:00:12. > :00:21.Tonight at 10: 23 years after the Hillsborough football disaster, the
:00:21. > :00:25.truth finally emerges. In Liverpool tonight, they remember
:00:25. > :00:31.the 96 fans who died. The blame is officially laid on the police and
:00:31. > :00:34.emergency services. If today's is one thing to the world, we are
:00:34. > :00:37.vindicated in our search for the truth.
:00:37. > :00:42.The events of 1989 were investigated by an independent
:00:42. > :00:47.panel, which said many more lives could have been saved. On behalf of
:00:47. > :00:51.the Government, and indeed a country, I am profoundly sorry this
:00:51. > :00:56.double injustice has been left uncorrected for so long. We will
:00:56. > :01:01.have details of the police cover-up and the blaming of in some --
:01:01. > :01:04.innocent victims. America's man in Libya is killed in
:01:04. > :01:08.an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.
:01:08. > :01:13.Despite the continued recession, a modest fall in the number of
:01:13. > :01:17.unemployed in the UK. In Germany, senior judges clear the
:01:17. > :01:27.way for the country to support a new bail out fund for the eurozone.
:01:27. > :01:37.And why the gerbil might hold the key to curing deafness for some
:01:37. > :01:57.
:01:57. > :02:02.Good evening. The Independent report on the Hillsborough football
:02:02. > :02:05.disaster in which 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives has delivered a
:02:05. > :02:09.devastating verdict on the police and the emergency services.
:02:09. > :02:14.Evidence was manipulated, innocent victims were blamed and many more
:02:14. > :02:24.lives could have been saved on that afternoon in Sheffield 23 years ago.
:02:24. > :02:28.Our correspondent has the details. After the revelations, the
:02:28. > :02:32.recriminations and the apologies, tonight a vigil to remember the 96
:02:32. > :02:42.who died at Hillsborough and to mark the moment history has been
:02:42. > :02:52.
:02:52. > :02:56.rewritten. Roy Harry Hamilton, aged 34, Philip Hammond, aged 14...
:02:56. > :03:04.Liverpool fans were fatally crashed at Sheffield Wednesday's ground on
:03:04. > :03:10.that fateful day in 1989. The primary cause of the crash was a
:03:10. > :03:14.lack of control by police. But the families had spent years fighting
:03:14. > :03:19.the accusation that fans were drunk. They were looking for Druse and the
:03:19. > :03:23.apology from the top. Today, they got just that. -- the truth.
:03:23. > :03:27.new evidence we have got a day makes it clear in my view that
:03:27. > :03:31.these families have suffered a double injustice. The failure of
:03:31. > :03:35.the state to protect their loved ones and the indefensible wait to
:03:35. > :03:40.get to the truth, and then the denigration of the disease that
:03:40. > :03:43.somehow they were at fault for their own deaths. So on behalf of
:03:43. > :03:49.the Government, I am profoundly sorry this double injustice has
:03:49. > :03:54.been left uncorrected for so long. To the families we say, we are
:03:54. > :03:59.deeply sorry for your loss. We are deeply sorry for the pain you have
:03:59. > :04:02.suffered. We sincerely hope that today marks a day of truth. Some of
:04:02. > :04:08.the family members believed by Hillsborough was so moved when they
:04:08. > :04:12.saw the report, they apparently fainted. We have had all sorts of
:04:12. > :04:17.accusations thrown at us over the 23 years. We have been accused of
:04:17. > :04:23.being a vengeful, spiteful, looking for a scapegoat. A looking for
:04:23. > :04:26.compensation. All of which is a total load of rubbish. And if
:04:26. > :04:33.today's is one thing to the world, we are vindicated in our search for
:04:33. > :04:39.the truth. -- today says. independent panel has sifted
:04:39. > :04:44.through more than 400,000 pages of documentation. After the families
:04:44. > :04:48.spend years suspecting a cover-up, a hundred and 64 statements by
:04:48. > :04:52.police were amended to remove Commons unfavourable to the South
:04:52. > :04:57.Yorkshire force. The Ambulance Service is now known to have failed
:04:57. > :05:03.extensively, too, and it has emerged 41 of the 96 victims had
:05:03. > :05:08.the potential to survive. 28 people had definite evidence that they did
:05:08. > :05:12.not have obstruction of the blood flow. 16 people had definite
:05:12. > :05:17.evidence of their heart and lungs continue into functioned for a
:05:17. > :05:23.prolonged period after the crash. When the inquests were held, the
:05:23. > :05:28.coroner ruled that all the victims had died by 3:15pm. Today, the
:05:28. > :05:37.panel this brute that. The doctor was unwilling to talk to reporters
:05:37. > :05:42.about his vision. -- the panelled dispute that. Now we have got such
:05:42. > :05:52.an excellent report, my lawyers will be finishing the draft next
:05:52. > :05:53.
:05:53. > :05:58.week and I will be submitting to the Attorney General. Under Section
:05:58. > :06:03.13, I am asking him to give Kevin his inquest. The Hillsborough
:06:03. > :06:07.families'' grief has never been private. Theirs is a sorrow shared
:06:07. > :06:14.by a city. And tonight, the people of Liverpool have come here to
:06:14. > :06:18.support them and to share in the family's' success. Tonight,
:06:18. > :06:24.survivors and bereaved have the truth. Next, they say, they want
:06:24. > :06:28.justice. In Sheffield, there were apologies
:06:28. > :06:32.today from the Ambulance Service and senior police officers. The
:06:32. > :06:40.Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police said he was profoundly sorry
:06:40. > :06:43.for what he called the disgraceful lies told about the fans.
:06:43. > :06:47.Buried within a mountain of official secrets. The truth and
:06:47. > :06:52.lies. Among hundreds of thousands of pages, the shocking betrayal of
:06:52. > :06:55.the victims of Hillsborough is revealed. The fans who had made
:06:55. > :06:59.their way across the Pennines had been betrayed before they even got
:06:59. > :07:06.to the ground. The stadium was a death trap and the author Ritter's
:07:06. > :07:10.knew it. But this was an era when managing football crowds saw Public
:07:10. > :07:15.Order put for a -- before public safety. Fans herded into pens,
:07:15. > :07:18.treated like animals, so even when it became horribly obvious lives
:07:18. > :07:23.are being lost, the documents record has a fleet of ambulances
:07:23. > :07:27.was kept outside the stadium, unable to help injured and dying. A
:07:27. > :07:34.dreadful mistakes were made but those responsible were already
:07:34. > :07:37.trying to cover up their negligence. Fans rushed through a broken
:07:37. > :07:43.turnstile, crashing Liverpool supporters against the front of the
:07:43. > :07:47.stand. It was lies. Return star had not been charged by fans. A gate
:07:47. > :07:51.was opened by police themselves at as police officers knew only too
:07:51. > :07:54.well. South Yorkshire Police then set about altering the written
:07:55. > :08:01.evidence from the day, amending scores of statements to shift blame
:08:01. > :08:05.away from themselves and on to the fans. Eva now, 23 years after the
:08:05. > :08:10.event, I would wish to profoundly apologise, not only to the family
:08:10. > :08:13.of the 96, but also to Liverpool fans in general. The panel
:08:13. > :08:21.discovered documents which revealed how the police spread their
:08:21. > :08:25.untruths. A local Conservative MP Irvine Patnick was asked to brief a
:08:25. > :08:32.local news agency that Liverpool fans had urinated on police and
:08:32. > :08:38.stolen from the dead. And it was the Sun which reported lies as
:08:38. > :08:42.truth. For which the newspaper finely today apologised. It is a
:08:42. > :08:50.version of events which we went along with, and for that we are
:08:50. > :08:53.deeply ashamed and profoundly sorry. The original inquiry was not aware
:08:53. > :08:58.with how many statements had been tampered with and destroyed. A
:08:58. > :09:01.Cabinet paper reveals how Margaret Thatcher was briefed by her private
:09:01. > :09:05.secretary that the close to deceitful behaviour of South
:09:05. > :09:10.Yorkshire Police was depressingly familiar. The terrible events that
:09:10. > :09:15.happened here on a warm, sunny spring Saturday carved deep wounds
:09:15. > :09:21.that are still more a generation later. The bread today is that but
:09:21. > :09:24.-- the document released will leave no dark corners where mistrust and
:09:24. > :09:31.grievance can breed and will allow the healing process to finally
:09:31. > :09:34.begin. There are no words in the English language that can describe
:09:35. > :09:40.the dignity, grace and courage shown by the families of the 96
:09:40. > :09:44.loved ones we lost at Hillsborough. A monumental cover-up and a
:09:44. > :09:54.sickening campaign of vilification against victims, families,
:09:54. > :09:58.traumatised survivors and a city in shock. Today it is a rare and
:09:58. > :10:03.famous victory for the individual against the Establishment. The
:10:03. > :10:07.indomitable spirit of mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, who
:10:07. > :10:11.waged a long and lonely battle for justice. Walk on with hope in your
:10:11. > :10:21.hearts is a fitting and them for Liverpool, a city where people
:10:21. > :10:30.
:10:30. > :10:35.Over to Westminster now. As we have underlined, 23 years to get to this
:10:35. > :10:42.point. What was your reading of with his impacted on Westminster
:10:42. > :10:47.today? It was a day unlike most others. Gone was the noise, the
:10:47. > :10:51.name-calling, the politics. There was a sense of shock and some shame
:10:51. > :10:57.because people knew on all sides of the House of Commons that for year
:10:57. > :11:01.after year, the pleas of the family had been ignored and a police's
:11:01. > :11:06.distortions and those of parts of the press had simply been ignored
:11:06. > :11:11.until this inquiry was set up. Hundreds of MPs crowded onto those
:11:11. > :11:14.green benches, but for once, they crowded in order to speak as one.
:11:14. > :11:19.When the Prime Minister read out the verdict he had been handed only
:11:19. > :11:25.a couple of hours ago, there was almost total silence, save the odd
:11:25. > :11:30.gasp, the odd cry of shame, as they heard what had actually happened.
:11:30. > :11:34.Now MPs are looking to what might happen next. It is expected the
:11:34. > :11:38.country's top legal officer, the Attorney General, may well apply to
:11:38. > :11:42.the High Court to have the inquest reopened, in other words, the great
:11:42. > :11:46.hope of the families that accidental death will be replaced
:11:47. > :11:50.by manslaughter. Some hope there will be individual prosecutions,
:11:50. > :11:54.too, though it is an awfully long time for evidence to have been
:11:55. > :12:00.preserved. But it is no worthy to hear of what David Cameron also
:12:00. > :12:07.said in addition to that apology. He said "after truth has to come
:12:07. > :12:10.just as". A thank you. President Obama has condemned the
:12:10. > :12:14.attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in which the American
:12:14. > :12:18.ambassador was killed. Chris Stevens and three other Americans
:12:18. > :12:21.died in the attack last night during protests against an American
:12:21. > :12:28.video posted online said to Riddick with -- ridicule the Prophet
:12:28. > :12:31.Muhammad. In the darkness and confusion
:12:32. > :12:36.during the attack on the US consulate, witnesses said the area
:12:36. > :12:40.was cordoned off by heavily armed bearded men who look like jihadist
:12:40. > :12:45.fighters. The attack was linked with a row about an American film
:12:45. > :12:49.that protesters said insulted the Prophet Muhammad. He is our Prophet,
:12:49. > :12:54.he is the best human being in the world! So we have to have an
:12:54. > :12:58.opportunity to stop this film. Stopping the film is our hope, our
:12:58. > :13:01.relationship with the American's! By the morning, the US consulate in
:13:02. > :13:07.Benghazi was in ruins. But this was not the first attack on foreigners
:13:07. > :13:15.in the city. In June, the British Ambassador's convoy was hit. Nobody
:13:15. > :13:19.was killed and the UN has also been attacked. My name is Chris
:13:19. > :13:23.Stevens... The US ambassador started his time and Benghazi as
:13:24. > :13:27.envoy to anti-Gaddafi rebels. The Libyan government says he was
:13:27. > :13:33.killed by the loyalists. In Washington, there is speculation
:13:33. > :13:39.the attack might have been to mark the anniversary of the 9/11. There
:13:39. > :13:42.is absolutely no justification to this sort of senseless violence. At
:13:42. > :13:48.the world must band together to unequivocally reject these brutal
:13:48. > :13:54.acts. Already, many Libyans have joined us in doing so. This attack
:13:54. > :14:00.will not break the bond between the United States and Libya. Libya is
:14:00. > :14:06.trying to turn the wreckage of Gaddafi's country into democracy.
:14:06. > :14:12.But the killings show once again that in the new Libya, armed groups
:14:12. > :14:16.continued to have real power and to act seemingly with impunity. In
:14:17. > :14:20.Cairo, demonstrators blaming the US for the anti-is on film won at the
:14:20. > :14:24.embassy for the second night running. It is a challenge for
:14:24. > :14:29.Egypt's Brotherhood-led government, which has condemned the film while
:14:29. > :14:33.calling for restraint protests. In Libya, too, the government will
:14:33. > :14:38.want this kind of demonstration. Pro-America but against the film.
:14:38. > :14:41.The big -- the danger remains, though, that violent extremists
:14:41. > :14:51.might try to exploit what will be seen across the region as
:14:51. > :14:52.
:14:52. > :14:56.Back to Washington and our North American editor Mark Mardel. What
:14:56. > :15:06.more has been said about this video and indeed about the attack? Well
:15:06. > :15:07.
:15:07. > :15:12.it was a very obscure film, badly- made, low-budget and there it
:15:12. > :15:16.hasn't really been shown in public. The details of the film-maker don't
:15:16. > :15:22.really check out, there is nobody of that name and the most offensive
:15:22. > :15:26.parts were dubbed on afterwards. It is a mystery but the Americans are
:15:26. > :15:29.taking it so seriously because of what happened. The top military
:15:29. > :15:33.officer here rang one of the people distributing the film and asked
:15:33. > :15:37.them to stop warning the tension it is would inflame and violence it
:15:37. > :15:44.would cause. Having said all that the FBI are investigating and
:15:44. > :15:47.checking out that the possibility that this four-hour gun battle was
:15:47. > :15:51.pre-planned and was about the anniversary of 9/11 rather than the
:15:51. > :15:58.film. But the Americans are saying they are taking an opening mind.
:15:58. > :16:00.President Obama has said he will bring the killers to justice.
:16:00. > :16:06.Despite the continued recession there's been a modest fall in the
:16:06. > :16:10.total number of people out of work. UK-wide unemployment fell by 7,000
:16:10. > :16:15.in the three months to July but there were rises in Scotland, Wales
:16:15. > :16:19.and Northern Ireland. And the headline figure now stands at 2.5 9
:16:20. > :16:23.million. As our chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym reports, the
:16:23. > :16:26.number of people find work has also risen at the fastest rate for two
:16:26. > :16:30.years. It's too early to talk about a new
:16:30. > :16:36.dawn but in the Medway towns in Kent, as in some other parts of the
:16:36. > :16:39.country, the jobs market is looking brighter. Companies like this
:16:39. > :16:44.electronics components manufacturer are recruiting. Stacey skaf driver
:16:44. > :16:48.a manager in her family's business, told me how order books and staff
:16:48. > :16:52.numbers were expanding. We have taken on two members of staff and
:16:52. > :16:56.we are recruiting for an apprentice in the office. We are growing as a
:16:56. > :17:00.business and we hopefully will see that grow again. Looking at the
:17:00. > :17:04.overall economic landscape, there's one thing that's really puzzling
:17:04. > :17:08.for policy-makers. Even though the economy is in recession with output
:17:08. > :17:13.contracting, jobs have been created with total employment numbers
:17:13. > :17:17.rising. And there doesn't appear to be a simple explanation. I think
:17:17. > :17:21.the employment data are probably giving us a better impression of
:17:21. > :17:24.the underlying reality. Partly because they are easier to measure
:17:25. > :17:28.than the GDP numbers. Also we have seen the job growth being sustained
:17:28. > :17:33.for a period of time and across different sectors. Youth
:17:33. > :17:37.unemployment has increased. Caitlin got a first in her history degree
:17:37. > :17:42.this year but has had to sign-on. After working hard at university,
:17:42. > :17:45.she feels let down. I feel lied to. From when I was at school, you are
:17:45. > :17:49.constantly being told if you do a degree you will be able to walk
:17:49. > :17:54.straight into almost like a middle management job and you will get
:17:54. > :17:57.paid loads of money and everything will be brilliant. You come out of
:17:57. > :18:00.university and find you are having to apply for the jobs at the bottom
:18:00. > :18:04.with rubbish pay. Ministers say young people are being helped
:18:04. > :18:10.through Government franc schemes and with overall employment up by
:18:10. > :18:15.nearly 240,000 over three months, the picture is better.
:18:15. > :18:19.In Pakistan 290 people are now known to have died in a fire at a
:18:19. > :18:25.clething factory in the city of Karachi -- clothing faktri. It is
:18:25. > :18:30.one of the worst industrial accidents in the country's history.
:18:30. > :18:34.Many of the people in the building were unable to escape because it
:18:34. > :18:39.had no fire escapes. Coming to recover the dead. Many
:18:39. > :18:43.lost their lives in the basement of the factory. Some had made
:18:43. > :18:48.desperate calls from here, begging to be saved.
:18:49. > :18:55.And among the victims, three young sisters, who died together. Their
:18:55. > :19:05.family now in mourning, like so many others. This woman knows both
:19:05. > :19:06.
:19:06. > :19:10.her daughters may have lost their husbands. "They called last night.
:19:10. > :19:16.They said take care of yourselves and the children, we don't know if
:19:16. > :19:22.we'll make it home." Dozens survived by jumping from the roof
:19:22. > :19:28.or the upper storeys, like this man. A crane made a hole in the wall, he
:19:28. > :19:37.said, "And I jumped from the third floor, but five of my relatives
:19:37. > :19:40.were trapped inside." This is the inferno from which he escaped. It
:19:41. > :19:50.engulfed the garment factory in minutes. The window has metal
:19:50. > :19:54.grills. Police say most of the workers didn't stand a chance.
:19:54. > :19:57.There was no safety measures taken in the design of the building. No
:19:57. > :20:01.safety exists. The people got trapped. There is still a search
:20:01. > :20:06.for bodies here. Officials say many of those who died had come to
:20:06. > :20:12.collect their wages. Tonight rescue workers are still
:20:12. > :20:15.dousing burning embers inside the factory. Employees say it was a
:20:15. > :20:20.deathtrap. But as is often the case in Pakistan, the authorities
:20:20. > :20:30.allowed it to remain open. Relatives of those who perished
:20:30. > :20:37.
:20:37. > :20:41.here are asking if anyone will be held to account. BAE Systems has
:20:41. > :20:49.confirmed it is in merger talks with EADS. A deal would create a
:20:49. > :20:54.company with combined sales of more than �50,000 -- �50 billion.
:20:54. > :20:58.John Moylan is with me. What could this mean? It means Europe would
:20:58. > :21:04.have a defence and airspace giant capable of taking on the biggest in
:21:04. > :21:06.the world, Boeing in particular. For the UK it would be by far the
:21:06. > :21:11.biggest industrialentity, with something like 57,000 employees.
:21:11. > :21:15.The Government is keeping a close eye on this. It is saying that it
:21:15. > :21:18.would want to ensure that the UK's public interest is protected.
:21:18. > :21:22.Number one it, would want it to be protected from being taken over by
:21:22. > :21:27.a foreign company, but number two, here in Britain we maintain the
:21:27. > :21:31.capibilities we have in building fighter aircraft, ship-building and
:21:31. > :21:36.submarine-building. If it works it could be good news for Britain.
:21:36. > :21:41.Defence and airspace is a massive export earner for the UK and it
:21:41. > :21:44.generates the high-skilled well- paid jobs we need more of.
:21:44. > :21:48.Germany's highest court says there is no constitutional reason to
:21:48. > :21:52.block the country's involvement in a new bailout fund for the eurozone.
:21:52. > :21:57.The ruling is being seen as a big boost for the efforts to stabilise
:21:57. > :22:02.the euro. For a moment today, Europe's eyes
:22:02. > :22:08.were on these eight men and women, the judges of German's
:22:08. > :22:13.Constitutional Court. Would they declare the eurozone's new bailout
:22:13. > :22:18.fund illegal and throw Europe into turmoil? TRANSLATION: In the name
:22:18. > :22:23.of the people we reject the petition. And with those few words
:22:23. > :22:26.the judges gave the go-ahead to a fund that's seen as central for
:22:26. > :22:30.fighting the eurozone crisis. What did the court agree? It gave the
:22:30. > :22:36.green light for Germany to contribute to the eurozone's
:22:36. > :22:40.permanent bailout fund. With a 500 billion euro war chest, the stpund
:22:40. > :22:45.seen as essential for helping out troubled countries. The German
:22:45. > :22:49.Chancellor, Angela Merkel, arrived at Parliament. She knew that 37,000
:22:49. > :22:53.Germans had petitioned the court, fearful that control over German
:22:53. > :22:57.budgets was being lost. She also knew her European strategy depended
:22:57. > :23:00.on the court backing her. TRANSLATION: I say it is a good day
:23:00. > :23:04.for Germany and it is a good day for Europe.
:23:04. > :23:10.The court did, however, rule that if German liabilities were to
:23:10. > :23:14.increase further, then Parliament would have to give its approval.
:23:14. > :23:18.The basic articles of the German constitution are clearly set out
:23:18. > :23:23.here close to the German Parliament. Those who petitioned the court
:23:23. > :23:28.argued that the eurozone's new bailout fund involved more powers
:23:28. > :23:32.going to EUK institutions without proper democratic control.
:23:32. > :23:38.This man was one of the petitioners to the court and said the desilgs
:23:38. > :23:42.to support the ESM was bad for German democracy. -- decision to
:23:42. > :23:47.support the ESM. I'm disappointed. With that decision I think the
:23:47. > :23:52.flood gate is open for the ESM to finance southern countries at the
:23:52. > :23:56.expense of the north and Europe. Hamburg, the gateway for so many
:23:56. > :24:02.German exports. Even here there are signs the German economy is slowing
:24:02. > :24:06.and support for further bailouts is weakening.
:24:06. > :24:10.TRANSLATION: At some point enough is enough. Germany also has its own
:24:10. > :24:13.problems. We should deal with them first.
:24:13. > :24:18.I think Germany helps other countries already. We're worried
:24:18. > :24:22.that Germany might also onedy go down, too. European -- one day go
:24:22. > :24:26.down. European integration is deepening. A first step was taken
:24:26. > :24:34.today towards a full banking union, with the aim of closer economic and
:24:34. > :24:37.political union in the future. A study conducted on gerbils has
:24:37. > :24:40.raised hopes of finding a cure for certain kinds of deafness.
:24:40. > :24:45.Researchers at the University of Sheffield say that the first human
:24:45. > :24:50.patients could be treated within a few years. Our medical
:24:50. > :24:55.correspondent, Fergus Walsh, has more details. These nerve cells
:24:55. > :24:57.under the microscope are what researchers hope will one day may
:24:58. > :25:01.reverse deafness. They were created from human embryonic stem cells
:25:01. > :25:05.which have the ability to turn into any tissue. The scientists are
:25:05. > :25:10.trying to tackle a form of deafness that affects about one in ten
:25:10. > :25:15.people with profound hearing loss. In the condition, nerve cells in
:25:15. > :25:19.the cochlea, in the inner ear are damaged, preventing sound from
:25:19. > :25:24.travelling along the audit trinerve to the brain, like cutting a
:25:24. > :25:28.telephone wire. In the lab researchers grew stem cells derived
:25:28. > :25:33.from donated human embryos, smaller than a pin head and grew them into
:25:33. > :25:37.healthy nerve cells. They injected these into 18 deaf gerbils,
:25:37. > :25:41.considered a good animal model for human hearing and tests showed, on
:25:41. > :25:46.average, about 45% of their hearing was restored.
:25:46. > :25:50.We have had the proof of concept that stem cells can be used to
:25:51. > :25:58.repair the damaged ear. But this is only the beginning. A lot more work
:25:58. > :26:03.is needed, but as proof of concept, we think it is a good step forward.
:26:03. > :26:08.This woman could hear perfectly as a child, until she contracted
:26:08. > :26:12.typhoid. The treatment left her profoundly deaf. She works with a
:26:12. > :26:16.charity that helped fund the research and says she'd volunteer
:26:16. > :26:21.for any patient trials. I would definitely seize the opportunity to
:26:21. > :26:25.hear again. To know that in future, when I have kids, I will be able to
:26:25. > :26:30.hear them and I don't have to rely on my partner or a family member to
:26:30. > :26:34.tell me what my little daughter or son is saying. But many questions
:26:34. > :26:39.remain. Such as: does the hearing improvement last? The gerbils were