:00:09. > :00:13.Tonight at 10: We are at Westminster, where Rupert Murdoch
:00:13. > :00:17.denies personal responsibility for the phone hacking crisis. He is
:00:17. > :00:22.called to account by MPs for the turmoil that has affected the press,
:00:22. > :00:27.politics and the police. He strikes a penitent note. I would just like
:00:27. > :00:30.to say one sentence. This is the most humble day of my life.
:00:30. > :00:34.scandal that engulfed the News of the World has raised many
:00:35. > :00:39.unanswered questions, both father and son refused to take the blame.
:00:39. > :00:46.The News of the World was less than 1% of Mike company. I employ 50,000
:00:46. > :00:50.people around the world. They are proud, great and ethical. They are
:00:50. > :00:55.distinguished. At one stage, the session is disrupted by a protester
:00:55. > :01:00.who targets Rupert Murdoch. No one is hurt and the man is arrested.
:01:00. > :01:04.The day also features evidence by Rebekah Brooks, until recently a
:01:04. > :01:10.key Murdoch executive. She claims she was not given the full facts.
:01:10. > :01:15.Clearly, what happened at the News of the World, certainly when the
:01:15. > :01:20.allegations of the intercepts of victims of crime, it is pretty
:01:20. > :01:24.horrific and abhorrent. Also tonight: Famine returns to East
:01:24. > :01:29.Africa for the first time this century, with at least 500,000
:01:29. > :01:33.children at risk of dying. Police fears that the person responsible
:01:33. > :01:38.for contaminating saline drips at a hospital in Stockport could still
:01:38. > :01:43.be there. And the Government gives the go-ahead for a widespread Cole
:01:43. > :01:47.of badgers to stop the spread of TB in cattle. In Sportsday at 10:30pm:
:01:47. > :01:57.Could Cesc Fabregas finally be going to Spain? The Barcelona boss
:01:57. > :02:12.
:02:12. > :02:15.says they will fight to the end to Good evening from Westminster,
:02:15. > :02:20.where the most anticipated parliamentary event of recent years
:02:20. > :02:24.has produced more than its share of drama. Rupert Murdoch, who runs
:02:24. > :02:28.Britain's biggest media company, appeared before MPs, flanked by his
:02:28. > :02:33.son, to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal. He said
:02:33. > :02:36.today was the most humble day of his life. But he refused to take
:02:36. > :02:39.personal responsibility for the crisis that engulfed the News of
:02:39. > :02:45.the World. At one stage, the session was interrupted by a
:02:45. > :02:49.protester. Rebekah Brooks also appeared and insisted that the
:02:49. > :02:59.company had acted quickly and decisively, as she put it, when
:02:59. > :03:01.
:03:01. > :03:05.Enter Britain's most powerful, most feared, most cow would be gear
:03:05. > :03:11.mogul. The policeman, in case you wondered, are there to protect
:03:11. > :03:16.Rupert and James Murdoch, not take them in for questioning. That fell
:03:16. > :03:21.to a committee of MPs. His wife, Wendi, was behind him, offering
:03:21. > :03:24.physical and emotional support. His son, and once heir apparent, sat
:03:25. > :03:30.anxiously and protectively at his side throughout. I would like to
:03:30. > :03:34.say as well, just how sorry I am and how sorry we are. Barred from
:03:34. > :03:40.reading a scripted apology, Rupert Murdoch was determined to deliver
:03:40. > :03:46.one key line. I would just like to say one sentence. This is the most
:03:46. > :03:50.humble day of my life. They were sorry. They were humble. But whose
:03:50. > :03:56.fault was the criminality in their company? Do you accept that,
:03:56. > :04:00.ultimately, you are responsible for this whole fiasco? A no. You are
:04:00. > :04:04.not responsible? Who is responsible? The people that I
:04:04. > :04:13.trusted to run it. And perhaps the people they trusted. Who that was,
:04:13. > :04:18.he would not save. -- sake. It's not an excuse, maybe it is
:04:18. > :04:24.explanation of my laxity. The News of the World is less than 1% of my
:04:24. > :04:28.company. At this point, his wife prodded him to tell him to stop
:04:28. > :04:32.banging the table. From then on, when he was asked what he knew,
:04:33. > :04:40.when, this sounds heard more often was silence. Way you informed of
:04:40. > :04:45.the findings by your son or Rebekah Brooks? That question, about when
:04:45. > :04:50.he saw e-mails about hacking, took 10 long sessions -- seconds to
:04:50. > :04:54.answer. I forget, but I expect it was from my son. In recent years,
:04:54. > :04:58.News International, which owns the News of the World, was run day-to-
:04:58. > :05:02.day by James Murdoch. Today he blamed the police, the Press
:05:02. > :05:07.Complaints Commission and a failed internal inquiry for his company's
:05:07. > :05:11.failure to reveal what had gone wrong. If I knew then what we know
:05:11. > :05:16.now, with the benefit of hindsight we can look at all of these things.
:05:16. > :05:19.But if I knew then what we know now, we would have taken more action
:05:19. > :05:23.around bat and moved faster to get to the bottom of the allegations.
:05:23. > :05:28.How different today was from the days Rupert Murdoch was feted by
:05:28. > :05:32.Prime Ministers, whether Conservative or Labour. His
:05:32. > :05:37.children, he said, used to play with Gordon Brown's. What about the
:05:37. > :05:42.current occupant of Number 10? He was never photographed with Rupert
:05:42. > :05:48.Murdoch, even when he was invited to meet with him before the
:05:48. > :05:52.election. You were invited to the back door of Number 10? Why?
:05:52. > :05:57.avoid photographers, I imagine. I just did what I was told. He was
:05:57. > :06:02.looking relaxed. But then... Mayhem as parliamentary drama turned into
:06:02. > :06:07.a circus. We can speak to Nick Robinson, who it was in the room.
:06:07. > :06:11.What can you tell us? I was sitting a few feet away from Mr Murdoch. It
:06:11. > :06:17.was only half a second before he was hit in the face with that plate
:06:17. > :06:21.of what I assume is shaving foam. The foam on a plate was delivered
:06:22. > :06:26.by a member of the public, he was rewarded with a right hook from
:06:26. > :06:29.wife Wendi. The police arrived some time later. It's the sort of story
:06:29. > :06:33.Rebekah Brooks would have loved when she edited the Sun or the News
:06:33. > :06:37.of the World. The now ex-chief- executive of News International
:06:37. > :06:42.followed the Murdochs into the committee room and matched their
:06:42. > :06:46.contrition. It seems incredible that you, as the editor, were so
:06:47. > :06:51.unaware of such fundamental issues to do with his investigation.
:06:51. > :06:58.some ways, I think the opposite. I don't know anyone in their right
:06:58. > :07:04.mind food would authorise, no, sanction, approve of any one
:07:04. > :07:07.listening to the voice mails of Milly Dowler. I don't know anyone
:07:07. > :07:12.that would think it is the right and possible thing to do.
:07:12. > :07:15.someone did it, someone approved it and someone covered it up. When
:07:15. > :07:20.Rupert Murdoch swept out of Westminster we were no closer to
:07:20. > :07:27.knowing food. We did know that this was a day that he did not enjoy. --
:07:27. > :07:32.That wasn't the only highly charged committee hearing at Westminster
:07:32. > :07:37.today. Two of Scotland Yard's most senior officers will also question.
:07:37. > :07:40.Commissioner Paul Stephenson and former assistant commissioner John
:07:40. > :07:44.Yates, who have both resigned, denied any wrongdoing. They were
:07:44. > :07:52.asked about the contract with News International staff and about the
:07:52. > :07:57.failings of the police Revealed today, the extraordinary
:07:57. > :08:02.links between two British institutions. Scotland Yard and
:08:02. > :08:05.News International. MPs described it as a revolving door between the
:08:05. > :08:12.two organisations, each acting like a job placement scheme for the
:08:12. > :08:15.other. It was a day for a long and forensic police interrogation. But
:08:15. > :08:22.this time it was senior officers that were required to answer the
:08:22. > :08:24.questions. Order, could I called the Committee to order.
:08:24. > :08:28.commissioner Paul Stephenson was asked about 18 lunches and dinners
:08:28. > :08:31.he had had with senior News International Staff, at least seven
:08:31. > :08:37.of them with a News of the World journalists now accused of phone
:08:37. > :08:40.hacking. News International, I am told, represents 42% of press
:08:40. > :08:46.readership. But I am going to maintain a relationship with the
:08:46. > :08:49.media, it wasn't my decision. It was not my decision to allow News
:08:50. > :08:55.International to be so dominant in the market. But that I am going to
:08:55. > :09:01.talk to the media and they have 42% of the readership, who am I going
:09:02. > :09:05.to talk to? It also emerged that of the 45 media and public relations
:09:05. > :09:09.staff at the Met, 10 are former News International employees. But
:09:09. > :09:13.it was another Murdoch man given a job at Scotland Yard that the
:09:13. > :09:16.committee were particularly interested in. Neil Wallis. Now
:09:16. > :09:20.arrested for alleged phone hacking, the former deputy editor of the
:09:20. > :09:25.News of the World was hired just weeks after detectives had decided
:09:25. > :09:30.not to pursue fresh claims of widespread hacking at the paper.
:09:30. > :09:34.Public affairs head Dick Fedorcio told MPs that he had never asked
:09:34. > :09:39.Neil Wallis about phone hacking because a colleague, John Yates,
:09:39. > :09:46.had vouched for him. You knew that John Yates was a personal friend of
:09:46. > :09:52.a Neil Wallis? Yes. But you still relied on him to give the all-clear
:09:52. > :09:56.to employ him? I accept the integrity of John Yates, he is a
:09:56. > :10:00.senior officer. John Yates, the assistant commissioner who resigned
:10:00. > :10:04.yesterday, confirmed that Neil Wallis had been a friend, if not a
:10:04. > :10:08.bosom buddy, for 10 years. He was also the officer that decided there
:10:08. > :10:12.was no need to reopen the inquiry following revelations by a Guardian
:10:12. > :10:17.journalist Nick Davies. Back in the chair he had occupied only a week
:10:17. > :10:21.ago, Mr Yates told the committee that he thought his role in Neil
:10:21. > :10:27.Wallis's appointment had been override to. I sought assurances
:10:27. > :10:33.from Neil Wallis before the contract was made. I had a note,
:10:33. > :10:38.you can read it if you like, to the effect, is there anything in the
:10:38. > :10:44.matters that Nick Davies is still following that could embarrass you,
:10:44. > :10:47.me, or the Metropolitan Police. I received categorical assurances.
:10:47. > :10:52.was also asked about a job at Scotland Yard given to Neil
:10:52. > :10:57.Wallis's daughter. He had sent her CV to the head of recruitment.
:10:57. > :11:02.had absolutely nothing to do with her employment. I was simply a post
:11:02. > :11:05.box. And then there were questions today about yet another News of the
:11:05. > :11:09.World reporter, arrested over phone hacking, who it is claimed worked
:11:09. > :11:13.as an informant at the yard, Neville Thurlbeck. The hearing
:11:13. > :11:18.didn't just focus on the links between Met and the Mayor ofs. But
:11:18. > :11:22.detectives and Downing Street. An e-mail exchange has emerged between
:11:22. > :11:26.Mr Yates and Ed Lee will end, David Cameron's chief of staff, in which
:11:26. > :11:36.the officer suggests briefing the Prime Minister on phone hacking
:11:36. > :11:40.
:11:40. > :11:42.Ed, for whatever reason, didn't think it was appropriate for him,
:11:42. > :11:48.the Prime Minister what anybody else in Number Ten to discuss this
:11:48. > :11:52.issue with you. It's very simple and I can understand it, in one
:11:52. > :11:55.sense. The mirrored glass at Scotland Yard attempts to reflect
:11:55. > :11:59.attention away from the organisation. Tonight, a mirror is
:11:59. > :12:06.being held up to the Met, over its relationships with News
:12:06. > :12:11.International and Number Ten. The crisis here is far from over.
:12:11. > :12:15.With me, after this remarkable day, Nick Robinson and Robert Peston.
:12:15. > :12:18.Mecca, I'll start with you. You were in that the committee room,
:12:18. > :12:22.you saw it all happening. What impression did it make? There is
:12:22. > :12:27.one impression I will carry for the rest of my life, it was not
:12:27. > :12:32.captured by the cameras, but it was the sight of perhaps the greatest
:12:32. > :12:38.media tycoon anyone in this country has seen with a great big custard
:12:38. > :12:42.pie on his face. That's what the cameras didn't pick it up. It fits
:12:42. > :12:47.in with his phrase, the most humble day of his life. The humbling came
:12:47. > :12:50.when he had to claim, or admit, depending on your point of you,
:12:50. > :12:54.that whatever question was asked, he didn't know the detail. He
:12:54. > :12:57.couldn't tell you what, when, all of the things that added up to the
:12:57. > :13:01.doubts about what happened in his company. For the man that
:13:02. > :13:10.controlled his company with an iron fist for so long, I think either
:13:10. > :13:14.that wasn't true or it was a very Robert, you see this performance
:13:14. > :13:20.today, but looking up the more commercial context, given that the
:13:20. > :13:24.stakes are high, how do they come out of it? It is the first night in
:13:24. > :13:29.two weeks where it is not obvious to me that they are conspicuously
:13:29. > :13:33.worse off than the previous night. Therefore I think the two will be
:13:33. > :13:39.breathing something of a sigh of relief. That said, it was momentous.
:13:39. > :13:43.None of us have seen a dynasty grilled by MPs. You had James
:13:43. > :13:47.Murdoch, many would say surprisingly relaxed for most of it.
:13:47. > :13:51.In touch with most of the detail except on that occasion which I
:13:51. > :13:56.think many will see as profoundly shocking when he admitted that the
:13:56. > :14:01.company had continued to pay the legal expenses of Glenn Mulcaire,
:14:01. > :14:05.the private investigator who they hired to hack the phones of
:14:05. > :14:10.countless people. They continue to pay his legal expenses long after
:14:10. > :14:16.he had been imprisoned. That was a shocking moment. By contrast,
:14:16. > :14:21.Rupert Murdoch, I think people will be surprised to see this chap who
:14:21. > :14:25.has been feared, I think, by politicians, regarded widely as the
:14:25. > :14:29.most powerful media tycoon in the world, halting and slightly
:14:29. > :14:34.stumbling in his answers. His defence was largely that he did not
:14:34. > :14:38.know, and how could he be expected to be, because the News of the
:14:38. > :14:42.World was a relatively small part of his great global empire. Not
:14:42. > :14:47.everybody will find that a convincing explanation, not
:14:47. > :14:51.everybody will find that a justification. The big question
:14:51. > :14:57.tonight is did we see a transfer of power from father, Rupert Murdoch,
:14:57. > :15:02.to a son, James Murdoch? Did we see the beginning of an inexorable
:15:02. > :15:06.seeping away of the Murdoch family, or was it a bit of both? If Nick,
:15:06. > :15:11.we will be back later to talk about where this leaves David Cameron.
:15:11. > :15:14.The owner, back to you. The rest of the day's news now, and
:15:14. > :15:18.a famine will be officially declared an parts of Somalia.
:15:18. > :15:23.Across the region an estimated 10 million people have been affected
:15:23. > :15:27.by severe drought, but conditions have deteriorated so badly that the
:15:27. > :15:31.UN is expected to announce tomorrow that famine has returned to East
:15:31. > :15:35.Africa for the first time in 19 years. At least half a million
:15:35. > :15:40.children are thought to be at risk of death. Andrew Harding reports
:15:40. > :15:44.from Johannesburg. It has been getting worse for
:15:44. > :15:50.months. Emaciated families dragging themselves out of Somalia in search
:15:50. > :15:55.of food. Tens of thousands crowding into camps like this one, Dadaab in
:15:55. > :15:59.Kenya. Now a famine is about to be declared in at least two regions of
:15:59. > :16:07.Somalia. The emotive word is rarely used,
:16:07. > :16:13.conjuring, as it does, images like these. Ethiopia, 1984. This year's
:16:13. > :16:18.crisis is not yet on that scale. That Somalia has now crossed a grim
:16:18. > :16:22.threshold. In the crude science of hunger and aid, famine officially
:16:22. > :16:28.occurs when a third of young children are acutely malnourished
:16:28. > :16:32.and four children in every 10,000 are dying daily. It is declared a
:16:32. > :16:37.famine, the international response mechanisms treasured does Margaret
:16:37. > :16:41.triggered as a result of triggering a famine -- declaring a famine are
:16:41. > :16:47.completely different to an emergency. International aid effort
:16:47. > :16:52.ramp up at a different scale to help the disaster victims.
:16:52. > :16:58.Four hors that Africa is prone to drought and crippled by property --
:16:58. > :17:04.the Horn of Africa. I turned the rubble of Mogadishu recently, two
:17:05. > :17:11.decades worth of anarchy. It is hardly a sanctuary but people are
:17:11. > :17:16.coming here in search of food. Last week it was announced that a ban on
:17:16. > :17:22.foreign aid organisations was being lifted, but the UN says too many
:17:22. > :17:27.obstacles remain. British charities are hoping the F-word, famine, will
:17:27. > :17:36.provoke a new surge in donations, but the short-term looks bleak and
:17:36. > :17:39.the longer term not much better. Detectives say the person
:17:39. > :17:44.responsible for contaminating saline drips at a Stockport
:17:44. > :17:47.hospital could still be there. Three people have died at Stepping
:17:47. > :17:51.Hill hospital and a 4th is seriously ill. Officers believe in
:17:51. > :18:01.Siu Lynn was deliberately injected into saline containers used in
:18:01. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:07.drips. Ed Thomas reports. Every car checked in and out.
:18:07. > :18:11.Police covering hospital entrances. All for good reason. Three people
:18:11. > :18:17.have died and someone at this hospital contaminated their
:18:17. > :18:23.medicine. This is a criminal act perpetrated by someone with
:18:23. > :18:27.malicious intent. We don't believe it could have been anticipated.
:18:27. > :18:34.Here are the people whose deaths are being investigated. Tracey
:18:35. > :18:38.Arden, a mother of two, Arnold Lancaster, 71, and 84 year-old
:18:39. > :18:42.great-grandfather George Keep. All three were given saline and pure
:18:42. > :18:49.similar to this, but instead they had been filled with insulin, which
:18:49. > :18:54.can cause blood sugar levels to fall. It has left patients and
:18:54. > :18:58.visitors worried about their safety. It is worrying, because you never
:18:58. > :19:05.know whether you are going to go in there next, do you? You might take
:19:05. > :19:11.kill yourself. Frightened. You just don't once took be ill. Security
:19:11. > :19:16.has been increased. Saline is now kept in a locked room. The medics
:19:16. > :19:21.work in pairs if they want to administer drugs. Security is tight
:19:21. > :19:25.here everywhere because we still do not know who is contaminating the
:19:25. > :19:29.saline. -- who has contaminated the saline. It could be a visitor to
:19:29. > :19:34.the hospital, but what concerns people the most is that it could be
:19:34. > :19:38.somebody who works here. It is horrible to think that somebody may
:19:38. > :19:44.be deliberately trying to harm patients. And may still be working
:19:44. > :19:50.here? Our investigator Shen is focusing on those working in a
:19:50. > :19:54.visiting the hospital. -- our investigation is focusing. Police
:19:54. > :19:58.await postmortem results. It is hoped they will show what caused
:19:58. > :20:03.the patients here to die. The International Monetary Fund has
:20:03. > :20:06.called for urgent action to resolve Europe's debt crisis, warning it
:20:06. > :20:11.risks major impact in the global economy. Eurozone finance ministers
:20:11. > :20:14.are due in Brussels on Thursday for emergency talks aimed at shoring up
:20:14. > :20:18.Greek finances. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel today
:20:18. > :20:21.warned it was unlikely that this would draw a line under the wider
:20:21. > :20:27.problems. The Competition Commission has
:20:27. > :20:32.ruled that the airport operator BAA must sell two of its six airports,
:20:32. > :20:35.including Stansted and either Edinburgh or Glasgow. BAA's Chief
:20:35. > :20:39.Executive said this was a reasonably draconian and he would
:20:39. > :20:43.consider a judicial review. The Government has given the go-
:20:43. > :20:47.ahead for a widespread badger cull and parts of England to help stop
:20:47. > :20:51.the spread of tuberculosis in Caputh -- in cattle. Thousands of
:20:51. > :20:54.infected cattle have been slaughtered. It is thought that
:20:54. > :21:00.badgers harbour the disease and pass it on. Ministers have been
:21:00. > :21:06.trying to decide on a Toyota for two decades, but there are warnings
:21:06. > :21:11.it may still happen. -- trying to decide on a cull for two decades.
:21:11. > :21:16.This is one of hundreds of areas where bovine tuberculosis has
:21:16. > :21:22.struck. Farmer David have lost 18 cattle to TB this year alone.
:21:22. > :21:27.have been slaughtered, 18 cows less producing milk. Have you any doubt
:21:27. > :21:29.that badgers play a role? No, I think it is pretty well accepted
:21:29. > :21:34.generally that badgers have a significant role in the
:21:34. > :21:38.transmission of the disease. Scientists agree that badgers carry
:21:38. > :21:42.bovine TB, but at the same time they are a much-loved, iconic
:21:42. > :21:45.character of the British countryside. Ministers know their
:21:45. > :21:51.decision to back a cull of thousands of badgers will be
:21:51. > :21:54.bitterly opposed by activists and even some farmers. Personally, I do
:21:54. > :21:58.not think it will work, mainly because I think any infected
:21:58. > :22:03.badgers just get forced into wider areas, and my biggest concern is
:22:03. > :22:07.public backlash. The idea put forward by ministers is badgers on
:22:07. > :22:12.farms like this will be shot by trained marksmen. Initially there
:22:12. > :22:18.will be two pilot areas, the idea being to make sure the job can be
:22:18. > :22:22.done effectively, efficiently and humanely. Already campaigners whose
:22:22. > :22:27.High Court action overturned the official Welsh policy for a badger
:22:27. > :22:30.cull are preparing for a similar legal battle in England. No cull is
:22:30. > :22:38.planned in Northern Ireland or Scotland, which is free of bovine
:22:38. > :22:42.Now more on our top story. The evidence given to MPs by Rupert
:22:42. > :22:46.Murdoch, his St James and former News of the World editor Rebekah
:22:46. > :22:49.Brooks. Over to Huw Edwards in Westminster.
:22:49. > :22:53.David Cameron has just returned a short while ago from a trip to
:22:54. > :22:58.Africa and will tomorrow face probably his biggest parliamentary
:22:58. > :23:02.test since he became PM. He will make a statement to MPs on this
:23:02. > :23:08.phone hacking scandal and will face questions from MPs. Nick Robinson
:23:08. > :23:12.joins me. Lots of questions for the Murdochs, but questions for the
:23:12. > :23:16.Prime Minister, too? Questions raised in part by what happened to
:23:16. > :23:20.the police, that relationship with a man called Neil Wallis, the
:23:20. > :23:24.deputy editor of the News of the World and, at the time, deputy to
:23:24. > :23:29.Andy Coulson, the man who was later hired to be director of
:23:29. > :23:33.communications to the Prime Minister. I think Labour's Ed
:23:33. > :23:38.Miliband will again and again say to the Prime Minister that he is
:23:38. > :23:41.compromised in part by news that we learn tonight that Mr Wallis may
:23:41. > :23:47.have advised to David Cameron by Andy Coulson before the last
:23:47. > :23:51.election. No money was exchanged, nobody else and the Conservatives
:23:51. > :23:57.knew about it, but there was contact. It is not a very helpful
:23:57. > :24:01.in to Number Ten. Also a great series of questions has been raised
:24:01. > :24:05.by the police about whether David Cameron was compromise cent could
:24:05. > :24:09.not have learned the things he should have learnt from senior
:24:09. > :24:13.police officers. The Cabinet Office says that the Chief of Staff at
:24:13. > :24:18.Downing Street behaved as he should have done, he followed the book by
:24:18. > :24:20.not having meetings with police officers. Let's think about the
:24:20. > :24:26.challenge for Mr Cameron at the dispatch box in the Commons
:24:26. > :24:31.tomorrow. What is the kind of mood among his parliamentary colleagues
:24:31. > :24:35.and the challenge for him? They want to sense that David Cameron
:24:35. > :24:39.can find a way out of the quagmire. He has to show he has answered the
:24:39. > :24:43.questions that matter to ordinary people. There is a proper police
:24:43. > :24:46.inquiry, a formal, judge-led inquiry, all the steps are being
:24:46. > :24:51.taken to clean up the police and the relationship between
:24:51. > :24:56.politicians and the media. What he has not to do is prove he has been
:24:56. > :24:59.dragged down by the appointment of Andy Coulson. Some dark humour of
:24:59. > :25:05.the year, the Prime Minister saw none of this, he was on the plane
:25:05. > :25:12.back from Africa. -- some dark humour for you. It was relayed by
:25:12. > :25:18.telephone, and fortunately the line was quite crackly, so the word went
:25:18. > :25:23.around that Rupert Murdoch had been hit, not by foam in the face, but
:25:23. > :25:28.by a phone. Quite appropriate! can keep up-to-date on the BBC
:25:28. > :25:32.website at bbc.co.uk/news. You can find out all the key points, video