21/11/2011 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten, Egypt in crisis again after three days of violence

in the fight for democracy. In the heart of Cairo, thousands demand a

rapid change from military rule to civilian government. At least 30

dead and 1800 injured in the past few days. We report from the scene.

Here they are, fighting in clashes, some being killed, many being

wounded, and demanding that the military get out of politics

altogether. And tonight the Egyptian cabinet

has offered its resignation. We will have the latest from Cairo.

Also on the programme: The parents of Milly Dowler

describe the false hope that their daughter was still alive when her

phone was hacked. I heard her voice. It was like, she has picked up her

voicemails, she is alive! It was then, really.

Also at the inquiry, the actor Hugh Grant accuses the Mail on Sunday of

hacking his voicemails. The Stephen Lawrence murder trial,

and claims that crucial evidence could have been contaminated.

New plans to increase the supply of housing in England, with mortgage

help for some first-time buyers. And the Chinese pandas soon to be

heading for Scotland, with a hefty bill in prospect.

Later in the hour, I will have all the sport. Join me to find out if

it was a happy return to the dug- out for Harry Redknapp as he

watched his Tottenham side take on Good evening. The Egyptian cabinet

has offered to resign tonight in the wake of three days of

escalating violence against the ruling military council. Protesters

want the military to transfer power to a civilian government. It is the

worst unrest since President Mubarak was toppled in February.

Clashes between police, soldiers and demonstrators have been

reported in several cities, including Alexandria and Suez. But

the most serious eruption has been in Cairo, where at least 30 people

have been killed and 1800 injured around Tahrir Square.

Outside the hated Interior Ministry, a long time symbol of authoritarian

rule in Egypt, protesters clashed for a fourth consecutive day with

riot police. Shocking images beamed almost instantly around the globe

on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. None more disturbing than pictures

apparently showing protesters being viciously beaten in front of a sign

proclaiming freedom. Unconscious, completely overcome by tear-gas,

dozens, even hundreds of pro- democracy campaigners rushed to

pavement clinics in Tahrir Square this afternoon. At times, there

were not enough scooters and mopeds to ferry bodies back for treatment.

It is thought many of those who died in these clashes suffocated

under the effects of tear-gas. One man wanted to tell us what happened

to him, struggling to get his words out. Moments later, he collapsed

into the arms of his friends. It is almost as though the February

Revolution and all that was achieved in Tahrir Square never

happened. None of these protesters can believe they are back on the

streets of Cairo fighting for the reforms and freedoms they thought

they would say several months ago. But here they are, fighting and

some of them being killed, many of them being winded, demanding that

the military get out of politics altogether. It was perhaps naive to

assume that having forced Mubarak to resign, the entire system would

collapse. It was a big mistake. At the time, people were euphoric

about it. They could not believe that they toppled Mubarak, but it

was just the tip of the iceberg. The protesters say they will not

give ground again until the military cedes power altogether. No

easy task in a country where the generals are the absolute authority.

By torchlight, the roadside medics treated a steady stream of

casualties, but thousands more protesters arrived in the square.

In less than a week, this country is due to hold its first truly

democratic elections. It is difficult to see how they can go

ahead in such circumstances. Sorry for the ditches on the sound

in that report. As we have heard, the slow process

of change in Egypt is the main factor in the renewed

demonstrations. The protest leaders say they have no faith in the plans

for a transition to a fully democratic society. Stephen Sackur

reports from Cairo on what has gone wrong since the toppling of Mubarak

earlier this year. His report contains strong images.

A new, dangerous phase in Egypt's revolution. Trust has now broken

down between the people and the country's military rulers. This is

no overnight storm. Tension and anger have been brewing for months.

Field Marshal Hussein Ted Tally is the protesters' chief target, head

of Egypt's military junta and the two decades, President Mubarak's

loyal military chiefs. He took power promising stability. He has

delivered repression and bloodshed. The turning point came last month.

Thousands of demonstrators, mostly Coptic Christians, gathered in

Cairo to protest about -- about sectarian violence. We have

obtained this shocking footage. Snipers opened fire. Armoured

vehicles career down the street. 27 demonstrators were killed, many

crashed. For young democracy activists like this web designer,

the military, with its entrenched economic and political power, now

represents the counter-revolution. It is easy to get rid of Mubarak

and get someone else who will keep the same policies, maintain the

corruption and keep killing and torturing. We want to overhaul the

system. The military council made promises last February. They talk

of democracy within six months. Actually, parliamentary elections

are supposed to begin next week, but will drag on. There may not be

a presidential election until 2013. They said Egypt's state of

emergency would end. It hasn't. More than 10,000 protesters are in

military jails. They stressed their commitment to genuine democracy,

but have proposed a constitution which seems to give the military

free rein. Today, Egypt's civilian cabinet, a political fig-leaf for

the generals, officially resigned. Even before that news, their

position was becoming untenable. You are in a government which is

entirely dominated by the Supreme Council of the armed forces.

TRANSLATION: no. Not true. You can put it that way if you want, but

the reality is that we are operating under exceptional

circumstances. We are in a transitional phase. The Supreme

Council of the armed forces has both presidential and law-making

powers, but there is co-operation between the Cabinet and the

military. Tonight, political chaos and a dark mood in Egypt. The Arab

Spring captured a longing for freedom and stability. Now

Egyptians have neither, and the generals are taking much of the

blame. And Stephen Sackur has a series of

reports on the situation in Egypt being broadcast on the BBC News

Channel throughout this week. Let's take stock after this third

day of violence and go live to Cairo and our Middle East editor

Jeremy Bowen. What is your sense of things there tonight? I have been

here in the square for a lot of the evening, and even after midnight,

there are thousands of people milling around and cash is going on

in the streets towards the Interior Ministry. This is a really serious

crisis for Egypt. And if it is serious for Egypt, it is serious

for the region as well, because people across the Middle East are

looking at what is going on here. At the heart of it, the future. Who

runs this country? The people in this square have decided that the

military want to retain power and are not prepared to hand it over to

civilians. It is a fundamental thing about completing the

revolution. They believe that until the army council steps down and

gives up the power it has, the revolution will not be complete.

The army seems determined to hang on to its entrenched position in

Egyptian society. It is worth mentioning that the whole of Cairo

is not like this tonight. There are plenty of areas where life is going

on as normal. It was not like that in January and February. That

suggests that there are people here who support the military, who do

not like this kind of disruption. But meanwhile, the people here,

perhaps 100,000 are here tonight and determined to hang on.

The parents of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler have told a

public inquiry of the false hope they suffered when told that

voicemails on their daughter's phone had been deleted. Sally

Dowler said they had been led to think that Milly was still alive.

Mr and Mrs Dowler were giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry

into press standards. During the day, the actor Hugh Grant also

outlined his case against the tabloid press. This report contains

flash photography. They suffered the devastating pain

of losing a beloved daughter, only to find that their lives had been

violated by tabloid journalists. Bob and Sally Dowler, parents of

Milly, victims of unforgivable intrusion. They spoke about Milly

and described how they had gone to retrace her last known steps. It

should have been a private moment, but the News Of The World had a

photographer lurking, and the photograph was published. We did

not see anyone. They had obviously taken the picture with some sort of

telephoto lens. How on earth did they know we were doing that walk

on that day? It felt like such an intrusion into a really private

grief moment. Then there was the hacking of Milly's phone, again by

the News Of The World. Messages were deleted from her previously

full voice mailbox. It meant Mrs Dowler could finally get through.

It gave her hope. I rang her phone, and it clicked through on to her

voicemail, so I heard her voice. And I thought, she has picked up

her voicemails! She is alive! came the crushing news that it had

been the News Of The World fiddling with the voicemail in search of a

story. As soon as I was told it was about phone hacking, I did not

literally sleep for about three nights, because you replay

everything in your mind, just thinking, that makes sense now.

Tonight the former News Of The World investigator Glenn Mulcaire

denied deleting Milly Dowler's voicemail messages. His solicitors

said he confirms that he did not delete call them had no reason to

do so. From a private couple to a public figure and his allegations

of intrusion. The actor Hugh Grant. His targets - the Daily Mail and

the Mail on Sunday, which he said had printed a false story linking

him with a woman in Los Angeles. cannot for the life of me think of

any conceivable source for this story in the Mail on Sunday, except

those voice messages on my mobile telephone. To that, the Mail on

The inquiry heard how recently Hugh Grant had fathered a baby can tinge

tinge tinge, a former girlfriend. - - Tinglan Hong. The day after that,

I think it was, the phone calls started from the daily mail in this

case, saying that we know about Tinglan Hong having the baby. That

we know about Hugh having visited. We know what name she checked in

under, that they were to write the story. The British press, Hugh

Grant said, was the only major industry that was regulated by

itself. That was not working for over 20 years. The witness item is

expected to continue into the new year. In the next few days the

inquiry is to hear from Gerrard, the actress, 7/7 and the author, JK

Rowling and in due course newspaper executives and editors are expected

to give their side of the story. The Prime Minister has given a

warning on the state of the economy. Telling the CB ifrplt that Britain

is well behind where it needs to be and that getting debt under cell

control is proving harder than anyone envisaged. He spoke on the

day that the Government was trying to revive parts of the housing

market with mortgage help with First-time buyers and help for

developers too. Radical and unashamedly ambitious, he has had

the Prime Minister and the deputy describe their long-awaited

strategy for housing in England. It needs to be. It is important to

build more houses in our country. Decades of political failure on

housing, the Government admits, are causing damage to the economy and

society, measured in lost jobs, overcrowded homes and shattered

dreams. The Government is trying to inject help into the beleaguered

housing sector, for the banks to lend, for the developers to build

and for the consumers to borrow. By with the State spending less on

housing subsidy in the economy, it being on a knife edge, the success

is as uncertain as the times. Invigorating supply and demand for

housing is key. Having cut Government support by almost �4

billion, today the ministers announced they are putting back

�400 million, that may help stalled projects like this town in Devon to

get re-started. Another idea means that developers can build on unused

public land without having to pay for it until the homes are sold,

but more than 230,000 new homes are needed each year. I have looked at

the housing strategy, nowhere can I find the number of houses you need

to build next year or the year after that? There is demand out

there. We need the homes. We are not going for figures that have not

worked. So you are not telling us how many houses you will build?

market has to provide the houses. For millions on middle or lower

incomes, the problem is finding an affordable home. There is access

to... Jon and Anna in York can only dream of getting the deposit

required for their first house. When you are renting a property as

it is, you cannot afford to do that, the mortgage payments would be our

rent. It is frustrating that we can pay the rent, but they don't think

we can pay the mortgage. The couple could benefit from a mortgage endem

knity scheme, but what does this strategy offer those who would once

have relied on social housing? The charity Shelter, thinks that Sandra

should anybody a council or Housing Association home, but instead, a

shortage of social housing means she is forced into the private

rented sector, where the represents are so high that he is and her son

face eviction and an uncertain future. This housebuilding

programme will take a few years to get up and running. In the meantime

hundreds of families are being forced into the private rented

sector in which the rents are going up, it will push up the welfare

bill. The strategy may be billed as radical and ambitious, but whether

it works depends on the confidence of the markets. Coming up: As fears

grow about Iran's nuclear research, America and Britain impose tough

new sanctions. The trial of the two men accused of murdering the black

teenager, Stephen Lawrence has heard that important evidence may

have been contaminated because of the way it was handled by the

police. The court was told that blood-stained clothing worn by the

student may have been placed in unsealed paper bags. Gary Dobson

and David Norris deny the charges against them. 18 years after his

killing. This is Stephen's blue jumper, stained with his blood. His

shirt, his green trousers, the prosecution says that the fiebfrers

the clothes as well as Stephen's blood and hair were found on the

defendant's clothing, including this pair of jeans. The defence

argued it happened because of contamination while the police

examined the exhibits. So part of the evidence focused on the brown

paper bags, similar to these, used to store and transport in evidence

1993. The court heard that the practise was to fold the top down

two or three times and to sale them with Sellotape. The defence claims

that the tape could have come loose, the top unrolling and dried blood

gotten stuck to the sides of the bags seized from db dob dob and

David Norris. One detective said he may have folded over an evidence

bag rather than sealing it, if it contained clothes belonging to

Stephen that were so bloody they had to be dried out. The defence

said they could have been the clothes that contaminated the

suspect's clothing. The jury heard evidence from former detective,

Graham Cooke, who did house-to- house interviews in the road where

Gary Dobson lived. He spoke to the defendant, who, the detective said,

seemed nervous. He claimed not to know David Norris, but the police

took pictures of them together outside of the home of Neil and

Jamie Acourt, the brothers also under investigation. The two deny

murdering Stephen Lawrence. Within the past hour, the Americans have

announced new sanctions on Iran because of concerns about the

country's nuclear programme. The last week, the UN's nuclear

watchdog said it had evidence of a military dimension to Iran's

research. Earlier today Britain ended all financial links with

Tehran. Mark, what do you make of the measures and what is expected

on this impact? Hillary Clinton has announced these are a serious

ratcheting up of sanctions. They have labelled this a money

labelling concern. It seems that they are pretty serious. They are

hitting Iran where it hurts. In its vital industries. They are doing as

much as they can, along with not only Britain, but Canada and France

but can't get new sanctions through the UN as China and Russia don't

agree with them. Unlike Britain it doesn't seem on the first look at

this as if America is targeting the Iranian Central Bank. There has

long been concerns in the Obama administration that would drive up

the oil prices and harm the economic recovery, so not taking

the full measures, but it is serious, it will hurt Iran. Thank

you very much. The President of Turkey has told the BBC that his

country doesn't want to intervene in neighbouring Syria, but he says

that change is clearly needed and he is preparing for the worst.

Abdullah Gul was speaking after a bus carrying Turkish civilians came

under attack. He said that Turkey would be defending its interests.

Istanbul's latest tourist attraction. A panorama of the

historic Turkish conquest that launched the Ottoman Empire. Turkey

is once again wielding its power, influential in the Arab Spring and

piling the pressure on Syria. In London Abdullah Gul told me that

Turkey did not want to intervene in Syria, but was basing itself for

the worst. Well are -- we are all prepared for the worst scenario.

You are not ruling out the buffer zones, even if there is up support

from this and from the Arab League? The Arab League is meeting on

Wednesday. Let's see what position they are taking. There are some who

say that Turkish once was a great power in the region, the Ottoman

Empire, maybe the time has come again for Turkey to the -- to be

the centre of this part of the world? We have no hidden agenda in

the region. Turkey's influence is showing in other ways. Its wildly

successful soap operas have gripped the Arab audiences. The late sest a

rags to riches story about the harem of Suleiman the Magnificent.

On the film set is it is a frantic schedule, these exports are

creating fans of Turkey across the region. Turkey argued it was a

bridge between the East and the West. Here in Istanbul it straddles

two continents. This is European soil, but all the time, the boats

are ferrying people across the water to the Asian side. Turkey

says part of its appeal is that it offers a modern Muslim democracy

with European values, but looking at its human rights record there is

a problem. Amazingly, there are more journalists in jail here than

either China or Iran. This crowd at Istanbul's book fair was to support

one of them. Abdullah Gul dismisses the criticism. He says it is the

looming crisis in Syria that overshadows everything. Two giant

pand yarbs are soon to be on their -- pandas are soon to be on their

way to Edinburgh Zoo. It's part of a global conservation project. The

hope is that the pair will settle quickly in their new home and breed,

but keeping the panda happy is a costly business. We have this

report from China. Meet young young young. It means "sunshine". Meet

Yang Guang. In the pen next door, more laid back is Mike Tindall, or

"sweety". It is part of condition's panda conservation export. --

TianTian. The hope is that the two will mate. The probshrem that

pandas are fickle. Own one born in captivity has been re-introduced in

the wild and that died soon after. Pandas don't come cheap. Edinburgh

Zoo is to pay �7,000 for each bear plus �70,000 to feed their bamboo

habit and there is no guarantee that the two will pair up.

TRANSLATION: They must like each other for themselves there to be a

mutual attraction. That's the key. If not, they will walk away and

nothing will happen. China's panda- breeding programme is producing

about 30 pandas ayear, but most through artificial insell nation,

they are not good at conceiving naturally. While they are pampered

in captivity, in the wild they are threatened. In the natural home,

the mountain ranges of Sichuan is urbder pressure. The bamboo that

they eat is dying off and China's break-neck roads and cities are

coming ever closer. Soon, "sunshine" and "sweety" will be

moving too. They will anybody Edinburgh Zoo for ten years. The

zoo is hoping that they will be so popular that the visitor numbers

double, but in the wild the pressing kouds mean that the