:00:09. > :00:14.Tonight at Ten: David Cameron arrives in Washington at the start
:00:14. > :00:20.of a three-day visit. It is his second visit to the USA as Prime
:00:20. > :00:23.Minister. The agenda is likely to be dominated by Afghanistan. The
:00:23. > :00:30.leaders are expected to agree that British forces should pull back
:00:30. > :00:34.from their front line role earlier than planned. I am confident we can
:00:34. > :00:38.continue the work of meeting our objectives, protecting our country
:00:38. > :00:41.and responsibly bring in this war to a close. We will have the latest
:00:41. > :00:43.from Washington on the prospects for the visit. Also tonight:
:00:43. > :00:48.Rebekah Brooks and her husband are among six arrested by police
:00:48. > :00:55.investigating phone hacking. The inquiry into Stephen Lawrence's
:00:55. > :01:02.murder should now be re-opened, according to his mother. It is not
:01:02. > :01:08.just racism. There has to be a corruption somewhere. Why Britain's
:01:08. > :01:17.biggest life insurer is threatening to move to Asia. And, a mix of joy
:01:17. > :01:20.and sadness, at the opening of this year's Cheltenham Festival. Later
:01:21. > :01:30.with the sport on the News Channel, Liverpool looked to revive their
:01:31. > :01:44.
:01:44. > :01:48.Good evening. David Cameron has started a three-day visit to the
:01:48. > :01:53.USA. Tonight, he's in Ohio with President Obama, watching
:01:54. > :01:56.basketball. But the official talks in the coming days are likely to
:01:57. > :02:02.focus on Afghanistan with British troops pulling back from their lead
:02:02. > :02:09.combat role by the middle of next year earlier than planned. Nick
:02:09. > :02:13.Robinson is travelling with the Prime Minister. Off to watch the
:02:13. > :02:18.game. That is where millions of Americans are headed tonight. Not
:02:18. > :02:26.everyone gets to go to the basketball with the President of
:02:26. > :02:30.the United States. This, a symbol of a relationship with Britain and
:02:30. > :02:36.America which Barack Obama and David Cameron of say is essential
:02:36. > :02:40.and a partnership of the heart. Where is the war effort headed? It
:02:40. > :02:45.is a partnership which now its own people increasingly believe is
:02:45. > :02:53.fighting an unwinnable war. Today there were protests in Afghanistan
:02:53. > :02:57.after the murder of innocents by a rogue American soldier. Before
:02:57. > :03:02.setting off from London, the Prime Minister spoke to American TV about
:03:02. > :03:06.the sacrifices both countries have already made. We have been in the
:03:06. > :03:12.toughest part of the country - in Helmand province - and we have been
:03:12. > :03:16.there for many years. That is why I set the deadline. In 2014 there
:03:16. > :03:20.will not be anything like the number of troops there are now. And
:03:20. > :03:26.they will not be in a combat role. They will try to go beyond the
:03:26. > :03:30.headline promise that all combat troops will be out by 2014. The
:03:30. > :03:35.Americans recently surprised the British by the care in the Afghan
:03:35. > :03:40.Army would lead all security operations from mid-to-late 2013.
:03:40. > :03:45.It could be an opportunity for of UK and US troops to start
:03:45. > :03:49.withdrawing in significant numbers next year. Today I will meet with
:03:49. > :03:53.Prime Minister Cameron, who is part of the broad coalition, serving in
:03:53. > :03:57.Afghanistan. We will consult about the way forward as we prepare for
:03:57. > :04:03.the NATO summit in Chicago later this spring. Make no mistake, we
:04:03. > :04:07.have a strategy that will allow us to responsibly wind down this war.
:04:07. > :04:12.At the White House tomorrow, hundreds of guests will crowd on to
:04:12. > :04:17.the lawn to welcome Mr and Mrs Cameron. There will even be a 19
:04:17. > :04:23.gun salute. What will really matter is not the latest pictures in the
:04:23. > :04:29.album marked special relationship Macro, but the decisions these two
:04:29. > :04:33.leaders take. How to avoid a new wall with Iran over its nuclear
:04:33. > :04:37.programme. For the latest on the visit and the prospects for the day
:04:37. > :04:44.ahead, let's talk to Nick Robinson. A pretty lavish attempt to see how
:04:44. > :04:48.close these two men are. You ain't seen nothing yet, as they say in
:04:48. > :04:52.America. Tomorrow will be an extraordinary display of affection
:04:52. > :04:56.for Britain and support for David Cameron as well. Who would have
:04:56. > :05:05.thought the leader of the British Right Thing praised in the way he
:05:05. > :05:10.is by the pin up of the global left? -- being praised. They are
:05:10. > :05:15.watching the basketball in Ohio. Mr Cameron happens to not be meeting a
:05:15. > :05:20.single one of the potential Republican rivals to Barack Obama.
:05:20. > :05:24.The two men to like each other. On the plane over here, Mr Cameron
:05:24. > :05:28.told reporters he regarded the President as deeply rational and
:05:28. > :05:35.reasonable and very strong. He won need to be, given the challenge is
:05:35. > :05:39.not just in Afghanistan but the desire to as President Assad. The
:05:39. > :05:43.Prime Minister told me on the plain that he was kicking the tyres in
:05:43. > :05:48.frustration as he tried to find new ways of dealing with that problem.
:05:48. > :05:53.They face the prospect of war in Iraq if Israel decides that is the
:05:53. > :05:59.right course. Nothing really you might think could go wrong, said
:05:59. > :06:03.one thing, the Prime Minister has been told tonight, do not for
:06:03. > :06:09.goodness sake, touched a basket full and do not please try to shoot
:06:09. > :06:12.a hoop. -- basketball. Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive
:06:12. > :06:16.of News International, has been arrested for a second time by
:06:16. > :06:18.police investigating phone hacking. She was released on bail this
:06:18. > :06:21.evening, along with her husband, the racehorse trainer, Charlie
:06:21. > :06:27.Brooks, who was also among the six detained this morning on suspicion
:06:27. > :06:34.of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Our home affairs
:06:34. > :06:38.correspondent has the latest. For years, Rebekah Brooks was the most
:06:38. > :06:43.powerful woman in British newspapers. She went for a tabloid
:06:43. > :06:47.editor to the top of the Murdoch empire. Today she was arrested for
:06:47. > :06:52.the second time - this time with her husband, Charlie Brooks. They
:06:52. > :06:56.have been questioned all day about a possible criminal cover-up. The
:06:56. > :07:00.couple here with James Murdoch were married in 2009 with Labour and
:07:00. > :07:06.Tory leaders on the guest-list. Two months ago, through a surrogate
:07:06. > :07:09.mother, they had their first child, a daughter. It was the explosion in
:07:09. > :07:16.the phone hacking scandal last summer which brought Rebekah Brooks
:07:16. > :07:19.centre stage. On July 15th, she resigned as chief executive of News
:07:19. > :07:22.International. Two days later she was arrested for the first time on
:07:22. > :07:27.suspicion of phone hacking and corruption. Today she has been
:07:27. > :07:30.arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
:07:30. > :07:36.Today his arrest shows that this story is nowhere near over and who
:07:36. > :07:40.knows where it will end up? The original criminality they were
:07:40. > :07:43.investigating - phone hacking - is nowhere near as serious as what
:07:43. > :07:47.they are now investigating, which is conspiracy to pervert the course
:07:47. > :07:51.of justice. Rebekah Brooks and Charlie Brooks were arrested at
:07:51. > :07:55.their home in Oxfordshire after an early-morning knock from the police.
:07:55. > :08:00.David Cameron is a neighbour and friend of both of them. He was at
:08:00. > :08:05.Eton with Charlie Brooks. The Prime Minister recently admitted he did
:08:05. > :08:11.ride a horse loaned to the couple by Scotland Yard. Before the
:08:11. > :08:18.election, yes, I did go riding with him. He has a number of different
:08:18. > :08:22.courses. One was a former police force. I did write it. Tonight,
:08:22. > :08:26.Rebekah Brooks was released after hours of questioning. Like her
:08:26. > :08:30.husband, she has been bailed until next month. Of all the possible
:08:30. > :08:35.crimes, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice is the most
:08:35. > :08:39.serious. People who had been found guilty had been jailed for up to 10
:08:39. > :08:47.years. She has not been charged with any offence, as the
:08:47. > :08:50.investigation he continues. -- here continues. The mother of Stephen
:08:50. > :08:53.Lawrence has told the BBC she wants the Government to re-open the
:08:53. > :08:56.formal inquiry into her son's murder. She says there are concerns
:08:56. > :09:00.that the initial investigation 19 years ago was hampered by police
:09:00. > :09:03.corruption. Her call follows allegations in court last year that
:09:03. > :09:13.a detective on the case had links to the father of one of Stephen's
:09:13. > :09:15.
:09:15. > :09:20.killers. It took 18 years to find the man who killed Stephen Lawrence
:09:20. > :09:25.met a London bus stop - or at least two of them. Gary Dobson and David
:09:25. > :09:31.Norris were jailed in January. The police were watching them but did
:09:31. > :09:37.not make arrests for two weeks. Time for enough evidence to be
:09:37. > :09:42.destroyed. Why? Amid angry scenes, the Macpherson Inquiry questioned
:09:42. > :09:47.witnesses, including these - the suspects. Its conclusion, racism
:09:47. > :09:51.was to blame. Now Doreen Lawrence believes a new inquiry needs to
:09:51. > :09:57.examine evidence of corruption. There are so many things that we
:09:57. > :10:03.can question as to why. Then you come up with the answer, could it
:10:03. > :10:09.be corruption? It is not just racism. You firmly believe that?
:10:09. > :10:14.Yes, definitely. The allegations centre on John Davidson, a former
:10:14. > :10:19.detective who worked on the murder squad. It was claimed he was in the
:10:19. > :10:26.pay of Clifford Norris. Then involved in criminal activity and
:10:26. > :10:30.the father of David Norris, the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Neil
:10:30. > :10:35.Putnam insists he warned the Met several times about their
:10:35. > :10:40.relationship. The police watchdog, the IPCC, investigated. It
:10:40. > :10:44.concluded there was no evidence a corrupt relationship affected the
:10:44. > :10:49.original investigation. Last year Neil Putnam repeated those claims
:10:49. > :10:59.Again, in court, under oath. Describing a discussion about the
:10:59. > :11:07.
:11:07. > :11:12.Dr Richard Stone was an adviser to the Macpherson inquiry. He poses
:11:12. > :11:19.the question, where police failures due to racism or corruption? They
:11:19. > :11:24.could have been both. New evidence seems to be coming out -
:11:24. > :11:29.uncertainty seems to be coming out to justify their should be an
:11:29. > :11:34.inquiry of some kind or another. And so the Stephen Lawrence case
:11:34. > :11:39.continues to stalk the police. Both the Met and the IPCC say it if
:11:40. > :11:43.there is new evidence, it will be investigated. The car maker, Jaguar
:11:43. > :11:46.Land Rover, is to create 1,000 jobs at its factory in Halewood in
:11:46. > :11:50.Merseyside. The plant is moving to 24 hour production to meet demand
:11:50. > :11:55.for two of its models. The number of workers employed at the Halewood
:11:55. > :11:58.plant has trebled in the past three years. The Home Secretary, Theresa
:11:58. > :12:02.May, has approved the extradition to the United States of a student
:12:02. > :12:04.accused of breaking copyright laws. Authorities in the US claim that
:12:04. > :12:09.23-year old Richard O'Dwyer's website, TVShack, hosted links to
:12:09. > :12:17.pirated films and television shows. If convicted, he could face up to
:12:17. > :12:20.The Prudential, Britain's biggest life insurer, says it is seriously
:12:20. > :12:24.considering moving its headquarters to Asia. It is blaming new European
:12:24. > :12:31.rules on the amount of capital it's required to hold. Prudential was
:12:31. > :12:35.founded in London in the mid-19th century. Its pre-tax profits rose
:12:35. > :12:40.by a third in the past year and much of that growth came from its
:12:40. > :12:46.Asian business. The Prudential, a pillar of the
:12:46. > :12:52.City of London for 160 years. Now huge in Asia, the biggest
:12:52. > :12:59.contributor today to the Pru's profits, and as the Pru's chief
:12:59. > :13:02.executive told me, it is doing very nicely in general.
:13:02. > :13:06.Why it against that backdrop would you think of relocating this
:13:06. > :13:10.venerable British institution abroad? It is a problem we wish we
:13:10. > :13:15.did not have because we are very happy in London, the company was
:13:15. > :13:21.created in London. We are looking at offers, we cannot deny that,
:13:21. > :13:26.because we have to. For our shareholders. This whole process
:13:26. > :13:30.has been too volatile. Prudential says new rules coming
:13:30. > :13:37.from Brussels, that go by the unappetising name of solvency II,
:13:37. > :13:41.will make it but to be deplete -- will make it prohibitively
:13:41. > :13:45.expensive for the company to stay in London. So why do members of the
:13:45. > :13:49.European Parliament want this new law? We had a financial crisis.
:13:49. > :13:53.People want to make sure we do not have the systemic threat that we
:13:53. > :14:00.had in the recent past, and an insurance law at European level
:14:00. > :14:04.makes sense. Everybody agrees with it. They may argue about the finer
:14:04. > :14:08.points but let's be realistic, this makes sense and a much safer
:14:08. > :14:13.financial world for us. Why hasn't the British Government made
:14:13. > :14:19.stronger of representations on your behalf? They have been very vocal
:14:20. > :14:24.to be fair to them but the UK is one country among 27. The Pru is
:14:24. > :14:29.not the biggest issue at stake. I know a lot of the attention is
:14:29. > :14:34.focused on us but my concerns for the UK economy are much more
:14:34. > :14:39.significant about what may happen to the Prudential. This is about
:14:39. > :14:44.job creation and the long-term economy. If approved to move to
:14:44. > :14:47.Asia, its shareholders would be protected, but there would be less
:14:47. > :14:51.money provided by insurers to invest in Britain's economic future,
:14:51. > :14:55.which is why the Pru still hopes that Brussels will back down.
:14:55. > :15:04.Coming up on tonight's programme: More evidence of the health dangers
:15:04. > :15:10.of eating red meat, especially the processed kind.
:15:10. > :15:13.NATO is warning of an increase in Somali piracy off the Gulf of Aden.
:15:13. > :15:16.Ten ships have been attacked or boarded in the past six weeks but
:15:16. > :15:22.despite the higher risk, pirates' attacks are becoming less and less
:15:22. > :15:24.successful, with better patrols and merchant ships arming themselves.
:15:24. > :15:27.Our security correspondent Frank Gardner joined a merchant vessel,
:15:27. > :15:37.sailing from the port of Muscat through the Gulf of Aden towards
:15:37. > :15:39.
:15:39. > :15:49.It is a voyage made by thousands of ships a year, passing through the
:15:49. > :15:51.
:15:51. > :15:56.Gulf of Aden. It is also home to They have spotted suspected pirates
:15:56. > :16:04.up ahead. The ship have activated its water cannons to make boarding
:16:04. > :16:10.more difficult. The foghorn is to tell them they have been spotted.
:16:10. > :16:20.Code yellow. Kogelo. Security alert. Now the on-board security is
:16:20. > :16:25.summoned. We have a couple of skiffs dead ahead. For much Royal
:16:25. > :16:30.Marine commandos, they have a well practised drill. Opening fire is a
:16:30. > :16:35.last resort. The two boats you can see are suspected pirate mother
:16:35. > :16:40.ships and the skiff, one of the fast attack boats, and we have had
:16:40. > :16:46.them the lead because both the ship in front and this ship are pretty
:16:46. > :16:51.convinced that they are pirate scoping us out -- we have had an
:16:51. > :16:55.alert. It could be an innocent fisherman but they have showed
:16:55. > :16:59.their weapons in the air so that whoever is in the boat will know
:16:59. > :17:04.this is a hard target to seize. The vessels move off, reportedly
:17:04. > :17:09.threatening another ship afterwards. The seas are full of such craft.
:17:09. > :17:14.Pirates use them to sneak up on ships as big as these, take them
:17:14. > :17:20.over and demand multi-million dollar ransoms. One of our crew was
:17:20. > :17:26.on another ship without guards when it came under attack. Four times
:17:27. > :17:32.they fired rapid propelled grenade, so really, really scary. But now we
:17:32. > :17:37.feel relieved because of these armed guards that we have. Naval
:17:37. > :17:41.warships like this one from China to escort convoys alongside Yemen.
:17:41. > :17:48.The pirates have simply expanded their operations elsewhere in the
:17:48. > :17:52.Indian Ocean. So it is down to ships to take their own precautions,
:17:52. > :17:58.putting up passive defences like this, which is not always enough.
:17:58. > :18:02.Increasingly shipping companies are turning to more robust measures.
:18:02. > :18:07.Putting armed teams like these on ships is controversial but their
:18:07. > :18:10.leader says Somalia's pirates are well armed and determined. Once we
:18:10. > :18:14.have gone through the other escalation methods and we have
:18:14. > :18:18.deemed that weapons of the final choice, we will fire several
:18:18. > :18:24.warning shots need to be skiffs, not endangering them at all, and
:18:24. > :18:28.the use of lethal force is an extreme and last resort. This
:18:28. > :18:33.ship's company policy is to always put on two teams on this route and
:18:33. > :18:38.so far no on the vessel has ever been hijacked, but until Somalia
:18:38. > :18:46.finds peace, maritime piracy will continue, leaving ships like this
:18:46. > :18:50.to run the gauntlet of some of the world's most dangerous water ways.
:18:50. > :18:53.The Syrian president has announced parliamentary elections for May,
:18:53. > :18:57.the first time the voters will go to the polls under the new
:18:57. > :19:01.constitution, but the announcement was condemned by the United States.
:19:01. > :19:05.They said that would be ridiculous while the country is in the grip of
:19:05. > :19:08.so much violence. There is more evidence, this time
:19:08. > :19:12.from an American study, that eating too much red meat increases the
:19:12. > :19:14.risk of dying from heart disease and cancer. The research, carried
:19:14. > :19:16.out at Harvard University, concludes that processed red meat
:19:16. > :19:23.in particular increases the likelihood of premature death, as
:19:23. > :19:28.our health correspondent reports. It is a staple part of what many
:19:28. > :19:32.people eat but red or processed meat, like bacon and sausage, can
:19:32. > :19:38.be bad for our health. It raises the risk of cancer, heart disease
:19:38. > :19:42.and stroke and it is now clear just how much a meat rich diet can be
:19:42. > :19:46.life shortening. This report is another step in our knowledge of
:19:46. > :19:50.the kind of things that increase the risk of cancer, and it shows
:19:50. > :19:54.that eating lots of processed and red meat will increase your risk.
:19:54. > :20:00.The research found that having a portion of processed meat every day
:20:00. > :20:05.increased the risk of premature death by 20%. A portion of ordinary
:20:05. > :20:10.red meat to Dame -- a day increased it by 13%. The government says we
:20:10. > :20:15.should eat no more than 70 grams a day, equivalent to a small stake
:20:15. > :20:21.and three slices of ham, but this services if you eat even less, 42
:20:21. > :20:25.grams a day, be significantly reduce your risk of dying early. --
:20:25. > :20:28.you significantly reduced. It may be that a high fat content as well
:20:29. > :20:34.as the preservatives in processed meat is what raises your risk of
:20:34. > :20:40.cancer, stroke and heart disease, but that is not to say that all
:20:40. > :20:46.meat is bad. Meat is a useful source of many nutrients, it is a
:20:46. > :20:51.useful way to get protein, vitamin B12 and iron, but you do not need
:20:51. > :20:55.huge amount of it. Eating it several times a day is likely to do
:20:55. > :20:59.more harm than good. Much better it is replacing red meat with chicken,
:20:59. > :21:03.fish and grains, as well as eating a balanced mixture of fruit and
:21:03. > :21:09.vegetables. All that can reduce the risk of dying early by a
:21:09. > :21:13.significant amount. The organisation which represents the
:21:13. > :21:17.meat industry has rejected the findings. It said red meat was an
:21:17. > :21:20.important source of nutrients. It is also something a lot of people
:21:20. > :21:24.enjoyed and whatever the health warnings, changing their daily
:21:24. > :21:27.eating habits may not be easy. More than 50,000 people attended
:21:27. > :21:30.the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival, where the Champion Hurdle
:21:30. > :21:33.was won by the unfancied Rock On Ruby, trained by Paul Nicholls and
:21:33. > :21:43.ridden by Noel Fehily. The favourite, Hurricane Fly, finished
:21:43. > :21:44.
:21:44. > :21:49.Cheltenham expects to well, almost a quarter of a million spectators
:21:49. > :21:53.this week. The crowds are up. The most traditional of sporting
:21:53. > :21:59.festivals seems to have grown in appeal, and here is one of the
:21:59. > :22:05.reasons why. Noel Fehily overturn the odds to win the big race of the
:22:05. > :22:09.day, the Champion Hurdle, riding Rock On Ruby. The kind of dream
:22:09. > :22:17.finish that Cheltenham revels in. The capacity to enthrall and
:22:17. > :22:24.surprise remains horse racing's Can you explain the feelings in
:22:24. > :22:30.those final few yards? I can't explain! Try it! It is very hard.
:22:30. > :22:36.It is a dream, you dream about winning it but it -- but you never
:22:36. > :22:42.think it will happen. But with a reward is a risk. Three horses died
:22:42. > :22:46.in Tuesday's Chris Sims. Fatalities are not unexpected but any death is
:22:46. > :22:49.bad and three in one day is troubling. The first day of the
:22:49. > :22:53.festival has reminded us that there is a balance of protecting the
:22:53. > :22:57.welfare of the animals and providing thrilling racing, and
:22:57. > :22:59.maintaining that balance is a real challenge.
:22:59. > :23:04.A 26-year-old businessman from Aberdeenshire is set to become the
:23:04. > :23:08.latest internet millionaire. Pete Cashmore started the technology
:23:08. > :23:13.website Mashable when he was a teenager. An American media firm is
:23:13. > :23:16.said to be negotiating to buy it for more than �100 million. But
:23:16. > :23:26.what makes this website and others like it attract such hefty price-
:23:26. > :23:31.tags? Rory Cellan-Jones explains. It is a website started just seven
:23:31. > :23:35.years ago by a 19-year-old in his bedroom. Pete Cashmore's Mashable
:23:35. > :23:41.serves up a diet of gadgets and social media news and it could be
:23:41. > :23:46.about to make him very rich indeed. He is already an internet celebrity.
:23:46. > :23:49.We are going to the hotel because we have an event. Flitting between
:23:49. > :23:56.California and New York to promote his fast-growing business, but it
:23:56. > :24:01.all started a long way from here. Here is where Mashable was born, at
:24:01. > :24:06.his childhood home in Aberdeenshire, and it was at Banchory Academy that
:24:06. > :24:11.he first got acquainted with computers. Peter did computer
:24:11. > :24:16.studies at school. At home he would be someone who would see business
:24:16. > :24:20.sense and be able to use the internet in a way to make money.
:24:21. > :24:28.Now it seems that the cable TV giant CNN is looking at buying
:24:28. > :24:32.Mashable. The price-tag is talked of �100 million. Mashable is not
:24:32. > :24:39.the only young website to have attracted the attentions of the
:24:39. > :24:46.media giant. A technology website was snapped up for �60 million.
:24:46. > :24:53.Last FM, the London-based music side, was bought by CBS for 100
:24:53. > :24:58.NATO -- �180 million, and MySpace was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News
:24:58. > :25:05.Corp the �380 million. But they did not all end well. MySpace ran out
:25:05. > :25:08.of steam and was sold on by Rupert Murdoch at a big loss. Stuart Miles,
:25:08. > :25:13.another British technology expert, says it is clear what giant media
:25:13. > :25:19.firms hope to get when made by the likes of Mashable. They have a
:25:19. > :25:25.really big audience. They are interested in the internet, they
:25:25. > :25:30.know how it works, they are sharing stuff. There is still a way to go
:25:30. > :25:37.before any deal to sell Mashable is agreed but right now, Pete Cashmore
:25:37. > :25:42.looks like the most successful Web tycoon that Scotland has produced.
:25:42. > :25:46.Newsnight is starting on BBC Two in a moment. They will be focusing on