:00:11. > :00:15.Tonight at Ten: Rupert Murdoch admits that there
:00:15. > :00:19.was a cover-up over phone hacking at the News of the World. At the
:00:19. > :00:22.Leveson Inquiry, he claims that the facts were hidden from him. He says
:00:22. > :00:26.that his reputation has been damaged.
:00:26. > :00:32.Someone took charge of a cover-up. Which we were a victim to. I regret
:00:32. > :00:36.But the paper's former lawyer hits back, accusing Rupert Murdoch of
:00:36. > :00:42.telling a "shameful lie" shame. Tonight, the Murdoch business is
:00:42. > :00:45.under more pressure from Ofcom. We will have the details. Also on the
:00:45. > :00:50.programme: Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia has
:00:50. > :00:54.been found guilty of war crimes. New evidence relating to the police
:00:54. > :00:59.shooting of Mark Duggan, whose death sparked rioting last summer.
:00:59. > :01:03.The growing demand for emergency food parcels. Also the impact on
:01:03. > :01:08.thousands of families. Inside you are feeling disappointed.
:01:08. > :01:14.You are embarrassed, worried, you are anxious andup set.
:01:14. > :01:18.And the latest Royal tribute to injured members of the armed forces.
:01:18. > :01:22.And I'm here with Sportsday later on in the hour in the BBC News
:01:22. > :01:32.Channel. We will see if the Spanish sides can have a better night in
:01:32. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:50.Good evening. Rupert Murdoch claims that staff at
:01:50. > :01:53.the News of the World kept him in the dark by covering up the phone
:01:53. > :01:58.hacking scandal, but the paper's former lawyer has accused Murdoch
:01:58. > :02:03.of telling a "shameful lie" shame. Rupert Murdoch's difficulties were
:02:03. > :02:09.compounded today by the media regulator, Ofcom, that is widening
:02:09. > :02:15.its investigation into whether BSkyB is a fit and proper owner of
:02:15. > :02:22.a broadcasting licence. Robert Peston has the latest.
:02:22. > :02:26.Rupert Murdoch, the media powerman. He was on carhoot route to explain
:02:26. > :02:31.how phone hacking had become rife at the now closed News of the World.
:02:31. > :02:38.His papers stalked celebrities and prominent people. Today, the hunter
:02:38. > :02:44.became the hunted. Under oath he told the Leveson
:02:44. > :02:47.Inquiry how it was he did not learn of the widespread hacking until the
:02:47. > :02:56.end of 2010, years after it had happened.
:02:56. > :03:01.There was no question in my mind that maybe even the editor, but
:03:01. > :03:08.certainly beyond that, someone took charge of a cover-up.
:03:08. > :03:14.But at the inquiry's, the barrister did not seem wholly convinced that
:03:14. > :03:20.the alleged cover h up kept Murdoch in the dark as well as the rest of
:03:20. > :03:24.Some may say this is consistent with the desire of covering up,
:03:24. > :03:28.rather than to expose. Well, with minds like yours,
:03:28. > :03:32.perhaps, yes. Sorry, I take that back. Excuse me.
:03:33. > :03:36.Rupert Murdoch blamed a clever lawyer. A drinking pal of News of
:03:36. > :03:43.the World journalist for failing to disclose the wrongdoing. That can
:03:43. > :03:47.only mean this person, Tom Crone, the formal legal affairs manager of
:03:47. > :03:53.the Sunday tabloid. Tom Crone said that his assertion that he took
:03:53. > :03:56.charge of a cover-up in relation to phone hacking was a shameful lie.
:03:57. > :04:01.No-one disputes that News International was slow to crack
:04:02. > :04:09.down on hacking. That is why Ofcom is investigating whether its parent,
:04:09. > :04:14.News Corp, could be unfit to have a huge influence over British Sky
:04:14. > :04:17.broadcasting, the UK's most profitable broadcaster, it has
:04:17. > :04:21.asked News International on documents on hacking.
:04:21. > :04:23.It was the astonishing revelation that the phone of the Murdoch
:04:24. > :04:27.schoolgirl, Milly Dowler had been hacked that brought home to Murdoch
:04:27. > :04:35.measure the enormity of what had gone wrong.
:04:35. > :04:39.You could feel the blast coming in the window.
:04:39. > :04:43.As I say, I say it succintly, I panicked.
:04:43. > :04:48.That led him to close the News of the World and all of the hacking
:04:48. > :04:54.leaves him scarred. It was total wrong. I regret it. I
:04:54. > :05:00.have said it will be a blot on my reputation for the rest of my life.
:05:00. > :05:07.Rupert Murdoch's performance felt like the end of an era, he
:05:07. > :05:11.predicted that newspapers would shrivel and die and with the demise
:05:11. > :05:14.of newspapers that we see the end of what many describe as the
:05:14. > :05:18.extraordinary power of the Murdoch dynasty.
:05:18. > :05:24.Explaining to the judge the offences committed by his
:05:24. > :05:27.journalists, not perhaps the proudest day for an 81-year-old
:05:27. > :05:32.mogul. Robert, let's take stock after the memorable events of this
:05:32. > :05:42.week. Where does this leave the Murdoch business? I have been
:05:42. > :05:42.
:05:42. > :07:22.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 99 seconds
:07:22. > :07:26.privileged to have had a ring-side In Scotland, opponents of the First
:07:26. > :07:28.Minister Alex Salmond have criticised his dealings with Rupert
:07:28. > :07:33.Murdoch's media business. Mr Salmond was accused by Labour of
:07:33. > :07:40.being ready to support Mr Murdoch's commercial plans even after the
:07:40. > :07:45.full extent of the phone hacking scandal had been revealed. As some
:07:45. > :07:50.say the First Minister has been conniving and double-dealing. Isn't
:07:50. > :07:58.he just trying to cover up the fact that a rich man has played him for
:07:59. > :08:03.a full? Humbug, hypocrisy. The job I is to advocate jobs for Scotland.
:08:03. > :08:08.This First Minister will continue to do it.
:08:08. > :08:12.During the day, Downing Street says it has no plans to ask for an
:08:13. > :08:15.independent investigation into the conduct of the Culture Secretary,
:08:15. > :08:20.Jeremy Hunt. Labour called on Mr Hunt to resign after details
:08:21. > :08:26.emerged about contact between his office and Rupert Murdoch's
:08:26. > :08:32.business during a takeover bid. But tonight, the Lib-Dem deputy leader
:08:32. > :08:36.has backed the calls for an investigation.
:08:36. > :08:39.Jeremy Hunt can run, but he can't hide from question after question
:08:39. > :08:44.about the relationship between his office and Rupert Murdoch's
:08:44. > :08:47.companies. He says his top civil servant agreed that his special
:08:47. > :08:52.adviser could stay in contact with News Corporation during their bid
:08:52. > :08:58.for BSkyB. Today, that top civil servant refused ten times to say if
:08:58. > :09:00.that was the case. Did you know that Adam Smith was acting in the
:09:00. > :09:03.channel of communication between the Department and the Murdoch
:09:04. > :09:08.empire? The Secretary of State made a full statement to parliament
:09:08. > :09:12.yesterday. It seemed to me extremely odd. I can just repeat
:09:12. > :09:16.what I said before. There was a clear statement from the special
:09:16. > :09:22.adviser concerned. We are asking about your role. There was a
:09:22. > :09:25.statement by the special adviser. We made it clear that the nature
:09:25. > :09:29.and content of those compacts was not authorised by the Secretary of
:09:29. > :09:33.State. That special adviser at, Adam Smith, resigned yesterday
:09:33. > :09:36.after hundreds of e-mails and texts revealed that he had been passing
:09:36. > :09:40.information to a News Corporation official during the BSkyB bid. But
:09:41. > :09:45.how much did the Culture Secretary know? Tonight a senior Lib Dem
:09:45. > :09:48.broke ranks and said Mr Hunt should face a separate investigation that
:09:48. > :09:51.would not getting the way of the Leveson inquiry. I cannot
:09:51. > :09:56.understand why the matter of the ministerial code of conduct, which
:09:56. > :09:59.is to do with taking responsibility for your special adviser, is not
:09:59. > :10:02.something the Prime Minister should not immediately referred to the
:10:02. > :10:06.person given the job to do it. Downing Street is resisting calls
:10:07. > :10:10.for Mr Hunt to face a special investigation into whether he broke
:10:10. > :10:13.the ministerial code of conduct. They say Mr Cameron believes he has
:10:13. > :10:17.done nothing wrong. But Labour say there are big questions over what
:10:17. > :10:20.he and his top official really new. We need to know whether he
:10:20. > :10:24.authorised it, what those conditions were, whether Jeremy
:10:24. > :10:27.Hunt was aware of them and communicated them to his special
:10:27. > :10:32.adviser, and we still do not know what the contract was between
:10:32. > :10:38.Jeremy Hunt and his special adviser. Tonight Mr Hunt's department issued
:10:38. > :10:42.a statement saying his top official was -- knew about and was content
:10:43. > :10:46.with the contact with News Corporation, but not how far it
:10:46. > :10:49.went. Labour said the e-mails and texts between Mr Hunt and his
:10:49. > :10:59.former special adviser should be published. The Leveson inquiry will
:10:59. > :10:59.
:10:59. > :11:04.Charles Taylor, the former President of Leerb has been found
:11:04. > :11:08.guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes. It is the first time a
:11:09. > :11:12.former Head of State has been convicted by an international
:11:12. > :11:18.tribunal since the Second World War. Charles Taylor was guilty of 11
:11:18. > :11:22.charges, including terror, murder, rape, an conscripting child
:11:22. > :11:26.soldiers. We are sitting in an open setting
:11:26. > :11:29.for judgment in the case of the prosecutor... It has been a
:11:29. > :11:35.landmark day in international justice. Charles Taylor came to
:11:35. > :11:39.court knowing he might well go to prison for the rest of his life.
:11:39. > :11:43.Charles Taylor was President of Leerb, prosecutors had charged him
:11:43. > :11:48.with waging war in neighbouring Sierra Leone. No-one disputes that
:11:48. > :11:54.rebel forces committed terrible atrocities there, the charge sheet
:11:54. > :11:58.includes murder, rape, abduction, slavery and the recruitment of
:11:58. > :12:04.child soldiers. Civilian populations were terror iced, many
:12:04. > :12:11.had limbs hacked off by a machete or an axe, but the question was did
:12:11. > :12:16.Charles Taylor order the crimes? There is not evidence to find
:12:16. > :12:21.beyond a reasonable doubt... Charles Taylor was cleared of
:12:21. > :12:25.orderering the atrocities, but the judges asked him to stand to hear
:12:25. > :12:31.the claims. You are unanimously guilty of
:12:31. > :12:35.aiding and abetting... The judge said that Charles Taylor had
:12:35. > :12:40.supplied the forces with diamonds, in return for arms and ammunitions
:12:40. > :12:45.in the full knowledge that they would commit crimes against
:12:45. > :12:49.civilians. Charles Taylor said he should be immune from prosecution
:12:49. > :12:52.as Head of State but the court rejected that argument. The
:12:52. > :12:56.prosecutors see today's judgment in the step forward as the fight
:12:56. > :12:59.against the immunity that the heads of state have often enjoyed.
:12:59. > :13:04.It is a very important case for the people of Sierra Leone, who
:13:04. > :13:08.demanded that this court be created so that they could have some mer of
:13:08. > :13:13.justice. It is a very important day for the victims who now have some
:13:13. > :13:18.mer of justice for the terrible -- measure of justice for the terrible
:13:18. > :13:22.suffering. One of those victims was in court.
:13:22. > :13:32.Edward Konteh said that today's judgment would deter future
:13:32. > :13:39.atrocities and help secure a lasting peace. It says that by
:13:39. > :13:45.gaining power and having this violence, you will not ever be able
:13:45. > :13:49.to have that again in this country. British troops intervened in May
:13:49. > :13:53.twouds and helped to end the war. The last Labour government said
:13:53. > :13:59.that should Charles Taylor be convicted that he should be taken
:13:59. > :14:05.to jail and foot the bill for his imprisonment. Charles Taylor may
:14:05. > :14:09.appeal. He has nothing much to lose. Otherwise his journey from
:14:09. > :14:14.presidential palace to British prison cell is nearly over.
:14:14. > :14:21.New evidence has emerged from an eyewitness to the police shoogt of
:14:21. > :14:25.Mark Duggan, whose death in north London sparked some of last
:14:25. > :14:29.summer's riots. The BBC has been shown a video. The Independent
:14:29. > :14:33.Police Complaints Commission is investigating the shooting. Our
:14:33. > :14:39.Home Affairs Correspondent, June Kelly has the story. It is nearly
:14:39. > :14:44.nine months since Mark Duggan was shot dead by the police on an early
:14:44. > :14:49.summer evening. His death led to a protest that descended into a riot
:14:49. > :14:56.that showed us the worst scenes of public disorder in England in a
:14:56. > :15:00.generation. This exclusive footage obtained by a member of the BBC,
:15:00. > :15:05.made by a member of the public, showed this. The footage begins a
:15:05. > :15:09.short time after the police open fire in Ferry Lane in Tottenham. On
:15:09. > :15:14.the ground, surrounded by paramedics, Mark Duggan has been
:15:14. > :15:20.hit by two police bullets. Close by, officers from Scotland Yard's
:15:20. > :15:25.xerblist firearm unit, CO19. It was a CO19 officer that fired the fatal
:15:25. > :15:29.shots. All of this captured by the witness and he talks about what he
:15:29. > :15:35.saw. The witness wants to remain anonymous. The words are spoken by
:15:35. > :15:40.an actor. I blocked him in. He jumped out.
:15:40. > :15:44.Shot him. I heard him shout at him to put it down. Put it down. Mark
:15:44. > :15:48.Duggan was a passenger in a taxi. That is the grey people carrier,
:15:48. > :15:53.blocked in by the police. They had been trailing him for some time. He
:15:53. > :15:56.sent a message from the BlackBerry saying that the Feds were following
:15:56. > :16:02.him. As Mark Duggan is dead on the pavement, the officers are standing
:16:02. > :16:08.on the other side of the fence. One firearms officer in a white T-shirt
:16:08. > :16:12.goes around and bends towards the ground. A police firearm in a sock
:16:12. > :16:16.was said to be recovered from the scene. This did not have Mark
:16:16. > :16:18.Duggan's DNA, blood or fingerprints on it. Tonight, the Independent
:16:18. > :16:23.Police Complaints Commission, investigating the death, said it
:16:23. > :16:28.wants to see all of the footage obtained by the BBC and urged the
:16:28. > :16:32.witness to come forward. The IPCC has expressed frustration that it
:16:33. > :16:37.cannot compell the 31 fers, there when he was shot to be interviewed.
:16:37. > :16:47.They have given written statements. The IPCC report into the shooting
:16:47. > :16:51.Coming Up, six years after David Cameron famously promised to lead
:16:51. > :16:55.the greenest government ever, we look at the evidence.
:16:55. > :16:59.Neil Heywood, the British businessman found dead in a hotel
:16:59. > :17:02.room in China, was not working for British intelligence, according to
:17:02. > :17:07.the Foreign Secretary William Hague. Mr Heywood had established close
:17:07. > :17:16.links with Bo Xilai, a senior Chinese politician who is now
:17:16. > :17:22.accused if tapping the phones of Communist Party leaders.
:17:22. > :17:28.Before his fall, Bo Xilai. His sacking has mired China's Communist
:17:28. > :17:34.Party in scandal. A facade of unity so prized here has been shattered.
:17:34. > :17:38.It now seems that Bo was tapping his fellow leaders' phone calls,
:17:38. > :17:42.even President Hu Jintao. It has left the party looking riven by
:17:42. > :17:47.mistrust and rivalry. The death of Neil Heywood is what has brought
:17:47. > :17:53.all this into the open. The British businessman was close to Bo Xilai
:17:53. > :17:57.and Bo's wife is a suspect in Mr Heywood's murder. In Asia today,
:17:57. > :18:00.Britain's Foreign Secretary took the unusual step of dismissing
:18:00. > :18:04.speculation that Mr Heywood may have been a spy, saying that
:18:04. > :18:07.because of the intense interest in the case, he would confirm that Mr
:18:07. > :18:13.Heywood had never been employed by the British Government in any
:18:13. > :18:17.capacity. Instead, Neil Heywood was working with British firms like
:18:17. > :18:22.Aston Martin and the London Taxi Company, helping provide the
:18:22. > :18:26.contacts and knowledge to do business in China. Neil did have an
:18:26. > :18:30.ability to work through contacts and build relationships. The way he
:18:30. > :18:33.handled his business with us was immaculate and professional. He
:18:33. > :18:42.went about his business in a thoroughly professional, but very
:18:42. > :18:45.English way. Thigh and a's new wealth is -- China's love of wealth
:18:45. > :18:51.and dust are stationed -- ostentation is on display at this
:18:51. > :18:53.car show. Neil Heywood has shone a light on the vast riches enjoyed by
:18:53. > :18:59.Communist officials and their families, the links between power
:18:59. > :19:06.and wealth in China today, and the growing inequalities. The wealth of
:19:06. > :19:14.Bo Xilai's family is now under scrutiny. The Sun, said to have had
:19:14. > :19:18.this -- a taste for sports cars, has denied being involved. How and
:19:18. > :19:21.why Neil Heywood denied in this -- died in this mountaintop hotel
:19:21. > :19:26.remains a mystery. With every passing day, more murky tells
:19:26. > :19:31.emerge about corruption, spying and infighting among China's communist
:19:31. > :19:34.leaders. The number of people requesting
:19:34. > :19:39.emergency food parcels in centres across the UK has doubled in the
:19:39. > :19:44.past year, according to one charity. The Trussell Trust says its food
:19:44. > :19:47.banks handed out food supplies to 128,000 people over the past 12
:19:47. > :19:56.months, and it warns that the figure is likely to increase as the
:19:56. > :19:59.economy falters and unemployment rises.
:19:59. > :20:07.Every can, carton and shopping bag is for those who can't afford to
:20:07. > :20:13.eat. Two food banks like this are opening every week in the UK. More
:20:13. > :20:17.and more families say they need them. Chicken? Families like
:20:17. > :20:23.Michel's. When Ryan's over time at work was stopped, their income fell
:20:23. > :20:28.to just over �400 a month. Went and rising bills meant there was no
:20:28. > :20:34.money left. I would not want to go there again and I would not wish it
:20:34. > :20:39.on anybody. It is the lowest I have ever been. You feel anxious and
:20:39. > :20:49.upset. But to Hayden, you have to be all smiles. And behind closed
:20:49. > :20:50.
:20:50. > :20:56.doors, you break down. How many days did you go without food?
:20:56. > :20:59.days, to make sure there was enough. They are not alone. Last year,
:20:59. > :21:07.61,000 people were fed by food banks. This year, that number has
:21:07. > :21:11.doubled to more than 120,000. One charity now has 201 Food banks and
:21:11. > :21:15.says the rise is linked to what is happening in the economy. It has
:21:15. > :21:20.meant a change in the type of people who need help. At this food
:21:20. > :21:24.back in Leeds, new faces arrive daily. Many of the stories here are
:21:24. > :21:29.familiar. People talk about job losses, being made redundant. They
:21:29. > :21:34.can't afford fuel or food, and younger people, too. Those who want
:21:34. > :21:38.to get a job, but who can't find work. But the coalition government
:21:38. > :21:44.says help is there. 2 million low- paid workers will soon not have to
:21:44. > :21:48.pay tax. Those on benefits can get crisis loans. People here have
:21:48. > :21:51.options. So why aren't you are applying for other jobs instead of
:21:51. > :21:57.coming here? Are have applied for other jobs, but nobody is taking
:21:57. > :22:02.any one arm. How many jobs? I have applied for about 100 jobs. Not one
:22:02. > :22:08.has said yeah, you can have a job. The economy will recover, but the
:22:08. > :22:12.longer it takes, Mall food banks could open.
:22:13. > :22:17.The growth of renewable energy will be vital for the British economy,
:22:17. > :22:20.according to David Cameron, who has already promised to lead the
:22:20. > :22:23."greenest government ever". But his critics say that meeting this
:22:23. > :22:26.promise will need consistent support from virtually every
:22:26. > :22:29.government department. The Chancellor George Osborne has
:22:29. > :22:36.previously suggested that green policies could put a burden on
:22:36. > :22:41.business. Drizzle on a solar panel. Uncertain
:22:41. > :22:45.times for renewable energy. A new array at Norwich City Hall, but the
:22:45. > :22:50.solar industry says government policy just keeps changing. The
:22:50. > :22:54.company that fitted these panels has lost most of its staff. We had
:22:54. > :22:59.a dedicated team of 12 solar installers, and I have had to lay-
:22:59. > :23:04.off nine of them, two of whom included two family members. It was
:23:04. > :23:09.devastating. What do you blamed that on? I blame it on no clear
:23:09. > :23:12.rules in business about the future of the industry. Only a few years
:23:12. > :23:16.ago, David Cameron promised Green government, but since coming to
:23:16. > :23:20.power, the Chancellor has put the economy first. We will not save the
:23:20. > :23:24.planet by putting our country out of business. Today in London, the
:23:24. > :23:28.prime minister had been expected to give a major policy speech. In fact,
:23:28. > :23:32.he spoke for just seven minutes. When I became Prime Minister, I
:23:32. > :23:37.said Britain would aim to have the greenest government ever, and that
:23:37. > :23:41.is what we have. Today we are one of the best places for green energy,
:23:41. > :23:46.bring electricity, Green Investment and green jobs anywhere in the
:23:46. > :23:49.world. A new wind farm in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is a
:23:49. > :23:58.delicate task building it, a process due to be repeated across
:23:58. > :24:01.the country. But the industry does not feel come up -- confident.
:24:01. > :24:07.Several thousand more wind turbines are planned, but how many will get
:24:07. > :24:10.built? Ministers are thinking of cutting the subsidies. Battles over
:24:10. > :24:15.local planning are becoming more fierce, and the renewables industry
:24:15. > :24:20.is frustrated by mixed messages from the top of government about
:24:20. > :24:24.the green agenda. Britain does lead the world in planting wind turbines
:24:24. > :24:29.out at sea, but this is relatively expensive and big energy users say
:24:29. > :24:32.ministers have realised there are costs with going green.
:24:32. > :24:36.government has recognised that there is a threat to continuing
:24:36. > :24:40.investment in British manufacturing if we tried our energy prices to
:24:40. > :24:44.uncompetitive levels. There is also a recognition that this is
:24:44. > :24:47.unpopular with households at a time when budgets are under strain.
:24:47. > :24:52.Switching to a low-carbon economy during a recession is difficult