:00:08. > :00:12.Calls for a wider investigation into the police as the number of
:00:12. > :00:18.racism allegations grows. 18 officers are now being investigated
:00:18. > :00:23.by the police watchdog. A US navy jet has crashed into an
:00:23. > :00:27.apartment building in Virginia. Teachers unions warn they may
:00:27. > :00:30.strike in their dispute over pensions.
:00:30. > :00:40.And Rory McIlroy makes his charge up the leaderboard at the halfway
:00:40. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :00:56.Good evening. Senior MPs are calling for a wider
:00:56. > :00:59.investigation into allegations of racism in the Metropolitan Police.
:00:59. > :01:02.18 officers and a civilian member of staff are under investigation.
:01:02. > :01:04.In total, ten separate incidents of alleged racism are being looked
:01:04. > :01:14.into by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Our home
:01:14. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:19.affairs correspondent, June Kelly, Not for the first time, Scotland
:01:19. > :01:25.Yard is in the spotlight over race. For the deputy commissioner facing
:01:25. > :01:28.the cameras with 10 incidents being investigated, 19 people under
:01:29. > :01:34.suspicion and nine of them suspended. It all began with the
:01:34. > :01:44.arrest in Beckton in East London of 21-year-old Mauro Demetrio. He
:01:44. > :01:53.
:01:53. > :01:57.That arrest took place after police regained control of the streets
:01:57. > :02:01.following the summer riots. The investigation into this incident
:02:01. > :02:05.and the others is being carried out by the Independent Police
:02:05. > :02:09.Complaints Commission. But the inspectorate that constabularies
:02:09. > :02:14.should also get involved says one senior MP. It is important that
:02:14. > :02:18.somebody else should look at it and the inspectorate, led by Denis
:02:18. > :02:22.King,, are capable of doing a report into what is going on and
:02:22. > :02:26.sending out a clear message of what is expected by the public and the
:02:26. > :02:29.police service on this issue. was Scotland Yard's failure to
:02:29. > :02:33.investigate the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence which
:02:33. > :02:38.shone a light on the Met's attitude to race. In the Macpherson Report
:02:38. > :02:41.which followed, the force was branded as institutionally racist.
:02:41. > :02:44.branded as institutionally racist. More than a decade on, a report
:02:44. > :02:46.into last summer's riots found the into last summer's riots found the
:02:46. > :02:50.Met had issues around positive poor-quality contact with
:02:50. > :02:56.communities. And these latest allegations will make things worse
:02:56. > :03:02.says one of those behind the riots report. It tears at an open wound,
:03:02. > :03:06.it is extremely serious. The relevant authorities have to
:03:06. > :03:11.communicate and reassure very quickly, but I feel so they have to
:03:11. > :03:14.say that the vast majority of policemen and women are not racist.
:03:14. > :03:19.The focus on diversity after the Stephen Lawrence case has slipped
:03:19. > :03:23.in recent years according to one long-serving officer. Race was
:03:23. > :03:27.taken off the agenda. I think these cases show that race has to be put
:03:27. > :03:32.back on the agenda and we have to show greater accountability and
:03:32. > :03:35.transparency. Senior officers say they are heartened by the fact that
:03:35. > :03:39.some of these allegations have only come to light because of whistle-
:03:39. > :03:42.blowing inside the force. They say that represents a cake -- change of
:03:42. > :03:47.culture and after the riots, the Met acknowledged it would have to
:03:47. > :03:51.do more to engage with ethnic communities and is -- it is amongst
:03:51. > :03:54.those communities that the damage from this will be most severe.
:03:54. > :03:57.A US Navy jet has crashed into an apartment building in Virginia,
:03:58. > :04:00.engulfing it and surrounding homes in a massive fireball. The two crew
:04:00. > :04:10.members ejected before the crash and remarkably, nobody has been
:04:10. > :04:11.
:04:11. > :04:16.seriously injured. From Washington, A scene of suburban devastation,
:04:16. > :04:20.but could it have been a great deal worse? The smouldering wreckage of
:04:20. > :04:28.apartment buildings and still engulfed in flames, the twin tail
:04:28. > :04:33.fins of the navy jet. Oh my God! And a cat that. These homes are
:04:33. > :04:38.less than five miles from Oceana Naval Air Station, the jet crossed
:04:38. > :04:44.-- crashed less than a minute after take-off. All of a sudden I saw the
:04:44. > :04:49.plane come down. Because some on the courtyard, it hit and it just...
:04:49. > :04:54.The whole thing was in flames, the whole backyard. Then things started
:04:54. > :04:59.to explode. Emergency services race to the scene but at least one of
:04:59. > :05:04.the pilots had already been rescued. He apologised very much for hitting
:05:04. > :05:08.our complex and I told him not to worry. Let's get you out of here
:05:08. > :05:12.and get you to safety. Both pilots were taken to hospital along with
:05:12. > :05:17.five other people. None of them are thought to be in danger. This was
:05:17. > :05:21.clearly a shocking episode, but it seems the BEA -- pilots managed to
:05:21. > :05:25.dump fuel minutes before the crash. Action which may have saved many
:05:25. > :05:28.lives. A man and woman arrested in
:05:28. > :05:30.connection with the death of a six- year-old girl at a campsite in
:05:30. > :05:33.Holmsley in Hampshire have been released tonight without charge.
:05:33. > :05:37.Police and paramedics were called just after midnight after the girl
:05:37. > :05:39.stopped breathing - she died in hospital a short time later. A 30-
:05:39. > :05:44.year-old man and a 40-year-old woman were detained on suspicion of
:05:44. > :05:49.murder. Tonight they were released after Hampshire Police said a post
:05:49. > :05:52.mortem had indicated there were no suspicious circumstances.
:05:52. > :05:56.Teaching unions have warned that schools could be hit by more
:05:56. > :06:00.strikes. The two biggest unions - the NUT and the NASUWT - are in
:06:00. > :06:02.dispute with the Government over changes to teachers' pensions. The
:06:02. > :06:04.Governement says the public sector schemes need reform to make them
:06:04. > :06:14.affordable. Our education correspondent, Reeta Chakrabarti,
:06:14. > :06:15.
:06:15. > :06:19.Teachers out on strike in the capital just last week. Part of the
:06:19. > :06:23.year of industrial action over pay, pensions and conditions. Judging
:06:23. > :06:29.from the rhetoric at this weekend's teaching conferences, there could
:06:29. > :06:32.be more to come. Roisin thinks teachers are losing on all fronts.
:06:32. > :06:37.An assistant head at a primary school, she has taught for 12 years
:06:37. > :06:42.and says the job is being made less satisfying and the rewards fewer.
:06:42. > :06:45.Teachers are very disillusioned with what is going on in terms of
:06:45. > :06:50.government initiatives. Disillusioned with the changes to
:06:50. > :06:54.the pay and pensions, the terms and conditions. We are in the classroom
:06:54. > :06:59.because we are passionate about teaching. We want to teach, we want
:06:59. > :07:03.to educate children. Morale is very low. Teachers' pay, like that of
:07:03. > :07:06.other public sector workers, has been frozen for two years. Pension
:07:06. > :07:10.changes which the government says are vital mean they will have to
:07:10. > :07:13.contribute more and work longer. Teachers are also angry that they
:07:13. > :07:17.can be observed in the classroom more frequently by heads and sacked
:07:18. > :07:22.more easily if judged poor. That has been described by one union
:07:22. > :07:25.leader as a bully's charter. This union ticket members out on strike
:07:25. > :07:29.last year and since then they have been engaged in a form of work to
:07:29. > :07:33.rule. The atmosphere is charged and the talk is of further industrial
:07:34. > :07:38.action when members vote on the issue tomorrow. I think the assault
:07:38. > :07:42.on the profession is the worst I've ever seen. I think it is driven not
:07:42. > :07:47.by raising standards in schools, not by trying to tackle the
:07:47. > :07:51.economic crisis, but it is actually driven by the irrational content
:07:51. > :07:56.that this government seems to have for Education and for other public
:07:56. > :08:01.services. But the education secretary Michael Gove says he
:08:01. > :08:04.wants higher standards and won't tolerate failure. With a compromise
:08:04. > :08:08.on either side, further industrial action by teachers can't be ruled
:08:08. > :08:12.out. -- without compromise. Police in Northern Ireland say they
:08:12. > :08:16.have recovered a bomb containing a significant amount of explosives.
:08:16. > :08:19.The device was left at a roundabout in Newry in County Down. Army bomb
:08:19. > :08:22.experts made it safe. Police say the bomb could have caused death or
:08:22. > :08:24.serious injury. Egypt's largest Islamic grouping,
:08:24. > :08:27.the Muslim Brotherhood, is to contest the country's presidential
:08:27. > :08:33.election, reversing a promise it made not to stand following the
:08:33. > :08:35.overthrow of President Mubarak last year. The Muslim Brotherhood is
:08:35. > :08:38.already Egypt's dominant political movement and some opponents fear
:08:38. > :08:48.its rise threatens their hopes of a moderate secular future for the
:08:48. > :08:50.
:08:50. > :08:56.country. Wyre Davies reports from Muslim Brotherhood supporters
:08:56. > :08:59.celebrating what they think is now inevitable. Khairat el-Shater, a
:08:59. > :09:03.millionaire businessman and former political prisoner, will be the
:09:03. > :09:08.next President of Egypt. But the movement has gone back on an
:09:08. > :09:12.explicit promise not to stand for the Presidency. I'm quite confident
:09:12. > :09:17.that whatever the decision the party takes is only for the benefit
:09:17. > :09:22.of Egypt and its people. We are not going back to one-party state?
:09:22. > :09:32.doesn't know. The brother had already dominates the Egyptian
:09:32. > :09:33.
:09:33. > :09:37.parliament. But the movement says its supporters are democratic. Also
:09:37. > :09:41.staking their claim, ultra- conservative Salafists. They would
:09:41. > :09:48.abolish the treaty with Israel and curtail women's rights. Political
:09:48. > :09:52.discourse here is dominated by Islamic parties. Egyptians from all
:09:52. > :09:58.backgrounds, secular and religious, fought and died in this very square
:09:58. > :10:02.a year ago to oust the Mubarak regime. But politics here is
:10:02. > :10:08.becoming increasingly religious. That worries many secular liberal
:10:08. > :10:11.Egyptians who say they revolution is being stolen from them. This is
:10:11. > :10:16.from where the Muslim Brotherhood draws much of its support. Running
:10:16. > :10:20.clinics and schools for Egypt's poor and needy. But moderates are
:10:20. > :10:27.warned there's a darker side to the Islamic parties. If they try to
:10:27. > :10:32.crush us as much as the previous regime was doing, which we do
:10:32. > :10:37.expect a lot, if they try to do that, I think another wave of
:10:37. > :10:42.violence can erupt here and the instability will continue. The year
:10:42. > :10:45.after a genuinely popular uprising, Egypt's Islamists have
:10:45. > :10:55.outmanoeuvred their secular rivals in a pattern that is being repeated
:10:55. > :10:55.
:10:55. > :10:59.across the region. It has been a great day at the World Track
:10:59. > :11:04.Cycling Championships for Victoria Pendleton. It was a bruising
:11:04. > :11:07.encounter for her, who crashed in her semi-final first leg against
:11:07. > :11:13.her arch-rival, Anna Meares. The day ultimately belonged to
:11:13. > :11:16.Pendleton who now has nine career world titles. As my dad always said,
:11:16. > :11:20.you don't do track cycling unless you are prepared to crash because
:11:20. > :11:25.it happens now and again. My mum was terrified I would hurt myself
:11:26. > :11:29.when I started racing. It hasn't happened too often. One of those
:11:29. > :11:32.things. Golf, and at the halfway stage of
:11:32. > :11:35.the US Masters in Augusta, Rory McIlroy has joined Lee Westwood
:11:35. > :11:41.near the top of the leaderboard. Joe Wilson has been watching the
:11:41. > :11:45.second round. Day two began with Westwood leading,
:11:45. > :11:50.still proceeding. The Englishman was in front on his own until the
:11:50. > :11:54.last. You must be so delicate at Augusta and understandable mistake
:11:54. > :11:57.can lead to inexplicable one straight afterwards. Two shot
:11:57. > :12:01.struck on the 18th and Westwood finished the day on four under par.
:12:01. > :12:05.One shot ahead of him, a couple of Americans including the man who won
:12:05. > :12:12.the Masters 20 years ago. Fred Couples has had decades to perfect
:12:12. > :12:16.his Augusta touch. He is 52. 30 years older than Northern Ireland's
:12:17. > :12:22.Rory McIlroy, who was mostly solid. The drop shot on the 17th, but he
:12:22. > :12:26.is well set on four under par. And what of Tiger Woods? He hit some
:12:26. > :12:30.birdies, but he still looked like he could hit just about anything,