27/06/2014 BBC News at Ten

David Cameron fails in his bid to block Jean-Claude Juncker from

getting the top job in the European Commission.

The Prime Minister said the meant Europe had taken a big step

backwards. This is a bad day for Europe. It risks undermining the

position of national Governments. It risks undermining the power of

national Parliaments. And it hands new power to the European

Parliament. As the outgoing President

congratulated Mr Juncker, there's little sympathy for Britain's stand.

I think in the UK some people seriously need to wake up and smell

the coffee. The European Union is a very good thing for the UK. We will

look at what David Cameron's failure to block the appointment for him

means. Also tonight, the Sudanese woman whose death sentence for

rejecting Islam was quashed is freed again and talks to the BBC. A former

senior adviser to David Cameron is charged with possession of indecent

images of children. Luis Suarez basks in a hero's welcome at home in

Uruguay. FIFA says he needs treatment for his biting habit.

And Britain's Andy Murray wins through to the second week of

Wimbledon. His mum was watching his brother on court two. It is a shame

we were on at the same time. None of my family came to watch me. Mum did

make it back. My brother is number one son. Tonight on BBC London -

calls for greater regulation of the rental market.

A college demands an apology from the Government after it accused them

of wrongdoing. Good evening. David Cameron's lonely

campaign to stop the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as European

Commission President has ended in failure. The former Prime Minister

of Luxembourg was voted in by 26-2. Only Hungary joined the UK in

opposing him. David Cameron said it was a bad day for Europe and it

risked undermining the position of national Governments in Europe.

Labour claimed the nomination represented a complete humiliation

of David Cameron. Our political editor reports from Brussels on what

this result means for the Prime Minister and for Britain.

One by one they rolled into Brussels. The Prime Ministers and

Presidents of the EU. 28 of them in all, to pick the man to fill

Europe's top job. The outcome, not in any doubt, just one question

remained. How isolated would David Cameron be?

I know the odds are stacked against us. That means you stand up for what

you believe and you vote accordingly.

Privately, he warned German's Chancellor Merkel that defeat would

mean more likely that Britain would head to the exit. Once she switched

side, the allies switched with her. Is Britain isolated? Was that yes or

no? Just a few hours later the answer would be all too plain. This

is a bad day for Europe. It risks undermining the position of national

Government. It risks undermining the power of national Parliaments and

hands new power to the European Parliament.

Remember that name - you will hear a whole lot more of it. Luxembourg's

Jean-Claude Juncker got the job of President of the European

Commission, despite Cameron attacking him as the wrong man,

choose no-one the wrong way. The argument David Cameron has lost may

appear to be about one man, but it is about something bigger - the man

who runs this, the European Commission, which proposes and

enforces the laws, the rules the regulations, which affect the lives

of half a billion people in 28 countries.

This was a lonely summit for a man who a few weeks ago thought he had

needed to block Juncker, but found himself alone today, except for the

Hungarians. When Margaret Thatcher swung her handbag she was isolated

and won. Surely you are isolated. There are some things which have

changed. We've had the Nice Treaty t Amsterdam Treaty, all the treaties

which have vetoed, so it is more difficult to stop things you don't

like. The task of reforming Europe and securing Britain's place in a

reformed Europe is going to be a long and tough campaign. It is going

to involve many engagements. Some will go well. Some will go less

well. Chancellor Merkel and the other

leaders here agreed to what David Cameron calls a few steps forward. A

review of his concerns about the EU works and the way the next President

will be chosen. His critics say he's shown to be incapable of making

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people. It is pushing Europe the other way.

Mr Cameron has barely a friend left in Brussels. His chances now of

renegotiating anything substantial have turned to dust. Take the

outgoing President congratulated his successor.

As David Cameron leaves this summit, the words of one German newspaper

are ringing in his ear, they compared him with Wayne Rooney.

Lines up the shot, loses and goes home. Ouch!

Mr Juncker has been nominated for the most powerful job in Europe, in

charge of the EU's agenda and all policy. How is Europe likely to look

under his leadership? How will it affect

whole lot more of it. Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker Britain's place

within the EU? Some of the judgments came early.

One German paper described David Cameron as the loneliest man in

Europe. And some of Europe's leaders had a

blunt message for Britain. I think in the UK some people really serious

need to wake up and smell the coffee. The Prime Minister told the

other leaders that they would regret backing Mr Juncker.

TRANSLATION: I think the decision for Jean-Claude Juncker is a

decision which will allow us to have a commission President who has

European experience and who is willing to accommodate the

individual wishes of member-states as well as the wishes of the

European Parliament. The German Chancellor appeared to reach out to

Britain. She said that ever closer union did not mean a one-speed

Europe. She specifically said she shared some of Britain's concerns

about what a modern Europe should look like. That message that Mr

Juncker is open to reform is being pressed by senior German

politicians. Jean-Claude Juncker said he is open for proposals,

coming to them, how to cut red tape. How to make the European Union more

efficient. None of these words however could disguise the bitter

divide. David Cameron sees a career insider whose election undermines

the election of national Parliaments. The German Chancellor

sees a committed European. There was concern that this defeat could

hasten the exit from Britain from the EU. There was frustration from

the French President who said Britain had to go by the same rules

as others. TRANSLATION: Whenever David Cameron

speaks it is quite legitimate to hear and understand what he's

saying. We need to learn to live together in a framework of rules and

treaties. There's no other way out. But after David Cameron had spoken,

many leaders expressed sympathy with his arguments, even though they did

not support him. The leaders did add a paragraph to

the final communique, stating Britain's concerns about the future

directions of Europe will need to be addressed. Mr Cameron will find

himself having to deal with a man he doubted could deliver reform.

Let's go live to Brussels now and join our political editor, who is

there. Nick, David Cameron looking very

isolated in Europe today. How will that affect his position there? And

Britain's position within the EU? Well, his own verdict on what

happened here was that it will be harder to persuade Britons to vote

to stay in the European Union. In other words, that Britain has taken

a step closer to the exit. Why? Because only a couple of weeks ago,

he and his advisers, British diplomats believe they could win

this vote, that they had allies, that many countries around that

European top table believed that Jean-Claude Juncker was the wrong

man to lead and yet when Germany changed side, so too did the Swedes

and the Danes and the Dutch and the Italians didn't come on board and

therefore, Britain was left isolated. The argument goes, if you

cannot even win an argument about one man, what chance is there of

winning a very big argument about a principal such as changing the

rights of freedom of movement. Mr Cameron will try and use this though

to say to his European leaders, you must make concession now. His

critics will use to say if they are anti-Europe, forget it. If they are

pro European to say it is simply a failure to pull alliances to get

your diplomacy right. What I feel standing here is that Britain's

relationship with the EU is more uncertain than for many, many years.

A former senior adviser to David Cameron has been charged with

making and possessing indecent images of children.

Patrick Rock, 63, was arrested at his home in London

in February after the police were contacted by Downing Street.

Our political correspondent Carole Walker reports.

Patrick Rock has worked for the Conservative Party for three

decades. David Cameron brought him back into Downing Street as deputy

head of his policy unit in 2011. He had his own private office at the

heart of government until he resigned earlier this year. Patrick

Rock stood down from his post here on February the 12th and was

arrested in the early hours of the following morning. Today, the

National Crime Agency confirmed he has been charged on three counts of

making indecent photographs of children, and with possession of 59

indecent images of children. He had stood for Parliament on three

occasions. This was the Portsmouth South by-election in 1984. It was

regarded as a safe Tory seat, but as on his previous attempts, he was

defeated. He has known David Cameron since the late 1990s when they were

both special advisers to Michael Howard, then Home Secretary. Today,

Mr Cameron had little to say about the charges against his former aide.

I won't be saying anything. It would not be appropriate to comment. The

Crown Prosecution Service has said it believes prosecuting Patrick Rock

is in the public interest. He has been bailed to appear at Westminster

Magistrates' Court on the 3rd of July.

Carole Walker reports. A free trade agreement

between Ukraine and the European Union signed in Brussels

this morning has drawn immediate threats of retaliation from Russia.

A rejection of the accord by Ukraine last year led to mass protests,

the ousting of the pro-Moscow government in Kiev

and Russia's annexation of Crimea. Today, Ukraine's president,

Petro Poroshenko, described the deal as an historic

turning point for his country. The EU, which has also signed

agreements with Georgia and Moldova, has insisted that Russia will not

be harmed by the deals. The City

of London Police have said they'll look again at whether to investigate

the payday loan firm Wonga. Earlier this week,

Wonga said it would pay ?2.6 million in compensation to customers, after

admitting sending debt collection letters from fictitious law firms.

The police said they would reconsider the case now that

the financial regulator's investigation is complete.

Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for renouncing has been freed

from detention for a second time. She has now sold sanction at the

American embassy in the capital, Khartoum. Speaking to the BBC, she

thanked the Sudanese people for standing by her. This report

contains flash photography. investigation is complete.

Holding the baby girl she gave birth to in jail, Meriam Ibrahim

used her new-found liberty to go straight to the US Embassy.

Her husband is an American citizen. Outside the embassy compound she

gave this interview to the BBC. TRANSLATION: I would like to thank

the Sudanese people and police. I am really grateful to all of them.

I would like to thank all those who stood beside me.

She sidestepped a question about her religion but said of the future...

TRANSLATION: I will leave it to God. I didn't even have the chance to see

my family after I got out of prison. The family's ordeal began when

Meriam married Daniel, a Christian from independent South Sudan.

Sudan itself is governed by Islamic law.

Meriam was sentenced to death for renouncing Islam in May,

but on Monday was released by an appeal court.

She was detained again on Tuesday, accused

of using illegal travel documents, but yesterday was freed once more.

Being subjected to such treatment suggests she is a pawn

in a bigger game. It is years since anyone

was hanged for apostasy. This could be more

about the Sudanese authorities asserting their power.

Her case has caused outrage at home and abroad,

and a petition in the UK calling for her unconditional release was signed

by more than a million people. I think the charges against Meriam

were real and Amnesty International knows of other cases where people

have faced flogging, for example, for adultery.

So the international pressure that the Sudanese authorities would

have heard around Meriam's case let them know the world was watching.

Meriam Ibrahim's journey isn't over. Her future remains unknown.

The US is ready to welcome her but she isn't yet allowed to leave.

Reeta Chakrabarti, BBC News. Average house prices across England

and Wales are rising at their fastest annual rate for four years.

There are stark regional differences, with some areas showing

a sharp fall. But in London, prices are up nearly 20% over the last

year. The average property price But in London, prices are up

nearly 20% over the last year. Here's Simon Gompertz.

For sale, but at what price? In London and the South,

house prices are riding high. But in the North of England

and some other places, they are still flying low, or falling.

If you are in one of those areas, the north-east, for instance, this

doesn't feel like a housing bubble. For many homeowners

the asset they purchased in good times has become a liability.

How long has it been on the market? For over a year,

and the prices are just going down. Owners like Gillian, who bought her

flat in Sunderland for ?125,000. She has been offered just over

100,000 for it, wiping out her deposit.

I feel trapped, trapped in my own home.

I want to move on. Last year I thought I was going to

move on with my little house and everything.

And I'm still here. So much wealth tied up in our homes.

They are up on average, but it all depends on where you live.

In London, Waltham Forest leads the boroughs showing

an astonishing rate of increase. But look at Wales, where Merthyr

Tydfil and a lot of other places are sharply down over the past year.

The North West of England is much the same,

Blackburn the biggest faller. In the north-east,

Hartlepool is down, and that is the region showing the

slowest rate of increase overall. Many homes playing no part at all

in the boom which is causing so much concern.

It was different in the last housing crash and recovery in the 1990s.

Then, the North of England was more resilient, rising faster

to start with than London. This time, the high cost of living

and low pay have held buyers back. People can't move and they are

stuck, some in negative equity. This agent, who manages hundreds

of properties in the north-east, warns that restrictions on mortgage

lending being imposed by the Bank of England, which is uneasy about

London, will make things worse. The ripple effect takes time to

come out to some of these areas. We might be talking at least another

12 months before we feel that. If they put the brakes on now,

I dread to think what could happen. Scotland also has areas

where prices are dropping. Rising or falling,

the housing market problem is something completely different

depending on where you live. Simon Gompertz, BBC News.

Tomorrow marks 100 years to the day since a young Serb nationalist shot

dead the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

The murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand kick-started the chain

of events that led to the outbreak of the First World War.

Allan Little has returned to Sarajevo where the shooting took

place, and looks at how the assassin is remembered a century on.

He pulled a gun, drove through the crowd.

He shot him and his pregnant wife. It is a routine stop on

the tourist trail now, the street, where the assassin struck, killed

the heir to the Austrian throne and propelled the world into the

bloodiest century in human history. But history is

a powerful living thing here. It is a divisive force.

Bosnians cannot agree what to make of Gavrilo Princip, the young Serb

who pulled the trigger that day. In the Serb suburb of East Sarajevo,

they are building a new park to celebrate Princip.

Serbs still feel the world blames them

for starting the First World War. In this place we are going to put

the statue of Gavrilo Princip. Here, Princip is no assassin,

but a liberation champion. Most of our nation see him

as a hero, a fighter for the liberation of our nation.

On his act on the 28th June, 1914, we started the process

of liberation of our people. And we said no to the occupation, to

the annexation, to the aggression. But in non-Serb Bosnia, the memories

of a more recent war are too raw. Serb forces besieged Sarajevo

for 1000 days in the early 1990s. It carries the scars still.

They see Princip differently here. The shrine where Princip's remains

are buried tells its own story of the way history shifts

and warps over time. After the First World War

the kingdom of Yugoslavia turned the atheist revolutionary

into an orthodox Christian martyr. After the Second World War,

Communist Yugoslavia turned the Serb nationalist Princip

into a pan-Yugoslav patriot. Each generation projects onto

Princip what it wants to see. After the war of the early 1990s,

Sarajevo saw him as the forerunner of the Serb forces

who had shelled their city. There was a kind of medal given

to Serb army members that was called after Gavrilo Princip.

And those are the guys who bombed Sarajevo in the

1990s, so probably ordinary citizens of Sarajevo will have a different

opinion on his name and act. History divide this country.

The young here inherit contradictory versions of their past,

parallel truths about the young revolutionary whose fateful shots

echo down the decades. Allan Little , BBC News, Sarajevo.

And tomorrow the BBC will report on the events in Sarajevo 100 years

ago as if they were happening live. You can find out more

on our website - bbc.co.uk/ww1. Police are warning the public in

south-east Cornwall not to approach a man they believe could be armed.

Officers want to speak to 60-year-old Elvis

impersonator Derrel Weaver. It's in connection with

an alleged domestic incident which is thought to have taken place

at a farm near Looe last night. The FIFA General Secretary has said

the banned Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez should seek treatment

after biting an Italian defender during a World Cup game.

It's the third time in the last four years that Suarez

has been banned for biting and Jerome Valcke said the striker

"needed to find a way to stop". From Rio de Janeiro,

Dan Roan reports. Luis Suarez should have been playing

for Uruguay in the World Cup tomorrow.

Instead, he is back in Montevideo with his family, having been kicked

out of the tournament in disgrace. The striker's four-month ban

for his latest biting offence was the longest in the event's history.

Today, even his victim, Giorgio Chiellini, said

the punishment was excessive, but FIFA insist they have no choice.

I think he should find a way to stop doing it.

He should get treatment. I don't know if it exists,

but he should do something because it is definitely wrong.

Try telling that to the Suarez faithful.

This was the scene at Montevideo airport last night as hundreds

of fans waited to give him a hero's welcome, although he

slipped into the country unsighted amid rumours of a potential transfer

from Liverpool to Barcelona. Back in Rio, this poster had become

an overnight sensation, but the Uruguayan has vanished

from the World Cup in every sense. Interestingly, today here

on Copacabana, Suarez's face has disappeared from this billboard,

mysteriously replaced by Brazil's Dani Alves instead, a reminder that

FIFA are all too aware, along with their major sponsors,

of the need to project a good image. That's why they took it down.

It was bad for the whole event. It is better to ban him

for two years or something. He should be an example.

An example to children? Yes.

Back home, Suarez remains a legend, the perception that he has been

made a scapegoat. Repairing his reputation elsewhere

may prove more of a challenge. Dan Roan, BBC News, Rio.

At Wimbledon, defending champion Andy Murray this evening raced past

Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut with a comfortable straight sets victory.

He's reached the second week of the competition without dropping a set.

Watching all the action was Joe Wilson.

The man on the right you will know by now.

The chap in the cap is Roberto Bautista Agut.

As for the how, Andy Murray does not just try to reach the ball.

Even this, he turns into a winner. The first set was won

in under half an hour. Agut is ranked 23 in the world.

Murray is so strong that still meant they were worlds apart.

Second set, 6-3 to Murray. For anyone in the crowd,

this was not an evening of anxiety. Just sit and smile.

Judy Murray joined them just in time.

The match was won in glorious evening sun.

Straight sets, straightforward. Murray was relaxed enough to pose

and offer some banter relating to his brother, Jamie,

who won in the doubles today. It is a shame we are on

at the same time. None of my family came to watch.

Your mum did make it back. Really?

My brother is the priority, number one son.

That is why I am so competitive, since I have been a kid.

So Andy Murray remains on target for a semifinal against Novak Djokovic.

But smooth progress cannot be guaranteed.

A tennis court is no simple thoroughfare.

Djokovic took a tumble in his match today, which left him needing

treatment to his left shoulder. Luckily,

he normally relies on his right. Three sets win over Gillies Simon.

Venus Williams lost in three long hard-fought sets

against Petra Kvitova. At 34, Venus says she

will be back for more. And the unluckiest player of the day

was poor Monica Niculescu, waiting whilst her doubles partner served.

Right at her. They lost the match,

but seemed to make up. Joe Wilson, BBC News, Wimbledon.

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