06/04/2012 BBC News at Ten

Calls for a wider investigation into the police as the number of

racism allegations grows. 18 officers are now being investigated

by the police watchdog. A US navy jet has crashed into an

apartment building in Virginia. Teachers unions warn they may

strike in their dispute over pensions.

And Rory McIlroy makes his charge up the leaderboard at the halfway

Good evening. Senior MPs are calling for a wider

investigation into allegations of racism in the Metropolitan Police.

18 officers and a civilian member of staff are under investigation.

In total, ten separate incidents of alleged racism are being looked

into by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Our home

affairs correspondent, June Kelly, Not for the first time, Scotland

Yard is in the spotlight over race. For the deputy commissioner facing

the cameras with 10 incidents being investigated, 19 people under

suspicion and nine of them suspended. It all began with the

arrest in Beckton in East London of 21-year-old Mauro Demetrio. He

That arrest took place after police regained control of the streets

following the summer riots. The investigation into this incident

and the others is being carried out by the Independent Police

Complaints Commission. But the inspectorate that constabularies

should also get involved says one senior MP. It is important that

somebody else should look at it and the inspectorate, led by Denis

King,, are capable of doing a report into what is going on and

sending out a clear message of what is expected by the public and the

police service on this issue. was Scotland Yard's failure to

investigate the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence which

shone a light on the Met's attitude to race. In the Macpherson Report

which followed, the force was branded as institutionally racist.

branded as institutionally racist. More than a decade on, a report

into last summer's riots found the into last summer's riots found the

Met had issues around positive poor-quality contact with

communities. And these latest allegations will make things worse

says one of those behind the riots report. It tears at an open wound,

it is extremely serious. The relevant authorities have to

communicate and reassure very quickly, but I feel so they have to

say that the vast majority of policemen and women are not racist.

The focus on diversity after the Stephen Lawrence case has slipped

in recent years according to one long-serving officer. Race was

taken off the agenda. I think these cases show that race has to be put

back on the agenda and we have to show greater accountability and

transparency. Senior officers say they are heartened by the fact that

some of these allegations have only come to light because of whistle-

blowing inside the force. They say that represents a cake -- change of

culture and after the riots, the Met acknowledged it would have to

do more to engage with ethnic communities and is -- it is amongst

those communities that the damage from this will be most severe.

A US Navy jet has crashed into an apartment building in Virginia,

engulfing it and surrounding homes in a massive fireball. The two crew

members ejected before the crash and remarkably, nobody has been

seriously injured. From Washington, A scene of suburban devastation,

but could it have been a great deal worse? The smouldering wreckage of

apartment buildings and still engulfed in flames, the twin tail

fins of the navy jet. Oh my God! And a cat that. These homes are

less than five miles from Oceana Naval Air Station, the jet crossed

-- crashed less than a minute after take-off. All of a sudden I saw the

plane come down. Because some on the courtyard, it hit and it just...

The whole thing was in flames, the whole backyard. Then things started

to explode. Emergency services race to the scene but at least one of

the pilots had already been rescued. He apologised very much for hitting

our complex and I told him not to worry. Let's get you out of here

and get you to safety. Both pilots were taken to hospital along with

five other people. None of them are thought to be in danger. This was

clearly a shocking episode, but it seems the BEA -- pilots managed to

dump fuel minutes before the crash. Action which may have saved many

lives. A man and woman arrested in

connection with the death of a six- year-old girl at a campsite in

Holmsley in Hampshire have been released tonight without charge.

Police and paramedics were called just after midnight after the girl

stopped breathing - she died in hospital a short time later. A 30-

year-old man and a 40-year-old woman were detained on suspicion of

murder. Tonight they were released after Hampshire Police said a post

mortem had indicated there were no suspicious circumstances.

Teaching unions have warned that schools could be hit by more

strikes. The two biggest unions - the NUT and the NASUWT - are in

dispute with the Government over changes to teachers' pensions. The

Governement says the public sector schemes need reform to make them

affordable. Our education correspondent, Reeta Chakrabarti,

Teachers out on strike in the capital just last week. Part of the

year of industrial action over pay, pensions and conditions. Judging

from the rhetoric at this weekend's teaching conferences, there could

be more to come. Roisin thinks teachers are losing on all fronts.

An assistant head at a primary school, she has taught for 12 years

and says the job is being made less satisfying and the rewards fewer.

Teachers are very disillusioned with what is going on in terms of

government initiatives. Disillusioned with the changes to

the pay and pensions, the terms and conditions. We are in the classroom

because we are passionate about teaching. We want to teach, we want

to educate children. Morale is very low. Teachers' pay, like that of

other public sector workers, has been frozen for two years. Pension

changes which the government says are vital mean they will have to

contribute more and work longer. Teachers are also angry that they

can be observed in the classroom more frequently by heads and sacked

more easily if judged poor. That has been described by one union

leader as a bully's charter. This union ticket members out on strike

last year and since then they have been engaged in a form of work to

rule. The atmosphere is charged and the talk is of further industrial

action when members vote on the issue tomorrow. I think the assault

on the profession is the worst I've ever seen. I think it is driven not

by raising standards in schools, not by trying to tackle the

economic crisis, but it is actually driven by the irrational content

that this government seems to have for Education and for other public

services. But the education secretary Michael Gove says he

wants higher standards and won't tolerate failure. With a compromise

on either side, further industrial action by teachers can't be ruled

out. -- without compromise. Police in Northern Ireland say they

have recovered a bomb containing a significant amount of explosives.

The device was left at a roundabout in Newry in County Down. Army bomb

experts made it safe. Police say the bomb could have caused death or

serious injury. Egypt's largest Islamic grouping,

the Muslim Brotherhood, is to contest the country's presidential

election, reversing a promise it made not to stand following the

overthrow of President Mubarak last year. The Muslim Brotherhood is

already Egypt's dominant political movement and some opponents fear

its rise threatens their hopes of a moderate secular future for the

country. Wyre Davies reports from Muslim Brotherhood supporters

celebrating what they think is now inevitable. Khairat el-Shater, a

millionaire businessman and former political prisoner, will be the

next President of Egypt. But the movement has gone back on an

explicit promise not to stand for the Presidency. I'm quite confident

that whatever the decision the party takes is only for the benefit

of Egypt and its people. We are not going back to one-party state?

doesn't know. The brother had already dominates the Egyptian

parliament. But the movement says its supporters are democratic. Also

staking their claim, ultra- conservative Salafists. They would

abolish the treaty with Israel and curtail women's rights. Political

discourse here is dominated by Islamic parties. Egyptians from all

backgrounds, secular and religious, fought and died in this very square

a year ago to oust the Mubarak regime. But politics here is

becoming increasingly religious. That worries many secular liberal

Egyptians who say they revolution is being stolen from them. This is

from where the Muslim Brotherhood draws much of its support. Running

clinics and schools for Egypt's poor and needy. But moderates are

warned there's a darker side to the Islamic parties. If they try to

crush us as much as the previous regime was doing, which we do

expect a lot, if they try to do that, I think another wave of

violence can erupt here and the instability will continue. The year

after a genuinely popular uprising, Egypt's Islamists have

outmanoeuvred their secular rivals in a pattern that is being repeated

across the region. It has been a great day at the World Track

Cycling Championships for Victoria Pendleton. It was a bruising

encounter for her, who crashed in her semi-final first leg against

her arch-rival, Anna Meares. The day ultimately belonged to

Pendleton who now has nine career world titles. As my dad always said,

you don't do track cycling unless you are prepared to crash because

it happens now and again. My mum was terrified I would hurt myself

when I started racing. It hasn't happened too often. One of those

things. Golf, and at the halfway stage of

the US Masters in Augusta, Rory McIlroy has joined Lee Westwood

near the top of the leaderboard. Joe Wilson has been watching the

second round. Day two began with Westwood leading,

still proceeding. The Englishman was in front on his own until the

last. You must be so delicate at Augusta and understandable mistake

can lead to inexplicable one straight afterwards. Two shot

struck on the 18th and Westwood finished the day on four under par.

One shot ahead of him, a couple of Americans including the man who won

the Masters 20 years ago. Fred Couples has had decades to perfect

his Augusta touch. He is 52. 30 years older than Northern Ireland's

Rory McIlroy, who was mostly solid. The drop shot on the 17th, but he

is well set on four under par. And what of Tiger Woods? He hit some

birdies, but he still looked like he could hit just about anything,