:00:09. > :00:13.Tonight at 10, no compromise in the row about relaxing controls at
:00:13. > :00:17.Britain's borders. The claim is that passport checks were scaled
:00:17. > :00:22.back beyond the limits set by ministers. The man suspended by the
:00:22. > :00:27.Home Secretary Theresa May accuses her acting unfairly. Over 40 years,
:00:27. > :00:31.I have built up a reputation. And over two days, that reputation has
:00:31. > :00:36.been destroyed. But Brodie Clark himself faces new allegations.
:00:36. > :00:39.Also tonight: at the Stephen Lawrence murder trial, the
:00:39. > :00:45.prosecution says he was swallowed up by a group of white youths.
:00:45. > :00:49.More calls for petrol price rises to be contained as motorists count
:00:49. > :00:55.the cost. It has just gone through the roof. You are waiting to pay
:00:55. > :00:58.the fuel bill. It is extortion. has probably doubled in the last
:00:58. > :01:03.three years. How this list tallboy was saved by
:01:03. > :01:06.a pioneering treatment for a liver disease.
:01:06. > :01:13.And John Terry captains England for the first time since facing
:01:13. > :01:17.accusations of racism. In Sportsday 1 BBC News, we have a
:01:17. > :01:27.round-up of all the night's international football as the last
:01:27. > :01:40.
:01:40. > :01:43.four places at the Euro 2012 finals Good evening. The Home Secretary is
:01:43. > :01:47.still at loggerheads tonight with Brodie Clark, the man she suspended
:01:48. > :01:52.from his post as head of the UK Border Force. Mr Clark has been
:01:52. > :01:55.accused of relaxing passport controls without proper permission.
:01:55. > :01:59.Today he acknowledged that controls were repeatedly relaxed, but he
:01:59. > :02:06.denied doing anything wrong and accused Theresa May of destroying
:02:06. > :02:09.his reputation. Our national border is meant to
:02:09. > :02:13.look like and be a barrier to prevent the wrong people from
:02:13. > :02:18.entering the country. But today we learnt just how many times this
:02:18. > :02:22.year the normal checks had been suspended. Who is to blame? The and
:02:22. > :02:26.Secretary Theresa May insists that the man who was the head of the UK
:02:26. > :02:31.Border Force acted without her permission. Today he, Brodie Clark,
:02:31. > :02:35.had a chance to answer back, telling MPs at first at least that
:02:35. > :02:39.that was not true. I have not wilfully or knowingly sanctioned an
:02:39. > :02:44.alteration to border checks that has contravened existing Home
:02:44. > :02:50.Office policy. I am no rogue officer. Nothing could be further
:02:50. > :02:55.from the truth. The man who was given a CBE for services to border
:02:55. > :03:01.security was suspended before resigning last week in protest.
:03:01. > :03:07.Over 40 years, I have built up a reputation. And over two days, that
:03:07. > :03:12.reputation has been destroyed. I believe that has been largely from
:03:12. > :03:17.the contributions made by the Home Secretary. What went wrong at our
:03:17. > :03:21.borders has descended into a blame game. Theresa May insists that her
:03:21. > :03:25.authority was defied. She had agreed to try out so-called risk
:03:26. > :03:30.led checks, allowing border officers to do fewer tests on low-
:03:30. > :03:34.risk groups like children. But she refused permission to suspend
:03:34. > :03:40.fingerprint tests. Today the former head at the UK Border Force, Brodie
:03:40. > :03:44.Clark, admitted that controls were relaxed, including fingerprint
:03:44. > :03:48.checking, 50 times in just three months. He said that under another
:03:48. > :03:54.policy, airport safety bosses could wave checks to ensure the safety of
:03:54. > :03:58.passengers arriving at overcrowded airports. Tory MPs on the Home
:03:58. > :04:03.Affairs Committee were desperate to find Mr Clark guilty and to prove
:04:03. > :04:10.Theresa May innocent. So you suspended fingerprint checks before
:04:10. > :04:14.you ask the Home Secretary? Is that correct? I asked the Home Secretary
:04:14. > :04:19.on the fingerprint issue in respect of discretionary judgment by
:04:19. > :04:24.frontline staff. In other words, he did allow checks to be suspended,
:04:24. > :04:28.but only, he insisted, for safety reasons. Next, the man who
:04:28. > :04:33.suspended him, the chief executive of the UK Border Agency, Rob White
:04:33. > :04:39.month. The role of the senior official is to advise ministers and
:04:39. > :04:44.then to implement their direction. It was clear that ministers wanted
:04:44. > :04:47.fingerprint checks to be taken and that that had not been put into
:04:47. > :04:51.effect. There are no fewer than three Home Office inquiries into
:04:51. > :04:55.what went wrong and Britain's borders. But Labour says the public
:04:55. > :04:59.should not have to wait for the answers. What the Home Secretary
:04:59. > :05:03.told us last week is now unravelling, with the facts and
:05:03. > :05:07.figures emerging this week. That is why she has to publish all of the
:05:07. > :05:15.information, including instructions to the borders agency. It is clear
:05:15. > :05:20.that Brodie Clark is not going to go quietly. I am not saying
:05:20. > :05:24.anything. He will tomorrow, when he gives his first interview. Theresa
:05:24. > :05:29.May is fast learning that hell hath no fury like an official scorned.
:05:29. > :05:34.Nick, there has been a very sharp focus all along on Theresa May's
:05:34. > :05:38.handling of this affair. How do you assess her situation tonight?
:05:38. > :05:42.depends on your test. Her allies feel that the Home Secretary is
:05:42. > :05:46.safe to back because they think the evidence we have today confirmed
:05:46. > :05:50.that border checks were suspended, that she was not informed about
:05:50. > :05:55.that and that the senior official, the chief executive of the borders
:05:55. > :06:00.agency felt that Brodie Clark had exceeded his authority. But if you
:06:00. > :06:05.ignore for just a second the he said/she said element of this and
:06:05. > :06:10.focus on what most people care about Beyond Westminster, you end
:06:10. > :06:15.up with this. We learnt that repeatedly, several times a week in
:06:15. > :06:22.one period this year, border checks were suspended. Why? Because the
:06:22. > :06:25.fear was that planes full of people would be unable to land at airports,
:06:25. > :06:29.which would have planes full of people who were unable to go
:06:29. > :06:33.through border controls, which were themselves full of people. That is
:06:34. > :06:38.not how most people would want our borders to be. Therefore, although
:06:38. > :06:43.Theresa May may feel that she is Securon he says/she says test, she
:06:43. > :06:47.will know that in the end, she will be judged by the state of the UK
:06:47. > :06:55.borders and that falling out so spectacularly with a previously
:06:55. > :06:59.well-regarded official may not help her cause.
:06:59. > :07:02.The prosecution has opened its case in the trial of two men accused of
:07:02. > :07:06.murdering the black student Stephen Lawrence in south London 18 years
:07:06. > :07:11.ago. The jury at the Old Bailey was told he was the victim of a totally
:07:11. > :07:16.unprovoked racial attack by a gang of white youths. Gary Dobson, who
:07:16. > :07:19.is 36, and 35-year-old David Norris deny murder. The court heard that
:07:19. > :07:27.the new examination of all the evidence would be central to the
:07:27. > :07:31.prosecution's case. The killing on the street on an
:07:31. > :07:35.April night in 1993 has been endlessly scrutinised, but the dark
:07:35. > :07:39.history of the Stephen Lawrence case has now entered a new chapter.
:07:39. > :07:44.Opening the case, the prosecution today describe how Stephen was
:07:44. > :07:48.swallowed up by the weight of numbers and forced to the ground
:07:48. > :07:54.during the attack. Mark Ellison QC said Stephen and his friend had it
:07:54. > :07:57.simply been trying to get a bus home. The court heard that as
:07:57. > :08:01.Stephen looked for the bus, a group of young white men ran across the
:08:01. > :08:06.road in front of him. One shouted racist abuse, and then they
:08:06. > :08:13.attacked. Twain was further away. He managed to escape. But Stephen
:08:13. > :08:18.fell to the ground with two knife wounds. His attackers ran off.
:08:18. > :08:24.Stephen struggled to his feet. Bleeding, he got a short distance
:08:24. > :08:29.down this road, but then collapsed. Stephen Lawrence was just 18 when
:08:29. > :08:34.he died. There were eyewitnesses, but the case against David Norris
:08:34. > :08:39.and Gary Dobson rests instead on their clothes, seized by police.
:08:39. > :08:42.Four years ago, forensic scientists discovered a half a millimetre long
:08:42. > :08:47.bloodstains soaked into Gary Dobson's jacket, which the
:08:47. > :08:54.prosecution says matches Stephen's DNA. In an evidence bag containing
:08:54. > :08:57.David Norris's jeans, a tiny hair, again claimed to match Stephen's.
:08:57. > :09:02.Other forensic evidence includes clothing fibres and flakes of dried
:09:02. > :09:06.blood, but Tim Roberts to peace -- QC, representing Gary Dobson, told
:09:06. > :09:10.the jury that if the evidence were to be placed in a teaspoon for you
:09:10. > :09:14.to examine, you probably would not be able to see it. He said it was a
:09:14. > :09:18.pinch of material. The defendants argued that the bags containing
:09:19. > :09:23.their clothes had been contaminated by debris from those containing
:09:23. > :09:27.Stephen's over the many years since the killing. The prosecution said
:09:27. > :09:31.there was no realistic possibility of that. Rather, these two men were
:09:31. > :09:35.part of the group who attacked Stephen. His father, Neville and
:09:35. > :09:42.mother Doreen are expected to attend every day of the trial,
:09:42. > :09:46.likely to last at least six weeks. West Midlands police have tonight
:09:46. > :09:50.charged a man with the kidnap of a ten-year-old boy who went missing
:09:50. > :09:53.in Oldbury on Sunday morning. He disappeared during a shopping trip,
:09:53. > :09:58.but a few hours later was spotted by a neighbour at inside a flat
:09:58. > :10:01.near his home. Earlier this evening, MPs backed a
:10:01. > :10:05.motion calling on the Government to consider new measures to tackle the
:10:05. > :10:11.rising cost of petrol. The debate was triggered by an online petition
:10:11. > :10:15.on the Downing Street website signed by more than 100,000 people.
:10:15. > :10:19.Some MPs want next year's proposed rise in fuel duty to be scrapped.
:10:19. > :10:25.The price of fuel fell slightly in October, helping to reduce the
:10:25. > :10:29.level of inflation. The price of fuel is always a big
:10:29. > :10:33.talking point for motorists, and today it was for MPs. As the House
:10:33. > :10:37.of Commons debated scrapping a duty increase planned for January,
:10:37. > :10:43.drivers made their views clear. has just gone through the roof. You
:10:43. > :10:46.are working to pay the fuel bills. It is extortion. It is awful. They
:10:46. > :10:51.always hit the motorists. You need to think of what people are earning
:10:51. > :10:54.and what they have to pay out. Commons motion calling for the
:10:54. > :11:02.planned three pence increase to be dropped was carried without a
:11:02. > :11:05.formal vote, although it is not binding on the Government. Fuel
:11:05. > :11:10.price rises contribute to inflation across the economy and the annual
:11:10. > :11:17.rate fell slightly in October to 5%. Living cost increases include food
:11:17. > :11:21.prices, which are 4.6% higher than a year ago. Clothes are up 4.7%.
:11:21. > :11:28.Heating and other utility bills are nearly 20% higher, and those fuel
:11:28. > :11:31.prices are up more than 15%. All of that is causing a few headaches for
:11:31. > :11:36.Debbie O'Connor around her family. She runs a website business from
:11:37. > :11:39.home. Her husband is an accountant. Even so, she has to think
:11:39. > :11:43.constantly about price pressures and what that means for the
:11:43. > :11:49.spending power. This time last year, I would have walked into a
:11:49. > :11:54.supermarket and bought whatever I wanted. This year, I do look and I
:11:54. > :11:58.am trying to find out what is lower-priced, because the things I
:11:58. > :12:01.want to buy are going up all the time. There is price-cutting in
:12:01. > :12:05.some parts of the high street, and many economists think that
:12:05. > :12:10.inflation is on a downward track has been VAT hike will no longer be
:12:10. > :12:14.in the calculations next year. can never be sure with inflation,
:12:14. > :12:18.but I think this is probably the peak. We will now see inflation
:12:18. > :12:23.falling steadily in the first part of next year and a sharp drop after
:12:23. > :12:26.the beginning when the VAT falls out. By the end of the year,
:12:26. > :12:29.inflation will be down. Households and businesses are facing a
:12:29. > :12:33.continuing squeeze because of higher inflation, but the Bank of
:12:33. > :12:38.England believes it will fall sharply. Its main concern is
:12:38. > :12:45.looking a field over the next few years, is lack of growth. That will
:12:45. > :12:49.be thrown into focus with the projections tomorrow. But shoppers
:12:49. > :12:59.may feel it is too soon to say they are over the worst when it comes to
:12:59. > :13:03.
:13:03. > :13:11.Legal action to clear the protest camp outside St Paul's cathedral is
:13:11. > :13:16.to resume. Members of Occupy London Stock Exchange will be handed a
:13:16. > :13:21.legal notice tomorrow. But in New York, a similar protest has been
:13:21. > :13:27.dispersed by police, who have made 200 arrests. This report from Mark
:13:27. > :13:32.Mardell. Clashes have been flaring up all day. The police are now as
:13:32. > :13:36.much an enemy as the banks. It follows a night-time raid to end
:13:36. > :13:43.the protest against corporate greed and inequality, which started here
:13:43. > :13:48.and went global. To the authorities, it had become a health hazard.
:13:48. > :13:52.police were pushing us. The woman in front of me could not back up,
:13:53. > :13:58.and the police started beating her with batons. I went to help her and
:13:58. > :14:03.we got sprayed with pepper spray. Over in California, police have
:14:03. > :14:10.already evicted a similar occupation. In Oregon, another camp
:14:10. > :14:13.has been cleared. By daybreak in New York, as the police set up
:14:13. > :14:20.barricades around the freshly disinfected square, the protesters
:14:20. > :14:28.returned. Some of them were good- humoured as they walked around the
:14:28. > :14:35.square, so work furious. The police were ignoring a court order to let
:14:35. > :14:41.them back in. If we get back in, they will know who we are. The mood
:14:41. > :14:45.is changing between anger and frustration, dutiful demonstration
:14:45. > :14:51.and almost a carnival atmosphere. But a lot of people are asking, is
:14:51. > :14:54.this really having any impact on America? The men and women working
:14:54. > :14:59.at Ground Zero have been watching the protesters for weeks. Everyone
:14:59. > :15:05.I spoke to was pleased to have the park cleaned out. At lunchtime, we
:15:05. > :15:10.only get 35-40 minutes, we like to sit in the park and have a
:15:10. > :15:15.cigarette. But equally, they thought the protesters had a point.
:15:15. > :15:19.Now, we can sit in the park and have lunch, like human beings.
:15:19. > :15:27.do you think about what they were saying about the banks? Oh, that's
:15:27. > :15:32.real. Wall Street... The message from the protesters, if not their
:15:32. > :15:42.method, does it strike a chord in a country which is fed up with
:15:42. > :15:48.
:15:48. > :15:52.Coming up tonight - how do you feel? Pretty good. The American
:15:52. > :15:59.Congresswoman who nearly died in a gun attack has been describing her
:15:59. > :16:02.Doctors in London have created a pioneering procedure which has
:16:02. > :16:05.cured a baby of acute liver failure. The technique involved implanting
:16:05. > :16:08.cells which supported the damaged organ, allowing it to regenerate.
:16:08. > :16:10.It's been developed to provide a less invasive alternative to a
:16:10. > :16:20.liver transplant, and as our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh
:16:20. > :16:25.
:16:25. > :16:31.explains, the consequences could be This is a medical marvel. It is
:16:31. > :16:36.hard to imagine, but six months ago, Aayad was close to death, a virus
:16:36. > :16:42.was destroying his liver. Now, it is working normally. His parents
:16:42. > :16:48.say their only child has been given back to them. It was great, once he
:16:48. > :16:55.had the treatment, immediately, after 48 hours, things started to
:16:55. > :17:04.get better. We are very proud of him. He's brilliant, he's a miracle
:17:04. > :17:11.boy. What saved his life was not a transplant deep frozen human liver
:17:11. > :17:17.cells. Scientists at King's College Hospital coated the cells with a
:17:17. > :17:22.chemical found in algae to prevent Aayad's body from rejecting them.
:17:22. > :17:28.Instead of going on a waiting list for a transplant, Aayad was given a
:17:28. > :17:34.single injection of the cells. Their protective coating was porous,
:17:34. > :17:38.allowing toxins to flow in, be processed, and waste products and
:17:38. > :17:43.vital proteins to flow out. Immune cells were too big to enter, so
:17:43. > :17:49.could not destroy the donor tissue. After two weeks his liver had
:17:49. > :17:56.started to recover. The key benefit over a liver transplant is that
:17:56. > :18:02.Aayad will never need anti- rejection drugs, immunosuppressants.
:18:02. > :18:06.Doctors are delighted. It was only a few months back, he was so sick,
:18:06. > :18:11.requiring support from dialysis and a breeding machine. And we think
:18:11. > :18:16.that we have given him another chance of life. Seeing him now,
:18:16. > :18:21.after six months, with a nearly normal liver, without a transplant,
:18:21. > :18:26.is remarkable. But doctors are urging caution, this world first
:18:26. > :18:32.might be a one-off, so a large clinical trial is planned. This is
:18:32. > :18:37.a lovely example of bringing academic research and clinical
:18:37. > :18:41.effort together in the NHS. The next step will be to see if this
:18:42. > :18:46.could be used to help other patients with failing livers, who
:18:46. > :18:51.currently need a transplant. Many patients died before receiving a
:18:51. > :18:58.liver transplant, so it is hoped the treatment that saved Aayad may
:18:58. > :19:01.The International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, who's
:19:01. > :19:04.in Burma, has urged the country to release all its political prisoners.
:19:04. > :19:06.Today he met the country's ruling generals and said he's cautiously
:19:06. > :19:09.optimistic that a "proper" political dialogue has begun to
:19:09. > :19:13.take place, a year after the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
:19:13. > :19:23.was released from house arrest. Our correspondent David Loyn is
:19:23. > :19:24.
:19:24. > :19:29.travelling with Mr Mitchell, and sent this report from the capital.
:19:29. > :19:33.Burma's military dictators built themselves a 20 lane highway at the
:19:33. > :19:37.heart of their military capital, but nobody uses it much. There is
:19:37. > :19:45.nobody here other than the civil servants who were forced to move up
:19:45. > :19:51.overnight. But there is change in the air. Behind the walls of this
:19:51. > :19:55.absurdly large building, a new parliament is in session. This is a
:19:55. > :20:02.democratic country now, we have a democratic system, we have a
:20:02. > :20:08.parliament, and all matters are discussed for the good of the
:20:08. > :20:12.country. It all began with a new president, sworn in in March, who
:20:12. > :20:16.surprised his country by the pace of change. It is early days, and
:20:16. > :20:21.no-one would yet call this a democracy, but there are signs that
:20:21. > :20:28.was just a rubber stamp for a military dictatorship is turning
:20:28. > :20:31.itself into a real parliament. Britain is Burma's largest donor,
:20:31. > :20:35.and this visit by the International Development Secretary is a chance
:20:35. > :20:39.to test the new policies. He met the Speaker of the Burmese
:20:39. > :20:42.Parliament, one of the key architects of reform and tipped as
:20:42. > :20:47.a future president. Speaking to a foreign journalist for the first
:20:47. > :20:51.time, Shwe Mann told me there is no turning back.
:20:51. > :20:55.TRANSLATION: This process is irreversible now. But it will take
:20:55. > :21:01.more than better debates in Parliament and more freedom for the
:21:01. > :21:05.media and trade unions. Severe Western sanctions will remain while
:21:05. > :21:12.Aung San Suu Kyi's party cannot stand in elections, hundreds of
:21:12. > :21:15.prisoners remain behind bars, and ethnic conflicts rage on the border.
:21:15. > :21:20.Governments in this region are judged on their actions, not warm
:21:20. > :21:24.words. But it underlines the point that there are plenty of grounds
:21:24. > :21:29.for optimism, but still a long way to go before the international
:21:29. > :21:33.community will be able to signal that real progress has been made.
:21:33. > :21:36.The workers waiting for a bus in their soulless new capital hope
:21:36. > :21:44.that things are getting better, after more than half-a-century of
:21:44. > :21:47.England have beaten Sweden 1-0 in a friendly match at Wembley. Victory
:21:47. > :21:56.was secured with a goal from Gareth Barry in the first half. Our sports
:21:56. > :21:59.correspondent, Dan Roan, is there for us tonight. Having missed
:21:59. > :22:02.England's surprise triumph over Spain on Saturday, John Terry
:22:02. > :22:06.insisted he was ready and willing to leave his country again for the
:22:06. > :22:10.first time since racism allegations had been levelled against him.
:22:10. > :22:14.Terry was under pressure both on and off the pitch, but his return
:22:14. > :22:17.to the side was a triumphant one. It is a sight you do not often see
:22:17. > :22:21.at Wembley, tickets available on the night of an England
:22:22. > :22:25.international. Despite some late demand, this was the lowest
:22:25. > :22:29.attendance here for 13 years. But if John Terry had been worried
:22:29. > :22:34.about the reaction he would get from the stadium, he need not have
:22:34. > :22:38.worried. This seemed like business as usual. England's victory over
:22:38. > :22:44.Spain was built on defence, but tonight they had to show more in
:22:44. > :22:48.attack. And they did just that, Gareth Barry scoring his country's
:22:48. > :22:52.2000th international goal, with the assistance of a deflection off
:22:52. > :22:57.Daniel Majstorovic. There were eight changes from Saturday, but
:22:57. > :23:02.England's younger players were once again impressing. Jack Rodwell and
:23:02. > :23:08.Phil Jones both went close. England were firmly on top. In a low-key
:23:08. > :23:11.second half, neither side threatened, although Sebastian
:23:11. > :23:19.Larsson's cross tested Scott Carson. Fabio Capello would have hoped for
:23:19. > :23:28.more, but it remained 1-0. It was England's first victory over Sweden
:23:28. > :23:33.for 43 years. So, while the majority of his rather
:23:33. > :23:38.disappointing 48,000 crowd go home happy, over in Dublin, the entire
:23:38. > :23:43.country is rejoicing, the Republic of Ireland are back in the big time
:23:43. > :23:52.for the first time in a major championship for 10 years. Stephen
:23:52. > :23:56.ward's goal secured a 1-1 draw for Ireland. They join England in the
:23:56. > :24:06.Championships next summer in Poland and Ukraine. They could even meet
:24:06. > :24:08.each other in the group stages. The The US Congresswoman who suffered
:24:08. > :24:11.terrible injuries in a shooting earlier this year has spoken
:24:11. > :24:13.publicly for the first time about her recovery. Gabrielle Giffords of
:24:13. > :24:16.Arizona was attending a constituency event in January when
:24:16. > :24:22.she was shot in the head. Six people died and 13 others were
:24:22. > :24:31.injured in the attack. The story of her recovery over the past ten
:24:31. > :24:34.months is a remarkable one, as Ian Pannell explains. This was Gabriel
:24:34. > :24:44.Giffords a few weeks after she was shot in the head. And this is heard
:24:44. > :24:52.today. How do you feel? Pretty good. This is a story of one woman's slow,
:24:52. > :24:56.painful recovery. Was it hard? Difficult, difficult. But she is
:24:56. > :25:00.also a US Congresswoman, and the attempt on her life and her
:25:00. > :25:04.struggle back to health has captured the public imagination.
:25:04. > :25:09.She was attacked during a meeting with constituents last January. Six
:25:09. > :25:14.were killed, 13 were injured. She was critically wounded. Tissue from
:25:14. > :25:18.her brain and part of her skull had to be removed. It was weeks before
:25:18. > :25:28.she was well enough to be told what had happened, that so many had been
:25:28. > :25:34.injured and killed. Sad. A lot of people died. It hurts your heart.
:25:34. > :25:39.Yes. For the last 10 months, she has had to learn the basics of life
:25:39. > :25:49.again, captured on film by her husband, as she learns how to walk
:25:49. > :25:53.
:25:53. > :26:03.and talk. Songs have been used to help her recover her speech.
:26:03. > :26:06.
:26:06. > :26:11.you sad? But it has been a long, difficult process. I would say,
:26:11. > :26:15.Gabby, you have not been beaten, you have just been beaten up. You
:26:15. > :26:25.will come back stronger than ever. Her progress has been remarkable,
:26:25. > :26:26.
:26:26. > :26:31.but she still struggles to put thoughts into full sentences.
:26:31. > :26:35.wants to get better. She's answering a question about whether