:00:04. > :00:07.Tonight at 10:00pm: Rupert Murdoch is deemed unfit to
:00:07. > :00:10.run a major global business. He's accused by a parliamentary
:00:10. > :00:19.committee of "wilful blindness" over phone hacking at the News of
:00:19. > :00:24.the World. In the view of the majority of committee members,
:00:24. > :00:26.Rupert Murdoch is not fit to run an international company like BSkyB.
:00:26. > :00:29.Three former News International executives are accused of
:00:29. > :00:36.misleading Parliament, but the Murdoch finding is not back by the
:00:36. > :00:41.Conservatives. It will be correctly seen as a partisan report, and we
:00:41. > :00:43.have lost a very great deal -- will have lost a very great deal of its
:00:44. > :00:45.credibility. And we'll have details of Rupert
:00:45. > :00:47.Murdoch's response tonight to his employees.
:00:48. > :00:53.Also on the programme: More staff to be brought to
:00:53. > :00:55.Heathrow to deal with long delays at passport control.
:00:56. > :00:58.President Obama arrives in Afghanistan on the first
:00:58. > :01:01.anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's death.
:01:01. > :01:07.In France, it's election fever as President Sarkozy faces a new
:01:07. > :01:16.challenge to win re-election on Sunday.
:01:16. > :01:20.And it's official - it's Hodgson, not Redknapp, for England manager.
:01:20. > :01:30.Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, the world of football
:01:30. > :01:41.
:01:41. > :01:44.reacts to the managerial Good evening.
:01:44. > :01:47.Rupert Murdoch is not a "fit person" to run a major global
:01:47. > :01:51.company - that's the majority verdict of a parliamentary
:01:51. > :01:56.committee which investigated phone hacking at the News of the World.
:01:56. > :01:58.Four Conservative members of the committee disagreed. But the MPs
:01:58. > :02:08.were unanimous in their view that three former News International
:02:08. > :02:13.executives HAD misled Parliament. Our business editor, Robert Peston,
:02:13. > :02:19.reports on the findings and the potential impact. Rupert Murdoch,
:02:19. > :02:22.until recently, seen as the world's most powerful media mogul. Today,
:02:22. > :02:27.declared by MPs not a fit person to run an international business,
:02:27. > :02:30.because, the MPs say, he and his colleagues turned a blind eye, for
:02:30. > :02:34.years, to phone hacking by journalists at the News of the
:02:34. > :02:39.World. Everybody in the world knows who is responsible for the wrong
:02:39. > :02:45.doing at News Corp, Rupert Murdoch. More than any individual at --
:02:45. > :02:49.alive, he is to blame. Morally, the deeds are his. He paid the piper
:02:49. > :02:54.and he called the tune. The Culture, Media and Sport Committee was
:02:54. > :02:59.arguably even more damning about three of Mr Murdoch's colleagues.
:02:59. > :03:02.Colin Myler, the former editor of the News of the World. Tom Crone
:03:02. > :03:08.was the legal affairs manager for the newspaper, and Les Hinton, for
:03:08. > :03:11.decades, Mr Murdoch's right hand man. All accused of misleading MPs
:03:11. > :03:15.by telling them that hacking was limited to the work of a single
:03:16. > :03:21.rogue reporter, all now facing the possibility that the whole House of
:03:21. > :03:26.Commons may find them guilty of contempt. Mr Myler, today in New
:03:26. > :03:31.York, where he is still an editor for another organisation. He and Mr
:03:31. > :03:34.Crone and Mr Hinton have rejected the MPs' damning verdict. It was
:03:34. > :03:37.the disclosure last year that the News of the World hacked the phone
:03:37. > :03:41.of a murdered teenager, Milly Dowler, that turned phone hacking
:03:41. > :03:45.into the story of national importance. Since then, a Rostov
:03:45. > :03:52.people whose privacy has been invaded by phone hacking which has
:03:53. > :03:56.grown and grown -- a roster of people. We used do not ever being
:03:56. > :04:00.seen to criticise Murdoch called the press. To see this friendly
:04:00. > :04:07.rather brittle report has come as a bit of a shock -- Murdoch or the
:04:07. > :04:13.press. You think, has it gone too far, but I think it has not. Rupert
:04:13. > :04:16.Murdoch has a lot to answer for and for the very first time, he is
:04:16. > :04:21.being held to account. What about the verdict that Rupert Murdoch is
:04:21. > :04:25.not fit to run a major international company? I have just
:04:26. > :04:30.heard the four Tory members of the committee say they voted against
:04:30. > :04:34.that Burditt, so any suggestion that this is a party political
:04:34. > :04:36.judgment -- that verdict. Any suggestion this is a party
:04:36. > :04:40.political judgement and not a dispassionate one could undermine
:04:40. > :04:44.its force. The issue on which no Conservative member fault they
:04:44. > :04:48.could support of the report itself -- thought they could support the
:04:48. > :04:52.report was the line but in the middle of the report, but said that
:04:52. > :04:56.Mr Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to run an international
:04:56. > :04:59.company -- that said. It will be correctly seen as a partisan report
:04:59. > :05:03.and will have lost a great deal of its credibility, which is an
:05:03. > :05:13.enormous shame. News Corporation sees the verdict as unjustified and
:05:13. > :05:23.
:05:23. > :05:27.highly partisan. In an e-mail to The big and expensive question for
:05:27. > :05:32.Mr Murdoch is whether these mistakes will make it more likely
:05:32. > :05:36.that the media regulator, Ofcom, will rule that BSkyB is itself
:05:36. > :05:42.unfit to hold a broadcasting licence unless News Corporation
:05:42. > :05:45.sells a big chunk of its 39% stake in the company. The News of the
:05:45. > :05:55.World scandal, still making use, still shaking up the sprawling
:05:55. > :05:59.media empire of James and Rupert A split verdict on Rupert Murdoch,
:05:59. > :06:03.but how does that affect the credibility of the report?
:06:03. > :06:07.Our political editor, Nick Robinson, is at Westminster for us tonight.
:06:07. > :06:13.How do you see it? It was just the one sentence, that Rupert Murdoch
:06:13. > :06:17.is not fit to run an international company, that split the company. It
:06:17. > :06:22.overshadowed -- split the committee. It overshadowed the other 84 pages.
:06:22. > :06:28.It gave News International something to attack. They said it
:06:28. > :06:33.was unjustified and highly partisan. It has dominated headlines around
:06:33. > :06:36.the world and the sentence written by Tom Watson, the Labour MP and
:06:36. > :06:40.self-styled scourge of the Murdochs, was designed to hit them where it
:06:40. > :06:45.hurts. In other words, in their shareholders'' pockets. It was
:06:45. > :06:49.designed to make them get rid of the Murdochs from the top of the
:06:49. > :06:53.company. Mr Watson is a deputy chairman of the Labour Party and
:06:53. > :06:57.have by product is making the Tories look as if they are somehow
:06:57. > :07:04.want Rupert Murdoch's side, I don't think he will be too depressed --
:07:04. > :07:08.somehow or on Rupert Murdoch's side. He said he did not want to allow
:07:08. > :07:12.the focus to be on at three underlings. In theory, they could
:07:12. > :07:17.be summoned to the House of Commons, forced to stand among those green
:07:17. > :07:21.benches and be told by MPs, or by the Speaker, exactly what the House
:07:21. > :07:25.of Commons think of them. Mr Watson and others want Rupert Murdoch to
:07:25. > :07:32.take the flak. It is worth remembering this view. However the
:07:32. > :07:37.committee is split, the report tells you that Britain's biggest
:07:37. > :07:41.paper acted illegally, paid cover up money, allied to the House of
:07:41. > :07:48.Commons, continued to do that and might well, easily, have got away
:07:48. > :07:51.with it -- applied to the House of Extra staff are being drafted into
:07:51. > :07:56.Heathrow Airport to try to reduce long waiting times at passport
:07:56. > :07:59.control. It's reported that David Cameron has told ministers to "get
:07:59. > :08:01.a grip" of the problem. Damian Green - the Immigration Minister -
:08:01. > :08:04.visited Heathrow today, where mobile teams of border control
:08:04. > :08:07.staff are being set up to ease the pressure. Our home affairs
:08:07. > :08:11.correspondent, Tom Symonds, has the details.
:08:11. > :08:16.Today, the battle over the efficiency of the British border
:08:16. > :08:21.continued. The minister was sent to the front line, to be confronted
:08:21. > :08:25.by... Well, certainly no major queues. Mid-morning is a quiet
:08:25. > :08:29.period at Heathrow's Terminal 3, but he continued to insist the
:08:29. > :08:39.Government is not downplaying the problem. The key is that we have
:08:39. > :08:46.
:08:46. > :08:51.seen recently are too long. -- the The plan is for empty desks in busy
:08:51. > :08:54.periods to be filled with up to 80 extra staff, from today. The
:08:54. > :08:58.government believes it is about more flexible deployment, not just
:08:58. > :09:02.numbers. With passengers continuing to send in their pictures, Damian
:09:02. > :09:06.Green said the longest queue last week was an hour and a half.
:09:06. > :09:12.British Airways said he was misleading the public. It was two-
:09:12. > :09:17.and-a-half hours. The experience of this regular is somewhere in the
:09:17. > :09:22.middle. I use Heathrow about at least once a month. I have been
:09:22. > :09:26.greeted by queues no shorter than two hours. It is an absolute
:09:26. > :09:30.shambles, if you ask me. As a developed nation, the United
:09:30. > :09:33.Kingdom is showing this to the world. This morning, we understand
:09:33. > :09:37.the Prime Minister was speaking of the need to grip this issue, to
:09:37. > :09:40.admit there is a problem. Despite his minister's statement yesterday
:09:40. > :09:44.that the problem had been exaggerated. In the aviation
:09:44. > :09:50.industry, there is a feeling that extra staff are just a sticking
:09:50. > :09:54.plaster, and more radical action is needed. The Home Secretary, Teresa
:09:54. > :09:57.May, updated the Prime Minister on the situation this morning. It is
:09:57. > :10:01.the continued fall out from the discovery last year that a scheme
:10:01. > :10:04.to pilot more selective passport checks by fewer staff had gone
:10:04. > :10:10.further than she had agreed. The border official responsible, Brodie
:10:10. > :10:15.Clark, here on the right, resigned. Full checks were restored but staff
:10:15. > :10:18.numbers were still lower. They changed the rules. If they modify
:10:18. > :10:23.the requirements, surely they understand the impact Abul have on
:10:23. > :10:26.resources. The reality is they have not been making adequate resources
:10:26. > :10:30.available at the airport -- the impact that will have on resources.
:10:30. > :10:34.It is reflecting very badly on the UK. An embryonic idea is for
:10:34. > :10:37.airlines to pay extra for more staff and shorter queues, but it
:10:37. > :10:40.won't happen before the Olympics. President Obama is in Afghanistan
:10:40. > :10:46.tonight, arriving unannounced after dark on the anniversary of the
:10:46. > :10:49.death of Osama Bin Laden. Mr Obama flew in to Bagram air base on Air
:10:49. > :10:58.Force One, to sign an agreement on long-term cooperation between the
:10:58. > :11:02.US and Afghanistan after American troops leave.
:11:02. > :11:06.I have come to Afghanistan to mark an historic moment for our two
:11:06. > :11:12.nations, and to do so on Afghan soil. I am here to affirm the bonds
:11:13. > :11:17.between our countries, to thank American and Afghans who have
:11:17. > :11:23.sacrificed so much over these last 10 years, and to look forward to a
:11:23. > :11:26.future of peace and security and greater prosperity for our nations.
:11:26. > :11:31.President Obama, speaking a short while ago. Our correspondent,
:11:31. > :11:37.Quentin Sommerville, is in Kabul. What do you think the President is
:11:37. > :11:41.hoping to achieve? This was a dramatic moment for two reasons.
:11:41. > :11:46.The President arrived at Bagram Airfield, where almost a year ago,
:11:46. > :11:51.navy seals climbed on board American helicopters, flew through
:11:51. > :11:55.the darkness and killed Osama Bin Laden. He arrived here, he met with
:11:55. > :11:58.President Karzai and signed the strategic partnership agreement,
:11:58. > :12:01.which unites Afghanistan and America in the fight against global
:12:01. > :12:05.terror, but will also deliver a commitment that American troops
:12:05. > :12:10.will still remain in Afghanistan for many years to come. After most
:12:10. > :12:15.foreign trips have left at the end of 2014. The worry -- foreign trips.
:12:15. > :12:20.The worry is that when British and American soldiers lose this --
:12:20. > :12:23.leave this soil and return home, people will no longer care about
:12:23. > :12:27.Afghanistan. President Obama's message is that America won't
:12:27. > :12:30.repeat the mistakes of past and it has a long-term commitment to this
:12:30. > :12:32.country. The inquest into the death of the
:12:32. > :12:37.MI6 officer, Gareth Williams, has heard that the security services
:12:37. > :12:39.failed to pass on evidence to police investigating his death. The
:12:40. > :12:44.evidence includes computer memory sticks and a bag similar to the one
:12:44. > :12:50.Mr Williams' was found in. The 31- year-old was discovered in a
:12:50. > :12:53.padlocked holdall at his central London flat almost two years ago.
:12:53. > :12:56.A fatal accident inquiry has concluded that the deaths of two
:12:56. > :13:00.teenagers who jumped into the river Clyde could have been prevented if
:13:00. > :13:03.there had been a proper level of staffing at their care home. 14-
:13:03. > :13:07.year-old Georgia Rowe and Neve Lafferty, who was 15, absconded
:13:07. > :13:17.from the young person's unit in Renfrewshire, in October 2009. They
:13:17. > :13:19.
:13:19. > :13:23.fell 100 feet to their deaths from People have been warned to keep
:13:23. > :13:27.away from swollen rivers as dozens of flood warnings are still in
:13:27. > :13:32.place after heavy rain across parts of England. The Environment Agency
:13:32. > :13:39.said further heavy rain could lead to flooding again in some areas.
:13:39. > :13:44.Jon Kay reports now from Somerset. May Day, and a new month begins
:13:44. > :13:48.just as the old one finished. In Northamptonshire, more than 1,000
:13:48. > :13:55.people were forced to leave their static caravans when the river
:13:55. > :13:59.burst its banks. There is still no news on when they can return. This
:14:00. > :14:04.port centre became an emergency home for residents shocked by the
:14:04. > :14:10.suddenness of the evacuation. did not get enough warning, that
:14:11. > :14:16.was all. Within 20 minutes, we had to be off site, just pack whatever
:14:16. > :14:20.and move off site. It is the south- west of England that has taken the
:14:20. > :14:24.biggest soaking. In Somerset, there was no new rain today, but they
:14:24. > :14:28.were still dealing with the run-off from local hills. Motorists have
:14:28. > :14:34.been warned that a man died near Newbury yesterday when his car
:14:34. > :14:41.became submerged. You are that the kids in the back. I am really
:14:41. > :14:45.scared, actually. I do not know. Just a bit scary. I'm quite
:14:45. > :14:51.surprised we still have a drought order! So it is not much fun. It
:14:51. > :14:55.seems like most of the roads are closed. In Tewkesbury, where the
:14:55. > :14:58.River Severn meets the Avon, water levels are still rising tonight.
:14:58. > :15:03.They are not expected to peak until the morning, but the authorities
:15:03. > :15:06.say they are confident there will not be major problems. We are
:15:06. > :15:10.keeping a very close eye on the situation, using a lot of
:15:10. > :15:14.information from other agencies, the Environment Agency are giving
:15:14. > :15:18.as up-to-the-minute predictions of what will happen next. This is
:15:18. > :15:22.Liscombe in Somerset, officially the wettest place in the UK during
:15:22. > :15:26.the wettest April on record, but here tonight the water levels are
:15:26. > :15:32.dropping quickly. This time yesterday, this bridge was under 1
:15:32. > :15:36.ft of water. Tonight it has reopened three tourists. But with
:15:36. > :15:45.dozens of flood warnings still in place across the UK, the official
:15:45. > :15:51.advice is to stay away from swollen Coming up on tonight's programme:
:15:51. > :15:55.Roy Hodgson shares his hopes for the future as England manager.
:15:55. > :15:58.a very happy man to have been offered the chance of managing my
:15:58. > :16:07.country. I am looking forward enormously to the task ahead.
:16:07. > :16:10.Everyone knows it is not an easy British scientists are working on
:16:10. > :16:14.creating a simple blood test which could help to predict a woman's
:16:14. > :16:18.chances of developing breast cancer. It follows pioneering research
:16:18. > :16:22.which discovered a genetic switch carried by some women which doubles
:16:22. > :16:26.their risk of developing the disease. Medical correspondent
:16:27. > :16:32.Fergus Walsh has more details. This is early research which, if it
:16:32. > :16:35.pays off, could have far reaching benefits. In the journal Cancer
:16:35. > :16:41.Research, scientists at Imperial College London explain how they
:16:41. > :16:44.analyse blood samples from 1380 women, 640 of whom went on to get
:16:44. > :16:49.breast cancer. They found signals in the bloody years before the
:16:49. > :16:56.disease developed, which reveals some of the women had up to double
:16:56. > :16:59.the risk of getting breast cancer. The research team funded by the
:16:59. > :17:04.Breast Cancer Campaign say this is fairly work, but it raises the hope
:17:04. > :17:08.of a blood test to detect future breast cancer risk. -- Early Work.
:17:08. > :17:12.It is going to be important for diagnoses and risk prediction,
:17:12. > :17:17.because we can use it to predict people's individual risk, but it is
:17:17. > :17:20.also very interesting that we can potentially reverse these changes,
:17:20. > :17:25.so therapies might be developed that can reverse somebody's risk of
:17:25. > :17:29.disease. Scientists have already identified for sin genes within our
:17:30. > :17:34.DNA that put some women at increased risk of breast cancer,
:17:34. > :17:40.but that is not the whole story. Our DNA is covered with chemical
:17:40. > :17:43.tags, our epigenome, which tell our genes when to switch on and off.
:17:43. > :17:47.Unlike our fixed DNA, these chemicals which is all that as a
:17:47. > :17:52.result of diet, smoking and lifestyle, and they can make are
:17:52. > :17:55.susceptible to cancer and other diseases. Scientists found that one
:17:55. > :18:00.in five women had an epigenetics change in their white blood cells
:18:00. > :18:06.that greatly increased their risk of getting breast cancer years in
:18:06. > :18:11.the future. This woman got breast cancer in her 20s. She says a blood
:18:11. > :18:15.test to detect her wrist level in advance would have been of great
:18:15. > :18:18.benefit. -- Riz level. It will make a huge difference to women, because
:18:18. > :18:22.you'll be able to plan your approach to the disease well before
:18:22. > :18:26.you are faced with it, and you can look at options like hormone
:18:26. > :18:30.treatment, mastectomy, and look at your diet and lifestyle to see
:18:30. > :18:34.whether you can make changes. of research is under way looking at
:18:34. > :18:37.whether blood tests could pick up early risk factors for other
:18:37. > :18:45.cancers, and a range of conditions, but these may not come for many
:18:45. > :18:49.years. They would be a significant advance in diagnosis. Huw.
:18:49. > :18:52.In France, President Sarkozy's hopes for re-election this weekend
:18:52. > :18:56.have been dealt a blow by the leader of the far-right, Marine Le
:18:56. > :19:00.Pen. She drew more than 6 million votes in the first round but has
:19:00. > :19:04.told supporters she is not voting for Mr Sarkozy or his opponent
:19:04. > :19:09.Francois Hollande in the final round on Sunday. Europe editor
:19:09. > :19:13.Gavin Hewitt sent this report from Paris.
:19:13. > :19:17.The French far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, at the centre of attention.
:19:17. > :19:21.In the first round of elections, over 6 million people voted for her.
:19:21. > :19:26.She had promised that on May Day she would advise her supporters how
:19:27. > :19:31.to vote in Sunday's decisive round. Whether to back President Sarkozy
:19:31. > :19:35.of the Socialist candidate, Francois Hollande. President
:19:35. > :19:39.Sarkozy will meet many of these votes from the far right if he is
:19:39. > :19:44.to make it into the Elysee Palace for a second term. In recent days,
:19:44. > :19:49.he has been echoing many of the themes normally associated with
:19:49. > :19:55.these voters from the far right. Despite President Sarkozy's
:19:55. > :20:02.frequent attacks on immigration, these voters are not convinced.
:20:02. > :20:09.is just having the same attitude as he had five years ago, just saying
:20:09. > :20:11.whatever Marine Le Pen is saying. To have our votes! This woman had
:20:12. > :20:18.voted for President Sarkozy in the past but said he had failed to live
:20:18. > :20:27.up to his promises. In the event, Marine Le Pen refused to endorse
:20:27. > :20:30.either candidate, a setback for President Sarkozy. TRANSLATION: I
:20:30. > :20:34.don't trust either of the candidates. One wants the right to
:20:34. > :20:41.win, the other the left, but they have both contributed towards
:20:41. > :20:46.France's failure over the years. On Sunday, I will cast a blank boat. -
:20:46. > :20:50.- vote. Across the city, a huge crowds turned out for President
:20:50. > :20:55.Sarkozy. He turned his fire today on the unions and the left, saying
:20:55. > :20:59.that they stood in the way of change. TRANSLATION: Look at what
:21:00. > :21:07.is going on in countries which do not make the necessary changes,
:21:07. > :21:10.look at Greece, Spain. Nobody wants to see that in France. But his
:21:10. > :21:15.opponent, Francois Hollande, remains ahead in the polls and had
:21:15. > :21:18.this criticism of President Sarkozy's agenda. To make the
:21:18. > :21:24.danger of immigration, he said, the principal question at this
:21:24. > :21:29.election? No, the main issue is unemployment. Francois: Has
:21:29. > :21:34.promised to make growth rather than austerity is parity. -- Francois
:21:34. > :21:38.Hollande. Tomorrow there will be the only face-to-face TV debate
:21:38. > :21:47.between the candidates. It will beat President Sarkozy's last
:21:47. > :21:52.chance to reduce his opponent's Thousands of council seats will be
:21:52. > :21:57.contested on Thursday, but there will be other matters settled, too.
:21:57. > :22:03.Mayors will be elected in three cities, and 10 more cities are
:22:03. > :22:09.deciding whether to have collected mayors in future. Local government
:22:09. > :22:15.cos. -- Local Government correspondent Mike Sergeant has
:22:15. > :22:18.been listening to the arguments. London has a mayor in City Hall,
:22:18. > :22:22.New York's mayor and is an international figure, but what
:22:22. > :22:26.about Nottingham? It is one of 10 figures holding a referendum on
:22:26. > :22:29.whether to switch to a mayoral system. Property consultants Tim
:22:29. > :22:34.Garrett is in the Yes camp. He says a mayor would make the most of the
:22:34. > :22:37.Robin Hood brand and all that Nottingham currently has to offer.
:22:37. > :22:41.We have all these fantastic ingredients, but we have no recipe
:22:41. > :22:45.and we have no MasterChef. My view is that the mayor could bring all
:22:45. > :22:49.this together. But the man who led much of the redevelopment of
:22:49. > :22:52.Nottingham, including this ice-rink, disagrees. He think local
:22:52. > :22:58.government is already and they could control and having a mayor
:22:58. > :23:02.might upset the balance. -- and they could control. We have settled
:23:02. > :23:06.governance which is working well. I do not wanted to change and so we
:23:06. > :23:09.can be sure that other cities have proved it can work. Much of the
:23:09. > :23:13.resistance to the idea of an elected mayor here and elsewhere
:23:13. > :23:18.comes from within the town hall itself. Why change a system that is
:23:18. > :23:24.working? The council has managed to organise his popular TRAN system.
:23:24. > :23:29.Would having an elected mayor make much difference to the people here?
:23:29. > :23:32.Do you think Nottingham should have a mayor? It should, yeah, the
:23:33. > :23:37.people's choice rather than a group of people. The problem is how much
:23:37. > :23:42.it costs. At the moment, we have so few resources, spending them on a
:23:42. > :23:51.mayor may not be the best idea. the moment of choice is approaching.
:23:51. > :23:54.Voters must decide on the best way The new England football manager is
:23:54. > :23:58.Roy Hodgson, who takes over just a few weeks before the European
:23:58. > :24:02.Championship. The Football Association, which has given in a
:24:02. > :24:05.four year contract, insists he was a unanimous first choice, despite
:24:05. > :24:14.persistent suggestions that Harry Redknapp was favoured by some
:24:14. > :24:19.officials. Dan Roan reports on the He may not be the man many expected
:24:19. > :24:23.to be unveiled as the new England manager, but Roy Hodgson's long and
:24:23. > :24:28.distinguished career today reached an unexpected high. He is the
:24:28. > :24:31.latest to be handed the top job in the English game. It is a very
:24:31. > :24:35.proud day for me, I am a very happy man to be offered the chance of
:24:35. > :24:41.managing my country. I am looking forward enormously to the task
:24:41. > :24:44.ahead. Everyone knows it is not an easy one. I'm also hoping that
:24:44. > :24:49.everybody, fans, supporters, everybody within the country would
:24:49. > :24:53.get behind the team. Hodgson is one of the most experienced managers in
:24:53. > :24:58.world football, guiding Switzerland to the 1994 World Cup finals. He
:24:58. > :25:02.has coached numerous clubs across Europe but endured a painful spell
:25:02. > :25:06.at Liverpool. Harry Redknapp had been the overwhelming favourite for
:25:06. > :25:12.the role, so why was the Spurs manager ignored? I am not prepared
:25:12. > :25:18.to talk about other people, other candidates, other managers. We are
:25:18. > :25:22.here to present our new manager, Roy. There is a lot to talk about
:25:23. > :25:25.for the future. How I hope that we will remain friends. We have
:25:25. > :25:30.unwittingly become rivals, but I hope it will not affect our
:25:30. > :25:34.friendship. Hodgson has no time to waste. His first match will be
:25:34. > :25:37.against Norway later this month. The Euro 2012 squad has to be
:25:37. > :25:41.announced by the 29th, and England leave for the tournament on June
:25:41. > :25:46.the sixth. Their opening match against France is five days later.
:25:46. > :25:51.How big a job to have to win people over? It is always a big job to win
:25:51. > :25:54.people over. It is important to have the chance, and the only way
:25:54. > :25:59.you're going to win people over is by doing the job that I know and
:25:59. > :26:03.feel confident I can do. After spending an estimated �24 million
:26:03. > :26:06.on Fabio Capello, a manager with more modest demands will have
:26:06. > :26:11.appealed to the FA. But as ever with the England manager's job, it
:26:11. > :26:15.is results on the pitch that will prove decisive. Unlike many of his
:26:15. > :26:20.predecessors, Hodgson will enjoy no honeymoon period. The pressure is