:00:53. > :00:57.For the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these
:00:57. > :01:01.little children. And for the families of the adults who were
:01:01. > :01:05.lost. The gunman is believed to have been the son of one of the
:01:05. > :01:10.teachers. He is reported to have shot her dead. We will bring you
:01:10. > :01:14.the latest on this unfolding story tonight. Nick Clegg becomes the
:01:14. > :01:18.first serving minister to question whether possession of some drugs
:01:18. > :01:22.should be decriminalised. Modern- day slavery. The family convicted
:01:22. > :01:29.of forcing them to work for them as labourers, ruling them by fear and
:01:29. > :01:31.humiliation. More demonstrations in Egypt on the eve of the
:01:31. > :01:35.controversial referendum that has sparked weeks of violence and
:01:36. > :01:41.protests. And the woman who had a relationship with the DJ John Peel
:01:41. > :01:47.when she was just 15 says she doesn't feel she was abused.
:01:47. > :01:51.totally wanted it. I wanted to be with him. And I didn't really feel
:01:51. > :02:01.that he was so old. I wasn't going to tell him I was so young it
:02:01. > :02:26.
:02:26. > :02:31.Good evening. The horrific details of one of the worst mass shootings
:02:31. > :02:34.in America's history on folding tonight. 27 people, 20 of them
:02:34. > :02:38.children aged between 5 and 10, have been killed after a gunman
:02:38. > :02:41.opened fire at the Priory School in Connecticut. The gunman, reported
:02:41. > :02:45.to be the son of one of the teachers, was found dead at the
:02:45. > :02:48.scene. Traumatised children have spoken of how bullets flew past
:02:48. > :02:51.them as they cowered in their classrooms. Pitiable President
:02:51. > :02:55.Obama said the nation's hearts were broken at the loss of young
:02:55. > :02:59.children with their lives ahead of them. The shooting took place in
:02:59. > :03:09.the small town of Newtown at Sandy Hook Elementary School, just after
:03:09. > :03:11.
:03:12. > :03:15.A Friday morning with Christmas looming. At Sandy Hook Elementary
:03:15. > :03:19.School the children were gathering in their classrooms when the
:03:19. > :03:24.shooting began. The police took the first call soon after 9:30am.
:03:24. > :03:29.Moments later, heavily armed officers went in. Terrified
:03:29. > :03:37.children, aged between 5 and 10, were being carried out. I saw some
:03:37. > :03:41.of the bullets going past the hole. I was right next to it. Then a
:03:41. > :03:47.teacher pulled me into her classroom. We heard shots and
:03:47. > :03:53.everyone went on the ground. Mr Martin closed the door. We went
:03:53. > :03:59.over to a corner and a teacher... Wall of the police officers had
:03:59. > :04:05.machine guns. I was in the gym and I heard seven loud booms. The gym
:04:05. > :04:10.teacher told us to go in the corner. So we all huddled. I kept hearing
:04:10. > :04:14.these booming noises. As alarmed parents rushed back to the school,
:04:14. > :04:18.early reports told of a gunman confronting a teacher, with three
:04:18. > :04:23.people being taken to hospital. But by now the police Swat teams had
:04:23. > :04:28.spread out. It soon became clear this was murder on a horrific scale.
:04:28. > :04:31.There were fatalities. 18 children were pronounced dead at the school.
:04:31. > :04:35.There were two that were transported to area hospitals and
:04:35. > :04:39.pronounced dead there. There were six adults pronounced dead at the
:04:39. > :04:44.scene at the school. As the governor's report of this shooter
:04:44. > :04:47.he is deceased. You US networks say the killer was a man in his 20s
:04:47. > :04:53.whose mother is thought to have been a teacher at the school. In
:04:53. > :04:56.Washington, where the White House flag flies at half mast, Barack
:04:56. > :05:01.Obama addressed the nation as a President and a father.
:05:01. > :05:11.majority of those who died today were children. Beautiful little
:05:11. > :05:17.
:05:17. > :05:27.kids between the ages of five and They had their entire lives ahead
:05:27. > :05:31.
:05:31. > :05:35.of them. Birthdays, graduation so, weddings, kids of their own. Among
:05:35. > :05:39.the fallen were also teachers, men and women who devoted their lives
:05:40. > :05:46.to helping our children fulfil their dreams. So our hearts are
:05:46. > :05:49.broken today. Of the politicians he demanded meaningful action. A hint
:05:49. > :05:56.perhaps at tighter gun laws in a country where the right to bear
:05:56. > :06:01.arms is cherished. But that argument is for tomorrow. For now,
:06:01. > :06:05.America is trying to comprehend the how and why of a mass killing in a
:06:05. > :06:10.small, rural community. Newtown was supposed to be a haven, a world
:06:10. > :06:14.away from the bustle of nearby New York. But today, Sandy Hook
:06:14. > :06:24.Elementary School was robbed of innocence. Joining Columbine and
:06:24. > :06:27.Virginia Tech on the grim roll-call Our correspondent is in Newtown for
:06:27. > :06:36.us this evening. More details are emerging all the time of this
:06:37. > :06:40.terrible tragedy. What more can you tell us? Officials have still not
:06:40. > :06:44.confirmed the name of the gunman. What they are saying is there was
:06:44. > :06:48.only one. What we are here in off the record and what locals are
:06:48. > :06:52.reporting is it was a 20-year-old man whose mother was a teacher in a
:06:52. > :06:56.kindergarten class at the school. The accounts we've been hearing was
:06:56. > :07:00.he entered the school dressed all in black. He was carrying two
:07:00. > :07:04.handguns. He stopped by the principles of this and shot the
:07:04. > :07:08.principle as well as the school psychologist, killing them, and
:07:08. > :07:15.injuring the vice-principal. Then proceeded to his mother's classroom,
:07:15. > :07:19.where it seems most of the shooting took place. He is dead, that has
:07:19. > :07:24.been said. It seems that this point that he shot himself, although that
:07:24. > :07:28.has not been confirmed. We've also been told there was a x4 found in
:07:28. > :07:32.his vehicle. The people here are still asking questions about the
:07:32. > :07:35.details of what happened. But more than that, how this could have
:07:36. > :07:42.happened in this small, peaceful town, especially to children of
:07:42. > :07:45.such a young age. The Deputy Prime Minister has become the first
:07:45. > :07:49.serving minister to question whether possession of some drugs
:07:49. > :07:52.should be decriminalised. Nick Clegg says Britain is losing the
:07:52. > :07:55.war on drug use and there should be a fundamental review of drugs
:07:55. > :08:01.policy. Putting him at odds with the Prime Minister, who this week
:08:01. > :08:06.ruled out any changes. The political consensus on drugs has
:08:06. > :08:12.held firm for decades. No serving minister has dared publicly
:08:12. > :08:16.question the policy of prohibition. Until now. I think it is important
:08:16. > :08:20.that the break this conspiracy of silence, where politicians, when
:08:20. > :08:24.they are in government at least, say, this is all too controversial,
:08:24. > :08:28.we're not going to look elsewhere to make sure we're doing all we can
:08:28. > :08:31.to help families and children in this country who are affected by
:08:31. > :08:36.the plight of drugs. Some people would say that you are sending the
:08:36. > :08:41.wrong message to young people. simply cannot be content with the
:08:41. > :08:45.way things are. To many people are losing their lives to drugs.
:08:45. > :08:48.Clegg wants the government to look at the system in Portugal, where
:08:49. > :08:52.all drugs have been depenalised with a focus on treatment, not
:08:52. > :08:56.punishment. Public concern about drugs there has fallen. He also
:08:56. > :08:59.wants Britain to monitor the experience of the US states of
:08:59. > :09:03.Washington and Colorado, where marijuana has recently been
:09:03. > :09:07.legalised. Calling for a Royal Commission on UK drug laws, the
:09:07. > :09:11.Deputy Prime Minister is exactly contradicting the Prime Minister.
:09:11. > :09:14.don't personally think that a royal commission is the answer, and I
:09:14. > :09:18.don't support the decriminalisation of any drugs that are currently
:09:18. > :09:22.illegal. Without agreement from Downing Street there's no chance of
:09:22. > :09:26.significant change to Britain's drug laws this Parliament. But, as
:09:26. > :09:31.the First Minister of the ground in 40 years to call for a fundamental
:09:31. > :09:38.review, Mr Clegg is looking to a debate in the 2015 election and
:09:38. > :09:42.beyond. As a global drug reform campaign gathers pace, the UN is
:09:42. > :09:46.true -- due to review national policy in 2016. Mr Clegg wants the
:09:46. > :09:50.UK to be at the forefront of new thinking. But critics of reform say
:09:50. > :09:55.drug use is actually falling in Britain. Among 16 to 24 year-olds,
:09:55. > :10:00.11 % fewer have used drugs in the previous year and 15 years before.
:10:00. > :10:05.With cannabis it has fallen 8.3 %, ecstasy 3%, but cocaine use has
:10:05. > :10:09.risen by 2.8 %. Some drug workers say Mr Clegg's intervention is
:10:09. > :10:13.irresponsible. I don't think we should have a softer approach to
:10:13. > :10:17.drugs and their use. I've seen the enormous casualties used by not
:10:17. > :10:20.only drug addiction but also curiosity around drug use,
:10:20. > :10:24.particularly in the teenage population. If you are anti- drugs
:10:24. > :10:28.you're a pro reform, is the message from Mr Clegg. But in making that
:10:28. > :10:35.claim he's crossed into uncharted political territory. No one can yet
:10:35. > :10:39.be sure how voters will respond to a call for a rethink on drugs. Five
:10:39. > :10:42.members of one family had been found guilty of using forced labour,
:10:42. > :10:46.subjecting workers to repeated violence and humiliation and paying
:10:46. > :10:50.them as little as �5 a day. A court in Bristol heard that the ComRes
:10:50. > :10:53.family, who were travellers, repeatedly beat labourers and hosed
:10:53. > :10:59.them with freezing water in conditions that amounted to modern-
:11:00. > :11:06.day slavery. -- the Connors family. Wiliam Connors, his wife, their
:11:06. > :11:10.sons, John and James, and her son- in-law, Miles. In the far corner of
:11:10. > :11:14.a caravan site near Cheltenham they kept their own private workforce.
:11:14. > :11:19.Vulnerable men were forced to live in filthy conditions where they
:11:19. > :11:25.would be beaten and made to use buckets as toilets. By day the men
:11:25. > :11:28.had to lay patios and driveways. This man, who doesn't want to be
:11:28. > :11:34.identified, says he was picked up by the family when he was drinking
:11:34. > :11:39.alone in a graveyard and taken away to work for them. I had no way of
:11:39. > :11:45.getting out of it all getting away. Once I was there, that was it.
:11:45. > :11:49.Anything else, every part of life or anything, it's over. Gone.
:11:49. > :11:55.police started monitoring the site they filmed Wiliam Connors beating
:11:55. > :12:01.a worker. In all, 19 vulnerable men were eventually liberated. And
:12:01. > :12:05.members of the family were arrested. Inside their properties the police
:12:05. > :12:10.found evidence of a very different lifestyles. Been there toilets were
:12:10. > :12:16.piles of cash. The jury was told the defendants had lived the high
:12:16. > :12:20.life, luxury holidays and expensive homes. The family insisted they
:12:20. > :12:27.were good Samaritans, providing the men with jobs and somewhere to live.
:12:27. > :12:31.But the jury disagreed. This was behaviour against very vulnerable
:12:31. > :12:34.people. Some of the worst I've seen in my career as a police officer.
:12:34. > :12:39.The conditions they lived in, the things they experienced, these are
:12:39. > :12:43.very serious offences. The five defendants sought in the dock as
:12:43. > :12:46.the foreman of the jury read out the guilty verdict. In the public
:12:46. > :12:51.gallery, members of their family also sheltered and cried. So much
:12:51. > :13:00.so that the judge ordered the court to be empty. The five will be
:13:00. > :13:05.The computer hacker Gary McKinnon, who fought successfully for a
:13:05. > :13:08.decade to avoid trial in the US, will not face charges in the UK.
:13:08. > :13:12.The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped all charges against the 46-
:13:12. > :13:18.year-old, who in 2001 was accused of one of the largest ever breaches
:13:18. > :13:21.Tensions remain high in Egypt night ahead of voting in a referendum on
:13:21. > :13:24.the country's draft constitution. President Morsi, who drew up the
:13:24. > :13:34.plans, says ratification is essential if Egypt is to move on
:13:34. > :13:34.
:13:34. > :13:41.from the rule of Hosni Mubarak, who was overthrown last year. There
:13:41. > :13:44.have been widespread protests since the document was published. Lyse
:13:44. > :13:51.Doucet has been gauging opinion among the Egyptians in the final
:13:51. > :13:58.hours before voting. The mood in Tahrir Square was
:13:58. > :14:03.festive but there have been days of protest. A draft driven by the
:14:03. > :14:08.powerful Muslim Brotherhood, they say, too vague on freedoms and
:14:08. > :14:12.women's right's. They where the majority of the people who were
:14:12. > :14:18.writing it who came from the Muslim Brotherhood so definitely they
:14:18. > :14:24.rotate and it does not represent Egypt. A presidential adviser
:14:24. > :14:31.denies this charter has an Islamist agenda. We were fighting this for
:14:31. > :14:36.the last six decades of autocratic system. Or individual rights, all
:14:36. > :14:41.women's rights, all democratic balances were observed in the draft.
:14:42. > :14:46.This quiet village is where President Morsi was born. Most
:14:46. > :14:51.Egyptians live in rural areas, most are poor. This new constitution
:14:51. > :14:56.affect every aspect of their lives, from rights, to religion, to the
:14:56. > :15:01.role of the state. I will be the first one at the polling station,
:15:01. > :15:08.with my wife and family, says this man. This constitution gives power
:15:08. > :15:12.to the poor. But a half hour's drive away, in another town, the
:15:12. > :15:16.president's family home is now encircled by barricades. It was
:15:16. > :15:21.recently targeted by angry protesters. It is not hard to find
:15:21. > :15:26.people's views here. Have you seen your constitution? Yes, we have
:15:26. > :15:36.read it. A revolution gave Egyptians a new freedom to speak
:15:36. > :15:40.their mind. No. Our stronghold in the streets quickly leads to
:15:40. > :15:50.impassioned debate. This is very healthy for the people to say yes
:15:50. > :15:53.
:15:53. > :15:58.or no. They are together. I say yes, but... Is this is representative of
:15:58. > :16:03.Egypt now, it is a good sign, some voting yes, some voting no. One
:16:03. > :16:08.hand is the slogan they have used that Egyptians are altogether.
:16:08. > :16:11.Tomorrow's vote is a major stepping-stone in Egypt's
:16:11. > :16:16.tumultuous journey from authoritarian rule to democracy.
:16:16. > :16:23.But this nation is now deeply divided over where it is heading.
:16:23. > :16:26.Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen joins me now. We have been looking
:16:26. > :16:34.into the Arab uprisings all week. From your experience, what
:16:34. > :16:38.conclusions can you draw? Remember the incredible euphoria when Hosni
:16:38. > :16:42.Mubarak was removed from office. People at that time thought
:16:42. > :16:48.mistakenly, that things were going to get much better, much faster.
:16:48. > :16:51.But when the weight of an autocracy of a police state is removed, all
:16:51. > :16:57.kinds of things come flooding to the surface. It takes a long time
:16:57. > :17:02.to digest them. What has emerged is it is clear the region will not be
:17:02. > :17:06.a row of dominoes falling over, and a new dispensation emerging, it is
:17:06. > :17:11.a generation long process of change and this week we have been looking
:17:11. > :17:18.at some of the big forces reshaping the Middle East. The desire for
:17:18. > :17:22.change by the under 30 s. Religion, the place of Islam, and the way the
:17:22. > :17:27.uprisings have become entangled with existing conflicts like the
:17:27. > :17:33.cold war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. What is coming up? Iran and
:17:33. > :17:37.its nuclear plants, that could be a big stories. Sectarian tension
:17:37. > :17:42.running right through the region. The civil war in Syria could belong.
:17:42. > :17:47.What happens the day after Assad if he goes or read in the decade after
:17:47. > :17:51.as one top diplomat said to me the other day. And the Israeli-
:17:51. > :17:58.Palestinian conflict, of course, I could go on. One way of looking at
:17:58. > :18:02.this, just to say, if this is a five at play, then around the end
:18:02. > :18:08.of Act Two, the beginning of Act 3, there is an awful lot to come.
:18:08. > :18:11.Thank you. Coming up on tonight's programme:
:18:11. > :18:16.The debutant showing England the route to success in the Test series
:18:16. > :18:19.in India. A woman who told a tabloid
:18:19. > :18:23.newspaper she had a relationship with the BBC DJ John Peel when she
:18:23. > :18:30.was just 15, says she now bitterly regrets going public. Jane Nevin
:18:30. > :18:32.met John Peel in 1969. He was 30 at the time. She says she did not feel
:18:32. > :18:36.abused and kept the relationship secret until the recent revelations
:18:36. > :18:44.about Jimmy Savile. She has been talking to our correspondent David
:18:44. > :18:49.Sillito. This is a picture of Jane Nevin in
:18:49. > :18:55.1969. Her age? 15, 16, and yes I was a naughty girl, very
:18:55. > :18:59.promiscuous in those days. 40 years on, Jane wanted to talk to me about
:18:59. > :19:04.that time, to put the record straight about one specific sexual
:19:04. > :19:12.relationship with the BBC DJ John Peel. You met him at a Black
:19:12. > :19:19.Sabbath big, how young were you? Was that to be used? No, I totally
:19:19. > :19:23.wanted it. I wanted to be with him. I did not feel that he was so Wald
:19:23. > :19:30.and I was not going to tell him I was so young either. He did not
:19:30. > :19:34.know? Of course he didn't. Am are going to say, by the way, I am 15?
:19:34. > :19:38.Why did she speak to the papers? She said the Jimmy Savile
:19:38. > :19:43.revelations had thrown up questions about other DJs. It has been
:19:43. > :19:48.claimed that John Peel's wife was 15 when they married. She wanted to
:19:48. > :19:52.make a point about what was and what was not abuse. John Peel has
:19:52. > :20:00.perhaps got a bit of a tarnish on him now, which is partly my fault.
:20:00. > :20:08.It should not be that way. He was marvellous. He was lovely to me.
:20:08. > :20:18.was a time when boundaries were being blurred. Take the words of
:20:18. > :20:25.this song, Vagabond Virgin. # you were 13, a child from the
:20:25. > :20:31.villages... 30 in? In the 1960s, Virginia Ironside was a groovy rock
:20:31. > :20:36.columnist. Today, she is an agony aunt and she feels free love
:20:36. > :20:42.brought great unhappiness. You were expected to sleep with everybody.
:20:42. > :20:49.The whole idea of no means no, in the 60s, that did not really exist.
:20:49. > :20:55.As far as age goes, it was all blurred. It is curious how the
:20:55. > :21:02.Jimmy Savile staff has sparked, in a lot of my friends of my own age,
:21:02. > :21:11.a real feeling of misery of how things were in the 60s, and how
:21:11. > :21:16.abused we felt. It was, she says, a time of sexual chaos. This is Jimmy
:21:17. > :21:20.Savile's autobiography, written in 1974. On final page, his final
:21:21. > :21:25.thought is all about sex, young ladies and the risk of going to
:21:25. > :21:30.prison. Did no one question this at the time? And who could you speak
:21:30. > :21:34.to? In the sixties and seventies, David Hughes was working in the
:21:34. > :21:44.music business. As a PR man, what stands out is how few questions
:21:44. > :21:45.
:21:45. > :21:52.were being asked. The press did not take an interest in any scandal,
:21:52. > :21:58.where it over -- able to have arisen. For some, it was an era of
:21:58. > :22:08.liberation but others took advantage. If you wanted to speak
:22:08. > :22:12.
:22:12. > :22:15.out, who was listening? 40 years on, we are facing the reckoning.
:22:15. > :22:18.The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has used his final
:22:18. > :22:21.speech in the House of Lords before standing down at the end of the
:22:21. > :22:24.year to make an impassioned plea for society to stop marginalising
:22:24. > :22:32.the elderly. Dr Williams said the quality of life for older people
:22:32. > :22:36.was a pressing issue, but one which was still largely ignored.
:22:37. > :22:41.One in six of us are over-65s. They are an army the nation needs, says
:22:41. > :22:45.Rowan Williams, but instead they are patronised. We are becoming
:22:45. > :22:50.used to speaking of an ageing population. Of Dr Williams told
:22:50. > :22:57.peers that contempt for the elderly in wider society had recently --
:22:57. > :23:03.had even caused recent care home abuse. People think older citizens
:23:03. > :23:06.are passive or a nuisance. The more easily they slip into abusive
:23:06. > :23:12.patterns and behaviour. I think it would be harder for the terrible
:23:12. > :23:18.abuse cases to have happened, it would have been harder if they had
:23:18. > :23:22.been a more positive accepting attitude in society. In ten years
:23:22. > :23:26.at Lambeth Palace, Romain Williams has frequently criticised Society
:23:26. > :23:33.for valuing human wealth rather than the human qualities which
:23:33. > :23:36.matter. He warned that the question of elderly abuse was being ignored,
:23:36. > :23:42.while we look at our watches waiting for them to be off our
:23:42. > :23:46.hands. They are people like eight- year-old Lorna Sinclair, whose
:23:47. > :23:51.shops raised thousands for charity. Often, she says, older people are
:23:51. > :23:55.wasted. They are very undervalued, they are forgotten and there is a
:23:55. > :24:01.place for all of them. They have such experience but no one wants to
:24:01. > :24:06.know about them. Today, people are only interested in young people.
:24:06. > :24:09.in Bakewell, formerly the government's voice for older people,
:24:09. > :24:13.backed Dr Williams' call for England to follow Wales and
:24:13. > :24:18.Northern Ireland and appoint a special representative for the
:24:18. > :24:21.elderly. My have called for a commissioner for older people and I
:24:21. > :24:24.think that is very important to take on the problems which exist
:24:24. > :24:29.with an ageing population and to address them as the Archbishop have
:24:29. > :24:35.asked. A more than half of people aged over 60 volunteer or care for
:24:35. > :24:42.family members, saving the economy billions of pounds. The elderly are
:24:42. > :24:44.participants in society, says Dr Williams, not passengers.
:24:44. > :24:49.The former BBC newsreader, Kenneth Kendall, has died in hospital on
:24:49. > :24:52.the Isle of Wight. He was 88. Kenneth Kendall began his BBC
:24:52. > :24:56.career as a radio announcer, before becoming one of the first
:24:56. > :25:00.television newsreaders. He read his last bulletin in 1981, and was then
:25:00. > :25:03.host of the popular channel 4 programme, Treasure Hunt. Paying
:25:03. > :25:08.tribute, the acting Director- General of the BBC, Tim Davie,
:25:08. > :25:10.called him one of the broadcasting greats, who will be hugely missed.
:25:10. > :25:15.England's cricketers have put themselves in a commanding position
:25:15. > :25:20.on the second day of the 4th Test against India. Joe Root scored 73
:25:20. > :25:23.on his debut, as England finished on 330 all out. India have
:25:23. > :25:31.struggled a reply, finishing the day on 87 for four. Joe Wilson
:25:32. > :25:36.reports from Nagpur. Don't let it be said that lack poor
:25:36. > :25:41.is unprepared, around the cricket ground they were taking no chances
:25:41. > :25:47.-- Nagpur of. The stadium was built so far from anywhere that only be
:25:47. > :25:51.devoted made there by morning. There were precious few inside to
:25:52. > :25:57.see Matt Prior make a valuable 50. He is a well-established asset in
:25:57. > :26:03.England's side. Joe route is his surprise, a gift. Few expected him
:26:03. > :26:08.even to play here. He may look 21, going on 12, but he could not have
:26:08. > :26:15.batted with more maturity. Graeme Swann bashed some timely runs as
:26:15. > :26:22.well, making his 5th Test -- Fifth Test 50 in his 50th Test. The total
:26:22. > :26:27.looked good but it depended on the other team. As the afternoon
:26:27. > :26:32.progressed, the interest grew. Look at the queue here now for people
:26:33. > :26:38.waiting to get in. What Indian fans really laugh is seeing their team
:26:38. > :26:43.backed. Virender Sehwag only entertained England. Cleaned up 40.
:26:43. > :26:48.Anderson had got rid of a big problem in the first over. By the
:26:48. > :26:54.close, England have four wickets, Anderson, three, including Sachin
:26:54. > :27:00.Tendulkar. He may never bat in a test again and India may not have a
:27:00. > :27:03.way back from this match. There is more on the BBC News