05/12/2011 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten: A new European treaty on the cards, with or

without British involvement. Germany and France decide a new

treaty with tough new rules is the best way to avoid another debt

crisis. Whatever has happened must never happen again, and for this

reason we want a new treaty. It's a new challenge for David

Cameron and the coalition, but the Prime Minister doesn't think a

referendum will be needed. It is impossible for a British government

to pass power from Britain to Brussels without asking the British

people in a referendum first. We'll have all the reaction,

including a relatively positive response from the financial markets.

Also tonight: For mis-selling investment products to elderly

people, HSBC gets a record fine. Thousands on the streets of Moscow,

alleging fraud in yesterday's parliamentary elections.

Matching the might of Beijing - how the budget for the London Olympic

ceremonies has doubled. And Martin Boyce produces an indoor

park with paper leaves to win this In Sportsday, I will have the news

Good evening. Germany and France want a tough new European treaty in

place by March to safeguard the future of the euro and to ease the

debt crisis. What's more, they've made it clear that they'll do it

with or without British involvement. Chancellor Merkel and President

Sarkozy held talks in Paris today ahead of a crucial EU summit later

this week. Our Europe Editor Gavin Hewitt sent this report from Paris.

This was the start of a crucial week for the eurozone, with key

summit. The curtain raiser was here in Paris with a meeting between the

leaders of France and Germany, the two most powerful countries in the

eurozone. They called for a new treaty that would make sure

overspending never happened again. With automatic sanctions for

countries who broke the rules. The two leaders wanted to stress their

determination. TRANSLATION: We want to go on a march to re-establish

our confidence in the eurozone. We have not got time, we are well

aware of the seriousness of the situation and the responsibility on

our shoulders. The German Chancellor said she hoped all

states would agree to a treaty change but would accept it if it

was just limited to the countries in the eurozone. We are open to

changes to the treaty with just 17 members if necessary. We are

determined to keep the euro as a stable currency. They hope that by

signing up to a tough deal on spending limits, it will make it

easier for the European Central Bank to help countries struggling

to finance their debts. What has been agreed? The leaders will push

for an urgent treaty change, although many details remain

unclear. There will be strict budget limits, deficits will not be

allowed to exceed 3% of GDP, and there will be automatic sanctions

agreed for those who break the rules. In a country protective of

its national pride, there is concern that these changes are

eroding sovereignty. The opposition fears that the overside to budgets

by a European Court would weaken the role of Parliament in France.

Being in the euro, respecting some discipline, doesn't mean we lose

any control on our own economy policy. If the treaty change

involves all 27 members, it will need British support if the changes

are significant they could trigger referenda elsewhere. The Prime

Minister was asked today about holding a referendum in the UK.

approach is simple - we have legislated now so it is impossible

for a British government to pass power from Britain to Brussels

without asking the British people in a referendum first. I am not

intending to pass any powers from Britain to Brussels. Sir what

happens next? European countries including Britain will be asked

this Friday whether in principle they back treaty change. The big

question is how long this whole process will take. What today's

plans did not address was the fundamental issue of debt and low-

growth. While the markets responded

positively to the news from Paris easing pressure on Italy and Spain,

there's more uncertainty tonight as one of the leading credit agencies

is said to be warning that it could downgrade the ratings of some of

the EU's biggest economies, including Germany. Our economics

editor Stephanie Flanders asks whether today's longer-term plan is

in danger of ignoring the immediate crisis. You might think it a bit

strange, this blue-sky thinking about what the eurozone will like

in the future, when the question in financial markets is whether it

will survive the year, but there is a logic here. To have confidence in

the year Road today, Germany and many in the markets need to have

faith this crisis will not happen again. They also need to see budget

cuts now from countries that have borrowed too much, like Italy.

European markets were upbeat about the plan to save the euro today but

that is because investors think the new budget rules will pave the way

for parte two - Germany agreeing to stand behind eurozone government

debt in future, and part three - the European Central Bank doing

more now to support countries like Italy. We only had hints of those

last two today, but many are convinced the European Central Bank

will act if others do their part. On Friday, I think we will get

something from the European Central Bank to support the banks - more

liquidity - but probably a signal that governments need to deliver

more on fiscal integration before it will open up its balance sheet

in the way financial markets are desperate. There was one part of

the press conference today that markets liked a lot, and caused the

cost of borrowing for Italy to fall. That was when the leaders said

there would be no more Greek style write-offs of government debt.

big problem potentially in markets would have been in 2012 an Italian

debt restructuring. The announcement today essentially

reduces that risk because you have a very firm statement, almost a

guarantee, from the French and Germans there will not be any

further write-offs on debt in the eurozone. The eurozone had a good

day, until the ratings agency put nearly all the eurozone countries

on negative credit watch, meaning the strongest ones have a 50%

chance of losing their triple A credit rating in the next 90 days.

As far as the markets are concerned, the leaders have less time than

that to fill out the holes in the plans.

David Cameron said today he would take part in any treaty

negotiations and defend British interests. Our deputy political

editor James Landale is in Downing Street. James, really just to

remind viewers what we have heard because France and Germany making

it clear they will go ahead with or without British involvement. How

much of a problem is that for David Cameron? The events of today are

good news for him. Any deal that could save the euro will be good

for his government, but there are political pressures. Some

Conservative MPs want a referendum on the treaty, but David Cameron

today has said that will not happen. The debate now is more about how

the government can use the negotiations to try to get

something back from Brussels. Many MPs fear that somehow a fiscal

union of 17 eurozone countries will start organising together,

sidelining the UK and taking decisions potentially against our

national interest. For example a decision that some financial

instruments must only be traded within the euro. They want greater

protection for the city of London. Others want to go further and say

now is the time to start repatriating powers from Brussels.

Today David Cameron said he wanted to get something back that would

enhance and protect our international interest.

HSBC, one of Britain's biggest banks, says it's profoundly sorry

for mis-selling financial products to elderly customers. The bank has

been fined more than �10 million by the Financial Services Authority

after selling unsuitable investment bonds to elderly people going into

residential care. HSBC could pay nearly �30 million in compensation,

as our chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym explains.

The customers were elderly, they were given the wrong financial

advice, and today HSBC said sorry. They were sold investment products

to cover the cost of living in care homes, their money was tied up for

five years, but some were unlikely to even live that long according to

the regulator. We thought HSBC led down a particularly vulnerable

group of customers, many were elderly, and they came to HSBC

looking for advice and they were sold unsuitable product in many

cases. This is the boss of NHFA, the company which provided

misleading advice to elderly customers. Based in Oxfordshire, it

was bought by HSBC in 2005, and eventually closed down earlier this

year by the Bank, which has taken full responsibility for what went

on. Nearly 2500 customers were advised to invest by the subsidiary.

87% were mis-sold the product with an average investment of �115,000.

Age UK was actively promoting NHFA as a place to get advice on

investments and care fees. It was described as our chosen firm.

the aged did work with the company, but when the two charities merged

to become Age UK we decided this was not an area of business we

wanted to beat in. A senior HSBC executive said he fully accepted

suitable advice was not given to some customers, that it shouldn't

have happened, and he was profoundly sorry. Bank sources

added tonight but when they became aware of potential problems in NHFA

in 2009, they alerted the Financial Services Authority and tightened up

sales procedures. But the bank has been fined more than �10 million.

It may also have to pay out as much as 30 million in compensation to

the customers and their families. President Karzai of Afghanistan has

said his country will need outside support for at least a decade, well

beyond the departure of NATO forces in two years' time. Delegates from

more than 90 countries attended the international conference in Bonn.

Two of the most significant players, Pakistan and the Taleban, did not

attend. Thousands of Russians gathered in

the centre of Moscow today to protest at apparent irregularities

during yesterday's parliamentary elections, and to call for Prime

Minister Putin to resign. Official observers from the EU say the poll

was conducted unfairly. The Americans say they, too, have

serious concerns. Daniel Sandford sent this report. Less than a mile

from the Kremlin on an upmarket Boulevard, riot police struggling

to clear the biggest demonstration this city has seen since the 1990s.

It was an almost spontaneous reaction to what the crowd believed

was a fixed election. Russia without Putin, they shouted, their

anger focused on the Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, who has been in

power for almost 12 years and who is now blamed for presiding over a

bureaucracy tainted by rampant corruption. We look back and

realise we have got nothing, no reform of the police or the army,

no battle against corruption. It is obvious people who two years ago

were fervent supporters of Vladimir Putin, they say now you have not

done anything and that is why we don't support you. What made this

demonstration remarkable was not just the size, also the protesters

themselves. They were young middle- class people who feel that they

have no future. But they can't see how to change it when they feel the

elections are so unfair. This has been a bad month for Vladimir Putin.

First he was booed in public, then he lost a third of his seats in

parliament and now there has been the biggest demonstration in Moscow

for more than a decade, but the opposition are not well-organised

and it is unclear if they can Coming up on tonight's programme:

A closer look at the indoor park with paper leaves which scooped

this year's Turner Prize for modern The budget for the main ceremonies

at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been doubled

following the Prime Minister's intervention. Mr Cameron gave the

go-ahead for an increase to �81 million after seeing the plans. The

extra money comes from within the overall Games budget. Spending on

security has also risen sharply as The opening of the Beijing Games,

the most impressive and extravagant Olympic ceremony yet.

We have been told that London wouldn't try to compete with this.

In 2012 we would see the austerity version, but after a direct

intervention from the Prime Minister, the budget for next

year's ceremonies has been doubled. The total cost of London's Olympic

and Paralympic ceremonies was due to be around �40 million. The

Government is putting an extra �41 million to bring the total to over

�81 million. It is the Government's responsibility to fund the

construction of the Olympic venues. It is the job of the organising

committee to pay for the shows that take place inside them. So there

wasn't meant to be a penny of taxpayers money spent on the

opening and closing ceremonies. The costs should have been covered by

income from ticket sales and sponsorship.

One of the main reasons London won the right to host the Games was its

promise to keep them affordable. A key member of that winning team is

unimpressed with today's announcement.

It is unbelievable that they have doubled the budget on the opening

ceremonies which only last for a few hours when they ought to be

investing that money and the vast mo mo jort of people would say in

our young athletes and in school sports which has been cut and is an

an investment for life, not just for a few hours.

The global television audience of an Olympic opening ceremony runs

into the billions. The Government argues it would be foolish not to

maximise the opportunity to advertise our country. The better

the show, and yes, of course, the fireworks, the greater the return

on the investment. This Is a moment next summer when the eyes of the

world world will be looking. It is incumbent on us in Government to

maximise that opportunity, to drive the maximum benefit for the economy

and for tourism. The Government is paying an extra

�271 million for venue security. The overall budget remains the same,

Police investigating the murder of two women in Southport want to

speak to a man who's believed to have fled the country. A post-

mortem has confirmed that Angela Holgate and her mother Alice Huyton

had been asphyxiated. Police are trying to find Mrs Holgate's lodger,

Barry Morrow. He was spotted in France on Saturday evening and may

At the Old Bailey, the Stephen Lawrence murder trial has been told

that textile fibres from Stephen's clothing were found on a jacket at

the home of one of the men on trial. The fibres were discovered in a

cold case review in 2007, 14 years after the murder took place in

South-East London. Gary Dobson and David Norris both deny murder. Tom

18 years after the killing of Stephen Lawrence, the court today

examined whether clothing fibres link the teenager with the two men

in the dock. The jury heard a cold case review brought Gary Dobson's

jacket back to a forensics lab in 2007. Scientists found 16 clothing

fibres among samples taken from the jacket or the bag it was kept in.

They found one piece of of dried blood with two blue threads running

through it. These two fibres came, the court heard, from this jumper

belonging to Stephen. More evidence was found. Rare

fibres coloured red and pink, one stained with what appeared to be

blood. Forensic scientists Roy Green said they matched the

material of this polo shirt worn by Stephen that night. Summing up his

conclusions, he said, the combination of blood, DNA and

fibres provide extremely persuasive evidence to link the wearer of the

grey jacket to the attack itself or to contact with the perpetrator

afterwards. The jury heard that that conclusion

could only stand if the evidence had not been contaminated over the

years. The defence has claimed that mishandling of evidence bags has

resulted in blood and fibres from Stephen's clothes getting mixed up

with those belonging to the suspects.

A defence bar barrister asked Mr Green to explain how fibres from

under clothes could have escaped during the attack. The scientist's

theory, Stephen's jacket was Major international talks to tackle

global climate change have entered a second decisive week in South

Africa. One of proposals being considered there is whether

countries should be PAID to protect the forests which play a such an

important part in absorbing greenhouse gases. The Congo Basin

forms the world's second largest tropical rainforest, covering an

area bigger than Spain. Andrew Harding has travelled to the Congo

where the army has joined the fight In the green heart of Africa over

one million square miles of rainforest. But will it survive?

Con lease soldiers guard one corner of the jungle, but there are

battling against loggers, farmers and a lethal assortment of militia

groups. We lost 12 rangers this year

protecting the park. REPORTER: Are you managing to win

this battle? Yes, we have to. There is no other choice.

For now, poverty, the lack of roads, and conflict kept huge chunks of

the forest out of reach. But Africa's economy is booming and

congo, like the press teen Amazon Jungle Decades ago is at risk.

We cannot say don't build the road or don't create economic activity,

what we can do is at least identify the most fragile place, the most

biodiverse place that we should protect and try to arrange

sustainable development. Like this, a project to make fuel

efficient stoves. It could half the number of trees cut for charcoal.

It is one part of a giant international plan to help protect

congo's rainforests and our planet. The plan being debated this week

could see billions of pounds being poured into congo. But it is

complicated. There is no transparency. There is no control.

We have lack of governance and it will be like we used to be in

African country. Nothing will be done as we expect it.

REPORTER: It will be chaos? Yes, of course.

For now, the poorly funded army does what it can. Congo needs more

outside help, but this is a tough place for anyone to operate.

The idea is simple and compelling, pay congo and its soldiers to

protect these vast forests and help prevent climate change, but it is

proving slow, risky and chaotic. The motivation is there. The big

money maybe coming. The fight to save the world's second greatest

NASA has announced the discovery of the most Earth-like planet ever

seen beyond our solar system. Scientists are conducting research

into the presence of water on the planet known as Kepler 22b. It

closely resembles Earth in its size and orbit and is 600 light years

away. The winner of the Turner Prize, one

of the art world's most prestigious awards, has been announced this

evening at the Baltic Gallery in Gateshead. The annual exhibition

and ceremony have been held outside London only once before in the

Turner's 27 year history. Will Gompertz reveals this year's winner.

It is that time of year again and the photographer, Mario Testino is

about to deliver an early Christmas present.

The winner for the 2011 Turner Prize, Martin Boyce.

APPLAUSE Well, I didn't expect that.

LAUGHTER But the Scottish born and based

artist was soon into his stride and is delighted to have become part of

the Turner Prize's history. It is something that is significant

in the cultural popular consciousness. It exists, it

solidified itself. It is interesting. A it is a great honour

to be part of it. Martin Boyce didn't win for

producing this sculpture, but it is part of his winning installation.

No, he won for pro dution a -- producing a space, everything

around me is part of the winning artwork from the paper leaves on

the floor, to the ceiling above. To the painting on the wall, even the

air vents and the bin are part of a theatrical environment designed to

change the way you think and the way you feel.

It is about passing through the space. It is about being in the

space. It is about the space in between the sculptures as much as

the sculptures themselves. I am interested in the idea of dusting a

room with atmosphere. The collector, Charles Saatchi

wrote being a collector is vulgar. Does the man who presented

tonight's prize and enjoy the art in the show agree? I think it is

vulgar in a lot of things, but not in my collecting because I do it

from the bottom of my heart. I spend all the money I earn and I

live with it and I enjoy it. It helped me in my profession. Over

100,000 people have seen the show, more than doubling the number of

visitors the gallery received during the same period last year.