:00:12. > :00:19.Tonight at Ten: The Metropolitan Police in crisis. The phone hacking
:00:19. > :00:20.scandal claim as second top officer in 24 hours. Assist ant
:00:21. > :00:27.commissioner Assistant Commissioner John Yates, the man in charge of
:00:27. > :00:33.counter-terrorism, resigns a day after his boss quits. I have acted
:00:33. > :00:37.with integrity. My conscious is clear. The investigators under
:00:37. > :00:41.investigation, new inquiries are announced into allegations of
:00:41. > :00:48.nepotism and corruption. David Cameron says he will cut short his
:00:48. > :00:52.African tour as pressure mounts over his hiring of the News of the
:00:52. > :00:57.World editor, Andy Coulson. No-one can argue that the work he did in
:00:57. > :01:02.Government was in any way inappropriate or bad. What the
:01:02. > :01:06.country needs is strong and decisive leadership to restore
:01:06. > :01:11.trust in the politics, the press and the police. The Prime Minister
:01:11. > :01:15.is unable to show that. Tonight, the News of the World whistle-
:01:15. > :01:21.blower has been found dead at home. We are asking how damaging the
:01:21. > :01:28.scandal is for David Cameron. Also: New plans to cut up to 20,000
:01:28. > :01:34.soldiers from the British Army. Can reservists really do their job? The
:01:34. > :01:40.apparent care home abuse exposed by the BBC. An official investigation
:01:40. > :01:44.blames systemic failure to protect people. And as Darren Clarke
:01:44. > :01:54.celebrates his Open victory, how does Northern Ireland produce so
:01:54. > :02:18.
:02:18. > :02:22.Good evening. The Metropolitan Police is in a crisis tonight after
:02:22. > :02:25.losing a second senior officer in just 24 hours. Assistant
:02:25. > :02:34.Commissioner John Yates, the man in charge of counter-terrorism in
:02:34. > :02:37.England and Wales resigned today. The latest casualty in the phone
:02:37. > :02:43.hacking scandal. David Cameron has had to cut short a tour of Africa
:02:43. > :02:46.to return home to deal with the crisis. Today, Ed Miliband, said
:02:46. > :02:51.that David Cameron was unable to show the leadership that the
:02:51. > :02:58.country needed and called on him to apologise for hiring the News of
:02:58. > :03:02.the World editor, Andy Coulson. He is no longer, Assistant
:03:02. > :03:05.Commissioner John Yates, resigning a day after his boss, the
:03:05. > :03:10.commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Paul Stephenson. Both
:03:10. > :03:17.paying the price for failing to get to grips with the hacking scandal.
:03:17. > :03:20.So, said the Mayor of London. have just come off the phone to
:03:20. > :03:25.Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who has tendered his resignation.
:03:25. > :03:29.Boris Johnson insisted that both men had jumped and were not pushed,
:03:29. > :03:34.but he made it clear that he had done everything to encourage them.
:03:34. > :03:37.I think it was clear to support and to indeed join Assistant
:03:37. > :03:41.Commissioner John Yates after the issues and the questions of the
:03:41. > :03:45.circumstance it would make it difficult for them to continue to
:03:45. > :03:48.do their jobs in the way that they wanted. Assistant Commissioner John
:03:48. > :03:54.Yates began the day determined not to resign. Telling colleagues he
:03:54. > :03:59.would not summit to trial by media. He ended it explaining why he was
:03:59. > :04:03.going. We in the police service are truly accountable. Those of us who
:04:03. > :04:12.take on the most difficult jobs clearly have to stand up and be
:04:12. > :04:17.counted when things go wrong. Sadly, there continues to be a huge amount
:04:17. > :04:22.of inaccurate, ill-informed and downright malicious gossip
:04:22. > :04:27.published about me, personally. This has the potential to be a
:04:28. > :04:33.significant distraction in my role as the national lead for the
:04:33. > :04:37.counter-terrorism unit. This is the man whose arrest caused a ciefg at
:04:38. > :04:42.the Met, Neil Wallis. Scotland Yard admitted that two years ago it had
:04:42. > :04:46.hired him to help to improve their public relations. It emerged that
:04:46. > :04:49.his daughter works for the Metropolitan Police and that
:04:49. > :04:52.Assistant Commissioner John Yates is alleged to have helped her get
:04:52. > :04:58.the job. When Sir Paul Stephenson went to Downing Street last week to
:04:58. > :05:03.discuss how to restore the Met's image, he made no mention of the
:05:03. > :05:05.force's relationship with Neil Wallis. It was that failure to be
:05:05. > :05:09.that cost him and Assistant Commissioner John Yates their
:05:09. > :05:16.careers. What divides the Prime Minister and the men from the Met
:05:16. > :05:26.is, oddly, what conects them. Both hired former News of the World men
:05:26. > :05:27.
:05:27. > :05:32.to improve their image. All insist that they knew nothing about
:05:32. > :05:36.hacking. The Prime Minister's on a awkwardly timed trip to South
:05:36. > :05:42.Africa. He is cutting it short to return home to make another
:05:42. > :05:47.statement about hacking. The Labour leader says he is incapable of
:05:47. > :05:51.giving the leadership that is required. The country needs strong
:05:51. > :05:54.leadership to restore trust in the politics in the press and in the
:05:54. > :05:58.police. The Prime Minister is unable to do so because of the
:05:58. > :06:02.decision he made to hire Andy Coulson in the first place, because
:06:02. > :06:08.of his failure to answer questions about Andy Coulson, about him being
:06:08. > :06:12.brought into the heart of Downing Street and his failure to apologise
:06:12. > :06:15.for his terrible error of judgment in hiring Andy Coulson. Speaking
:06:15. > :06:19.before the news of Assistant Commissioner John Yates'
:06:19. > :06:22.resignation, David Cameron said there was no comparison between his
:06:22. > :06:25.behaviour and that of the Metropolitan Police. I don't
:06:25. > :06:31.believe that the situation is the same in any shape or form in terms
:06:31. > :06:37.of Andy Coulson. No-one has argued that the work he did in Government
:06:37. > :06:41.in any way was inappropriate or bad. He worked well in Government, he
:06:41. > :06:45.then left Government. There is a contrast, I would say with the
:06:45. > :06:49.situation at the Metropolitan Police, where clearly at the
:06:49. > :06:53.Metropolitan Police, the issues have been around whether or not the
:06:53. > :06:56.investigation is being pursued properly. Tonight the phone hacking
:06:56. > :07:00.inquiry is making yet more extraordinary headlines. Police
:07:00. > :07:09.officers are at the home of the former News of the World showbiz
:07:09. > :07:16.reporter, SeanHawe. Weeks after telling Panorama he was pressurised
:07:16. > :07:20.to hack phones. His death is described as unexplained but not
:07:20. > :07:27.suspicious. The crisis at the Met could not have come at a worse time.
:07:27. > :07:33.The next 12 months, in the run-up to the Olympics is likely to the
:07:33. > :07:37.most challenging period in its history. It is facing at least six
:07:37. > :07:46.separate qierz and investigations. We look at how it will cope without
:07:46. > :07:49.two of its most senior officers. Tonight the relationship between
:07:49. > :07:56.Scotland Yard and the press has become the central issue in the
:07:56. > :08:00.hacking scandal. Mrs Theresa May. The Home Secretary told the Commons
:08:00. > :08:04.of neglected evidence in the phone hacking inquiry, and accusations of
:08:04. > :08:10.officers taking illegal kickbacks. But that wasn't the end of the
:08:10. > :08:13.matter, she said. These allegations are not, unfortunately, the only
:08:13. > :08:19.recent example of alleged corruption and nepotism in the
:08:19. > :08:25.police. So I can tell the House that I have asked her Majesty's
:08:25. > :08:27.Inspectorate of it Constabulary to consider instances of undue
:08:27. > :08:32.influence in appropriate contractual arrangements and other
:08:32. > :08:42.abuses of power in police relationship with the media and
:08:42. > :08:46.other parties are. The outgoing commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson,
:08:46. > :08:51.is under scrutiny for his conduct in the phone hacking inquiry. Peter
:08:51. > :08:55.Clarke, who memorably fronted the inquiry into the 7/7 bombings, will
:08:55. > :08:58.also be investigated, as well Andy Hayman, who resigned following
:08:58. > :09:01.allegations of improper conduct and went on to work for News
:09:01. > :09:04.International. Finally, the Complaints Commission will
:09:05. > :09:08.investigate the conduct of John Yates, who resigned today also Mr
:09:08. > :09:11.Gates is accused of an appropriately securing employment
:09:11. > :09:15.at Scotland Yard for the daughter of news of the World journalist
:09:15. > :09:20.Neil Wallis, and for his role in relation to the phone hacking
:09:20. > :09:24.investigation. All the officers deny any impropriety. Scotland yard
:09:24. > :09:28.is in the midst of its worst crisis for almost 40 years. It's
:09:28. > :09:32.commissioner gone, one of his deputies, too, amid allegations of
:09:32. > :09:35.corruption, cover-up and incompetence. The hacking scandal
:09:35. > :09:41.has engulfed the Met with implications far beyond this
:09:42. > :09:45.building. Turmoil at the top as the Met prepares for its biggest ever
:09:45. > :09:47.peacetime operation - next year's London Olympics. The organisation
:09:47. > :09:52.is stressing that despite the resignations, it remains in good
:09:52. > :09:57.shape to keep the capital safe. But one member of the authority which
:09:57. > :10:01.oversees the Met says the crisis may be far from over. One can't
:10:01. > :10:08.help but think that there's more to come, and that may be more heads
:10:08. > :10:11.will roll. Tonight it has emerged a second senior news of the World
:10:11. > :10:16.journalist was employed by Scotland Yard as an interpreter or while
:10:16. > :10:20.working at the paper. The government wants to renegotiate the
:10:20. > :10:24.contract between police and press, knowing that at stake is one of the
:10:24. > :10:31.most vital commodities in a democracy. Trust in the forces of
:10:31. > :10:35.law and order. Let's get the latest from Nick Robinson at Westminster.
:10:36. > :10:40.David Cameron is thousands of miles away and the pressure has followed
:10:40. > :10:44.him. How damaging is this for him? There is real pressure on him,
:10:44. > :10:47.thanks to a question which was put to Boris Johnson earlier today. A
:10:47. > :10:51.question that he didn't answer terribly helpfully for the Prime
:10:51. > :10:56.Minister. The question was this. If the top men at the Met have had to
:10:56. > :11:00.lose their jobs for hiring a former deputy editor of the News of the
:11:00. > :11:03.World, why shouldn't the Prime Minister lose his for hiring the
:11:03. > :11:08.former editor? Boris Johnson stared at the camera and then said, it
:11:08. > :11:13.wasn't really a matter for him to deal with government appointments.
:11:13. > :11:15.Not quite the act of loyalty to your party leader that David
:11:15. > :11:20.Cameron might have hoped for. Team Cameron are desperate to say there
:11:20. > :11:25.is no such parallel, that there are questions about the efficiency of
:11:25. > :11:29.the police who are investigating hacking. There are questions about
:11:29. > :11:32.their integrity, too, and that is completely different from his
:11:32. > :11:35.decision to hire Andy Coulson all those years ago when he was in
:11:35. > :11:40.opposition. Just going into the House of Commons in the last few
:11:40. > :11:43.hours, glass-topped by Conservative MPs are wonder where this will end
:11:43. > :11:49.for the Prime Minister. They are starting to fear what might happen,
:11:49. > :11:52.not just now but in the months to come, if there are trials and
:11:52. > :11:56.convictions and if the inquiry goes on for long time. David Cameron has
:11:56. > :11:59.done much of what's been asked of him, set up an inquiry, gave the
:11:59. > :12:05.police the resources they need. There's one thing he hasn't done
:12:05. > :12:11.because they can't. He can't not high Andy Coulson. And tomorrow we
:12:11. > :12:14.have the Murdochs in front of MPs. You, it's going to be extraordinary.
:12:14. > :12:18.Not just Rupert and his son in front of MPs, but also the two men
:12:18. > :12:22.who resigned today, Sir Paul Stevenson and John Yates. The thing
:12:22. > :12:25.that makes tomorrow Electric is not just their presence, but these are
:12:25. > :12:29.men who on no longer merely fighting for their jobs or for
:12:29. > :12:34.their businesses. They are fighting for their personal and professional
:12:34. > :12:38.reputation. In many ways, some of them have nothing yet to lose. And
:12:38. > :12:44.when people have nothing to lose there is no knowing what they will
:12:44. > :12:49.do. A reminder there are more details about the scandal online,
:12:49. > :12:58.including a Who's Who Guide to be key players in this continuing
:12:58. > :13:02.The British Army is to be cut by nearly 20,000, reducing its numbers
:13:02. > :13:05.to the lowest level in more than 100 years. The announcement, made
:13:05. > :13:11.by defence secretary Liam Fox, will see far greater use of reservists,
:13:11. > :13:21.like the Territorial Army. As Caroline Wyatt explains, the cuts
:13:21. > :13:23.
:13:23. > :13:27.Even as British Forces continue the fight in Afghanistan, the regular
:13:27. > :13:32.army has been bracing itself for fresh cuts. They knew that they
:13:32. > :13:37.were in the MoD's sights from the Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, the
:13:37. > :13:41.day that there was a review of the reserve forces and it was said that
:13:41. > :13:46.there should be more use of them made.
:13:46. > :13:51.By 2020, if the Territorial Army develops in the way we intend we
:13:51. > :13:54.see a force of about 120,000, with regular and reserve. This is more
:13:54. > :14:03.in line with comparable countries such as the United States, Canada
:14:03. > :14:10.and Australia. The idea is to ensure reservists
:14:10. > :14:16.are trained and equipped, like this squad who spent last year training
:14:16. > :14:19.in Cyprus. It could leave the md md -- MoD, though, open to accusations
:14:19. > :14:25.of trying to create an army on the cheap.
:14:25. > :14:30.This is shrinkage by stealth as this cult in the army is bigger
:14:30. > :14:34.than the entire current deployment of all UK forces in Afghanistan.
:14:34. > :14:40.This will many more redundancies for Britain's soldiers. The regular
:14:40. > :14:47.army is over 100,000. That will foul to under 84,000 by 2020,
:14:47. > :14:52.making it the smallest it has been in over a century. There are over
:14:52. > :14:56.31,500 TA reservists. The Ministry of Defence has been balancing the
:14:56. > :15:02.books since the defence review. The changes announced today are aimed
:15:02. > :15:07.at doing that but there are worries amongst the regular army about how
:15:07. > :15:11.this will work, the impact on moral, and if the army can meet its
:15:11. > :15:17.commitments once it has shrunk. The risk is that we are caught out
:15:17. > :15:20.in a dangerous world with demands coming from all dreks. 9 unexpected,
:15:20. > :15:25.we have seen how many times it has happened since the Second World War.
:15:25. > :15:30.The risk is that we will not have the capability to look after our
:15:30. > :15:34.strategic interests. The MoD insists it has won crucial
:15:34. > :15:41.funding from the Treasury, that will allow it to fey for -- pay for
:15:41. > :15:48.the overhall to reservist and to buy equipment, including 14 Chinook
:15:48. > :15:53.helicopters, upgrading the Warrior vehicle and new changes to the
:15:53. > :15:57.other vehicles. A British soldier from the 1st
:15:57. > :16:04.Battalion the Rifles has been killed in Afghanistan.
:16:04. > :16:09.A soldier from the 9th/12th Lancers, shot and killed on Saturday has
:16:09. > :16:15.been named as Lance Corporal Watkins. His death is being
:16:15. > :16:24.investigated after reports he was shot by a man dressed in an Afghan
:16:24. > :16:34.national army uniform. A report into the apparent abuse of care at
:16:34. > :16:39.the Bristol home of Castlebeck. The Panorama programme showed the
:16:39. > :16:44.patients there being pinned down, slapped and doused in cold water
:16:44. > :16:49.and being teased. You may find this report disturbing.
:16:49. > :16:54.Secretly filmed by BBC's Panorama. Vulnerable patients, apparently
:16:54. > :16:58.suffering abuse from the staff at Winterbourne View near Bristol.
:16:58. > :17:02.The private hospital was closed down after the programme seven
:17:02. > :17:07.weeks ago. The residents have all been moved to other units.
:17:07. > :17:10.But today, inspectors published their own highly critical report.
:17:10. > :17:14.The Care Quality Commission who came here n and did this inspection
:17:14. > :17:19.says that the report is a damning indictment of the way that this
:17:19. > :17:23.place was run. It says that there was a systemic failure to protect
:17:23. > :17:27.the vulnerable residents who lived here at Winterbourne View. It said
:17:27. > :17:32.that managers failed to investigate allegations of abuse properly. It
:17:32. > :17:38.even says that staff did not really understand the needs of the people
:17:38. > :17:42.in their care E People like Simon. He is one of the patients featured
:17:42. > :17:46.in the Panorama programme. His mother welcomed today's report, but
:17:46. > :17:53.she said that the watchdog list still has questions to answer.
:17:53. > :17:59.I am shocked. It seems that they have managed to put the blame on
:17:59. > :18:05.everybody and whitewash themselves. Whereas I feel strongly that all of
:18:05. > :18:08.the agencies were to blame. Tonight, Castlebeck, the firm that
:18:08. > :18:14.ran Winterbourne View said it was truly sorry for what it called the
:18:14. > :18:20.failures at the unit. It ordered its own company-wide review and has
:18:20. > :18:24.promised to address concerns at -- as a matter of urgency.
:18:24. > :18:29.We are a care company. People trust us to look after the people in our
:18:29. > :18:34.care. That is what we will strive to do at every opportunity.
:18:34. > :18:36.So far 12 care staff have been arrested and bailed by the police.
:18:36. > :18:40.Meanwhile, the Care Quality Commission which published today's
:18:40. > :18:47.report has defended its record, saying that it thought that the
:18:47. > :18:51.concerns were being dealt with at a local level.
:18:51. > :18:56.And coming up on tonight's programme: The secrets of success.
:18:56. > :19:03.A victory in the Open at Royal St George's gives Northern Ireland its
:19:03. > :19:08.third champion in a year. As international appeals continue
:19:08. > :19:12.for the drought victims of East Africa, charities are monitoring a
:19:12. > :19:17.controversial aid exper ment innearby Uganda. The UN is
:19:17. > :19:21.restricting food handouts to people in one region to try to make them
:19:21. > :19:26.less dependant on aid, but an increasing number of families in
:19:26. > :19:30.the area are complaining of shortages. Some are even sending
:19:30. > :19:36.their children as young as three to the capital to beg.
:19:36. > :19:40.We have this report. Tiny hands outstretched. A child is
:19:40. > :19:46.begging for money on a busy Kampala street.
:19:46. > :19:51.His name is Lokia, he is three years old. He is not the only one.
:19:51. > :19:58.Their families know they are here. Their job is to send money back
:19:58. > :20:05.home. Guided by a charity helping the
:20:05. > :20:08.children, I established that Lokian is being looked after by a 13-year-
:20:08. > :20:13.old girl. I took the name of the village and
:20:13. > :20:21.headed off to find their families. It is in one of the poorest places
:20:21. > :20:27.in the world. Karamoja, the focus of a UN experiment to try to end
:20:27. > :20:32.people's reliance on aid. The last time I was here in January,
:20:32. > :20:39.I found children so hungry, that they were having to eat raw goat
:20:39. > :20:42.skin. This time we found little Lokian's
:20:42. > :20:49.village. Charities say that more and more children like him are sent
:20:49. > :20:55.to beg because of the shortage of food. Everybody recognises Lokian
:20:55. > :20:59.none try to hide that thinker children are begging in Kampala.
:20:59. > :21:08.Naffu is his aunt. How many children from the village
:21:08. > :21:12.are down in Kampala? TRANSLATION: About 60.
:21:12. > :21:17.Just from this village. Do you I have any other children
:21:17. > :21:24.here? This one she is keeping, but if she grows up, she will have to
:21:24. > :21:31.She will go to Kampala too? So, what do the authorities say?
:21:31. > :21:35.Through the police we have arrested several, some people who are not
:21:35. > :21:40.even related to the children who lure the children putting them in
:21:40. > :21:44.buses, trucks to ferry them out of Kampala.
:21:44. > :21:50.Some children do get help. These are now in school. They were
:21:50. > :21:53.rescued by a small church charity. Now ten, this boy begged for five
:21:54. > :21:59.years. TRANSLATION: In Kampala at night
:21:59. > :22:03.they would beat me and steal myself money. I feel safe now.
:22:03. > :22:07.A handful saved of the many thousands suffering ill treatment
:22:07. > :22:17.every day. The UN says its experiment is one
:22:17. > :22:17.
:22:17. > :22:22.of tough choices. It is now drawing up a plan to stop this.
:22:22. > :22:26.Concerns over the impact of the European debt crisis hit shares in
:22:26. > :22:29.the UK's top four banks. In a further sign of unease in the
:22:29. > :22:34.financial markets, the cost of borrowing for Italy and Spain rose
:22:34. > :22:39.to the highest level since the single currency began.
:22:39. > :22:44.Stephanie Flanders is here. Is this a problem for Italy and Spain or
:22:44. > :22:48.for the Euro? It is a broader problem. What you have seen is the
:22:48. > :22:52.eurozone crisis in the last week enter a new phase. From the start
:22:52. > :22:56.European leaders have been saying that they wanted to quarantine yeen
:22:56. > :23:01.Greece, the first country to need the support. To ins plait it from
:23:01. > :23:06.everybody else, so there would not be contagion, so that the crisis
:23:06. > :23:10.would not spread, but it has taken so long to fix the problems, you
:23:10. > :23:16.are seeing the contagion play out before our eyes. There are falling
:23:16. > :23:21.British bank shares, not because they failed the stress dests, but
:23:21. > :23:25.it reminded -- stress tests, but it reminded on how much they have lent.
:23:25. > :23:29.You are seeing the rush to the so- called safe haven, the gold price
:23:29. > :23:33.is going up as people are feeling safer in gold, but the worrying is
:23:33. > :23:37.the pressure on Spain and Italy. The investors are looking at the
:23:37. > :23:41.countries, saying that the European leaders to meet on Thursday it is
:23:41. > :23:46.not enough to be solving Greece's debt problems, but you have to
:23:46. > :23:49.solve the debt and the growth problem for the countries in the
:23:49. > :23:53.eurozone. The European leaders don't have the answers to those
:23:53. > :23:58.questions. They barely have answers to the Greek ones.
:23:58. > :24:03.Within the last hour, it has emerged that senior US officials
:24:03. > :24:05.have let with -- met with Libyan officials of Colonel Muammar
:24:05. > :24:09.Gaddafi's government. The State Department spokesperson said that
:24:09. > :24:13.the aim was to deliver a clear and firm message for Colonel Gaddafi to
:24:13. > :24:21.step down. Washington insists there were no negotiations.
:24:21. > :24:27.First, there was Graeme McDowell, then Rory McIlroy, now there is
:24:27. > :24:32.Darren Clarke, whose victory in the Open at the royal and St George's
:24:32. > :24:36.over the weekend was the third from Northern Ireland.
:24:36. > :24:43.We have this report. Back on home soil with the trophy
:24:43. > :24:48.he's been waiting for fore20 years. 42-year-old Darren Clarke is one
:24:48. > :24:53.the oldest first-time winners of the Open and one of the happiest.
:24:53. > :25:02.He has come back to Portrush. The coastal town boosts a champion in
:25:03. > :25:10.Graeme McDowell. Now it has another. After winning he couldn't stop
:25:10. > :25:16.smiling. Even at the all had night party.
:25:16. > :25:22.Darren Clarke has had a tur lent few years. His wife, Heather died
:25:22. > :25:27.of breast cancer. By winning the Open brought joy to his young sons,
:25:27. > :25:32.seen her last night at a family celebration. Even in darch's finest
:25:32. > :25:36.hour, his thoughts were never far away from his sons and late wife.
:25:36. > :25:40.I was thinking about Heather. By the bigger side of things is that
:25:40. > :25:43.she would be proud of the two boys. That is more important than any
:25:43. > :25:52.golf. Northern Ireland's golfing glory
:25:52. > :25:56.began last year when Graeme McDowell won the US Open open.
:25:56. > :25:59.This year, 2-year-old Rory McIlroy from Hollywood won the same trophy.
:26:00. > :26:04.So what is it about Northern Ireland? How can a small country
:26:04. > :26:10.with a population of less than 2 million, produce three of the
:26:10. > :26:14.biggest names in world golf? This group of Americans playing in windy
:26:14. > :26:19.Portrush believe that they know the secret, the weather.
:26:19. > :26:23.You are tested in any conditions. Whether it is a beautiful day or 40
:26:23. > :26:28.miles an hour with wind and rain. They learn to play in any