:00:12. > :00:19.the fugitive American intelligence officer Edward Snowden is given
:00:19. > :00:21.asylum by Moscow. The temporary asylum papers that allowed the
:00:21. > :00:25.whistle-blower to finally leave the airport where he has been for weeks.
:00:25. > :00:34.The whereabouts of Snowden, who leaked a US surveillance secrets, is
:00:34. > :00:39.an -- unknown. We are extremely disappointed that the Russian
:00:39. > :00:44.government would take this step, in spite of our very clear and public
:00:44. > :00:50.requests to have Snowden expelled to the United States.
:00:50. > :00:54.Some politicians are calling for a rethink on relations with Moscow.
:00:54. > :00:56.Italian justice finally catches up with Silvio Berlusconi. The Supreme
:00:56. > :01:00.Court upholds a prison sentence for tax fraud.
:01:00. > :01:07.The Lloyds Banking Group is back in profit. The government could start
:01:07. > :01:12.selling the taxpayer stake as early as Monday. Nobody should ever have
:01:12. > :01:17.to go through what I went through... Harrowing testimony from
:01:17. > :01:22.one of the three women held captive by Ariel Castro for a decade in
:01:22. > :01:26.Cleveland. He is jailed for life. What are they hiding from?
:01:27. > :01:30.Zimbabwe's opposition says these are Robert Mugabe supporters bussed in
:01:30. > :01:35.to vote illegally. And a captain's innings as Australia make a solid
:01:35. > :01:40.start to the third Ashes test. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,
:01:40. > :01:50.we will have a report on Swansea City's return to European football.
:01:50. > :02:05.
:02:05. > :02:10.They have been playing in their tension between the United States
:02:10. > :02:13.and Russia tonight after Moscow granted the fugitive American
:02:13. > :02:16.whistle-blower Edward Snowden temporary asylum. Snowden, who went
:02:16. > :02:21.on the run after leaking details of secret US surveillance programmes,
:02:21. > :02:23.had spent a month at an airport in Moscow, but left today and is now at
:02:24. > :02:30.a secret location. The White House has said it is extremely
:02:30. > :02:33.disappointed. This was the moment this afternoon
:02:34. > :02:38.when Edward Snowden, wearing a black rucksack, with his back to the
:02:38. > :02:42.camera, climbed into a car and disappeared into Russia. The biggest
:02:42. > :02:47.country in the world. For five and a half weeks, he'd been stuck in
:02:47. > :02:51.limbo, in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. He
:02:51. > :02:55.was insisting he would not go to America to face trial. Tonight, his
:02:55. > :02:59.lawyer showed me a copy of the document that grants him political
:02:59. > :03:07.asylum in Russia for at least one year. He told us Edward Snowden is
:03:07. > :03:11.in a hotel, but he would not say where. TRANSLATION: The question of
:03:11. > :03:15.his security is obviously very important. A great power is trying
:03:15. > :03:19.to catch him and the name of that power is the United States of
:03:19. > :03:23.America. In a statement, Edward Snowden himself said, over the past
:03:23. > :03:32.eight weeks we have seen the Obama administration show no respect for
:03:32. > :03:35.international order mastic -- or domestic law. This evening,
:03:35. > :03:43.Russia's in August to serving dissident pondered whether he knew
:03:43. > :03:46.what he was doing. TRANSLATION: He had the most noble of intentions,
:03:46. > :03:49.promoting freedom of information in America, but he finds himself in
:03:49. > :03:54.Russia, where the situation is much worse. Edward Snowden lifted the lid
:03:54. > :04:02.on the mass electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency, in
:04:02. > :04:07.particular, a programme called Prism, which has been collecting
:04:07. > :04:12.internet data since 2007. America is seeking him on espionage charges,
:04:12. > :04:16.including theft of government property and unauthorised allocation
:04:16. > :04:21.of National defence information. There were more revelations from
:04:21. > :04:23.Snowden in The Guardian today, suggesting that Britain's GCHQ
:04:23. > :04:28.received �100 million of funding from US intelligence services in
:04:28. > :04:32.recent years. By granting Edward Snowden asylum, the Kremlin is
:04:32. > :04:36.making a calculation, plotting several moves ahead in a diplomatic
:04:36. > :04:41.game of chess. It will not mind upsetting America a bit. But
:04:41. > :04:46.President Putin will not want to alienate Obama altogether. President
:04:46. > :04:53.Obama is supposed to be in Moscow in one month's time for the first full
:04:53. > :04:55.summit between the two leaders. Now, that is in jeopardy. We are
:04:55. > :04:58.extremely disappointed that the Russian government would take this
:04:58. > :05:03.step, despite our very clear and lawful request, in public and
:05:03. > :05:09.private, to have Mr Snowden expelled in the United States to face the
:05:09. > :05:13.charges against him. Relations between the two countries were
:05:13. > :05:19.already bad. Today, after what seems to have been a deliberate manoeuvre
:05:19. > :05:24.by President Putin, they took a definite turn for the worse.
:05:24. > :05:28.Our North America editor Mark Mardell is in Washington. There was
:05:28. > :05:34.some angry rhetoric from America. What are the chances of this turning
:05:34. > :05:39.into any sort of action? Certainly, some senators are hoping it really
:05:39. > :05:42.will. They are talking about this being a stab in the back, a slap in
:05:42. > :05:47.the face. John McCain is saying that there should be some action that
:05:47. > :05:50.really annoys Russia. He is talking about expanding NATO to include the
:05:50. > :05:54.country of Georgia, which would really make them cross. I have to
:05:54. > :05:58.say, that is not the Obama way. He believes in engagement and he thinks
:05:58. > :06:01.America needs Russia because of moves on Iran and because of arms
:06:01. > :06:05.control talks that are happening next week. But they are saying, the
:06:05. > :06:09.White House are saying, they could pull out of this summit next month
:06:09. > :06:13.in Saint Petersburg. They say they are examining its utility. That is
:06:13. > :06:17.polite and which four, is there any point? They are presumably thinking
:06:17. > :06:21.about the G8 meeting not long ago between the leaders, which was so
:06:21. > :06:31.incredibly uncomfortable because of the disagreement over Syria.
:06:31. > :06:32.
:06:32. > :06:35.Resident Putin was looking cross and annoyed with President, Obama. They
:06:35. > :06:45.may think, is there any point in the meeting? Should we just back today's
:06:45. > :06:47.
:06:47. > :06:51.prison sentence given to expire minister Silvio Berlusconi for tax
:06:51. > :06:55.fraud. After several previous trials, this marks the first time
:06:55. > :06:58.the media mogul has definitely been convicted of a crime. Tonight, Mr
:06:58. > :07:04.Berlusconi called the sentence baseless. This report contains flash
:07:04. > :07:09.photography. In the early evening, a crowd waited
:07:09. > :07:16.outside Italy's Supreme Court. At stake, the future of the man who has
:07:16. > :07:19.dominated Italian politics for 20 years, Silvio Berlusconi. Inside,
:07:19. > :07:24.five judges filed into court to deliver their verdict. They upheld
:07:24. > :07:28.the prison sentence which a lower court had given Silvio Berlusconi
:07:28. > :07:32.for tax fraud. The former Prime Minister is unlikely to go to jail
:07:32. > :07:42.because of his age. But he faces one year of house arrest, or community
:07:42. > :07:48.
:07:48. > :07:52.service. Outside the court, a small crowd celebrated. TRANSLATION: I am
:07:52. > :08:01.happy, at last we have reached a condemnation, definite and
:08:01. > :08:07.irrevocable. Two miles away, Silvio Berlusconi was inside his palazzo
:08:07. > :08:10.when the verdict came. Many believe that the judgement as effectively
:08:10. > :08:15.ended his political career. A lower court had banned him from holding
:08:15. > :08:21.public office for five years. That was lowered to three, and that
:08:21. > :08:28.sentence will be reviewed again. means that his season is officially
:08:28. > :08:32.over. But it does not mean that the Berlusconi mood in the country is
:08:32. > :08:37.over as well. We will see a tense period. I think the 20 years of
:08:37. > :08:42.Italian politics are going to finish, in a very dramatic and
:08:42. > :08:47.hectic way. Silvio Berlusconi, who is here at his residence tonight,
:08:47. > :08:51.has long argued he is one of the most persecuted men in the world, a
:08:51. > :08:56.victim of left-wing magistrates. He has faced up to 30 cases when he has
:08:57. > :09:01.been convicted he has always launched an appeal. But now he has
:09:01. > :09:05.received a definitive verdict from Italy's highest court. He had
:09:05. > :09:09.previously been conflict that of having underage sex with a dancer
:09:09. > :09:16.and for abusing his office to help her. He is still appealing those
:09:16. > :09:21.convictions. Tonight, supporters came to Silvio Berlusconi's
:09:21. > :09:24.residence. There is said to be a lot of tennis. His party is in the
:09:24. > :09:34.governing coalition and one of his close allies said they would not
:09:34. > :09:37.
:09:37. > :09:39.undermine the government. sentence was unfounded and he would
:09:39. > :09:49.continue his struggle. The Italian president urged the country to
:09:49. > :09:51.
:09:51. > :09:55.the taxpayer, has returned to profit. The bank may just over �2
:09:55. > :10:01.billion in the first six months of the year. It made a loss of �450
:10:01. > :10:06.million for the same period last year. The government could start to
:10:06. > :10:12.sell its stake in the bank as early as next week.
:10:12. > :10:16.Lloyds. Taxpayers have owned a huge chunk of it since the crash of 2008
:10:16. > :10:19.and the sale sign is about to go up. In fact, the privatisation could
:10:19. > :10:26.begin with the disposal of up to five Ilion pounds of shares to big
:10:26. > :10:30.city investors as soon as Monday morning. The chief secretary of the
:10:30. > :10:34.Treasury did not rule that out today. We have not set a fixed
:10:34. > :10:38.timetable. We are not going to rush it. I think the results are welcome,
:10:38. > :10:42.as a sign that the bank is continuing on the right part of
:10:42. > :10:47.returning to help. Lloyds, in dire straits a few years back, can be
:10:47. > :10:51.sold because it is almost back in the pink. Profits for the first half
:10:51. > :10:58.of this year were �2.1 billion, compared with a loss in 2012 of �456
:10:58. > :11:01.million. Lloyds is very close to being fully fixed. Costs have been
:11:01. > :11:08.significantly reduced and lots of the business is no longer considered
:11:08. > :11:14.to be part of the growth strategy and have been sold or execute.
:11:14. > :11:18.are the numbers the Chancellor will look at when deciding to sell now.
:11:18. > :11:22.71p, that is how much he needs to get for the shares to prevent a sale
:11:22. > :11:27.adding to the government debt burden. 73.6 p is the price we paid
:11:27. > :11:33.for Lloyds shares when we bail out the bank. 74p, the market price
:11:33. > :11:39.tonight, higher than what taxpayers paid for them. One of the reasons
:11:39. > :11:42.why Lloyds is so much more recovered and closer to privatisation than the
:11:42. > :11:49.other big semi-nationalised bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland, is
:11:49. > :11:52.because Lloyds is all about this, branch banking. Retail banking. It
:11:52. > :11:58.does not have RBS's big and complicated investment banking or
:11:58. > :12:03.much overseas. RBS, probably still years away from its privatisation.
:12:03. > :12:08.But there will be an important piece of progress tomorrow with the
:12:08. > :12:13.announcement of a new chief executive. Meet Ross MacEwan, the
:12:13. > :12:19.new boss. It was actually a very good ride... From New Zealand. Back
:12:19. > :12:23.at Lloyds, an initial sales share would raise between �2.5 billion and
:12:23. > :12:30.�5 billion. Very much a first step along the road to taxpayers getting
:12:30. > :12:33.back our �20 billion. The first results in Zimbabwe's
:12:33. > :12:38.election are being released tonight. President Robert Mugabe's
:12:38. > :12:42.party has all but claimed victory. Earlier, his main rival, Prime
:12:42. > :12:46.Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, said intimidation and vote rigging by
:12:46. > :12:56.Mugabe supporters meant that the poll was null and void. Some local
:12:56. > :12:59.
:12:59. > :13:03.election observers have also before an official announcement is
:13:03. > :13:08.due, President Robert Mugabe's party is confident of victory. Zanu-PF
:13:08. > :13:14.officials say their party has sailed home in both parliamentary and
:13:14. > :13:17.presidential polls. But Robert Mugabe's main opposition, the
:13:17. > :13:22.Movement for Democratic Change, is calling this a sham election and say
:13:23. > :13:26.there is clear evidence of vote rigging. The MDC claimed these
:13:26. > :13:36.pictures show Zanu-PF supporters being bussed in to vote illegally in
:13:36. > :13:42.
:13:42. > :13:49.Tsvangirai, who has been priming estate in an uneasy coalition with
:13:49. > :13:56.Robert Mugabe, declared the election a fix. This has been a huge farce.
:13:56. > :14:01.The credibility of this election has been marred by legal violations. It
:14:01. > :14:07.is a sham election that does not reflect the will of the people.
:14:07. > :14:10.Zimbabwe's main monitors, the fairness of the election has also
:14:10. > :14:18.been challenged. They say up to 1 million voters have been turned away
:14:18. > :14:22.from polling stations in MDC strongholds and they cast doubt on
:14:22. > :14:32.the left or roll, pointing to much higher registration in the homeland
:14:32. > :14:33.
:14:33. > :14:42.of Zanu-PF support. The election was seriously comprised by an effort to
:14:42. > :14:46.disenfranchise urban voters. At that it is hard to decide what the actual
:14:46. > :14:50.result is. Monitors have said that the elections appear to be peaceful
:14:50. > :14:56.and credible, but have not made a final judgement. The question now
:14:56. > :15:00.is, what will the regional observers from the African union and SADC say?
:15:00. > :15:05.They now hold the key to this election. 89-year-old Robert Mugabe
:15:05. > :15:15.insisted he would accept the will of the people. His party is in no doubt
:15:15. > :15:18.
:15:18. > :15:25.what that verdict will be. Morgan Tsvangirai has accused your party,
:15:25. > :15:31.ZANU-PF, of vote rigging. That is the talk of someone who cannot
:15:31. > :15:37.accept defeat. People will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the violence
:15:37. > :15:40.which marred the last election in 2008.
:15:40. > :15:45.There has been a huge explosion at an ammunition depot in the Syrian
:15:45. > :15:48.city of Homs. Opposition activists say the blast, which sent a fireball
:15:48. > :15:52.hundreds of feet into the air, killed at least 40 people in a
:15:52. > :16:00.government controlled part of the city. More than a hundred were said
:16:00. > :16:07.to be injured. A man charged with the murder of
:16:07. > :16:12.four British soldiers in the 1982 IRA bombing has been granted
:16:12. > :16:16.conditional bail. He is accused of being involved in planting a car
:16:16. > :16:19.bomb that killed members of the household cavalry. He will be
:16:19. > :16:22.electronically tagged. Ariel Castro, the American man who
:16:22. > :16:25.kidnapped three women in Cleveland and subjected them to a decade of
:16:25. > :16:29.sexual and physical abuse, has been sentenced to life in prison without
:16:29. > :16:33.any chance of parole. One of his victims, Michelle Knight, spoke in
:16:33. > :16:36.court just feet away from Castro. She said, "I spent 11 years in hell,
:16:36. > :16:42.now your hell is just beginning". From Washington, David Willis
:16:42. > :16:48.reports. Ariel Castro had already pleaded
:16:48. > :16:52.guilty to more than 900 charges under a deal struck to spare him the
:16:52. > :16:56.death sentence. Today came further detail of the ordeal suffered by his
:16:56. > :17:03.captives as he came face to face with one of them, Michele Knight,
:17:03. > :17:09.for the first time since her release. Gina DeJesus, Michelle and
:17:09. > :17:16.Amanda Berry were abducted, tortured and raped by Ariel Castro. The court
:17:16. > :17:23.heard how he turned the house into a prison, keeping the women chained in
:17:23. > :17:27.two squalid rooms. Their ordeal ended after one escaped and call the
:17:27. > :17:32.police. Michele Knight launched herself into the arms of the first
:17:32. > :17:38.police officer she encountered. Legs, arms, she kept repeating, you
:17:38. > :17:42.saved us. Today, Michele Knight hugged relatives of the other women
:17:42. > :17:47.before giving in with the ring indictment of the man who beat and
:17:47. > :17:54.staffed every time she became pregnant, forcing her to miscarry
:17:54. > :18:01.five times. I spent 11 years in hell. Now your hell is just
:18:01. > :18:10.beginning. From this moment on, I will not let you affect who I am. I
:18:10. > :18:17.will live on. You will die a little every day. As you think about the 11
:18:17. > :18:21.years of atrocities that you inflicted on us. In a letter found
:18:21. > :18:27.at his house, Castro described themselves as a sexual predator and
:18:27. > :18:33.today he told the court he was addicted to crime -- pornography. I
:18:33. > :18:39.am just sick, I have an addiction, just like an alcoholic has an
:18:39. > :18:46.addiction. It is out of my control, my addiction. I could not control my
:18:46. > :18:48.addiction. Sentencing the former boss tries to
:18:48. > :18:52.life in prison, the judge said his victims had suffered terribly and
:18:52. > :18:55.the effects of their ordeal would live with them for the rest of their
:18:55. > :19:00.life. BT has launched its new sports TV
:19:00. > :19:03.service this evening. It challenges Sky's 20-year-long dominance of
:19:03. > :19:08.sports television. The rivalry will be particularly fierce over
:19:08. > :19:13.football. BT has the rights to show 38 live Premier League games per
:19:13. > :19:17.season for the next three seasons at a cost of over �700 million. Our
:19:17. > :19:26.sports editor reports on a new front in the rivalry between these two
:19:26. > :19:33.media giants. After months of hype and over �1
:19:33. > :19:38.billion of investment, BT's challenge to Sky's dominance of the
:19:38. > :19:45.sport TV market finally went live tonight, launching its new sports
:19:45. > :19:51.channels from fast new studios on the Olympic Haq. All day, BT's team
:19:51. > :19:54.had been getting ready but its strategy is not only about TV. I
:19:54. > :19:57.offering its content free to broadband customers, BT hopes to
:19:57. > :20:05.defend its position as the country's leading Internet
:20:05. > :20:10.provider. Broadband and the ability to retain customers in that world is
:20:10. > :20:16.the most important thing for BT and having a sports channel business is
:20:16. > :20:22.the way that we believe, one of the ways, we can retain and acquire new
:20:22. > :20:26.customers. Sky is still the main player in the football rights
:20:26. > :20:33.market. Its package of live Premier league games is more than three
:20:33. > :20:38.times bigger than BT's. We have always had challenges. We relish the
:20:38. > :20:43.challenge. It drives us on and gets us in big array to and excited and
:20:43. > :20:48.we can't wait for the new season to start. You only have to look at the
:20:48. > :20:55.scale of this place to realise BT's ambition but with so much money
:20:56. > :20:58.being pumped into English football, it is not only a big day for
:20:58. > :21:08.television, it is potentially a defining moment for the national
:21:08. > :21:14.game. The first deal with Sky in 1992 was worth �190 million but the
:21:14. > :21:19.three-year deal starting this season is worth over �3 billion. That is
:21:19. > :21:23.6.5 million a game. The new windfall will not ease the tension between
:21:23. > :21:29.the all-powerful Premier League and those who run the England team. Some
:21:29. > :21:34.think the time has come to rebalance the priorities of the game. There is
:21:34. > :21:39.an opportunity to bring all of football together, stop sniping and
:21:39. > :21:45.say, what are we trying to achieve? And bring football together on the
:21:45. > :21:51.basis of all trying to achieve a set of goals. Whoever wins the battle
:21:51. > :21:55.between Sky and BT, one thing is clear. The Premier League's
:21:55. > :21:58.financial control of the English game has just got bigger.
:21:58. > :22:02.Major donors to each of the three big political parties were included
:22:02. > :22:08.on a list of new peers appointed to the House of Lords today. Altogether
:22:08. > :22:11.30 new peers were announced. They include the JCB boss Sir Anthony
:22:11. > :22:13.Bamford, whose family and firm have given �2.5 million to the
:22:13. > :22:16.Conservative Party, the Scottish businessman Sir William Haughey, who
:22:16. > :22:18.has given �1.3 million to Labour, and the Dominos Pizza entrepreneur
:22:19. > :22:25.Rumi Verjee, who has donated more than �800,000 to the Liberal
:22:25. > :22:35.Democrats. Today's additions brings the total number of active peers to
:22:35. > :22:36.
:22:36. > :22:39.785. Carole Walker is in Westminster now.
:22:39. > :22:49.This is a government that talked about reforming the House of Lords,
:22:49. > :22:51.
:22:51. > :22:53.now they have just made it bigger. Yes, the House of Lords is bigger
:22:53. > :22:57.than it has been any time since hereditary peers were abolished in
:22:57. > :23:02.1999. It is second only in size to the National People's Congress of
:23:02. > :23:08.China. Interesting names, Doreen Lawrence, the Justice campaigner
:23:08. > :23:13.whose son was killed, but the list is dominated by party insiders and
:23:13. > :23:17.this is an uncomfortable day for all party leaders. Nick Clegg wanted to
:23:17. > :23:23.half the size of the House of Lords and have most of its members are
:23:23. > :23:27.elected. Having failed in that, he has added another ten to the list
:23:27. > :23:33.today. David Cameron has been talking a lot about wanting to
:23:33. > :23:37.reduce the cost of politics but he has contributed another 14 to that
:23:37. > :23:42.additional 30 peers that were added in today more all in all adding more
:23:42. > :23:47.than �1 million to the cost of politics. Labour are criticising him
:23:48. > :23:52.for doing that but adding to the tally themselves. The UKIP leader
:23:52. > :23:58.says it makes Westminster looked like a developing world
:23:58. > :24:02.dictatorship, but he would like a few extra UK peers in there to even
:24:02. > :24:06.things up. By the time of the next general election there will be far
:24:07. > :24:11.more peers in the House of Lords that could ever squeeze on those red
:24:11. > :24:14.benches, if of course they ever turned up on the same day.
:24:14. > :24:18.In cricket, the Australia captain has seen a return to form, scoring a
:24:18. > :24:21.century on day one of the third Ashes Test against England at Old
:24:21. > :24:24.Trafford. England lead the five-match series 2-0 and need to
:24:25. > :24:29.avoid defeat to keep the Ashes. Joe Wilson looks back at the day's
:24:29. > :24:37.action. Lancashire had its test match back.
:24:37. > :24:41.Time to be ruthless, for both sides. Last chance territory for
:24:41. > :24:51.Australia. 84 from Chris Rogers. James Anderson, battling for
:24:51. > :24:58.
:24:58. > :25:07.nothing. Shane Watson out, Tim Bresnan bowling, . The umpire
:25:07. > :25:11.decided Usman Khawaja hit the ball. Usman Khawaja did not. Minutes of
:25:11. > :25:16.replays but the decision was still upheld. The Australian prime
:25:16. > :25:21.minister said it was one of the worst umpiring decisions he had ever
:25:21. > :25:27.seen. Fortunately there was some batting to focus on. A masterclass
:25:27. > :25:32.from Michael Clark. England thought they got Steve Smith out virtually
:25:32. > :25:38.every ten minutes. England had used up their reviews and could do
:25:38. > :25:46.nothing. Clark told us who still believe in Australia but runs speak
:25:46. > :25:49.louder than words. -- told us he still believed in Australia. They
:25:49. > :25:59.are presenting England now with their biggest challenge of the
:25:59. > :26:00.
:26:00. > :26:06.summer. How are you going to get him out? Have you got any tips?Michael
:26:06. > :26:11.Clark is still going, Australia past 300, just three wickets down.