:00:09. > :00:12.The pressure piles on News Corporation with fresh accusations
:00:13. > :00:18.from a former prime minister, police and a united front by
:00:18. > :00:22.politicians. Gordon Brown tells the BBC he believes another of Rupert
:00:22. > :00:27.Murdoch's papers, the Sunday Times, illegally obtained his building
:00:27. > :00:32.society details. There is absolute proof that news International is
:00:32. > :00:34.involved in hiring people to get this information. I also know that
:00:34. > :00:40.the people asked they work with, because this is what really
:00:40. > :00:44.concerns me most, are criminals. Known criminals. Grilled by MPs
:00:44. > :00:49.over phone hacking investigations, senior police turn their fire on
:00:49. > :00:53.News International. This is a major, global organisation with access to
:00:54. > :00:57.the best legal advice. In my view, deliberately trying to thwart a
:00:57. > :01:02.criminal investigation. But the officers face some uncomfortable
:01:02. > :01:08.questions. While a police officer, did you ever received payment from
:01:08. > :01:13.any news organisation... Good God! Absolutely not. I can't believe you
:01:13. > :01:17.suggested that. Tomorrow, all three main Westminster parties will vote
:01:17. > :01:22.for News Corporation to abandon the BSkyB takeover. Rupert Murdoch
:01:22. > :01:28.himself is summoned to give evidence to MPs. Also tonight: More
:01:28. > :01:32.violence in Belfast after a day of Protestant Orange Order parades.
:01:33. > :01:37.Could the debt crisis in Greece now be spreading to Europe's third
:01:37. > :01:45.largest economy, Italy? And has Rory got what it takes to become
:01:45. > :01:49.the youngest Open champion? Coming up in Sportsday at 10.30,
:01:50. > :01:59.Carlos Tevez will have to rethink plans to leave Manchester City as
:02:00. > :02:14.
:02:14. > :02:18.they reject a �35 million bid from Good evening. The pressure on News
:02:18. > :02:20.International intensify today, with fresh criticism from the former
:02:20. > :02:24.prime minister Gordon Brown and senior police officers. In an
:02:24. > :02:27.interview with the BBC, Gordon Brown claimed that the Sunday Times
:02:27. > :02:33.hired criminals to obtain his financial and medical records. He
:02:33. > :02:40.revealed how he was left in tears after the Sun obtained information
:02:40. > :02:43.about his son's cystic fibrosis. It comes on the eve of a parliamentary
:02:43. > :02:48.debate which will see politicians from all sides unite to call on
:02:48. > :02:52.Rupert Murdoch to abandon his controversial bid for BSkyB. James
:02:52. > :02:57.Landale now looks at Gordon Brown's allegations. The report contains
:02:57. > :03:00.some flash photography. Here are Gordon and Rupert at a
:03:01. > :03:04.conference. Here is Gordon in Downing Street with Robert's
:03:04. > :03:09.daughter next to him. And their top editor, Rebekah Brooks, the Red
:03:09. > :03:14.head on the right. For years, Team Brown stayed close to T Murdoch.
:03:14. > :03:18.But no more. Today, smiles fell away as Gordon Brown accused them
:03:18. > :03:24.and their newspaper, the Sunday Times, of using criminals to
:03:24. > :03:29.investigate his private life. my bank accounts broken into, my
:03:29. > :03:34.lawyers's files blanked, as they call it, with someone getting
:03:35. > :03:39.information from my lawyers. My tax returns went missing at one point.
:03:39. > :03:44.Medical records have been broken into. I don't know how all of this
:03:44. > :03:47.happened. But I do know one thing. In two of these instances there is
:03:47. > :03:52.absolute proof that News International is involved in hiring
:03:52. > :03:56.people to get this information. I also know that the people that they
:03:56. > :03:59.work with, because this is what really concerns me most, are
:04:00. > :04:03.criminals. Gordon Brown claimed they were looking for information
:04:03. > :04:08.about a flat in this London street that he bought in the early 1990s.
:04:08. > :04:14.He says he paid the market rate. The Sunday Times claimed that he
:04:14. > :04:17.got a knock-down price. REPORTER: Are you considering resigning?
:04:17. > :04:20.is the editor of the Sunday Times and he is not resigning. But Gordon
:04:20. > :04:24.Brown alleged that his newspaper had been out to bring him down as a
:04:24. > :04:28.government minister. In a statement, the paper said, we believe no law
:04:28. > :04:32.was broken, no criminal was used and the story was published giving
:04:32. > :04:35.all sides a fair hearing. Gordon Brown also turned his fire on
:04:35. > :04:39.another News International Paper, the sun. He attacked the way that
:04:39. > :04:44.it reported that his youngest son, Fraser, was suffering from cystic
:04:44. > :04:48.fibrosis. Mr Brown did not allege that his son's medical records had
:04:48. > :04:53.been stolen, but the revelation was not legitimate, he said, and it
:04:53. > :04:59.left him... In tears. Your son is now going to be broadcast across
:04:59. > :05:03.the media. Sarah and I were incredibly upset about it. We were
:05:03. > :05:06.thinking about his long-term future. We are thinking about our family.
:05:07. > :05:11.But there is nothing you can do about it, you are in public life.
:05:11. > :05:15.Other parents in public life who have also had children with medical
:05:15. > :05:18.conditions are sympathetic. heart goes out to Gordon and Sarah
:05:18. > :05:23.Brown. To have your children's privacy invaded in that way, and I
:05:23. > :05:27.know this myself, particularly when your child is not well, is
:05:27. > :05:31.unacceptable and heartbreaking for the family. The Sun said it had not
:05:31. > :05:35.accessed any medical records, that the story had originated from a
:05:35. > :05:38.member of the public whose family had also experience cystic fibrosis
:05:38. > :05:42.and the article was written sensitively and appropriately.
:05:42. > :05:46.Above all, Mr Brown accused News International about having an
:05:46. > :05:52.agenda against him. He said Rupert Murdoch had wanted the BBC and the
:05:52. > :05:55.media regulator Ofcom reformed. He, Gordon Brown, did not. When the
:05:55. > :05:59.record of my time as Prime Minister is looked at, and all of the papers
:05:59. > :06:02.will be there for people to see, it will show that we stood up to News
:06:02. > :06:06.International. That we refused to support the commercial ambitions
:06:06. > :06:09.when we thought they were against the public interest. For days, the
:06:09. > :06:13.Murdoch empire has faced allegations about phone hacking by
:06:13. > :06:17.the News of the World. Mr Brown has now widened the attack to other
:06:17. > :06:21.newspapers within the group, an attack that has been pressed home
:06:21. > :06:25.by Labour's current leader, who met the family of Milly Dowler, whose
:06:25. > :06:29.phone was also allegedly hacked. Tomorrow he will ask MPs to back a
:06:29. > :06:32.motion calling on Mr Murdoch to withdraw his bid for BSkyB. The
:06:32. > :06:37.motion is now backed by the Government. Parliament will have
:06:37. > :06:40.the opportunity to say no to News Corporation tomorrow. And there is
:06:40. > :06:43.a good chance it will also be able to question James Murdoch, his dad
:06:43. > :06:51.and other executives if they agree to appear before an MP committee
:06:51. > :06:53.next week. What a thought. The scale of the police
:06:53. > :07:00.investigation into the News of the World phone hacking scandal was
:07:00. > :07:04.underlined today when the officer in charge of the case said there
:07:04. > :07:09.were over 4000 potential victims, although only 170 have been
:07:09. > :07:19.contacted. MPs -- offices past and present have been grilled by MPs
:07:19. > :07:19.
:07:19. > :07:25.about why they did not do more to A parade of past and serving police
:07:25. > :07:30.top brass. They arrived by car and on foot to the Commons for a
:07:30. > :07:35.grilling by committee. Chief constable of Blair, thank you for
:07:35. > :07:38.coming. What the MPs got was the first full explanation of why the
:07:38. > :07:43.police stop their original phone hacking inquiry without looking at
:07:43. > :07:47.all the evidence. Lord Blair set the scene. Metropolitan Police
:07:47. > :07:54.Commissioner at the time of the original investigation, how did he
:07:54. > :07:57.regard the case back then? It was a tiny, fragment of an event in the
:07:57. > :08:02.events that were taking place in London at that time. Events like
:08:02. > :08:05.this. Police were embroiled in several major terrorism
:08:05. > :08:09.investigations. Peter Clarke is a former deputy assistant
:08:09. > :08:14.commissioner who led that first investigation and decided not to
:08:15. > :08:17.continue. He said fighting terror came first. When set against the
:08:17. > :08:21.Criminal course of conduct that involved gross breaches of privacy,
:08:21. > :08:25.but no apparent threat of physical harm to the public, I could not
:08:25. > :08:31.justify the huge expenditure of resources it would entail Oban
:08:31. > :08:34.inevitably protracted period. police hope that putting had their
:08:34. > :08:38.Glen Mulcaire in prison would set an example and mobile phone
:08:38. > :08:41.companies could be persuaded to improve security. But he said if
:08:41. > :08:45.News International had come forward with evidence of what was going on,
:08:45. > :08:50.it would have been a different matter. This is a global
:08:50. > :08:53.organisation with access to the best legal advice, in my view,
:08:53. > :08:57.deliberately trying to thwart a criminal investigation. Many
:08:57. > :09:00.believe the case was dropped because the police became too close
:09:00. > :09:03.to the News of the World and News International. Enter a more senior
:09:03. > :09:08.officer at the time, former Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman.
:09:08. > :09:12.He oversaw the first inquiry while he admits dining with News
:09:12. > :09:17.International executives. He later ended up writing for the Times.
:09:17. > :09:22.Have you any idea how that looks to the public? Any suggestion or hint
:09:22. > :09:28.that these were cosy, candlelit dinners, where state secrets were
:09:28. > :09:32.shared is rubbish. How could I ever stop a line of investigation, or
:09:32. > :09:42.driven one in any way, shape or form? I didn't, I couldn't.
:09:42. > :09:45.sounds more like Inspector Chris Having dinner with people you are
:09:45. > :09:53.investigating? You don't know they are being investigated? Of course I
:09:53. > :09:57.do. Did you ever receive payment from any news organisation...
:09:57. > :10:00.God! Absolutely not, I can't believe he suggested that. They
:10:01. > :10:04.also have focused on the moment in 2009 when it became clear that
:10:04. > :10:08.police files contained many more phone hacking victims than first
:10:08. > :10:12.thought. Another senior policeman, Assistant Commissioner John Yates,
:10:12. > :10:18.told them that the revelations had appeared in the Guardian. The same
:10:18. > :10:22.day he decided not to reopen the inquiry. It took eight hours for
:10:22. > :10:26.you to decide that the inquiry did not need to be taken further?
:10:26. > :10:31.11,000 pages of material? qualified yes. There was nothing
:10:31. > :10:37.new in the Guardian article. Two people had gone to prison, I could
:10:37. > :10:42.go one. So, to Sue Akers, deputy assistant commissioner, now a
:10:42. > :10:47.leading two new, more in-depth investigations. She revealed there
:10:47. > :10:52.were 3800 plus potential targets for the Hafez. Only 170 have been
:10:52. > :10:58.contacted so far. -- for the hackers. I'm confident we have an
:10:58. > :11:02.excellent team that are working tirelessly to get this right. I
:11:02. > :11:08.hope I don't have to come back in five years' time to explain why we
:11:08. > :11:12.failed. Indeed, her task is likely to take not months, but years.
:11:12. > :11:17.Illegal phone hacking, once seen by the police as, in that phrase, a
:11:17. > :11:24.tiny, fragmentary event, has tended to a saga which now dominates
:11:24. > :11:29.public life. -- turned into a saga. Let's talk to James Landale at
:11:29. > :11:32.Westminster. MPs on all sides appear to be uniting against Rupert
:11:32. > :11:36.Murdoch. We have the debates tomorrow and now he is being
:11:36. > :11:39.summoned to appear before them? think tomorrow will be an
:11:39. > :11:44.extraordinary moment in modern British politics. Politicians, who
:11:44. > :11:47.for decades have either sucked up to Rupert Murdoch or have suffered
:11:47. > :11:51.at his hands are going to say, no more. I don't think anybody has
:11:51. > :11:54.worked through the consequences of that. But there is a real sense
:11:54. > :11:59.that British politics will not be quite the same again. Tomorrow is
:11:59. > :12:03.going to be full of drama, Prime Ministers questions, a statement by
:12:03. > :12:07.David Cameron setting out the terms of references of inquiries into
:12:07. > :12:09.phone hacking and the assorted sagas. The bottom line is going to
:12:09. > :12:14.be this. Parliament is now beginning to assert itself once
:12:14. > :12:17.again. You have to have questions for the police today. You have a
:12:17. > :12:20.vote against Rupert Murdoch tomorrow, possibly questions
:12:20. > :12:24.tomorrow. This institution has suffered grievously in previous
:12:24. > :12:28.years as a result of a phone hacking. But there is life in the
:12:28. > :12:31.old dog yet. Trouble has broken out again on the
:12:31. > :12:36.streets of Belfast tonight, with petrol bombs, bricks and bottles
:12:36. > :12:40.thrown at police. The violence flared during a nationalist
:12:41. > :12:50.demonstration in the Ardoyne area, in protest at a Protestant Orange
:12:51. > :12:54.
:12:54. > :13:02.Order parade. It started with stones and bricks.
:13:02. > :13:09.Then came fireworks. And then petrol bombs. Followed by more
:13:09. > :13:14.petrol bombs. Trouble on this street in Ardoyne in north Belfast
:13:14. > :13:19.has become almost an annual event on 12th July, the main day of the
:13:19. > :13:22.Protestant marching season. Tonight's violence followed end
:13:22. > :13:26.Orange Order parade in the area earlier in the evening. It was
:13:26. > :13:31.tense and there was a nationalist protest. But it was peaceful and no
:13:31. > :13:34.missiles were aimed at the marchers. It only took a couple of minutes
:13:34. > :13:40.for the parade to pass along this part of malt Belfast but it
:13:40. > :13:44.required a major security operation and hundreds of police officers.
:13:44. > :13:48.Sinn Fein claimed that if the Orange Order had agreed to talk to
:13:48. > :13:52.them about the parade, the tension could have been diffused. Most
:13:52. > :14:00.people, the vast majority of people, want to move on. The Orange Order
:14:00. > :14:09.need to realise that they have almost the wrong attitude to this.
:14:09. > :14:12.Who understands not talking? We are that talking to people here would
:14:12. > :14:18.not have made any difference and that Republican extremists were
:14:18. > :14:25.simply bent on violence. 22 police officers were injured last night in
:14:25. > :14:30.Belfast. More have been heard tonight. And tension in the City is
:14:30. > :14:33.There has been an unexpected fall in the rate of inflation. The
:14:33. > :14:37.Consumer Prices Index for June showed an annual rate of 4.2%,
:14:37. > :14:41.that's down 0.3% on the month before. The slowdown was helped by
:14:41. > :14:47.discounts on electronics, including televisions and digital cameras.
:14:47. > :14:51.But food prices have continued to rise.
:14:51. > :14:56.The Chancellor George Osborne tonight has warned that the UK is
:14:56. > :15:00.not immune to the instability caused by the debt crisis in the
:15:01. > :15:08.euro-zone. Italy could follow Greece and Portugal in struggling
:15:08. > :15:13.to deal with its debt, as our chief economic correspondent reports.
:15:13. > :15:17.Athens has been buffeted by financial storms for some time. Now
:15:17. > :15:23.the turbulence has spread to another historic capital, Rome, and
:15:23. > :15:26.that could mean a much bigger nightmare for the euro-zone. It is
:15:26. > :15:30.the last thing the finance ministers needed as they met in
:15:30. > :15:33.Brussels today. They were facing the possibility of Greece
:15:33. > :15:43.defaulting on some of its debt, then came heightened fears about
:15:43. > :15:43.
:15:44. > :15:48.Italy. It is the euro-zone's third largest economy. Italian newspapers
:15:48. > :15:52.spelled out the latest market fears, and others focused on the main
:15:52. > :15:56.challenge. Italy has poor demographics, a shrinking
:15:56. > :16:00.population and large parts of the economy are not competitive so it
:16:00. > :16:07.is highly unlikely to be able to grow its way out of its debt
:16:07. > :16:15.problem. Italy's government debt has hit 120% of economic output,
:16:15. > :16:19.second only to Greece in the euro- zone, where debt is 143% of GDP.
:16:19. > :16:28.Exposure to a Italian debt affects banks' well beyond its borders. UK
:16:28. > :16:32.banks have lent �41 billion to Italy's public and private sectors.
:16:32. > :16:35.For heavily indebted euro-zone governments, the view of the
:16:35. > :16:40.financial markets is crucial because they dictate the cost of
:16:40. > :16:44.borrowing. If they think lending is getting riskier, they will push up
:16:44. > :16:49.the interest rate, and that can get to a level which is simply
:16:49. > :16:58.unaffordable. The question now - is Italy getting close to that tipping
:16:58. > :17:03.point? There could be serious implications. The financial crisis
:17:03. > :17:08.we are now facing involving Italy and Spain is now a game changer. If
:17:08. > :17:14.that is not handled efficiently, it will mean a recession in Europe and
:17:14. > :17:18.the world, and a financial crisis here and abroad. The Chancellor
:17:18. > :17:23.today called for decisive action to address the euro-zone crisis. We
:17:23. > :17:31.are not immune to instability on our doorstep, he said.
:17:31. > :17:37.Still to come: one of the lucky ones - the plight of the migrants
:17:37. > :17:43.fleeing the Arab uprising to reach mainland Europe.
:17:43. > :17:47.The White House has condemned the killing in Afghanistan of the half
:17:47. > :17:50.brother of President Hamid Karzai. Ahmad Wali Karzai was regarded as
:17:50. > :17:53.one of the most powerful politicians in the south of the
:17:53. > :18:03.country, despite being accused of drug trafficking and corruption.
:18:03. > :18:07.His death raised new fears about instability in the country.
:18:07. > :18:12.He described himself as the most powerful man in southern
:18:12. > :18:20.Afghanistan, few disagreed. Ahmad Wali Karzai was a controversial
:18:20. > :18:24.figure. He said he added spice to Afghan life. In Kandahar today, the
:18:24. > :18:34.roads to his compound were closed. The President's half brother lived
:18:34. > :18:35.
:18:35. > :18:39.under the tightest security so the head of personal protection aroused
:18:39. > :18:44.little suspicion when he entered his room. Without saying a word, he
:18:44. > :18:49.shot him twice. Hamid Karzai welcome Nicolas Sarkozy of France
:18:49. > :18:59.today. He said "this morning my younger brother Ahmad Wali Karzai
:18:59. > :18:59.
:18:59. > :19:03.was martyred in his house". "This is the life of Afghan people, we
:19:03. > :19:08.have all suffered the life of pain". Forgive me for not speaking with a
:19:08. > :19:12.smile today, he said. Ahmad Wali Karzai was said to be deeply
:19:12. > :19:18.involved with the opium trade. The allegations strained his relations
:19:18. > :19:26.with Afghanistan allies but he had many other enemies besides a. In
:19:26. > :19:30.April he spoke to a BBC documentary crew about attempts on his life.
:19:30. > :19:39.There were two major suicide attacks on me in my office. Still
:19:39. > :19:44.threats against you now? Every day. The Taliban? Criminals? The Taliban.
:19:44. > :19:48.Ahmad Wali Karzai came close to being charged with corruption, but
:19:48. > :19:58.according to a US official he was simply too valuable. We needed him,
:19:58. > :19:58.
:19:58. > :20:04.he kept a lid on things in Kandahar, he said. In Kabul. -- in Kabul,
:20:04. > :20:08.they say they have lost a valuable fighter.
:20:08. > :20:14.The BBC has learned fresh allegations of abuse at a second go
:20:14. > :20:19.home for adults with learning difficulties. The home in Bristol
:20:19. > :20:24.is run by Castlebeck, the home which also ran Winterbourne View
:20:24. > :20:28.where abuse was exposed by Panorama. Six months on from the toppling of
:20:28. > :20:32.the first Middle East regime in the Arab uprising, many people are
:20:32. > :20:38.still fleeing the region and it has led to a surge in migration to
:20:38. > :20:47.Europe. For thousands of migrant workers, one of the main routes is
:20:47. > :20:54.from Libya to the Italian island of Lampedusa. In the darkness, the
:20:54. > :21:00.boat was hard to pick out. But there were 300 people on board
:21:00. > :21:05.without any cover. Then another boat, or heading for the Italian
:21:05. > :21:11.port of Lampedusa. This is an African exodus that has followed
:21:11. > :21:17.the Arab Spring. These boats that came in recent days are from the
:21:17. > :21:22.Libyan capital, Tripoli. For the 30 our crossing, the migrants had been
:21:22. > :21:27.packed in tight. Amongst them, very small children, a mark of the
:21:27. > :21:30.desperation that had driven these people to flee for Europe. Many of
:21:30. > :21:34.them said they were escaping the conflict.
:21:34. > :21:44.Why did you leave Libya? Because of the fighting. They are fighting
:21:44. > :21:45.
:21:45. > :21:53.each other. The fights in Libya. People are dying, no food. Due to
:21:53. > :21:58.the crackdown. They are pumping everywhere and I lost some of my
:21:58. > :22:02.friends. That is why I am here. This man also hinted at being put
:22:02. > :22:07.on the boat by Libyan authorities, we also heard it from others,
:22:07. > :22:11.raising the question whether Gaddafi is making good his threat
:22:11. > :22:16.to unleash an unprecedented wave of immigration to Europe. But it is
:22:16. > :22:21.exhausting and dangerous crossing - this woman was heavily pregnant.
:22:21. > :22:26.This is the 5th boat to arrive in Lampedusa in the last 24 hours. In
:22:26. > :22:32.the first few months after the Arab Spring began, most people arriving
:22:32. > :22:38.came from Tunisia, and theirs is a very different but equally
:22:38. > :22:42.difficult story. Over 50,000 Tunisians arrived, mainly economic
:22:42. > :22:47.migrants. Their numbers so unsettled some European governments
:22:47. > :22:51.that they began questioning Europe's policies of open borders.
:22:51. > :22:55.These migrants had their hopes pinned on Paris. We caught up with
:22:55. > :23:00.some of them on a piece of wasteland in the French capital.
:23:00. > :23:06.Many were living rough, they all said they want to return to Tunisia.
:23:06. > :23:11.This man said that without papers it was impossible to find work.
:23:11. > :23:16.Many had paid smugglers to come to Europe but can't now find the money
:23:16. > :23:21.to leave. Most of them want to return home because there is no
:23:21. > :23:29.hope here. Back on the boats from Libya, young men travel with hope.
:23:29. > :23:33.We would like to work. Showing of hands eager for work. But Europe,
:23:33. > :23:41.with 24 million people out of work, can be a hard place to invest your
:23:41. > :23:44.dreams. There is more on the impact of the
:23:44. > :23:50.Arab uprising on the BBC news website.
:23:50. > :23:59.The BBC has revealed it has cut the wage bill for its on-air talent by
:23:59. > :24:09.�9 million. The number earning more 900 than �100,000 a year has
:24:09. > :24:13.increased. He is the golfer all fans want to
:24:13. > :24:17.seek and Rory McIlroy didn't disappoint today. The 22 year-old
:24:17. > :24:27.took to the practice range this afternoon, hoping to get another
:24:27. > :24:29.
:24:29. > :24:34.major win under his belt to add to his US Open triumph last month.
:24:34. > :24:38.Everyone wants Rory McIlroy, even on the practice range there was a
:24:38. > :24:43.world champion boxer - Barry McGuigan - to offer advice on
:24:43. > :24:47.physique. There has been precious little golf for Rory McIlroy
:24:47. > :24:52.recently. He has been enjoying the life of a sporting celebrity at
:24:52. > :24:56.Wimbledon, for example. Experts predict he could be the UK's
:24:57. > :25:02.highest paid sportsman ever if he keeps winning. The way my life
:25:02. > :25:07.seems to be going, the golf is the easy bit. You get away, inside the
:25:07. > :25:11.ropes, and you have five hours to yourself out there. I loved getting
:25:11. > :25:15.on the golf course and I feel refreshed, I am really looking
:25:15. > :25:21.forward to playing again. He has done most of his preparation at
:25:21. > :25:25.home. This is his back garden. Most of his rivals have been braving the
:25:25. > :25:29.Sandwich course and win his touching 30 miles an hour. Despite
:25:30. > :25:36.the interest in Rory McIlroy, he is not officially the world's best
:25:36. > :25:41.golfer - the man over their is. Luke Donald, world number one, but
:25:41. > :25:45.with a point to prove. I have had a great season, made my way to the
:25:45. > :25:52.top of the world rankings, so everything is going to plan. What
:25:52. > :25:56.is left is to try to contend and win a major. In the absence both