and we will be
:01:21. > :01:23.choosing between food and heating this winter.
:01:23. > :01:27.An emergency appeal for millions facing starvation in East Africa
:01:28. > :01:37.after the worst drought in decades. And Atlantis becomes the very last
:01:38. > :02:05.
:02:05. > :02:08.shuttle to blast off as an era of Good evening. The Prime Minister's
:02:08. > :02:10.former head of communications Andy Coulson has been released on bail
:02:10. > :02:16.tonight after his arrest over allegations of corruption and phone
:02:16. > :02:20.hacking at the News of the World. Mr Coulson, a former editor of the
:02:20. > :02:24.paper, spent nine hours in custody. He left tonight saying, "there's an
:02:24. > :02:27.awful lot I would like to say, but I can't". Today, David Cameron
:02:27. > :02:31.repeatedly defended his decision to hire him and confirmed that there
:02:32. > :02:36.will be two separate inquiries into the scandal. Our political editor,
:02:36. > :02:46.Nick Robinson, looks now at the arrest and its implications. His
:02:46. > :02:51.
:02:51. > :02:55.report contains some flash photography. What happened? Koch
:02:55. > :03:00.snicked David Cameron's man, a headline Andy Coulson may have
:03:00. > :03:05.written better when he was editor of the News of the World. I can't
:03:05. > :03:11.say any more. That is because he was arrested and questioned for
:03:11. > :03:15.nine hours at Lewisham police station today, on suspicion of
:03:15. > :03:20.corruption. His former boss had thought the hacking scandal would
:03:20. > :03:25.disappear. Instead it exploded in his face. Finding himself in the
:03:25. > :03:30.political dog, the Prime Minister decided to plead guilty for failing
:03:30. > :03:34.to take seriously the epidemic of phone hacking. We turned a blind
:03:34. > :03:38.eye to the need to sort this issue, to get on top of the bad practices
:03:38. > :03:44.to change the way newspapers are regulated. We have not gripped this
:03:44. > :03:49.issue. There were mitigating circumstances. He, like other
:03:49. > :03:55.politicians, wanted the papers to help him win. The relationship
:03:55. > :03:59.became too close, too cosy. We were all in this world of ones and the
:03:59. > :04:04.support of newspaper groups and broadcasting corporations. When we
:04:04. > :04:11.do that do we spend enough time asking questions about how these
:04:11. > :04:17.newspapers are regulated? No, we didn't. David Cameron's close aide
:04:17. > :04:22.was warned before the election that he had hired a man facing serious
:04:22. > :04:27.criminal charges, but he said today that he always accepted Andy
:04:27. > :04:30.Coulson's assurances he did nothing wrong. Andy Coulson said he
:04:31. > :04:36.resigned as a result of the phone hacking at the News of the World
:04:36. > :04:41.and I decided to give him a second chance. But you hired him when many
:04:42. > :04:46.people were saying that hacking was widespread, and when many people
:04:46. > :04:53.believed it was simply implausible for someone who ran a newspaper to
:04:53. > :04:57.say nothing to do with me. Nobody gave beat any specific information.
:04:58. > :05:01.Obviously I sought assurances, I received assurances, I commissioned
:05:01. > :05:11.a company to do a basic background check but I am not hiding from the
:05:11. > :05:11.
:05:11. > :05:14.decision I made. His -- is he still a friend? Yes, he became a friend.
:05:14. > :05:19.A judge lead inquiry will investigate why phone hacking
:05:19. > :05:22.spread and why the police uncovered it. The other were looking to the
:05:22. > :05:26.ethics and regulation of the media. The Prime Minister said it was not
:05:26. > :05:32.up to him to decide whether Rupert Murdoch should be stopped from
:05:32. > :05:36.buying all of Sky TV. Labour disagree. We saw a prime minister
:05:36. > :05:40.today who still doesn't seem to get it, and he doesn't seem to be able
:05:40. > :05:45.to lead the change we need in the way the press works in this country.
:05:45. > :05:50.He couldn't even bring himself to apologise for hiring Andy Coulson.
:05:50. > :05:56.The test of the talk from both main parties of the brave new world may
:05:56. > :06:03.be whether we see less of this, the red hair of Rebekah Brooks arriving
:06:03. > :06:07.at Number 10. Or this. Greeting her friend, the Prime Minister, with a
:06:07. > :06:12.kiss. He went to her wedding, as did Gordon Brown when he was Prime
:06:12. > :06:17.Minister. She was also friends with Tony Blair when he was in Number 10,
:06:17. > :06:22.a certain man called Andy Coulson took him on a tour of News
:06:22. > :06:26.International but did not want the kiss on cameras. Today David
:06:26. > :06:30.Cameron, who spent days refusing to condemn his friend, said that her
:06:30. > :06:34.offer to resign as boss of News International should have been
:06:34. > :06:39.accepted. She told her staff tonight that when they saw what she
:06:39. > :06:43.had seen they would know why the paper had to close. David Cameron
:06:43. > :06:48.must be wondering how he ended up being the man who has promised to
:06:48. > :06:51.clean up the British press, too regulated better, and to end the
:06:51. > :06:57.cosy relationship between politicians and media barons. After
:06:57. > :07:01.all, what we used to call the Tory press will not be impressed. That
:07:01. > :07:06.say, his aides, his leadership. His critics say it is only the
:07:06. > :07:10.beginning of the price he has to pay for hiring Andy Coulson. The
:07:10. > :07:17.man who returned home tonight, knowing he is destined to make
:07:17. > :07:20.Well the police investigation appeared to gather pace today. The
:07:20. > :07:23.News of the World's former royal editor Clive Goodman was released
:07:23. > :07:26.on bail tonight after being arrested to be questioned about
:07:26. > :07:30.corruption. In 2007, he was convicted and jailed over phone
:07:30. > :07:40.hacking. Here's our home affairs correspondent, June Kelly, on the
:07:40. > :07:43.
:07:43. > :07:47.state of the investigation. While Andy Coulson was under arrest, the
:07:47. > :07:52.police were at his home looking for evidence. A computer among the
:07:52. > :07:58.items seized. Detectives removing the belongings of a man who was
:07:58. > :08:03.once a confidant of the Prime Minister. Also arrested today and
:08:03. > :08:07.bailed tonight, Clive Goodman, four years described as a roving
:08:07. > :08:13.reporter, now under investigation for corruption. He was first
:08:13. > :08:15.arrested five years ago during the initial criminal investigation. He
:08:15. > :08:22.and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire both served time for phone
:08:22. > :08:28.hacking, also under suspicion and currently on bail Ian Edmondson,
:08:29. > :08:34.Neville Thurlbeck and James Weatherup. Andy Coulson is the most
:08:34. > :08:37.senior a rest to date. It was the discovery at News International's
:08:38. > :08:41.headquarters of certain e-mails which sparked the corruption
:08:41. > :08:45.investigation, involving alleged links between journalists and
:08:45. > :08:51.police officers. There are new claims when it comes to e-mails
:08:51. > :08:56.today. We understand the police have found evidence that the News
:08:56. > :09:01.International executive deleted a large proportion of an archive of
:09:01. > :09:05.e-mails, e-mails sent by and two journalists from the News of the
:09:05. > :09:11.World over a five-year period. International says this is untrue
:09:11. > :09:14.and all evidence has been handed to the police. Meanwhile, the role of
:09:14. > :09:18.the News of the World in one of the country's most high-profile
:09:19. > :09:25.criminal investigations is being questioned tonight. A road rage
:09:25. > :09:30.murder in 1996 - police knew their prime suspect was Kenneth enjoy it.
:09:30. > :09:36.His name appeared in the News of the World, potentially jeopardising
:09:36. > :09:40.the inquiry. Kenneth was a well- known killer and I didn't need
:09:40. > :09:44.publicity about that. The vast majority of journalists respected
:09:45. > :09:49.that and were very co-operative but the News of the World were not.
:09:49. > :09:54.the final edition of the News of the World is prepared this weekend,
:09:54. > :10:00.Rebekah Brooks is no longer overseeing the paper's internal
:10:00. > :10:04.investigation team. News International is continuing to
:10:04. > :10:10.try to contain the crisis but its financial impact is becoming
:10:10. > :10:15.increasingly clear. Shares in BSkyB dropped 8% a day after the media
:10:15. > :10:18.regulator indicated it might intervene in the bid to take full
:10:18. > :10:24.control of the satellite broadcaster. Our business editor
:10:24. > :10:28.looks at the future of the Murdoch business. The famous Wapping
:10:28. > :10:32.headquarters of News International, owner of a quartet of leading
:10:32. > :10:37.newspapers, which becomes a trio after the News of the World's final
:10:37. > :10:42.edition on Sunday. Here is the man who decided to axe the newspaper,
:10:42. > :10:52.James Murdoch, chairman of News International, who decided that
:10:52. > :10:52.
:10:52. > :10:57.with advertises deserting, he had no commercial future. But News
:10:57. > :11:03.International's Sun daily paper continues to thrive and says it is
:11:03. > :11:08.highly likely a new Sunday edition of the Sun will be launched. There
:11:08. > :11:14.has been a long-standing plan, we understand, to move to a seven-day
:11:14. > :11:18.operation with the same brand. This closure of the News of the World
:11:18. > :11:23.may be expedient way to turn a problem into an opportunity.
:11:23. > :11:27.News of the World, whose revenues were around �160 million a year,
:11:27. > :11:33.was a pretty big business but that is less than 1% of the revenues of
:11:33. > :11:36.News Corporation. Its annual turnover is more than �20 billion.
:11:36. > :11:42.Far more important to News Corporation is British Sky
:11:42. > :11:48.Broadcasting, with income greater than �6 billion each year. News
:11:48. > :11:58.Corporation currently owns 39% of Sky but it wants 100%. Not everyone
:11:58. > :12:01.thinks that would be a good idea. There have been 156,000 electronic
:12:01. > :12:06.submissions about the deal in a week to the Culture Secretary, most
:12:06. > :12:10.of them urging him to block the takeover. A leading Liberal
:12:10. > :12:16.Democrats today petitioned the media regulator to declare News
:12:16. > :12:20.Corporation unfit to control BSkyB. Broadcasters in this country are
:12:20. > :12:25.now going to be required more than ever to have the highest standards.
:12:25. > :12:29.That can't mean that companies have licences when employees of theirs
:12:29. > :12:34.have been bribing the police, of obtaining information from the
:12:34. > :12:39.police by paying for it illegally, and by breaking into people's
:12:39. > :12:44.phones. Ofcom this afternoon indicated it may well erect a
:12:44. > :12:47.sizable obstacle in the way of the takeover because it regards the
:12:48. > :12:53.scandal at the News of the World relevant to whether the News
:12:53. > :12:58.Corporation should own Sky. As a result, BSkyB shares have fallen
:12:58. > :13:04.sharply. Or that alleged wrongdoing turned the banned toxic, that is
:13:04. > :13:08.what its executives, including Rebekah Brooks, concluded. So toxic
:13:08. > :13:16.indeed that even after the News of the World's demise, it may continue
:13:16. > :13:20.to taint the Murdoch's global Millions of British Gas customers
:13:20. > :13:23.are facing higher bills. Gas will go up by an average of 18%,
:13:23. > :13:26.electricity by 16%. The company is blaming high prices on the
:13:26. > :13:36.wholesale market, but the energy secretary Chris Huhne says that is
:13:36. > :13:37.
:13:37. > :13:41.not good enough. Another series of price rises for
:13:41. > :13:45.heat and power, just as households are being burnt by food and petrol
:13:45. > :13:49.increases and pressure on their incomes. Mark Butler and his family
:13:49. > :13:55.are particularly badly affected, because they are dependent on
:13:55. > :14:00.benefits while he deals with a back problem. They cannot help using gas
:14:01. > :14:06.and electricity, but it is taking a huge share of their income. It is
:14:06. > :14:09.25% of my household budget and the single largest payment we have. It
:14:10. > :14:13.will push us below the poverty line if we are not already there. The
:14:14. > :14:19.effect it will have on us at is that we will be able to eat their
:14:19. > :14:26.heat the house or feed ourselves. The price rise is at the top end of
:14:26. > :14:29.expectations. �190 a year will be added on average to the bill of a
:14:29. > :14:32.customer who buys both gas and electricity. British Gas is the
:14:32. > :14:38.biggest supplier, so there is a direct impact on 9 million
:14:38. > :14:42.customers. At British Gas, we know it has not been easy. Despite
:14:42. > :14:47.saying last week that it would move reluctantly, the company has
:14:47. > :14:53.decided not to hold back on this major increase. We have recently
:14:53. > :14:58.seen Middle Eastern turmoil which has pushed up wholesale gas prices
:14:58. > :15:03.by 30%. We have been selling at a loss for four months, and that is
:15:03. > :15:07.unsustainable. This round of price rises started with Scottish Power
:15:07. > :15:12.last month. Now British Gas is pushing up its prices, and the fear
:15:12. > :15:17.is now that the other big suppliers will do the same. Consumers are
:15:17. > :15:21.told to shop around, but that is hard if prices are all going in one
:15:21. > :15:25.direction. British Gas customers will take a hit on this today, but
:15:25. > :15:31.there is a concern that where they go, everybody else will follow.
:15:31. > :15:35.Nobody will be immune to that. Energy Secretary Chris Huhne said
:15:35. > :15:39.consumers were being buffeted by fuel prices, and he refused to
:15:39. > :15:43.stand by and watch this happen. He will not be able to stop British
:15:43. > :15:47.Gas, but he has promised to heat up competition by bringing in more
:15:47. > :15:49.suppliers. British aid agencies have launched
:15:49. > :15:52.an urgent appeal for millions of people suffering in East Africa's
:15:52. > :15:56.worst drought for 60 years. The Disasters Emergency Committee says
:15:56. > :15:58.10 million people could now be at risk of starvation, with over 1000
:15:58. > :16:06.people, mainly children, arriving in refugee camps every day, often
:16:06. > :16:10.after a gruelling journeys. Large areas of Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia
:16:10. > :16:20.and South Sudan are affected. Our correspondent has a first-hand
:16:20. > :16:24.account from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
:16:24. > :16:30.Dadaab is a dusty, desolate place, but the drought is forcing
:16:30. > :16:35.thousands of refugees to flock here. The infants are the weakest of the
:16:35. > :16:41.new arrivals. There is not much of them to measure. Tiny bodies,
:16:41. > :16:48.ravaged by malnutrition and dehydration. Caterina is a Swiss
:16:48. > :16:53.nurse here. She told me that recently, she cried with one mother.
:16:53. > :16:59.Just babies, young children are dying. It happened to me last week.
:16:59. > :17:04.I saw a crowded area and when there, and the baby was just dying. So I
:17:04. > :17:10.tried to do something, but I could not do anything, so it died in my
:17:10. > :17:15.arms. Caterina knows that this little boy is also hovering between
:17:15. > :17:19.life and death. His mother agrees to take him to hospital, but only
:17:19. > :17:25.reluctantly. She has five more children to care for, and was
:17:25. > :17:29.prepared to let this one die, a sacrificed to save the others.
:17:29. > :17:33.had some instances where some families have already prepared the
:17:33. > :17:38.children for death. So we had to intervene and tell them no, this is
:17:38. > :17:43.not possible. This child is still alive, and he can make it. This
:17:43. > :17:47.camp is growing all the time. It is becoming increasingly overcrowded
:17:47. > :17:52.and unsanitary as well. Aid agencies here are stretched to the
:17:52. > :17:56.limit, and more people are arriving with every day that passes, over
:17:56. > :18:00.1000 of them fleeing from civil war and now drought as well in their
:18:00. > :18:06.native Somalia. No one here has any intention of going home any time
:18:06. > :18:12.soon. But aid is making a difference here. On Monday, we
:18:12. > :18:17.showed these pictures of a chronically malnourished baby. This
:18:17. > :18:21.is him now. His doctors say he is out of danger and gradually growing
:18:22. > :18:31.stronger. Amid the misery, there is also hope.
:18:32. > :18:45.
:18:45. > :18:49.The TV and radio appeals have been Coming up on tonight's programme:
:18:49. > :18:57.cowboy hats and a rodeo for William and Kate as they end their tour of
:18:57. > :19:00.Canada. The space shuttle Atlantis has
:19:00. > :19:04.blasted off on the last mission in NASA's 30 year shuttle programme
:19:04. > :19:08.after more than 120 million miles of travel. Four astronauts are
:19:08. > :19:18.aboard, carrying supplies to the International Space Station. Our
:19:18. > :19:23.science correspondent watched the final lift off at Cape Canaveral.
:19:23. > :19:28.Cheers for a moment of history. Four astronauts about to fly on the
:19:28. > :19:33.final space shuttle. It is the end of an era. At the launchpad,
:19:33. > :19:39.Atlantis fuelled and ready. With three hours to go, the crew clamber
:19:39. > :19:43.inside. An awkward fit, but the launch is on. Good luck to you and
:19:43. > :19:50.your crew in this to American icon. Ignition. Should the shuttles have
:19:50. > :19:55.flown for 30 years. Now, the last count down. And lift off! The final
:19:55. > :20:01.lift off of Atlantis. Even from three miles away, it is
:20:01. > :20:07.staggeringly bright as the shuttle accelerates towards 17,000 miles an
:20:07. > :20:14.hour. An incredible sight. Here it comes, a great wave of sound. You
:20:14. > :20:21.can actually feel it inside you. Huge crowds were watching, and
:20:21. > :20:25.emotional sight. I wanted to see a shuttle launch more than anything.
:20:26. > :20:29.And the final one makes it even better. We came all the way from
:20:29. > :20:33.Virginia. And seeing that made me have something to tell my friends
:20:33. > :20:36.when I get home. The mission is to deliver supplies to the
:20:36. > :20:42.International Space Station, but who will do the job after the
:20:42. > :20:48.shuttle? For several years at least, Russian rockets will be the only
:20:48. > :20:53.way Americans will reach space. Humiliating for the nation that put
:20:53. > :20:57.men on the moon. So NASA wants private companies to step in. This
:20:57. > :21:01.commercial system could ferry astronauts in three years' time. So
:21:01. > :21:07.where does this lead? This NASA video talks of missions to
:21:07. > :21:11.asteroids and Mars, but a former boss of the agency says man's space
:21:11. > :21:17.flight is in disarray. What an incredible mistake it is to be
:21:17. > :21:22.retiring the shuttle without a replacement. Despite all the
:21:22. > :21:27.political flimflam talking about commercial space operations, we do
:21:27. > :21:30.not have those yet. Tonight, Atlantis is in orbit. It will
:21:30. > :21:35.return in 12 days, when America will face tough questions about its
:21:35. > :21:39.future in space. In the last half-hour, the world's
:21:39. > :21:42.newest country has come into existence. Celebrations have begun
:21:42. > :21:47.in South Sudan, but there are new fears about security, with the UK
:21:47. > :21:50.approving a 7000 strong peacekeeping force there. The birth
:21:50. > :21:54.of South Sudan comes after two decades of the Sudanese civil war,
:21:54. > :21:58.which claimed some 2 million lives. A peace deal signed in 2005 paved
:21:58. > :22:01.the way for autonomy in the South. But there are fears of new conflict
:22:01. > :22:11.between north and south, centred on the oil-rich Abyei area on the
:22:11. > :22:15.
:22:15. > :22:20.border. From Juba, the capital of South Sudan, Will Ross reports.
:22:20. > :22:24.The final march to independence. I will never leave my land till I die,
:22:24. > :22:34.the song herder throughout the decades of war with North Sudan.
:22:34. > :22:36.
:22:36. > :22:44.Now they have their land, and South Sudan is born. With a little help
:22:44. > :22:49.from a mobile, people rehearse the brand new national anthem. The way
:22:49. > :22:53.of life has not changed much for centuries. Because of the war,
:22:53. > :23:01.South Sudan will start out as one of the poorest nations on the
:23:01. > :23:05.planet. When we were ruled by the north, we had no opportunities,
:23:05. > :23:12.this chief tells me. Our children could not go to school, but now
:23:12. > :23:18.things will change. We will see development here. But for now, this
:23:18. > :23:23.is where the money is going. PC is still on shaky ground, and so in
:23:23. > :23:28.the south, three times as much money is spent on the military
:23:28. > :23:32.compared to education and health combined. These are the soldiers of
:23:32. > :23:36.the army that fought for so many years against the Khartoum
:23:36. > :23:40.government. The question for now as South Sudan becomes a new country
:23:40. > :23:49.is, can all the people with guns stay united, or will different
:23:49. > :23:55.rebel groups pop up? Like this group that just last week declared
:23:55. > :24:02.war in the south, where clashes between tribes are common. The
:24:02. > :24:08.border area is rich in oil. Just inside the north, President
:24:08. > :24:12.Bashir's warplanes drop bombs to crush a rebellion. The fear is that
:24:12. > :24:18.instead of sharing the oil, the two countries will keep fighting for
:24:18. > :24:23.more. We are absolutely committed to peace. People have suffered for
:24:23. > :24:28.too long, 58 years of war. It is in the interest of the North for the
:24:28. > :24:35.South to be in peace with it, for the survival of the two states, it
:24:35. > :24:38.is essential that we maintain two viable states. The struggle for
:24:39. > :24:43.Southern independence is over. The struggle for peace is just
:24:43. > :24:47.beginning. Prince William and the Duchess of
:24:47. > :24:54.Cambridge are on their way to Los Angeles after a tour of Canada
:24:54. > :24:57.widely regarded as a success. They spent their last day in Calgary
:24:57. > :24:59.dressed down in cowboy hats and jeans, and attended a world famous
:24:59. > :25:05.rodeo festival. Our royal correspondent's report contains
:25:05. > :25:10.some flash photography. The final stop in Canada on their
:25:10. > :25:15.first overseas tour together, and it has culminated in Calgary, home
:25:15. > :25:22.of Canada's cowboys, where William and Kate launched the Annual wild
:25:22. > :25:25.West rodeo, the Calgary Stampede. It has been a nine-day visit which
:25:25. > :25:30.according to William has far surpassed the expectations. Canada
:25:30. > :25:33.has once again shown that where Royals are concerned, particularly
:25:33. > :25:39.where those Royals are young and glamourous like these two, no
:25:39. > :25:44.country is capable of a more devoted welcome. Earlier, William
:25:44. > :25:48.and Kate had seen something of those essential stampede activities,
:25:48. > :25:54.the riding of angry bulls, something frowned on by animal
:25:54. > :25:58.rights groups, and driving chuckwagons. It is a visit for
:25:58. > :26:01.which the couple's down-to-earth style has been perfectly suited.
:26:01. > :26:05.His visit was pretty much guaranteed to be a success. One of
:26:05. > :26:09.the reasons for coming to Canada is that so many Canadians are
:26:09. > :26:14.enthusiastic about the royal family. But the fact that it has been such
:26:14. > :26:21.a spectacular success is down to the couple themselves. Everywhere
:26:21. > :26:26.they have been, they have shown an unStaffie side to royalty. They
:26:26. > :26:29.have demonstrated what a potent impact two young royals working
:26:29. > :26:37.together are capable of having. Tonight they said farewell to
:26:37. > :26:41.Canada, having promised to return, and headed on to California.
:26:41. > :26:44.While we have been on air, there has been a development in the phone
:26:44. > :26:48.hacking investigation. Scotland Yard has issued a statement saying
:26:48. > :26:51.that a 63-year-old man was arrested at a residential address in Surrey