:00:10. > :00:14.Tonight at Ten: New allegations about knowledge of phone hacking
:00:14. > :00:16.inside the News of the World. Clive Goodman, the paper's former
:00:16. > :00:21.Royal editor claims the practice was regularly discussed by senior
:00:21. > :00:24.figures. More questions for former editor
:00:24. > :00:33.Andy Coulson who became an adviser to David Cameron as MPs demand
:00:33. > :00:37.answers. I can only assume this has been a
:00:37. > :00:40.cover-up. This letter it is devastating.
:00:40. > :00:42.And James Murdoch is among the executives who might be recalled to
:00:42. > :00:45.give evidence to Parliament. We'll be asking how significant the
:00:45. > :00:48.latest evidence could turn out to Also tonight: France and Germany
:00:48. > :00:51.want much closer economic co- operation across the Eurozone to
:00:51. > :00:55.fight the debt crisis. For inciting a riot using Facebook
:00:55. > :00:58.- two men from Cheshire get four years in jail.
:00:58. > :01:08.Train fares to rise by around 8% next year, boosted by higher
:01:08. > :01:13.
:01:13. > :01:18.inflation. My salary won't go up by 8%. It will cost me more. My rail
:01:18. > :01:28.fare is now �4,000 a year. And, a big day for the Olympic Park
:01:28. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:52.as thousands of basketball fans are Good evening.
:01:52. > :01:54.Phone hacking was a routine activity at the News of the World
:01:54. > :01:59.and mentioned at daily meetings according to the paper's former
:01:59. > :02:03.Royal editor. Clive Goodman made the claim in a letter written four
:02:03. > :02:05.years ago and released today by a Parliamentary committee. It raises
:02:05. > :02:10.new questions about the awareness of staff, including the former
:02:10. > :02:19.editor, Andy Coulson, who was later employed by David Cameron. This
:02:19. > :02:23.report by Robert Peston, contains some flash photography.
:02:23. > :02:31.Clive Goodman, disgraced former Royal editor of the News of the
:02:31. > :02:36.World, imprisoned in 2007, for her phone hacking. A letter he wrote in
:02:36. > :02:40.2007 has returned to haunt the owner of News International.
:02:40. > :02:45.Obtained by the Culture Select Committee which is investigating
:02:45. > :02:49.phone hacking, Mr Goodman wrote phone hacking was widely discussed
:02:49. > :02:55.in the Daily editorial conference until explicit reference to it was
:02:55. > :02:59.banned by the editor. The letter refers to Tom Crone, the former
:02:59. > :03:02.legal manager at News International and Andy Coulson, editor of the
:03:02. > :03:12.and Andy Coulson, editor of the News of the World from 2003, to
:03:12. > :03:20.
:03:20. > :03:26.I can only assume there has been a cover-up. This letter is
:03:26. > :03:30.devastating. Clive Goodman's testimony shows he believed others,
:03:30. > :03:35.every member of the editorial team was aware of phone hacking and the
:03:35. > :03:38.police were not told about it. it is to Andy Coulson you about
:03:38. > :03:43.phone hacking, more questions will be asked about why David Cameron
:03:43. > :03:49.employed him as his communications director and took him into Downing
:03:49. > :03:54.Street. Andy Coulson's boss, Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch said they
:03:54. > :03:59.did not prove the extent of phone hacking until recently because of
:03:59. > :04:03.advice they received in a letter from a law firm, Harbottle & Lewis.
:04:03. > :04:08.And it was a bit of legal advice from senior council that was
:04:08. > :04:11.provided to the company that the company rested on. What is
:04:11. > :04:15.embarrassing for James Murdoch is a long report written by the relevant
:04:15. > :04:20.firm of solicitors, Harbottle & Lewis for the select committee,
:04:20. > :04:24.says Mr Murdoch was completely wrong to rely on their 2007 Letter
:04:24. > :04:28.as being evidence there wasn't widespread wrongdoing at the News
:04:28. > :04:33.of the World. Harbottle & Lewis said they did not conduct a
:04:33. > :04:37.detailed, for investigation. They did a very narrow piece of work
:04:37. > :04:41.relating to an employment dispute. What is equally embarrassing for
:04:41. > :04:45.James Murdoch is John Chapman, the legal affairs director of News
:04:45. > :04:51.International at the time, corroborates Harbottle & Lewis's
:04:51. > :04:54.version of events. The question for the Murdochs is, is in time will
:04:54. > :04:58.they come to be seen to have told the whole truth to the
:04:58. > :05:03.Parliamentary committee? News International said tonight it
:05:03. > :05:06.recognises the seriousness of materials disclose to the police
:05:06. > :05:09.and Parliament and is working in an open way with the relevant
:05:09. > :05:14.authorities. The News of the World may no longer be rolling off the
:05:14. > :05:19.presses, but questions cannot be killed, such as why Clive Goodman's
:05:19. > :05:28.letter was not immediately passed to the police by News International.
:05:28. > :05:32.And Robert Peston is here now. Let's talk about the implications
:05:32. > :05:40.for Andy Coulson? This letter makes a serious allegation against Andy
:05:40. > :05:44.Coulson. It says on several occasions he attempted to induce
:05:44. > :05:50.Clive Goodman, who was being tried for illegal phone hacking, to keep
:05:50. > :05:55.his mouth shut about alleged wrongdoing by others at the News of
:05:55. > :06:00.the World. And if he kept his mouth shut, says Clive Goodman in his
:06:00. > :06:03.letter, Andy Coulson said he could have his job back, even if he was
:06:03. > :06:07.convicted of a serious offence. Andy Coulson is not speaking
:06:07. > :06:12.tonight, his lawyer say he does not want to make a statement at this
:06:12. > :06:16.stage. But certainly, this allegation goes to the heart of his
:06:16. > :06:22.claim that he didn't know about wider wrongdoing and that carried
:06:23. > :06:27.out by Clive Goodman. And of course, it will again put pressure on the
:06:27. > :06:31.Prime Minister to explain why he did not dig deeper about precisely
:06:31. > :06:36.what Andy Coulson you and went about wrongdoing at the News of the
:06:36. > :06:39.World. Because Andy Coulson ended up working for the Prime Minister.
:06:39. > :06:45.Let's look at the broader picture. The implications for News
:06:45. > :06:53.International and to Rupert and Robert Murdoch? Another disclosure
:06:53. > :06:58.tonight is Clive Goodman, convicted of other serious crime, imprisons
:06:58. > :07:02.received �244,000 after he was imprisoned from News International.
:07:02. > :07:06.We have also learned, Les Hinton who ran News International wanted
:07:06. > :07:10.to give him only a year's salary and he said at the time, which
:07:11. > :07:16.would have been �90,000 - he said he was lucky to get back because in
:07:16. > :07:21.his view he was guilty of gross negligence. In those circumstances,
:07:21. > :07:31.people will wonder why on earth they paid in �244,000. People will
:07:31. > :07:32.
:07:32. > :07:38.ask if it was to keep his mouth Who recently explained why there
:07:38. > :07:47.wasn't a thorough row investigation at News Of The World by citing a
:07:47. > :07:50.letter produced a letter. There was no detailed investigation carried
:07:50. > :07:56.out by them that led to that letter and people within News
:07:56. > :08:01.International knew that letter could not be relied upon in any way.
:08:01. > :08:06.As evidence there was not wider wrongdoing. Tonight, the story has
:08:06. > :08:10.moved on from the hacking story into big questions about whether
:08:10. > :08:17.there was an extensive cover up at News International and who knew
:08:17. > :08:21.about it if there was a cover up. Thank you.
:08:21. > :08:25.France and Germany have called for much closer economic integration
:08:25. > :08:29.within the eurozone to deal with the ongoing debt crisis. Chancellor
:08:29. > :08:33.Merkel and President Sarkozy meeting in Paris today, talked of
:08:33. > :08:36.creating true economic governance involving the 17 countries which
:08:36. > :08:41.share the euro. Pressure has increased after the latest figures
:08:41. > :08:46.show economic growth has more or less stalled across the zone,
:08:46. > :08:50.including in Germany. Let's join Gavin Hewitt in Paris tonight.
:08:50. > :08:53.Many people have said of the eurozone, you can't have monetary
:08:53. > :08:59.union with fiscal union. That's coordination of taxation and
:08:59. > :09:03.spending. They haven't quite got it yet. Chancellor Merkel and
:09:03. > :09:08.President Sarkozy today signalled there would be much closer economic
:09:08. > :09:13.integration of the eurozone. The two key leaders of the eurozone
:09:13. > :09:23.met in Paris today, knowing they needed to restore confidence in
:09:23. > :09:26.
:09:26. > :09:31.their ability to fix Europe's debt But the day began with some
:09:31. > :09:35.discouraging news - Germany, the engine room of the eurozone with a
:09:36. > :09:41.stellar manufacturing sector, saw its growth sharply reduced.
:09:41. > :09:46.Everybody was expecting Germany would have a good year. So we are
:09:46. > :09:52.deeply surprised and concerned about the German figures. In the
:09:52. > :09:55.past three months Germany any manage growth of 0.1%, and French
:09:55. > :10:04.growth is currently stagnant. For the eurozone as a whole, growth is
:10:04. > :10:08.bumping along at just 0.2%. When Chancellor Angela Merkel met it
:10:08. > :10:12.with President Sarkozy, they agreed far-reaching changes to the
:10:12. > :10:16.eurozone. There will be much closer economic integration, including
:10:16. > :10:20.limits on debt. Although many details are missing, the French
:10:20. > :10:27.President spoke of economic governance, with an elected
:10:27. > :10:31.President. TRANSLATION: A first proposal is to
:10:31. > :10:35.create an economic Government for the eurozone. They will meet twice
:10:36. > :10:42.a year and more often if necessary. It will elect a stable President
:10:42. > :10:46.that 2.5 years. Some have argued the only way out of the crisis was
:10:46. > :10:51.for a country debts become Corran European debt with Germany acting
:10:51. > :10:55.as the main guarantor. But Angela Merkel dismissed what are being
:10:55. > :11:00.called Euro bombs for the time being.
:11:00. > :11:05.TRANSLATION: The real question is what is best for overcoming the
:11:05. > :11:10.crisis. Over and over again people are looking for one fix that will
:11:11. > :11:15.sort everything and lift us out of the crisis. That is why people are
:11:15. > :11:18.urging Euro bombs. Despite all of the talk about greater control and
:11:19. > :11:23.supervision of the eurozone economies, one big question
:11:23. > :11:28.remained unanswered. What happens if a major economy get into
:11:28. > :11:31.difficulty? How will it be helped and rescued? And the two leaders
:11:31. > :11:37.meeting today made it clear there would be no new money for the
:11:37. > :11:41.current rescue fund. Make no mistake, these proposals are a step
:11:41. > :11:46.towards a closer union, sovereignty will be surrendered. What was on
:11:46. > :11:53.offer today was a long-term political plan, not an answer to
:11:53. > :11:58.Europe's current debt crisis. All of this got a mixed reception, the
:11:58. > :12:02.consensus was it happens to defuse the crisis. Why? This is because
:12:02. > :12:09.markets and investors are focused on debt, low growth and a fragile
:12:09. > :12:12.banking system, and not much was said about any of those today.
:12:12. > :12:17.Two men from Cheshire have each been jailed for four years for
:12:17. > :12:19.using the internet to incite people to take part in last week's riots.
:12:19. > :12:21.The sentencing took place as the Government announced plans to
:12:21. > :12:23.increase police powers in England and Wales, including the
:12:23. > :12:33.possibility of curfews, as our correspondent, Chris Buckler,
:12:33. > :12:34.
:12:34. > :12:39.reports. An invitation to a riot, delivered
:12:39. > :12:44.on Facebook. An online crime judges are taking seriously. Warrington
:12:44. > :12:48.man, Perry Sutcliffe Keenan was jailed at Chester Crown Court for
:12:48. > :12:52.four years for inciting disorder on a social networking sites. He is
:12:52. > :12:57.not the only one. In a separate case at the same court, Jordan
:12:57. > :13:04.Blackshaw was sent to prison, again in connection with a riot that
:13:04. > :13:09.never took place. An event was created on Facebook called smashed
:13:09. > :13:13.down and gave a date, a time and the place to meet, at the back of
:13:13. > :13:17.the McDonald's restaurant. His family did not want to talk, other
:13:17. > :13:21.than saying they were upset. Among neighbours there were shocked at
:13:21. > :13:25.the length of the sentence. years, just for putting it on
:13:25. > :13:30.Facebook. If he had gone and done it and rioting in Northwich, he
:13:30. > :13:36.would have deserved it. But not just for putting it on Facebook.
:13:36. > :13:39.think they are using it as an example. Concerns about social
:13:39. > :13:46.networking be used to organise trouble have been of concern. The
:13:46. > :13:51.Met Police learned of de -- trouble at Oxford Street, and the Olympic
:13:51. > :13:56.site through blackberry Messenger and considered closing the services
:13:56. > :14:04.down. A guided contemplate seeking the authority to switch it off. The
:14:04. > :14:09.legality is very questionable. That question of what more could
:14:09. > :14:12.have been done to stop this destruction is still being asked
:14:12. > :14:17.and the Government is considering giving the police new powers,
:14:17. > :14:22.including the ability to impose a curfew. Should it be possible to
:14:22. > :14:27.impose a curfew across the geographical area and have extra
:14:27. > :14:32.powers for curfews for people under 16. The Home Secretary's proposals
:14:32. > :14:37.did attract a good deal of support in Salford. But there is a divide
:14:37. > :14:42.in opinion between the generations. Or you see now is young kids on
:14:42. > :14:46.corners with bottles and drinking. You did not see that years ago.
:14:46. > :14:51.What do you think about the idea of a curfew? I don't think it should
:14:52. > :14:57.happen. But if things are being smashed up. You stick up for the
:14:57. > :15:01.police. I'm not, the police are there to do a job! In these
:15:01. > :15:05.communities the focus is on repair and retribution. The Government
:15:05. > :15:11.says it shouldn't the army cadets doing this work in the future, it
:15:11. > :15:16.should be those responsible for doing the damage.
:15:16. > :15:22.The cost of living rose again last month, for rent, cloves and
:15:22. > :15:27.financial services. The CBI was up 4.4% and the persistently higher
:15:27. > :15:29.rate is to have a significant impact on rail passengers. Most
:15:29. > :15:35.regulated fares in England, including season tickets are to be
:15:35. > :15:40.increased by the Government by 3% above inflation by January. Richard
:15:40. > :15:44.Scott's report on the changes and the reaction.
:15:44. > :15:49.We take over a billion journeys a year on railways, travelling on
:15:49. > :15:55.21,000 miles of track across Britain for holidays, business
:15:55. > :15:59.trips and commuting. Regulated fares light season tickets go up by
:15:59. > :16:05.July's RPI inflation plus 3%. So the average season ticket next year
:16:05. > :16:09.will go up by 8%. Train companies can increase some furs by another
:16:09. > :16:13.5%, for a rise of up to 13% as long as they balance that with
:16:13. > :16:19.reductions elsewhere. Both those increases are lot more than the
:16:19. > :16:26.average rise of a wage increase of 2.1%. My salary won't go up by 8%,
:16:26. > :16:33.so it will cost me more. It is disgraceful. I come from Salisbury
:16:33. > :16:36.every day and my rail fare is now �4,900 a year. There are exceptions,
:16:36. > :16:41.passengers on ScotRail and Arriva Trains Wales will see fares go up
:16:42. > :16:51.by an average of 6%. The overall rise will see a typical season-
:16:52. > :16:52.
:16:52. > :16:56.ticket of around �2,000 goes up by We're concerned that people be
:16:56. > :17:01.forced back onto our roads and we could see more emissions, more
:17:01. > :17:04.congestion as a result of price rises. There could be some evidence
:17:04. > :17:08.of that. This company says people are switching to coaches because
:17:08. > :17:13.trains are too expensive. The cost of the railways is split between
:17:13. > :17:18.taxpayers and fare payers. If one pays more, the other could pay less.
:17:18. > :17:22.Because rail fares have been going up over the last few years by more
:17:22. > :17:27.than inflation and because more people are travelling by trains the
:17:27. > :17:32.fare contribution has gone up to �6.6 billion. That's allowed the
:17:32. > :17:36.taxpayer contribution to fall from �6.3 billion to �4 billion. The
:17:36. > :17:41.extra money from the fare rises revealed today is passed on to the
:17:41. > :17:45.Government. This is a difficult decision, a decision we didn't have
:17:45. > :17:49.to take, but we simply didn't have a choice. If we were going to
:17:49. > :17:53.deliver the improvements passengers are calling for, and do that in a
:17:53. > :17:56.way which doesn't jeopardise our plan for reducing deficit, we had
:17:56. > :18:00.to ask passengers to pay more. campaigners point out that although
:18:00. > :18:04.fare rises are happening now, the projects like cross-rail and Thames
:18:04. > :18:11.link, which those increases pay for, won't be finished until nearly the
:18:11. > :18:16.end of the decade. Coming up tonight: I'll be
:18:16. > :18:21.reporting from the very top of one of the largest wind turbines in the
:18:21. > :18:24.world. It's just been built in the Irish Sea and I'll ask are these
:18:24. > :18:33.giant structures the right things to give Britain its energy in the
:18:33. > :18:36.future? Representatives of the Gaddafi
:18:36. > :18:41.regime and some rebel figures are reported to have take be part --
:18:41. > :18:44.part in talks in recent days in tuenizya. The reports came as
:18:44. > :18:48.senior figures in the US Government said Gaddafi's days were numbered
:18:48. > :18:51.and NATO said the rebels were succeeding in cutting supply lines
:18:51. > :18:55.to the regime. Our Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, is in Tunisia
:18:55. > :19:00.tonight with the latest. What do you make of these reports?
:19:00. > :19:05.Westminster, there's quite a bit of diplomatic -- well, there's quite a
:19:05. > :19:11.bit of diplomatic activity going on but not a great deal of achievement.
:19:11. > :19:15.On a holiday island, Venezuelan envoys have been going between a
:19:15. > :19:19.delegation from Tripoli, including apparently the gas minister, local
:19:19. > :19:24.sources say and opposition group. As well as that, the UN secretary-
:19:24. > :19:28.general's envoy has been in town. He's been talking to the Tunisians.
:19:28. > :19:32.To show how hard this job is, he's been doing it for about three
:19:33. > :19:36.months. He's been to Tripoli seven times. He's been shuttling between
:19:36. > :19:39.the two sides and they're no closer together. The sticking point seems
:19:39. > :19:43.to be the same thing, which is the Libyan Government have been putting
:19:43. > :19:48.out feelers for a deal. They'd love a deal. But it's one that Colonel
:19:48. > :19:53.Gaddafi in some guise stays. The starting point for the rebels and
:19:53. > :19:57.they're NATO backers is that king has to go and then maybe they can
:19:57. > :20:01.talk about -- king -- Colonel Gaddafi has to go and then they can
:20:01. > :20:06.talk about deals. So it's pretty clear that the question of who
:20:06. > :20:12.rules Libya will be decided by the Civil War and not by diplomacy.
:20:12. > :20:16.Thank you very much. Jeremy Bowen in Tunisia tonight.
:20:16. > :20:19.NPower is the latest company to announce a sharp rise in
:20:20. > :20:24.electricity prices by more than 7%, prompting more debate about
:20:24. > :20:27.sourcing our energy in the years to come. Around a quarter of the UK's
:20:27. > :20:31.electricity is meant to come from offshore wind power in the next ten
:20:31. > :20:37.years. But it is a very expensive project, which could mean even
:20:37. > :20:41.higher bills. David Shukman reports from
:20:41. > :20:45.Britain's newest windfarm off the coast of Cumbria.
:20:45. > :20:48.Forest of wind turbines arising off Britain's shores, this is the
:20:48. > :20:53.Government's great hope for green energy. But building these thing sz
:20:53. > :20:56.a real challenge. You need a special vessel like this. It can
:20:56. > :21:02.stand on the sea bed and lift itself up. We watched the process
:21:02. > :21:07.unfolding. A crane winchs each component into
:21:07. > :21:13.place. This is a section of the tower. Waiting for it are
:21:13. > :21:17.construction workers ready with the huge bolts to hold it in place. All
:21:17. > :21:20.this makes planting wind turbines at sea very expensive. The machines
:21:20. > :21:25.are more out of the way than on land, but the cost gets passed onto
:21:25. > :21:28.consumers, already facing rising bills. It's true to say that
:21:28. > :21:33.offshore wind is relatively expensive right now. It will come
:21:33. > :21:37.doub in the next ten or 20 years. One of the great benefits is it's
:21:37. > :21:43.home grown electricity. It's late evening, but the work keeps going
:21:43. > :21:47.as they enter a critical phase, lifting the giant set of blades off
:21:47. > :21:51.the deck. They're now angling this huge rotor so that it's in the
:21:51. > :21:59.right position to be hoisted right up and fitted to the very top of
:21:59. > :22:02.the tower. Nice and slow. metres up a tiny figure leans out
:22:03. > :22:06.as the rotor gets close. Down on deck, they cling to the tip of a
:22:06. > :22:12.blade, the biggest danger, ironically, is a sudden gust of
:22:12. > :22:17.wind. Then the final approach. This is one of the largest turbines in
:22:17. > :22:21.the world. Just before midnight the job is done. Off the coast of
:22:21. > :22:26.Cumbria, this windfarm has 30 turbines, but even when they're
:22:26. > :22:29.this big, you'd still need 200 of them to match the electricity
:22:29. > :22:37.produced by a conventional power station and only when the wind
:22:37. > :22:44.blows. Here goes with one of the longest ladders in history, I'm
:22:44. > :22:47.sure. Inside it's a very long journey to the top. I'm hooked on
:22:47. > :22:52.for safety. The technicians who work here have to be specially
:22:52. > :22:57.trained and they need a head for heights. When you're this high up
:22:57. > :23:01.and this far out in the ocean, it is generally pretty windy, like
:23:01. > :23:07.today, ideal when this insulation is complete for shifting these
:23:07. > :23:12.giant blades and making electricity. But when you look at the sheer size
:23:12. > :23:17.of this great structure and think about the cost and challenge of
:23:17. > :23:21.building it, the question is is the Government right to want thousands
:23:21. > :23:26.more of these things right around our shores?
:23:26. > :23:30.This is an expensive way of reducing carbon emissions. Let's
:23:30. > :23:33.get serious about climate change. Let's really do things about global
:23:33. > :23:38.warming. Let's not pretend that by building lots of windfarms we're
:23:38. > :23:42.making a major contribution. The Government says pioneering wind
:23:42. > :23:46.technology at sea will create jobs, cut carbon emissions and take
:23:46. > :23:56.advantage of being an island nation. But the price will be high and it's
:23:56. > :23:58.only just starting. Just under a year to go until the
:23:59. > :24:02.start of the Olympic Games in London, the first test event has
:24:02. > :24:06.been held at the main site in East London. People have been allowed
:24:06. > :24:10.into the basketball arena in the Olympic Park in Stratford to watch
:24:10. > :24:16.a series of match being so that organisers can spot any potential
:24:16. > :24:20.problems. David Bond was there. Another important milestone for
:24:20. > :24:24.London 2012, British basketball's first game in their new home and
:24:24. > :24:28.the first competitive action on the Olympic Park. For those fan who's
:24:28. > :24:33.paid for the privilege to be here, it was also a chance to get a
:24:33. > :24:38.better idea of how the London Olympics will feel. So this is what
:24:38. > :24:43.greets you upon arrival at the Olympic Park, airport-style
:24:43. > :24:47.security with metal detectors, bag scans and body searches. Security
:24:47. > :24:51.officials say they don't want to spoil the fan experience, but with
:24:51. > :24:58.the Olympics such an obvious target for terrorists, security has to be
:24:58. > :25:02.a priority. It's all new territory for Great Britain's basketball
:25:02. > :25:06.players too. Team GB haven't entered the Olympics since 1948.
:25:07. > :25:11.The sport it hoping to capitalise on the interest generated at next
:25:11. > :25:14.year's Games. The fans will come. Demographic will be there and will
:25:14. > :25:18.appeal to some of the younger generation who will see a sport
:25:18. > :25:22.that is fairly unknown to them. They'll be able to tell their
:25:22. > :25:26.friends, hey I think I want to pick up a different sport. Despite
:25:26. > :25:29.spending �42 million on this arena it won't provide a lasting physical
:25:29. > :25:36.legacy, not for London any way. After Games it will be torn down
:25:36. > :25:40.and sold off. Over the last month, London has hosted a series of Test