12/10/2012 BBC News at Ten

After the Hillsborough disaster, now the biggest ever independent

investigation into the police. 96 Liverpool fans died in 1989. The

inquiry will examine what went wrong at the match and the alleged

cover up after it. Justice demands that we do whatever is possible to

investigate culpability for any offence that may have been

committed. We have had the truth, now it is our turn for the justice

and I think this is the beginning of it.

Many police officers, including a serving chief constable, are to be

investigated and could face criminal charges.

Also tonight: The Jimmy Savile scandal. Police

are now pursuing 340 lines of enquiry. And from the BBC, two

investigations and an apology. profound and heartfelt apology on

behalf of the BBC to every victim. A big hike in gas and electricity

prices - 11.5 million customers will have to pay more.

Prayers for the 14-year-old girl in Pakistan, shot in the head by

Taliban gunmen. And heavy rain in parts of Scotland

blocks roads and causes damage to In Sportsday, a full round-up of

the night's World Cup qualifiers, as Wales go head to head with

Good evening. The biggest ever independent

investigation into police conduct is to be carried out following the

damning report into the Hillsborough disaster. The police

watchdog, the IPCC, will investigate what went wrong on the

day in 1989 when 96 Liverpool fans died, and the alleged cover-up

afterwards. A report last month revealed more than 100 police

statements had been altered. The Director of Public Prosecutions

will investigate whether there are grounds to bring criminal charges

against officers, such as manslaughter. Judith Moritz reports.

Ever since 96 Liverpool fans were fatally crashed at Hillsborough,

the families of the people who died have wanted those responsible to be

held to account. South Yorkshire police were blamed but no one has

ever faced criminal charges. Today, the Director of Public Prosecutions

said legal action could now follow. He will investigate whether there

is enough new evidence to bring charges, which could include

manslaughter. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has

also announced its biggest ever investigation. Justice demands that

we do whatever is possible to investigate culpability for any

offence that may have been committed. And to do so thoroughly

and fairly. The wheels of justice are moving slowly, but campaigners

are prepared to wait. Britain's worst ever sporting disaster may

have happened here more than two decades ago, but it is still

playing out today. The bereaved families have been through inquests,

inquiries and investigations, but they say it is only now they feel

they are getting close to achieving justice. The IPCC will concentrate

its investigation on the following points. The amendment of police

statements. 116 were changed to remove negative comments about the

South Yorkshire force. Who ordered the changes, and he was involved?

The supply of misleading information. The allegation that

lies were told to the media and MPs in an attempt to shift the blame

from the police to the fans. And the actions of police officers

immediately after the disaster, including why they checked the

blood alcohol levels of the dead and injured. The bereaved, and

survivors of Hillsborough, are hopeful that these and other

questions will finally be answered. We have had the truth. This is the

start of the justice. I believe this is our start of the

accountability now. Retired and current police officers could be

prosecuted. Around 200 who were working at the match are still

serving today. Many more are retired. The IPCC acknowledge that

any disciplinary matters cannot apply to anyone who has retired.

However, any criminal matters are equally applicable to someone who

has retired as to someone who is serving. The Chief Constable of

West Yorkshire, Sir Norman Bettison, denies being part of a police

cover-up but has announced he will step down early. His role will be

examined, along with a new allegation that he tried to

interfere with the handling of complaints against him following

the recent independent report. The two investigations announced today

may not be the only consequence of that report. Some families also

want new inquests to be held. The Attorney General is still

considering that. Mark Easton is here. These are two

massive investigations. Why now? The IPCC, in a way, has gone

further than many might have expected, both in the remit of the

inquiry, very broad, and also in the tone of what they said today.

What is really at stake here is the credibility and the legitimacy of

both the police and the body that oversees it, the IPCC. And I think

there is an awareness that unless they can do something to restore

public confidence, there really is a significant risk are there. I

think it is almost broader than that, actually, because the

Independent Hillsborough report, in a way, was a criticism of the

checks and balances that are supposed to be there to keep our

institutional house in order. We had a judicial inquiry,

parliamentary scrutiny, supposedly independent oversight, and yet we

know that the truth did not come out. There is the smell of a cover-

up. There is the ghastly fact that the innocent were defiled. We see

that again and again in recent times, with the press, police, the

City, and now the Jimmy Savile affair as well. It is almost as

though Britain is needing to cleanse itself. It is digging

around in the mud of its recent history, trying to expose

wrongdoers who perhaps the thought they were going to get away with it

because of the passage of time. And they are about to discover that

they are not. The police are now pursuing 340

separate lines of enquiry relating to the Jimmy Savile scandal. They

are also talking to 40 people who allege they were abused by him. The

BBC has announced it is launching two inquiries, one into why a BBC

Newsnight investigation into Savile was shelved last year, and another

into whether the culture and practice at the BBC at the time

enabled Savile to carry out the sexual abuse of children. Here's

David Sillito. Hundreds of lines of inquiry,

dozens saying they were abused by Jimmy Savile, and others now seeing

events in a new light. In 1990, Jim fixed it for a young Julie

Fernandez. 22 years later, she recalls how uncomfortable she felt

when she met Jimmy Savile. He is a predator, so it was done very

cleverly. It was in a studio, a room full of busy people. His hand

was on my leg, my arm, my back. It was too intimate and lingered for

too many seconds. It felt wrong. response, the head of the BBC

appeared before the cameras today. The first thing he had to say...

profound and heartfelt apology on behalf of the BBC to every victim.

It is the victims, these women who were subject to criminal actions,

who must be central in our thoughts. They are now going to be two

separate inquiries. One into the culture and practices at the BBC

over the last few decades. Another more specifically looking at

Newsnight. It was investigating Jimmy Savile. Why did not broadcast

the report? After Jimmy Savile died, I was part of a Newsnight team that

investigated claims of sexual abuse. In a report last night, a reference

to that investigation, saying they had simply set out to look at the

allegations. No mention of the matter of proving institutional

failure, a key reason it was said to have been dropped. Had George

Entwistle, head of TV at the time, influenced the decision? He had

been told of the investigation but he says he did not ask questions.

The key thing was to be absolutely clear about not being in a position

of looking in any sense as if I was trying to put any pressure on a

proper BBC News investigation. Meanwhile, speaking on 5 Live, the

Deputy Prime Minister expressed what many are thinking. I just

cannot understand how this remained hidden for so long. They're just

must have been so many people who knew what was going on, in

hospitals, the BBC, maybe in the police. I keep asking myself, why

did this remain buried for so long? The police say the facts about

Jimmy Savile now speak for themselves. The questions that

arise from that are only just beginning to be addressed.

Two energy companies have announced an increase in the cost of gas and

electricity from next month. 11.5 million customers will have to pay

more. NPower says its bills will go up by around 9% and British Gas,

the UK's biggest supplier, will raise its prices by 6%. Here's Hugh

Pym. First it was British Gas, with an

�80 increase next month for the average gas and electricity bill.

And then NPower with a �109 price hike, burning another hole in

customers'' wallets. The companies blame the rising cost of gas

supplies and the need to invest more in new sources of energy.

could say, why not sell energy at a loss through the winter? If we did,

we would not be able to invest in jobs, would not be able to bring

new sources of energy to Britain, would not be able to help customers

in their homes with energy efficiency. The explanations are no

consolation for this retired couple who are in poor health. They have

been struggling with the bills, so news of next month's price rise has

not gone down well. The pills keep going up. I think the companies are

greedy anyway. They made a lot of profit. It is profit, profit,

profit, but they do not give anything back to the people. So how

do consumer prices relate to the cost of energy? The regulator,

Ofgem, published this chart. A few years ago household bills tracked

wholesale costs. More recently, the gap has widened, with critics

claiming that prices never fall as much as they should. Ministers said

today's announcements were very unwelcome and they would press on

with plans to reform the energy market. The Chancellor urged

companies to think again about the increases. The companies say one

reason for raising consumer prices is the need to cover the future

cost of upgrading Britain's ageing energy infrastructure. They will

need to pay their share of the bills for modernising gas and

electricity transmission networks. The industry also says the cost of

Government green energy policies has to be passed on to consumers.

The push for a lower carbon economy, as far as the energy sector is

concerned, is certainly a reason for the increase is that we have

seen and we are seeing. That is a combination of legislation from the

UK and also from the EU, all of which is adding to the overall

costs the industry faces. Households will be trying to work

out how to cope with their energy costs. British Gas and NPower have

Scott -- followed Scottish & Southern bid price hikes and other

suppliers seem certain to follow. There's news tonight that Royal

Bank of Scotland's proposed sale of more than 300 branches is off. The

buyer, Santander, has pulled out of the deal. Hugh Pym is now with us.

Hugh, what happened? The deal was first agreed more than two years

ago, RBS agreed to sell the branches to Zentan dare for 1.6 �5

billion. It had to do so under the use state aid rules because it had

to cut its size because it had received a government bail out.

Tonight, dealers off, leaving customers up in the air. They

thought they were moving to Santander and now they are not. And

the same with over 200,000 small business customers. It leaves RBS

with a big challenge, to find another buyer before the deadline

at the end of next year. Why has it happened? Well, a bit of confusion

over that. Santander has said there were delays and should have

happened last year, should have happened this year, and then

another delay until next year. So they are pulling out. RBS are

saying probably not too many IT problems, as has been suggested.

They were surprised and disappointed by the timing.

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the EU. The commission

said it had replaced war with peace. But with the European debt crisis,

some have questioned the timing of the ward.

For the EU, this moment could not have been more unexpected.

Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 is to be awarded to the European Union.

There were gasps of surprise in Norway. Europe is facing violent

protests. But the Nobel Prize on at the EU for promoting peace and

reconciliation over six decades. have to say, when I woke up this

morning, I did not expected to be such a good day. It was with great

emotion that I received the news, the award of the Nobel Peace Prize

to the European Union. The idea of European Union's grew out of the

barbarism of World War II. Shared institutions, open borders and a

single market were intended to prevent war from ever returning to

the Continent. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the EU acted as

a beacon for democracy for countries that had been under

Soviet rule. But the Nobel committee's decision will puzzle

some. In the Balkans, the EU failed to act effectively to save lives.

think they are making a political statement that they think that the

EU has produced peace in Europe. Many would argue that NATO, the

presence of US troops kept the Soviet Union at bay in a much more

efficient way. Today, European unity is being challenged by a debt

crisis that is causing you tensions between northern and southern

Europe, with almost daily protests against austerity. Spain today

observed its national day. It was in sombre mood. Recession and

unemployment brought protesters onto the streets. Many questioned

whether this was the right moment for a peace prize. Actually, I was

surprised. It is nice to support peace, but it's not the best time

for Europe to win this Nobel Prize. The European Union, it is great

news, but surprising. The Norwegian jury seemed to be trying to bolster

Europe in its hour of need, reminding Europeans of what had

been achieved. Opinion polls suggest that the EU is unloved by

many Europeans and the European project is still under threat from

a debt crisis that is yet to be Wayne Rooney gets England moving!

The first goal of the season for stand-in captain Wayne Rooney in

People in Pakistan have been observing a day of prayer for the

14-year-old girl shot in the head by a Taliban gunmen. Malala

Yousafzai, who had been campaigning for girls to be educated, remains

in a critical condition. She was on her way home from school when she

was attacked in the north-western Swat Valley, one of the most

volatile regions in the country. Prayers across Pakistan today have

been dedicated to Malala. In schools and mosques. The 14-year-

old remains at a critical condition, three days after a Taliban assassin

shot her in the head. Just two weeks ago, the girl who has become

the focus of worldwide attention was filmed at home, helping her

younger brother with his work. But it was for her own writings that

she became famous. The school flag hands at half-mast. The pupils have

been too upset to come to study, not knowing when Malala will return

here, to her desk. Everywhere, there is evidence of the accolades

she won, defying the Taliban by campaigning for girls Education. He

teacher told us of the horrors of the attack, showing the school van

she was travelling in went a Taliban gunmen climbed on board and

singled her out. Blood stains cover the place where she sat. But she

was not the only girl and that packed van that was injured. A girl

whose face we have concealed, for her safety, was hurt as well.

TRANSLATION: We were all screaming, the man pointed his pistol at our

faces and holders to be quiet. He fired at Malala and then fired some

more. I could fear that -- feel that I was shot in the arm. The

fear is still with me now. Some have felt so upset that they have

taken to the streets. Malala's ordeal has had reverberations

across Pakistan. This is an atrocity, taking a gun to wait

child, that has really galvanised people in disgust. The Pakistani

Taliban are frantically releasing a statement after statement to

justified the attack. They also recognise this could be a turning

point. The militants say that their policy of not attacking journalists

has now changed, over the reporting of Malala's case. A watershed

moment it may be, but not everybody is convinced it will be for the

It has emerged that seven British Marines were arrested on suspicion

of murdering an Afghan insurgent because of footage found on a

servicemen's laptop during an unrelated police investigation. The

arrests, announced by the MoD, follow an incident in Helmand

province last year. The footage is understood to show on injured after

a man in a compound. Dozens of flood warnings and alerts

were issued in parts of Scotland today as heavy rain closed roads

and damaged homes. Some drivers had to be rescued from vehicles.

Residents in the village of Dura Den had a narrow escape when one

The villagers of Dura Den awoke this morning to find their road had

become a river. A fortnight worth of rain had come down overnight,

bringing with it mud, trees and troubles. The owner of this house

was woken by a neighbour, urging him to get out. I'm missing half my

house, I'm missing the whole road, my neighbours. We are missing

everything, nothing is left. road could have collapsed

completely, but the emergency services were on the scene anyway.

Even at the firefighters used to dealing with dramas were amazed

with what the water had done. Further north, dozens of other

communities were preparing for the worst. In Stonehaven they were

doing all they could to stop the rising waters. They have been

flooded here before, so they knew the threat was real. It comes

through the front of the street, to the back of the street. Then it

comes and other houses. The River empties into the sea just a few

hundred yards from these homes. As high tide approached at lunchtime,

the levels crept up and up. By now, there were more than 30 flood

warnings in place across Scotland. Although the rain is now easing,

for some communities the danger has not yet passed. That is because

there is still a lot of water to come off the hills, which means

that the warnings in force tonight apply to the low-lying farmland in

Perthshire and Angus. As for Pierre, the next high tide is due around

midnight. It will be another After a lacklustre performance by

President Obama and the first televised debate in the US

elections, it has been the turn of his vice-president to make the

latest picture for votes. Joe Biden clashed repeatedly with his

Republican challenger, Paul Ryan, over issues including Syria,

Afghanistan and the state of the US Kentucky, the home of American

thoroughbreds, knows all about neck and neck contests. The race for the

White House narrowed after the President's poor form last week.

Nervous eyes were on the debate in this state. As it got under way,

there was little time for niceties. The veteran Democratic Warrior went

in hard, repeatedly swinging at the Republican's young hero. Paul Ryan

questioned the wisdom of setting a date to withdraw from Afghanistan.

We don't want to embolden our enemies to hold out and take over...

That is a bizarre statement. 49 of our allies, Kearney, 49 of our

allies signed on to disposition. They argued about jobs, about tax.

Paul Ryan singled out the state of the economy in Joe Biden's home

town. You know what the employment rate is there? 10%. You know what

it was when you guys came in? 8.5%. That is how it is going around

America. That is not how it is going, it is going down. Joe Biden

more than made up for the President's passivity in his debate.

He chortled, he chuckled. He never stopped grinning to hammer home his

message that his opponent's arguments were a joke. His contempt,

the very strength of his attack, might turn off sum. But he forced

his opponent to defend himself. never answers the question. That

question was about Syria. We would not refer to the Shah as a reformer

when he is killing civilians went using Russian weapons. We would not

be outsourcing hour foreign policy to the United Nations, giving

Vladimir Putin veto power over our efforts. Spectators seemed divided.

Horse races have a clear winner. The same is not true of debates.

The important thing is that neither man stumbled, neither man lost. The

President needs to put in a flawless performance in the next

debate to redeem his reputation as Football, and in the World Cup

qualifiers England face San Marino at Wembley. Wales and Scotland met

in Cardiff, with the Welsh needing a win after a string of defeats.

Fans in Wales can see the Hoping to turn passion into points.

Wales and Scotland both knew that only victory could revive their

flagging World Cup qualifying campaigns. Wales were particularly

desperate. They have lost every game this year. But they spurned

early chances. How Scotland made them pay. A swift counter-attack

and ruthless finish. James Morrison, sending the Tartan Army into

overdrive. But, come the second half, what a turnaround. It was all

down to Gareth Bale. First he won and converted a penalty, before, in

the dying minutes, a moment of utter genius. From the depths of

despair to pure euphoria. Wales had won it. A grim night for Scotland.

But a great one for the Wales fans here. Their hopes of qualifying for

the World Cup are distant, but still alive. At Wembley, meanwhile,

England were hoping to disprove the old adage that there are no easy

games at this level. San Marino are officially the joint worst team in

international football. But England still had to wait 35 minutes for a

breakthrough. Danny Welbeck winning the penalty. Stand-in skipper Wayne

Rooney, leading by example. What followed was even better. Danny

Welbeck with the nimblest of finishers to put England 2-0 up at

the break. From there, they cut loose. Rooney and Welbeck adding to