:00:25. > :00:26.Good afternoon. Rupert Murdoch has made a public
:00:27. > :00:31.apology for the phone-hacking scandal, taking out prominent
:00:31. > :00:33.advertisements in today's newspapers. It comes after a second
:00:33. > :00:36.of his most senior executives resigned. Les Hinton, chief
:00:36. > :00:38.executive of the media group's Dow Jones, was chairman of News
:00:38. > :00:48.International at the time Milly Dowler's phone was hacked. This
:00:48. > :00:50.
:00:50. > :00:54.report contains flash photography. The full-page apology is carried in
:00:54. > :01:01.many papers. Even fierce competitors such as the Guardian,
:01:01. > :01:10.which campaign to expose phone hacking. "we are sorry". It goes on
:01:10. > :01:15.This was Rupert Murdoch with some of his most trusted executive six
:01:15. > :01:19.years ago. He is still in his job but they have all lost theirs. Andy
:01:19. > :01:26.Coulson resigned in 2007, saying phone hacking had happened on his
:01:26. > :01:30.watch. Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive in the UK stepped down
:01:30. > :01:36.yesterday. She said she felt a deep responsibility towards the people
:01:36. > :01:40.who have been heard. Les Hinton resigned yesterday and was chief
:01:40. > :01:47.executive at the time hacking happened at the News of the World.
:01:47. > :01:51.Mr Murdoch is looking increasingly isolated. This was Les Hinton in
:01:51. > :01:58.New York recently. In a statement he said he had been increments of
:01:58. > :02:02.what had apparently happened at the News of the World. -- ignorant. Mr
:02:02. > :02:07.Murdoch met the family of Milly Dowler yesterday. His journalists
:02:07. > :02:12.are thought to have hacked into her messages and even deleted some. It
:02:12. > :02:18.was heard he held his head in his hands as he apologised. He then
:02:18. > :02:25.came out to make a brief statement. I was appalled to find out what had
:02:25. > :02:29.happened. I have apologised and I have nothing further to say. I made
:02:30. > :02:36.personal level, Rupert Murdoch looked very shook up and upset
:02:36. > :02:41.about what had happened. I think this was a personal apology. A new
:02:41. > :02:46.front is now opening against Mr Murdoch. Jude Law says another of
:02:46. > :02:49.his papers, the Sun newspaper hack into his voicemail messages. News
:02:49. > :02:56.International say the accusations are cynical and deliberately missed
:02:56. > :02:59.you devious. -- must devious. The BBC has learned that the
:02:59. > :03:02.Government is preparing to make further cuts to the size of the
:03:02. > :03:05.army to help pay for greater investment in reserve forces such
:03:05. > :03:07.as the Territorial Army. The army is already losing thousands of
:03:07. > :03:13.posts over the next four years. Our political correspondent, Norman
:03:13. > :03:16.Smith, has more. Britain relies less on volunteer
:03:17. > :03:21.reservists to fight alongside regular soldiers find countries
:03:21. > :03:25.like America or Australia. The Territorial Army has been in
:03:25. > :03:31.apparent decline. Now, ministers are considering boosting the ranks
:03:31. > :03:35.of Britain's 36,000 strong part- time soldiers. An independent
:03:35. > :03:40.report is expected to call for a major recruitment drive, offering
:03:40. > :03:44.better pay, training and responsibility. It is understood
:03:44. > :03:49.this will be paid for by further cuts in the size of the regular
:03:49. > :03:55.Army wants British combat troops were drawn from Afghanistan. This
:03:55. > :04:00.will be on top of cuts previously announced, with the Army already
:04:01. > :04:10.due to lose around 7,000 soldiers. The MoD has declined to comment but
:04:11. > :04:23.
:04:23. > :04:26.said details will be unveiled in Parliament next week.
:04:26. > :04:29.Police have been attacked during a riot last night in Portadown in
:04:29. > :04:32.Country Armagh. Petrol bombs, bricks and fireworks were among the
:04:32. > :04:40.missiles thrown at officers during the disturbances. Police responded
:04:40. > :04:50.by firing baton rounds. That is it, there will be more at
:04:50. > :04:51.
:04:51. > :04:55.5:15pm. Now the news where you are. Good afternoon, I'm Asad Ahmad.
:04:55. > :04:58.Two people have died after becoming trapped in a slurry pit on a farm
:04:58. > :05:08.in Essex. Fire fighters needed to drain over 100,000 litres of slurry
:05:08. > :05:16.
:05:16. > :05:20.as they rescued two other people A policeman has been shot and
:05:20. > :05:23.wounded while chasing three men in South London last night. He was hit
:05:23. > :05:26.in the arm when a suspect opened fire on officers, who were pursuing
:05:26. > :05:30.him on foot in Croydon. The policeman's injuries are not
:05:30. > :05:33.thought to be life threatening and three men have been arrested.
:05:33. > :05:37.One of the largest ever seizures of child pornography has been found at
:05:37. > :05:39.a home in East London. Around a million indecent images were
:05:39. > :05:45.discovered by the Metropolitan Police Paedophile Unit, some of
:05:45. > :05:47.which are categorised as level five - the most serious. 57 year old
:05:47. > :05:53.Robert Barrow, from Plaistow, pleaded guilty to making indecent
:05:53. > :05:56.images of children. He'll be sentenced in September.
:05:56. > :06:00.A new way of instantly reporting rubbish, graffiti or dog mess has
:06:00. > :06:03.been developed by a council in South East London. A special app
:06:04. > :06:06.has been created for residents in the Borough of Lewisham to use on
:06:06. > :06:12.their mobile phones, which instantly connects you to the right
:06:12. > :06:18.department to deal with the problem you want to report.
:06:18. > :06:22.Rubbish, graffiti and fly-tipping. The unsightly consequences of anti-
:06:22. > :06:26.social behaviour. Now there is a high-tech way for good citizens to
:06:26. > :06:31.fight back. A smartphone application that report problems
:06:31. > :06:35.with just a touch. The device catch as the location and with a text it
:06:35. > :06:39.is easy to post it to a public website. We can see what the
:06:39. > :06:44.problem is and send someone to do with it. The application, pioneered
:06:44. > :06:49.in Lewisham works with any smartphone. The user is prompted to
:06:49. > :06:54.take a photograph, categorise it from anything to dog fouling to pot
:06:54. > :06:59.holes and then it is automatically sent to the department to tackle it.
:06:59. > :07:05.They have reduced graffiti in Lewisham's by 73% and they have
:07:05. > :07:12.speeded up their response times. In 2003 used to take them 2.5 days to
:07:12. > :07:18.clear up graffiti. It has now been reduced to half a day.
:07:18. > :07:20.Now the weather: The rain - which has been heavy at times in London,
:07:20. > :07:23.will mainly clear this afternoon. But there will still be the