21/02/2012 BBC News at Ten

A eurozone bail out means greest is out of immediate danger, but the

patient is still critical. The rescue package of 130 billion

euros buys the country a breathing space but is no guarantee of

economic recovery. There are downside risks. This is

clear. It's not an easy programme. It's a very ambitious one. Greeks

already struggling to pay their bills take to the streets to

protest. I'm relieved we are still in the

eurozone, but I think life will get much worse here. We'll look at what

the deal means for Greece and whether it will work. Also tonight:

Tesco says it will pay people on work experience after accusations

their Government-backed programme is slave labour.

The men accused of plying girls as young as 13 with drink and drugs

before sexually abusing them. Fighting the Somali pirates, on

board the patrol flights trying to clear them from the Indian Ocean.

And Adele completing an extraordinary year of success with

triumph at the BRITS. On BBC Good evening.

Greece has bought itself a breathing space with 130 billion

euro bail out agreed by eurozone negotiators in the early hours of

this morning. But the toughest times are ahead for the country and

many believe the chances of it getting back on to the path of

economic recovery soon are slim. Greece has had to agree to

humiliating measures, such as having international monitors to

make sure agreed spending cuts take place. Here is our Europe editor

Gavin Hewitt on the deal none think is ideal but what many think is the

worst least solution. After months of bitter argument,

the country has been granted the biggest bail out in history. The

threat of bankruptcy has been lifted, even so a hard road lies

ahead. There are downside risks. This is

clear. It's not an easy programme. It's a very ambitious one.

For 12 hours, ministers and officials argued over how to reduce

Greece's debt mountain and how to prevent the country defaulting and

threatening the European economy. The bail out deal is aimed at

reducing Greece's debt, private investors have agreed to take big

losses, 107 billion euros. Greece will get a massive loan of 130

billion euros, the hope is that by 2020, Greece's debt will be down to

120% of GDP. We have turned a page, both for

Greece and in Europe. Greece will not go bankrupt and Greece will not

exit the eurozone. The deal is intended to draw a line

under months of violent protest, a period when a Greek Prime Minister

was forced to stand down and a period of increased hostility

towards Germany for insisting on more austerity, a period when

Greece's economy collapsed. Europe's leaders hope today's

rescue can be built on. Greece has made its choice and we now have to

focus on the next step which is constructing a firewall that is

large enough to prevent contagion within the eurozone.

On the streets of Athens today, protests against the austerity

measures that are a condition of a bail out. Anger too that Greece

must accept permanent monitors to ensure it implements the spending

cuts. The mood, as in recent

demonstrations, was resentful and anxious.

I'm relieved we are still many the eurozone, but I think life will get

much worse here. TRANSLATION: people will be even worse off than

last year. These measures will deepen our recession.

Families know that more austerity is coming in exchange for the new

bail out. This man is a bus driver. His wages have already been cut by

400 euros a month and now he's threatened with losing his job.

I'm afraid that I don't have enough money for buying the basics for my

kids and for the family. The ganlbl with this new bail out

is that Greece is being asked to embrace further cuts whilst its

economy is in freefall -- the gamble. It doesn't solve the Greek

problem because the burden on the Greek is very high and intense and

I'm afraid that we'll meet again here in three or six months from

now to discuss the Greek situation again. What this massive bail out

has done is to buy the eurozone time to strengthen its banks and to

sure up defences around potentially weak economies like Italy and Spain.

Greece has averted bankruptcy in the short-term, but the country

faces years of hardship. So how will the deal work? Or will

it, as some have suggested, unravel, just as previous deals have done?

Our Chief Economics Correspondent Hugh Pym is here. What is your

assessment? Doubts were being voiced before the

deal was signed. In a document last week, eurozone and IMF officials

warned that an extra 50 billion euros might be needed for Greece in

three years' time based on optimistic assumptions. After the

economy's likely contraction of 4% this year, growth of more than 2%

is forecast for 2014, but many observers feel that Greece will

struggle to find any growth for some time.

With continued protests like those last weekend in Athens and nearly

one in five unemployed, some argue that under the current bail out

terms, Greece will never get back on track.

The question is, at some point surely someone will realise that

squeezing people again and again and again doesn't actually get the

growth you need to get the income you need. That is the policy that's

wrong. One key part of the deal is not yet

in place. Private investors signing up to a cut in the value of their

loans to the Greek Government. So far, there's outline agreement.

We respect the right of any investor, wholesale, retail,

institutional, to study the terms and conditions of this deal and

reach their own judgments. However, we believe when the dust settles,

when the documents are fully issued and the annal is have had time to

study the pros and cons of this deal, that the lion's share of

investors will take the deal. Assuming those investors do sign up,

this deal buys the eurozone time to try to ensure more stability with

the firewall which David Cameron referred to. The current bail out

fund can only call on about 250 billion euros, but a future fund

with about 700 billion will be in place this summer.

That could help shore up other countries like Portugal, Spain and

Italy, if required. Some eurozone economies like Spain

are struggling with high unemployment and falling output,

but analysts believe today's deal for Greece at least staves off

another financial crisis. It was clearly good news for the

financial markets because we avoided a disorderly default of

Greece, which would have sent shock waves through financial markets. At

the same time, it's still not over because we are still not sure

whether Greece eventually in the near term will have to leave the

currency union because it fails to implement all of the reforms.

Chancellor said resolving the eurozone crisis would be the

biggest boost that Britain could get for its economy this year, an

important step had been taken, but he'd admits there's still some way

to go. Here, official figures revealed the

biggest monthly surplus in Britain's public finances.

The Office for National Statistics said the Government received �7.8

billion more than it spent last month, though that figure doesn't

include the money spent bailing out the banks.

The high street giant Tesco has caved into pressure to pay young

people on a Government work experience scheme after it was

accused by a protest group of using slave labour. The move came just

hours after the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, told the BBC

the scheme should be celebrated as it was helping young people off

benefits and back into work. Here is our Political Editor, Nick

Robinson. Every little helps - so Tesco's

must have thought when they agreed to take part in a Government scheme

to offer unpaid work experience to young people without a job.

What do we want? Real jobs. That was before this, a campaign against

what protesters dubbed slave labour. They demanded that people should be

paid to work. Today, Tesco offered to do just that. But ministers came

out fighting. It isn't slave labour, it's not compulsory, it's entirely

voluntary. What the work experience scheme is, very simple, we say to

employers, take on these young people, the Government will pay

them through benefits but could use please keep them on for a few weeks

because it increases their chance of then finding work.

Ian is one of more than 34,000 people who've taken part in the

unpaid work experience scheme. The Government says that more than half

of them have then come off benefits. Ian now has a job as a trainee

Cabinet maker in haar row gate. really important -- they're really

important for people like me because they help me get a job or a

reference and more importantly getting some experience in a work

place environment. All well and good say some, but

people shouldn't be expected to stack supermarket shelves for

nothing. And with the added threat that

their benefits could be cut if their placement goes wrong. Today,

Tesco said they agreed. We are offering to continue the

Government's scheme, but we are also offering a four-week paid

placement to get really transferrable skills. We are trying

to break the vicious cycle, our CEO started stacking shelves, Tesco is

the ultimate meritocracy. Right to work today welcomed Tesco's

decision, but hinted it would now target other companies.

Government should accept that young people struggling to find work

should be paid on the schemes, they should be paid the national minimum

wage. If that means occupying other shops around the UK, so be it?

Whatever it takes, people need to be paid and we'll do whatever it

takes to get it. If people say you are destroying jobs by occupying

shops and destroying employment schemes? I think that would be a

complete slur and a completely ridiculous hinge to say.

Waterstone's are amongst other big high street names like Sainsbury's

and Matalan now not taking part in the Government's unpaid work

experience scheme. The people I care about more, it's not the

companies, it's the young people and the evidence shows it helps

young people because it means they learn the discipline and they get

the self-confidence of going out and working alongside other people.

Tesco's have reacted to a campaign claiming that a very profitable

company was employing cheap labour, but what worries ministers here at

Westminster is that more companies may abandon a scheme which they say

offers invaluable work experience to young people who need it.

There have been angry protests in Afghanistan after copies of the

Koran were burnt by the American military. The protest took place

outside the main US base at Bagram. Afghan officials have told the BBC

that the Americans had confiscated documents, including copies of the

Koran, from suspected Taliban prisoners because they believed

they were using them to send messages to each other. The NATO

commander in Afghanistan has apologised to the Afghan people,

saying the cop kwhriys of the Koran were burnt inadvertently -- copies

of the Koran. We are thoroughly investigating the incident and

taking steps to make sure this does not ever happen again. I assure you,

I promise you, this was not intentional in any way.

In Syria, at least 80 people are reported to have been killed today

by Government forces. The Red Cross has called on the Syrian government

and rebels to agree to a daily ceasefire to allow in medical

supplies and help civilians. The US has indicated it may consider

giving military help to the opposition if there hasy fails. --

If in some places, eyewitnesses said, shells rained down in their

hundreds. Unverified amateur video from inside BABA Hamad district,

but it fits the pattern of the last 17 days. -- BABA mark. A Syrian

opposition leader visiting London from Damascus says the situation

for the residence is desperate. Areas are cut off from each other,

so you cannot move from one area to another safely, and there is a lot

of armed groups, a lot of violence, a lot of security forces, so the

city is cut off. The UN today described it as a major human

rights crisis. The International Red Cross formerly called on both

sides to arrange a daily truce to get food and medicine men, but

there's no sign yet of agreement. There is a growing unease in

Western capitals about Syria's humanitarian crisis and how long

the UK and other governments can carry on claiming it is not like

Libya are so they can be no intervention. Behind closed doors,

some officials are beginning to worry about a repeat of what

happened in Bosnia in the 1990s when the outside world watched

daily attacks on civilians, apparently powerless to stop them.

The problem is foreign intervention might add already possibly heading

for civil war, although the US has said it has considered arming the

opposition of a political solution proved impossible. Meanwhile, more

army defectors, like these in northern Syria, appear to be

joining the opposition. Those who back President Assad say the West

is playing a dangerous game, that the Syrian government is up against

an armed insurrection and that President Assad falls, may end and

revenge may follow. Coming up on the programme: A bad

night in Naples for Chelsea and their coach as they lose in the

Britain is to fund a new anti- piracy intelligence centre to co-

ordinate action against Somali pirates. The announcement comes

ahead of a major conference in London later this week. Piracy of

the coast of Somalia has become a growing threat to international

shipping, costing the world economy or that �4 billion the year. Frank

Gardner is the first British journalist to be allowed on board

an Australian maritime patrol aircraft as it flew a counter

piracy mission over a high risk area in the Somali Basin where

there were 25 successful pirate The Royal Navy confronting pirates

off the Somali coast last month. It is an uneven match. Outgunned, the

pirates surrender. Royal Marines, Border and sees the pirates and

their weapons, but many other attacks go unchallenged, so how to

patrol more than one million square miles of ocean? I'm just about to

board this Australian air force surveillance plane which will take

us out over the ocean, the Indian Ocean, an area where they think

they are likely to see pirate action. Flying out of an airbase in

the Emirates, this Orion plane allows a combined anti-piracy force

of 25 Nations to look far out over the horizon, patrolling down to the

Down there is the Yemeni coast, that is the Strait of Olmos, and

straight ahead of us in the area of suspect pirate activity. -- Strait

of Hormuz. The Australians record every vessel in a designated search

area. We spend a lot of the time at low level, taking a lot of photos.

They are trying to hide, so sometimes it needs a close flight

to be able to get the finer details out. Like these two fishing boats

we saw, filmed on the plane's electronic camera. Something about

them made the Australians suspicious. The pictures are beamed

back to headquarters on land. If pirates were confirmed on board, a

warship would investigate. But what really happens behind the scenes

when the ship is first approached by pirates? Are you safe? On land

in Dubai, this is UK maritime trade operations, the first point of

contact for merchant ships. This caller is worried. Are they

following you at the moment? ship's sense this photo of the

pirates shadowing them, but they have got armed guards on board. --

the shared sense. For one a crew that is attacked, it is terrifying.

They will be in panic, running around, if they are getting shot at,

they will be hiding. Sometimes they may be phoning from the citadel,

when they lock themselves into the ship. Hyland success rates are

coming down, but they are now attacking ever further afield. --

highlands. If nothing else, they have proved how resilient they can

be. They are determined, flexible, and they conform to a lucrative

business model. The five were a pirate, I would hope for

complacency on behalf of the international community. -- If I

were a pirate. Everyone agrees the solution is not at sea but on land,

but until that happens the Pirates of Somalia will continue to risk

capture, drowning and therefore this multi-million pound business.

-- drowning and death for. A court in Liverpool has heard how

a group of men accused girls who were described as vulnerable and

poor from broken homes. The court heard how one young girl told her

number was passed around Pakistani man in her area of Rochdale. All

the men deny the charges. Judith Moritz reports from Liverpool Crown

Court. These are some of the men accused

of exploiting girls as young as 13 who were given drink and drugs in

return for sex. It is said that they passed the girls around,

sometimes paying them and offering them to other men, too. One girl

says she had sex with several men a day several times a week. In total,

11 men from Rochdale and Oldham are accused of conspiring to have sex

with the girls, and some of them face charges including rape and

trafficking or sexual exploitation. The prosecution said the girl's

experiences were at best saddening and at worst shocking. The

prosecution say that the men targeted particularly vulnerable

teenage girls here in Rochdale, giving them alcohol, food and money

in return for sex, sometimes subjecting them to violence as well.

Some of the men worked at takeaway restaurants, including this one,

which is now under new ownership. The prosecution says some girls met

the men here and at his restaurant nearby, which has also since

changed hands. Here, it is said, they were given alcohol and taken

upstairs for sex. The defendants are all of Asian heritage, and the

court heard that they knew each other socially and through work.

One of the girls has said, when you have got Asian friends, the number

gets passed on, and they pass it to their friends, and they pass it to

their friends, you end up with a massive circle, everyone has got it.

The men all deny the charges against them. Tomorrow the court is

due to hear evidence from the first teenage girl, who was 15 at the

time it is said she was raped. The former head of the

International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is being

questioned by French police investigating a hotel prostitution

reign. Last year he was charged in New York with the attempted rape of

a hotel maid. That case was dropped. Today he was detained at a police

station in the city of Lille. One of his lawyers said this kind could

not easily have known that the women he met at the Hotel parties

were prostitutes because they were naked.

The singer Adele completed an extraordinary year of success with

an award for Best Female solo artist and best album at the BRITs

tonight, following her suite of six Grammys in the United States. The

21-year-old singer Ed Sheeran also made a strong showing, winning two

awards, including Best breakthrough act. Arts editor Will Gompertz

reports. The pop stars roll up the red

carpet for the BRIT Awards. They are here to support the UK music

industry's Big Night Out and to show the world that Britain has got

talent. This year the music industry has been concerned with

three things, the cost of illegal downloads to their businesses, how

difficult it is to break new acts like Emeli Sande, and Adele, the

singer-songwriter from Tottenham, who has done very, very well.

the winner is... And tonight was no Thank you so much. It has been

amazing... Oh, I am shaking! I just want to thank my record company for

letting me be the kind of artist I have always wanted to be, and the

same for all of the fans, thank you She then took to the stage for the

first performance in the UK since undergoing throat surgery last year.

The song is from her album 21, which has topped charts across the

world. It is the biggest-selling album in the UK this century. A

remarkable achievement, considering she has done it in a market that is

fading like a one-hit wonder. UK Music sales of �1.2 billion in 2004.

By 2011, that figure had dropped by a third down to 800 million, but

the good news is we are tending to buy British. UK artists have raised

their share of these files to 50%, a feat last match 15 years ago. --

Maj. It is a success in which small, independent record labels have

played a big part. Their approach appears to be popular. Independent

labels are really about career artists and sticking with artists,

and I think there's probably a bit of a backlash a king's reality TV

and the kind of artists that come from that. -- against. In many ways,

it is the time of the independence, and Adele is testament to what they

can achieve these days. Ed Sheeran was another winner tonight. He did

not wait for a record label, big or small, to launch his career. He

simply posted his work on the internet and the hits have been

coming ever since. The Duchess of Cambridge has been

visiting two schools in Oxford to see how one of the charities she

supports used his art to help children with behavioural problems.

The Art Room encourages painting and drawing as a way of helping

build the confidence of vulnerable and disadvantaged youngsters.

Today's visit is one of a number of solo public appearances while

Prince William is in the Falkland Islands.

Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez has apologised sincerely and

unreservedly to the club for his recent conduct, potentially paving

a way for a return to action. He angered his manager, Roberto

Mancini, last September when it was claimed that he refused to come on

as a substitute during a Champions League match against Bayern Munich.

The striker spent more than three months in Argentina without

permission. Chelsea are facing an uphill task

to progress to the quarter-finals of this season's Champions League.

They lost the first leg of their knockout tie against Napoli 3-1 in

Italy, raising more speculation about the future of their manager,

Andre Villas-Boas, as sports correspondent Tim Franks reports.

There was plenty to chew one even before kick-off. This was a Chelsea

line-up without Cole, Lamport of Essien. The manager's robust

riposte to the dressing room ructions. At Chelsea scored first,

the board gifted to one matter. But within 10 minutes, their

inexperienced midfield allowed Natalie time and space to Spear an

equaliser. -- Napoli. It would get worse. Like the rest of us,

Ivanovitch was watching the ball, but he should have been watching

this stealing in at the back post, 2-1. The pattern was repeated in

the second half, and artless hoof upfield was too much for David Luiz.

The end for Chelsea might have come, but substitute Ashley Cole blocked